Lonely Space Experiment

Another little experiment.

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Painting Without a Brush

A friend of mine once pointed out to me that I seem to get a real kick out of using the wrong tool for the job, or using a tool in the 'wrong' way, while painting.  I thought about it and decided he was absolutely right.  As a result this thing here happened (presented both with, and without monster).

This was painted almost exclusively using the stamp tool.  Also featured are the marquee, a couple masks, some adjustment layers, and a couple filters.  What I did not use in this painting, aside from refining a mask here or there, was the brush tool.

It started out as a photo collage:

Which I coerced into a (mostly) coherent image.  I'm not sure I'm entirely happy with the image, I might work on it more or something later, but the process was a blast and it'll be fun to try to mush it into a more controlled workflow.

Sketchbook!

Today we have some sketchbook funtime experiments with a big ol fat black marker which I firmly to be THE BEST (see Figure A1) and a white gel pen, which is pretty cool too.  Other things were also involved, but those are the main ingredients.  

Fig. A1

Oh, and turtles.

Have a lovely day,
Rob

Sketchbook

Some pages from a new sketchbook I've started. Playing around with ink.

Also the latin is a quote (supposedly) from Apelles and also the motto from the Art Students League. Nulla dies sine linea - no day without a line.

Sketch dump

This is my sketchbook in progress I started sometime in November, I finally got around to scanning it.

Been having a lot of fun with this one, trying different things and playing around. Good times.