Tablet pen drawing techniques

[steptoe]

Hi

I have just started using Easy Pen G5 Tablet.

It makes for precision drawing and techniques.

However, I wish the pen would actually draw on the tablet instead of all eyes on the Screen. Plus the tablet area is larger than say 320 x 240.

I find that drawing a basic sketch on thin paper and tracing over it with the pen works ok.

Do you know of a better way?

cheers

steptoe

[Chicky]

You need to work through the learning curve. It takes a while.

[Daniel Eakins]

Try to use the pen as a replacement for the mouse when you're not drawing. It's a real pain in the ass at first, but you gradually get used to it.

[Anian]

With great money comes great wrist action...that sounded weird...anyway, yeah, if you use a small surface you'll have to get use to little less movement of the wrist like you would on a paper and pencil set up, but you'll get used to it soon.
You just have to take a bit more steps between basic shapes and details, takes a bit more time, but it gets done.
What you have to get used to is using keyboard shorcuts and pen, it gets much faster and doesn't really affect you that much when you are able to zoom in and out and move real fast.

As for the tracing over paper, I mainly bought it for that, cause I was too lazy to scan stuff in, but every time I try to do that, the drawing just ends up very weird, it's easier for me to scan the art or just draw by comparison.

The eyes on screen and hand of paper coordination will be no problem if you practice, as Chicky said, it's a learning curve. In a month or two you'll get used to it, same as how you don't look where you're moving the mouse when trying to point somewhere.

[steptoe]

Cheers guys

[Khris]

Plus the tablet area is larger than say 320 x 240.

You should be able to adjust how the tablet area maps to the screen in the settings. Or zoom the background to x3 and map the tablet to the entire screen.

[Ghost]

As far as I know it's a prtty personal thing how well you're able to adjust to drawing on a tablet while looking at a screen- for me it meant several weeks of learning from Point 0. I'm talking about learning how to draw a straight line, and a circle. After that I got better with my tablet, but to be honest, I'm still more comfortable with paper and a pencil, and have pretty much stopped using my little Bamboo.