From reference, though I altered a few details (I skipped the tomatoes, for one), cartoon-style burger and fries because trying to do them realistically is not something I could manage in ten minutes. Or probably ten hours right now.
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I didn’t feel like drawing a proper salad, so ended up with this:
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I was going for a more stylized taco thinger here and only indirectly used reference. I’m not sure I like the results, but it was an interesting experiment.
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I tried a few different brushes but was pretty uninspired tonight. I like California rolls but drawing sushi isn’t exactly something on my bucket list.
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The most perfect food, pizza. This is a pretty much a line-for-line copy of a reference image, but it was a good exercise in terms of wrangling layers and colors.
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Mmm, cupcake. From a reference drawing. It turned out OK.
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Done using the basic round brush and studio pen.
I decided to add the face kind of at the last minute. It’s happy candy corn.
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This one was weird. I had reference photos ready but just used the brush pen in Procreate to draw the rough shape of a donut, then started adding colors and using the smudge tool to lightly blend everything together. I then added sprinkles.
I realized the color of the donut was off–it almost looked uncooked. Grossbuckets. I then used alpha lock to try painting over with a more golden brown, but finding the exact shade proved difficult. I then tried playing around with all the different layer options and discovered that choosing Difference resulted in the tan-colored donut becoming a dark, more chocolate-like donut, so I fiddled a bit more and while it’s not great, it was interesting to experiment and find a way to get closer to what I wanted without starting over.
First, the dark donut:
And the yet-to-be-baked donut:
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I had shading and stuff on this originally, but I got so fed up with how it looked that I removed all of it. Then I looked at the new version and hated it more, so I brought the shading back, but simplified it, and added a thin black outline, which I had originally skipped. Art!
I did spend a lot of time playing around with alpha lock, which will help in the future.
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I made a bunch of cookies and hated them all. Then I made this one and stamped it three times and declared myself done.
I don’t like it, but I don’t hate it.
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I spent a lot of time on the ice cream scoop, using different brushes, blending and generally trying to get some decent shading/painterly look to the thing. I gave up and went with the ultra-simple cone you see below.
This turned out a lot different than what I was originally going for (a kind of watercolor effect) but it’s still okay.
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