Favorite Toy! (Work-related)

My favorite 'toy' this year has got to be my Wacom Cintiq. It's changed the way I work - I'm now creating completely digital art, and loving the entire process! There is, no doubt, a learning curve with using it - it's big and clumsy at first, and being a lefty, sometimes my hand can get in the way of my screen :) . Once I got my bearings and worked out my own individual system with it, got more accustomed to using it, this is less of an issue. Now, the sky's the limit! I feel I have so much more control over my artwork than I had with my regular Wacom. Regular Wacom's great, but this was a very wise move for me. I used to lament the limitations I encountered, trying to create digital art with my regular Wacom (before the Cintiq). Those hurdles I used to have are gone with the Cintiq. I can do limitless detailed lettering, and detailed, layered, textured painting and line work, and things come out the way I want them to. It's very exciting!!