digital art

I was working on composition for the Madison Oaks painting, so I tried a few things in a quick sketch in Painter.

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I've been practicing using Illustrator and Photoshop. Today I took a pencil drawing I did a few years back of Jennifer Sabatini then inked and colored it in the Adobe Suite. 

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I had a busy weekend, but managed to squeeze out a digital painting based on a photo I took in the Shenandoah Valley. One awesome thing about the digital painting is that you can focus and learn a lot of lessons valuable in any medium. Naturally, many of these come to mind after you finish the painting.

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I spent today learning Adobe Illustrator. I've been wanting to be able to get around in it for a while, so today I took a drawing I did at Dr. Sketchy and loaded it in. After a days work, I now realize how I should've done this piece, as well as how to get more of the style I was looking for. Great program, and it is really cool to see your work without any pixelation no matter how close you zoom in.  

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I'm back in the swing of things. For the second week in a row, I drew a figure from life. Tonight I participated in a group I found on www.meetup.com. Garrin was the host, and I decided to work in a digital medium for a change. I did the piece below using Painter IX and a wacom tablet.  

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