What's a good tablet?

[Anian]

2) Zoom in as much as possible. Don't think of it like drawing on a sheet of paper, think of it like drawing on paper under a magnifying glass. Seriously zoom out to where you can see the whole page and do a rough sketch, then zoom in to like 300% and work on small areas at a time. It'll save you a lot of stress.

This might work on bigger tablets, but on Bamboo for example you can't really do big strokes because there just isn't enough space and the tablet is more sensitive (smaller area of the tablet, but the same size of screen). So sometimes it's really hard to do smooth lines (a bit easier in Illustrator when it smooths them out, but in PS it looks jitter). I often have to do a pen tool over my sketch because my lines are just too jittery.

[amateurhour]

I've made all of my comics for the last three years on a 2007/2008 Bamboo Fun with a 4x6 active area and 512 pressure sensitivity. The trick for strokes that will cover a large area is to zoom out to like 25% and for detail work zoom in to like 300%

I agree though that it can be annoying. Illustrator does have some good anti-jitter tools to help with that like you said.