Category: Art attacks
Still Life?
How about some variations on old themes?
Breach from still life
A quick new version of an old drawing. This time a baleen whale from recent summer sightings rather than the normal sperm whale.
iPad sketches
I think I’m gonna have to add another category. I hummed,hawed and researched and finally decided that while Sketchbook Pro gave me everything I wanted, it also gave me too much. I’d rather opt for the simplicity than the versatility that I will likely never use… Rather the opposite of my attitude towards computers etc. And oddly enough using the same logic.
I went for Brushes. Still $7 or so but a cleaner interface and more than enough power for my simple tastes. Here’s a quick fish for you angler-files out there…
More Art
Using Adobe Ideas I am exploring iPad doodling. To get them online I had to take a screenshot (hold down power, click button). We’ll see how the resolution turns out.
The Next Day…
I played a bit with iDraft which is not vector based and has the virtue of being able to save to the photo album on the iPad directly. Unfortunately it is much more of a sketching program and not so suited to my style. Still I might adapt…
And More
Sketchbook Mobile X is a free iPhone app that I added to the iPad. It offers a bit more control although I don’t like the interface as yet. The iPad app is $7.99 which is overkill I think for what I’m looking for. Here’s a quick sketch:
A new look at old art
I got a new stylus today for my iPad and thought I’d try it out. Using Adobe’s Ideas app I tried sketching a few things. Finally I settled on the old Web of My Own Devise and here are the quick results, drawn, sized, converted and uploaded from the ipad… Not too bad.
Later at work I added the transparency back in and sized it appropriately for a final, clickable piece of ‘art’.
The png file has to be RGB and unfortunately the shadowbox theme won’t work as black on black is … well… black. Here’s a link to see the image without the shadowbox.