digital art – Page 5

Sparrow Story

I first published the below on my personal Facebook page back on December 24, 2016. I wrote it on the way from Wenatchee to our home while Marit drove.

It is, I imagine, the start of a story, as it were. In my respites I have in my mind a recurring theme of light and sound seen through a hazy summer day. A hollowed home, more transparent than real. I can see through the house’s very walls to a gorge and forest slumbering. There is no one in my world at the moment other than myself. There is no loneliness, just recognition that it merely me and the sound of sparrows outside.

Tales of Earth & Sea

I must admit that I find myself at odds with my art, or more precisely “my art”. If you ask me what kind of art I want to create, I invariably come back with wanting a more painterly approach. However, if you look over the course of my life nearly all my output is more illustrative in nature. The journey for me this year has been not just learning net new skills (aka, how to render digitally let along render at all), but also coming to terms with this shallow response to a question with deeper roots; I’m answering the question wrongly, as it were. It is not that I’m not doing more painterly work, but that I’m conflating, at my deepest subconscious levels, the medium or approach with the intent of art.

Unigon Priestess

I started this piece in Paper.app on my iPad. I was more curious whether I could use the app for quick sketching or not, and of course, you can. Unfortunately, I did not find its export features usable – for whatever reason my app just kept stalling – so I ended up taking a screenshot of the image in order to export. Once exported, I just imported into Procreate.app like any other image I might have drawn.

Rendering Practice

I’m a slut of line art. Give me a pencil or a pen, and I can draw lines all day long. But recently I’ve really wanted to improve on both my painterly and rendering skills. Thus my exploration of color theory, et cetera.