Tag: Procreate
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First Encounter
You try to find an object to draw. Ideally, it should already sit on your desk! Ideally, it should be translucent and sparkling! You try to make it look interesting… Adding little rainbows, perhaps? No sun today, so: Fetch the replacement sun! The spectrum of a flashlight is duller than that of the sun. The…
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Exhibition for Myself – Print Test Results!
I am regularly rotating the artworks in my personal exhibition for myself!Currently on display: All the prints hauled from the local print shop recently! Featuring prints on canvas, metal (aluminum-dibond), acrylic (with and without alu-dibond reenforcement), photo paper. These are the cabinets behind my work area: The exhibition for myself is both motivating and distracting!…
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Drawing Light Bulbs!
I had started testing Procreate, and I had to sketch a light bulb. This is the centennial one, burning in a fire station in California since more than 100 years. Light bulbs have a nostalgic appeal, like vacuum tubes. There is a reason why some modern LED lamps mimic their aesthetics: Pear-shaped bulbs with nicely…
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Things Come to Life (Metaphors always get out of hand.)
When I tested Procreate (my iPad drawing software) initially, I had a drawing practice I called A Thing a Day – drawing something I saw right now, or a detail from a photo I took myself. Now I have been throwing a few of these things together to create a surreal collage! A collage of…