Memory from 2013

Posted on May 24, 2021May 24, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 2draw, andalucian, Art, Digital art, Digital drawing, Facebook memories, floating ginkgo, Sketch, Sketchfu, wetcanvas, YoudrawLeave a comment

Drawing from 2013, popped up on my Facebook memories. I drew it at the now defunct website sketchfu. Sadly closed because the owners didn’t have the resources to keep it running and towards the end barely communicated with its users. It was a simple drawing site, a few pen sizes, colour picker and palette, and an opacity and eraser button. It was overwhelmed by users writing youth fiction (is that the term). I was a moderator after drawing a few thousand pictures. It’s hard to monitor places like that. So busy!

There are a lot of other drawing sites out there depending on your skill set. I liked Youdraw (basic black and white), 2draw (complex using applets), floating ginkgo (complex) wetcanvas (I forget). Have a look. I found them before I got an android phone and got directed to stuff via Google play which doesn’t seem to show you community drawing sites.

Portrait of hubby

Posted on May 23, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, ArtRage app, Digital drawing, Drawing, Fun, Hubby, Learning, Sketching, Skills2 Comments

sketching using ArtRage, an app I have on my phone. This was quite hard to do because I’m not quite used to the app yet for straight drawing. It’s getting the colours to blend without them being too pale. I want to use digital art like pencil and paint.

Digital ice

Posted on May 23, 2021May 23, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, ArtRage app, Blues, Cold, Cool, Digital drawing, Freezing, IceLeave a comment

Sundays #bandofsketchers prompt was cool. After looking at various things on a cold day I decided to look for an image on Google. I found a picture of some ice cubes and drew that in my ArtRage app.

Blue face

Posted on May 14, 2021May 14, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Blue, Blurred, Digital art, Digital drawing, Drawing, eraser, Fun, sketcher, Sketching, smudged8 Comments

Quick digital sketch using a blurring tool and eraser on top of a previous drawing of a blue woman. I like morphing things from one to another…

Using a sketching app on my phone. And trying to give the face more sharpness and character than a generic idea of a face. I’m being influenced by other artists here including Robin King and stoneronarollercoaster.

Old digital doodle

Posted on May 4, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Digital art, Digital drawing, Drawing, eyebrows, Eyes, Face, Faces, Mouth, SketchingLeave a comment

Faces, I love them, portraits, doodles, there’s something that makes me draw them. Trying to get features right. I’ve always drawn eyes as well. I try to get them right, but I have a default eye or face, the way as I sketch I try and it from memory. Things like the size of the eyes. The eyelids, the shape of lips. The size and shape of eyebrows. Hairline. I find hair the most difficult. I need more practice, even after sixty years!

Raining

Posted on April 28, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged ?, Block editor?, Digital drawing, drawn, how do I? Pane, Life, Pain, Poem, Rain, Rhyme, WordPressLeave a comment

Digital sketch filtered through photodirector.

I decided to write a verse
Which might seem rather perverse..
I'm learning the ropes 
For knowledge I grope. 
About WordPress block editor
And I might need a mediator?
It's like very heavy rain
It can be an absolute pain! 
Storm clouds gather 
I'm in a lather
Maybe I should write this again? 
Is there anything at all to gain.....

LOTR drawing

Posted on April 26, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital drawing, Digital sketch, Frodo, Lord of the Rings, LOTR, Muzy, Sketchfu, Sketching, WebsiteLeave a comment

Frodo, drawn on a website called sketchfu a few years ago.

I liked it because it had simple tools to draw with, but you could get reasonable results. Unfortunately it was closed down a few years ago. I think the owners were overwhelmed by the amount of chat on it, the art started to become secondary to people writing fan fiction and stories, the site was getting full and they couldn’t afford to extend it. Then they started up a new site called Muzy and Sketchfu seemed to be forgotten. In the end I managed to save a lot of my drawings before the whole thing was closed down. It was very sad, a lot of people lost a lot of art that they had spent a lot of time over.

Going grey

Posted on April 12, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Age, diamond, Digital art, Digital drawing, platinum, Poem, Poetry, silver, Thought, Understanding?, winkles2 Comments

Wrinkles?

What are they for?

And going grey

What is the point?

Feeling worn out

Losing my mojo

Growing tired

But I ain’t dead yet

I have knowledge

I see patterns in history.

No not grey

Precious silver

Or platinum.

Not wrinkles

But the map of my life.

Strong like a diamond

Moulded by the pressure

Of living.

Birds

Posted on April 10, 2021April 17, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Bird, Birds, Breeze, Digital drawing, Drawings, Poem, Poetry, purple and green, Rain, ShowersLeave a comment

Digital drawings of birds, using ArtRage oils and then my sketcher app.

Birds sing

Rain falls

Washes the air

Bird song

Crystal sounds

Twinkle like stars

On the breeze.

Digital faces

Posted on April 4, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Digital drawing, Drawing, Layout app, Learning, Life, Sketch, Sketcher free, TabletLeave a comment

This is a sketcher free drawing that I did a couple of years ago. I mirrored it in my layout app. I wish I could remember how I did it. But when you don’t practice using things for a while you forget. The ap is on my tablet, but I don’t use it very often at the moment. I need to get my act together…

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Digital drawing