Using picsart app

Posted on October 22, 2019October 22, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Drawing, Drawing app, Fun, Photo, Picsart, Sticker, TextLeave a comment

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It’s been a few months since I used my old tablet, so when I installed the picsart app in my new one I wasn’t sure how it would work. I think I’m getting the hang of it although there seem to be lots more options than before. I’m still finding my way round it but I liked being able to put this photo in a frame. To write text and place and resize it easily, added a heart sticker. I also drew the whiskers in a bit more although it was hard to know which pen icon to use and how to change the pen thickness and opacity. But as I already partly knew the app I was soon using it again. I would advise playing with the app, using different tools and filters until you are more confident with it. Remember – you don’t have to save your work if you don’t like it.

Wips

Posted on October 22, 2019October 22, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Blocking out, Design, Drawing, Progress, Sketches, Work in progressLeave a comment

Works in progress. All imagined except for the black and white cat which is my boy cat. What can I do to improve them?

Sketches they are based on.

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!

Sketcher Free

Posted on October 21, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Digital drawing, Doodling, Drawing, Fun, Life, Sketcher free, SketchingLeave a comment

I’ve got a new tablet and I’ve merrily been uploading some of the apps I used to use. This one was called sketcher free. I played with the various pens in the app and tried to create something a bit more abstract to how I normally draw.

I was also trying out different colours, vaguely graffitiish if that’s a word! Its exciting to experiment with art.

New tablet

Posted on October 21, 2019October 21, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Drawing, Fun, Learning, One inch challenge, Pen and ink, TabletLeave a comment

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This isn’t the tablet but a drawing of the screen. I installed lots of software today. What a mess! I have different passwords for each app. It confused me! Had to reset some. I wanted to do lots of stuff today but I’ve spent four hours just learning how to use it.

Anyway the photo is for day 21 of the 1″ inch challenge for October.

Drawing, squaring up

Posted on October 20, 2019October 20, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Copying, Drawing, Drawing tips, Life, Scaling up and down, SketchingLeave a comment

When you are learning to draw you can use a grid to help. If you are trying to copy an image you can draw a grid over the original, then draw the same sized squares on the paper you are drawing on. Finally copy the original onto the drawing by filling in each square. The grid helps you place lines more accurately. If you do the drawing in pen instead you can rub out the pencil lines. It’s really only a device to help learning to draw, or if you want to draw out the basis for a painting when you are using opaque paints like gouache, acrylics or oils. You can also use this for scaling up or down. If the squares are half size on the original the drawing will be twice the size (or vice versa), hope this makes sense.

Badly drawn violinist

Posted on October 20, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Barn dance, Black and white, Dance, Drawing, Fun, Life, Penkhull, Penkhull mystery play, Penkhull Village Hall, Sketching, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Urban Sketchers2 Comments

I did these sketches tonight because I’m part of urban sketchers. These were drawn at the Mystery play barn dance up at Penkhull village hall. The band laying were called the Shropshire Hero’s and the barn dance caller was Baz Parkes.

It was excellent fun although I was helping behind the bar for part of it. Just watching people dance was great. Some do well, others make mistakes. The worst thing that happened was someone accidentally stood on my foot. But that was because I was drawing, and I think I was a bit in the way, so I wasn’t looking and got stood on. I was more worried because the dancer almost fell over me!

The other problem with drawing dancers? You guessed it.. They don’t stand still!

Today’s 1″challenge

Posted on October 15, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 1"challenge, Art, Black and white, Craft, Drawing, Fun, Glass, Jewellery, WorkshopLeave a comment

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Day 16…only 15 to go. I’ve enjoyed doing these so far. I’m even drawing them early! Last year I kept adding pictures late.

The glass should be fired in the next couple of days, then I shall have pieces I can turn into smaller necklaces. I loved being able to do it, but the lady who runs the workshops is moving away. I shall have to find someone else who does it, or the pieces I did today will be my last experiment in this craft.

Having a sketchbook

Posted on October 14, 2019October 14, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Drawing, Ink pen, Landscape, Life, Sketchbooks, Sketches, Trees, Urban sketch2 Comments

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I’ve been taking my sketchbook with me recently because of doing the one inch drawing challenge. That’s meant that I have drawn pictures as well as photographing them.

Yesterday I was looking at autumn trees in front of black and white buildings (the architecture looks like its from the 1920’s or 30’s.) Sturdy, tall trees were starting to colour up as autumn starts to bite. The branches were swaying and soughing in the wind. This is a season I can relate too. It’s sometimes quiet and misty, other times dramatic. That’s what I enjoyed about drawing it. Trying to bring a bit of that drama into it. You can’t draw every individual leaf in a ten or fifteen minute sketch, but you can try and add movement.

For information I used an a6 sketchpad and a unipin fine line pen size 0.8.

Today’s one inch challenge drawing

Posted on October 11, 2019October 11, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 1" challenge, Art, Black and white, Drawing, Image, Lion, Rain, Sketch, Sketching, Weather2 Comments

It’s very wet outside, so I’ve done my 1″ challenge sketch for the day. I’ve just drawn a picture of a painting of a lion I’m doing. It’s a work in progress. (progressing slowly). I’ve got lots to do, but I’m not in the mood. I think the weather is getting me down!

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