My name is Charles Davis and I am a Massachusetts based Digital Artist, with a background in traditional fine art. I guess you could say I have the "TYPICAL" artist background; anything that made a mark was in my hands and eventually wound up making marks everywhere; paper, tables, walls, floors, myself and several times the ceiling! I am the proud father of three smart, happy and funny kids (girl, boy, girl) along with being a happy husband to a very wonderful and understanding wife.
I recently relocated to a small town about 2 hrs. west of Boston. Can you say "Cow Country"! I finally have my own office space/studio in a large house that is allowing me to "spread" out and start to get serious again with my illustration work.
I predominately paint digitally, using Adobe Photoshop, Corel Painter and a 12" x 12" Wacom tablet. The reason for this is, a few years ago, I developed a minor allergy to oil paints, which all but stopped me in my tracks with traditional painting. Over the years I have done an occasional water color or acrylic painting as a gift for family members, but I could not get back into painting.
About a year ago I acquired a used wacom tablet from a friend and started messing around in Photoshop. I had used a tablet in the past and was happy to see I did not have any problems picking it up again. My first official digital painting was soon produced and I was hooked! Since then I have been enjoying myself again. I got my drive back to paint.
In April 2007 I attended a Photoshop Seminar in Boston. I went to a class with Fay Sirkis *(a great artist), dropped a biz card into a hat and BAM! I won a brand new copy of Corel Painter X! WOW! Talk about lucky! I have played around with it some and all I can say is very nice.The first thing I noticed after briefly “painting” some color onto a new “canvas” was that the paint actually looked a little three-dimensional and you could see the brush strokes.
Talk about impressive, you can play with the paper surfaces as well as all of the traditional art mediums. All of the mediums react to the surface as they do in real life. Water colors spread and can be thinned, oils can be thick or thin as well as acrylics. There are pens, pencils, charcoal, pastels and many more, even crayons.
The truly best thing about digital painting, is how you can jump in, paint a little, jump back out and not worry about the paints drying or getting damaged in any way. You save along the way, make backups and you are good to go. I also like how with digital painting I am several steps ahead of the game when it comes to wanting to make prints. I don't have to worry about scanning in my artwork, or color correcting. I already have the file in digital format.
I graduated from Massachusetts College of Art in 1994, with a Bachelors Degree in Illustration. I have been doing freelance off and on since then. I have finally started to get really serious about my illustration, having been a Product/Graphic Designer for a large company north/west of Boston since 1999.
My mission is to achieve excellence in every project that carries my signature, a high quality-to-price ratio, high-impact and functional illustrations with my clients.
With each project I undertake, I work on a one-to-one basis with you, my client. There are no customer service or sales representatives involved, just the client and me. My clients are very important to me and I strive to satisfy all their illustration needs.