Hey Art Dudes,
Need to upgrade my art type hardware type shizz. I generally use Manga Studio with my Bamboo which i have for PC/Mac & Photoshop which i have for PC only but willing to learn anything compatible. What i wanna know is are tablets any harder/easier to use with these programmes, what the quality of the finished artwork is like, what people's preferences are.
Portability is important but a decent size helps & obviously price is important too
Cheers arty peeps, let's be having u!
Chi
I don't have a tablet but my only understanding of art on them is (subtext: I could be ignorant on the matter feel free anyone to correct me here) a lot of programmes just work to 72dpi - not a problem for webcomics, starts becoming an issue if you're working to print.
Cheers Foxy
Nah, don't think 72dpi will cut it
Any other suggestions?
Chi
Stephen Prestwood's last couple of episodes of Icarus for Paragon were done on iPad (in ProCreate, I think). The original files were about half the pixel dimensions required for A4 300dpi but required minimal post-processing in Photoshop and, I think, came out pretty well.
TBH, I remain slightly astonished that Stephen's efforts look so much like his pen-and-ink work, but whatever he's doing, it seems to work!
Cheers
Jim
Agreed he does kick arse on that iPad - !
Cool i will bend Mr. Prestwood's ear about it, big fan of his work
Any more?
Chi, you'd be better off asking Jim for details - or John Caliber who did something similar with Mr Prestwood's Bulldog strip - if you want to know how to get the art print ready.
Stephen's work is marvellous and you really can't see the join between his pen and ink stuff and his stylus and screen stuff!
Agreed on Mr Prestwood. I've had two strips from him since he moved over to digital and his work looks just as good. A few issues with resolution but there are ways to adjust things at the far end that I've found successful so far.
I don't know if this is on your radar, but there's a review of the new Surface Pro 3 here, talking about the pros/cons of using it for drawing.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2014/05/23/surface-pro-3 (http://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2014/05/23/surface-pro-3)
Quote from: Daveycandlish on 29 May, 2014, 07:33:18 AM
Chi, you'd be better off asking Jim for details
It's pretty straightforward... I can't remember the exact dimensions of the original file, but I'm sure it was about half what you'd need. The process was:
Convert to grayscale
Image Size (bicubic interpolation): select a size midway between current size and target size (say 150mm wide and 144dpi)
Filter -> Noise -> Median 2px (to take off the jaggies but without being as crude as a blur)
Image Size (bicubic again): select actual size (210mm wide and 300dpi)
Median again.
Use Levels and drag the middle slider to the right and tweak the right slider inwards a little — this should darken the soft grey edges of the linework.
Filter -> Sharpen - Smart Sharpen: fiddle with the settings until you get a result you're happy with.
Sounds like a faff but actually takes about two minutes per page.
Cheers!
Jim
(Too late to edit the above. The Median step may have been 1px. Have a play and see what works for you!)
Cool guys, thanks for the advice
Quite like the look of the Surface Pro tho i might have to go with version 2
Anybody have experience with it & can u use MS/ Photoshop/ Bamboo with it?
Cheers
Chi