Backache!

Posted on December 15, 2021December 16, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Backache, Fed up, Grumpy, Health, Insomnia, Life, Pain, Sketch app, Sleep, Tired2 Comments

Please can I have a new body? I’m sure bits will start dropping off soon. Not only do I suffer from insomnia but now when I go to bed I have to contend with trying to find a comfortable position. My back has sometimes troubled me (I think from years ago when I used to be a care assistant), but recently it’s got far worse. It hurts just trying to lie down. Then I end upon the edge of the bed gripping it to stop my back slumping. I basically sleep either on one side or the other or on my back, but each of these is getting much more painful. Then I try and turn, but the pain as I twist is getting off the scale. Get in the doctors? But it’s nigh on impossible to get in and see one while everything covid is going on. So I’m taking mild pain killers and hoping it’s just a phase and it will ease off. Meanwhile, very grumpy today!

Abstracted birds

Posted on May 26, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Birds, Collage, halftone, Pattern, Photodirector, Sketch appLeave a comment

When you play with digital apps you can get all sorts of effects, especially if you use more than one app.

In this piece I created the image using cut monoprint and post-it notes. Next, I imported it to my photodirector app, I used the effects button and converted it to a half tone pattern. Next I took it over to the sketch app and I added a flood fill with rainbow colours a few times. Finally back to photodirector, changing uthe texture and splitting the image into two seperate patterns. Always remembering the back button if I didn’t like the effect!

Abstract Sun and Moon

Posted on January 24, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #30daysketchbookchallenge, #MendNotTrend, Art, Digital drawing, Drawing, Flood fill, Fun, Picture, prompts, Sketch appLeave a comment

After the #30daysketchbookchallenge yesterday and #MendNotTrend last week I decided to draw a few abstract patterns based on the prompts. They are all based on circles, two in colour and one black and white. They were all drawn in the Sketch app I use. I didn’t use any filters for these just lines and the flood fill option (plain and rainbow fills).

Learning layers

Posted on January 23, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Bernie, Burslem, Digital art, Layers, Layout app, photo of Burslem, Photos, Sketch appLeave a comment

After having my phone for a couple of years I’ve almost learnt how to add a layer. So I decided to add a Bernie to a photo… Welcome to Burslem Bernie!

He’s a bit ghostly as I had to draw free hand round him to select his image and my hand shakes to much to do a line drawn with a finger…

Mandalas

Posted on January 20, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colour, Flood fill, Layout app, Mandalas, Pattern, Photodirector, Playing, Sketch appLeave a comment

Playing with colour and pattern. I drew this in the Sketch app then used a rainbow flood fill option in the same app and then used photodirector. Finally I put them together in the Layout app.

I like the colours on the drawn lines when I flood filled them. They remind me of Mandalas.

Eye look out

Posted on January 16, 2021January 16, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Digital drawing, Digital sketch, Eye, Life, Photocopy, Profile, Sketch app, trying to add textureLeave a comment

Experiment with Sketch app and photodirector. Trying to make this look like an old print, weathered and scratched. Faded and bitten out like an etching that has been worn out. Trying to look like a photocopy…

Digital crocosmia

Posted on January 15, 2021January 15, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Artrage oil app, Crocosmia, Digital art, Doodle, Drawing, Life, Photodirector, Playing, Sketch app, SketchingLeave a comment

Digital crocosmia

I like playing with images and these are two versions of a digital drawing using different options in photodirector.

This was my basic sketch in ArtRage oils which I drew over with Sketch app.

It might not be very good but it shows what you could do to make it more interesting….

Rainbow kitty

Posted on January 13, 2021January 13, 2021 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Digital drawing, Digital sketch, female cat, Fun, Imagined, Life, Poem, Poetry, Sketch app, Tortoiseshell cat2 Comments

Tortie cat

Rainbow kitty

Big eyed

Lovely

You stare back.

Look of love

Remove stress

Now she purrs

To my caress.

Made of rainbows

Daisies

Clouds

So delicate

She’s a great

Cat!

Glass bottle doodle

Posted on December 19, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Digital drawing, Doodle, Drawing, Layers, Photodirector app, Sketch app, SketchingLeave a comment

I drew some flowers in an oval area in ArtRage oils. Then transfered it to my Sketch app and added the shape, a bit of shading and the background. Finally I transferred it to Photodirector to add some lighting effects. I tried to draw something that looks like a glass jar.

Running horse

Posted on December 18, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Digital art, Digital drawing, Drawing, Horse, Life, Movement, Running horse, Sketch app, Sketching14 Comments

After chatting about drawing horses and the gait they have when they walk, trot, canter and gallop, I tried to remember how I used to draw galloping horses. This is a quick three minute sketch on the Sketch app. That’s why the legs are a bit muddled. I added a bit of shade underneath to sto it floating… Might get some pencils out instead of drawing them digitally….

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Sketch app

Backache!

Abstracted birds

Abstract Sun and Moon

Learning layers

Mandalas

Eye look out

Digital crocosmia

Rainbow kitty

Glass bottle doodle

Running horse