Jes Deprez is a local artist with a distinct art style. She focuses on doing both digital art and more traditional art and enjoys the fluidity of being able to bounce between them.

“I oscillate between both digital and traditional art. When it comes to digital, I use programs like Procreate, and then I also will do vector artwork for my day job. When it comes to traditional pieces, I do watercolor a lot, and then gouache. I’m starting to dip my toe, actually, into acrylic again. I haven’t touched it since high school, so it’s been a really fun journey so far,” she said.

She doesn’t necessarily have a favorite art style, as each are unique and able to convey what she wants in a certain way, but she does have favorite parts about each style she uses.

“I have certain brushes in Procreate that I love just because it’s started to become part of my recognizable style, of this very strong, even line, it’s called a monoline, but then I break it up with these dashes and dots that I choose where they get put. It’s not the brush or program deciding where they get put, so that’s probably one of my favorite things to do digitally,” she explained. “Honestly, when it comes to doing traditional, I really like gouache. It is finicky; you do one tiny thing wrong, and you’re like, okay, well, it’s not like watercolor where you can do a little bit of fixing, and then you just go with it because of the chaos. No, gouache is like, once it’s down, it’s down, and now you have to figure something out. Because of that, it provides a fun challenge, which is the thing that I find I really like when it comes to art. Constantly looking at what it is I want to communicate and then approaching it, not as a problem, but as what can I do as a solution to the communication is what I like to do.”

Jes Deprez is a local artist with a distinct art style. She focuses on doing both digital art and more traditional art and enjoys the fluidity of being able to bounce between them.

“I oscillate between both digital and traditional art. When it comes to digital, I use programs like Procreate, and then I also will do vector artwork for my day job. When it comes to traditional pieces, I do watercolor a lot, and then gouache. I’m starting to dip my toe, actually, into acrylic again. I haven’t touched it since high school, so it’s been a really fun journey so far,” she said.

She doesn’t necessarily have a favorite art style, as each are unique and able to convey what she wants in a certain way, but she does have favorite parts about each style she uses.

“I have certain brushes in Procreate that I love just because it’s started to become part of my recognizable style, of this very strong, even line, it’s called a monoline, but then I break it up with these dashes and dots that I choose where they get put. It’s not the brush or program deciding where they get put, so that’s probably one of my favorite things to do digitally,” she explained. “Honestly, when it comes to doing traditional, I really like gouache. It is finicky; you do one tiny thing wrong, and you’re like, okay, well, it’s not like watercolor where you can do a little bit of fixing, and then you just go with it because of the chaos. No, gouache is like, once it’s down, it’s down, and now you have to figure something out. Because of that, it provides a fun challenge, which is the thing that I find I really like when it comes to art. Constantly looking at what it is I want to communicate and then approaching it, not as a problem, but as what can I do as a solution to the communication is what I like to do.”