Beetsandink - Beets And Ink

A new piece of hardware was gifted to me recently, a Samsung Note 2, which means mobile digital painting with an actual stylus instead of the rubber-finger-pen!  I’m usually tethered to Photoshop so this is nice to expand my reach.  I had already paid for Sketchbook Pro, that other time I had Android for a while, but between now and then they changed their pricing model to a yearly subscription so I had to pony up again.  Which means I get the desktop version now, which notably has some frame animation tools I look forward to exploring to see what it has and what it doesn’t.  I’m guessing GIMP probably has a similar frame tool to photoshop wouldn’t it.  I used GIMP 9 or so years ago to make a handful of animated gifs and haven’t had a lot of time on it since, but I don’t recall there being a time slider, a rather necessary tool.  Anyways...

 The first image is just a mockup, but the construction of the final relied on buckets of hot glue and a single giant branch that broke off of a sycamore tree during an ice storm.  there was enough sap in the twigs that they were pliable, and you can get an object like that to hold its shape if you bind it next to another object, so paper tape was used to pair the twigs.  the thick part of the branch was sliced using a belt saw, that's the name right?

what's that drawing app that used to be so popular on Facebook?