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I have a new touch screen for my Raspberry Pi. It’s still the same size - 480px by 320px but it is no longer cracked. The touch works! I still have my old touch screen and would like to find a use for it. Attaching it to somewhere that is useful - streaming cat gifs.

Here are some recent artworks created with GIMP:

It doesn’t happen often but here is a grayscale tonal painting of PulpFictionDiction from getsdrawn. I like painting the text. I have croped this as the rest of the painting was blank.

On the top left is the line layer of the previous painting. The rest of the image is sketches of robots and landscapes. Typical.

This is sizeways as I had the Raspberry Pi hanging from my bed well I drew. Some of the image is up the correct way - the landscape in the bottom left looks correct. The text is not.

This was drawn at the Hamilton Computer Club. It was the Feb 2016 Thursday meeting. Sadly the meeting was spent sorting ‘rules’. I guess it needed to be sorted but I’m looking forward to speakers later on in the year.

This was drawn during the Hamilton Python User Group. Again this was the Feb 2016 meeting. Lorance did a talk on IPython/Jupyter Notebook. There was also much discussion regarding next months meeting. Next month I will do a talk on Nikola.

I have been watching Linux Conf Aus videos on my laptop and painting them as I watch them. It is certainly not the experience of being there, but the talk talks are informative.

No text, just drawing. Monsters, robots, and landscapes.

I use to be a big fan of the website conceptart.org especially during my time at The Learning Connextion. It had been awhile since I had visited the site so I took a look. Enviortments on the week was always my favourite. The theme was Palace of Time. I need to visit the site regularly as it is great inspirion for drawing.

several portraits draw from getsdrawn. isnipor and tklfota.

Illustation of my setup and a self portrait.

writers den notes during the meeting. I got there late but got quite a bit of drawing completed.

The theme for the next Writers Den Hamilton is romance. It was my idea. I am not going to be at the next meeting but I’ve been thinking about the theme and have ideas.

This was drawn at the Sunday Den meeting, it was mostly sketching ideas for the romance theme.

Short story I started during the Wednesday Den meeting. The words on the left of the page are prompts given by each member. We were given ten minutes to come up with a story with the words. A points system was used but it didn’t really work. Who’s counting?

Another week, another conference. This week I got along to WCELfest. It’s an digital elearning conference held at Waikato University.

Here are the paintings that I created during the event:

Drawing and note taking of the beginning of the conference including the keynote speaker - Terry Anderson. It was an excellent keynote. I especially enjoyed him talking about copyright and open access. There was no mention of Creative Commons, but I was actively tweeting with mentions of Creative Commons.

This was the final image of the day. I had grown tired after lunch with productivity dropping. Maybe I should of switched. I am use to going to conferences and sticking to the same room all week. Maybe they could of given the streams topic names?

One of the streams was workshop based which I wasn’t interested in. The third stream looked like they had some interesting stuff. But at the end of the day it doesn’t matter. I enjoyed myself and looking forward to watching the talks online that I missed.

CYBER is hilarious. lulz when I heard the phase CYBER BULLY. Drinks a shot. CYBER was brought up again by the law dean as CYBER LAW. He was on a roll and rapped off a bunch of CYBER terms. Kiwicon would of been proud. Finishes the bottle.

Digital Badge. When I saw the title of this talk I got excited, thinking they were referring to LED based name tags but instead it was achievement points in a education course.

Welsh fella - Glyndwr Jones or JONES did a talk on blended classes. He was quite the character and funny. The painting lacks much drawing - only a sad cat due to parking charges at Waikato University.

This was an interesting talk as the speakers talked about SCRUM development being used for course development. It’s normally used in software development and great to see it’s crossing areas.

More recent drawings from the Raspberry Pi.

One of the images I missed from the recent KiwiCon post. Includes some notes on wireshark and such.

Drawn in Hamilton waiting for the bud. Redrew their logo and phone number.

Creative Commons ideas for a new website with bonus kiwicon9 sketches at the bottom - red team, born to shell.

Drawn watching DefCon videos and GetsDrawn drawing of ajawosogba.

Start of sketching digital nz stuff.

This was drawn in Levin when watching a video on the tor network. The lamp is outside the library.

GetsDrawn. Full page of sketches. Mostly robotic characters and landscape and water.

Levin Cyber Unit.

This was originally a pencil drawing I did at Waikato Uni a few years ago. I took the original pencil sketch and traced over it - same technique I use to always do with my pencil drawings (only this time there is no grayscale and colour layers).

