Behold. The WACOM Intuos 3.
- the review -
Let me tell you this first. I've already mentally prepared myself for a gazillion times for the initial shock - that the tablet won't make my art look like something that will look like it was hung on the art galleries of the heavens before. But.. I still ended up feeling flabbergasted.
Not in that kind of positive OMG-THIS-IS-SO-NICE shock, but the WTF-HOW-THE-FCK-DO-I-CONTROL-THIS kind of shock.
I swear the stuff I draw on paper is x1394834326 times better than the wacom version. AND my traditional drawings already suck real bad.
First I tried using it as a mouse. I ended up clicking stuff when I wanted to just move the cursor around, and the cursor ALWAYS tap on any button that I pulled across in my journey to reach the great X of the window. I won't even start on the control this pen gives me. The cursor is shivering. Literally. And who was the one who thought that the pen would give me more control as compared to the mouse?
DRAWING ON PHOTOSHOP CS3. mmm. This shall be the start of my rant.
Lookie this. Of course, remember to scroll in order to see my piccy in its full glory.
Look at how fuzzy my lines are! I tried doing one stroke stuffs, but the shivering cursor kept making my line ' jump '.
Damn thing also draws when what I wanted was just to move over and select a colour or two. WTF. In the end, after many tries, I found out that I've to lift the tip juuuuusssst a little bit above the tablet, so it won't draw but can still move properly. This isn't really safe though, as sometimes it still draws a line or two. My shaking hand can't take it, you see. I'm used to keeping the pen on the paper. Meh.
I dunno if I'm doing this wrong, but I'm sure that I haven't learnt enough about it yet. Sourcing around for tutorials already. Positive this pen will aid me loads in future, when I do more complicated drawings, but for now..
Maybe I'll just stick to my beloved pencil.
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