Yup - got an A5 Bamboo at present... (in fact I like the A5 size of that personally - which is good cos I couldn't justify spending more on that at the time!) I haven't played with using it much for 3d yet.

Well a bit of playing with it in Sculptris... which is a lot of fun to use I have to say. Although the meshes I've got out of that so far were way too many polygons to use in anything else...

I just got hold of Photoshop CS5 Extended and it seems that this lets you import a mesh and then "sculpt" or "paint" auto-UV-mapped normal or bump textures (?) onto the surface of that mesh... just need to find some more time to explore that really I guess.

I've been getting to grips with what I guess are considered more "traditional" modelling techniques in firstly Shade and then Hexagon, since getting hold of the zero price license for that at the start of the year... started out attempting to learn Blender, but hit a brick wall with that cos I'm not good with keystrokes! Having grasped more of the fundamentals I might try Blender again in due course I guess. Anyway...

...so much great stuff to play with! It's a good time for CG art right now I think :-)