All the questions and answers seem to deal with its use as a journal. Has anyone actually used it as a sketchbook? Good for that purpose?
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My partner uses it as a sketchbook. I bought this as a gift. To me it seems to make a better sketchbook than journal.
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It would be perfect to use as a sketchbook. I bought this for my daughter to use both as a journal and a sketchbook.
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It is small, but a little bulky. I would say you could sketch just fine as long as you had a support board behind your paper (as you can see there are cutouts on the easel). It's very portable and works best on a tabletop, though on your lap could work fine. My son uses it for sketches and has no real complaints other than sometimes the drawers will slide open a bit. It's fairly sturdy.
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It will not open flat like a spiral sketch pad and I'm not sure it has archival properties. Otherwise if you want quadrille to work with, yes. I know many that use it as a notebook.
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Heather - I just have this ordered myself and although I've never used it I have drawing friends who swear by it. When Amazon had it at 50% I had to jump at it. It was supposed to be here yesterday so hopefully today but I can post my opinion after I've tried it. I can ay all my art friends love it and we all work professionally. I do illustrations and comic books myself. Bt if I were in your shoes I'd spend the 40.00 for it because I've worked with lot of art programs and for 40.00 for something as powerful as this is supposed o be you just can't go wrong. So I'd take the leap.
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Leather is genuine, but as for the sketchbook, I am unsure. We journal in ours and is about the size of a smaller book or Bible.
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I picked up an ep121 at fry's in concord last week, I have a CINTIQ 21UX, and I'm employed as a character artist. The cintiq pen and intuos pens won't work on it as people have already said. The pressure sensitivity is not working in photoshop, i think there's a driver fix for this but i haven't bothered with it. Photoshop works best with a keyboard/keypad anyways. Alias sketchbook pro will be your friend. The brushes work great and the program is stroke based. 256 levels of pressure sensitivity, it depends on the artist. It's fine for me, I don't know that my arm has 256 levels of pressure. The line quality is good and it's responsive while drawing. Awesome device for drawing on the go, or sitting on the couch. Any serious work you'll probably want to use a standard computer, but no reason you shouldn't be able to do great things on the ep121. Battery life i get around 3-4.5 hours depending on use. I hope they start shipping these things out to you all soon, I'm loving mine! ps. This thing also runs zbrush pretty well. although it's pointless to try to use zbrush with a resolution os 1200x800, the menu's are too filling. But, it CAN handle a million polygons without much problem. I didn't try maya on it yet. If anyone's interested i can give it a shot.
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I bought it for the same reason and it didn't work. I'm sure it's great if you write your paper right into it, but alas, not useful if you need to import already written documents.
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I would have to go up and count the pages. There are at least 10 or more. They are blank and I bought them to use in expressive arts workshops. To inspire travel and collage. Since then I am using them to document trips small or large to just express little bits and pieces of any travel.
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Really, the only reason you would use this is for fun. I've put some secret notes in notebooks, or an easter egg in a note, or decorated a bill with it. But really, if you are using ink other than the "big four" (blue, black, red or green), you're really doing it either to be artistic or have fun.
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Yes, I have personally bought this Chromebook, and it would be a great, inexpensive way to write stories, essays, narratives, etc. The keyboard is great-I can type very fast on it. It is also well built, fast, thin, and has a 10 hour battery life. You can read my full review here-http://www.amazon.com/review/R3PJDFUZ9BTAI2/ref=cm_cr_rdp_permI hope this helps, and you can ask me any other questions you have about the device.
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I have a moleskin, it's a drawing pad with blank pages... This is definitely not as high quality. The covers are thinner and the material is not as nice. It's good for the money though.
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I tried it and it doesn't work well at all. I would not recommend using it for that purpose. It works well if using a marker or an ink pen but not a pencil. Go figure huh???
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It is great for taking notes, onenote is awesome. You will want to buy another wacom pen with an eraser function though. I recommend the surface pro 2 pen. The pen that comes with it is nice because its attached to it, but its a little small and clumsy. As for PDF,it runs a full version of windows 8.1 so you can do anything you could do with a regular laptop. This blows the iPad out of the water with functionality.
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If you want a long lasting journal, better luck somewhere else. I had to return it because my brother could open it. It is not much of a journal. It only has like 25 pages in it. Allthough, you could get it refilled.
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It will do fine with sharpies. I use mixed medium, primarily watercolors, and the paper holds up well with water. The book has more pages than other journals I've had. The cover is very sturdy. I'm pleased with this item.
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No, the tip is too fat and mushy for that. This seems more useful for scrolling, flipping pages and clicking on icons etc. It is just not suited for drawing or note taking as far as I can fell.
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I use mine to post calendars outside meeting rooms. You can easily slide the pages in and out. Just remember to slide rather than try to jerk them out; you'll end up with little pieces of paper stuck in them if you do that.