I thought a drawing tablet would fix my art problems

Spent 3 years blaming my mouse for shaky lines and bad shading. My friend Dave at the local art meetup said it was my brush settings and pressure control, not the hardware. Finally borrowed his old Wacom Intuos for a week and yeah, my lines were still wobbly. Anyone else find out the hard way that gear doesn't replace practice?

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4 Comments

quinn1613d ago

@blair_chen81 has a point, it is like blaming the wrong thing. Same with life, we all do it.

anthony7633d ago

Man, I did the exact same thing with buying a gaming mouse for drawing. Thought the extra buttons and higher DPI would magically make my lines smooth. Took me six months of blaming the mouse before I realized my wrist control was just terrible. What finally helped was doing those boring line exercises for 20 minutes a day, not a new tablet.

cole_murphy3d ago

Bought a fancy mic to improve my podcast and still sound like I'm talking from a tin can.

blair_chen813d ago

That "still sound like I'm talking from a tin can" part got me. Maybe it's just me but, I mean, have you checked if the mic is actually pointed at your face and not at your ceiling? I once spent a weekend messing with audio settings only to realize my fancy mic was set to "cardioid" but I was talking into the wrong side of it.