Life as seen through my iPhone camera.
I first drew today's piece in my Jackson Pollock app. I almost always draw things in that app knowing that I'll be using the Oil filter from Corel's Paint It! Now as a final step since the saved photos from the Pollock app don't turn out so well.
This had exactly the effect I was hoping for, though. The Oil filter softened and blended the colours and gave the impression of them mixing that I was intending.
This is a piece that I originally drew in Jackson Pollock by Miltos Manetas. I'm very fond of it for some reason but as is always my complaint about the pieces I draw in this app the finished product is blocky and small. So as I often do with pieces I want to improve I opened up Corel's Paint It! Now and used the Oil filter on it.
Of course that made me love it even more. Click on it to see it at full size!
The fall colours weren't quite as spectacular this year as they have been in the past. There were bright spots of colour in places but overall things were more brown-tinged than gold and orange. Maybe that's why I've had the urge to draw lots of autumn trees this year.
I drew the first draft of this in Jackson Pollock by Miltos Manetas which is a seriously fun app to use. Even if I don't like the saved quality of the pictures creating them is always a good time. Since I always use post-processing on the pictures I create in this app I exported this one to Corel's Paint It! Now where I used the Oil and Illustration filters to see what happened. I liked both but felt that each of them could be more interesting, so decided to combine them in BlendCam using Darkness Priority.
I loved the result, so here it is! Click on the pic to see it at full size.
This colorful skull was drawn in black and white using the Jackson Pollock app. I like the way pictures look when they're being drawn but when they're saved they get pretty square and blocky looking so I've been experimenting with using filters from Corel's Paint It! Now app. I used the Illustration filter on this one, then thought it needed some colour so imported it to Adobe Photoshop Express and used a rainbow filter on it.
I was pretty pleased with how he turned out in the end. I love skulls! Make sure to click him to see him at full size.
One of my favourite things to do when I'm messing around with my art apps is make wallpaper for my iPhone. One of my other favourite things to do at the same time is combine effects from lots of different apps to make one piece, and I used three different apps for this one. First I used the Jackson Pollock app to paint the earth, grass, sky and clouds. Then I imported it to Snapseed and used the Grunge filter on it until I was satisfied. Finally I used Watercolor Effect to soften it up. Phew!
Watercolor Effect is really meant more for photographs but I like to use it for things I've drawn and painted. There are lots of apps you can find that transform photos into oil or watercolour paintings but used that way they're not my cup of tea.
Click the pic to see it larger!
I created this demonic face using the Jackson Pollock painting app by Miltos Manetas. It's a very fun app although I find the drops kind of blocky and pixelated looking after it saves, plus the saved pictures are a bit small. I've found that taking a screenshot of the completed work rather than saving it in the app improves the quality. It's lots of fun, though, and not quite as sensitive to tilting as the DrawDrip app which can be a good thing.
My six year-old nephew pronounced this one 'creepy'.
As a bonus here is a picture Essie drew using the same app. I love this one because it looks like there's a UFO flying over it all. You can set the app to paint either with random colours every time you lift your finger or with the colours of your choice so I usually set it to random for Essie and let her have at it.
