Wacom Holds Business Course and Illustration Course Using Pen Tablet for Employees

Wacom started teleworking in March and is actively using video conferences for internal and external meetings. Among them, employees commented on their products, "I was interested in having a video conference with a customer using a pen tablet" and "It is easy to communicate even in a video conference using the whiteboard function of Teams." .. In addition, some people were worried that they were worried about how to spend their time with their children while they were closed.

Therefore, we hold an illustration course for teleworking employees and their families to use the pen tablet in the business scene and to spend more creative time at home. Approximately 50 employees participated in the "How to use in business situations", and in addition to approximately 40 employees participated in the "Simple illustration course", many children participated.

Electronic signatures and seals are also available online! "How to use in business situations"

In the "How to use in business situations" of the pen tablet, you can write handwritten figures and characters in PowerPoint and Excel, which are useful for presentations, and write to captured images using the "Snip & Sketch function", which is useful for correction instructions. Lectures on how to use Microsoft Office.

He also gave a lecture on how to use PDF, and explained that writing directly on PDF saves the trouble of printing out and scanning. Handwritten signatures can also be made from the signature icon, and employees commented that "it is convenient to approve with a signature."

In addition, the use of the pen tablet in the whiteboard function of Teams and Zoom used for video conferences was also well received. Since participants can write at the same time, there are opinions such as "convenient for brainstorming even in online meetings" and "handwriting letters and figures with a pen tablet while talking makes it easier to communicate".

Employees who participate as parents and children because they are teleworking or closed school also have a "simple illustration course"

"Simple illustration course" is held using CLIP STUDIO PAINT, an illustration / manga / animation production tool. It was a course for beginners that explained the procedure for coloring line drawings prepared in advance, and many employees participated as parents and children.

In the lecture, in addition to learning how to draw using basic functions such as "Pen / Brush Tool" and "Eraser Tool", a layer function that finishes the picture so that multiple transparent papers are overlapped, a undo / redo function, zoom in / out Introducing useful functions for drawing pictures digitally. I also gave a lecture on how to select a color from a color circle or palette and paint it with a fill tool. Participants commented that "children who had spare time during the school holidays were seriously drawing pictures" and "parents and children could enjoy themselves".

While new lifestyles are being advocated, the company advocates that holding courses that can be enjoyed online and spending a little creative time are one way to enjoy home time.