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.

Doodle for stained glass

Posted on December 15, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Artrage, Design, Digital art, Digital drawing, Drawing, Experiment, Playing, Sketching, Sketching app, Stained glassLeave a comment

sketch-1576378315539 cheered myself up with this digital doodle, ArtRage oils app followed by work in a sketcher app. The ArtRage one allows you to smear colour across the image, then using a drawing tool in the sketcher to draw lines over it and then a glitter pen to give it a bit of sparkle….

I found a black cat drawing

Posted on December 11, 2019December 11, 2019 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage, Black cats, Design, Digital drawing, Digital sketch, Facebook, Fun, Life, Memory, UK, USALeave a comment

Found a digital drawing I did in 2016 on my Facebook memories. This was drawn on ArtRage free app. Black cats are not that popular, robably because of the myth that they are witches familiars. I just like how they look, like mini panthers or jaguars.

Black cats are proud creatures, mainly short-haired although I have seen long-haired ones. They can cause some allergies because their dandruff seems to trigger things. But I don’t think that’s a problem.

Black cats crossing your path are considered good luck in Britain, but unlucky in the USA. It’s funny how things can be so opposite in these countries. As they say America and Britain are two countries seperated by the same language. Anyway I still like black cats.

Playing with ArtRage

Posted on November 15, 2019November 15, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage, Finding out, Learning, Looking for categories and tags, Muddled, Not understanding how, Using new tablet

I’m not used to my new ArtRage app on my tablet, neither am I used to my new tablet, everything is a bit mixed up. I’m mainly still doing things on my phone, but I’m slowly learning. I just found if I swipe the screen left I can find categories and tags, that’s useful..but when I tried again it wouldn’t do it?

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Faces

Posted on October 30, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Apps, Art, Artrage, Blue/green, Design, Digital art, Digital sketch, Faces, Sketcher free, Sketches, Technology, Three quarter portraitsLeave a comment

Each of these drawings were done slightly differently. The first and third in ArtRage app and the middle one used a photo which was drawn on with Sketcher free app.

Faces are interesting to draw, the first two are from life, the third is imagined. I’ve tried using free flowing pens and different textures backgrounds. Colours are tending towards the blue/green end of the spectrum.

I also thought about which side light falls on a face. I usually draw with light coming from the top right if I’m imagining an image, or from whichever direction it comes from if it’s from life.

More to follow as I create them.

Another sketch

Posted on October 21, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage, Drawing, Micro poem, Micro poetry, Poem, Poetry, Sketch4 Comments

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I’m still playing,

Don’t want to bore you,

Having fun,

Sketching and drawing.

Finding my feet

In the world of sketching,

Drawing on memory.

Faces imagined,

Can I stop?

Not yet!

ArtRage

Posted on October 21, 2019 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage, Artrage oils, Design, Digital drawings, Digital sketch, Fun, TechnologyLeave a comment

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For years I’ve used an app called ArtRage oils which is free, but when I got this new tablet I decided to go mad and get the full ArtRage app. I’m having a lot of fun with it, new tools to use, a colour picker, and various other things to do. Now I just need to learn it a bit more so I can try and do realistic art, and I have a stylus….that’s really much better than finger painting.

Angel

Posted on July 31, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Angel, Art, Artrage, Colour, Design, Drawing apps, Poetry, RainbowLeave a comment

Sometimes I can be a bit soft hearted, soppy, I can’t think of the word to explain it. As I was drawing in Artrage oils this little drawing popped out of the screen do I decided to try and write a poem.

Sorry if its not hard hitting or current …maybe its a bit too like a hymn…

Angel flying so high,

You touch the sky…

Angel give me peace,

Sleep as release..

Angel sing sweet songs of love,

Give us comfort from above,

Angel glowing rainbow bright,

You are such a mystic sight.

Angel share with us your grace ,

Show the beauty of your face.

Angel please do hear my prayer.

Keep me safe and free from fear.

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