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iPad Pro Share Your Drawings with iPad Pro + Apple Pencil
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I use Procreate for all the illustration itself and will then do a little color adjustment work using a mix of Photoshop and Lightroom when I'm finished
You, sir, are a genius! Each and every one of those are wallpaper worthy! Thank you for sharing.
for the artists in this thread - what are some of the best ressources out there to learn how to draw and paint? your work is phenomenal!
I too have similar question.. some of the artwork is truly beautiful..
my kid is fond of digital drawings, I can share these resources with her.
Thanks! Really appreciate the kind words.
So the style and approach to some of these is gonna be a bit different to what I'm doing but these youtube channels are really solid for learning to do cool stuff in Procreate pretty quickly. And when you get a base of tricks going it's a lot easier to look at something and understand how you might approach it.
Beyond learning procreate specifically a lot of what I focus on in my work is mainly:
- the composition of things/objects/etc in a scene
- the the value composition (make sure you have well established low, mid, and high values and that the composition of them works and there's good contrast where you need it... for example, if you took an image you drew and made it grayscale it would still read well even without color)
- and strong color harmonies/color theory
If you can get a handle on those 3 things, it goes a really long way. Lots of great resources on all three topics are easy to google.
A lot of how I learned was basically trying to copy work I liked and through that I learned a lot about what makes cool art tick.
Hope that's helpful!
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It depends on the style. Teela Cunningham at every-tuesday.com has some great tutorials for watercolor and gouache styles. Her instructions are generally very detailed. I have done quite a few of her tutorials and really enjoy them. I’ve also purchased some of her classes and just haven’t had time to work through them yet (regular job, side gig, new puppy that I had no plans to get until the moment I picked her up off the side of the interstate) but I will do that eventually.
She also offers a free Procreate course. It’s lettering and florals but you learn about the tools, layers, and masks so even if the subject matter isn’t what you want to draw, you get a good background.
learn.every-tuesday.com
(Some people forget that you can pause the videos. They’re compressed for time’s sake. I watch a video without doing any of the work, then watch again, stopping the video after each step so I can do that step myself.)
She also offers a free Procreate course. It’s lettering and florals but you learn about the tools, layers, and masks so even if the subject matter isn’t what you want to draw, you get a good background.
Procreate for Beginners
The ultimate beginner’s course for beautiful Procreate artwork
(Some people forget that you can pause the videos. They’re compressed for time’s sake. I watch a video without doing any of the work, then watch again, stopping the video after each step so I can do that step myself.)
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I’ve downloaded the pictures to use as my wallpaper. Hope you don’t mind. Please let me know if you do. I’ll not use them.
Thank You
, will share this links with my daughter, she will like these.
Thanks for the replies! Just what I needed - Google and Youtube can be quite daunting when you don't know what to look for so this was great!
Old Faithful (Procreate / iPad Pro 2021 12.9)
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Nah. From what I understand if you're as heavy of a user as I am, they kinda chew through pencil tips and the matte screen protectors also wear out so they need to be replaced periodically plus they impact screen image quality. I've also never been bothered by the experience of drawing directly on the glass anyway so the tradeoffs don't seem worth it at all.
Thanks for answer. I had paperlike matte screen protector on iPad Pro 12.9 2020 but on M1 I am going without it as it frustrated me that the screen quality was worse. But I bought last year few spare tips so I do not care about that.
