Here's a tip: pull up a sketch from google images and trace it with a drawing software... You'll get used to the hand coordination in no time.

@douka3993

8 жыл бұрын

good tip Tommy, thnx

@asianboy508

8 жыл бұрын

+Neko Toka wot m8

@Gester143

8 жыл бұрын

+My Names Tommy What drawing software would you recommend for tracing , illustrator ? , Photoshop?

@asianboy508

8 жыл бұрын

+Gester143 I use a really popular software called Paint Tool Sai. Oh and just a reminder, this tracing thing is only for practice. Don't post your traced art and not credit the original artist.

@Twizar313

8 жыл бұрын

+My Names Tommy Thanks for the tip, I am still waiting for mine, friend said he'll get it for me in the next month, I can't wait

Clarity, Precision, and Concision! The kind of teacher one would like to have.

The " Throw away the mouse" advise is the best thing ever! Instant confidence when I found out that I can work with my tablet with no fear. Thank you Dave!

Have a drink whenever he says the word tip. Have two when he says tips.

@sitilula

8 жыл бұрын

I peed

@lodewijk.

7 жыл бұрын

mee hav alkohole poysoneng hhehe

@shiznothewolf9590

7 жыл бұрын

Doodling Dork you have alcohol poisoning?

@lodewijk.

7 жыл бұрын

MettaWolfie jes

@shiznothewolf9590

7 жыл бұрын

Oh

Having had the thing for months, and really got nowhere with it, I ran your video this morning... and am now already much more comfortable with the pen in hand. I haven't gone so far as to fling my mouse into the undergrowth - but I've hardly touched it. Thanks for just the right approach to just the right idea!

Exactly what I needed to hear right now. Just got a Wacom tablet. Thank you! 😊

You probably shouldn't use it for EVERYTHING. I imagine gaming with a desk tablet would be a damn nightmare.

@TheCorgiLoaf

8 жыл бұрын

+Kelton Lewis I've tried playing WoW with my Wacom.. Not a good choice, it was indeed a nightmare. However RTS games and other games that dont require hotkeys that much are alright.

@ziggs3923

8 жыл бұрын

+Kelton Lewis osu

@TheIronBoat

8 жыл бұрын

+khzeldanerd that's what i was thinking :p

@ziggs3923

8 жыл бұрын

theTrophyMachine - league of legends ye

@Utrilus

8 жыл бұрын

+khzeldanerd It doesn't really work in warframe, I tried.

Well, I have bought my brand new wacon today, trying to use it and those corners or surface of the tablet doesn't work how you showed on the video. I have to use it such as my mouse. Keep moving my pen. Any idea why ?

This is EXTREMELY useful for me! Thank you so much for making this video. I was unsure if the mouse appeared on screen if you weren't touching the tablet with the pen. Overall the tablet looks easier to use now that you went over it :)

Your tips are very useful. Thank you very much :D

Thank you for the tips! I just got my tablet yesterday and was feeling overwhelmed. I'm putting my mouse in the drawer now.

Dude you know this video is gospel when even in 2019 the very first tip had me dumbfounded. Fantastic video for this tablet n00b. Looking forward to many happy years with it. Cheers

Thank you so much for these handy tips. As a creative designer I would love to enhance my hand illustration skills. For a beginner like me this is a great video to get you started! :) A great help

Thank you! I definitely got one for christmas and didn't use it very much. I was totally guilty for the first 2 things you mentioned. I'm gonna work on getting comfortable with this tablet for work purposes

Thanks so much, Dave. I'm a real newbie with my tablet, and you've helped me alot to relax and not feel so dumb!

Always great tips from Dave! Thank you.

Thank you so much for the demonstration at 3:20! I'm thinking about getting a tablet, and I used to think it was a pick and guess kind of deal ( like when your hovering your pen the mouse stays there unless you apply pressure) but this cleared up alot of things!!!!! THANK YOu!

Putting away the mouse was the best tip. I heard that while watching you on a Creative Live class. Did it and have been using the pen ever since. What a productivity enhancer. Love the radial menu also

Thank you so much for this video!! I just got my first tablet and I was having such a hard time, but this video has answered a lot of my questions. Thanks again!!

