An arists blog.2
Thank you for the responses on the last blog. I can't find a way of answering individuals but I left a comment for the Kiwi Gentleman about which camera for motorsports. I think if anyone has a question, I will answer it in the next blog.In the last blog I showed an earl drawing called "Ugly Man." It was indeed modeled on an oil painting by another artist, which confused some people but others figured out.
In this blog the drawing will indicate why I use the name 17th Lancer. I served in the 17th/21st Lancers. This drawing was based on a print by the late Harry Payne. I did the drawing first, then later did it as a watercolour. I used paint in tubes, rather than the blocks of watercolour paint you can buy, but if you don't secure the cap properly, the paint in the tube will go solid. I wanted a more opaque finish which is why I used the tubes of paint.
So there are two images attached. The drawing and the watercolour. Someone couldn't open the image in the last blog. I've no idea why. It's a bit annoying I can't just upload the images from the computer. I'm putting links to one of three on line stores I have. This one is still under construction as it's taking time to upload all my work, but I have closed my Adobe account and uninstalled Photoshop (Adobe gave you a portfolio page). The reason being, I'm fed up paying a monthly subscription for something that no longer works well on the Windows 8 system I still have. In fact without Windows 10, I can't get the latest upgrades I'm paying for. Instead I bought Affinity Photo for a little over $50 and it's mine. If I want different upgrades, I can buy packages. It's much better in my opinion. I also use Coral Painter, a combination of the two allows me to produce a variety of digital art which is where I began as an artist.
Please feel free to comment and I will answer in the next blog.
I have finally ditched Adobe Photoshop. I'm still using Windows 8 but unless you are on Windows 10, you can't update either Photoshop or Lightroom, but you are still expected to pay the same never ending subscription. Instead I bought Affinity Photo for a little over $50. That's it, it's mine and in 5 months will have paid for itself. It is as good, if not better than Photoshop. Much of it works in a similar way, so if you're fed up with Adobe, get Affinity.
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You don't need to open up a new blog for each.
On blogs you can't answer each post directly, but you can put the person's name before your reply so they know it is to them you are replying
Affinity photo is similar in many ways to Photoshop but one thing I like to do when creating photoart is add a black line drawing over it, but couldn't do that with Affinity as it doesn't have filters, but I can do it in Painter and add it as a layer in Affinity photo to get the same effect. For normal photo editing, Affinity is just as good as Photoshop, but with the Adobe subscription you get Photoshop, and the portfolio, Behance link and Lightroom but you need Windows 10 and ideally 8MB RAM, but I can use Affininity on my old system with 4MB RAM.
See ZMountainman's blog as a good example of keeping the one topic on one blog