Just got the course can't wait to go through it. Your videos and tutorials have always been enjoyable to watch over the years.

Glad to hear you’re enjoying it. I’m glad that there were so many design issues that popped up in the process parts of that project. I really wanted to show in practice how to pinpoint and solve those visual problems when things are not working. In a KZfaq video so many of those usually end up getting cut out for retention but in the course I was free to prioritise getting all of the information in without thinking about the platform restrictions. Having full creative control over my own course was also freeing. I didn’t need to skip anything that I deemed important for the process.

Thank you too! I remember being so nervous when releasing the first part of this art course. It was so much easier the second time now that I can notify people that I made a bigger version of the thing they already have 🐻💖 I also invested in new production gear used in my videos since and in the making of this new course. That also gave me some confidence, and I’m really happy about how the project came together. I know this might be gross to people who romanticise hating their artwork, but I love how the painting in this project turned out. I want to print it in my workroom to remind me of this whole experience. 🌅🐻

I went into GumRoad this morning and picked up your best brush bundle and a couple of other items. Thanks again, looking forward to creating new art this weekend!

Thank you it's nice to finally have the project out, I’ve been working on it in the background for months now.

You have no idea how happy I am to be able to do a video like this 💖🐻 I have been thinking of this day for almost a year now.

Pretty much most of the things I’m teaching on this channel are stuff I learned from oil painting☝️ The more you spend time learning the visual language the more you notice that the same rules apply to everything. I think that’s very freeing because it opens up more possibilities for everyone to express themselves in new ways.

@@angrymikko that's right und really good. So everybody can do, what feels good for them and they are happy with. :)

Happy to hear that! I’m so happy to finally be able to share it after working on it since last summer.

I haven’t mentioned this in a while, but there’s nothing wrong with a mixed-media approach. I love painting digitally, but I would never stop drawing with a pencil. Digital drawing just doesn’t give me the same accuracy as pencil on paper, but for painting, I prefer the flexibility of digital painting. Painting also doesn’t have the faff that traditional tools have. Sure I love the depth of colour in my oil paintings but I rarely have the time or patience for washing the brushes and frankly my hands already have the damage of years of washing the toxic chemicals off them. I’m not advocating one approach or the other but just saying it’s worth considering that maybe a combination of different ways to make art could be the right choice for you. Especially if you’re already familiar with sketching traditionally there’s no reason to “start from scratch” instead you can leverage your existing skills and just pile new techniques in the mix. This experimental approach has always opened new creative possibilities for me and I’m sure you could find something interesting that way as well 🐻

@@angrymikko Thank you your offerings your creativity on KZfaq. I really love Procreate and I just have to start using it and figure out the fundamentals of it I plan on ordering course shortly. By chance do you have a channel for critiquing your members artwork? Best wishes.

@davidd3451, that would this channel’s membership and Discord challenges. However I must preface that by saying the feedback sessions happen each month in live feedback sessions. You can also view the past sessions in the members content library. There is a new assignment series starting there soon. Btw membership has TONS of exclusive tutorials there so it's a great affordable resource for anyone looking to stay motivated on their art journey.

I feel like this is a result of not just my work but the whole Angry Mob helped with their ideas and spellchecks. Sometimes I had to disappear into a work hole to finish some of the more difficult lessons and the whole community has been nothing but supportive. Without you this would not have been the same at all.

Hope you have fun going through the lessons and making art 🐻💖

I’m excited to see the kind of art people make after this. All the same composition rules from the checklist are still in use but this time they are applied to all kinds of surfaces and objects. I hope people watch it all the way to the end because there is a special message in why I think sharing the work is important. And it has nothing to do with me.

Awesome! I am going to start it today 😊

I hope you enjoy it. The sketching phase has plenty of focus on design so I hope it offers an opportunity for people to let go of drawing or painting “pretty” while looking for the right idea for you. The clean up part is always pretty simple once you have the main frame in place :)

@@angrymikko I am sure I will! Thanks ❤️

The reason why clouds were the subject in the first part was because they allowed me to cover the entire composition checklist in shapes that anyone can do. For colour theory, white is the most difficult colour for beginners to paint. In this course those fundamentals are assumed and they are applied to more complicated subject. For beginners I recommend doing the Sky course first as all the composition, blend mode, workflow and layer mask techniques apply to all kinds of painting. Not just clouds. ☁️⛅

