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Thursday May 11, 2006
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The Cintiq 21UX connected to my notebook. 
The pressure-sensitive, cordless pen has 1024 levels of pressure sensitivity and tilt sensitivity. 
The preference dialog boxes for both the Cintiq 21UX (above) and for Corel Painter IX.5 (below) were very easy to use. 
In the top two screens, I'm drawing value scales (from light to dark) and calligraphic lines (thick and thin). In the bottom screen, the airbrush tool in Corel Painter IX.5 helps show how you can tilt the Wacom pen and simulate the effect of scattering paint, as you would do with a real airbrush. 
When using a graphics program like Corel Painter IX.5, the Cintiq 21UX makes it easy to clone photographs using various tools, including an airbrush (top right), a bristle brush (bottom left) and a mosaic tool (bottom right). 
Of course, it'll be interesting to see what the next generation of artists will do with a device like the Cintiq 21UX.
Posted By:
Terry Sullivan
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May 11, 2006 1:48 PM
This could very well be a graphic designer's best friend. It's expensive as all get out, but I don't think the target audience is the causal designer at home, or someone who just wants to play with it-alternatively I could see designers armed in studios with these to do serious work. I wonder if we'll see studios adopting them for use by their design teams; considering your experience, they seem like they're pretty easy to use if you've used a tablet before, and that using them is pretty immersiv and engaging in its own right. Wacom has also always done wonders with the stylus, so the flexibility of use that it offers doesn't surprise me one bit.
May 12, 2006 3:38 PM
I think that digital art and computer art is the new and next wave of the future and it is already here, I am using a wacom graphire 2 and I have so much fun drawing and painting in to my mac using photoshop and painter that came with it, it is so easy to sketch with a graphics tablet once i know how to draw with a pencil I have now problems doing the samething digitaly and that I have endless of creativity, I think that current art schools should start teaching digital art on the graphics tablet more rather than doing it the old fashion way, I can do way with my acrylics and everything else and embracing the digital art.