sketches
digital, SketchBook Express app
Here's some quick iPad gestural sketches done in the SketchBook Express app. I have been working at it more recently so I'm getting a little more comfortable with it. Previously I would work on it then not touch it for a long time, never really getting the hang of the medium. I still don't have a good stylus though. I have tried 2 or 3 and they don't feel as natural to me as pen or pencil on paper. I am still getting used to the way they drag across glass, that tactile sense.
As I work on multiple projects, like my upcoming summer show at Art-A-Fair, I am finding that working on the iPad is a great way to take a break from them briefly while still keeping my head in the game and just letting it flow. If I don't like one, DELETE.
These were done from life. The top one he was watching a TV mounted to the wall at a laundra-mat, the others folding clothes.
It can be hard to work from life and still find some kind of action instead of stationary or posed figures. The Laundra-mat proved to be a good place because even though they are moving they are doing the same repetitive motions, making gestural drawings easier to do because I don't have to get it all at once or remember the action entirely.299,300,301
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These are great David. Gestural drawings always seem to have so much energy. I'll have to try that app. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteThanks Stephanie, and I agree. That is what makes gestural drawings so fun to do.
ReplyDeleteThe app, which is their limited version (free), is pretty good.
The opacity setting though is almost worthless. It only seems to adjust at the lower end of its slider.