When I was first starting out on procreate, I decided to practice drawing Malaysian food illustrations. Making the transition from traditional art to digital art is a bit of a learning curve! I’ve had tablets before but always found I couldn’t quite replicate the expressiveness and depth of what I wanted on a computer. So I stuck to traditional art.
But since investing in an iPad, I’ve been using it for all kinds of things like notetaking and study. My main purpose was to create art with it. I do think the apple pencil was such game-changer for me! It’s so responsive.
I started in December of 2019. I practiced a lot. For some reason, I drew a lot of food. Hmmm, I wonder why?
I found this amongst my collection of Malaysian food illustrations.
It’s a drawing of a delicious Malaysian dessert dish called ‘CENDOL’. Ugh, my mouth is watering just thinking about it. I haven’t finished it yet but I wanted to show a progress picture. This is part of my 100 days project. I’m not great at updating Instagram but decided I would try to post for 100 days. If you would like to keep updated with me (I promise I’ll stick to the challenge) please follow me on my instagram.
My favourite brushes are pencils and paintbrushes. Particularly the 6b pencil and in this image I believe I used the gouache brush! To give a painterly textured effect. I feel that it gives a more expressive feel.
Right now I think this pandemic has made us all a little food crazy, we’re either stress baking or comfort eating. I will add to this and post more food illustrations soon! 🙂
