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I started digital painting as a way to give my wife gifts without having to spend money. I started by sending cartoony things, but had a breakthrough when I saw a CNN story about a guy who made photorealistic paintings on an iPad. They showed a time lapse video of the process and I realized that it started out as a mess and got progressively better.

“I can do that,” I thought.

This was my fifth try:

https://youtu.be/watch?v=HnhMgtO15Pk

https://youtu.be/watch?v=xcvfL0BbLD0

I did some paintings of dogs for friends, too. But in the end I felt I am not talented enough— I can do it but it takes many many hours per painting. Also I somehow don’t feel like it is art.



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