How I paint MOOD in Procreate

[@caras5590]

yoo your brushes are crazy affordable. i appreciate that so much.

[@Xiran]

I don't comment often, but.. this particular piece feels so incredibly ethereal. I love your color palette and the brush strokes in the sky and how almost... organic-looking the castle feels. Beautiful work, as always.

[@angrymikko]

Thank you 🐻🐴

[@angrymikko]

I don’t know why but I started smiling like an idiot after I added the horses 🐴 🐴. If you are ever in doubt just add horses ☝️fixes everything. (professional art advice)

[@Karisma_tic]

😂Gotcha

[@cadencornobi5796]

I love the line "When a painting is done, you don't see it... you feel it."

[@damianjames6829]

Haven’t seen one of videos in a while and now I remember the feelings I used to have watching your videos. Awesome work I missed this 👍🏼

[@angrymikko]

Still doing these. I don’t think I’ll ever get bored of making art.

[@DrakenGuardz]

"Art is not seen, it is felt". I absolutely love that. There's some kind of extra quality that happens at some point during the process, and I believe letting go of that perfectionism idea is so important to stay free and loose to convey mood. Great video :)

[@3mpt1n3ss]

A Buddhist teacher once said that all the senses penetrate a piece of art, not just sight. Feeling the painting to me means exactly that. It is not a tangible sensory experience, but a subtle one of the mind. It makes sense to all your senses and creates an esthetic whole instead of a mere sum of pieces. For the artist this can be a painful process to create, bc during most of your work you work on the pieces and it can be a fractured experience. Perfectionism to me also is piece work, necessary but also important to be abandoned at some point.

[@mellydew]

Your comments on art always have such an insightful perspective, thank you for sharing

[@ashleyl.jumper9266]

I have been a perfectionist since I was 5 and I can tell you, you're absolutely right in how we get caught up on details that aren't even the main focus and we can overwork the main focus itself. It is my biggest challenge so far. Love your channel, so helpful!

[@khunagueroagnis2558]

Every video you make is a gem, thank you for the great video again!

[@angrymikko]

I feel like I’ve been working all week and also accomplished nothing so it was nice to finally upload this one 🐻

[@liliastobbeart]

this art is amazing. I really love your style

[@travisk6553]

Great video Mikko! As always, I feel so incredibly inspired!

[@angrymikko]

This might sound weird but doing the second livestream felt so calming in the middle of the week. I know that in the long term it’s not ideal to spend so much time on a live with only a few people present but given what’s going on it felt like going to a coffee shop to paint with friends. It was definitely the highlight of my week :)

[@morning_dew922]

I bought an iPad for the 1st time in 8 years after watching one of your videos. I wanted to try digital aart and I wondered if there was an easier way of learning

[@toufu1417]

You make me feel inspired to do background art. Your video is wonderful!

[@jss3018]

Beautiful!

[@asapoorvshrivastava]

Love ur artwork very relaxing 🙏🏽😌

[@angrymikko]

Glad to hear that 🐻

[@duru1568]

3:55 shakie hands huh? Thats insane🔥🔥

[@angrymikko]

With the drawing assist on it’s impossible to draw non-quickshape lines that wouldn’t align to existing vanishing points. I have it set to the middle button between brush size and opacity to make switching it on and off as fast as possible.

[@Karisma_tic]

Mikko the GOAT

[@angrymikko]

🐐

[@SM-pk4jv]

hey man, love the video as always. Just curious, how did you learn how to create things like this from your head? where would you point someone who is decent with references but struggles with concepts? Thanks! also is your colour choice purely instinctual or is there a formula? :)

[@angrymikko]

I recommend drawing lots of castles from reference. Then when you’re making new castles a few years later it’s easier to improvise based on the composition needs of the artwork. Colours can only be learned by using them. Start painting with colours and don’t do black and white under paintings. That’s the fastest way to get better at it.

[@mzeroc1er]

A lot of times when i sit down to make art i think, its such a long road to the end. Mind you, this is only with doing a painterly style like this, illustration work is so much easier for my brain bc its cartoony and i can break down what i am doing in my mind much easier; here's my outline, it gets color inside it, and i can identify all the areas that need colour in them, but a painterly style like this, for me, is leaps and bounds harder. And its bc you paint everything all at once? At least in my mind thats how i see it, and so the transitions from area to area are blurred and seamless, and i rely on those seams to give me boundaries... i want to be able to paint like this, the thinking involved to do it is the difference between heiroglyphs and regular lettering to convey a message or thought. Its hard to switch from writing a sentence to convey a message, to drawing (or actually painting in this instance) a picture that conveys an entire paragraph of infornation. When i illustrate i have structure, when i paint like this its chaos i am trying to make into order.

[@LufeSycamore]

I really loved it!

