This Week's Coffee Doodles

Dug out my Android tablet again for some quick black and white doodles of varying effort.  No true cohesion between them other than I stuck to fan art so the character designs were done for me and I could suppress my inner neuroses and just do a bunch of fairly quick drawings.

The results are here before you at full 1x resolution despite my insistence that anything drawn on this tablet should be reduced in resolution before publishing due to the so-so dot pitch in the screen.

Muddah Fuggin' MONKEY!

After a floundering drawing session on Monday at the cafe haunt, a friend made some sideways comment about a monkey with a crank organ.  One fairly relaxed and anatomically warped doodle later I had the majority of the linework done in a shorter time frame than my messy frustrated scribbles featured in the rest of the night.

Now Thursday night and unsure what to do, I finished reading a short story before giving in to temptation and going back to this.  Cleaned up the lines, reworked the simple background to at least pretend I cared about the perspective, and toned it.

Then my friends demanded rain while I professed disinterest in adding umbrellas.  I was resistant, but gave in just to see what it would look like when both said to not add umbrellas to make it even gloomier.   Well played you two.

Done in Autodesk Sketchbook Pro on my Note 10.1.
First drawing was slightly larger and in several layers.  Those were merged down, saved as a copy and scaled down so I had room for the environment around them.  Unlike on a desktop I have a layer cap due to memory restraints on the tablet.  I think I mention that as lot in posts involving this tablet...

A big catch-up

Someone at La Scalla, the cafe I spend too much time at, offered to me the actual method people use for digital speed painting, which happens to be rather far removed from the physical medium.  Layers; immense amounts of layers with varying opacity and usually specific details in a giant vertical stack.

Now my Galaxy Note has only 2GB of RAM so my layer limit is actually rather low compared to what one would do in Photoshop on a PC or Windows tablet.  Regardless the technique still works out at its base level and just means I have to smoosh more work per layer and lower my expectations.  Also I have far less brushes at my disposal and need to dick around with what brushes Artflow and Sketchbook Pro do have for quick texture or to just keeping things from being too uniformed.

The following posts are reverse chronological order (new to old) as I continue my fight to get the technique down.  Though I'm still rather slow and meticulous at this as with most things I do.

And a bonus because I like the one with construction lines on it: