May the third, fourth and fi(f)th.

Categories: artwork

Tags: Nomad Brush, ArtRage, Pogo Sketch Pro, DrawQuest, Star Wars day, may the fourth, May the fith

Date: 05 May 2014 18:38:06

No idea why but all the talk of Star Wars day put me in mind of Dredd so when a blank newspaper came up as the pic of the day that was the first thing that came to mind...

((DrawQuest, for those who don't remember, is a wonderful community drawing app which has a very simple and streamlined feature set, allows you to post pictures to a group pool and see the animation of what you came up with at the end of a picture. eg: process video here: drawquest.com/s/55g5kwt ).

...but on Star Wars day I did find the time to draw the above picture... Again in DrawQuest app and the process video can be found here: drawquest.com/s/55u3tss  I'd fallen asleep the previous night listening to the very wonderful Creativity Inc by Amy Wallace and Ed Catmull and I suppose that fell into the drawing of the picture.

For May the Fith I decided to draw the darker side of Star Wars days, also in DrawQuest (so, I guess, a sort of trilogy). I was sat in a shed at the time, with no wifi, but had connected earlier to load up the picture. When I got back into the house I pressed upload (making sue the iPad had reconnected - but on upload it failed, repeatedly, and wouldn't even allow me to take a screenshot. Boo :( That said, in a hundred or so pictures in DQ, this is one of the very few which has failed so, in a way, can't complain that greatly).

Update: in a mark of horrible timing - and making me feel very guilty about highlighting the misfire earlier - DrawQuest posted this blog about their servers being hacked and the end of the app. Is a very sad and unfair end to a wonderful app. Sad news. Just, sad really.

...but I didn't want to go back to the app so instead I painted a picture in ArtRage, still sat in the shed :) May the Fith be with you, as the Emperor might say, being envious of not having a day to himself. Sadly, fun time is over, now it's back to paperwork ready for tomorrow :(

And now, having read the DrawQuest blog, I wish I could go back to it. Sad news, as I said, and a lot of DrawQuestrians are very unhappy tonight.

Update: Video uploaded!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZsTTe6qiRo