Buffy Sainte-Marie Quotes

The computer is a tool, just like pencil or charcoal, allowing illustrators to manipulate images from their sketchbooks.

I have the standard cartoonist setup, which is one of those Cintiq tablets, and a laptop. If I'm mostly writing code, I'm on the laptop, and if I'm mostly drawing, I'm on the Cintiq.

People who draw tend to think they're craftsmen, so they really want to hang onto their pens and papers, but it's not terribly productive. To be honest with you, it's faster and easier to start with the computer.

The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.

It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.

We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor.

I use the computer as a paintbrush. It enables me to do in hours what would have taken months.

My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.

Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.

I do a lot of CG stuff for fun.

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive.

I draft on the computer. I have a really giant screen that attaches to my laptop, and then I have a humongous digital drawing tablet called a Cintiq. It sits at all different angles, and it's so big that it would take two people to move it.

I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.

I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.

I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore.

But boy, right away it is fun to play around with the Paintbox program.

I've always been thinking in three dimensions, ever since I started working with computer animation in the early '80s.

Drawing on a computer doesn't make any sense to me. It's not intuitive.

MS Paint was my creative outlet for many years.

I think comics are faster to draw with a pen and then fill and tone by computer. But my illustrations are all done via computer. I even draw the lines on a tablet.

I'm not much of an art guy but I really do love Shelby and Sandy's work - they look like they're made on a computer but they're hand-painted.

I do all my coloring on PhotoShop - it's good and bad: It helped refine my color, but I do miss the texture and organic quality of the traditional.

My iPhone has always been my sketchbook.

When Photoshop came around, I thought I'd died and went to heaven. When I hear artists say, 'Oh, the good old days' or 'I'm old school,' I just want to puke. There's no tool I won't use.