Al Fresco Art Club Challenge: Use Tayasui Sketches Drawing App for iPad

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Today’s art club challenge was to try a new app and use it for one hour. I chose Tayasui Sketches for the iPad. It has a simple interface and pleasing brushes. It also has some convenient shortcuts for comics such as the diagonal hatching I used for the background. The watercolor brushes are convincing, too. As usual, I didn’t bother looking at the documentation, which means I probably did everything the hard way.

The largest image size is 4k by 4k, big enough for my books, but too small for hi-res work. All the same, the app has a good feel and I’ll use it again.

Al Fresco Art Club Challenge, Jan 26, 2020: Markers

Today’s Al Fresco Art Club challenge was held indoors again. The good news is that it’s raining now instead of snowing and Spring is on the way. I chose this challenge today: color something with markers. I drew a couple of Jimmy Jay cartoons, a colorful airplane, and two self-portraits, one from memory (the one on the left), and one from a reference (a selfie). I’m always surprised at how little my from-memory drawings look like what they’re supposed to look like.

I’m new to using Copic markers. I learned that the ink I use for my illustrations, Rotring Rapidograph Ink, doesn’t stand up well to Copic markers — lot’s of bleeding. As I expected, my Copic Multiliners worked great and did not bleed.