Instead of getting right back to recreating my Palettes in Procreate, I started with a new app. Fresco. I felt excited with it because it is more traditionally Painterly than Procreate. I'm still determined to apply my Oil Painting techniques to the cleaner IPad. Here is my first attempt at making a Caricature with it. Painted alone in my Studio. Based on a random photo that I picked up here from a Caricature that I previously drew at a Party.

It did feel more Painterly than the Procreate app for sure. But I'm still feeling like I'd better to use the Procreate app for drawing Caricatures at Parties and Events.

Oh No! It happened! I finally did All the Updates on my IPad. And I LOST ALL MY CUSTOM-MADE COLOR PALLETTES IN PROCREATE! Gone. I had spent Hundreds of Hours creating them. (At least my Brushes and Templates are still here.)

Before attempting to redo my pallettes, I decided to give the Default Pallettes a try. They look pretty. The ones that automatically come with the new version of Procreate.

Aghk. NO Black. NO White. NO Dark Colors. And the Pallettes make no sense for a real Artist. No focus on the attributes of the Color Wheel. You just pick something that looks nice. Here's what I made. A Caricature based on the drawing that I did last night. I don't know if I'm going to redo my Procreate Pallettes or try a new app that my friend told me about recently.

At least the Smudge Tool at the Updated Procreate is working better than ever:

Here are just a couple of the Digital Caricatures that I drew at a recent Event. It's just great how I can resize and erase and use different brushes and oh there's just so much flexibility in drawing on an IPad.

Oh. Frustrated. A long time ago, I thought that the IPad was going to work like Oil Paints ~ I was sooo good at easily mixing Any Color with Oil Paints. Of course, I gave up That idea.

Then a couple of days ago, I unexpectedly happened upon a YouTube that so simplified Digital Color Mixing. There were lots of them. My dream was Rekindled.

Hanging out at Whole Foods today, messing around in Procreate, I felt excited to have a chance to try it out. But IT DID NOT WORK AT ALL FOR ME. Here's one of the YouTubes that describes it. Usually as Magenta, Cyan, and Yellow. Sometimes as Red, Blue, Green. Depending on whether you're in an Additive Or Subtractive Mode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVhA18_dmg0&fbclid=IwAR1Lm5At-5iuAlhY6z3Ij7ztl-0g6duoVq5HeO4FTrMAcu_auzivfuyx53c

Oh My Goodness! Then I got it to work. In PhotoShop. Didn't even have to make Transparencies. The Colors just Change when I Overlapped them. But who draws with their big mouses in PhotoShop?? I still have to find out how to make it work in Procreate, and then I'll have to figure out how to Understand it ~ as clearly as I already understand how to mix All Colors with Oil Paints. To be able to Directly Mix Primary Colors to organically create Any Color at all.

On my way ~ ~ ~