How to Paint Gold and Silver in Procreate

1. How to Paint Gold and SIlver Introduction: Hello and welcome to my new course, how to paint gold and silver in Procreate. Whatever you decide to paint now and then you will have a need to paint metals. Whether it's jewelry, containers, utensils, even a metallic car. Knowing how to paint metal is a handy skill. He's a selection of gold and silver items. Golden copper have warm tones and use different techniques to silver, for example. Silver and polished chrome. And even some colored polished metals are all about reflections. As they become almost like a mirror. I'll show you how to look at polish metals to get an authentic look to your illustration. I'm including in the class resources a base painted item for color picking, and then the finished item to show the screens that gives the metal feel. I'm sure you'll discover tips and techniques new to you with my unique process. I would love to see your creations uploaded to the class projects section for everyone to appreciate. Finally, please leave a review as it lets me know where I need to improve and gives me some encouragement to keep producing new courses. Also, a reminder to tap the Follow button above so I can notify you of new classes. Have fun and enjoy the class. 2. Lesson One Gold: Welcome to this lesson on how to paint gold. Whether you want to paint gold jewelry, a sword, or a price cap, it's a useful skill to learn. Whatever you decide to paint. Reference is useful, especially to reference the light source. To begin, you need your reference picture and his sketch. To save time. I've provided this template for you. So you can get straight on to the painting process. Add a layer, and we'll rename this layer colored fill. Go to the Select tool, make sure it's on freehand and color fill. And now we're going to carefully trace around the outline. Colored pick a lighter gold. Now choose the studio pen and just tidy up the edges. There. I think that's about right. Making sure your sketch layer is at the top. Go to color, fill and add a new layer. Rename this layer shadows. I make this layer into a clipping mask. So all your paint strokes stay within the color fill layer. Make sure your brushes on a soft airbrush. And also your eraser. Now using the paintbrush and the eraser, color pick from your reference photo. The various shades of gold. That's the main shades. Were not interested in painting the detail just yet. I think that will do for the basic shades. So we'll go to Layers, add another layer. And on this layer will paint the eyes, the nostrils, and the coin slumped. So we'll rename this layer. Details. Color, pick black of the eyes. Okay, if we add in the eyes and the nostrils, there, that's done. I go to layers, add a layer. And we're going to paint some of the lights. So they'll rename this layer lights. Now these aren't the very bright lights. This is just to put some of the lighter bay shades on. We'll carry on painting. Now we're going to make a new layer and rename this one. Right? That's the brush quite smooth. Now we're going to put in the brighter colors. I think at this stage, we can go into layers and click off the sketch layer. We can see more clearly what stage we're at. I'm now going to layers and make another layer. And this is going to be warmer, reflective. Light source layer. Rename this layer reflected. Now this is where the lice may come up from. The bottom or reflected here on the nose and the ears. So let's look for reflected light. I think both start here. I'm the boss. That's it for our reflective light. Make another layer. This is going to be the brightest highlights. So rename high lights. Now for this, we're going to choose a pure white, a double-tap on the edge of the color wheel, and start adding in. The highlights. Can also swap two. Very nice yellow. I think that is about it. So what we're going to do now, make another layer. I'm going to swipe with three fingers down the page. And copy the canvas. To set this action. Now, go into the wrench tool, Preferences, Gesture controls. And you see here the three finger swipe is switched on, and that invokes the quick menu. Now, we're going to go to our new layer, swipe down again and paste. So we have our painting pasted on a new layer. So now we can switch all the other layers off except layer one. Now we're just going to work on our pasted layer. We're going to use the blend tool. We're going to go over our painting. Small brush, small blend. And we're going to blend in. Now when we finished blending, we're going to look carefully at the pictures and adding little bits that we may have missed with the paintbrush, on the soft brush and quite small. Let's start at the feet. And I can see that there's a shadow here. We'll blend as we go. Next, we'll switch to the studio pen and just go around and clean up the edges. Using both the eraser on the studio pen and the studio pen. Pick a color that's close to the edge. Just carefully go around. Either adding in line. We're using the eraser. Just keep checking that you've got the parts painted correctly. I think that's about it. So now we can put our finishing touch. So we're going to go into layers, duplicate our layer, press the N, and we're going to go to overlay. And then to 20%. And that just gives us a little vessel, right? Sparkle. And there we have gold pig. And we'll move on to see how to paint silver. 3. Lesson Two Silver: Hello, welcome to lesson two. In this lesson, we'll learn to paint silver or polished chrome. Painting. This finish is all about observing reflections and light and then translating them into the illustrated object. To save time, I've also included a sketch as well as the color picking picture. So you can get right into the painting process. So let's get started and paint together. First of all, we're going to make a canvas 30 by 20. Then make sure you downloaded all the assets from the resources provided. Bringing reference one. We're going to use this for color picking. A reference to has all the special finishes. So now we're going to start with reference fun. Going two layers. Add a layer and bringing the sketch. Bring the size up a little. I wanted to discuss with you a little bit about the sketch. I provided this so I can show you how to mark out the different areas. So looking at the picture, you can see I've made shapes from the different parts of the cup and not just trace the outline. It's important to know where the lights and shadows fall. So we can color, pick and place all the different lights and shadows and colors in the right place. So let's make another layer. Move it below the sketch layer, and choose a light silvery gray. Now go to the Select tool. Make sure it's