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Post by ellietaylorartist on Mar 8, 2014 5:26:55 GMT
It looks like they are getting closer to releasing a version of ArtRage for android. They apparently have some beta testers using it right now. The forum at ArtRage Community has released some pictures of what the interface looks like. Here is the link! forums.artrage.com/showthread.php?41494-ArtRage-for-Android/page12 Still no release date announced yet, but I hope it's at least this year!
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Post by ellietaylorartist on Mar 7, 2014 5:59:02 GMT
If anyone is interested in animation, here are a few apps that I have found: Animation Desk (a very neat looking and fun app), LookSee Draw (very simple animation app) and Animation Studio (this is a complex program for serious animators). I'm not really into making complex animations, but I do love to read and watch videos about it. There are more apps out there, but these are some of the more popular ones.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on Mar 7, 2014 2:22:54 GMT
Wow! What wonderful paintings! What is the difference between regular SketchBook Pro and SketchBook Galaxy?
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Post by ellietaylorartist on Mar 3, 2014 6:36:25 GMT
If you don't want to void your warranty by rooting, apparently there is a workaround to the SD card problem in KitKat. According to several android forums, you can still use the native File Manager to move photos and music from the internal memory to the SD card and vice versa. For example, if you take a photo with the tablet camera app, it will store them on the SD card. So then if you want to change this photo with a 3rd party app like Pixlr Express, you have to go into the File Manager and move the photo to internal memory so that the 3rd party app can modify it. Then if you want to put it back on the SD card, you have to go through the file manager again! I guess the same thing applies to a music file. KitKat appears to have made things more complicated instead of simplifying things like they said it would! At least you can kind of manage to get around it.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on Mar 1, 2014 5:17:40 GMT
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Post by ellietaylorartist on Feb 28, 2014 21:18:17 GMT
The Toshiba Write Excite is another 10.1 inch tablet with a stylus. I have read mixed reviews on it. Some people like it better because the stylus is more like a pen, while others say it is not as responsive as a Galaxy Note. The price is higher than Samsung's Galaxy Notes and was even higher than an ipad for a while. Here is the link to it. m.toshibadirect.com/product/detail/us/tablets/excite/Write/32gb
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Post by ellietaylorartist on Feb 28, 2014 20:42:23 GMT
Yes, I found my 7 inch tablet a little too small for drawing comfortably. I really like the 8 inch Galaxy Note for drawing and when I need more detail the 10.1 inch works nicely. I also want to get the 12.2 Note Pro when the price goes down. I see even more reviews from artists that are really liking it.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on Feb 28, 2014 3:40:26 GMT
This looks like it might me a more affordable alternative to Galaxy Note tablets. I think the price is around $199. I don't think it has advanced pressure sensitivity like the Galaxy Notes, but it might be a nice quick sketch tablet. The Tegra 3 processor in my ASUS TF 300T is pretty fast and this one has a Tegra 4. Here is a link to its website. www.evga.com/articles/00790/
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Post by ellietaylorartist on Feb 26, 2014 0:48:43 GMT
Pixlr Express, which is from Autodesk like SketchBook Pro, has several overlay textures for the final picture including a canvas texture. Infinite Painter has an import feature on the layers so you might could do that in it. Auryn Ink has a textured paper that you paint on. Clover Paint may import photo texture too. Photoshop Touch may have something too.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on Feb 24, 2014 19:45:11 GMT
Me too! I read a review from one artist who said he got it because it was more affordable than a Wacom Cintiq and he loves it! I want the 64 GB one! It would be a great workhorse tablet at home!
