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We have many acts from the world of film, art & music every month but this guy turned up and wasn't on the bill! However he wasn't bad at sketching the acts as they were performing.
Today I got my Ilkae CD. And then while listening to it (it is gooood), I drew a wobbly headed alien surrounded by blobs. Huh? I dunno! This isn't really a drawing as much as a bunch of shapes.
THE BLOBS ARE WATCHING YOUUU!!!
You must be all sick of my sketches... So here are photos and sketches from the most fabulous day with Nick aged 6.
He is the most keen sketcher I have ever been out with and did 9 sketches for my 7! (Out sketched indeed!) I will try and post better photos when I get them... It was so amazing to see his observational skills, hand/eye coordination and contour drawing!!
We all had such a great day... I am not surprised to learn that Nick had a little cry on the way home- he didn’t want the day to end... Same with me!
I like to do quick value sketches on location before starting a painting. Its a tremendous help in planning the basic structure and exploring what’s important in the scene. Traditionally artists have used pencil, charcoal, or ink to draw value sketches. I thought I’d explore using the iPod Touch instead. It’s the right size – screen size is about 2 x 3 inches which is the size I usually make in a sketchbook. It’s also handy. It fits in my shirt pocket and I always have it with me and I already use it to take reference photos.
I experimented with several different painting apps. I first used Sketch Club which I like because I can make custom brushes and it has an eight step grayscale color palette. I also tried ArtRage and Sketchbook Mobile, but rejected them. ArtRage on the iPod creates files which are too small and Sketchbook has too clumsy an interface. I really like Procreate on the iPad, but the iPad is too big to carry around conveniently. The best was Brushes. It makes nice large files and you can playback a movie of your painting process.
You can see a Brushes movie, a slideshow, and read more about value sketches on my blog: www.jimblodget.com/blog/value-sketches/ .
iPod Touch, Sketch Club, Brushes 3, ArtRage, Proceate, and Sketchbook Mobile.
Me with a study for Primavera, life-size from the model. It's done on brown wrapping paper with white acrylic paint applied with a palette knife.
If I want to correct something I tear off some more brown paper, glue it on top, and work over that. You can see some areas behind her left arm where I have done just that. Stops me getting too precious about what is only intended as a study to help understand the pose. But I do quite like working on this scale..