DS Stragglers

A few DS scribbles that were missed, skipped, or flipped.

DS Trefor Scribbles

Some DS scribbles to accompany the previous entry, although I should have posted these first.

Goch & Ddu

Square Off!

Here's a quick speedie done using reference from the monthly landscape challenge over on WetCanvas...

I'm enjoying working with these square canvases. They invite more overt use of composition juggling, although it is certainly a little easier for me to fall flat on my face. But then again, I've been too set in my ways when using the DS.

Ode To The Sea IV

Portrait

Patlabor Homage

A little homage to one of my favorite anime series.

Ink Scratch

Church Stretton Strutt

A few DS landscapes of Church Stretton Hills. The last two paintings in this post are from the same area.

SB 0205

Snow Shots

The recent photo-dump of a local church I posted a few entries back was meant to be a one off, but as most of my digital plein-air output for St. Peter's, which was on a USb stick, has been lost to the outer plane of small household objects; I have, in turn, lost the context that the photographs were meant to represent. So I figure why not post some more photos. I don't really have much to lose at this point.

 Note: The last photo was previously the subject of a little DS painting I did last Autumn. It's rather interesting to revisit the same subject under different conditions - and in this case, different formats. See here for the post that contains my original exploration of the subject.

 As previously, I can only state I have little interest in photography beyond just recording sights to add to my reference folders.

Great Escarpment

Okay, yet another change of plan. No St. Peter's post as I had hoped, thanks to my USB stick suddenly getting lost to the wind. I usually brush most things off, but I find myself actually rather annoyed about this. I've lost a slightly larger slice of work in the past, but for some reason this one actually hurts. It would seem you can never have too many backup folders on the go. :(

St. Peter's, DS Playback Test

I'm fast approaching my 500th saved painting done using the Colors! painting app. so I'm looking at celebrating this personal mile stone with a closer look at the program, and what it has meant to me over the past four and a half years. Most of my time has been spent doing plain-air landscape sketches - usually with some later refinement. Below is one of the paintings I did during my time at St. Peter's church (more on that in my next update). I'm just posting to test the embedded playback feature and make sure I've got the background colour right. Press the 'play' button (obviously) and click the fast forward arrows to alternate between three playback speeds.

 

Old Gods

A slight change of plan. I wanted to continue with my St. Peters church explorations from last year, but my scanner has died. I've ordered a new one, but in the mean time here's another speedie...

 

Reference Dump Snapshots (St. Peter's Starter Course)

Let's be clear about one thing here: I am not a photographer, in the true sense of the word.

I take a few pictures here and there - mostly as wine for my reference cellar - which translates as sporadic snapshots taken on a simplistic pocket camera to capture whatever draws my attention, so I can later dump them in a growing web of folders, and sub folders, that were initially created as an aid, but now seem to be more of a pot-luck cesspit of forgotten ideas and nuances I once (for a brief moment) had interesting ideas about.

I lack all but the most basic photographic equipment, and even with a basic camera in my hands, I don't really have the urge or protracted interest to work out what all the different settings do. I just want to take a few pictures and be done with it. Sometimes I do try to at least maneuver myself into a spot that makes for a good composition but, to be honest, I'm usually just gunning for a shot that captures best what I found interesting.

If there's any discomfort involved, I'm shifting foot... screw composition!

Still, I have a very deep respect for photographers - both amature and professional - and the only reason I am posting this little batch is to try and set the mood for the next few posts, because they will be completely about a certain local church. Or, to put it another way: Here's a quick photographic montage of a very memorable day I had back in early December, of last year, that started with the simple idea of visiting a singular setting, and exploring it in as many ways as I could.

Anyway, the end result was a wonderful half day of sketch-bookery (?), Nintendo DS Shenanigans, Photoshop tomfoolery, a bunch of quick-fire snap-ograph-oonery, and a bunch of personal little notes I wrote in a journal I was asked to start writing because it was that special (human pattern seeking) calendar day: 12,12,12!

Oh, and check the hoar frost: That's what all this is actually about.