I have been looking for something like this and have been over whelmed with the choices. Thank you for this tutorial. I would love to see more of these type. You have made my search much easier. Thank you.
After having used a regular tablet for a long time, I got a Surface Book 2. I must say I can't do without it anymore. It's an expensive convertable laptop, but it paid for itself by saving me so much time and making work a lot easier.
Being able to draw in one place and seeing the drawing in another is something that your brain needs to learn. New grooves, so to say. It's similar to sight reading music and playing at the same time. Or dancing on a dance mat. You need to synchronize your ears and your feet and your eyes. That's something not everybody can learn that quickly. I learned quickly, but I've been sight reading and playing for years. My cousin who's a much better dancer could not do it. I picked it up right away while following the lessons, she did not. I've also heard it's been used to help kids with reading difficulties. That the new connections in their brain from the dancing would also help their reading.
Hi Ann, yes that's true. But i would say the difference is on a music instruments the keys or strings stay in the same place, while on a tablet things change depending on what you draw and this makes it kind of hard to see where you draw until the pen is already drawing. So for me i always felt uncomfortable with that. I could never really get adjusted to this and made very slow progress. With the display tablet i could not only draw as well as on paper, but even better, because i could always go back and get a lot of safety from that, to just put down a stroke and not worry :)
Olivio Sarikas Do you write touch? If I don't have a space reference, I touch the wrong keys. I not only need that little notch on some keys to orient my fingers, but I also need to get used to the specific keyboard. Things move around on different models, and the dimensions of the keys vary. So if there are no physical references, I can see how it would be hard. On a piano keyboard you have cues in the 2/3 arrangement of black keys. On a dance mat you always need to recenter on the center tile.
I got fully used to it. But it took me quite some time. Years. And now I enjoy the advantages of the classic tablets, like cheaper prices, the hand not covering the screen, being able to draw at farther distance from the screen, I kind of am able to stay in a more comfortable position (also, I like to see all my art in a vertical screen, and sitting fully straight), and having separated the two device purchases : a high end monitor, and a tablet. I totally understand if non experienced artists do find the cintiqs or cheaper devices easier to get with. But there are strong advantages in the classic tablets.
Another very important advantage of the classic tablets, is that if you learn to use them, there's not even a learning curve to use the cintiq ones. But it gives you full ability to work at a company where their politic is not to acquire a cintiq per seat, but a cheap classic one. Or just if you need to work in two places/houses and can't afford to have two screen tablets, or carry the display one daily, or the problem if it breaks and you can't purchase a new one fast enough, as they're still 3x more expensive than a functional one, if you compare apples to apples, for example, price of a display and a classic one, both in ebay second hand, or if both first hand in the actual store or Amazon. When I want a brush stroke now, it lands where I want it, and more importantly, I can ink a full piece without even using a line stabilizer. But yes, it took too long to develop that level.
some good points, poly :) yes, the sitting position can be a bit of a problem. I have yet to find one where i don't constantly lean over the screen, hurting my back in the process.
Inspiring video but have you one where you set up some of the basic brushes. I like the fact that you are using Affinity Photo but your brush set up is magic and would be great if you showed us how you set up your tablet as I think that most budget to economy range work roughly the same way but your use of the stylus for brushes is very cool
I'd like to use my Ipad pro 12.9 because it's still the best option for my work. The most screens are very expensive and also you need a Desktop PC too.
Huion Kamvas Pro 20 2019 edition is coming to me next month. Ordered it in November. Long delivery since I live in Sweden. Been saving 2 years for a monitor tablet. Gonna use it at home. I will use it for different things. Krita, Old photoshop, Mischief installed. And pixelart too. Tattoo apprentice btw. So yeah. I need this. In the studio I will be using ipad pro as a laptop / tablet and a drawing tablet (will make only black outlines on it) but oh man they are expensive like hell, and no keyboard, cover, pen or paper silk fibrer over screen included, its sad.
I don't like the display tablet for photo editing. Have a 22 inch version. My hand covers a part of the screen when selecting, placing, etc. I like clear view on my monitor. A normal tablet is what I like most. I have no problem looking at the screen without seeing my tablet. But for drawing, it is perfect.
thank you once again Olivio for the video, would be useful if you could say which tablet you are using and how it hooks up and handshakes (USB?) with affinity photo. Thank you for taking the time for making your excellent videos
Whhhat? That's sooo cool. I didn't know that. Thank you Ann. Are you from Sweden. Love that country. I really need to travel there. Only have seen photos so far :)
Olivio Sarikas Not really. I'm Norwegian. It's kritt in Norwegian. But many Norwegians are semi fluent in Swedish. I've probably got an above average vocabulary, though. I have to speak Swedish quite a bit. Switching language requires more cognitive energy, unless you're truly fluent. I'm not as good at Swedish as I am at English. That doesn't demand more of me than Norwegian, but I've been told others (Norwegians) get headaches from speaking English for hours.
