Roses
Digital painting created with a digital pen — an idea from my imagination, created without a model or reference. I used the digital pen as if it were a paintbrush.
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Dear Sabryna,
Roses are a flower—and a subject—that I really love; ever since I was young, I have explored depicting them, whether through painting or photography. I began by studying the use of the digital brush in Photoshop, which eventually led me to create several paintings using this medium.
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That long apprenticeship with roses, studying them across mediums, that changes how a symbol reads. The digital work isn't separate from the paintings then, it's the same conversation continued.
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You worked this without a reference. That means every decision about where those petals turn, where the light falls, came from inside your head and the feel of the pen moving. That's the atmospheric version of painting, building a mood out of nothing but the idea of roses, not copying what's in front of you.
The way you talk about using the digital pen as a paintbrush, that tracks with how you describe your work in general: spur of the moment, a feeling, symbolic rather than literal. Roses already carry so much weight as a symbol. What feeling were you chasing when you started this one?
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The move here is leaving reference behind entirely. You're not anchoring the image to what roses actually look like, you're letting the pen build what the idea of roses feels like from memory and pressure. That's closer to how mood works than how copying works. The atmosphere you landed on came from the decision not to look at anything while you made it.