Wednesday, 24 January 2018

How do you become a digital artist?

Expanding on my Carbon Paper Trace Monotype methods, I’ve now started to continue artworks using digital painting techniques for the first time.

I am very surprised at the results I’ve achieved so far and will most likely use this method with most subsequent CPTMs.

Workload productivity can be increased as a result because there is no need to set up paints and other art materials, plus a large area of space is no longer required; just the room for a laptop, mouse and graphic tablet, which could be used on a kitchen/dinning room table or at a library for example.

The example below was pinned to my kitchen wall and photographed as the scanner was out of action (because the printer part was out of ink!).

My copy is after Carl Reichert’s painting – Head of a German Short Haired Pointer.

Carl Reichert. (Austrian 1836-1918).

Once I had the Carbon Paper Trace Monotype copy in Gimp2 I began copying the original image – which I had open next to mine in a separate window.

My copy is not complete yet, but look out for the finished work of art on Redbubble.com



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