portable digital drawings pads & stuff...

conte · Aug 2009

Hello polycound buddies. Do you know some good portable devices for drawing/painting?
And it shouldn't be much expensive. I just found some cool notebook with wacom tablet inside.

The Lenovo Thinkpad W700
problem that it costs 3000$

Lamont · Aug 2009

You can find a last gen tablet PC with pressure sensitivity for $500.

conte · Aug 2009

Lamont, any examples?
edit: that one?

Marine · Aug 2009

I'd just find a cheapish laptop that can handle photoshop, painter, etc and grab a cheap intuos off ebay, one more thing to carry round but you're paying less than $1000 for it

Mark Dygert · Aug 2009

Intuos4 small for $229. What about the [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Bamboo-Small-Pen-Tablet-Only/dp/B000V9T2JA"]Bambo small for $80[/ame]? They're both thin and light, fit in just about every kind of laptop case.

conte · Aug 2009

better if it be one whole thing.
laptop+tabled isnt very convenient to use on nature

Lamont · Aug 2009

http://www.google.com/products?q=TabletPC&oe=utf-8&hl=en&cat=328

I got one a couple years ago from Geeks.com for $300. Used it till my kid took it over then dropped it.

Ben Apuna · Aug 2009

You might want to consider a "slate" style tablet instead of a convertible version if all you are going to do is draw/paint with it.

These guys make the best slate tablets by far.

http://www.motioncomputing.com/

http://www.motioncomputing.com/products/tablet_pc_le17.asp

You might be able to find a used one from a few generations back, though I"m not sure how far back you can go before you end up in 1024x768 land... The motion tablets have a couple of different display options, one of which is specific for outdoor use.

Here's another thread about tablet pcs from a few days ago, be sure to read the stuff I wrote about getting a better stylus than the default one that usually comes with tablet pcs.

Xenobond · Aug 2009

just make sure it uses wacom tech or you'll be sorry.
http://www.wacom.com/tabletpc/partners.cfm

Rick Stirling · Aug 2009

The DS with Colors is a great digital sketcher - the screen is small but it'll fit in your pocket.

http://colors.collectingsmiles.com/author.php?page=1&id=342

Xenobond · Aug 2009

forgot about that, too. if you're interested in doing anims, dsi has a flip book app you can d/l
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHj8JcvaqTE[/ame]

Jeremy Lindstrom · Aug 2009

yeah I learned my lesson on buying a tablet pc convertible, it's underpowered and when in convertible mode the keyboard is locked underneath so no shortcut keys so makes it pretty useless in that sense you'd have to hook up a second keyboard to use it as a drawing app, it's mostly created for office professionals looking to write notes in meetings, etc and not for us arteests.

Vito · Aug 2009

You might consider going the lo-fi route and getting a "digital notepad" instead, [ame="http://www.amazon.com/SolidTek-DigiMemo-692-Digital-Notepad/dp/B0009OD4CS"]something like this[/ame]. You clip a regular pad of paper to them -- that one I've used before and takes 6x9 pads, there's a bigger one that takes 8.5x11 -- and write/draw with the provided pen.

It captures your strokes as vector lines. No pressure sensitivity, no colors, no pen styles, no changing the pen out for another one, just records your lines. You plug it into your PC via USB and download them.

It's a little more convenient than sketching things and scanning them in later, but it's only vector so it's not for everyone. Just tossing out another option.

rolfness · Aug 2009

whats wrong with pencil and paper?? rough sketching on the move is always best done on a sketch book.

portable digital drawings pads & stuff...

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