FAQ

Questions About Digital Art

• How did you learn to create digital art?

  I am mostly self-taught though I do read the odd tutorial when I am able and often browse digital art forums for new tips and tricks to improve my techniques. I’ve also learned the valuable lesson of asking for help when I need it. Thanks to Facebook and the 3D art community’s openness to friend everyone in our little community, I am able to ask a great number of very talented people for help when I need it most. If there had been a place to study in my area, such as a university that taught this subject, I would have gladly studied when I was starting out. Unfortunately, I live in a rural area so there wasn’t anywhere for me to go. I honestly had no choice but to be self-taught.

• How long have you been a digital artist?

  I purchased my first copy of Paint Shop Pro in 1997 and my first copy of Poser (version 4) in 1999. I started creating 2D graphics with Paint Shop Pro as soon as I learned the interface. For a time, I offered free decorative website graphics not long after I got my first at-home internet connection in 1998 or 1999. Poser took a lot longer to learn and I didn’t publish my first “presentable-enough” art piece until 2003.

• Can you teach me to create digital art?

  Not one on one, I’m sorry. I am planning on writing and recording some tutorials very soon. Stay tuned to the News page for updates.

• What software do you use for your art?

  I currently use Poser 13 and Photoshop CC as my main tools. I also use BlackSmith3D 7 Pro as needed along with a plethora of Photoshop plugins. I am attempting to learn some newer programs but it’s slow going because I’m rather stuck in my ways of using what I already know and enjoy.

• What sort of PC hardware to you use to render with?

  The desktop PC that I use is one that I built myself with the best and most powerful components that I can afford. I usually buy one component at a time when they are on sale and slowly improve my PC over time as I am able to. My current PC build was last overhauled in mid-2020 but I am always adding new components when I can. I currently have an AMD RYZEN 7 3700X 8-Core 3.6 GHz (4.4 GHz Max Boost), 32 GB of DDR4 SDRAM, and a Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 GPU with 12GB of memory along with a lot of hard drive space and plenty of cooling fans.

• Will you create something for me?

  Maybe. Contact me and we’ll see what we can work out.

• Is any of your art AI based?

  Hell no! All of my art is original and created with digital 3D models for which I have the license to use and then postworked with 2D painting techniques. Nothing here is a derivative of AI “art” which is based on stolen images taken from all over the internet for the AI to “learn”.