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Lip Painting in Procreate

teacher avatar Yasar VURDEM, Creative Art Director

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      1:10

    • 2.

      Creating Sketch

      1:27

    • 3.

      Paint Base Colors

      3:32

    • 4.

      Painting Lip Shadows

      4:28

    • 5.

      Painting Lights

      3:35

    • 6.

      Adding Micro Details

      2:50

    • 7.

      Complete Illustration

      2:26

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About This Class

Learn how to paint realistic lips in Procreate using simple, beginner-friendly techniques that help you achieve smooth shading, natural textures, and professional-quality results. In this class, illustrator Yasar Vurdem walks you through his full workflow starting from a basic sketch and building up to polished, glossy, beautifully rendered lips.

You’ll learn how to understand lip structure, place highlights correctly, and blend colors in a way that creates softness, volume, and realism. Whether you prefer natural tones, bold makeup looks, or stylized glossy lips, this class gives you the tools to bring your artwork to life.

Perfect for digital artists, portrait painters, character designers, and anyone who wants to improve their rendering skills in Procreate.

What You’ll Learn

  • Lip anatomy basics and how to build a clean sketch

  • Choosing the right color palette for natural or stylized lips

  • Painting smooth shadows and highlights

  • Techniques for blending and soft transitions

  • Adding gloss, shine, texture, and final polish

  • Layer management and essential Procreate tools for efficiency

By the end of this class, you’ll complete a fully rendered lip painting and gain confidence in painting facial features with depth and realism.

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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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Transcripts

1. Introduction: Hi, everyone. I'm Isa Wurdam. And in this class, I'm going to teach you how to draw realistic glossy lips step by step. If you struggle with getting the shape right, blending smooth shadows or adding those shiny highlights that make lip look alive, don't worry. This lesson will break it all down clearly and simply. We will begin by sketching the basic lip structure, then define the curves and adept with clean shading and finish with beautiful highlights that create a natural glossy effect. I will show you the exact brushes layers and coloring techniques I use to make lips look soft, dimensional, and expressive. Whether you are a beginner or improving your portrait skills, you will walk away with a polished artwork and solid understanding of how to draw lips that release stands out. So grab your tablet or pencil, open your Cavas and let's create realistic lips together. 2. Creating Sketch: Welcome. In this tutorial, we will paint realistic lip and procreate. At first, we will make the background gray and we'll open another new layer, and we will use kintons like base colours. At first, we need to put the base colors before we focus on details and put the lip shape. And after it, I will paint lips rotation like like this and After you put and place the lip, you can rotate some places and make it much more deep and detailed. After it open another new layer under the 3. Paint Base Colors: A sketch layer and apply over it like this. Just put the base colors Du rush like shadows and different details. At first, all you need to do is defining shadows and highlights. For example, I will make it much more lighter here and here. And here this, and I will put really dark tones here like this. And after it, collect all layers and duplicate the layer. It is tricky. Now, click tap on the layer two and select invert and change layer mode to hard mix and make it like ten or nine, maybe much more or less like this. And after it, maybe really less. Maybe five. And after it, call net layers and clean the background like this and zoom in. Now what we're gonna do is edding the details and make the illustration much more vibrant. So I will start from this page and we'll make it much more darker like this. And and like this, this part will be darker. Okay. And with so much tool, you can smoter the ads of the lip at some parts because we need to smooth look and we'll increase the detail over it and open another new layer. And continue to adding details such as shadows here and much more details here and here. And this part will be like this. I'm just increasing detail level. And, of course, we need to blend these areas too to make it much more softer and detailed at all. And this part like this. Okay, let's continue at other parts. 4. Painting Lip Shadows: Okay, let's continue from adding the details over here. This is a skin saw. Ip is also connected to skin saw. We need to make it visible. This time, I'm just adding the texture of the lip. Okay. I'm adding details over here and here. And we'll increase the detail here. Okay. And these connection parts will have much more lights like this. And this area will have some lights, and maybe this area. You can use any textured brush or soft brush for these steps. Okay. And zoom here and use much more brainst brush and apply over it. And also, these parts will be how some extra lights here, like reflections. Yeah, like this. Okay. And we'll add much more lights here. And here. Okay. And it looks much more realistic right now, but I will add I will add some extra lights here and here, especially at this part. And here I will blend. Also this part. And this part. Okay, And 5. Painting Lights: Here. And I will put details here like this. And these parts will be strong enough like this. And, okay, it looks really good right now. And I will make the corners much more visible. And I will connect all layers and make it much more bigger, more bigger. Okay, maybe like this. And I will use some extra hues to my painting for increased colors. For example, I will add some pink colors at this part. Also at this part. You like this. Yeah. And these corners will be much more visible and strong. I like this. And I will increase, again, the color brains here and hue. At some parts you need to increase the hue and at the tails Yeah, I'm making it much more visible details like this. And, of course, at this right, I mean, left part will be much more darker. This part also will be darker. 6. Adding Micro Details: Yep. And it's looking great right now with these small details. And what we going to do is playing with curs and making it a bit dark and also will increase the lights a bit not so much. And he at saturation, a bit much more. And okay, we can use a bit sharpen and zoom again here with the light brush. And now, I will select much more with less textured brush for my detail level of this painting. And I will use smooth line like this with a low opacity, maybe half opacity like this, and I will start to paint the texture. But don't overuse it. Just try to define the textures of the lip. And because if you overdo it, you will lose the balance and your painting will look so flat. And it is same for the dark parts. You need to also catch balance at the darks. For example, I want to make this place much more juicy and I will put some really high, really, really high reflections here. And this part will be much more or less here like this. And Okay. And I will use some 7. Complete Illustration: Dark parts here. Okay. And I will use a bit saturated color here as a shadow here and Yep. It's looking much more good right now. And I will make it balance here like this. And this part is darker. Yeah. And I want to use brain set L here for the texture. I will use it here like this. And I will make this part much more darker. Let's zoom here and give it shadow. And especially at this part. It will be darker so much dark here. And I will also make this part will have some textures in it like this. And some parts, you can add much more lights for increase the texture of the lip. But again, don't overdo it because it will so repetitive and it will lose the balance. And again, thank you for joining me in this class, and I can't I can't fate forese your works.