Wacom Inkling (Review)
Wacom Inkling Review
Sketched with it quite a bit last night to figure out all the ins and outs of this little inkling and all in all I am really happy. So with that being said I am going to highlight a few things to note with the wacom inkling.
Inkling is made for sketching:
The inkling was made to sketch ideas on paper, then pass them over to the computer skipping the scanning step. When you have a lot of sketches and time is money this is a great little option to have. It makes it a lot easier to have hundreds of sketches with you at all times. You can finish them up in your art program of choice. So what it promises to do it does well.
Line loss:
I experienced this 2 ways. One was on a large sketchbook, where I got to the bottom and it lost a few of my line information. Not a big deal for me seeing as I sketch on the medium and small sketchbooks and those have no line loss. The other very important thing to remember is to wake your pen up. If you are like me and are doing a few things at a time and leave the pen alone for a few minutes be sure to wake it up before drawing. I found this out when I started to work on the little dragon muzzle all the way on the bottom. I was drawing but did not see the green light up top flickering meaning it was registering my lines. So the best thing to do is to double tap on the paper with the pen and the pen wakes up as the green will start to flickr.
Small line shifts:
The inkling does have a small issue but nothing major. Seeing as you are sketching small like shifts won't be a big deal. I saw it in a few places such as the eyes when you are doing smaller details lines can shift slightly.
Exporting your line work (very important):
I tried exporting it to sketchbook pro and go the best results in line work. It was closer to the look I get when I sketch on sketchbook directly on the computer so expect me doing that. You can export to a few of the adobe programs such as photoshop and illustrator. It really depends on what you want to do. The lines are vector so you can alter them as you wish. I just wanted a simple no vector sketch so passed it to sketchbook. If you just import it to photoshop the lines come out a bit thinner such as in a previous pic I uploaded.
You are drawing with ink, so sketch lightly first:
A lot of people complain that you are drawing with ink but sketching is about getting your ideas out and not worrying about erasing. I sketch light to get my initial ideas out then go over it a lot harder to set my main lines I want to keep. So remember sketch light as you cannot erase.
I still need to do a full review on the inkling on video which I plan too. Had it for one day but already seeing how useful it will be for me. Take in mind this is not for everyone but it works for my lifestyle.
More photos can be seen here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/latinvixen/sets/72157628307115471/
EDIT: Just went into the preferences and saw you can set it so the receiver reads bigger pieces of paper (with the app that comes with the inkling for the computer). This was probably my issue with line loss as I had it set for the smaller paper to start with. The settings give you lots of options.