Using My New Favorite Brush In Procreate 

This feels like your cool older brother finally let you in his room

I adore that you aren't spamming us with information, I can finally be able to follow an artist's painting process and not get lost. This has just given me some much needed insight.

Yes Grady, you're so right about the round brush. I've been using it in the ways you described for about 6 or 7 years now and what I love about it is its versatility. Just change the size and you easily get from a sketching pencil to a "blocking in" brush and save a lot of time by not having to change brushes so often.

I love how this piece is both dark and colorful, it reminds me of certain areas of the first Gears of War which was one my favorite games in terms of visuals. Nice work!

I love how you only stick with 2 brushes, yet creating so much texture and so compelling to look at!!

I used to overwhelmed by all the brushes and layers. Lately I've kind of resorted to the same idea, except I like to use the flat brush or oil paint chunky in Adobe Fresco-and use minimal layers. I'll use the airbrush for the sky sometimes. It makes my art flow so much better for me.

Keeping it simple and not getting lost in the vast brush library is great advice. I'm new to Procreate and have been working with it for a couple of months, and this is great advice. Thanks

I love the „Diablo“-feeling throughout the vid (scene + music) ❤

I did a couple "not so successful" paintings with just the round brush and it really helps to keep the focus on just painting and not get lost in the technical side of things. I need to go back to that.

he says : i hope you like this.... me who is learning concept art.. and can't find the right words to describe how much i loved this!!

As a portrait artist that often gets lost in my own brush library, I needed this. I also related to your point about sometimes making the mistake of being too zoomed in & focused on rendering in little details then zooming out & noticing a few things feel "stiff". Your finished piece was amazing btw.

Awesome, I really struggle with drawing this way, love the concept feel.

I would really love to see a full process video

absolutely stunning work with just the round brush. going to try this myself. Thanks

Love the painting!!! And the video!

Thank you Grady👍🏻

I did a portrait like this, using the round brush, its the best way to learn abour colours and values because it really forces you to think because you're restricted. Very fun

This was incredibly helpful and insightful for me! I tend to zoom in close and get lost in the details, then get frustrated when the magic of my sketches is lost and I spent so much time and effort to end up with a lifeless, stiff piece. You explained it so well and sort of put into words the concept of simplicity and staying zoomed out that I haven’t quite been able to put a finger on until now. Really great work.

I arrived at the same conclusion as you with the round brushes about 3 months ago I enjoy your posts 👏👏

Stunning as always! Thank you so much for sharing your workflow 🙏

Great stuff, Grady!

glad i found you on here, Ive been a fan of your work for a while from artstation, love your style

This was so amazing i learned so much from it and everything was so eye pleasing to watch

Fantastic mood :) and that one candlelit window does so much!

Wow so fresh and painterly! It’s like the digital painting now it has its own identity

Hi Grady! Just passing by to say that I'm enjoying every art you make, it's a pleasure and a learning experience at the same time! Thank you very much!

Been falling back to the round brush to force myself to simplify and focus on the important things first. It's hard :D . Thanks again for your insights and down to earth presentation. Looking forward to the next one!

Thanks Grady! 10:33 - 11:30 resonated with me really well. I still do find myself doing that sometimes, working on it though. thanks for sharing your art and thought process! love these videos!

This took only 2.5 hours? Man i would spent days and days and would still get a sub-par result. This looks magnificent brother. Maasallah

That was such an awesome thing you said....I struggle with it everytime. When I've just focused on filling out details in part of the image and everything else now doesn't match. Thank you!!!

Ive been getting into drawing lately and trying to make it a habit. Im having a hard time doing even quick sketches with my perfectionist mindset so this style and all the tips in the video sounded like a good way to avoid that! Awesome piece with only a round brush, new sub here!

awesome video!!! this is super helpful! i also only use Roundbrush and normally don't have a problem rendering props and characters but i do strugglehard with environments. So it is really nice to see your approach here! immediately bookmarked the video

Dude, i love your Videos! Pls keep uploading

Man, the mood in this KIIILLS. And I'm the mood guy around these here parts :P

Oof that's stunning...😮

Keep up the new content Grady! It’s great to watch the stuff you put out and I’m loving the focus on procreate since that’s all my peasant hands can afford right now!

Is it weird i play your video as my snooze sounds. LOVE YOUR WORK!

you have been doing gods work my friend

I dont use procreate but popped up in this video to say that your content is amazing, thank you so much man, every video is so informative. awesome

Wow. That’s very cool man!

The mood of the piece knocked me off my feet. Goddamn!

You convinced me: I will draw like this until I'm reaching the level I expect my sketches should have. I have precisely the problem you mentioned about details. Thanks to simplify the process to two brushes! I have a simple, possibly silly question: do you have some basic rules for the size and opacity of the brushes, to simplify the process even further? Edit, I forgot: great art sketch as always!

i fucking love the little sketches , amazing dude, amazing

Hey new subscriber here. First off I like how simple it is but gives off the character that it's supposed to have. I just wish you mentioned if how you use layer modes.

I don't know how you do it, but it's amazing

Thnak you for your videos, big love from HAITI🇭🇹

so cool!

I have this barrier in my brain where I cant comprehend the time spent creating a piece like this because its sped up, and it makes me think I need to paint fast af, and then I get frustrated. How long do things like this take you?

Great Video! Again! Would you consider leaving a link to the full time lapse of your work? Thank you very much for putting content like this

thank u so much ... i could not understand how you changed colored suddenly from gray to colors

Really loved the thumbnails, before making a piece do you have a set amount of them that you like to sketch? Amazing video and art piece as always :)

Really great work

loved the tips and not zooming in is a great idea

Were you using the round brush and then smudging it out with the round brush as well?

How do you record the timelapse of your paintings? I realy love your work, I'm a new sub!

Do you ever use reference? If so, where do you typically go for it?

Thanks you❤

Thanks for your time.

You are great!!

Beautiful

How do you color it? Do you use layers and put on a filter? and what kind of filter if so? id love to know!

amazing as always ! very inspiring ! Do you think you could drop your pinterest page (the architectural one)?

How did you transform all your greyscale values into green at once??

How is this style of coloring called??I want to search a tutorial of how to do it

I will try to draw a grayscale into color Thank you

What's the name of the background music? It's so calming to draw

❤

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How can I get this brush?

Thanks for sharing the video! I hope you'll continue to upload your experiments with the hard round brush. Because honestly, as a beginner, the round brush feels scary. It's not as painterly as some of the other brushes I've messed around with which I've tried blending colors with. The round brushes strong graphic designy texture stays on the canvas and shows everyone how bad I truly am. That's why I've been messing around with with the harder edge airbrushes in Procreate. The hard edge and medium edge one. These feel way less forgiving. But that's also why I respect a painting like this a lot which ends up looking great despite the - in my eyes - very unpredictable nature of the standard round brush.

omg

Nice

*Looks at thumbnail* *clicks quickly* *goes directly to description* *dissapointed*

People that are in charge of dungeons and dragons should be contacting you.

ok now send all your skills via email i need them ! 😅amazingly done