Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Digital Tuesday, neon, pastel, splatters

Here are a few more digital sketches made using Sketchbook App on my smart phone. For this one, I set the background to dark maroon, then drew random shapes using the neon paintbrush tool. Varying the colours between yellow, white, red and cyan gave a neon look. The tool makes the glow effect automatically. 

Neon doodle, Sketchbook, digital 1600 x 2000


Going with another dark background, this time on the blue side, I stamped over a variety of colourful patterns. To change the stamp, one has to delve into the advanced feature, nib, then find the little pictures and there are about three dozen stamp varieties which can be further altered for shape, size and randomness. 

Tangle splatters, Sketchbook, digital 1600 x 2000


Starting with the default white background and some pastel lines, I over-stamped green splatters which caused negative effects. The initial lines look white where the splatters are green, I am not sure why that happened but it looks pretty darn cool. 

Pastel foliage swirls, Sketchbook, digital 1600 x 2000


Using soft pastel brush gives a chalk-on-the-sidewalk effect. Varying colours and aligning the brush-strokes gave a breezy appearance. Just the background seemed bland, so I overlaid a few smudge brush strokes on different angles to complete a windy feeling. I accidentally reversed the image, you see my initials mirror-image, just noticed now.... I guess the painting blew over!

Chalk line smudges, Sketchbook, digital 1600 x 2000


I forgot which brush this was in the background, it was from the texture essential menu. Concentric rectangles followed a roughly rainbow progression of colours. Smudge-brush over top was used to write my initials and a few random shapes. This one really felt like I was finger painting!

Smudge over texture, Sketchbook, digital 1600 x 2000

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