campbell.tara•16d agoMost Upvoted

My art professor told me to 'just use a Wacom' and I spent 60 hours fighting it

Last semester I took this digital painting class in Austin and the professor kept saying I needed a Wacom tablet to get smooth strokes. So I scraped together $250 and bought a used Intuos off Craigslist. Turns out I had no idea how to set the pressure sensitivity or map the drawing area to my monitor. I spent like 60 hours over two weeks making these jagged, shaky lines and getting so frustrated I almost dropped the class. Finally a fellow student in the showcase forum told me to check the driver settings and adjust the pen tip feel. After that it was night and day. Has anyone else had a tool recommendation that backfired until you figured out the setup?

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robertgreen16d ago

$250 for a used Intuos is steep, they usually go for under $100 on FB Marketplace these days. But yeah, the driver thing kills more beginners than anything else with those tablets.

terryh2016d ago

Read that Wacom is basically abandoning driver updates for older models. Saw a post from a guy with a 2018 Intuos, tablet just stopped working after a Windows update. No fix from Wacom. That's the real killer, not the learning curve. People buy used, can't even get the thing running.

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