Painting Cute Animals in Procreate: Watercolor, Gouache, Pastel - Find Your Style

1. Introduction : Hello, my dear art fellows. My name is Zynga. You on and during our today's class, I'm going to show you how to paint cute animals in Procreate. I prepared for your loss of useful tips and tricks how to use Procreate. And I prepared for your new brushes, new techniques that will help you to enjoy our time together. And your opinion is also very important to me because it helps me to become better. It helps me to choose the topics that I liked, that you like as well. And let's get started. Once again during our class, I'm going to take you through the whole journey, my whole creative process. We'll start with expert in all our previous into the Procreate. Then I'll show you how to create sketch, how to create animals, cute animals in a simple way. And then we're going to start painting. I will show you step-by-step process creating cute animals in three different styles. Gouache, watercolor and pastel, and the process of adding colors, shades, and highlights. Also, we will explore what is clipping mask, how to use layers and blending modes. Also how to scores and hue saturation and brightness tools. And in the end we will create lovely illustration to be skewed animals in totally different styles. So you can experiment and choose the style that you like most. I'm going to focus on paint in three lovely animals in three different styles in a center as a final project. And your project will be same. To create an illustration with lovely animal, you might add some surroundings, whatever will cause warm oceans, and they will bring joy to your art process. And as a bonus, I will share with you my textured paper, your custom brush set, new stem brushes, color palettes that I created. I will also add file of my pictures that I drew. Feel free to use it for your own art projects. This class is great for intermediate level, also can be useful for beginners. If you've watched my previous classes and experienced artists, probably here you can find an inspiration and your ways how to create animal illustrations in three different styles. I really want you guys to join me. I tried my best to make this tutorial, fun and creative. Completing this class will help you to learn how to paint in different styles on iPad and get general knowledge how to paint lovely animals, how to choose colors properly, and how to use some procreate or so in order to create lovely illustrations. I can't wait to start this class and I can't wait to see what you upload to project section. Please feel free to enroll and less enjoy painting process together. 2. Getting Ready: So guys, let's get started. And now I will tell you what we call an adult. So first of all, I divided our class in some parts, and at first, I will tell you how to export. All are freebies. After that, I'll show you how to create texture paper. And after that, I'll show you how I draw animals thanks to some reference pictures. And after that, you will see how I turned like realistic illustrations into cartoon styled wants. And after that, I'll show you how to create lovely, cute animal illustration in three different styles. The first one will be goulash. After that, we will draw in a watercolor style. And the third one will be pastel style. And that'll be the end for our today's class. So if you're ready, grab iPad, Apple pencil, and let's get started. So first of all, when you opened my class, please do it in browser. It can be Chrome or Safari. Why I asked you to do that, because if you open my class in Skillshare app, my freebies might not be visible. You go to Safari or Chrome. After that, you open my class. And in a projects and resources section in the right corner, you will have the headline resources. And under those resources you can find all my freebies. So speaking about Freebase, I'll tell you briefly about them. And after that, we're going to create texture paper for today's class I prepared for your new brush set. I prepare for your color palette. And some PDF file will be step-by-step explanation how I create a lovely animal illustrations. There's a brief summary what we have. And here I decided to choose six animals. And I show you things to reference pictures that I found on a website, unsplash.com. I'll show you how I create some lovely animal illustrations is actually a three-step process. We have bear, we have lovely seal, that one. Now let's move from the first one. First one will be Rabbit. This lovely illustration. After that we have all this globular one. We have dog, we have hedgehog, and we have bare be sealed. Okay. Is this our PDF format file? And you can export it into the procreate. When you download all the freebies, you will find them in files, app downloads folder. After that, you need to split the screen into two parts. And from the right side, I have Procreate app. From the left side I have files app. And after that you can grab all my brushes, color palette paper, and drag and drop it into the Procreate. And I've just asked you just opened this file. We have my new brushes. We have some pastel brushes and new ones that I