P.S. are you kids looking forward to a visit from Father Christmas and all his little helpers? ^^ xxx
Showing posts with label Digital painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Digital painting. Show all posts
Thursday, 24 December 2015
Merry Christmas everybody!
Merry Christmas everybody! I hope you all have a lovely holiday, and have a very happy new year! Bring on 2016!
P.S. are you kids looking forward to a visit from Father Christmas and all his little helpers? ^^ xxx
P.S. are you kids looking forward to a visit from Father Christmas and all his little helpers? ^^ xxx
Saturday, 28 November 2015
Kindle Fire HDX - Autodesk SketchBook - Digital Paint - Review
During my travels, sure I could sketch in a sketchpad, but I didn't want to be completely cut off from painting digitally. So on investing in a Kindle Fire my thought process was that I could kill several birds with one stone -
1) having something to read on,
2) having something that essentially could act as a personal computer,
3) something to Paint and Draw on!
I used an app called 'Autodesk SketchBook', it's free and it's pretty good but you pay a small fee to unlock more advanced features (to replicate a normal digital painting program much better).
However, painting on Kindle is a bit like smudging paint around a canvas with your bare fingers (even when using a stylus). It's Jittery, unresponsive and generally very frustrating to work with. You'll find yourself constantly drawing and erasing areas you didn't intend the paint to cover. You can create nice artwork, but it's a bit like two steps forward one step back the entire time, because the stylus just never is precise and accurate enough.
Nevertheless, I've soldiered on with a few pieces and did come out with some nice artwork, but I feel that drawing these on my normal Macbook with Graphics Tablet would have taken a lot less time (maybe four times quicker).
So my conclusion? Definitely don't rely on digitally painting on your Kindle, it just isn't developed enough to work properly for that. I have heard that this isn't the case with painting digitally on Ipads, so maybe it's worth trying, though I have no experience of that myself so couldn't say for sure.
Overall? 4/10 - I'll be sticking to my beloved Macbook and Intuos Tablet for now :)
All the best,
xLouisax
1) having something to read on,
2) having something that essentially could act as a personal computer,
3) something to Paint and Draw on!
I used an app called 'Autodesk SketchBook', it's free and it's pretty good but you pay a small fee to unlock more advanced features (to replicate a normal digital painting program much better).
However, painting on Kindle is a bit like smudging paint around a canvas with your bare fingers (even when using a stylus). It's Jittery, unresponsive and generally very frustrating to work with. You'll find yourself constantly drawing and erasing areas you didn't intend the paint to cover. You can create nice artwork, but it's a bit like two steps forward one step back the entire time, because the stylus just never is precise and accurate enough.
Nevertheless, I've soldiered on with a few pieces and did come out with some nice artwork, but I feel that drawing these on my normal Macbook with Graphics Tablet would have taken a lot less time (maybe four times quicker).
So my conclusion? Definitely don't rely on digitally painting on your Kindle, it just isn't developed enough to work properly for that. I have heard that this isn't the case with painting digitally on Ipads, so maybe it's worth trying, though I have no experience of that myself so couldn't say for sure.
Overall? 4/10 - I'll be sticking to my beloved Macbook and Intuos Tablet for now :)
All the best,
xLouisax
Saturday, 4 October 2014
Ellie - The Last of Us
Hi guys,
I've been doing a bit of painting today! One of my favourite video-game characters, Ellie from The Last of Us. If you haven't played that game yet, seriously go buy it now it's one of the best games ever made!
Just a little more work and this will be done :)
xLouisax
I've been doing a bit of painting today! One of my favourite video-game characters, Ellie from The Last of Us. If you haven't played that game yet, seriously go buy it now it's one of the best games ever made!
Just a little more work and this will be done :)
xLouisax
Wednesday, 13 April 2011
Tuesday, 28 December 2010
No Added Sugar Exhibition
The No Added Sugar Exhibition, which took place on the 14th and 15th December 2010 in humble Epsom, Surrey, was an exhibition entirely funded and organised by 3rd year Graphic Design students of The University of Creative arts, Epsom.
