![]() Because the tablet is quite big, I might have liked a small keypad to the side with some programmed shortcuts. I mostly just used my regular keyboard shortcuts while using this. This means you have to move your attention away from your screen, and your stylus away from where you’re drawing. I didn’t find these particularly useful as the buttons are activated by the stylus and not your finger. ![]() Instead there is a menu stripe at the top of the working area. This Intuos doesn’t have the express keys in the way we are used to having them on tablets today. Initially I took a while to get the USB tablet working but once I did, I was pleasantly surprised. This old Wacom tablet is part of the first generation of Intuos tablets that came in a range of sizes. The original Intuos (1998) The Intuos 1 released in 1998 Though I didn’t have too much trouble getting the piece done, it’s a different feeling when you have to do an entire painting. I actually had to whip this tablet out to finish an artwork while waiting for a replacement stylus for my Deco Pro a couple of years ago. It was definitely challenging to work at this size after working with pretty much a minimum of double the working area for a good while now. Though I wouldn’t go out and buy one, if you do happen to be given one, there’s no reason you can’t use it to start your journey in digital painting. The active area is really small and the surface a bit too glassy for my liking. Let’s start with an old Wacom tablet that I wouldn’t necessarily recommend: the Grahire3. ![]() Wacom Graphire 3 (2003) The Wacom Graphire3 that I started doing digital art with. It can take a bit of time to get used to, looking at your monitor while drawing on a different surface, but it gets easy pretty quickly with practice. This means they must be connected to a monitor, and behave like a sophisticated mouse input. ![]() It’s also important to point out that these are screenless graphics tablets. So below are my experiences with that.įYI I’m testing these on my Lenovo laptop running Windows 10. I wanted to put each to the test to see if I could easily create similar work to what I normally do in Photoshop using my Deco Pro S or in Procreate using the iPad Pro 2020. The latest Wacom drivers might not support older devices so it’s best to type your model into the search bar on the Wacom drivers page to get the correct one for your system. Keep in mind that it’s important to get the right driver to be able to set up your Wacom tablet if you get one. Please be sure to pop over to the Wacom subreddit to ask other users if an older tablet you are considering will work with your MacOS version. These tablets were all tested on Windows 10 machines with no hassles BUT I’ve heard there are compatibility issues with newer MacOS versions. (This is an evolving post and will be updated with the dedicated review videos and artworks as I get them done.) This can make SOME of them great options for beginners. ![]() Sometimes you can find these at great prices on second-hand marketplaces, and they tend to be reliable. We’ll compare four different drawing tablets I’ve got my hands on: a legacy, first generation Intuos, the Intuos3 and Intuos4, and the Graphire3 I first started digital art with. In this post we’ll look at why you might want to consider grabbing yourself an old Wacom tablet. ![]()
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