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Wacom has introduced the Inkling, a digital sketch pen that captures a digital likeness of your work while you sketch with its ballpoint tip on any sketchbook or standard piece of paper.

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Designed for rough concepting and creative brainstorming, Inkling bridges the gap between paper sketching and digital drawing by giving users at the front end of the creative process a way to rough-out ideas with real ink on paper and capture their concepts digitally so that they can be later refined on their computer, according to Don Varga, director of Professional Products at Wacom.

Inkling even allows users to create layers in the digital file while sketching on paper in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Autodesk Sketchbook Pro.
Spontaneous and Liberating. The digital sketch pen is comprised of both hardware and software components.

Hardware includes both the pen and a wireless receiver that captures a likeness of the sketch and stores it digitally. The ballpoint pen uses Wacom’s pressure sensing technology (1024 levels of sensitivity) to detect how hard the pen is being pressed to the paper while sketching. These pressure variations will appear in the digital version of your drawing.

The receiver can be clipped to the edge of standard paper or sketchbooks and the position can be adjusted for left or right handed users to provide the receiver with an uninterrupted line of sight with the pen tip. When sketching is complete, the receiver is connected to the user’s computer via USB to transfer the digital files. Files can be opened with the included Inkling Sketch Manager software to edit, delete or add layers as well as to change formats and transfer the files for adjustment and editing in creative software applications.

The Inkling (US$199) will be available online at Amazon (http://www.amazon.com) and the Wacom Store (http://www.wacom.com/store) beginning in the latter half of September.

The, a new digital sketch pen that literally traces what you draw (via its ballpoint tip) on any sketchbook or standard piece of paper.The device seemingly addresses that gray area between sketching on paper and drawing the final product in Adobe Illustrator or other vector-based software, the place where creative brainstorming and rough conceptual art takes place. Inkling is not meant to replace the Wacom Intuos pen tablets and Cintiq interactive pen displays, but does replace the annoying task of scanning a pencil or pen-based sketch onto the PC or Mac for digital re-tracing.' Virtually anyone who uses sketching to capture their creative ideas and wants to have their drawings in a digital format to e-mail, archive or further refine on their computer can benefit from Inkling,' the company said. 'A graphic designer could use Inkling to create rough concepts on paper for a new advertising campaign and then review and share these concepts on the computer with colleagues during a brainstorming meeting later that day.' Wacom's Inkling comprises of both hardware and software components. On the hardware side, the pen and a wireless receiver captures and stores the digital artwork - thousands of sketches, according to Wacom.

The ballpoint aspect even uses Wacom's pressure sensing technology (1024 levels of sensitivity) which captures line thickness based on how hard the artist bears down on the paper, and the angle of the pen. The receiver itself can be clipped to the edge of standard paper or sketchbooks, and the position can be adjusted for left or right handed users to provide the receiver with an uninterrupted line of sight with the pen tip.' When sketching is complete, the receiver is connected to the user's computer via USB to transfer the digital files,' the company explained.

'Files can be opened with the included Inkling Sketch Manager software to edit, delete or add layers as well as to change formats and transfer the files for adjustment and editing in creative software applications.' Currently Inkling is compatible with Adobe Photoshop (CS3 or newer), Adobe Illustrator (CS3 or newer) and Autodesk Sketchbook Pro 2011. Alternatively, files can be saved in JPG, BMP, TIFF, PNG, SVG and PDF formats for use with other applications.Wacom said that Inkling will be available online at Amazon and the Wacom Store beginning in the latter half of September for $199.00 USD. Demonhorde665as an artist that uses computers, for my work this sounds cool but at the same time it sounds a bit pointless, normally i sketch something to my pc, i just take it to photoshop darken the lines by adjusting the level settings, then do eraser clean up woolah, no need to digital trace my drawing to get a clean image.This is for folks who want the line-work in vector format. While someone could just go and draw right in illustrator, some people still like to draw on paper. This is essentially 'digitizing' the image rather than just copying it as a jpeg and doing some clean-up on it. Alidani LOVE wacom products.

But what i realy want is a tablet from them. A pen, a tablet, and i would be in heaven. Sadly a tablet just for drawing would cost allot for very little, so i wish they would lissense out their tech to a tablet manufacture so we can get a tablet with a wacom inside, but sell it as a normal tablet too, that way it brings cost down. I cant spend 2k on a monitor alone, but i could drop 500 on a tablet if it had wacom in it.Well, that 'kind of' exists as the Cintiq line effectively as LCD displays built into an Intuos, but you better have a money tree in your back yard if you want one.

A 500$ wacom tablet seems really unlikely considering how much they charge for just their Intuos lines. Alidani LOVE wacom products. But what i realy want is a tablet from them.

A pen, a tablet, and i would be in heaven. Sadly a tablet just for drawing would cost allot for very little, so i wish they would lissense out their tech to a tablet manufacture so we can get a tablet with a wacom inside, but sell it as a normal tablet too, that way it brings cost down.

I cant spend 2k on a monitor alone, but i could drop 500 on a tablet if it had wacom in it.You can buy touch laptops that have Wacom digitizers built into their screens. I have an HP tx2517cl with the Wacom 'Penabled' sticker on it. HP doesn't make them anymore, but you can get similar laptops from Lenovo and other manufacturers. MaestintaoliusWell, that 'kind of' exists as the Cintiq line effectively as LCD displays built into an Intuos, but you better have a money tree in your back yard if you want one.

A 500$ wacom tablet seems really unlikely considering how much they charge for just their Intuos lines.ravewulfYou can buy touch laptops that have Wacom digitizers built into their screens. I have an HP tx2517cl with the Wacom 'Penabled' sticker on it. HP doesn't make them anymore, but you can get similar laptops from Lenovo and other manufacturers.the way that im thinking, is that tablets, at least drawing tablets, are specialty items, and cost more because of it. No one is buying them in bulk.but if you put the tech to a tablet (what most people think of when you say tablet) the tech should come down significantly in price. I would pay an extra 100$ for an ipad or such for a wacom quality pen interface, but i dont want to pay close to 900-1700$ extra for it (what they currently charge for a 12 inch display is 1000, and a 1600x1200 21 inch is 2000)that said there is a pen for ipad they make, going to look into that a bit more, even if its just a more accurate finger replacement.Show more comments.