Digital Drawing Tablet?

[Svenskaflicka]

For once in my life, I might be looking at a future where I'll make enough money to not only pay my rent, my bills, and my food - AND get a little money left over.

I'm thinking of investing in a technical gizmo - a digital drawing tablet. Problem is, I can't decide which one is the best. Does anyone have any experience with this? Any recommendations? Any warnings?

These are my major choices:

Trust
WACOM Volito

I'm leaning towards the Volito, but I'm not sure. I want to be able to draw mangas and doll bases on the screen, instead of scanning them in manually. What do you think? Is any of these a good choice?

 

[Liar]

For once in my life, I might be looking at a future where I'll make enough money to not only pay my rent, my bills, and my food - AND get a little money left over.

I'm thinking of investing in a technical gizmo - a digital drawing tablet. Problem is, I can't decide which one is the best. Does anyone have any experience with this? Any recommendations? Any warnings?

These are my major choices:

Trust
WACOM Volito

I'm leaning towards the Volito, but I'm not sure. I want to be able to draw mangas and doll bases on the screen, instead of scanning them in manually. What do you think? Is any of these a good choice?

There's a rule: Don't ever trust Trust. Their stuff is just plain crap 90% of the time.

I could look around... what's ypur price range?

 

[Svenskaflicka]

There's a rule: Don't ever trust Trust. Their stuff is just plain crap 90% of the time.

I could look around... what's ypur price range?

Good to know. I could probably go as high as 900SEK, but anything more than that just won't be worth it. And I just can NOT go below A5.

 

[Alex De Kok]

I use a Wacom Graphire all of the time instead of a mouse (old RSI problem). I think it's about the same size as the Volito in terms of the drawing area (A6) which I think might be small for sketching, unless the drawing package allows you to zoom in and just work on a portion of the image. The stylus pretty much feels like using a pen. I have no hesitation in recommending Wacom from my experience with the Graphire. A suggestion - try sketching with a pen or pencil in an A6 area and see how it goes. If the area suits you, get the Wacom.

Alex

 

[Liar]

Actually, it seems Trust doesn't suck completely here. Check out these reviews for their A4 board:

http://testcentret.idg.se/produkt.asp?pID=3281

http://testcentret.idg.se/produkt.asp?pID=4781

And this price:

http://www.inwarehouse.se/productDetail.aspx?Id=e756507&ReferId=3


If big size is not that important, it seems the Volito is your best bet though.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Thank you so much!

I'm leaning more towards the Trust now, due to the size. But I WILL try out the method of drawing on A6 - if it's not TOO awkward, I might go for the Volito...

Apparently, Trust is a rather good choice for a beginner like myself... and then I could "upgrade" to a big-ass-Wacom later on.