{"id":171,"date":"2009-07-15T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/171.html"},"modified":"2010-03-20T17:02:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T23:02:30","slug":"my-brother-got-me-wacom-tablet-as-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/my-brother-got-me-wacom-tablet-as-gift.html","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

My brother got me a Wacom<\/a> tablet as a gift a few years ago but after a few attempts at using it I put it aside. It didn’t work well with my usual style which aims more towards precision which was hard to accomplish with the tablet. I decided to give it another shot, strangely because of the Facebook Graffiti app which has more of a painterly feel to it. I took the Wacom to the past Midmococo<\/a> meeting for a public test run. After some exploratory doodles it suddenly clicked with me. I could at least make something that I am not ashamed of. I drew this:<\/p>\n

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{My first presentable Wacom-drawn piece. Click to see the full image at DeviantART!}<\/div>\n

The drawing is kind of inspired by the brushwork art style of Street Fighter IV<\/a>, which is a fantastic fighting game.<\/p>\n

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Also this is the first time I’ve used Pixelmator<\/a>. I’ve heard good things about this graphics program but didn’t want to spend money to buy it. It turns out I already bought it as part of a MacHeist<\/a> bundle deal! It’s a very good program, and the website is also very informative<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m using the Wacom\/Pixelmator combo again to work on a comic I wrote two years ago. It may show up in the upcoming Mid-Missouri Comics Anthology 2009<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My brother got me a Wacom tablet as a gift a few years ago but after a few attempts at using it I put it aside. It didn’t work well with my usual style which aims more towards precision which was hard to accomplish with the tablet. I decided to… Read more“”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[18],"tags":[61,12],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","tag-art","tag-keeley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}