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Saturday, June 27, 2015

Cintiq

My Cintiq arrived last night! If you don't know what that is, it's a pressure-sensitive pen display. You can draw on it like you would with a stylus on an iPad or something like that, but it only ever detects the pen and not your skin, so it doesn't matter if you rest your arm on it. The pen has buttons on it and there's a little remote with like a dozen buttons that you can configure however you want. Like this:


Here's how it looks all set up:


I've never used a Cintiq or SketchBook (a drawing program) before, so I made this abstract nonsense thing to learn how to work them: