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Digital Fashion Illustration: Painting Stylish Looks in Procreate

teacher avatar Yasar VURDEM, Creative Art Director

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      1:04

    • 2.

      Drawing Quick Sketch

      2:23

    • 3.

      Drawing Basic Head

      2:34

    • 4.

      Sketching Face Side

      3:43

    • 5.

      Stylized Figure Drawing

      5:58

    • 6.

      Basics of Sketching

      3:43

    • 7.

      Basics of Sketching II

      5:06

    • 8.

      Eye Anatomy

      2:30

    • 9.

      Portraits from Different Angles

      2:58

    • 10.

      Drawing Expressions

      7:37

    • 11.

      Rendering Methods

      5:19

    • 12.

      Painting Red Fabric

      3:11

    • 13.

      White Fabric

      2:06

    • 14.

      Painting Black Fabric

      2:47

    • 15.

      Painting Fashion Pose I

      10:47

    • 16.

      Painting Fashion Pose II

      9:36

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Create elegant, modern fashion illustrations using Procreate on iPad.
In this class, you’ll learn how to paint stylish fashion looks step by step — from sketch to final polished artwork.

This class focuses on digital painting techniques for fashion illustration, helping you achieve clean colors, soft shading, and a professional fashion aesthetic using Procreate brushes and layers.

What you’ll learn:

  • How to sketch fashion figures for illustration

  • Painting skin, fabric, and clothing in Procreate

  • Color blocking & blending for fashion artwork

  • Creating light, texture, and depth

  • Final polish for portfolio-ready illustrations

Who this class is for:

  • Beginners & intermediate artists using Procreate

  • Fashion design students

  • Illustrators who want to improve digital painting skills

  • Anyone interested in modern fashion illustration

By the end of the class, you’ll complete one fully painted digital fashion illustration ready to share or add to your portfolio.

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Yasar VURDEM

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Welcome! I'm Yasar Vurdem a digital artist, illustrator, and passionate instructor.

I've spent years developing a vibrant, expressive portrait style that blends realism with bold, painterly energy. Over the years, my artwork has been featured in collaborations with global names such as Billie Eilish, Adobe, Prime Video (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, The Wheel of Time, Citadel), Wacom, Logitech, XPPen, and many more.

As a professional designer and illustrator, I work across digital painting, character art, concept design, and stylized portraiture. My goal as a teacher is simple: to share the exact techniques, workflows, and artistic mindset that I use in my professional projects in a clear, practical, and inspiring way.

