Technology has digitised just about every commercial art form. From sculpting characters for video games to sketching endless concepts for ground-breaking consumer products, commercial art is ever-evolving alongside the increasingly tech-savvy world.
The growing demand for original content and new designs has led to complex, high-volume workflows with a need for absolute precision. This requires intuitive and efficient digital creative tools and one such tool is a graphic drawing tablet.
Graphics tablets, most notably produced by Japanese firm Wacom, have helped shape the world of designers and artists.
The company has been ahead of the curve in pen-computing for decades and has been exceedingly popular among the designer community, helping them push creative boundaries and drive business success.
Wacom pen tablets or pen displays are not to be confused with the average tablet PCs for media consumption. They are highly specialised input devices that – connected to a laptop or computer – allow artists to draw images and graphics in a breeze.
From storyboarding to post-production work, world-renowned animators, game developers, CGI artists and 3D sculptors are turning to Wacom pen and display technologies to create the characters, creatures, special effects and worlds in the games and movies that fans adore.
Tools for the creative industry
Wacom’s early years in the market for drawing tablets really highlighted how quickly a single company could take over an entire niche with strong technology.
Among the things that the company invented was a technology called electro-magnetic resonance (EMR), which allows its styluses to generate energy and interact with a tablet without needing batteries themselves.
Today, Wacom’s digital pen tablets and high-resolution digital pen displays are at the heart of many workflows of the creative industry.
From storyboarding to post-production work, world-renowned animators, game developers, CGI artists and 3D sculptors turn to Wacom’s pen and display technology to create the characters, creatures, special effects and worlds in the games and movies that fans adore.
The company clearly dominates the motion graphics, video editing and game development industry. For most uses, including 3D animation, VFX artists across the globe prefer Wacom’s Intuos Pro tablet.
Combined with the super-sensitive Pro Pen 2, the tablet provides artists a more intuitive and comfortable way to work with their favorite applications, helping them create stunning work in less time. The tablet is known for its productivity, ease of use, and unparalleled precision.
The Cintiq Pro 16 is a startlingly powerful update to the Wacom line for digital content creators. This recently launched creative pen display is an extremely portable device that is more adaptable than ever before, giving artists not only better precision, but also flexibility in how and where they work. All Cintiqs come with Wacom’s Pro Pen 2, which is one of the best in the market in terms of pressure and tilt sensitivity.
Wacom tablets are also notable for their use in the fashion industry. Fashion professionals work with Wacom on everything from product launches to brand design and apparel. Both Wacom Intuos and Cintiq tablets are extremely popular among fashion designers.
Specialised industries such as architecture use Wacom tablets as well. With Wacom, architects have a digital drafting table, complete with the tools they need to sketch, design conceptual elements, colour drawings, compile layouts, create 3D models and render presentations more efficiently.
CAD/CAE lens cursors, used in architecture and engineering design, are compatible with some Intuos tablets.
GIS (Geographic Information Systems) professionals also benefit from the technology, as the mapping and design of geospatial data is potentially much easier to design and implement with the pen and tablet.
Whether working on elevations or floor plans from as-built information or starting from scratch on a skyscraper, interior or landscape, working digitally on screen saves time and money. No need for layers of tracing paper, countless scans, and hours of manual rework to accommodate client changes.
One by Wacom is by far the best graphic drawing tablet in the market for students and teachers. Designed with portability in mind, this graphics tablet is thin and lightweight.
Perfect for amateurs
Certainly, Wacom carries an interesting role in modern computing. It makes products that cover literally every corner of the tablet market – from entry-level consumer products designed for creative fun and sketching out ideas to high-end products designed for serious graphic artists.
With utmost precision and control, the Wacom Intuos is the best drawing tablet for young creatives and hobbyists who are stepping into the world of digital painting.
The tablet is available for both Windows and macOS and comes with Corel Painter Essentials 8 for drawing and painting and Corel AfterShot Pro 3 for photo editing.
Launched in 2020, the Wacom One is one of the newest offerings from Wacom and is geared to amateur artists, note-takers, and doodlers.
The screen-based tablet is all about ease of use and portability. The model’s attractive, compact design makes it easy to incorporate into virtually any workspace and the foldable legs lets one find the ideal working position.
Its pressure-sensitive pen delivers accurate and precise pen and brush strokes and its EMR pen technology does not require a battery or recharge.
Empowering students
Schools and universities worldwide are harnessing the power of Wacom’s digital pen technology to meet the challenges of the digital classroom, hybrid and distance learning, e-learning and online collaboration.
The interactive pen tablets and displays help teachers and students to express themselves more naturally and explain concepts visually with a digital pen.
It allows them to continue the methods they are familiar with from conventional lessons and connect and exchange information with each other online.
Especially for the important STEAM subjects (science, tech, engineering, art, mathematics) there are many interesting application possibilities.
One by Wacom is by far the best graphic drawing tablet in the market for students and teachers. Designed with portability in mind, this graphics tablet is thin and lightweight.
It also provides a natural pen-on-paper feel using a stylus that supports 2,048 pressure levels. The tablet comes with a three-month subscription to several education-related apps.
Though it’s simpler than the rest of Wacom’s lineup, the brand shows in its quality. Chromebook compatibility is a big selling point, but that’s only to be expected from a tablet marketed to students.
Wacom is a global company based in Japan with subsidiaries and affiliate offices around the world for customer support, marketing and distribution in over 150 countries. For further information about Wacom and its products see also www.wacom.com. Available at www.grapheast.com and www.alhosanime.com
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