Dove

Posted on December 16, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Dove, Drawing, Helo, Icon, Love, Peace, Safe, Sketch, Sketch app, SymbolLeave a comment

Someday Peace and Love will be more important than War. Nature and the Environment will become recognised for how important they are. Maybe symbols of peace, like the dove, will get the message across. We need to take these concepts seriously. We need to stop being selfish and realise we shouldn’t be self centred. People in all walks of life, in this country, and abroad, are struggling. War wastes resources and ruins lives. We need to support each other not attack and deplore. As the song says. Let there be peace all over the world…

Abstract sky

Posted on November 28, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Analogue, Birds, Digital, Flood fill, Landscape, Photo, Sketch app, Stained glass, Terraced houses2 Comments

I went a bit psychedelic when I created this. The bare branches and twigs of the bushes in this photo created cells that I used a flood fill on. There are about three birds on the twigs, you might be able to see them.. The buildings are a line of terraced houses over the road from the hedge. It’s a combination of analogue and digital. It reminds me of stained glass.

Doodling

Posted on November 4, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Added textures, Art, Artrage oils, Filters, Horse, Instagram, Layout app, Sketch app, Sketching, Woman artistLeave a comment

When I’m drawing, whether it’s in analogue, or as here digitally, I love to play and mess about. Why stick with one idea? After I’d drawn this I decided to put it through a another a called sketch and I added the cracks. Finally I duplicated it in Layout and changed the filter when I posted it to my Instagram account.

Time flies, digital drawing.

Posted on October 23, 2020October 23, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Digital drawing, Drawing, Fun, Halloween, Metallic, Sketch app, Sketching, SkullLeave a comment

Since we are in the Autumn and Halloween is coming up I thought I would draw something spooky in ArtRage oils. I don’t use the application very often, but it has some nice features including a metallic sheen if you turn the tool for metallic oil up. The writing the cracked paint and the lines on the clock were drawn in the Sketch app. I do like mixing things up a bit. I know it’s finger painting, but I like the imprecise way it looks, sketchy and a bit rough.

Vampire eyes?

Posted on October 20, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital drawing, Eyes, Mirror, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Sketch app, Thought, Vampire1 Comment

No it can’t be

In a mirror?

You wouldn’t see

My eyes reflect

My thoughts

My fears

My age

My tears.

I do not seek blood,

I seek love.

Gemini

Posted on October 4, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Artrage oil app, Astrology, Astronomy, Digital art, Digital drawing, Fun, Gemini, Life, Sketch app, Sky, StarsLeave a comment

I’m into Astronomy not Astrology, but I do like the symbols that are used, I just tried this out as an idea to symbolise the Gemini ♊ twins. I wanted to capture the feeling of identical and non identical at the same time. I did consider different skin tones and eye colours. This is also female, but I could have drawn male instead. Drawn in ArtRage oils and Sketch apps, it is again an example of digital drawing. I might put it through a few filters and see what results.

Sketch

Posted on September 14, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Colours, Digital drawing, Drawing, Face, Female art, Sketch, Sketch app, SketchingLeave a comment

ArtRage oils sketch, edited in Sketch app. 2019. Digital drawing.

I like editing things in one application and then running it through one or two more. In a similar way to using different filters on Photoshop.

I have used lots of different apps over the years but I don’t always remember what I did in each of them which is why they look different each time. I want to find the best selection of drawing tools that I can. I hope they look OK.

Four faces

Posted on July 14, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Digital drawing, Drawing, Experiment, Faces, Four faces, Fun, Layout app, Sketch app2 Comments

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Four faces on a black and white pattern I made on the phone. Each face was drawn by my finger on the screen. I definitely think I have a style that I draw in. Not anything recognisable like anime. Just my way of doing things. They say though, that there’s nothing new under the sun. So I wonder if there are any artists that do this kind of thing. Maybe it’s a bit too unfinished but you don’t learn unless you try different things.

Want longer lashes?

Posted on June 18, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Added eyebrow, Cost, Fun, Humour, Longer lashes?, Make-up, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Sketch app2 Comments

Oh my balding eyes

I don’t have long lashes,

or thick eyebrows.

But strangely

I don’t want them.

I’m happy with my lot.

Sticking gunk on my face

making my eyebrows arch..?

No, not for me,

it costs too much.

And I would poke myself,

In the eye….

When you can’t get a birthday card or a cake for a friend…

Posted on April 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Birthday card, Can, Candle, Candle holder, Card, Design, Drawing app, Graphics, Photo, Picture, Sketch app, Text3 Comments

I wanted to send a friend a card… sketch-1588070609298

I found a tin with a slight dent in the rim so I could push a candle holder into it. Then I added a tiny birthday cake candle and lit it and took the photo.

Added the text later in a sketch app.

I sent this to my friend with her name edited onto it. What is it they say ‘necessity is the mother of invention ‘?

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Tag: Sketch app