Bus sketch'es 1.2.3.4.5.

[eighty+]

Hi Jean hope you enjoyed you visit , sorry I missed you at Starbucks but then

looking at that lot must be waiting for service as the table's are bare but then

they've got no hands and can't go anywhere as no feet what you would

call a captive adeauice ? Yeah ----E/S

[eighty+]

Hi looking at that last one I could call it Floods at Starbucks then would'nt
have to give them any feet

gunna have a coffee and bisquits after this 1st 5 looking at Starbucks

made think of coffee Yeah

[eighty+]

right had coffee had some Jamacia cake very sticky but nice ok

2nd 5 go go go

[eighty+]

3rd 5 ok

[eighty+]

last one ok ----E/S

[pat1940]

Eighty, what fantastic sketches, I like your very colorful gal on the swing also, what talent you have to look at these people on the bus and be able to draw them that fast, you must take a lot of bus rides my friend

[eighty+]

blimey Pat you where quick off the mark was just dozing off , well its as you know we both keep bashing them out so the practice is doing us both good as
we've both improved you more than I as you can use all the tools while I'm
stuck in the 1st grade but I'm gunna have a bash at them layer's
sink or swim Yeah ok look after your self Pat regards E+

[D Akey]

Nice stuff Mr. Ploos. A flood of slushy frozen Moca. First sign of the ice age, or at least that Summer's over and out.

I have a question about your pages. They have shadows in the various corners to the lower and upper left and some across a whole edge, meaning they're not consistent. It looks as if you have scanned pages of real world drawings that weren't sitting flat on the scanner glass. Is that so or are you using ArtRage, and if so why would it do that?

Metallic creates a light source, but if it's a default setting, wouldn't it have the shadow in the same place from picture to picture?

Very nice drawings though.

[eighty+]

Hi Mac yes using ArtRage thought the shadows was the printer as when the sketch pad A5 is on the glass you can't close the lid thought the light must be getting in so I bung a towel over it?? does the printer use ink when scaning
to computer as it says ink is low but I've never printed anything ???
as for real World drawings only got the three master's which I copied by proping
up beside the screen and then draw free hand thats Sargent Holbien and
Rubens ok would like to know what u reckon the answer is OK

[D Akey]

Hmmm. Well first off I don't have an iPad. But if the drawing is done in ArtRage I have no idea where it is picking that shadow up. I would go into the Forum section "iPad Technical" to ask that one.

A scanner does not use toner or ink to scan so far as I know. I have had a problem with my ancient all-in-one printer/scanner/photocopier: the dread Epson Stylus CX3200

I never use that as a copier or printer because the ink is so expensive and I have no interest in color printing from home at this point. So I use it as a scanner only and print on a different laser printer or I go to professional printers.

I did have a problem with it though because those stinkers at Epson rigged it to where if the ink is low, it doesn't even scan. And there's no reason for that other than that they want to sell lots and lots of ink. I heard that is where they make their money and why they can sell printers so cheap --

Right greedy substance abusive ink dealin' highwaymen of the gremlin persuasion they are. and I say that with all the love in me 'art for the cunning little rapscallions. The ink in my case had merely dried up in the first place. So I thought it unfair that they would force me to keep buying ink so as to use the scanner. Took me a while to ferret out the problem too.

Anyway, as a jury rigged test, I bit the bullet and bought some new ink and installed the cartridges so it would register and taped up the air holes in the ink so it wouldn't dry out. So far it's worked (a couple years or so). It was cheaper than buying a new scanner. And I just tell my computer to default to the laser printer for printing.

As to using a towel to hold down the pic to the glass for scanning. It's not about light seeping in like with camera film though it looks like it might be that. It's about the light from the scanner making the pass not reflecting back to the sensor owing to the paper being curved away.

So the solution would be to cut some chip board or something to the size of the glass so when you hold it all down, it pushes every corner and edge down all even like for the scanner to read it.

Best thing to do in addition is cut your A5 paper down ahead of time or just use standard 8.5 x 11 typewriter sheets from the get go if that fits completely.

Hope that helps some. Time to throw in the towel, lad. Into the washer that is. But as any good Galactic Hitchhiker knows, it's always good to know where your towel is. Oh aye.