iPad Pro Share Your Drawings with iPad Pro + Apple Pencil

[FairyCatInPink]

I just did my friends' cat portrait
"Portraits of the Cats" series ; Bon.
Procreate/working time 2.5 hours.
Black cats are difficult to draw/photograph, but fun to challenge.

 

[Night Spring]

I've been using my iPad Pro (12.9") for a while for drawing some science t-shirts (I sell them in various webs). As a student I don't get much time for this but here are some of the most recent ones:

Text is added afterwards with Pixelmator for Mac. I know my technique is not very good right now, but I think it's improving (slowly).

These are too funny! I especially love the irrational one.

 

[thirdeyeopen666]

Two works in progress:

 

[rews]

Your illustrations are beautiful! Could you share your process next time? I wonder what you do step by step to get to this beautiful image.

This is awesome! Would make an excellent T-shirt print.

I can't get adobe draw to cooperate at all. I'm not at all used to a vector workflow so it just ends up looking a bit crappy. I see how hyper detail seems to work well though. How on earth do you get line work that doesn't appear lumpy when it connects to other bits of line work?

Thanks! I'll try to document my process with drawing in Adobe draw at the weekend showing how i work from a sketch in my sketchbook or Adobe Sketch, to the layers in abobe draw and then the finished illustration. Perhaps with a video if i can figure out a way to not make it boring/longwinded. It is pretty straight forward and more less exactly (save for a few extra features and more precise adjustments) how i work in Adobe Illustrator with a Wacom, except i have the luxury of switching to a mouse if i need to, and of course more than the 10 layers that Adobe Draw limits you to.

Thanks again for the kind words, much appreciated

 

[mixel]

I just did my friends' cat portrait
"Portraits of the Cats" series ; Bon.
Procreate/working time 2.5 hours.
Black cats are difficult to draw/photograph, but fun to challenge.

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Haha, this is my favourite cat portrait so far! So cute and surprised looking

 

[FairyCatInPink]

Haha, this is my favourite cat portrait so far! So cute and surprised looking

Bon is such a cute cat, curious face and big round eyes

 

[FairyCatInPink]

Playing with Adobe Draw, this doodle took me about 1.5 hours.
Adobe Draw/Repix

 

[jeremiah256]

This is one of the few threads on this forum where I wish there was an 'Upvote All' option. Envious of the talent.

 

[Andy847]

My Latest on Procreate, took me 3 nights, and taken from an image from the internet. I was inspired from Rews on the forum here and his drawing of a naked woman leaning in a car window. I even tried to mimic his style of shading which I really like. Using lighter and darker shades or hue of a certain color. I like how it turned out. I especially liked the Hair Brush in Procreate. It gave me a chance to use it and drawing people is not really my strong point, but getting better at it.

Playing with Adobe Draw, this doodle took me about 1.5 hours.
Adobe Draw/Repix

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I used Adobe draw before, but I started the above drawing in that program, but for some reason I couldn't get the Fill tool to work. I kept getting an "X" with a paper clip, which I take it means I couldn't use it, but don't know for the life of me how to get it to work. I looked on the internet and it said to use the select tool and use it to fill with the color you want. Didn't work for me. Do you happen to know how to get that to work in Adobe Draw? I ended up importing my drawing into Procreate and finished everything on that app.

 

[artistdsm]

I've been a painter and graphic designer for over 20 years now. Here is my first foray into digital art. Have had my 9.7" pro for a couple of months now and did this drawing with PaintStorm.

 

[AlliFlowers]

I've been a painter and graphic designer for over 20 years now. Here is my first foray into digital art. Have had my 9.7" pro for a couple of months now and did this drawing with PaintStorm.

That's incredible! I had to look at it 4 times before I realized that it wasn't a photograph!

 

[artistdsm]

That's incredible! I had to look at it 4 times before I realized that it wasn't a photograph!

Thanks! I normally paintings/drawings lean toward impressionism but every now and then I go back to realism just to make sure I can still do it.

 

[MaloCS]

Here's my latest...

Title: ZM1
Medium: Procreate, iPad Pro, Apple Pencil
Size: 24"x12" @ 300 dpi

Click here for a larger view >>>

 

[Andy847]

Two works in progress:
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I love your landscapes, are you doing those from Reference images or just from your head.

 

[thirdeyeopen666]

I love your landscapes, are you doing those from Reference images or just from your head.

Not even so much from my head... I'm just shamelessly ripping off techniques from Bob Ross. I don't use any reference image. I just kinda start going. I'm glad you like them and thanks for the compliment!

 

[stevemiller]

Haven't done one in a while and I felt like procrastinating for a bit.

 

[RadioGaGa1984]

Damn so many talented artists. I wish I could draw. The only thing I can draw is flies.

 

[Smeaton1724]

Here's my latest...

