I've been trying to decide between getting a 6x8 tablet and a 9x12 tablet. Unfortunately, I don't have a 9x12 to experiment with. But it occured to me when I woke up this morning that I could alter the mapping area on the 6x8 to simulate the 9x12 (albeit without being able to reach the full extents of the screen).

Soooooo... I tried it.

And I immediately felt more comfortable with the pseudo 9x12 scaling. I see what people are talking about now when they say that a close 1:1 scale between the tablet and screen really matters.

I switched back to normal 6x8 mapping and sketched the head in the upper right. And yeah... the difference in scale throws me off just a little bit. Enough that it tends to deform what I'm trying to sketch. I can feel myself struggling with it... the pen just doesn't land quite where I expect.


The other thing I'm doing here is messing around with Art Rage (free version) and trying that out a bit. All of this is quickie two second doodling.

Ah. The joy of scraps.