So these past few weeks have been weird. Last Monday, for some reason I just kept rolling ones. No matter how much I tried to just do the next thing, everything just kept going wrong. I was so exhausted when I got back home. So on Tuesday, I decided I just wanted to color, it tends to make me feel better and so that’s what I was going to do. I took the color palette from Monday’s Procreate Bootcamp prompt and just starting drawing daisy-like flowers. It was all going well I was adding odd colors to the mix to make my petals have some variation. Then, somehow it turned into a grudge match with myself to just get the color palette to work. For some reason, when I tried to add other elements or a background color I just didn’t like it…

Grudge Match:

After several tries, I decided to change the leaves, add other elements and try other colors… this project took me two days! When I was finally finished, I was tired of it and bored. Still not sure I like it. Some parts of the project were fun and I learned some stuff, but overall, it was exhausting. I think I made it too complicated, or maybe I needed to wrestle with something because Monday was such a bad day, not sure.

Artwork: Finished and Workshops

I thought I’d also show some of the other art I’ve done in the past few weeks…

The first two are from Procreate Bootcamp prompts, and the last two are from Procreate Bootcamp Workshops (2hrs Live on a Saturday).

Procreate Bootcamp ends tomorrow, and somehow I am way behind on my homework. Out of 17 prompts (we get the 18th prompt tomorrow), I didn’t do 6 of them. Either I ran out of time, or I couldn’t think of something to draw right away and am still figuring it out. Or in the case of last Tuesday, I played with the color palette, but not the prompt, so I’m counting that as not done yet.

WIP:

Anyway, I have a couple of pieces that I’m currently working on.

This weird thing came out of me… I guess sometimes I need to go back to the abstract when I’m getting frustrated with the figurative. Anyway, I feel like I need to rewatch parts of the glow workshop to make this work like I want.

That’s all I have for now. Just trying to keep up. Adulting is hard.

Until next time…

~nic