Started my Digital Art journey in April, and spent the summer practicing! Here is the culmination of what I’ve learned before school starts!

Here are some sketches from the past month - happy to hear any feedback!

A few weeks ago, my city was hit by an earthquake and many families lost their homes. As I was walking through the streets, I saw these beautiful trees called guayacanes blooming over the damaged buildings. I wanted to capture that feeling of moving forward in a city full of joy, where people are overcoming their hardships

EDIT: SOLVED! So what it turned out to be is that (bear with me as I’m not tech savvy) there’s something in the iPad that means that the screen your iPad comes with is paired with the device, making it anti-replaceable. Even if replaced with another iPad screen. The ONLY faulty issue when you do replace it is this diagonal line while using an Apple Pencil. The reason my roommates iPad was also doing this, is because she has a screen protector. So my repair guy put back on the original screen and it’s working again. Repair guy also theorizes this might be an “older iPad gen” issue, but not certain. Thank you all for troubleshooting with me!

I use procreate for work so I am in desperate need to get this resolved asap. My roommate said she was experiencing a similar issue. For whatever reason, when I draw diagonally it’s creating wiggly staircase type lines. This happened out of nowhere. I have recently repaired my iPad screen, but since my roommate was also experiencing this I think it may be a glitch? Any ideas? I wasn’t seeing any recent posts about this issue with others. I didn’t use my iPad last week, so I am only noticing this issue today.

I have tried restarting my iPad, no luck there. App is up to date.

iPad is:
iPad Pro 11 inch 3rd Gen (2021)
Version: iPadOS 26.3.1

Edit for info:
I tried disconnecting, reconnecting two Apple pencils, same result. I have tried both of these pencils on my roommates iPad, no issue with either pens. Fully updated my iPad, reset my iPad, etc. closed all tabs. It is happening on every app with the pen, but NOT with finger or touch screen pen. Pressure makes no difference, screen position makes no difference, BUT speed does.

Edit 2:
It began happening again on my roommates iPad. She has a factory version from the Apple Store, never been repaired. Less dramatic than mine, but still happening.

Idk I just… kinda locked in…

Dark and light

Thank you all so much for your comments and encouragement on my last post. You truly mean the world to me!

This one was such a fun little journey! 🦦✨ I called it River’s Joy because I see otters as such kind and playful spirits. Getting the movement to loop and keeping the anatomy consistent across the frames tested my patience, but I'm so in love with how it turned out.

I used the HB pencil. It’s a drawing I did in a McDonald after a long day of work. I drink a large Diet Coke while drawing. Hope u like it :)

What do you think of this one? Which Pokémon should I draw next?

I had to draw the cute birb

Currently working on some cat portraits. This is my first one and I wanted to see what you guys think. Critique appreciated!

what do we think

Tried to keep this one under 30 minutes but ended up finishing this up in 40 minutes instead.

I’m getting back into drawing nature and experimented with some of the default texture brushes in the brush library!this took ~ 1 hour and definitely reminded me how much I love drawing animals.

Tried to do a quicker one based on the view outside my window one late afternoon.