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1. Introduction: Hi. I'm Isa orda. Digital artist collaborated with globe brands like AdopPly Elish, Prime Video, prime Videos, Lord of the Rings, rings of power series, the Sada series, and the Valle time series. Also Wacom, Logitech, and many global brands. In this class, you will learn how to create stylish fashion illustrations with dynamic poses and realistic fabrics. We will build elegant body poses, refine proportions, and give your characters that high fashion look. Then you will discover how to draw fabrics and natural faults and movements. By the end, you will be able to design confident poses and garments that feel alive and professional. Open your karmas, and let's create stunning illustrations together. 2. Drawing Quick Sketch: Welcome. In this part, we will sketch this facial illustration. And at first, I created an a dronive layer using a really tiny sketch brush. And at first, you don't need to think over the details so much. Just try to put the base details of the sculpture, like structure of the body and shapes and how it looks. Just try to define the base shapes. Then after you make sure about your shapes, you can place detail for it. For example, her hair and nose part and neck part, and maybe this chin can be much more shorter. And let's paint the arms just like this and you can make this much more tiny or make it much more aesthetic, just like this. And the shape of the dress will be much more just like this. Like it have layers in it, and the feats are not visible and basically like this, you can make the quick sketch of dresses in minutes. With this quick sketching method. And after you paint it, you can always zoom in and put to details you wish. After you put all the tails, it will be better. For example, the shape of the face and other details are also important. Thanks a lot and see you in the next video. 3. Drawing Basic Head: Welcome. In this part, I will show you how to paint facian portrait with simple shapes. At first, paint circle and find the rotation of the head. And with the corner the tails and define the eyebrow line and collect the layers and create a chin part. And after you describe these details, this line gives you the eyebrows. And this line is forehead, just like this. And there will be ear and eye sockets will be like this and nose will be here, and after you paint this sketch like this, you can add eye details like this. And for example, I will paint eye like this and eyebrow. And, of course, there will be nose and lip it is easy when you describe all details just like this and should be much more shorter, just like this and darker at this side, it will be darker. And also this part is darker, just like this. And I will add hair And after you describe all details, you can delete these good lines, and you can define much more details over the illustration. For example, you can define the shadows and highlights and other details. Thanks a lot and see you in the next tutorial. 4. Sketching Face Side: Welcome again. In this part, I will show you how to paint Lomi's head from the left side. At first, start from the circle again and define the rotation of eye just like this. And define the ear point and forehead point. And also this line will give us a place for nose and chin. And it will be three equal size just like this. And you can paint neck comes out from here, and nose will comes from here, and Let's paint the neck area and put the eye detail just like this. And forehead will come like this. And after you be sure about your all details, you can select much more visible brush and paint over the details. For example, I can make the I look like this, and I can continue and add nose part, just like this. And this part can be looked like this. Yeah. And if you want to paint much more feminine face, you can make the chin much more Sutron and short. And also neck. And let's make curly hair, just like this. I don't like this. Yeah, like this. And maybe the upper part of lip can be much more darker, just like this. And this part will be much more darker again. Yep, just like this. And you can make hair much more darker at this part and this part also like this and finish the illustration. Thanks a lot and see you in the next videos. 5. Stylized Figure Drawing: Welcome again. In this part, I will show you how to paint quick sketch from left side. At first, you need to create this sketch. For example, how she looks. For example, she have some hat and looking at the right and how dressed details will appear. At first, do not think about details. Just think about how it looks from the general. For example, how hand and other details land and how the hand starts and where it ends, all these singular details will bring you to general look of the illustration. And if you decide COVID look, and after this point, you can create much more confident lines to describe the portrait and adding details over it. And just like this, I'm adding some face here, and the other details hand comes like this, and other hand comes from this part, and this part will be like this. And like this. And if you want to paint stylize it from front, you can describe it like basic shapes and paint this thing like this, two opposite triangles for define the woman's body. And if I take a line brush and paint it, I will show you how I make this connect for example, it adds much more thinner like this. And like this. And this body part will and thin and like this. And if you want to describe the breast part, you can paint triangle from the neck part. And these two sides will be the breast place, and you can place some extra volume here to define the shape of the. And you can paint the dress, the tail like this, and Kise comes from here. And hand comes from like this and like this. If you want to paint much more sliced