Drawing Caricatures with an iPad: how? I learned: battery charging+drawing

Drawing caricatures with an iPad. I've tried it several times.

Battery Charging
The first thing you do is make sure your iPad battery is charged. You can link an iPad to a plugged in laptop but the iPad charges faster on a link to an electrical socket. If you see the almost empty battery the iPad is charging. (If you see the cable picture it is telling you that you need to connect a cable.)

It can take a while to get back to 100 per cent charged but you can start using the iPad whilst it is plugged in and charging. After two hours the iPad was 50 per cent charged.

Pencil Charging
If your pencil needs charging, you remove the cap and plug it into your iPad.

Drawing
You can choose the fineness of the line you want to draw by tapping on the picture of a fine line pencil or a broad paintbrush or something in between. Tap on black dot from the tiny palette.

Then tap on the circle of colour above the colour dots. Spin the circle clockwise to change the shade.

You can also lay the tip of your electronic pencil on it side - at a diagonal. Drag it along to create a wide shaded grey, like a watercolour wash.

I used it for fill in for face colour, and hair. The fine pencil was better for the edges of the lips, both the darker colour of the lips' outline and the skin edging the lips.


Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, caricaturist, illustrator, author and speaker.