I’ve been doing some bad mech art recently. Drawing on the computer is just not something I’m able to do well. So I draw on paper, scan it in, and they trace over it. It works but makes me wonder if it might be easier to use a drawing tablet. I’ve never used one and no idea how well supported they are under gimp.
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I’ve used Wacom, works great. Cheaper options work as well, but you’ll need to do a bit more research about those.
I second this. My wife uses a Wacom and hers works out of box on Fedora.
I have an older Wacom intuos ctl-480 that i got for 70€ back in 2013ish. These days i would probably recommend getting one of those intuos S models as a starting point.
These days i happen to use a drawing laptop i got but that is way too much of an expensive investment for anyone to make.
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I just followed a How to Draw Manga book to try to make a female character. I’m not good at humans but I managed to get a reasonable result. Only the original pose is from the book. I went a different direction for the clothes.
Layoffs finally caught me. Rather than update my resume I spent yesterday drawing a mech. The Wacom One is really nice. I’ve also found it to be a nicer way of using roll20.
Hey, Dennis!
I use the Gaomon PD1561 on Fedora for work. I use it more for annotating LibreOffice slides, as I’m a technical trainer, but it’s really, really amazing. And it’s $231.19 right now! Amazon.com
The only rub is, you have to set up the DIGIMend drivers (DIGImend - Drivers), but they’re really not hard to set them up. I hassled with it for maybe an hour, and it was pretty straightforward.
If it helps, my team did a pretty extensive analysis of pen tablets for several months and chose the Gaomon. I know about 60 people who have them, and I’ve never heard of any issues with them.
Hope this is helpful!
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First rhino person mimics the deviant art rhino person I found. I then put him in conquistador garb.
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