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

Travel time!

So I've been a little busy over the past several months going on an adventure around the world! I just got to a point in my life where I was happy with how well I've done with my career. I'd graduated and got a good few years of experience working as an Illustrator and Designer and worked incredibly hard for every day of my life up until this point, so I thought it was definitely a good time to go off and have a gap year which I never had the chance to do before!

And its been great!!

I've ended up in Australia where I'm staying with a friend I met on the road and working part time in a local cafe to help save up for my next portion of backpacking around Oz!

I couldn't possibly share everything I've done while travelling this year because I'd need an entirely separate blog for that, but here's a few photos to give you guys a glimpse of my adventures! This whole experience has been incredibly inspiring and rejuvenating and I'm looking forward to coming back to London to work! 

Thailand


 Vietnam and Laos


Cambodia and Japan! <3 nbsp="" p="">
Peace out,

xLouisax

HAPPY HALLOWEEN - just some casual line-art!

Happy Halloween everybody, hope you all have a great day! This is my this year's Halloween line-art.



And do you guys like my Scary Clown outfit? (I won 1st prize in my office yaaay!) I'm not surprised as I can't even recognise myself in these photos!






And does anybody fancy one of my rotted fingers? (red humous and ham haha)



xLouisax

Hen Party T-shirt design

I recently designed something to go on some Hen Do t-shirts for a friend ^^.



Here they are in action!
xLouisax

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

Beyond Two Souls & Heavy Rain

Just bought these two bad boys and really glad they arrived in time before the bank holiday weekend! I've only had a chance to play a little bit of Beyond Two Souls because I've got a lot of freelancing to do this weekend but so far so good! I've never played anything like it before and I'm really getting sucked into the story and feeling really protective over Ellen Page's character Jodie haha! Can't wait to play more!! *dances*




[EDIT] Omg I loved Beyond Two Souls!! The game’s events aren’t in chronological order which basically really shakes it up and you have to play more and more to be able to piece together Jodie’s amazing life. I found myself really getting sucked into the story and becoming very protective over Jodie and always wanting to make choices and decisions that would make her happy. It’s a great captivating story and actually also has some fast-paced action in it also so really it has something  to offer for everyone. Not to mention the guy in it Ryan is like SOOO HOT!! Omg look at him!



xxx

New iPhone case ;_;

So I recently upgraded my iPhone, meaning it was good-bye old iPhone case, hello new iPhone case :(

 

My last one was a cute little cat that can stand on its own, it just about doesn't fit on my new iPhone 5c, so had to get the next best thing! Oh new iPhone case, you shall now be known as cool pink gameboy case!

 Louisa x