Procreate and Paint: Create a Townscape

This class combines all the beauty and randomness of real acrylic paint with digital art, using Procreate on the iPad to create two townscapes, loosely based on a place of your choice.

We'll start messy and wild, using paint on paper with all sorts of techniques to make wonderful textured abstract backgrounds.  We will create beautiful, spontaneous and varied surfaces by painting, smearing, splashing, dragging, dabbing, scratching and generally making a glorious mess.

Then we’ll bring that into Procreate. 

We'll look closely at the background paintings, and find ways to discover and pull out houses and buildings to base our town on. 

Then we will add all the fun little details to really bring our painting alive.

I love to combine real art materials with Procreate. The element of chance and randomness at the beginning avoids overthinking and blank page paralysis and helps to spark creativity and find new ways of looking and discovering inspiration through process. 

When we’ve finished you’ll be able to use this method as a starting point to discover all sorts of inspiration for your own original and imaginative artwork.

As always, I'll share plenty of my tips and tricks as we go.

This class is suitable for all levels. 

If you are new to Procreate you might like to take my introductory class first:

iPad Art: Create a Monster in Procreate

You might also enjoy these related classes.

Travel Sketching: Capture a Favourite Place in Watercolor

and

iPad Art: Paint Semi-Abstract Landscapes in Procreate

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Enough of that, let’s get painting!

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Music attribution: Champ de Tournesol and A Good Bass for Gambling by the wonderful Komiku at FreePD