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And iColorama! It's so cool everyone is such an artist.
The pixel version of my silly persona was made in pixaki and the other procreate
Procreate
Ahhhhh ok, didn't realise they'd up the minimum requirements...that'll be it then, thanks.
I think it was the same with iOS 10. It was listed as an Essentials app back then I think and now it is an Editor's Choice. With some apps it seems Apple gives them a bump in exchange for helping 'soft/strong arm' users to upgrade OS.
I think it's an excellent app, and the few times I've dabbled with it I've really liked it. Maybe it'd be different if I had an iPencil, but I just don't use the iPad for drawing and painting. I'm working on a new portrait in oils today - I think I'm just too used to using the real thing.
Cool, oils are great, good for you. Like with music if I had the space and time I would certainly do more traditional stuff. I have a Wacom Cintiq (I give it a 10) for about twelve years now and that has been huge for me. The Pencil, honestly just is not that amazing to me. A lot cheaper than a Cintiq so I get it but the pencil itself, eh its oK (I give it a 7). The Wacom finepoint bluetooth stylus for my non Pro iPad is almost just as good (I give it a 6) It is nice for loose sketching and painting on the couch or train and then exporting to Photoshop/Cintiq. The past couple years though it has been hard to get the corporate stink of all the commercial brainwashing gack off of me long enough to just slip into enjoying personal work again. I keep trying but probably just need a vacation... or two.
I’ve got a Wacom tablet for the PC/Mac which I occasionally use for Affinity Photo work (cutting out, masking etc.), and freehand vector work (logo’s etc.). I did buy it with the aim of creating paintings in Photoshop - I did a couple of things, but realised the point of doing a bit of creative art stuff was to escape the PC, not spend more time on it. It’s a good tablet though.
I think if I had the big Pro and the iPencil I’d do more digital art on it, but I might not so not worth risking the investment, not at the moment anyway.
Digital art always feels a bit like cheating to me though.
To me it is just like digital or electronic music. You can be creative and genuinely expressive or inovative but the average viewer has little context for what you are actually doing. I actualy met someone who excitedly wanted to show me their paintings... which were filters on their photos. The groovebox of art.
Filters on photos
Ah, sorry. It was my fault. I didn't know that one. Thanks for posting.
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I've pretty much got it narrowed down to FlipaClip. No subscription. I think you get everything including removing the ads, logo overlay, custom sizes and output, and longer video import for rotoscoping. They're also working on an update that imports audio for sync'ing up to.
I haven't bought the premium IAP yet, because I can't get them to reply to any of my inquiries. Tried their twitter, facebook page, and site forum. They've had posts as recent as 2 weeks ago though. If I can get confirmation that the new features will be an update rather than a whole new app, I'll likely buy this one and put some time into it. There are some negative reviews, but it looks like many of those are basically bitching because they have to pay something to get rid of the ads, etc. They're also complaining of crashing, but the free version hasn't glitched or crashed at all for me, even with imported video that I animated over. With the Premium upgrade, you can also export a sequence of PNG files.
Of the choices, that don't charge a subscription and have most of the features I want, this one works for me... if I could just get some reply from someone. I get the impression they may be French, so it may be a language thing.
The very construct of the word art by definition would suggest that it should be the conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially in the production of aesthetic objects. This would include not only the process of creation but the representation of the work itself. So by this, only the lack of skill and creative imagination would not be considered art.
What was we talking about again? Oh ya, I like Procreate also.
Yep, the problem I have with digital painting, is that it’s very easy to replicate hours/days of intensive freehand work with filter apps. I got the same reaction from friends from posting a portrait that had taken a week of Wacom scratching, as I did from a five minute muck about with phone filters. So I thought - why bother? So all my personal digital art is now knocked out on the phone.
But then again if you need/want to create something that doesn't already exist then photo filters aren't going to be much help...
You’d be surprised what I can come up with, with a combination of graphic and photo apps in the phone.
Sure, but what I meant was letting your imagination roam free. My most pleasurable moments in drawing/painting are when I just let my subconscious float up and create mad things - it's very much like creating music in that respect. I illustrate and draw for a living so it's a subject I know very well, and I can draw to a high standard, but the bit I really like is making new things up, that's where the real fun is IMO.
It depends how you work, and what the intended result is.
I trained in illustration and design, and have worked, and still do occasionally as an illustrator. But my work doesn’t start with a clean sheet and a pencil - I gather a ton of reference material and textures, and muck about with these for inspiration.
Where digital art tools help me, is in assembling a rough mock-up which I can use as a reference with traditional medium. So I’d use Photo or Photoshop on the desktop for this, but I’m increasingly coming up with ideas on the phone, that may one day be worked up in oils or acrylics.
So I guess the iPhone/desktop is a high tech sketchbook for me.
Yah, I hear yah, with digital the craft is simply not evident or even relevant to the audience. Shortcuts/automation etc are the name of the game. 99% of the visual art I personally like is done in the traditional painting world simply because the people doing it can make a living combining craftsmanship and ideas are are enabled/supported (or at least can dream) to make art for arts sake and take it to the next level. Half of why people buy their work is for an appreciation of the craft. The digital world inevitably just bottoms out as a tool for mass market commercial swill. I do enjoy making experimental digital art for art sakes stuff, as the tools are relevant to my career, but in the end, if someone can paint something traditionally that is equally amazing or better (and they do) digital works are simply a noncompeting novelty to maybe get a thumbs up on twitbook.
I must add that I absolutely love a lot of digital artwork - particularly the vector/line character stuff. Beautiful work out there, but it’s just not something I do.
Here is my abstract too much detail phase from about six years ago...
@AudioGus those are spectacular! What did you use?
Thanks Skiphunt! It was a screwy process. Started with photoshop, then pen on paper on a light table, then back to photoshop, then 3dsmax, then photoshop again. I recently got it down to a much more efficient photoshop<->3dsmax pipeline.
I like those a lot, definitely not done by pushing an auto-generate button ...
They’re brilliant Gus, wonderful work.
Dude! These are insane. Love it! Dig your characters too. I haven't done any 3D in a long time, but recently downloaded Blender to dip my toes back in maybe.
Those are great critters and shapes!
Blender has some amazing tools, I could definitely see getting into that.