Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Light the Candles (Digital Drawing)

A couple of days ago, I used the Brushes app on my iPad to make this drawing of a menorah for Chanukah. The Brushes app captures a stroke-by-stroke video as you draw. And if plan ahead a little bit, it is possible to use that feature to create a little bit of animation. In this case, I drew the menorah, the candles, and the background: but no flames on the candles. At the end, I added the flames, one at a time so they would appear to light up in the stroke-by-stroke video. Then I added some highlights to suggest candlelight. Here is how the drawing looked when I was finished. (I posted the stroke-by-stroke video here yesterday, if you want to see the candles light up.)

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