created. Also have some watercolor brushes, and I have native Procreate brushes and I'm going to use for our gouache painting that truly calls those are all Beach sticks and evolve. And we have so many stamp brushes. We have some handwriting stamps, we have some patterns, stems, some hatches. So you might, you might check my brush set and use it in any way you like as well. Create lovely illustrations. And also another one is called cute animals. Okay guys to be experts at our PDF format file is at one, and I'll show you what we have here. All our files because this is PDF format file, all our pages, they're on different layers here. And you see we have page Assisted turned on here. And you might see the way how I created illustrations. And guys, also speaking about color palette, we have cute animals, color palette. I tried to divide this color palette into parts. So actually, the first part is expand its pastel style illustration. The middle one, we're going to draw illustration in gouache. And the last one is for watercolor. As you see, the colors are pretty muted because I didn't want to create bright illustration. You have to brush sets. One is cute animals with lovely animals. I turned XOS illustrations into cartoon style. Once you can see it here. You have seal, we have lovely dog. And later I'll show you the comparison with the original one. We have, our owl and you see I decided to draw it in some kind of Harry Potter themed style. So it has cute head and Hogwart's letter, invitation letter. Hedgehog. Also, I tried to add some kind of personality to illustration. Guys. I'm going to create one more canvas where we actually go in and draw. And we're going to use two cameras today. So first one is this PDF format file, where I'll show you later how to create animals, how to draw animals. And second one, where we actually start coloring and finishing our illustration. So I think that's it. Now it's time to create extra paper. Let's do it. 3. Creating Paper : So you need to be in procreate. After that, you need to tap Plus and need to tap Plus again. Then switch from pixels into inches and write 11. Pair 9, ". We're 300 DPI and available layers, layers are 56. By dependent on a modal of your iPad. You might have different number of layers and tap create. This one. We're going to use this Canvas today for our illustrations. After that, I will create a couple of new layers. And we need to create texture paper. Once again, in my M on my freebies, you will have paper. Now we need to export this paper into the Procreate. Like I told you, you can drag and drop this paper or you can go to Actions button, tap, Add and tap, Insert a File, and then go to Downloads folder and just insert the file directly into the Procreate. Then let's just rotate it and fit to Canvas. And as you see, it's standard a little bit too big the size of Canvas for the paper, but don't worry about that, just move it to the edges. After that, just duplicate layers and moves the blending layer mode to Linear Burn in one way and Color Burn visa nasa layer. After that, we need to duplicate linear burn mode and duplicate color burn mode. Guys, now you need to be very careful. You need to select Linear Burn modes together and merge together. And after that, you need to select Color Burn, blend and layer modes together and merge it together. And now you see it a little bit too dark for me. So I can lovers opacity a little bit maybe till 75 per cent of linear burn mode. So make sure that color burn stays on 100 per cent. After that, you select two layers by swiping, right? And you need to press Group. And you can rename it and write a paper. In anything done. Before. We're going to move to the next part, we need to make sure that our color palette is active, yet it's set as a default. How to do it? You need the expert color palette and then the Press. You said three dots. And here you will have options set as a default. I don't have it here because it's already set as default. You might check it here. He says Set as Default. And after when you move to disk to our main window, you have our color palette here. And guys, if you want to have your colors like somewhere nearby, you might just move the color palette here. So we have our brushes, we have like one set, another sad, and everything is ready. So let's move to next part where I will show you the process, how I create lovely animal illustrations. 