This time, a Friday evening, I used an iPad Pro, an Apple Pencil, maaaaaybe 4 minutes, Sketch Club, iColorama, a pint of Firestone Walker 805, some guy and his smart phone, and a table.
Waiting for Pizza
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Do we underestimate extinction?
Do we deserve democracy?
Run that by me again, Joe.
Done on an iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil in Sketch Club (see stats) and tweaked in iColorama.
quetzal
On one of our online Friday afternoon timed-drawing exercises, the organizer showed a photo of a quetzal in flight and gave us 3 minutes to draw it. I used my iPad, an Apple Pencil, and the Sketch Club app and produced this:
A week later I tried messing with that image.
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Post Empirical World
Then their lawyers sweep up after almost every elephant parade by saying that no reasonable person would ever buy the sh*t that was so emphatically extruded.
Raise my rent and shift my paradigms!
Robert E. Lee and Him
And who? Ty Seidule, that’s who! His book: ROBERT E. LEE AND ME: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause.
This book has helped me snap out of the stupefying effects of one of America’s biggest lies, the lost cause, which I’ll let you look up on your own so that you can examine the toxic linkage to another more recent but just as stupefying big lie.
I’ve indirectly illustroblogged about Robert E. Lee elsewhere, check it out here. In that 2014 post, I’m ashamed to admit that I knew nothing per se about the “lost cause,” which again I’ll let you look up on your own. My fascination with Lee had always centered on what I saw as an association with Don Quijote.
Ty Seidule’s courageous book is a lot to process; however, it’s worth every perturbing wave of irreversible discomfort because of the permanent illumination it offers. Here’s how I’ve begun to process it in my own cartoonish way:
Some of my digital folks so far this year, 2021
Some of these are done; some are works in progress; some were done before they were done; but, they’re all done in Sketch Club on my iPad Pro with my Apple Pencil.
Some 3-Minute iPad Drawings
Elsewhere on this illustroblog, HERE IN PARTICULAR, I’ve referred to my work at the Enrichment Center (EC), where I’ve taught iPad art to adult artists with developmental disabilities since 2015. The pandemic put an end to our in-person classes and studios, but we’ve continued to meet online a few times a week. On Fridays we meet for timed drawing exercises. Some use traditional tools, e.g., pens, pencils, markers, paper, etc., and others use iPads. We’re shown an object or a photo, we’re given 3 minutes to draw it, and then we take turns showing what we managed to crank out. I have over 60 digital images, and here are a few of them (all done in the Sketch Club app):
The self back there…
See other related butt-on-mat posts H-E-R-E, scroll on and on, there’re quite a few!
Digitoon
It Should Go Without Saying
Regarding racism, I read THIS PAVLOVITZ PIECE, and this image came to mind:
Can’t hide behind this
portfoliolongo 