Gadgetory

hey how's it going guys this is Dave - Dee and welcome to episode 6 of my laptop setup a series where I feature the laptop setups that you guys submit to me and then showcase whatever it is that you do with your gear in this week's episode is on illustrator so people who create digital art with their equipment and first up we have a submission from javi he's a children's book illustrator he has a pretty minimal set up the laptop he uses is the msi ge62 siz from 2013 he has a Microsoft 3500 wireless mouse he uses a Wacom Intuos 4 tablet and in case you don't know what that is it's basically a tablet that you can draw on and then the strokes will appear in a drawing program he also uses a lumia 930 Windows Phone and he has a paper sketchbook for drawing stuff so javis portfolio is really extensive and I'm a big fan of this kind of art it's really alive even though you're just looking at a still image I can totally see why he's into drawing stuff that's kind of geared towards kids because it just it's just a very happy kind of artwork you guys are interested in seeing more of his work there's a link to his portfolio below and he also has a YouTube channel where he teaches people how to draw like this so that's pretty cool next up we have a submission from Jay so he's a first year student in Australia he studies concept art and his career goal is to design environments and vehicles in the game industry his setup is really unique he uses a Wacom Cintiq companion now I've seen these around but I've never actually used one personally they're essentially full-blown Windows PCs built into a professional drawing tablet and this one is running a Haswell i7 with 16 gigs of RAM it's surprisingly well specs for what this machine is it's kind of like the surface products from Microsoft but this is like an older generation type of product and is definitely more geared towards artists specifically so there's certain features about it like particularly the pen that are just really focused for artwork the pen that he uses isn't the stock pen it's an upgrade it's a Wacom classic pen and I don't know what the blue thing is but it's awesome so he connects to the Apple magic keyboard when he needs to type he also has a set of Copic markers and I think these are like the industry standard for professional markers he has a sketchbook for drawing things and he has a bag from Target to hold everything so Jays portfolio is a little dated because he's busy with school but he's got some cool stuff in there he's got some environmental pieces he's got a lot of futuristic looking stuff I love this kind of art and he's got some cool spaceships and mechs there's a lot of 3d stuff going on there too and he also has a lot of concept pieces so some of these are more fleshed out but some of them are legitimately Bra concept pieces if you guys have seen early concept art for games like stuff from Blizzard they look a lot like this the early pieces are designed to set a mood or to develop a look or a feel for a project they're not super detailed or anything and yeah this is really cool so there's a link to Jays portfolio in the video description as well now at the end of his submission Jay included a little note he wrote my setup has always given me a bit of guilt I paid for it all by working at a supermarket but due to my drawing and painting skills I feel somewhat unworthy of all the high-end art gear however I am dead set on my career path and hopefully one day you'll be playing games with my designs listen dude don't feel guilty about what you're doing you basically found something you're passionate about you found something that you love and you're chasing it that's what life is about so regardless of how much money you're spending on it what you're doing is great so the last submission is from Gerardo he's using an Asus GL 51 laptop a Razer Naga Mouse and that's a mouse with 19 programmable buttons and the phone that he uses is a oneplus 2 for headphones he's uses the son Heiser CX 300s mark 2 and he has a first gen iPad air and he draws on it using a Wacom into his creative 2 pen and like all the cool kids in this episode he has a sketchbook that he uses when he goes old-school his is made by moleskin and lastly the bang that he uses to transport all of this is a messenger bag from peak design now Gerardo uses an app on the ipad called procreate to drop but it's not an iPad pro so it doesn't have a pressure-sensitive screen for drawing it relies on the pressure of sensitivity of the Wacom pen to simulate that but even without a pressure-sensitive tablet he's able to create some really neat drawings if you guys are interested in seeing more of a stuff there's a link to his portfolio in the video description below and there's also a link down there if you guys are interested in submitting your own content for future episodes of my laptop setup but that basically wraps up this episode hope you guys enjoyed it thumbs if you liked it subs if you loved it it's been nice I'll see you guys next time you