Hidden faces

Posted on September 18, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Description, Digital art, Digital drawing, Drawing, elipses, hidden faces, Life, Lines, Mind2 Comments

My mind is full of ideas balled up like elastic bands wrapped together. They are bouncing all over the place. The feeling of faces watching me as I struggle through them. A crowd of amorphous figures that slide in and out of focus.

How to describe where I went to create this digital sketch. Pushing the boundaries a little more. It is also about how I am feeling tonight

Am I being too verbose? I’m experimenting with how to describe things, trying to be more thoughtful instead of simply explaining. It’s interesting to try and change how I think. Making the words more poetic. But trying to make sense too….

Landscape?

Posted on September 4, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, ArtRage app, Colourful, Digital art, Drawing, Finger painting, Landscape, Sketching2 Comments

Sundays #bandofsketchers prompt was tradition. Trying to draw a traditional landscape by fingerprinting in the Artrage app on my phone. I don’t think it’s entirely successful but it’s all I could think of doing for this prompt.

Dotty

Posted on August 18, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Digital art, Dots, Dotty, Face, Fun, Humour, Life, Old drawing, Poem, Poetry, sketchfu app, Sketching2 Comments

I think I’m going dotty

I think I’m going daft

I’m sure I saw a face there

Lying on the mat

I saw a lot of dots there

Splodges and circles too

But in amidst the dotty dots

I saw the face of you!

Peel

Posted on August 13, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Artrage, Banana, Digital art, Finger painting, Life, peel, Skin, YellowLeave a comment

A week ago the #bandofsketchers prompt was Peel. Digital drawing of a banana being peeled. I can’t get out to get a new sketchbook so I’m drawing on my mobile with my fingers. Its a bit fuzzy.

Great minds think alike?

I drew this this morning but hadn’t published it. I was just going through the reader section of WordPress and found someone else had done a very similar image. I did this digitally, playing with a drawing that I had been altering over the last couple of days. The other person’s art is four different female faces, using a totally different technique. It’s so interesting that artists come up with similar ideas from different beginnings. I like her style and work, good to see the creativity here!

Faces abstract

Posted on June 19, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Collage, Colourful, Digital art, Doodling, Drawing, Faces, Sketching, Techniques4 Comments

Digital playtime again. I used the curved lines drawing as a basis for this. I had fun with textures and patterns. Finger painting in the Artrage app. Then I ran it through the photodirector app on my phone. I’m not sure who the face is x

Dragon sketch…

Posted on April 11, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage, Colours, Digital art, Dragon, Drawing, Fun, Glitter, Sketching, Sketching app, spiky2 Comments

A dragon drawing, I found a spiky line on the sketching app that really made this look interesting. I did my final major project at college on Dragons last year. So when I find a new way to represent them I like to experiment.

This is done in two apps, the initial line work was done on Sketcher app and then I exported it and opened it up in Artrage because the tools there are more flexible for colouring in and it also has metallic and Glitter options. I like it.

Doodling digitally

Posted on April 5, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Apps, Colours, Digital art, Digitally manipulated, Drawing, Ideas, Learning, Life, Pens, SketchingLeave a comment

When you get new apps you have to learn how to use them. There are similarities and differences. You try one app and then transport an image into another app and try and alter it by using different filters and pens and markers. Each of these started with the bottom left sketch and then I took a screenshot of it ( I had to find out how on this new phone), then added more on top. It’s not going to be my favourite method of altering images, but I’m learning. I have found recently that drawing tools seem to be limited. Instead you get backgrounds and filters to alter faces and landscapes but using photoshop like tools, not paintbrushes or pens. I know I can do more if I had the tools. Perhaps I will find something more satisfying soon.

Hearts

Posted on April 1, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged being an artist, Digital art, Learning, New phone, obsolete, old aged nerd!, problem solving, Sketch, TimeLeave a comment

Well not really! When you load perfectly good apps on your phone you expect them to keep working, or at least that you can reload them if you change your device. Unfortunately this phone is too new to support Layout App. I still have it on my PC I think but I don’t really use it, so another learning curve. My head hurts… Now I will try and understand the new app, and try not to be annoyed by in app ads!

Egg?

Posted on April 1, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital art, Digital sketch, Easter egg, egg, Fun, Learning, metallic pens, Tools3 Comments

Egg doodle using a newer version of Artrage that I’ve downloaded onto my new phone. Glad I’ve got this one, but other older apps I can no longer find. I will keep looking. It’s frustrating that the gallery images that I’d saved on those apps have disappeared, but you learn and transfer skills to other apps. This is meant to be an Easter egg. Can you tell? Lots more tools on this version, no opacity tool though so you can’t reduce the strength of the pen with a slider, and the old choice had a dry pen, and three other style of pens that I can’t remember now? But fun none the less.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Digital art