creating a swan in procreate- episode 4

video - Episode 4

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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.

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Drawing A Swan in Procreate Transcript:

• 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!