I've been an artbot since 1984 when my parents gave me a ZX spectrum 48K as a gift. 20 years after I have passed through the Commodore 64, the Amstrad 1512 PC, the legendary Amiga A500 and in the recent 4 years I've devoted my artistic urges to the pc.BIOI have a B.A. in Industrial / Product design but I'm interested in other areas of art too such as illustrations, graphic design, comics etc.

Although I've been working on an SDRC-IDEAS platform in work, it's only recently that the urge to make 3D models on my home pc came to me.

The way I've been working sofar is to created hand drawings by pencil, ink them and then scan them. This creates a perfect line drawing, which is ideal for photoshop to mask and treat it with airbrushes and stuff.

Recent explorations lead me to search ways to trace photos and pictures into line drawings and then going the photoshop way.

I found that a good way of doing this is by using a pen-tablet. One week ago I bought a "Volito" by WACOM. Only to discover later in the afternoon that the Volito tablet would not even come close to my needs. It is a good tablet, but not for artists. If you gotta have a tablet then the INTUOS 2 series is the ideal thing for semi-pro artists like me. Which I'm intending to buy next month.

As I said earlier, professionally I'm designing cables accessories for a Greek manufacturing company by using, SDRC IDEAS and ACAD. IDEAS is good for my job, but on the art side of things I think that the're are much better packages around which are more 3D arty than engineering orientated. So I'm on the lookout for obtaining some sort of data for some, so I can have a good idea what is what and begin fiddling with my initial choice.

Any suggestions on the packages you're working with will be more than welcome.