Category: Digital illustration

  • Saturday evening art

    Saturday evening art

    Just some digital art practise, using affinity designer, with my Sony WH-1000XM4 serving as the subject: Here’s how it looked before fleshing out the details, and when it was just a pencil sketch: Also discovered a cool new artist today, Steve Thomas. I love his sense of color, clean vector art, composition and overall creativity.…

  • Quick Tutorial: Extracting ink lines from a scanned drawing using affinity photo?

    How to remove the background from an ink drawing? I prefer drawing on paper, especially with ink . The organic texture, the modulating lines and occasional speck of ink is deeply satisfying. When it comes to colouring a drawing watercolour on water-proof India ink is a viable option. However, in this post I’ll explore how…

  • The WFH (work from home) Series of Digital Art

    As the pandemic-induced “new-normal” forced a WFH situation for the foreseeable future, I created two additional pieces of art on the same vein as my earlier post. The second one saw me sitting in round-bottom-flask type of bubble, with WFH essentials (tech, snacks/junk food, music), with emails floating in and out of the narrow neck,…

  • Using a concept from theoretical computer science to make art

    Using a concept from theoretical computer science to make art

    I would like to share a recent experience of applying the travelling salesman problem to art. While meandering through the wilderness of the dark arts (Graphic Design) I stumbled upon this nondescript rabbit-hole of a workflow by Arjan Westerdiep, a programmer based in the Netherlands. He had used the TSP art algorithm (more on this…

  • From Paint Brushes to Bezier Curves

    From Paint Brushes to Bezier Curves

    Where I talk about how I discovered digital illustration, artists who inspire me, a little about my process and what lies ahead.