The Madness of Marques Brownlee.
Categories: artwork, general-stuff
Tags: iPad art, Pogo Sketch Pro, ArtRage app, Marques Brownlee
Date: 18 July 2014 10:03:39
Because of my advancing age (43. Blimey) I'm more into podcasts than I am into YouTube vodcasts (which is where my daughter, for example, is more in her natural affinity). I tend to listen to podcasts as I walk to and from work then any free time after that is given to drawing on screens rather than watching them...
So it was from podcasts like TWiT, British Tech, CNET UK and so on that I heard about the sapphire display video from @MKBHD. That probably helped, in the mental formulation of this picture, in as much as it was an audio thing rather than a visual thing.
The only thing I had in mind with the picture, at the beginning, is that I wanted an iPad screen covered in Samphire... The text came last as I was considering how the picture had fallen onto the screen and how it looked. Hopefully people won't take it seriously and have Marques booted from YouTube.
Regardless. Today started off with some horrible news hit me for six and then some (a youth group connection with the crashed plan yesterday) so I sat in my shed and painted the above image on an iPad 3 using the very fabulous ArtRage app and a Pogo Sketch Pro stylus. Took my mind off the world which was exactly the intention.
Of course if the screen IS made from Samphire I'll want this video to hit at least 100 million views and to be called a tech guru for the rest of my life.
Process video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCYMObMymlc&
ArtRage is lovely in many ways, especially as (if you remember) it remembers what you've done and with a gentle amount of effort you can create a video of your picture coming to be. Hence the video above, gently soundtracked by the very awesome Duke Special.