#Sketched it traditionally then colored it in on procreate

[iunpackmyadjectives]

I love her with my whole soul

[aztrosist666]

DANGER‼️‼️

alt version / closeup smile

[pien-art]

-FAQ-

Hello! I've gained a whole bunch of followers lately and I've been getting a lot of questions about commissions, what my setup is, what brushes I use, etc, so I thought I'd make a post about it to answer everyone's questions at once !

Putting them under the cut <3

Commissions:

Commission prices are listed in my pinned post. You can send me a private message about your commission idea and we can get to talking :) It is helpful to have enough references handy (character, outfit, descriptions etc)

I am generally a fast drawer but I also have a job and a physical disability so there might be moments I can't work on your commission. But that is never longer than a few days at most.

Payment is upfront, the full amount and via paypal only. I know this might seem a bit scary but unfortunately there are a lot of people who end up not paying for commissions and I want to avoid that.

During the process I will send you frequent updates and will ask for input, to see if it is going in the direction you want. You can ask for changes during the sketching progress but once I've started on line-art and coloring, no big changes will happen. (You can for example ask for a different color for a shirt etc, but not for a different prop or pose or expression)

When it is completed, I will send the drawing to you via email. The drawing will remain mine and it is not to be sold or profited of by the person who commissioned me. If the commission is for something commercial/for selling, that needs to be discussed. I prefer to do drawings only for personal use!

For more questions, my dms/asks are open :)

How long have I been doing digital art:

I've been drawing digitally for about 5 years now i think? But before that I've been drawing and painting traditionally literally since the moment I could pick up a pencil.

Set-up:

It's just me and my ipad and apple pencil laying on my bed. I wouldn't even know where to begin for those whole multi-monitor/screen setups ;-; I draw only with Procreate

Brushes:

I tend to play with different brushes from time to time to get different textures, but generally i use the same few for most of my drawings/styles. My favorite one is the Peppermint Brush, for sketching. I use it in every drawing i make! I always sketch with it, and often do the line-art with it as well! And it makes for a nice textured brush for rendering as well! (i used it for a lot of rendering of the armor in this drawing)

The (procreate) brushes i use a lot are

for medieval style: inking - Ink Bleed (for line-art) artistic - Quoll (for coloring)

for general style: calligraphy - Chalk (coloring/rendering) sketching - Peppermint (line-art/sketching)

for realism: calligraphy - Shale Brush (full rendering) Also using the shale brush for smudging and erasing when drawing realistic

for lineart: smooth pencil from this pack by Heygiudi

How/why do you choose a base color:

I tend to look at a few different things when deciding on a base color/color palette.

the overall color of the reference pic

the color i associate with who or what i am drawing

the feeling/vibe i want to give off with that drawing

color has a BIG impact on the vibe of a drawing, so it is something i keep in mind when im drawing.

Using a color as a base to start, helps a lot with my drawing process. It helps me pick out other colors so they match better. It helps me get light/dark values right. And the chalk brush i use, has gaps between the strokes, so the base color will always come through a little. Having the same color come through in the entire drawing, helps pull all the colors together if that makes sense? I always start with a solid base color when i am painting traditionally as well!

Advice:

PRACTICE!!! just keep drawing and practice. I know this is such generic advice but truly practice is The Way. Learn from other artists but don't compare yourself to them. Everyone's artistic journey is different and there's no "good" or "bad". And most importantly make sure that you have fun when you're making stuff :3

I also learn a lot by studying art I admire and love. Figuring out what it is I like about it. (for example, the line thickness or the shapes or texture etc), and try to incorporate that in my own style in a way that is not directly copying or stealing.

[renonv]

Hi! I love your storytelling and you have a real comedic talent :) and I'm curious is your digital or traditional then scanned? I just love the way it looks.

Hi!! Thank you so much omg 😭😭 I’m really happy you think so!!

