As a digital artist, this is the moment ‘everything’ builds up to.
So, what is that ‘everything’? The best tools (the Wacom tablet, the hardware calibrated screens, the Adobe Creative Suite).. plus, years of training in artistic and digital practices, months of learning and continual development in manipulation of technology, dozens of hours of implementation and a million tiny problems to go from initial creative conception to generation of a digital artwork.
Everything.
So, you can imagine that it’s nail-bitingly scary to entrust to someone, the process of bringing my artwork to the other side of the screen! Because after all the ‘everything’ I’ve invested, it really matters to me that they get it right!
This fear of entrusting my work to a Printer began two years ago when I moved to a mainly digital art process. Before that time, I had dabbled with traditional mediums in the evenings after working through the day as a Physiotherapist.
After birthing my three masterpieces into the world (now aged 3, 6 & 8) I invested so much of my creative energy and time into these precious people. And then when my oldest started school, I took a little breath and tried resuming my art again, in the evenings.
It was hard. I was SO tired, there was less time, it was messy.
There wasn’t enough time to set up, plan, do, and then clean up so it wasn’t sabotaged by my ‘helpers’ the next morning!
So, typical of a creative, I decided it was time to expand my medium repertoire – and go digital.
Building on the little knowledge I had, I taught myself how to use the Adobe Suite in the evenings. Youtube and Google became my late-night conversation buddies!
And naturally, as my skills grew, so too did the things around me. That $80 drawing tablet badly needed an upgrade. The laptop screen was hard to see a full colour gamut on. My habit of using my dining room table as a desk needed to be kicked.
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