#6B pencil on procreate

[mc-yellow-arts]

I miss you, in character Bruce Banner

#2012 bruce banner my beloved #bruce banner #avengers #avengers 2012 #i miss when bruce was intellectual and soft and deep and lovely and not the brunt of a poorly made joke #i have so many thoughts about bruce banner #the Incredible Hulk #anti professor hulk #yes i know he’s holding his glasses in the original picture lol #6b pencil on procreate #gloaming on procreate

[ashwii]

Making a redraw of an older piece, and i thought i'd share the sketch and flats bc i like the colors rn ehe

#man i love the procreate 6B pencil. my everything my beloved #ashwiips

[marbirds]

happy holidays, stay warm!

#cats #illustration #christmas #artists on tumblr #my art #birdys adventures in procreate..i like the 6b pencil #kitty clown rin #< shes in there

[squirreltastrophe]

I think Maya should be Polly's mom after her dad was found guilty of murder actually

(more Maya and also a Phoenix sketch below the cut :3)

#all I've been doing today is either playing or thinking about ace attorney #I'm almost to the end of turnabout goodbyes :( miles makes me incredibly sad if I think about him too much :( #MAYA TOO :( #used the crayon brush for shading which is new? not sure how I feel about it :/ #got an opportunity to use procreate sometimes cause work thing and it has me realizing how. uh. bad lots of ibispaint's brushes are #I MISS YOU PROCREATE 6B PENCIL </3 #but ibispaint dip pen with bleed or whatever brush is funky I love her #ace attorney #phoenix wright ace attorney #maya fey #pheonix wright #ace attorney fanart #squirrel art

[8g-soymilk]

Day 15 of @quezify’s Eggtober! Wanted to over-render an egg for today. Timelapse below the cut:

#my art #eggtober2023 #eggtober #digital art #another procreate egg today #not a huge fan of procreate in general but the 6b pencil is still the undefeated champion of digital art #also hopefully on the last coat of paint or two on the egg painting so traditional egg tomorrow :eyes:

[leenfiend]

I thought the Two Slow Dancers comic would be a fun opportunity to break down my process a lil bit cause this was a lot of undoing and redoing and adding so for any ppl curious it will be under the cut!!

So to start off I actually only thumbnailed what is now page five and six, the original image in my mind was them reaching out to each other in different seasons clothing, I considered just making an animated version of that but then I connected it to the two slow dancers scene I had imagined in my head a month or so back and wanted to make it part of a small narrative:

(I actually did page six first - u can tell by the way my writing is nearly incomprehensible that this idea came to me like a vision in the night)

But then looking at that i said - well surely that doesn’t tell the story enough. I need more. And then I played two slow dancers on repeat for probably an hour while I thumbnailed a surrounding narrative for those two pages and ended up with this mess:

And from there I actually started working on the lineart two pages at a time - I like working on freakishly large two page spreads because to me it helps the flow feel more cohesive, I don’t look at them as isolated pages until I get to the shading part of the process.

But once I sent it to some ppl for feedback and reread it myself a million times I felt like the story still wasn’t reading the way I wanted it to - two out of six pages were “flashbacks/memories” pages and that ratio didn’t really allow for the other four pages to read as a cohesive story in my opinion so I kept trying to workshop two more pages for the front and I went through a few iterations:

I thought at first I would show the outside of the garrison, give the audience more of a setting, and then show the flyer so we know Keith is getting ready for this celebration. But it was too literal for me (even though what I ended up doing was still pretty literal lmao). So then I started with the phone/text messages as a story telling device:

Also this is an example of how I almost always draw the comic panels before I decide what goes in them haha, unless I’m really sure what images I plan on focusing in on the panels almost always end up informing what goes inside if that makes sense. But I finally ended up here when I decided “that’s good enough”

I even did most of the lineart for this composition before I decided the imagery of the jacket was just too repetitive, like we don’t need THREE PAGES of keith putting on a jacket.

So i kind of just moved the left page over to the right, and left the right page blank for most of the rest of the comic process. I finished most of the lineart on the rest of it before I finally circled back and decided to go with a tweak of what I originally thought was a lame idea (I had this image in my head of the lions silhouette against the glow of the Earth for the first page, but with the lyrics “the ground has been slowly pulling us back down” I thought it was just too cheesy, especially because that’s not what the lyrics mean either in the song or in the context of this comic and I didn’t want them to be perceived as so literal)

So this is the thumbnail I landed on for that which eventually turned into the actual final page.

Once I had all of the thumbnailing done the rest was pretty fun work! Just lots of going back in and detailing out the scribbles I had first put down. Now in terms of color, I actually have a secret. Most times I don’t color much at all? It depends on the piece but for most of my comics what I do is this -

I flat greyscale color everything and then use a color curve adjuster inside of procreate to pick a color pallet:

color adjusters are ur friend for picking color pallets i'm TELLING YOU!! I used to have a lot of trouble with cohesive color comps but it's a lot easier for me even without using this method now. Anyway I usually leave it here, in my other comics I don't have any shading or background elements outside of the panels but I figured since I was working so much on this comic anyway, I might as well light it a bit. So I basically just scribbled over the whole composition with a purple marker set on a multiply layer and then erased out the places I wanted light to hit, and then added a soft light layer with colored lights to give it more of a party look:

