Why Must Read Beginner's Guide to Digital Painting in Procreate: How to Create Art on an iPad®?

Many traditional artists are making the crossover to digital art. Apps like Procreate offer vast opportunities to do so, and I am so grateful that they are. When I found Procreate my world opened up and I fell in love with the medium of digital art. Many of us have been trying to make the crossover on our own, but artists are visual people and when information is left out of a tutorial, it does us little good. This was to be the solution that we waited for. Unfortunately,,...........the book is not geared to the discipline of Fine Art at all. I've been excitedly waiting for this book since it's publication was first announced last Fall. And then the letdown upon release. Sadly, there is basically one token example for the traditionalist: a landscape with a small bridge. Is there a Fine Artist out there who actually didn't learn how to paint this scene in their first art class? I doubt it. The choice is an elementary nod to Traditional Artists, at best. The rest of the examples are graphic art. Graphic art is fine but it isn't the kind of work landscape, portrait or abstract artists do. It's static, even when animated. Fine Art breathes differently: uses color, line, subtle changes in hue, texture and movement. These are the heartsong of traditional art. The examples used are not tailored for us to follow along. There are few Digital Art books which address the issue of the traditional style of artwork. I know of only two and one is way out of date. What a shame that such a broad base of artists were ignored. I would no more execute the projects in this book than skip rope: Just as a graphic artist would not pursue mine. They would most likely find traditional art boring and not pertinent to their style or goals: hence, boring. None of the project choices are close to traditional art. The title of this book implied that the book was the definitive manual for Procreate. It is nowhere near that. It's a tool for graphic artists, and with a simple exception, address that style alone. It does not address the visual language that is so desperately wanted and necessary to a traditional artist in any medium. There's a huge untapped market for such a publication. Someone needs to meet that need with precision and technical finesse. Sadly, this book does not.