The Mighty Weapon

Wacom Bamboo Pen Tablet (CTL-460)

In January 2010, I attended Spring-fest'10 at IIT Kgp. While I was there I participated in a few painting competitions and to my surprise won 2 prizes.
I was longing to buy a tablet for really long given the fact that I had become a die hard fan of Nico Di Mattia. Had spent more hours watching speed painting videos than anything else. I had made my mind up that I will buy a tablet with the prize money no matter what. During that summer while I was in Bangalore, I finally bought one.

 For people who are unaware how a Tablet input works, here's the deal. The pen that you see in the image works as a pointing device and the pad detects its motion.Plugging the pad into a USB slot will enable you to use the pen now as a pointing device similar to a mouse (only it is a hell lot easier to use because it feels like a regular pen). It has right and left click on it and the cursor can be moved by simply hovering the pen over the pad a few millimeters away. Touching the pad with the pen also has the same effect as the left click.
                  
       
The Wacom Bamboo Pen Tablet (CTL-460) (cost me around  4400). Today its one of my most prized possessions. Of course there were some cheaper alternatives available starting at around  1600 but I preferred to buy a good one once and for all.

My very first work in Digital Art

Deers at Dusk

Now this one started it all. I know it looks an amateurish attempt at digital art. It was a little difficult for me back then considering the fact that it was done with a Microsoft basic mouse. But this was a milestone for me and so I had to share it. Made on facebook's graffitti application. Its very simple and took me about an hour. Looking back I feel how much effort I had put in to make such a simple piece of work because mice don't offer you the comfort to be able to draw effortlessly.

Simple use of opacity and different size of brushes. Started with the background, then came the tree and deer. Mountains and the highlights of the tree we the finishing touches.