I did a digital illustration demo last week with my tablet and pen. (Not school related.) One of those watching me asked, “Why are you doing that?” I looked at my hand as I drew and noticed, as those watching did, that I rotated the stylus a quarter turn every couple of strokes. This particular maneuver is a carry-over from my analog days of color pencil work. In order to keep a workable tip edge, it is common to rotate the pencil as you draw. This of course is completely useless in the digital world as your pencil never gets dull. But having no place to put it, my brain was content to keep running on auto pilot rotating my virtual pencil tip, keeping the non-existent lead nice and sharp.

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