Digital Drawings
The Artist: Mark Walter Schultz
The Hands: Work Horse (right), Scar Face (left)
The Tools: Wacom Tablet, Wacom Pen (Stylus), Photoshop
Mark directs Work Horse and his stylus ever-steadily, hand drawing shapes that contain a single color produced by light hitting one exact time and space. Sometimes it’s the size of a pixel or hangnail; sometimes it needs the full length and width of his tablet. He draws the shape, whether angled or amorphous, its end always meeting its beginning. The selection is closed, lassoed. He adjusts the scale, if needed, zooms in for the ladybug’s view or out for the float plane’s view. (Scar Face knows the keyboard shortcuts well.) He declares the palette and selects each color, methodically, flooding each shape with its vibrant assignment. (These are the flat plains where each unique ink cocktail will find its home.)
Next to the last colored shape, another one is needed (because the light bathes that space differently, even if relative in hue). He continues, shape by shape, shadow by shadow, color by color, until the drawing reaches the graphic, yet realistic, portrayal of what his own mind’s eye can see—the view that brought him sheer pleasure or the experience that gave him a new way of seeing or thinking. Watching the result and sharing these with others brings a satisfaction that cannot find words, and so…he just keeps creating.