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The following images were drawn recently in an a5 sketchbook. Paper quality is high. Slightly textured. Page is easily marked. 2H pencil was used. This is preferred over HB for line. HB handles shading well.

Reference is RedditGetsDrawn/listener magazine/ imagination.

Enjoy.

Oil paint hasn’t been used since 2011. Blank wooden boards were lying around the room. Not being used is a waste. The follow images were painted. Relaxing, and something different.

I’ve been doing other things rather than updating this blog. It’s a shame really. I do art. I do photography. I don’t get it uploaded. My laptop is a mess and I’ll really like to just start over with my file system. It needs a clean up.

Anyway, this post is a start of many to come. Created in GIMP, my old tablet small square tablet was used. Three figures drawn. It’s nice to just doddle away in GIMP. It needs a color layer!

Hello.

It’s been sometime since I’ve written on here. 3D and webdesign have taken up most of my time lately. I’ve been working in HTML5 - Canvas and Javascript, as well as Unity3d.

In terms of art for here though. My wonderful tablet is still broken. I need to get it sent away and fixed. I’ve been using my old small one. It does the job alright.

But anyway. I gotmyself a tablet, but sadly that broke this morning. Back to pen + paper I believe

Sketches on the Kobo for a project. hese can then be developed digitally in GIOP

So I’m working on a website for a game development company. BroBeur Studios.

Currently my drawing tablet is broken.  Usb won’t recognise the device.  I’m working on getting it fixed.  In the meantime,  pen and paper plus digital painting on the android tablet

Here are some digital paintings I did with my fingers in the app sketchbook

William got a 7' Android tablet.  It’s not a Samsung but it does the job. The following images are created in sketchbook,  an app that in the past William used for digital painting.

RedditGetsDrawn is a helpful resource. Usually William works digitally from the site, creating color or grayscale paintings. Sometimes the tablet will be dropped and replaced with pencil and pad. In his previous pad (the a5 landscape, black bound, white pages) he produced a series of works from reference found on redditgetsdrawn. The following images are in the new sketchbook, which is a similar size to the previous. The paper quality is far higher. The off white look is appealing. Full figures are more fun to draw than portraits for William. The idea of creating a character in a world works better with a full figure over a portrait. HB pencil was used. William swears by his clutch pencil. It doesn’t go far from his side. If it does, he’s looking for it. He’s likely stressed and worried that he will have to buy another.

It’s a rare moment when William takes his pencil drawings digital. He has been focused on working from photo and imagination. That’s something that needs to change - a balanced approach. On Tuesday he imported two photos of pencil sketches that he had drawn during his time in Wellington. This is the result.

The line layer. He believes the pencil line looks more professional and there is more control. But he’s use to producing the digital line. It may serve some use in the future.

The tone layer. As usual William has used a range of brushes in order to show texture and variety in the work.