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Another digital art piece done using the Android App - Serious Paint  on a tablet. This time I was trying out different brushes - pencil , soft shader , and blend, and varying the brush diameter. I used the Save function to save the work-in-progress at different stages this time, as shown below. I must say the Blend brush result looks like blending charcoal with my finger. Pencil sketch outline Beginning color shading Final piece I used a rubber tip stylus and at times my finger. Sometimes, I wish the stylus was more sensitive and it didn't drag and stick on the screen as much.

Here is a digital art of a cat(!) painted on an HP Touchpad running Android Jelly Bean using this nice free app - Serious Paint  and a cheap rubber tip stylus. The Serious Paint app looks similar to another Android app for painting - Infinite Painter but it is much more stable; Infinite Painter keeps crashing all the time to the point that you can't do anything worthwhile.

The Android 2.3 Gingerbread menu icons have a standard look and feel to them, according to the Android Menu Icons Design Guide at  http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/icon_design_menu.html . It is possible to use Inkscape to create menu icons for Android as illustrated in the steps below. Create and setup the document Run Inkscape . Select File | Document Properties . The Document Properties dialog box appears . In the Width and Height fields, type in the largest menu icon hdpi size e.g. 72 pixels. Close the dialog box. Use the Create Rectangles and Squares (F4) command and place a square on the page to serve as the recommended bounding box 48x48 pixels for the icon. Select the rectangle. Change the Width and Height to 48 pixels. Select Object | Align and Distribute . The Align and Distribute pane appears . Set the Align Relative to Page . Click on the Center to Vertical Axis and Center to Horizontal Axis buttons.  Select Layer | L...