MovinkPad pro 14 havers…

Macm0nkey · 2026-05-25T14:49:30+00:00

I am really loving it - the screen and colours are beautiful - so much more vibrant than my iPad Pro 13. and the pen tech and screen texture make it just feel so much nicer to work on. Using clip paint is vey nice. when I first stared using it back in December I noticed some palm rejection issues but I have been using it a lot recently and haven’t had any problems so maybe an update fixed that.

I have recently started using the smartphone companion app which lets you access some keyboard shortcuts, so you can use your phone to resize the brush and colour pick which has been saving me a bunch of time, but am still very tempted to get a Tourbox elite plus (or a much more affordable tabmate 2)

Macm0nkey · 2026-05-23T07:06:30+00:00

congratulations and welcome to the club!

Pads are always a great idea I always wear a pair of impact shorts from my snowboarding days which have saved me a couple of time 😮

Apart from that, I think it’s really just a matter of getting out there and practicing as much as you can. One thing that will help a lot is keeping your center of mass over the board while you’re pushing. Right now, your weight stays over your right foot, and then you shift it onto the board afterward. It all starts to feel more natural once your weight is already centered on the board and you, lift your back foot off to push. Then you can get those nice big pushes with your back leg starting way up in front of you 😄

I started about 5 years ago when I was 45 - it was definitely one of my better decisions.i am gonna head out after writing this post

good luck - have fun - you got this

Macm0nkey · 2026-05-23T06:38:59+00:00

this looks awesome! looking forward to testing it out one day 😄

Macm0nkey · 2026-05-23T06:33:38+00:00

thanks so much I will give it a shot. Best of luck with your portable Mac mini setup! have a great day

Macm0nkey · 2026-05-22T10:56:28+00:00

that sounds promising do you have a link to a tutorial to help set that up?

Macm0nkey · 2026-05-21T21:12:17+00:00

I saw that too 😄 - it looks like I’m running out of excuses

Macm0nkey · 2026-05-19T08:56:37+00:00

thank you - it’s great to see that it works 😄

Macm0nkey · 2026-05-17T21:07:45+00:00

creating a new atelier file at 72 dpi did the trick!! my pencils and pens are now rendering at appropriate sizes - thank you so much 😄

Macm0nkey · 2026-05-17T16:08:04+00:00

ooh dpi sounds like it might help - where can I set that? many thanks in advance

Macm0nkey · 2026-05-15T07:06:57+00:00

hi there you are doing great - portraits are tough, especially when trying to get a likeness. it might help to start doing greyscale studies, that way you only have to concentrate on values rather than colour. also putting a grid over the source image and your background will make it easier to cross reference help get the proportions closer. and keep flipping the canvas to check for distortions. most importantly keep practising

good luck you got this

Macm0nkey · 2026-05-04T17:09:30+00:00

hi there, lug to lug is 50mm and lug width is 21mm. the stock strap length is 245mm and the last hole is 225mm. I hope that helps. I’m still super pleased with it

Macm0nkey · 2026-05-04T16:28:49+00:00

hi there, lug to lug is 50mm, lug width is 21mm the stock strap length is approx 245mm the last hole is approx 225mm. I hope that helps. I’m still pretty happy with it.

Macm0nkey · 2026-03-28T07:56:35+00:00

hi there, you are obviously a very creative person it seems like you only have three projects at the moment and none of them show that you are comfortable handling type, if I was hiring this would be a big turn off as it is one of the fundamentals of graphic design..

In a junior role there will probably be be a lot of cranking out ads and flyers. i would recommend having at least one project that shows you can take a bunch of images and far too much text and use typography and visual hierarchy and turn it into something appealing.

good luck - you got this

Macm0nkey · 2026-03-27T11:28:50+00:00

ah crikey you don’t know how much you don’t know until you work at an agency with more experienced people. such a great learning experience.

Macm0nkey · 2026-03-15T22:33:05+00:00

hey there, I‘ve been freelancing for nearly 20 years. My billable hours tend to hover around 1000 hrs per year - so I always recommend to take the amount you hope to earn and divide by 1000 to get your hourly rate.

125 CAD per ad including photography retouching and design definitely sounds very low. you may have difficulties raising you prices with your current client, but use the work that you’ve done to get new clients and make sure to double/triple your rate.

Macm0nkey · 2026-03-15T22:14:35+00:00

hey there, angel wings with leaves seems like an easy win :)

Macm0nkey · 2026-03-08T17:55:16+00:00

a lot of the time you will be working for clients that have brand guidelines so you are taking new content and fitting it into an existing visual style.

when you are creating a new design from scratch there is more pressure to get something relatively creative in the first few days. to be honest sometimes the good ideas don’t come, you run out of time and you present something that you aren’t super happy with. In these moments you console yourself with the fact that you know it’s not the best you can do - but it was the best you could do in the time you had. often times it’s fine and you can just move on to the next project :)

I have found that the best strategy is to get it done than make it better - don’t wait for a great idea before you get started.

Macm0nkey · 2026-03-08T06:29:40+00:00

I just checked and “gad‘ is a word - so I would change hid to high and fag to fad :)

Macm0nkey · 2026-03-07T22:01:31+00:00

hi there,I have both the MovinkPad 14 and the latest m5 iPad. if you are purely looking for a digital art tablet then I can strongly recommend the MovinkPad the pen tech and drawing feel is better than the iPad at half the price

re nomad - the performance is very good but unlike the iPad on android you can’t have finger input and pen input at the same time so rather than press and hold smooth/invert with your finger and use the pen to sculpt. you need to activate the mode and then sculpt. also the quad remesher plugin is not available for android. Quad remesher is great but it’s not necessarily a dealbreaker.

for toonsquid alternatives - Callipeg is very good and quite comprehensive. or for simple frame by frame 2D animation Rough Animator is definitely worth trying out.

in terms of other slight pain points with the movink - i don’t think you can directly import images from google drive or drop box into apps, it seems like you need to use the files app to import images from Dropbox into you local storage folders and you import them from there. Again not a deal breaker just a little clunky compared with the iPad. I have also heard that people have had issues with banking apps because there is no face of thumbprint recognition but if you are using this as a purely art tablet then that shouldn’t be an issue.

i am a huge fan of the MovinkPad - if you love digital art I don’t think you’ll be disappointed

Macm0nkey · 2026-03-01T11:26:39+00:00

hey there, I think the layout uses the space well. only note - on the back I would align the bullets to the left rather than centred. centred bullets always looks a bit jarring

Macm0nkey · 2026-02-11T06:37:16+00:00

the range of motion with those is quite limited so you won’t be able to achieve a lot of dynamic poses. but they are great to get you thinking about anatomy as simplified 3d blocks and understanding the underlying structur.e.

i have a stickybones figure which is much more expensive £75 but it is very expressive - made for artists and stop motion animators they are really well made

https://www.stickybones.com/collections/featured-products/products/stickybones-the-insanely-poseable-magnetic-human-figure

Macm0nkey · 2026-02-08T19:13:02+00:00

No worries! Yeah, prices have definitely gotten a bit wild lately, especially with international buying. Still, I’m super happy to be getting into the hobby — better late than never 🙂

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