[emberonis]

I got a facebook memory about drawing the sucker on the left in 2011, thought I’d redo it! Timer is a lie - accidentally clicked ‘edit’ instead of ‘color me in’ at first! probably took me about 45 minutes? maybe an hour? idk, working on oekaki with an iPad is a pain though, it took sO much in me to resist trying to use procreate gestures!

reference image for the new one here: https://pixabay.com/photos/ladybird-sev ... rd-319767/

[coffee.berry]

Awesome sauce

[jasps]

wow the improvement!! I love how you took the reference and made it ur own,, super cool!

[rileypillow]

WHOA
This needs a feature O-O

Edit: How did you do the paint texture? I’ve tried but I can’t do it :0

[Felsic_Canis]

lmao 10 seconds? danggggggggggg easyyyyyy pro speeddd

but srsly- holy flip thats gorgeous- the fact that you did that in under an hour and a half?? thats so respectable i love that

[emberonis]

Thank you, everyone!

WHOA
This needs a feature O-O

Edit: How did you do the paint texture? I’ve tried but I can’t do it :0

To answer your question: It's a combination of a couple of things!



The square on the left was made by turning the brush's scatter and spacing settings to 1000, and the size to 3. I then used both black and white and then used the 'soft light' layer mode. Then you can fiddle with the opacity to make it as dramatic or subtle as you want it.

The square on the right was made by creating a new layer, going into the 'effects' menu, and choosing 'color noise'. Then I duplicated that layer, placed a box blur on the duplicate layer and set it to about 50% opacity. Then merged it down to the original noise layer. Then I did the same thing, but with 'monochrome noise', lowered the opacity, and merged it down. Set that layer to 'Linear Light' mode and adjust the opacity of that layer (mine is at 20% here.)

The middle is both of those layers used together.

You can play around with this a lot to get some pretty neat textures even in oekaki. You can even try the scatter method with the square hard brush and it might be pretty cool! I haven't tried that yet. When I draw in Procreate, I use the same method but with scans of paper to get a paper texture on my art.

As for actual painting techniques, I do a lot with pressure opacity and work in a lot of little glazes of things which adds to the painterly look.

I hope that helped, if you have any more questions let me know!

[emberonis]

lmao 10 seconds? danggggggggggg easyyyyyy pro speeddd

but srsly- holy flip thats gorgeous- the fact that you did that in under an hour and a half?? thats so respectable i love that

lol I'm liKE LIGHTNING

but thank you! I know this gets said a lot, but it really is just about practice. I started focusing on learning how to paint digitally in 2013 and it used to take me fooorrrrevvvvver, but the more I did it, the faster it became. Honestly working with lines takes me a lot longer than painting does these days, it's just about what you're used to doing and how long you've been doing it

[clopin]

The one on the right looks almost like a photo! Or a renaissance painting. <3

So awesome!