Stephan Miller
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The Pen Collection
If there is anything I will steal from you it will be your pen. That is, if you have one worth stealing. I collect pens. I haven’t quite got to the upper end of Mont Blanc and Waterman, but there is time.
At the top is a handmade fountain pen that my wife bought me for Christmas. It’s the fastest thing that runs on ink. This is for writing for the sake of writing when the gap between thought and written word has to be really short.
More Bamboo Fun
I swear that one of these days I will have something useful to do with this Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet, but for now it’s like having a million colored pencils in one. Want a rough gradient instead of a computer generated one, then draw it, changing the color and the pencil size gradually as you go.
I have to admit I think that most computer generated images are a little too perfect for my liking. It’s unnatural. Nothing in nature is perfect and computers can only generate simulated imperfections. I like a old fashioned hand drawn cartoon every once in a while. 
But it seems no one does this any more. Everything is computer generated.
Bamboo Fun
I got an early Christmas present today. It’s a Wacom tablet. I was looking at one a year ago, but got a new cell phone instead. I have to say that I can’t wait to get better at using this thing. At first I thought it would be impossible to learn write on one surface while looking at a screen, but by the end of the day, my handwriting had cleared up and I could draw fairly accurately. Below is a picture I played with in Photoshop.
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