At least our local cafe is still where we left it! Inspired to continue my use of PS Touch, while keeping in mind some of the other suggestions on how to make your sketches more interesting, I made this image.
Cafe Wednesday – legs, 19 February 2014.
I think there’s some way to go yet!
I’m flitting around trying out a whole lot of different drawing techniques at present. I have several drawing programs on my phablet (Galaxy Note2), the S-Note program which is what I usually draw with and I also have the PS Touch (Photoshop) app. I use regular Photoshop quite a bit so the PS Touch is reasonably familiar, or will be once I can find where all the tools are located! Anyway I was prompted by this post to give my PS Touch app another go. Another artist I find has a particularly interesting e-drawing style is 3eCheval from Quebec. I love the stripped back quality of her work which reminds me of screen prints.
My first effort with the PS Touch turned out just like one of my S-Note drawings, mainly because I wasn’t thinking enough about utilising the layering process.
Painting with door. 18 February 2014
I think my second drawing, if not an artistic masterpiece, at least used the layers to better effect. I was able to erase back to different layers and I found swapping between layers much easier than on my big computer.
PS Touch drawing 18 February 2014.
I suppose at this early stage of e-drawing my biggest suggestion would be that if you are using a stylus to draw, select the finer ‘pen’ settings to draw with. I at least find them a lot easier to control than larger size ‘pens’ and ‘brushes’.
I drew this while waiting for a friend last week. I was intrigued by the complex repetition of the metal trellis supporting a roof covering part of the plaza I was sitting in (and yes there was a cafe umbrella involved).
Metal roof support (and a cafe umbrella), 14 February 2014.
But the more I looked the more confused I became. From the angle I was sitting at the geometry was proving difficult to understand. So I ended up drawing one of the connection joints.
Joint for metal roof support, 14 February 2014.
I love my cafe umbrellas. When I recently found myself at three cafes in the one week, a bit unusual for me, I couldn’t resist the opportunity to draw my favourite subject matter. One twist however, I decided to draw each one with a different medium.
The first was in my black ball point pen. I had already completed a drawing inside the cafe when I glanced up to see this group of furled umbrellas.
Repetiiton, furled umbrellas at the Italian Bakery in Mawson, 2 February 2014.
The next was drawn at our regular Cafe Wednesday watering hole. This time I used my phablet to draw using the SNote function (Samsung Galaxy). Very simple.
Umbrella drawn with SNote, 5 February 2014.
Finally, at the Beaver Galleries cafe I drew using my new fountain pen. I’m still working on using up the blue cartridge it came with.
Cafe umbrella at the Beaver Gallery, Deakin, 6 February 2014.
During the week I visited the nearby city of Goulburn, an hours drive away from Canberra. Goulburn has a lot of architectural heritage on view. If you look above the awnings along the main street you can see a real mix of historic periods. As we were ambling along my friend drew my attention to a number of old neon signs still in place above shops that are no longer exist.
Old neon sign Goulburn.
I captured another sign in a quick sketch on my tablet.
Old neon sign Goulburn.
There was also plenty to see under the awnings. I had never noticed that many of the awnings along Auburn Street were clad, on their undersides, in pressed metal. The ones I noticed all appeared to be in the Art Deco style.
Some of the pressed metal that can be seen on the awnings in Auburn St, Goulburn.
We stopped for lunch at The Roses Cafe where I did another quick sketch.
Inside the Roses Cafe, Goulburn.
I can definitely recommend Goulburn as a destination for anyone interested in architecture.
We’ll be back in Goulburn next week for the opening of the ‘Efflorescence’ exhibition at the Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, which includes one of my works. Hope you can drop in while the exhibition is on.
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