Thanks for the tips! Even looking through many beginner videos, I still found this one very useful! ^ ^

Thank you so much for this video! I'll be getting my first tablet soon and felt I needed to prepare, this was perfect for me.

Thank you very much for your valuable tips Dave! They are very useful :)

Thank you. Yesterday I was asked to take a class and i lied that i know how to use tablet for teaching. I said just give me 15 mins and ill be familiar with it.So i was in "pressure"and obviosuly i didnt have any clue where my hand eye cordination was. Eventually i asked them to let me take the class without tablet and I'll teach them on the black board.The class went just ok, the students were disappointed that i didnt know how to use a tablet.Came back home , since then googled " How to use one note" and "wacom" and i am now inspired to learn them both.Your video helped me and also am relieved me that its ok "i could not learn that thing in 15 mins". i ll continue to learn.

Getting a more simple tablet for the first time and this has made me so much more excited for it! Im planning on using it for drawing a lot and to hear that it doesn't operate like a mouse is such a relief. I feel like even though it will still be an adjustment from traditional art, the fact that you dont "scroll" with it will make it a bit more bearable to get used to, I cant wait for it to arrive!! :)

Great tips. I just got my Intuos pen tablet and was looking for tips to get me started. Using the tablet in place of the mouse is an interesting and radical idea. I've already started to try it. Thank you.

Thanks Dave, I love your points, I am using my Wacom in Lightroom, Word, and Photoshop Elements, and as a navigation for the Web, putting my mouse away has helped tremendously and the selections in Photoshop are much better and precise than a mouse. Thank you for your wonderful help!!

BEST tips I've seen in youtube, I mean, most of them tell you how to download drivers and properties, here, I found MANY more then just those things, Thank you very mich, I'm sub to you.

Thank you. You answered some questions I had. Nice and informative video.

As an artist, I would add that it might be a good idea to put your tablet in front of you, and your keyboard off to the side. Matching what you see on-screen to where your stylus is on the tablet is hard enough, without adding in the displacement of having to work laterally, too. Finally, a mouse can continue to be of use in programs such as Illustrator, where precision is necessary to click on specific control handles and such. I will frequently grab my mouse temporarily while continuing to hold the stylus with the same hand. It's not that difficult.

Thank you so, so much for these pointers! The one about not using the tablet as a mouse answered the hugest question that's been holding me back, which was how does the computer know when one line ends and the next one begins? (For some reason I imagined it working more like an Etch-A-Sketch than an electronic drawing pad.) Now I'm excited to try mine out and see what I can do with it!

Thanks for the Video! I was unsuree if I should Start learning using a tablet but after this Video, especially about the pressure about oneself part i decided i definetly give a shot. Thanks to you

Very helpful, thank you. Great information on the brush settings + Wacom tablet.

Some really useful tips and advice can be found here, thank you Dave.

Tysm! I got my tablet since I wanted to draw digital art. I'm well familiar with traditional art supplies and how to use them. I watched experts do digital art and literally fell in love with it,.I loved the digital art affect of clean lines, blended ares, easy copy and pasting.. So obv I begged my parents for a tablet since I can't draw with a mouse lol, and they got me a Wacom tablet. I was super excited and thought it was a breeze until I tried it out and I was struggling a lot. I gave up, and then it was the end of summer break. I started getting really busy and just gave up on it.. But I've recently learned to manage drawing and school so I can improve in both, but I've been practicing with traditional art only. Christmas break is coming up, and I thought I should really put time if I want to get at least comfortable with my tablet. I'll let everyone know how it turns out! 🙃

@Iyentra

6 жыл бұрын

sweetmilq msp How did it turn out?

@anomalya1242

5 жыл бұрын

How did it go?

@kassandra8293

5 жыл бұрын

I bought one as well because I wanna try digital art. I have a hard time using it though. Lol!

@user-ge6de6gu2r

4 жыл бұрын

One year later and we still do not know what has happened

This is the best tutorial i hav come across as a beginner for using wacom table , realy helpful thanks a ton

This was exactly the advice I was looking for! Thanks very much :)

Tip #6. DONT put your tablet next to the computer, you put it parallel so your hand eye coordination isnt off.

@Crowborn

6 жыл бұрын

Kaila M next to and parallel to aren't the same? i didnt understand what you mean :)

@zaugitude

6 жыл бұрын

I do not think this makes any difference, at least it does not for me and apparently not for Mr. Cross.

