Digital Painting

For Christmas I received a Wacom Bamboo tablet.  Terrible logo, but really awesome products.  The bamboo allows to you draw with a  pen on a tablet - simulating on the screen what you’re writing with your hand.  It sounds pretty simple, but where it gets interesting is in its pressure sensors.  When you press harder, it acts as it would if you pressed harder with your pencil or brush.  The value is darker, the stroke wider.  The result is pretty incredible - the drawing on the right is one of my first attempts. Im only beginning to explore the possibilities of integrating this amazing tool into design.

Oh, and it makes it wayyy too easy to play Draw My Thing.

Watch this video by Kyle Lambert

Or peruse these 50 Amazing Digital Painting Portraits compiled by Abduzeedo.

Do you have a Bamboo?  How has it changed the way that you design?