I’m too Finnish to answer anything intelligent to such a nice comment. Thank you. I don’t draw that much. I prefer painting, but I hope you find a way to make art that feels enjoyable to you. That’s the fastest way to improve, and once you’re past the beginner stage, the act of creating becomes its own reward. 🐻

@@angrymikko Of course painting. I confused them. I Am sorry. Bears also have a special meaning to me, so that makes your art even more beautiful to me. 🐼☺

Whenever life gets difficult I recommend painting or looking at bears. Helps for all kinds of ailments 🐻

That one is different because it has to fit that platform's time limits. Those are also edited by the staff working there. I think it's suitable for anyone who doesn't have much time and wants to get started quickly. For my own course, “Sky” and “Building,” I wanted each lesson to be as long or short as necessary. Some parts are just faster to show and explain, while others benefit from different examples that show how they apply to the painting process itself. Those lessons just are not possible in the way Domestika produces their videos. I am not criticizing them because they know their target audience and make their content fit that need to the best of their ability. My own approach comes from years of teaching concept art and its pretty easy to tell when students need more in-depth look at something and when I have found a way to explain a concept so that everyone immediately gets it. Planning and shooting videos with a big company was definitely a great learning opportunity for me. They were super effective with their planning and gear and it was a privilege to be able to witness how that company moves through complicated processes like a well oiled machine.

I highly recommend starting from Sky Painting and THEN moving on to Building on Fundamentals as the latter builds on the skills in the former lesson. Both are designed in a way to fit both ways of image construction. There are no lines in the first Sky art course and in the second they are completely optional. The sketching happens without lines and the lines used as a tool are not part of the final piece at all.

@@angrymikko perfect, thanks!

It’s a free expansion to the Master Sky Painting in Procreate. The entire course can be found in the same materials as Master Sky content. The new downloads including the brush and palette are there as well.

It may be that I have only 8GB of ram 😂

@IIIredbawlzIII the ram is weirdly tied to the storage of the unit. I have 16gb on M1 iPad because I have the 1tb version. I included several different sizes of the procreate file for different devices so make sure you are opening the smallest one. BUT this file is only there to demonstrate the layer structure lesson. All of that information is clearly visible and narrated in that lesson as well. The procreate file is not at all important to derive that information in that segment as the process is outlined in the workflow tutorial as well. If you do have any questions about this though then by all means don’t hear to ask me. I’ll try to help with any issues you might have 🐻

@@angrymikkoit is odd but another way Apple can eek out another $400 lol. It worked on me. I just returned the 512. The 1TB will be here on Wednesday 😂 Thank you so much for your detailed response. It is much appreciated!

@IIIredbawlzIII maybe it works for general public but at least to me it would be a better strategy to advertise that the higher priced ones have more than extra storage. It makes just disk space seem insanely overpriced but I guess someone at apple thinks RAM is too technical to say in their infomercials 🤷🏻‍♂️

@@angrymikkoI agree completely. I’m glad I had trouble with that file. I’ve always been willing to spend extra to get more headroom for future projects and I guess I just blanked on the fact that I needed to buy at least the 1TB version of the iPad to get it.

If you are already confident in using masks in CSP, then you can still use all the composition, workflow and design elements in literally any program. However, if your main pain point in art is the UI of CSP, then I don't recommend these courses. I’ve used CSP, Procreate and Ps for work, and the features used for painting in all of them are the same. If you prefer using CSP, then I see no good reason to put any effort into learning the UI of another application. In my opinion, it is better to focus those efforts on learning composition because that is the longest road in art. As an exception, of course, I can understand why someone would like to switch programs just because of cost reasons. If I painted just as a hobby, I’d have no reason to pay, for example, Adobe Cloud services.

@@angrymikko thank you! I think I'll get the courses, since I'm pretty confident I'll be able to follow along using the CSP equivalents of Procreate functions. Super excited to go through it and improve my art abilities :)

CSP is a good app. If it didn’t have that subscription model I’d use it more too. At the end of the day these apps are just tools and what matters is how you use them. in these art courses the techniques regarding the tools are really simple and fast to teach. That leaves the rest of the course to discover actual image construction techniques that make a painting work.

