Tuesday 25 June 2013

Week 24 June 2013

Yet again this week I have struggled for an image. Was only out on Monday at my daughters took a lot of snaps of the twins dressed as fairies but that's all they are snaps. This week I didn't do any drawing either too much other stuff going on. I decided on posting my favourite snap of the day but then it was of just one twin and didn’t want to leave the other out so again there are 2 shots.

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The colour cast was because she was in a tunnel under a side.

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to balance everything a shot of them both, its not everyone that has fairies at the bottom of their garden.

Sunday 16 June 2013

week 24 June 2013

Had a brief visit to Knaresborough this week mainly to get a Pub lunch. Before lunch I managed a quick walk up to the castle yard.

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This weeks image is a window in the castle the shot it’s self is not remarkable its not even that well shot. So why post it here? Well about 5 years ago I had a Kodak bridge camera which I had with me on a visit to the castle with my daughter. At this point hadn’t got back into photography took camera to take the usual snaps. We went on the guided tour of the castle. Just inside the castle you can see this window from the inside. At that time the outside of the window was covered with ivy and I was taken with the sun shining in through the window and the ivy. The resulting photo again not the best but it spurred me on the learn more about photography and eventually to buy a DSLR camera.

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Sunday 9 June 2013

Week 23 June 2013

Again I have been playing with the “inkpad” app for ipad. I’m enjoying learning how to use this and discovered I could import a photo to overlay as a texture. The Ipad is an incredible tool, been looking on line at some ipad artists. One of these being…Ron Letkeman

http://www.flickr.com/photos/14225021@N00/ this guys drawings are outstanding.

Have also started to experiment using a few different apps in one drawing. This weeks image is one of the ipad images I have been working on. Don't know why I started to draw a vampire. I started of in “Art Studio” and made a basic sketch then carried on in “inkpad” where I blocked in colours and did the inking also tried some shading using gradients. Then I imported a texture and added that. Afterwards took the whole image and ran through an app called “vintage”

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The “finished” image but without the vintage effect.

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image before the texture layer

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Image after running through “Vintage”

Monday 3 June 2013

Week 22 May 2013

Another shot from my Dales trip taken last Monday at Middleham Castle. We have had a long cold winter and it seemed to be ages until any colour was around again. Flowers have at last begun to appear everywhere. There were lots of fields full of buttercups and other wild flowers everywhere but it was the one growing in the castle walls attracted me the most.

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