So, my tablet broke…
Halfway through my last contract, with two commissions pending, my wacom tablet broke. This left me without the ability to work digitally larger than 1024 px on my iPad. I maintain that this has been great for my sketching, and my Tumblr has been filling up with cool doodles, but not being able to make something print-worthy compelled me to cut my commissions short.
I should say: It’s not a terrible wacom tablet, it’s a very very old wacom tablet, and it lived a grand long life full of art and adventure.
After my mourning period was over, I got bored. So I got a bunch of canvas and black paint and went to town.
Really, really went to town.
I find line work and cross hatching nearly inescapable in any medium, and I have discovered that I cannot let the black paint be after I put it down with the brush. It may be the iPad’s influence, but I keep unconsciously getting into the paint with my fingers. The texture of the canvas tickles the tips, and then I rub my fingers together to ball up the acrylic paint, which covers my hands. I look constantly as though I was attacked by a squid.
You are so amazing, how much does a wacom that big cost ?
It’s not the size that matters (teehee), they recently did a big drop in price on their top end tablets and there is always the wonderful modbook tablet, both would work well for print work. The iPad has completely spoiled me for intuos tablets (the kind where you work on the tablet but look at the monitor), I have an itch to work right on the screen so it’s cintiq or modbook or nothing for now, and totally worth the wait. We’ll see how it shakes out in a month or two! In the meantime I am accumulating canvases and I have a date with a very nice camera later this week for taking shots for etsy / prints.