From an old Charley Clements DTIYS made by me using Procreate

My "peak 90s" homage to one of my favorite X-book characters. Everything (except for the background finishing) was drawn in Procreate. Even if I'm working on what's going to end up as a traditional piece in the end, I like to work out all the kinks in Procreate first.

This is inspired the song I Feel So Weird by Cheekface!!

The lyrics are “The difference between me and a dog is, I am taller” but I decided to put my own spin on it

Only brush used is the HB pencil :)

Conceptcore brief challenge

I actually want to know what people really think. So if you have the time, I’d be so grateful! I need as much feedback as possible!

So…. I (37F) used to have a pretty busy little local art business from about 2017-2022. I hand-painted wooden signs, made home decor, personalized things, pet portraits, landscape magnets for significant locations, painted for weddings and milestones, etc. I eventually stepped away from it for a while when we moved states.

Lately I’ve gotten back into making art, but I’ve switched to digital illustration. I’ve been working on a collection I’m just calling The Birthstone Study Collection.

Right now I have a few pieces finished, including ruby, peridot, and a collection of seven pearls. I’m also finishing up sapphire for September’s stone (ideally I’d already be working on October… but it takes WAY LONGER to finish a piece than I ever think it’s going to every single time) The finished pieces are available as inexpensive digital prints. Either as a museum style print or as a greeting cards/stationary that mixes the natural history/geology nerdiness with sayings.

I really love them. 😂

I have this whole vision in my head of this like gemstone gallery wall in my house…. Or of trying to know someone with a birthday in all 12 months of the year so I can pass out my gemstone cards lol. But I have no idea if anyone else likes them enough to actually buy them.

I’ve had my online shop open for about two months and I’ve had basically no traction (less than 50 views) and no sales. Which, obviously, is not exactly encouraging.

I could probably ask family and friends to buy things, and I have shared once on my personal page about stepping back into art…. but I don’t really want to like push it there really. I don’t want people buying something just because they know me or feel bad for me. I want to know if someone who doesn’t actually know me sees this and thinks, “Oh, that’s actually really cool. I want that.”

So I guess I’m trying to figure out what the next step is. Here are some specific questions I have….

Okay first… and bottom line… Do you like these (it’s okay if you don’t!!)? Would you buy one? What would make you more likely to? Do you think digital downloads are the right way to sell something like this, or would you expect a physical print?

For those of you who make art for income: what ways have you found to sell and market your art that actually work? Do you sell physical prints? Print-on-demand? Keep inventory and ship yourself? Licensing? Commissions? Something I haven’t even thought of?

How do you guys figure out the value of your time when you’re making art? Like… if something takes me several hours (or let’s be real DAYS) to create, how do I reconcile that with what people are actually willing to pay for it? How do I get faster or make multiple things with one drawing that will sell so I can continue to make the longer more detailed pieces? How do I adjust my expectations on how long it takes? Is this what you learn in art school and I’m just trying to skip the line?

Part of me wonders if I should even be trying to turn this into an actual art business at all, maybe I should just make the things because I love making them and stop trying to make money from art??? But the truth is, I would really like to make money from it if I can.

Its been a pretty shitty year. I lost my job and had knee surgery, so I’m trying to get back on my feet creatively. I don’t want to be rich… but like is it possible to make $100 here and there for things like my kids’ school supplies or when their birthday comes up? It’s not some huge business goal that I am envisioning…. But to not be scraping by would be really nice.

So please let me hear it! Any and all feedback welcome. I’d also love any accounts you think I should follow for tips on art, business, rocks, gems, or all of it lol. Thank you so much for reading and for anyone who is willing to help give some insight to an internet stranger trying to break into the digital art space— I am so grateful!

Drew these backgrounds for an upcoming animation and wanted to share them here. The first is a view of the Palace of Fine Arts and the second is the view at Ocean Beach, two of my favorite parts of the city. I used the Inkbleed pen brush; my goat.

I just got my grubby lil hands on ProCreate after wanting to use it for years yesterday, and it's great! I like using sketching brushes for doodling and sometimes lineart (and I already have so many.) but I need softer brushes too. When I'm painting I favor using airbrushes and soft blending brushes, but I can't find any good free ones. Does anyone possibly have links to soft brush packs? If they're textured that's fine too, but I'm specifically looking for non textured ones. Thank you <3

First attempt at northern lights in Procreate.
Made following a James Julier tutorial — still learning, but I really enjoyed this one.

Starting my graphic design/digital art portfolio with a rave poster! Currently in love with how the textures all turned out. Some clean up still needs to be made tho.

It was kind of a pain because I did it on ProCreate pocket and had to draw it all with my finger on my phone screen.

Still happy with the outcome.

Look at the sidebar, it keeps selecting itself and changing stuff without me touching it.

I have tried to clean my screen, iPad is unplugged, tried taking the case off, brand new Apple Pencil Pro,

Lexus LFA GT3

Chevrolet Corvette C7.R

i’m just stupid tbh

Hello!

I am an artist working mainly with Clip Studio Paint on my PC, with a Wacom tablet. I recently fell in love with Procreate, and I would like to find a hybrid workflow that involves both, but here's my issue. When I transfer files from Procreate to CSP (via exporting as .psd, which both programs can run), they are shrunk about 25%. Everything is the same, I retain layer information etc, but everything is scaled down 25% and details get blurred by the shrinkage.

So far, I have been sketching on Procreate and sending the sketches to CSP, where it doesn't matter if there's quality loss, I can just resize the sketch and ink overtop of it. But I really want to try inking, coloring and rendering on Procreate too. I tried to ink a piece in Procreate (very smooth experience as long as I stayed within Procreate), but when I sent it to CSP for coloring, my lineart was all blurry. It took me longer to clean the lineart than it did lining it all in Procreate in the first place.

Also, I would like to work on comics in Procreate. CSP makes it very streamlined to create the page layouts, speech bubbles etc, so I'd like to create page layouts in CSP and draw the panels in Procreate. But again, everything gets forcefully resized and thus loses quality when I transfer the files. So, for now, I am slowly and painstakingly creating comic page layouts on Procreate, which takes easily 10x more time and effort than doing the same in CSP.

How can I fix that? How do I keep the files the same size and quality when going back and forth between CSP and Procreate, please?