Its the New Year on the Lunar Calendar! Happy New Year! So I have my annual lucky pot set up. The main features of the pot are bowl of rice, red pockets and fruits. A bowl of rice to represent food for the new year. Red pockets and coins obviously for financial stability. The Fruits, I don't know what the fruits are for. The lucky pot is the tradition I have always kept up and made sure to make one every year. The new clothes tradition... usually I just wear 1 new item of clothing. There are a lot of tradition for New Year, like firecrackers which is already banned and that is a bit depressing. Today, we are going to relatives to 拜年 which is just to visit for the New Year nothing special its like when you visit relatives at Christmas except you get a Red Pocket if you are single.
So another New Year, another start. I have been playing with a new app on the iPad called Brushes 3. Its a drawing/painting/sketching app which ever you want to call it. Its a fairly effective drawing app. It has layers like Photoshop, you can create your own brush, choose color, set transparency and all those stuff. So far there is one limitation I found, you only get make to 10 layers. I have created a couple of drawings with this app already almost 10. In the beginning because I was not used to not feeling the coarseness of the paper and pen (you know? The friction) so its difficult to find the spot I am working on. But on the 3rd or 4th painting my works looks better already.
Another feature of Brushes 3 app that trigger my creative brain to start a new YouTube/Web series which I call "Creating Art" - I am Cholesterol Mind and this is how I create Art. Ok. So what is this feature on Brushes App? It records the process of the drawing. So every stroke, eraser and layer manipulation are record, well it doesn't record you pressing undo which is good. Its a fascinating video to watch, from a blank white screen and slowly evolving to my fabulous artwork. I had some struggle trying to extract the video but in the end I had to purchase an app called "Display Recorder". It records the iPad screen. Then with some iMovie manipulation, and we have a video. I will be honest this first episode is very simple because it iMovie for iPad; I promise better video manipulation on later episodes. The first episode is Creating Southern Bell. I know its missing an "e" but Bell is really my original idea for this drawing. The best thing about watching these videos is that you will see my original concept and how it slowly evolves and turn into a different more beautiful product. So expect new episodes every Friday, I haven't figured out a time yet because I can't tell when I am free to upload but Friday is definitely the day for uploading. And now enjoy episode 1: Creating Southern Bell on my new The Cholesterol Mind Channel.
So thats it for today, I will be getting ready to go out.
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