Sorry for the lack of updates as of late everyone! I try to upload at least once a week, but tragically, alas, my wacom tablet pen of 4 years has ended its journey. Poor thing died from overuse. I may be posting some old art, but besides that I should hopefully be getting new equipment with Christmas money once I return home.

Now speaking of wacom, despite loving their products I have a serious problem with the fact they dominate a niche market. Only just in the last years alternatives from china have begun to get competent enough to compete. This means digital artists are finally getting a chance at different product, but the high end just doesn't seem to be there yet.

Wacom seems to fall under the same umbrella as Adobe, where being the only provider means they can essentially charge what the consumer is just barely willing to pay. It's around $100 for a single pen, which hardware wise is essentially a tilt mechanism and cheap pcb attached to a nib in plastic casing. Zero moisture durability, designed to be impossible to sauter back together if a connection comes lose, and the casing can't be opened without cracking it.

I'd love a cintique but the pricepoint is just atrocious! They don't even have the glass fused LCD screens, so it's closer to a laptop LCD screen, so you feel the space between the nib and screen when you draw, unlike ipads. Sorry for teching out, I just wish the technology industry would progress past this being so expensive for the creative industry =3=

I hope you all had a wonderful holiday. Besides this, I sure did

-Slivers