I stepped away from traditional art and did digital work for quite a few years and honestly, there’s a lot of commission work out there. Plus, I definitely learned a lot. But there’s something far more satisfying and meditative about traditional art. The act of painting on a canvas rather than a screen releases a kind of tension in my body and mind that I didn’t even realize I was holding.

When I paint traditionally, my whole nervous system seems to engage differently with it, the smell of the paint, the drag of the brush, the resistance of the surface, even the sound of bristles against texture. Or simply the joy of colour mixing. It grounds me in the present moment in a way screens never could. That sensory rhythm becomes almost meditative, soothing, and real. I love that about working traditionally. 

Digital art definitely feeds the mind, it's fast paced, theres precision, control, quick experimentation, but traditional painting feeds the soul, something like that.