Digital Art - Baby Steps 1

I've had some time the last few evenings to play around with the new Wacom Intuos tablet and Corel Painter Essentials 6, the free software that came with the tablet.

The picture below is the very first thing I have ever done, which is to follow along with a YouTube tutorial introducing the features of Corel Painter Essentials by way of a follow-along "paint a mountain scene."

Mountains -  A beginner tutorial follow-along

It's not high art by any means, but it's a passable pseudo-impressionist painting. I've seen worse.

The biggest challenge was to keep moving along and resist the temptation to keep stopping and trying to fix things.

Baby steps. But you have to start somewhere.