Fine art processes in a variety of media. Musings on the art of writing and illustrating for fiction, non-fiction and books for children - tips, anecdotes and sketches.
For those who don’t know, Procreate is an iPad app, a drawing and a painting software that provides multiple layers, media and other options to save your art in a variety of formats that can be uploaded and shared either to a desktop computer or with other networks. One of the features of Procreate that I really like is that it saves a time-lapse video of your art creation process. I’m linking to a video I just uploaded to my YouTube channel below so you can get the idea. It has been edited and sped up for brevity.
I have been working on a series of books for a publisher on the subject of English Grammar and Composition. Here are a few of the illustrations completed using Procreate.
The texture has been created by adding a scanned canvas layer set to multiply.
I am a Canadian author/illustrator of fiction and non-fiction for both trade and educational publishers in Canada, the US, and abroad. I have written 4 trade books for Orca books, illustrated and written over 2 dozen picture books and am coauthor/illustrator of an environmental middle-grade fiction series for Harper Collins Children's Books in India. Email: steve@stephenaitken.com
"Just Grace"Illustrator Sharon Lane Holm and Author Kathleen Bookbinder display the
cover of their book "Just Grace". A collaboration that was
created in support of t...
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