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How to create a simple gold/silver text effect in Procreate (and photoshop!)
Here’s a small tutorial on how to create a gold/silver text effect with procreate app. The best part? The best part? It works for photoshop too! Before getting started let’s gather our resources. They are not many, it’s a simple tutorial. All you need is two images. An image with ...
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How to create a “Supernatural” text effect in Procreate
A simple and quick, but also useful tutorial on how to create a “Supernatural” text effect in Procreate. I am talking about this one: Here is my Procreate workflow: 1. Choose your background It can be a simple one-color background or a complex illustration. Since we are talking about “Supernatural”, ...
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Tools of the Trade
So, today is the big day. Decided to share all my secret weapons when drawing with graphite! Not that it is a secret formula, by the end of the post you might feel disappointed guys. Anyways, below is shown my recent drawing and ALL the tools I used to create ...
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Catching Fire – Procreate Painting Demo
Catching Fire. Heavily referenced by Katniss, however she is not supposed to look like her. Anyways, this post is all about using and manipulating fire in a digital painting. Painting was done on an iPad Pro, using Apple Pencil and procreate app, but the process can be applied in photoshop ...
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Painting Javier Bardem as Captain Salazar
Painting Javier Bardem as Captain Salazar today, and demonstrating how to use my custom crack (and other) brushes in an artwork. Pirates of the Caribbean 5, aka “Dead Men tell no tales” was an amazing movie and the least I can do is pay a small tribute. 🙂 Like most ...
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Painting Gal Gadot as WonderWoman
My hand was itching to make a few strokes the other day and I ended up painting Gal Gadot as WonderWoman. I haven’t been able to draw traditionally lately, and it seems a lot of time will pass until I will have the time and energy to do so. Sorry ...
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Ambigrams vol2
Welcome to Ambigrams Vol.2! As I already stated I am currently loving making ambigrams. So much that I originally I planned to make one design per day, for the whole year. And although I haven’t failed yet, strictly speaking, I think it was a long shot. Anyways, I had a lot ...
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Ambigrams
Earlier this year I took interest in designing tattoos. Naturally I came across typography, calligraphy, and recently ambigrams. What is an ambigram? An ambigram is basically a word or phrase that when you flip it over, it reads the same with another word or phrase. They actually combine all my ...
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The end of an era?
And the beginning of a new. I am referring to “Pencil Drawing Adventures” of course. As you might have noticed, I rebranded my site and social media recently. “Joanna Vu Pencil Art” had become “JoannaVu Art & Design” to include most of my current work which unfortunately isn’t pencil work… ...
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Ioanna Ladopoulou
I am a designer and illustrator and I love everthing creative!
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