do you have any tips for transitioning from digital painting to traditional painting?

I actually did the reverse haha!! I started out doing inks and watercolors, and only started digital art in college. And then I got into acrylics, and now I’m learning oils!

I think overall, my biggest challenge is that I struggle learning shortcuts in digital art that could speed up my process or make it significantly easier; I should sit down to learn these, because there are so many cool effects out there that I’d love to use in my art without struggling to do it “manually”.

The flip side of that is that I use a lot of traditional art techniques in my digital art that people have noticed and appreciated: glazing layers of “paint” with transparent brushes to create color depth, crosshatching with pencil brushes to shade, focusing on creating texture, etc.

But my personal biggest tips for both digital and medium art are: don’t get too focused on the details, zoom out and focus on overall cohesion; negative space is your friend, use it to carve out the focus of your composition; study your shapes, balance your organic and geometric elements to create compositional interest.

But yeah basically, everything you do to make art feeds into all the other ways you make art!!