http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:fishbed&section=today deviantART RSS for by:fishbed en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Sun, 27 Dec 2009 05:05:55 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://fishbed.deviantart.com/journal/29087785/ http://fishbed.deviantart.com/journal/29087785/ Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:55:30 PST [link] is the dev website, and online store coincidentally. The best art software on the market costs $80 or therebouts.

DevArt wins. I realize now the reason I rarely update, and rarely comment, is devart's unbearably crappy interface. Curiously, all the fixes I want are available to premium members! What happy coincidence!

However I am poor as dirt. So, will draw for premium membership, any length. I'll draw pretty much anything.

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First of all, Wacom says it's portable. Ahahahah some marketing guy needs a punch in the mouth. It's a tablet, connected by cable to a box thing what is connected by three cables to power outlet, USB port and video port. It's a heavy awkward cable snarl, not a portable tablet. Plus it has a bunch of problems.

Calibration: only two points? My Nintendo DS does better. Only lower-right and upper-left points introduce inaccuracy the further the pen deviates from that line, up to a centimeter in the opposite corners.
Jitter: intermittent shaky cursor movement, for no visible reason.
Heat: the backlighting puts a heat source directly under the right wrist. Could be nice in winter. Otherwise annoying.
Screen: not nearly bright enough, white looks gray compared to my regular monitor. Although the pixel density does make for a beautifully sharp image.
Edge tracking: horrible. ArtRage, my favorite art program, uses color palette tucked into the lower right corner.. with two sliders right along the edge for adjustments. Good LUCK ever using those.

Besides, I have a problem with the entire philosophy of emulating traditional media on a computer, and the Cintiq draw-on-screen is part of that. Drawing on a computer is a totally different animal than doodling in a sketchbook, so why bother clinging to pencil and oil and staring at the end of a pen and hand, rather than a cursor? Nobody thinks looking at a screen while touch-typing is unnatural. Anyway, I'm done ranting! Now I have an Intuos 4, large size, for half the price of the small Cintiq. <3

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