I hardly did anything on this site for the last year. The reason for this was that I was too stressed out with writing my PhD thesis, and thus had no time for drawing.

However, as I have successfully defended my thesis last Monday, this will hopefully change - and I have some vacation coming up in August.

Furthermore, I have decided that I will spend a large amount of my pay rise on this device:



This is a iRex 1000S. It is the largest ebook reader currently on the market, with a screen size even larger than that of the Kindle DX. And what's more, it comes with a Wacom tablet embedded into its surface - which means that this can be used as a digital sketch block!

Here is a video demonstrating this feature.

Sure, sketches done with it will require some postprocessing and further work on a conventional screen, with a conventional tablet. But various artists have told me that I should go out more and practice drawing from real life instead of online references - and this gadget will help me do so while still working digitally in every step of the process.

I will throughly test it and tell you how it works out for me.