But as far as the question, most of the time I draw digitally, this Romano and the Italy bros b day shoot drawings were at first a sketchbook doodle that I then scanned (I use notes app on iPhone) and colored via Procreate, but it’s a bit more rare for me to do so. The Romano drawing is straight up just a scan I colored digitally, and the birthday shoot was more of a sketch sketch (if that makes sense 💀) that I then lined and colored digitally

I do one day wanna go back to traditionally lining and coloring (I miss markers and watercolors sm) but that takes much longer than digital 🤧

[abugeatbugworld]

"Yesssssss!"

2022 - digital (sketched the base traditionally and then colored in procreate) 2023 - traditional with pencil, ink, alcohol markers 1998 - computer animated movie screencap aka not mine in the slightest

[shyhandart]

Hey I really love your artwork, it looks like it was drawn traditionally and I was wondering how you're able to achieve that aesthetic. Do you use any specific programs or is it actually drawn on paper?

Hello!!! Thank you SO much.

I use procreate!

The first step i use is to put a paper texture over the entire background, and set that layer to multiply. All other layers are drawn beneath this one.

I use the peppermint brush in the sketching category for just about everything. Its a pencil brush i with a really nice texture to it.

Ive found that the trick to getting digital art to look traditional, is to use the same techniques i use when i do traditional art. Which means i often use an eraser at a lowered opacity instead of the undo tool, and i never have my pencil size set to more than 10% (tho i fiddled with the brush size settings so that may be larger or smaller for you) and its opacity is like 67% percent

This includes coloring. insert peter griffin death pose. It really does make a difference tho. Doing tiny little circles like you would traditional colored pencil gives it little gaps of less color that really makes it look real

As for my line work, im not sure this adds to the traditional illusion, but i duplicate that layer at set it to linear burn. Gausian blur the linear burn layer 2% and clipping mask a warm and saturated color

Also, i dont actually do ink. I just clean my sketch

Also also!! Above the multiply paper texture (sorry i lied earlier) if you do a fully white overlay layer at 20-22% opacity. If you add 167-169% noise, set the setting to multi and turn off additive, it gives the texture of noise without changing your colors!!

[celerydays]

What program do you use to make your fanart? Is it on just an average ipad or is there special ones just for art? Your work looks so good! I’m wanting to try digital art but unsure where to start :)

I use the Procreate app for all of my digital art! ✨

It should be available on any iPad 💗 I personally invested for my birthday this past year and I have the 12.9" M2 iPad Pro, but I'll even occasionally use my fiancé's iPad Mini and the Procreate app on there in a pinch since it's so small and portable~

The only real difference is that performance might suffer a bit, the larger an art piece is or how many layers your work has, depending on the iPad. But if you're just starting out, I probably wouldn't find that to be much of an issue!

(More rambling about digital art origins under cut ✨)

There's definitely a learning curve, especially if you're more used to drawing traditionally! It can help to still sketch traditionally (if that's what you're used to) and then upload a photo of your drawing to your tablet to work over digitally (this is personally how I started out and I used to just make little digital doodles by tracing and coloring over my traditional sketches.)

A small doodle from my sketchbook that I traced and colored digitally, from around 2011-2012, I think? Uh, happy Doctor Who day today!

My very first digital art set up was actually a tiny Wacom Bamboo tablet where the drawing space probably wasn't even bigger than my hand, and a super old bootleg version of Photoshop CS2 which was already a version that was 7 years too old for the time (CS5/CS6 was the most updated version by the time I had started on digital art).

Everyone else in my class had the bigger/fancier/professional-grade Wacom Intuos and I remember my professor taking one look at my baby tablet and just going like "how tf are you drawing on that" lmao.

But still! Experimenting and doing little exercises can get you a long way – I would say to approach it with similar exercises you would do as if you were learning to draw traditionally for the first time.

Shade in circles/nail down basic lighting. Gesture drawings. Random scribbles. Just things that help you get used to the feel of digital art!

