Great googly moogly! It's raining tablets around here...
Yeah, but just think about how much art is forthcoming.
I don't know any tutorials, but yeah, learning to use the thing is hard... one thing that helped me... felt nibs. Really, the felt nibs made it a lot easier for me 
Screw it, I want one of these.
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Screw it, I want one of these.
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Dont we all
BTW Retropolitan, which tablet did you get?
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Great googly moogly! It's raining tablets around here...
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Damn it appears my area is in a drought 
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I just got my Wacom in the mail today, and after playing around with it for a few hours, the verdict is:
AAAAARRRRGH!
It's kinda like learning to walk again.
Anyway, does anyone know of any good digi-ink tutorials?
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I got an Intuos3 6x8. I'm already in love...
I'm having the worst time going back and forth between mouse/keyboard and pen/tablet. My brain can't process the relative/absolute positioning change fast enough. 
My recommendation is to ink the old way, scan the black and white, and color it digitally. IMO, digital inking is way more trouble than it's worth.
I somewhat agree with Darkjedi, it's just mind-numbing how long digital inking takes. Unless you *really really* want to get those perfect perfect lines, I'd work with traditional inking. Much more fun and easy.
What I do is I take the pencil scan, go into Adjust-->Levels in Photoshop, and lighten the whole thing, then print it, and ink it, and scan it. Easy.
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I got an Intuos3 6x8. I'm already in love...
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Mines just a 4x6. I really need to use it more.
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My recommendation is to ink the old way, scan the black and white, and color it digitally. IMO, digital inking is way more trouble than it's worth.
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I use digital inking to AVOID the whole scanning process 
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I somewhat agree with Darkjedi, it's just mind-numbing how long digital inking takes. Unless you *really really* want to get those perfect perfect lines, I'd work with traditional inking. Much more fun and easy.
What I do is I take the pencil scan, go into Adjust-->Levels in Photoshop, and lighten the whole thing, then print it, and ink it, and scan it. Easy.
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Nice process. I might have to try that.
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My recommendation is to ink the old way, scan the black and white, and color it digitally. IMO, digital inking is way more trouble than it's worth.
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Were you digital-inking with the brush or the pen tool?
After having done one pic for practice a couple times, I'm not sure which way to go. On one hand, it just doesn't look as good as regular inking; the lines are imprecise and shaky when I use the brush, and I don't think I have the patience for the pen tool. On the other hand, it didn't look bad, and I improved immensely between my first and second tries -- I think I could get the brush thing working well. It gave the pencils a softer look somehow.
I resist scanning regular inks, because they never, ever come out well -- full of microscopic dots and white spaces and when it's blown up to a larger size at a high res EVERYTHING is all jittery and dirty. I just figure that if I'm going to have to go over everything again, I may as well just ink it digitally the first time. Plus, it's fun.
Although it makes me eyes want to explode.
QUICK QUESTION: How come when I use the pen tool to get a line, the eraser won't work on it?
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That's the only way I could use a tablet. I tried the other kind and it looked like I was drawing with a mouse in MS Paint. In the dark. With my eyes closed. Using my feet. While wearing boots.
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I just got my Wacom in the mail today, and after playing around with it for a few hours, the verdict is:
AAAAARRRRGH!
It's kinda like learning to walk again.
Anyway, does anyone know of any good digi-ink tutorials?