Digital Art
Alchemy Drawings
OpenCanvas
Before I switched to a Mac, there was a small, lightweight, little-known app called OpenCanvas that was my digital paint program of choice. As OpenCanvas is not Mac supported, my Mac forced me to learn Photoshop. I’m glad it did, as I grew to really love working with Photoshop. But, I always wondered about OpenCanvas. I remembered the program had a tactile quality to it that Photoshop never quite matched – Photoshop was developed as a photo manipulator that artists used to paint digitally, whereas OpenCanvas was developed from the start as a sketching and painting tool. It was coded specifically to utilize pressure-sensitive tablets.
The result is that OpenCanvas feels much more like drawing than Photoshop does, at least without custom brushes (the great thing about Photoshop is that you can customize it to perform the way you want).
After building my computer, though, I finally have the option of using OpenCanvas once again. So I headed over to Portalgraphics.net and downloaded a free trial of OpenCanvas 4.5+, as well as the first version, OpenCanvas 1.1, which is the only freeware version (so you can still download it here) to play around with.
The program actually didn’t feel as comfortable as I remembered in either version (the version I actually used years ago was oC 2.x). I suppose I’ve just grown too used to Photoshop! But here’s a sketch from 4.5+:
I do like these plants very much….
July
Cropping of a late night sketch. I plan to finish this one! Since it is already pretty simple.
I’ve been much busier than I’d been anticipating. I’ve done a lot of unfinished sketch things that I might post if I clean them up a bit, and I should be able to finish some little animations soon.
Oh!! And, I’ll also be going see the Pet Shop Boys this September 6th!!!! I’m a huge Pet Shop Boys fan so this is some pretty gigantamongus news.
Two Sketches
I have been pretty busy this past week with moving and seeing friends before leaving. But now I’m back home. :)
Need to tweak the perspective in this one.
I also did some animating tonight, not very much, they’re more like animated sketches. One is of a wirey bird stick or skeleton figure and the other is of a caterpillar/wave-like walk cycle. I have to figure out an easy way to post these small studies.