Sketcher’s block? No problem, I’ll just draw my current favorite subject in his cool new hat.

Okay, this might be the dumbest thing I’ve ever posted. Yet another cool iPad painting app (collect them all!), called Sketch Club, includes a brush that lets you paint with words. I apologize.

It’s a Father’s Day two-fer! Yesterday it was Dad in the early 70s; this is him today. Actually, he doesn’t look all that different, aside from the white hair, and the plastic surgery he had to look more like a cartoon character.

Incidentally, I did half of this drawing of my dad in semi-darkness, until I heard a familiar voice in my head. “Put some light on the subject!”

Hey, remember when I was painting Bob Hope? Well, I decided to take my lackluster work-in-progress into the iPad, where I proceeded to basically repaint the whole thing in a really cool app called Procreate. Although it’s been around for a while, Procreate was overhauled around the time the new iPad was released this year. What really sets it apart from other painting apps is it’s complete lack of lag while drawing, and some really nice naturalistic brushes that blend and smudge realistically.