Hendrik wrote:
The Intuos3 6x11is the best match compared to the A5 wide version. I would buy the The Intuos3 6x11 or if you prefer a smaller version the 6 x 8. If you use a widescreen or dual display setup, I would suggest a wide version.
In practice you still remap the area to a smaller active space, but the ergonomics of your other hand, placement of your right-hand are also important.
If you have the money, I would prefer the Intuos range above the Bamboo range.
Good luck.
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Lawrence Lee wrote:
When you say A4, are you referring to paper size? Is that legal or letter size? 9x12 sounds like it's bigger than letter size and smaller than legal.
Yeah, A4 is just a little at odds with US-Letter which is 8.5 x 11 inches. Legal is like 8.5 x 14 inches. I could do the conversion but just guessing I'd say A4 was 8.4 x 11.4 or something real close to that. One of the main deals with a 9x12 inch tablet is that you can place an A4, US-Letter, or 8x10 photograph, print, or drawing under the see-through drawing flap and rotoscope, draw-over, highlight, touch-up, trace, or use any grid/reference you can print out. A4, US-Letter, and 8x10s are incredibly common sizes and the techniques I'm describing are incredibly useful. For me it's probably 75% of the reasons for even having a tablet. Another reason for having a larger tablet it the ability to sketch. A4 is about right or maybe just a little on the small side for sketching.
Sketching as you may know, is just the technique of using many long sweeping lines in order to form a shape of follow a contour. Anyone can sketch so I'm included. The smaller tablets are restrictive and force you to "draw" much more than "sketch". I can draw about the same (pretty close) with a mouse as I can with a tablet so if I'm forced to draw I may as well use a mouse anyway and the tablet just becomes another unneeded plastic toy cluttering up my workspace. Sketching is very very useful for touching up photographs - drawing is not. I guess one could still sketch on the 6 x 11's that are being discussed and that the OP asked about, but a 4x5 would limit the process to tiny little very inaccurate wrist flicks.
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The smaller tablets are restrictive and force you to "draw" much more than "sketch". I can draw about the same (pretty close) with a mouse as I can with a tablet so if I'm forced to draw I may as well use a mouse anyway and the tablet just becomes another unneeded plastic toy cluttering up my workspace. Sketching is very very useful for touching up photographs - drawing is not. I guess one could still sketch on the 6 x 11's that are being discussed and that the OP asked about, but a 4x5 would limit the process to tiny little very inaccurate wrist flicks.