Practicing and experimenting
Well I’m someone who don’t like to change how I work and not always have the patience to learn new ways/techniques of doing something (but I know I should try). But once in a while I try and somehow slowly things improve or go a different direction.
For instance it took probably years to go more into colored work as I did work an insane long time with pencils. And even at the beginning of that I only used one pencil. I think it was HB to draw all my pencil art. Later I used a couple more but not the whole range. I used colors before pencil when I was a 3D artist and animator but going traditional I went to black and white. Later I started with color and switched back and forth as pencil was more relaxing to work with for me.
Nowadays I work a lot with digital painting and kind of did shade more like vector as I like it really much. But I always want to learn to create gradients that are so smooth like my pencil works. Sometimes I try to get there and practice. Somehow it slipped away working that way and now I’m trying to pick it back up. So lately I’m experimenting with digital airbrushes to get that effect. Looked at a lot of tutorials to see how others work to get those effects.
The screenshot I posted was made while working on it. I started this today as an practice and I kind of like the smoothness of the shades. So I guess I should go on and advance it that technique I guess. Learn practice learn XD
Made with procreate.
I hope to show you the time lapse when it’s done.
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Thank you very much @pjcorts much appreciated :)
There will be blend and smudge tools you can use in the unlikely event you haven't found them yet. I love soft edged brushes for the smooth transitions XD This is looking all right :)
I tried the smudge brushes but felt a lot of not being in control. Do you mean they will be in the next update? Yeah I used the standard soft brush and picking colors to make the transitions.
Thank you @ryivhnn 😊
I don't actually know anything about Procreate, I'm just throwing out tools that are usually common in most digital art apps. If smudge is a bit too violent blur might help you. Of course the other problem is all the apps seem to handle the same tools slightly differently XD
Oh haha I was doubting myself already missing something. Smudge seems good for more rough paint styles but I see artist use it for smooth gradients. Probably a workflow that doesn’t really work for me. That’s true they all seem to work a bit different :)
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