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
Category: Drawing
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.
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.
Colour Drop Procreate
In Procreate ‘Colour Drop’ is the equivalent of the paint bucket tool in Photoshop. It’s a ‘hidden’ tool activated by a drag and drop from the current colour swatch, which is always there in the top right-hand corner of the Procreate drawing screen.
Compared to pen on paper, I’m struggling to control my line when drawing on an iPad, even with a Paperlike screen protector (although after three or four months that has worn fairly smooth). For the lettering I tried Procreate’s method where you pause at the end of a line, curve or ellipse. Procreate works out what you were trying to draw and turns it into a smooth, editable vector version.
My unaided line is too wobbly, the vector version to smooth but I’m sure I’ll hit on a ‘Goldilocks Zone’ version which will be just right!