#IPad Mini

[omentu5]

[catfindr]

[ltdathayde]

"A Igreja diz: o corpo é uma culpa. A Ciência diz: o corpo é uma máquina. A publicidade diz: o corpo é um negócio. E o corpo diz: eu sou uma festa" - Eduardo Galeano.

[404icy]

life lately... thanks for 1000 followers, definitely a shock to me... i'll try to post more often...

[julietsothervision]

rendering + working on portfolio

[khakilike]

Unhealthily obsessed with my iPad mini's new lock screen.

[iguy]

We should really update you on our current collection of tech for daily use.

This is Digital Chase brand designer, Ryan, current setup

• iPhone 15 Pro Max (Natural Titanium)

• AirPods Pro 2nd Gen (USB-C)

• iPad mini 6th Gen (Starlight)

• iPad Pro (11” 2022) Silver

• 16” MacBook Pro M2 Pro (Silver)

[digitalchase]

Introducing SPLODGE! Our newest original collection that is sure to brighten those shorter winter days.

Save them above or download from our website, head over to our website for Christmas wallpapers too and so, so much more.

[kabishkat19]

What Ipad do you use for drawing?

I used an old IPad mini I’ve had since 2016😅 that is in a real need of an upgrade and the program I use is Clipstudio

I know I should probably use better things that will probably help my art look nicer and developed but I have a hassle trying to learn new things😣

Im like an old person trying to work Facebook (which I honestly struggle with sometimes too)

[forteania]

Now playing Pokémon Radical Red 4.1, love the ROM hacks people make of Pokémon games!

[weherzit]

[1000-joules]

once an ipad kid always an ipad kid

[ltdathayde]

Não sei o que dizer sobre essa tirinha, talvez ela seja pessoal demais pra alguém entender e se identificar, mas é sincera :} e sei que essas palavras teriam feito toda a diferença pra Laura do passado. O que vocês diriam pro seu eu mais jovem?

[404icy]

if rainy_day: print("stay inside and study")

studying ohm's law in order to understand what i'm actually doing with my arduino starter kit...

[jacyreveals]

[serndest]

A Place of a Contemplating Robot

I went with something more low-key. Jenny deserves some quiet, calm time now and then.😊(Also, a little reference in the title, and not just to the og show😉)

Really wanted to get another loose illustration out in time for the 20th anniversary. Plus, I’ve been meaning to do a calm piece. Between Jenny’s world-saving duty, life drama, robot-related issues, & people’s pettiness (sometimes including her own😓), I thought that she could use time to herself. That 3rd reason kinda sounds like sending a kid off to timeout for misbehavior, but hey, there might be stress behind that pettiness.🤷‍♀️ She does have the weight of the world on her shoulders. That, or it might be timeout-like after all😆 where she gets alone time to directly face her mental problems, with no physical problems to distract her.🤔

Or more interesting: needing to handle her mental problem in order to handle her physical one.🤯

Some might think calmer moments are boring, but I consider it a welcomed, necessary breath of fresh air, especially as someone who had a loud, tense upbringing.

Mini Journal

Ended up needing to keep my iPad charging the whole time; larger resolution (11x14” @ 300dpi) *and* Fresco’s live watercolor brushes drained it more quickly (~20% in 20 minutes). Even then, still a lot of crashes once I finished the sidewalk and bench. Now, only rarely do at that resolution. Watercolor-styled pieces will likely be 9x12” @ 300dpi, max.

Far more painful painting process in a full space. In a way, more directly an urban-sketching styled piece because now, it’s in a physical place instead of a void w/ colors! Similar to before, I mitigated some of the difficulty by using an analogous color scheme. This time, I really struggled with working w/ whitespace, like in Teoh Yi Chie’s or Liz Steel’s urban sketching styles.

What helped may have been a style I saw in this colored pencil Liz Steel piece https://www.lizsteel.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/LizSteel-159-1104CafeFeohPacHwy.jpg , where sidewalk & road are white, & the only blocks of color are for cast shadows.

Self-Reference

I got into the pose myself, mainly to fix her bent leg & folded hands. In the end, moved the bend leg up, just showed her right hands’ fingers & her left hand’s index finger, & unbent her other leg. Tried to focus on the feeling & gesture of the pose, rather than follow the pose exactly to a T. Mlaatr is just about the perfect style for that, being a gestural cartoon.

Concurrent Illustrating & Post/Note-Taking

I illustrated & prepped my post at same time (...at least until I got to painting the sidewalk😥). In a way, it’s kinda good I didn’t do it this way before, since I didn't have set categories (like Behind-the scenes or Mini Journal) yet. Nonetheless, I still tried to be as organized as possible by having a preliminary & final version of the post on a Google Doc (especially since ELA has been my historical weak area😥).

Behind-the-Scenes: Story, Color Scheme, & Color Application Influences. 

Tone & situation/implied story: the 1998 Yokohama Shopping Log OVA, with a robot (in YSL's case, a more human-like android) just hanging out and living life. Maybe even resolving some past problems or relationships.

Color scheme & watercolor style:

grass: how he colored the tree leaves here, by letting the colors mix on the page instead of mixing them himself. https://twitter.com/ParkaBlogs/status/1682275817668362240?s=20 

sidewalk: after a lot of struggling, went with Liz Steel’s colored pencil technique: layering lots of colors, especially in shadow areas https://www.lizsteel.com/switching-to-coloured-pencils/ , along with, as noted w/ the first colored pencil sketch I listed, having the rest of the roads/sidewalks be white—controlling whitespace

Art Supplies

Hardware: iPad mini 5th gen & Apple pencil 1st gen

Software: Adobe Fresco

Brushes:

Lineart: Pencil [default Adobe Fresco brush]

Color:

Watercolor wash flat (grass, bench, bench shadow, sidewalk, Jenny clothes & hair)

Watercolor wash soft (sky)

Watercolor basic round (Jenny shadows)

Block stain (bench shadow 2nd pass)