Do you use an art pad?

[posterart]

Use the wacom intuos for computer drawing. Outdoors in the North West with the pencil and sketch pad then scan into Xara, Photoshop or Painter for the brushes. Once used a notebook computer but no, too clumsy and useless in the bright sunlight. There's nothing more creative than a pencil and paper! Speaking for myself,

[timhines]

The rocker switch on the pen can be difficult to grasp/use

The method I use for the rocker switch (and I only use the lower end of it for right-click), is to "roll" the pen about its axis so that my thumb (which is normally just resting against its edge) presses it down. I don't actually click or press on the switch directly, which tends to knock the tip off position.

[jim64]

I find the Wacom Bamboo and I am new to it, my impression thus far, its fidgety and awkward. but as I stated ,I'm new to the digital pad thing.

[Michael]

I use TabletPC's (Toshiba's Portege M400 and M700) so an artpad is built in. It's a breeze to sketch and draw with these machine's and I wouldn't switch back to an separate pad, ever!
Thare are numerous tablets coming these days but I'd recomend you to choose for Wacom outrigged hardware or maybe N-trig. Touch is a nice gimmick but nothing can beat a genuine pen with a pressure sensitive nib. It's 99% like genuine paper slketching. Only thing missing are the sound and haptics

[jim64]

Hi Bev.
This subject is very popular and has been asked many times.
It's all comes down to a preference- but you have to try a graphics tablet/digitizer to know if it suits you
The WACOM Bamboo has been a popular choice due to it being very affordable for the first time user and very cool..

Here's a Poll from 2007 which will help answer your question.

I would like to see tutorials Here about the use of the Wacom tablet. It seems more and more people are using them.

[slavelle]

It's even better now that there is a sketch mode button on the toolbar rather than a rock on the escape key. Look just to the right of the stroke shape/pressure profile where there is an icon to enable/disable sketch mode, which does the same thing: when you lift the pen, it creates a new line rather than continuing the previous one.