My Favorite Christmas Gift
Dave got me a pen tablet for Christmas, something I have been wanting for years. Before now it’s been too expensive to buy without really needing it, but luckily Wacom had come out with a more affordable version.
What is a pen tablet, you ask? If some of you are around my age, you may remember the Koala pad, which was used for computers a couple of decades ago. Instead of a mouse, you had a pen and a pressure sensitive pad. This made it a lot easier to draw and maneuver around. Nowadays, computer graphic artists (and many comic book artists) prefer using graphics pen tablets because of that more precise level of control.
I’ve always wanted one, not because I needed it, but because I wanted to play around with it. And now I have one! One day, when I’ve got the time, I’ll draw you all some really amazing stuff. Well, it probably won’t be amazing, but it will be interesting.
So now it’s time to work, but before I go, I’ll leave you with a little handwritten message - looks a little weird because i had to resize it:
cool!!! i wanna play!!! gimme!!! =)
i was thinking of getting that USB pen thing that transfers your handwriting to your computer… i can’t remember the name of it, but the commercial was always on TV.
now i remember: http://www.flyworld.com/
i take that back… i just read the review on O-Gizmo, and the Fly Fusion Pentop Computer has a lot of features, but i think this one would be better: http://www.livescribe.com/index.html
it’s not out yet, but i’ll be keeping an eye out… i still write a lot (notes and stuff for work) as it’s still faster than typing for me, in some cases. my cursive is fugly, but i can still print rather well.