Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Guessing Game and a little more on how Procreate works

 


Let me know in comments if you found 3 crows and 3 owls hiding in the trees.Bob found 4 but he did not put on his readers. The rest of these are just playing around in procreate.


When I first started drawing in procreate app, there was no easy way to cut out Beau and pop him wherever I want him. they did an update and now it's easy peasy


I downloaded brushes that are stamps, and then I paint the stamps.
below I used stamps, 4 of them and paint 








Tuesday, February 18, 2025

The Egg, the frying pan and 2 lizards


Poo (perfectly ordinary objects) Egg and Lizards, what is more ordinary.
I just wanted you to see where I put the egg when I make my egg, vegan mayo, French bread breakfast sandwich. Cool Egg Holder, Bob's breakfast cast iron skillet.
HOW DO YOU KEEP YOUR EGG FROM ROLLING OFF THE COUNTER?
Below was a funny story, I was standing throwing dish water out on the weed patch when I heard a loud rattling sound, stepping 2 steps to my left, there was a battle going on between two very large male brown anoles. They were fighting and by the time I returned with cell phone, they had parted and having a stare down. The second photo on vamoosed when he saw me aim the cell.
Guess now what they were fighting over..

A FEMALE OF COURSE, OF COURSE..

here is the answer, the above photos are from last week, the below are from Sept and I never used them. we have a colony of thousands, and we love them. a cheap source of entertainment.
THE LOVING COUPLE


Cuban Tree Frog with sucky feet.. we love our wildlife, picture from the archives, none last year or so far, no rain. 

Monday, February 17, 2025

How Procreate Works for me Part 1

A snip of my iPad when starting a canvas.
 
Procreate is like having a blank white canvas. With a digital pen or my finger, I can draw, I can color with crayons, water paints, oil paints, whatever I choose. the slides you see up on left, make the brushes thicker, thinner, light darker. You can draw your own flower and make a stamp to use or do all that I did with these stamps someone else made.
I have been drawing and coloring and in the past week, found brushes to download that are what you would call stamps if you were making greeting cards. You stamp and then your do what you want with it to make it better or sometimes worse ha ha, and simply tap the screen with two fingers and it erases and you start again... If you are familiar with Photoshop, this canvas uses layers and each time you do something you do it on another layer.
I downloaded a brush set that is Flowers. Above I chose a black canvas, and this is what the flower looks when I Stamp it... I can make them any color, large, small, duplicate. 


My style is Neon on Black on this blog. Above is how I started and below are
how they ended up. Its like customizing an old piece of furniture or a car. Make it your own.

 




I did this one on white canvas, and liked it but wanted a black background, for use on a new header.
I changed to a black background and played with the setting curves, to make it neon.
I chose this one for my new header because I love the color.