At this stage in my work I wanted to come back and review my digital illustration process, as it it something that is relatively new to me, it feel important to keep track of my outputs, and weigh up the pros and cons of this decision.
Firstly, I have no doubt that working digitally is the best way for me to (currently) create comic work. The process is much quicker, I'm able to be consistent in my pages that I don't feel I am quite able to achieve with pen and pencil yet.
I can feel my digital work becoming more authentic and second nature to me, though I know there is much to improve, my original sticking-point with moving to digital was losing the textures and movement and I feel like I am slowly overcoming that the more I practise.
However, I don't feel like thumb-nailing or dummy books will ever be anything other than hand drawn, the looseness and freedom to be messy with pencil on paper, and the inability to overcorrect work (Erasing and redrawing line after line, digitally) has led to some really great discoveries in movement that I have transferred over to the final digital pieces.
I find it difficult to see my work as professional in a digital sense, not something that people will hand on their call or take seriously as an "artist", whilst I am enjoying my work, and see many benefits to it.
I am also really aware that I am not using my sketchbooks anywhere near as often, and I want to get back into the habit of that. I want to improve my traditional practise, and so I am going to set time aside to fill my sketchbook pages, attend life drawing classes and generally draw more.
