Hi guys and welcome to everydayidraw
today I wanted to talk a little bit
about our drawing gear and to compare
drawing tablets that I use, that I've
used before, that the ones that I'm
planning to use in the future. Since as
with everything on this channel I can
only talk to my experience. I will only
discuss Wacom tablets. Because I only
owed them, in the past. I was going through
my old twitter, by the way, and it's all
rubbish and fandom talk, but I found
this very important piece of information
that states that I've bought a Wacom
Bamboo Touch in 2010. They actually
discontinued this model now, but if you
want to buy a similar one is called
Bamboo One. Before that I've owned
another Wacom tablet, a version of
Touch One, but it was so old that I
couldn't really find the name of it,
so never mind. If you take a look at Bamboo
Touch you will see that it is actually a
tiny tablet. It's drawing space is
actually A5 format, so it's really
small, but I have to tell you this: I was
absolutely happy with this tablet. it was
an amazing for me as for someone, who
was only starting with digital drawing.
It only cost me approximately like 50$ and
if you are going to buy a Wacom Touch One,
I've took a look at Ebay, you can find it
for 60$, so it's really really
not expensive, and a lot of people have to
think that, if you buy a tablet you
really want a huge one, so you can move
your hand around, but I don't personally
think so because anyway, when you work in
Photoshop or in any other program that
you use like Indesign or Krita or whatever,
if you need a detail you zoom in
and if you need a smooth line,
you zoom out. So I find that this A5 working
space on
Bamboo Touch was absolutely enough for me.
It is still working till that day, and
it's working flawlessly, so I cannot
really say anything bad about it, because
it was cheap, it's working perfectly, so
it's an amazing model for someone, who is
just starting. This Christmas I've
decided to treat myself... Well, actually,
I didn't decide on it, I was thinking like
I'm going to treat myself with some
online courses or something, but then one
of my subscribers contacted me, and she
said that she's trying to sell her
Wacom Cintiq 13HD, because she bought a
bigger one, and this one is in the
perfect condition, but she doesn't need
it anymore. So she was asking, if she can
post as selling advertisements on my
channel. And I said of course yes,
send me the text and the photos and I
will post it for you, but she actually
had it written so well, that when I was
really need, I was like: wait a second
well I actually do need a new tablet
myself, so why don't I buy it then?
So it was perfect because I knew
this girl, we've met before, and her
tablet was in the perfect condition, but
it was used one, so obviously she was
selling it in a lower price. So I said:
"Hey listen, girl, let me just buy this
tablet from you". That's how I got it and
she actually explained to me, that she
was buying a bigger version as a 17-inch one,
if I'm not mistaken. And at that time
I was thinking like: why do you need
such a huge tablet? I mean, I have a
laptop that is 13 inch. So it must be
totally sufficient... But okay, nevermind.
So that's how i've got it. I have to tell you,
that in the beginning, as well as
with my Bamboo Touch, as well as with my
Cintiq, it was a struggle. Because when
you draw on a smaller tablet, or if you
drew on a paper before, and you don't
really have any experience with tablets,
it feels freaking weird to be drawing
somewhere else, and follow the line on
the screen. Do you know what i'm saying?
so
It took me probably like maybe two weeks of
constant drawing to get in the mood.
The same thing happened, when I've got my Cintiq.
Because you might think like: "man
that would be so easy to draw on this
thing, since it's like you actually
drawing on the paper. So what can go
wrong?". Everything went wrong for me
in the beginning. I was like, damn it, this is
so not comfy. I really want to switch
back to my small one, to the Bamboo one.
You know, you just have to go through
this struggle. It will get better in the
end. So bear with me. This is how my
desktop is set up. I now have a separate
desktop, where I keep my laptop and my
tablet all ready to go. Because as you
can see Cintiq actually has a lot of
wires. I mean A LOT of wires. Plus since
that girl that I bought it from, my
subscriber, ordered it from States. That
means that you also have to have this
European, you know, fork. This is one thing.
The second thing is, if you own a Macbook,
you know that you're screwed, because
you have to have another connector.
Because, actually, how Cintiq is working?
It is at the same time, a second
monitor, that you are using, as well as a
touch pad. So, that means, that you have to
connect it to HDMI plug in your computer,
so you can use it as a second monitor,
and then, to use it as a tablet you have to
connect it to USB Drive. So a lot of
wires guys. A lot of wires. Plus,
additional wires, because I live in
Europe. Plus additional wires, because
I have a Macbook. So, if you know me, you
know that I hate wires. They make me so mad.
I mean we're living in the future.
we're is all those wireless technology?
I mean, why do I have to plug in my phone
every freaking night. I want to do it by air!
So please, Hello! Nevermind. So you see
that I neatly taped everything down, so
I don't have to spend a lot of time
setting up
the working space, and then, you know,
putting it down after I finished. It just
stays the same all the time. and then I
have another additional table, where I do
all of my traditional
drawings but I've been using this less
and less in the past few months. If you
have seen my previous sketch book tour,
I explain, why I actually did it... So yeah
lot of wires, you guys. You might be
concerned, that this kind of monitor-tablet
will have a lot of fingerprints
and it will, you know shine in the
sunlight. You know what I'm saying, like
reflects into your eyes the sunlight.
I have a small window in front of my desk.
So I am sitting in front of the window
actually. And I don't really have this
problem with sun shining. I mean the only
thing that happens is that when Sun is
really bright, I have to actually close
the curtains, because I cannot really put
my tablet on very shiny setting. I mean
even when I do, it's not enough in the
bright sunlight. But the same thing
happens with the laptop. I usually,
on sunny days, work with curtains closed,
because it's just, you know, to bright.
I also have a really sweaty hands, I admit it.