Test out different textures you can achieve with one brush, then expand it to see how other different types of brushes can behave and add to the experience.

For proof that even just one brush and not the best/most updated tools can work: these are two of my first more "serious" digital art projects I did in college (with my tiny tablet and mega outdated version of Photoshop) and 99% of the rendering was just done with the "soft airbrush" brush.

But even then, we were taught to create our base sketches traditionally and upload them to the program to work over.

Then one day I decided I wanted to just be able to also do all my sketches digitally and just worked on getting used to sketching straight on my digital program. It was then that besides the all-powerful undo-redo buttons, I started to really make use of the transform/canvas flip/liquify features which I don't think I can live without now lol. (Caveat: I'm now a little too dependent on those features so I keep a traditional sketchbook to do silly doodles in occasionally to exercise my hand because sketching traditionally without the buffer of those digital tools is pretty difficult for me now lol.)

That was a little long-winded, I'm so sorry hahaha. I hope something in this rambling could be taken as somewhat helpful for starting out on digital art!! 💗

[jaysarenice]

Hello there!

My name is Jay, or Soot, and I am an artist and writer! My current plans here are to post whatever I’m hyperfixated on at the moment. Currently, it’s Smallishbeans and the Life Series. Here’s a little extra info about me! :3

I have ADHD, PTSD, Depression, and GAD

My favorite animals are cats and blue jays

I do both traditional and digital art. For digital art I use an iPad Pro, stylus and Procreate to draw. I often sketch things traditionally and then line and color them digitally.

I love to game! My current favorite games are: Minecraft Story Mode, Minecraft, Genshin Impact, Honkai Star Rail, and Cookie Run Kingdom.

My birthday is August 11!

I thinks that’s all! Thank you for reading!

[heartofcupid]

🎀 — 🍮 cupid’s blog, art & archive ☆

✩ hello ! :-D

i’m cupid! but you can also call me jenny, jenn or angel! 💗 i like to draw! i’m mexican & 16 years old! 🐈‍⬛ i’m also bisexual & gender-fluid :^D ! i like ralph macchio, the karate kid (1984—1989), cobra kai, labyrinth (1986), literature, batman, spider-man, phantom of the opera, cats, the color pink & cute things! 💭💓

i also go by she / they & neopronouns love / doll ! :-D 💕

p.s. 💭 i like a lottt of things but you can also check out my carrd linked in my bio! it’s a bit old & needs to be updated since it has been over a year but it does have a lot of basic information i hope can be of use! once i update it, i will make sure it’s all up to date! 🩷

welcome to my blog! 🎧💕

☆ — art

i like to draw and practice art, i’m currently trying to learn digital art and have mainly drawn only traditionally but i enjoy both! i’m trying my best to practice a lot & will take any advice + critique given :-D!!!! 💗💗

top two photos —

first photo: a screenshot of my homepage for the app Procreate showing multiple drawings & sketches done on the app. Note: most are experimental pieces of art! so yeah some look a little wonky, it’s all just for fun :-D

second photo: art of my original character, Michelle, legs painted over because i cant draw legs and i just didn’t finish drawing them so i covered what was drawn of the legs at the end.

bottom 2 — sketches of my original character laelia :-)

last art! — (self portrait of myself! :-D)

☆ — (sadly i’m on doing this post on mobile so i can only add so many photos here, so for now here are some main ones that i have never uploaded until now! 💗⭐️🌛)

the following paragraphs of this post are not as important since it’s not art or really discusses much about anything else that’s really critical for my blog here but it is more information about me and what i like, so it’ll explain any other posts i might have on here & helps to know what to except! so this part is optional to read:^). 🌷

☆ music

my favorite music!! i don’t listen to music too much & would like to expand my music taste throughout all genres (rap, punk, goth, pop, cumbia, rock, electro, anything !)

music artists i like ! i’ll add them cuz i have to be honest, there’s no point of faking my music taste lol.

