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 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.
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
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?
"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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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 💀
The tablet you use in the video is the tablet I currently use and is actually my first drawing tablet. So my problem is more drawing good circles, and since this is my first drawing tablet I kinda got used to positions of the cursor.
"What you are using right now may not be worse than the hardware you think you would be better with using" Mate I draw with a mouse. Anything is better.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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
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'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.
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😀
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!
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
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'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
Tip: If you wanna practice drawing with a drawing tablet try playing some Gartic Phone, you’ll be able to practice your skills in a fun and funny way lol
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 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.
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.
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.
not sure what the laws are where you live, but here in the US; there is nothing legally wrong with tracing. you might object to it on a moral level, but legally its transformative and perfectly acceptable.
Why do people feel confusing when using this type of tablet? It's like using a mouse, but instead of using a mouse you're using a pen. I feel more comfrontable to use the tablet since the mouse is kinda clunky for me now
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
wow- that osu game looks insane but great choice. My game of choice was just playing starcraft with my tablet- selecting characters and telling them where to go
Well, ive seen comments that u could get addicted while practicing on osu, which is true ofc i tried it out once a few months ago with my mouse cuz i still did have a tab until now, and yea i kinda got addicted lol. And since now i have a tablet, it wasnt hard for me to play osu. I dont even know whats the purpose of this comment
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
uuuuhhh the last thing you wanna do ist getting near your files. if you doing fa. blender i would set up the pen like a mouse, its much easier to learn since your brain knows how a mouse works. later you can change it (if you want). but this is the the thing that gets rid of the awk.
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
How to get used to a Screen Drawing Tablet + avoid damaging your wrist in the process: ruclips.net/video/zuWf9f4qrA4/видео.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
Thanks. Shalom. Hehe.
@@harrytsang1501Inverted mouses are awesome for feel, looks, and buttons. I have an RGB one from Delux.
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.
That’s fascinating!
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.
wonder if the Jigsaw Puzzle in classic MacOS served the same purpose back in the day ...
I recently bought a tablet, and the learning curve has been quite overwhelming. So, thank you for making this! :]
How are you doing now?
@@furosukki1301 It's gotten much easier! These suggestions are absolutely worth your time.
When you started how well were you able to draw???
I bought one and thought I would miraculously get good at drawing lolll
@@koris_0000 real
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.
Thank you for kind tips 🧡
How if its a PC?
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.
Writing until your handwriting looks like your handwriting.
I draw circle it appears oval I draw oval it appears circle watafak please help :c
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!
literally did not expect this to become a problem since im already good with a pencil
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!
Same model and same problem lol. Bought it just yesterday and first time using a tablet so my mind fucked lol
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 😪
I definitely recommend xp pen deco pro sw, it’s large despite being called small, I’d recommend it even more for heavy handed people though :p
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.
Welcome to the beginning of your osu addiction.
You are here forever
where do you get Osu?
@@jonahabenhaim1223 ITS osu! WITH A LOWER CASE!
If you play less than one week of osu, you’re safe, but any more than one week and I’m sorry to say that you have fallen too deep to leave now.
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
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.
Could you explain this more. I don’t understand what you mean.
@@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 could never get used to this crap, for years. Best decision of my life was just pack a bit more money and purchase a Graphic Tablet instead.
Dont play osu when you get tablet if you got it for drawing. You wont stop playing osu till you die bro
"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.
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.
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!
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.
DONT PLAY OSU, BIGGEST MISTAKE OF MY LIFE!! I GOT ADDICTED AND NOW I BARELY DRAW
damn im early as hell xd anyways im still not used to me drawing tablet so this video helped out alot
I most definitely did not expect to osu here..
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.
What Huion tablet do you reccomend?
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
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.
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!
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.
The only thing that is so damn difficult for me is how for the god sake I’m supposed to zoom in and out? And moving in the canvas?
Short Cuts
A lot of the time the tablet is 16:10, whereas most screens are 16:9, so your drawing on the screen is slightly squished compared to what you drew.
drawing on a small tablet is such a pain
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 💀
For me it's like using a mouse. That's basically what I can compare the learning experience to be like.
The tablet you use in the video is the tablet I currently use and is actually my first drawing tablet. So my problem is more drawing good circles, and since this is my first drawing tablet I kinda got used to positions of the cursor.
what is name of that tablet i am researching to buy one
When you have a drawing tablet but have no computer: 😭
That's stupid wyf
@@littlewarp I have a phone tho and it supports it so it's not stupid in my opinion but I respect your opinion
@@Akacchin then why you talk like u cant use the tablet
@@dewaputra9251 I'm sorry for the misunderstanding I have cause you, but I never stated that i can't use one.
