How to get used to a Screen Drawing Tablet + avoid damaging your wrist in the process: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zuWf9f4qrA4.html
The way I got used to using drawing tablets 100% of the time was by damaging my wrist using a mouse. The pen started as a low strain way of using computers during recovery and I never looked back
Solitaire and Minesweeper are also good picks for games to practise your eye-hand coordination. Those games were specifically added to Windows to help people who had never used a mouse come to grips with it, and they work well for a pressure pad too.
Same with InkBall which was specifically added in Windows to help people get used to touch screens when Windows first had wide spread support of those screens.
Good tips. My two cents: align your tablet placement with your display, meaning keep it in front of the monitor and not to the side. Also be consistent with your tablet and keyboard placement, always set things the same way, it helps to build eye to hand coordination.
Seconded. Height and angle as well as position all make a difference; adding angle does a lot to improve your ability to draw lines in any direction. I recently upgraded my tablet setup from a laptop stand to a larger format from Saiji, a brand I found on Amazon. Their XL desk is basically an ideal adjustable drawing surface, able to rise high enough to work on the floor sitting, and the book holder slot works to hold references, a smaller external display or 360 laptop. I use it on the floor but these setups can also be positioned to work on a couch or with a traditional desk.
I disagree. Ergonomically, its best to align the tablet with your shoulder and the screen with your eyes. It gives you more space to put a controller or keyboard under your other hand as well.
Also have plenty of space, some tablets can be small and not need a lot of space by themselves, but the more space *you* have, the better. Learn to use your whole arm to draw, elbows and even shoulders it helps to build line confidence (clean linework, no chicken scratch), don't only depend on your wrist for fluidity, and don't forget to pause, rest and stretch from time to time. And as a general tip for beginners remember, shapes are not the same as figures. You should start by practicing figures over shapes. Make an habit of thinking in 3D.
J3SS Here! remember, NO MATTER Where you think you are in your art, Improvement is mileage + consistency. Keep on practicing -but remember to Always take breaks to not burn out!!! you all got this :3
A long time ago I had a major burn out with digital art because it overwhelmed me, but now I think I'm ready to start learning to draw again. Your kind encouragement and motivation has really given me hope again. I will definitely be watching more of your videos because I'd love to draw in the manga art style!
I'd like to assure everyone reading this and having doubts- YOU can do this. As with everything, it just takes daily practice. I bought the Deco Mini7 online for my 11-year old son as a Christmas present(for an African kid- in a small town/village, it's a pretty big deal and I'm so happy for him) and he couldn't use it comfortably, so I showed him how to trace drawings with Krita, and I instructed him to trace every day(the same advice I gave him to inspire him into drawing- to draw daily, and to get to where he is now - pls take note). He took that advice better than I thought- drawing and tracing every day, and using it like in the video- for like an hour or more, in total, per day- and it only took him 2 weeks of daily practice (along with his normal pen/paper drawing). Now, he's used to it and he can use it pretty comfortably. I'm so proud of him! That's my son. I'm not a total failure after all. 😉
Youre a good dad, my dad never bothered with my interest, it;s nice to hear about parents who cares. im in a pretty similar place myself, small town but in south east asiai nstead, so this story you shared hits me hard. hope your son has a wonderful art journey
I have a Wacom Intuos S, which is great, but really small. In traditional I'd feel more comfortable since i use bigger canvas and I'm watching directly at my hand drawing, so when I jumped into digital drawing I felt so frustrated cause I couldn't get anything drawn decent. Even now, drawing a straight line, a circle that connects, or just connecting lines is really hard for me, so this was the video I needed. Thank you!
i have the wacom one . bruh i think i cant do this lol its so hard i thought i might try digital art lol but its too damn hard like isnt their any way to disable hovering ? 😥. its giving me headache cuz of that. i cant even know where my placement is going like its too tough ugh .. why am i so bad 😪
My first tablet was a screenless huion h430p . Im a bit struggled with because of sensitivity thing and learning csp was hard. Lineart was so thick etc... it took some time but i get used it. Still sketching not so nice compared to screen tablet other than it was okay i loved it
i just got that tablet as a new year gift, never used any tablets before, i opened PS and tried drawing my brain was fried!!! hahaahah hopefully ill get used to it as well
My nephew recommended OSU so seeing it here in this video I decided to give it a try. Definitely helpful for getting comfortable with moving across the whole range of the tablet, with timing. And it's just lowkey fun. Once you get the hang of it.I went from 72% to 90% on one after 4 or so tries so seeing that improvement really helped encourage me to keep going.
