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BizB:
I recently invested in a Wacom Intuos Pro Tablet so that I can expand my bike jersey company - www.cogmonstergear.com

I need to be able to re-draw the Cog Monster in different poses and actually own the artwork so that I can go national/international with my sales.  Right now, it's limited to my little group of 20+ cyclist club called Black Swamp Cog Monsters.  It's a hobby at best. I want it to generate residual income.

Yesterday, the tablet was delivered and I set it up. It was a relatively painless process with a couple of minor hiccups related to Windows 10 specific settings that aren't explained or handled by the instructions/software.

Getting used to a new HID is challenging. Add to that the fact that you're looking at a tiny circle on the screen while manipulating a pen-shaped device on your desktop and it's a bit more of a challenge.  This tablet has 2048 levels of sensitivity. Accessing them via Photoshop's brush tool settings is yet another challenge.  Opacity, Flow, and Brush Size are all capable of utilizing the sensitivity of the pen/tablet.

The first image is just playing around with those settings.

My first real drawing was just some dumb cartoon cat that I drew as I watched along on a youtube video as some girl drew it and talked about how awesome she is at drawing. I'm glad you can't see all the erased lines.

My second drawing I did this morning. In order to get used to the disconnect between tablet and screen, I decided to trace something. I've always enjoyed tracing and I'm rather good at it.  So, it seemed like a logical approach to gaining better control of the hardware and getting used to the software settings.
Here's the cat I traced.
http://onistocke.deviantart.com/art/Sideways-Glance-655951913

I'll post more here as I get better.

Chris:
I fooled around with some kind of tablet like that maybe 12 years ago and I remember thinking the same thing: It's damn hard getting used to the fact that you need to look at the screen as opposed to the tablet to see the progress you have made.

To those who have never used one this might seem common sense... "Duh! you just look at the screen to see what you're doing!" but your entire life you're used to looking at the pen/paper to see what your next move will be.

I think because of that I gave up, but I'll also be the first to admit that I am by no means artistically gifted.

The tablet I had had some kind of cool clear plastic cover that you could remove to allow you to trace things - does the Wacom have that as well? I checked out a review and don't recall seeing it mentioned.

BizB:
Nope. I'm drawing using photoshop so I just added a layer on top of the cat image, reduced the actual cat image to 50% opacity, and dew on that new layer above the cat layer.

BizB:
Here's today's effort. Trying to draw the original Cog Monster head in different poses/angles.  Gotta get the general construction right before I can start adding detail.  His bone structure is weird... not like any other animal that I can find.

Small head, big jaws/snout, recessed eyes.

...predAtor, dumbass

BizB:
More monster

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