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More Misty Mountains

Had another of those, I should draw something but not sure what moments and before I lost time and motivation, I decided to do a quick tutorial. Chose one of James Julier’s shorter videos for a nice art warm up 😊

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Matinee at the Opera - Die Fledermaus

Had to look that up to make sure I spelt it right 😊

Had a lovely afternoon last year attending the Die Fledermaus operetta by Johann Strauss II. I’m getting old I guess, but I prefer the matinee, you can go home for dinner 😊. They updated the libretto and costumes a bit in this edition and as always, pictures are permitted at the final bows. A nice, fun opera.

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Beach Waves

Sometimes I feel like doing something creative, but I don’t feel a strong spark of inspiration. So I’ll occasionally choose a tutorial to follow. It’s a way to just follow along without pressure, but also practice and learn. A win win 😁

This is James Julier’s Paint a Beach Wave Wash tutorial.

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Misty Mountains

Skipping over the October drawings since they were all for Inktober, which I’ve already posted 😊

Definitely was on a Joel binge. This is Joel Create’s Painting Cloudy Mountains tutorial. Can never have too much practice doing mountains 🏔️ 😊

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Ship on the Ocean

Having recently “discovered” him, it seems I went on a short Joel Create binge 😊

Tried his Boat Painting tutorial.

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Cherry Tree on a Cliff

Having had fun with his banana, I decided to give another of his short tutorials a try. Found the cherry blossom painting by Joel Create.

Cherry blossoms are pretty 🌸

Don’t remember the details, but probably used default and Joel’s included brushes. I do wish there was a way to see what brushes are used in each painting in Procreate, hopefully it’ll be a feature in the future 😊

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Banana 🍌

While Julier remains my favourite, I was in the mood to try some other YouTube tutorials. Found Joel Create’s channel and he had this colourful banana tutorial that was nice and short, a perfect way to try out his style of instruction. I think it came out a very nice banana 😊

Used his included brushes.

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Autumn Colours

It was September and I felt like drawing some fall colours, fortunately, James Julier has a few of them. This is his Fall Autumn Leaves tutorial.

Used the default brushes.

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Winter Reflections

Dabbling in some watercolour with a simple landscape. Used a photo on my Flickr as inspiration, winter trees reflected in a pond.

Still need to work on my watercolour technique, to be honest, I like to organize my art in Procreate by Stacks, and I needed a second piece to create a Bardot Watercolour Brush stack so I painted this 😊

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Eyes 👀

Some more practice with eyes. Or I should say, the right eye. For some reason I wasn’t feeling the left eye, so ended up doing a couple of right eyes 😊

Used some random google pictures as reference and the regular default pencil brush for this quick study. Slightly better on getting the expression right, more practice is always good.

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Ferry Doodles - Other Passengers

Wasn’t super sure what to draw, but didn’t feel like drawing my hand again, so tried some very quick sketching of my fellow passengers. Approximately five minutes each, just quick doodles to pass the time 😊

Used the default pencil brushes.

Looks like I didn’t draw much in August, makes sense, the summer weather encourages outdoor activities more than sitting on the couch 😊.

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Human Figure, but in Colour

Decided to add colour to my previous human study. Proportions are still hard and probably more noticeable in colour 😊

Used the Bardot pastel brushes.

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More Human Figures

Continuing to practice some human figures, a man as seen from the back.

Proportions are hard 😊

Drawn using a random google image as reference and the default pencil brushes.

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New Year’s Eve Dinner

This year I wasn’t up to preparing a very complicated meal, went relatively simple. Made a traditional cotechino with mashed potatoes and lentils. I took a shortcut with dessert, store bought chocolate pie and some grapes to finish off. It’s the time with family that matters after all 😊.

Happy New Year.

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En Garde

A bit of an action shot, a fencer. 🤺

Was googling around for ideas and saw a picture of a fencer and decided to use it as a reference. A good excuse to keep avoiding faces, a fencing mask 😁

Used the Bardot Pastel brushes.

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Colour, but in Shades of Grey

Wanted to try something slightly different, used the Bardot pastels to ‘colour’ the hand, but in black and white 😊

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Another Hand

More practice with hands. Found a picture on google images for reference and used the default pencil brushes.