Welcome to Making The Most Of Your Wacom, a 10-part series of videos full of tips and tricks for how to maximize your productivity and creativity with your Wacom, hosted by Pablo Muñoz Gómez. Pablo primarily uses ZBrush software, so many of the tips will be especially relevant for 3D sculpting! But they’ll also be useful no matter what creative software you use with your Wacom device. We’ll be covering everything from setting up and customising your pens to creating custom radial menus to using your Wacom accessories to the fullest.
Here’s what this series is going to cover:
- Tip 1: Mapping touch to a separate monitor
- Tip 2: Physically customising your pen
- Tip 3: Customising your pen buttons
- Tip 4: How to create custom radial menus
- Tip 5: How to use ‘Precision Mode’
- Tip 6: Creating advanced radial menus
- Tip 7: Mapping ExpressKeys to custom functions
- Tip 8: Essential Wacom tools for teaching
- Tip 9: Utilising other Wacom devices
- Tip 10: Backing up your custom Wacom settings
Tip #8: Essential Wacom Tools for Teaching
“In this short video, I want to share a little bit of how I use some of the Wacom tools for teaching online. This is a very specific use, but keep in mind you can use these tips and techniques for whatever you want. One of the things I like doing for my students is to provide feedback by painting over, or sketching things on top of, the works in progress they they share with me.
For this I have set up a set of tools with Wacom grids — just a different layout as the radial menus — to bring in some of the tools I use when teach. I’ve set up a grid of five bold icons to trigger things like taking a screenshot, copying and pasting, and a couple other actions as well as a some extra buttons to load up other useful applications like EpicPen, which allows me to draw over the screen, and the GifCam — a great tool to capture an animated GIF quickly.”
About the host
Pablo Muñoz Gómez is a concept and character artist based in Melbourne, Australia. He runs ZBrushGuides.com and teaches online at 3DConceptArtist.com. A long-time Wacom user, 3D sculptor, and creative educator, he’s the perfect person to give in-depth insight into the best ways to maximise the combo of Wacom + ZBrush — and to get the most out of your Wacom in general!
To follow Pablo Muñoz Gómez’s work or to learn more, check out his Artstation, YouTube, Facebook, X (Twitter), Instagram, or Twitch, or visit ZBrushGuides.com, 3DConceptArtist.com, or his Discord channel.
