HockneyVision.
Categories: artwork
Tags: iPad art, Royal Academy, Hockney, London, bigger picture, Artwork
Date: 10 March 2012 14:37:00
As noted I've been an admirer of the Bigger Picture exhibition at the Royal Academy. I've been twice and look forward to a third time with my students at the end of March (although, I must admit, this has been the hardest teaching year I've had and I do nothing with them at the moment without a small amount of reluctance).
As also noted my favourite part was not the iPad artwork but the video installation. A hauntingly beautiful method of displaying a view that is both an obvious link from past works and a new method of seeing all in one.
With that in mind the idea for this picture struck me (on my second walk through of the exhibition) and has sat patiently in my sketchbook since. This week (not, it has to be said, a week I'm going to look back on fondly for a hundred reasons) allowed me the time to draw it on four train journeys to and from London and the occasional seat on the tube, if the seat was available and the journey was long enough.
The apps used were:
Adobe Eazel (bonkers watercolour simulator, odd and effective UI),
Adobe Ideas (lovely vector app which I always describe as having the hugest collection of best possible felt tip pens),
ProCreate (fab, good UI, nice painterly feel),
Paintbook (unusual but pleasant to play with, a little clumsy in places but very speedy/good feature set),
Sketchtime (strange effect, no colour picker but... interesting nonetheless),
Wasabi Paint (no colour pallette? Lovely thick gloopy paint feel),
FX Studio Pro (photo effects. I wanted to add a vignette to all boxes but in the end though the vignette over the whole piece was effective enough),
Art Rage (one of my favourite art apps and probably the one which I'll load up first when I get an iPad 3),
Brushes app (which was the 'mother' app; my favourite and the one in which all pieces were resized and collected but an app which hasn't been updated for a year or so and is beginning to show it)
and Sketchshare (which as has been mentioned off and on is a wonderful collaborative tool allowing four players to draw together and talk to each other as they do so. Bit of a game changer it is).
The styli used were my three go-to styli. I did have four that I relied on but one has, sadly, passed away recently. The ones which remain are the Nomad Compose, the Stylus Sock and the Jot pen. All three are wonderful to use and my go-to input sticks when it comes to drawing on an iPad.
One of my principle reasons for doing this pic was to see what other apps were on my system and give them a fairer play test than previously I might have done. I still think Adobe Ideas, Brushes app and Art Rage are my favourite apps and will remain so but Sketchshare time is always wonderful time and a couple of the apps I used were a lot of fun to use and I'll go back to them off and on.
So, belos is the youtube video and the picture which I painted over the course of 4 or 5 hours. Hope you like...
watch?v=oErVGw3hLDk&feature=youtu.be
((Oh I wish I could work out how to embed a youtube video into these blogs)).
