There are those around today who disapprove of using the tools of the 21st century to create what their mind’s eye sees. They think everything was better in the “good old days”. Those who think that need to understand that their “good old days, were stifling for some and downright bad for many others.

I don’t intend to make this post about your perception of the past, but instead I want to open your mind to at least understand that using recently invented tools to make your creative days better is not a bad thing.

These thoughts remind me of the times when you never saw photography in museums. Using a camera to capture a scene was considered taboo. If it wasn’t drawn or painted by hand it was fake. Fortunately those days are over. After Ansel Adams and his camera showed the world that cameras could capture the very essence of creativity photo slowly invaded that treasured space.

Today, we seem to be fighting that same war when it comes to digital apps. Too many people think that these apps simply put out images on their own whim. I see them as providing a useful tool in creating what my mind’s eye sees.

In that light, I recently started up a new blog entitled RJsDigitalDoodles.net Click on that name to go there. Since this site uses digital apps to create doodles that are captured in my mind, many of the purists will certainly label all the work I put there as fake.

I can tell you that these digital apps don’t do anything that I didn’t make them do. Yes, they have many small widgets and such to make the lines any size, width, and color that my mind’s eye sees, but to say they create my doodles is like someone saying that a person who uses a pen and paper that the pen made the image, not them.

With that off my chest, take a look at my new site and let me know what you think. Click HERE to do that.