Up until about a week ago, all my digital art had to be made using a mouse and keyboard. It was clumsy, devalued my already bare-bones art skills, and was just plain uncomfortable to do. However, I recently got the Huion G10T drawing tablet as a birthday gift, and I haven't looked back since. If you didn't know, drawing tablets are tablets that come with a pen or stylus. You connect them to your computer, and it basically turns the pen into a mouse input- moving the pen around the surface of the tablet moves the mouse accordingly. Tapping the pen to the tablet simulates a mouse click. Where this otherwise cumbersome feature turns into a useful one is when you use it with a digital art program- such as Krita, or Photoshop- it makes digital art much, much easier. There are things like pressure sensitivity, which I believe most tablets worth their salt have, and hotkeys on the tablet itself, etc.
The Huion G10T has both of those, with I think ~1,700 levels of pressure sensitivity I think, and a small mousepad and hotkey-able buttons as well. I've been using it for a little bit now, and I love it. I haven't completed a full piece yet, but what I'm working on is coming along well, and there's a noticeable improvement to my other digital pieces already. Combining it with tools built into many art programs, like weighted brushes for instance, makes it that much easier to make professional-looking pieces of digital artwork. I put some of my older digital art below, right next to my first piece being made using this tablet, and I think that the improvement is noticeable already. I can't wait to keep using this great piece of hardware, and see where it takes me.
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AuthorHi! I'm Thomas MacDougall, a sophomore at DSA. Here you can check out my thoughts and recent activities. Please note that the views and opinions expressed in this blog are solely those of the author and do not represent those of Durham School of the Arts or Durham Public Schools. Archives
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