332 - Vellia

Day 332. This dodgy sketch did not end up at all as what it started out as. Drawn using Vellum. Can you guess who it was supposed to be? A clue... It looks nothing like them. Nothing.

303 - Linda

Day 303. More sketching with Adobe Draw today, which I like more and more the more I use it. In fact Adobe has released some amazing drawing tools for the iPad lately. This sketch is of Linda, and it's been loosely built up in layers of vector lines, then cropped to trim off the rough edges. She's much prettier than this in person.

277 - ASCII Me One More Time

Day 277. I was having a bit more of a play with that ASCII Art generator site at http://www.text-image.com/convert/matrix.cgi. It has some interesting options for different text and colour styles, so I thought I would create another one, just for the heck of it. This is me at 5 years old, in ASCII. Which, back in 1968, is probably about the best graphics that a computer could have actually produced when I was only 5 years old.

276 - ASCII No Questions

Day 276. While trying to find an online tool to generate a Matrix-like visual effect, I found this cool site that takes an image file and recreates it using ASCII characters. So this is me, in ASCII.

243 - Face Off

Day 243. I took my own photo in an app called Face Goo, which lets you stretch and distort an image as though it was on a sheet if rubber. Once distorted I opened the image in Photoshop Mix, an Adobe app that easily extracts an image from the background and lets you put a different background in its place. The background art was drawn in Repix. Then the whole lot was exported into Photoshop Touch and had a series of filters and effects applied to it, and this is what I ended up with.

 

174 - Facing Off

Day 174. I quite liked the faces I made for yesterday's create so I chose one and kept app smashing it through other apps. Starting with a identikit face made in FlashFace and then coloured with Warhol:DIY, I then opened it in Repix and applied a series of filters and effects to it, then brought it into Adobe Photoshop Touch to tweak the colours and textures a little more. App smashing, or passing an artefact through a series of apps can come up with some interesting results.

 

173 - Eye of the Beholder

Day 173. They say that beauty is in the eye of beholder, so I thought for today's create I would manufacture some random beauty. These female faces were all created using FlashFace, an identikit app that lets you assemble faces out of the various parts. I think all these faces have their own beauty. After making them I put them through the Warhol:DIY app to create faux screen printed versions, ala Andy Warhol pop art style.

 

157 - Excited

Day 157. I don't usually use the same tool back to back, but this Repix tool is pretty interesting. It really helps give a very painterly look to a photo. I used a Jot Pro stylus on this image too, which tends to help a lot when going for that brushed, arty look. It's a very cool app with lots of potential. I like the textures that can be built up with layers of effects.

135 - Feather Face

Day 135. More Photoshop today. Looking at layers and blend modes and stuff.