I have just traded in my old iPad 2 at Best Buy and received a coupon for $100 towards a new Apple purchase. I took my voucher across the store and invested in the new iPad Pro 9.7. I also purchased the Apple ‘pencil’ and went home to play. I downloaded Procreate and started to doodle a bit before switching to a little Outsect action. I was flabbergasted to discover that the app had actually recorded my drawing. So, hit the play button to see Outsects come to life!
Tag: Art
Surfing Fiddlers

Outsects tip their fiddles and synchronize surfboards to pay homage to Katsushika Hokusai and his woodblock print “The Great Wave off Kanagawa”.
Notes: This picture started out as a light pencil drawing followed by watercolor paint, and the lines were then picked out using pen and ink. In the original I painted the sky as an afterthought and promptly regretted the decision and put the picture out of sight. Recently, I retrieved the image and decided I still liked the idea of surfing fiddlers and opted to scan it. Once I had “the Surfing Fiddlers” in my computer, I removed the sky using Affinity Photo (an excellent alternative to Photoshop owned by the avaricious Adobe Company). Next, the surfboards were tweaked (in the original these were all a muddy flat orange). Using the “Flood Select Tool”, Affinity’s alternative to Photoshop’s “Magic Wand”, I removed the watercolor paint from the surfboards and then recolored them using the “Gradient Tool”. These changes helped to give a more 3D look to the surfboards, and now they look as though they are shiny and as we all know “shiny” things move fast.
