It was suggested by a friend of mine to check out some of the other options for the iPad Pro and Procreate was highly recommended. Adobe makes some very powerful apps for drawing and painting on the iPad Pro and I was impressed with what is possible with them. I’ve had my iPad Pro and Apple pencil for quite a while but really never invested much time in drawing digitally using this platform. Related: My Experience with Adobe’s Sketch App (I had used a program called “Brushes” years ago, but it was wasn’t near as powerful as these apps.) It was really my first experience drawing on the iPad Pro using these apps and it was an eye-opening experience for me. As I drew my grains, I noticed they do not have enough contrast from the background, so I added in some highlights and shadows to the grains to make them pop.In the summer of 2016, I was invited along with several other artists out to Adobe in San Fransisco to do several days of live streaming with Adobe’s mobile apps for drawing and painting. TIP! Even if there isn’t the perfect amount of contrast in your value study, you can add shading to make things stand out even more.
I add a fourth for the tan-colored grains at the top. I use about three layers to fill in the grass - I try not to overlap any blades on the same layer, so that it will be easier to go back and add shading. To do the foreground grass, I create a new layer and use SOLID GOLD at a small brush size to draw each of the tall blades. As I lay down these hill colors, I’m sticking to my color plan from the previous day. I drew each of these with a combo of the SOLID GOLD and SWEEPING WASH brushes. Each of the layers of “hills” will go on it’s own Procreate layer – this makes it easy for me to adjust colors and add texture down the line. I start with the blue background for the sky and draw in the clouds using a soft brush ( BRUSH BRUSH from Magic Brushes).