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Wednesday, December 4, 2019

New Art Tablet on the Way!

I've always been an arty/crafty person, but I'm not an artist.  I love art, and I've dabbled here and there, but never took classes or anything (beyond a 6 week intro to watercolors, about 20 years ago, lol).

I've been wanting to give digital art a try, but the price was out of my reach.  Until 2 days ago, when I saw a drawing tablet on sale on ebay at a drastically reduced price because it's used.  It's called a Huion Kamvas GT 156 HD Drawing Tablet Monitor, which is a mouthful, lol.  It has a 15.6 inch work area, and the overall unit is 16 inches, so nice and big for my poor eyes, lol.
Here's a photo from the seller:

So, I'm super excited, but because the company is Chinese, I figured I'd have to wait a month or more for it to arrive. Then yesterday the sent a notice saying it had been shipped and I discovered they were shipping it from Quebec.  I kept clicking on the link like a maniac yesterday to see where it was, and it had made it to Montreal Quebec before I went to bed last night.

Then this morning I clicked on it and it had made it to Sudbury, ON.  Woohoo; that's only a 4 hour drive from here!  Of course, they'll have to sort it in Sudbury and put it on a truck to the Sault, the small northern Ontario community where I live, but it should be here tomorrow.

I feel like a kid waiting for Christmas morning, lol.  I hope it will work ok, since it's not new.  The seller is actually the company that makes the unit, so it's probably a return.  The seller said it's 90% new, works well, and just has a few scratches and the box has been opened.  I hope the scratches are not on the screen, and are just on the outer portion. I only paid 234 Canadian and these sell for more than double that brand new, which is not something I could justify paying since I'm not an artist.

I'm so excited, lol. Off to watch more YouTube videos on how to use the free art software programs I downloaded.

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