Doing mythological

Posted on August 31, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Apps, Art, Blogging, Design, Digital drawing, Learning, Playing, Sketching, UnicornLeave a comment

and why not…? If you’ve got a dragon, why not go all unicorn… I tend to draw dragon heads a bit like horses heads. Unlike the dragon in ‘how to train your dragon’ where toothless the dragon reminds me of a black cat.. I digress. The app I used to create this is called something like free sketch? The trouble is I use so many of them that I don’t always remember which one I’ve used!

On this sketch I tried using a fountain pen, but for some reason it won’t make marks? This is why I say experimenting is so important. Learning how to use a tool in an app so that you can understand what it does.

I’m just getting the hang of it…

Found an app I could use….

Posted on August 31, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, book ideas?, Digital drawings, Doodling, Dragons, Filters, Layout app, picsart app, Playing, Sketcher free appLeave a comment

I love doodling and experimenting so the dragon has been morphed a few times in my picsart app. Its still not quite what I was trying to do, but I’ve called this piece “dragon dance”. They seem to be having fun!

I could imagine something like this in a children’s book…crazy little characters all with their own backstories… born from the same clutch. Golden and silver, neon and harlequin…, some bigger than others, I don’t know…I will have to think of a story to go with them.

Dragon…

Posted on August 30, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged bad doodle, Doodling, Dragon, Fun, Learning, not synced, Playing, Sketcher free, smaugLeave a comment

You know you are bored when you start doodling dragons. Not very good ones at that. I was watching a film, the desolation of Smaug and this came out of my head. My only problem was I drew it on my tablet, which isn’t synced to my phone and some of the apps on one are not on the other, so I have drawings on one device I cant access with the other one unless I take a screenshot for instance. Also wordpress is presented differently on each device. I guess because they have different manufacturers. So this was going to be a lot more complex and layered. I might do more……

The other one

Posted on August 17, 2020August 17, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Bathroom, Boy cat, Chasing, Cool, Fun, Girl cat, Life, Mad half hour, Playing, SunshineLeave a comment

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Our boy cat having a stretch in the bathroom. He had been ill but he’s a lot better now. For the moment he sleeps in the bathroom on a towel because it’s a lot cooler in there. Not as much sun getting in. But sometimes I will find him in a patch of sunlight, curled up and warming himself. Cats have characters. He’s chilled. Our female cat is lively and loves chasing things. Sometimes they chase each other. A mad half hour. Then peace descends again.

Eyes

Posted on August 10, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Eye, Eyes, Fun, Layout app, Photo, Photography, Playing, ThinkingLeave a comment

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Eye look into my eyes and eye think why are you there? Eye don’t know if eye understand this post but eye do know eye say eye a lot! Eym might try and stop, or maybe eye won’t?

Goodnight, the eyes have it…

Blank found verse

Posted on August 10, 2020August 10, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Enjoyment, Found blank verse, Found verse, Fun, Humour, Make me laugh, Playing, Poem, Poetry, Predictive textLeave a comment

I usually do a limerick challenge on a Monday at the Esther Chilton blog and this week I included something about the character Merlin. Also sometimes there are challenges on Facebook to write a found poem using just the middle key of your predictive text. I thought I would ask you to do the same here starting with “Merlin was a wizard who…..” if you get stuck use a different word. (I know sometimes the words just go round in circles). I’m calling it blank found verse…

Merlin was a wizard who
Sent me this one last week
I think I will try and get
On the cupboard for the next few weeks
I have a very complex problem
I have a very busy day.

Please feel free to play….

Buddlea

Posted on August 3, 2020August 3, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Buddlea, Colour filter, experimental, Fun, Garden, Photodirector, Photograph, Plant, Playing, Splash filterLeave a comment

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I’m playing with Photodirector. This part of it is called ‘splash’.

You can outline an area and make the background black and white. Then I changed the hues in the app. The buddlea in our garden are a slightly more red colour. It’s also changed the green of the leaves slightly too.

I think people should play with different apps and learn how interesting they can make editing photos. Not just to enhance photos and airbrush them but to get creative and have fun.

Watercolour background morphed

Posted on July 25, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Altered hues, Analogue, Art, Brushwork, Digital, Learning, Playing, Scratched through, Sketchbook, Watercolour, WetLeave a comment

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I have a wide paintbrush you can use to spread watercolour across a page. On the right hand side is part of the original picture and the left hand side has had the hue digitally changed. The grass style marks were created by scratchingvthruogh the wet paint with the edge of a bit of plastic. I might try and use the original background in my sketchbook for a new drawing, and I might upload this image to draw something else. I like the feel of this. I might add a lone pine tree or something like that. X

Face

Posted on July 24, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital art, Digital spray paint, Graffiti, Illustration, Learning, Playing, Poem, Poetry, Selfie? Or someone else?, ThoughtLeave a comment

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Stern, thoughtful

Face seen in patterns,

What are you thinking?

Are you at peace

Or do you feel tragedy?

Could you be happy,

Or peaceful and calm?

Are you real

Or just captured as a sketch.

A Digital grafitti?

Spray can causing an image

Caught on computer wallpaper.

I made this thought.

I made this face

But does it describe me?

Today’s variation

Posted on July 21, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Drawing, Fun, Illustration, Playing, Sketching, Tarot, VariationLeave a comment

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Work for my course. Take four images, a person walking, an animal, a recognisable plane and a building or part of a building. Three of them are mine and the fourth is a fellow student. I turned the images into tarot cards this time. I enjoyed doing this one. I tried to make it more coherent than the other three I’ve done. I’ve also got an usk challenge to do. I might try and get it done today.

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