iPad baby

More experimentation with Brushes on my iPad...

ipad art

I just downloaded "Brushes" for my iPad, which is the app which David Hockey has been raving about. In the blurb in the app store, it boasts that art created using Brushes has featured on four different New Yorker covers. Anyway, this is my first attempt at using it... The black line was done using Indian Ink and a brush, then I scanned it and coloured it in Brushes. I would really have liked to be able to have a "select" option, so I could have moved the mouth a bit, but I couldn't figure out how. Maybe you can't...

autumn

I always love autumn, it is so beautiful, and not too cold yet, and there's also the fun of Halloween and Bonfire Night.

I also love those leaf "shadows" that you get after it's been raining. They're so beautiful. I haven't posted for a while, as it's been so busy, so I thought I'd just post this picture I took the other day...

Iluustration friday - BENEATH

                     "Oh, hello!"

some more fine liner stuff...

I've been doing little sketches with my favourite fineliner pen PILOT G-TEC-C4 (ooh look you can buy packs with different colours in - I want!!) in my little watercolour sketch pad. I'm just trying out different characters - which ones show the best character, are most fun, friendly, etc... I want to avoid being too cartoony (which I think I can lean towards sometimes).

My next mission is to actually tackle scenes, which is why Illustration Friday is so good, as having a topic helps you think more in terms of composing a scene, rather than just a sketch of a character... I haven't done anything for IF for the last few weeks as our internet is down at home, and our computer's not set up either, so I can't colour up (which I have been doing on the computer recently). 

Anyway - better go - toodle pip! x

fine liner sketches

lunchtime art...

Something I drew at home with a fine liner, and coloured in Photoshop in my lunch break...