Messing Around

Another combined digital couple - I really love using the combined power of drawing, iPhone, brushes and Photoshop with the I ecosystem to produce something new from it's component parts.

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The T-Mobile Royal Wedding - oh if only the real thing had been like this!

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Cartoon Tiger

As I was drawing this I really didn't realise what a cartoon character I was making Tiger Woods. In my defence I did make this drawing from a tiny portrait on a TV screen - in truth I rather like this effect - very 1970s.

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Brushes Painting - a bit of a mess

For some one who spent many hours working with brushes I find myself less and less able to use the package. Some how I no longer can connect with the process. For me it is all too clinical and detached. I know like the touch feel and dirt of making an actual drawing on paper rather than the antiseptic cation via the iPad. I loose patience with myself and my ability to create an image - for me it is just too complicated way of making a drawing. In short I suspect it is me rather than anything else. My how I have changed!

This is a case in point. I have made a number of drawings of this photograph of Jim Broadbent with a varying degree of success however none had the detached feel of this work. Is this a good drawing or something else - well I think that is a lungless question. What I do know is that I didn't derive the same amount of pleasure from it's creation and I think it shows.

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Steve Coogan confirms Alan Partridge - the movie.

Now this promises to be the don't miss movie - Ahaa.

Steve Coogan confirms Alan Partridge movie shoots next year
http://www.totalfilm.com/news/steve-coogan-confirms-alan-partridge-movie-shoots-next-year

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White iPhone 4 Finally Launching

The tech blogs I follow have been banging on about this for a while and I have to ask the question '..so what?...'.

White iPhone 4 Finally Launching This Week
http://www.macrumors.com/2011/04/25/white-iphone-4-finally-launching-this-week/

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Prince of Persia

I find myself spending my time selecting TV programmes to watch just so that I might be able to sketch the actors. This time it was Prince of Persia a enjoyable load of tosh which was paused several times to allow me to make a sketch. Oh the joys of sky +.

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Apple Computer to sue God for ... (newsthump.com)

It was only a matter of time before this shocking turn of events would take place.  My monies on Apple's high powered lawyers. (Ha ha - I think?)

Apple Computer to sue God for trademark infringement
http://newsthump.com/2011/04/22/apple-computer-to-sue-god-for-trademark-infringement/

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Article: Nokia and RIM bleeding smartphone share while Android cleans up

I guess this doesn't add anything to what has already been published other than it is from a none US view point and perhaps is not so iPhone infatuated.  In short volume of units produced will be the driver in the future - this is something that apple can't and probably don't want to compete on.

Nokia and RIM bleeding smartphone share while Android cleans up
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/apr/18/smartphone-market-android-win-nokia-rim-lose?CMP=twt_atn

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Coffe stained art

I really must get this off of my chest. Dropbox has dropped a bollock. They have just updated the software and it is now a lot harder to use - well at least for me. They appear to have changed the work flow which makes it more complicated to transfer images from the iPhone to the iPad - the main reason I have the facility. Why do they have to tinker with the software? Why?

Anyway having got that off of my chest back to the drawing. If I'm truthful it is not a huge likeness of the actress it is meant to be. However, I don't care as I have been experimenting with technique as much as anything. The reason why the eye on the right is a little strange is because I spilt coffee over the drawing not once but twice. What an idiot.

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Android on crack..lol

Just thought that this was fun.

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Apple Sues Samsung, Claims Its... (techcrunch.com)

Apple Sues Samsung, Claims Its Android Devices Are Copycats
http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/18/apple-sues-samsung-claims-its-android-devices-are-copycats/

I guess some one really is worried about the growth of android phones at Apple after all.  However, these things rumble on for years - perhaps the longest legal squabble involving Apple was their battle with the Beatles and the Apple record company which has finally been settled in  2010 - so don't expect any great vanquishing of android phones by Apple any time soon.

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Big brother is watching you

This drawing didn't turn out the way I had hoped. Nonetheless it is still an effective effort. As k progress I think the drawings are getting physically and emotionally darker. I wonder where this will take me?

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Article: iPhone 4 set to rule Flickr in the next few months

It seems that iphoneography is even more popular than I thought.

iPhone 4 set to rule Flickr in the next few months
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2011/04/iphone-set-to-rule-flickr-in-the-next-few-months/

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Talk is over

Well I did it. I presented my work and got polite applause - I have no idea what other people thought - well actually that's not entirely true - it was a strangely rewarding experience and has actually inspired me to work again in photography. Will I ? Not sure but it is certainly something to think about.

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RPS East Midland Talk ((tags; RPS, photography,presentation,talk))

Well I finally found the Aura Centre at Newark. Really nice facilities and I'm starting to feel really nervous - just how will the talk go? Only time will tell.

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Morpheus

Well I suppose it was always going to happen - yes I watched the original Matrix movie or at least part of it, tonight and I had to make a drawing of Morpheus. I think the treatment I have made in post production on the iPad has made it into a really great sketch.

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Mr Anderson

Last night I finally got around to watching the matrix revolution, an utter waste of money and demonstrates that an awful lot of money cannot save a movie without any real purpose other than to make lots of money. According to Wiki the Matrix Trilogy grossed worldwide $1.6 billion for a total $300 million production cost. Guess I am in the minority.

I am sure there are many people out there who disagree with me and good luck to them. I just found the movie really boring. Thankfully I was watching it on Sky + so was able to fast forward through much of the movie.

Anyway, the reason why I was able to fast forward through the movie was that I had paused the action to make a couple of sketches of Mr Anderson and agent Smith. They were just a bit of fun and I thought nothing more of them. This morning, however, I had a brainwave or brain fart whichever suits you. What if I used brushes to combine the two sketches? Is that possible? Well the final image below shows the result and I think they work together really well. It has a real comic book feel to it and an interesting expansion as to what I can achieve using the iPad. It does open some interesting questions to exactly how these would be classified are the 'real' art or digital or both. I really don't care I just like the result.

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Converting Spacial into Linear

Well I've started to put the presentation together for Sunday's meeting. This spray/mind map-ish diagram is the start of the process. I find that I understand concepts much better like this as I have difficult assimilating information when presented in a liner fashion - especially when presented in long rambling paragraphs. Give me the bullet point any day - guess who wasn't an English major at university.

Anyway what to call the presentation? I first came up with the idea 12 months. This was to show how my photography has changed over the last 12 months. Then having run through this process I realised that this needs slight tweaking . So the current title is:

12 Months: Photographer to Digital Artist

This may well change.

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Trinity

I sat down last night to start to watch the highly disappointing The Matrix Reloaded with one thing in mind - find an image I can draw. Within the first five minutes Trinity was in action and the image I wanted just popped out. This took me about 20 minutes to sketch and by the time I had caught up with the rest of the film I had lost interest. One further thing - I seem to becoming more and more attracted to chiaroscuro as well as creating drawings that wouldn't look out of place in a comic book. I wonder why that is?

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