My Baseball Guy

I am posting my practice digital paintings so that everyone can see my progress in my art as I get back into it after a long hiatus.  This is my baseball guy (because he looks like he could be a baseball player) digital painting.  Art has been a passion for a long time, but with life events getting in the way I sort of just dropped it all for a while.  I also have other things that I consider hobbies and just let slip through my fingers.  So now I am active online posting my newest art adventures.  Learning how to paint digitally is difficult to say the least when you have to learn an art software that you have never seen before, lol.  Now I know more about it and am having a better artistic experience.  I also use Medibang which I thought would not be as good as Krita.  Medibang has features that Krita doesn't have and vice versa.

I am having fun seeing how they both can contribute to my art experiences and helping me gain skills in digital art.  I always did art the traditional way before when I had time for it.  Digital brings more to the table for me since the programs have free versions, loving that.  It allows me to learn and when it is more affordable I can get a paid version to enhance my experience.  The online world moves at a fast pace and for that I am glad so I can take advantage of it every step of the way.

What is your art experience?  what are the types of art that you like most?  These kind of questions made me think deeply about how art can contribute to society.  I like fine art but now I am getting more into comics as a way to learn a different form of art, meaning that I must always reach deeper inside of myself to not give up again.  I am choosing something new and that is difficult but I really want to stick with it this time.  There are so many demands on our time these days.

The way that I believe my art can contribute to society is by creating clean content and art.  There is not enough of this in our society and children are growing up learning the most inappropriate things for their ages by having access to online sites.  Good thing there is such a thing as parental controls on our devices.  I hope parents are using them. 

Getting back to the topic of art, I just really want to show that art can be fun and clean at the same time.  Even Disney has become very questionable.  In my opinion, as a believer in the scriptures, I don't think kids should be exposed to it.   Every parent must decide and they don't have it easy.  This is part of why I am pursuing art in a comic format.  I want to do animation, however, my art skills need great improvement for that.  Everyone gets better over time.

Let me know in the comments section how your art journey is coming along.  Till next time and thanks for reading.