Well I know what I want for Christmas now……WOW.

This new invention by Wacom is such an amazing product and needed to keep art alive in this digital age. Inkling allows you to sketch with a real ballpoint pen on any piece of paper you like and it electronically records all your strokes. Your finished masterpiece can then be imported as raster or vector into your preferred graphics application for further editing, thats right you can then edit your work on the computer. With the click of a button you can record layers, for instance, to separate preparatory and final drawings. These layers are then retained after import.

I can see this taking over the market very fast and creating a whole new way that illustrators and animators go about their work. The animators Lightbox will slowly start to fade in the industry, unless your a traditionalist that is and the Wacom Inkling will start to dominate.

Key features

• Enhance your professional workflow by capturing digital data while sketching with a ball-pen on normal paper
• The ink sketch can be structured in layers while drawing – no need to recreate layers in software
• 1,024 levels of pressure sensitivity for natural pen strokes
• Store hundreds of high resolution sketches on the receiver before transferring to your PC or Mac
• Save time and export your sketches with layers directly into Adobe® Photoshop® or Illustrator® (CS3 or higher), or Autodesk® SketchBook® Pro or SketchBook® Designer (2011 or higher) as vector graphics
• Be versatile by saving your sketches in the following formats: JPG, BMP, TIFF, PNG, SVG and PDF