So I felt the need to get back into the daily/regular discipline of drawing things and posting them online after a bit of a break. Maybe it’s related to being in a stressful day job? Maybe something else?
Hopefully it won’t look like this.
Anyways, so I decided to get back into something regular and have found a nice little rhythm developing including some new ideas emerging.
Some of the usual notes on my process:
Scanner Pro - pops up nicely in the top right corner when you go to edit any photos in iOS. I like it’s simple ability to bleach stuff.
I like these results - they are useful for taking things to the next level.
scribbles in my square tiger-purchased blank sketchbook that I also happen to use as my daily teacher planner. I use an orange bic biro. I love the nib on it. Even with a decent iPad Pro knocking about, this is by far the best way to get my thoughts out quickly.
I take a photo with my iPad camera and then I process the imagery in Scanner Pro (unfortunately the track record for Prizmo has recently gone down the toilet so I gave it a shove - Scanner Pro has almost the same functionality).
this gets dragged into Procreate where I have set up some templates for Instagram/Twitter-friendly image creation. Essentially I produce a square image with four smaller squares. This gets posted to Instagram and my twitter feed gets the first image.
I use my own smooth brush with bobbly bits for line work and a non-smoothing brush for grey colouring.
the great thing to come out of this (so far) is that the use of a four panel structure forces me to create three or four distinct ‘beats’ which takes a bit of pressure off. One or two of the posts so far use a single larger box, but that’s because I am just messing about (and seriously who cares).
Palindromes
Playing about usually gets other things going. I was chatting to my son recently about Palindromes and then did a bit of research online. I was amazed how many there are and how complex! I noted a bunch down and have so far illustrated ten with an eye on keeping it up in my spare time. I like how you can take a really weird sentence and create some bizarre mini-narrative out of it. I posted them here.
