This is a half-hour traditional-media pencil and gouache sketch in my 5 x 8 Moleskin, with a little digital finish thrown in. In the original, the model's left arm didn't read right. So for the first time ever, I took a picture of the painting with my iPad camera, imported the image into the Procreate… Continue reading Mixing It Up
Category: Ipad
IPad Sketching in Chicago
Friday at the Palette and Chisel open studio I tried my first iPad sketches from the figure. This is the best of three attempts. The light lines are the first drawing, then I made a new layer and came back with a thicker line and started roughing in the shadows. Obviously, there's a lot of… Continue reading IPad Sketching in Chicago
Work In Progress – Ipad Drawing
I took photos for this picture 4 years ago. I also made an oil sketch at the same time. The scene is along the river outside Union Station in Chicago on a nice summer day. The large reddish object in the background is part of the Adams St. bridge abutment. The river is “off-stage” to… Continue reading Work In Progress – Ipad Drawing
Ipad at Mother Fool’s
An Ipad drawing I started at Mother Fool's coffee shop, then took a picture with my phone to use to finish the drawing. Here's the photo: I'm working on shapes, color, and, on the Ipad, mark-making.
Poster for Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale
Just as I was fooling around with a new app for my iPad called Inkpad, Alliance for Animals asked me to do a poster for their participation in this year's Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale event. So I got to trot out my rusty old vector drawing skills learned over many years of frustration with Adobe… Continue reading Poster for Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale
Early Morning at Olbrich Park
I kept meaning to “finish” this iPad drawing I did last summer looking east from the top of the sledding hill at Olbrich Park. I never got around to working on it again, so I'm now declaring it done. After all, we need something to remember the sun with this gray spring weather. I believe… Continue reading Early Morning at Olbrich Park
Chicago On the Ipad
To complete my spring-weather theme, here's Chicago in the rain (specifically Starbucks on State just north of Chicago Ave.). Actually I started the picture last fall sitting at the window counter, and then finished it from photographs. The beauty of rain is the great reflections. This picture is also part of a series I started… Continue reading Chicago On the Ipad
Ipad drawing
I thought I'd post a nice summer picture since the weather's been so rotten here in Wisconsin. It snowed all day. Some spring! I did this on my Ipad on Sunday morning sitting on my patio. It's not so obvious here, but when I matted and framed a digital print of this picture, all I… Continue reading Ipad drawing
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