#procreate 30 challenge

[portalchao]

Day 12 of the Procreate 30 Challenge. For today’s prompt, I drew Orbulon from the Warioware series. Out of everyone in the series’ cast, Orbulon wasn’t a character I paid much attention to in the past. But after playing Warioware Gold, he easily became one of my favourites!

The lineart, colouring, and shading was done with the Studio Pen, whereas the background was coloured with the Soft Airbrush, Nebula, and Glimmer brushes. I played around with the Blend Modes in order to really capture the outer space aesthetic.

#fanart #Wario #Warioware #orbulon #alien #outer space #space #Nintendo #Nintendo fanart #Procreate #procreate 30 #procreate 30 challenge

[mintyfreshi]

Day 1/30 - Drawing Levy McGarden for 30 Days

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I think this drawing came out pretty nice, I love Levy so much!

I love reading, so I always found myself in the more nerdy side of her and Lucy.

Day 1 of drawing this girly done, I’m excited to see where this journey goes next! 💙

#fairy tail #art #fanart #30 days of levy mcgarden #30 day challenge #digital arwork #procreate #anime #fairytail #levy mcgarden

[madzip]

15min color studies /Procreate

#digital #30 day challenge #egg a day #eggruary #color study #procreate

[keiraa-faux]

This was Week 30's pull: Shadowsight from Warrior Cats

This poor poor boyo...he went through so much. When I got him I immediately wanted to draw him all sad and depression (I KNOW I'M SORRY). It was really fun working on all of his scars! I've seen headcanons that he has a lightning scar too and...oh my those look...they're terrifying and I feel bad for the people who got them, but they look beautiful! I really went all out with lighting and shadows...plus I figured out how to do lightning in Procreate!

#procreate #digital #warriorcats #shadowsight #shadowclan #medicine cat #bookcharacter #bookseries #erinhunter #art challenge #week 30 #fanart

[rayngomango-art]

Day 3 - Draw a figure that’s in action, using a reference

Ref: I can not for the life of me find the link but I downloaded the image so here it is

#improvement hell #art improvement challenge #art improvement #30 days of art improvement challenge #30 day art challenge #art #drawing #procreate #rayngo art

[pumigarnet]

Started the "30 days 30 portraits challenge" to work on my skills, not really satisfied so far, I think I'll try a different technique tomorrow.

#art #digital art #beginner artist #portrait #procreate #artblr #art challenge #30 days 30 portraits #artists on tumblr

[thispapercloud]

Inspired by some late night relaxing after an unexpected day dealing with a car breakdown.

#illustration #flower portrait #flowers #black eye Susan #yellow flower #yellow and purple #30 day art challenge #30 day challenge #procreate art #procreate #daily drawing #Instagram

[finchwell]

things i did to stay alive 1

I took myself to the dollar store and bought an absurd amount of origami paper. I folding something for each of my coworkers and wrote a small card to go with it.

I ended up realizing that only one or two people actually appreciated the effort, but I found the pieces themselves pretty.

#drawing #30 day challenge #origami #procreate

[fenya-firewolf]

So, I recently learnt about PencilCat’s 30 Days of Art Improvement Challenge and since I want to improve my art, here we go.

Day 01: Self-Portrait - Introduce yourself

#art #digital art #digital painting #30 day challenge #procreate

[portalchao]

Day 4 of the Procreate 30 Challenge. The prompt I chose for day 4 was Pokemon so I decided to draw my favourite one: Jigglypuff!

The brush used for the lineart is Dry Ink and I used Charcoal Block for both shading and the background.

#fanart #Pokemon #Pokemon red and blue #Jigglypuff #Pokemon Kanto #Kanto #procreate 30 #procreate 30 challenge #procreate

[mintyfreshi]

30 Days Of Levy McGarden

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Levy is just one of those characters that I really struggle to draw…so I decided to nip that in the bud!

For 30 (sorta) consistent days, it’s all about our lovable bookworm, Levy.

This idea seemed pretty fun to do and in my experience…practice tends to make perfect. Considering I need to post more, I thought this worked out!

So from now until New Years Eve, we’ll be seeing the good, the bad, and the ugly…regardless though, I hope you enjoy this ride as much as I do!

#fairy tail #art #fanart #levy mcgarden #digital arwork #procreate #lets have fun #30 day challenge #30 days of levy mcgarden

[madzip]

15 min color studies. Procreate / Photoshop

#illustration #art #30 day challenge #egg a day #eggruary #color study #procreate #photoshop #digital

[shelandsorcery]

She’s done!

