Customer Reviews

Wacom Cintiq 6D Art Pen - digitizer pen ( ZP-600 )

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

The entire concept of the Wacom drawing tablets has been to get the process of creating art on the computer as close as possible to traditional methods and tools. Well a mouse is all but useless, but the pressure sensitive tablets like the Wacoms makes the art of drawing on a computer a reality. If you are lucky to have one of the Wacom Cintiq LCD tablet displays you are as close to the real thing as it gets.

The Wacom 6D pen does only one thing different then the standard pens that come with your tablet and that is it senses Rotation. To anyone who has done traditional art using a flat paint brush or a flat piece of charcoal its such a natural thing to rotate the tools in your fingers to vary the thickness of the stroke. If that sort of control is what you miss then this pen is for you. With some software the 6D pen can be set-up to mimic this same quality. I says some software because not all support this feature, in fact I have found that Corel Painter is the only one that does it in a meaningful and useful way, and even then you will need to do some tweaking of settings in Painter to get it to your likeing. Photoshop does support rotation but I can't seem to get it to react in a way that feels natural to me no matter how I set it.

My only gripe I have with the pen is it's a little on the thick side and I don't like the angled nibs and would prefer a straight nib option. The 6D pen does seem to be made more for the LCD tablets due to the fact you can see the angle of the pen in your hand as you draw, but it will work in any of the Intuos3 Wacoms. The felt tip nibs do have the feel of a marker

UPDATE: The Intous 3 (the generation of Wacom that this pen is for) is no longer the latest technology. However, it is still a fantastic tool that I use every time I'm in my studio. That said, I almost never use this particular pen anymore. It was very novel, but I just normally reach for the regular Intous 3 stylus.
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If you don't already own the regular Intuos 3 stylus, get it first. This adds lots of functionality, but it isn't the primary Wacom tool. That said, I've really been having a great time with this. Like anything involving a pen tablet there is a learning curve, but after you get it, its golden. Be warned, that although there is much added functionality with this pen it doesn't get the feel of a real marker (which is kind of what I was looking for with this). With practice and tweaking brush options in photoshop, Illustrator, and especially in Corel Painter you can come really close.

My other complaint is the lack of buttons that come on the regular Intuos 3 stylus. Some people don't like the buttons anyway, so you may not mind. Over all, it is a big step in the right direction, but needs a few more tweaks to get it all the way there. In the mean time I applaud Wacom for this, because they are as of yet the only company to come out with anything like it at all.

I bought this pen to use when painting in Corel Painter X. As others have said not all of the brushes make use of the "rotational" feature that this pen provides but it's really nice to use it with the ones that do.
In addition to the rotational aspect, what I find really cool is that you can switch off between this and your other wacom pen and Painter remembers what paintbrush was last used with that pen so if you're switching between two brushes frequently, it's just a matter of putting down one pen and picking up another.
Kind of expensive and I waited awhile to indulge myself but I'm happy to have it.
Though I'm also a frequent Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop user, I haven't tried it yet with those but my regular pen works fine there so I don't really care. Like I said, I bought this for Painter.

I have used Wacom tablets for several years and love them. When the 6D Art Pen came available, I had to get it for my digital painting. Overall it's a great stylus and is more fluid then the Grip Pen stylus for digital painting.

The only real complaint I have is that the base to hold the stylus is the same as the Grip Pen. The problem lies with the fact that the 6D Art Pen is much wider and does not fit snug in the base, so it falls right over. It is annoying, but a minor complaint.

This is a good pen. It's lighter than the Grip pen. I didn't like that it doesn't have buttons like the other pens, which make it easier to change the "brushes" or their size, or use them just like a mouse. Its functions are great. It does everything it promises. It is a nice pen to work with, but I'm giving it a 3 star rating because it looks and feels very cheap. I think it is too expensive for something that looks and feels like a toy bought in a dollar store.

I purchased this item because I heard of its abilities to react like a real paining brush and so far am completely delighted with the product.

I've just bought a Wacom Intuos table and decided to get some accesories to work on different things, so I bought this pen thinking it would be really helpful for a non-experienced tablet artist.

Personally I think that it is a great accesory but if you are not experienced enough using tablets, pens, etc, it may not be your best shot. Anyway, once you start using it and speding some time using it and trying it in different ways, you will notice how good it is.

This 'pen' is a BRUSH. Misleading to call it a 'pen' (the standard notation for this kind of device). If you have only 1 brush, have this one.

I am too locked into oil to allow myself the mental latitude to let one 'pen' be all my brushes. This does that.

I would like to pick up different (physical) brushes set to be different virtual brushes, so if somebody would make a SET of brushes (all preset to type) then I'll give the fifth star. Nobody comes close, right now.

Very nice and if you have the Cintiq, how can you not have this?

been using this pen for about 8 weeks now and it's been an outstanding edition to my digital arsenal. The only thing i dont like is the shape of the handle. It's thin and tall like the nib. If it were round it would feel better in the hand and let you manipulate line a bit easier. This is a minimal complaint tho. I use this pen much more often than the standard wacom pen.

This digital brush gets automatically identified by Painter 11. It really behaves the way it claims and the software assigns a set of brushes that are rotation aware. This preset brushes are not that many. I probably need to learn how to make my own brushes rotation aware. I have 2 more wacom pens including an airbrush. The only issue I see with the sofware itself is that the calibration for one pen propagates to the rest of the pens. Since this 6D Art Pen Digitizer has a wider tip, I wish I could set up an independent calibration at least for this particular pen.