Fun Painting in Procreate: Creating a Furry Monster from Sketch to Final Artwork | Yasar VURDEM | Skillshare

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Fun Painting in Procreate: Creating a Furry Monster from Sketch to Final Artwork

teacher avatar Yasar VURDEM, Creative Art Director

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      0:43

    • 2.

      Painting Sketch

      2:40

    • 3.

      Painting Shadows

      1:53

    • 4.

      Painting Details

      8:32

    • 5.

      Painting Micro Details

      6:44

    • 6.

      Complete Illustration

      7:13

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About This Class

In this fun and beginner-friendly class, you’ll learn how to paint a cute and expressive furry monster using Procreate on the iPad.

We’ll start with a simple sketch and gradually build up the artwork using clean line art, flat colors, shading, and textured fur details. Along the way, I’ll share practical tips on brush selection, layer organization, and how to give your character personality and depth.

This class focuses on enjoying the painting process rather than perfection. Whether you’re new to digital painting or looking to loosen up your style, this class will help you feel more confident and creative in Procreate.

What you’ll learn:

  • How to sketch a character quickly and effectively

  • Painting soft and fluffy fur textures in Procreate

  • Using layers for clean coloring and shading

  • Adding highlights and final details for a polished look

  • Developing a playful, expressive character style

This class is perfect for illustrators, hobby artists, and anyone who wants to have fun painting characters in Procreate.

