Author: dougrogers
cartoon life: On Predictions
I modified my Procreate brushes collections into Fave Inkers, Fave Sketch, Fave Paint, etc. I also realized I could set contained size ranges for various brushes. So I have for lettering now, Script 1 to 5, Script 4 to 15, and the original fat Script in my Fave Lettering set.
Continue readingcartoon life: Doug Putin
Cartoons on LondOntLife are are shared based on a premise that people will maybe use and remix them. Here I rework the drawing, running the drawing through Inkwork. I do that sometimes just to see what variety it produces. Then popped back into Procreate for some painting. Here, our Provincial
Continue readingcartoon life: Easy to taste Art History with Waldemar
I am intensely enjoying Waldemar Januszczak‘s art history episodes on YouTube. I started with https://youtu.be/M4o1dc41r28 , his Dark Ages: An Age of Light, and YouTube rounded up https://youtu.be/M4o1dc41r28 Baroque: From St Peter’s to St Paul’s. There seem to be quite few. more. Having completed a binge watch of Tony Robinsons’s
Continue readingcartoon life: Four heads
Wow. Picked a neglected brush in a Procreate and drew these (bragging) with no underdrawing, but direct. All lively accidents intact.
Continue readingcartoon life: Getting Out of the Byron Bubble
The View from Oxford & Maitland In my very first column, I wrote about living in Byron in good ole London Ontario, a very busy life and how I was oblivious to and ready didn’t care as to what was happening in the rest of the city. I am not
Continue readingcartoon life: Sometimes, in between.
A four panel comic for Sammy. I got a copy of Polarr Deep Crop (iPad) and one of the things it does is this four frame collage with a chosen image cropped in various ways. The AI chosen crops for this structure seem random, but they seem to have a story
Continue readingcartoon life: Man with scythe
# Man with scythe Maybe late 50’s, early 60’s, after we had moved to the Queens Ave house, I would walk along Queens Ave to Queens Place and down that small lane to Lorne Avenue School\. The dirt lane off English Street was more fun, but the bully thugs hung
Continue readingcartoon life: She makes children of us all’: Guardian writers pick their favourite Kate Bush lyrics
Could be in a dream Our clothes are on the beach These prints of our feet Lead right up to the sea No one, no one is here No one, no one is here We stand in the Atlantic We become panoramic And Who knows who wrote that song of
Continue readingcartoon life: Sometimes events just get away from you
One of the delights, and one of the devils are the same thing: the rapidity of electronic media. It allows immediate responses and demands immediate postings. And even the start of this image is buried beneath how easy it was to dive in, refine, refinish and cover up everything from
Continue readingcartoon life: Sometimes you need to look up.
The answer might be there.
Continue readingcartoon life: I wish I could be calm and quietly articulate about this betraying lying bastard.
Outrage and anger comes first. Funny, maybe, comes later.
Continue readingcartoon life: The Modern Fascist Uniform
From left to right—well, ‘left’ only because the picture plane is flat… ________ _____ ______ _____ ___ _____ ___ ____ __
Continue readingcartoon life: 100 cats are free!
What!??? Are you insane? I have set free 100 cats worldwide. Not on sale, but free! My ebook 100 cats on iTunes Bookstore is free worldwide. Except in America, Land of the Free where the .99 tariff continues, because the country is insane. 100 cats an animal art eBook with more
Continue readingcartoon life: Having fun with brushes in Procreate.
A fairly restrained, maybe tentative use of a custom brush in Procreate. If you use the app, you can find that drip shape. Watercolour splotches are fun An unrestrained use of that drippy chain brush Working another brush where speed and light pressure produce big juicy blotches.
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