portrait, your lines will be much more confident and brave. For example, you can paint portrait just like this and body will be really thin and really long and it is really extreme level of stilization and you can use it in your own paintings and fashion illustrations. And for example, I made it much more small and will distort like this and make the hands much more confident and long. As hair will be like this. And if I want to add the tail over it with a new layer, I will show you much more clearly. Let's make her happy and much more not real. In facial illustrations, portrait is especially much more strong and feminine. So I will make it much more feminine like this and strong shape will appear for the face details. And like this, I will bring the neck like this and the tail will be. Let's paint some really elegant dress here, just like this and some extra details over here. Yeah. And you can add many details as you can. And thanks a lot and see you next video. 6. Basics of Sketching: Welcome. In this part, I will show you how to paint quick sketch of Facionillustration. At first, you need to start from the simple line just like this and define the head. But you need to make it much more small because the other parts will be here. For example, if shoulder will be like this or like this, you need to decide how it will be look. I will do symmetrical and here will be rib cage. And if you paint triangle from lip cage, you can identify the breast direction just like this. And at this part, I'm painting another line for define this edge and legs. And if you think you are making it like so fast, you need to change details a bit much more. For example, how hair flows and how is the hairstyle and placement of the face, for example, there will be face like this and where the chin ends and the other details is important. And after you describe these details, you need to paint the hands. And in facial illustration, you can make the anatomy much more interesting, for example, much more tiny and long legs and hands, for example, I will make it comes from here, and just like this. With a small detail and effective result. And other part will be, for example, like this. And if you don't like the result or you want to change, select this b tool from selection tool, you can increase and stilize the illustration. For example, legs will be like this, and this part will be thinner. And if you play with you want to play with the specific sites, select this unsure brush, and make this change just like this. And after you finish the oxy catch, you can take raised opacity and zooming. 7. Basics of Sketching II: And you can start to edding de tails depending on your choice. For example, I will make the eye just like this. And you can put nose here, just like this and lip the tail here. Yeah. And let's paint the hair, the tail here, just like this with quick sketching and complete the face part. Yeah. And these details can be different. And it is totally depend on your choice to how you want to see your illustration. For example, hands can be much more tiny and like this. It is totally depends on your choice, as I mentioned. And let's paint some dress here like this. And if you wish, you can make it realistic or much more silize. For example, we can make the belly much more tiny and Like, will end like this here, and high hills will be here or we can add some dress or beg like here, just like this. And it is pretty easy if you focus on what you want to create and put accessories if you wish, depend on your choice. It is totally depends on your style. For example, if I want to paint quick sketch for high hel, I can imagine high hel shape. For example, triangle here comes like this and another shape here and another triangle and different kind of details geometrically comes here. And after I be sure about the details of it, I can place the outlines of it. For example, just like this. It will come like this, and the hair is a strong shape here and here. And just like this. And for example, if I want to paint some ring, again, I'm quick sketching. This technique is important for create realistic illustrations because you need to think simple. Then after you describe what you want to see in your painting, you can put the details in it. For example, I'm making some ring design. Or bracelet, we can make quick shape like this, for example, Twister like. And after I make it, I can give a volume to it to create really impressive bracelet design. And as you can see, everything should be simple at first when you're creating something. Thanks a lot for joining in this part. 8. Eye Anatomy: Hello. In this part, we will talk about how to paint realistic eyes. At first, you need to start with the base shape of the eye. Then you need to define how it looks, and I'm making it much more anatomically right now, for example, we have some eye here like this and the other planes will cover the eye. It is the skin, and it will be, for example, you can think it is like fish like fish, one fish, and it closed the eye. You can think of the basic shape of the fish at this part, you need to make this fish and like this, and this part will be like this. And the other part will be and much more like this. And for eyebrows, every I mean, eyelashes, every lash will follow the own pet. This pet will look like this, and this part will be look like this will go on their own pet, not same pet and just like this. If you see thing from the left side, it will look like this. And if we put skin in it from the left, it will look like this. It is like covering the inside and have some lashes, and these lashes will come like this, and I will end like this. Also, this part will end like this. Just like this, I hope you enjoy this process and see you in the next process. 