Sydney Carter is a visual artist in the Boston area who enjoys drawing in pencil on paper and digitally on her tablet.
When she is not making artwork, she enjoys learning web design techniques to continue writing the code for this website.
Email carter@sydneycarterdraws.com for any questions about purchases, licensing, and business agreements.
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There are lots of art programs to use that are great depending on your application. For drawing and viewing things on a screen, Photoshop has worked great for me. The brush tool settings are great for drawing and digitally painting things that may have sharp or soft edges, for blending and layering colors together. I also sometimes use ProCreate, which can be a little bit better for sharper, more defined drawings. However, I'm experimenting with printing my artwork on solid objects now and I'm realizing the limitations of using pixel-based Photoshop and migrating toward Illustrator for vector graphic files. Printing photoshop images on mugs and paper, for example, can reveal the square pixels in the drawing depending on how large the image is that I submit to be printed. I can see the small little squares that give it a pointalistic effect that show an image that isn't fully filled in. With vector images, the lines scale without stretching out pixels so that images are much cleaner and solid when applied to objects off the original screen.
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This is an animation of a cat that I did in Photoshop and Animate. There were a few frames I didn't use, but I decided to not be too precious with it, and post it instead of extending the process. A good practice in enjoying the project and then letting go when I was at a good stage of completion.