17 June 2012
Posted by Callan Bentley
I’ve been playing with my new Wacom Cintiq, and I’m really pleased with the illustrations I’ve been able to generate with it.
Here, for example, is a sketch of my new home, the Fort Valley, showing its structure and relation to the valleys on either side:
I drew that in Photoshop. It was completely easy. Click through to make it bigger.
Callan Bentley is Associate Professor of Geology at Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. For his work on this blog, the National Association of Geoscience Teachers recognized him with the James Shea Award. He has also won the Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council on Higher Education in Virginia, and the Biggs Award for Excellence in Geoscience Teaching from the Geoscience Education Division of the Geological Society of America. In previous years, Callan served as a contributing editor at EARTH magazine, President of the Geological Society of Washington and President the Geo2YC division of NAGT.
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We just got a Cintiq 24HD here at the AZGS, we have been using it to digitize maps in ArcMap. Unfortunately drawing lines in Arc is not as pleasurable as it is in PS (Arc stalls and stutters with streaming).