Back into ArtRage for a change
Just having fun splashing paint around on the canvas.
Sulphur Crested Cockatoos
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Abbey Ruins – St. John’s Church – Chester
Here’s another one from the book
Moonlight Island
Another experiment with iDraw, playing with some of the many available effects. I like the glow effect on the moon.
I got lazy and used Elasticam to distort the reflections on the exported image, instead of reshaping the vectors.
Sailing
Another iDraw image
Over The Fence
Decided to create a header image using iDraw, here is the result
Pen & Ink – More digital journaling tests
Just trying out another app that has been sitting unused since being downloaded. Not a very good drawing but I was mainly trying out the different tools and effects that are available.
This is another app that is a great contender for digital journaling, you can create as many sketchbooks as you need, add as many pages as you like to each book, duplicate pages and rearrange pages, even move them between books. Each page has ten layers layers, plus a page background layer, which lets you change the paper colour. There is also a photo layer available if you like to trace from a photograph. There is a wide range of tools in the free version, with more available as in app purchases.
Art Set Pro
I first grabbed a copy of Art Set when it was introduced in 2011. Even though I played around with it on and off, I never actually created a finished drawing with it.
When Art Set Pro was introduced in Nov 2013 I grabbed a copy of that as well. It had some nice new features, but once again I never created anything with it. I think the problem is I’m an app junkie, especially with art apps. I have dozens of them and not enough hours in the day to use them all.
Anyway, the other day I decided it was time to create a finished picture with Art Set Pro and the above image is the result. It started off as a quick sketch using the ballpoint pen and the markers. I then started to play with the much improved brushes in the pro version and finished up painting over the whole thing. I love the way that the paint blends as you paint, just like real oil paints do. The final image was downsized for the web using Art Studio, which may have lost some of the quality.
Thanks for looking, and if you read this far, thanks for your patience.
