Rowan Dodds

Artist, illustrator, tool maker

[Rowan Dodds @RowanDodds]

Was able to spend some time at the State Gallery today working on my Waterhouse study … even with being kicked out by a fire alarm.

Translating a masters oil painting full of lost edges to a sketch using Da Vinci’s drawing tools is challenging, but a great learning exercise.

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Managed to get my hands on a few lovely and large macaw feathers. These should make great #quills 🪶

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The new year break has given me lots of time & motivation to work on my current passion project - the Real-ink modern ink tool recreations I've been creating for Procreate and Photoshop over the last few years.

It's fun getting lost in the 100s of brushes and doing final tweaks.

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Very proud to be able to reveal my latest artwork, a 700x900mm (27.5x35.4") portrait of Laurence Percy Fricker, commissioned by his grandson.

It feels meaningful to help families memorialise loved ones like this, and it’s always a joy to learn about their life & journey.

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Monarto Safari Park

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Sketching with smooth vector brushes in Adobe Fresco on iPad

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@ezekielartt Lovely textures

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@dead_seagull_ Lovely colours

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Sketching while watching Downsizing (which is surprisingly good) … but also thinking how tasty those little people would look to the rest of the food chain 🦅

#digitalbrushes #fresco #ipadart #eagle #downsizing #tastysnack #realinkdigital

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Playing with a new Folded Ruling Pen vector brush for Adobe Fresco

#digitalbrush #realinkdigital #vectorbrush #adobefresco #foldedrulingpen #rulingpen #handmaderulingpen #calligraphy #digitalcalligraphy #logodesign #handwriting #art #drawing #sketch @realink_project

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Abandoned farmhouse sketch. Playing around with a new digital fountain pen recreation for Adobe Fresco. This one is based on a fude-tip fountain pen and creates scalable vector artwork.

#digitalbrush #fountainpen #fudetip #fudetipfountainpen #frescobrush @realink_project

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Playing with some new vector brushes prototypes in Fresco on iPad

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Enjoying playing with some new pencils

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Hey! I'm Rowan and this is my work

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Hey! I'm baku and this is my work. 🤍

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Retouching for drink driving campaign, The Sideways Theory

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A few fun things from this year. A lot of work I can't show as the projects haven't been released yet

#artvsartist2024 #artvsartist #artvsartistchallenge #artvsartist24 #artvsartistchallenge2024

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Artwork signing prior to mounting and framing

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One of my favourite projects this year was the opportunity to create a large scale archival piece of my Tiger and Butterfly artwork 🦋 🐅 It’s on a slightly metallic base that adds a gorgeous depth to the colours - something you really have to see in person to appreciate.

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Christmas was fun but very tiring, so it was lovely to sit down and relax with the Real-ink digital brush prototypes, which are coming along nicely

@realink_project #procreatebrushes #photoshopbrushes