Made using iPad Pro 2020 in the Procreate app with Apple Pencil using brushes from my Acrylic Pour brush set and colors from my Fluid Acrylic Dark color palette which comes with the brushes.
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Canvas size is 3000 by 2000 pixels.
Specific Brushes Used:
- Basic Starter
- Swipe with Cells 7
- Swipe with Cells 8
- Dynamic Cells 2
- Dynamic Cells 3
- Swipe with Cells 4
- Dynamic Cells 1 | Dual Color Tilt
- Blow Torch | Tiny Cells
- Add Cell Texture
- Add Ripple Texture
- Gilding Leaf
Today, I am taking you guys along with me as I play with my new brushes - let’s see what we come up with!
I’m keeping a white background because I’m interested in a “contained” look today, where the art does not reach out completely to the edges of the canvas. I want it to appear as if we had poured white paint onto the canvas, and then poured the colors on and allowed them to seep out into the white.
I love how intuitive the creative process for abstract art is. To start, I’m using the Basic Starter brush to add a progression of colors I am drawn to in a “sort-of” pattern. I then apply the Liquify tool in Procreate and increase the brush size to add some larger whooshes of color.
I’m focusing on finding color combinations that I love through experimentation. I’m not overly concerned with shape, since the Liquify tool is changing that.
Selecting the Liquify tool, and pushing the distortion all the way up, which creates a very realistic ripple effect. I’m experimenting with other settings as well, and by and large - cranking them up high.
A great perk of the Liquify tool is that if you're starting to dislike a certain color or area, you can always just knead it around until you are happy with the results. If you really don't like something, you can always use edge and then just zip it up a little bit tighter so that it basically disappears. The smaller your size is with liquify the more control you're going to have over the whole thing.
Once I am happy with the general shape and colors, I select my Cell 7 brush and make small swipes with it. I’m starting my pencil in a darker color and dragging it over to a lighter color. Sometimes I’ll just come in from the side and drag some of that white background onto the color. If I don’t like the cell pattern that emerges, I undo and try again.
The Swiping Cells brushes are good for swiping/integrating the colors that are already on the canvas, which means they work best in a piece with contrasting colors and would not be a good fit for a more monochromatic piece.
I’m going to switch it up by changing my brush to Cell 8 - this brush goes well with cell 7 and have a similar large, dense pattern.
I test out my Dynamic Cell brushes (found in Smudge tools) hoping for a more dramatic look. I do add some interesting texture, but soon switch back to my Swiping with Cells 4 brush to add a wispy look.
With these Swipe with Cells brushes, if you go really fast you're going to push a lot out of the way - but if you go a bit slow and just kind of let it let it wiggle as it's going in, you can get more of a soft faded look.
Heading back to the Smudge tool, I select Dynamic Cells 1 Dual Color Tilt to flick the white from the outside inwards towards the center of the piece.
Next, I select my Blowtorch brush to add a bit more texture. This brush gets bigger and more opaque the harder you press.
From the bottom of the brush list, I am going to select two blender brushes: Add Cell Texture and Add Ripple Texture brushes, and apply them in areas where we don’t have a lot of texture going on. The effect very subtle. I’m going to play with the opacity, because if you have a light colored artwork then you'll want the opacity higher - but if you have a dark colored artwork then it might stand out a bit too much. These brushes also get darker as you push harder.
Returning to the Liquify Tool, similar to a previous tutorial I just made - we're going to use the Expand setting to add a bit of interest to some of these cells. I’ve got my distortion down to 14 and my size to 20, but I’ll keep playing with that depending on how big these cells are.
As a finishing touch, I would like to add some gold in the little rivers and veins of this piece, so I’m adding a new layer above everything else. With my Fluid Acrylic Dark palette, I’m choosing and gold shade and applying with my Gilding Leaf brush. I’m tracing along the lines that already are there and letting the pressure vary a lot. The gold and the yellow don't really contrast very well so I’m trying to avoid the yellow as much as possible.
That finishes up this piece! Thank you for watching and please join us next time 😊
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