The interweb, talking into your phone to make a text message, Letting AI advise us. It’s all a bit overwhelming!
Technology is incredible. No longer do I have a stressful wait if someone doesn’t show up to our meeting, I don’t have to wonder if I got the time right, or if they’ve crashed. We can phone each other on “mobile phones”.
When I started my working life, invoices were written by hand and my accuracy was never quite good enough, to avoid the white-out!
At the same time, I am always wary. What parts of us, what tasks are so intrinsic to our humanity, that we lose ourselves if we blithely hand those responsibilities to computers?
Perhaps it is like everything in life. An ever adjusting and important grey area guided by our values.
Inspiration
David Hockney was the first artist I came across using an Ipad to make pictures. Stephen Bauman and Michael Klein made a podcast I found fascinating “Idiosyncratic Nightmare. What stood out for me was, high profile artists like Tania Rivilis and Steve Forster, saying how important using different mediums was in their work. That changing it up helped them pivot and grow their work.
I have felt a strong pull to try digital art even as I have reservations.
My reservations have been silenced by the amount of actual fun I am having!
Weirdly I find that the Ipad interferes less with my creativity.
One little pad and pen that I can do anything I want with. No longer do I need to choose one pencil and wonder where I dropped my eraser. Or arrange chairs around me to hold brushes, paint, water while I juggle my sketchpad.
With this little gadget I can just go! I hadn’t anticipated that it would enable me to draw from life so much more easily.
I was originally hoping it would let me make art without the rigmarole of trying to photograph and find the right format for recording, printing or making fabric/tshirts.
Below are some of the Ipad sketches I have done so far. Next on the list is to see if I can transfer these ideas to other mediums like oil and watercolour.
I’m so excited!!!
Results so far – from my #oneyeardrawingchallenge
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212 days of drawing- so far so good – Amy Wood Artist
