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1. One-Line Art tattoo Design: One line art Tattoos
are a tasteful, delicate way of making permanent
markings on your skin. Most of my tattoo
design clients opt for one line art when
designing their own ideas. Because this art style also happens to be fairly
easy to learn. My name is Atta and I'm a full
time one line illustrator. And today I will be teaching
you how to illustrate your own one line art tattoo design on an
app called Procreate. For this class project, we are going to make three
tattoo designs together. First, I will be walking you through the dos and
dons of tattoo design. And what to watch out for when choosing your one line
brush in the app procreate. Then we will move on to drawing one line animals faces
and objects in procreate. While exploring how this should look and should be done
for tattoos in each case. This class is not only for
tattoo artists who are looking to offer one line art
designs to their clients. But also for people who wish to design the tattool
that they bring to their two artists when they
are planning to get inked. I look forward to seeing
you in our first lesson. Now on to getting started.
2. Class Project: For this class project, we will be creating three types of E line art,
tattoo designs together. We will be looking
into what to watch out for when creating
a tattoo design. And how to implement
those things into the design that we
create together. Then we will discuss
what to look for when choosing your one line brush
in the app procreate. And then we'll
move on to drawing one line art, animals, faces, and objects in the app, while also exploring
how these should be done for the purpose
of tattoo design. You'll need an ipad
with the app procreate, and you'll need the
reference photos I have set up for us to use. They are ready for
you to download in the files provided
for you in this course.
3. To Consider: One line art is so versatile
that it is important to talk about precisely what kind of one line art is best
for tattoo design. Tattoos are delicate and the
design you choose for it can make or break the way
that it looks on your skin. Pay close attention to
these two main aspects of your design because
they can help you avoid commonly made
mistakes and issues. Tattoos have long term. Number one, avoid
very thin lines. Make sure your design is clear
and easily recognizable, especially if it includes
intricate details. Very fine lines may blur or fade more quickly
than bold designs. Number two, overcrowding
your design. Crowded designs, or those with too many elements may look
cluttered and chaotic. Make sure your lines
have space to breathe. Keep these two simple rules in mind as you create with
me throughout this class.
4. Your Procreate Brush: When it comes to one line art, your brush plays a major role in the way your
art will turn out. One of the easiest ways to guarantee that your
line doesn't end up way too thin is by controlling the minimal thinness
in your brushes. Pressure sensitivity
when it comes to choosing the pen that you're going to be working
with on procreate, it's very important
that you choose a pen that doesn't have
too much variation in the pressure sensitivity. I like to use the pen
syrup for one line art. If you follow me
on social media, you would know that I
talk about it a lot. This brush comes with procreate, but you can alter
it even if you want to draw with the brush syrup. This brush is not quite ready for one line art
for tattoo design. That you can change by altering the way that
the brush behaves. You can do that by clicking
on the brush square. If you can't find the brush, you can always find it into
inking and it's syrup. This one on the inking tab, I have it saved under one line because I can find it quicker. You click on it and then
you go to Properties on the left hand side,
see Guy's Properties. And then you can see a tab
that says brush behavior. Then if you go to
drawing pad right, you clear the drawing pad, you can see that
I can toggle here what the maximum
size of my brush is. Right now I have a set
up that the maximum size shows up when I press
my pencil down. If you make it real light, the minimum size is just way
too thin for tattoo design. See how that disappeared
because it was too thin. And that's because my
minimum size is too low. I have it so that when it's minimum, it's
absolutely minimum. But when it big,
it's absolutely big. One line art in general,
that works great. But for one line art
for tattoo design, you want this minimum to
be like a four or seven. That the minimal line
is something like this. Not something that
is way too thin. That's the way that you can control the way
your brush behaves. This is the thinnest
line I can make. I can go a little thinner. I would say 1% is all right. Let's see, This is depending
on the brush size. If the brush is here,
that's my thinnest line. That's way too thin to
think. I'm going to go back. As you can see, the brush behavior drawing
pad here on my left, on my right, is not very
true to the drawing. I'm just going to
make it like a six. I'm going to click Done, and
I'm going to try that again. This is again the lowest size of my brush and that's
doable. That's okay. I'm pressing hard here. Then if I make it bigger, you guys can see that
my bigs are big, but my smalls are not so
small. This is not too thin. Yeah, I would say that the ideal number should be
on your brush behavior. I would say 6% minimum, 6% 99% maximum. If you want to know more about how to control the
way your brush behaves and what settings can help you improve
your one line art, be sure to check out my course. Ideal brushes for one line art. They are the courses
here on skill share. Now let's get onto
the drawing part. This is your first time
doing one line art. I strongly recommend that you take any of my
basic classes here first because I'll be jumping right into the
details of one line art, tattoo design, specifically
for this particular course.
