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I’m working on a computer drawing today. What I love about drawing on the computer is that I get to add light tones over dark. That’s a treat and it’s actually more like painting than drawing. I’m using Painter and I don’t know it very well, so I just stick with the few brushes I’m familiar with and experiment with a new one every once in a while. I’m enchanted by how easy it is to create painterly strokes and amazed at how hard it is to draw a simple line with my digital tablet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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