Fall break turned into Christmas with the arrival of my new toy: an 8×6 graphics drawing tablet. It’s not got a display of its own, but it hooks up to my computer by USB where I can use it on the GIMP. I’ve already done some stuff with it, but I’m hoping to get better. As I use this thing more (if I get the time after classes start again), I’ll try to post some more of the stuff I do. And by all means, if you’ve got suggestions about how to improve (or even if you just want to tell me how bad these things are) please feel free to comment

I’ve also gotten to try out my new technical drawing pens. Unfortunately, I’ve not done anything worth mentioning with them yet. Mostly just scribbles and a couple sketches. Drawing with pens is really a tricky art. I’ve got a lot to learn about the techniques required to produce worthwhile drawings with them. It’s really quite different than graphite!

A couple other things that came in the mail are my wireless router (which hopefully extend the wireless accessibility to my room) and my 1TB hard drive. I have yet to get either of these set up properly, but I’ll hopefully have a chance by the time break is over (man that time is coming fast!).

Anyway, here are the sketches I did with the graphics tablet.

Again, I hope to eventually produce something more worthwhile, but this is what we’ve got so far