I’ve been having so much fun with a simple, creative exercise in Procreate, and I wanted to share it with you! It’s all about exploring color, shape, and texture in a therapeutic and low pressure way. You can use this technique with any brushes, any...
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Art Prompts & Inspiration
Today I wanted to share with you an art prompt that that I keep coming back to: using deliberately illegible handwriting as a visual texture in digital Mixed Media. It’s a twist on asemic writing where the marks do have a personal meaning, but ...
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Canvas SetupSize: 3000 × 2000 pxBrush Sets Used:Autumn Magic (for leaves, sticks, and maple seeds)Mixed Media (for papers, cloth, paint, ephemera, and stitches)Color Palette: Autumn Magic Step 1: Build the Focal Elements Create each item on its own ...
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Sometimes with abstract art, a blank page can be really intimidating because of the wide open realm of possibility it represents. You can do any shapes, colors, techniques, patterns etc - the possibilities are limitless! This can be really scary and...
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In today’s tutorial is inspired by the Japanese concept of Kintsugi, which means “golden joinery” - the art of putting broken pieces of pottery back together using gold. This art form celebrates the broken pieces as a beautiful part of the history o...
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In today’s tutorial, we explore abstract inspiration from an unusual source: topography! Topography is essentially “the lay of the land,” or how the forms and features of land surfaces are arranged or represented. The lines, the colors, the way it a...
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I’ve been playing with a simple, satisfying Procreate prompt lately and thought you might like to try it too. It involves adding color and texture on first few layers, “hiding” it with a single color fill layer, then doodling with the eraser tool to...
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