on color fill and freehand. And then we're going to fill in the base color. Now using the studio pen. Let's just tidy it up. Switching to the eraser. Just get rid of any overflow. Using the eraser, cuts out the handles. Make a new layer. Choose a lighter green, the blue. To represent the water. With the Select tool. Select the water layer. I think we might make that blue, little bit darker. Now go into layers and we'll rename water-filled, rename this layer, cut. And we'll rename the sketch layer. So we know where we are. So let's start painting. Tap the cup layer, add a new layer and make it into a clipping mask. Now we're going to name this layer. I think that will do for the shadows. Now before we move on, I noticed that the base fill layer looks a bit of a pinky gray. So I'm going to go back into that capsule layer and change the shade of gray and fill it there. That's a little better, not so pinky. Next we're going to tap on the shadow layer. Add a new layer, make this into a clipping mask, and rename. Lights. Check where on the soft airbrush. Now we're going to put in all the light areas. Color pick and start to paint the light areas. That I think fast will do for the lighter areas. So go into layers, add a new layer, clipping mask. We'll rename this layer. Right. Now. This is for the, the brightest brights. So we'll go into the color wheel, double-tap, make sure it's on pure white. Then we'll just go through and touch up the center of the white areas. And that's all we need to do is now add another layer, clipping mask. And we're going to call this layer rename color, spelled the English way, I'm afraid. Elections. Now if you look carefully at the picture, you can see there's quite a loss of color. Was obviously something off camera giving us these red colors. So I'll put those in first. Then you will see that the water is reflecting on the rim. So I'll just put some of the watercolor in the room. Now let's just turn off the sketch layer and see what it looks like. He said there's quite a lot of work that still needs to be done. But we need to blend all these colors now. So we'll go into layers. Leaving the clipping mask off. We'll work on the water layer. So tap water pill, add a layer, clipping mask. Now we're going to put in the watercolors. We'll just do all this on one layer. Now we'll switch to the blend brush, making sure it's on the soft airbrush. And we'll put the size down. And gradually blending. Now go, go back to the painting and just add in some of these sharper lines. Swapping back to the blend brush, just tidy the edges. You can spend quite a lot of time just adjusting the the shades. Make sure you always brushing in the direction of the water. With a little bit more brightness in there. Just creeped swapping between the brush and the blend until you're satisfied with your water layer. I think that's about it. He could quite literally carry on for an hour on this particular part that I think you know what to do now. Maybe fewer whites, just put some more bright whites in there. I think I'll leave it at that. So now we're going to choose all layers swiping, right? And we're going to group them, close the group, duplicate the group. And then with this second group layer, we're going to flatten it. And we're going to switch off the first group. So all the work we've done, we've got contained in this first group. But now we flatten the second group so that we can go over with the blend brush and blend all the colors together. I'll start blending. This will take quite some time. So I'll speed this up for you. I'll put this on alpha lock so we don't go over the edges. Now we don't want this looking to build a hurry. So I'm going to switch to the studio pen and just put some sharp lines. This dot over here. And define the edges a little bit more. Now, we'll make the background color a pure black double-tap. So he can see much clearer. The parts that we need to adjust. Now, we'll take off the Alpha Lock. Choose a studio pen with the eraser. And just go round and tidy the edges. Make sure we're on the right layer. Alpha lock off. Now we've refined the lines and blended. Perhaps a little bit more quiet, honestly, you could carry on for as just tidying up. Right? I'm just going to go into the pure white again and just touch up the center of the white. Right now we're going to duplicate that layer and try some screens. Picture over here we can see multiply, darken, color, burn, et cetera. I think overlay is the right one. This will turn it down to about 50 per cent. Looks a lot brighter. Now we're going to duplicate the Cut, Fill again, lose that onto the top. Go into the screens. And this time we're going to try Color Dodge to bring up the maximum brightness. But we'll move that right down to about 20 per cent. Add a new layer. And we'll go into the procreates. Luminous brushes. These come with procreate, so there's no problem here. Choose a light pen and we're on pure white. And we're just going to touch up the edges. Go round the white bits, make them a little bit more sparkly. Back to the luminous brushes. And we're going to choose the flare little bit small and put our finishing touch. That's our silver cup. Completed. What we can do is swipe three fingers down and copy the canvas. Add a new layer, and switch all these layers off. Three fingers down and paste. Now everything is combined and we can use this time to go around the edges with the eraser. Again. And just tidying up. There, we have it. I finished silver cup. Remember when you're painting silver or any polished chrome? It's all about the objects off picture that reflected into the picture. And also the top of the bowl is reflected into the bottom of the bowl. Thank you for joining me in this class. And now we'll wrap up. 4. Paint Gold and SIlver Wrap Up: Thank you for joining me in this class and how to paint gold and silver. If you'd enjoy this class and would like me to show you how to paint other elements such as crystals, diamonds, etc. Please let me know in the comments below. I would like to see your finished work and see which silver and gold objects that you choose to paint. If you'd like to know a little more about me. Please visit my website at www color story.com, spelled the English way. And I would love it if you would leave me a review so that I can keep improving the classes that I create for you. Thank you and goodbye. I started my creative journey writing books and audios, as you can see here. Then I return to my first love art and created all kinds of art. Finally, I have 20 years of mind, body, and spirit articles to help my readers navigate our complex world. I think you'll find it very interesting to visit my website, color story.com.