Transcripts
1. Introduction: Welcome to this
class on realistic skin painting basics
in Procreate. In this class, we will focus on building a strong foundation
for painting natural, Bliable skin tones using simple
and practical techniques. Whether you are
beginner or someone who already has some
experience with digital art, this class is designed to
help you better understand how to scan works in terms of
color, light, and texture. We will using Procreate
as our main tool, but principles you
will learn here can be applied to any
digital painting software. The goal is not
just follow steps, but to understand why
skin looks the way it does and how to create that
effect in your own artwork. Throughout the lessons, we
will start with basics, choosing the right brushes
and understanding colors. Then we will move into studying skin tones and avoid
flood or dull results. You will learn how to
substate shifts in hue temperature and saturation
that make skin look alive. We will explore
lighting and shading, which are essential for
creating deep and realism. By the end of this class, you will have a better
understanding of how to approach realistic second
paintings and confidence to apply these techniques
in your own projects. This class is all about
learning through practice. So feel free to take your time, pause when needed, and revisit any section.
Let's get started.
2. Create Base Colors: Welcome. In this class, we will paint realistic skin. At first, create the gray scale background
for our painting. Then select ellipse and create
one ellipse to the middle. Then select the darker brush like skin brush
and apply over it. It will be the base color. So after it, tap one time
to the layer and Alpha. And after Alpha log, be sure you are using airbrush and define the
shadow parts of the painting. For example, this part of the
painting is darker parts, and these parts are
much more lighter. So this part is the
light part of our skin, and these parts are
reflected light. And you can make your shadows
much more saturated and, for example, like this. And I will select a lighter
brush for skin texture, and I will start by
adding manually skin. At the highlight area, we paint the texture
of the skin, and the textures are really
visible at the light area. So you be sure that you are adding many details to the light parts because
at light parts, it creates highlights
and shadows because light comes from the left top and it creates a really
good amount of detail. For example, I'm putting these
little tiny details here. And after it, you can add some much more saturated
colors here for much more interesting look and zooming than try to add the skin texture
manually like this. And
3. Painting Details of Skin: Will be tiny details and it
will follow the surface. In this painting, it is
squared like circle, so it will surround the
skin texture like this. We will create a circle
in it just like this. And it starts from this angle and continue like
the small details. And the top of it will be
the textures of the skin. And as I say, these corners
has idle less detail. And you can paint freckles
or these lidle tiny details, which gives your skin texture
much more realistic look. And at the light part, we have the second
texture, but in darkness, we will see it much
more less visible. For example, these parts
will be less textured, small textures around here. And I will open
another new layer and will change the
layer mode to color. And I will select a bit much more
saturated colors and we'll add these colors
around these corners. Just like it will
add our painting really good and warm effect and open another new
layer and select overlay. With overlay, we will add much more saturated color here by selecting the
middle tone and like this. And let's zoom in again, and I will paint the idel details for
shadows of the skin. And at this part, do not rush. Just try to continue
and build your skin.
4. Adding Micro Details: Welcome again. At this part, I selected the skin
texture brush. And if you don't
have this brush, you can use any spray brush
or some textured brush. With overlay mode, I'm applying this brush into skin slowly, and I'm not pressing
harder to my Apple pencil. I'm slowly building
it just like this. I'm adding the small
details of it. And after this, select
the lighter color and continue to adding
details. Just like this. Here will be much
more saturated, and these textures will
be much more visible. And if you are painting
old man or woman, there will be wrinkles. But if you are painting a
young or semi aged figure, it can be flat, but if
you add this texture, your painting will
look much more better. I'm increasing the detail level here with these small details. Just like this. And this part can be
much more lighter. Yeah, I will select very
smooth brush again, and I will continue to add
these lightle tiny details. And these kind of
details will bring much more realism into our
painting just like this. I'm adding small but
effective details that pop ups the detail
level of the illustration. And at some parts, you can make it
literally effect. For example, at some parts, some skin particles are looking, so we brand and like
shiny dots, like litters. And with this way, it makes
the surface much more alive, and you can even add the water drops if it's wet or something, and it will look
much more slippery. And I will add
small details here, just a bit much more
small details here to complete the illustration and
see you in the next step.
5. Complete Illustration: Welcome again. At this part, I will select freckle brushes, and I will open
the overlay layer again and we'll put
some particles here. And these particles will give us a really good skin
look like burn. And if you have some I mean, like dirt brush or something. It will be useful for this part, and I will use
another skin brush. I'm pretty sure you have some different kind
of skin brushes. So you can follow this class and add your own details to do
your own illustration. And let's add much more
small details here, like glows and the
different details. And these details will be
much more visible here. And I'm adding idle details around to this reflected
light area and this area. And these details
is really important for bring the realism
and realistic results. For example, I am adding these small brush strokes here for bring the really realistic look
for our illustration. And this part, of course, will be much more detailed
here. And this part. Because light brings the detail. Don't forget it. And I'm adding some small particles here to show the detail level
of the illustration. At some points you can paint
randomly lines like this. This kind of details creates really good
amount of texture. And if you
continuously paint it, it creates the really good
king texture, just like this. Yes, it brings us a really
good amount of detail, and I will add much
more highlights around these corners and maybe these parts are
much more detailed, just like this and like this. And you can zoom in and
add some extra volume to the these particles to
make skin much more treedy and thanks a lot for joining this quick class and can't wait for see
your own projects.
Yasar VURDEM, Creative Art Director
