Wednesday WarmUp Review

Welcome!

For the past few months, this blog has hosted “Wednesday Warm Up,”— a day of usually quick drawing, inking, brushing as warm up to our serious art. I share a strategy to try each Wednesday using the iPad app ProCreate. I only use the native brushes in the app and often include the strategies with using them.

Goal

Today’s goal is to review what’s been shared– a look back to see the ideas and the progress. I do hope these have been as helpful to you as they have been for me. The video below is a rough rambling of the warm up categories so you can choose to try a few or add ideas in the comments.

Summary and Links

Shapes and Scribbles

• Doodle Ellipse: Quick shapes, lines, fills, muscle memory
• Doodle Squares: Using squares for quick thinking shapes and creatures, lines, muscle memory
• Square Erase: Quick thinking into shapes and creatures by erasing
• Symmetry Tool Erase: Use “erase” with symmetry tool to create colorful designs
• WarmUp Scribbles: Quick draw from a scribble, fill, texture, muscle memory
• Unblind Contour: Quick draw simple shapes for eye/hand memory; practice with brushes
• Frames and Details: Quick draw for muscle memory for smooth lines and quick drawings

Quick Florals

• Basic Florals: Smooth lines into floral shapes, whimsy, quick frame
• Pattern Florals: Take practice basics with a frame and create a pattern!
• Quick Floral Messages: The Splash Grid for a quick message; really fun way to create a quick pick-me-up card for a friend
• Symmetrical Florals: use the symmetry tool to create outlines for reusable flowers for the quick floral messages

Textures and Abstract

• Abstract Textures: Use textures to create framed abstract images

Brushes in Action

• Leopard spots: Using different brushes for quick doodles — here to create leopard spots
• Silk Painting: Different brushes and style for creating digital silk or wax paintings
• Florals with Brushes: Another look at florals, coloring, texture, layers with native brushes
• Cat Coin Bank Doodle: brushes as texture with layering

Miscellaneous

• Daily Create: a place with prompts for multi-media and medium imagining

Categories and Tags

• Category WarmUps — for all the warmups
• Category Brushes In Action — for all the posts on using brushes
• Tag #warmup4art — for all the posts with warm up strategies and fun
• IG Tag #warmup4art — all the Instagram posts and one for you to use and follow

Thank you for your interest and for your suggestions!