Pookie Art

Yesterday I did a small sketch of Sasha on a journal page in my moleskine.  I drew that while looking at a picture of her.

So then today, I imported that sketch into ArtRage2 to use as a tracing image and did a digital painting/sketch.  In ArtRage I used paint and pencils.  Here is the result- BUT… I am still wrestling with whether things look right on the screen, whether you see my images the way I see my images because of monitor brightness, contrast and the tilt angle of my laptop screen.  So I’ll post two versions; one is the very light image I made in artrage and the second is exactly the same but I moved the "Curves" level in photoshop to boost contrast.  Let me know, is the first one "too light" or the second one "too dark"?

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Ok, well I finished one of the many things I am working on. It’s a drawing of my Paul Frank monkey watch that I did using ArtRage2 on my Wacom Graphire drawing tablet.  This for Everyday Matters challenge #8; "Draw your watch or other piece of jewelry".  Actually, I did most of this drawing using ArtRage2 on my tablet laptop with the touchscreen (Fujitsu P1510) so that it was like virtual drawing, and then finished it off on the Wacom tablet connected to my main computer.

EDITED TO ADD: I wanted to say THANKS SO MUCH to all of you who comment here on my blog, it really gives me a lift and inspiration!  Hugs to you all!   

This is for Illustration Friday.  Topic = "Total".  I went with "total eclipse".  I did this on the computer using ArtRage2 and my new Wacom Graphire 6x8 tablet.  Illustration Friday link viewer for current topic, here.   Illustration Friday archive of topics, here.

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I was inspired by this photo WHICH IS NOT MINE but I admire it a lot:
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… and so I painted this in ArtRage: 

I still have a lot to learn, but this was fun doing.

EDITED TO ADD: Now that I look at it more zoomed-out, I see that my brain really likes symmetry!  The big cloud is orbited almost perfectly by smaller clouds in a circle.  It’s amazing what my brain does when I’m not paying attention! 

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I have been playing w/ ArtRage2 Free and just tonight decided to buy the full version so I can have all the toys.  ArtRage is SO fun and I have a bit of a learning curve to make my computer drawings look as good (good?) as my analog (paper and pencil) drawings.  But it’s fun.  VERY fun. 

I had a really good idea today, check it out!

I had a revelation: Install ArtRage2 on my tiny TABLET laptop ! It’s such a surreal and dreamy drawing experience! Virtual painting! Laptop: Fujitsu P1510… www.FujitsuPc.com  

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I first heard about ArtRage2  on Ujwala’s art page, drawtheline.wordpress.com 

It’s free version is awesome and the full version is only $20 so I will probably upgrade.  I JUST got a USB drawing tablet (a Wacom Graphire 6x8) for the computer and barely know what I’m doing, but started playing around.  It’s what you gotta do, right?   

Here’s my first ArtRage / Tablet picture:

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