4. Drawing Cute Animals : Okay, I'm ready to explain to you how I create lovely animal illustrations. So we opened our PDF file as a swan. Here I will just briefly explain what I do in order to reach this effect, in order to pay in cute fat animal Chevy one. So first of all, I find some reference picture like I told you, own a website and splurged on cobe or pexels.com where you can find and use illustration for personal and commercial purposes. And after that, you need to divide the animal into some basic shapes. It can be like rectangles or circles. In after that, I shaped our rabbit with simple forms and I use circles as you see here, like ovals as well. Head is a big ball as a big circle. Bodies, a big circle. Ears and legs are ovals. And also I showed where I have eyes and nose after that and I use six B pencil for doing that. So I might our heads a little bit bigger. After that. Of course, ovals are nodes that straight. I change the shape a little bit here. The thicker in a button. After that, I changed a little bit like face, this chubby cheeks of all our little rabbit. I met some Fed because I like feather animals. And I changed a little bit this body of our rabbit. And basically I left untouched the 0 v legs of rabbit and I add a tail. We don't have it done illustration, but I think we style it would be cubed. And that's it. Next we go to another animal. We have our, this one, and here we actually have rectangle. And I tend to keep it as simple as possible. So I paint, you see is a regular rectangle. After that, I separated head and tail from a main body. And after that next part, what I did, I just created a new layer, I lovers opacity of the rectangles. And I started adding some shapes. And you see, I made the head a little bit tilted. I decided to make bigger eyes because it looks cute. And I just tried to show here that we have had you don't need to be perfect. You can redraw it. And you see I tried to show the end goal that wins are tilted a little bit, like say, so I tried to use basic shapes. Saying this tail, likes it. We have lovely dog. This dog, as you see, I have many, many rectangles. So I, in my head, I divided this illustration here into small squares, small rectangles. This is rectangle. Head is rectangle as well. Both are rectangles, rectangles. Now, if we separate body from the head, this part is also rectangle as well. Ears are rectangles. This is oval. You also can draw this rectangle. It's up to you. And basically that's it. After that, I grab, I create a new layer. You see, I grab another color. I make a pencil thicker. And I just started combining yes, this elements altogether. Like I want to make ear softer. We have a few rectangles, but of course they're not. That's trades alliance. So I look at the illustration. You can draw eyes like this. You can draw different kinds of eyes. You can make them wider. You can close eyes. So it's up to you. You can create the illustration. And I decided to make poles a little bit bigger. So you see as a very thick hedgehog. So we have two ovals, one oval for the body and one for phase. And you see here I changed a picture a little bit because I changed the angle. And also I added one more poll here from this side and then make it very soft. So we have lovely seal and Alexa position. I'll exit angles. So as you see, we have one, Oh wow, we have circle and we have small ovals as like legs. And after that, I decided to make it a little bit more cartoony. And as you see, I tend to make it a little bit choppier. I go to my Adjustments tool and I press liquefy. And I just recently moved this part, this topic, this part of body a little bit. I made it sicker, like you might see it here. And here I show some curve because I thought this was wonderful. Yeah, but when we draw it, of course people want to see it a little bit cute here. So I thought if I give him a few more pounds, he would look very cute. That's what we had in the end. So you can use Liquify to change the proportions and choppiness of your art. So we have bear. So here we have rectangle, we have one more rectangle, one rectangle and small squares here. Phase also rectangle. You see it's not oval, it's straight rectangle. Painting like this, I decided to draw our Bayer. Like we have rectangle here, we have rectangle from this side, rectangle here, rectangle as a head and some polls. And after that, I just grabbed another pens and not in another color, new layer. And I tried to connect some parts of our bare. Actually, let's do it together right now. And after that, we can move to coloring part, just our bear. And now I will show you what I do in order to create lovely art. Like I told you, we created new layer above. And we need to show, visit rectangle. The shape of a bear. We need to show that our bear has posed here, here and here. It shouldn't be perfect. Because like I told you, is just the second step of our illustration. We're going to delete this, removes this part. Okay, perfect. Now grab our reference picture and we need to move it to the sides because we don't want to have the same illustration. You also need to add our own personality, our own touch to the art. Now, we will oversee opacity, create a new layer. And probably I'm going to change the color to purple one here, six B pencil as well. I just want to try to draw. Let's increase the size. Draw very soft lions. Again, this is our lovely pair and you see he looks very cute. And this is the way how I create lovely illustration. But our next step is you might keep it that way or you might move it a little bit too. Cartoon styles option. This one. And this pair is very lovely. But you see we have some differences, of course, like I tried to edit some elements like head and back. And I added some far and I made him pretty chubby. You see, I devoted more time. I change the face a little bit, I changed the eyes. And that's pretty much