Hello!
One thought has been bothering me a lot recently. In summer I bought intuos3 6x8. Now i regret it a little, because if I had imported it from states I would have had 9x12 for the same money. I know it’s too late for change, but is there a significant difference between those two sizes? I feel quite comfortable with 6x8, but how would you, experienced users, assess efficency of those?
Unless you are persistently making stroke that are bigger than you intended, you can consider the 6x8 appropriate for you and your purpose. A larger tablet just means that you need to move the stylus more.
A larger tablet would also be very useful if you are going to map your tablet to two monitors.
I feel there was a drastic difference between a 6x8 and 9x12 (or 12x12 serial if you can find it). Never go smaller than a 6x8, but for tablets I feel the bigger the better. Wacom and retail sites suggest you don’t need a big tablet if your stroke is small, but IMO this has more to do with selling/marketing than truth. I can’t imagine a smaller tablet would be better in almost any but an extreme case.
Although this should belong on the hardware subforum, and has been addressed many times…
If you use the tablet to draw and you draw a lot, need accuracy, need whatever could “replace” a traditional paper and pencil…
you need the largest tablet you can afford.
Simply, it will better map/emulate the screen space with the tablet space, and your movements will have more control.
A small tablet with a large/highres screen, will translate small movements (on the tablet) into large ones in the screen.
Good for sweeping strokes that have freedom, bad for accuracy and details.
On the other,if you just scan in traditionally made artwork, and just edit/finish it, photoshop it, but not actually draw that much, the small tablet will be just fine.
In any case I would buy a larger tablet, even a used one or an older model…
This is what i did: mapped a portion of my screen to a tablet area, so i could emulate larger tablet. What i noticed is really great improvement in accuracy, strokes are more natural. After switching back to full screen mode i felt terrible (damn!!! i really need bigger wacom!!!). You know why. You can pretend larger tablet (i mean arm movements on larger tablet) by zooming in your canvas.
To sum up - I think 6x8 and 9x12 are quite similar in action, the only difference is on smaller one i need to zoom in more, which can be annoying, because you cannot embrace a whole composition.
12 x 12, no other way to go trust me :wise: . It becomes your best pal, placematte, lapdog … But then again were I in the possession of a proper desk, I might have gone smaller :rolleyes:
Lets talk about sizes… Relative and absolute ones.
A 21’ display would be (the one I have measured) 40cm width X 30cm height.
So a 12X12 (30,5cm X 30,5cm ) wacom would be most apropriate since it would better match the size, and only heightwise is it an exact match!
So if you’ve got an 23’ or larger… only the 18X12 A3 intuos 2 will do.
For a 15’ laptop where the screen would be 23cm X 30cm, again an 9X12 wacom is the perfect match, but you can get away with an 6X8 one:D
If you watc the screen while you paint it won’t really matter, because you’ll simply adapt. And the DPI is high enough on most of them for it to make no diffreence. I’d go with what fits you. DO you like to stroke big or not? I in the end enjoy it at times, so I’ve got headroom.
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