Rashmika Mandanna portrait
Portrait of Indian actress Rashmika Mandanna. Painted in Sketchbook on my iPad.
Rocky seashore
Another painting, this one a seascape. Painted using Sketchbook on my iPad.
Woman with flowing hair
Portrait after a very long time. Painted from imagination on my iPad with the Sketchbook app.
Orange hour
Another landscape in Sketchbook on my iPad.
Hillscape
Yet another landscape painted in Sketchbook on my iPad. Totally from imagination, no references used.
Yet another rural landscape
Another rural landscape painted from imagination. Painted using Sketchbook on iPad. Yes I am getting back to digital painting.
Just a random portrait
Just a random portrait after a long time painted fully from imagination. Painted in Sketchbook on my iPad.
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
Painted digitally using Sketchbook on my iPad.
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.
“Night Driving”
This time I wanted to paint something atmospheric and from imagination. Done with Krita using the RGBA brushes on my XP-Pen Artist 10s as usual.
For this piece, I went with my imagination and had a lot of fun doing the damaged road. On many Indian roads damaged sections are sometimes marked with a branch of a tree planted into the ground by the locals for motorists to sight and avoid, when there is nothing better like a reflective warning triangle available. Night driving is particularly hard on sections of damaged highways with no streetlights and on-coming vehicles, especially heavy vehicles, using powerful high-beam headlamps.