@1wietje

6 жыл бұрын

They mean in front of it, not in an angle.

@Marc83Aus

5 жыл бұрын

I keep my mouse beside the computer, so it's the best place for the tablet.

@Wheel333

5 жыл бұрын

I set the left edge of my tablet to the center of the monitor and my keyboard snug next to it with my left hand on the hotkeys.

"Play a game with it" I once tried to play Minecraft and never did again.

I got my first wacom today and this is so helpful to me. Thank you.

thank you! I actually found myself wanting to draw with the mouse. I'm also out of practice with digital things, but I've drawn a lot. You made me laugh so I'll actually remember to try your advice.

great vid I just got my mobile studio 6 days ago, it's my first Wacom/tablet ever and now I'm starting to see how cool it once you get into customizing it. one thing I really like is the per application setting. Before I saw this video I was wishing that you can have it switch based on the app in use and was disappointed that it was all universal, thanks for the vid

Thanks for the advise to get rid of the mouse. It's been a tough two days, with lots of video editing and document writing with pen only, but I can feel everything getting easier and faster!

Very useful tips. Thank you very much!

man! This video changed my life to learn about the tablet! Thanks a lot!!!!

I just got mine for christmas ty for the video it help quiet a bit :)

thank you. This was just what I was looking for.

Thanks Dave. very useful and helpful

I got the Intuos Comic for christmas, and these tips really help! Thanks for the video.

There's no brush trace difference when applying less or more pressure on the tablet for me, how come?

Very helpful for a first time user like myself, thank you so much!

thank you soooooo much! I just got a Wacom and this was so helpful!

This is a really good video! When I will get my graphic tablet for christmas, I will just put the mouse away and follow all your other tips, because I think they are really useful! :) Thank you!

Thanks for making this nice and easy to understand, now to practice, practice, practice

these are good tips, thank you very much !!

Thx for the tips! I am getting my own tablet soon and these tips were useful *^*

Hi, Thanks for your tip. i just have one doubt. how to get the scroll bar feature of the middle button. somehow im missing it when scrolling web pages. Any idea. or tips?

good stuff Dave... good stuff. You are both educational and entertaining.

this was very helpful thank you very much !

Ahh, I just got my first tablet ever and this was super helpful. Thank you!! :)

Thanks :) These tips are really helpful

Thanks Dave!!!! I Just Got My First Drawing Tablet.... Wacom & I Am Binge Watching Anything To Help Me.... It Just Came Today........ SO Excited........ Love Art SO MUCH.....Been Using PS For Many Years With My Art....... Thanks For The Advice SO MUCH!!! ♥

@shadowboy9892

5 жыл бұрын

TEXASTWANGTONYA calm down with the dots...

i have a small doubt about intous pro wacom tablet alt / option key on keyboard is not working while using wacom with pen . for example : quick selection tool in photoshop i cant subtract it by holding alt key its only adding selection again again i think grip pen settings has to be changed i failed to fixing this problem hope you can help thanks

Remember when first trying out my intuos tab, I didn't like it. Set it aside. Eventually, tried again since I desired sketching with it, and more. Wish back then I knew of youtube, and it's great resource. Did everything the hard way. Now, when having time I come here, and learn bit by bit. This video taught me a few things. THANKS much DC

Very helpful Dave. thank you

Very good content and presentation. Thank you Dave

I have a fairly old wacom tablet and it doesnt have the mouse point feature. I mean that I do have to scroll to get to the corner of a screen. Is there some sort of software that fixes this?

I recently bought a Wacom tablet but some times I get frustrated when I try to use it. I know it takes time to get use to the tablet but with these tips it will be much easier. Thank you.

This really helped me, I'm excpecting a tablet in a couple of weeks and now I know some tips, Thanks!

Thanks for advices!

would you still have to use the mouse scrolling in playing minecraft with the pen? because whenever you just tap on the screen it would just create a block, right?

How do you zoom in and out when drawing in photoshop without a mouse???

I have a question! Can you change the settings so that pen sensitivity is off? Because sometimes when I draw my pencil pressure changes so that could be a big problem when I get my tablet :/

So helpful! Thanks!

sorry for my bad english: when I "double tap", the line/spot grows bigger (only in photoshop) can I turn off this feature?

