So I found this great little app on iTunes called Procreate and have to say I love it! I've been looking for a great sketch/paint app that does it all and I have to say, right now, I'm deeply enamored. Layers, great brush customization, full range (well, fullish, anyway) of colors, patterns, plus blending tools...the list goes on.
I suppose it's too bad that my skill doesn't quite match its range....
Anyhow, this is a sketch I was fooling around with the other night, a take on a figure from a game called Smallworld. I can't say I know, well, really anything about the game, but the cover illustration of it on the issue of Game Trade Magazine I picked up had a version of this guy in it. Looked like some great characters and the gesture and action was great practice, both for my skill, and for my use of the app.
We've
all heard "try it, you'll like it" before, generally as kids, usually
in some relation to vegetables. So parents and babysitters everywhere
should be ecstatic when they see Tryit coming. Tryit is a character
devised for the packaging of Try It, You'll Like It, a new
spice rub from Peter Dockendorf, mixed specifically for the
vegetable-stubborn child in mind. For anyone unfamiliar with Pete, he's a
retired chef and up and coming blogger who also happens to make the
best general purpose hot sauce on the planet, Nogginflogger. I'm not sure what the long-term plans are for Try It, but you'll want to look for this character on the shelves.
Incidentally, this piece also happens to fit with this week's Illustration Friday theme, "Jump". (Those wings don't give Tryit real flight, but more of an extended hop. Think of a chicken rather than a dove.)
