Maybe I'm jealous, or stuck doing other things with my computer, like writing. But I just haven't turned my attention to doing my drawing work on any computer program.
Now, I went to school for Fine Arts. I know how to do all those art programs (at least I did 6 years ago). And I did pretty okay with them. Not top of the class but only not that good because I tended to be a little sloppy and lazy. I always did prefer the graphite pencil to everything else because of control. And I never continued working with my computer as I should have because of expense. Especially now that I'm a mother of two and tired of renting, I've been trying to clean up my spending and just getting the printer I so need is hard enough. I still hold out that my stories will start selling, especially the one I'm working on now, with my co-author and fellow deviantARTist, Incessant Star. You guys are going to love it. For previews, just check out my art. There are bits of story under the ones relevant to it.
And wish me luck.
But, anyway, what I was saying is that now that I'm in some artistic communities, I find myself almost insanely jealous of how easy computer art has made it for other artists to chunk out good stuff while I spend hours with my pencils and sketchbook. And that jealousy sometimes turns to disgust as I try to assure myself that though my work takes longer, I've got lots of other things keeping me busy and my drawings are just as good as those done on a computer, maybe sometimes better.
Really, I'm just really wishing I could afford a tablet and a decent computer program and a few more hours at the babysitters for the boys (a few less hours at work while I'm at it). How nice it must be to whip up an elaborate background in 10 minutes instead of penciling in details for 6 hours. Or to add a color, decide it isn't right, and redo it without having to 'just make the best out of what's there'. I'm so jealous.
I guess I'll just continue doing things the hard, old way and maybe sometime I can afford the time and money to put into my computer and do these fancy posers and tablet works. Until then, the sketchpad is a good outlet and maybe even a truly dying form. Just, you know... enjoy what you can.
Ril