I have the Magic Trackpad and I love it, now will the Wacon offer all functionality to replace the Magic Trackpad?

Good tips Dave. I am having trouble controlling the pen, as in being able to draw staright lines and circles. Would like to be able to draw cars or motorcycles but changing levels and being able to fill with colour within a certain controlled area is Challenging. Can you help?

I'm using a Wacom Cintiq 27 on a Mac and when I attempt to use the ctl+opt to adjust brush size and hardness in Photoshop it only works with the keyboard caps-lock key depressed. Very strange. I tried to adjust the setting to allow for entering a caps lock sequence but couldn't find that key. What makes this behavior happen?

Thank you very much for sharing this!!!

Can i use a Wacom Tablet to trace images / drawing that i have done on paper and does the basic model support the same?

Hi Dave, I have a question that i simply can't get an answer for. how do I set my wacom Intuos pen so that one dab of the pen on the screen (with inkscape) creates a dot? drawing is no problem but as soon as i want to create small dots , the dotting technique doesnt create any mark. Thanks in advance. Thomas

Hi, Dave! I have a question. Do you know if there's a setting that let's the tablet to be used like a mouse? I need the tablet to remember the position of the arrow, not to have the surface of it mapped to the screen. I don't know if it's clear enough... Greetings from Romania!

Hi Sir, may I know why mu stroke keep overlapping? I had tried for many setting and also uninstall & reinstall it but still the same.

Thanks for the tips!

Thank you for this video! I had the tablet last Christmas but my laptop stopped functioning that day so I havent even started using it. I'm just looking through still to see how it works and all. Again, that m you. :)

@Hida8008

7 жыл бұрын

thank*

Thanks for the tips. I have never touched or used anybody's drawing tablet, so I know next to nothing about them, but am preparing to buy a Wacom soon for a project, namely retouching scanned documents in Photoshop. One thing that kept bothering me was how do I determine where the pen tip touches down after lifting and skipping over part of the document? You answered it in no time. Again, thanks.

Thank you dave, nice, useful tips.

dont have one but still I watched the whole thing lol

@talma9525

8 жыл бұрын

It's like... drawing on paper exept you face the screen wich means there's no hand on your way! Don't worry, the marker tells you where you are when you hover the pen!

@Spectrumistic

8 жыл бұрын

just got one today lol intuos art small :3 so far I am loving the feeling

@angelachan5653

6 жыл бұрын

Equilibrium me too

Thanks for this info, I have owned the tablet for a couple years but have always avoided. Now I want to use the tablet, thanks and the advice that it is not a mouse really helped.

This is very helpful. Thank you.

I'm getting mine this week!! IMA DIE OF HAPPINESS

@igorrtkd

7 жыл бұрын

nooooooooooo

@giraffesketch4189

7 жыл бұрын

Igor Malagutti ??

@igorrtkd

7 жыл бұрын

PLEASE DONT DIE

@giraffesketch4189

7 жыл бұрын

Igor Malagutti OH LOL, I'm still alive so it's all gud

@igorrtkd

7 жыл бұрын

Giraffe Sketch you'll love the tablet using mine right now

finally a useful video for pen tablet nubbies. You addressed very specific issues for mouse-users going to pen-tablet. I was about to give up on pens all together until I watched this. Thanks.

Thanks! I bought a Wacom tablet exactly like yours, but I never got used to it. I think I was overusing the mouse and only using it for photoshop, exactly like you just said. Now I will get rid of my mouse and try to use only the tablet.

so i should use the pen and tablet for playing counterstrike etc. aswell?

Very helpful. Thanks.

This makes a lot of sense..i actually used my mouse for normal things back when i tried out a tablet that i borrowed lol. Good job

I recieved my wacom small tablet today but I have a noobie problem: when I'm trying to draw in photshop everytime I put my hand on the tablet, the canvas rotate and rotate, how can I set the canvas so it will not move when I place my hand on the tablet? Thanks

greaaat! thanks a lot, I was moving the pen just as a mouse and wondering why it was continuously clicking everything hahaha.

That was VERY HELP FULL THANKS (subscribed)

Thnx!!! You really helped!

I want a wacom bamboo splash do you agree and what type of laptop should I use also do gaming laptops work I need to be sure so I don't mess up my money