Adobe Express
once more with feeling & animation
A fun use of Animate from Audio in Adobe Express, so you can hear my dulcet tones on this video. Also made use of the Caption Video too!
This animation doesn't have sound. It was made to showcase using grids with photos and animation in Adobe Express.
There is also no sound on this video! Sometimes I like peace and quiet.
This video should have had some Spring sounds, but it doesn't. Made for a video tutorial about using grids with photos and video and even more animation.
Jazzy music accompanies this Happy Birthday animation for a dear friend. All done in Adobe Express with Stock assets.
Moody music accompanies this musing on what has happened to summer.
Happy music for this piece as I was trying to give myself a talking to!
Groovy rock music to go with this grungy, glitching artwork all done in?? That's right, Adobe Express!!
Photoshop & Illustrator
you can never have too many blend modes or textures!
The Crow & Rainbow
If that's not a great name for a pub, my name's not Lady Jane! This was drawn in photoshop using selections and my shaky hand. For about four months I disliked this - a lot. Now, I really love it's wobblyness and imperfections.
Anyone For Tennis?
A combination piece, first using Illustrator to build my player in a stylised, blunt shape way. It was also the easiest way to make the wheel with all its spokes and then set the wheel camber. To add patterns, textures and play with blend modes my favourite has to be Photoshop. Of course the danger is that I find myself undecided and never finish a project because I'm never totally happy with the result.
Toucan Where One Can't
My absolute favourite project of the year so far. I used Photoshop for these toucans and Adobe Stock for tropical leaf shapes that I could trace. All the colours, brush textures and composition are my own results from experimenting. I have this printed as a photo tile that will be going up on my wall eventually - and the brush textures just call out to be touched, it looks so real.
You're An Odd Duck!
A second combination piece using Illustrator and then Photoshop. The pond elements and the frog are Adobe Stock assets. The duck I built in Illustrator; then the frog needed really big eyes and an big mouth, so I added those. I spent far too long building the scene with bulrushes, lilypads and ripples. Once in Photoshop I went bold with patterns, blend modes and brush textures.
Made With Human Intelligence
Beth Spencer started a little movement on Instagram with her "Made with human intelligence" badge, turning it into a DTIYS - Draw This In Your Style if you're not familiar with the acronym. Here's a link to the post, which also gives the hashtag to search all the other artists badges, and they are all worth a look. Such a creative variety to enjoy.
In my version I'm poking out my tongue and frowning with concentration. I also added "& sweat" because who doesn't sweat over the details and wonder if their art is good enough?