Strawberry in shadow

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A relatively quick painting. I started with the back drop to ‘set up my lighting’ a it were. Then thought, what would look interesting in this light? Best I could come up with was a strawberry from a picture I took of one from our garden. I used the photo as a reference, but deviated considerably once I got the shape and the basic details.

One nice thing about strawberries is that they are seldom the perfect strawberry shape, so I didn’t mind that mine is a bit malformed.

In Peace

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This was a really quick one from last night. Used TiltShiftGen to blur the edges and boost the contrast, then re-imported the adjusted image and faded it with the original drawing, which I think gives a nice other-worldly effect 🙂

At the bar

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This is my first contribution for nanodrawmo. I’m going to try to do all my drawings using brushes app for iPhone; in this case I also tweaked it a bit with tiltshiftgenerator , boosting the colors and adding some blur.

Using brushes is a bit slower for doing quick sketches, as I tend to start really rough (and ugly!) and then refin refine refine. I drew this yesterday but felt like I needed to tweak it a bit before posting (hence the blurring).

Hopefully I’ll get a bit more fluid as the month goes on.