Graphics tablet advice/experiences?

[huinare]

I'm sifting the merits of making the credit card company happier by procuring a graphics tablet.  If anyone has had positive/negative experiences with a particular brand, or tablets in general, please chime in.  I'm clueless.

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[bunn.livejournal.com]

I have a Wacom Intuos. I keep thinking I should use it more, but I have never quite warmed to it : there is a learning curve and I find it weird to be drawing in one place and the line appears somewhere else.

It seems to be OK as a tool, but if you haven't used one before it might be worth finding somewhere you can try it out and see if it suits?

[huinare.livejournal.com]

there is a learning curve and I find it weird to be drawing in one place and the line appears somewhere else.


It hadn't even occurred to me that this would be weird until I thought about it more. Then I was like "hm, yeah, that's kinda weird." I think I'm stubborn enough to master it. I am convinced I can master most subjects that don't involve smiling, as well as some subjects where smiling is optional. Definitely wouldn't hurt to see if I can try a demo product though.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you can. I think probably I'd be fine with it if I sat down and used it every day for a week or two - it's just that because I do quite a lot of old fashioned drawing with pencils, and a lot of mousework, the muscle memories of my hands are all wrong for the tablet, and I need to find an extended period of time where I can find a new mode for them.

It may not help that as I use a good gaming mouse which is very precise, the increase in precision I get from the pen is not as noticeable, so the incentive to push on is less!

[huinare.livejournal.com]

Ah yeah, muscle memory + gadgets can take a while to alter.
I've been using a laptop as my sole computer for years, and using the sometimes awkward touchpad mice thereupon, so I think I'd notice increased precision in a stylus right away. =D