Getting Started with Procreate (For iPad Pro)

1. Introduction : Hey guys, I'm bonus rate and I'm a freelance illustrator from India. Actually, I have completed my graduation in computer science, but I have always enjoyed drawing. And later I realized at is the only thing I'm pushing that the bulk. So I ended up as an illustrator instead. Some of my friends from Instagram and YouTube have been asking me about my process in Procreate. That's why I decided to start a class on skillshare. Hope you find it helpful. For this class. I have created a simple portrait in procreate on an iPad Pro, with the Apple Pencil. Going to show you. 3. Class Project : For your class project, draw something or someone you love. It could be an upset or a portrait of a person including yourself, or maybe a portrait of your pet. You can complete your class project with this three easy steps. First, after cleaning up your sketch posted in the project gallery for feedback. Next, complete your illustration using the skills you have learned. And finally, post your final illustration along with the time nips. I'm lives is optional. I have linked my time lapse drawing video in the project description. Feel free to watch if you want. However, be sharing your projects on my Instagram story. So make sure to share your projects along with her Instagram handles. 4. Creating a canvas : In this class, I'm going to show you how to create, crop and resize a canvas in Procreate. To create a canvas that's the plus icon on top right corner. And then to use the default canvas, simply select the size you want from the default sizes. In Procreate, all the default canvases have a DPI of one-third T2, which is not ideal for prints. So for printable quality work, always use a custom canvas. If you want to check the canvas in for good actions, then Canvas and next canvas information. And you can see all the details there. Now, to create a custom canvas, tap the Plus icon and select the rectangular save icon on top right corner of the pop-up menu, then choose the unit and type, height and weight. Always say dpi do more than 304 printable quality work. I'm not really sure why, but when I use 300 DPI, it gets decreased to 264. So I prefer to use 350 dpi, but if you don't have the same issue, feel free to use 300 DPI. Then right underneath the DPI option, you can see the number of layers you will get based on your canvas size. Next, we have color profile, where you can choose the color mode for your artwork. You can choose RGB or CMYK based on your requirements. You also get several options to choose from under board profiles, RGB is preferable for online sharing and CMYK works well for printing, but you can use RGB for printing as well. Now, you can easily make changes to your time-lapse settings right here in the app. In Canvas properties, you can pre-select background, color, and height background if you want a transparent background. But you can do both afterwards anytime you want and find the tab Create and your canvas is ready for drawing. Now, if you want to resize your canvas, go to actions canvas, and then crop and resize, then set it according to your needs. When you turn on resemble the canvas size will increase or decrease in proportion to the original size. If you want to type new width or height by yourselves, just tap on the respective size boxes. In procreate largest size, you can have this 8,092 pixels. Both height and width are up to 16,496 pixels when it's a rectangle. For my drawing, I'm using a canvas up with 3,200 pixels and the height is 4,200 pixels. 5. Which brushes to use : In this class, I will show you which brushes to use for sketching, coloring the ending, and adding details. To select a brush, simply tap on the Brush tool on top right. Now let's proceed. Brushes for sketching. Pencil sketches used the six B pencil from sketching. I have used the same pencil to sketch the portrait for this class. And this is how the strokes look. If you want some more texture in your sketch, you can use him press from organic process. I really love its texture. Or solely an ink like strokes you can use to do Ben from inking brushes. And here is a quick demo. Technical pen from inking brushes with the same as studio, but it's not that sharp. Have a look at the strokes here. You can see the difference clearly when breast size is maximized. But even in maximum size strokes with studio pen still remain sharp. With guessing sketch inking brushes, you will get a nice texture and it kind of feels like ink on paper. And this is how it looks. Script brush from catastrophic gives you similar lines as to the open. But you might feel a small difference though. With hard airbrush. From airbrushing, you can get both soft and hard strokes depending on the pressure you apply. Here is a demo. The more pressure you apply, the harder the strokes get. Lastly, to do small details with pencil like field, you can use technical pencil from sketching process for edit colors, to add colors to your drawing heart, airbrush and sought brands from airbrushing are just more than enough, but with free to experiment with the other brushes. Process for blending. For soft blending, you can use acrylic brush from painting brushes. Here is a quick demo. Next, guessing skiing from artistic brushes for rough landing. It would also add some texture to our blending. You can also use taco from painting brushes for rough blending, but it feels different and the texture you get is also different from guessing skiing. Brushes for details. To add details, I like to use hard airbrush because it suddenly feels more pressure sensitive, which allows me to do all the details without using different brushes. As I said earlier, depending on the pressure you apply, it produces both soft strokes and heart strokes. And it makes things a bit easier for me. And that's why it's my go-to brush for details. You have any doubts, feel free to let me know in the discussion section, I would be more than happy to help you. 6. Sketching and cleaning up drawing : Sketching and cleaning up your line-drawing. Before we start, let me introduce you to tools we're going to use throughout this class. Here is the brush tool. Then smudge, where you could find a blending brushes next to it, eraser, then layers, and then colors or color selection tool. On the left side, it's transformed to then selection and then adjustments. And finally exit. Next here you can adjust the brush sizes. Then here is the color picker. And then opacity, and then redo and undo. If you don't know yet. Here is the shortcut to redo and undo. Use two fingers step to undo, and use three fingers step to redo. If you want to change the background color before start sketching that this is how you can do it. Go to layers, then tap the background color, then choose the color you want and you're done. Next, try all the sketching brushes I have sewn in the previous class and use the one you are comfortable with, and start sketching. I'm using the six B pencil to draw this. Remember, you don't need to make this perfect or neat and clean. Just make a rough sketch up. Where do you want to draw? Use eraser if you want. But it's not necessary though, is we're going to clean it up anyway. If you want to resize your drawing, select the transform tool and adjust the size as required. And make sure you select freedom with magnetics on and use a corner point to re-size or simply opt for uniform, then tap on an adult tooth to finalize it. Once you are done sketching, it's time to clean up your drawing. Now first lower the opacity of the sketch layer a bit and create a new layer on top of it. Next, use a brush according to your preference and trace your sketch in the new layer. I'm using hamburgers from organic process for this. When you are done dressing, you can delete the sketch layer or keep it. Just makes sure to reduce its opacity if you decide to keep this. Personally, I like to keep the sketch layer, but feel free to do whichever you prefer. Now make minor changes and modifications as needed. We are done. Also, don't forget to share your line art after cleaning up your sketch in the project gallery and do let me know if have any doubts. 