Comic Relief – Alien Contact

For Kate's Comic Relief Isolation Fun I thought I would see what I could do - as a first attempt I came up with this: Enjoy! I hope you're all well.

Icy Moonlit Wolf Scene

Hello everyone, I was going to share this ages ago - I have no idea what got in the way but it did. Anyway I created a howling wolf scene that had been stuck in my head.You know like sometimes you have something in your mind and you have to create it? Like scratching an...

Digital Art with InkScape – The Spooky Scene

As it's Halloween month I thought I would create some seasonal drawings. This pumpkin drawing is a simple and quick little sketch that quite cool. Layers Use the layer tool to create different layers for all the different drawing elements, this will help greatly in putting everything in the right order. Find it under Layer...

Digital Art with InkScape – Drawing a Bat

As it's Halloween month I thought I would create some seasonal drawings. I'm building up a spooky Halloween scene to go with my Ghost Called Bob stories. I've written one every year for a few years now and I've had to use an image that wasn't my own... until now.Anyway, for this image I need...

Digital Art with InkScape – Drawing a Pumpkin

As it's Halloween month I thought I would create some seasonal drawings. This pumpkin drawing is a simple and quick little sketch that quite cool. Pumpkin Body Create a shape like this from a rectangle. Pumpkin Body 2 Create another rectangle shape like this. Merge the Body Lay one over the other. The Stalk The...

Digital Art with InkScape – Drawing Grass the Easy Way

Ever thought about drawing some grass? Me neither until recently but I've found a cool way to do it in Inkscape. Have a look: Create the Blade With the pen tool draw a line with the line shape set to Triangle Out. Bend the Brass Using the Nodes tool click on the grass in the...

Digital Art with InkScape – Drawing Shapes

When I first looked at InkScape as a graphical design tool I was bit disappointed with the shapes I thought were on offer. But as it turns out I was a bit hasty. After having a little play I've found they have a few shape tools with a lot of power. Rectangles and Squares A...

I’ve Been Doing a Bit of Doodling

Hello everyone, as you might have guessed from the title I've been doing some doodling. I've not been able to dedicate much time to big designs so I've been having a play with what I can do in about an hour or less.These are what I've come up with:This came straight out of my mind,...

Simon’s Sketch Work – The Aston Martin

I have had a little break from the human face and wanted to draw something more mechanical. So I have stored a few pictures for inspiration and I found an Aston Martin to draw.  One thing I have found with art that is useful is to start with a basic shape and then modify to...

Simon’s Sketch Work – Drawing the Human Face

As my regular bloggies know I've been messing about with art work for over a year now and with this I've been sketching out ideas and transferring them to digital and doing fun things. But I've also wanted to improve my sketching. So I've looked on Youtube on how to draw the human face and...

Digital Art with GIMP – Creating a Starship

Gimp - Gnu Image Manipulation Program, an open source program that like Photoshop is able to do amazing things with graphics and photo's. Unlike Photoshop it costs nothing and it's feature set is still comparable. This is a series of posts I've created on how Gimp can be used to help create worlds and give...

Digital Art with GIMP – Creating Planet Rings

Gimp - Gnu Image Manipulation Program, an open source program that like Photoshop is able to do amazing things with graphics and photo's. Unlike Photoshop it costs nothing and it's feature set is still comparable. This is a series of posts I've created on how Gimp can be used to help create worlds and give...