Wizardgold

When I was an art student I was always with a sketch book. When I was an art teacher I tried to give the lowly and much misunderstood sketch book an uplift by renamiing it a Visual Studies Diary. I encouraged the student to think of the empty white pages as a recepticle for ideas and visual information that could be used later making art.

Well today I got notification that the money was received and the device would be sent to me in a couple of days. I will probably have it on Monday. I can hardly wait. What is it ? A Wacom Cintiq 12WX graphics tablet. It has a screen that I will be able to draw directly on to and should have a greater degree of control in the drawing process.

I have been using a standard Wacom tablet of the sort that you draw on while looking at the screen. So you can imagine a huge difference between how I work now and the way I will be able to work with the Cintiq.

Nice to see a design selling so well. I will have to do some more on a similar vein. Obviously the vikings are popular in terms of people wanting images. The good thing about this is that because it is a vector design I earn more per sale also.

Dreamstime does’t send me an email when I make a sale there so I look in periodically and see how things are going. I don’t have many images there, and it is getting more to be illustration only I send in there.

In fact now that I am back in the saddle as it were after being in harness with a day job during the summer, I am looking forward to munching the sweet hay of making designs and selling them via microstock. Any more horse references ?? And vikings were more know for there sailing and conquering and raping and pillaging than riding horses too ???