it. So how to do it, what to do in order to create such cartoon illustration? What elements you might add that can help you to make this bag you'd like. Also like lovely, It's this tiny lovely hat. Or maybe some dress rebound, or probably you might add back whatever you like. So if you want to create cute illustration, my suggestion, just make your animal as round as possible. That's what I think in this case, go to Adjustments, press, liquefy, and just move. This part's a little bit two sides. You might redraw face. You might add more elements, or you might draw belly whatever you want. What makes you feel that this is the right way? We have our bear. Okay, so once again, like I'll show you what we have in real life like this bear. And we have the bearers at one that is more cartoony. You see it has some face expression and so on. We have rabbit. I decided not to make big changes because it's already pretty cute. So if you don't actually need to draw too much details, so I just tried to add the rebound. There's some tiny details, some blush, and that's it. After Rabbet, we have our, this, our delivers a letter from Hogwart's, and it's also a magical one. And second one we have dog. It's cute, but I decided to make our dark like some Savior or like some superhero dog. You see it has this lovely scarf. Hedgehog. Also, I didn't make big changes when I turn this art into a cartoony style art. You see I just changed the eye because I wanted to make it more determined. And I made blush and change the nose, the position of the nose a little bit and that's it. See you like I told you, I like to make all animals chubby. So that's what I did. I made our sealed chamber, I changed the isolator bit. Here you have one face expression and I edit in flexible rain. And I think it's cute, like CLV is a ring. And this is a process that I follow when I create lovely, cute animal art. And now I think we're ready to move to next part. And you're going to draw bear in gouache style. 5. Painting Bear in Gouache Style: Thank you. So if you have bear, I go to my cute animal set and I just tap it. And as you see as the colors, the outline is dark purple because I don't want to have a dark. And let's create one more layer underneath for this are to go to when you do Boone, your watercolor brush set. And I'm going to grab all the beach brush first. And after that I have some reference pictures that I will show you what we will have an end. You need to press reference. Okay, so I grab this brown color and app does it once again, all Beach brush. And let's just fill this area, the bare area, with some color. I'm on the niece of our sketching layer. And let's start doing that. Blend is a little bit. Now, let's create one more layer above grep, pinkish color. And I want to feel the belly part. After that, I want to feel to area four, the bag and head. And let me think, I'm going to grab this pretty bright color, same brush. Now I'm going to grab this dark blue color, something like that. Next thing what I'm going to do is I'll create, let me see one more layer above of the bear. And I'm going to grab sticks, brush. And let's see, we have brighter color. And we're going to use this brush and add a little bit of some brightness. Yes, some highlights to the bear. I like this truthy strokes to create very lovely effect. And if you want to make it brighter or of course you can do it. In this case, you need to go to curves and just you see experiment and see what's most suitable. Maybe lovers out a little bit. And there's a barrier that we have. It's very loudly. You might grab blending tool. As a blender I am using Bu parcel base is great vendor for everything, for watercolor, for gouache, for pasta as well. I'll create one more layer above and same brush, and I'm going to grab a little bit darker color now. Now we need to show shades. And I don't want to change anything. I truly like the way how this turned out. Now face. I'll create one more layer above everything. I'm going to grab this pinkish color and I want to add some color, two ears. And E wolf grabs his brush, moved more towards orange color. Yellow like says. And nose is pretty bright. Grip pinkish color. Show some pink color here. The sticks brush is truly cool if you want to add a lot of shades. Now I want to add some shades tools as a part of our bare same brush. A little bit darker color. Now create one ML there and in nice. And we're going to grab slightly lighter color for adding highlights. Now guys, I want to add tiny bit of shade, so I grab sticks color. I grabbed all my dark purple color. And I just want to show some tiny lines. Little bit like emphasize the main lines here. Knows. And pink color. And also I can add some color to belly. So we don't need the reference picture anymore. And it's a bear, even gouache style. I hope you enjoyed this short tutorial and you are ready to draw the next one. Once again, you might draw the background, It's up to you. I'm going to merge everything together. I'll create one molar below. And you went grab any color you like. Probably, let me think I'm going to grab this purple color and a little bit. If you want, you might