I do. =D And you know guys, in the past
few years i've come to terms with my body,
so now I love my sweaty hands, but no
I don't have this problem with a fingerprints
on my Cintiq. I feel like it's
totally fine. I just brush it with a...
you know, how you call it, this monitor
material, microfiber thing, whatever.
From time to time, like maybe 2 or 3
times per week, but this is because
I have two animals in a really tiny
apartment. So it gets kind of furry...
So yeah, but that's it, no problems with
fingerprints or whatsoever. Another thing that
I've actually figured out, that you
have to be in a very comfortable
position. And when you're drawing with
Cintiq, you have to keep your elbow on
the table, because if your hand goes down
you have to, you know, flex your muscles
and then you just have this tendency
to bend to the right side or to the left side,
depends on which hand you are drawing with.
And this is not a good one, because if
you actually draw for a longer period of time,
and I do short breaks every hour,
still, it gets so uncomfortable in the end
of the day. You get pain in
your hand, so not pretty not cute.
So I keep my elbow on the table and I also
put a little bit of material under
my elbow because, you know, the bones here,
they just stuck so weirdly. When you
put it on a hard table, it's just... it's
not comfortable at all. So yeah, you have
to be in the comfortable position.
But then again, it's the same with drawing
with traditional materials, because if
you're not in a comfortable position,
everything will annoy you, and you will
not draw well. So just, you know, stay
comfy. You also asked me about, what
is it like to travel with Cintiq?
I've actually bought it in Russia, when I was
with my family on Christmas break.
And then I came back to Prague, and you
guys, it's hard. I mean my laptop is on
the older side. So it weighs kind of a lot,
and Cintiq also weighs a lot. So I think,
together they may be something
around 6kg, and you usually take
this kind of things to the plane with
you. Like in a handbag, or... I don't
actually own any handbags, I only have
like backpack... Anyway, it still heavy.
And plus you have a lot of wires and cords, so
NO. I wouldn't say that this is a travel
material. I've actually... I was thinking that
I would sell my Bamboo one, because I was like:
"...who needs two tablets, I mean, hello!"
But I'm actually keeping the smaller one,
because when I need to do something really
quick, like some photo retouch or
something like that, or I need to travel
and have my laptop and drawing gear with me,
I'm taking my bamboo. Because it
absolutely takes almost no space, it's
light, it only has one cord, so it's
pretty travel friendly, I have to say.
Talking about working speed, I
have a Macbook Pro from 2011 and it has
16 gigabytes of RAM, so I generally use
Photoshop and I use bigger files because
I draw for printing so 300 DPI and stuff like that
so it's pretty huge PSD and
I haven't really seen any problems with
the drawing speed. The tablet is usually
performing just fine, so never
experienced any problems with that.
The only thing I did in Photoshop, you know if you
going to open history, you have several
actions in history. I lower the number of
actions from 30 to 10, because this is
actually one of the things, that will
affect your photoshop ram usage.
So I decided, that it's easier for me to
redraw something, then go back in history
and I will have additional space on my disk,
so it would be easier for me to draw.
If I had all this experience in
the beginning, and I would be thinking about
buying a Cintiq 13HD, and it's actually
880$ on Ebay,
and you can find a used one for 500$,
I would say I would go bigger, as you
usually do. I mean, hello!... So yeah, even
though now it's pretty okay for me,
because I'm not that kind of CG guru yet,
so I'm only getting there, but stay tuned for that,
It's fine, but I would say,
if you draw on a more professional side,
you should definitely go bigger. But for now
I think I'm staying with 13-inch one.
totally fine. Previously situation on a
drawing tablet market was, that you could
only pretty much got Wacom, and be
happy with it, because there were no
other options for you. But now I've took a
look at several videos here, on YouTube,
where people talked about alternative
options. And I think the one that is
mentioned the most is the Chinese brand
by the name...
now, Russian listeners, I'm sorry, but
it's HUION, and you know... it's just...
Maybe I'm saying this wrong. It's like
H-U-I-O-N. And I've linked a video by Sara Tepes
where she talks about
alternatives that you can get, if you
don't really want invest that much money
in Wacom. I was actually introduced to
this chinese brand Huion... oh my god,
I mean, never mind, =D... last year on a Moscow
comics convention. They had a booth there
and they invited artists to try
their tablets. I've talked a little bit
with guys, who work for this company,
and they seemed pretty legit. So take a
look at several other reviews and think
for yourself, because I think that Huion
is changing the market, slowly, bit
by bit and maybe, if I will upgrade to 17-inch
version one, maybe I will not go for
Wacom. Who knows. But it's not
a thing that is happening this year.
So I'm sticking with Wacom now.
This is it for today's video. I hope it will
be helpful to you guys. If you are
choosing a tablet, please remember, that
it is the same, as with YouTube gear and
stuff like that. People always ask me
"what camera do you use?", "what lens do
you use?", "what microphone do you use?"
Well, actually they don't ask me about microphone
because the sound on my video
sucks sometimes. I just have
a bad luck with microphone. It's just
unbelievable. So, I'm sorry for that.
Now I'm recording on my phone. Hopefully
it doesn't die somewhere in the middle
of this video, and you will hear it all.
But it's not about the gear, that you're
using. It's just about the fact, that you
start. I actually have a friend fellow
youtuber, who started to film her videos
using your iphone taped on the window
with, you know, this two-sided tape.
Totally fine. It's only about your
content, about producing things
constantly. The same thing goes with
drawing. You just have to draw
constantly. It doesn't really matter if
you use pen, or pencil, or paper,
or Bamboo Touch. Just do it. So yeah, this
is it for today's video, guys. If you have
any questions, please leave them down
in the comments below, and I will try to
answer them in the future videos. If you
like my project, please support me on
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social media, that you prefer. And I'll
see you next time.
Bye!


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