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Post by ellietaylorartist on Jun 2, 2014 16:21:44 GMT
I think the Asus TF 300T sort of had a problem with their screens anyway because I saw other reviews that said the screen was easy to scratch. Also, the Dagi stylus I was using sometimes scratches the screens especially if you use it to do a lot of blending. That's whyI don't think I'll ever go back to anything else but galaxy notes with the s pen. I have noticed that there are some scratches on my screen protectors for my galaxy notes so I'm glad I put screen protectors on them. Better to be safe than sorry (cause I've been sorry lots of times, lol).
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Post by ellietaylorartist on May 31, 2014 15:38:48 GMT
Screen protectors are essential for protecting your tablet if you do a lot of drawing on it. No matter how careful you draw, you will still get scratches on the screen. It doesn't have to be a big fancy screen protector, just get a nice clear one that shows the screen. One of my first tablets (an Asus TF 300T) did not have a screen protector and it got terribly scratched up, so it's better to go through the headache of putting on a screen protector than having a scratched screen. You can find relatively inexpensive ones that work just fine.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on May 29, 2014 17:53:46 GMT
It only has ten levels right now, but the developers have promised more. I finished it and found it very good. It is also an excellent study in perspective and if you're an Escher fan (I am), you will recognize many elements from his artwork. I hope they add a lot more levels!
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Post by ellietaylorartist on May 29, 2014 17:47:48 GMT
I managed to fix the bug by clearing the app data so now the undo button works on my Note 8. I like the effects of the brushes and the blending brushes are like painting with oils. The menu is not as user friendly as it could be. I've found that in order to exit from the app you have to save your work and clear the screen and then hit the back button. If you don't do that the back button acts like an undo button on your painting even if you've already saved it. Also, if you go into eraser mode, in order to get out you have to tap the eraser again, just tapping on the brush button won't get you out of eraser mode. A few things like that keep it from being as user friendly as some of the other big painting apps. Overall, the brushes are smooth and respond very well if you don't modify them too much. It's fun to use and is like painting with oils without the turpentine and messy clean up!
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Post by ellietaylorartist on May 26, 2014 18:01:18 GMT
This is a painting done in the app Hello Watercolor Pencil and SketchBook Ink. I used the pencil in Hello Watercolor Pencil to draw the initial sketch and then I used the watercolor brushes to paint the picture. Then I imported it into SketchBook Ink to add the ink details. I really like the effects of the watercolor pencil app. You can adjust the amount of water on your brush to make the paint flow freely and use a watercolor blending brush.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on May 26, 2014 15:46:27 GMT
There is a really neat new game based on M.C. Escher's art called Monument Valley. It involves a princess trying to find her way through buildings based on the perspective illusions of Escher. It has really neat music and graphics.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on May 25, 2014 19:52:33 GMT
We've talked a lot about the big painting apps on this forum, but there are quite a few specialized painting apps out there that concentrate on special types of paint such as watercolor, oils, and colored pencils. For watercolor, the best app is Auryn Ink, it really looks like real watercolor paint and paper. The biggest weakness for this app is no import function. You can, however, export it into SketchBook Ink and add pen and ink details to your watercolor painting. SketchBook Ink is an app that mimics different types of ink pens and is great for pen and ink drawings.
Some more good watercolor apps are Hello Watercolor and Hello Watercolor Pencil. These apps also give a very good watercolor effect. They have an import function as well. Hello Watercolor Pencil is a very feature rich program because it also has other brushes such as fountain pen, ballpoint pen, crayon, marker, and more. The developers of this app also have a chalk app, Hello Chalk, a crayon app, Hello Crayon, a colored pencil app, Hello Colored Pencil, and an oil paint app, Hello Oil Painter. The weakness of these apps is there is no layer functions and only the watercolor pencil app has a zoom function, but you can export your file into more sophisticated apps like SketchBook Pro to make up for that.
Crayon Doodle and Drawing Pad are designed more for kids, but they give some nice crayon and marker effects and you can export the files into other apps.
