Digital art gets a bad rap from some people. I’m regularly told I can’t enter my art for competitions or excluded from exhibiting because it has been produced digitally. I certainly don’t get the same social media validation as other artists.

There’s a sense that somehow it isn’t authentic, that it isn’t as good as ‘hand-made’ art using traditional media. It isn’t ’proper art’ , it’s faked or cheating.

Now, I know that some art has been done using AI, but that is a different thing all together. That is produced entirely by the computer, whereas this is still done entirely by hand. To show my process, I have uploaded a time lapse of a drawing I did on my iPad using my Apple pencil. I hope you can see that I still render everything using the same traditional skills I have honed for over forty years.

The difference is that, whereas I used to have to draw or paint everything first, then photograph or scan it, then do post-production Photoshop work, I can now go straight to print from my iPad. And, I have a whole toolbox of art materials to choose from. I

hope you like what I’ve produced, and I hope the fact that it is a digital work of art doesn’t put you off.