Digital sketches Abstract

This is what happens when give an artist like me, a prolific doodler, a powerful sketchbook digital app. Endless variety of art. Its interesting because the range of tools, patterns, colours and contrast is staggering. In this example I combined the gradient tool with transparent brush strokes and some stamping features to create an ominous world claw in grey scale. 

World Claw, Sketchbook, digital 1600 x 2000

A simple line drawing was embellished with colourful splash stamps and a transparent grid. Airbrushing on the sides and open spaces gave an ethereal smoky glow. 

Pattern Spillover, Sketchbook, digital 1600 x 2000

This one started as a pattern arrangement in grey scale, with colourful neon electrical waves. Then I got into gradient fill and image tilt features, finishing with some well placed paint splatters. 

Dimensional broken record, Sketchbook, digital 1600 x 2000

Using a standard marker tool, I found an option menu and selected colour multiplier. Somehow it was taking the colour attributes (hue saturation value) and multiplying them where two brush strokes overlapped. I added a few black brush strokes here and there to balance the left side of the composition. 

Colour multiplier, Sketchbook, digital 1600 x 2000

 

The colour scheme and patterns ended up looking like a Madonna rock video from the 80's... black, white, pastels, and mesh textures. To make images like this requires a sense of composition, its something I can feel viscerally. So my stomach and nervous system help guide artwork creation reflexively.  

Material Grill, Sketchbook, digital 1600 x 2000