By Toni Hetrick
I’m a little behind on posting each day’s experience with my new iPad Pro. Worry not, I have continued drawing each day, I just haven’t had the time to create a blog post each day. I have decided to consolidate a few posts into one to bring you up to speed.
On day 3 of drawing, I started off by again spending a little time experimenting with different brushes. I did this by selecting a brush and seeing what effect it gives off when in use. I am still in awe with the number of brushes that come with the Procreate app. I’m happy that as a beginner, at least so far, I have been able to follow tutorials using the brushes that I already have without having to purchase anything additional. After taking a few minutes experimenting with the brushes, I moved onto YouTube.
During my search I came across a tutorial from Holly Pixels: “Bullet Journal Doodling in Procreate How to Draw a Pencil”. This kind of tutorial is right up my alley for multiple reasons. First, it wasn’t an incredibly long tutorial and the image seemed simplistic enough. Since I’m new to this, I feel it’s best to learn the basics before tackling a very difficult tutorial and feeling defeated. Also, I am very interested in creating images that will work well as stickers to include in orders for my business. This is something that I have only been able to do a few times because I have been purchasing from companies where you must place a minimum order of let’s say 100 stickers. It’s rather expensive, and then you are stuck with 100 of the same exact sticker. Words cannot express how excited I am to be able to do this on my own.
The tutorial went smoothly. She does a great job explaining the process. I don’t use a bullet journal; however, I do use a planner and am happy that I’ll be able to create my own stickers to use. Even though this was a very simplistic tutorial, I believe this was the first time where I made a light sketch in pencil and then created another layer to create a bold outline of the shape that would be used from that point on. This is as simple technique that will be used for several drawings in the future. I was satisfied with the end result and plan on following Holly Pixels to try more of her tutorials.
Here’s my finished product. :)
The finished product. :) Looks yummy.
After successfully completing the pencil tutorial, I was pumped and craving more. I headed over to Art with Flo’s channel and chose one of her tutorials. This time, her tutorial, “ANYONE Can Draw This DONUT in Procreate”, caught my eye. Her tutorials are great and I’m happy that I found this one. If you are new to procreate I strongly suggest that you check out her channel. It was fun and I learned new techniques on how to achieve different shading and depth perspectives. Without this tutorial, I can say I don’t think I could have created something like this on my own, at my current level. If you haven’t already picked up on this, I am a huge fan of tutorials. It’s absolutely amazing the amount of information available for free. Below is the exact tutorial I followed. To the right is my finished product. I foresee many donut creations in the future.
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