When doing simple vector work in Illustrator, do you use a tablet/digital pen or mouse?
I’ve always used a mouse personally. Has been a decade since I touched a tablet and the technology was pretty clunky when I last used it, but I know that it’s since improved dramatically.
What do you use in your workflow?
Pencil and paper.
Then redraw in illustrator. Mouse.
Pencil and paper.
Illustrator.
Kensington Trackball mouse.
I use a tablet on occasion (it makes really quick work of making die-lines sometimes, LOL) But not for vector drawing. It’s all in what you’ve used to date. I’ve used this particular trackball for nearly 20 years and hate using a normal mouse. Plus, if you have mouse muscle memory, a tablet can be clunky for a very long time until you get used to it as an interface. I recently got a wacom for art, and the learning curve was a good three weeks of nightly use. I’ve had it for about 6 months now and I still make stylus-drag mistakes (some of them near file-fatal.)
A mouse.
I’ve never liked tablets. I have a trackball connected to my computer, but it’s mostly there for when I forget to charge the mouse. I also have a trackpad, but rarely use it for anything.
Mouse
Never got the feel for the tablet and pen. I love to sketch and draw with pencil and paper … but digital … not so much.
I sketch either on paper or iPad, then when it goes to production, always Wacom and Magic Mouse (only used like attack pad for scrolling).
That was meant to be ‘track pad’, but I think I prefer the idea of an attack pad!
I think attack pad sounds a lot more exciting! 