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1. Welcome: Hi and welcome to the
skill share class where together we
are going to create an oil painting of this lovely oriole using the default brushes that
come with procreate. My name is Avraham. I'm a professional illustrator, and besides creating art, showing you how you can create your own beautiful art is
one of my passions in life. In this class, I will
show you that with a few simple brushes that you can readily
find in procreate, you'll be able to create your own digital oil
painting of an oriole. Along the way, you'll
learn about layers, how to use layer opacity,
understanding alpha lock, and how it can really help
your drawing process and get a deep understanding and familiarity using
the default brushes that come with procreate. Once you know the
brushes to use and the techniques to create an
oil painting with them, you'll be able to
apply the technique to create other subjects in
an oil painting style. I take you step by step through my entire process.
This class is great. Whether you're new to procreate
or want to learn how to create oil paintings using procreate with the
default brushes, all you need is an ipad, the procreate app, and I highly recommend
the Apple pencil. I can't wait to begin. Let's get started.
2. Getting Started: We're going to start
off by sketching out the layout of where
we want our Orel to be. First, I'm going to
change the color to black by double clicking on the color wheel at the bottom,
that makes it full black. For the brush, I'm going to
go to the sketching burst set and six pencil
is a good one here. I'm going to sketch
out our board ahead. It's like this is very rough and the body looks like that. Have to move it already.
Scale it down just a tad. Okay, the tail like this. The beak over here like that. We'll refining these
as we go along, but just to get the basic idea. And wing, maybe here. I just give the body just
a little bit more of a rounded element
to it, like there. Okay, let's add in a branch
for him to be standing on. Give him some feet. Actually, the first foot
I think isn't so good. It's got to be, the foot's
going to be on the branch. There we are. Okay, so now have a rush sketch. We are going to
start calling it in.
3. Painting the Body: First do is change blend mode to multiply and add
a layer beneath it. And then we start painting. First thing I do actually, is add a background to color that's going to
be a green color here, like this and drop it in. Now we can start to paint on top of that and
we can make sure that our colors are opaque and they don't have
white coming through. We'll start with the
body of our oriole, which is pretty bright
orange, yellow color. Go to our painting brush
set with a wet acrylic. Wet acrylic has a
very heavy brush, it puts down a lot of paint. It's a good way to cover up what's underneath to
make sure we've got the whole we're not seeing anything in the background
through the picture. I'm painting more than we need because his head really
is black and not orange. But I find it easier
that we paint more then We can always
erase or cover it up later. If on the other hand we
didn't paint enough, we'll have a gap and
then trying to match the color afterwards
is a little harder. This is plenty of orange. Here we can see a little bit of where the
color is showing through. So it's going to paint
a little bit more. Here I'm painting in the direction of the
bird's feathers. I'm going this way,
painting like that, to do the bird's feathers, because that's the
opposite direction. Here we have this and now
we're going to go and pick a very dark black
or very dark brown. The pure black. And we're going to put
this, we continue painting, here we are, at the bird's head. Now one thing it's
also important to consider is the edge
of the line here. This edge of this
line is very fuzzy. I think the bird's head
more flatter approach. What we're going to do is
we're going to modify that. We'll switch over to
turpentine brush. Here we can start painting, and as you should flatten out a little bit to more mimic the
shape of feathers, or the contour feathers
on the edge of the body. While we're here, it's
come down a little more. I'm also picking the
Turptine brush because of the way it interacts with what's underneath it. It pulls colors. You see here, it has this effect of pulling it back and forth. And so it looks really good, especially for the bird
where it colors mix in. We'll see here in the neck, let's put down some
color here like this can really get a look of the feathers. Here's a nice look here. I think the tripartite brush really captures the effect we're
going for for the feathers. The interaction between the colors of the feathers
on this bird. Darker here, of course, this whole top area
should be black. Let's go switch back to
our what acrylic for that, let's turn off our sketch
layer for a moment. Will we work on this? Back to turpentine. It's looking pretty good now. Let us work it a little
bit on the wing, So we go back to lay down
our basic color with what acrylic is actually,
I think even darker. So let's Make it even darker here. I'm doing everything
on one layer. It's possible to
do a second layer. We could, it might be easier if we do things
in different layers. Let's make another layer
here for the black, at least initially
for this part. Lay down the color overshoot on the head part and that
get race afterwards. So here we're like this. I think the wind goes to around here
and then we have it coming in like this around here. A little more black area going here was putting down the
beginning the colors. And then we're going to
touch it up a little bit with turpentine brush first, I don't, if you can
see this exactly, let me lower the opacity
of this layer and you can see where it overlaps. I'm going to go on this
layer which and erase. We don't want here
putting this lay back up. And that was a
little bit too much. I'll just paint in just
a little more here like that and then we can merge
the layers will be fine. Let's merge these
two layers together. We can blend a little bit
using the turpentine bush. All right, we'll just
go a little bit. And everything is
good over here. Let's continue refining
the shape of our feathers. Here I make the bush a little smaller. And here if I wanted to make
this area of black less, I'll go switch back
to our orange. And I'll just paint that. As simple as that. Okay, so I here of our
basic color of this area. And want to do a little
bit longer over here, A little bit lower there. Okay. And I see in the middle we still have
some green showing through. So let's go back to our web click and just fill it
in a little bit more. Great.
