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Paper, qualities and types, is a rabbit-hole that is very deep. Be warned. A high quality coated paper designed for ink-jet printers would take inks very well to reduce or eliminate the possibility of smearing while still keeping the lines crisp. Uncoated paper would absorb inks very well also, but would tend to bleed at the edges. Heavier paper in general ...

To answer your questions by order I'd say : Keep older drawings Even crappy one can be a source of inspiration one day. Any medium would do the trick. Try many and choose 2 or 3 at the end. Stick with it if you enjoy using them. It can even be computered drawing too. It depends on what you're working on. For example, for webdesign, there are ...

Do whatever removes the obstacles to working. Don't get hung up on the medium (paper vs. pixels) or the size or the permanence. I sketch in small notebooks, in Photoshop, on a wipe-off board, on the back of an envelope if I have nothing else to hand. It's convenient to have it all in one spiral-bound notebook, but don't let the lack of it prevent you from ...

It sounds like the best fit for what you are looking for is the Intuos4 Inking Pen. It is an accessory for Wacom's Intuos4 pressure sensitive tablet. The Intuos4 Large has a writing area about the size of a sheet of paper (which you would place on top when using ink), and with 2048 levels of pressure sensitivity and a resolution of 5080 lines per inch ...

First of all having a tablet for drawing is a step too far for you i guess, i you are used to using it, then its fine but a step backward and using mouse for starters will make you more comfortable on vector drawing. I personally find drawing vectors with mouse more controlled. Main method - not a mistake - with tablet is using it as a brush, think of it as ...

There are good sketching apps for tablets, like Sketchbook and Ideas. Even Wacom has Bamboo Paper for Android and iOS, but there's currently no off-the-shelf way to connect a Wacom tablet directly to a mobile device. Samsung demoed a Wacom pen-enabled Tab at Adobe MAX, and the Samsung Note is already on the market, with the Galaxy Note 10.1 scheduled for ...

Sounds like you're looking for the Wacom Inkling, Wacom Cintiq, or related product. I don't have any experience with these directly, but I believe they will work.

If you're happy with the pens you use and simply want to avoid sweaty-hand related smudging, you might have a use for those 'smudge guard' gloves they make for use with graphics tablets. They're designed to stop hand smudges without getting in the way of using a pen, and I don't see any reason why they wouldn't work as well for real pens as for digital ...

Almost all my web designs start out in Photoshop (think of that as electronic paper), and the rest of them really do begin with pencil on a pad. My initial renderings block out headers and logos menus static content dynamic content database results forms This is done on at least one page of each major section, as well as I usually create a paper site ...

If you really wanted to make a project of it, you could photograph each page and then tag the photos in Bridge or iPhoto. You'd have to number each page and label each sketchbook so you could find it later, but then you'd end up with a search term of, say, "website UI design" and get a result of "Book 6 page 12, Book 6 page 14, Book 3 page 87." It would be ...

Pearsonartphoto is probably right about needing a Cintiq. The pens mostly just record for later import into your actual digital drawing app. I use a Cintiq and it's not perfect, but it's probably as good as you're going to get for looking at your screen while drawing directly on it.

Sort of. Illustrator has a feature called "Live Trace". It works by analyzing the image for blocks of color hues that are similar, and then blending them into shape regions. There are settings that you can play around with to get a smoother/more accurate vector trace, but from my own personal experience, it can be flaky. Try it out though with what you have ...