my sister recently gave me a wacom graphire tablet and im somehow not satisfied by its performance. its not that bad though but its not what ive expected. everytime i saw those amazing artworks, i feel im lacking something. ofcourse besides their perfected skills and vast experience on digital rendering, they also have wacom tablets (which i dont have) i browsed wacom.com and asked my sister if she could buy one for me. when it arrived here, i immediately installed it to see what it does & as ive said, its not what ive expected. then i noticed that wacom offers diffrent variety of tablets. theres intuos, centiq and graphire w/c i have right now. (darn im so excited before when i browsed wacom.com. im focused on graphire and did not pay much attention to intuos) now ive read some interviews and homepage of some proffesional artists and guess what..most of them are using intuos3 not the graphire.. also,i saw a couple of pens on their intuos section. graphire offers only a single pen and one wireless mouse. ofcourse each pen has its own specialty right?? bottomline is, if you have the extra bucks, go for intuos3 not the graphire. for me graphire is for noobz and intuos is for intermidiate to expert levels just wanna share to you guys one of my drawings :lol: well, compared to other artists, i know i have a long way to go. ill find ways to improve my skills. i did not use wacom tablet on this one fyi ~ciao!