40+ Tutorials for Working with Wacom Tablets
Wacom tablets allow graphic designers to extend their abilities. If you’re like me and you’re interested in learning more about working with Wacom tablets, there are plenty of tutorials available. This post features more than 40 such tutorials, including a number of video tutorials. Some deal with the basics of Wacom tablets and getting them setup correctly, while others demonstrate more advanced usage. Additionally, some of the tutorials could be completed without a tablet, but the author uses one for at least portions of the tutorial.
Video Series by Richard Bazley:
Richard Bazley has done an excellent five-part series of video tutorials for working with a wacom tablet. The series includes information on absolute positioning, developing your own style, input devices, pressure sensitivity, and tool configurations. All of the videos are short, less than 3 minutes, so you can easily go through the full series consecutively.
Tutorials from Roberto Campus:
Roberto Campus provides a number of useful articles and tutorials for Wacom users.
Choosing the Right Wacom Tablet
If you’re considering purchasing a Wacom, this is a great article to read. Roberto covers a variety of things that you should consider and shares from his extensive experience.
Creating the “Mad Scientist” Trading Card Illustration
Wonder Woman Pin Up Digital Painting
Tutorials from Go Media:
Go Media provides a few helpful video tutorials for working with a Wacom tablet.
Draw an Old-World Style Tattered Scroll from Scratch (video)
Thia is a time lapse video for drawing a old-world scroll. The scroll is drawn in Photoshop and then imported into Illustrator.
Draw a Skull with a Wacom Tablet (video)
This is another time lapse video. Jeff Finley creates a skull in Photoshop by tracing over a photo with his Wacom.
Tutorial from Kevin Hulsey:
Wacom Drawing Tablet Tutorial – Kevin Hulsey
Kevin Hulsey has written a thorough tutorial that is especially useful for those who are new to Wacom tablets. In this article he covers the topics of the tablet-to-screen ratio, tip pressure, pen angle, and macro pen button settings, with lots of screen shots to help you along the way.
Tutorials from EyesOnTutorials:
EyesOnTutorials provides a number of tutorials that involve the use of a Wacom tablet. In most cases these could also be done without the tablet, but the author is using one to create the end result and your work will most likely be easier if you’re also using one.
Character Concept Art Illustration
How to Draw a Cartoon Character
Photoshop Painting and Shape Techniques
Video Tutorials:
There are a variety of video tutorials available for working with Wacom tablets. Video tutorials can be espically helpful if you’re just starting to learn to work with the tablet, since you can get a better sense of how the author is actually using the tablet. Here are some recommended videos.
Working With A Wacom Tablet To Create A Collage In Photoshop CS3
Inking in Illustrator and Painting in Photoshop – Parts 1 and 2
The Basics of Working with Wacom Tablets:
These are great resources for all the basics of using tablets and getting set up properly.
How to Set Up Your Wacom for Awesome Results
How to Use a Wacom Tablet (for Illustrator – pressure sensitivity)
Setting Up a Wacom Tablet for Use with Photoshop CS3 and Painter X
Photoshop Wacom Tips (multiple tutorials)
Wacom Pen Tablets and Photoshop CS4
Painting with a Wacom Tablet in Illustrator
Other Tutorials:
Adobe Illustrator Cartoon Tutorial with a Wacom Tablet
Mascot Design in Real Time Order – The SOSFactory Way
How to Make a Digital Painting
Photoshop Lineart Colouring Tutorial
Digital Coloring Tutorial (See also: part two and part three)
Wonderful list of tutorials for learning and practicing with my Wacom Intuos3 6×11 tablet. Looking forward to learning from them.
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Can I also mention sites like practicing on Ratemydrawings and Sketchplanet?
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Handy tutorial, was given a wacom as a present, so these should be good.
Thanks
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nice!! thx for this!
very good! I felt excited even just reading title and great tutorials, bookmarking :))
Now I just need tuts for tablet PC!thnx
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anyone know when wacom will be coming out with new versions of their products?
I’m not sure Ron.
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It’s hosted on a VPS with WiredTree.
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Not sure quite why you think Richard Bazley videos are so good. They don’t exactly get very technical or interesting. They are not tutorials so much as expositions of various tablet features.
Bruce,
Personally I think that videos like that can be helpful, especially if you’re just getting started with the tablet. At the time I put this list together I had recently bought my first tablet, so those were helpful to me.
Hello, wow, great collection! it is possible to do that with a wacom bamboo? 😛 what a silly question huh?
Diana,
I’ve never used a Bamboo tablet but I think you should be able to do most of the same things.
Amazing photos and amazing product!
Hello, thank you for your reply 🙂 you´re right bamboo tables are good for that too.
Nice list youve got here, be sure to check out the Top 10 Ways to Become a Better Artist
thx for the tutorials! btw does the size of tablet important?owning a wacom bamboo medium, now got an option for me to switch to intous small , what do you thinks?
It’s quiet interesting to see this. Wonderful list of tutorials.. Thanks
This is just I wanted.. perfect perfect.. !!
Me back to my bamboo fun again ! 😛
Very useful, I’ll have to pick up some wacom accessories
I am saving to buy an Intous 4!
This is just I wanted.. perfect perfect.. !!
Me back to my bamboo fun again
This is just I wanted.. perfect perfect.. !!
thats really a amazing product. in our office we use the Wacom Cintiq 21UX for sketching and composing. its wonderfull and we can recommend it very much. the prozess between hand and screen is very sensitive and gives a very fast and perfect feedback of the pencil.
This is just I wanted.. perfect perfect.. !!
Me back to my bamboo fun again
Thank for share these Tutorials.I’m trying to do.
great collection, thanx
Cool Stuff!
We recently purchased a large Wacom Table but have not as of yet done much with it except for some of the examples projects that come with the bundled Coral Paint software.
Thanks
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Tips on setting up your tablett.
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Best regards
Martin
Thank you for this great overview of tutorials.