IPad: articles and tips
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Hillscape
Yet another landscape painted in Sketchbook on my iPad. Totally from imagination, no references used.
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Yet another rural landscape
Another rural landscape painted from imagination. Painted using Sketchbook on iPad. Yes I am getting back to digital painting.
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Just a random portrait
Just a random portrait after a long time painted fully from imagination. Painted in Sketchbook on my iPad.
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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.
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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…
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Portrait caricature of Actor Politician Vijaykanth
A portrait caricature of Tamil actor-political leader “Captain” Vijaykanth. Painted on iPad using Sketchbook and Adobe Fresco. Adobe Fresco is a decent ipad painting app with enough free features and good brushes to get along. Yes, you can also export as PSD which is very useful. It does use cloud storage though , so if…
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Sivaji Ganesan cartoon caricature
After a long time I’ve revived my artwork. This one is a fun caricature of veteran actor late Sivaji Ganesan created on my iPad with the Autodesk Sketchbook app. Yes, I do feel a bit rusty after such a long gap. Also Sketchbook on the iPad is not nearly as good or feature complete as…
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The best way to type on an iPad
Apropos of my earlier article on alternate input methods on a touch screen device, what is the best method of typing text on an iPad or other touchscreen tablet without an external proprietary or generic Bluetooth keyboard? After some experimentation, I feel that using the onscreen keyboard combined with a cheap passive stylus pen is reasonably efficient…
