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This festive season, we’re excited to celebrate the incredible talent in our community and the magic of Aaron Blaise’s new film, Snowbear. As a renowned animator and illustrator, Aaron brings stories to life with the same enchantment we feel during the holidays.

Our blog is here to inspire your holiday creativity and help you make this season a masterpiece.

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Whether you’re a newcomer to digital art or a seasoned expert, a touch of creative inspiration is always welcome. Let’s plunge into the freshest updates from the Wacom Blog and explore the latest trends in the realm of digital art and design.

Wacom Movink, My New Best Friend! An animated review by Javadoodles

Wacom Movink, My New Best Friend! An animated review by Javadoodles

Animator Javadoodles often travels between New York and Los Angeles, ...
Making the most of your Wacom with Pablo Muñoz Gómez, Tip 8: Essential Wacom Tools for Teaching

Making the most of your Wacom with Pablo Muñoz Gómez, Tip 8: Essential Wacom Tools for Teaching

Welcome to Making the most of your Wacom tablet, a 10-part series of ...
How to draw a stylized illustration in Adobe Illustrator, with Kirk Wallace aka Bone Haus

How to draw a stylized illustration in Adobe Illustrator, with Kirk Wallace aka Bone Haus

Inspired by a recent trip to Amsterdam, Bone Haus created a super ...
Wacom’s Connected Ink presents: Ordinary Days of Creativity

Bringing Real Animals to Life in Animation With Aaron Blaise and Wacom

Oscar nominated animator Aaron Blaise shares how real-life animal behavior and movement inspire his animated characters. From his work on classics like The Lion King and Mulan to his passion project, Snow Bear, Blaise offers a rare glimpse into the creative process behind his stunning 2D animations.

Whether you’re an animator, artist, or fan, this session is packed with inspiration and expert insights to elevate your creative journey.

Wacom Movink pen display

Wacom’s lightest and thinnest pen display ever

Enjoy the freedom of working wherever you feel creatively inspired with Wacom Movink OLED pen display, our lightest and thinnest pen display yet. As thin as 4mm* and weighing just 420g, Wacom Movink pen display is 55% lighter than Wacom One 13 touch and 66% thinner. Connect it to your Mac or PC, and you’ll have all the processing power you need for your professional work.

*4mm is measured at the thinnest part.

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Wacom’s YouTube channel is your home for all of Wacom’s video content – tutorials, interviews, process videos, new product releases, product guides, technical support, and more, including recordings of live webinars and events like our annual Connected Ink event.

Check out this enlightening interview with Nobu Ide, Wacom’s CEO, at the recent Dokomi 2024 event!

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Professionals in nearly every creative field — comics, 3D art, design, illustration, editing photos or video, 2D animation, and much more – use Wacom. But beginners, hobbyists, and everyone getting into digital creation have found that Wacom is the perfect creative partner, too. Check out all of the great stuff our creators have made with Wacom, or get tips, tricks, or tutorials for your next creative project.

Wacom Movink, My New Best Friend! An animated review by Javadoodles

Wacom Movink, My New Best Friend! An animated review by Javadoodles

Animator Javadoodles often travels between New York and Los Angeles, which can make keeping up with animation work difficult. So we asked them to try out ...
Making the most of your Wacom with Pablo Muñoz Gómez, Tip 8: Essential Wacom Tools for Teaching

Making the most of your Wacom with Pablo Muñoz Gómez, Tip 8: Essential Wacom Tools for Teaching

Welcome to Making the most of your Wacom tablet, a 10-part series of videos full of tips and tricks for how to maximize your productivity and creativity ...
How to draw a stylized illustration in Adobe Illustrator, with Kirk Wallace aka Bone Haus

How to draw a stylized illustration in Adobe Illustrator, with Kirk Wallace aka Bone Haus

