the publisher’s corner Hello awesome artist’s! One of the coolest things I get to do as a publisher is to meet other artists. It always amazes me how much talent is out there silently creating incredible pieces of art. I am a life-long learner as are most creative people I have met. We tend to push boundaries, challenge processes and to be bored with the status quo. The pursuit of high quality education specific to digital art creation leads down many venues. I was always looking for a way to tap into a variety of top artists in our field but it became increasingly expensive to travel to conferences and workshops. Average expenses for a conference or a workshop always was about 2,500 dollars and took a week to ten days out of the studio. I was generally limited to two a year by time or monetary resources. A big challenge for me is always choosing which conference to go to and which conferences will I have to skip? Choosing between WPPI, PPA, State conferences, Photocon, IDMAA, NOTACON, ADAAF…..the list goes on ad infinitum. The choices are wide and varied but still rather pricey. Choosing between a large conference with a huge list of opportunities or a smaller more intimate workshop where I can dive deeper into a specific topic is also a big challenge. At Digital Art Creation magazine we like the idea of being able to study with a variety of artists for short intense periods of time. The 2013 Digital Art Summit gives us that opportunity. We have a really great line up of top artists that you can study, all from your own home. You can even watch all of them for less than two night’s hotel at a regular conference. An even bigger bonus in my opinion is that you don’t have to worry about taking all of the notes yourself. Each of these webinars is recorded and stored in the cloud so you can access them when you are ready to tackle the specific technique you were looking at. You can watch the webinars at your convenience at a later date even if you can’t make the original date of the recording. So I hope you enjoy this issue of Digital Art Creation. This is a special issue that is designed to get your creative thought process flowing. In the pages following you will see work from the amazing group of artist that will be presenting during this year’s Digital Art Summit. We have included the schedule of each artist in the table of contents; a description of each webinar and samples of their work is also included on each artist’s profile. All of the webinars will be at 8 PM Central and as mentioned they will all be recorded, the recordings are included with your tickets. Tickets are on sale now. Enjoy! Live happily, Love greatly and Laugh often. Tim
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PS-The book I published last month “From Pictures to Paintings” will be FREE for a 24 hour time frame either President’s Day or in the next few days after that. Please keep a look out for an email titled “Sweetheart of a Deal”. In that email I will let you know when the book is free. You also can look at the Amazon page to see if it is free.
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