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I put one of those triangular rubber grippy things on my stylus. (Like the ones from elementary school which are supposed to help you hold a pencil correctly.)  Oh my god it’s so much more comfortable.

The tip of my thumb has been going numb off and on for the last week, hopefully this will help. ^_^;;

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Ray Frenden reviews the too-cheap-to-be-true Monoprice graphics tablets. How do they stack up to industry standard Wacoms?

After spending a week with the 6.25“x10” Monoprice, my Yiynova and Cintiq remain unplugged and I gave my Intuos away to a friend. The Monoprice tracks subtle pressure variances and small movements with less lag and more crisp fidelity than any of the others. It is, put crudely, fucking awesome, in both OSX Lion and Windows 7 x64.

I have one of these, 10×6.5 I bought about two months ago for 48 bucks. It’s a billion times better than my old Wacom Bamboo and works like a fuckin dream.

ATTENTION ALL PENNY-PINCHING ART FRIENDS!!!

ooo reblogging this for potential future purchase

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OH MY GOD THIS POST SHOWED UP AT THE PERFECT TIME THANK YOU

I have one of these! They’re wonderful.

For the people who ask me what kind of tablet they should start out with: This looks like a nice affordable option!

Signal boost, and corrected link:

http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=108&cp_id=10841

I’m really glad these tablets are so affordable, AND WORK!  My Bamboo has held up like iron in 5 years of heavy use, and it’s still going strong, but I’ll probably look at one of the larger-size Monoprice tables when I’m ready to upgrade.

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[Image description: A screencap of Alex’s desktop.  An installation window for the Bamboo tablet is in the foreground while an in-progress artwork is in the background in Photoshop.]

UGH.  Pressure sensitivity isn’t working for some reason, so I’m trying to update my tablet drivers and it’s being very stubborn. B<

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Yesterday on reddit, there was a question in AskReddit about “What would $1000 mean to you?"  A lot of the answers were "pay down some debt,” “x months of rent,” and the like.  For me, when I gave it some thought, it’s either 4 months of rent, or something really cool for my business.  Probably a bitchin’ new computer, or maybe even a Cintiq.

So then I went on Wacom’s website to drool over Cintiqs and I watched this product video.  Dammit, this is like porn.  I’m actually drooling a little.