Thankyou to everyone who helped with initial play testing for me because...
Waterwheel is now available on Google Play! For $5 AUS.
In the hope that this can help offset the costs of repairing our room where the ceiling so kindly fell in, this is an app that has been developed to do the following:
Build a digital version of your watercolour paint collection
Explore colour mixing on an interactive wheel
Compare pigments and paint properties
Experiment without wasting paint
Learn colour relationships through hands-on discovery
Partly, I built it because I wanted a better way to understand my own set of colours and what counted as warm or cool from the various manufacturers.
Waterwheel is part colour wheel, part palette manager, and part learning tool for watercolour artists. I've got weird things in it like the lists of compounds that create fugitive colours, a database of the most common watercolour manufacturers and their offerings, and all sorts of things. I've also emulated a Claude Glass in it.
Can't drop the cash? That's fine - if folks reblog I'd very much appreciate it.
And yeah, uh, our ceiling literally did fall in...
💌 Interested in what our themes are all about? Lets have a look at them!
Future with You: an Amy Rose fanzine is themed around tarot cards and the four seasons.
Each of the fortune card suits is linked with a season: 💥New Year Fortune, ⚡Spring Lightning, 🔥Summer Fire, 💧Autumn Water, and 💫Winter Rings.
Each suit also has a Hero and Dark reading.
💌 Theme & Content Info
⇃ Explore each theme further under the cut! ⇂
💥 New Year Fortune (Act 1 & 2)
Act 1 - Lunar New Year (Jan 29th)
A half-chapter opening the zine with themes of community celebration and bringing good luck for the future.
Act 2 - Solar New Year (Dec 31st)
A half-chapter closing the zine with themes of personal celebration and leaving behind the past.
⚡ Spring Lightning
Flashes of inspiration for a bold decision.
The light of truth zipping through the air, reaching others with lightning speed! But its power can be dangerous and destructive too.
🌕 Hero
Greater insight, giving you a moment of inspiration, and getting right to the point.
🌑 Dark
Warnings of being too rash or not taking other people's feelings into account.
🔥 Summer Fire
Fiery passion and a burning desire to act.
Warmth and light energize you to follow your heart and do great things. The fire that burns brightest, burns briefest. When kept poorly it can burn out of control.
🌕 Hero
Encourages your ambitions and helps you make your plans before taking action.
🌑 Dark
Warnings of being reckless. Ask yourself if you really know what you're trying to do.
💧 Autumn Water
Our hopes, our dreams, our emotions, ebbing and flowing like the sea.
If adrift in your relationships, find guidance and chart a course.
Realize your dreams in their reflective waters. But don't dive too deep!
🌕 Hero
Insights into your relationships, or trying to make some sense of your wildest dreams.
🌑 Dark
Warnings of getting lost in your fantasies. Listen to that little voice in your heart!
💫 Winter Rings
The golden earthly things of fortunes and personal well-being.
Reflections of your health, your career, or your partner. But being too self-centered can lead to greedy, selfish decisions.
🌕 Hero
A bright shining career, health, and personal well-being.
🌑 Dark
Warnings of greed, selfish decisions, or ignoring your health.
💌 Promo art by @superemeralds, @summers-art & @firbetmakes
💌 Let's see what's in the cards for me ♡ @sthzinecenter @soniceventzone @zine-scene @zinefeed @anizines @zineapps @all-zine-apps @open-zines
I've been calling the app I use to draw all of my digital art "the free Sketches app on Android" because I use it on an Android phone, and the homepage icon looks like this.
All it says under the simple pen against a white background is "Sketches" without any other names or identifiers.
However, when I opened it the other day I paid enough attention to see that it actually says its full name the first time you run it after having it closed for awhile.
I didn't want to keep being vague about the name, because I know there are other people like me who (for whatever reasons, we all have different situations) can't justify buying and/or subscribing to a digital drawing program or app and are always looking for a free one to allow them to draw. I know I always pay close attention to the exact name and features when another artist or writer mentions a free program they use and get frustrated when they just say "that one, I'm sure you all know it" or "the thing with the icon," so I'd like to share the same details I seek out with anyone who wants them.
If you're one of those people, Tayasui Sketches is available on at least Android and may or may not be available on other mobile platforms. Here's my relevant knowledge and thoughts about Tayasui Sketches.
This program is largely free of fees, subscriptions, and/or ads. It has the one-time cost for its pro upgrade, still image ads you have to scroll past in your sketch library, and the occasional prompt to buy its pro version if you try to use pro features. It may have other ads that play here and there, but they're so rare that they're not memorable to be and I can't be sure what -- if anything -- triggers them to happen.
It's also fairly easy to intuit what goes where and which buttons do what in areas where the initial tutorial/help menu falls short. Developing my own tricks for it and ways of using it has felt natural, for the most part, and it's a big part of why I stick with this app even when I can't use the pro version.
Another reason is the array of tools it gives free users. Not being able to use layers has been frustrating sometimes, and I sometimes look longingly at the small "more tools available in pro" banner in the tool table, but what I can and do use is great for my style of art. Being able to use painterly brushes has helped me refine my art style a lot, the pen brush makes my handwriting and lineart look much more legible than when I draw or write notes on paper, and the text, smudge, and lasso tools have seen more use than I'd expected when I started.
I especially love the options to change the texture and color of the canvas itself, and how the size and opacity sliders for almost all the brushes/tools are so easy to adjust. Being able to save and export my sketches has made sharing my art a lot easier, too.
It's not a perfect program, those most likely don't exist and I'm sure this one has flaws I haven't even noticed, but overall it's great for beginners and good for people who can't get/use a paid app. I like Tayasui Sketches a lot.
