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Wacom’s Inkling is a digital pen that captures your sketch from paper. Recording your strokes and transferring your sketch digitally for further editing on your computer. The Inkling has a pressure sensitive ballpoint tip and can create layered sketches.
It’s exciting to see new technology unfold, bringing tools that bridge the gap between traditional, freehand sketching and digital input with a mouse or tablet. Both the iPad with its finger-painting and the Inkling give artists the tools to interact more directly with their devices, removing the clunky layer between your hand and your canvas.
A special thank you to my friend, artist Jamie Berry, who brought the Inkling to my attention.
The iPad lets you interact directly with your device with your fingertips, which makes the experience feel uncomplicated, natural and tactile. But some users prefer using a stylus, and some use a mixture depending on the task at hand. So when do you need a stylus and how do you pick one?
My Experience
Touchscreen computing really appeals to me. Finger painting feels very intuitive to me and I prefer to use my fingers to do everything on the iPad, except writing. That’s when I like to use a stylus.
There’s something about the angle you hold a pen that becomes part of your handwriting. The way your writing forms a unit, from one word to another and from one passage to another. It’s different than writing with your fingers when it becomes more about drawing each individual character, like writing in sand, and you don’t get quite the same flow writing with your fingers as you do when you write with a pen.
Choosing a Stylus
Here’s a useful comparison of 12 different styli to help you pick one that suits you. Check out the video and for more depth, the companion article Drawing on the iPad: 12 touchscreen styluses reviewedand see what you think. While I haven’t tried all the styli featured in Macworld’s comparison, I’ll be back with an article on the styli that I find useful for painting and writing.
If you’re interested in learning how to to create an artful, poetic, digital photo collage, you’re in luck! Award winning iPhone photographer Lumilyonhas written the second free tutorial in her amazing series. This time she reveals how she creates her stunning, dreamy digital collages using her iPhone!
In this unique tutorial you’ll learn:
one of Lumilyon’s techniques for creating a collage using an iPhone
how to create an interesting background with just one click of an app
how to extract an element from a photograph and collage it onto another
how to blend two two photographs together by blurring them
You’ll need 3 creative photography apps to follow along in this guide for how to create a digital collage using your iPhone:
Tiny Planets – Stereographic photos on your iPhone (free app!)
Juxtaposer – Fun and Intuitive Photo Compositing App for your iPhone and iPod Touch
PhotoSync is a handy app that makes it easy to wirelessly transfer the photos and videos from your iPhone to your computer as well as to your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch.
A simple way to share photos and videos between iOS devices and computers, this is a gem of a tool for any iPhone photographer.
I’m Kate England, an artist, illustrator and designer. I’m currently editing my contribution to the book Swedish Illustrators to be published 2012.
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