At the Adobe Summit, London ExCeL, 2013.
Tags: Digital Art, Tablet art, Samsung Galaxy art, Adobe Summit, iOS art, Digital phoneography, #AdobeSummit
Date: 27 April 2013 15:06:29
So, after the Gadget Show Live I thought I'd take a break and so it worked out... for a couple of weeks. Then I was invited to attend the Adobe Summit and with something that cool on the horizon you can't really miss it can you?
The Headline Keynote was probably that of Felix Baumgartner who, surely, needs no introduction... But there were fabulous talks from a range of participants and it was all excellent fun and very jolly indeed. I drew on two tablets (iPad and Samsung Galaxy) using a range of styli (partially to show them off to people who asked questions as I was drawing. I focused on my three favourites: Nomad Flex, Stylus Sock and Pogo Sketch Pro but used others off and on through the day).
I used Adobe Touch apps, naturally, with Eazel being used a little (as I like to play a little more methodically on that one and the demands of the day didn't naturally gravitate to slow image creation) and Adobe Ideas and Photoshop Touch being used a lot. No idea why but I tend to prefer to use Ideas on the iPad (well, I can tell you why on that one - it's been discontinued on Android) and I far prefer Photoshop on the Samsung devices that I've used. It's an odd quirk of mine (and I do use Photoshop on iOS as well, I guess because I used it on Android first it always feels more at home there...)
(and not that I own a Note enabled SPen device at the moment but Photoshop and SPen are an excellent combination...)
Anyhow these are the pictures that I drew or photographed on the day (with a little bit of recolouring done on the first pic this morning...) Click on any of the photos to get the larger version held on my Flickr site...
(Samsung, Photoshop Touch, Nomad and Pogo. I drew 90% of it on the train and tube travelling to ExCeL).
(iPad and Photoshop Touch, focusing on the giant metal Octopus tentacle above everyone's heads).
(The giant metal Octopus tentacle above everyone's heads. The stoic participants barely flinched or panicked, proving that Doctor Who has taught us nothing...)
And there's a good three or four pics I tweeted out but haven't finished yet... The point of me drawing the sessions was to tweet the images out as near to when the participants where on the stage, which seemed to work very well and everyone seemed happy with the results, which was also nice. More cool stuff to come, hope you like these pics :)