7. Coloring: In this class, I'm going to show you how to add colors and blend. First, select the complete object or character with the selection tool, and make sure to choose Freehand to select it on your own. Now, dodge dark color selection tool to pick a base color and tap the color tool again. Next, drag it to the selected area and drop it. Now, if you want to add this the color, select the edges meant to then go to hue saturation and brightness and adjust as required. Now create a new layer between the sketch and the base layer. Then tap on the layer and select clipping mask. Next color, all the individual parts with the colors of your choice in separate layers. And use hardware address. And keep adding layers as needed between the base and the first clip layer until we start detailing. When you use clipping mask, it lets you clip multiple layers to the content of one layer and allow us to make changes without messing the whole thing. All the new layers you add between these two will get automatically clipped to the base layer. Now, now I'm using soft air brush to paint the dark areas. It makes the blending process a bit easier. To blend. Amusing, Socratic breast from artistic. To use a breast for blending, select a smudge tool, and select a brush you like from the process I showed you earlier. But feel free to dry all the other branches. Now smart as needed. So the colors blend in. Also makes sure that the edges, brush size and opacity, LC will end up making things way too blurry. Blending, use stucco or guessing skiing brush from artistic process. And lower the opacity of the cellular if required. I prefer n recommend using separate layers for everything because it allows you to make changes to a particular layers content easily. Also makes sure to use the layers in order. E.g. I'm painting her eyebrows on top of the settler and below her hair layer because her hair is on top and close to the screen compared to her eyebrows. On the other hand, I said, Oh, appears beneath her eyebrows. So it's below the eyebrows layer. Therefore here the order would be here, layer followed by highbrow stare and Sandoz. If required, you can move any layers as you want. And here is how to do it. First step and hold the layer you want to move, then drag it to where you want to place Henry lease. So from now on, make sure to place the layers in order because it will make the process a bit easier for you. Now. Just color and blend as needed. Hi, Just colorist as required by a distinct hue, saturation and brightness. The same way I showed earlier. The number of layers you can use in Procreate is limited to free up more layers. What I do is merge those layers where I'm not going to make any big changes later. You can try it when you are out of layers. And this is how you can merge layers. First, layer and a menu will appear with different options. Then select Merge Down to merge the selected layer with the layer below. Once we complete coloring and blending, it's time to add details and highlights. Create a new layer on top of the rest of the layers for this step. Now, use heart airbrush to add details to your drawing. When you are not sure how exactly the details would be done, feel free to use similar pictures as reference. Actually, I think using references is a great way to improve as long as you don't copy it and use it as inspiration. For all the details. I'm using layers on top and adding new layers as required. We're almost done now I just need to add some finishing touches. You can head straight to the next class for debt. 8. Adding finishing touches : In this class, you will learn how to add some finishing touches to your drawing. Once you complete your work observatory and see if you can add or change any minor things that might make it even better or more interesting. I think even a small change can make your drawing look amazing. So I recommend not to overdo it. You can even skip this step if you feel your work is already complete. If you decide to add any extra details, then make sure to use a new layer on top so you can remove it without the Neo4j if end up liking the one without the details. Now I'm adding some small details to it and added a new ring with the two glow. And that's it. I'm done. 9. Saving final drawing and exporting time lapse video : In this class, I'm going to show you how to export your final work and time-lapse video. First go to Actions, Share, and then choose the file format you want. Select save to files to save source file or as Image. To save it only in your gallery, just offer save two images. Now to watch or export the time-lapse. Again, go to Actions, Video, then time-lapse replay to play it, and export time-lapse video to export it. Once you select the Export option, it will lead to choose from full length and 30 s. Choose whichever you prefer, select where you want to save it and you are done. You can even share it directly it to social media. To do so, swipe the icons in the first row to see all the options available and tap to proceed. And we are done exporting and guides. Make sure to share your work in the project gallery. Also, let me know on which topic I should create my next class. Lastly, I want to thank all of you for taking my first class on Skillshare. I have created some custom brushes and one to give it to you as a thank you gift. Hope you find it helpful. Bye-bye. See you soon. 10. Another Example(Added later on students feedbacks): Here is another example. Some of you have asked for more examples. So I'm adding destroying process video based on your feed pigs. Hope you find it helpful. For this painting. I'm using Procreate fight and my custom brushes. So make sure you keep that in mind when watching the previous lessons. First, I'm going to start with this sketch. Clean up your sketch on another layer if required. Then lower the opacity of the rough sketch layer and merge down with the final sketch. Or you can delete the layer. After that, fill up the whole sketch with a solid color. Create another layer to add some shadows. James blend mode to multiply and the opacity as required. I'm using another layer for the lips. Now working on the shadow layer again. Now going to add some details. Make sure you blend the colors when required. We'll add some highlights on a new layer. Next. After adding the highlights, I merge down all the layers together and going to add one more layer for some extra details. Free to add more layers when you need. Now, I'm adjusting hue, saturation and brightness. And it's done.