A FEW RANDOM SKETCHES

I've been doing a lot of sketching on my iPad Pro using the app Procreate and an Apple Pencil. I feel sort of guilty about not sketching so much on paper but I feel a little freer using the iPad. 

I guess because it isn't so permanent if I make a mistake. A simple double tap and the mistake is erased. It does give me more confidence though when I do sketch with pen and ink.

Pen and ink and watercolor on Stillman and Birn Beta Series A5 sketchbook. This is my first-ever salmon sketch.

To combat the my guilty feelings I have been blending pen and ink with the digital iPad. I'll often draw on paper with my fountain pen then upload it to my iPad for coloring. But then that makes me feel like I'm neglecting my watercolors. I Just can't win.

This is the pen and ink only version. Before watercoloring it I uploaded it to my iPad for a digital copy.

Actually, I'm not even sure why I feel guilty. It's just another form of art medium. Maybe because I can "fix" my mistakes so easily.

I haven't mastered Procreate yet and I'm not happy with my "watercoloring" on he iPad. It still looks way too digital. I've seen others who have it down pretty well and theirs are hard to distinguish between digital and traditional.

This is the digital painting I did on the iPad in Procreate using the Apple Pencil.
I still have the background to complete. I think I still prefer the rawness of the
traditional watercolor version. Although for illustrations for print I like the digital versions.

I've also decided I needed to practice some portraits. Not that I draw portraits but Id like when I draw people in an urban sketch to have a little more realistic detail than they do now.

I can't remember who this guy is. I found his photo on Google and used that for a reference. 

Plus, #Oneweek100people2018 event begins March 5, 2018 so that should give me plenty of people to practice on.

And lastly, our twin grandsons love watching YouTube videos of Plants vs. Zombies so I sketched them their favorites, which they call Cone Zombie and football Running Zombie. Not sure if that is the real names of the characters or not. I then printed out the ink outlines for them to color then decided to do a finished version myself.

Below are the ink outline, what the twins colored and what I ended up with.

The ink outline of Plants vs Zombies with my own characters in the background.

This is the finished version of what our 4-year-old twins ended up coloring.

My version.

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RERUN ON RUNNING

I guess I just need more to do or something, but I watched my Youtube video on running in Vibram Five Fingers shoes and decided it needed some editing and music.

I first posted the video of Karen and I running in Kona in 2012, shortly after purchasing our Vibrams. The video was taken using a GoPro Hero 2 and running around the perimeter of Old A's soccer fields and on the Jurassic Trail (at least that is what we call it) off Koloko Drive.

You can watch the re-posted version here: Vibram Five-Fingers review

We still have those same Vibrams believe it or not. I use mine mostly for running on the treadmill these days.

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ADVENTURES IN DOODLING

I just never know where my mind will take me when I’m doodling. I started out sketching cars then somehow ended up sketching a "story time" scene.  Maybe because it was close to bedtime for our 4-year-old twins.



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I think I saw a stamp or card of this little girl in my wife’s card collection. I used an iPad Pro 12.9-inch, Apple Pencil and the app Procreate for this video.  Thanks for watching and please subscribe.

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