Trying out my Graphire4 4x5
By
Blade_of_Canada,
Posted on: 2006-11-16 23:26 in Multi-Media Fan Creations
Yup, I seriously can't believe you posted that! It's so [derogatory comment]. In fact, [tribally long insult involving a 5 year old child and your mother]. Now what you should do is [com pleat bashing of the above work flimsily disguised as a critique]. Further more [I'm lazy, think of something to put here your self, sheesh!]!
Seriously, that's a damned good first attempt with a tablet, especially if your drawing skill is rusty! Hell, my first attempt with a tablet and I couldn't even draw a circle. Here you have a great chest that even looks penciled 
. You'll be dangerous with it in no time.
Looks solid.
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Hell, my first attempt with a tablet and I couldn't even draw a circle.
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Yeah don't believe a single word of that his "circle" was an entire pose for Pep Rally!!
...was gonna post a pic of it but I can't find it on DA anymore. Heh
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Hell, my first attempt with a tablet and I couldn't even draw a circle.
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Yeah don't believe a single word of that his "circle" was an entire pose for Pep Rally!!
...was gonna post a pic of it but I can't find it on DA anymore. Heh
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Yeah, I seem to remember that. But you must admit, it wasn't much of a circle. 
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Seriously, that's a damned good first attempt with a tablet, especially if your drawing skill is rusty! Hell, my first attempt with a tablet and I couldn't even draw a circle. Here you have a great chest that even looks penciled . You'll be dangerous with it in no time.
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Graver, I do not want to hear any more about your 'circles'! Your circles put everyone else's to shame. SHAME!
I love how it looks. The upper body looks amazing, can't wait to see it when its done. Good work!
I love my Graphire3 4x5, though it does take a little getting used to - both the smaller area to draw on and drawing on the tablet while looking at the screen. Out of curiosity, what program are you drawing in? I highly recommend OpenCanvas (particularly the old 1.1 version, if you can find it), and Painter, if you have the patience to learn the intricacies.
Yeah, I'm colorblind, and I talk about it a lot. Sorry.
VICTORY: Zephyr Cyclone - 50 El/El/El Blast
VICTORY: Schysm - 36 SS/In Brute
VIRTUE: Galaxy Beast - 17 Warshade
I was just fiddling around in PhotoShop Express. 
I just remembered that I got a copy of Painter with the tablet and have it installed. 
That's pretty impressive! It's actually hard to get sketching done in PhotoShop products, in my experience. Painter is hard to learn, but magnificent. If you'd like OpenCanvas, send me an IM - It's legally freeware, it's just hard to find.
Yeah, I'm colorblind, and I talk about it a lot. Sorry.
VICTORY: Zephyr Cyclone - 50 El/El/El Blast
VICTORY: Schysm - 36 SS/In Brute
VIRTUE: Galaxy Beast - 17 Warshade
A couple of helpful tips, from a Painter/tablet user:
Fastest way to get used to the tablet is to do the exercises included in the documentation(assuming it's not just the Intuos line that has them in there). In short, set up a 10x10 grid of straight lines, and then draw a dot at each intersection, relatively quickly. Then do the same, but X each intersection, then do a third pass in which you circle them. It takes about two minutes, tops, and if you do it every day you'll see your ability to work the tablet improve quickly. It was specifically designed by Wacom to develop tablet coordination.
Read said documentation. I dunno about the Graphire, but there's a lot of cool features in the Intuos drivers that you'll only catch if you read the manual.
Painter has a lot of awesome features. but the A-plus-number-one in my book is a command called Rotate Canvas. The shortcut is Alt-Space on Windows. I have the side-switch on my tablet stylus set to Keystroke... with Alt-Enter just so I can use it quickly with my tablet. Hold it down and move the mouse, you'll figure it out real fast. To reset the rotation, hold down the command shortcut and just click the page. It should be obvious what use it is as soon as you see it, if not, something's wrong.
Well, I finally got the courage and the energy to try out my graphics tablet to do a bit of drawing. Getting used to it may take some time. There is also the fact that I haven't really been all that active in my drawing for several years. I'm not sure if this tablet is too small or just right. Anyway, against my better judgement I'm posting my first real attempt here for all to see. You'll notice I didn't get very far before I gave in to my frustration. I really have to get back in the swing of things. So as I said here it is.