Jono's life sans Xara

[wizard509]

Here's a montage of few bits and pieces I've made during the last few weeks. As TalkGraphics is my spiritual home and as an incentive to myself, every now and then I'll try and post a summary of what I've been up to. My new art toolbox now contains Affinity Designer & Photo, VectorStyler and ArtRage Vitae (all Mac versions).

I recognize at least a couple of them well, done Jono.

[Jonopen]

Thanks Larry.

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Hi folks, here's another batch of random sketches, scribbles and ideas waiting to see the light of day.



Traditional and digital ink & watercolour sketches of:
a) ladybird (ladybug) larvae
b) pots and pans in kitchen
c) spooky graveyard
d) adult ladybird
e) edited photo (new background, crop etc) of plaster casts at the Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, Italy
f) more work done on the amphipod!
g) Oct Scribble challenge 1
h) Oct Scribble challenge 2

[gray]

All good creative work, Jono. Always enjoy seeing what you are up to.

[Jonopen]

Hi All,

I'm not exactly sure why, but since (mostly) switching away from Xara* and from Windows to a Mac, I think my output and productivity has really gone downhill. Maybe I've just been busier/distracted in other areas of my life. I have got a few of creative projects simmering on the back burner so hopefully if I can get in the right frame of mind, I'll be back up to speed.



A) March scribble - It's all in the nose!

B) copy of an Oscar Reutersvärd 'impossible object'. I've put this one through Prisma (iPad bitmap filter app) to give it a painterly look.

C) odium!

D) again, just fiddling about

E) even more experimenting. Jeez, what am I actually doing with my life?

F) documenting the drawing of a fish eye! This is all vital stuff you know! ;-)

G) tree image from the past that I plan to redevelop further. It was originally made for an A3 sized screen print.

*I've actually bought a copy of Xara Photo & Graphic Design to test how Windows scaling looked. (it looks great, as does Windows!).

[handrawn]

just be creative in every thing you do jono [well unless you are explaining yourself to Mr Plod ]

way to go...

[Jonopen]

just be creative in every thing you do jono [well unless you are explaining yourself to Mr Plod ]

way to go...

When I was a kid, after a bit of a night out, I was walking home carrying a big gnarly old log, and you guessed it, Mr Plod apprehended me! I can't remember the exact details (obviously), but think I got away with it by saying I was an art student!

[wizard509]

They look good Jono I may not like all of t but all in all in all good work.

[Jonopen]

Hello all, it's been a while but here's my latest roundup of bits and pieces (aka 'stuff').

Except for these doodles and experiments, things have been fairly quiet digitally. I have however recently discovered a local print studio that can do A2 giclée prints, which has really got my cogs going again.

As usual a few of the images originated from the Scribble challenge or were inspired from topics on the TG forum. For example the magazine, where I tried out Affinity Designer's new warp tool to layout the text (image below).

[gwpriester]

Nice. Keep on being creative.