Yes, you'll notice that sometimes some of my images are poor attempts at digital drawing. I have yet to get the hang of the Wacom tablet. It causes me stress trying to draw on something that's not really something, but is attached to something, that transfers something to where the image shows up on screen. My bass-ackwards usage of the mouse (thanks dad), adds to the frustration level of trying to draw with the tablet pen when I think right is left, and left is right ... the tablet is a parallel universe where things are as they seem - oh my gawd, right is actually right! I've resigned myself to sketching by hand, scanning, opening the scan in Illustrator, (cheating) live paint/tracing, and them importing to Photoshop and painting in layers with the handy dandy good ole' mouse. Not quite the romantic, dignified or simplified way that I envisioned world of digital drawing, but it's got to work for the time being.
Perhaps I'm old fashioned, but I like the feel of a pencil or paint brush in my hand, moving and flowing against a piece paper or a canvas, it's comfortable ... is that weird? I suppose, maybe a little, but artists are allowed to be eccentric, right? At least I'm trying, and digital work is at the very least, more convenient than lugging around an acrylic paint set and canvas or a giant tackle box of markers, and it is much less obvious to others, that I'm actually drawing, ahem, for obvious reasons. Makes life easier. I suppose I should keep practicing - they say practice makes perfect you know, and maybe one day I'll get the hang of it.
