The really hard part about making something that needs to be written, drawn, colored and scripted every week is that I don’t get much time off. Even when I travel, I need to keep working on Petra’s Call.
I’ve got a pretty solid routine and a great set-up at home. I sit down every morning at 5AM (yes, you heard correctly) in front of my Cintiq and I work for 2 hours and then pick up additional work sometimes in the evenings. With the Cintiq I get to draw right on the screen – it’s great, I love it to bits.
But when I hit the road, I have to leave the Cintiq at home and swap out to a Wacom Intuos. The tablets are about the same size as my 15″ Macbook Pro, so it all packs up quite nicely. Working with the Intuos on the road was proving to be a bit slower than my Cintiq, which was frustrating.
I eventually figured out that it wasn’t the tablet that was slowing me down but it was the hot keys, always reaching up to my laptop keyboard took me out of the zone. Now my tiny little bluetooth Apple keyboard hits the road with me. It might seem like overkill, but Photoshop hotkeys are my best friend.
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