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Working with a pen tablet

Working with a pen tablet - Painter Tutorial

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Working with a pen tablet

- [Instructor] As we go through this course, it may appear in the video as if I am using a paint brush, pen, or other mark making tool, to create what you see on the screen. In fact, I'm taking advantage of a remarkable bit, of input technology generally referred to as a pen tablet. Specifically, a Wacom pressure sensitive pen and tablet. This technology combined with painter's tools, which are written specifically for use with it, make it possible to faithfully emulate traditional, expressive, mark making media. You can use a mouse, but practically all of the expression, you communicate via your hand will be lost. If you would like more information about this technology, check out my Wacom essential training course. In order to talk about the importance of pen tablets, as used with Painter, we need to have a discussion, about how motion is sensed in three dimensional space. Much of an artist's expressive strokes, are communicated through the hand and wrist and arm. All of these…

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