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Intous 4 (Drawing Tablet) Questions -Can you Draw without Looking?

• I've finally decided that I want to color things digitally using programs like Photoshop. I want to do this, but I can't do this with a mouse. Not working out...not very controled. So I wanted to invest in a drawing tablet. (I've been all tradtional up until this point.) I just assumed...that drawing tablets would have a display of the image you where coloring...I mean...this is the natural way to color right? Wrong. Intous4...supposedly the best drawing tablet avaliable....has no display. So my question is...to those who have used any version of the Intous or any other drawing tablet...how do you draw wihtout looking? Does this work for you? I mean...with a pencil and paper...you would always see what you draw...reconizing your strokes...and such.... I suppose some amout of hand eye cowardnation is requied but.... Is it just as a effective as drawing on paper? Can you draw just as well as if you were drawing on paper? Do you loose something in the process? Thank you for your time. Please answer my questions ^_^ (Also to you who hav used the cintiq...would you recommend it over the Intous or other drawing tablets?) Thank you!

• Answer:

  Hello! I recommend you 100% to change to a tablet, and maybe will never use the mouse again. Actually Intuos4 is not "the best" but yes, one of them! Answers one by one: Yes, is as effective as drawing on paper. I all my life was drawing on graphite pencil and now I replaced it with the tablet pen! Yes, you can draw very nice on it. On the first weeks you will feel different or something but you will manage it soon. The Intuos is very sensitive and respond just fine, if it laggs or something for sure it will be your computer and not the tablet. And how we use it without looking... Like I said it is VERY sensitive and the tablet read when the pen is close to the surface and it moves the cursor before you touch the surface. So to move the cursor just move the pen close to the tablet and for click (left click on the mouse) just make a single touch with the tip on the tablet surface. (It's easier to use it to explain it haha) So again,You don't need to see the tablet because you can see the movements you are doing realtime on your screen cursor. Also, I thing that all the newest Bamboo products are multitouch so you can use them with the pen or with your finger as a multitouch touchpad. I don't have used the cintiq so I cannot compare but I yes recommend any Bamboo product. by the way, will be nice to you to make a research on youtube, you will be wanting a tablet. Additional details: Photoshop, Corel and other programs have support and uses for "pen sensitive" jobs so the paint, drawing will feel very "real" and natural. for example, when you makes paint strokes on corel it will paint different if you use the pen at 90degrees or as you use it at 45 degrees Or if you use "pencil like" brush as much as you draw as darker it goes!