Still confused (Wacom vs. Drawing with Mouse)

[Badman_Warhawk2k8]

best advice I can give you is to use different brush strokes also I don't know if you know this or not but when you zoom in with a thin stroke lets say at 200 percent it gets thinner if you draw with the same stroke at 100 its thicker. To prove this theory there is a simple test you can do which I taught myself its first to zoom in at 200 percent draw same stroke hold down the shift key for a straight stroke as you draw and then do the same for a 100 percent. You will notice the difference. This comes in handy for very a very detailed brush piece

[Stillness]

Video of Cintiq? http://www.metacafe.com/watch/564442/wa ... ng_tablet/

Looks pretty sweet!

[0NighT0]

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these gloves are inexpensive andin my view a complete necessity! I am not trying to sell this product, but am giving some extremely good advice discovered by experience to my fellow animators. The company is based in the USA and i live in South Africa. I received my smudge guards 3 days after placing the order! Really worth it for all of you wacom users out there.

[Memown]

im doing it a bit different :S
i draw square on flash first, then i form it to a head whatever and then the nose ..
i learned it from the cartoonsmart drawing better tutorial
its pretty cool this way.

but sometimes im doing it like in this small tutorial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKg74SXwBLY