“Sweet Summer” Digital Illustration Collection, Volume 1

Artist Notes

I really enjoyed the entire process of creating these illustrations, It allowed me the opportunity to work with a ton of interesting textures – from the rough outer peel of the orange to the smooth, wet surface of the popsicles.

The Process

Procreate App on iPad Pro 9.7″

Each object began as a rough sketch, outlined with a simple sketch brush in Procreate. Once I was satisfied with the overall shape, I created another layer and began blocking out the shape using the main color as a base. Then the sketch layer was moved back to the top and opacity was set to around 10%.

Alpha lock was enabled on the color block layer to ensure the overall shape stayed the same. Then I used a variety of mono, sketch, and watercolor brushes to add additional color and details, blending and adjusting as needed. Finally, I used a custom semi-transparent watercolor brush with a screen blend mode to add the highlights and a separate watercolor brush with a multiply blend to add the shadows.

Procreate Canvas Information

• Pixel dimensions: 2400px x 2400px
• Physical dimensions: 8″ x 8″
• DPI: 300
• Layers used: 8
• Color space: sRGB Standard Color
• Strokes made: 138760
• Tracked time: 65h 43m
• Image file size: 48.71 MB

Modified in Adobe Photoshop

After drawing each illustration in Procreate, they were exported to Photoshop as a layered PSD file. Then they were then converted into individual art boards before being exported as individual transparent PNG files.