5. Animal Tattoos: One line animal
tattoos are one of the most desirable
designs when it comes to one line art tattoos
because they provide no literal representation
of the way an animal looks. If you quickly search for a one line art animal
tattoo on Pinterest, you'll soon find some common
factors among results. Most of the drawings are
made with even line brushes. This is because an
even line weight is a safe bet when it comes to avoiding lines
that are too thin. Another common factor is that the drawings
are very simple in order to keep the
crossing lines clean. Let's try doing one
together, shall we? As you guys can see here, I've already imported my two reference
photos into procreate. I'm going to toggle one off
because I'm going to be working with the first one
first and then the other one. And I've also changed the opacity of my layer because I'm only using
this as a reference photo. Also, I'm not going to
be using the syrup brush that we discussed in
choosing your brush section. I'm going to be using
mono line because as we have established
at the beginning of this particular lesson, most of these animal
ones are done with lines that do not
react to pressure. As in these are lines. And this brush particularly is a brush that
maintains the same with regardless of
how much I press my pen into the screen. I want to encourage you to use the brush that you feel
the most comfortable with. We can do these drawings
with syrup as well, but this requires a
lot of hand control. If you guys feel
comfortable with your ability to control the amount of pressure
you put in your hand, I suggest you use
syrup. Is really fun. If you want to go with
a safe bet and you want to make sure that your drawing
does not become too thin, then you can use mono line. They're both just as
nice for one line art, I'm going to be using both. We're going to go
about it this way. I usually tell my students in all of my prior classes
to start at the outside. I want you guys to
create a new layer. I want you guys to make sure that you're
drawing in that layer. It happens a lot to me that I don't we want to keep
this drawing super simple and we don't want
to overlap too many lines. I'm going to start outside, but on the outside
of the bird here. On the bottom outside. And I'm going to just try to see how these lines are
creating no space here. That means that my brush is too big. I'm going
to start again. Yeah, that's much better. See, you can see this is still okay now. See, I don't want this cluster that's
happening here to happen. All I'm going to do
is erase that part and go back into the drawing. Make sure that your lines
are aligned pretty well. If not, you can always erase
a little bit back like this. Okay? Also I want my line to be as
fresh as possible. As clean as possible. I'm going to check that this is. Remember that you're doing
this drawing not for the purpose of showing
off that you can't lift, that, you don't
lift your pencil. You're doing this drawing for the purpose of
designing a tattoo. Purpose matters a lot. I want you guys to feel free
to stop your drawing and actually make it in a way that you can erase
whenever you have to erase, and you can restart whenever
you have to restart. You don't have to
do it in one go. And here you go. If I go back to the drawing
and I let go of that, you have a very clean bird tattoo design using
one line art. As you noticed as I
showed you before, you can see that there was a moment in which there were several moments in
which my line was super, super crowded and I erased
that, discarded that, and went back and made it really nice and clean that
it's really easy to follow the line so that the tattoo doesn't
get all crumpled up. Now onto the shark. I'm going to tuggle
this for now. I'm just going to
open our shark. Make sure that he is in a
position that you like. I'm going to do exactly
the same thing. I'm just doing this
for the sake of modeling the same behavior. Again, I make sure
I have a new layer. I'm going to go in and start also on the outside.
Let's start here. I have this, making sure my line is it's not crumpled in any way. See, I can do that better. And this too, I don't
like the way that looks. I'm just going to
erase it because it can be less crumpled. The lines can touch themselves. I'm going to take that
from there again. Notice how the shark has a little line there that
goes in the division of. I don't like that either. Feel free to return to your drawing as
much as you need to, just as I am doing. Okay, I think I should
have started this way. Now we're talking. I think
I have my heart shark. It's a one line art
design of a shark. Now notice how I took the liberty of
stopping my drawing of rewinding, of redoing. Feel free to do the same. Great. Now that you know some tips on drawing one
line animals for tattoos, let's look at what to watch
out for when drawing objects.
