Chore Day, April 3: Doing Laundry And Making A Screencast

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Doodle from 11 months ago. Photoshop

Besides doing my usual chores today (laundry and vacuuming), I spent several hours working on the project I’m in charge of at my part-time job. I made a screencast to explain a few details that always cause new customers to stress out. When I make videos, I just go for it and never edit.

I don’t normally do “job” things on the weekend, but I wanted to clear out the left side of my brain before work starts officially on Monday.

Research and Doodling -- Watercolor Style Illustrations in Clip Studio Paint

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Now that the Al Fresco Art Club has officially meets on Saturdays, my Sundays are free for doing research and free-form doodling. My “research” consists of watching Youtube videos about Clip Studio Paint and learning languages. For the time being I’m not going to learn Finnish. Instead I’ll be going back to learning Japanese.

I also watched an excellent Clip Studio Paint webinar by Simone Fereirra called Creating Watercolor Style Illustrations in Clip Studio Paint.. He goes through his workflow in great detail. He’s an impressive teacher.

For the picture above I used Clip Studio Paint’s Real Pencil for the line work, the Round Watercolor brush to paint the fish, and the Soft Airbrush to spray in the background.

Waiting for the electricity to come back on

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7/365

Unfortunately, work disturbed my 365 day schedule today, so i’m posting a doodle. When I doodle I usually draw the same thing over and over…people with insane eyes, Pomeranians, cats, clouds. And I always like to use a fine liner or technical pen. Using a Rapidograph gives me the feeling that I’m channeling Robert Crumb.

I’m still trying to get a handle on what a Jay should look like.