{"id":2164,"date":"2010-09-12T13:23:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T20:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=2164"},"modified":"2010-09-12T13:31:34","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T20:31:34","slug":"well-i-got-the-wacom-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/well-i-got-the-wacom-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, I got the Wacom board!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had blamed Amazon and the seller—but guess what: there’s almost always a stack of books awaiting signing sitting in my living room, and when a box from a bookseller arrived, it got piled there—nearly a month ago.<\/p>\n

My brother, who gave it to me for my birthday, was preparing to use his lawyer skills to get the thing replaced—and I just happened to look crosswise at that stack, and thought, you know, that’s a funny box to ship books in—thin. I picked it up—definitely from a bookseller—but light.<\/p>\n

Y’know…<\/p>\n

So I took it to the kitchen and opened it. [I don’t open boxes to be signed until I’m ready to sign.] And, yep, it was the Wacom board. <\/p>\n

I’ve fired it up and given it a try. It’s not as precise as a pencil…maybe there are some adjustments: but I think the big problem is that pixels are square and I work on the diagonal—a lot. But after one day, I’ve got a prelim sketch done for a Rusalka cover. I think it’s pretty nice. Not too bad for a learning operation. It’s an Intuos 3: I had just asked for a Bamboo, because I’m not a paint artist, just a sketcher. But my brother found a refurb Intuos type, and it’s got a lot more whistles and bells. \"Rusalka<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had blamed Amazon and the seller—but guess what: there’s almost always a stack of books awaiting signing sitting in my living room, and when a box from a bookseller arrived, it got piled there—nearly a month ago. My brother, who gave it to me for my birthday, was preparing to use his lawyer skills […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}