Thanks, this really helped. I have a really a small tablet (6×4 inches) so it's really hard using it, since it's my first time using something other than paper to draw
the best thing to improve hand/eye coordination on screenless tablets is enabling your os cursor, your brush shape is lagging (depending on strength of your device) but os cursor is not. immediately after doing it I could draw circles.
@@ShotgunSandwichENT in ps (and other apps) brush shape has a delay because of processing, but your normal os cursor does not. Once you enable it (can't remember where) your os cursor is shown on TOP of your brush shape. This makes your hand eye coordination 1000x better. Does this explains it better?
I got my first Wacom in 2006, took me a few days to figure it out. I used to play Atari when it came out, the joy stick cordination from that console reminded me of the hand eye movements I needed. I now have a newer one and I still prefer the no screen version. It sits on my lap. When I used to play the joysticks did the same lap way.
Something that helps me is warming up before drawing. Doing different shapes and lines while not focusing on the tablet but on the screen makes me get used to it!
Thanks bud. You helped me for real. I had another art "teacher" I was listening to and integrating your lessons with his advice worked wonderfully well
"Your hardware/software doesn't make you a better or worse artist" - but it does.😭 I spent about 10 years drawing/painting in Photoshop and it still felt awkward (you know, like walking with your feet tied together - you could sort of get used to it, but not enjoy it). Then I switched to Clip Studio Paint and that's when I finally started to enjoy digital drawing/painting - it makes a HUGE difference when the program you use doesn't impede your workflow. So my advice would be: if something feels painfully awkward, don't just try getting used to it but also try changing things.
Learning to use a pen tablet comes with a learning curve but there is something magical to it when things start to look the way you intended. And maybe we should consider pen tablets better suited for digital painting and not necessarily for super crisp line art? I think Sinix and Daniel Ibanez use pen tablets, maybe also Ahmed Aldoori and Trent Kaniuga, if I remember correctly. And they all are amazing. Honestly when I got an IPad and Procreate I was a bit underwhelmed, I guess I just prefer my 24 inch display, CSP and a cheap Huion pen tablet.
i've had the same tablet for 8 years and i still cannot get used to it. it makes digital art so frustrating when everything is so easy on paper. Once scan in my artwork and start drawing, my whole coordination is completely thrown off. how the HELL can i fix this.
I've found that I need my pen travel to be identical to the travel distance on the screen, otherwise I end up drawing the wrong distances in my sketchbooks... Thank-you for the tips and help!
If your tablet and screen have different proportions (eg a 16:9 monitor and a 4:3 tablet) it's a good idea to make sure Force Proportions (sometimes called Constrain Proportions) is turned on so your tablet matches the monitor. It leaves with a bit of dead space on the tablet, but means your motions directly scale to the monitor instead of being out of sync. Without it you end up having to draw an oval to make a circle on screen, which will not only slow you down but will make you develop bad habits and muscle memory for drawing.
Way back I used the predecessors of these. Where the stylus has to make contact with the pad to register the location. I don't draw digitally, mostly data analysis. but when carpal tunnel started to loom again (right when I was starting to explore digital drawing), I thought "great, I know what'll work" and got a cheap one to try it out And I gotta say.... I cannot fathom why there is no way to set the damned things to "click with X amount of pressure" and "only track position when making contact". These are points you never come across before buying graphic tablets and they relegated mine immediately (well, after a night of expletive filled searching) to the function of "small serving tray". With those very basic options they would be a perfect mouse replacement, without they are only a bigger burden. And y'all just go "welllllllll it isn't the best but you DO get used to it".
I'm transitioning from traditional to digital art and this video is what i was looking for but i never expected that Osu is one way to get used to it. If you can see me yelling at my hand when i tried using a drawing tablet "Draw better you hand" Thanks for the video man
if you're interested, JP has a really great discord -You're not alone! There are plenty people there willing to help out and give some advice if you ever get stuck
I've been using a tablet for about a month and a half now and the improvement is wild. It takes a second, but the best thing to do is to just draw a full illustration. Even if you're having a hard time, try and pump one out and don't just let yourself do unfinished drawings. For me I was having a hard time with lineart, so the first illustration I did was a line less drawing of Persephone for Lore Olympus. A month later I realized that I was having not trouble with lineart at all. You don't realized how connected some things are to each other, and every second that you're drawing in it, you're skills in other areas are going to improve as well.