It featured current project work by me and some fellow students on my course, and we even had a shop to sell our postcards, cards and little books.
My wall space featured my project, Epsom Characters of course! I was especially happy with how well my set of postcards printed - such good quality prints and they looked amazing! I made £4.50 selling them!
It was also great fun spending the day there setting everything up, splitting into teams to get certain jobs done. I was on the refreshments team so it was our job to go to Asda and buy all the booze! Then we had to regulate the refreshments while the exhibition was running. Other than that, everybody helped to set up the room and workshop together. During the second day, I joined the Workshop crew who were all making live arts and crafts, so I took the opportunu=ity to catch up on some bookbinding. On the whole it was excellently organised and we all worked very well together!
We were all of us appaled at the complete lack of support from out University's PR and of how dismissive they were about the whole thing. We really could have used their help to promote our exhibition, and they shouldn't have taken all of our posters down around Uni (which we had permission to put up).
Nevertheless, this made us even more determined to pull it off, by ourselves. It must just be embarassing for them to now be hearing about how wonderful it went and how much kudos it ultimately brought our University. For them to not have taken this opportunity to promote us, and show prospective students just how organised and determined our University students can be, must mean that they're idiots.
This is not to say that our tutors didn't help us; they were all very supportive and encouraging throughout the whole process and we were very thankful for this. :)
Weeeee!
xLouisax
It featured current project work by me and some fellow students on my course, and we even had a shop to sell our postcards, cards and little books.
My wall space featured my project, Epsom Characters of course! I was especially happy with how well my set of postcards printed - such good quality prints and they looked amazing! I made £4.50 selling them!
It was also great fun spending the day there setting everything up, splitting into teams to get certain jobs done. I was on the refreshments team so it was our job to go to Asda and buy all the booze! Then we had to regulate the refreshments while the exhibition was running. Other than that, everybody helped to set up the room and workshop together. During the second day, I joined the Workshop crew who were all making live arts and crafts, so I took the opportunu=ity to catch up on some bookbinding. On the whole it was excellently organised and we all worked very well together!
We were all of us appaled at the complete lack of support from out University's PR and of how dismissive they were about the whole thing. We really could have used their help to promote our exhibition, and they shouldn't have taken all of our posters down around Uni (which we had permission to put up).
Nevertheless, this made us even more determined to pull it off, by ourselves. It must just be embarassing for them to now be hearing about how wonderful it went and how much kudos it ultimately brought our University. For them to not have taken this opportunity to promote us, and show prospective students just how organised and determined our University students can be, must mean that they're idiots.
This is not to say that our tutors didn't help us; they were all very supportive and encouraging throughout the whole process and we were very thankful for this. :)
Weeeee!
xLouisax
Wednesday, 8 December 2010
Epsom Characters Quartet!
I have completed my Epsom Characters series. Please click on the Issuu below to view them.
Creating Bike Man was by far the most challenging. I've spent that last couple of weeks drawing faces, bikes, rough-looking people, punks, you name it!
My Epsom characters are to be displayed in the No Added Sugar exhibition which has been funded and organised entirely by students in my year group. It takes place next week in the Ebbisham Centre, Epsom, Surrey.
I hope none of the residents these characters are based on turn up! God that will be awkward.
All the best,
Louisa Brooks
Creating Bike Man was by far the most challenging. I've spent that last couple of weeks drawing faces, bikes, rough-looking people, punks, you name it!
Open publication - Free publishing
My Epsom characters are to be displayed in the No Added Sugar exhibition which has been funded and organised entirely by students in my year group. It takes place next week in the Ebbisham Centre, Epsom, Surrey.
I hope none of the residents these characters are based on turn up! God that will be awkward.
