I'm interested in drawing my own greeting card covers (blank inside) with simple line/cartoon-like kid friendly images. Can I just copy them onto card stock? They are just for me to send out to the children of friends on their birthdays. Any other suggestions.
1. Yay! You have a Substack!! I can’t believe I missed that! 🤪
2. Thank you for writing this. I got an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil a couple of years ago for a work project not related to drawing. I immediately bought procreate and Paperlike for illustrating. I was so excited, but after a couple of days I gave up. I am so intimidated by Procreate. But the “learn as you work” theory makes sense. You’ve given me the courage to take a deep breath and give it another go! ♥️🤞🏼
The downsides to working on an iPad is you loose a sense of scale. You might soon in too much and work on tiny details that don’t matter, Or you might neglect to uses scale sufficiently.
I overcome this by sketching in the actual size the final thing (picturebook) is going to be. I do this mainly to get the scale of things. Then I go in to work digitally.
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In general I am quite indiscriminate about working digitally or physically, I go in and out and just use whatever is lying around. I think going between the two and even between software helps keep things well!
Yes, I love the paperlike screen cover, so good. I sometimes wonder about trying the resistant nibs too… but haven’t yet.
I'm interested in drawing my own greeting card covers (blank inside) with simple line/cartoon-like kid friendly images. Can I just copy them onto card stock? They are just for me to send out to the children of friends on their birthdays. Any other suggestions.
1. Yay! You have a Substack!! I can’t believe I missed that! 🤪
2. Thank you for writing this. I got an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil a couple of years ago for a work project not related to drawing. I immediately bought procreate and Paperlike for illustrating. I was so excited, but after a couple of days I gave up. I am so intimidated by Procreate. But the “learn as you work” theory makes sense. You’ve given me the courage to take a deep breath and give it another go! ♥️🤞🏼
Hi Helen, really enjoyed the digital chat.
I was wondering if you are using Paperlike, or something similar on the iPad for a bit of resistance when drawing?
The link doesn’t work any more, so here’s the blog post about working digitally: https://www.helenstephens.com/blogposts/pencil-pals-june2022
Helenx
The downsides to working on an iPad is you loose a sense of scale. You might soon in too much and work on tiny details that don’t matter, Or you might neglect to uses scale sufficiently.
I overcome this by sketching in the actual size the final thing (picturebook) is going to be. I do this mainly to get the scale of things. Then I go in to work digitally.
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In general I am quite indiscriminate about working digitally or physically, I go in and out and just use whatever is lying around. I think going between the two and even between software helps keep things well!
Ps: Great to see you on Substack! :)