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Equipment used to draw Penny Arcade strips
kisaragi475
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I’ve been looking through the forums trying to find an answer but I can’t seem to find what I’m looking for. Does anyone know what kind of set-up Mike uses to create the comic strips or know where I can get this info? I catch glimpses of it in the PATV and want to know what he uses.
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He uses a big ass (like 14 X 14) Wacom intuos. I don't think he's moved on to the cintiq yet. He still draws some stuff by hand, scans it in, and inks over it, but that's rarer now than before.
Er, from what I can tell from PATV, he does it all entirely on a Cintiq 21wx and photoshop.
(for the op) Essentially it's a flat screen monitor that you draw directly on with a special pressure sensitive stylus. The big 21 inchers are pretty much the top of the line, and cost about $2000. So defiantly not the sort of thing anyone should be getting right off the bat. If you're looking for something to start off with, wacom makes a wide series of other tablet products starting at around $100.
He still uses that giant intuos that he's had forever. Kurtz was making fun of it during one of Mike's ustreams the other day because Mike couldn't draw a hand, and kurtz had to help with it and was bitching that it was too big. You're right though, he's got a cintiq as well.
edit for OP: If you don't have a wacom yet, now's the best time, because the cheaper models now have the 1024 levels of pressure sensitivity, as where my old first gen bamboo only has 512.
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