Tomorrow, as part of the busiest year of Tech Art I've ever had, I'm speaking at the extraordinarily fabulous Digital Shoreditch festival. On what, I hear you ask? Um... well... guess :)
But, in case you do want a preview: I'm an artist. I wanted to be a traditional animator but found that the doors to that industry were shutting at an alarming rate as soon as I finished at College.
So I jumped into computer games, for 12 years, prior to becoming a graphics teacher, now in my 11th year.
I love touch screens as an art medium and firmly believe that phones, tablets and more can open up opportunities to create for the widest possible audience, which is a drum I've been banging at MCM Comics Expo, at London Super Comic Con, at BETT, at HTC Elevate, at Dell Future, at Teentech and, well, all over the place really...
The image above? Rainbow Quiffed Cat and the Glass Gorilla? Doodled, on a Surface using OneNote, in my shed after a long day at work. Because it's a glass screen, there's no friction, and it's how I wind down...
Tomorrow my intention is to speed through the why, show some awesome artwork from a range of amazing tablet artists, tell people which apps they could download and then, in fifteen minutes, walk people through the making of, possibly, their first piece of touch screen art.
But, in case you do want a preview: I'm an artist. I wanted to be a traditional animator but found that the doors to that industry were shutting at an alarming rate as soon as I finished at College.
So I jumped into computer games, for 12 years, prior to becoming a graphics teacher, now in my 11th year.
I love touch screens as an art medium and firmly believe that phones, tablets and more can open up opportunities to create for the widest possible audience, which is a drum I've been banging at MCM Comics Expo, at London Super Comic Con, at BETT, at HTC Elevate, at Dell Future, at Teentech and, well, all over the place really...
The image above? Rainbow Quiffed Cat and the Glass Gorilla? Doodled, on a Surface using OneNote, in my shed after a long day at work. Because it's a glass screen, there's no friction, and it's how I wind down...
Tomorrow my intention is to speed through the why, show some awesome artwork from a range of amazing tablet artists, tell people which apps they could download and then, in fifteen minutes, walk people through the making of, possibly, their first piece of touch screen art.