Sketcher Guru

I have been without my desktop for a while, so I have been using Sketcher Guru from Android Google or something.  It takes some time to learn it, of course, but the effort is worth it.

Here are a few samples

More Space Art with Mtpaint

Hey Readers

Again, I am experimenting with the program MtPaint by Mark Tyler.  It takes time to get used to it, but the more I play with it, the more I find I can do with mtpaint.  

It is a lower end program than Gimp or Photoshop, but it does not take as long to load on my machine, so that's why I tend to use it more than other programs.

On this pic, entitled Red Shift1, I used about 7 layers to get the effects I wanted.  The first is the starfield, and I used a blue spackling brush to get that effect.  On the second layer, I wanted to get some red in there, so I used the spackle brush again, lowering the size. After I finished with the brush, I lowered the opacity to a desired setting(forgot which one) and used a gaussian blur   This gives the pic a little red cloud effect in the background. 

On the third layer, I used the gradient tool to make the larger stars.  I used another layer for the spokes.  

The planet, I used the circle shape tool, with a linear gradient then I shaded it with red. 

On the ship, I used a white and grey gradient, to give it the silver effect. 

Feel free to ask me any questions on this, I will be posting more pix as time goes by.  

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More fun with MTpaint

Hi All

I have been using Mtpaint a lot lately and I have discovered a few tricks.  Here are few examples of my experiments.

I was thinking of doing a tutorial for it, but not quite yet.  I will keep you up to date on it.

Arrival in RedSpace

The End of the Rainbow

Wanderer4

Music I've played in the past

Normally, I only use this space for visual artwork, but today I am making an exception to this rule.

I have been singing with Tennessee Line for almost 2 years now and I have enjoyed it thoroughly.  Lately, I have been waxing nostalgic for my college days when I was in the brass and wind ensemble and playing some rather intriguing pieces that I liked.  Here is one of them by David Holsinger called "Nilesdance" which was named after one of his children.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzsaN03Iyr4

Enjoy!

Patrick

GIMP work

Here is some more I did with Gimp

More space art

One day, when I was a college freshman, I went under my mom's house and found that someone had thrown away a old drafting table, so I took it myself and placed it in my room.  With that table, I was able to create any drawing that I liked,  I would turn on the music low and I would just continue to draw throughout the night.  I had pot of coffee nearby and this would just simply be my own little space for just me.

I am older now,with 2 children and I don't have a drafting table, so I am using the chromebook to draw. I closed the door on the bedroom so that I can draw in a quiet space, listening to ambiet music on Pandora.

This one is called "Where are you going?".

Where are you going?

watermoon2

Lets see if this works better

Watermoon1

Here's one I did with Pixlr again; It was inspired by an early work of composer Andreas Vollenweider and I call it Watermoon1

The Observer

My cousins came to see me this weekend and asked me a few questions on how I use some of the art programs like Gimp and Pixlr.  This particular one took about an hour or so.

The Wanderer 2

My wife bought a chromebook for my birthday and so I am using Pixlr again.  There are some other apps that I can use as well, but I have had some improvements using Pixlr so far.

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The Wanderer

Hi All

I decided to have another go with MtPaint and I did another scene in space again.

The mtpaint program does load quickly btw and it does have a lot of options. The trick is really just getting to know the way the program works.  I usually consult the handbook on SourceForge.

I did this one on Saturday morning; it's called the "The Wanderer"