Tablet
So, during my latest bout of technological splurging, I happened across a tablet. Not a tablet PC, mind you - just a straight graphics tablet by Wacom. A Wacom Intuos3 6x8 tablet, to be precise.
Now, unlike so many of my other purchases, this one has value. Value! Seriously, though, as an artist whose primary interest is in digital arts, it's been frustrating to not have a way to transcribe my physical works into a digital medium. Any drawings I wanted to color digitally would have to be inked and scanned, at which point I'd have to fiddle around with the contrast and do some shady business with the magic wand and lasso tools, and then I could finallyget to coloring a rough piece that didn't end up looking so hot. This tablet changes things. I can ink on the computer (still figuring out the best way to do that). I didn't have much luck during a half-hour tryout of Painter, but hopefully we'll be able to change that. All in all, I have big plans for it, so let's see where it goes.
December 7, 2007 12:09 AM