Ever since I was younger, I have loved to draw. Drawing with crayons, pencils, markers, pretty much anything I could get my hands on. I used to create picture after picture of the most random nonsense for my mom to hang on our refrigerator. After taking this course, I realize that all those years of drawing prepared me for Digital Art. I know that sounds crazy but if it weren't for my ability to just jump into something with no plan on how it is going to turn out, I don't know what my work that I have created this class would have turned out to be. Digital Art allows you to explore millions of options on how to create something and in order to get things right, you have to just mess around until you find what works.
I am very appreciative for this course because it has allowed me to get my feet wet with Adobe Illustrator. I have always been a Photoshop fan and completely ruled out Illustrator because it always seemed so complicated to me. After making our watercolor portraits and the success that I had with it, I want to explore more with Illustrator and see what else I can create using that program. I always just thought it was for making boring flyers and posters but now I know that Illustrator can be used to digitally paint masterpieces and is another program I can use to expand my portfolio.
I know for a fact that after this course I will continue with Digital Art. Being a Design Studies major, I know I have to continue to take drawing and sculpture classes but I plan to load my courses with as much digital studies as I can. I am so drawn to the idea of having endless possibilities with the digital programs that I now know how to use. I am not the best painter or drawer but by using digital art programs, that no longer matters. Hopefully in my future, I will have a career that calls for most of my work to be done on the computer because I feel like that is where my artist hands best fit.
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