Buying Shit

Aria

The Skullcandy headphones arrive tonight. We shall see. WE SHALL SEE.

Derp

The Skullcandy headphones arrive tonight. We shall see. WE SHALL SEE.

Treating you well?

Auspice

As a heads up... A lot of stores are gonna have PS4s (the 1TB model) with Spiderman for $200 for black Friday, but so far Walmart is the only one that will be offering the deal online.

Aria

@derp said in Buying Shit:

@aria said in Buying Shit:

The Skullcandy headphones arrive tonight. We shall see. WE SHALL SEE.

Treating you well?

I used them today! With the exception of finding it a bit uncomfortable to wear them and my computer glasses together for very long, I was quite pleased.

Ganymede

@auspice

Definitely something to buy, yep.

Thenomain

@ganymede

*whispering to self* Last Of Us, we will be meeting soon.

Auspice

@thenomain said in Buying Shit:

@ganymede

*whispering to self* Last Of Us, we will be meeting soon.

At long last.

Coworkers were trying to talk about an XB1 instead and it's like nawp.
Longer list of games on the PS I've been wanting to play.
Last of Us tops that list.

Derp

I adored that game. So much. I still replay it sometimes. Can't wait for 2.

Taika

I am not familiar with graphic tablets/drawing pads/etc, but... The 11/yo wants to get into graphic design and do digital art.

I don't even know where to start.

Tablet? Specific type of tablet? Software?

Gimme a list!

Paris

@taika Wacom tablets are not that expensive and a good starter point, intuos and bamboo are usually the entry-level ones. I believe they have pressure sensitivity.

I am more used to Cintiq, whose products tend to be higher end. These usually let you draw on a screen but are pretty expensive.

Surface Pro tablets let you draw on the screen and have limited pressure sensitivity. These cost between $500 and a grand or so.

(You want pressure sensitivity in whatever you plan to buy as it lets you make more natural strokes, thickening as you press down and lightening as you ease up, much as a paintbrush does.)

At the higher end, you can get 2-in-1 laptop deals with screens that you can draw on. These can run you about a grand.

I have used all of these things in my professional art career. I'm actually moving less toward drawing on a screen and more toward having a graphics tablet at my side as my arm gets tired-- this is less of an issue on, say, a surface pro. However, my SO prefers drawing directly on their Cintiq.

I'm not going to recommend a make or model as all of these options are pretty good and you can use the names as a starting point for something to fit your budget.

I find it amazing how early digital artists are starting now, and while the initial efforts are often eh, give them a few years and they're fantastic and way advanced compared to where we all started when this stuff first hit the market. And especially in this economy, it's a great skill to have, especially if you find a good niche.

Thenomain

@paris

The Intuos is the new low end. (Bamboo is more the note taking level at this point.)

The basic Intuos is pressure sensitive. The wired tablet should be $80, the Bluetooth tablet $100.

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Edit:

Huion is a very cheap Wacom knockoff that is relatively well received. Will recommend.

Aria

There is a new Pottery Barn Teen Harry Potter collection that I think would be more accurately named the Pottery Barn "Grown-Ass Adults Who Wish They Had $1900 to Spend on a Stupid Bed and $260 to Spend on a Fancy Blanket" Harry Potter collection.

Ninjakitten

@aria Surely this should have been the Harry Pottery Barn collection.

Thenomain

I need to know what @paris decided on. Must know.

Paris

@thenomain I was responding to someone who wanted to know about tablets. I myself will probably pick up a bamboo or something later this year since drawing on my screen is harder on my arm.

Thenomain

@paris

I have never been accused of reading closely. Or at all.

@Taika ! What did you get?!

Wretched

@paris As someone who always wanted to be a 'drawer' growing up, i was religiously attached to pencils (preferably mechanical) and good paper. I wanted to draw comics for a while, or illustrate.

Then life happened and Family happened (you wanna take drawing? how about drafting, that is like drawing but you can totally get a job with it. What do you mean it's your elective, were your parents and we know best) So instead i took drafting, which i hated, then wooshshop, which was better but also not 100% my jam. then Finally drawing one year (after a long fight about how no, i did not want to take drafting 2., and then peer pressure to take DRAMA from friends, which i hated.

ANYHOW, a few years back i got a tablet and started doing some doodling on it and the learning curve is STEEP. Trying to dust off old skills too is rough, and as Theno said, the bamboo's quality is pretty crap these days and the software... ugh. I havent bought one in a few years but am looking again.

However, coming back to the mention of them starting young, fuck yeah. I was drawing on my dinosaur books as young as i can remember. Definitely get them a tablet, get them familiar with the tech as it comes out, feed that passion. Dont set up roadblocks like my family liked to do.

Paris

@wretched Yeah, exactly.

In my case I've been drawing on tablets for years, but I want something that is flat instead of raised as I can't keep my arm raised long enough to do art anymore (aside from very short projects), as after my spinal injury all four limbs are impaired. With the economy being weird, being able to take on more projects with less physical challenges would be nice. :3

Taika

@Thenomain - What I want looks like the $400 range. I want a drawing tablet that is touch sensitive and has a screen on if, since we don't have a desktop or windows/apple laptop. I have a pretty good idea from what was suggested here - just gotta save up and see if I can't swing it for her birthday.

Arkandel

People don't understand the true spirit of the holidays. This is so strange. I ask folks at work "hey, what did you get?" and they tell me something completely irrelevant such as "I don't celebrate Christmas".

That's besides the point! It's not about Christmas, it's about sales!

Folks should get stuff because it costs less to buy it. Religion just doesn't factor into it (and to be more serious for a moment here, commercializing religious occasions let alone inventing new ones irks me, unless it's also made into a stat holiday I'm off work, in which case woo-hoo!).