Hand Drawn Digital Artwork

Melissa Milton hand draws digital art on a computer tablet surface using an Apple pencil. The artistic techniques she’s learned doing hand drawn digital art have been very helpful when she later uses traditional liquid paint as a medium. Hand drawn digital art has more in common with hand drawn or hand painted art than many people might think. You learn to mix colors, learn different types of brush strokes, learn about layering, learn about thinning out pigments into a glaze, and of course get to practice, practice, practice.

Even when she is painting with traditional liquid paint on a canvas, or sculpting with clay, Melissa typically begins each her piece by hand sketching it out on her computer tablet. This is how she creates her object composition and how she selects her color palette, even with artwork that is to be created from traditional media.

The originals of Melissa’s 100% digital art pieces are actually bits & bytes inside a computer. To turn them into tangible art prints, Melissa prints her hand drawn digital art onto archival quality canvas and paper in her art studio. She uses long lasting pigment inks archival quality canvas & paper which, to the ink manufacturer (Canon), have color quality that should not fade for a minimum of 60 years.