Digital Art.

That’s a really good attempt Denise don’t knock yourself . I do like a lot of digital art displayed on here , it’s something I tried a while ago and thought it to complex for  my IT skills. I think it’s a great art form that I’m sure will develop more over the years , I have great respect for people who paint in this way . I’m still for the brush in my hand and paint from  a tube, or pan it what I enjoy and find relaxing, unfortunately digital art painting stresses me to much. Those who do post there digital work please keep it coming. 

David Hockney produced some great digital art ,  the programme he used was Brushes, I am going back a bit . I down loaded it and had a play , then decided I prefer traditional methods.  There is a guy who lives in Hong Kong  goes under the name of Rob Sketcherman who’s work is amazing . It’s just another creative implement . What I’m not fond of are digitally enhanced photographs I can’t see the point.  Nice little pic Denise . 

I absolutely love Digital Art, and wish I could do it now.  I have an ancient version of photoshop elements...still a terrific program despite it's age.  I'm no techno either, I understand maybe a third of this software's function...but that still allows me to do a lot.  To get the best out of it, I often need to select parts of the image...this means I have to effectively 'draw' a line around part of my picture with a selection tool...using a mouse.  My shaky old hands aren't up to it.  I occasionally try, but mostly use it to tidy up my pictures...putting a border around them, adding text, and using the filters to get my saved image file as close to my original painting as possible. What I loved was the ability to change things, undo things, try things...in a way not possible with trad art materials.  Here's a pic I did ages ago...two versions of the same image.  Twitchers... I drew the characters on paper, imported them into photoshop and painted them.  The background church and trees are of photos I took at Bosham, a filter applied to make them look less photographic.  I was able to create a brush in the program for the grass...literally a drawing of a clump of grass...each time I used that tool I got a clump of grass on the digital image.  By copying bits, changing sizes, colours etc, I soon filled in the grassy area.  Then I wondered if a third figure would improve things, and added the woman.  To get her in, it was necessary to resize the other two figures...really easy in digital programs.  If I didn't want the third figure, I could go back to where I was.  Of course, you can save various versions as you go.  I wish I could do this sort of thing now. All I can do now is fiddle.  Below on the left a drawing/painting of the Goddess of Colour...on the right, the same picture with a colour filter applied.  This takes moments in a digital program.  Hours of innocent fun. I get Sylvia's point about faces...but even that is fun.  Here's one I took earlier... My face...everything else is bits of other photos.  Great fun. Digital is great, so if you have the time embrace it Denise.  You've already produced a good image.  It's another art medium.

Love digital; there's just soooo much you can do. I went down the "Free" route, with GIMP and a small Wacom Intuos graphics tablet, and I reckon that the graphics tablet is a must because of the similarities between the stylus and a pencil. There's still the fact that your hand and the results are in different places to get used to and it didn't seem effective to put the tablet in line with the screen because of the odd angle at which it placed your hand. Better go rob me a bank I guess so I can get one of those sexy Cintiq monitors where you draw directly on the screen (or nag my booking agent to get me and my guitar a bunch more wedding gigs)

I like digital art, I’ve seen some amazing ones on Instagram. There’s so many apps to choose from and I’m not all that technical, although I did my own website!  Denise, that first attempt looks fabulous.