Here is my first try at doing a cartoon in Procreate.

It is my first steps.  Like a baby picture.  I’ve been getting my arm twisted by my son and a bunch of my artists to get off of Photoshop and my desktop Mac, and move to Procreate on an iPad.  Here’s a detail.

My son, Buster, is doing all of his art on the iPad now, as are many of the CagleCartoonists. Some of them brag about how little time it takes them to color their cartoons. Rivers, our anonymous, conservative cartoonist is an example – he draws his cartoons alarmingly quickly in Procreate.

Rivers‘ linework is wonderful.  He created his own “pen” for Procreate, that he shared with me and has been encouraging me to use. It is a lovely “pen” but I’m not there yet. I didn’t draw this cartoon in Procreate, I only painted it on the iPad and drew it in pencil on paper.  I know.  I’m late coming to this, and it took a lot of nagging to get me here, and this first one was a struggle – but I see that I have to do it.

I used watercolor brushes for this one, and it really does look like watercolor. Everyone can witness my next, painful baby steps with my next cartoons.  (I cringe looking at this one.)  If drawing cartoons was easier and faster, I would draw more cartoons, which is something I really should be doing.

There’s a lot I give up with Procreate. I like CMYK and true black lines on the K channel.  Procreate doesn’t do that, and a lot of the things that Photoshop does easily are a challenge in Procreate. Still, gotta do it.

Here’s one from Rivers done in Procreate with his lovely pen.

Here’s one from Pat Bagley, drawn in Procreate, with his charming “carpenter’s pencil” lines.

Here’s a lovely, bloody oldie from the great Steve Sack, all done in Procreate.

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