Animating with Blender

Pen Tablets

Although you could just paint using your mouse, you’d be silly to try. Using a pen tablet is significantly more responsive and is the generally accepted way of digital painting. If you’ve never used one before, a pen tablet consists of a hard drawing surface and a pen, which is connected through a USB port. As you move the pen across the surface, it controls the cursor on screen. Most pen tablets include pressure sensitivity, which means that the harder you press with the pen, the more “force” is applied digitally when painting or drawing, mimicking the response of real artists’ media. Some better tablets are also sensitive to the angle that the pen is held at for an even more realistic experience.

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