Just here to clear it up
Damn that happens to me too
We got damn poor suddenly and faild to get pc 😢😂
"What you are using right now may not be worse than the hardware you think you would be better with using"
Mate I draw with a mouse. Anything is better.
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.
The osu advice is dangerous, I've spent the past 3 days playing it instead of drawing god damn it
I honestly just got an iPad for art. I couldn't get used to a standard drawing tablet.
first thing i did when i got a pen and tablet was play ultrakill with it lol
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!
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.
haha I had that tiny one for the longest too. Was not worth the cheap price for it imo
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.
I get so discouraged trying to learn to draw on a tablet... I've almost given up but I really would like to make art on a tablet.
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.
I don't own a tablet I use my phone and I still find it comfortable and also it's portable you just need few weeks of constant use
Every broke artist's kit
I have the opposite situation: bought a tablet for osu! and now starting to draw
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.
One of the best advice I've ever gotten was not to worry too much about equipment. A good artist can make a masterpiece from nothing.
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
your drawing looks sus ._.
IT WAS. IT WAS REALLY HARD TO START WITH
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 litterally onl;y clicked on this video bacsude I have the same tablet but good tips
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.
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".
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
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'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.
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😀
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 got a bit expensive tablet for my 17th birthday and now i am like how the hell do i use it.
play skribbl with it
As someone who has played osu for 2 years, utilizing the WHOLE area of my ctl 672, i can confidently say that osu does NOT help LMFAO
2:07 understanding where your WHAT
penos pensi
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
got ipad with pencil, but in my opinion drawing desk is better for me. I get even cleaner lineart with her
Personally, I used this practice method
P- erspective
E- llipses
N- on descript spherical objects
I- sosceles
S- quares
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've been drawing with my tablet for years and it's still so awkward for me, does anyone have any advice?
I really love drawing with my tablet i just started within a week and i am already used to it its so fun and interesting
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
Tip: If you wanna practice drawing with a drawing tablet try playing some Gartic Phone, you’ll be able to practice your skills in a fun and funny way lol
"Normal tasks using the drawin tablet"
Uhhu, ti tô dk some gaming
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 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.
So any improvement? Should i just buy a screen one?
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.
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.
tracing is the only one you need to concentrate a lot. It fixed my learning curve.
Extra tip : Use Smoothing, or Stabilizer. Especially the Pulling String type of stabilizer.
not sure what the laws are where you live, but here in the US; there is nothing legally wrong with tracing. you might object to it on a moral level, but legally its transformative and perfectly acceptable.
Why do people feel confusing when using this type of tablet? It's like using a mouse, but instead of using a mouse you're using a pen. I feel more comfrontable to use the tablet since the mouse is kinda clunky for me now
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
wow- that osu game looks insane but great choice. My game of choice was just playing starcraft with my tablet- selecting characters and telling them where to go
I cant put pressure on the tab cuz I keep worrying about messing the nib or scracthing the plate (i have it laminated)
hey i brought a hs611 and no worries so far
Well, ive seen comments that u could get addicted while practicing on osu, which is true ofc i tried it out once a few months ago with my mouse cuz i still did have a tab until now, and yea i kinda got addicted lol. And since now i have a tablet, it wasnt hard for me to play osu. I dont even know whats the purpose of this comment
So the reason I suck at digital art is because I don't use a screen tablet. It's so obvious now, but somehow I never realised
I have the same tablet, don`t buy h430p , better to buy something bigger
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
I thought that girl was going to get clothes and drawing her butt was just part of the initial sketch to make a correct anatomy. 😂
uuuuhhh the last thing you wanna do ist getting near your files. if you doing fa. blender i would set up the pen like a mouse, its much easier to learn since your brain knows how a mouse works. later you can change it (if you want). but this is the the thing that gets rid of the awk.
Meanwhile me who is gonna play valorant with this tablet to practice and learn faster 💀
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
Am I weird, I started drawing a table then later got a screen tablet but I find drawing on the screen tablet harder
I couldn’t draw without seeing where I’m drawing
play 8h/day counter strike and u get that hand-eye coordination
What about how to use a actual tablet that comes with a pen and draw correctly
How do you mean that screen tablet 'hurts your hands more'?