Back in the Zenbrush 3 app and just practicing drawing lines, using my finger and the given slider to alter the thickness. Later in the week I found a stylus in the drawer which I’d forgotten I had (!). It gave rise to a very different art style (more in another post) but I still like the directness of digit drawing, almost as though the ink is emerging from my fingertips.
There is a real art in line drawing, something I’ve always known but until practicing never full realized but at least paper after paper is not wasted in all my digital efforts. Too often tremor makes the lines look uncertain and ugly but I was happy enough with this spidery outcome.
Duplicating, rotating, mirroring, shadowing gave me some interesting patterns which I then accidentally deleted before saving. All I had saved was the scroll shadow paper which evidently segments the drawing
The mother of invention came to the rescue before I was too annoyed with myself and with mirroring and placing along the app’s grid lines, a geometric, dimensional figure emerged.
“Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.” ~ Euripides
I was quite frankly rather pleased with the outcome and experimented further with more such split drawings, giving rise to the category of Geometrics, in this blog’s newly developed Digipix Gallery
Lastly, I decided not to title any of the ‘figure drawings’ and only added them to the gallery with a white mount though now I think that this category looks best with just a background matte. opinions welcome.
Hint: WordPress have added an ‘Expand on click’ option under the link icon – it scales the image with a lightbox effect. Rollover image and see the icon in top rightt corner.
Photoart Friday: and having some fun with edits and apps
PoetryPix 
I really like these Laura, they speak, though I’m not yet sure of what I take – but they evoke a sense of the profound.
I found this video to be inviting … thought you may enjoy.
Enjoyable – and a link to the gallery too
I think that sums up how I feel too Paul – something about the structured simplicity
Euripides knew his stuff.
I can see where this could get addicting. (K)
yes it is – I’m like a terrier with a bone when I get going sometimes!
I love it, enjoy it and find it inspirational, because there is a sense of exploration, tremors and all! Whenever in the past I would venture into digital explorations, one comment would always emerge, usually from art peers that using digital painting to explore is cheating and does not do nearly enough to train a hand, but I boldly, still, claim that drawing with the mouse or a stylus is equally challenging as with a pencil and equally trains ones hand! For me, this that you say :”but at least paper after paper is not wasted in all my digital efforts” – has always been the main take-away for me, the abundance of opportunity for a dead tree not to suffer from my tremors and mistakes – which DO make a vital part of heart of the art!
I appreciate all the points and points of view you raised here so thank you for taking the time to do so. I always feel a little uncomfortable thinking of this as art and hence I emphasise the digital aspect. On the other hand the artist David Hockney happily delves into the technology to make some of his art – see David Hockney- Digital Works. Besides I’m not aiming to emulate Caravaggio but am training hand and eye to do some kind of drawings that give me pleasure and fit the scope of my talent! And save trees at the same time 😉
I forgot this earlier. Me, I favor a light halftone border. There’s my dime. But more, that new WP “feature” is like so much of theirs, pointless justification of their (not) merit. It even displays less of what was already available by existing browser navigation. A simple (Safari) drag & drop to the desktop does a better job (and I know not all browsers do this, ie. Opera don’t). And only by a full native expansion does the textural quality of your work become visible to appreciate. (OK, done with my soapbox) (not you fault what WP does)
I think Safari is out of date now? The only thing that would benefit images is if there was protection from theft – I’d worry more if my photos were worth it
Well, I think I am out of date these days. Safari?, don’t think so, but my machine is too old for update to current OS and me no money to play that replacement game to support their way of life.
About theft protection. I understand, but I’m changing to think “arts-wise” anyway, what’s to protect? What do I think I “own?” I’m no pharaoh, its not coming with me into the afterlife. We are used & re-used merchandise by nature. Let the good times roll. (a simple credit & link would be nice, but yea, I like to ask, “may I please”)
that is such a broad philosophical topic Neil but surely the artist must sell in order to eat, the same as any product maker – the world after all is not a commune and there are many freeloaders willing to scrape and scam