@lithium I always joke -- and it isn't entirely a joke -- that I just didn't play enough video games as a kid. My hand-eye coordination is insanely precise. My hand-eye-screen coordination is complete garbage, though, which is a huge disconnect. A lot of folks (even in my generation, I'm in my mid-40s) grew up playing video games to develop the hand-eye-screen coordination skills needed, so it's way easier for them to adapt. I still don't play them (and was always super bad at them -- partly for this same reason -- going all the way back so I never developed the interest even if I like watching the graphics and will watch others play) so that's one of my major weakness areas.
I'm one of those doodlers that will curl up around my sketchbook like Golum all 'my precccciousssssssss' with a pencil or rapidograph pinched between my fingers and whatnot being all hyper-specific. (I always had problems 'working big' for this reason in school, too, but being super short and having stupid boobs that always hit the canvas/paper when I'd have to lean/reach super high didn't help either.)
It's like all the physical mechanics just conspire against me. I had a nice intuos for a while and it did help -- but I still had huge problems with it because of the way I had always done stuff for years. Like, it was better than a mouse or a trackball, but not so much better that it made enough difference to get me back into doing what I wanted to be doing with it when I bought it.
Weirdly... my husband happened to read the previous post over my shoulder when I was showing him something else in here, and he was like, "Well... you are getting a new computer... you're not M*ing any more... maybe you should finally get one, because it pisses me off you gave up drawing. It's not like you haven't wanted one and gushed about getting one since the day they first became a thing." The 16 they have out now is a little too small... so apparently we're going to look at the possibility of the 24 whenever they release them (the 32 is gawgeous-omg, but has that 'nope, too big for my body mechanics' problem even if it wasn't destined to be way outside our budget), depending on how sales go this year and what the price point on those is when they're released (barring any major bullshit life changes between now and then or another unexpected hospitalization...).
I'm kinda in 'you could knock me over with a feather' land on that one, since he said he'd try to cover up to half if it wasn't over $2k. o.o He is really, really pissed at me that I stopped drawing... he wanted to be an artist and it didn't work out for him, and it makes him endlessly frustrated with me that I was 'better at it'• and left it behind for digital stuff years ago.
• (I don't think so at all, we just have different styles -- he is one of the old school anime folk who was into it before it became popular and his stint at Kubert tried to beat the style out of him as 'not marketable in the US' in the early 90s when he went, which discouraged him permanently and goddamn that's worthy of irk-posting unto itself.)