Wednesday WrapUp Prompts Galore

Welcome

On most Wednesdays, check this blog for a strategy, process, or reflection for illustration with the iPad app ProCreate or Affinity Designer. This week I’ve several projects: prompts done in various styles for “Simple Joys” #makingarteveryday prompts, prompts from Jennifer Nichols and CatCoq as well as four sets of December Prompts. Busy bee! See which you’d like to try!

Jennifer Nichols

This gallery art is from classes and prompts by Jennifer Nichols in her Creative Journey Community. You can see an intro video of her membership on YouTube. I am an affiliate to Jennifer Nichols Creative Journey Membership only. The link I share for the membership is the only link that earns me a bit. 

On the left is from Jennifer’s December Weekly prompts [scroll down to December– or choose any prompt]. This week’s prompt was sweater. I chose to use Jenn’s huge multi-style brush set called Potpourri. The background was a quick swish of wet acrylic. Most of the rest was with a thick gouache brush. This is a “wikipaintia*” of the brushes and palette used for the sweater prompt.

The other two illustrations are from classes: Abstract Rock Art and Gingerbread Cookies in her Creative Journey Community.

The cookie class included brushes for the icing and cookies with a strategy for applying the distort tool to “lay” the cookies on a plate, which I tried in the illustration above.

The abstract rock class now includes a brush set with special mark making brushes and a “How TO” practice procreate document for mark making. Very helpful. Jen’s brushes are well designed to mimmic the style of the set, from pencils to pens like micron and Posca or gouache and acrylic. I’m ready for Rock Painting Class 2!

*Wikipaintia is a term created by Creative Journey member Gaby Fischer as a way to document the brushes and palettes used as a record for the painter and for sharing.

CatCoq

I love painting my fairies in different pieces, and these leaves are also part of collections and designs. I gathered them together once again for last week’s prompt from CatCoq’s newsletter: hand written texts. I love autumn leaves and feel like there’s a bit of magic in them. Hence. the illustration, which I shared on IG.

A Collection of Prompts

My CLmooc international friends enjoy doodling together, so this month I’m working through choices from our friend Melvina’s collection of prompts, seen above. She gathers these and posts them in our FG group for us to choose as we can.

So far, I’ve illustrated cocoa, “hello December,” wreath, and trees; I’ve turned them into cards:

I try different styles. The snowman and trees are midcentury. The cocoa is stylized and the wreath is based on that abstract folk art of the rock painting above.

As you can see, there are many different prompt collections out there in the art world. Which will you choose?

Making Art Every Day

Finally, I finished up the “Simple Joys” prompts at Bardot Brush Making Art Every Day prompts [scroll down].

Here’s the other 26 days: