Ryan Maloney sketches a towering stack of monsters on paper, then inks it in Procreate on an iPad Pro. He keeps the lines intentionally imperfect to avoid a stiff, overworked feel, showing how to embrace messiness in illustration.
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Let's draw a giant stack of monsters. First thing we're going to do, put on our headphones. Then we're going to start to sketch it. Just rough sketching on a roll of paper and just pick out where the monsters go. Stack them on top of each other, squish them, get some seltzer going. She don't really care what I'm into. I did this for myself. I had to keep this really rough because pretty soon we're going to import it into the Procreate app on the iPad Pro. Then we're going to ink it. I'm just using one of the regular brushes in Procreate to ink this thing. I like somewhat smooth lines, but if you zoomed in, you'd see they're not completely perfect. So don't feel like you have to be perfect lines. And that's it. We crushed a monster drawing. Sign it. Crush it.