Comments on: Tablet + Illustrator: the Case for Electronic Sketching

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By: Anthony C.

Anthony C. — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:34:38 +0000

I have the Intous 3 and love it, but it's really for digital illustration and anim. cleanup where it sees it's most use. I can never replace paper with it.

I'm curious as to how you guys do it-it'd save me a lot of time with tight deadlines-but the smoothness of the tablet leads way to some problems with strokes.

By: Jakub Linowski

Jakub Linowski — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:03:18 +0000

Tablet smoothness, right. I know three work around. 1) There is a more resistant tip that you could put into the pen (it wears out quickly though). 2) I've also stuck a pieces of paper on top of my Intuos 3 for more resistance (ugly solution, but works) 3) Get a Intuos 4 (supposedly it's more resistant and feels more like paper).

Cheers,

By: Anthony C.

Anthony C. — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:34:38 +0000

I have the Intous 3 and love it, but it's really for digital illustration and anim. cleanup where it sees it's most use. I can never replace paper with it.

I'm curious as to how you guys do it-it'd save me a lot of time with tight deadlines-but the smoothness of the tablet leads way to some problems with strokes.

By: Jakub Linowski

Jakub Linowski — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:00:07 +0000

Hi Anthony,

I usually use the calligraphic settings and a pressure sensitive pen. Perhaps I'll release my brushes sooner than later. But you're right, I also often precede these cleaner looking sketches with messier "selfish" sketches such as: http://wireframes.linowski.ca/2009/08/selfishly-f...

Cheers,
Jakub

By: kasandra

kasandra — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:25:12 +0000

great topic thanks

By: kasper kerkhoffs

kasper kerkhoffs — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:04:41 +0000

Hi Jakub,
Loved your article!As you know i'm not really active in the IA but i also love my tablet ( wacom bamboo) for creating visualizations, since me drawings arent that communicative (along with my handwriting). You can for exampe use scan early braindraws/stockphotos to be drawn over to create a homogenous style of images etc. but still you can loose alot of time by detailling etc. and when drawing in illustrator I always have the problem whenyo make a line after another very closeby he re-shapes the old line. But all this I am aware of now so I believe I have finally found my tools and way of visualizing my design proces. To comment on the disconnect feeling, I also found it weird but really fast you like it very much since you adapt to the more natural loaction based pointing instead of looking for your cursor, etc.
ciao kasper

By: Erik Loehfelm

Erik Loehfelm — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:52:46 +0000

In my personal experience, I prefer good ol' fashioned pen and paper. I've used a Wacom tablet in the past but couldn't afford the luxury of the Cintiq – played with it before though and boy is it sweet :)

To solve the problem of fear of the paper sketch, we always sketch with a 30% grey marker for our initial concepts. After it dries, it's quite light and allows you to overlay a darker marker on the lines that are 'keepers'. Throw a 60% grey marker in for drop shadowing and depth, and you get something like this http://www.coroflot.com/public/individual_file.as...

I do like the fact that the product you are producing on the computer is ready to go for a higher fidelity transfer and build. That certainly is attractive! But, give me a set of markers and a stack of paper and the ideas just pour out. Battery life is pretty good as well ;)

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