I am working in parallel on two illustrated stories. I stopped to reflect on my design platform. I use a Lenovo Yoga 520 notebook with active pen (Active Pen). It uses an AAAA battery. Its duration can reach one year. In my case, as I use it for about eight hours a day, consumption ended in seven months. They are hard to find. I bought ten batteries from São Paulo from a seller linked to Magazine Luíza. I noticed delays in the lines and jagged lines when drawing inclined. My Yoga has an I 5 processor with its own integrated graphics card HD 620, 8 GB of Ram and 1 TB of HD. I use Illustrator to draw. Often, when I turn the screen to use tablet mode, this software activates the hand function and does not switch to other functions such as the pen. The housing is made of carbon fiber, so it is very fragile. A small piece, a corner, came out of the base of Yoga. When Lenovo launched this 2 in 1, it thought of versatility for reading, annotations, signatures, presentations and low-demand graphics. You cannot have more than one Adobe software open at the same time and operating. You cannot also have a large number of clipboards saved in Illustrator, as it can crash when you are saving or switching functions, which raises the risk of wasting time, since recovery is turned off for complex files. If there are a lot of artboards, if I save a drawing, I must wait for this function to be completely executed so as not to crash the software.
I've never had experience with a tablet. I only saw them on the internet. I found the screen ones interesting. They are very expensive. Until two years ago I drew on another notebook with the touchpad. I don't have good motor coordination, so the drawings come out distorted or with the central point of the highest perspective. He made the sketches on paper and scanned them. However, I canceled the Star Mission comic book that I was going to draw at that time. Graphic technology made my life easier. I still have software that I used between 2011 and 2016 like the Gimp I like. Illustrator has few effects for drawings, so I use this one to, for example, create clouds from fractals or underexposure. I have to learn to work with Photoshop. It has more functions than Illustrator, however it handles well with open source programs as well. Returning to the question of 2 in 1 notebook and graphics tablet, the question remains which generates the greatest efficiency and flexibility for work.
