Wacom, the leader of digital tablet, announces a new product that will help artists to create art: Inkling. It is a special pen that you can use to sketch your drawings on paper; at the same time Inkling captures your sketch and makes it digital for you. So you can easily transfer your sketch on your computer and edit them in photoshop or other softwares as vector graphic. It’s great right?

Below, a demostration video of this fantastic pen!

With this article I start a new series of articles related to reviews and thoughts about my favourite digital art magazines. As a beginning, I will made an overview of 2D Artist Magazine.

2D Artis Magazine is published by 3DTotal, a company located in the United Kingdom. As the title said, it is related to 2D Digital Art, so illustration, sketching, digital painting and so on. It is

Time ago I told you that there’s was online an amazing Digital Painting Tutorial, written by Diane Özdamar, about her famous gorgeous painting, Hanagumori. Now, after about two years, she made an update to her old tutorial: now you will find a FLASH tutorial with more working process details of this painting. I think it can be really useful for people who want to learn these techniques! Like in the past version of the tutorial, there are also the Brush set used to make the painting, and the eight-parts-splitted video recording of the painting process!

Hello! Sorry for my long absence from this blog, real life and university took me far away from digital art, news, and my all passions. I’m so sorry for this! Now, I want to start again working at this blog, and I will keep it update, I promise.

For now, take this Artist Profile article I’ve found at CGSociety about a great illustrator, Michael Kutsche who landed in Hollywood from this art community. He worked as character designer at Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland.

See soon with new articles, have fun!

[Read the Article at CGSOciety: Kutsche slides into Wonderland]

Desktopography is a stunning non-profit project where designers from all over the world create nature / topological themed wallpapers. As said on their site:

Designers spend about 90% of their waking life in front of a computer so the most appealing genre for a wallpaper would be one that has beautiful design mixed with the all important aspect of being outdoors.

Each year a new wallpaper exhibition is released, now it’s time for the 2009 one!  Here below, you will find some previews of the wallpapers I’ve selected from the exhibition, the ones I truly like.