Creativity Camp

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We have creative pen tablets for creative kids at every price point.

Learn to draw fan art & comics

Whether you want to draw fan art of your favorite characters or want to create your own original comic, we’re here to help. Below are tutorials on how to draw a head, face, eyes, and more, tips for using Clip Studio Paint software to create your first comic pages, how to improve your superhero drawings using references, and how to make sure your line art is clean.

Learn to draw manga & anime

How do manga and anime artists create their unique character designs, lay out their action-packed comic pages, and create such gorgeous art and animation? Here’s how. We brought together professionals from across the manga and anime industries to walk you through their processes.

Learn to design your own characters

One of the hardest parts of drawing is designing your own original characters. How do you do it? What are the elements of “good” character design, and what should you avoid? Wacom hosted a bunch of professional artists and creators to give you everything you need to know about character design.

Gilmar Smith Advice

The power of encouragement

One of the greatest gifts we can give our little ones is the encouragement to explore their creativity. I believe that the key to fostering creativity in our children is to actively listen and encourage them when they are tapping into their imagination. Whether they want to paint, draw, or build something out of cardboard boxes, [it’s important to] embrace their ideas and support them in exploring their artistic talents.

We love coming up with imaginative stories and bringing them to life through pictures using Photoshop and my always-handy Wacom tablets. There, they can add elements to the stories and transform a simple picture into a magical adventure that we then proudly display on our walls. This not only allows my kids to express themselves, but also gives them the chance to learn new skills and techniques and the validation to see their art featured on our walls.

Mike Morris Advice

Giving children the tools they need to get creative

Creative encouragement is two-fold: Making time for new experiences to fill children’s minds with new things to be excited about, and providing the tools to be creative with.
When it comes to tools, a variety of materials, both tactile in the form of pens, crayons, markers and paints, and digital tools, like screen tablets are important – both to understand the feel of creation in the real world, and while they’re young, learning how to navigate through our increasingly virtual landscape. [My children] enjoy using the compact and easy-to-use Wacom One; they freely use that at their own arts and crafts table.

One thing I really enjoy about the digital art they make is not only being able to easily share it with family and friends, but it’s a whole lot less cleanup!

Ara Kermanikian Advice

Using digital tools to take Play-Doh to the next level

We all remember playing with Play-Doh as kids, creating all sorts of objects. We can use digital sculpting tools to do the same. Free introductory tools like ZBrush Core Mini can open up that world to newer generations. Your child can push, pull, add, and subtract, to create beyond the limitations of Play-Doh. They can then present their 3D work, and even 3D print it to have as a real object! This will open up your child’s imagination into what’s possible in the digital world, and help them spend some of their summer vacation break productively creating.

Ethan Castillo Advice

Keeping your creative kid inspired

Parents! Are your pint-sized Picassos feeling uninspired? Are your vibrant Van Goghs feeling far from creative? Have no fear; Wacom is here! Keep your kids artistically engaged with these tips and tricks:

• Help them make an Art Time playlist! Music helps me get into the creative mood and groove, and putting together your kids’ favorite songs might excite them to create.
• Make sure there’s no pressure to get everything “just right!” Don’t jump in if you see them begin to [struggle – encourage them to keep working to] figure something out. Let their fun freedom flow!
• Create alongside them! Whether we realize it or not, creativity loves company. Art can make for great bonding, and they’ll look back at those moments with lots of love.

Quincy Vadan Advice

Showing genuine interest in your kid’s creativity

What got me into art as a child was having art supplies, a ton of them. Try giving your child lots of art tools and see what happens! An abundance of art supplies empowered 5-year-old me to experiment without having to worry about getting things right before running out of supplies.

Genuine parental interest also helps to fuel a young artist’s flame. Go beyond asking “what is it?” — ask “How’d you do that?” [And let them show you.] Showing curiosity about your child’s creative process demonstrates that you’re interested in their art journey and supporting their identity as a creative.

Free software bundles for creatives at all levels

Designed with creatives in mind and used by top professionals in a variety of fields, Wacom works with our software partners to provide the best experience possible for illustrators, photographers, video editors, game designers, and beyond. And those partnerships mean we can provide extended free trials of some of the best creative software available, to anyone who registers a Wacom product – so your creative kid can try out different software programs and find the one that fits their creativity best.