It has been a very busy month! A month ago tomorrow I started a new job at a B2B publishing company. They have about 40 magazines and conference events. I am Digital Product Manager for the websites of three of their magazine brands. One of them is a 100 year old magazine that my dad, a Petroleum engineer, subscribed to his entire career. My other responsibility is Mobile Products across all of their brands.

One of my projects is putting their first magazine on an iPad app. While going through the iPad vendor selection process I started discovering all kinds of iPad apps. One of them was “Sketchbook Pro”. I downloaded the Adobe app but there was no comparison in the current versions. Sketchbook Pro has a large variety of brushes and Adobe does not. Surprising. I don’t know why Adobe would even bother publishing the current app.

Last Sunday I had some down time and I played with Sketchbook Pro. I was inspired by a blog I found from the Art Journal Caravan. The biggest downside of the app is that the illustrations will only export at 72 dpi. It is also limited to 6 layers, but when you know you are only playing (due to resolution limits) it kind of frees you up to work within the 6 layers. I found that by playing with opacity you can actually cover up any mistakes, similar to painting with oil or acrylics.

Anyway, since I’ve been too wiped out when I get home to do anything creative and my poor blog has been lonely I decided to share this little creation. I have not bought a stylus yet, so this was totally done with fingerpainting! Which gives you a total lack of control….and lends itself to this type of childish style.

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