Fat Tablet

I finally got around to ordering an A3 graphics tablet, which arrived last night. I’m so happy I’d be purring right now if it wouldn’t get me strange looks and alienation.

I ended up ordering the Wacom Intuos3 A3 Wide tablet, and I’m very happy. It’s actually much larger than I’d visualised, but it’s delicious to work with. I was talking recently about how sketching directly with a tablet is tricky, but more flexible. It was tricky because I was using a tiny tablet with a large widescreen monitor. I think I actually prefer sketching with the new tablet to using paper.

I went through the whole process with a picture last night, going from rough sketches, using Illustrator to produce an ink outline, then exporting to Photoshop for colouring and shading. The Illustrator inking technique I mentioned yesterday definately seems to be the best way to produce the ink outline, and the whole thing was so much less painful than trying to achieve the same with a small tablet.

I want to practice some more and produce a few pictures I’m proud of before posting any work, but it’s coming along…