I’m not a complete fan of Nicki Fitz-Gerald‘s work but I do like the stuff she has done lately for her upcoming Procreate course. Her Weymouth beach/promenade images work rather well with this type of manipulation.
I found a 60 second video of her mashing up an image in Procreate which probably tells me all I need to know. It reminds me a lot of how I used to use Photoshop and now that Procreate has masking etc, I must go back to doing some of this stuff. Rather like creating FotoDa images but with all the control. Of course you have to have some good basic elements to add to the mix and now that Apple have added a decent filing system, it‘s much easier to put a library together.
This was a quick attempt that I made by following the video step by step although I went back and messed with all the blending modes.
I turned down the speed on YouTube to it’s lowest and that made watching much easier. I cut out the tree in SuperImposeX - just find it easier. The resulting image ended up having too much of the same colour but was a fun experiment and gave me ideas of how I would plan it next time.
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I noticed that she used Nikko’s brushes which are my absolute favourites and which I use almost exclusively apart from the new mono pen I now have from Teela. I went on a course a good few years back to get Nikko’s brushes not knowing you can just download them. However the course wasn’t expensive and so glad to support him. I did find the explanation of brush settings by Teela Cunningham in her free course easier to follow though.
Here is a link to Nikko’s brushes:
https://folio.procreate.art/discussions/10/28/22330
Also a link to him speed painting which will get you to his wonderful YouTube channel:
Here is a link to Nikki’s video: