Thursday 30 April 2020

Busy April in review

During the Covid 19 shelter-in-place in April 2020,  I was busy pushing my drawings through all the free art software I could find online, and creating 🎵YouTube playlists🎵.


"April 21, 2020"
Mayan Nouveau? --



To go to the original blog posting, click on the images below: or  click on the link in the "quotes" at the top of the images.





My composition 
in the "Art as Antibodies" contest for New Mexican artists






Lots of kaleidoscope-like pattern backgrounds
 made in LView Pro


I started the month by outlining gesture drawings in old newsprint pads, and making PNG files from them with transparent backgrounds.  The transparent PNG files are easy to collage in Photoshop Elements.




PNG files

Below are links to the best PNG files this month (with transparent backgrounds), and everyone is encouraged to make their own compositions.  Just click on the thumbnail image and download the larger file.

All 52 of the large PNG files on this blog post can be downloaded here in one zip file (19.83 MB).

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 Group PNG files
click image for larger PNG to download

"April 29, 2020 -- Croquis Cafe"










Also over 200 drawings from my book are available for download in high resolution at this link.




3D Printing

JJ from Quelab
3D printed a lithophane
 of one of my drawings



File Downloads


  • Download 3D files created in April:

  • The OBJ files can be imported and altered in SculptGL, a 3D program online:
altered in SculptGL


  • The FBX files are animation files made in Mixamo, and can be uploaded and viewed online in Creators 3D.





Free Softwares

These are on the free art softwares I used to push my drawings in April 2020:

Free online programs:
3D
*free, but registration required to use program


Free downloadable programs:
  • XnView (for organizing and editing image files)
  • LView Pro (downloaded image editing software -- key: right click exe file, and "run as administrator," license ID 486-434-128-136)


I also used Photoshop Elements extensively.  It is not free, but also not too expensive on Amazon.   I have not tried the Gimp, which is a free download, and is supposed to do a lot of the same things that Photoshop does. 

I also downloaded Blender 2.82a, with the anticipation of pushing my drawings even further through free 3D software.




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