From cave paintings to cartoons, artists have always looked for new and better ways to translate images from their minds to their medium.
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The latest and most innovative tool in recent years is the Wacom tablet.
The Wacom tablet allows one to draw directly onto the computer, complete with pressure sensitivity that mimicks the human hand.
My brother Bill, also a cartoonist, swears by his desk model intuos 3 which comes in several shapes and sizes.
Personally, I use the Wacom cintiq for my work.
It's a much more expensive model because it allows you to draw directly onscreen, as opposed to the intuos 3 which is a desktop writing pad that transfers the images to your computer monitor.
Here's a pic of me at work.
Frankly, the intuos 3 is a much wiser purchase than the Cintiq.
For one thing, it is SO much cheaper, and once your brain gets used to drawing in one place while looking at another (short learning curve), it's pretty much the same thing.
In fact, even though I work on the Wacom screen, I find myself looking at my computer monitor most of the time because the screen resolution is sharper.
By the way, I don't draw on the Wacom. Nothing can replace pen and ink for that personal touch. Instead, I use it for coloring as well as editing and cleaning my cartoons.
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