This fox turned out to be a bit too wide so I squashed it horizontally in Photoshop. I’ll soon be on to the lesson in Introduction to Procreate that tells me how to do this within the program.
Slightly Foxed
Month: January 2023
Drawing Assist
Theoretically you could cut the time you spend drawing portrait in Procreate by half by activating ’Drawing assist’ mode, in this case everything that I drew on the right half of the screen was mirrored on the left. In reality faces are rarely perfectly symmetrical so you’d keep turning off drawing assist to add any asymmetrical features.
As this is practice on my Introduction to Procreate course, I stayed in ‘Drawing assist’ for the whole drawing.
Ficus
My thanks to Beth and Ian who ran the Art Tour: Drawing from Observation at the Apple Store in Leeds on Thursday morning. We headed for Trinity Kitchen and settled down to draw using Procreate on the latest version of the iPad Pro. This was the central tree, I think that it’s a weeping fig, Ficus benjamina, with a ‘trunk’ of intertwined stems.
Botanical Palette
Some of the colours in my original Winsor & Newton watercolour box have been worn away to shrivelled husks so I’ve revamped the box with some replacements and some substitutions.
My aim is to make this a palette suitable for painting wild flowers, so, in addition to my regular cool and warm versions of red, yellow and blue, I’ve gone for a warm and cool violet along with Permanent Magenta.
There are probably slightly too many earthy brownish colours, so as I start to use the box I might put some of those on the substitute list and think about an olive green, an indigo or perhaps another yellow, either a gold or an acid yellow.
Cherry at the Hospice
The cherry trees surrounding the Hospice are all the same age and currently they’re being lopped back. Hopefully they’ll burst into blossom again, but we might have to wait until next year until they’ve fully recovered.
Trees at the Hospice
Trees and shrubs at the Prince of Wales Hospice: hawthorn, sycamore (?) and elder.
Moving On
Barbara’s brother John was transferred to the Prince of Wales Hospice on Halfpenny Lane, Pontefract, yesterday.
Cafe Society
I’ve had a lot of opportunities to draw people in cafes recently.
These were at Pinderfields, which is large and airy, so it’s possible to sketch people at the more distant tables without, I hope, them noticing.
Holdall
Drawn with a Fine Mitsubishi Uniball Eye, blacks inked in with a 1.0 mm Sakura Pigma Sensei.
Terrier in Tone
This started as a Staffordshire bull terrier but I kept adding more and more shaggy hair. I’m trying out Román García Mora’s suggestions for tonal drawing on an iPad, using his palette of four greys plus black and white in his Introduction to Procreate course.