Stylus t. Frog and the book on the digital shelf.
Categories: artwork, books, general-stuff
Tags: Paul Kercal, Mobile digital art, iPad artwork, stylus t. Frog, book cover, ibookstore, iDevice artwork
Date: 03 May 2012 08:13:55
Now: So, now it's here: Stylus t. Frog and the Weapons of Mass Construction. 100 pages of iPad artwork.
Yes, my ability to pick a succinct and snappy name still eludes me, that much is certain. But I like Stylus t. and felt he deserved equal billing. Although, again, bearing in mind he is in the title and I am a footnote also says a lot about me, psychologically, I suspect.
Anyhow, a sample can also be found at the same link above, and at £4.99 for 100 pages for the full on version it's.... good value? Hard to work it out. Some books are cheaper, some more expensive. Hopefully it's a fair price. I am a struggling artist with a next generation Absenthe style addiction to uphold (hello Comixology app).
Hope you like! Let me know, if you do :) There's lot in there from art apps (Brushes, Adobe Ideas, Art Rage, Eazel, Sketchshare and more), styli (Nomad Brush, Pogo, Stylus Sock and so on) and much much more...
Previously, in Kercalblogland:
(apologies is that's confusing. I just realised I'd buried the lead in a big way).
Oh boy this has been a bit of a journey.
In Feb Apple released a desktop app called iBooks Author. I was instantly smitten, inspired, excited and so on. Within weeks I'd produced 90% of a book on iPad art.
So far so good. The application was easy to use, had a couple of niggles but nothing show stopping, and the process flowed pretty well, often late into the night, night after night.
And then I read the T and Cs. To sell a book I needed a US tax code. That took.... a while... I needed an ISBN. That was a little easier. And it needed to clear Apple iBookstore QA. That also took a while (6 weeks in fact although, fair play to them as soon as they opened the floodgates that must have been a LOT of words they had to read from a large number of submissions).
Hundreds of screen refreshes later I was rewarded by the little green dot and was so delighted I didn't know what to do. As it was just gone 6am (having been woken by my son getting cross with Mario Kart) I tried and failed to get another half hours sleep. Now it's the morning of emailing, texting, tweeting and as much as I can do to get any sort of interest in the work. We'll see how that goes...
...and a brief info burst, as I've been asked for one:
Who: Paul Kercal - A level graphics teacher and iPad artist. And youth worker. And occasional writer. Where? Guildford College mainly. Why? Love iPads and iPhones: the screen offers a lovely immediacy - it's fab to be involved in friction free artworking. When? I draw on busses and trains off and on. Sometimes in cafes, occasionally in pubs. For more info contact wd ((at)) kercal ((dot)) co ((dot)) uk