Some simple sketching apps are Sketcher Pro, Pencil Madness, Sketch Lover, Doodle Dawg, and Skez.li. Zen Brush is a very neat app that mimics sumi ink painting. It has 3 levels of opacity and around 62 different backgrounds that you can draw on. The colors of the ink change depending in the background. For example, on the wood background, the ink is brown and on the blue background, the ink is black. It really is a lot of fun and produces a very good ink brush effect.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on May 25, 2014 18:40:16 GMT
I just found another interesting feature from the Clover Paint website. When you export your file as a jpeg, you can choose the pixel quality that you want. For example if you want the highest quality, you choose 100. The translation is very rough, but you can get a general idea of all the features and it is a very complex program. Hopefully the developer will continue to work on the UI to make it more user friendly.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on May 25, 2014 16:01:45 GMT
The developer has a manual out, but it is in Japanese. However, I just discovered how to translate it. You have to download the Google Translate app and download the Chrome browser app on to your tablet. Then go to www.cloverpaint.net and it should ask if you want to translate this page, tell it yes and it will translate to English. The translation is not perfect, but you can sort of get a rough idea by looking at the screenshots what to do. I am going to read everything and see if I can get a better understanding of all the functions. Glad I could help you, the way I learn these programs is to do a big painting on them and trial and error it (usually a lot of errors, haha). Here's the link. www.cloverpaint.net
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Post by ellietaylorartist on May 25, 2014 3:26:36 GMT
Go to the menu and long press on tools, go up to pen and press it. This will bring up PS edit. Press on it and it will bring up this screen (see screenshot below). Play around with the different functions and see what all they do. You can move, resize, and bend your stroke and a bunch more things I haven't figured out yet. The only way to learn this app is to start pressing buttons and see what happens, haha.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on May 24, 2014 17:35:50 GMT
Check out these videos by a very talented artist, Geremy Arene, on youtube. He is really talented and does these videos on several different Galaxy Note tablets and phones. www.youtube.com/user/geremy902
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Post by ellietaylorartist on May 24, 2014 17:25:14 GMT
This board is for talking about android and ios tablet art and general discussions related to these topics (such as PC desktop art programs etc.), but it is not for posting spam. Please don't post your personal business links here if it doesn't have anything to do with android or ios art. Thanks.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on May 23, 2014 4:32:06 GMT
There is a new update for Adobe Photoshop Touch. In this update they have added some more brushes and a quick selection tool and a lot of bug fixes. It looks like they've added a dodge and burn tool, too.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on May 20, 2014 2:22:40 GMT
Auryn Ink is the best app for watercolor painting. It really looks like real watercolor. However, you can't import files into it and that limits it somewhat, but you can export files. I like to paint a watercolor picture in Auryn Ink and then export it into SketchBook Ink and finish out the details in ink. It really looks like a pen and ink drawing. I have some examples of it posted on this board.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on May 19, 2014 19:15:42 GMT
Those are very good! I thought I recognized your name. I love your funny western art! I really like the Galaxy Note tablets because they have the s pen. It is so easy to draw with especially after trying a lot of other styluses. Some more painting apps that you might be interested in are: SketchBook Pro, SketchBook Ink, Infinite Painter, ArtFlow, LayerPaint HD, Serious Paint, Doodledroid, and Fresco Pro. Also, one of the tricks I've learned is to use the Splashtop Remote Desktop HD app to hook up my Samsung tablets to my big PC and I can use the big computer programs like Painter X3, SketchBook Pro 6, Twisted Brush, and ArtRage 4 to paint my pictures. It's kind of like the poor man's Wacom Cintiq tablet. A real Cintiq costs about a thousand dollars.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on May 19, 2014 15:48:56 GMT
Yes, the UI can be confusing, you kind of have to just play around with everything and see what it does. The layer blend modes can be accessed from the layers floating pod. Long press on the menu icon in the upper right-hand hand corner and it will bring up the menu, then long press on Blend Color and all the layer blending options will pop up. Here are some screenshots.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on May 19, 2014 15:16:28 GMT
Hi, welcome to our forum! We're so glad you joined! That is a weird bug. I had trouble with Clover Paint not updating correctly last year. I cleared the cache and the app data and then I uninstalled and reinstalled the app. That worked for me. If that doesn't work try emailing the developer.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on May 18, 2014 3:36:09 GMT
Some more good anatomy books to get are the Kindle editions of George Bridgeman. I have several of his paperbacks, but they are now available on Kindle.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on May 18, 2014 3:28:24 GMT
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Post by ellietaylorartist on May 17, 2014 2:35:06 GMT
I think one way to find the PSD files is to use Dropbox or some cloud service. They should be able to read PSD files. I don't like to use cloud services for my artwork because I don't always have a connection if I am away from home, but so far that's all I can find for now.
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