I got a tablet!!

WooHoo!

I was going to get an Intuous 4, but I was talked out of by the salesman, and just got a bamboo capture.

I like how cool it is, but after years of "mousing" using a pen will take some getting used to.

I also just finished my first paid gig. Hooray! A CD design and case/cover design for a local musician.

Haha... good for you!
And grats with the job

that salesman is a douche, intuos4 is far far better than a bamboo! of course you pay more for it but it's something else, i had a previous wacom entry model before passing to the intuos4, the difference is enormous in terms of sensitivity.

Figures.

I am a sucker.

(I was thinking to myself, what salesman talks someone DOWN on a purchase??)

I got two!!

Nice beard too Rey²

So you are Superman, Jesus and Moses?

Yup! What he said.
Bamboo = Crayon
Intuos4 = Pencil

I am many faces.

where´s the like button?

Very cool about the tablet. What about the CD cover? Can you share it with us? I'd love to see what you put together.

Please?

Here is a sample of his music. Sort of James Taylor-esque, I suppose?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbUqYwAdhwA[/youtube]

There are 8 songs on the disc, 7 are acoustic and one has some electric guitars in it.

Here is how the actual disc will be printed:



Here's how the 6 panel digipack cover will be printed (folded in half long ways, and then in thirds). This particular picture is one of the near-final revisions (the back panel fine print, under the song list, has changed, and a QR code was added to link to the YouTube video, and space for a bar code was left under the little girl's feet) but I don't have the final-final version, because it is trapped on my laptop at home.




As you look at this, top left is where the CD tray will be, bottom left is the rear cover, bottom middle is the front cover. The other three panels are lyrics and CD dedication which will fold to the inside. The panel with the guitar image on it will have a clear plastic CD tray on it so you can see the picture underneath.

What did I have to work with? The images of himself, his twirling daughter, and guitars, which he gave explicit instructions to be front cover, back cover, and inner panel. The rest is me trying to make it all feel cohesive in some way. There is an image of Mount Etna overlaid on the guitar close up, as Etna is mentioned in his song Taormina.

The song "Little One" is about his daughter (hence she is the star of the CD Cover...)

Trying to make it all make sense and "flow" was pretty difficult... I think the high key images vs. the rich colors and feel of the guitar image contrasted heavily. I tried to bring the guitars to the outside panels with the wood grains of the guitar macro and the overlaid image of Etna and bring the blue/white to the inside by using a tighter crop of the cover image on the CD itself.

I've used the tablet on three sketches. So far, every time I have gotten terrible pain along my hand to the index finger and joint between middle finger, as well as all along my thumb and down into my wrist.

I am a secretary by day, so I suspect carpel tunnel aggravated the fatter size of the stylus/pen?

It is agony to draw after only a few minutes.

I may need to reconsider my grip, or see a doctor. =(