New beginnings
This year I have begun a new journey - digital drawing. I have been inspired by a number of students who I have seen in classes this year drawing with digital tablets. I began this journey by doing a Yoobee online course: Introduction to Illustrator, as I have hardy used Illustrator, and when I did it was late 90s or early 2000s. Here are a couple of the drawings I did when I was trying out different drawing methods in Illustrator during that course. These are drawn using the mouse, so you can see they are pretty chunky. Laughing Owl, Extinct Piwakawaka - Flying Fantail Shag at Waikawa Bay You can probably see already that my favourite theme to explore in Art at the moment is New Zealand birds. I am especially interested in endangered birds and conservation matters, but also like working from my own photos of different birds we come across when out and about in this beautiful country. So far I have also tried out some drawings using Autodesk Sketchbook Pro on a Sa