This was created at WritersDenHamilton. The theme was to draw a place, time, or setting and have others guess. This was the first thing I have written since the NanoWriMo in November. I wrote about a messy house.

Script that generates collection of gif images from input. Ideas for gif script.

First Person. Put your arms up. wcm ideas.

Drawn during WritersDenHamilton. Had a focus on author A.S. Byatt. I would like to read one of her books - Possession: A Romance was the recommended book. Need to get that ebook reader! I like the idea of writing what is true.

Happy New Year! First post to the year. This selection of digital painting was mostly created at KiwiCon9. It was held in Wellington back in Decembers. It was the first time I attended and was a great experience. I went with my Raspberry Pi and Wacom drawing tablet. People were interested in it, from what I saw I was the only one walking around with a portable Raspberry Pi - and definitely the only one with a Wacom Drawing Tablet.

Here we go. As always I will talk about each piece above:

Aussy Military. They had someone talk about the aus military and how it relates to security.

Fear and Loathing on your Desk: BadUSB, and what you should do about it. Robery Fisk talked about the dangers of usb devices. I was lucky enough to meet Fisk the night before his talk at the VIP/speakers party.

I had meet one of his work mates at DevMob the week before and hanged out with her during KiwiCon9.

An older work of sketching Raspberry Pi ideas.

Cyber Viking Cafe. Colour version. Not much words, mostly drawings of creatures and landscape.

The black and white version of Cyber Viking Cafe image. The colour version always help define areas in the work.

Digital Painting from GetsDrawn of IsWhat.

Selection of days back in November of painting - mostly novel based sketches.

Keynote notes from KiwiCon. They had an event of the NSA swooping in and arressting the speaker who was talking about xkeyscore.

Thursday after morning tea. Kate Pearce did a talk - stuff I mostly didn’t understand.

Wayne did a talk about red teaming which I found very entertaining and informative. It was one of my favorite talks of the conference.

More notes on Waynes red teaming talk. The more interesting the talk is, the more notes I write.

BORN TO SHELL

Kiwicon 9. CyberWar. Theate of War. Robotic sketches before the event started.

This was the result of leaving my Pi setup on a talk at the VIP/Speaker event at KiwiCon9. Had requests to change the colour to ‘hot pink’. Several people had a go with the Wacom Drawing tablet. Gives me a break from it!

That’s a decent post for the start of the year. It is my goal this year to keep this site more up to date with my artwork. I have the Raspberry Pi portable device that I can use to make digital painting wherever I go and write the blog posts using nano and then build the site with Nikola.

I have a Raspberry Pi setup for portable digital painting. It’s a Raspberry Pi 2b with a 480x320px monitor attached to the GPIO slots. It’s powered by a battery pack. A Wacom tablet is plugged into the USB on the Pi. GIMP is used for the painting and it has the same settings as I had on the desktop. Now I can paint anywhere, no power needed! Here’s a collection of artwork that I have painted

Ideas for the Raspberry Pi internet cafe.

Colour logo for BroBeur CyberCafe. I added the line over the colour as it looked better than without it.

Grayscale BroBeur CyberCafe. Felt it didn’t need the line layer. Sorry, no line image.

Signinlca notes. Mostly writing but some drawing on the top left.

More character sketch ideas.

I went to a bar on the evening of my birthday and painted this there. I found a corner and stayed in it. It was fun.

Creative Commons ideas mixed with NaNoWriMo stuff.

KiwiCon2015. This was created shortly before the kiwicon conference that I attended this year.

This was from Day12 of my NaNoWriMo sketching. During November I wrote a 50,000 word novel and would carry my Pi with me sketching ideas and notes for the book.

Day 20 of NaNoWriMo. This was more of a summery of the book so far.

Writers Den Hamilton mixed with Creative Commons and Open Education Resources Sprints 2016. This is an event happening at the end of April that involves creating education resources.

Another one from early this year. There are several drawings from local Levin kids. They enjoy having a go with the drawing tablet - usually signing their name and creating basic drawings.

This is my spot. Some life drawing of the street - light pole and building behind it.

DevMob2015 Creative Commons sketches. Ideas for logos, but got carried away with characters.

Golden Cloud. This was from early in the year.

Grayscale painting of a girl with a cool hat.

Line layer of the girl with a hat. Quite basic really.