6. Object Tatoos: Drawing objects is not much different than
drawing animals. The biggest difference
I often see is that objects are usually placed
in a specific setting, and that setting is influenced
by lights or shadows. The object often looks
their best when lines mimic the way lights and shadows fall on said
object like this. Okay guys, as you can see I have already put in my two
reference photos. I have changed the
opacity on the layer. I've started a new
layer and we're going to get straight
to it first. We're going to be
working with the wine. I used this particular
reference photo because it is very easy to recognize where the shadows and the
lights are, at least the light. So you have a, I'm
going to use my pen, you have a little
reflection bit here, and you have reflection bits
here on the grapes too. I don't even know if I'm
going to draw all the grapes. You can take that
creative liberty, that creative freedom yourself. I'm going to be using
the syrup brush in this case because
I want to show you guys the beauty of having a brush that supports
pressure sensitivity. I'm going to make this
layer a little bit less strong because I'm drawing over with similar, the same way. I'm going to start with glass. Notice the line is already different in terms of
how thin or how thick. I want to make my outside line rather thick because
I want to save my thin lines for the high
lights and low lights. And so I'm going to
start again because it's not showing the
difference very well. Let me show me, see. Okay.
I don't know what's wrong. Let me check. Syrup,
minimum size one. Maximum size seems
should be fine. Okay. Now we're
talking. Okay. So I'm going to go back to six. It was my bad, I just
chose the wrong size. Oh, here we go.
Now we're talking. Toggle that as you wish, right? The sizing of the brush. You can notice how it
changes and how it doesn't. I want to make sure
that I want to start at the bottom guys.
This is the process. As you can see, I'm playing
with the thickness and the thinness of the
glass of the brush. I am using my thicker line
whenever I am on the outside. Whenever I want a line to be
more visible than the other. This one is closer to me, but this one is farther. I want to make sure that that I have that was a bit
wobbly there also. This one I didn't like too much. I don't want to make lines just for the sake
of making lines. The only issue with this brush is that you have to remember where your pressure was
at a certain point. I want to see here I touched. I don't want that, I'm
going to make sure that that doesn't touch
the other one. There you go. I want
the lines to be clean. I'm going to here. Oh yes, that looks nice. 1 second. Now, it's important that you guys make sure that you work that brush end eraser together to have the result
that you're looking for. In my case, I'm just erasing and erasing and redoing the. Remember if you don't want
a line to be too visible, make it less thin, much thinner than
the other ones. But I can't do it too thin. So that's why it's
important that you work your brush before
you start drawing. Okay guys, so as
you guys can see. I got rid of, I got
rid of the grapes. I don't think they
were necessary. But using this brush gave me the opportunity of creating
an outline of the drawing that was much more,
much thicker. Case can see this line
is, it's on the outside. This line is the thick
lines would represent the things that I want to call attention to and you
should do the same. The thinner lines
represented just accent, light accents, shadows, things
that don't really exist. In this case, for example,
the glass exists, the bottle exists, the
liquid inside of it exists. But the lights and the shadows in it are
just reflections. That's what I mean when taking into account lights and shadows. Now, moving on to our camera. This one I'm doing not so
much for the lights and shadows and I'm actually
going to do it with monoline. I am doing it
because I think that three D engineering drawings are the best ones for
creating interesting tattoos. So if you take drawings
like this as a reference, I suggest that you use the mono line and that you use them whenever you work
with tattoo design. So I'm going to get right to
it, not going to talk much. So back to work, guys. Okay guys, as you can see, I did this one super quick, but I wanted to prove that minimal does not
mean less detail. In this case, I have no lines that are confused
with one another. I have no lines that
overlap one another. These are distinguishable lines, maybe except for this one. I can redo this one so it doesn't cross each
other like that. I can still keep a design complete in detail and still make it very minimalist in the sense that the lines
are not overcrowded. We have the glass with it, lights and shadows and the wine. And we have the camera
with all its details, bobs and pieces, and it's still minimalistic
and tattooable. Now, our last topic is drawing one line portraits.
