Wacom Cintiq 24HD Receives iWard!

Congratulations to Wacom for being chosen for a MacDirectory iWard! MacDirectory gives out annual awards to the best tech products. In their words, "Products awarded for value and excellence" and Wacom was included in this year's list!

Specifically the Wacom Cintiq 24HD. MacDirectory praises the Cintiq for it's large, 24 inch widescreen display which is the largest Wacom screen so far. They also commend the high quality of the screen and the overall stunning look of the whole package.

Click here to read my full review of the Cintiq 24HD.

 

 

Art Inspiration

Sometimes artists get stuck and need a little inspiration. If you are stumped about what to create with your Wacom tablet, you can look at these typography examples. I'm a big fan of typography as art. When it is done really well, it looks clean and simple, but makes a strong impact.

Ji Lee, an artist at Google Creative Lab, decided to challenge himself by using the letters of words to describe the word.

For example, the word condom is spelled in a bold font with the "c" extended around the "ondom" to represent a simplistic and classy condom. Another word is "exit" where the X appears to be running towards an I that is made to look like a door. Both get the words meaing across so cleverly. Brilliant! 

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Perks to Wacom Bamboo With Anime Studio 8 Upgrade

Wacom and Smith Micro have formed a partnership. In doing so, upgrading Anime Studio 8.1 will allow artists to use finger gestures on the Wacom Bamboo multi-touch tablets. The update also contains 30 new features and performance upgrades.

Multi-touch allows animators, graphic designers and digital artists to be more efficient and save design time. You can use more than one finger at once which saves time performing ordinary commands. By making the process more user friendly, digital artists can use finger taps and gestures to design, create, adjust scenes and objects as well as zoom, drag and drop, scale and rotate designs.

Anime Studio Pro is retailing at $199.99 and Anime Studio Debut is $49.99. Currently, Debut is selling for $34.99 and Pro is priced at $139.99 on Amazon.

If you don't own a Wacom Bamboo tablet, you can read more on my Wacom review site!

Art Inspiration!

I think I'm better off not assigning a day to be "Art Inspiration" day. I seemed to have missed last week and the week before was on Friday. So, from now on, I'm not sticking to a specific day even though it will most likely always be Monday. 

Here are some examples of art that can only be created by getting out of the house (and if you have snow)! This kind of thing reminds me that I should occassionally step away from my Wacom tablet and computer and be creative outdoors!

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First two images are of snow drawings by Sonja Hinrichsen. Last three 3d-looking pieces were made by Simon Beck.

More information about the artists:

Simon Beck

Sonja Hinrichsen