Digital Flower Drawings in Procreate

 

This year I used a hefty chunk of my budget to purchase licenses for my students to have procreate installed on their ipads. I've been sprinkling some assignments to get them warmed up, but we haven't done a full project yet. So far they learned how to change the color of a photo, how to make a grid to use for a physical drawing, how to use the perspective mode to draw the framework of a room in one point perspective and how to add and edit text.

They also have a weekly sketchbook assignment. This week, I asked them to follow Lisa Bardot drawing a flower digitally. Sketchbooks are a minimal amount of points, but my objective is for them to put in time practicing each week and improve skills. They are blowing me away with their flower drawings this week. So excited to share the first few that I received today.

I am hopeful that some of the fully remote students have the ability to print these out. And just in time for Mother's Day (not my original intent, but how perfect would it be?)

Skillshare...my new obsession

In preparation for moving back to the high school, I've been loosely plotting a scope & sequence for classes I will be teaching. One of which is new to me: cartooning. A little nervous about my skills...I discovered an amazing teacher, Christine of might-could on skillshare and consumed....ummm maybe four of her classes this weekend. Ok. It was five. I watched five classes. Her thoughtful and well organized classes have got me so pumped to teach this course. I highly recommend trying it out.

The other fun thing I found, was a quick tutorial on making patterns in photoshop from Emily Cromwell. This is something I knew how to do about 15 years ago in my former life as a graphic designer and I forgot the shortcuts so it was super helpful to watch Emily guide me through the steps. I've been trying to participate in the making art everyday challenge sponsored by bardot brush and the theme today was ladybug...so I used that as my subject.

Here's the digital drawing in procreate using Lisa Bardot's Authentic Marker Brush set:

And this is the seamless repeating pattern!

P.S. It was totally 8. I watched eight classes on a Saturday afternoon. And it was sunny outside.

Procreate

More experiments with the ipad pencil and procreate app. Just a little art room decor for back to school and of course I had to turn it into a worksheet for their interactive art workbooks.

Update: It's also a sticker!