Tag: Domestika

In Search of Lost Courses

At last, it’s time to go back to my Domestika courses including Román García Mora’s Naturalist Animal Illustration with Procreate.

Unfortunately my courses have disappeared (apart from Mattias Adolfsson’s cartooning course) and the Domestika chat-bot can’t help me locate them.

Does anyone know how I can contact Domestika? There’s no contact form on my version of their website on Safari.

Found!

Hurrah! I’ve found them again. As the chat-bot suggested, for some reason I must have created a second Domestika account, using my Apple ID instead of my regular e-mail. I must take those chat-bots more seriously in future.

Procreate: Naturalist Illustration

goose sketch
‘Pencil’ sketch, drawn on Procreate using an Apple Pencil on an iPad Pro using Román’s ‘Graffito’ (‘graffiti’) brush.

Wet weather even for the ducks and geese this morning so I’m trying the process of drawing an animal in Procreate on an iPad Pro as suggested by Román García Mora in his Naturalist Animal Illustration with Procreate course on Domēstika.

His favourite style is what he calls ‘illuminated drawing’ in the tradition of 18th and 19th century natural history illustration where a line drawing of the animal was printed and the colour added by hand in watercolour, so you get the definition of an ink drawing and the luminosity of watercolour.

Drawing on a new layer in Procreat with Román’s ‘Entinado’ brush, using the pencil sketch as a guide. ‘Entinado’ means ‘stubborn’, perhaps referring to the regular quality of the line.
line drawing of goose
Line drawing.
Shadow layer (greyish light blue) and colour added with four of Román’s Procreate brushes.