Pen or paint? Which is better?
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it depends what it's for. I use the pens for outlining and the paints for everything else.
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A Sharpie pen doesn't write all that well on surfaces like the Sharpie markers, but it's worth a try! I recommend Sakura Pigma Micron pens for wood and an important event memory as your wedding. It is archival ink and doesn't fade in time and writes well! Congratulations and all the best.
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They write on regular paper, too. I find them a bit sticky sometimes but if you move the pen slowly over the surface you wish to cover, it works better than if you try to write or draw too quickly.
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You can make pens with great ease. I find the infinite variable speed to be fantastic for CA finishing.
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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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Yes. I prefer gel too. This pen writes like a gel pen, but the ink doesn't smear or run like ink. That's why I love it!
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Yes. I have used both a Sharpie and regular ballpoint pen. There's not much room, though.
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Sorry, I have never used the pen. The tip didn't last long enough to use it.
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For kids, there is an app for Windows 8 & 8.1 called "Fresh Paint". I found this app utilizes the features of the brush and can even print out in large format. It was the app featured in one of Microsoft's TV spots.For more adult applications, we use Sketchbook and Sketchbook Express by Autodesk, which is constantly being tweaked and renamed but remains a great application.
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you can use mouse or pen to navigate windows or any cad or paint program, I use jfdraw and vectorengineer it takes a little time to get the hang of it like touch pen to pad is like a left click and going to the corner of the pad to move the mouse to a corner trips me up a little ect...
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You can write on it with pencil but it should only be applied over a thoroughly dry paint. Preferably water based. Charcoal works better. Or a soft pencil. You may need a few coats to keep pencil from breaking through surface and hitting the paint.
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Laundry Pens are always better than Sharpies, not sure why, but they last longer after several washings than Sharpies do.
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We found that regular computer paper isnt thick enough, meaning the paint soaks thru after awhile especially if there is a lot of paint on it or a lot of paint in one spot. We found heavier weight paper like construction paper and painting paper worked best. We found paper specifically for painting at a teacher/school supply store.
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The pen has an ink cartridge. You can buy additional cartridges and also buy a refillable cartridge if you want to use your own ink.
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You can use either your fingers or the pen. In most cases they are equivalent but there are still a few different features.
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I have not compared them. you have to use a fine tip permanent marker. ink will mear
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Francine it is ideal for dry media, and I personally would go for thicker paper for wet'un. But I am not the type to use paint of any nature, so for me this one has proved itself.