Koala Card – Pencil Drawing with Art App Media

We have some lovely native animals and birds here in Australia, and I thought it’d be fun to make a few drawings/paintings of some of them.

These will be added to other art images I personally print as Art cards, which I sometimes sell locally.

I began my Koala drawing with a graphite pencil sketch on a medium surface, 300gsm “Reeves” watercolour paper, and then scanned it into my iPad, with the “Scanner Pro” app.

I then took it into Procreate and applied freehand some colour work with the “artist crayon” and “pencil”. You can see how this unfolds in the video below.

I love how the art media, along with the texture of the watercolour paper gives the drawing a pastel look.

To print my Art Cards I first send the images to the “Pages” app, and put them on a card template. For my other art prints I also use this app, and centre them on a page to create a border. From there I send them to my Epson printer. *More info about my printing processes, here.

A screenshot of a section from my “Pages” app.

My favourite paper for printing my Art Cards is, “Canson 220gsm Drawing “ paper. It’s a high quality, eco friendly paper, with a lovely texture; and I love the feel of it when I handle it – an important, and enjoyable part of dealing with paper!

Koala mum and baby. You can sort of see the texture of the card here, perhaps a better view of it in the pic below. This is fairly close to how the print looks, though I think it looks better in real life.

On the back of my cards I print the words below. I find it easiest to first type them up in the “Book Creator” app, and then via the Photo section on my iPad, bring them onto the card template, in “Pages”.