Gregg Webb did traditional art his whole life - as an illustrator, animator, and advertiser. Then late in life, he got into teaching drawing, and that was when he got to teach digital drawing and painting, and essentially teach it while learning the digital way. What he did was try to use the digital tools the best way for someone with a lot of drawing experience behind them.
And then Gregg retired from teaching, and when the pandemic hit, Gregg found he could draw digitally from home, and used the time to focus on cartooning, which digital drawing lends itself to, but after some time, he decided to try some more fine-artsy styles with the digital equipment. These are the first pieces of fine art Gregg came up with, with the digital process.
Lo and behold, not long thereafter, the A.I. method of "art" has emerged, and Gregg is not interested in learning to use that method. But he decided to record for posterity his valiant attempts to use digital drawing for fine art. Besides the pictures, Gregg has explained the development of digital drawing and painting, and how it is different from CG or computer-generated imagery, which has slightly less of the traditional "feel" than 2D digital drawing and painting. He himself didn't use 3D or CG but knew those who did and understands how it works, and he tells about it in this ebook.
No one knows the impact that A.I. will have on art, and probably few will even know or care that a big change has occurred. This little book will mark the end of an era of certain types of control by the human artist that will no longer exist very soon.
1st edition 2025, PDF 14 pages.
word count: 1790 which is equivalent to 7 standard pages of text
