Amaryllis Creations by Genevieve Crabe
Digital Art, Classes, and More
I have been working again with Alaina Jensen’s alcohol ink brushes for Procreate. In this one, I have gotten away from my usual bright colours for a pretty cool result.
This is a portrait of my friend’s dog Leo, where I used a couple of Alaina’s brushes to create a colourful texture that I blended with Leo’s photo.
In real life, since alcohol inks are transparent, they can’t really be used on a dark surface. But digitally, there are ways around that. Here’s an example.
Recently, I discovered a wonderful set of Procreate brushes by Alaina Jensen that reproduce the look of alcohol inks digitally.
The background in this piece is a scan of real alcohol ink, to which I added some digital alcohol ink with Alaina’s brushes.
This one was done entirely in Procreate. I put the alcohol ink on a black background, which is not really possible in real life because of the transparency of the inks.
In this one, I started with a cut-out version of one of my mandalas, and used one of Alaina’s brushes in several colours for the background.
This final one is another hybrid painting. I started with a texture I created with real alcohol ink, then I added some extra texture with Alaina’s brushes in green and gold. Then I added the black octopus silhouette, and use another one of Alaina’s brushes in red and orange for texture.
I recently discovered alcohol inks, and lots of YouTube videos showing the cool things you can do with them. I created a bunch of background textures for my digital art.
Here is one of the textures I created.
and here are two copies of one of the gradients from Set 023 of my digital papers.
Using the blending techniques I talked about in my last video, I created these four different blends. I can’t figure out which is my favourites.
