My drawing tablet broke last night and today, in another act that proves I should not be allowed to have a credit card, I ordered an expensive new one without bargain hunting or checking any reviews:

Intuos3 6×8 Graphic Tablet

I got my previous tablet about five years ago in the bargain bin at Best Buy for about $50. I never used it much until about a year ago when I started doing comics. The detection on it was absolutely terrible, much like tying to sign your name on one of those computerized signature thingies at certain stores.

Hopefully this new tablet that I got will be almost as accurate as drawing with a fountain pen on bristol board. It has a far higher pressure sensitivity and also can sense how tilted the drawing pen is, which is something that my graphics programs are capable of utilizing.

At least I didn’t order what I really wanted:

http://www.wacom.com/cintiq/

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