A lucky find...
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2018 10:32 pm
I got lucky today.
Gwen and I were taking a few days of rest-and-recuperation time out of town. This morning, on our way home, we stopped at a couple of local thrift stores (Gwen loves to thrift-shop). In the St. Vincent's shop, she found a perfect little black purse...
... and I spotted a big flat cardboard box sitting up on the top of a cabinet, with a "$15" sticker on it. It's an old Wacom Intuos digital drawing tablet, USB style, 12"x12" drawing area, with the pressure-sensitive pen. The box was a bit worse for wear, but the tablet itself looked as if it had never been used after it was unpacked. I gambled, bought it, and lucked out. It seems to be in perfect working condition - Linux recognizes it (no driver installation required), The GIMP recognizes it, and the pen works (both the nib and the eraser). Even the pressure-sensing and tilt functions work.
This may spur me to working more on a small digital-art project or two I've had sitting around.
It's not as fancy as a Cintiq, and it doesn't have as many pressure-sense levels as Wacom's current models, but it's much less expensive than either and should be fine for my simple needs.
Gwen and I were taking a few days of rest-and-recuperation time out of town. This morning, on our way home, we stopped at a couple of local thrift stores (Gwen loves to thrift-shop). In the St. Vincent's shop, she found a perfect little black purse...
... and I spotted a big flat cardboard box sitting up on the top of a cabinet, with a "$15" sticker on it. It's an old Wacom Intuos digital drawing tablet, USB style, 12"x12" drawing area, with the pressure-sensitive pen. The box was a bit worse for wear, but the tablet itself looked as if it had never been used after it was unpacked. I gambled, bought it, and lucked out. It seems to be in perfect working condition - Linux recognizes it (no driver installation required), The GIMP recognizes it, and the pen works (both the nib and the eraser). Even the pressure-sensing and tilt functions work.
This may spur me to working more on a small digital-art project or two I've had sitting around.
It's not as fancy as a Cintiq, and it doesn't have as many pressure-sense levels as Wacom's current models, but it's much less expensive than either and should be fine for my simple needs.