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Homeschool Digital Art: What Equipment Do I Need?

What Equipment Do I Need to Create Digital Art?

iPad & laptop with text overlay. Adventures in Digital Art. Equipment for Digital Art. See the Light Shine Blog

What do you need to create digital art? As with any other kind of art, you need three things:
1. Something to draw with
2. Something to draw on
3. A medium
So how does that apply to digital art? In this week’s video, Jim reviews the equipment you’ll need to get started creating beautiful works of art digitally. 

Jim has also created a resource sheet that you can download here:

Adventures in Digital Art Resource Sheet – Equipment

 

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What you’ll learn…

The foundational skill of art is drawing.

Whether you’re using a pencil, pen, brush, or a piece of chalk, it’s all about drawing.

In your free lessons, you’ll learn…

…The basics of what makes a drawing
…What you need to have in your drawing “toolkit”
…The most essential skill of drawing
…How to synchronize your hand and your eyes
…The basics of composition

Digital Art: Why Go Digital?

Tired of buying a bunch of art supplies for your homeschool art class? Why not try digital art? The up-front investment is a little larger (but not as much as you might guess), but once you have a tablet, stylus, and software, you’re good to go. In this video, See the Light Artist Jim Pence introduces our new series, Adventures in Digital Art.

Over the next 9 weeks, we’ll give you an introduction to digital art, tools, apps, and fun things you can do as you explore this new medium.

Let’s ask the basic question first. Why go digital?

Landscape background with tablet. Text overlay: Adventures in Digital Art. Why Go Digital? How to Get Started in an Exciting New Medium! See the Light Shine

How to Draw Dramatic Skies with Chalk

Draw a Dramatic Sky with Chalk

Who doesn’t like to look up at beautiful cloud formations in the sky. But when we try to draw them, we often end up drawing celestial cotton balls. In this video, Jim shows how to draw clouds that look natural–and dramatic.

How to Draw Dramatic Skies in Chalk

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How to Draw a Beautiful Stylized Rose

Mauve background with a rose. Text overlay: Digital Art Projects. Draw a Stylized Rose. See the Light Art

About the Project

This week we’ll build on the skills learned in the Marigold Mandala lesson by drawing a stylized rose. In addition to working with the symmetry tool, we’ll learn how to use layers, lock transparency, and the airbrush tool to give our drawing some depth and dimension.

Lesson Objectives: 

Learn how to —

—add control to your coloring ability by using multiple layers, 

–lock transparency on individual layers to enable you to color different parts of your drawing independently,

–use the airbrush tool to add depth and dimension to your drawing,

–and tone your background to add “pop” to your drawing.

Resources Needed:

To create this project, I used Autodesk Sketchbook (sketchbook.com) with a Wacom Intuos Pro graphics tablet.

You can download Sketchbook free at: www.sketchbook.com

You can get a graphics tablet and pressure-sensitive stylus as low as $27 HERE

Content Guide:

Skip to the parts of the video you’re interested in:
  • Intro & Project Setup – 0:00
  • Draw the Rose – 3:55
  • Add Layers & Color – 5:46
  • Add Depth & Dimension with the Airbrush Tool – 14:48
  • Change the Line Art & Background Color – 20:46

Devotional Thought:

I just happened to do this project on Mothers Day weekend, and I guess that’s appropriate, since I drew a rose. I gave my wife roses for Mothers Day, and I imagine that quite a few other moms got roses or other varieties of flowers for their special day.

Have you ever wondered why we give flowers on special occasions, particularly when we want to express our love for someone? I’m sure there are many possible explanations, but I believe that we show love by giving the gift of beauty.

To behold beauty fills the heart with joy. That’s why I give my wife flowers. Because seeing those flowers fill her heart with joy. I believe this is also one way God shows his love to us. 

In his great high-priestly prayer, Jesus said, “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world” (John 17:24 NIV).

In another place, the psalmist prays that he might dwell in the temple all the days of his life, that he might, “gaze on the beauty of the Lord,” (Psalm 27:24 NIV).

What a gift God has given those who love him–the gift of seeing his beauty and glory. 

Christ in Gethsemane – Chalk Drawing

Hoffman's "Christ in Gethsemane"

Christ in Gethsemane painting by German Artist, Heinrich Hoffmann

One of the most famous Christian paintings of the 1800s is without a doubt “Christ in Gethsemane,” by a German artist named Heinrich Hoffmann. 

This painting has been reproduced and even copied by other artists time and time again.

As we celebrate Holy Week, we’re featuring some links where you can learn a little about this famous painting and the artist who created it. And we’re also featuring a time lapse video of See the Light’s chalk artist Jim Pence doing his version of Hoffman’s painting.

Scroll down for the links, and for Jim’s video, “Christ in Gethsemane.”

And have a blessed Easter.

He is risen! 

He is risen, indeed! 

For more information about Heinrich Hoffman and his painting, “Christ in Gethsemane,” visit the following links:

About the artist and the original:

http://www.heinrichhofmann.net/christ-in-gethsemane.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Hofmann_(painter)

http://art-now-and-then.blogspot.com/2014/07/heinrich-hofmann.html

Stories of reproductions:

http://jwsunionchurch.org/History-Highlights—Garden-of-Gethsemane-Altar-Painting-.htm

 

See the Light Art Class 9-DVD Boxed Set
Try 3 Free Lessons!

Download 3 video art lessons on us!

What you’ll learn…

The foundational skill of art is drawing.

Whether you’re using a pencil, pen, brush, or a piece of chalk, it’s all about drawing.

In your free lessons, you’ll learn…

…The basics of what makes a drawing
…What you need to have in your drawing “toolkit”
…The most essential skill of drawing
…How to synchronize your hand and your eyes
…The basics of composition