as somone who always had my tablet lined up to my screen i can say that you should try different position/placement because when your tablet is centered and parallel to the screen your arm end up in a weird position and angle that 1. is pretty uncomfortable (to me) 2. reduce the range of motion of your arm therefore everything is more difficult The way i adjusted the position of the tablet to be "perfect" was to sit in front and center of my screen, extend my arm straight and place the middle of the tablet under it. i don't know if i explain that correctly but that how i did find the perfect position/placement for my tablet... the worst part about it is that i was convinced (idk why) that i HAVE to have to tablet centered, i guess it's from back when i started using one but for real, try different position for your tablet as it can really affect your experience... it sure affected mine and made me give up on digital drawing many time ...
If you're using a non display tablet, and your stylus tends to feel slippery, and you don't have a screen protector, a paper(a normal printer paper works) is a workable replacement.
Is it worth it though? Few weeks of huge frustration can kill the joy from drawing and the brain will make association: drawing = frustration if it's not enjoyable. After almost a year of using screenless (which I bought simply becasue I had no money for a tablet with screen) I still can't get used to it.
Great tips! Wish i knew them back when i first bought my Huion Inspiroy H640P. Now I use a Kamvas 13 for everything, lol. Thing is, getting used to the tablet really is just practice. Just like anything. The more you use it, the more used you become to it. Keep at it, fellas!
Used to draw a lot when i was younger. Decided to get back to it with digital art recently. This is helpful still struggle with drawing 2D with my tablet but 3D is fine i can sculpt in blender and zbrush.
I’m not struggling with using the tablet it’s more that I can’t quite seem to draw anything I like. My traditional art looks better whereas my digital art looks off and not my style 💀
Out of the 6 videos of how to use drawing tablets I've watched, yours is the MOST EFFECTIVE. One of the reasons is it tells me to play a game to learn how to use the tablet. Thanks.
My first tablet was a Wacom Bamboo, and DAMN did it feel awkward to use at first. But truth be told, it's a real "suck it up" scenario if what you're doing requires being able to use it.
Thank you for this video. I just got a Wacom today and was this close to putting it up on ebay 😆coz it's frustrating to use. I'll try your tips first and give it some time.
As a pen tablet user, I didn't realise how there were people who actually struggled/felt really weird drawing with a tablet like this... Perhaps I've used mine so much it has become 2nd nature lol
I draw and write with my paper positioned diagonally/horizontally, so I position my tablet the same way. I didn't have this kind of problem while drawing a mouse, but that was only because my brain recognized the activity was me operating with a mouse. My brain recognized the drawing tablet and pen as pen and paper because of muscle memory of drawing/sketching. It's a good thing my drawing tablet is kinda small so it doesn't take up a lot of space and struggle if I reposition it often. It's more comfortable now but I still have to practice straight lines and drawing with less wrist movements.
For me it was more natural, than using digital screen. More comfortable, better feeling and view. The only downside is to be accurate and that tablet ratio is copy screen ratio, so changing tablets and screens can cause some problem. Appart from 1 these prblems a got several on drawing screen, blurred image on mostly cintiq or any anti-glare, worse surface feeling, harder to place 24 inch tablet, harder to sit without broblems, its also bulcky and cant be used with main screen without problems, so it better to be on 2nd table just for drawing.
You forgot the most important tip: Orientation! With your tablet between you and your monitor, look at the monitor while making vertical lines on the tablet. Then, don't adjust your drawing hand if the lines aren't perfectly vertical, instead, twist the tablet left or right until what your hand thinks is vertical is what you see onscreen.
years ago i bought a cheap veikk tablet to play osu only and nothing else because mouse felt awkward to use, it was both fun and pain learning the tablet as it took me weeks to even get decent at it and really paid off. now just a week ago I got into art and drawing on tablet came as natural when doing gesture drawings
Not trying to brag, but I'm just confused that this is difficult for people. Maybe took me a couple minutes to understand what was going on, but after that, it was fine. That said.. I think SOMETIMES, people don't have their tablets completely installed. Maybe now they tend to work automatically, but back when I used my first one, I believe it just behaved like a mouse at first. As in, the cursor would stay put until you moved it with the pen... as in, it wouldn't snap to wherever you put down then pen like it should. It's impossible to draw that way, or at least no better than a mouse. BUT... Once its working properly, keep in mind that your whole screen is now one big "piece of paper," evenly mapped to your tablet. So even if your cursor is in the middle, and you need to reach a tool off to the side or up in a corner, just move your hand all the way to the side/corner of your tablet without trying to carefully guide the cursor. Let it snap to where you put your pen down... IDK how to explain it, but it works the only possible way it can.
i got one of these tablets and it was so frustrating that i couldn’t even make a straight line, and i thought it was just because i was really bad, i really needed this!
