Digital Art

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For a few years, I participated in a weekly figure study group which met at a local studio on Tuesday around dinner time. In the beginning, I worked mostly in graphite or pastel, and then switched to using a digital tablet (a Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2) which required very little preparation.

My favorite app to use was ArtRage, which I discovered because a version came with my daughter's Wacom tablet which she used with her desktop computer. ArtRage is akin to having a whole art studio right at your finger tips (with none of the cleanup).

For a whole year, I played around making digital art with ArtRage, posting much of it on Instagram for #sketchuary and a little challenge a friend thought up, which she called #abstractmondays.

Then, a sad thing happened. The internal memory on my tablet became full, and although an external SD card could be used, ArtRage is unable to save to external memory.

Luckily, I have been able to upgrade to a Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga 14 (a Best Buy exclusive with the Wacom Digitizer and integrated stylus), so I will be able to make use of all the best digital art software available on Windows 10. I have already played with a 3D modeling app called Sculptris and printed the model I designed on our 3D printer.