My Wacom Intuos5 pen is broken ! I was working on commissions and the next morning it was behaving strangely. It is over sensitive and selecting things it shouldn’t. The only way I made it through the last few commissions was by using the the eraser to select and edit nodes in Microsoft Expression. It was a little clunky but manageable (the eraser side is about the size of my pinky and lacks the fine tip of a normal pen). Unfortunately, all other art programs recognize it as an eraser so no editing in Adobe Illustrator, no Photoshop Elements, and no Krita.

Replacement pens cost a bit more than I’m willing to part with at the movement so I’m just doing everything by mouse and by eraser and it is taking forever.


It always seems like when one thing goes wrong everything starts going wrong but I am determined to not let it get me down or at least not for too long.