Thomas Bangalter in the Sketchbook app on an iPad Air with an Apple pencil
I initially traced a reference photo to try and get the forms right, and I still feel like the glasses are off, then I worked the different parts in layers incase something happened. Combination of pencil and paintbrush tools at different strengths and the smudge tool.
I worked it like I'd work a water soluble graphite picture so analog art skills definitely carry over to digital.
Learning to draw digitally with the free *Sketchbook app on my iPad Air. I had the app and a pencil with my previous iPad 6th gen but wasn’t making much progress. Part of it was probably the glass top and the iPad just being old. So if you’re looking for a tablet for art do your research for which ones have a better screen for the purpose.
I am tracing a pic I snapped of the reference print. This is so I can concentrate on what the medium or tools do instead of getting the forms correct. This is a piece for learning and making art not for sale.
Prismacolor premiere on black paper, page torn from a black sketch book intended to be a record of what worked and what didn't. Broke so many tips before deciding it wasn't worth trying to finish, probably too much bloom going on as well.
I'm guessing the book was damaged or got wet in a move and I tore out what pages I could save. Still a good idea to have a record of which pencils work better on black paper than others.
Gee, I sure hope young me doesn't decide to get in to drawing.
Because I'd hate to prove all those teachers who told me to stop drawing in class wrong
Then I'd want to keep practicing
And maybe get good or something
But that's just cringe and reeks of effort and not caring if other people know I have hobbies and interests and shit
Seriously, if you're more concerned with how you appear to strangers on the internet and think you'll be glad you'll never enjoy something that you might look back and cringe congratulations on being boring.
And I don't mean in the Pet Shop Boys sense either.
Occasional it's been awhile since I've posted something pic. Here's an abandoned chalk pastel of Alex Winter as Marco in The Lost Boys. No reason it didn't get finished aside from burn out.
Also the one batch of chalks I was using before 2021 got pulverized in the move so he probably just got put away for safe keeping and forgotten about until I photographed him recently.
Because woodcuts came up elsewhere...
This was done with two pieces in like 1994, the center is a reduction print. The outside is a lovely piece of what I think is flooring pine, will always recommend because it's soft and has lovely grain patterns. I had to work around the two knots so the cover of U2's Joshua Tree album came to mind. It's a sizable 12"x18" piece.
something something Help us move meant help yourself to my wood cuts, etching plates, finished canvases, and larger prints something something This one survived because it was hidden in a portfolio something something