☆ — my spotify! for fun lol

cravity; bts; hatsune miku; the smiths; tv girl; my chemical romance; oliva rodrigo; radiohead; the cure; paramore; baby metal; alex g; blur; david bowie; plug plug; Procrastinación 1 Yo 0; tommy february6; strawberry switchblade; luis miguel, pinkpantheress; beabadoobee; & some more! but i’m mainly a casual listener to most / don’t know that many songs from each artist but enough of their hit songs lol!

☆ films & shows.

i watch a lot of films and shows but i’m not like … a cinephile? ofc not srsly ofc but maybe as a joke to say i’m like super deep into movies & shows i could be with outside side sometimes stopping me but it’s all good!! i’ve watched some shows, mainly with family so it does take me time to finish them if i don’t watch them on my own time. i also watch a handful of films so i hope this rundown of favorite, recently watched and want to watch films & shows can give another overview of myself :-D

shows

(completed)—mob psycho; breaking bad; the bear; aggretsuko; saiki k; Neon Genesis Evangelion; Card Captor Sakura; Great Pretender; Derry Girls; and more ^^

(want to watch)—yo soy betty, la fea; NANA; Death Note; kimi ni todoke; Kamisama Kiss; princess jellyfish; and some more ^^

films

side note, here’s my letterboxd lol.

all time favorite moviesss & obsessions: the karate kid trilogy; labyrinth (1986); spider-man into the spiderverse & across the spiderverse; Batman (2022); Pride & Prejudice (2005); edward scissorhands; Howls Moving Castle; and more! i watch a lot of movies but some favs on the top of my head 💗

☆ — i try to watch and enjoy as many different films as i can, i welcome any film, show and music recommendations!

i’ll try also to maybe update this post as much as i can to make sure that while it’s up, it’s also up to date!

i tend to make mistakes in my writing & while typing a lot, i also make mistakes while reading so if i send, type, write or mistake anything else while reading & writing on this blog or any other social media account i have i apologize & any correction suggestions/clarifications are welcomed!!

p.s. i might also do a follow up post to be linked to this post to show more art or just art here will be added / changed just incase! 💭🩷🐈‍⬛🐈

☆ 🤍

i don’t reblog that much, and im not active here as i am twitter and instagram lol but i try my best to interact as much as i can! i hope i can use this as an archive for my art & things i like while making friends & anything else lol but thank u for reading (^^ 🌷

☆ — ending song for fun lol

[bbutterflies]

can u pls walk me through ur drawing process???? I love ur art so much and rly want to know how u make it look so good (also roughly how much time does it take you to make one?)

ANON TYSM!!!!! this is soooo sweet and kind and very much needed after a long day 💗🩷💕💞💖

I’m not sure the best way to answer this so please please ask follow ups if I don’t do a good job explaining! my colored sketches take me 1-2 hours and the fully rendered pieces usually take me 12+ hours in total over a few days 🫠 I’d say sketch & lines are a good 1/3-1/2 the time but it’s majority coloring and rendering. I’m definitely not the most efficient lol. I also feel like I have a really solid anatomy background (I’m a physical therapist so took a million anatomy courses and my job involves a lot of studying the way people look and move)

I always start with really simple ovals & rectangles as a base and then just build off of there? everyone kinda has their own way to break things down but I feel like mine is pretty standard. I spend a lot of time doing gesture drawing when I’m stuck too to work on anatomy and perspective and breaking things down to the basic shapes. and then detail from there! I use references about half the time I’d say for poses? but sometimes I just can see the pose clearly enough in my head and go from there. but references are SO SO SO helpful for complex poses.