@@OlivioSarikas Compared to my older Mk 2 iPad the screen resolution (Clarity) is inferior. The reason why I bought Apple iPad is for the screen aspect ratio. I dislike 16.9 widescreen but it’s something I have to live with. Thanks again Olivio.
But what I can see in the video is a huge delay between the hand action and the reaction, that would annoy me massively. That is the reason I am not using the bluetooth an my Wacom and only use it via USB where the reaction is practically instantly.
Hi FHB71, i would rather assume that this delay is a bad sync between my webcam and my screen capturing. I didn't notice any delay while using the tablet so far. :)
@@OlivioSarikas No, you can see your movement and then how the drawing underneath is responding and there is a delay. It may be just 100 or 200ms, but it is noticeable. I see the same with Wacom via BT compared to cable.
Hi FHB71, i did some testing and you are right, there is delay. There is also a Parallax effect due to the thick glass on top of the device. Plus there is delay depending on the software between pointer position and brush-color catching up to the pointer. The last one seems to be very high in Affinity Photo, but pracically zero in Krita. So, on average i would say between the tip of my stylus and the pointer there is a distance of about 1-2 centimeters when i move my hand at an average speed. However, that hasn't been a problem for me so far, i didn't even notice it before you said anything. The Parallax effect is a bit more of a problem, because depending on the position of your hand to eye relation the stylus is ahead or behind the pointer, making it a bit harder to follow a precise line - but only a bit and you get adjusted to that pretty quickly. Btw.: i'm using it via usb - i don't think this device has BT
@@OlivioSarikas Certainly there will always be a delay due to the technology itself, the question is whether it is perceivable and whether it disturbs the user. I myself feel very irritaded when it is too long.
This is the first video I ever watched from you and immediately chuckled at the colour of your beard. Immediately liked and subscribed.
I have been looking for something like this and have been over whelmed with the choices. Thank you for this tutorial. I would love to see more of these type. You have made my search much easier. Thank you.
After having used a regular tablet for a long time, I got a Surface Book 2. I must say I can't do without it anymore. It's an expensive convertable laptop, but it paid for itself by saving me so much time and making work a lot easier.
Being able to draw in one place and seeing the drawing in another is something that your brain needs to learn. New grooves, so to say. It's similar to sight reading music and playing at the same time. Or dancing on a dance mat. You need to synchronize your ears and your feet and your eyes. That's something not everybody can learn that quickly. I learned quickly, but I've been sight reading and playing for years. My cousin who's a much better dancer could not do it. I picked it up right away while following the lessons, she did not. I've also heard it's been used to help kids with reading difficulties. That the new connections in their brain from the dancing would also help their reading.
Hi Ann, yes that's true. But i would say the difference is on a music instruments the keys or strings stay in the same place, while on a tablet things change depending on what you draw and this makes it kind of hard to see where you draw until the pen is already drawing. So for me i always felt uncomfortable with that. I could never really get adjusted to this and made very slow progress. With the display tablet i could not only draw as well as on paper, but even better, because i could always go back and get a lot of safety from that, to just put down a stroke and not worry :)
Olivio Sarikas Do you write touch? If I don't have a space reference, I touch the wrong keys. I not only need that little notch on some keys to orient my fingers, but I also need to get used to the specific keyboard. Things move around on different models, and the dimensions of the keys vary. So if there are no physical references, I can see how it would be hard. On a piano keyboard you have cues in the 2/3 arrangement of black keys. On a dance mat you always need to recenter on the center tile.
I got fully used to it. But it took me quite some time. Years. And now I enjoy the advantages of the classic tablets, like cheaper prices, the hand not covering the screen, being able to draw at farther distance from the screen, I kind of am able to stay in a more comfortable position (also, I like to see all my art in a vertical screen, and sitting fully straight), and having separated the two device purchases : a high end monitor, and a tablet. I totally understand if non experienced artists do find the cintiqs or cheaper devices easier to get with. But there are strong advantages in the classic tablets.
Another very important advantage of the classic tablets, is that if you learn to use them, there's not even a learning curve to use the cintiq ones. But it gives you full ability to work at a company where their politic is not to acquire a cintiq per seat, but a cheap classic one. Or just if you need to work in two places/houses and can't afford to have two screen tablets, or carry the display one daily, or the problem if it breaks and you can't purchase a new one fast enough, as they're still 3x more expensive than a functional one, if you compare apples to apples, for example, price of a display and a classic one, both in ebay second hand, or if both first hand in the actual store or Amazon.
When I want a brush stroke now, it lands where I want it, and more importantly, I can ink a full piece without even using a line stabilizer. But yes, it took too long to develop that level.
some good points, poly :) yes, the sitting position can be a bit of a problem. I have yet to find one where i don't constantly lean over the screen, hurting my back in the process.
Inspiring video but have you one where you set up some of the basic brushes. I like the fact that you are using Affinity Photo but your brush set up is magic and would be great if you showed us how you set up your tablet as I think that most budget to economy range work roughly the same way but your use of the stylus for brushes is very cool
Have a look here. Hope that helps: ruclips.net/video/hIuFwqm2nHQ/видео.html
I am glad that you are using what looks like a Kamvas Pro which I just bought! The Kamvas Pro 20 can cost less that $400 brand new...
