Sunrise Painting with Clip Studio Paint and Veikk VK 1200 Tablet

 

My painting, following a tutorial by James Julier Art Tutorials, on my Veikk VK 1200 and Clip Studio Paint

While I was at camp, I did this digital painting. I wanted to do a sunrise over a lake because I'd seen so many in real life, and I wanted to learn how to paint waves.

I had fun, and I love my Veikk, but it is so frustrating that all of the good tutorials are about how to paint using procreate.  I had planned on buying myself an Ipad for Christmas so that I could use Procreate and follow the tutorials the way they're meant to be followed...but...

I came home to discover Best Buy was having a huge Labor Day Sale...and so...I thought hard about getting an Ipad.

My whole rationale for getting the cheaper Veikk tablet (under 200 dollars) was because I didn't want to spend the money on an expensive tablet if it turned out I didn't like digital art.

Well, as it turns out, I LOVE digital art, and have been doing a LOT of it. 

Check out my art on Pinterest, here: My Digital Art

I have been busy.  So, I thought long and hard about getting an Ipad.  But I couldn't decide...

My Single Tree Forest

 I turned my tree into a forest :-).  

My single tree forest, assignment from Udemy Class: Clip Studio Paint Pro

I had so much fun with this exercise, and I learned so much!  I hope I can retain it, lol.

First I made a single tree (see earlier post).  Then I learned how to squoosh all those layers into one layer.  Then I duplicated that layer and moved the tree over, while resizing it or flipping it horizontally.  I repeated these steps until I had a forest.  

Then I used the selection tool to select the white space above the forest, inverted that selection so it chose the trees instead of the white space, and used the fill tool to make a solid outline of my forest.  Repeated it with two lighter colors and rearranged them. 

I thought that was fun so I used the lasso tool to select various parts of the photo to adjust the brightness, hue, luminosity and contrast. I made some brighter and some darker, and blurred it all.  I kept playing with it until I thought I understood what I was doing (not sure yet if that's true, lol), and stopped with this.  I like the feeling of light coming through the trees.  I love walking in the woods and I love it when the light streams through.