sabinati wrote:Neruz wrote:You can get Cintiq's you know, they have screens in the tablet.
i have one of those... kind of cool, actually, i did some sketching on it, but kind of got bored with it, and i don't see myself being able to do real photoshop work on it. kind of awkward, i guess.
As with anything, practice is required. I personally don't use Cintiques becaue they're really expensive and i'm already used to using my normal Intuous4 tablet and don't feel like learning how to use a different one.
Seriously, you're never going to find anything that just suddenly makes you an expert, but it is legitimate to say that tablets make drawing digital media in certain styles both faster and easier, and they also grant access to new styles that cannot be achieved with other forms of drawing without extensive work.
Use the tools you feel the most comfortable with, and for spriting you definitely get no advantage using a tablet, since sprites are usually done pixel by pixel.