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.
The computer is a tool, just like pencil or charcoal, allowing illustrators to manipulate images from their sketchbooks.
Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
Drawing on a computer doesn't make any sense to me. It's not intuitive.
Being online works really well for any creative work, but especially comics.
I enjoy doing digital work. I enjoy sculpting digitally. I've had my digital sculptures on covers of the top digital magazines.
It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.
But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before.
In the digital future, texts will be annotated visually, animated and illustrated like never before. The austere 'prayer book' paper that permitted the space for Shepard's illustrations to Pepys' diaries is now being recreated in the digital era.
The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.
I'm impressed by the way some illustrators develop their images on computers, but it's too late for me to start, and I'm still in love with paper and paint and pencils.
My website's kind of fun for me. I get to do drawings on that. It's kind of fun.
I am really enjoying media arts and digital painting.
