Not Quite Right! 3 Instant Ways to fix your One-Line Art on Procreate

1. Intro: Do you feel like your O line portraits on Procreate could be better? You do the work, you trace the picture, and they still look a little off. Well, this micro course addresses just that. In this very short ten minute course, I teach you how to solve the way your one line art portraits look using three simple strategies. My name is Sata and I'm a full time online illustrator and Online book author that can help you sort out your O line portrait problems. So if you need to correct a O line portrait, now this class is for you. 2. Project: Anytime I have to tackle a Wallin portrait that doesn't look quite right, these three strategies are the ones I always go to and they never fail me. Until the next video, we are going to be exercising these three different strategies, these three different tricks. Into we're going to be putting them into drawings that were not quite there yet and seeing how these strategies make the drawings just seem better the moment I use them. Let's get right to it. 3. Adding Expression: The first one is adding expression. Sometimes I do a one line portrait of a person, and they're just fixedly looking at the camera or looking at the person that's observing the drawing. And it just looks a bit off. Adding expression makes sure that your drawing is communicating some sort of feeling and that always gives it a little bump. Sometimes you don't know what's missing. Sometimes it's not as obvious as working with texture. This drawing looks okay, right? Looks great, in my opinion, but I don't think that it transmits anything. It's sort of blank in the stair. So I'm going to go ahead and use the duplicate of this file. To erase the eyes because that's where you where you see the most emotions. And I'm going to go ahead and erase the corners of the mouth or just the whole mouth, honestly. Just the whole mouth. I'm going to be giving this girl some expression. I'm going to make her look happy and serene. So let's do that. I'm going to use my base photo to know where the parts of the face are, but I'm just going to go ahead and I'm going to zoom in, and I'm going to go in and excited sort of winky eyes. I'm also going to go in with my eraser to make sure that line is clean. So I'm going to make that. I'm gonna fix this line I erased without wanting to. And I'm going to go ahead and create another one of these. Very excited, kind of disappearing eyes that come out when when when someone smiles. And so I'm going to be adding this here. So I have these two eyes. I know it looks weird, bear with me. And then I'm going to make the mouth exactly the same as she has it, but it's going to be sort of more smiley. She's going to be a bit more smiley. And let's see how that looks. I'm going to toggle off the image in the bottom on the bottom. And suddenly she looks happy. She looks joyful. She looks there's an expression on her face. You are transmitting something. So this is the old one, and this is the new one. Go ahead and try it, make sure you post it as a project for me to see it and give you some feedback. Next one. 4. Adding Texture: The second one is simulating texture, especially when it comes to hair or beards, instead of just using a simple line, I like moving my line in a way that simulates the texture. You could see through the line in the drawing that that particular area of the drawing in my hair, for example, in this case, would look like hair, not just like a line. So adding texture also. Really good never fails me. So the first thing we're going to do is that you're going to see that I've given you a procreate file with two layers of the same drawing and one layer of the photo. You're going to keep that toggled off. You're going to select the top layer of the drawing, and you're going to deselect the bottom layer of the drawing. You're going to be as you guys can see, I already started. You're going to delete the hair, all of that. Hair line, being very careful not to delete the lines that connect. And then you're going to toggle on your base photo, change the opacity to whatever suits you best. Now, the way to fix a drawing that needs more texture or that has texture inherently in it, as you can see, this portrait is of a person with curly hair. You want to make sure that texture of the hair is there. I usually use my thick and thin brush for this. And I go ahead and move the pencil like so. So focus on my hand more than how the drawing is turning on, turning out. You will see how the drawing turns out anyway. But just notice how I'm purposely pushing down from time to time and also kind of doing thin lines and just making sure that that line is irregular in both thickness, and just in curves. And so this is the way that I would add texture to a drawing in order to improve it. I'm going to toggle that image now out. And as you guys can see, look at the difference. There's this, and then there's this. There's this, and then there's this. I want you guys to try adding texture to that hair and let me know how it goes for you. Make sure that you do share it in the project below if you want me to give you some feedback on it. 5. Adding depth: Then the third one is adding depth. I am a true evangelist of using thick and thin lines to create depth in your drawing. This is something that every time I, um, can I incorporate into my drawing in order to make it pop to make sure that some lines appear closer to the viewer and some lines appear farther away from the human eye. Alright, we are going to now fix the drawing by adding depth. As you can see, this drawing was made with my even line brush, which I use a lot for one line art. But this is not a good instance in which to use a brush that doesn't add depth. Why? Because she has a lot of hair. Her face is behind her hair, and you want to add that feeling of the hair being in front of her face and kind of framing it. So we're going to go ahead and add a new layer. You're going to make that layer, um, opaque, the second the layer of the drawing. I am going to be using my thick and thin drawing brush for this because I want to go through the exact same lines for you to see the difference. It's not a difference of how I went about the lines in this drawing or the line because it's only one. But it's about the depth, the thickness of the brush in each instance. I'm going to go ahead and Okay, I try to do it all in one go so that we don't lose too much time, but I do want to make some tiny fixes, especially to her nose. Okay. So on her lips, they look a bit inflated. So let's fix that. I like to go in, especially when I'm not trying to do it in one go. I like to go in and fix little details that could be thinner or could be thicker and will support my use of thick and thin lines. Here we go. This could work. I'm going to get rid of this line, and you're going to tell me which one is your favorite. We have this one. We have this. Wait, I'm going to make this thicker. You have this versus this. Again, this versus this. See how that improved. It makes you feel like this thick hair is in front of her face while the rest of her face is in the bath. 6. Conclusion correct: I really hope these exercises were useful because then in the future, whenever you have to improve one of your drawings, you have strategies to go to. Make sure you go to my profile and check those out if you really want to get more exercises than the one this micro course provided for you and Godspeed. I hope every time you have a one line art portrait challenge, you use these three very useful skills.