Inspired by a recent trip to Amsterdam, Bone Haus created a super cute, hyper-stylized illustration of a mini truck in his signature frenetic, colorful ...
How To Draw Polar Bears, with Legendary Animator Aaron Blaise

How To Draw Polar Bears, with Legendary Animator Aaron Blaise

In this video, legendary animator Aaron Blaise discusses his inspiration and process for designing and developing the primary polar bear character for his ...
The best storyboarding classes on Skillshare

The best storyboarding classes on Skillshare

Have you always wished to learn storyboarding, but never knew where to start? You’re in the right place! We brought together some great storyboarding ...
Making the Most of Your Wacom with Pablo Muñoz Gómez, Tip 7: Mapping ExpressKeys to Custom Functions

Making the Most of Your Wacom with Pablo Muñoz Gómez, Tip 7: Mapping ExpressKeys to Custom Functions

Welcome to Making the most of your Wacom tablet, a 10-part series of videos full of tips and tricks for how to maximize your productivity and creativity ...
Ordinary Days, Extraordinary Art: The Magic of Michelle Mee Nutter

Ordinary Days, Extraordinary Art: The Magic of Michelle Mee Nutter

In this charming video, Michelle invites us into her world of graphic novels and picture books, where the extraordinary emerges from the seemingly ...
Inspiring Illustrative Poster Designs

Inspiring Illustrative Poster Designs

What makes a good poster design? In this blog post I will show some excellent and inspiring posters and discuss what makes them great.
Free or Affordable Clip Studio Paint Brush Sets for Manga Artists

Free or Affordable Clip Studio Paint Brush Sets for Manga Artists

Clip Studio Paint is one of the most commonly used drawing software, especially among Wacom users. So we wanted to gather the best free or affordable ...
Flex your creativity – Flex your Movink! Editing photos on the go with Amyboyy

Flex your creativity – Flex your Movink! Editing photos on the go with Amyboyy

Amy Asyraf, also known as AmyBoyy, is a photographer based in Singapore. He talks about his work and process, and shows how the Wacom Movink allows him to ...
Making the most of your Wacom, with Pablo Munoz Gomez – Tip 1: Mapping touch to a separate monitor

Making the most of your Wacom, with Pablo Munoz Gomez – Tip 1: Mapping touch to a separate monitor

Welcome to Making the most of your Wacom tablet, a 10-part series of videos full of tips and tricks for how to maximize your productivity and creativity ...
What will be the top branding trends for 2025?

What will be the top branding trends for 2025?

Whether you’re a freelancer or working for an agency, it’s important to keep tabs on what’s trending in the world of branding. We compiled a list ...
Wacom Cintiq Pro vs. Wacom Movink

HD vs 4K: The truth about screen resolution on drawing display tablets

There are many different drawing tablets and pen displays on the market these days, from many different brands. Each of them has different features, specifications, build quality, and price.

Something a lot of consumers are looking at is screen resolution. But what does screen resolution really mean? How important is it for artists? And why do different Wacom products have different resolution displays?

Movink with watercolor Rebelle

Wacom Bridge Now Available for Public Beta with NICE DCV 

Exciting news! Wacom Bridge is now available in public beta with NICE DCV. The public beta is available to current users of NICE DCV and Amazon AppStream 2.0.  

Wacom Bridge is a proprietary technology offering a like-local experience for creatives on remote systems. It ensures creators can work seamlessly from anywhere by allowing the use of local Wacom tablets as if they were directly connected to the host computer.

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📝 Managing license requests and agreements is an essential part of protecting your work as a professional artist.

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This week, we're giving away a Wacom Cintiq 16! 🎨 

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As an artist, protecting your work can feel impossible. Watermarks distort your art, and even then, they can be removed.

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Reimagining everyday objects by adding a little bit of magic is easy with a little ingenuity, patience and curiosity. Thank you @monsieur_arefin for walking us through your process and showing us how you edit using Wacom Intuos Pro 🥰
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💡 What is Wacom Bridge?⁣
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