Icing my left knee to avoid bruises on both my legs now. 🫠

ffs, 10 o'clock and there's still housework to be done, it never bloody ends

I was losing confidence trying to sketch on the phone but I saw a proper artist do a good way (rough sketch then make new layer to draw over it nicely). So I took that approach and modified it heavily based on what works for me.

It really helped to rough out very thick lines with a ‘artists crayon’, make a new layer and draw a bit more accurate with a small ‘brush’, then hide the first layer and go over the refined image again on a new one with a tinier ‘brush’ as a ‘pencil’. And then use that final good sketch as a guide to paint over and use effects. (Even if you paint over part of it you can hide and unhide or switch layers to quickly see a line again)

It also helps immensely to have streamlining turned up to 100 to get the control over the stylus similar to a real pencil.

Layers also make it easier to erase without wiping out everything in that area (that can be an issue as the undo tap only removes actions in the reverse order you did them).

It’s also super convenient to have the background as its own separate layer by default. That means I can set the background to bright green to easily see edges or any thin/missed spots, and at the end I can change it back to a nice colour or pattern. Rather than have to manually fill it in/paintbucket and risk messing with the details on the edges.

One very annoying thing is I’m unable to rest my little finger/side of hand on the phone to lightly ‘glide’ to draw a smooth line as in traditional art.

Even if I turned off touch for hands, the limited size of the screen makes it hard and the edge of the device bumps my hand. I can’t draw from my elbow as I’d prefer. This forces me to draw unsupported or rest my hand on the edge and draw from the wrist (causing wrist pain).

I’m not doing too badly though. Digital art has been a learning curve and you need to take different approaches but it’s been like a week of simple landscapes and I’m now making a little painting of Melbcat.

I'm at the point, again, of my regular re-watch of Star Trek:Voyager where as much as I consider Janeway a role model, I'm so bitterly disappointed that during filming Kate Mulgrew was absolutely horrible to Jeri Ryan and made her life very difficult on set.

My non-concession Myki has started charging me only $2.50 🤔 anyone have an explanation for this?

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