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What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

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At Maldon Essex Military show, my Lucky Seven A2.
WoW! Twice this year and in the same month, a new record, during the last 10 years, I could count the number of times it got warn on my fingers.
It used to fit me a bit on the large side, honest:rolleyes:
For those interested, the hat is a Stetson Cordele, made in Poland probably for the European market. Trousers from TKMax, boots, Russell & Bromley. 'T' shirt is a souvenir from Sicily from Bar Vitelly in Savoca featured in the film The Godfather, where Michael Corleone meets the father of his future wife Appollonia.
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getting into real summer here, came back from post office empty handed, my packages are still in the custom inspection (packages in question are NOT a jacket however, it is an action figure toy :D and a graphic tablet monitor )

What tablet did you get?
 
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It does look nice! Awesome screen size. And a really good price, I still can't find even the crummiest Cintiq 13HD for less. . .

I need a new tablet. Genius is getting old and it was ancient when I first got it.
 

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It does look nice! Awesome screen size. And a really good price, I still can't find even the crummiest Cintiq 13HD for less. . .

I need a new tablet. Genius is getting old and it was ancient when I first got it.
13" is way too small, it will slow down your work, have to hide the tool panel on and off, have to zoom in and out, and wacom is way too greedy now pricewise... my old intuos stylus is failing, and I want to try some new alternative brand out there... the drawback is these chinese stylus all still use rechargeable battery unlike wacom's and they also don't register tilt, but I use mechanical pencil and drawing pen manually so tilt sensor doesn't add anything for a crude entry level illustrator like me :p.
 
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Yeah, Wacom makes a good product but their prices are bloated and they in general suck and are unethical. You can clearly see how they're deliberately leaving something out of their newest product just so they'd have the excuse of releasing another one before the technology has advanced enough for an artist to actually consider upgrading (which wouldn't be a problem if their crap didn't cost a truckload of money). Or my personal favorite is when they release one high-end tablet monitor and when enough people buys it, they immediately and unexpectedly come up with another one that's exactly the same except it's got one major feature that's actually important, like the higher screen resolution or touch screen. For the same price as the last one. Naturally, the one people just bought immediately plunges down in value. They did that with the Cintiq. Everyone who bought the first one felt like an idiot. . .
 

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the touch feature on a cintiq is a dud, it doesn't always work, and I don't know if it wise at all to have a touch screen panel where an artist hand lays on it to draw with a stylus... and they also flawed by minor parallax like all the chinese alternatives, all but the most recent 13" and 16", so all the pros outhere with their expensive 27" cintiq would feel inferior to the new small & small medium cintiq, and really how to sell a used 27" cintiq that weigh and cost a ton, it should be a bulletproof lifetime investment not something to sell after 1 or 2 yrs of use
 
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Yeah, exactly. And I agree, it was a major dud. I'd always get a smudge on the screen where the back of my hand would be on the screen. Stupid thing would recognize this as a point. I switched it off after one day and that's how it remained until I sold the thing. Otherwise it was okay but there's also a distance between the tip of the pen and the cursor so you have to get used to the "completely natural way of drawing" same as you would've had on a regular tablet. Well, it is a bit easier but sometimes getting the line right where you want it was just as much of a pain. All that for almost $3K price tag. Then again, people throw that much money on dead animal hides so I guess it's okay... XD

The 13" was great, tho. It was the best tablet monitor I've ever used - or rather, it would've been if it wasn't too small. But other than that, if I had the cash, I'd buy it. I regret not buying it right away. Would've still used it I guess. It's perfect for doodling and I only draw lineart anyway so...
 

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