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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 Wurdam. And in this class, you will learn how to paint fluffy furry creature in procreate. We will start with simple shapes that with soft fur using clean brush strokes, light directions, and layered shading. You will discover how to create volume dipped and that natural fur flow that makes creature feel alive. From cute animals to fantasy beings, this lesson will help you to paint fur with confidence and style. Open your canvas, pick your brush, and let's bring your furry creatures to life. 2. Painting Sketch: Welcome. In this class, we will paint some fluffy creature from imagination. At first, create a new layer with empty layer and start to painting sketch. For example, my sketch will be something similar to this. I will have some fur design just like this and my creature will be really sweet like with big eyes, just like this and with a really cute nose, maybe, and with a funny looking mouth like this. And after this, after you describe your creature, maybe with horns and hands will be really small like this and fits will come like here, and after you design how it looks generally, open another new layer under it and make background at first, different color, then open another new layer. With airbrush, this time, I will paint it with a airbrush. All of them will be airbrush for now, and including the hands and fits will be airbrush. And after you add these details over sketch, you need to define the eye shadows just like this, and we'll put some eye detail here. And nose will be pink, just like this, pink nose. And 3. Painting Shadows: I will select the background color for it. And I will shadow under the detail and corners. Before adding four, you need to describe the main details of your creature. For example, who is the base colors, who is the mode details, for example, like this and like this and like this. And after these tiny details, for example, at the horns will be this nail color. And after you design these colors, open another new layer. But this time, I will use this brush, and I will share with you this brush, and we'll start to paint with it to create skin of the creature. Just like this, apply all over your creatures. This is really great tool for create the fur. And if you don't want to use custom brush, you can use airbrush for this detailing process. And I will add much more lights over here. And at the corners, 4. Painting Details: Create the detail of the fur. And at some places, you need to use really small brush for creating these fur details. For example, it will be like this and I will continue from here. And yeah, we are going really great and creating details of the fur. Yeah. And for these details, I will add much more hair, here and here. And this part will be much more detailed with the fur. And you can use even different kind of brushes for fur. I will also will share these brushes with you and I will make this part much more detailed and brush it look and sometimes you can use your brush much more confidently like big Sutrck like this. And after you describe the details, you can dilate some line arts. For example, this part is not necessary, and these parts just like this. And after this point, what we're going to do is adding extra details over the creature. And for it, open another new layer, but before it just collect layers together and add some saturation and a bit curve. And zooming, then open another layer with a colored Dutch option and continue to adding detail over your creature. Just like this. And here, And here, I will add much, much more detail over my creature. And I will make this place much more lighter and detail it with a fur and we add much more fur effect here also like this. And also this part will be detailed with the furs, just like this. And you will add much more light effects here, like a fur with a different kind of size brush will help you to create a realistic fur just like this. And here and here. Yeah, it is looking great right now, and I will continue to adding details over it like this. Open another new layer with overlay mode and select darker color. This layer option will help you to add some shadows over your creature with really dark details. Yeah, it's looking great. And this the tail will be darker over here and here. And I painted the hands of the creature. And, of course, you need to add some lights because it is not really dark, and it has its on details here. And for example, this part is also not so dark, and we need to add much more shadows here. And the corners will be be much more darker here. And after this point, I will zoom into the eye, and I want to fix this sketchy look of the eye and open nve layer and paint the ellipse and paint ellipse white and add shadows over here, just like this. Maybe much more shadows under here. And let's make ice green. I mean, just like this and maybe lighter green here, and middle of it will be just like this. And some small details over here and here. And maybe much more lights over here and move it. A bit, much more bigger eye would be nicer and copy the layer and move it to other place. It is really effective, right. And for collecting the layers, I will open another new layer and we paint this part like this and select eraser and erase down some places of it and select verb. 5. Painting Micro Details: I and add some extra layers here for create the dipness just like this. Maybe it can start from here, just like this. And after this point, duplicate it and flip vertical and move it like this. And after it, select eraser and clean some parts of it, just like this. Then duplicate the layer after making it one and move it to this side. After this point, I will zoom into the nose of it and we make nose much more bigger and effective. For example, it can have some lights here and maybe even dark colors over here. And yeah, I will add another shadow here, just like this. And for teats, I will use this color and will make the teats bigger even than the sketch. But it is totally up to you. You can make it big or really short depending how you want to see it. And these parts will be really dark. And this place will be a bit lighter. And yeah, it is looking really great. And what we can do is adding the tails at the horns. I will make some textures here like this. Maybe like this, much more clear and visible. Yeah. Also, this part will be same just like this. And what we can do right now, I'm thinking, and we can add much more shadows over here at the teeth and this time, collect all layers again. With the background, just like this and go to do effects and gradient map. And I will give it a much more pink, dark color here, just like this and some curves and zoom in again. And this time, I will go to the materials and select flowing hair. And I will add some extra hair textures over my creature. You can use lighter brush at the corners or make it much more even softer. Just like this. Don't use in the same direction. Try to change the direction of the fur sometimes or make it much more interesting. Just like this. I'm adding much more fur. At the corners because corners describes the characteristics, and this character is free, and we need to make much more force to define the characteristic of the creature. For example, it looks much more interesting right now. And under a moat we can add some extra dark force here and here. And let's continue here will be darker tones. And this part also will be really darker tones. And at checks, I will make her or him much more detailed like this to create really interesting face for our creature. And sometimes you can use SmuchTol because SmuchTol blends things really good and it is really great option for making fs also. Just like this. I'm increasing the force of the creature, just like this. And sometimes use lighter brush strokes and 6. Complete Illustration: For find the balance in your creature design, and it will look much more fluffy and funny if you add these micro details. Yeah, it is looking great right now. And for corners, I will use fine hair and we use really small brush and we paint over here to define much more detail on the face. Yeah, it is looking great. And I will add a bit much more detail and we'll finish the illustration. The key point of creating the realistic fur is painting much more details and mixing the brushes. But you should make sure you are using really important and effective brushes. And let's add much more fur here. Yeah, it's looking great. Yeah, it is looking really different right now, and I will continue to add much more hairs. Just like this. Yeah. And I will add much more lighter color here and here. Just like this. And it is looking really great for now. And I want to add some litle details here. For example, I can make his lips much more visible color. For example, this color will help us to define some nice and maybe much more pinks at the corners. Here like this and like this. Yeah, just like this. And I will make him a bit cute and happy maybe. And forehand, I will make some nails like same colors with the horn to make it much more dangerous. And it looks so cute and dangerous in Yeah. I will add much more lights here and here and we'll put much more highlights at the nose and here will be much more detailed. Yes, it is looking really great right now. And I will add a couple of shadows before I finish the illustration. Maybe at these parts, I can add some touchs make the design much more interesting. Just like this. Just little touchs on corners. Yeah. And the background will be just like this, maybe. This is a to shadow of the creature, and maybe we can add some tails here comes from the backwards. Whoop whoop. Yeah, maybe like this. And this can be also furry, and I will use different kind of brush for create the tail. I will use this brush to create some effect. You can use any textured brush for this step, and that's all. And I will add some dark shadows here and lights over here to combine it. And let's add some yellows in the eye and finish the illustration. And let's add this part too. Yes, it is looking really great. And thank you for joining me in this