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Steam Deck as an Art Tool?
9 months ago
What are your thoughts on using the Steam Deck as an art device?
Drawing tablets are expensive. Steam Decks are cheaper and widely available. It has a touch screen, and works as a small stand alone computer.
Drawing tablets are expensive. Steam Decks are cheaper and widely available. It has a touch screen, and works as a small stand alone computer.
The crux would be the digitiser. Pen tablets designed with art in mind will reduce or eliminate point drift when holding the pen at an angle, so the point of contact is always displayed in the correct place.
I've used tablets that aren't designed for art to try and draw things, and the drift is incredibly frustrating to deal with. All it's good for is handwriting and drawing lines in OneNote. Even before considering the pressure sensitivity accuracy.
I would imagine the Steam Deck would be a similar experience. The digitiser matched to it's intended use as a gaming device. It's "good enough" for what it needs to do.