Paperwork, the process and inspiration...

Categories: artwork

Tags: stylus t. Frog, Nomad Brush, Sketchbook Pro, HTC One, SketchTime app

Date: 14 April 2014 15:42:39

Powered through a hundred bits of paperwork today :( as well as doing a catch up session for a couple of students... So I'd deserved a brief sketch break. And when one of the students had an HTC One that he said he was happy for me to confiscate that answered the obvious question of what I should draw on. My styli, for the most part, are at home (didn't think I'd get the chance to draw today) but I've always got a Nomad on me so Q1, 2 and 3: screen and scribble stick were both sorted and Sketchbook Pro was the only app he had installed. Which left me with Q4: What to draw? And this is where I often come unstuck. Life's so busy and hectic at the moment knowing what to draw is often the leaf that derails the brain. So, when stuck I tend to throw a line on the screen and see what happens. The pic above started off that way. I wanted to doodle something in SketchTime between breakfast and bus so that's how the face above started (and if I get the chance I'll post the animation to YouTube sometime so you can see how it went from line to picture). The Frog below? Well, I started with a line and thought, part way through, that it looked like a lightbulb in a window and helped me know what to draw. So: pic above - iPhone 5S, SketchTime and cheap eBay stylus. Pic below - HTC One, Autodesk Sketchbook Pro, Nomad Compose and 20 minutes between doc files :( Hope you like. Prefer the Frog pic and, to be honest, prefer that phone too.