Flowers 1.V – Inktense Pencil and Art App Media – and a Video

I drew this late last year with a black Inktense pencil, and used the Scanner Pro app to bring it into the iPad. From that app I took it into the iPad’s photo section, and from there into the Procreate app. That’s where I tidied up around the edges of the scanned image, and then dabbed in some colour (freehand) using the artist crayon, coloured charcoal, and the ink bleed pen.

Recently I looked at it again, and decided to print it. I thought the yellow areas were a little dull, and so I painted in some more colour with the Gesinski ink (and I think a little of the turpentine media) in Procreate. You can see this in the video further along. There’s a pic of these flowers before I added in more colour, in a gallery of images in a previous post.

If I print onto a watercolour or drawing paper (inkjet paper is made to better receive the printing inks) I usually have to saturate the colour (and sometimes adjust the contrast…) a little in the editing part of the iPad’s photo section. This also helps keeps the print in line with how I see the colours and contrasts on the iPad screen. I may not bother to do this if I intend to add more art media to to the printed image. I’m learning as I go along, through lots of trial and error (and most importantly) through play. *To enlarge the pics below, please tap on one of them.

Yellow flowers print — A print on Canson Rag Photographique inkjet paper. A lovely cotton paper.It’a little warmer in colour than seen here.

Flower drawing — A print of the inktense drawing on Fabriano 25% 300gsm watercolour paper. Adding some watercolour to the print.

It’s interesting to see how each type of paper: watercolour, drawing, or the various inkjet papers I use, give their own unique character to the print.

I first purchased an iPad about 5yrs ago, and still marvel at the all the creative opportunities it has made possible. Not only for my adventures in iPad art, but also for: printing it, and making “reproductive” prints of my traditional artworks; as well as for building this website, blogging…and so on – rarely use a computer for anything.

I began with a iPad mini, and then an iPad Air 2; and now I’m using an iPad 10.5 Pro – exciting! I tried the apple pencil – excellent, but I’m happy enough to draw on the screen with my finger. 🙂 *Only four more flowers to go in this series…then I may start another one.

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