Guilty as charged.

I've decided that I'm buying a Wacom Cintiq with my tax refund this year. The normal tablets are nice, but I can't get over the line art coordination problems with drawing in my lap and looking up. I'm getting the Cintiq, which is an LCD monitor and tablet combined so you draw right on the monitor. People who use them tell me they are right next to Jesus.

So anyway, I found a few Cintiq videos online while I was convincing myself that the money was worth spending and noticed a video with a guy wearing a partial glove while drawing and I thought "that's awesome." In the past I've used a few tricks myself to keep my sweaty palm from sticking to the plastic tablet surface, including dry screen cleaning cloths, loose fabric chunks, etc. But this glove thing looks much nicer, and it has a name.

It's called a SmudgeGuard [link] and they are nice. I bought three of them, two for myself for here and at work and one for my wife and her tablet. They are awesome. Much more awesome than I actually expected. It's light fabric so it doesn't get in the way as you work, it stretches nicely so it doesn't get tattered, and most of all it glides beautifully over the surface of my tablet making my strokes more fluid. Yay for clever inventions!! So anyway, if you know anyone who uses a Wacom tablet you should point them toward [link] so they can try it out for themselves. I've spent hundreds on tablets over the years and I'm having more fun with a $15 accessory. Sad? Yes.

Anyway, end of shameless promotion. As you were.