{"id":3602,"date":"2020-02-28T15:09:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T15:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eu.shop.wacom.eu\/us\/?p=3602"},"modified":"2026-06-05T09:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:25:10","slug":"patrick-lamontagne-on-the-voices-that-hold-us-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/patrick-lamontagne-on-the-voices-that-hold-us-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick LaMontagne on the Voices That Hold Us Back"},"content":{"rendered":"Patrick LaMontagne is a Canadian editorial cartoonist and digital painter, and looking at examples of each, you would never guess they were done by the same person.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">As a cartoonist, he pokes fun at current events (I assume things happen in Canada) in a bright and simplified style.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3607\" src=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/02\/AlbertaTourism_waifu2x_art_noise3_scale_tta_1-1024x704.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"481\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/02\/AlbertaTourism_waifu2x_art_noise3_scale_tta_1-1024x704.png 1024w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/02\/AlbertaTourism_waifu2x_art_noise3_scale_tta_1-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/02\/AlbertaTourism_waifu2x_art_noise3_scale_tta_1-768x528.png 768w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/02\/AlbertaTourism_waifu2x_art_noise3_scale_tta_1-1080x742.png 1080w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/02\/AlbertaTourism_waifu2x_art_noise3_scale_tta_1-980x674.png 980w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/02\/AlbertaTourism_waifu2x_art_noise3_scale_tta_1-480x330.png 480w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/02\/AlbertaTourism_waifu2x_art_noise3_scale_tta_1.png 1164w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In his fine art, he paints animals, almost to the point of photorealism.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3604\" src=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/02\/818TOlb4F4L._AC_SL1500_-1024x788.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"539\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/02\/818TOlb4F4L._AC_SL1500_-1024x788.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/02\/818TOlb4F4L._AC_SL1500_-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/02\/818TOlb4F4L._AC_SL1500_-768x591.jpg 768w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/02\/818TOlb4F4L._AC_SL1500_-1080x832.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/02\/818TOlb4F4L._AC_SL1500_-1280x986.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/02\/818TOlb4F4L._AC_SL1500_-980x755.jpg 980w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/02\/818TOlb4F4L._AC_SL1500_-480x370.jpg 480w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/02\/818TOlb4F4L._AC_SL1500_.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And he\u2019s a Youtuber as well. In his most recent video, \u201cVoices,\u201d he goes over some of the most common examples of negative self-talk and internal objections artists deal with as he speedpaints a lemur on the Wacom One.<\/p>\n<iframe title=\"Voices\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PcBS7sNThTI?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\nYou\u2019ll have to stay with him through a rough beginning, though: The first two minutes are devoted to listing off some things that might be too close to home for many of us listening, but as you\u2019ve guessed, he then debunks them at the end, leading into the point that no matter what stage of your career you\u2019re at, they never go away.\n\nThis might make you fear for the future, but it can also be reassuring, especially for those of us who view ultra-talented artists as superhuman. It\u2019s easy to fool yourself into thinking that more established artists breeze through their careers with confidence and certainty, knowing everything they\u2019re doing is brilliant and they\u2019ll never hurt for job opportunities.\n\nUh\u2026 No. There are certain insecurities that never go away. But when you think about it, you\u2019ll realize that\u2019s because there\u2019s no set point where you suddenly deserve self-esteem. You already do.\n\nFinally, Patrick is also a prolific blogger, and as a companion piece, he was nice enough to write out a history of his relationship with Wacom tablets, culminating with his impressions of the Wacom One.\n\nThe TL;DR version:\n\nPatrick was a very early adopter to digital art. He got his first tablet\u2014a Wacom Intuos 1\u2014in 1998, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrierestarjournal.com\/life\/the-artwork-of-patrick-lamontagne-back-to-the-archives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">when he got his first cartooning job<\/a>. \u201cTo some, it seemed complicated, but to me, it seemed like a prosthetic limb I\u2019d been missing,\u201d he says.\n\nHe has no formal training and has never worked on canvas, instead experiencing every generation and iteration of digital art hardware and software.\n\nFor software, he mains with Photoshop, although he says he\u2019s \u201ctried them all.\u201d And for hardware, \u201ca Wacom tablet wasn\u2019t an option. It was a requirement.\u201d And the Wacom one, he says, is \u201cbetter than all of the tablets and displays I used for most of my professional career.\u201d\n\nThat\u2019s a bold claim, but we\u2019re happy to hear it.\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">About the (Other) Author<\/h3>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1841 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/07\/CS_Jones_avatar-150x150.png\" alt=\"CS Jones\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/07\/CS_Jones_avatar-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/07\/CS_Jones_avatar-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/07\/CS_Jones_avatar-480x482.png 480w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/07\/CS_Jones_avatar.png 595w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>CS Jones is a Philadelphia-based freelance writer and illustrator. He spends his spare time listening to Spotify and falling down Youtube rabbitholes. His work is best seen at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thecsjones.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thecsjones.com<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/thecsjones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@thecsjones<\/a>\u00a0on Instagram.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist Patrick Lamontagne goes over some of the most common examples of negative self-talk and internal objections artists deal with as he speedpaints a lemur on the Wacom One.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2318,2317,2342],"tags":[446,146,29,447,448,449,297,450,298,97,410],"class_list":["post-3602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-inspiration","category-digital-drawing-painting","category-wacom-one","tag-confidence","tag-digital-painting","tag-inspiration","tag-lamontagne","tag-lemur","tag-mentality","tag-painting","tag-patrick","tag-patrick-lamontagne","tag-photoshop","tag-wacom-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}