THE PROCESS ON PROCREATE: DIGITAL PAINTING CYCLE OF LIFE

“Cycle of Life” project.

 In that post I will show how I created my two of six digital painting using Procreate on iPad Pro.  

I started from drawing a skull. For this task I used reference an image. I opened reference image and began drawing skull next to it.  First I maked quick sketch and then I draw on new layer a main artwork.

Next I saved an image, then i opened it as a new layer added colour and adjust size of the object. Why I have chosen a skull as a first drawing? The skull is related to my project “Cycle of Life” I thought i might be need it in few artworks. It. Also good as warm-up exercise. I don’t have a lot of experiences in this type of task.

Then I moved on to drawing first main image, which was. “A newborn” I used reference image for it as well and grid as a support to catch proportions well. It’s not complicated image but for me it was a challenge to create it. First problem was to chose a good brush for this task. In this image I used default brushes included to Procreate but after I downloaded and tested a lot of free brushes and the new ones “do the job” I would like to test more new brushes and experiment with it. I will do it in nearly future.

Here I added a colours and skull. I know its looks simple and not like other students works, but im learning and i feel i doing progress ,step by step.  I moving forward.

After I moved on to the second image which will depict “the childhood “ The main idea was to draw kids durning play football and add some symbol like tree half with life’s as. A symbol of growing and life and half without leafs as a symbol of death ,end etc. I started by creating a simple lines.

Then I moved on to draw a kids. For this task I used a grid as a support and  first i draw the quick sketch and then i opened a new layer to redraw it as before. I used a reference image for this.

Here is finished a drawing of a kid, I manipulate size to adjust it to whole image. I tested a few sizes of an image and I chose the best one when I thinks is looks well.

Then I added colours and the background to it but few days later i downloaded new brushes and I draw the background used new ones. The final effect of my two digital artwork is below. I know its might looks simple but next one will better.