#I’m trying to learn procreate

[elyasdoodles]

📝 🖼️

[doctorsiren]

he’s mad she ratted him out

[i-really-like-phrogs]

For the next tutorial, Lydia Deetz won by a whopping 80% on the community poll! That’s more than fair, of course. After all- what’s a Toon-juice without his gothy little pal?

Surprisingly, I sometimes find Lydia harder to draw than Beejtlejuice since she’s got a LOT of little details- but she becomes easier the more you draw her! (It often takes me at least three or four tries before I feel like I got her correct, bur she’s definitely a loving challenge for me 😂💪)

[45-armadillos]

Tank Girl Nat

[raiiny-bay]

kiddos!

(used this old render as a ref)

[diamondzart]

Tucker the nerd-cat. Commission for @tw-nicoless

[cherry-pop-soda]

words from your heart is an empty room by death cab for cutie

[green-tea-lemonade]

Your SolNep stuff is SO cute km SOBBIIIINNNGGFGFJSJWNSB

Jahkjdhkjhs thanks anon!!! Been stuck shipping these two dummies since 2012/2013 when I was first ever introduced to Homestuck and had lots of fun different rps from stuff like Cherubplay. Every Sollux I ever had in any rp was a gem. They only made me grow stronger 💚💛

[domokunrainbowkinz]

Tried a new art style and I guess will is gonna be my guinea pig from now on 🥹

[ragrfisk]

I’ve tried so many ways to learn how to draw environments and no matter what they end up looking loose and flat. I tried copying photos and there was always just SO MUCH I couldn’t focus and process what I was seeing enough to even break it down into shapes.

I started *talking out loud* to myself about what I wanted where, and going through and googling every feature. Using techniques I had seen in tutorials. For whatever reason, it helped. So here are the first environment sketches I’ve ever done. 🙇🏼‍♀️

They’re not great, but this is a huge step for me.

[hackneyededits]

Sheva my beloved 💜

[quandongcrumble]

Did a fan art of the scrungly tissue facebook and TikTok are obsessed over at the moment. This is Wisp, and she has börthöle problems that I can absolutely relate to. Queen of the sore tummy girlies.

[spiced-chai-latte]

More oc stuff <3

[m-aximumjoy]

heheheheheheh

[capsyst]

Here’s a breakdown of my animation.

Once I created the cave set in 3D, I retextured all of the blocks to be a wireframe so I could more easily keep the proportions correct as the camera moved through the scene. I began with a simple box person body. Not only did this help me make sure the proportions were correct but the different angles and sides of the character helped me eventually keep the characters features in the right places later. It’s very rough, but it was a good indication that I was on the right track.

Then began the tedious process of refining the animation. I did a new pass over the original animation with all the features of the character. It’s more detailed, but it’s just as rough in a lot of ways. I wasn’t trying to ensure elements were consistent frame to frame, so you can see a lot of the linework is very wobbly and inconsistent.

Once that was done I went back and did a cleanup phase. This helped smooth out all those inconsistencies and I worked on making sure the animation was smooth and flowed nicely. This became the basis for the final inks and color.

When I’d gotten far enough into working on the scene I went back to the 3D model and rendered it out in multiple passes. I did a flat lighting pass which you see here, and then a shadow pass. I combined the two in Premiere, added some color adjustments and then rendered it out to be used as the background for the final product.

I imported the finished rendered background into Procreate Dreams and began the final coloring. I’d already previously decided on the desaturated colors that would make them fit in this cave environment, so coloring was actually a breeze.

The final two elements that really brought it all together was a shadow layer and a glow layer for the torch. The shadow layer was tricky, but it definitely helps make it seem like the character is interacting with the environment.

As previously mentioned I thought I was going to import this into Procreate and animate it there since I like the Animation Assist tool in Procreate more than I do with how Dreams works. But ultimately because so much of this animation was tied to the movement of the camera I ended up animating ALL of this in Procreate Dream.

I’m really proud of my work here. If there’s anything you wanna learn more about how I worked or anything please feel free to ask, I’d be more than happy to talk about the process more!

[crobiii]

Here’s a little sound-based villain guy I’ve been working on, literally have done nothing character wise but this is what he looks like! (For now at least lmao)

Also one I tried to shade and I honestly can’t tell if it’s better or worse