-
Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – iColorama Procedural: Studies of a Brush Tip
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art video tutorial for our viewing pleasure. This time Jobe shares with us some really great brush tips in iColorama. Take it away Jerry… iColorama retails for $2.99/£1.99 and you can download it here “I created a piece in iColorama the other day that used a variety of techniques. It started simply – just a background and a single dab with a brush tip on a mask. These kinds of works, the ones that use variations on a single theme, are valuable to teach these multiple techniques. So here’s a 10-minute lesson on how I came up with this work, which…
-
Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – An Edgy Discussion with Jerry Jobe
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our reading and viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes a look at art of creating lines/edges within iPad art. Read Jobe’s thoughts about this critical subject (foreword by Joanne Carter). Take it away Jerry… “Those of us who came into artistic endeavours late, like me, find ourselves using photos to create our art. Of course, artists in traditional mediums might use photos also, as a reference, but that’s not how I use them. Artists that have been trained in traditional mediums are used to sketching out a work and getting the lines to look pretty much like what…
-
Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – iColorama: Brush Tips #2
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our reading and viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes another look at the app iColorama and offers some very useful brush tips – if you missed Part 1 of this series, please go here. Read Jobe’s thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). Take it away Jerry… iColorama retails for $2.99/£2.29 and you can download it here. “Last time I went over the Colorize brushes, which (for the most part) use assigned colors to paint. I even showed you how to paint with a photo as your brush tip. This time we will…
-
Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – iColorama: Brush Tips #1
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our reading and viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes another look at the app iColorama and offers some very useful brush tips. Read Jobe’s thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). Take it away Jerry… iColorama retails for $2.99/£2.29 and you can download it here. “A few weeks ago, in a conversation about brushes in iColorama, I was asked, “Is there a resource that describes exactly what each function does and how to use it?” My response was, “No. I have several tutorials on Brush settings – one on Artist, one on Plane…
-
Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – iColorama Cloning: From The Mundane To The Surreal
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our reading and viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes a look at the latest update to popular mobile art imaging app, iColorama. Read his thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). Take it away Jerry… iColorama retails for $2.99/£1.99 and you can download it here. “Once again, a new release of iColorama adds art tools that further the reach of this feature-packed art app. The latest release brings the Clone Brush, Light leak textures, and a few other tweaks. I’m going to be concentrating on the Clone Brush in this tutorial. Why use…
-
Mobile Art – A Stream of Consciousness – iColorama and Procreate – by Carolyn Hall Young
A Stream of Consciousness in literature means to emulate the passage of thought through your mind without any inhibitors.The idea being that deeper patterns of order develop and emerge. Virgina Woolf used the stream of conciousness technique significantly in her work. In her novel, Mrs Dalloway, Woolf’s aim was to give readers the impression of being inside the mind of the character – an internal view, illuminating the plot. Carolyn Hall Young has created this mobile art portrait using the same technique but in artform. As this video plays you will see how Young’s fragmentary and impressionistic responses flow through the portrait. What is fascinating to me is the complex…
-
Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – iColorama Texture Masking
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our viewing pleasure. This time Jobe has created a video to explain more about texture masking in the app, iColorama. (foreword by Joanne Carter). Take it away Jerry… iColorama retails for $2.99/£2.99 and you can download it here. “Here’s a technique that may or may not interest you. As stated in the video, textures are usually blended into an image. That means that some of the color of the texture and some of the luminosity of the texture are combined with the pixels of the underlying image. But what do you do if you like the pattern of…
-
Adobe’s PaintCan: A Nifty Addition to Beginner Paint Apps
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our reading and viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes a look at the app Adobe’s PaintCan app. Read his thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). Take it away Jerry… PaintCan is free and you can download it here “Painting apps can take several different forms. There are the auto-painting apps, that apply the brush to the canvas in a specific, software-driven way. Glaze, Brushstroke and the AutoPainter series are among the auto-painting apps I’ve covered. There are those that allow you to “trace” photos, but the user completely controls the brush strokes…
-
Mobile Photography / Art – Three Years of Tutorials: A Recap, an Assembly Feature, and an iColorama Procedural
Huge thanks to Jerry Jobe on his Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial Third Year Writing Anniversary. We have loved and enjoyed every single one of Jobe’s tutorials and we know that you do too. This week, Jobe does something a little different, take a look…(foreword by Joanne Carter). “On November 7, 2012, I published my first tutorial on Hipstamatic. As usual, on my anniversary, I like to take a look back. But there’s more to this article than a walk down memory lane. There’s a feature currently in beta for Assembly that I’d like to show you, and an iColorama procedural on how to create a multicolored water color painting…
-
Mobile Photography/Art Tutorial – Brushstroke Part 2: Canvas the Area
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our reading and viewing pleasure. This week we have published Part 2 of Jobe’s two part series on the app Brushstroke. If you missed Part 1, Please go here. Read his thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). Brushstroke retails for $3.99/£2.99 and you can download it here “In part 1 of my article on Brushstroke, I covered the painting and color presets. Part two covers the finishing touches: adding texture with the underlying Canvas; Adjusting the painting; and adding a signature to your work. The image I’ll be using is a portrait…