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How does this beat having a scanner?

by misuba 15y ago

threepointone 15y ago
Layers, automatic vectors, pressure sensitive tips... not really stuff that you can trivially replicate with just paper/pen.
- misuba 15y ago
  There are few real graphic artists who are working with "just" paper and pen. They have favorite pens, favorite papers. Brush pens are plenty sensitive to pressure, and they're around $17 for a good one. So far the closest thing to a real argument for this product is the vector thing, but I am having trouble envisioning what that really enables. It could enable a lot of cool stuff, but until there is a more concrete sell than "something cool," not a lot of artists are gonna bite.
ben_straub 15y ago
This is actually the question the product answers. A lot of graphic designers like to start designing on paper, then move to Illustrator or PS for the final work. The classic way to do this is to scan in your sketch and make it a layer, and essentially start over with digital art on top of it. Inkling lets you split your sketch into multiple layers as you're sketching it. Say you're drawing a character for a game, and the character can be carrying things. You can sketch the two together, with overlapping lines, but keep the character and the carried thing on separate layers. All without having to find the boundaries and snip carefully to separate them in PS.
- misuba 15y ago
  Why wouldn't you just draw the thing the character is carrying a few millimeters away, and save $150? (Bear in mind, these are artists we're talking about; that money matters.)
camtarn 15y ago
Sheer convenience, too: if you draw with this pen, the drawing is already scanned, rather than having to dig out the scanner (which, in our household, lives in a pile of other gadgets under a desk) and fiddle with TWAIN settings to get stuff into Photoshop. Plus you can work on the move if you have your laptop and a sketchpad with you - of course, you can do this with a regular graphics tablet, but from my (hobby) artist partner's comments, it's much more fun drawing on paper than on a tiny graphics tablet.
- misuba 15y ago
  Agreed about drawing on paper, but is convenience worth $200 to a target audience that has probably already paid for a scanner?

How does this beat having a scanner?

by misuba 15y ago

How does this beat having a scanner?

Layers, automatic vectors, pressure sensitive tips... not really stuff that you can trivially replicate with just paper/pen.

misuba 15y ago
There are few real graphic artists who are working with "just" paper and pen. They have favorite pens, favorite papers. Brush pens are plenty sensitive to pressure, and they're around $17 for a good one. So far the closest thing to a real argument for this product is the vector thing, but I am having trouble envisioning what that really enables. It could enable a lot of cool stuff, but until there is a more concrete sell than "something cool," not a lot of artists are gonna bite.

ben_straub 15y ago

This is actually the question the product answers. A lot of graphic designers like to start designing on paper, then move to Illustrator or PS for the final work. The classic way to do this is to scan in your sketch and make it a layer, and essentially start over with digital art on top of it. Inkling lets you split your sketch into multiple layers as you're sketching it. Say you're drawing a character for a game, and the character can be carrying things. You can sketch the two together, with overlapping lines, but keep the character and the carried thing on separate layers. All without having to find the boundaries and snip carefully to separate them in PS.

misuba 15y ago
Why wouldn't you just draw the thing the character is carrying a few millimeters away, and save $150? (Bear in mind, these are artists we're talking about; that money matters.)

camtarn 15y ago

Sheer convenience, too: if you draw with this pen, the drawing is already scanned, rather than having to dig out the scanner (which, in our household, lives in a pile of other gadgets under a desk) and fiddle with TWAIN settings to get stuff into Photoshop. Plus you can work on the move if you have your laptop and a sketchpad with you - of course, you can do this with a regular graphics tablet, but from my (hobby) artist partner's comments, it's much more fun drawing on paper than on a tiny graphics tablet.

misuba 15y ago
Agreed about drawing on paper, but is convenience worth $200 to a target audience that has probably already paid for a scanner?