I apologize in advance for any missing 's's, my keyboard seems to miss them sometimes, especially at the end of words. So any weird singular forms where it should have been plural are probably with the courtesy of my keyboard.
I realized today I had to point out a few things. Starting with:
Yes, ALL PICTURES on this blog are made by me, with pencil, paint, computer or otherwise, unless stated explicitly.
Right. Now you don't have to ask anymore whether I drew all this. I did. Thank you for your faith.
So much for the snarky comments. Now for something not entirely different: the labels.
They might be confusing.
I thought they sounded really nice, all ending on "kiwi", but it might actually be not all that clear what the categories precisely entail. The words (up to now) in front of "kiwi" are either a mood, or state I was in while writing or drawing, or a description of used materials. In a few cases, it explains the state of the picture or the time when it was made.
The ones I want to point out, because they might cause questions, are: "pre-kiwi", "wip-kiwi", "digital-kiwi" and "manipulation-kiwi". I think the others are pretty straightforward.
"Pre-kiwi" means: a picture that has been made before this blog was created. Not a picture created before I existed ;).
Sometimes I like to browse through older pictures and find something yet unpublished, but publishable.
"wip-kiwi" is an abbreviation of "work-in-progress". When you know that, it explains itself.
"Manipulation" and "digital" are two terms that are (in my eyes) very closely connected. "Manipulation" refers to "photo-manipulation", which I do in photoshop sometimes (for the lulz). It's possible to imagine photo-manipulation done by hand, but since I do not own a analog camera nor a darkroom I prefer a computer. So my photo-manipulations are 'always' digital. Furthermore, by 'photo-manipulating" I mean creating a new picture from multiple photos and/or techniques like airbrushing, changing color, and the liquefy tool.
Which brings me to my next, and final, term: "digital". First and foremost it means: made on the computer. But without the "manipulation" label, it's NOT photo-manipulation. I've got a very nifty tool on my desk, a tablet:
It enables me to paint in programs like Adobe Photoshop or Corel Painter, just like one would paint on paper (okay, it takes some practice). Which means that everything that is not a manipulation, is still drawn, only with digital ink.
The reason I'm explaining this? Because many people believe "drawing on the computer" means "cheating by manipulation photos" or "so easy even monkey could do it and produce high-standing, super-realistic art". Both are quite insulting to me and other artists who work with the computer. It's not a magic medium, it ain't "tricks".
Please believe me when I tell you that anything I draw digitally is drawn in the same way as it would have been on paper: no photos have been drawn over and no "tricks" have been used.
Soo, uhm, yes, that were more slightly snarky comments, but as you can guess, this digital-misunderstanding hits me pretty hard. Anyway, I hope I've cleared up a few things.