Title: ZM1
Medium: Procreate, iPad Pro, Apple Pencil
Size: 24"x12" @ 300 dpi

Click here for a larger view >>>

Absolutely love this kind of thing, out of interest did you/do you think without the Apple pencil this was achievable on older iPad's like the Air 2, iPad 4 etc?

 

[MaloCS]

Absolutely love this kind of thing, out of interest did you/do you think without the Apple pencil this was achievable on older iPad's like the Air 2, iPad 4 etc?

Thanks for the compliments!

For my style of drawing/painting the non Pro versions of the iPads just didn't work for me. Maybe it was the "fat" stylus that ruined the experience but I never really used the iPad for artwork. I still did things the "old fashioned" way by drawing traditionally, scanning and finishing in Illustrator.

Since the introduction of the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil I have found myself using Illustrator less and less while I draw/paint on my iPad Pro more and more. The iPad pro handles my style of drawing/painting very well as I do not encounter the lag I used to get on the non Pro versions of iPad. I am simply awestruck by this device and it's companion stylus.

I'm sure with some practice you would be able to achieve the same effect on an earlier iPad. I was just too impatient to try and learn a new style of drawing/painting. A few years ago, after several failed attempts with various apps and stylus combinations, I decided that I would wait until the tech caught up to me instead of me learning a whole new style, technique and process. I can't wait to see what this device can do in a few years when it's time to upgrade the iPad pro and Apple Pencil. I'm very excited about the future of these devices, especially if Procreate realizes the potential of vector painting and create an app that can compete with Adobe Draw. I'd love to free myself from Adobe and it's absurd subscription policy and prices.

 

[Braedren]

Here are some of my latest drawings using Procreate on the iPad Pro.

Full size for all of these is 7350 x 4350

 

[sixxmum]

I still can't decide how much of the jitter I am getting is from having a tremor and from having a glass screen protector on the iPad. Any additional thoughts on the screen protector wobble issue?

 

[Andy847]

Braedren, I love all of your pics, but Wow, that top one is amazing! Very nice style to your artwork.

 

[stevemiller]

Here are some of my latest drawings using Procreate on the iPad Pro.

Full size for all of these is 7350 x 4350

How do you add text to your procreate pieces? Btw this stuff is off the charts amazing!

 

[mixel]

Absolutely love this kind of thing, out of interest did you/do you think without the Apple pencil this was achievable on older iPad's like the Air 2, iPad 4 etc?

MaloCS sort of said the same.. And ill go further. I'm a huuuuge Apple Pencil fan, but there isn't a single piece of art in this thread which *technically* couldn't have been achieved with another pressure sensitive stylus.. Whether it'd be as pleasant and straightforward for the artists in question is another matter.

There are artists pumping out photorealistic and amazing painterly art with a mouse, or in MS Paint, haha. I think the best thing about the AP is how immediate it is and how close it is to what we've used traditionally, but if I wasn't a really art focused iPad user id still be happy with my Jot Touch 4, even if my output was slower and more frustrating.

Best place to look is the procreate forums - there as some artists on there who are finger painting and others using dumb styluses. :O and yet others using things like the Wacom creative stylus and loving it - despite others finding them a pain in the butt. Tools don't make the artist, I guess - and different peoples workflows & styles are more or less compatible with different things.

Saying that I wouldn't trade my Apple Pencil for any of the other styluses at all - the tilt sensing is really damn good and not otherwise available outside of desktop tablets.

I still can't decide how much of the jitter I am getting is from having a tremor and from having a glass screen protector on the iPad. Any additional thoughts on the screen protector wobble issue?

I definitely had a extra jitter from my glass protector. Not from any sort of interference though. Even if it is because of tremors, without the tooth of a Matte protector there's nothing holding the nib in place, so your lines can't easily be as steady, if your style is a more small, slow deliberate, detailed one at least. For fast swooping (painterly?) styles it wouldn't be a problem but for cross hatching and stuff it was highly unpleasant. Glass didn't feel like drawing on any surface you'd choose to draw on naturally.

 

[Braedren]

How do you add text to your procreate pieces? Btw this stuff is off the charts amazing!

Thanks Steve!

I lay out type in Adobe Comp and take a screen capture then bring it into Procreate as a layer using that as a foundation for drawing the type. I'm not a type designer, so I lean on those that know what they are doing, lol. Here are some that I have done freehand or I guess more in my personal handwriting style.

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Braedren, I love all of your pics, but Wow, that top one is amazing! Very nice style to your artwork.

Thanks Andy!

The card game Magic the Gathering is where I am drawing most of my inspiration at the moment. I am creating these to sell on inked gaming as playmats, basically a large mousepad to protect the condition of your cards from rough table surfaces. They are 24 inches by 14 inches at full size and come out really great on the fabric.