4. Painting the Branch: Okay, let us return back
our sketch layer back on and I want to add in
the branch and his feet. And then we'll get
to the beak. Let us pick a color for the branch. It's going to be in the
grayish area over here. We still have what
acrylic sounds great. Think the bush a little
bigger and we're going to apply color this part in
using our sketch as a guide. A few bumps here, so the branch should be a
little bit more bumpy, Okay? And then what we can
do in fact is if we go to this layer and we
double swipe to the right, it applies the alpha lock, which you can achieve
the same thing by clicking on the layer and
then pressing Alpha lock. That would turn off,
but turning back on and she has the
checkup board pattern. What that basically means is
that anywhere we draw now, it will only draw
to change it to a much different darker brush. We'll only going
to see it when it overlaps what is already
existing on our layer. So if I start drawing here, we're not going to see anything. So as I get close to our branch or the
bird for that matter, we'll start to color
in. Let's undo that. What we can do now
using the To advantage is take a textured brush like
in the charcoal section. Burnt tree. Sounds good. We can take a darker version
of this branch and then start to paint in lightly to
get some branch textures. I think is very aptly named brush by the
way, don't you think? Burnt tree looks great. We have this here to do. Add in a little bit more, one thing also chalky texture, and we're doing oil painting, it's a little bit contrasty. What I want to do is I'm going to try to blend it together. Blend some of it. I want
to smear some together. Let's go back to our paint
brush, painting brush set. We'll go with old brush and
I can try that a little bit. You'll see it adds a little
bit of a smeary effect here to get I'm painting with this
currently bright green, so if I switched to a darker green paint all on the bottom, it, again only affecting the area that we see because we still have the alpha lock on. I think it's pulling
up too much. House is working here, I think. Let's going to tap a little
bit here with do a few taps. Go for a lighter color and paint that on
what happened there. I want a lighter color of
the green. Like this. Yeah. So first I smeared
it around and then I'm going to tap a
little bit so it has a mixture of both painting
look and sputtered, brush look, and over here, a little bit darker. And for a final touch, we're going back to our
charcoal burnt tree. And we'll add some miss back in here a little darker so we can
actually see it over here. And a lighter is part of it. Okay. I think we have
looking good over there. One thing I would also do is
if I go to the smudge tool and I stamp with the smudge
tool with old brush, we can also sometimes get a nice looks, a
little smaller here, a nice look of a
distressed or splatter. Look at the paint. Spend all day doing this. Very meditative. Anyway, I think that's looking
really good. Now we're going to
go draw in our feet.
5. Painting the Feet: Go put our skitch layer back on and turn our alpha lock off. We can slide to the right
again to turn it off, or if we just click on the
menu and press Alphalock, it will turn it off like
this. Just like that. Now we're going to go and
draw in our orioles feet. We're going to take
this darker blue, there's a really dark gray, blue gray color on
this layer. Put down, I'm curving a little
so it looks like it's ramping around our branch. There's a good grip there
shouldn't want, I'm gonna fall. And on this side too, we add ins leg is talons he's holding on. Now we can return
off our sketch layer and continue to work on this. I want to first make
this a little bit wider at the top, At least Now we can go up to
that lighter plue. We're going to do
it with turpentine, very small, thin brush. That way it can pull at
the color and mix it in. Pressing very gently has a
nice texture, and then here can be round and adding
in depth to his talents, switch back to darker color
just for a moment here, back to a later color. Okay, so that's one, and the other one is going
to be something similar. I'm going around to
match the bulk of those skills that Great.
