#it might be early morning and there reslly is mist

[st-hedge]

I struggle with building on my sketch to get it looking good, scaling it + keeping a good perspective

(Sorry for the late response, and I hope this narrows it down more)

I’m not sure if this will help, but I tried my best to explain how I build up and scale up my thumbnails and sketches. I really struggle with building up stuff like foliage and grasses so I used that as an example

1. I make a thumbnail with whatever brushes i want. The point is to make shapes I’m happy with

2. Next I usually grab the wedge tail brush from the procreate vintage tab. This brush is really chaotic in the shapes it makes AND it smudges if you draw at light pressure while also making colour variations by mixing with other colours on the canvas. For something like grass, I like to paint over the blocked in colour, erase, and paint again until I like the mess the brush made.

For foliage I stamp with the brush and erase any stray blobs

With a lot of new random shapes, I can start seeing where I want some grass, some leaves, and how the foliage of the trees will look. The mess and the chaos makes it easier to build the image

3. I then scale up the image SLIGHTLY. I use wedge tail again to doodle in some details but then I grab something like a pencil brush to start adding little details (grass blades, individual leaves, little branches) but I keep the detail focused where I want y’all to look. With the example, the focus is in the square

Everything outside that square matters less. It’s in ur peripheral so it can be left undone, ur mind will end up filling the gaps

Every time I add finer detail I scale up the image until it fits the canvas. Usually that means if there is a person in the painting I’ll leave them until I’m almost done with the painting

#ask hedge #I don’t know if this helps at all #but this is the process I do #the other thing I forgot to mention #if u are doing a natural landscape and u feel like the bg and foreground are blending #u can add a fine bit of mist between the layers #that might be light reflecting #it might be early morning and there reslly is mist #who knows #add mist #it’ll help divide the layers