9. Portraits from Different Angles: Hello. In this part, I will show you how to paint Lumi heat from the different angles. For example, if you paint circle here, and you want to make your portrait look a bit up like this. And this middle section will be eyebrow line, and this end of the circle will be nose part, and we will place eyes at this part. And this size will be three equal size. So it will be like like this, and we will see the chin areas under neck just like this. And we will see this line and lip can be looked like this from the top, and the forehead area will be less visible and nostrils will be really visible in this angle. Just like this. And you can define the corners of the face. For example, it can be here like this and much more maybe smaller size for the neck, and we see some shadows under it, and lip can be much more defined. Also, these details of the portrait. And for example, let's paint some face, but this time it looks this angle. And if we paint this angle like a bit and from here, again, I will put the I and other details of the face and probably it will look like this in this angle will end short at this point if we paint much more bigger from this side and the camera is around here. Again, thank you for joining this part. 10. Drawing Expressions: Welcome. In this part, I will show you how to paint expressions. For example, let's try to paint happy face. If you want to paint happy face, and let's try to paint from the mis heat again. For your example, I'm painting the propositions of the face this nose area, and this will divide one, two, three, equal size. At expressions, you need to think much more different. For example, if it is things simple like smile, look like this, right, and said, Look like this and angry, look like this. So you need to make these basic emotions turn into much more detail. For example, if you paint some a happy face. You can try to make eye much more closed because it is smiling and muscles, like, for example, these corners of the nose will be much more stretched because the portrait is smiling. And let's paint the lip. And the details of the face. And of course, you need to define the nose and the different details much more confidently to make portrait much more feminine. Otherwise, it will look a bit different, for example, like this. And I will fix it just like this with defining the shapes of the face much more and effectively and the chin much more shorter. You need to define the shapes much more better before putting the tails over it. For example, nose can be a bit much more shorter, and we need to put some hair here. And for example, if you want to paint really set face, you need to catch the emotion. For example, like this. It is really sad and mode will be upside down, just like this. With basic shapes, you can catch the emotion. And for example, at angry face, eyes will be much more look like this, and eyebrows will be look up and maybe some lines here, and Much will look like this, simple. And it is the angry face. And if you want to see how to paint, smiling, lip. At first, start from the base shape and try to put a bit smile into the face. I mean lip and put the lips and teats under it. And you can see the top of the some teeth if it is ing or smiling so much. For example, like this, This part will be much more lighter. And if it is smiling so much, just like this, you can put a really good line over here, like for show the emotion much more, and it will look much more stretched. For example, from the other part also like this, if it is gently smiling, just like this, you can make this place much more visible and strong and from the left, it will look like this. And I said, it will look like this. I totally depends on the angle. For example, if it is hocate, it will look like this, like open mode, and you will see the teeth and tongu and like this, it will be stretched, and we will see the dark parts inside of the moat just like this. And other parts will be like this, like shocked, something happened and I shocked. And you can, for example, delay this part or give it a much more like tongu betting vibe to the painting. It is depending on your choice. You can, for example, make the lip much more like this, like kiss face, make it much more round like this, and the muscles will be different at this part. And again, thank you for joining this video and see you in the next videos. 11. Rendering Methods: Welcome again. In this part, I will show you rendering techniques and you can use two different rendering techniques in fashion illustrations. I will paint two circles and will paint from under. For example, I will use red color and we painted red. Also, this will be red. And first method, you can use colors as a color blocks. For example, this part can be darker and this part of the painting will be much more darker. And this part, much more lighter. And this part also lighter. And this is the most light part. And the other side, you can blend colors much more smooth with airbrush and pressing lighter and lighter. And if you want to paint sterilize it, you can use the first technique, and it is much more easy to catch the light and shadows and make it look like much more sterilize it like this. And for example, for another method, you can paint with the paint early brushes or paint early style. It means you will be much more brave for rendering and put the really vibrant and detailed illustration colors just like this. And you can increase the detail level by adding some small details over it depending on your choice. Thanks again, and let's paint one realistic example of rendering. For example, I have some red circle like this, and I will apply Alpha look here and we'll start to add shadows here. This part is the darkest part of the illustration. And the lightest part will be left top, this part, like this. And we'll add the color level of this part really strong. Just like