Rie-G's Sketchbook

Gambit! Done with Copics. Still undecided on how to draw his face... I'll get there eventually.
Gambito! Hecho con Copics. Todavia no me decido con como dibujarle la cara... Ya me decidire mas adelante.

Vale, asi que, algunos de vosotros, queridos merodeadores , si es que en realidad existis, quizas sepais que hace algun tiempo me compre un Wacom Cintiq 13 hd. He estado usandolo durante bastante tiempo y crei que ya era hora de hablar de ello en mi blog.
He trabajado durante años con una tableta Wacom Bamboo one que es una tableta grafica buenisima con la que empezar. Sin embargo nunca fue natural para mi y siempre tardaba mas si tenia que pintar en el ordenador. Lo encontraba muy incomodo, prefiero mucho mas el metodo tradicional.
 Ahora, el Cintiq es muy, muy bueno. Es un proceso mucho mas natural, mas de una vez me he pillado a mi misma intentando quitar virutas de goma no exsistentes de la pantalla con la mano despues de borrar algo. Mi cerebro esta tan acostumbrado a la accion.
La precision esta muy bien. Hay algunos pequeños fallos cerca de los bordes de la pantalla pero no se notan donde importa. Es muy facil de recalibrar si te esta causando problemas.
 En otros blogs que he leido se quejan de la falta de de una barra deslizante para el zoom. La verdad, esto podria ser por que nunca he usado una barra de zoom antes, pero a mi esto no me ha causado dificultad alguna. Simplemente asigné los comandos de teclado para aumentar/reducir a dos de los botones laterales y Boom! problema solucionado.
Los botones laterales son fantasticos, y, hablando como alguien que es tremendamente vaga para personalizar su tecnologia (Le cambie el fondeo de pantalla a mi mobil nuevo, ya esta, todo lo demas esta tal cual me lo dieron. ¿Que? Ya dije que era vaga) de verdad necesitas ajustar estos botones. Hace que todo sea muchisimo mas facil y rapido. El menu radial es tambien algo hermoso y imediatamente asigné los commandos para mis herramientas mas usadas a ella.
Ahora, hay dos pegas que tengo con la Cintiq 13 que son, para mi, bastante importantes. La primera, no estoy segura si es verdaderamente un problema con Wacom o con Adobe Photoshop, pero es un problema que han tenido varias personas con las tabletas Wacom y Adobe a partir del CS3 (creo) y sigue presente.. Hay momentos en los que el driver falla y la medicion de presion se va a la porra, la goma de borrar y la pluma se intercambian durante un momento, el programa se cuelga,  hay un momento de retraso al pintar. Estoy tomando nota de los fallos a medida que van apareciendo. Pero todo viene del driver. Otra cosa es que al driver no le gusta que duremas el ordenador.
La segunda pega es como se conectan los varios cables a la tableta, es bastante fragil y el peso de los cables tira de las conexiones, asi que, es algo a lo que tenerle el ojo echado.

Si haces tu arte a ordenador o una gran parte de ella la creas en el ordenador, la Cintiq es algo que realmente deberias de considerar comprar. De verdad merece la pena. Te da el mismo control que con lapiz y papel, es verdaderamente increible, no puedo imaginarme como son el 22 HD y el 24.

Okay so, Some of you, my beloved lurkers, if indeed you exist, may know that a while ago I bought myself a Wacom Cintiq 13 hd. I've been working with it for quite a while now and I reckoned it was about time I talked about it on my blog.

I've worked for years now with a very basic Wacom Bamboo one tablet which is a great graphic tablet to start off with. However it was never natural for me and drawing on the computer always took longer. I found it very uncomfortable to do, I much prefer traditional medium.
However the Cintiq is really, really good. It's a much more natural process, more than once I've caught myself trying to brush non existant rubber shavings off the screen after rubbing something out. My brain is so accustomed to the action.
The accuracy is really good. There are some small issues near the edges of the screen but it's unoticeable were it matters.  It's very easy to recalibrate if it is causing you issues.

 Many people in other reviews I've read complain about the lack of a zoom slide bar. To be honest, this may be because I've never had a zoom slide bar, but I've not found this an issue at all. I just assigned the key commands for zoom in/zoom out to two of the side key and boom! problem solved.
The side keys are fantastic, and speaking as someone who is tremendously lazy about personalizing equipment ( I changed the wallpaper on my new mobile, that's it, everything else is just as it came. What? I said I was lazy) you definitely need to adjust these, it makes life so much easier and quicker. The radial menu is also a beautiful thing and I imediatley assigned my most used tools to it.
Now, there are two issues that I've have with the Cintiq13 which, for me, are quite important. The first I'm not sure if is truely a problem with Wacom or with Adobe Photoshop. There is, and has been a problem with Photoshop and Wacom tablets for a while now (i think people have been noticing it since CS3) and it's still present. There are some moments when the driver will fail and the pressure measure will disappear, the eraser and the pen will switch briefly, the program will crash, there will suddenly be a time lag, I'm keeping track of the issues as they appear. The driver doesn't take well to sleeping the computer either.

The second issue is the way the various cables connet to the tablet itself, it's quite fragile and the weight of the cables pull on the connections, so, it's something you need to keep an eye on.

If you do your art work on a computer or a large amount of it is created on a computer, the cintiq is something you really need to look into buying. It's well worth it. You get the same control as with pencil and paper, it's absolutely wonderful, I can only imagine what the 22 hd and the 24 for is like.