Wacom Launches ‘Create More’ Campaign
Wacom has today launched its first global promotion campaign – ‘Create more’. Targeting both professionals and experienced enthusiasts in the photography and illustration fields. Wacom offers a range of tools to inform, inspire and help them create even more. A range of high quality content and downloads including free tutorials from professional artists will be available on a dedicated website. From July 15th until December 31st artists can also benefit from a special value pack with free software and additional offers upon purchasing an Intuos Pro pen tablet. More information and links to both the detailed offer and the downloadable items are available on Wacom’s ‘Create more’ website.
The ‘Create more’ campaign features eleven internationally recognised artists from around the world. They share their secrets of success in video tutorials and e-books as well as artwork and helpful hints such as brush sets or tablet preferences to use. Among them are Miss Led, an award-winning illustrator from London, Ben von Wong, a visual engineer and photographer from Canada, the Australian Illustrator Guy Shields, the German motion designer Robert Hranitzky, and Natalie Shau from Lithuania, who combines photography and illustration.
‘Create more’ Inspiring Artists
Brooke A. Allen, Comic Book Artist & Illustrator, USA
Robert Hranitzky, Motion Designer & Photographer, Germany
Crystal Kung, Illustrator, Taiwan
Miss Led, Illustrator, UK
Alberto Montt, Cartoonist & Illustrator, Chile
Ohagi, Illustrator, Japan
Natalie Shau, Digital Artist & Photographer, Lithuania
Guy Shields, Illustrator, Australia
Adrian Sommeling, Digital Artist & Photographer, Netherlands
Benjamin Von Wong, Visual Engineer & Photographer, Canada
Koji Yoda, Art Director & Collage Artist, Japan
Using the right tools
The most popular model in the Wacom range, the Intuos Pro pen tablet, offers ample workspace for illustrators or photo editors who need the accuracy, precision and comfort of a traditional pen or brush. It provides 2048 levels of pen pressure sensitivity, recognises pen tilt, supports multi-touch gestures and features customisable ExpressKeys to give quick access to shortcuts for a seamless and speedy workflow. The innovative Intuos Pro combines Wacom’s finest pen capabilities with intuitive multi-touch control, perfect for using with a Mac or PC.
Running from July 15th – December 31st 2015, the ‘Create more’ campaign offers anyone who buys an Intuos Pro full access to a value pack which will include a free one year pro membership to AutoDesk Sketchbook, a 30-day membership to online video training from lynda.com and a free software package (Perfect Effects 9 Premium) from on1.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photography journalist, editor, curator, and the founder of *TheAppWhisperer.com*, one of the world’s leading platforms dedicated to mobile photography and art. Since its launch in 2009, TheAppWhisperer has become an international hub for artists of all levels to discover, learn, exhibit, and engage with contemporary photographic practice.Built on principles of inclusivity, accessibility, and artistic excellence, Joanne has spent almost two decades championing mobile photography as a serious artistic medium. Through interviews, critical essays, exhibitions, competitions, and education, she has helped shape and document the evolution of mobile art on a global scale.Her work has taken her internationally, lecturing on photography and mobile art at institutions and events including the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea, alongside appearances in the UK and Europe. She has served as a juror for international photography and mobile art awards across Portugal, Canada, the United States, South Korea, Italy, and the UK.Joanne is also the founder of *TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com*, one of the first online galleries dedicated exclusively to collectible mobile art, connecting artists with collectors across Europe, the United States, and Asia.Before founding TheAppWhisperer, Joanne worked extensively in print journalism and photographic publishing, including roles at a paparazzi photo agency and as deputy editor of a leading photography magazine. Her freelance journalism, criticism, and commentary have been published widely in both the UK and the US, with bylines in *The Times*, *The Sunday Times*, *The Guardian*, *Popular Photography*, *NikonPro*, *DPReview*, *Which?*, *Vogue Italia*, *LensCulture*, the *BBC*, and more recently, the *Financial Times*, where her published letters on photography continue to contribute to wider conversations around the medium.Alongside her editorial and curatorial work, Joanne’s own photographic practice has been exhibited internationally across the UK, Europe, South Korea, and the United States. Her work increasingly explores themes of grief, loss, death, memory, and the body.Her current research interests centre on grief, death, and poverty, with forthcoming postgraduate study leading towards doctoral research in these areas.Joanne is currently developing new long-form writing and photographic projects and is available for commissions, editorial projects, speaking engagements, and collaborations.Contact: joannetheappwhisperer@gmail.com)
