I recently bought an iPad and Apple Pencil and have been trying my hand at digital landscapes. I have no idea where this is going to take me, but I’m having a lot of fun trying out different techniques and styles.
Because my iPad is so convenient, I’ve been able to get more art-making done during the week using moments when I might not have serval hours to really get into an oil painting or don’t feel like lugging my whole painting set-up to a park. Instead I can easily draw at home or bring it with me to the park hassle free. For me, digital art isn’t a replacement for oil painting, but another way to make art when I don’t have the time to paint.
Although digital art is in the headlines these days because of NFTs, I won’t be making NFTs myself because of the environmental damage these cause (they require tons of energy to maintain). Instead, my hope is that I can get good enough at making digital landscapes that people might be interested in my work in other contexts - for the web, as prints or in other ways I haven’t even thought of.
Here are some of the digital landscapes I’ve made since I got my iPad this February:
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