Unexpected fun in finding things…

I guess it’s a way of the looking at the world

It’s so fun learning about digital art… and all the fun to be found. I redid this piece about 5 times… and what did I use for the textured background? It was a photo of the dusty top of a glass bus stop… of course.

And cement textures are a rich source of digital files… I have a whole library of textures of broken cement blocks in photoshop files.

I used to wake up and thank heavens for Photoshop back then. Making layers can be magic…

And now all of basic Photoshop is freely available online in Photopea. https://www.photopea.com/

And making books or just art is all a bit of a chance… maybe it’ll work, maybe it won’t.

I suppose it’s getting there is the fun part. And one of my favorite things is to ask the librarian to put your books in their library. So they’ll always be there… waiting for a reader to arrive. Maybe they’ll arrive some day… maybe they won’t. But the books will be there, waiting.

So is making artwork in books a path to eternity?

It was actually a thoughtless publishing error that made me learn digital art.

I had done a book, and when the finishes were sent in, only after that, I was instructed to make more pages of changes… which isn’t supposed to happen after an artist is done painting an already approved book. I was instructed, on a whim, to move the characters several inches over to the left or right… change one rabbit character into a squirrel and so on.

I was so miffed at having to start over totally, and do half the book over again, after it was finished, that I made a vow to learn photoshop… and so I did. And it’s important that anyone learn the basics of digital art, I’d say. So now it was practically effortless to drag the characters around on a whim.