Painting with my SketchBook MobileX

Well, it's been a long time since my last entry. The past few months has been a life changing experience for me - I'm a new dad now! My baby boy Isaac, is now 4 months old, and he's bringing so much joy into our life. (along with the lack of sleep)

Since I can hardly find enough time to sit down and paint (on my pc), the only long stretch of time I have is when I journey back and forth, to work everyday. So recently I've played around with a painting App on my iPhone - SketchBook MobileX.

It was quite hard at first because I was so used to painting with pressure sensitivity (in my Wacom), and here I didnt have that control. I didn't have a stylus as well and just had to get used to painting with my fat fingers.

However, I thought what the heck, I shouldn't use that as an excuse - instead I can just treat it as painting with thick paints. And painting without level controls or color adjustments (as in Photoshop) helped me to realize that all these years I actually know very little about colors because I had been relying too much on Photoshop's capabilities to help me adjust my wrong colors.

So here below are my little paintings done when I travel to and back from work. Most of them are so more like color sketches, really rough.

Spring

I was inspired by a photograph that I saw in Ian Plant's website. The green tones were really nice and gave me an feeling of Spring time- though I've never really experienced how spring is like. I live in Singapore where we don't have 4 seasons. It just hot and humid here.

Stain Glass Hall

Two years ago, my wife and I went to Italy for a backpacking trip. We visited 3 main cities - Rome, Florence and Venice. A lot of the buildings there were very old but beautiful, and historical. I was especially amazed at the churches where they had huge stained-glass windows that created fantastic ambience inside the hall.
So, here's an attempt to paint out what I felt visually, though in a completely fictional building.

A lazy day Under the tree

On a surprisingly hot afternoon, Gimeor finds himself sitting under a tree, looking at a Diplodocus lumbering his way. Just great - now he has to move away to find another shade.


I couldn't help but be inspired by a scene in Disney's "Tangled"; where there were thousands of floating lanterns by the lake. So here I painted a somewhat similar idea, toying around glowing things in a cave - fireflies perhaps...


Gimeor goes for a walk beside a pair of Brachiosaurus. It's late in the evening and having a pair of behemoths at your side helps to keep predators away. And his long necked friends don't seem to mind anyway...

Looking back

Well, it's been a super long time since I've posted any art on my blog, so here's a new one. I guess I was busy with my work and my new house and didn't had time to paint any personal stuff - until now! Muahaha...
It's called "Looking back", just a Styracosaurus mom and her young walking towards a lake, and got their reflection caught on the water. Spent some time playing around the colors and lighting, and didn't get it right until I surfed the internet for some photos. The score of Photograph vs My brain... Photograph=1 My brain=0



Here's a weird idea about a huge tree which floats up, pulling up it's roots, soil and debris falling all around. Would be quite a spectacle...

Afternoon Cut - Yummy!

Gimeor has hit the jackpot - caught a juvenile Tyranosaurus which would nicely last him a few weeks of food.