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.

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.

Colours

Posted on June 24, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Colour, Design, Digital art, Digital sketch, Drawing, Fun, RainbowLeave a comment

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An explosion of colour makes me feel joyous, excited, satisfied, sainted with brilliance. I would love to turn this into a tee shirt, a throw for a sofa or a bed. It’s a bit bright for a painting on a wall.

This was a quick drawing in ArtRage oils, then I used a rainbow flood fill in the gaps and then a smudge tool. Finally I used the layout app to duplicate and rotate the drawing.

I know they are only simple tools but you can create some interesting things with them.

Based on a tile

Posted on May 18, 2019May 18, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, art nouveau, Blogging, Design, Digital art, Digital sketch, Encaustic, Green, Sketch, TileLeave a comment

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This is a digital drawing based on an old tile. I won’t bore you with the app I used it’s on my tablet and I haven’t been able to use it for a while as it needs fixing.

I drew it in 2016 and I don’t think I’ve shared it here before. It just popped up on my Facebook memories, and why not share it? It will just disappear into the aether again if I don’t.

I did try and create a glossy shine on it, but the chin is too big!

Tired of being ill

Posted on May 15, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Digital sketch, Fed up, Life, Micro poetry, Poem, Poetry, Tired2 Comments

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Sharp spring cold

Throat burning

Nose running

Fed up of it

Tired of it

I hate this

I want to paint

Instead I sleep

A busy day

Posted on April 29, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Busy, Digital sketch, Mask, No Time, Poem, Poetry, Rushing, Speedy poem, Time, Worn outLeave a comment

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My mask of calm is about to slip

So busy today,

And time is spilt.

Suffering pain to make life work

Rushing from place to place

See no chance of resting now

Sitting neath a blossoming bough.

No I must in haste go

Till the job is finished, how?

Trout pout

Posted on April 24, 2019April 24, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Artrage oils, Digital sketch, Jenny greenteeth, Mermaid, Old wives tale, Poem, Poetry, Scary?, Spooky poemLeave a comment

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Eyes, looking up from below

Bubbles, trickling from the waters depths,

A fishes mouth and gill’s

Scales with a metallic sheen

Jenny lurks below.

Hidden in the weeds

Pike like teeth behind those lips

Clawed hands stir the water

Webbed between fingers and toes.

Bubbles reflected in her eyes.

She sees the feet of a child,

Dabbling on the waters edge,

One grab and down it goes.

Jenny Greenteeth has struck again.

Whirlpool galaxy drawing

Posted on April 21, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Atoms, Digital drawing, Digital sketch, Earth, Galaxy, Infinity, Life, Molecules, Reflections, Science, Universe2 Comments

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This took a few hours to draw on the old sketchfu website. I do love astronomy. This is not accurate, it couldn’t be with the limited tools that were on the website but it was fun to try and get a reasonable representation of it. Space is so infinitely beautiful. It makes me realise how tiny I am, how small our planet and solar system are in relationship to the mass of stars in a galaxy and the smallness of galaxies in relation to the infinity of the universe.

How important we think we are, we have so much on this world that we are using up. We are big in comparison with insects and smaller still bacteria. Then even smaller viruses. The smallest things, molecules, Atoms and sub atomic particles.

Apparently we are halfway on the scale of size in the universe. Halfway between the infinitely massive and the incredibly tiny. Perhaps in realising this we can see we are not very important after all. I think we should take more care to preserve our tiny/huge planet so that humankind can continue to survive and flourish.

Cat yoga

Posted on March 30, 2019March 30, 2019 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Bending, Cats, Digital art, Digital sketch, Fun, Laughing, Playing, Stretching, YogaLeave a comment

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I sometimes think yoga should be a cat thing, they seem to be able to move so flexibly, instead of the downward dog you would have the crouching cat. Or the rear leg stretch.

I don’t know about a cat litter squat though!

But that thing when they fall and flip over so they land on all four feet is amazing!

When they run at fast speeds around the room they can leap and turn like lightening. I would take a photo but they move to fast, paws up, back bent into incredible curves.

Jumping and flipping over, landing on their backs with a fierce growl or a gentle purr…..

Owl

Posted on March 13, 2019March 13, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Animal, Bad rhymes, Bird, Digital art, Digital sketch, Fun, Humour, Life, Owl, Poem, PoemsLeave a comment

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Being owlish I look carefully at things,

I see them from my flying wings.

I hoot with laughter when I hear a joke.

I spy mice and voles at a stroke,

Will my owlish brain outwit you?

Never know what hit you?

I swoop down so soft and quiet

To consume my rodent diet….

My talons and beak are sharp

Winging down over hill and park.

A barn to rest in is all I ask.

A nest to build is my task.

My eggs and chicks they grow fast

Gobble up food, a tasty repast.

Then once they are grown the fledge

And out to the world they emerge.

So this old owl will towoo some more.

To hear the twit of my Amore.

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