subject: The Wonderful Digital Painting [print this page] I've been doing digital painting for a surprisingly short amount of time, but thought that since I've got around two years under my belt, I might as well voice some thoughts on the subject. I'm only a hobbyist, but I've had a tablet for some time and it appears that's the standard layout for most people.
I started art when I was very young in the sense that I enjoyed writing short stories and loved to try to draw Ren & Stimpy characters. Sadly, I let that die away when I reached high school and never really cared again for art until things came to college.
I found myself so bored in calculus and other studies that I'd draw in my notebook. At some point, I got very addicted to drawing my dreams and yet I couldn't get color because I didn't really want to mess with paint in a dorm room.
Anyone who's been there knows that they don't take lightly to anyone getting paint all over the furniture and I just knew that's the kind of person I am. That's right... my first impulse was that digital art was pretty clean. And I'm no neat-freak in any capacity. My room vacillates from messy to sterile several times a month.
So, going in to digital painting, my inspirations were people who did a lot of concept art and also landscapes. Some artists avoid stroke work and try to be purely realistic but I especially think the joy comes out when you can blend things fairly well.
It's an entirely different thing when you print your work out, but I prefer to keep it all digital when possible. Still, it's amazingly fun to look back from digital painting and smile and say to a traditionalist "Hey, does your oil paint have an Undo? My media does.
