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The Detective

The Detective

Heavily inspired by Jeremy Brett’s definitive portrayal of Sherlock Holmes. I didn’t set out to get Jeremy Brett’s likeness, but simply wanted to capture the spirit of Sherlock Holmes. Painted in MyPaint (after a long time) with my XP-Pen Artist 10S.

The Detective
Tree in countryside

Tree in countryside

Tree in countryside

After a long time I’ve finally created a new digital painting. This one was done using Sketchbook on my iPad with Apple Pencil. I initially started with the tree and then expanded the countryside around it, purely from imagination. No references used.

River backwater

River backwater

Painted digitally using Sketchbook on my iPad.

River backwater

This was done on my iPad with Sketchbook. This time I took a break from traditional watercolour and decided to go with digital painting. Sketchbook has decent watercolour brushes which somewhat emulate the medium. This was a simple piece just to get comfortable with these brushes and I feel reasonably happy with it. While Adobe Fresco has some good live brushes to emulate real watercolour flow on paper, it tended to crash on my iPad. So I went back to Sketchbook which is snappy and lightweight compared to Fresco.

Overall I would love to see Krita available on the iPad. Sadly I don’t think there will be a port available in the foreseeable future thanks to Apple’s licensing policy with regard to GNU GPL.