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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Happy New Year! I made this animation today. I drew the sun, earth, and text and saved them as png files with transparent backgrounds. Then, I imported them into my animation software and placed them on different layers. I put the earth and the words on motion paths to capture the movement of my little toon.