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.

Spring sketch

Posted on April 5, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Colourful, Daffodils, Drawing, Felt pens, Prompt, Sketching4 Comments

Tuesdays #bandofsketchers prompt was Spring. My sister bought me a couple of bunches of daffodils at the weekend. It’s wet outside so I decided to draw them. Close up and using felt pens decided to make it slightly abstract.

Sunset

Posted on April 3, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Colourful, Drawing, Felt pens, Holiday, Life, Sketching, sunpillar, SunsetLeave a comment

Sunset was Sundays #bandofsketchers prompt. As we arrived at our holiday destination one summer I was amazed to see what appeared to be a tall beam of sunshine above the setting sun. I found out later that it was a sun pillar. I think its a phenomenon where sunlight reflects off ice crystals in the sky? A bit like sun dogs. Can’t find the photo to work off so tried to remember it…

Sketch set

Posted on April 2, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Drawing, Life, pad Thai, Portraits, red curry, Sawadee Thai taste, Sketching, Stoke, Thai foodLeave a comment

Went for a meal out at Sawadee Thai taste in Stoke tonight. While we were there I decided to sketch us. I had to imagine my self portrait, and they are all a bit scruffy as I just drew on a bit of old card I had in my bag, each sketch took a couple of minutes. Apple is the Thai lady that runs the restaurant.

The food was delicious, we had red curry with sticky rice and some pad Thai noodles. Not expensive and good company.

Seclusion

Posted on March 31, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Bang!, Colourful, Design, Drawing, Graffiti, Life, Obsessed, Phone, Silly, SketchingLeave a comment

Thursdays #bandofsketchers prompt was seclusion. I was secluded for about 20 hours when my phone battery started to overheat. I took it to the phone shop but it was closed, but I went back later and got a replacement. The pattern on this is meant to be a design for a phone case. Just taking something positive out of a difficult day x

Spooky Stonehenge

Posted on March 29, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital art, Digital drawing, Drawing, Salisbury Plain, silhouettes, Sketching, Spooky, Stonehenge2 Comments

I did a digital drawing of Stonehenge on Salisbury Plane ages ago and I’ve tried to add a misty, foggy, mysterious effect over the top of the original drawing. Because I drew it in layers, the image in the bottom layer shows the stones and this stayed in place so I could distort the upper two layers of black that I had added and then a blueish grey with a smudging tool. The overall effect is slightly spooky, I could imagine shadowy figures or spooky silhouettes detaching themselves from the stones and moving towards anyone visiting the ancient site. What ghosts of druids reside there?

Rose doodle

Posted on March 29, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digitally manipulated, Drawing, Felt pens, Filtered, Life, Photodirector, Rose, SketchingLeave a comment

Gold felt pen doodle coloured in with more pens then filtered through photodirector. Made up of dashes, squiggles and dots. I do like playing with images. I tend to use the same filters quite frequently. I may try variations on a theme. I added the thorns afterwards. I decided to leave a white background rather than adding another colour to it. Felt pen sketch.

David

Posted on March 29, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, David, Drawing, Felt pens, Michealangelo, Renaissance, SketchingLeave a comment

Tuesdays #bandofsketchers prompt was renaissance. Since the statue of David by Michealangelo has been in the news lately I thought I would try and draw his head. I really need to get some new felt pens or fish my watercolour paints out of wherever they are hiding.

Digital drawing

Posted on March 28, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, changed my life, conference, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1889, Digital drawing, Drawing, drawing tablet, Life, new skills, Sketching1 Comment

How has technology changed your job?

When I first started using technology in art it was at a conference and there was a stand with a digital drawing screen. It was a large flat screen with a stylus attached with a wire. There was a limited pallette and you drew by picking brush sizes and colours. I have always been an artist, but because it was a science based conference no one knew. I started drawing a horse I think and the people on the stand were surprised by what I could do. But I was hooked. As soon as I could get a small drawing tablet I did. I even had a digital drawing I printed off exhibited in a local Open Exhibition because it was not something they had seen before. Since then I’ve got bigger and better tablets, drawing with styluses attached with wires and then wireless ones. Now you can draw on a phone screen with your fingers. I’m glad I went to that conference.

Settled

Posted on March 27, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Butterfly, Colourful, Daisies, Drawing, Felt pens, Life, Poppies, red admiral, SketchingLeave a comment

Red admiral? Settled on a poppy flower. Internet image, couldn’t find the author. Hope it was OK to base my drawing on it. Sundays #bandofsketchers prompt was Settled. Felt pens again. I loved getting the bright reds and greens, a really jazzy contrast of complimentary colours.

Mallaband-Brown

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