A woman from another time...

[endersaka]

Actually, in all senses. It started as a study, possibly depicting a character of mine, from a scifi set, and it steered to a random woman that someone suggest a dress from the 17th century (since I was working on the worker class dresses of the time, few weeks ago... The back neckline was not so low-cut, actually).

 

[Triduana]

It's a very good study, I like to see 'pencil lines' or what ever they are called in digital art

 

[endersaka]

It's a very good study, I like to see 'pencil lines' or what ever they are called in digital art

Thanks.

Well, indeed, lines are made with a digital brush which is intended to mimic a pencil. The name of the brush is "Pencil Hard". Well, it's hardly a pencil, but it approximately resembles the feeling. For the colors, instead, I used some basic brushes, so basic that they cannot exist in nature. but they allow to block out the colors fast and then I used a bit of some brushes intended for blending, smearing or smudging. Nothing to demanding, just some brush whips in the right places.

Though, it is a starting point. I spent about 1 hour organizing some of the brushes in categories, unless I get lost. Usually, the official brush sets are already categorized, though, since it is an open source software, bundles from external contributors can be totally unorganized, undocumented, or poorly documented and you risk getting dozens of new brushes flooding like a tsunami in your palette. I believe there are more than 200 brushes in my installation (included some extra bundles I installed for curiosity). Most of which, I don't have a bare idea of what they do.

For instance, brushes in digital painting programs are actually small programs themself. These little pieces of program, are essentially simulators, that try to produce effects that mimic real world behaviors, very loosely. There are though limits caused by the time these programs have to compute something usable, which is the time of a stroke, cents of second or less. Also, no one have ever thought to simulate the paper and the medium. Watercolor, for example, to be simulated, wet on wet especially, would require a total redesign of the software.

 

[Enyaw]

face and hair work well for me ..

 

[Donna T]

I’d say that’s a very good study too! I like seeing the drawing lines too; it shows that an artist had to work a little to get the look he wanted. I’m trying to learn how to use Procreate for artwork and I struggle choosing brushes and the whole concept of layers usually does me in.

 

[endersaka]

I’m trying to learn how to use Procreate for artwork and I struggle choosing brushes and the whole concept of layers usually does me in.

I totally relate to your experience. Digital brushes are not even close to real world brushes, and for a traditional artist the change is significant and often source of confusion. Procreate is known to be a very good App for its set of built-in brushes which seem to be very good. Though, like every other digital painting App, it is not an accurate simulation of the real world.

... it shows that an artist had to work a little to get the look he wanted.

Absolutely. I love construction lines too.

 

[Triduana]

Thank you for the insight, endersaka. I honestly had no idea about any of this