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Deviousness `ChewedKandi has certainly gone out of her way to keep the vector community on the right path. Always making sure that her talents are infinitely scalable, Sharon has put her bezier curves to excellent use, and firmly anchored herself as an inspirational leader. We're absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for June 2013 to `ChewedKandi. Congratulations, Sharon! Read More
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Your gallery is breathtaking, magnificent. Keep your talents employed by imnspiration, and allow your dreams to soar. Keep blessing the world with pieces like this - simple at the first glance, but which may take a long time to fully understand and explore.
For this, I used exclusively the chalk pastel brushes and varied the sizem, color and opacity a lot.
None taken.
Firstly, digital art will look very good on a computer screen, which makes it an excellent choice for websites, computer/video games and other computer art. Seccondly, that as a real-media painter it can help people improve their skills by letting them be bolder with the "paint" than they normally would, because they know that rather than noodleling a piece into a muddy mess to fix mistakes they can use layers or the undo command to try out a great variety of options (although usually this only works after they've been using real paint for a while).
That said, I still like my real-media, and I don't think I'll ever stop using it completely. It's also nice to be able to combine both skillsets, too, because they compliment each other in a learning situation and digital work seems to be popular with art directors these days. Just not the uber-glossy airbrushed kind...
However, the computer can also take away skills -- among them patience, persistence, and confidence. It's too easy to reproduce and start again with a computer. I think of the Masters who worked over and over. Familiar with Georges Seurat and his wonderful (and huge) pointillism "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" painting? (It was featured in the movie "Ferris Bueller") Well, he did *several* of them. Even if you don't care for it, it's a monument to discipline that he made copies for others. The rest of us would've shrugged and given up -- or taken a photo.
Personally, I like working digitally, but I always feel that on another level that tactile satisfaction is taken away. Plus, I'm using substitutes for the real thing (brushstrokes, pencil line, etc.).
Ah, well, it's like my own personal saying: there's advantages and disadvantages to everything under the sun!