this. Yeah. And for example, I can add some highlights here. Just like this and like this. If this thing is glossy, you can add some highlights, or you can add some yellowish color to pop up detail level of the illustration and make it much more warm colors. And this blending method will bring you much more natural lighting, just like this. And you can also create much more reflected shadows here from the background. And thanks a lot for joining in this video. And this time, I will show you two light source. At first, let's imagine we have one fabric just like this. And this fabric gets two lights, and one of them is blue from left to and another light is red from the right. The result will look something like this. The middle point will be shut off and you can imagine at your facial illustrations using different kind of hues in same illustration. For example, I can switch some that color here, just like this for give a much more volume. And you can use darker tones at the shadows for making it much more confident and much more realistic. Thanks a lot. 12. Painting Red Fabric: Hello. In this part, we will paint really good dress detail and like folds and details. At first, I'm painting the basic sketch of the dress. And after putting these basic details, I will select red color and we'll paint here just like this. Maybe we can open layer under these lines. To keep lines will help you to create the basic shapes and details. For example, it will be like this and folds will follow this path. And I will make this place much more lighter. And this place also will be a bit much more lighter. Yeah. And select darker color and apply here and here. At some parts, these details can be much more detailed. For example, these parts like this a bit much more detailed and faults at some points will be much more visible. And I will use really black color. It is false. And you can dilate some parts of it just like this for make it look much more layered. Just like this. And for example, if we have the other parts of it, we can use darker colors just like this. And make this much more darker. Yeah, basically like this. Thanks a lot for joining in this part and see you in the next video. 13. White Fabric: Welcome again. In this part, we will paint really realistic looking white silk folds. At first, paint the background to the gray color and start with the whiter color and paint some base shape just like this. And after you paint this shape, you need to add some colored shadows for another basic shadow definition. At this part, we are defining the color drops of the shadows, basic. And after this, select much more darker color and apply all over your strokes to make it much more visible and detailed look for this. Let's continue and make releasutron and effectively shape just like this. Yeah. At some parts, you can make it much more even darker and some parts will really dark depends on the place of the surface, and light spots will be in light. This is really basic way to create faults and thanks again and see you in the next videos. 14. Painting Black Fabric: Welcome again. In this part, I will paint another fabric, but it will be black. At first, I will use free hand tool and I will paint we shape like this. But it will be something like this, and I will paint shape to the black and at some light parts, I will use some slightly black and in the blue color. And now I will add much more light parts at the part, for example, especially here. And again, for folds, I will use airbrush and define the general look of the faults. Some folds will be much more stronger and some will be in shadows. Because if we make it same for all folds, it will look much more boring. That's why I selected these colors for creating folds. And just like this, these parts will be in dark. Maybe much more lights will appear from this side and add some brand look here, also here. At first, I started with black, but I'm increasing the details here, just like this, a bit blue, and just like this. And we created really good looking fabric, and we can increase these light parts and make these folds much more sharpen here, just like this and like this. Yeah. Thanks again and see you in the next videos. 15. Painting Fashion Pose I: Vircom. In this class, we will paint this Facion illustration. At first, open new layer under the Facion scene. And after this, open another new layer and select the base color for the skin tones and zoom in and paint the base colors of the illustration. Do not think about the small details at this part. This part we will just describe the general tones of the illustration. I'm painting the base colors of the skin. And you can use eraser for delete some extra parts of the skin. If outlines go bigger, you can clean with the eraser to make it much more clean and visually better. And after this, I will select some dark color and will apply over the dress. Don't directly use black because it will be so dark. Just use slightly black, not so much or not gray because I want to make it just like this. I'm adding the basic colors of the dress. Just like this. And for this part, I want to make it transparent a bit. So if you want to make the illustration part much more transparent, select the skin tone and apply over this part. But don't overdo it because it will look so transparent if you keep pressing so much harder and yeah, just like this. Maybe much more saturated skin color here because it creates shadow under skin. And for hair, I will select some yellow color and will apply over it, just like this. And for extra parts, I will delate again, and these parts will be also in golden color, and maybe these details and this the tail and the hell the tail will be golden color, just like this. Yeah. And I will make the back much more darker. Just like this. Yeah. And now I will open another new layer, and this