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Post by ellietaylorartist on Feb 24, 2014 5:48:46 GMT
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Post by ellietaylorartist on Feb 23, 2014 6:23:03 GMT
Arizona Sketch Here is another sketch done with Auryn Ink and SketchBook Ink. I am enjoying experimenting with these apps.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on Feb 21, 2014 20:59:18 GMT
Okay, this is what I learned from the comments. Each app can write to its own folder on an sd card and other apps can read the sd content but can't modify the original file. So if you take a photo and it is saved on the sd card then you want to modify it in a different program like Photoshop Touch, the program will make its own copy on the internal storage and leave the original untouched. It kind of does that anyway on my Galaxy Note 10.1 which runs android 4.1. They also said that you could use a 3rd party file manager app in place of the new kitkat manager to move files on to the sd card. Most apps will be able to read the contents of the sd card, but not modify the the original files unless they are in that particular app's folders. So I don't know what this all means for music or movies. It may mean that everything makes a duplicate file on the internal drive and clutters it up even more. Also, you can use your PC to put stuff on the sd card, but that defeats the purpose of a MOBILE device. I agree with the commenters, if you are going to get rid of sd cards, then you better make devices with more storage. There are still devices with 8 GBs and 16 GBs that need expanded storage especially when the device's operating system takes half of the storage. This whole thing is ridiculous. People have always needed extra storage even with PCs.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on Feb 21, 2014 18:15:49 GMT
If you read all the comments below on this story at the link you posted, they explain things more in detail (when they are not fighting with each other, lol). I think what has changed is that each app can only use it's own folder and not borrow from another one, so if you delete that app you delete all its folders and whatever is in it like pics. I guess the best policy is to back it all up on a PC which is what I try to do anyway. I'm still not clear on what they've done to the file manager, I need to read further on the comments (there are 300 plus comments). To clarify, this link is what I'm talking about. www.androidpolice.com/2014/02/17/external-blues-google-has-brought-big-changes-to-sd-cards-in-kitkat-and-even-samsung-may-be-implementing-them/
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Post by ellietaylorartist on Feb 20, 2014 18:29:51 GMT
I started out on budget tablets and I had a 7 inch Coby Kyros with a resistive touch screen which was really good for drawing once I found a pointed stylus, but the screen was just too small and that tablet is not very powerful. So I upgraded to a 9.7 inch Coby Kyros with a capacitive screen, but was severely disappointed while trying to draw with big rubber tipped styluses. However, I found the Dagi styluses that have a sharp metal tip covered by a plastic disk and these work pretty well. I wanted a more powerful tablet so I upgraded to an Asus TF 300T and I painted quite a few things on it with the Dagi stylus. However when the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 got down to the $300 dollar range, I grabbed one and I love the s pen. It is more precise than the Dagi (in fact it is just as good as the resistive screen) and I have bought a Wacom stylus to go with my Note tablets. Like you, I didn't want to carry my 10.1 inch tablet around so I got the 8 inch Note to carry on trips. I really like it.
For practice, I would recommend 'how to draw' books. They are great for practice and they help when you can't think of something to draw. Sometimes I just go through a whole book and draw all the pictures in it. It is good practice and helps you draw better, especially anatomy books. There are books on drawing and painting people, animals, objects, and landscapes for good prices at Amazon and quite a few on Kindle too. There are some how to draw apps, but read the reviews to make sure they are not spy ware.
I still find the creative process painful even after 14 years, especially on big projects, but you just have to keep practicing. Try doing a small drawing everyday and don't worry if it is good or not. Just scribble something down, it can be from a book or just something you see. Draw your hand or your shoe or a smiley face. Pretty soon, it will become a habit and you'll get more comfortable with your tools.
