hey Knacki!
thanks for the extensive advice... including your post, my choice-thoughts are condensing to picking the Wacom Cintiq Android Hybrid, and I'll test the (non-android, the simple one) Wacom Cintiq tonight from a fellow geek.
If that works nicely, I'll let my regular laptop do the math, and use the Wacom purely as an input-device. The extra Android support is not really needed, but I can always use it as a testing platfrom for the games we develop.
My eyes are not too strained.. I wear glasses, but even on my laptop's highest resolution (very tiny fonts while coding in Visual Studio etc.. I like a lot of info on my screen, big overview style) I still see well enough. Ruined my eyes
by reading too much when I was a kid, and the old 1084S monitor on my old Commodore was no joy for my eyes either I guess
But still... somehow they recovered a bit, or got used to the eye-strain of computing.
We're a bunch of old farts, indeed.. average age around 35-40, I guess, and have almost seen the complete evolution of computing, so we're kind of privileged in that way, I find. Ah, nostalgia fun with good old '64 and later all versions of the Amiga.. switched to PC (skipped apple completely) rather late, coding in ASM/C/C++/C#/Objective-C and a bunch of other languages, drawing with DPaint and later Photoshop, Painter and such, modeling on Lightwave, modo, zBrush, mudbox, compositing with Fusion, you know.. the usual suspects. It's still good fun, and still learning every day, no? Even for old farts (like us, I presume) the modern age has its virtues... Damn I sound old when writing such nonsense
I'm already 'porting' some Verve experiments to the real world (well, the non-digital oil paint world, that is). Water-based oil paint.. it's a bit strange, because it sounds like eggs without proteins, but it works nicely. Drying time is a bit faster that regular oil paint, I get the impression, but it's far more friendly than acryl.. it has that buttery smudgy feeling of paint with patience, and gives you good advice back when being applied on the canvas, so to speak
Using 'Reeves water-mixable oil colour' and Winsor Artisan too, which has a bit better quality as expected.
Am looking forward to the experiment tonight.. trying Verve on a dumb (= no processor) Cintiq tonight, and will let you know all about it!
(I am highly critical about tools, so I wonder it it will pass the decency test.. hehe, not going to spend 1400 Euros on a crap tool of course. The Win8 Cintiq is already out of the picture on Taron's recommendations.)
Thanks a lot for all the good advice, dudez!
Muchos appreciated,
and lots of future artwork to come, of course.
I'll check out your artwork too, Knacki.. I see you have some 133 posts here on the forum, ah! a veteran!
greetz,
loki