KaleidoScope: Our own gallery for members' art work, crafts and photographs.

Pandapaws

@scotslad I’m sure you friend and family love having them as gifts too. I think we can all be very self critical, 

Pandapaws

I haven’t been doing much art lately but wanted to do this as it’s getting near Valentine’s Day. I’m also having the black and white cat printed onto a mug for the first time, so I’m quite excited to see how it looks.

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I shall try to post this again 

durhamjaide2001

That's why the forum was created to find like minded people 

Pandapaws

@GLASSBACK Thank you ☺️ do you have any more pastel artwork to show us?

durhamjaide2001

Wow that's awesome is that a portrait of you 

Pandapaws

@scotslad well what I say is this is me! Like it or lump it 😂 no one needs to change who they are for others, just be yourself 

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@GLASSBACK WOW!!!! That’s amazing

Pandapaws

@glassback did you finish the black lab puppy and the fox? Would love to see them 

WelshBlue

Awesome work @Pandapaws ... I swear the eyes are following me ...
The work on the fur is brilliant.  Was it a 'smudging' technique ?
Thanks for your kind words ... I'm definitely a click click artist    

@scotslad ... sometimes we're our own worst critics, especially if like me you strive for 'perfection' ... but never see it because of those self doubts.  I must have seen tens of thousands of art works - trust me when I say yours are excellent.  Carving is an art and you've captured it.   First time painting ?  Imagine this time next year ...

@louise321 ... I think that is brilliant.  The colours, the images used ... the placement of those images.  It took my mind on a journey - what more can you ask for in an art piece.  Emotive is a word I'd use

Sandy_123

Lovely art both of you

WelshBlue

sorry @glassback ... Reese sneaked in whilst I was typing ... then again i type so slow the cast of a Hollywood Blockbuster could walk in and I wouldn't notice ...

that's an awesome piece mate.  The mouth especially captured really well. Great highlights and shading.
Very talented

Pandapaws

hi @WelshBlue thanks so much! Some of it is blending and smudging. I’ve got some new brushes that I need to play around with too

WelshBlue

Pandapaws said:

hi @WelshBlue thanks so much! Some of it is blending and smudging. I’ve got some new brushes that I need to play around with too

You've got the blending off to a 'T' ... I'm rubbish with 'real life' drawing.  Ends up looking like a really freaky, creepy taxidermy project.  Human or animal.
Do you use Krita, PS or another software ?

This was made after I was accosted, and verbally abused for walking down the street wearing Doc Martens, a Harrington Jacket and stay press trousers.   Racist ignorance really does flow both ways sometimes



Original Skins were about the music and style.  Not hate

Pandapaws

@WelshBlue that’s a fantastic piece of artwork! Im so sorry that you’ve had to deal with ignorant people! You’ve produced something beautiful out of something negative 

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@WelshBlue sorry I pressed too quickly! I do all my art on my iPad using procreate. It’s a great app! I bought some brushes form another artist that she created that I’m going to try out 

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@Teddybear12 thank you for always being so kind 

WelshBlue

@Pandapaws ... thanks.  I always try and take positives where I can.  People are people and not always nice with it.  Fortunately this happened a few years ago before I was 'wonky' so was able to stick up for myself.

Just the ignorance that gets to me.  I'm Welsh.  The only people we hate is each other, from other areas of Wales lol   

If I remember correctly Procreate takes .abr brushes ... I don't know if this link is any use.  I get all my brushes from here https://www.brusheezy.com/free/abr?content-type-brushes=true

To convert https://abrmate.software.informer.com/1.1/ 

Pandapaws

@WelshBlue I also don’t like ignorant people either. As for the brushes on Procreate I have loads of them. I bought some form this artist who paints cats so they were appropriate for what I wanted to use them for. I have lots of brushes that I don’t use. But thank you for the link that’s really kind of you. 

Here’s a ginger kitty that sadly died recently, I was heartbroken for her after reading her post so I did my version of her cat. I hope to be able to do some more better cats once I’ve mastered the new brushes