add more shades, more highlights. I'm going to keep it that way. So that's the bears that we drew in gouache style. And now let's move to the next part where we're going to paint in watercolor style, our lovely 6. Painting Owl in Watercolot Style: Having a goal. And we can draw some kind of three. Remember, don't go near watercolor, pencil. Let's just move it a little bit to the right side. I don't want to devote lots of time to the tree trunk like this would be perfect. And guys, I'm going to draw underneath our sketching layer. Now let's go to Canvas and grab reference. It's what we have. As you see, I decided to stick to some brownish colors and I'm going to grab book lays and brush. Now, this part is for all, so it's fun. And I will stick to some details first. I know you need to draw, like start with big objects, but I just wanted to finish with tiny details. And after zed, move to the more important and difficult part because you see feathers as so colorful and it's a little bit more complicated to, to start with feathers, let's just have, as a warm up some tiny details because they don't require you to mix lots of colors. Now if you want to make it more colorful, just duplicate it. I'm going to lower that positive deal 50 per cent and then merge together, create one layer above. And we still have had and grab blue color and blend some sharpness if you have. So. Also duplicate if you want to make it more colorful, I will lubricate and move one layer till 40, 50 per cent and then march together, create one more layer above grabs is pretty bright, purple color and add some color around. I forgot, I should be blue. Like they can be any color you want. I just decided to make some blue. They're obligate. D saturate. How to desaturate, go to adjustments, hue saturation and brightness, desaturate it a little bit and make it brighter. That's what I want to do. Because I don't want it to be too bright. And yeah, we've done this sauce details. Now, three drunk, I will not devote loss of time does add the tree trunk and grabs is pretty pale brown color. Let's create one more layer on the top of everything. And I will grab this pretty bright or brown color. I just want to add increase the size a little bit of strokes so I don't feel the whole area is just one color. You can see it. Just want to add a little bit of other shades later. If you press harder, you will have more pigment. That's important. You see in some areas, I press harder, in some areas, I barely touch the paper. You see it's so, so transparent mostly. And Lidl create one layer above. And I decided to grab this darker color. And I will go on top, you see? And I just add more shades. Increase the size and show some strokes here because this is birth, it has feathers, so I'm trying to imitate the texture feathers. Okay, Is it every app you see they're just hidden. This era a little bit darker. So I'll create one more layer underneath of everything. And I will try to go with this purple color. Well, that's pretty much it. I can add a little bit of some color variations here. And I will add a little bit purplish color here all around. If you want, you might change the color. You can go to hue, saturation and brightness. And humans think what might be more suitable. Okay, I liked the way how it looks. I'm going to merge together. Lovely. Oh, and I can duplicate it and intensify the colors if you want to. Of course. I like when it's so gentle. So I can go to curves and also play with colors. And I'll create one more layer above, clip it. And I can go to some stamp brushes. Maybe loose watercolors tend to move to multiply blends a layer mode in order to make it more colorful, I just want to add some stems all around. You see it's very lovely effect. You can go to Curves. Once again, you can intensify the shades. I will go to our lovely head and I grab eraser, and I just want to erase stars. Okay. I forgot about chicks. Let's create one more layer on top of everything. Grab this pink color. Then, then, then we'll glazing brush and just draw a lovely chicks. And my suggestion, you might go and nice and erase some parts with a color that we had. Then blending tool and blend it a little bit. But I still want to add some shades to the envelope. How to dose it. Grabs this dark color, create one molarity above, multiply same brush. And I'll just add some shades here. If you want to intensify shade, you know what to do like this. Now I want to add some shades to head. Multiply as well. Same blue color, same brush. I just want to show the shape here and shade this part. Don't go beyond alliance. Afterwards it curves. Then you can just intensify your shade. You can press clipping mask. Okay, Wonderful. Now, merge together. And what else should we do? I think we need to add some shade to the tree trunk. And for doing that, we need to remove the transparency because I'm going to use a clipping mask blend layer more. And because it's watercolor brushes semi-transparent, we need to have not transparent layer, but I duplicate the layer, go to logger layer, brass hue, saturation, brightness adjustments, Brightness walk single 100% and merge together, create