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Chris Buczinsky's avatar

I came to my art late, first getting a Ph.D in English, then studying art at night and weekends and every spare moment, and I have been flabbergasted by how skilled artists with incredibly energetic and distinctive styles whittle their work down to this common denominator of “acceptable” and “professional.” So EVERYTHING starts looking the same, pumped out slick, shorn of all quirk. This was an honest piece.

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Andy McNally's avatar

Loved the newsletter. Thanks for sharing.

It is the new eternal question.

I almost always start traditional with sketches and concepts and then finish digitally. That said, I did shift a few years ago from Adobe Illustrator to digital tools that let me create in a more analog manner.

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