time, I will add shadow and lights of the illustration. For example, for head, we have some shadows over here and here. And here. And for shadows, you can use some saturated colors for make it much more darker and detailed. This part and this part and this part and this part. Also, Ike can be much more lighter inside. Yeah. And this one will be maybe we can use brown color for eyes and some lipstick color for hair. Yep. It is looking great. And let's keep at shadows for our painting. I will add overall shadows before I add extra details. These parts will be darker. Also, this part. And this part will be lighter. After this, I will select much more darker colors here and here for increased detail level here and here. Now, I will make this hair much more darker here as a shadow. And here. Yeah, just like this. And after these details, you can go to do hue and saturation and give it a bit much more saturation. Then open another new layer and select layer mode color and some brand color, and this time, I will increase the detail level of the colors. If you use layer in color mode, you can add different kind of lightings in your painting without losing the quality and adding extra details over your illustration to pop up your details and make it much more interesting. Open another w layer, and this time, we will add small details like detailing part of the illustration. These parts can be darker as makeup. And this part also. And top of the lip will be much more darker and the neck area will be really dark color, like this. And I will use much more saturated dark color for the hair part like this for shadows. And for lights, I will use much more lighter color in it, just like this. And for the other part, I will apply just like this. And these parts will be much more visible. And this part will be much more visible and zooming and add some small lights over nose, like glowing part and some lights here, like glossy effect. And this parts like highlighter maybe. And this part will be like this again. Yeah, and earring will be lighter, these parts will be darker. And these parts will be darker, and these parts of the top of the eye can be highlighted again to pop up the shape. And it's looking great right now. We can add these highlighters to the shoulders also to pop up it. And these bones also this breast area, like this. And forehead can be lighter, much more lighter. 16. Painting Fashion Pose II: And this nose area. And chin maybe like this. And at hands, I will add extra lights all over, just like this and like this. And for feet, I will make this part so much lighter. These kind of small details add really good amount of detail to your illustration and make your illustration much more effective. And for this middle part of the dress, I will make some lace details which make it much more detailed. By the way, I'm using air brush, and you can access my il brushes in the brush section. In my marketplace, and these parts will be darker. Also this part will be much more darker. Yeah, we are going great. And these parts will be golden texture, just like this. Shiny and effective. Yeah. And for dress, you can use really dark black, maybe pure black and brush it depends on howID lens or flows. It is important because we need to catch the shape of the dress and COVID flows. We just need to define it. Just like this. This part is darker. And maybe this part can be even much more darker. And the end of the breast area can be much more darker. Yeah, like this. And I will select some textured brush and we open layer with the overlay layer mod. And I will paint over here maybe with a really lighter brush to create some shiny effect without losing any detail. And for dress, you can also use this to create some silk effect, just like this. And you can apply really slow and like this at some area, not all maybe here also. We can have some textures. And after this, select smooth shading brush again and use much more lighter color and at the highlights or light effects of the dress like this. Yeah. Like this. And this can be lighter. Also, these details of bake can be lighter, especially this side. And I will select lime brush right now, and I will add some color here to make it golden. Also, this part and with this brush, you can add some lace texture. I will show you. Really short but effective to look your illustration, much more detailed. Yeah, it looks great right now. And I will add the clock detail here, just like this and make this a bit darker. Yeah, it's looking great right now, and I want to increase the detail level of the hair. I selected pure white or a bit yellowish white to make it much more farmer and will apply over it like this. And this place will be lighter. Maybe this part can be much more brushed. And these connection points can be much more darker, especially the near place to the shadows and light place. I will add some shadows again, and I will select much more lighter skin brush. And this time, I will add some highlights overall at at the corners and breast to glow up the body, just like this. And nose Cheeks. Yeah, it's looking great right now. And arm. And the left point will be like this. Yeah. It is looking great right now, and I will add some plaque nails to do feed and paint these parts, and heels can be much more golden colour, white, like this. Yes, it is looking great right now, and I can add some extra lights and finish this illustration. I will add some glow effects and some lines here. Just like this. Yes. And I will paint some square here. Or let's not make this. Just zoom in here and select a really darker color for these details like shadows to make it much more detailed. Again. And same for the halls, it can have extra colors like shadows and yeah, hope you enjoy this process, and thank you for joining this illustration and see you in the next videos.