one more layer above, clip it, and moves the layer to multiply. Now, let's go to some stamps. I decided to make it a little bit of purple like this, thanks to hue saturation and brightness. And that's pretty much it. I'll merge it together. And final touch, I'll create one more layer above. More button is a multiply. I'll switch to another brush to boo, to ZBrush. I just want to show some feathers that are lovely bird is already final thoughts. You might still add a little bit of background. Thanks. Tool was brushes that we have like this. Moving this way. And be careful when you have zero overlap bins. Just carefully erase it. If you're splatters my suggestion and such copays it end brown color. And we don't need this illustration. Turn it off. And did on. Oh, lovely illustration of all in watercolor style is ready. 7. Painting Dog in Pastel Style: Now lovely dog. This one. Create one more layer. Mickey, great. Now you're going to draw on the knees are lovely, dark layer. And we're going to burn your watercolor, watercolor grab more pastel strokes. And I just want to feel this area, this is greeted dark color because I like when the colors are layering one another. And I'll create one more layer above. And guys, we have the same brush and now we're going to add some color to our lovely dog. So when you makes each new stroke, you will have this. He sees his feelings that is actually realistic pastel. That's why my suggestion, try to leave your Apple pencil from screen as many times as possible. Now, we need to go underneath serves our dog layer and we're going to add some color to the background little by little. And we're going to start, this is perfect color. Also, don't forget, we are going to layer it. And same brush and I'm going to grab a bright blue color. You see an layer, it also same brush, pinkish color. I'll create one more layer. Grab a dark blue color would be perfect. Like sad. And I want to desaturate this color because you didn't need to make the background very bright because it will draw our attention from our lovely dark. Now, we'll go to the DOE, create one more layer above and we still have some scarf. And this is our dark as you remember, Garfield be pretty bright. No swoop, purple. Still same color, which is this curve. Later I'm going to add, now I'm going to add some shades. Now, brighter color. Let me see you have this pastel texture. I still want to lower the opacity of our sketching layer. And little by little, Let's just start adding some shadows to our doc. I'll create one more layer above. I will clip it. I don't want to go and be on two lines. Same brush, let it be grep, slightly darker color. And in areas where we have two objects next to each other, we will have some shapes. Don't worry if you don't like the color, you can change it later. Okay, After that, you can go to course and you can play with the color, make it lighter, darker, It's up to you. You can go to hue, saturation, brightness and also play with the color. I want to make it a little bit shady or greater than malaria above. And now I've grabbed Bu pastel flakes, vertical brush. Go to multiply. Because when you go to Multiply blend layer mode, you will have pretty colorful color. You add a little bit of shades. Also go to course, you can think about the colors. Let's start with this one. Let's grab both pastel watery. And we want to add more shades. Now going to love herself possibly a little bit. And you see it creates very lovely effect. Let's grab a lighter color. And add some strokes here as well. And some bright colors. Yeah, Lexis say, and I'm going to create one more layer above said dog, but underneath our scarf. And I'm going to use the same brush. Go to multiply. And I'm going to add some lines here. Postel water is perfect for it and shades because It's very gentle brush. And you might play with colors. You might add as many colors as you want. It's actually a very cool if your latest texture plaintiffs colors. And because this is not clipped to this layer, so I can go beyond two lines sloppily because I can add some shades all around. Now I want to add some colors, create one more layer, some highlights. So let's grep whiter color, nearly white, and just add some texture here. You might have grabbed yellowish color, very yellow color. My suggestion grips six B pencil. And with just said tiny details here, create one more layer and set it as a multiply. Because I'm going to have darker color here. And we don't need our reference picture anymore. Let's turn it up and guides our lovely arteries. This lovely dog is ready. And I hope you enjoyed today's tutorial and you'll learn something new about paint and animals in watercolor, in pastel and even gouache style. And guys, in our next class, we're going to append lovely animation and we're going to paint character. I hope you will enjoy this art as well. That was the end for our today's class, but I hope you enjoyed our painting process and you learn something you how to create those lovely, cute animals. And once again, I'd be happy to see all your artworks. I wish you luck and let's see each other during our next class. Bye bye.