
The Wacom Intuos4 is a killer graphics tablet and highly recommended if you work with graphics software.
For this review I am referring to the Wacom Intuos4 Medium Pen Tablet, however there are also the Large and Small models available. Each have similar tech specs, and I will discuss why I chose the Medium version in the review.
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Published on
February 18, 2010 in
cartooning.
Tags: alien, art, cartoon, cartoon character, cartoon character design, cartooning, CS4, drawing, Illustration, Photoshop, robot, sketch, sphinx, Wacom.
Working color sketch for a personal series of bizarre creatures I work on from time to time.
Wanted to get some of these fleshed out. Scanned the original into Photoshop and cleaned up and did the coloring in Photoshop CS4 using a Wacom Untus4 medium graphics tablet.
this will need some further refinements to the overall drawing – not happy with the uraeus snake on the top (looks like a question mark!) and the tail needs some reworking.
Just wanted to share the progress at this stage.
Published on
February 11, 2010 in
cartooning.
Tags: Adobe, Adobe Photoshop, art, cartoon, cartoon character, cartoon character design, cartooning, CS4, drawing, Illustration, Photoshop, sketch, software, Wacom.

Just quick post to show the “blue goon” drawing I did for tonight’s artcast.
Unfortunately I forgot to hit “Record” for the show, so it was a live event only. Next time!
The “blue goon” character was created in Adobe Photoshop CS4 with a Wacom Intuos4 graphics tablet and some store-brand Sudafed to ease my cold & sinus symptoms.
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Working color vector art for a mascot character project. The ogre will be used as a mascot for a video game portal website. We needed a prop and I suggested a video game controller, the client wanted to go with an old-school Atari 2600 controller, which I think looks great. it’s such an iconic design it really reads well, which is important for smaller sizes.
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I don’t own a Wacom Cintiq graphics tablet, but I have heard quite a bit of grumbling from Cintiq owners about the way the cursor is displayed: I guess it’s offset a bit with the idea that your hand would obscure the cursor so Wacom has offset it a bit, which takes some getting used to.
But those Cintiq users are in luck: there’s a utility out there that might just ease your pain.
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