Parrot Tulip
Parrot tulip. Coloured pencils, May 2013
This is another example of the fact that looking at your online drawing shows you all the things which still have to be done. I thought I could call it finished, but I still need to work on the contrast – some parts of the drawing/painting still need to be darkened. Well,,,
Spring
Spring. Abstract done with the watercolour tool in Artrage. May 2013
I really enjoyed painting this one. I experimented again with the watercolour tool – tried out various settings on two layers. I also used the chalk tool, because I wanted to have a contrast between the softness or even blurriness of the digital watercolours and the clear cut lines of the chalk.
I call the painting “spring” because in my imagination I can see the pink blossoms of the cherry and the apple tree.
Reptile
Young reptile. Artrage, May 2013
For the first time I worked with one of the free textures you can find on the web. I also played around with the watercolour tool and the various settings you can choose with this tool.
Pink Abstract
Pink Abstract. Artrage digital painting, May 2013
One of my goals with Artrage is to explore the watercolour tool and to try out the various settings of the tool. It is fun to let the paint flow digitally!
How to draw feet
I have difficulties with drawing feet, and so I was looking for some useful video tutorials on YouTube.
The first one I found was this one:
It is only a bit more than 7 minutes long, and it shows you how to draw rather cartoonish looking feet.
Another more detailed video, created by Sycra, is this one:
Have fun watching!
Another cat
Sitting cat. Digital sketch done with artrage.
This belongs to my series of cat sketches. It was done in Artrage. I added the frame in Photoshop.
In case you are following my blog: There will be no blogpost on Monday, 13 May. I am off to visit my family in the south of Germany, and I allow myself to do the next blogpost on Wednesday 15 May.
Have a great spring time, everybody!
Flying Dragon – revisited
Flying Dragon revisited. Digital painting done with Artrage. May 2013
Working on that piece really taught me an important lesson:
- Do not rush with lineart. In this case I definitely was too fast with my lineart which resulted in a piece which was “quick and dirty”. Whenever I want to try something out I tend to rush myself, focusing on a new method (“I want to see whether this will work if I do it this way”).
Fortunately I’d put the drawing on a separate layer, so I could change it, but I had to change the colouring as well. - Do not give up too early. Well, there was a time when I was considering throwing the whole piece into the trashcan. But I’m not only an impatient person, I’m also a person who doesn’t want to give up. So I made the neck longer, I thought about the light source, I worked on the background. It is still not a masterpiece, but it looks better than the first version does!
Playing with Red and Yellow
Red and yellow abstract. Coloured pencils on cardboard paper. April 2013
This drawing is based on a digital painting I did some weeks ago with Artrage. Again I used baby oil as a solvent, and I am excited how strong the colours get when you do that.
Flying Dragon
Flying Dragon. Coloured with Artrage
This is definitely a work in progress. There still has to be done some shading in order to take off the flatness of the dragon character. I also think that the sky has to be a wee bit darker, some of the lines have be a bit thinner and some spots have no colour or the wrong one. But the beginning has been made.
Dancing Dragon
Dancing Dragon. Sketched with pen and ink, coloured with Artrage
It was a long time ago when I did that line drawing with pen and ink. I had coloured it already with coloured pencils, and I wanted to have a go at it digitally, with Artrage.
So I had three layers – the line drawing, the layer on which I did the colouring of the dragon and a layer for the background. You can merge layers in Artrage as you can in Photoshop, but I still keep them because I am not sure whether this version here will be the final one.
