First off, Happy Mother's Day, everyone. I hope you are enjoying this special day with your mother <3:)

This week I decided to return to the Canson role since I hadn't drawn drawings on white paper in a while, hahaha. I still have some sheets here, I may do more next week as well. I doodled on the sketchbook too and finished the digital mermaid painting I made on Procreate, yay! I was very happy with the result and with the evolution I had over the years. If you compare it with my old digital paintings (between 2013-2015) you can see a lot of difference. It was worth taking time away from digital painting to train more traditional.

When you work well your underpinning in the drawing — light and shadow, anatomy, proportion, etc. — you notice a lot of improvements. It helps with everything, even when it comes to creating digital art as well. That's why it's important to practice... hahaha, I know, I hit that key a lot, but it's true.

Patience and practice are key.

Let's go!

I had some problems with the app, however, right after finishing the painting, because out of nowhere the app would close... I believe it was more because I'm using a first-generation iPad Air than a problem with the app itself.

As I said in previous post, the number of layers you have available to work with the art depends solely on the size and resolution you select at the beginning. I separated some layers for some elements of the painting to test some things (effects, brushes, etc.) and I believe that because of this the art became “heavy” for my old iPad, haha. As I was almost finished, I decided to merge some of the layers (I had a maximum of 4 available) and the problem seemed to have disappeared. I think that if the layers have a lot of elements, very heavy, the problem must occur on old iPads. Anyway, I'll continue exploring the app to see if I can solve this:)

Which, in fact, is normal to happen even in Photoshop. I have a great PC here that I use for work — design and illustration (16GB RAM, NVIDIA graphics card... in short, everything runs perfectly) — and I remember that when I was doing my art in Photoshop, as you go into detail and the file gets heavier, it tends to slow down the program, haha. Normal.

OBS: I added a new project with some of my pastel pencil and graphite art! If you want to check it out, just click hereto. Next week I will add a separate one for drawings in ink pens. In addition, I added more products to my stores in Colab55 and Society6. The mermaid should enter soon too, between today and tomorrow ;)

And that's it for today, guys. I hope you enjoyed today's post and, as always, there will be more next week!