It also took me forever to find brushes I like but I use procreate and I’m always trying new sketch brushes. I modified gesinski ink for when I line pieces. and I use the base pandani for all my rendering! I learned art traditionally and used to do a lot of painting in high school and I feel like that translated over to how I do digital art. I do pretty much all my rendering on 1 layer (selection tool is my savior) and treat it a lot like blending paint.

and I post wips sometimes!! all tagged on my blog as wip in various stages of my drawing process! but if you want like a few different stages of one piece I might be able to dig up some old screenshots? here’s one example of some sketches in progress for a piece I’m working on right now

but honestly just practice!!! if you dig back through my blog to last november you’ll see some of the first art I posted and honestly I feel like I’ve gotten a million times better by just drawing more. I don’t have a lot of free time anymore but I’m at least sketching most days.

pls ask more if I did not help you, this was genuinely such a sweet and kind ask 🥹🥹🥹🥹

[reveriememory]

Candy Addict

More about this piece & character below! Bonus speedpaint!

My first time trying out Procreate! I like it, but I do prefer CSP.

I had fun with the colors, staying vibrant and shading with saturated hue shift instead of desaturating. I went with a cuter look in clothes, since I hardly ever do this sort of style anymore. While this was meant to be a human version of a cartoon character, I may adopt this design to be a personal character instead so I can have more creative liberty... more like an inspired character?

- Process -

So the workflow here is a little different than what I would usually do. I let myself be really messy with the sketch and strictly followed a pattern. What I mean by that is; if I’m in the lining phase, I stay lining before I move on. Normally I’d just jump around. I also attempted gradient mapping instead, so I would shade with B&W first to practice. I was definitely still a little shy with adding too much black.

- Close-Ups -

Okay, these are just my favorites spots. I mean, look at that ribbon! It’s consistent, and the skin compression(?) is perfectly plump! At least I think it looks amazing. I went crazy with details. Traditionally, I have an easier time since it’s all physical details I add, but digitally? I’m very limited with what I can use and can really only use what I create or find compared to buying stuff at a craft store. Too much access drives me insane.

Also, that face is just perfect for a profile picture! Possibly one of my favorites! I love how I did the skin rendering in general. Clothes though… a little rough but not terrible.

- Bonus -

Procreate recorded the first chunk of this, which is mainly just the character. That’s 23 minutes but I exported to 30 second one. It also says I spent 24 hours on the canvas…

The background and effects were done through Clip, which I did not save a recording of. I do wish Clip had canvas information like in Procreate. Anyways, enjoy!

[jupiterispyink]

I would literally kill to learn some more about your process and how you get that traditional media look to come through in your digital art… I’ve been trying to replicate the look of markers/ink on a digital canvas for so long and can never make it look right. Yours looks so natural and adds so much texture. Are you willing to share tips?

Omg yeah absolutely! I use procreate and a soft sketch pencil brush for my lines and then color with gesinski ink. It’s a default brush procreate has but I also have kolormarc by truegritsupplies (I think they have the pens for other programs too like csp?) but those are really nice as well.

But I’m sure there’s other nice alternatives aside from that, for other programs you might have to look around.

The pens can be tricky to use at first and you really do have to plan out your strokes like you do traditionally to get the added effect of those overlapping marker lines, sometimes you have to mess with opacity. But once you get the hang of it the texture looks great!

[ot3]

Hey I love ur art and especially your art process! Do you have any current WIPs you're able/willing to share

Thank you!! I haven't been drawing a ton lately because I've been hating everything I touch but I'll stick a couple things under the cut.

here's some thumbs for the batch of comic pages I'm working on

And here are some drawings where I printed out sketches I did in procreate to practice coloring traditionally. only the bottom one is finished

[uglynicc]

Can I ask what kind of tablet(?) you use? I mostly draw traditionally and am interested in digital art. Your art is really impressive <3

Hi anon! Aw thank you for the kind words! 🥹✨

I still do 99% of my sketches traditionally then just take a pic of the pencil sketch with my phone, then add layers to the phone pic for lines, colors, etc after uploading it to my tablet lol. I've never been good at digital sketching.

My tablet is just a boring ol' Samsung one, probably almost 10 years old now, nothing fancy or art-making-specific. I use a Bamboo brand stylus pen that has a replaceable mesh-covered drawing tip.

