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Yums. That's one 'stache from Babetown.
Procreate and the Pencil are too cool. I wish I had some talent.
It's not the notion of the stripper gloves per se, after all we are largely consenting adults living in modern times, but the absolutely casual mention of them as if any fellow down his shed would be able to turn around and lay his hands on them. Wonderful.
I know, right? I totally spit out my ball gag when I read that.
You might want to check out "PaperLike"
https://paperlike.com/
iPad screen protector designed specifically to give the screen better resistance for art..
Thinking about getting a pack myself, if I ever get back into drawing. So far I just use my Apple Pencil for an all purpose pointer. I find it great for manipulating apps with tiny interface elements, especially many of the Sugar Bytes & similar.
[edit: Didn't see that someone already mentioned PaperLike ... Youtube reviews suggest it's at least marginally better than an average screen protector. Seems worth the price premium for those who do a lot of drawing]
wow this is a great compliment. To you as an artist, and to the digital tools. But as insiders of the comic scene know, it was for some time a bit of a battle between the traditional artists and the new ones with their graphic tablets.
With your tale you bring up an important question about ergonomics in computer workspaces. This is a serious problem that is not adequately adressed in my opinion. In general the human has to adapt too much to the machine, physically and mentally.
I also didn't like the Apple Pen first, but after I lost mine somewhere in the woods in 2016, it didn't take long until I had to get another one, although I have no budget for such kind of things. I already had a Wacom pen for iPads, but that one was not compatible with iPP. Which made me a bit angry because the Wacom pen worked very well, I think 1024 pressure levels via Bluetooth. And although I spent three times the money (one Wacom and two Apple pens), I have now what I want. And I'm confident this setup will last for a while.
Thanks also for the tip with the stripped glove. I look forward to improve the digital (and mobile) drawing experience with Paperlike surface and/or gloves.
@JonLewis good post.
Procreate
Thanks for the recommendation! I always though those art gloves were more for palm rejection, but I tried it out and it actually gives me a lot more control now that my hand can move more freely on the glass. Cheers!
Has anyone actually experienced wear on their tip? I ordered a pack of 4 replacements recently, and compared my current one (which I’ve had since October) to them and saw no difference. I use it to write and navigate pretty much every day so just curious if anyone else has a different report.
I’ve been using the same one for more than 2 years and haven’t had to change over to the extra one they give you in the pack. I was also worried about that in the beginning too but if anything the nib is just slightly more rounded than when new. Maybe there’s more wear if you have a matte screen protector because of the resistance.
Aww sweet, glad it works for you!
I only had to replace the tip after the pen fell to the ground (stone) once, and since then there was no need for replacement.
This is a really basic question, which I hope one of you will be able to answer:
I’ve only just started using Procreate. I have a photograph as a starting image on Layer One. I want to insert another image from my gallery on top of the first image. When I open a Layer Two, click on the second image in the gallery, then return to the layers, my Layer One has disappeared. What am I doing wrong?
Love to see what you can do with it.
I got it as the first app for the new iPad Pro and never put time in but really should.
What are you using it for in particular?
Just screwing around or more professionally?
I was a bit surprised to find a thread about Procreate on this forum because I just received a gift of a brand-new iPad Pro (the big one) complete with the Pencil, all of which was a complete surprise. I’m no stranger to graphic programs and tools but this Procreate prog is a doozy (let alone the iPad itself). So, here may be another resource to learn how to use it. We’re known for music talk here but I am also a fairly accomplished artist, which really means that I have drawn pretty pictures for as long as I can remember, and actually had a decent career as one for a number of years in various disciplines. Being a musician has been an added advantage for some of my creative forays. I hope to contribute to this new outlet in a useful way, but if nothing else I may glean useful and interesting input from this thread. Cheers!
Heehee, I love that this is actually Doug Stanhope’s face.
😂 LOL! When I saw this thread resurrected, I saw that before reading the new comments and laughed my arse off all over again mate.
Believe it or not, I went to the glove section of Walmart the other day and saw these unisex kid gloves. They stretched perfect on my hand, and so I bought them and took the scissors to remove the thumb, index, and middle finger from them. They actually work perfectly, although come to think of it, once summer comes, my hands may become sweaty in those. Oy vey, time to invest in a real anti-fouling glove or two.
