So, there is a conflict a competition between the two input devices that's really hard to solve. Unfortunately, a large tablet (with a display built-in or not) tends to land on the desk in the exact place where the keyboard usually is.
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For all these tasks, you'll need a full keyboard. It is especially noticable if you like to chat while painting, write notes, reply to emails, add descriptions in your artwork or browse for references on the web while you are working. But even with this research for better accessibility of keyboard shortcuts, such sets of additional keys and devices will never replace the flexibility and completeness of having a full keyboard under one hand, in my humble point of view. On their side, digital artists started to use other devices in addition to tablets: gamepads, one-handed gaming keyboards, customisable keyboards. I'm not sure which setup will become dominant. Isn't this a sort of confession that graphic tablets are designed without thinking of a good access to the keyboard? But in the last couple of years, tablets vendors have started to innovate in other directions and have sometimes added tiny devices that look like remote controls (a), or just added more buttons (b), or removed all physical buttons and proposed a virtual keyboard with touch interface (c). Vendors and designers of graphics tablets clearly understood that, and started to add more and more buttons on their products to give easier access to more custom shortcuts.
I guess I'm not the only CG artist who uses a lot of keyboard shortcuts to speed up my workflow. General thoughts about other input devices The keyboard
If you find a paper like that, please write it in the comments, I'll be very interested and will certainly read it. This article doesn't have the seriousness of something like a scientific study made on a large group with solid statistics. I wrote it and share it because I want to make it useful for other artists struggling with the same questions. This article is just based on my personal experience, it contains all my biasses and should be read as the testimony of a random artist on the internet.
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So, let me share my experiences on ergonomics with you.ĭisclaimer: I'm not a professional ergonomist, I'm not working in the health-care industry and I wrote this article from the humble point of view of a digital painter who happens to have painted almost daily with digital graphics tablets since 2002. The first aspect that comes to mind is the ergonomics of my desktop position. But beyond the choice of the hardware itself, I've also studied other aspects of my setup. If you want to read more about what I've used and why, read my maintained "Tablet history log" article, from 2002 to today. Nowaday, my quest for the best tablet continues, as the technology keeps evolving year after year. This was necessary for my comfort I was doing digital painting all day. Since 2002, I have bought and used a lot of tablets in an attempt to build the best setup I could. It might also affect the pleasure you take in drawing and painting. This adaptation of your body to the ergonomics flaws of your hardware will have an impact on your health in the long run. But you'll eventually adapt to the weird specifications and ergonomics issues of your tablet model and make it perfect for you. The perfect graphics tablet doesn't exist. Since 2010 many things have happened: the first Ipad-like tablets with styluses have come out, the historical monopoly of Wacom was breached after their patent for battery-less stylus expired, competition could finally start in the tablet market, many new models came out (Huion/XpPen/etc.), and tablet computers with a pen are cheaper to buy and more and more common on the desks of artists. Over the years, I've been super-happy to see this article republished on big CG portals and printed on CG magazines the artworks were even republished by Wacom on their blog! Recently, I had a request for another repost, but after re-reading the article, I felt it was totally obsolete and not really in sync with what I'm thinking now. I also made new artworks and published them in higher quality. About the 2020 remake of this article: For the ten-year anniversary of this article (originally published on April 11, 2010) I decided to rewrite it.
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