Dennis Jones
eclectic artwork & other random things
iPad Brushes Take Two
This is my second attempt to do a picture on an I-Pad using the Brushes App. Just like the first one I did, I way overworked it, but my primary goal has been to get familiar with the program and see how the brushes in this app react with no screen pressure sensitivity, so I go way past any reasonable stopping point in order to keep experimenting.
Old Number One
This was my very first attempt at making a Sock Creature.
Green Flying Monkey
Last Sunday the early football games on tv were kinda lame, so I grabbed a needle and thread and whipped out a new flying sock monkey…
iPad Brushes App
Over the past couple of months I have experimented with several different iPad painting apps… SketchBook Pro, Colors!, and Art Studio to name a few. By far my favorite is Brushes. Until Wacom comes out with a self contained Cintiq the size of an iPad (I won’t hold my breathe) this will probably be my painting App of choice.
SketchBook Pro On An I-Pad
I had really, REALLY hoped the new I-Pad would have a little bit of screen sensitivity so it could function as a way cool digital art tablet… but of course it didn’t. Screen sensitivity would have shot the price through the roof and nobody (except a couple of goofy artists wanting a digital art tablet) would have needed it anyway.
I went ahead and got an I-Pad and have had a lot of fun experimenting with Sketchbook Pro on it. The video below gives an idea of how I work the painting program, and all these pictures were painted totally with SketchBook Pro (no touch-up later in Photoshop). These are all raw, straight out of the I-Pad things.
A New Roma Classroom
I just spent a week in Braila, Romania and the good folks over at N-Ovation donated some of my wall art to be put up in the Sunday School classroom behind the Roma Church in Spiro Haret. I had never personally worked with this product before, but now that I have I can wholeheartedly vouch for it. These are vinyl wall coverings with an adhesive back. I’m guessing they are probably meant to adhere to a smoother surface, but the walls I put them on were rough as a cob and in spite of that, the “Walleeze” stuck to them like a trooper.
What a great product!
Alpha And Omega
The beginning and the end. Here’s the starting point and the ending point on a typical illustration for me…
A Little Off Course
Sometimes these things go exactly as planned, and sometimes they… well… yikes…
Milk Duds
Sometimes I get a job and I have absolutely no idea what it is for or how it is to be used. This was one like they. My art direction called for two cartoony cows taking bows, one in a tux and top hat and the other in a tutu and please, no personal parts showing. I’m still not sure in what context this is to be used, but it did remind me of one of my favorite cow jokes…
What do you call a couple of bad dairy cows? Milk Duds…
Happy Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day can get kinda weird around our house and it was no exception this year with the appearance of this little knucklehead…
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