PATHS Forward - Dakshita Dehalwar

The main answer that comes to mind is the fact that I'm a digital artist.

And in this day and age, that does not mean AI artists.

I just want to make that clear.

I'm very anti-AI.

But I mean digital artists in the sense that I use digital drawing or photography or programs as a method or like a medium to draw with, I guess.

So that means, you know, I did like I was drawing on Photoshop for a while, you know, and I think I started my digital art journey like seven years ago.

But...

That is the main way technology comes to mind.

So my dad is a computer science engineer.

I mentioned that already.

So obviously I grew up with like technology around the house always.

And I feel like I've always been pretty tech savvy when I like discovered, you know, my love for art and everything.

And I'm like, oh, I want to do illustration.

I obviously wanted to get like a digital art tablet.

So I got my first digital art tablet like I think in grade eight when I was and it was a secondhand one.

I still have it back at home.

It works great with like a Wacom Intuos.

God, I don't remember the other model name, but it was a Wacom Intuos, an old one.

And I started my digital art journey with that.

Obviously, like, my dad wasn't going to buy me a paid art program, so I had to use one of the free ones.

Medibang Paint, shout out to you for pulling me through the hard times, you know? So...

That's how I started my digital art journey and like slowly, but surely it started to like evolve.

And then, you know, I ended up getting an iPad in like 2020 and which I bought today with me actually to show you some of my old stuff.

And yeah, I I realized I drew so much back in those days.

I feel like I don't draw enough now.