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The blog which “every” cartoonist reads (The New Yorker is the pinnacle for these folks) features an interview with Scott Adams, where he states that working digitally has cut his production in half. Good stuff from a great friend of Wacom:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/cartoonlounge/2008/10/scott-adams-dilbert.html
Here's the quote:
C.L.: You lost the ability to draw. How did this happen, what was it like for you, and how did you overcome it?
S.A.: It was tough. I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer’s cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw.
I first got symptoms over ten years ago, and drew some strips left-handed while working through it. Over time, I retrained the hand by a gradual process of getting closer and closer to the motion of drawing without actually drawing, until my brain somehow allowed it. (The problem is in the brain. That can be proven by the fact that my right hand would spasm when I drew with my left hand.) Anyway, I was probably the first person who ever overcame that particular problem.
About ten years later, I overused the hand again, and the problem returned. This time I ditched paper and pen and started using the Wacom Cintiq 21 ux, which allows me to draw directly to the computer screen. Although the motion is the same as drawing on paper, my brain doesn’t recognize it as such, and I have no problems whatsoever. Now the dystonia has gone away again, but would pop up if I started overusing the hand and drawing on paper again. But that won’t happen. The computer cuts my production time in half. I love it.
And I can't end this with out showing an example of Dilbert that gives me deja vu. (absolutely no official permission to use this...just taking stuff off the web).
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