NanoWriMo Final.

It’s been sometime since I have updated this blog. For several months the site was down. I wrote code, I didn’t really do much artwork. I think that has to change, so here is my attempt to my art blog running again. I’ve decided to not use the wp-content path for artwork and instead use galleries. Don’t worry - all the artwork that was in wp-content is still there. This only applies for future works.

I even wrote a script to help me create blog posts. It takes the images in a folder and creates a Markdown file out of them. It also creates a year/month/day folder structure folder for the gallery. This is the same as I use for my GetsDrawn site.

Anyway, here is a collection of digital paintings. Majority are from reference images on GetsDrawn. Enjoy -

###ItWillBeMine###

I have never draw the ‘head mod’ of RedditGetsDrawn but here it is. I was banned again for this.

###Jem ###

It’s rare that I do a remix of someone elses work. When I was at The Learning Connexion I remixed Cathrins work. This hasn’t continued. I found this Wellington Artist Jem and traced over her sketch. Similar process that I would do with my envrioment drawings, line layer to trace the pencil, followed by grayscale and colour layers.

###Kirsty###

This is a painting of my Friend Kirsty. They are wonderful and always let me stay at their place in Auckland. I enjoy going to tech conferences and they are often held in Auckland, so this is quite often.

The reference was a beautiful photo of her taken on her 30th birthday. So you could say this was a birthday present for her! Happy 30th Kirsty :D

So it’s been months since this blog has been updated. For several months it was shutdown. I was worried at one point that I had lost the art from the posts but I had backed it up on a Digital Ocean server. Since then the art has been restored but it’s not linking correctly on artcontrol.me

I have decided to switch from the wp-contents folder structure to the galleries system that is default in Nikola.

Here are digital paintings that I have completed this month:

TheMilkCollective

LeahTHP

SWEDEDOESMAKEUP

_SEMPERRVIVUM

bawkbawkmudder_udder

iwbm

The Raspberry Pi digital painting setup is stable. I have been able to walk and draw with it - though not as steady as sitting down or standing sill. Majority of the art is from imagination but some are landmarks and GetsDrawn.com

Enjoy -

Mixture of monster robotic characters and portraits from GetsDrawn. I’ve added their username near the portrait.

It’s been a long time since artcontrol.me: artwork of William Mckee has had a new logo. Using the Raspberry Pi and my Wacom tablet I traced over an old logo - to give it new life. This is the line layer. It’s a little rough and quick, but the logo will cleanup on the grayscale tonal and color layers. I would never use a line layer as a logo.

Grayscale tonal. The R in artcontrol and the smaller text is a mess.

Colour. Using Green on figure.

I will end with this. Red line layer. Characters for the gamejam Adventure Jam. It goes for two weeks. I’m not sure how much I’ll get done - so far I’ve only produced paintings. The name of my game is Hunt For Naples Yellow. The name is inspired from the film The Hunt For Red October and named after my digital painting/python dev pi machine - naplesyellow.

Naming all servers after colours.

Crayons.

I have the Raspberry Pi 2 B setup with a touch screen monitor attached to the GPIO and my wacom drawing tablet (small) attached with USB. I have my GIMP settings setup so it hides everything. I just need to go into fullscreen and the painting covers the whole screen.

I hide the taskbar and just use right click on the tablet to get it back. This is much better use of the screen.

Grayscale and Colour tonal layers are posible but it’s easier to just do the red line layer.

So after over a month I have finally got my Raspberry Pi 2 B setup and running. I had problems with the power supply - 5v 2a is needed but all my powersupply had low a.

The Pi is connected to a 17 inch monitor with a vga to html converter. GIMP is really all I am using it for. I have Raspberry Pi B+ with touch screen monitor attached that I use for reference photos.

Anyway here they are, a mixture of from imagaination and getsdrawn paintings.

Bombrosephoto line layer. Glasses holding camera. Minimal background landscape.

Grayscale. Ignored the background and just focused on the portraits. Keeping it simple and minimal.

Colour. New purple (modifed the red) for glasses.

Raspberry Head creature with walking desk and monitor. Line layer. Pillars in background.

Grayscale. Spikes

Logos. Debian. Raspberry Pi. GetsDrawn. Just playing and getting use to tablet with pi

Grayscale. The three logos again.

Color. Exploring purples and oranges. Green and Red for Pi.

Taylor Swift. Landscape, imagaination. Robot on the left