Drawing out with the Ipad

So me and a friend went to a cafe the other day and did some drawing out. I took my Ipad, and after some traditional sketches (which I will put in a later post) I created these. I had to sketch the outline of each person quickly, whilst I could still see them, then I added colour last, after I had captured as much of their character as possible.

This one took around 10 minutes. The woman was waiting around for some guy, boyfriend I assume. she had a big white bag over her shoulder and a red jumper under a brown coat with a furry collar. I used the technique of low opacity black marks and then overlaying colour on another layer. Lastly I went to the bottom layer and painted the background. for speed painting this method is not as good as a refined piece I feel, but I still liked the colours at least. 

This piece was another 10 minute one. A teenager/ young adult was resting on a post, on the edge of the ice arena. Here I used block colour with a few only a few touches of low opacity black to help blend a few areas, such as the jumper, or the background which I deliberately wanted out of focus. I think that using more solid colour for a quick drawing/ study of someone works much better, as it allows you to put information down faster.

I really enjoyed this drawing out session. My favourite by far was the second image. later today I shall be posting more of my drawing out I pad work. thanks for your time :)

Traditional life drawing

Traditional, on a digital blog? well this is my whole sketchbook, but online...

Anyway displayed below are works from the colour session of life drawing.

 The above Image I created with oil pastels. Whilst not my strong point, it was a fun experiment, and I enjoyed using slightly impressionistic lighting. This was the final image of the day. It was also an interesting and fun change to draw clothes this time on the model as well, as drawing the creases and folds in material is an entirely different path of thought that our usual sessions, where we mainly just think about lighting, and the movement in the human form.

The image i used for colour inspiration during the lesson was the following magazine cover.

http://fengzhudesign.com/blog/fzd_imaginefx_starwars.JPG

 The above was a 10 minute chalk drawing to warm us up before the final drawing of the day (the one above this image) I really enjoyed trying to draw the model here, as I had to think how the figure was working under the baggy, form hiding clothes. difficult but a fun challenge.

 Started activity, draw rub out and redraw. about 10 times I think, 1 minute each.

Here was a colab done with the legendary Joe, find her work here

http://jolarsenburnett.blogspot.com/

All in all it was an enjoyable class, and gave me some thoughts to leave with, such as colour and folds.

Image and text Ipad drawings

For this lesson we worked with a text and asked the model to do different poses relating with the story. it was about a mouse and a lion, so we had poses relating to a massive lion and a small mouse.
These were all quick sketches, most around the 5 minute mark. Sketches 1,12 and 11 were ones I had 7 minutes for instead of 5 minutes, and I defiantly preferred them.

My least favourite was sketch 7, as I really struggled with the pose, and I am still not sure why. sketch 4 was another favourite, as I liked the simple shading on her back. Sketch 11 was cool as I tried going crazy with the hair, and made the ear look a bit more beastual, as I tried to anthropomorphise the model a bit.

Below is a video showing how I illustrated some of my sketches.

Sketch 12

Sketch 4

Sketch 2

Thanks for veiwng, next time I shall post some of my work from drawing out, both traditionally and on my Ipad 

My first dedicated life drawing.

Hi again, as my first post promised here is the first refined Ipad drawing I have done. I did it straight after the first lesson of the term in the evening. Its just some random fantasy elf concept I had, but I really enjoyed refining the details and doing the shading.

After creating the greyscale version, I decided that a colour version would be fun as well. so I created a new layer and set it to overlay, and then added colour on top. This way the shading of the greyscale is not lost, but the colour is simply changed. despite how much I like the coloured version though, I prefure the greyscale version, as for some reason it feels like it just has more character to me.

The greyscale took 3 hours on my Ipad, and then the colour version took and extra 15 minutes on a duplicated version of the original.

I was really enjoying working like this, so I shall show more Ipad work in future posts.

An introduction, weeks 1 and 2

Hi guys and Gals, this is my blog for illus 241. I decided to make one after a few weeks, so I had a backlog of things to show. I will be updating this blog regularly for the rest of the project. I chose the theme of digital after working with the Ipads in class. My first attempts during the first week/ first class (see below) were not too great, but I started to learn the basics, such as brush size and opacity. My next post will show the work I did after this class, as I have my own Ipad, I am able to keep on experimenting and learning. It is worthy of note though, I will be using Photoshop as well, But an Ipad is simpler to carry around and do drawing out, hard-drives tend to be very heavy...

Week 1

As you can see when I said basic, they really are. Both are sketches of my classmate Emmy. I feel as if the greyscale came out much better, and looks less like terminator. From this I decided to play around with greyscale more in the future.

week 2

The next week in life drawing class I created this image in 45 minutes. I really enjoyed working like this and started to find my still evolving digital style. My favourite element is the shading on this one. Here I kept painting over with multiple low opacity pen marks for shading. Before adding colour I keep switching between black and white, to correct and shade different areas. Lastly I add colours over the drawing on a new layer with a thin layer of colour.

All of these were done in the Ipad app Brushes

Thanks for visiting, next up my first refined drawing in the next post.