A million things on a never ending tick list...

Categories: artwork

Tags: sketchbook, Art Academy, Wii U, Nintendo, Animal Crossing, Marvel comics, Wolverine, 3DS XL

Date: 18 March 2014 08:03:04

I'm painfully aware I've neither blogged about Digital Surrey nor, from this weekend, Bohunt STEMfest. Both were college tech happenings where the students shone very brightly indeed and I look forward to writing about... But time, and stuff, just gets in the way.

The irony, as my wife would quite happily mention, is that I can find 30 minutes to draw a picture of Wolverine on a Nintendo 3DS XL (true) but can't find the (probably) similar amount of time to do the other things that need doing.

Which is true. No idea - prevarication I guess. Just sometimes I sit and stare at a screen with a blank mind and a feeling of doom and other times I can sit and draw and that takes my mind off things.

This is one of the drawings (rather than the doom side). Yesterday had an EQR (External Quality Review) and it was very positive and kind and still threw up some things that I thought I was getting right but can obviously do better. Once I'd written up their feedback into a list of things that need to be done and so on I was sat with little in the way of energy left. So I drew, and it didn't renew the energy levels, but it was a lovely escape. I didn't know what to draw, nor what to draw on (I had an iPad and 3DS on me) but the 3DS came out of the bag first and the initial scribble looked a little like Wolverine so there you go, decision made. Art Academy is a fab art package (on both formats) and well worth using. Apart from the smaller screen ratio/size I don't see it as a lesser tool than some of the tablet apps at all. The way the paint merges, pencils blend etc is beautifully realised.

So: Wolverine, drawn on Nintendo 3DS XL using the 3DS' in built stylus and New Art Academy (which I mistakenly said on the video was Sketchbook but it suddenly strikes me that that's the Wii U version = DOH ME).

(On a different but related side of things this was drawn as one of my Mornin' Drawins on Sunday for a Nintendo Animal Crossing competition but, true to form, I couldn't find the upload method until too late... boo, but nice enough to start the day with. Anyhow Wolverine was drawn on 3DS XL and the pic below was drawn on Wii U using Art Academy Sketchbook).

Hope you like, regardless of the criminal mis-information embedded into the moving visual...

http://youtu.be/pn1y8oG0DVI