Last month I got a new gadget that I am extremely excited about. I’m not a huge gadget person, but this one has already paid for itself in terms of increased productivity. What is this amazing new gadget, you ask? It is none other than a Wacom tablet, the savior of illustrators and designers everywhere! Essentially, it’s a drawing surface that allows you to draw directly on your computer screen. It’s pressure sensitive, and you can draw just like you’re drawing in your sketchbook. It effectively cuts out the process of having to scan and illustration into the computer and clean it up for use in design projects. It’s an amazing timesaver, and I can’t believe that I didn’t invest in one sooner in my design career. I’m not really exaggerating when I say that it has changed my life as an illustrator.
Here it is–the new love of my life (sorry, Ben). She’s pretty, right?
Okay, enough raving.
When I bought the Wacom tablet, it didn’t come with any sort of a protective case. I expect that I might want to take it with me on occasion when I’m working remotely, in addition to the fact that it should probably be protected when stored at home, so I decided that I’d make a fabric case for it this month. Plus, I didn’t have a whole lot of extra time this month to sew due to the fact that I had a draft of a big report due just before Thanksgiving, along with obligations related to Greenbuild, the U.S. Green Building Council’s annual conference, for which I was on the host committee here in Philadelphia. (You might remember that I was involved in building the Legacy Project for the conference, which I wrote about a couple months ago on this very blog.) Oh yeah, and somewhere in there, I was working on a cover story about electric cars for a forthcoming issue of Grid Magazine. You get the point–it was a busy month with little time for sewing.
