Drawn with Linux MyPaint.
art - tm - linux
sketch_l3
Drawn with Linux MyPaint.
Brushes are bit like softsynths in music -- they are presets that someone worked out with an idea in mind but they can be tweaked for a different idea.
Am not sure what the "alien egg" texture was intended for originally but I doubt it was an alien egg. That required using several other brushes in combination.
sketch_l2 (one layer)
Drawn with Linux MyPaint. An alternative version has a foreground layer with some organic machinery. Still mulling that one over. Am kind of enjoying the "fake painting" status of this. Digital painting tools result in a jpeg resembling a plate in a modernist art textbook, circumventing the messy production phase.
sketch_l1 (pencil textures)
drawn with GIMP (trying out photographically "soft" brushes in pencil mode, where they are crunched down to pixel art)
sketch_k9
Made with Linux MyPaint.
Thanks to all for the nice feedback I've been getting on these Linux experiments.
I recently installed another program called Krita (hat tip HMK) and have been playing around with it. The brushes are a bit more exotic but I'm still working through brush properties and combinations in MyPaint and GIMP.