Digital illustration vs. Illustration by hand

In this time when many of the things we do are directly linked to the virtual world, it costs a bit to think about staying out of this dynamic or being completely away from the internet and its derivatives.

Already in 2019, for whom we have time using the internet and digital technology as a work tool, it is essential to be a little updated or at least well informed about how to optimize our work.

And I say a little, because this world is infinite and we could spend more time updating ourselves than doing the work itself.

I speak in general, because not only in the field of the arts, but in every space (scientific, social, educational, etc ...) digital technology invades our practices more and more. And this should always be to improve what we do.

Knowing and knowing how to use these tools well we can optimize from our way of teaching something, if we are teachers, our technique in some musical instrument, even in the personal, emotional and psychological, because the internet is our great library at our fingertips.

With this I do not want you to think that we should supplant a quiet and pleasant visit to a bookstore or library, but yes, we have a range of possibilities very close to us in the field of training when we have access to the internet with conscience.

When I started drawing, I was starting this technological world or at least for me. And today I think that the best thing is in my case to combine the analog, the handicraft, the manual, the digital and the virtual.

Since everything in life is balance, I recommend that from time to time we read a physical book, then a post, not to leave aside the human, tangible, but also not turn our backs to technology, while as I mentioned above, it is to simplify, improve , add, add and not subtract.

In the project that I am currently working on, I decided to combine these two worlds and use as always the resources that I have at hand and continue investigating the techniques that I do not know, to put them into practice and grow more as an artist.

Here I leave part of my creative process:

And here the digital result (with almost no retouching to keep the original work).

The avatar were created with the application Bitmoji

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!Until the next post!