Filed under: Cartooning

I’ve seen something like this before, but it’s always fun to see.Via LaughingSquid

After reading this review of the Monoprice Tablet Monitor, I’m intrigued as a viable replacement for the Wacom Cintiq. Has anyone used this tablet? Looks like it’s sold out on the store. Wacom has long held the crown as the top maker of graphics tablet hardware, but they have not iterated upon the technology in […]

The New York Times looks at three different drawing apps and how well the work with a stylus. When he introduced the iPhone and iPad, Steven P. Jobs asserted the touch-screen devices didn?t need a stylus because humans come with 10 great touch-screen controllers sticking out of our palms: fingers. He was proved right, and […]

53 – the company that created the Paper app for iPad have now released Pencil – a stylus for their app.Check out this video: Pencil / Think With Your Hands from FiftyThree on Vimeo.I’ve used Paper before, but mostly for sketching. Maybe someone who uses the app in a more serious fashion can tell us […]

Wacom has announced three new products – two of them tablets and the third a iPad stylus. As far as the tablets, there is the Cintiq Companion (starting at $1,999) – a 13 inch fully functional Cintiq tablet running Windows 8, Adobe Photoshop, Corel Painter, etc. The second tablet is the Cintiq Companion hybrid (starting […]

Some months ago I came across the Pogo Connect iPad stylus online. The device boasts that it is a unique pressure sensitive pen for the iPad. Since pressure sensitivity is one of the missing features of drawing on a tablet, I was curious if the pen lived up to its claims. At $79.95, it’s not […]

Adobe announced changes to their upgrade policy stating that only users of the latest version can upgrade to the next release at a discounted price, all other previous versions will need to pay full retail price to get the latest offerings. If you upgrade by the end of this year, you can avoid the full […]

Interesting report from TAUW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) regarding the increase in the number of people shopping this last Black Friday from a mobile device: That usage trend is continuing, based on IBM’s retail analytics report covering Black Friday’s online shopping surge. With online sales on Friday up 20.7% year-over-year, there was a lot of […]

For those of you using Apple’s Mac OS, the newest operating system, Mountain Lion, is publicly available today for download through the App Store for $20. Before you download, Roaring Apps has the intel on which versions of different software are ready for the new OS (version 10.8). A quick summary of the more popular […]

Interesting art by Michael Paulus who sketches the skeletal structure of famous cartoon characters such as Charlie Brown, Lucy, Betty Boop, Fred Flinstone, Hello Kitty, Tweety Bird and many others.Via Florian Satzinger

I noticed a while back a website called “Ban Comic Sans”. The premise is simple enough – mock the font and question it’s very existence. A few comics use the font. Vic Lee’s Pardon My Planet comes to mind.i noticed a new site that celebrates the font. Their motto: WE ARE THE COMIC SANS DEFENDERS. […]

I enjoy drawing on my iPad (ArtRage app), but there are a few quirks about it. This addresses two of them: Line quality and exactness and resting your hand on the screen:Already funded on Kickstarter. Should be available in January.

From the “can I get one now” department comes news that Wacom is introducing a new digital pen called “Inkling” which allows artists the ability to draw on paper while the pen and receiver captures the drawing. The receiver is then hooked up to your computer and you can import the drawing into Photoshop, Illustrator […]

USA Today looks at the success of DeviantArt – a website for artists to post their work and get attraction.LuVisi’s experience isn’t a rarity. Many artists talk of finding work and careers through their exposure on DeviantArt, a site that has been around for 11 years and now attracts more people looking at art daily […]

Interesting rumor from The Mac Observer. Apple may be working on building a set of template tools for iPad-based magazines to include in its Xcode developer tools. Assuming the report is accurate, such a move would give developers a standardized set of tools that could make it easier for creating publications as apps.Also rumored is […]