Samsung Highlights the Galaxy Note’s Wacom Digitizer

I'm glad to see that we will be able to use Photoshop Touch and possibly other drawing apps on more than just the iPad.

Galaxy Note is the first device that incorporates their pen input experience into a smartphone form factor. Samsung is taking advantage of the tech with modifications to its TouchWiz interface, plus custom note, writing and art apps that allow for true graphics tablet functions on the five-inch device. Imagine using something like Photoshop Touch on that sensitive screen. Samsung’s SDK will allow third-party developers to take advantage of the hardware as well.

via androidcommunity.com

Art Inspiration Wednesday!

My husband is in the hospital with a collapsed lung. He's okay and will hopefully get to go home soon. Needless to say, it has kept me away from working on this site.

Since this has been the third week where I've needed to post "Art Inspiration Tuesday" on Wednesday, I'm officially moving it to Wednesday. Maybe it's a sign. ;-)

I thought it would be fitting to have today's theme inspired by lungs. I tried not to be too literal, but it was hard since it's constantly on my mind.

Photo-realistic pencil drawings bu Paul Lung. I hope you like cats!

Anatomy of a game controller by Madspeitersen.

Eric Zener's Underwater paintings.

Lungs of the City by riddleture.

 

 

Design Inspiration Tuesdays!

This site is focused on Wacom tablets, but as a graphic designer, I'm interested in art as well of course. I'm constantly looking for inspiration online and in life so I thought it would be nice to show art that can be created using Wacom or other tablets. Hopefully you'll be inspired too!

The theme today, which was unintentional, is "romantic"? Er, that's the best I can think of to describe it.

Click on each artist's name to see more of their work.

iolanthe by livingrope 

Italia Ruotolo

Ise Ananphada

Free Digital Drawing & Painting Tutorials

More free digital design, painting and illustrating tutorials.

These aren't based on level of artist so anyone can find something to learn or refresh your memory!

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Computer Arts

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Online Digital Design Tutorials for Beginners

Even though I've been a graphic deisgner and illustrator for quite a while, I still look to free tutorials for inspiration and sometimes for things that I forgot how to do. There are so many different sites and I've spent a lot of time going through them over the years to find the good ones. 
I thought I could save you some time by giving you my list here. For the next week or so, I will be posting different design tutorial sites and demonstration videos.
Here are a few beginner tutorial sites to start you off!

Ctrl+Paint is one of my favorite sites for digital painting tutorials. Includes a well written Digital Painting 101 guide.

veerle-v2.duoh.com - I really like the design of this site. These tutorials are good basics to know. She has an updated version of her site at veerle.duoh.com where the tutorials seem to be a little more intermediate. 

creativepro.com - Another site for mostly novices, but still helpful for intermediate designers too.

Ideabook.com - Offers some free tutorials mostly for newbies.