As part of my new left-handed life I challenged myself to do a standard fantasy character illustration; I produced this through a few hours a night of work over two weeks; I'd guess there's maybe 30 hours of work here total. Nowhere near my usual speed, but a result I am certainly happy with!

Shoutout specifically to procreate and @maxulichney's glorious retro and watercolour brushes; they make messy markmaking fun again!

Gonna print myself a copy for my wall; she is now my patron saint of Relearning Skills with the Non-Dominant Hand Through Sheer Endurance and Liberal Use of the Undo Command.

Fun fact: to sign it, I zoomed in till the signature could fill my 12"ipad screen, wedged the pen into my tightly braced right hand, and used my whole arm to draw it. That's right, folks, my shoulder's still got it!

#left hand life #fantasy art #badass women #digital painting #illustration #artists on tumblr

[rayngomango-art]

Day 5 internal injuries

I'm a day behind:/

#art #drawing #art challenge #30 day art challenge #digital art #rayngo art #procreate #goretober #goretober 2023 #goretober day 5

[greenhorn-art]

Prince of Shadows, Lord of Thieves by alkat

Fandom: The King's Avatar | 全职高手

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Category: Gen

Words: 1 929

Once upon a time, their exploits were immortalized by artists and writers across the tapestry of history. Once upon a time, they were worshipped as gods and reviled as demons. None of that stopped the Met from stealing all their shit.

About the Book

FONTS: Alegreya [Google Fonts], Lato [Google Fonts]

IMAGES: all art made by myself @greenhorn-art for this fic

MATERIALS: regular ol' printer paper (8.5"x11", 20lb, 96 bright); ~2-2.5mm binder's board; Neenah cardstock (8.5"x11", 65lb, bright white); Cialux bookcloth (black); waxed linen thread (30/3 size, white); wheat paste (1:4 flour:water); paste wax (from a friend, unknown ingredients&quantities, some kind of wax and turpentine/mineral spirits)

PROGRAMS USED: Affinity Publisher 2; Affinity Designer 2; Bookbinder JS | Renegade's Community Imposer (settings: Quarto, snug against binding edge, custom signatures of 2, 1, 2 sheets).

Text & QR codes printed with colour laser printer (duplex, flip long edge), images printed with inkjet printer. QR codes generated with LibreOffice Writer, snipped, saved, and inserted where needed.

BINDING: quarto (quarter-letter) size, sewn board binding with french link stitch and breakaway spine.

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So this one all started because the visual of HST's outfit was so fun that I was possessed by a visceral need to draw it. Inspiration slapped me across my mind's eye, and much like a medieval knight being slapped in the face by a glove (which didn't actually happen, that's a myth that sprung from the throwing down of a gauntlet. but that's beside the point), I felt bound to take up the challenge. Which lead me to draw a few more, and then I ended up binding the whole thing.

(Also, I find it really amusing that the famous Terracotta Warriors were just storage for YXs stuff. And the gang going 'shopping' at various exhibits for gifts for friends/family,, like that sure is SOME window shopping! I can hear it now: 'Oooh I'll take one one those SMASH, and that SHATTER, and throw in some of those CRASH, they're going to love these! 😇'. All in all, it was a fun little read, and fun little project! :D)

About the Art

Because this was initially a one-off drawing I tried a new art style (and struggled to at least not stray too far for the rest). It was fun and helped me think more about shape and visual focus, instead of being caught up in the details.

The crow (based off of image ID: 4039963 from Rawpixel) and the red umbrella on the front cover were filled curves made with the pen tool. The illustrations' poses were based off of a combination of images found on Google and photos taken by myself.

Pinterest is awful for sources, but it would have been handy to pin the references I'd googled. Only remembered to save the one of a man sitting at a desk. (I deliberately searched for someone sitting with bad posture because YX is described as being "slumped" over the desk. I figure that since "the laws of physics held no meaning to ["cursed souls eschewed by the natural order"]", they'd also be immune to mundane things like discomfort from sitting hunched over for too long. Back pain images were a gold mine! All I had to do was choose one with lighting that would give me a silhouette.)

The Myriad Manifestations Umbrellas and illustrations were drawn in Procreate.

I opted for a more plain umbrella design because it's not (presumably) a fantastical weapon in this story. Though the initial version did have YX cradling the donghua!MMU.

For the scene breaks I inserted the images, pinned them inline as character, and adjusted height and baseline in the pinning menu to fit.

The author wrote one scene break differently than the others, using multiple empty paragraphs instead of just one. Following suit, I used a different image for that particular break. I wanted to reference vampires somewhere, so for that break I made two bloody spots resembling bite marks. The blood spots were made with a group of shapes in Designer.

On cover design:

Because the MMU is what sparks the whole heist, I wanted it on the front cover.

