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There is a slideshow of art and artists at end of post. You can’t see his face, but that’s Paul in the mirror, just right of center at the very tippy top of the frame, cutting off his own head…
Procreate, side by side, freehand drawing using photo reference that I took myself while at a red light on Olive Ave. in Merced, CA.
Nutritional Products, 551 Main St., Merced., CA 95340
Procreate
My own iPhone photo.
Progress video (accelerated), click here.
“Merced Main Street, after the rain and before the sun. So peaceful and beautiful in its own right.” These words set the stage for this photograph (as in click here to see it) from Tanisha’s Facebook page (via Instagram…Cf. @ quichefairy). With her permission I downloaded (and credited) her photo and used it liberally as a side-by-side reference to produce the following digital, freehand study on my iPad in Procreate. If I’ve tagged it properly and thoroughly, you’ll see suggested links below or, at least, a bunch of tags down there to other posts featuring downtown Merced, CA and, in particular, the 17th Street Public House, where Tanisha performs – among other places. Please check out her photo; my rendition barely approximates the beauty that Tanisha caught by surprise!
(Click on image to enlarge to full size: 2048 X 2048.)
Another evening walk with Cowboy along Rascal Bike Path in Merced, CA.
If I’m lucky, when I take Cowboy over to Rahilly Park for his morning constitutional, I can catch the sun coming up as I cross El Portal in relation to the Water Tower next to the Merced County Fire Department, McKee Station. This morning the timing was just right, and I captured it on my iPhone. I had been wanting to sketch that scene in a digital drawing using Procreate. Today was the day. In a previous post I featured the same water tower from a different angle and at another time of day in a drawing in Paper 53.
Sunrise behind the water tower Click image to enlarge to full size – 3508 x 2480 © Paul J. Longo
This beauty caught my eye earlier today while I was walking Cowboy. It’s either a 1960 or 1961 GMC pickup truck.
I took this iPhone photo around 7:45 am, imported it into Procreate, and sketched it side by side, freehand.
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Schoolbus pulling onto El Portal from Cascade Creek in the morning. I wanted to catch it rounding the corner behind the stop sign with my iPhone camera.
I used the photo reference to render a side by side, freehand sketch in Procreate followed by final processing in iColorama.
That’s when Cowboy and I saw this old car in nearby Rahilly Park.
I’ve sketched other vehicles, click here to view.
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Here’s the photo I took of Skip’s Old Ford pickup, which I rendered in Procreate. He told me the year, but now I’m not sure he said 1967 or 1968. This guide might help the curious.
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