I'm learning to draw all over again. When you engage in the arts of the 21st Century, you must qualify by combining all that happened in the past with what is happening in the present. The game Janet and I are working in, Emeralda, requires that you know things about digital arts, and one is How to Draw.
As a professor of 20th Century art I had it all down--drawing from the "natural" way to draw (Nicolaides) to formulaic drawing (perspective) to mechanical drawing (drafting). You name it, I professed to know about it and I could get by in a drawing class either as a teacher or student.
Digital drawing is that and more. In my routine exercises I not only have to manage my software and hardware (Photoshop, Wacom tablet) I also have to connect with my database and storage and retrieval scheme; and all this must fit into Emeralda. I must qualify, in other words, to get into Emeralda and the electronic Artist Trading Card (eATC) is my entry ticket.
This morning I added a video--Dusty Welcomes You--from a 2001 exercise in making DVDs. To qualify to play Emeralda, in the printmaking world, this I had to do.
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