Sketches Archives

Zen Brush for iPad

I’ve done done some more drawing exercises and came up with this little character: Spike (due do this hair style). I’ve started him in Manga Studio and can’t stop drawing him now. Julia says he always looks like he’s in trouble (I’m still working on the happier expressions). This sketch was done in Zen Brush …

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I’ve finished another sketch in Manga Studio, still trying to come to grips with it. This time I’ve used my trusty old Wacom Bamboo tablet. It’s handles just as nice as my Intuos 4. Doug TenNapel was right: the hardware doesn’t really matter that much (even though I love my Intuos). Thats great news as …

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I’ve tried out two new apps here: the first one is Procreate, a drawing app for iPad. It’s up there with SketchBook Pro and Brushes (which I haven’t tried yet). Procreate is a very nice and fairly simple drawing programme with high-res canvases and unlimited undo functions. It has a very cool smudge tool and …

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I remember the very fist lesson in Art Academy on the Nindento DS is to draw a circle, turn it into an apple and apply basic shading. It’s been a while since I’ve looked at it and I tried to recreate it from memory – here’s the result. I need a lot more practice to …

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We found this weird looking bug lose to the beach one day and took some pictures. An orange thing with black spikes sticking out – an amazing creation. When I looked into the custom Sketchbook Pro brutes I found EXACTLY that bug! Wonder what he’s called and if he’s still alive…

I’ve only just started using Sketchbook Pro for iPad and I love it! I’m trying my hand at many retrace and freehand sketches. This picture of Miss Thailand Universe came up in the popular section on Instagram. I loved the moody shot of a figure and thought this would be a great drawing exercise. I …

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I discovered Ben on a packet of pain medicine at Walgreen’s. Him and his mate (also called Ben Gay) could have the most amazing conversations I thought. Then I discovered Halftone which turns photos into stylised images and let’s you add speech bubbles and captions. There are several apps that do this – let’s see …

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My attempt to recreate Harinezumi camera as a pencil sketch in SketchBook Pro.

I wanted to use the original picture as a product shot for my Harinezumi review but I felt it didn’t look quite right. However this morning I found an app called Pencil vs Camera which turns your pictures into pencil sketches – and it does a really good job at it. As an added gimmick …

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I shot this on Harinezumi in Miami, it was originally a blurred shot of a Palm Tree in macro mode. It works great as a desktop background (see below). I took it into Sketchbook Express to have a fiddle and I loved playing with it so much that I decided to upgrade to the Pro …

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This was originally an Instagram picture by Rick Stillwell. I loved it and thought this would make for some great pencil drawing practice in SketchBook Pro. See Rick’s fabulous original picture here.

Here’s a free-to-use sign that should be compulsive for coffee shops, air planes, trains, bookshops and other public places. Print and share to me the world a better place.

Ever since I tried Art Acedemy for Nintendo DS I thought wouldn’t it be great to have a tool like that with a bigger screen and more drawing controls? Like the professionals have? Like a Wacom Tablet with a built-in screen? It appears to have arrived as an app for the iPad – and it’s …

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