Recently I discovered that painting some curves could be much easier when the pen has rotation sensitivity.

I'm using an Intuos 3, and I like the standard Grip Pen, but it has no rotation sensitivity, meaning the photoshop won't understand what to do if rou rotate the brush.

Now I went to the Wacom store to see what it there and saw the Art Marker. Well basically it seems this pen isn't aimed for digital painting, more for designing, but it has rotation sensitivity.

Now as the pen is expensive, I don't like to buy the cat in the sac (as the Germans say ;)). Has someone tried the Art Marker? How does the rotation sensitivy works? Meaning will the brush rotate as you rotate the Art Marker? On the Wacom homepage it does only say that you can vary the width of the tip by rotating. Well this is a nice feature but nothing I've missed about yet.

I've included a picture (sorry for poor quality) what I mean with rotation myself. Left the dots will simulate a certain brush and I want to know if you could achieve a result in the right by rotating the pen.

If there is a tool (except the angle jitter that is hard to control) or a method this could be achieved with the standard grip pen too, then I'd be thankful for teaching me ;)

Thank you for your advice

Above effect can be achieved by setting brush angle to stroke direction. (I guess that's angle jitter though.) But it's a little bit easier to control starting out if you move the cursor in the intended starting direction a little bit before applying pressure to follow through with the curve. That method works with my low end Graphire 3, so it should work ok with an Intuos and a standard grip pen.

Might be worth getting a pen with rotation sensitivity for doing other things though. Depends on how much line expression is used in your drawing, pressure for expressing line weight isn't everything. I bet it would be a neat feature to expore with the calligraphic style photoshop brushes.

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Thank you so much. I'll try it.

What a pity that I don't have someone around with an Art Marker. It's just more satisfactory having tried such a product before buying it.