Xroads – Blue & Purple Abstract

• Year: 2025 (digital ver.)

Somewhere in the early 2000s when I was experimenting with various art styles, like the now branded Aetherscapes (which was just called lava-lam-stuff), came X-Roads: a blue and purple criss crossing sharpie drawing on plain ole computer paper.

I’ve always liked this one, but as with all my earlier stuff it wasn’t done on / with mediums meant to last. And up until recently, digitizing these more organic line drawings were a pain in the…

ANYWAY. Luckily I’ve been practicing with a digitizer tablet and used this as a major project to get y strokes in. Paired with Rebelle8’s brush engine, I got a decent looking digital painting out of it, and no cat’s paws in the paint dish.