I’ve been drawing for a long time with a regular sketchbook, pencils & fine-liner pens. Last week however I bought myself a present…
It’s an XP-Pen Artist 12 Pro & I love it. It sure makes drawing & colouring my comics a lot easier & faster.
I had a Wacom tablet some years ago but it didn’t have a screen to draw on. I simply couldn’t coordinate drawing on a separate surface from what I was looking at on my laptop screen.
A tablet with a draw on screen makes the process so simple
Tasmanian Devil Comics 
10 replies on “Blog #01 My Sketchbook Upgrade”
That looks like a pretty nice setup. I still use my Wacom.
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I just couldn’t get the hang of the Wacom. My drawing on that looked like a 3 year old’s Kindergarten drawing
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Cool! This is my first visit and it’s clear you’re very talented.
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Thank you Darla for your kind words. Welcome & thanks for visiting my humble little webcomic
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I use a Wacom and the first time I used it, I was like “no way this will work”. That weird disconnect of looking up at the screen while you draw was weird. Glad you got something ya like.
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Still drawing by hand, use gimp to size, clean-up sketch and color.
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That’s how I used to do mine before I got the tablet. I use Sketchbook Pro to draw & colour & GIMP to do the text as Sketchbook’s lettering works in an awkward way.
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…Tony, you are quite a talent! Thanks for stopping by.
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I have a Huion tablet and I love it! I was in the same situation as you. I had a Wacom where I would “draw” on the tablet, but what I “drew” would show up on my computer screen. It was just too weird for me, so my fancy Wacom sat in the corner and gathered dust for me. Since I got my Huion, it is hard for me to imagine getting anything done without it. It is an incredible time saver!
By the way, Tony, I said that I was going to put you on my blogroll, but because of the new “block editor”, which I absolutely ABHOR, I will not be able to find the time to do that. I’m sorry. At least I follow you!
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Yes the draw on the screen tablet is definitely the way to go. The blogroll thing doesn’t matter. I hate the new & “improved” block editor system too. I don’t know why they just can’t leave things alone. We get used to a certain way of doing things then they change them again. Very annoying
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