Archie Moses
Well-Known Member
With my job, I find myself on the road... a lot. To keep busy and entertained, I ended up buying a tablet. I bought the Nvidia Shield gaming tablet. It's been beyond awesome/badass to have. I love the small size of it along with being able to play games and it is even compatible with a controller. It also came with a stylus and an art program called, Dabbler, but purchasing it had nothing to do with using the art program nor did I even think about it. I took an art class when I was a junior in high school and I was always able to draw while growing up in school, but it's something I haven't really done for a hobby. In fact, the last time I tried to draw anything was 13 years ago other than doodling. One flight I had, for a business trip, I decided to play around with dabbler and came up with some pretty cool looking backgrounds (at least for me. ha) When I landed, I looked into more apps to see what else was out there and I found an app called, Corelpaint. I started playing around with that in my hotel room and practiced using different brushes and layers. It does have a learning curve, but I'm somewhat familiar with photoshop and that helped a lot. After a few hours playing around, I decided I wanted to draw something for my old man for Christmas. I started with corel, but it would crash a lot and I would lose my progress so it was very frustrating, but I think it helped me because I would have start over (I probably lost about 8 hours total on that one drawing from it crashing.) So... I got back on the app marketplace after about a month break (yeah, I was that frustrated with it) and I found another app called, Artflow. My previous attempt for a painting for my old man was a trout chasing a fly. I thought, maybe that would be too much and too hard to do, so I simplified it. I decided to do just a closeup of a fly.
This is what I have now. (I'm going to change a few things today before I get printed on canvas - mainly the red tail and the lines. After my second drawing, I feel I know how to do this a little better and have time to do it today.) Both of the drawings were freehand and I used a very loose reference for both of them.
After I finished that one, I decided to try something different. Simple, not too much going on, and something living so I choose to draw a fox.
I posted these two images on deviantart, which is absolutely awesome, btw, and Nvidia actually contacted me and asked me if they had permissions to use my images for marketing and to be featured in their blog. I thought that was pretty cool and it's motivated me even more to draw during down time. It's a hobby I've depressingly been looking for.
Anyway, does anyone else draw, paint, do digital art, sculpt, etc? If you do do digital art, what apps/programs do you use? Any recommendations or artists/tutorials to follow? Any suggestions on what I should try and draw next? Critiques on what I've done so far? (Yes, I know I'm a total newb at this.) After looking on deviantart I would love to attempt to do a CD cover or book cover.
This is what I have now. (I'm going to change a few things today before I get printed on canvas - mainly the red tail and the lines. After my second drawing, I feel I know how to do this a little better and have time to do it today.) Both of the drawings were freehand and I used a very loose reference for both of them.
After I finished that one, I decided to try something different. Simple, not too much going on, and something living so I choose to draw a fox.
I posted these two images on deviantart, which is absolutely awesome, btw, and Nvidia actually contacted me and asked me if they had permissions to use my images for marketing and to be featured in their blog. I thought that was pretty cool and it's motivated me even more to draw during down time. It's a hobby I've depressingly been looking for.
Anyway, does anyone else draw, paint, do digital art, sculpt, etc? If you do do digital art, what apps/programs do you use? Any recommendations or artists/tutorials to follow? Any suggestions on what I should try and draw next? Critiques on what I've done so far? (Yes, I know I'm a total newb at this.) After looking on deviantart I would love to attempt to do a CD cover or book cover.
