I try SCI FI PULP ART - Style Challenge!

Sticking with one style is really hard for me. So style challenges are a way for me to get out of my comfort zone and try out a new art style.
This time I try my hand at sci fi pulp art because I absolutely love all the details and amazing colors on these magazine covers. I used Procreate on the iPad pro for the main illustration work, and then added some textures at the end in Photoshop. Follow along as I walk you through how I went about tackling my illustration in this style. Enjoy!
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[@kingtigerbooks1162]

My 4 favorite art books are: - Spectrum 7 by Arnie Fenner - The Art of Rowena by Rowena Morrill - Icon by Frank Frazetta - Great Fighter Jets of the Galaxy 1 by Tim Gibson

[@mikewgilliam]

Great job, I love your free style and openness to try new and different styles.

[@TheMikester307]

Oh, that was fun to watch!

[@mase8444]

I love it. I’d like to try this myself

[@K_E_Robin]

This need to be on a Book cover!! Pulp Sci-Fi is the best!

[@lukesabia9902]

I wish you went over more of the detail and step by step for beginners

[@BravetheWoods]

Thanks! If I was going to do something for beginners, I would probably choose something more simple to recreate. And I might just do that!

[@lukesabia9902]

Brave the Woods I am a beginner would kill to learn how you make these sketches and paintings in the sci fi pulp art form... understanding the layering isn’t confusing it’s just like what actual tools are you using in the app like what brushes and effects or what have you to make it really look like a painting and how you put the colors you paint with above the art and all that fun stuff! And I guess you are using some type on electric sketchpad? I would totally appreciate an in depth look at building this type of art! thanks beast!

[@TheBlackbeansoup]

This is amazing!

[@EverythingsBeenDone]

Player, You are top notch!

[@sossee4685]

Great video! Great art!

[@josuemenjivar618]

Brother, this was so cool. I’m a fan of your work and your RetroSupply brushes. This video has totally inspired me!! Love all your videos.

[@BravetheWoods]

thank you so much! Means the world.

[@simonhassnilsson7009]

@@BravetheWoods awesome video sir, The world needs more pulp sci-fi in it, you can never truly get enough of Square jawed astronauts, Beautiful scantly clad space ladies, Alien dinosaurs or really weird aliens...great now i wanna go watch the duck dodgers tv show again

[@emmanuelbenjaminmercadorod9660]

wow you really nailed it! looks like it would have been done with traditional media

[@AllanGildea]

Nice one!

[@miribean]

Love your work! Thank you so much for sharing your process, it’s amazing to watch. How about Mary Blair style fantasy scenery with warped perspective for the next one?

[@BravetheWoods]

Oh my, I love Mary Blair! That is a fantastic idea. Adding it to the list now! Thank you so much for the kind words as well. Made my day :)

[@alexsky1802]

insane , helped me a lot ;)

[@lasoeurdelynda]

Fabulous ! I love pulp so much. I bought all the Weird Science and Weird Fantasy reeditions by Akileos. Maybe you could try a victorian christmas card ? That would be so cool

[@BravetheWoods]

Laura David Victorian Christmas card is such a good idea! I’ll do some research ;) thanks!

[@MS-uz4ix]

This is wonderful work. Did you use just the standard Procreate brushes or something else?

[@rizkyyudhistira8669]

Sir, can we know what brush did you use when in procreate? i really liked this style soooo much 🔥

[@TomWDW1]

This is simply beautiful! Great job capturing that aesthetic! I was wondering, if you did this in Photoshop (I don't have ProCreate), what types of pens you might use for that grainy, smudgy look in your colors. It is beautiful.

[@BravetheWoods]

Thank you so much Thomas! The trick to getting that cool texture was using color pencil brushes. I tried using paint brushes, like gouache, but it didn't feel right for some reason. Not sure exactly what brush pack to get but I do know that www.retrosupply.co has lots of incredible packs that could work! I am biased because I make brushes for them, but they are also the brushes I use most of the time haha. Best of luck!

[@TomWDW1]

@@BravetheWoods Colored pencil! I wouldn't have even thought of that. Thank you for the advice!!

[@nupurghosh1434]

Hey can you try the Risograph style on illustrations Thanks 😊

[@marcochekmeyan6598]

Very nice Brad! I'm a fan of your photoshop brushes which i use on a daily basis. I was going to ask if you whether if its possible to make videos more often than your usual schedule?

[@BravetheWoods]

That is so awesome to hear. Thanks for that! I really wish I could produce more videos than one a week, but sadly I can't. My channel is really new so I have to start making more money off it before I can take on less client work and focus on KZbin. Perhaps someday that will be an option! I would definitely enjoy that :) Thanks!

[@lurelurche]

great job! super cool! I'd love to see deeper how you nailed picking color and brushes from inspiration

[@grubedoo]

Is that delicious texture brush custom?

[@BWiggs-xh6ne]

Hello, amazing tutorial. I have a question though. I've finished my sketch and ready to apply colors. I'm able to follow the same form and application in this video but the colors don't come out quite right. It looks very smooth, and I can't seem to manage the vintage rough look to the paint. Any recommendations on how to make the color a litle less perfect and painted look? Thanks

[@BravetheWoods]

Adding a grainy texture or noise works really well!

[@wigger4942]

Do more pulp art tutorial

[@lukesabia9902]

Great work tho!

[@BWiggs-xh6ne]

When you say build the color up or that you modified the base color, what do you mean by this in photoshop? I've selected my color swatch but do you mean you repeatidly apply the base color in a blending mode that darkens after every application? So in other words it has some transparency when you start.

[@Squidmustard]

Dude, You should've used synthwave for the Bgm

[@marianne22222]

oh damn I thought this was a digital collage tutorial

[@HorribleHomeVideo]

are you for hire? i would love a redrawn pulp art style of something i have created.