Drawing/editing tablets

[skibuminwyo]

Ok, time for my inner geek to show. I have been drawing comics in my free time at work, and am looking at buying a drawing tablet to re-draw them in Corel, more than likely, and post them up for random people to view. Anybody have any experience with the various brands? Thanks, I am a total newb on this side of things.

[dipstik]

No experience, but I have a like-new Wacom "Graphire-3 6x8" tablet that I will sell you for a good price. I got it as a gift about a year ago and just never used it. Actually, I took it out of the box and played around with it for an hour, but that was it.

Let me know if you're interested, and we can work something out.

[smalls]

^^ Get that. It's a great tablet.

Even if you don't get dipstik's, go with Wacom. They make great tablets for any level of user. I have the Intuos3 and love it.

[skibuminwyo]

I am very interested dipstick, very interested. Shoot me a pm, por favor.

[Dromond]

No experience, but I have a like-new Wacom "Graphire-3 6x8" tablet that I will sell you for a good price. I got it as a gift about a year ago and just never used it. Actually, I took it out of the box and played around with it for an hour, but that was it.

Let me know if you're interested, and we can work something out.

The graphire should be good for comics. I use an Intuos3 at work which is amazing. It's definitely better than the consumer level tablets (like the Graphire) but they are so expensive that I don't think they're worth it unless you really need one.

[smalls]

^^ it's only about $100 difference between the two, but yes the difference is quite noticeable.

[advres]

I have had a bunch of Wacoms. Bigger is netter and the extra buttons that you program for specific functions are ideal if you are going to be using it all the time. I have an Intuos3 9x12. It is the shiznit.
http://www.wacom.com/intuos/9x12.cfm


It is listed on their site for $449 which it is worth but you can get them for much cheaper if you look around online.

If you got the scratch, I would suggest the cintiq:


It is an LCD screen/tablet that you draw right on. The 21" is $2000 which is a considerable amount lower than it was a few years ago. It is WAY overkill, but isn't that always nice!

[dipstik]

Hey skibum, PM sent!