A printer & scanner with the scanner lid open.

Printer & Scanner

Epson XP-8700 is the one I’ve been using since 2022. It’s a pretty decent device — I mainly use it for printing and editing sketches by hand, but even more for scanning photos and drawings. For a “cheap” printer/scanner, it actually performs rather well in that department. This particular Epson produces excellent black and white …

Various of views and symbols of photoediting software.

Image Editors

Arguably the most crucial tools, if you ask me. If money isn’t an obstacle, you’d most likely go with some version of the Adobe Creative Cloud package. After all, it’s more or less the industry standard. I’ve worked with Photoshop — part of the Adobe family — since 2000. If I remember correctly, I started …

Software

Now, let’s continue where I left on the “Computers” article… In order to actually get anything done and delivered to the public, having just a computer and art supplies isn’t enough. You naturally need the right software to handle all the necessary tasks — and there’s plenty of those where I come from. I’ll say …

A product photo of two Samsung Galaxy S24 Plus mobile phones.

Mobile Phones

Well, this article doesn’t quite fall under the “reviews” category. It was supposed to be one, but it turned out to be a general rant about mobile phones. So, a phone. Not essential for sketching, but handy. Sometimes I snap a photo of a sketch instead of scanning it — modern phones make this easy …

Photo montage of Asus laptop in front and blurred Macbook Pro and iMac in the background.

Computers

The first review on this site will be about computers. After that it’ll be more about pens and such. But, yeah… I’ve used a lot of computers since I’ve been doing web and graphic design since 2000. At work, I’ve always used whatever my employer provided at the time. For personal use, I always built …