Self Directed - Procreate

Most of my illustrations are drawn on Procreate on my iPad Pro. I wanted to learn from other people and use new brushes and techniques. I have been watching lots of tutorials and have purchased some new brushes to experiment with.

Here is a website with lots of links for tutorials etc.

https://www.jlogancarey.com/blog/best-tutorials-for-procreate

Laura Rubin

Laura is a 26-year-old illustrator from Switzerland with a weakness for plain aesthetics. She never enjoyed drawing… her dad used to draw like a god when she was a child, which is probably the reason why she had the feeling that the standards were set very high. And because she didn't want to see herself fail, she didn't even try. But at some point in her life, she realized that she was not happy. She needed to start doing something creative.

So she started studying "film & visual effects" in Zurich. To get a better understanding of visual impressions, they visited the storehouse of the art museum where she had to draw sketches for many hours and days. Additionally, they had to draw storyboards for all our film projects. First just on paper, later digitally with a tablet.

Right after her graduation she was broke for quite some time and had to find a job, so she started to work as a graphic designer in an ad agency. At this time her boyfriend gifted her the iPad Pro which allowed her to draw on, and things started to take its course!

https://www.instagram.com/la___aura/ https://www.laurahrubin.com/

I purchased her complete brush set from https://gumroad.com/laurarubin

The bundle contains:

- 1 basic brush for all main shapes (my favourite all-round brush, you can also use it for many other parts of your work) - 3 blending brushes with different strengths - My lip-line brush - 6 hair and fur brushes for realistic results - 5 skin structures with different strengths and for every part of the face - 1 eyelash/eyebrows brush - 1 gloss brush (for example, for teeth, shiny eyes, jewellery etc.) - 1 freckles brush - 1 brush/stamp for birthmarks - 1 highlight brush - 2 glitter brushes which are great if you want to add something like a "shiny make-up". - 2 Skin Airbrushes for a realistic skin texture in two different strengths - 1 Skin Brush for semi-realistic skin like on the example above - 5 different Skin textures (my new favourite is the "Skin Texture ll" brush. In the example above I've used it for the nose) - 3 pencil brushes which are great to add a more artistic look. - 1 Skin Glitter Stamp, great for eyes, lips, nose or even fingernails - 1 Blurred Eyeliner (looks even more realistic when you use it in conjunction with the smudge tool) - 1 Watercolor texture which works great if you want the make-up to look not too perfect. I use this brush very often around the eyes with a low opacity. - 1 Bubble-Brush which looks cute on the eyes, but of course you can use it for other parts as well. - 1 Water-Pencil which is a bit like the watercolour texture, but you can use it not only for textures but also for outlines and fonts.

I thought these would be great for horse hairs, eyes, nose and hair details in my portraits.

Jimmy Jing Xia

Jimmy is an MD Student at Weill Cornell Medicine. He uses Procreate, iPad Pro, and an Apple Pencil. He offers brushes, tutorials, and illustration files for purchase.

Today, over 82,294 artists use his brushes, tutorials, and resources worldwide. His goal is for you to express yourself without feeling like you're fighting your brushes, and he has a feeling that this will be a significant asset to your workflow whether you're a beginner or a veteran.

As a lead artist for Plaid Hat Games, he created character and environmental art for their games Comanauts, Aftermath, and Battlelands. He has worked on projects with Crunchyroll, Use All Five, and he has illustrated publications within numerous medical journals, including Nature Scientific Reports, Journal of Neurosurgery, and World Neurosurgery.

https://www.instagram.com/jingsketch/?hl=en https://gumroad.com/jingsketch

I purchased his Complete Collection of brushes from

Join over 50,000 artists worldwide and bring your ideas to life with the Complete Collection — all of my 50+ time-saving brushes and 5 colour palettes that I rely on as a professional artist. I use them daily to create a wide range of work, from finished commercial paintings to published medical illustrations to sketchbook sketches.

As a lead artist for Plaid Hat Games, I used these brushes exclusively to create characters and environmental art for their games Comanauts, Aftermath, and Battlelands. Within the industry, they’re used by artists at Pixar, Epic Games, Mattel, and more.

This brush collection was slowly built from the ground up, continuously optimized for a multitude of creative challenges. As such, brushes are organized into separate Sketch, Paint, Smudge, and Soft brush-sets.

What’s Included:

Sketch – 22 precise brushes made for effortless sketching and linework.

Paint – 25 expressive brushes designed to breathe life into your paintings.

Smudge – 8 powerful brushes for easy and beautiful blending.

Soft – 6 textured airbrushes, perfect for adding finishing touches.

Colour – 5 diverse colour palettes to speed up your workflow.

Lifetime Updates – new brushes and updates for free, forever, without a subscription.

Users recently received 6 new smudge brushes as a free update.

These are now my everyday brushes for sketching and drawing.