Creating A Composite Model
Because I do not create illustrations the way other (and much better) professional digital artists do I have to create what I call a composite model over which I then "build". I am not in any way a professional graphics artist and I have no academic education in digital arts. My approach is from the perspective of a traditional artist with experience in graphite, chalk, charcoal, ink, water colors and acrylics. Everything I do is self-taught and I attempt to make my work appear hand-drawn and/or painted. I want it to look imperfect. In my opinion, most digital art today is too clean and perfect. Nothing wrong with that at all, just not what I want. In some ways what I do is both the easy way and the hard way. Building a composite model is, for the most part, the easy way. When I was younger I could create with my hands, and if I could do that now I certainly would. I truly miss it. But I now have osteoarthritis and it gets worse every day. I know someday I will no longer be
