Vanessa Brantley Newton: Digital Art, Best Practices.
This session is so much more than best digital art tips! Vanessa talks a bit about how she started to learn how to illustrate. She followed every possible illustrator and animator blog, did all of the Illustration Friday prompts. She copied her favorite artists like Sasek and Blair, but then adding her Vanessa interpretation. She works both traditionally and digitally, and is a perennial student in both. Vanessa stalks Youtube and still enrolls in things like Lilla Rogers classes. She tells us to make a lab for yourself, take a day to learn how to do something on Youtube and improve all your illustration weaknesses in this customized fashion. Paint your own textures and papers so you have your flavor in those textures and also so you don't need to rely on stock sites or worry about copyright. To Vanessa, the ideal is: You want to get to that point where people can't tell, even art directors, if it's digital or traditional. Dyslexia made Photoshop and Illustrator's compl...