Learning Digital Art

Digital art was leaving me behind! Or that was how it felt.

I had an iPad with the Procreate app installed for a few years before April 2023, but I never seemed to be able to make anything I liked with it. And I was satisfied with my analog art process and practices, so what was the point in learning to make art digitally?


Well, like most things, my curiosity got the better of me.
I had to know!!


I took a few classes on Skillshare and Domestika, but they were soooo frustrating because the instructors moved so fast, or the class had been filmed in an earlier version of Procreate, so I spent all my time hunting for the features.

But I had decided!
I wanted to learn Procreate, so I set forth on a 100-day project. The parameters were simple: 20 minutes each morning, to fill my tea mug, because I always have a mug of tea with me in the morning.

I was actually quite astounded at how my skill set grew in this area with only 20 minutes a day, but of course, as my skills grew, I was spending more and more time each morning on the project, and with no plan as to what to do with the images going for another 30 days felt silly - I had achieved what I set out to do!
(Which is code for I stopped at 70 days.)