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Middle aged man who just picked up a Kamvas 13 looking for advice. (lemmy.world)
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I’m not new to drawing and art, but I have been out of practice for many years, and I have never in my life used a digital art tablet. I feel like I’m starting from square one, because I am. I’ve had it for a few days now, and I’m dedicated to doing at least 6 minutes a day for a hundred (or more, I’m old, and thus a slow learner.) days, and I know for the first excruciatingly long while I will be strictly producing absolute trash and am not afraid of that. I’ve played guitar consistently since I was 14, so I’m very familiar with the seemingly stagnant pace that is required for learning and progress, but I really want to learn and progress. That’s the whole reason I got the tablet. I’ve got an itch.

So, I’m interacting with the second circle of learning and reaching out to those who know what I do not, which is everything from anyone who is familiar with using a screen and pen tablet.

What advice would you offer to someone just starting out?

Also, does anyone use a Kamvas 13 gen 3 with CachyOS? I can’t find any AUR drivers that work right. The default OS drawing tablet settings work for the most part, but I can’t use the wheely bits for anything. Every Huion AUR driver fucks up the tablet area and I can’t use the workspace calibration.

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So, I just tried it and all seems to be working with Void (XFCE+musl). Accuracy still off (and not sure if I can fix that) but pressure does work. Seems usable, especially with larger brushes where an offset won't really be noticable. EDIT: And obviously, this doesn't address the issues you're having

Low pressure works well, too.

I plan on putting mine through every level of hell it can go through

I mean I definitely am no stranger to running things into the ground, but I'm still using a low-end GPU from 2016. If I do this I want something to show for it, not just 200K+ ovals/lines/boxes etc. Because I will likely not be buying another. TBH if I could trade to someone who could better use it and still get some value I probably would've done that by now.

Pixels are not really my thing these days. Besides the stuff I mentioned, I don't know what else I'd do unless I try to make some sort of painted vector animation (Flash-like, such as via Wick Editor) but again this is something that might work with a mouse depending on design (some styles may work better with a pen, though).

EDIT: Trying this, pressure doesn't seem to be working at all in the browser (WebGL/WASM applications). It seems like it absolutely should, though.

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