[@j.g7006]

Hey Mikko! Just wondering, what iPad version are you using?

[@angrymikko]

The larger of the 2 with M1 chip. I’m probably going to skip the next one because it’s kinda wasteful to keep buying the latest ones when the apps really don’t need any more power for the most part. Not until we get proper video editing or 3d programs that rival the desktop counterparts.

[@3mpt1n3ss]

Hi Mikko! Thank you so much for sharing your experience and your wonderful pieces of art. 💖🙏🏻✨ I have a question about staying true to the color/hue of the light source as one important aspect of creating/maintaining mood. Do you mean adding black and white is a mistake when it is just purely black and/or white put on top, instead of using tints and shades of the hue of the light source?

[@angrymikko]

Darkening the colour without any change in hue is a mistake.

[@3mpt1n3ss]

@@angrymikko Ah! Oh… 😅

[@jaqez]

Hieno työ! Mitäs kursseja vedät?

[@muhammadmustaidz2483]

How to start drawing like you bro?

[@angrymikko]

Start drawing. Tons of process videos on this channel for free and even more tutorials on the membership.

[@chukukaogude5894]

I started digital painting in 2020. I learned from traditional artists on YT on how to paint..I am nowhere near this skill, but this is where I am trying to bring my journey to. I can paint people decently, I can paint landscapes decently, I can paint man made objects decently. That's what I built in the first 2 years. I tried making stuff from fantasy like different animals on diffrent planets and it looks so boring,unrealistic and bland. I don't have the skills yet to build a scene yet. I know I have to work on that. I'm doing simple stuff right now by changing stuff that exists in our own world around. Nothing special or crazy. I subscribed to gain some inspiration from this channel.

[@angrymikko]

Always use a reference when you need one. I have tons of horse photos on my phone that I dig out whenever I need them.

[@chukukaogude5894]

@@angrymikko That's one of the problems. Finding good reference photos on the internet that aren't overly shopped. I may not be searching for the right things. I wish I could go outside and start taking pictures but the buildings, landscapes and structures in the city I live are boring. Do you have any suggestions on finding good references?

[@angrymikko]

When at all possible the best option is to have a live reference. Ipad enables to paint on location in ways that weren’t before possible so above all else I recommend using that to your advantage. With photos I recommend avoiding using only one reference because it’s almost impossible to have any understanding of the 3d volume of the subject from a still photograph. There’s nothing bad about just simple phone snaps because at least you always know you own the rights to the reference material you’re using and that you took them the way that you see the world. Photography is already art and it’s best to be in control of your own framing and composition instead of having someone else do the most important part (composition) of any painting for you. There are options though even if the area in which you live might seem boring. For example google street view doesn’t have edges as you can rotate the camera freely in areas where they have used 360 cameras. There are also plenty of accurate 3d models for different animal skeletons which are really handy when trying to understand the anatomy of an animal that you wouldn’t be able to take photos of. When combined with references (plural!) it’s easier to form an idea of what that shape looks like. Then when you’re adding lights. They can be specific to the scene and mood of your piece as the light in a reference photo will always be just what it is and therefore often not usable for a painting. When seeking reference photos I recommend prioritising ones that are from different angles or ones that have different directions of light. Looking them side by side gives also more information about the 3d volume rather than one image. For colours it’s better to build them yourself based on the local colours of the reference and then letting the light source hue determine the colours of light and shadow areas on those surfaces.

[@chukukaogude5894]

@@angrymikko Yeah but when you make those buildings in your concept art, you can't be looking at a live reference right? You have to take the image and pick some parts from it to put in the concept art. How do I find those images? From experience of what works and doesn't? I want to make sci-fi space concept art but...it's like what would be a good design for it? I'll have to design something up and make it look realistic. Like a space colony and it's interior design. Some people make the inside of the colony look just like earth. That is a way to compromise but I want to go one step further. Maybe I have to plan out some base rules of my fantasy space and make sure I don't break them when designing things.

[@chukukaogude5894]

@@angrymikko After watching some more of your videos, I get it now. The first try won't be the best. I need to do it first, then build upon it over time and make it turn into my vision. Having the right references is not what is stopping me from creating my vision. I am trying to jump steps when I have to take each one at a time and learn from them.

[@fauzan7038]

What screen protector that you use?

[@angrymikko]

I don’t like those they make painting harder.

[@uzallin]

put up for sale at binance???

[@angrymikko]

NFTs are currently just a massive waste of energy and until the industry changes it’s ways any artist that mints an NFT with current tech ends up looking like a selfish a-🕳. I’ll wait and see but I’m not holding my breath given how it’s going right now.

[@TheBlueRose10]

🙌👏❤️🇦🇪

[@loaf1verse]

HELLO(: