Hey everyone, I am Natalie! I am a queer, adhd, multidisciplinary artist, photographer and general maker of things! I post lots of arts related content and sometimes stories and animation and...whatever else has caught my attention.
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I tend to put crayons down in light layers so they stay slightly luminous but also I can layer one or two colors. I was wondering about caran dache crayons (not the watercolor ones). Are they as hard as Crayola? Can they be put down in light layers?
just a question, do you have to hold a button like how you draw with a mouse or when it comes contact with the drawing pad it automatically presses for you, sorry if this is a stupid question i've never had a drawing tablet before, do you also think that it'll be left handed friendly?
It should be fine either hand :) and to your question, the way these work is via a pressure sensitive tip, you don't have to press a button you literally just press down with however much pressure you want and it will communicate that to the computer. It does this with some electro-magnetic resonance computer black magic but gist is that it just works.
Thank you for the review I just got one delivered from AliExpress to here in Pennsylvania. My plan was to use as a starting pad to start 3d sculpting so hopefully itll work for me just starting out
I got this tablet as a birthday present to myself weeks ago because of this video, no regrets. Am gonna chime in with things people may find useful... but first off, /thank you/! It's honestly amazing what's available for ~15 EUR nowadays -- growing up, the Wacom Bamboos from ~15, 16 years ago would easily eat up a good portion of a person's salary so there was a really high entry barrier...and nowadays somebody growing up and wanting to do digital art could save up by pocketing their lunch money for 2-3 weeks and get better stuff, it's wild! If one uses a laptop with ~10-12 inch screen it's not a bad experience, especially if you do painting-type artwork where you work with loose strokes , but I'd recommend people interested in getting a tablet, (especially their first one) to save up for a couple days more and get something slightly larger - this is a 4x3 inch tablet and even the jump to a 6x4 (think XP-PEN G640s or a One by Wacom S) makes quite a bit of difference in terms of comfort for a /marginal/ increase in price - there's a reason the page on XP-PEN almost seems to avoid talking about its art capabilities (it has them as the video shows, but just go and compare the G430S and G640s pages...), and there's a reason Wacom starts both their "One" and Intuos lines at 6 inches. There's a /tiny/ bit of mechanical wobble in the lines the pen makes but Clip Studio Paint's default settings pretty much take care of it, however to those using Krita it takes switching the brush smoothing setting from "Basic" to "Weighted" -- you select the brush tool, click on "Tool Settings" tab right near the colour selector, and there's a lone "Brush smoothing" option with a dropdown menu next to it. Select "Weighted" and just use it like that, the default settings on that pretty much take care of it and you don't have to change anything after that. It applies to every single brush too, you set it once and forget it. Last but not least, screenless drawing tablets have a very slight distortion by default, they usually have a 16:10 ratio while most screens nowadays come in a 16:9 ratio, which means that if you're for example drawing a line that's an inch long vertically and another that's an inch long horizotally, one of them is longer. There's a setting in the driver ("proportional mapping") which addresses this too. I must add that this is by no fault of the tablet itself, /every/ screenless drawing tablet comes set up like this by default. You do lose a tiny strip of the active area in using proportional mapping so but I'd say it's worth it from a comfort perspective. (Am ESL, I apologise for how longwinded this is, still haven't learned to compress words.)
For me the keys are changeable in the computer and it works using the driver but the configuration changes on the phone doesn't change and get stuck on the default no matter how I change the buttons in the computer.
I occasionally use Crayola crayons. I’m an adult and color for fun and stress relief. In the last couple of years, I have noticed that Crayola crayons have decreased in quality. They break quite easily. I especially noticed that their colors of the world and the colors of kindness crayons are especially prone to breakage
In 2017 I bought the Intuos Draw and thats the same stylus (with less pressure) and I didnt liked the pen, and it gets glossy and slippery over time. This year I bought the Wacom Intuos, the 2018 ver. And the stylus is better, even if it doesnt have rotation recon like the newer Wacom One.
@@nataliearts true, and it's interesting to see that the previous Intuos were so confusing that it looks they made a new line and the scraps went to the one by wacom (even with the same stylus and grainy texture)
@@dermond They pull this every so often, the bamboo was a similar situation back in the day and same with the graphire before it. It was a little easier to grasp what was for who though. Graphire being for hobbyists, intuos for pros and cintiq for pros with looooots of money. Its great that they are adding more options but its pretty clear they are only doing so because the current competition is forcing them to.
Im glad you liked it and welcome aboard! I was a little worried I was being too concise but I have plans to expand on a couple things in the next few videos.
@@nataliearts very excited as a new csp user, coming from procreate has been a crazy journey especially with the big switch to desktop when I'm at home, love this software though so can't wait!
If you hate this pen you'll hate the new one even more; super narrow and short because it's essentially a repurposed Samsung Note stylus, and since it uses different tech you can't replace it with a different EMR pen.
I took a trip to a charity shop just the other day, saw a pen display on sale and that sparked my imagination. Since then I have been down the rabbit hole looking at pen tablets, pen displays etc from ugee, xp pen, xence (finding out they are all the same company) and wacom. Watching nunerous vids here on youtube you're the first creator to actually offer some honest educational advice Subbed! ❤
Thanks for the lovely comment 😊 I try my best and hopefully more of this will be coming soon! I hope to give a few pen displays a try sometime, in particular I really want to give the huion Kamvas series a go at some point.
I've had the M version since 2018, it was about 100-150 usd back then I only replaced the cable once, any USB to Micro USB cable works. I answered another comment here about the pen nib, but I'll paste it here too: Actually that's okay, mine wore down a nib fast too because some models have an extra protective layer on the surface, I heard others asking about this and were told that some Wacoms have this thing. Until that gets scrubbed off it eats one or two nibs, then every other one for me lasted for something like 500-1000 hours. For the pressure sensitivity requiring more pressure from your hand, I use a setting that is 1 step towards the "soft" in the settings, I unfortunately never used one with more levels of sensitivity, but I managed to make it work for myself, though I always use much less pressure and I use softer brushes as well. If someone thinks about getting this one, maybe check around if you can get a second hand model of the M version, it doesn't have an L if I'm not mistaken! Maybe you can get the slightly better one for about the same price or cheaper. I'd call it a nice beginner tablet, but if someone doesn't start from 0 I'd recommend getting a more expensive one. It also doesn't have pen tilt and pen rotation if someone is looking for those!
Actually that's okay, I have the M version of the same tablet and it wore down a nib fast because some models have an extra protective layer on the surface, I heard others asking about this and were told that some Wacoms have this thing. Until that gets scrubbed off it eats one or two nibs, then every other one for me lasted for something like 500-1000 hours.
Its still a bit concerning to me, I know the texture is intended to help simulate the feel of paper and make a little less glide-y but I feel like harder plastic nibs could have been included to reduce the wear. I have not seen older models have this issue but I have also not used their regular pen tablets since the first gen intuos pros that didn't have such a pronounced texture.
@@noctis_lucis29 They are almost identical though for the extra cost you get a replaceable cable and it can do tilt, otherwise they are pretty much the same.
