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One question I get is, how can I get the most realistic brushes out of Painter? Certainly
within Painter there is a lot of control you have to adjust
brushes and tweak them to get them to be as naturalistic as possible.
But without the Wacom tablet you are going to miss out on a lot of action in terms of
being able to emulate traditional media. What I just want to talk about here is the
latest advance in pen technology that Painter takes significant advantage of
and it's the Wacom 6D Art Pen. Now you will see more about this in Chapter 7 where I spend
a lot of time discussing the Wacom pen, but I want to break
this out here so that you'll know is this a good investment or not.
These pens run around $70 retail, so it is an additional investment, but it's the kind
of thing that if you want the most fidelity out of
the brush, it's the tool to get. It actually senses all six axis of motion
and once again in Chapter 7 I go into quite a bit of detail about these axis of motion
and how they correspond to artist's expression of hand
motion, but the pen senses all of these. The latest one that just
finally cracked was the ability to sense barrel rotation. If you think about a lot of traditional
art tools, how the pen tilts in the hand, rotates in
the hand, all of these things are conspire together to create a lot of the expressivity
that a traditional tool offers. With the 6D Pen now Painter can capture all of that data
and translate it into tools that will act to the maximum degree
like their traditional counterparts. So if you're interested in trying to
get to the top level of expressive hand gestural drawing and painting, the Wacom 6D Art Pen
may be something that you want to investigate.