Master Sky should be the place to start and then move on to Building on Fundamentals. Domestika courses have their own production rules which make them short and in my understanding very project oriented so it’s a bit different audience too. They have a pretty strict time limits for lessons but for my own course I can decide those on my own since I did all of the editing too. If you have access to all three I’d suggest doing them in order of: “sky” “building” and then domestika since you can use all the techniques making the project as challenging as you like.

@@angrymikko thank you for the response. Will do that 😁

In both of the courses you make the artwork from scratch. The procreate file given in the first course (in various sizes for different devices) is merry to show the layer structure outlined in one of the lessons. That is shown fully in the lesson video as well and as such the file itself is not at all necessary to complete either of these projects.

@@angrymikko thanks for the quick response! I went ahead and purchased (yay) last night and figured that aspect out. I know some courses rely on their examples so I wanted to be sure, but I’ve wanted the course since you originally relased it. Just an fyi for anyone who has a gen 8 ipad you need the mini-example for looking at the layers. I don’t have the option for a lot of layers if I want bigger projects so mostly I’ve learned to use a small amount of layers wisely, hopefully that works in this case because the type of atmospheric/landscape type painting you do is what I’ve wanted to learn since forever, but digital painting is hard for me for some reason. I haven’t had my ah-ha moment…yet. Wish me luck with your course and thanks for all your hard work! You really are a great person/teacher. Oh and I love the color palettes. Will help until I get better at color theory. Please also keep in mind I am an abstract artist and really have very little skill at drawing or painting (people,places, things, animals, etc you name it). I am well and truly a beginner, a very determined one. So hopefully this course is the key.

Don’t worry about layers. Both of the projects use a LOT of layers but both of them have plenty of layer management tricks to get around hardware limitations. In the second project I intentionally pushed the resolution and complexity to the limits of my hardware to show in multiple areas like screen layers and environment groups how to manage the workflow so that you can keep the relevant selection and editing options open. Even when you hit those layer limits. ☝️ Glad you’re enjoying the palettes! Seriously I’m happy I made them but those were… a lot 😅 Super handy for getting started though : )

The price of the original art course will remain the same for a few more days. The expansion update itself is completely free to everyone and it will be a permanent part of the art course going forward.

I highly recommend doing these in the order of “Sky” THEN “Building” sky subject is used to teach all the fundamentals of digital painting from scratch. “Building” uses and expands on the techniques learned in the first course and they’re applied to more complex building project. To keep the information as easy as possible to implement the same lessons are not repeated in these two courses and the content was planned to teach digital painting from zero. Despite sky being the project topic in the first project it really is just a vehicle to teach composition and techniques for all kinds of art. This is clearly stated in several parts of the first project. The checklist method taught in “Sky” is referred to every time a composition problems are highlighted and fixed in “Building”. Hope that answers your question.

@@angrymikko I just bought the course and I'm trying to follow along but I feel lost. Where is the round plus brush? I think the second lesson is the block-in and I'm not even sure what I should be doing. whatever i'm doing isn't working to be as clouids. I'm not sure if this is how the course is or i'm the one who's missing something. Are the files you're working on during the tutorials available? As a beginner to this I'm not following through if it makes sesne. Can you give me some guidance please?

@Nihhuz Hey there. The brush is the first one in the Sky Master Brush set. You can find that download in the bottom of the course materials. I recommend using that for the block-in phase and if you’re having trouble between 2 & 3 I’ve included the entire process between them in “extra materials” where you can see the block in come together. Don’t worry about making mistakes in that part as the composition errors covered are meant to look for them after your block in is done. It’s important to not take that phase too seriously. Work at 100% opacity with as big of a brush you feel comfortable with. I didn’t edit out anything in the block-in bonus materials part because I wanted to show that I did 2 whole block-ins before I settled on the 3rd one. For colours you can use any of the palettes that come with the course but they can all be changed when you start “How to choose colours”. I hope this helps and if you have any questions let me know 🐻

My pleasure:) I highly recommend doing the first part first as this expansion builds on that information. However if you are an experienced digital artist then it is safe to jump into the deep end of the pool. 🐠

@@angrymikko I’m really a noob so I will restart from the beginning. Thanks 🤩

Let me know if you have any questions or need help. I made these courses to help people paint more and it's my priority to make that happen in a way that people enjoy the process =)

@@angrymikko thanks!