To complete my Basic Art Bitch™️ ensemble, I use the free version of Medibang.

(I will say if you want to use Procreate or other programs, I don't think they're Android compatible, so you'd maybe have to shell out for 🍎 products there...)

Hope this helps!

[shynetyme06]

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cracks knuckles okay

1. how would you describe your art style? uhhhhhhhh, maybe "safe" is the word rn. whenever I think of my art style, what comes to mind is just how little I've been pushing things with it. I wanna change that ;D

2. what's your favorite thing about your style? I realize I like to use semi-realistic proportions, its cool how comfortable I've gotten with drawing faces and bodies

3. what's your least favorite thing about your style? It's so static man. same thing I said for the first question, I don't think anything really looks bad, but it just is lacking in creativity in comparison to the older art that should be looking worse than what I do now. I prefer my older stuff ;D (looking at you inktobertale2021.. where did it all go wrong)

4. favorite thing to draw? regular ol people. human characters are def more in my comfort zone, which explains why I keep hitting skeletons with the humanization ray (also I prefer to draw feminine characters)

5. least favorite thing to draw? I can't even say I rlly dislike it cuz of how rarely I even do it, but I am procrastinating so hard on learning backgrounds..

6. warm colors or cool colors? cool colors are my fav, but i find it easier to work with warm ones (I used to put a cool overlay over all my warm toned drawings hgdhfg)

7. show us a WIP behold, the wip ever. this drawing... was supposed to be posted on august 2022. and then, it was supposed to be posted on dec 21st, dream and nightmares birthday. (atp if I do end up wanting to finish this idea again, I'll probably just scrap it and start over)

8. what's the most fun and least fun parts about your process? most fun is flat color and rendering. (though I rarely do the latter anymore) and for least fun, tbh a lot of the sketching part tends to be difficult for me, sometimes its cool tho

9. show us a finished piece alongside the original sketch example from when sketching was fun

10. how many different sketches do you usually have until your piece is finished? I think I do need to make more of at least thumbnail sketches tbh.. I usually just make one and keep editing it, trusting the process. (and that fails like 70% of the time. woww wonder why sketching isnt fun for me-) 11. show us the last thing you drew, be it a finished piece or a small doodle can this count,,

12. show us an old drawing first deltarune drawing. here's the redraw I later made of this :3 (also old hsgdhgf)

13. how long do you usually take one a piece? depends. I'll have like 276478923 wips started, and then I get a random idea that I just have to do right at that moment, and I'll get it done in like 1-4 hours. meanwhile old sketches start to rot and maybe if its lucky I'll revisit it before my motivation dies and my style is too different to wanna continue from where I left off 14. digital or traditional? digital all the way, i've gotten too dependent on the transform tool + liquefy ;D (and many other things tbh but I'd be here all day if I tried comparing them more jhdjdf)

15. if digital, what program do you use? procreate, the layouts on other drawing programs scare me

16. favorite media to work with when drawing traditionally pen on paper (am I understanding this right wdym media-)

17. what do you love getting compliments about? I like when people enjoy the humanizations I come up with, and also original designs in general 18. are you satisfied with the attention your art usually gets? hmmm yeah

19. how often do you draw? very often, I just don't have finished things to share most days

20. a piece from this year that you're really proud of :3

21. something you would like to improve on the dynamicness (well, the lack of it) of everything, as said before

22. what inspires you? Ink sans and a ton of creators in this fandom (also animated shows and movies, I love animation)

23. what's something you hope people notice when looking at your art? idk tbh, just notice it at all and I'm happy :>

[hotdrinkstudies]

what app/program do you use for your art? <3

All the line work for my art are done traditionally! I draw with a sketching pencil (B or 2B) on a medium surface drawing paper, and upload it to my phone with a scanning app.

I would use Procreate to clean up grains on the image and to add some color.