I find these tablets so convenient to draw and paint because it's like having a whole studio with you in a magic box, so I really hope they don't mess them up by destroying the operating system with restrictive parameters in kitkat.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on Feb 20, 2014 17:04:18 GMT
I hope they are right, but I think most of them don't have kitkat yet. I like android because it's cheaper and you don't get locked into itunes plus I am totally sold on the s pen, but my family likes ipads. If ipad came out with an s pen, I might consider it, but I really like Samsung.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on Feb 20, 2014 16:47:11 GMT
Rooting is definitely something to keep in mind. If android is going down this path, then they better start increasing the storage on their devices to compete. Ipads go all the way up to 128 GBs. Asus does offer 64 GBs on their tablets. Samsung is going to offer 64 GBs on their 12 inch tablet, but I don't understand why Google is deliberately crippling Android like this. Especially since game files are getting bigger and bigger and camera resolution is getting bigger. Cloud storage is not the answer because a lot of times, people don't have access to it. Where I live there is no cell service and wifi is limited to people's houses. Besides just one server failure for the cloud and all your data is lost. This is like android has reverted back to Froyo. Samsung is supposed to be coming out with their own OS and there is one called Sailfish that uses android apps. Kitkat may cause some of these rival Operating Systems to become a viable alternative. I am definitely not updating any of my current tablets to kitkat. I think it is really low class of Google to hide this about kitkat and then spring it on everyone.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on Feb 20, 2014 5:39:45 GMT
I am reading about a growing problem with the new android 4.4 update. A lot of people are saying it severely limits access to your sd card. Apparently you can't store things from 3rd party apps on your sd card. I know that with 4.0 you could put apps on the sd card, but with 4.1 and 4.2 you couldn't unless your device maker added it back. Samsung added the app to sd capability back on the Galaxy Note 8, but people are saying they won't on their newer devices. Apparently 4.3 has app to sd function, but then Google took it away again in 4.4 and made it really hard to put pictures, movies, and music on the sd card without rooting your tablet. What I do on my tablets with 4.1 and 4.2 is use the File Manager and cut and paste my files to the sd card. I'm not sure if you can still do this with kitkat. On one forum someone said maybe you still could do that. I hope so because if not then the tablet companies need to make devices with more storage. PC's have terabytes of storage on them now and the android tablets need to get bigger if they are going to compete. Since I do a lot of digital painting, I need that extra storage on the sd card. I don't think I want 4.4 until they resolve that issue.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on Feb 18, 2014 18:45:34 GMT
This is a very good video! I have Clover Paint and have been trying to figure it out. This helps. I hope this guy makes some more on the UI. I don't know if it is worth paying the extra $20 for the new UI or if you can paint just as well with the original. In this video resolution was mentioned. On the tablets, resolution is not very high so I have found two ways to get around this. The first way is to use your Galaxy Note tablet as a poor (relatively speaking) man's Cintiq. I do this by hooking up to my desktop PC via the Splashtop Remote HD app. This allows me to use my s pen in programs like Corel Painter 13, ArtRage 4, SketchBook Pro 6, Twisted Brush, and any other desktop software. I have a lesson about that at hubpages ellietaylorartist.hubpages.com/hub/Using-Your-Android-Tablet-to-Create-High-Resolution-Digital-Paintings The other way to get large printings from a low res file is at Twenty20.com. They take files as low as 72 dpi and blow them up to 20 inches by 20 inches. Right now you have to have an Instagram account to do this and the image must be square. Here's my gallery. twenty20.com/ellietaylorartist Some people are trying the new Windows tablets, but they are still pretty expensive and they don't have styluses as responsive as the s pen yet.
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Post by ellietaylorartist on Feb 18, 2014 17:38:05 GMT
I'm too chicken to root my tablets, lol. I figure that since I don't know exactly how to do it, I might brick my devices and I don't want to risk it. I love to read all about rooting and custom ROMs, but I'll leave it to you expert guys. Space is not really a problem because I have 3 tablets (an ASUS TF 300T, a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1, and a Galaxy Note 8 with a 32 GB SD card) and I usually download bigger games to my PC which has 1 Terabyte of storage. Mostly I like hidden object games and I put most of those on my big PC. I 'm not much of a gamer, the controls have to be pretty simple for me (like point and click). I just like looking at the pretty pictures, ha ha! I do like Where's My Mickey a lot. I like the classic Mickey art style. I'm not very good at running games or driving games, but I have Angry Birds Go! Love the artwork on it! I just don't have time for social gaming, but there are a lot of them with beautiful graphics.
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