The only hang up I had during the coloring process of all this was how to color the "memory" pages. I originally just wanted them to be more pastel/blue, I thought that would make them look distinct enough. So I painted/shaded this whole page before looking at it within the rest of the composition and deciding it didn't read well at all and ended up sliding the saturation down to zero and calling it a day:

But I'm happy with that decision because it allowed for the "coming into color" moment with the other memory page and I think it connects better to the rest of the comic visually that way. And that was the whole process! There were tons of other little adjustments I made along the way and other composition things I tried out but I do tend to erase instead of iterate in layers so this is the process I have to show you! As a little bonus behind the scenes, here's the time lapse replay of that initial thumbnail for all eight pages! (it is sideways just because it's so large so if you're on a phone/tablet/laptop just turn ur screen sideways otherwise I'm so sorry lmao)

#my art #this is so long but i like 2 talk about process stuff lol #i also would love to see anyone else do a breakdown like this i LOOOVEEE seeing how other people work. #and feel free to steal any way I do anything ever (it is not stealing it's simply learning and using artistic practices that u are drawn to #colleen thoughts #also i use the 6B pencil in procreate for all of my linework ever and all of my thumbnailing im a one brush type of person #and it's like a default brush too lmao

[cypressure]

the magician as catboy

#yang wenli #logh #legend of the galactic heroes #furry #forgot how much I like the default 6b pencil brush #procreate

[icm-art]

Ongoing study of my living room.

#illustration #artists on tumblr #still life #art study #study #monstera #house plants #living spaces #home interior #interiordecor #interior study #procreate #6b pencil

[amelialately]

Damon Albarn

Referenced of a photo by Koh Hasebe

#damon albarn #blur #blur band #done in procreate mostly with the turpentine brush details with 6B pencil #art #my art #procreate #artists on tumblr #digital artwork #digital art #Gorillaz #gorillaz feel a bit irrelevant sorry lmao I don't wanna tag unrelated things. #but he is the gorillaz man #lol I hate tagging sorry #Removed most of the description cus who cares at the end of the day lmao

[sighcomics]

Cute work!!! your art reminds me of alisonzai on tumblr. Do you draw inspo from her?

Thank you, that's a lovely compliment. I think alisonzai is awesome and certainly inspired me in the beginning before and when I started making comics - the art didn't have to be 'great' because it's not about the art, it's about the content/ what you communicate. This is particularly true with comics.

My main inspirations however are Maus by Art Spiegelman, Calvin & Hobbes, and Peanuts. I always draw my ideas from my own experiences and feelings, from poetry, books I read, observations and also random things/ other artists I see that spring up ideas in my brain :)

#I also only use one brush setting on procreate and thats the 6B pencil #cuz I love the traditional look and it feels less 'rigid' than lineart #thats it really #ask

[soapgraves]

#jujitsu kaisen #jjk sakuna #stampede knives #million knives #stampede #tristamp #tristamp fanart #million knives fanart #gift for my twin #i have never drawn either of these characters before #ft procreates 6B pencil #6B pencil my love #GOD THIS WAS FUN

[mywickedwickedwayss]

Oh Mitski, we’re really in it now 🎟🎪

#mitski #mitski art #i bet on losing dogs #procreate #procreateart #digital illustration #dogs #6b pencil #illustration #procreate drawing #puberty 2 #laurel hell #my art #greyhound

[ashwii]

Can you share your 6b pencil mine doesn’t work like that 😭😭

UMM so im not confident that tumblr has the ability to share files like that on posts (and even if it did, I'm much to paranoid to test it out myself, i get worried i'll explode my computer when I try new things like that 😭😭)

BUT what I can tell you is that my 6B pencil has at all of the default settings, except for the stabilization (which I'll add below), and I put the opacity at around 50% on the sidebar -w- i looked for like 20 minutes and I couldn't find any other differences than that aha 😅

^^^ personal stabilization settings for my 6B pencil

#tho it's interesting; i don't feel I ever mentioned that I use the 6b pencil for my procreate drawings #so good on u for catching that XD #impressive #ashask #art tut

[paperized]

what procreate brush do you use for your line work?

6B pencil! Default settings. I love it it's one of my favorites I use it for everything I don't like using a lot of brushes. Unless I'm using clip studio then I use the dry gouache brush

#ask #clipstudio: dry gouache brush #procreate: 6b pencil #sai: crayon brush #ibis paint: crayon brush #all default settings #basically if it has texture im using it

[tothetoonandback]

Did y’all know that I’m so normal and there’s nothing wrong with me? Yeah.

(Click for better quality!🍊)

#the shading took not as long as I thought but my hand is Aching…. #moon rebloggin #Curses 6B pencil brush on procreate…. #moon doobles #palmvale #Sierra sables #Leah meyer #ethan earle #Luka #hlvrai #oc #original character

[kuroao-neko]

A bunch of amateurs stole the tip jar at the bakery I work at, so I had to make a comic about it 🙄 (reference: security footage)

Scenario being: what if one of our regulars was there, saw what happened and went super Saiyan mode or something (but with strong killing intent/杀气)…

#art #illustration #artists on tumblr #original art #digital art #nyc #sketchbook #procreate #bakery #funny story #my comic #comic #BC Bowery Adventures #杀气 #if our regular was actually a secret guardian of the whole block #someone stole the tip jar #procreate 6b brush #imagination #6b pencil is superior #for real though #don’t steal #especially not tips from minimum wage workers #that’s not cool #if you wanna steal at least do it to the companies and people who can afford it😩 #original comic #maybe this will be a new series… #january 2023