Artrage and photodirector

Posted on May 28, 2020May 28, 2020 Posted in Uncategorized, Sketching, CatTagged Art, Drawing, Sketching, Cat, Illustration, Fun, Life, Artrage oils, Black and white, Picture, PhotodirectorLeave a comment

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Drawn in artrage oils and edited in photodirector changing the colours and style.

This is what I mean about playing with are, yes this is a scrappy sketch, but it’s my scrappy sketch, amended and changed how I want. I would love to illustrate a book using a style like this. I could imagine creating pictures about a crazy cat in a children’s book.

I was once offered the opportunity to illustrate a book but the publishers woukd only allow the author to use an in house illustrator. I was very disappointed as I think I could have created a different atmosphere by working with her. Oh well….

Digital urban sketch

Posted on April 25, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Artrage, Artrage oils, Drawing, Footwear, New challenge, Shoes, Sketching, Urban sketchers Stoke on trent2 Comments

Today’s challenge for usk Stoke was to draw my favourite footwear.

I don’t own many pairs of shoes. I’ve got these banana yellow ones, but I haven’t worn them in yet.

This drawing was done on an app called ArtRage. I got the pro version last year as a birthday present.

The drawing is difficult because the colours mix on screen and it’s a bit like painting in liquid butter with a stick, as I was using a stylus. I found getting the size of pens, pencils, or brushes hard, as the size goes from very small, to smallish!

Anyway after faffing about for a while I managed to get a reasonable representation.

Purple swan

Posted on April 4, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Doodle, Fun, Play, Purple, Sketch, SwanLeave a comment

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This was a drawing experiment a few years ago. It was an ArtRage oils drawing, using colours then mainly the dry marker to subdue the strength of the original brushes. You can use a sliding scale to alter the brush sizes and strength of the metallic colours, so sometimes the colours look shiny and other times matt. It’s worth playing with different tools in apps, it increases your knowledge. I’ve found some apps really difficult to use, especially if I don’t use them very often. But I will modify what I do, and play around with things to see what results I get. I end up with a series of images, then edit out ones I don’t like. Sometimes I keep all of them so I can show how my work progresses.

Cheers x

Playing

Posted on April 3, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Ball of wool, Cat, Doodle, Drawing, Life, ThinkingLeave a comment

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Grab a stylus and doodle your cat. I used ArtRage oils to draw this. I didn’t have enough memory on my phone so I deleted it, but I’ve uploaded it onto another device. So maybe I can get on and do a few more digital drawings.

Lockdown, I hope it means I will be doing more art, if I can get my mojo back.

Does being shut for the duration mean you’ve lost yours too or are you being brilliantly creative?

Stay indoors, stay safe…. X

Pigeon drawing

Posted on March 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Courses, Design, Digital drawing, Drawing, Fun, Illustration, LearningLeave a comment

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I think this was from 2016, its a drawing usin th ArtRage oils app. I’m trying to find out about an illustration course I can do on line. It is probably too late for me to do it, I don’t know if there is any funding available, but I need to use my brain! Once this corona virus has gone I want to free my mind. I love drawing and experimenting, so why not?

So then I drew a dragonet

Posted on February 27, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Artrage oils, Digital drawing, Dragnet, Dragon, egg, Fun, Ideas, Illustration, Picture, SketchLeave a comment

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Another four year old picture from my memories. Another one done in ArtRage. Just a bit silly and fun. I think it started out as an attempt to draw an egg, then I got a bit creative. I’ve illustrated a book before, and this could be used for that sort of thing.

Drawing from your imagination is more difficult because you have to have an idea of what you are drawing in your head. I often describe what I’m drawing to myself so that I have an idea of how to depict it. I want to get my mojo back!

Dog drawing

Posted on February 27, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Digital drawing, Dog, Dog portrait, Labrador, Retriever, Sketch, Wet in wetLeave a comment

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This is about four years old too. I think I drew it in ArtRage oils, but I don’t really remember. I like the way I managed to get a flowing, wet in wet effect. I don’t generally copy photos for my digital drawings, but I think I remember working from a picture for this? It’s either a labrador or a golden retriever? Eople who own them will be able to tell the difference.

I’m looking at old images and using a colouring in app to try and break through my current artistic block. I’m beginning to recognise this is a winter thing with me. I hope once there is a bit more bright sunlight I will rise like lazarus ( OK that’s a bit over the top!). But at least start creating again!

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