QUESTION:
Is it possible to obtain a drawing tablet which can be taken out, away from the computer and be used like a sketch-book when out and about?? Then, after coming home with this drawing tablet, connect it into the computer and upload all the sketches you've done when out?
I presently use a Wacom Bamboo which connects into my laptop, but I sometimes would like to just take the 'Bamboo' out - draw on it like an electronic sketchbook - come home and put all my sketches into the computer for further work.
Don Mann said: QUESTION: Is it possible to obtain a drawing tablet which can be taken out, away from the computer and be used like a sketch-book when out and about?? Then, after coming home with this drawing tablet, connect it into the computer and upload all the sketches you've done when out? I presently use a Wacom Bamboo which connects into my laptop, but I sometimes would like to just take the 'Bamboo' out - draw on it like an electronic sketchbook - come home and put all my sketches into the computer for further work.
Hello,
http://inkling.wacom.eu/pages/Inkling-en.html
Its not at all from Apple USA, its from Wacom, Japan, and thank GOD for Wacom!
You attach the tiny black box lke a clip on to the sketchbook of your choice, and draw with the inkling pen. And when back infront of your computer you hook it up and transfer the drawings to your computer. In your computer you use a software from Wacom, save to PSD or AI or something like that, and then if you choosed PSD, then start Photo-Paint and open the PSD in Photo-Paint. Or CorelDRAW if you choosed AI.
At the same time you still have your hand drawn picture in your sketchbook. Nifty isnt it!
You will have to keep on buying refills to the actual pen, but thats a minor thing I guess. DOnt know the price of the refills. Buy either in your favorite art supplie store or on Wacom Europes own online store. BUY from here http://eu.shop.wacom.eu/Products/Inkling
Here is a picture I found, and more on google images
Thank you Stefan,
What you have suggested here (Inkling) certainly does look "nifty".
It looks to me as though the pen itself remembers the picture you've drawn, which seems quite dandy to me, especially as you still have the original sketch to hand.
I shall look into it and see what's available - and of course the price!!
Cheerio,
Don Mann
If you are only doing "basic sketches" as such then a really cheap alternative would be a digital notepad. I bought one a year ago for literally taking notes...but it doubles as a graphics tablet (it is not pressure sensitive at that price, of course). You can take it anywhere and it comes in a nice zip up briefcase and you actually sketch on paper with the provided pen. When you plug it into your laptop the sketch is immediately available as an image file and if you have any handwriting...that can be dragged into a window which converts it to text to use in MS Word, WordPerfect, CorelDraw, etc. You remove the refill and insert a stylus if you want to draw directly onto the digital tablet (as a graphics tablet) when plugged into your computer.
The digital notepad sits beneath your paper notepad (just a normal pad). It acts as a clipboard for your paper and stores spare refills and stylus nibs. The digital pad has built in memory and you can insert an SD card, which then holds thousands of sketches. There is a small LCD to tell you which page you are on and to add new pages, etc.
Here is a link to where I bought mine over here in Australia: digital notepad
Brian said: The digital notepad sits beneath your paper notepad (just a normal pad). It acts as a clipboard for your paper and stores spare refills and stylus nibs. The digital pad has built in memory and you can insert an SD card, which then holds thousands of sketches. There is a small LCD to tell you which page you are on and to add new pages, etc. Here is a link to where I bought mine over here in Australia: digital notepad
Had no theard of that particular manifacturer, but its slighly larger in size on all four sides than of a A4 paper. Personally if not using a Inkling, then I would go for the wacom bambo or Intuos, smaller sizes and put them into the backpack. I have a Wacom intuos 3, A6 specifiacally for that reason. Smaller than my laptop, USB cable and full pressure sensitive. High quality stuff.
Inkling adds something neither Intuos, Bamboo or Aiptek adds. For sure.
Maybe I should by myself an inkling for the joy of it.
Then of course if you have a IPAD, maybe works with other manufacturers "Pads", then you could buy a Wacom Stylus Pen. But the more I think about it, if you like Don already have a quality product like consumer product line Wacom Bamboo, then in my view there is only two ways to go ;-) Upgrade the Wacom to a Wacom Intuos 5, or and a INKLING.
Inkling still sounds like the thing Don is looking for. An Aiptek or another Wacom tablet only adds what Don already has. Wacom Bamboo is a very good product already.