Earlier iterations involved a full cover spread with a man's shadow standing before a shattered glass case, with a plaque mounted on the wall to the left providing information. The plaque was formatted like a museum label and had the author, date published, title, event collection, and story description. I'd also added a QR code to it. Ultimately, I abandoned the concept because it was difficult to decipher what is was when only looking a one cover at a time.

My second idea for the cover would have been a bookcloth-only cover with a cut-out of the MMU on the front, acting like a window showing off an image of the MMU on paper below it. (Inspired by the work of a number of folks over on Renegade's Discord. Here's a few examples gleaned from a quick search: szynkaaa's lung cutouts, some of EHyde's books, and the front cover of Spock's massive all-in-one TGCF). As fun as that would have been to try out, I felt it didn't quite suit the style of the art so I nixed that too.

Eventually I landed on the back cover design with the Met exhibition webpage. At last, I felt that the back & white and simple-shapes-background went with the artwork. The webpage viewed on the phone is based off of the Met's actual website. I took a snip/screenshot of the Met's logo from the banner at the top, then looked at their exhibitions' pages and eyeballed it to create my own. (Threw in the QR because I wanted the easy access to the fic online on the back cover). I chose to use a phone screen rather than I computer monitor because it worked better composition-wise. And besides, while YX may be allergic to owning a phone, SMC is not. I imagine that she saw the news while on her phone then messaged him.

The front cover came together after that. An umbrella for the MMU, and a pop of red. One of YX's messenger crows. A black shape in the background similar to the back cover's, sort of creating a spotlight over the umbrella and placing the rest of the cover in shadow.

Trying New Things: Applying a protective finish to printed covers

Over on the Renegade Bindery Discord, folks have spoken about using a beeswax & turpentine/mineral spirits 50-50 mix to seal printed covers (thank you Kate). According to my dad that's just a paste wax, so he threw 3 different ones at me and said 'have at it'.

I tested them out using the same paper and inkjet I'll use for the cover. I was looking at 1) whether the paste wax affected the paper colour or print quality, and 2) the finish. After applying one coat each and buffing them out I had my winner. Then I applied & buffed two more coats to it and tested 3) water resistance by dripping tea on it. The liquid beaded up and wiped away without staining -- good, three coats will work nicely.

(Test results: Mystery paste wax from a friend wins.

The commercial SC Johnson Paste Wax Original formula (intended for woodworking) has a nice dry shiny finish, but coloured the paper slightly brown -> disqualified

My dad's homemade stuff has a nice shiny/satin finish and didn't change paper's colour, but it felt slightly tacky even after buffing it -- maybe I didn't buff it enough?

The gifted paste wax has a matte finish, didn't change paper's colour (in the image below this one has 3 coats. The paper is now slightly off-white, but still acceptable), and while not as dry-to-touch as the Johnson it was not as tacky as the other homemade stuff.)

When I print out my quarto covers, I print front and back covers side-by-side on the same page*, with some guides to ensure I'm cutting and gluing in the correct place. (The guides mark the boundaries of the covers and start of the turn-ins, and stop at the edge of where I cut. Before cutting I flip it over to mark the guides [see marks indicated in image below] on the wrong side and connect them so I can see where to glue/place book. Then flip it back over to cut, right side up.)

*I'm being economical here at the cost of possible warping damage. This layout means that I'm only using one sheet of paper, but the grain is running in the wrong direction (across the book instead of preferred head-to-tail/top-bottom). This could cause warping issues, but I'm OK with that. I'm hoping that by just gluing at the edges, instead of pasting down the whole thing, warping will be minimized. (I use wrong-grain endpapers most of the time with larger books anyways).

I applied the paste wax before cutting out the covers, working carefully to avoid accidentally creasing/bending the paper (which happened twice, but it was minimal and I hardly notice it). Doing so before cutting ensured that the cover material was completely covered. Even the turn-ins -- something I later came to regret. After all, wax is used specifically so that things don't stick to it. It made it rather difficult to drum on the endpapers because I was trying to glue something down onto a waxy surface. It all worked out in the end -- perhaps due to the fact that there were multiple layers of wheat paste which could adhere to each other, followed by being squashed in a press.

#Prince of Shadows Lord of Thieves #alkat #fanfiction #bookbinding #my art #the king's avatar #qzgs #tka

[thispapercloud]

Recent DTIYS I did on Instagram. My version came out sad… 😅 oh well. Pretty sure I was influenced by a headache I was nursing at the time.

#dtiysart #illustration #warrior girl #green hair #character portrait #procreate art #dtiys #30 day art challenge #30 day challenge