Of pandas and Moses…

Some days ago, i posted a comment on Facebook that i had something in common with pandas and Moses. There were a couple of good guesses but only one correct answer…

I had gotten a Wacom Bamboo tablet…

Been eyeing one for a while, but never really justified the need for one. Until that fateful day when I was getting a headache editing some photos and thinking to myself how much easier and more accurate it would be if i had a tablet (Wacom, not aspirin).

Anyhow, I explored the various options available on the online store, and narrowed it down to the “Fun” version, and the “not so Fun” version. I suppose the latter was marketed more for the office crowd, while the “Fun” was more for the creative set…but hey…it was cheaper by $20, and I wouldn’t have been stuck with a mouse that worked only on the tablet…apparently (now what’s the use of that?).

Anyway, I waited eagerly for a few days, and it was finally delivered to me a couple of days ago. Here’s a pic of the official unveiling…

When I got home that night, i promptly put it through its paces. I was disappointed to discover that the tablet did not live up to its promise of making me a better artist (at least i think that’s what it said on the box), and that i still cannot draw to save my life.

Nevertheless, I attempted my very first drawing on the tablet…a self-portrait!

It is not very life-like, but I like to think of the style as a cross between that of Dali and Picasso…and those who know me probably can see the resemblance.

Hmmm…

I think i will stick to photography…

(PS. as you can see in the “self-portrait”, the Photoshop window is visible. That is because I realised that Adobe CS3 and Snow Leopard do not play very well together, and I was not able to save files in CS3 without it crashing…so i had to circumvent that, and find some “creative” way to save the file instead. The *bleeps* at Adobe released a statement earlier to say that they are not supporting CS3 on Snow Leopard, but after much hue and cry from the Mac community, they have relented and according to their latest statement, are “working closely with Apple” to solve the problem…which is not soon enough…)