Artist friends, let me just tell you a thing. FUCK Wacom. Fuck Wacom and their planned obsolescence, fuck Wacom and their broken drivers, fuck Wacom and their over-priced tablets. For years we’ve dealt with them with no alternatives but let me tell you a thing.
I recently found out my Intuos 4′s Pen had broken and rather than spend £60-89 for a new one I decided to get a new tablet. Now, I could get the new “Intuos” (which is just the re-branded Bamboo) and i was going to until I found this beast.
This is the Huion
H610, it has almost twice the drawing space of the low-end Intuos and double the pressure levels. The one and only negative is that the pen requires a battery.
Not only that, it is larger than my Intuos 4 which I paid £150 for back in the day. Know how much this cost? £55. The same as the basic Intuos.
I am in LOVE with this thing. Let’s compare this with the lowest of the low end Wacom Intuos line.
Intuos Huion
Active Area: 6 by 3.7 in 10" x 6.25"
Pressure Levels:
1024 2048
Hard Input Res: 2540 LPI 4000 LPI
Express Keys:
4 8
Not to mention the Intuos is HIDEOUS with buttons that are in incredibly awkward places.
The fact that a £55 matches and exceeds the £150 Intuos 4 I bought years ago speaks worlds. And do you know what the very final nail in the coffin is?
THE DRIVERS. ACTUALLY. WORK.
It’s time Wacom had some real competition in the market, if you’re looking for a new tablet please consider a Huion over a Wacom. I used to be a Wacom fanboy too but now?
All I can find is good reviews on this thing and people doing the same thing I am doing, trying to convince people it’s worth it. So… You have the information, use it as you will.
I have a huion H610 and I absolutely love it
I had a huion H610 and I can absolutely confirm that it was an extremely nice tablet and for the use I got out of it- an outstanding value. It most certainly performed comparably nicer than my intuos. That said, Huion has a bit to work on with durability. And I had more issues with huion drivers than I ever did wacom. I got maybe 2 years out of the H610 before it died. Now, I do put a lot of mileage on my tablets and I produce work daily- so two straight years of that… TL;DR, it’s a worthy investment if you aren’t saving for a tablet monitor, but if you’re like me and you live in Photoshop every day, you get what you pay for.
10/10 recommend this tablet for those on a budget that want more surface, better pressure sensitivity for a hella good price. Great for students!
I’m not convinced it has the endurance for a heavy work load.
My intuos 3 still lives.
I work at a Digital painting classes and we had only Wacom tablets for two years, but HUION was kind enough to provide their tablets for our classes. We have a lot of different Huion tablets and all of them work wonders! Pens are much convenient especially in comparison to Wacom Intuos/Bamboo pens (they’re so freacking thin). You don’t have to charge them very often (it can work somewhere around 2-3 months).
I have that wacom and it works just fine but reblogging for future uses (when my wacom finally decides to let go)
I use a H610 pro (upgraded from a 2008 small Wacom bamboo), have done for two and a half years, and I’m drawing constantly and this thing has yet to kick the bucket or give me any major issues.
My pen is on its way out (the casing has cracked and I’ve pulled the sections apart by accident a couple of times, but it still works! It’s just it’s only a matter of time before the crack gets bigger and I have to start taping it up lmao) and I don’t know how well it would hold up to being carried/bashed around a lot, but aside from the pen casing crack (which rn is having exactly zero affect on my ability to draw) I’ve had no problems with it and I absolutely swear by this thing.
don’t worry about making it super-accurate, just focus on the characteristic parts of the face and have fun
the outcome might not look like the ref, but it will be different and more varied than faces you draw out of your head, an dprobably pretty rad on its own right!
feel free to reblog with your drawing, if you want!
Vulgar is a conlang (constructed/fictional language) generator created to help literally generate a language for you. No, really. No tricks, and it’s super simple to use. It’s my favourite tool right now for writing fantasy, even as someone who loves creating his own languages, it’s an amazing starting point.
Want a random conlang, straight away, with no prep or fuss? Just visit http://vulgarlang.com/index.html and click “Generate New Conlang”… and that’s it. Scroll down and through your brand new, generated, completely original conlang.
If you’re a little more advanced in terms of conlanging and want to specify IP phonemes to be used, you can add them too, but even with no knowledge of linguistics you can create a language at the click of your fingers.
This version of Vulgar is completely free, sure…. but! the guy who created it has not only made an amazing thing (which I repeat, is absolutely free at it’s most basic point), but is also planning on updating it more and more!
Under the “Buy” tab on the Vulgar website, he links to his email, where you can offer to pay for the full version of Vulgar, which is a total steal right now at a sale price of only nineteen dollars. Considering professional conlangers and linguists could charge you, like, a metric fuck ton of money for the same data you’re getting here for just nineteen, that’s a major steal.
Not to mention, buying the alpha build now gives you free access to all of it’s updated versions, which I can guarantee are just going to get better and better! I’ve already bought it and I adore it, and this is a tool the likes of which we in the conlang community have never seen in such an awesome way.
Please consider helping Vulgar out, because the creator is a damn genius
This is possibly the coolest thing I’ve ever come across
NASA created retro travel posters for different locations in our solar system in hopes of inspiring young people to imagine a future where common space travel is a possibility.
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