Drawing Digital: The complete guide for learning to draw & paint on your iPad

by Lisa Bardot

Overview

Learn how to draw digitally and get the most use out of your tablet with this book full of helpful tips, creative inspiration, and 12 step-by-step drawing and painting projects.

In Drawing Digital, artist and teacher Lisa Bardot, the expert behind @Bardot Brush, introduces the art of digital drawing. Using your tablet and Procreate, or another favorite drawing app, you can leave behind your pencil and paper and make art anywhere and at any time.

Lisa gets you started with a range of easy-to-follow projects, including:
 

• A still life
• A snake plant
• Cacti in the desert
• Flowers
• A dog
• A school of fish
• Self-portraits
• Characters
• City scenes
• And more!

Accompanying each project are complete step-by-step instructions and Lisa Bardot’s signature, vibrant artwork. Also in the book are:
 

• Tips for finding creative inspiration
• Information on tools
• App basics
• How to draw and paint lines and shapes
• Instructions for layering, duplicating, exporting, and more
• A review that promises to help you draw anything

The author works in Procreate; however, her instructions apply to any digital drawing app, so you can use whatever you have on hand. The projects, tips, and techniques offer the ideal starting point if you’re a beginner to digital drawing, but if you’re an expert, you’re sure to learn plenty from Lisa’s expert advice, as well. Lisa finds great joy in creating, and soon you will too, wherever and whenever you like to draw.

Kick start your creativity and learn to draw on your tablet with Drawing Digital!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780760385326
Publisher:	Walter Foster Publishing
Publication date:	10/17/2023
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	324,304
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Lisa Bardot is an illustration artist, a teacher, and an all-around creative person based in California. With the iPad and Procreate as her tools of choice, she creates educational tutorials, industry-leading digital brushes, and art-making resources to help beginners and experienced artists alike find joy in creating. Her educational videos about drawing and illustration have been viewed millions of times, and she receives high praise for her thorough, concise, and fun teaching style. Additionally, she runs the Making Art Everyday artistic prompt challenge, followed by thousands of participants worldwide. Check out more of Lisa’s work on Instagram at @lisabardot, @bardotbrush, or on the Bardot Brush YouTube channel.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1 Getting Set Up
Tools: Hardware & Software
Spotlight on Procreate
Essential Gestures
Selections
Transform
Exporting & File Formats
Printing & Resolution
2 Everyday Objects—Line & Shape
Learn Your Lines
Simple Shapes Practice
How Shapes Become Stuff
From Forms into 3D Objects
Project: Still-Life Sketch
3 Plants –Digital Art Essentials & Coloring
Brushes
Layers
Project: Learn Layers with Leaves
Alpha Lock & Masks
Blend Modes
Coloring Workflows
Project: Potted Snake Plant
Project: Colorized Line Art Cacti
Project: Painterly Trees & Grass
4 Flowers—Color & Style
Digital Color Theory
How to Draw Flowers
Project: Render a Poppy
What is Stylization?
Project: Vase of Flowers
5 Animals—Defining Features
Using References
Project: School of Fish
Take It From the Top: Animal Heads
Standing Tall: Animal Legs
Proportions & Exaggeration: Draw a Cow
Project: Draw a Furry Dog
6 People & Characters
Studying the Facial Features
Project: Stylized Self-Portrait
Body Proportions
Project: Build-a-Character
7 Making a Scene
How to Build a Scene: The Process
Project: Skewed Perspective Tabletop
Project: Cityscape
Project: Nature Scene
8 How to Draw Everything
How to Draw Everything
Resources
Index
Acknowledgments
 

Editorial Reviews

"The projects, tips, and techniques offer the ideal starting point if you're a beginner to digital drawing, but if you're an expert, you are still certain to learn plenty from Lisa's expert advice. Exceptionally well written with an accompanying wealth of full color images and illustrations, Drawing Digital is an ideal DIY instructional guide and manual."—Midwest Book Review

"Beginners will be drawing as soon as they start reading through this gorgeous, easy-to-follow book."—Library Journal

From the Publisher

10/01/2023

Illustrator and art instructor Bardot's book has the power to turn readers without drawing skills into artists. Via pages bursting with vivid colors—teal, yellow, tangerine—the book shows that the key is to use an iPad, an app called Procreate, which costs a one-time fee of $12.99 (there's also a free version with fewer features), and an Apple Pencil stylus. For budget-conscious readers, the book includes a sidebar list of apps with smaller price tags. Bardot also does an excellent job of encouraging and showing readers who don't have all these tools how to apply the book's instructions to drawing with a basic pen (or pencil) and paper. Clear illustrations on nearly every page guide readers through how to turn simple squares, circles, ovals, rectangles, and triangles into images of everyday objects (books, clocks, mugs, and more), plants, flowers, and progressively harder-to-execute animals, full scenes, and entire worlds. Readers will also gain knowledge about choosing digital brushes, layering, masking, mixing colors, lighting effects, stylizing, and creating palettes by importing photos into the app. The book includes an easy reference index and a list of additional resources. VERDICT Beginners will be drawing as soon as they start reading through this gorgeous, easy-to-follow book.—Jill Cox-Cordova

Library Journal