Digital
Richly colourful digital images
There are many digital tool out there that artists are now using to create art.
I discovered that many of my artist friends were messing around with Procreate, using it as a drawing and painting device. So, at the end of 2022 I spent quite a lot of money becoming an Apple customer ( IPad, an Apple pencil and more), purely so I could spend under £10 on a single app. While I will always love painting with physical art supplies, it turned out that Procreate is a joy to use.
It is an impressive tool for producing richly coloured digital images. The stylus (in this case, an Apple pencil) can be a brush, pencil or a pen. There are layers, you can use scanned sketches or photos, you can make it look like paint or ink or something else entirely! And there are so many colours.
Here are my favourite digital pieces so far. I especially love the family ones: my husband David with our tiny daughter. My children now fully grown, David with a very obvious fake pair of trunks, so I don’t annoy censors on this platform!
Later on in 2023 I started to have a go at various YouTube tutorials. Art with Flo is simply marvellous. I have followed a number of her highly detailed and prescriptive tutorials. Of course I can’t show the results here as they are very much hers.
I have had each off the four family portraits printed out on a t-shirt, so my husband and children can show off their own faces!
In case of doubt, I shall always stay clear of AI art, as I doubt the ethics of such a practice.