Sketchable Artisan Spotlight: Don Seegmiller

“Sketchable has given me the ideal program to sketch, take notes, and draw while on the move.” Don Seegmiller is an accomplished and prolific artist in both the traditional and digital mediums. His subject matter varies from high end gallery work to filling sketchbooks with quick doodles. He accepts private commissions and has extensive contract and freelance illustration work. Any other time Seegmiller spends as faculty at Salt Lake Community College teaching traditional and digital art illustration classes.

Seegmiller describes his introduction to digital art with a memory, “walking into an art supply store and seeing a Volkswagon-sized computer in the corner of that store – it was amazing.” Though color was limited, and the output was on Polaroid film, he loved that anybody could create art with lines, basic shapes, and some gradients using a trackball to navigate the small screen. Though he could not then afford the machine, he has been at the vanguard of the profound changes in digital art for the last thirty years.

Sketchable appealed to Seegmiller due to its ease of use, its speed, and its ability to organize projects into virtual sketchbooks. He also remarks about Sketchable’s cost, “if you want a feature packed program for minimal price, you can’t go wrong with Sketchable.” Sketchable’s flexibility is also fully utilized by Seegmiller, where he uses it on multiple machines from his small school laptop to his huge home desktop.

While the speed of digital art will keep Seegmiller in the medium for the foreseeable future, he hopes to continue to hone his craft and become more creative because, as he states, “if an artist doesn’t become complacent then there is improvement in all facets of what they do.”