creating a swan in procreate- episode 4
video - Episode 4
In today's video chat, we discuss drawing a swan in Procreate and how creating a feeling for your artwork is essential, and that feeling you want to convey is your inspiration for the illustration.
For this swan drawing in Procreate, I wanted her to have a botanical feel to this non-traditional holiday design. So I imagined her in a sugar plum fairy forest and getting ready for a holiday party surrounded by plants and flowers, hinting at her location in a fairy forest.
Watch Creating A Swan in Procreate
Having a story in mind when you create your artwork helps guide you when creating artwork to capture the place that centers around the story you are telling.
Get the Sugar Plum Forest Procreate Color Palette
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Drawing A Swan in Procreate Transcript:
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I am Denise Palmer
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And I am an illustrator,
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artist and surface pattern designer working out of my studio close to the
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Gulf of Mexico where water adventures and botanical
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Plants
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Surround my everyday life.
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Welcome to these video chats where I talk about some of the techniques I've used
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to create my artwork and chat about all things illustration, art,
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And design. In this time-lapse video,
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I am illustrating a Christmas swan in procreate,
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and I imagined her living in a sugar plum fairy forest surrounded by
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magical fairies and botanical florals,
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and it is a holiday design using non-traditional colors since there
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will be oranges and plum colors.
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I wanted to decorate her with a golden necklace and headpiece as she was
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all dressed up for one of the many fairy holiday parties.
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While sketching her,
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I knew I wanted to keep her simple but elegant and that her body
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would have gold monoline accents to give her a gilded look.
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I loved creating this swan for a holiday design because
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it's, you know,
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not something that you traditionally see in Christmas decor because
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you're always,
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you always see like Santas and reindeer and things like that,
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and so it was fun to try something different.
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I might have to paint her on an ornament someday because I had
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so much fun creating her.
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I added some flower details that look as if she collected them from the
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surrounding forest. I think it's important to real,
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to think about as you're creating artwork,
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what kind of feel you want for your design. For me,
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because I had the idea of her being in a
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sugar plum fairy forest,
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it really helped inspire me to create
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that kind of feel and I really imagined it having quite a
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botanical look to it.
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And so the plants that I chose to add to the overall finish
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design, which I'm gonna show you here in just a, just a second,
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it really helped me focus in on that as I was creating the
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artwork.
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And I create all the elements that go into the finished design separately
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and procreate, and then I assemble them in Adobe Photoshop.
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And here is the finished pattern design I created with the swan
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and the rest of the artwork that I drew in Procreate.
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Because I love this color palette so much,
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I am also sharing the procreate color palette that I use for this design because
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it is one of my favorites.
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And I thought you would enjoy creating your own artwork with this collection.
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Color collection too. The link to get the color palette is below this video.
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I will be sharing more process videos, so be sure to
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Subscribe. Thank you for watching!
