BETA YOURSELF DIGITAL ART
Smartphones and tablets provide access to a world of artistic expression without turning your home into a paint-spattered shambles. Craig Grannell gives us the broad brush strokes…
THE BASICS
■ Learn your tools
Artists spend years mastering physical tools, and things are no different in digital – so don’t expect to pick up how every brush or app feature works immediately. To begin with, create documents akin to scraps of paper or canvas; then experiment making marks, blending them and seeing how virtual mediums interact, with no overriding goal other than to play.
■ Don’t overdo it
With powerful digital art packages it’s tempting to revel in special effects and brushes, spraying a variety of textures all around your canvases. If you’re very fortunate, you’ll create a masterpiece. More likely, you’ll make a gaudy and incoherent mess. So exercise restraint, subtly adding effects only where necessary.