![]() Illustrator Bristle Brush (for Untapped Cities) Now that tilt and swivel supported as well, I can paint and draw directly into Photoshop and Illustrator with astounding control and nuance. Over the next few years I drew portraits at trade shows with numerous tablets and ever-evoloving software including SuperPaint, Pixel Paint, Image Studio, Oasis, and ColorStudio.įast forward to the present where Wacom has established their line of pressure-sensitive tablets as the artists’ tools of choice. After initially having to draw into the computer with Etch-a-Sketch-like joysticks of the Apple II, the cursor-keys of the IBM-PC, and the early Mac mouse (which was likened to “drawing with a bar of soap”), I was hired by Summagraphics in 1985 to draw portraits at trade shows using their MacTablet. Our input controls have also evolved in leaps and bounds. ![]() And so in the same period in which I’ve filled more than 100 sketchbooks, my digital tools have evolved from visible pixels, into highly responsive, sophisticated high-resolution drawing and painting with Photoshop and Illustrator. I’ve long said that I believe that Undo was one of the great inventions of the 20th century the undo safety net makes us more daring-and therefore better-artists. And for most of those years, as I move through the world I’ve carried along a miniature sketchbook and a handful of pencils. ![]() ![]() For just over three decades my time has been split between creating art on, and off, the computer.
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