Slight hijack of this thread, but if anyone is interested in vector-based graphic design, Affinity Designer for the iPad is a great program. The iPad port of the desktop version is pretty good, and some of the touchscreen gestures are an improvement over using the desktop version.
ressurecting this old thread 😎 as i just grabbed procreate!
haven’t been very productive recently with music and i’ve been sketching a lot more so i decided it was time to move into digital art...
this is one amazing app! i’ve heard that affinity is great as well and shines in other areas but as a newb to digital art this seems to be the majority choice.
i found a really good youtube channel that a lot of you probably know about but if not... its called, “art with flo” and she walks you thru drawlings, not necessarily the art i’m looking to create, but with the step by step walk thru i’ve learned a lot of dope tricks in just one day, very helpful!
looking for any other suggestions for procreate channels that you guy’s have found to be inspiring or helpful, also def would enjoy seeing stuff you’vemade ...
What I enjoyed very much were the courses from Aaron Blaise (his website is creatureartteacher.com). Got many of his courses on sale for next to nothing. As the website name suggests they revolve mostly around creatures. Animals, humans, fantasy creatures, and how posture, proportions and facial expressions can create emotions, a sense of movement, etc. (He's an ex Disney artist) but he also sheds some light on the technical side of digital drawing.
Also, what was a lot of fun and really helped me with drawing faster and more confident was Figuary (Figure drawing February) from Love Live Drawing. The concept is similar to inktober, the idea was to complete a little drawing lesson each day throughout february, but of course, you might just as well do it in december...
each "day" consists of a little lesson and then a few short drawing sessions. You get a model posing for 1 minute, 2 minutes, 5 minutes,... and then switching poses. I always drew so slowly and overcautiously, piece by piece, in tiny increments and this course really forced me to do quick drawings with big, rough strokes, which was a very good lesson.
I felt like this series with an approach more looking at the overall shape and flow, went very well hand in hand with Aaron Blaises course on human anatomy, that went a little deeper, concentrating on one body part at a time.
Figuary of course has nothing to do with digital drawing. Aarons courses are about digital drawing. His courses often revolve around one specific creature or animal and how to approach drawing it but of course to do that, as a side effect, you learn a lot about the whole process in general, how to make use of photographs, textured brushes, etc
thanks @dobbs both of those sound great, def going to look into them, drawing creatures sounds great, and def complicated so i could learn a lot..
i go back and forth from sketching in every small detail to trying to do a complete outline first... def feel i need a better strategy so a timed sketching could push me a bit further
Always start broad and then work towards the details! Otherwise you could get a brilliantly drawn eye, or nose or whatever, that is in the wrong position on the face. Easier to fix digitally than in real media, but still best practice to get everything in the right places and sizes before adding detail.
@reasOne i made this using Procreate. It’s cool that it will record everything you do and export it as a video. I then imported the videos/drawings into LumaFusion and added images downloaded from Pexels.
The music was also recorded in Cubasis.
Hope you enjoy it.
This Spanish guy make hiper realistic drawings and make lives on his YouTube channel with tutorials, in Spanish, but you can activate subtitles. It’s really impressive.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiSqiNnfBe_P0GkRHyjkyVQ
I saw Aaron Blaise also has a course specifically on Procreate. Unfortunaltely all these courses are no longer as cheap as during the first lockdown where I think I got a few of them for 1-3$ but they're still on sale.
https://realisticpaint.com/index.html
This app is pretty cool also I picked it up during thanksgiving/Black Friday . Just thought I’d mention it in case anyone likes it . Peace
Solved the problem of slippery glass very cheaply...
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/283997635816
I got a cheap anti-glare/matte display protection foil. Guess it gives the same result as the "fake paper" foils mentioned before. I always had matte foils on my phones and ipad*, I just like the feeling for my fingers. And now I noticed, it also feels really good for drawing. And it makes this pencil-on-paper sound which is nice
*just the big tablet stays foil-free because I often use it to watch movies and image quality does suffer a little bit with the matte foils...
Procreate is more straightforward, I would say. Affinity Designer is awesome... But unfortunately I had to ask for refund on iOS (I hate doing that), but it wasn't compatible with my device (and it wasn't mentioned in the specs back then).
But I use it all the time on PC. No more Photoshop and Illustrator for me
Good thing about Procreate is that it's extremely popular now, so you can find courses everywhere... The Nikolai Lockertsen ones, a lot on Domestika, on youtube, and the others mentioned above.