Life Drawing on the iPad

Artists have always looked for new ways of making images and today's technology offers a whole range of exciting possibilities. This practical book shows you how an Apple iPad and stylus can transform the way you paint and draw the human figure. As an accessible and convenient device, the iPad can simulate the practical materials you know whilst discovering and exploring further possibilities to bring your subject and ideas to life. Combining the skills of rendering the human figure with the potential of the iPad, this book is a must-have for all artists new to this medium and all iPad owners keen to start painting the body. The book introduces the basic approaches of observational drawing and painting from the figure whilst guiding you through some of the many available apps, in particular Procreate, and explains how to start making images quickly and easily. It stresses the significance and use of layers, as well as selecting and adapting brushes, working with the palette, storing colour, styluses, saving, sending and sharing. It then suggests how to see and record the figure, focusing on measuring and proportion, tone, line drawing and colour. Illustrated examples explain what to look for in the figure and how to render it, offering practical advice in order to encourage dynamic individual development. Superbly illustrated with 169 illustrations.

Julian Vilarrubi trained at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the Royal Academy, London; he is an award-winning artist known for his landscape paintings in oils and acrylics. In recent years he has focused on working from the figure using an iPad. He lives in Brighton where he works in his studio, undertakes commissions and teaches drawing and painting.