Posts Tagged ‘sketchbook pro’

I forget if I posted this on here, so I apologize if this is a repeat. Anyway…
I made this while talking on the phone with my mom. Phone calls are the best doodle times.

Enjoy!
- Jeff

I really don’t like grocery shopping. Coral, on the other hand, loves it. At least it seems like she does. I developed this particular shopping behavior in which I only buy what I can carry in my two arms. Because of this I rarely spend more than $20 at the grocery store at once and my perishables stand a much better chance at not perishing. To me, it’s a win-win. Grocery shopping with Coral is a totally different experience that ends in handing over a $100 bill and involves a cart overflowing with everything from cereal and tortillas to string cheese and arugula. In typical man fashion I try to avoid these grocery shopping excursions as much as possible. Today I was lucky enough to dodge shopping by sitting in the car patiently, which gave me some doodle time on the ipad.

I’ll be honest, the Ipad is a fun toy. I find myself killing a lot of time with that thing in my hands. When I get frustrated with my inability to get three stars in every level of Angry Birds that exists I try to make some of my Ipad time productive. Lucky for me, making art is my job, so I can call doodle time “working”. There are a lot of drawing apps available in the Apple App Store. I’ve tried out a bunch of them and have whittled down the list to comprise only my favorites.

For this doodle session I used the following apps, in this order:
- Fat Tag
- Adobe Ideas
- Sketchbook Pro

By no means is this post intended to be a tutorial, so I won’t be getting in depth on any of the steps. I just love “behind the scenes” stuff and assume everybody else does too. Don’t lie. You know you do.

Quick doodle using Fat Tag

I took a screenshot of my Fat Tag doodle and opened the image in Adobe Ideas to trace over the pixelated sketchy lines. Adobe Ideas is awesome because it automatically turns every line you draw into a vector image. Yeah, it’s totally sweet. Oh yeah, to take a screenshot on your Ipad just hold down the power button then hit the home button. The screen will do a little blink like it’s taking a photo and your screenshot will be saved in your photo app.

It certainly helps to zoom in a lot when you’re tracing over a sketchy line. Just look at those yummy vectors in comparison.

And the tracing is done.

Here you can see the drawing layer and the photo layer.

I might have done more work than I had to here, but I was just winging it so this is the best I could come up with. I opened Sketchbook Pro and put my traced version of the doodle on one layer and the screenshot on another layer. I could have added the drips anywhere I wanted, but at the time I thought it would be best to keep the drips similar to the original doodle.

I tossed some yellow in there and…

Voila!

Ok, I’m finally up to date with my “Sketchbook Pro” posts*. This is the most recent doodle I’ve come up with using the best drawing app ever created. You’d think with such an awesome app with so many capabilities I’d come up with something a little more snazzy, but no. This is what you get!

Have a fantastic weekend!
- Jeff

* Ok, that’s not entirely the whole truth…I have one more Sketchbook Pro doodle to post, but I’m saving it for a later date because…well, you don’t really want to hear my excuse.

I’m pretty sure I forgot to post this one too. Can you tell I’m trying to catch up with my blogging activities? I could probably have every post start with “A couple of months ago…”, but who wants to read all the old news? Well, this image is another Sketchbook Pro creation. The colors kind of hurt my eyes, but hey, sometimes your eyes need a workout.

- Jeff

I was just digging around in flickr and saw this. I’m pretty sure I haven’t posted it here in the blog even though I made it back in September. Ugh…I don’t know where those professional bloggers find the time to update every single day. I’m working at it. Anyway, this image was made on the iPad using Sketchbook Pro. If I remember correctly, this is the first thing I made using that app, but it was a little too ambitious and after I started it I let it sit for awhile so I could work on other stuff.

Enjoy!
- Jeff

Just playing with Sketchbook Pro at the bookstore. It’s taken a few sessions to finish this one. I really don’t dedicate as much time to Sketchbook Pro as I’d like. But hey, I have a business to run…I mean nobody is going to play Touch Grind for me.

I’ve been staying up way too late the last couple of weeks. Two nights ago I tried going to bed earlier than usual. “Earlier” meaning 3:30am. I laid down with the good intention of playing Angry Birds until I fell asleep, but after a few rounds of smashing pigs into oblivion I opened up Sketchbook Pro and made this abstract piece.

Ah, my new favorite hangout in downtown SLO. Kreuzberg is a Berlin inspired used book store and coffee lounge. Tonight was a soft, soft opening. They are set to have the real soft opening on Monday with an official “Grand Opening” in the future. Tonight they were offering free cake, coffee, and hot cocoa. Coral, Evy and I all dove head first for the chocolate cake and cocoa. It was a super yummy good time. I did this iPad doodle with Sketchbook Pro while relaxing in the deliciously overstuffed leather sofa.

Coral says it’s her favorite iPad art I’ve made yet. Before we left I snapped this photo.

I had the camera set for a long exposure after strategically placing it on the end of a counter. It was much darker in person, which I liked. My photo doesn’t capture the ambiance at all, so you’ll have to go check it out for yourself! I know I’ll be there quite a bit.

Kreuzberg has my kind of hours too. They are open from 5am – 2am.
Their address is:
870 Monterey St
San Luis Obispo, CA, 93401

See ya there!

UPDATE!!!
Kreuzberg has moved into a new location!
Check out their new and improved spot at:
685 Higuera St.
San Luis Obispo CA 93401

The new space has way more seating and they’ve really beefed up the menu. It’s awesome!

A little something I did with Sketchbook Pro when I couldn’t sleep the other night.

It’s new goodie time! I just released a new limited edition print called “Let’s Spoon”. This is my first ever full on digital art piece. I made it using “Sketchbook Pro” on the iPad. It’s a small edition of 25, signed and numbered on the back.

“Let’s Spoon”
5.5″ x 7.5″ – limited edition print on wood
$50, plus shipping

Visit my etsy shop for more photos and to purchase.

Also, I added some more prints to the etsy shop today. Right now everything I have available on etsy is in stock and ready to ship.

As always, thanks for looking!

I think I forgot to post these. I’m super loving SketchBook Pro on the iPad. I have a couple more in the works at the moment. Don’t worry, I’m not turning into a digital artist. Nothing could replace the joy of spilling india ink all over my carpet or the smell of spray paint. Enjoy!

Check out the Flickr group to see what other people are doing with SketchBook Pro. There are a few crazies out there doing incredible work.