Let's move on to them.
7. Portrait Tattoos: One most important thing about one line portraits made
for tattoos is simplicity. I cannot stress that enough. It is easy to look at a one line drawing
and think that it is minimal enough
for a tattoo, But in most cases it isn't. For the sake of clarity. Instead of showing you how to make a one line
portrait from scratch, I am going to take
an old portrait I made using one
line art and I'm going to turn it into a tattoo friendly one
line portrait design. Check this out. Okay,
I've already put my one line portrait inside the canvas that I'm
going to be working on. You guys can see this
specific drawing is very minimalistic, but it's not very tattoo friendly because of
several reasons. Number one, there's a lot of lines crossing each
other here in the mouth. I'm going to be using my red pen to show you guys what I mean. I don't know if you guys
can see it. This is weight. Okay. Here we go.
There's this line. I don't know if you
guys can see it. That goes through the mouth. It doesn't bother too much
in the drawing as a whole, but it does bother in
terms of a tattoo because this line is too thin
and it would have to be made thicker in order for it to not get lost in your skin. This line has got to go. Also, if you guys notice, these lines are too thin here, Here, these lines are just way too thin
for a tattoo design. This line and this line. There's two lines actually here. I'm going to sum in so
you guys can see it. Too little of a
gap between them. And we have to reinvent
this drawing so that it's ready
for tat purposes, because otherwise the
skin would eat it out. I'm going to get rid of
this note just so that we have some clarity
in our drawing. I'm going to go back to
black and open a new layer. And I'm going to be redoing
this drawing with both pens with syrup and mono line
just for the sake of fun, just so that you
guys can see how these two different pens can change the way the
drawing looks like. I'm going to start with syrup. I'm going to just take the parts that I think are
essential to the drawing. I'm going to start
here and I'm going to do the eyebrow as
you guys can see, this brush, it's not too thin, it doesn't get so
thin that I will lose this line in
the in the skin. I ended up making
bigger lips for her. They're too big, so I'm going to go back
in and do that again. Let's start over, okay, I'm going to start
on the shoulder. I'm going to make this base
drawing a little more opaque. I love this neck piece here, so I'm just going to
do that as it was, but I'm going to use two
thick verse lines here. And I'm going to
go into the face. I want to make sure that
lip stays that size. If you guys can see, I take
my time with the line. I redo it and redo it
as much as I have to so that the drawing is
exactly what I want it to be. I have those moments in which I want to create
one line art that's organic and kind of like in a way that just
goes with my hand. But I also sometimes
want to create purposeful one line
art that just goes with the purpose of why
I'm doing it right now. The most important thing is
making it tattoo friendly. I don't worry about making
it entirely continuous. I worry about making it perfect. This here is a little weird, so I'm just going
to reshape that. Okay. I'll stay with the
one that I did before. It's a little squeagly there, so I'm just going to erase back and exactly that
looks much better, but I want to create
the jaw line there. So I'm just going
to go back to here. Okay. So let's see. All right, so this is
the version for tattoo. I can see that you guys can
see that this line is thin, but it's not as thin as
these lines were before. It's like right on the edge. You got to make sure
that you don't have any crazy loose ends like I do. I would say this is the
simplified version with the syrup brush and now
I'm just going to toggle that and make another layer and quickly make
the monote version. I'll speed this one up so that you guys can see
the final result. All right guys, so this is
the version with mono line, much more controlled,
much more I would say uniform because of the
nature of that specific brush. This is the version with syrup. Just so that you guys
see the difference that the type of brush you
choose makes in your drawing. I hope that was easy to
understand and to put into practice now onto some
final things to consider.
8. To remember: Drawing with your purpose in
mind is extremely important. Knowing that you're creating
one line art with a tattoo, used in mind gives
you the power to make creative choices that best
fit your drawings needs. Tattoos are a
beautiful form of art and keeping these
boundaries in mind will help you illustrate designs that make not only long
lasting tattoos, but beautiful body art that
communicates and inspires. I'd love to see how
your designs came out. Please share them with me in the project section or tag me on social
media if you share. I also encourage you to leave this class or review
your feedback, helps me make better classes. I loved sharing this time
with you. See you guys soon.
Attabeira German, One-Line Illustrator
