Arac.

A creature doodle..

Squirrel Skelly..

Hi folks,

Quick update on the calibration issue.. I've been investigating and it appears the contrast & brightness were set way too high on my monitor so basically all the work I had white balanced on Photoshop was out - plus there appeared to be a severe blue cast on many of the images.  I've now corrected all of the posts and hopefully, everything should be hunky dory now.

If anybody out there contrast/brightness corrects their scanned images I would seriously recommend checking a site like Lagom for help. This website has been incredibly helpful for tweaking my monitor.

Finally,

Todays drawing - a squirrel skeleton study from Kelvingrove..  

Calibration...

Hey folks,

Thought I'd write a wee post on something that just occurred to me the other day - monitor calibration.

Over the last few years, I've noticed differences in image quality: colour casts, contrast and brightness with my work viewed on friends and family's computers, phones & tablets. Most of it wasn't too bad but probably because the work I do now is high contrast, the differences are much more apparent.

I set up a couple of test images with "A" being basically what I see on my screen and "B" the same image across a bunch of tablets, phones, PC's and Macs.  The "A" images on my screen are very bright, almost white with very little cast. This is basically how the artwork itself looks in reality. The "B" images are just very, very off. - grrrr!

I've calibrated my monitor using the Windows8 tool and  have  begun correcting my images. Hopefully you guys should see the differences soon.

Most of my Flickr & website images have now been corrected if anybody wants a peep at what they should look like btw.

Blogger posts affected will be sorted asap aswell.

Gordon.  

Japanese Spider Crab.

A pencil drawing of the humungous Japanese Spider Crab from Kelvingrove gallery & Museum..

Stasis.

A re-worked portrait study..

Celo.

A pencil drawing of a relative from another time. She's pregnant in the original reference btw..