I used to have a job at a vape shop doing product photography and photo editing. I asked for a wacom and my boss obliged. I found the tablet very awkward, but actually started using it instead of my mouse for just navigating. This was the single most useful thing I could have done. Now, 10 years later, i have another tablet at home and again, its awkward. i just hope this thing is as good as the old wacom i had at work, because this thing feels awful.. (i got this xp-pen star g460 or some crap)
hello guys anyone knows how to fix a pen problem? the problem is that when i m drawing the pen draws 3 cm apart from the original position, anyone knows how to fix?
That sounds like it's very likely a driver issue. I'd try re-installing your tablet drivers and try running the drivers in administrator mode if that doesn't work
Me with the cheap mini tablet like "..oh." Lol I figured to buy the little cheapest one first to practice with to see if i even want to use a digital pad to begin with. Me personally im old school, id rather draw on paper and then use a digital scanner to upload my image to my pc and then use a photo shop type program to color in and add details later. I know its a shortcut process but my brain just wont work with the digipad and im so much better with paper lol perhaps i just give up tp easy
My Chromebook doesnt show any cursor when i am using my pen tab, and it was really hard cause I don't know where my pen is pointing to, so yeah. I hope there's any app that may help😀
The first time for me was like I've been doing it forever, no learning curve. thinking about stepping up to one with a display but I love my Intous small enough that I don't really need a mouse.
I'm looking at buying a similar tablet........ I do quite a lot of photo editing with Photoshop Elements using a mouse so don't see any problem using a stylus. You don't watch your hand when clicking on the computer screen.
i just bought ipad bc using my old wacom was just not it... but idk i used to draw sooo much on paper so that's probably why the ipad works like magic compared to what i was able to do with screenless tablet (i'm getting back into drawing after art school got me interested in cameras lol) but omg lol thanks for the idea, i just might try playing osu to get some use out of my wacom 💀💀
i been depressed for a whole week bc my display tablet broke and i couldn't effort another one so i got a normal one and i couldn't work with it 😭😭😭im so thankful tyssssssm
I come back here after practicing my pen tablet so i can use it for drawing, with try playing osu and minimize work area now wellcome to osu see you later
The software I used when I got that exact same drawing tablet glitched sometimes and made the pencil cursor invisible, so my drawings would always look REALLY bad
I bought an intuos cause all reviews said it was good, but had I known it felt trash like it does, i've only tested in once tho so far... I would have not bought it and just saved my money for one with a screen. I feel a bit ripped off. Why is nobody writing that in the reviews that it's very hard and odd feeling to get used to.... strange. Feel like I wasted my money now. I just bought this to learn to draw digitally a few months before I can buy a screentablet.
I've had this drawing tablet for around 2 years, didn't use it much, but everytime I go back to using it... It's so frustrating. I'm not even sure if the problem is me or the tablet (of cheap unkown brand), but I've tried so hard to get used to it, and didn't make much progress. Maybe I should try buying a wacom one to be sure I'm the problem 😢
I always move my drawing around so that’s its easier for me and I can’t really do that with my drawing tablet so I can’t really draw good lines i probably need to get used to it but it’s frustrating
The first time I used a pen tablet it felt really unnatural... Since I've played osu! for a long time, I naturally tried to play using the pen tablet to see if it would help me to get used to it... And it actually works, just a few minutes of playing osu! I've already gotten used to the pen tablet (As for playing osu! itself, I still prefer using a mouse tho... And now when I try to play with a pen tablet again (after a very long hiatus), I feel like it doesn't really help that much anymore, so I stop doing it)... Also recently I've been learning Kanji, and I feel like it helps with my drawing skills as well (I use a pen tablet for it because I don't want to use paper, lol)...
I love how you keep pressing about not overworking your brain cause I keep overworking mine ;-; It just make me really stressful but I love the tips! I'm gonna start using it to play games first teehee
