thats the size of the working area on the tablet 9 inches by 12. I've never used a non wacom tablet either. I have never felt the need to. Wacoms are sweet pieces of hardware, it does everything it claims to do. My only wish is that that surface would be more like paper or canvas. Its has too little friction.
thanks highinhouston, that school bus picture had real potential, but i lost interest before I could get it anywhere near completion
andypl: its funny how much my style has changed. I was always strictly photorealism, like my picture of early tenor sax Coleman Hawkins. It was usually mechanical and fairly sterile feeling. I didn't understand abstract art and wrote it off for a long time... but that was before my first hallucinogenic experiance
. The transformation was night and day with my understanding of art. I'm all about finding the perfect curves in nature, subtle line weights and patterns now. Its good to be able to express the superreal world that our minds usually surpress out of selfpreservation.