6. Painting the Head and Beak: Okay, so now we have to do a little bit
more with his body. We're going to add
in a little bit of shadow, of course, beak. And so we have some
personality right now. I'm adding the layer
back in so we can see, let's go color in his beak. I'm going to change,
I'm going to lower the capacity of this layer
just so we can see the a little bit more in our
skitch layer and make a new layer with a pretty white color switch back to what
acrylic and paint this in. The reason I'm painting on
this layer and the layer beneath is because
I just changed the opacity I painted
on the lower layer. It would be very light and it wouldn't see, it's
real intensity. For example, if I paint here, you'll see that supposedly
the same color but it has a, a turned out, here we are on this one and filling
it in a little more. Then we'll also do is
eye by going to black. Actually the way I
want to do this, still do the white because I want to get
a rim around his eye. I'm going to paint the
white part like this and then switch to our very
dark color and fill it in, leaving a little bit of a room. Now I can take the original layer and put back up to full capacity
because we don't need to see the sketch layer anymore and talk the
schedulaer still with our eye. I'm going to go back to
our later color switch to our turpentine brush
and add in a little bit of highlights on the eye to follow the
contour of the eye. And add this in, there are the beak a
little bit darker now. And we'll, we'll
turn on our alpha. Ok, so we don't go outside of
the dimensions of our beak. And we can start to color
in some of shading areas. I want to add in actually a very dark area for
the center part of the beak here, like this. Then we have, I
think, the nose hole. We breathe perhaps this, and go back to continue with a little shading here and there, a little darker for just a little bit more
contouring of the beak.
7. Painting the Body Details: Let's go back to
our other layer and we're going to
define the feathers. First of all, in the
mean body of the O, we have a more of
an Range color, deep orange, let's put that in. We're still sticking with
turbinine because that's, I think, a really great way to mimic how the feathers are. We're just going
to pull down here, find the shape of our oriole. This and the bottom
part over here. Okay, we'll switch you were to a more yellow
color to add in some of the yellow that I see in
some parts of the feathers. Smaller area here. And then we also have
a more brown area, so it feels like a shadow, a bit of a red area over here. This is really pretty how this brush really mimics
these feathers really nicely. I think I'm trying to go over each part of
the bird's feathers, so there isn't a solid R
engine, a one location. I see a very dark
area over here, so we're going to add it in another one, right over here.
8. Painting the Background: Now it's time to add
in the background. For that, we're
going to select our background and we're going to go with our old brush,
We have some green. Let's pick a sample of the screen and we're going
to pick another one. We add in some
brush strokes here, hinting at foliage
in the background, at a focus, blurry. We don't want to take too much of the attention
away from our oriole. What I'm doing
here is I'm having the almost like lines
leading to the oriole. So it's focusing us at hit, framing him, that's
one color of green. I take another one, a little bit darker brush, a little smaller here, some subtle small things happening in the background
to keep it interesting. So these could be
viewed as trees or foliage to add in sample
of color from this branch. And we can add in some more looks like branches
perhaps here, a little b, that's a little too defined. So let's see if I
can stamp it out. If I couldn't, I would undo. See, It's great. We're here and there we are. We have a very nicely done oil, using an oil paint
style in procreate.
9. Thank you!: Congratulations, I'm so proud
of you for successfully creating an oil painting using default brushes of procreate. I'd love to see what you made, so be sure to upload it in the projects and
resources section. That way we can all enjoy seeing each other's work
and get inspired. If you enjoy this class, I'd really appreciate it. If you left a review,
it will enable my class to reach more
potential students. And if you want to learn
additional techniques for how to create oil paintings using the default brushes
of procreate, I highly recommend you take
my class on crating an apple. Lastly, please follow me here on skill share
to be notified about future class releases and other exciting
announcements. Thank you so much for
taking this class. I look forward to seeing
you in the next one.
Avraham Nacher, Photographer & Procreate Artist
