Background Drawing Time Lapse - Making a Glass Atrium in Procreate
View final artwork at http://www.plasticshards.studio
This illustration happened from some aimless drawing that ended up turning into a much more elaborate piece than I was thinking up front, started and finished entirely within Procreate. This piece took a few dozen hours to complete, and Procreate's video timelapse clocked in at just over 40 minutes long, which I edited and speed-ramped in places to make it a more tolerable 9 minutes here. Sorry if the image blinks a lot -- I turn layers on and off often to compare edits against background color.
Toward the end of making this piece, my iPad Pro started having low memory issues. With the canvas at 6500 pixels wide, I was pushing the limit with close to 30 layers. Procreate began crashing occasionally. I turned off the video recording to conserve some memory and continued working until I thought I was near finished. Turning off video helped prevent crashes, thankfully. When I was satisfied with how the characters were looking, I decided to duplicate the file in a flattened state so I could finish the foreground elements, which restarted the video recording automatically. I thought a video recap of this artwork wouldn't have been possible since I had to disable video, but thankfully by duplicating the file it at least was able to capture the final steps to completion making it at least mostly complete process.
Hope you find this helpful and/or fun to watch!
Music is from Jeremy Blake. His work is fantastic, check him out! / @redmeansrecording