Thank you AS. Yes, i'm very happy with it :)
I'd like to use my Ipad pro 12.9 because it's still the best option for my work. The most screens are very expensive and also you need a Desktop PC too.
yeah...but still ipad's expensive too😣...i do wish to get one for me someday
Huion Kamvas Pro 20 2019 edition is coming to me next month. Ordered it in November. Long delivery since I live in Sweden. Been saving 2 years for a monitor tablet. Gonna use it at home. I will use it for different things. Krita, Old photoshop, Mischief installed. And pixelart too. Tattoo apprentice btw. So yeah. I need this. In the studio I will be using ipad pro as a laptop / tablet and a drawing tablet (will make only black outlines on it) but oh man they are expensive like hell, and no keyboard, cover, pen or paper silk fibrer over screen included, its sad.
I don't like the display tablet for photo editing. Have a 22 inch version. My hand covers a part of the screen when selecting, placing, etc. I like clear view on my monitor. A normal tablet is what I like most. I have no problem looking at the screen without seeing my tablet. But for drawing, it is perfect.
What's the name of your tablet?
Interesting item thanks. I have a HUION tablet and it is excellent. Will now consider the display tablet, looks very good.
thank you once again Olivio for the video, would be useful if you could say which tablet you are using and how it hooks up and handshakes (USB?) with affinity photo. Thank you for taking the time for making your excellent videos
Hello Olivio
I would like to know where got got the deal for the used tablet for $160. I have been searching for such deal.
well, i'm from Austria and it's a local page for used things. So i don't think that would help you much. It's called willhaben.at
Krita is Swedish for chalk.
Whhhat? That's sooo cool. I didn't know that. Thank you Ann. Are you from Sweden. Love that country. I really need to travel there. Only have seen photos so far :)
Olivio Sarikas Not really. I'm Norwegian. It's kritt in Norwegian. But many Norwegians are semi fluent in Swedish. I've probably got an above average vocabulary, though. I have to speak Swedish quite a bit. Switching language requires more cognitive energy, unless you're truly fluent. I'm not as good at Swedish as I am at English. That doesn't demand more of me than Norwegian, but I've been told others (Norwegians) get headaches from speaking English for hours.
Krijt, in Dutch.
There's an art program called krita I wonder if it got any inspiration?🤔
not something i've thought about, thanks for the trivia
it would be helpful to know for what features to look for when buying such a tablet
Good point, i will add it to my tutorial list. :)
The iPad pro 12 inch is not ideal for graphics. Thank you for this tutorial.
Why? Can you elaborate on that?
@@OlivioSarikas Compared to my older Mk 2 iPad the screen resolution (Clarity) is inferior. The reason why I bought Apple iPad is for the screen aspect ratio. I dislike 16.9 widescreen but it’s something I have to live with. Thanks again Olivio.
iPad has 12.9" screened tablets, and with an upcoming Mac OS you can use the iPad as a display tablet, as well as a second screen, too. ✌️
Hi David, that's pretty awesome too :)
Did you mask your beard for a masking tutorial or is the colour for real??
ARTRAGE this is the one I use,have a look at Steve Elliot this guy is a genius.
cool beard man!
Thanks mr eggman, never i gotta buy another Sonic game
But what I can see in the video is a huge delay between the hand action and the reaction, that would annoy me massively. That is the reason I am not using the bluetooth an my Wacom and only use it via USB where the reaction is practically instantly.
Hi FHB71, i would rather assume that this delay is a bad sync between my webcam and my screen capturing. I didn't notice any delay while using the tablet so far. :)
@@OlivioSarikas No, you can see your movement and then how the drawing underneath is responding and there is a delay. It may be just 100 or 200ms, but it is noticeable. I see the same with Wacom via BT compared to cable.
Hi FHB71, i did some testing and you are right, there is delay. There is also a Parallax effect due to the thick glass on top of the device. Plus there is delay depending on the software between pointer position and brush-color catching up to the pointer. The last one seems to be very high in Affinity Photo, but pracically zero in Krita. So, on average i would say between the tip of my stylus and the pointer there is a distance of about 1-2 centimeters when i move my hand at an average speed. However, that hasn't been a problem for me so far, i didn't even notice it before you said anything. The Parallax effect is a bit more of a problem, because depending on the position of your hand to eye relation the stylus is ahead or behind the pointer, making it a bit harder to follow a precise line - but only a bit and you get adjusted to that pretty quickly. Btw.: i'm using it via usb - i don't think this device has BT
@@OlivioSarikas Certainly there will always be a delay due to the technology itself, the question is whether it is perceivable and whether it disturbs the user. I myself feel very irritaded when it is too long.
did he ever say the model of the tablet. i know he said the brand
That's a huion kamvas pro
@@OlivioSarikas ty sir 24"
How about a Samsung Tab S7+?
I have no experience with that, sorry