All the best,
Louisa Brooks
Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Epsom characters
Something I am doing at the moment for Uni is creating characters based on real people in Epsom, Surrey. I started out by sketching real people, the moment before they cross the road on the high street. I began to notice the different types of people in Epsom, the way they talk, act, the things they wear.
I enjoyed drawing their clothes the most. I like the way that clothes hang off the body or ruck up in one corner.
A character I finalised was 'Old Biddy', who is a distillment of all of the old ladies I saw around Epsom. She turned out to be quite popular, so my tutor has encouraged me to do more.
There are a few legendary people around Epsom that I am planning to draw:
1) Old Biddy - Complete
2) Elderly Identical Twins - Complete
3) Blind man and his Dog - ? :(
4) Crazy Epsom man - Complete
5) Bike Man - In Progress
Trust me, it's gonna be good! :D
All the best,
xLouisax
I enjoyed drawing their clothes the most. I like the way that clothes hang off the body or ruck up in one corner.
A character I finalised was 'Old Biddy', who is a distillment of all of the old ladies I saw around Epsom. She turned out to be quite popular, so my tutor has encouraged me to do more.
There are a few legendary people around Epsom that I am planning to draw:
1) Old Biddy - Complete
2) Elderly Identical Twins - Complete
3) Blind man and his Dog - ? :(
4) Crazy Epsom man - Complete
5) Bike Man - In Progress
Trust me, it's gonna be good! :D
All the best,
xLouisax
Monday, 1 November 2010
CHOW - Zombify yourself!
I've been busy making images using a new method, that is, vectorising my sketches, and then painting over them in Photoshop. Above is my entry for Conceptart.org's Character of the Week challenge, 'Zombify yourself.' It was great fun, and I got two votes, wohooo!
I now have an excuse to do CHOW every week, as it is a part of my 'External Positioning' project for school, which basically means that we position ourselves appropriately in the industry, and one way of doing that is by throwing yourself out there and taking part in competitions.
I love chow, I can't wait to start working on it for next week's brief.
All the best,
xLouisax
Monday, 9 August 2010
Grayscale painting
I took last week's Chow as an excuse to try a new method of painting; to paint the whole thing in grayscale, and then add the colour on top with a 'colour' blend layer.
I found this method reaaallly challenging! :( I'd figured that it would be important to get the blacks and whites right, so that the colours would come out well, but it's sooo easier said than done. All the colours came out reaaally wierd and I felt like I had absolutely no control over what I was trying to do.
Maybe the grays I was painting over were completely wrong or maybe I just need to get the hang of this method a little more. Either way, I will try this method again, and I can only get better at it right?
Last week's chow was Marie Antoinette. CAKE!
I found this method reaaallly challenging! :( I'd figured that it would be important to get the blacks and whites right, so that the colours would come out well, but it's sooo easier said than done. All the colours came out reaaally wierd and I felt like I had absolutely no control over what I was trying to do.
Maybe the grays I was painting over were completely wrong or maybe I just need to get the hang of this method a little more. Either way, I will try this method again, and I can only get better at it right?
Last week's chow was Marie Antoinette. CAKE!
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
Thursday, 15 July 2010
My first epiphany
Welcome to my blog, Louisa's epiphanies. This is an art blog for my frequent epiphanies about life, love etc, though mostly art to be honest.
It has recently come to my attention that I am a rahubbish artist, and since this is the career i've sought after my whole life, and since I am now entering my last year of Graphic design degree, I really need to jump on the wagon and get on with it!
I will post sketches, works in progress, artists I admire, cool videos I find, EVERYTHING! So thanks much for reading this, and please check back every now and then.
xLouisax
It has recently come to my attention that I am a rahubbish artist, and since this is the career i've sought after my whole life, and since I am now entering my last year of Graphic design degree, I really need to jump on the wagon and get on with it!
I will post sketches, works in progress, artists I admire, cool videos I find, EVERYTHING! So thanks much for reading this, and please check back every now and then.
xLouisax
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