Treehouse WIP
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@PenAndrew it depends! Preliminary sketches do tend to flow better for me on real paper, and I’ll often take a picture of a very rough sketch then do my refinements as new layers in photoshop or procreate. For me and probably a lot of others who learned to draw on paper first, it’s harder to get the same kind of initial energy in an image with digital tools. For this specific prompt, I did a bunch of blobby silhouettes with a chisel marker in my sketchbook, then imported my favorite to procreate and drew on top of it. As for timeframe, procreate is telling me I’ve spent a total of 22 hours on this treehouse so far. That’s probably a lot longer than I’d want to spend if I needed to be profitable making such art right now, but I know from experience with other mediums (e.g. my former life as a cake decorator) that speed will come with practice. I’ve only had the iPad since January and am just starting to feel like I don’t hate everything I draw on it. New tools always entail a very awkward and frustrating learning period!
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@patricialamas Thanks for such a thorough and interesting reply. I agree with you about the transition from traditional to digital, and I think traditional artists have the advantage as they know what they want and they know about application of paint and have existing skills that easily transfer. I agree about the length of time getting quicker, for my image I used watercolour and pencils which took about 2 hours after the ideas stage, and then I photographed the image and repainted certain parts and cleaned up the line work etc, this took me about 7-8 hours. I use the digital process like a clean up process as I don't have much experience, but I found my first and second digital images were satisfactory because I already knew how to paint first.
