Gone in a Flash

Some of you may remember that I bought a tablet PC a couple years ago in the hopes that I could crank out the comics faster.

Well, the tablet software and Flash just didn't do the trick. It was sluggish at best - and really non conducive to drawing nice non-wobbly/non-pixelated lines.

I think part of the problem was just the specs on the tablet. Regardless, as most of you know, it didn't result in the explosion of comics I had hoped it would. Then I cracked the screen. Then I never used it much again.

Well, for Valentine's Day emily gave me one of those Wacom's that I had mentioned in a previous post. She's something ain't she?

It's fantastic. Good sensitivity, responsive, works with PCs and Macs, which will become important here in a couple weeks.

In case you don't like clicking on links like the one above, here's a picture:


Here's my first attempt at something reasonably reminiscent of my normal comic stuff:


I'm pretty happy with it. The use of a pressure sensitive pen tends to give the character more depth since I can more easily adjust the thickness of the lines. I'm still getting used to it, and I'm not gauranteeing it'll increase comic output, but all in all it's a good step I think.

Oh - did I mention that I drew that in Photoshop, and not Flash?

Times they be a-changin.