The Hardware

Several pieces of hardware can be used when creating a new digital piece, depending on the artist's approach. An artist may scan their pencil sketches in to the computer and proceed to clean it up and color it with a program. The artist might also start a sketch straight in the program itself with the aid of a tablet.

Wacom Technology, a hardware company whose tablets are popular among digital artists, offers tablets and computer mice in various sizes, depending on what the customer plans to do with it.

A Wacom Intuos3 6x8 Tablet

The Wacom tablet have different features and sizes to meet the needs of the user, but all tablets come with some sort of stylus to manipulate movement on the screen. Pictured is the Intuos3 6x8 Tablet.