Fooling around with my small (4 x 5) tablet verse my larger (6 x 8) tablet sketched in Painter. It works just as well (both Intuos 3). I like the bigger tablet better. It provides me with a greater range of physical (hand and wrist) motion, expression and sense of freedom when illustrating. Wish I could have gone with the 9 x 12, 12 x 12 though. Ah, maybe some day.