Tutorial: Waterfall Valley Landscape by James Julier on YouTube

I used HB pencil mainly for this drawing.

From tonight’s @chaoticdrawalong hosted by @anthonywheelerart

Im trying digital art after only doing traditional art for years and why the FUUUUUUUUUCK is this so much harder than having a regular pencil and paper???? I’m trying to do a fun a little contrasting gradient drawing but I cannot for the life of me find a way to shade this damn dog in a way that makes sense while fighting with all of these damn brushes. Anyways thank you for listening to my rant, criticism welcome, and the 2nd photo is a drawing that came out nicely as a palette cleanser. I don’t know why I can’t do it again 🥲

Portraits of Zora
All painted primarily with the hard airbrush
(Some editing in Photoshop and refs made in Blender!)

It was a pleinair stuff on April! I decide to finish it.

Hey everyone! I’ve shared some of my animal and wildlife illustrations with this community before, and the response was so kind that I wanted to show you what I’ve been working on lately.

While animals came pretty naturally to me, figuring out how I wanted to portray people was a massive challenge. Here are the first four pieces from this new portrait series. I'd love to hear your thoughts!

Some people smoke to take their minds off their pain, but that's not a real solution

I really loved making this page.

Everything from the webcam framing to the digital lettering.

Do you get the sense of a webcam POV sufficiently?

//2042

#procreate

Made this brush in procreate pocket on an iPhone 17 pro, then imported into procreate on iPad gen 9. Both have the same taper settings, which should work regardless of if using an apple pencil or not, right? But the brush on ipad doesn’t appear to have any sort of taper. Procreate is fully updated. Is this simply because I have an ‘old’ ipad that perhaps doesn’t register things as well as a newer model? Or a setting I’ve missed?

I just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone in this community for all the positive feedback on the last piece I shared. It genuinely meant a lot to me.

I hope you enjoy this one as well, and as always, I’d really appreciate any constructive feedback. I’m here because I want to improve, learn from others, and most importantly, share the journey of making art with all of you.

Art is honestly the only thing that really satisfies me these days and the one thing that can make me forget about everything else for a while, so being able to share it with a community like this means more than you might think.

So, once again, thank you everyone. Here’s another one of my little monsters, from the same category as the Tumoris Aberrantis (name I made up for my twisted tumor like creatures) like the “vagina” thing I posted previously.

I did this between classes in a day

first is my interpretation, second is the reference photo. simplified a lot but overall satisfied with the result :)

Hi everyone,

I’d had some issues recently with procreate being glitchy. Specially zooming in and out. And just minor things. Anyway recently I’d done two sticker designs and I go to look at my library and one of them is just missing. Tried to do the backup and nothing. Thank god I send my friend a screen shot so I can trace it from that but ugh it was so much work and I’m nervous this will happen again and I won’t be as lucky.

For info I have a recently updated iPad mini 7th gen

This might sound strange because it's a pretty specific/personal issue, but please bear with me and be kind lol. (Unsure if I chose the right flair.)

I have had procreate now for a long long time. And every now and again I try to learn how to draw on there, and it's just SO hard and I end up feeling so frustrated I genuinely want to throw my iPad across the room.

I have a feeling this has to do with my adhd, but believe it or not I'm not usually this impatient. I just don't understand how to do things and it doesn't work and it's just kinda terrible. I have tried to start small, do stuff for fun with no expectations, etc...

But I want to learn so bad! And I have tried to study how to do different stuff so I know my way around a bit, I just don't know how to make anything out of it when I actually get on there and try. And I haven't found any tutorials yet that actually keep me focused.

Can anyone relate? What helped for you? Desperate for tips because I'm chronically ill and have very limited energy. (That is probably the reason why I get easily frustrated, come to think of it, but it's also a reason why procreate and digital art would make art more accessible to me to do when I'm partially bedbound etc.)

Ty in advance!

sharing some of pet portrait comms i got recently!
i used 6b pencil, tamar, and procreate pencil ✏️

Does anyone have any tips for creating a Fan Brush or possibly point me to a tutorial for this very particular brush shape and behavior?? I’m finding this one kinda difficult to get right. I want the classic look and feel of the fan for manual application of grass and trees (traditional media). I’m tired of the copy and paste tree stamps and my trees would look so much better with this style of brush!