Procreate: All you Need to Know from Beginner to Advanced

1. Procreate: All you need to know from beginner to advanced: Welcome to procreate. All you need to know from beginner to advanced. Procreate is one of the most popular applications for drawing on iPad and has been at the top of the bestselling apps since it has been introduced. Do you want to draw with Procreate, but you are unsure where to start. This is why in this course I have gathered the most useful information and design the best tutorials so you can create confidently on completion of this course. There are plenty of tutorials out there showing you specific tools. But what makes this course different is that we explained all the main tools, how to use them. And most importantly, when we should use them. You will learn while drawing, which is why this course is all you need to know from beginner to advanced level. You will begin with an introduction into the program with a detailed overview of the workspace. We will then go through the basics, like various brushes and what different brushes can be used to explore layers and how they should be used for clean workspace and to enhance your art. Learn how to create your own warm, cool, neutral color palette so you have a bank of colors ready for future artworks. Learn where to find complimentary colors based on the colors you are using. Understand how layer filters and blur modes can improve your work and how to use your pen to create different textures to add dimension to your drawings. Recreate physical artwork techniques such as watercolor, colored pencil and pen with different brushes. We will learn about the different adjustment layers and which ones are actually useful, and how layer masks can be used to target specific parts of your artwork. Throughout the course, we will refer it to tips and shortcuts. Using everything we have learned, we will work together to create complete artworks from start to finish. Enroll now, and join me on the first video to learn how to create exciting RDDs Procreate. Procreate is an amazing and flexible program with endless possibilities. 2. How to set up a procreate workspace effectively: Hi there. Welcome to a new course. Today we're gonna be learning about Procreate. Procreate is an application which is available on App Store and you can download it, but it's for iOS system. You can also install a mobile version on your mobile phone. Of course, it's better to download it on your iPhone or iPad as you have enough space for illustration. This iPad which we're working with is iPad for year 2020. And we can download procreate version 2018 and upper versions and work with it. Let's open this program and get familiar with it. This is the gallery file. We can save all our works here in the gallery, so we can easily have access to them. See, we can double-click and see and check our works with two fingers. We can magnify them and swipe and see them. Try it yourself. Again by closing your fingers, you can make them smaller. Try swiping. For opening each single work. We touch it by one finger, then can zoom in and out and edit it. Again, we can go back to the gallery with one finger click on a file. What we need now is to open a new canvas in Procreate so that we can draw, illustrate, or write on it, and then edit it if necessary. With the tip of our pen or our finger. We touch this plus sign on the top right. In this app, we can work with either our finger or our pen, but it is preferred to work with the pen of the iPad itself. Here we can see the list of the brushes are pencils and etc, which we downloaded before. By default we can, we can use this app and see how it has some sizes of pen and brushes. But we can add our own desirable sizes. For adding other sizes, we go to this bar and touch plus. And then a window opens, which we can give different resolution. We choose dpi 300, which gives the highest quality to our work. But the more the DPI is, the less maximum layers we will be depending on the RAM of different iPads. Dpi 300 is suitable and has a high-quality, but we only have 15 layers. E.g. if we choose DPI 140, 40 Canvas, then it gives us 250 layers. But if we choose a dpi 300, it gives us 26 layers for this size. So in this part we choose our canvas size either in millimeter centimeter pixel or inch. And we touch done, and it gives us our selected size. We usually use a square canvas. This part is color profile, which we can select the colors we want to work with. From. Here, we can choose the material of our canvas and the background of our work by putting a tick, we can choose hidden, for instance. We choose, and now we have a 40 by 40 Canvas. By two fingers like this. We can make it smaller, rotate it, or make it bigger. And we can do other things as well. This app has some shortcuts which later we're going to explain and try out ourselves. E.g. by our two fingers, we can undo or redo our Canvas. So far we've learned about size, resolution, number of layers, and other details. On top of our page we have a toolbar including brushes, different tools, layers, color and eraser. We're going to learn how to work with. Take your time to familiarize yourself and repeat the video as many times as you need. Also, you can see a vertical bar here, which you can put it on the left or the right depending on your hand orientation. On the left if you're left-handed and on the right if you're right-handed. Now we want to choose our brush, which we click on it with a tip of our pen. The app has default brushes, e.g. for sketching, we have different kinds of brushes are for inking, drawing, and painting. So you can make your selection accordingly. We even have brushes which create different textures. So take your time to explore these and go over them. Just to get to know more about your tool for drawing in different techniques like watercolor or coal or oil painting. We have, they're suitable brushes. E.g. we want to choose our brush here in this bar. We can change the size of our brush by rolling it up or down with this lever here, with the upper box and with the lower box, we can change its opacity or the light and shadow of our work. Give it a try. We can draw a heart like this and painted. If we painted again, it will be darker, so going over it makes it darker. Now, let's test another brush and texture. Test all kinds of brushes and see how they work, what effect do they give you? We even have calligraphy, pens, pencils, or brushes. Learning more about your own tool helps you understand what effects it can give you. Calligraphy brushes are good for both writing and drawing. A point about the shortcuts which Procreate provides. If we tap our work once with two fingers, it goes one level back. If we want to undo, we tap the screen once with three fingers. Give it a try. With two fingers, we go back. And with three fingers we undo. If we keep our three fingers still for a little while, all the things we omitted appear at once. We delete them, we keep our three fingers still and they appear on the screen. Sometimes. If we rub our three fingers on the screen, we can emit our drawings. Now as mentioned earlier, a matter of testing the different brushes and these shortcuts. E.g. with calligraphy brushes, you can create boulder or darker parts, as well as lighter parts. And you can use them for both drawing and writing. So the idea is to test them out, test all the brushes, see whether they can achieve you different effects. And as you're drawing and you want to see more texture, you can zoom in and out to look at the details. Now, we go to air brushes which are suitable for the air brush technique or aesthetic like shading a face or a part of a shape. It fills all parts of what we want to shade today. Remember, we can also change the color of our brush, especially when we want to use other layers of colors on our work. We can select and move the brushes we've used more to a folder so that we have access to them easily so they're saved as the brushes that we have used. This saves us time instead of searching for the brushes every time. Now we select a and push the plus, and then it goes to its settings. And here we can decide what resolution, density, or thickness we can have are options like streamlines, fallout for changing the light and shadow and etc. By choosing each option you can make change to your brush, e.g. in options stroke pen, you can make changes you want like fading. After changing based on the setting we can press Done and create. If not, we press Cancel and go click back to our screen. As we said, this is the folder for all brushes we mostly use. Next brush is texture. Procreate is a program which we can even create our own brush based on our needs and tastes. Of course, we can search and purchase some brushes which make our work much easier, like a brush with which draws a whole eye or brush designed for drawing hair, eyelashes. E.g. here we have a selection of brushes which apply texture. So you can test the different effects of applying pressure and what, what kind of intensity any one given texture can give you. Take a moment to think about a certain thing you would like to test. I'm choosing the Victorian texture here. I created a new layer. I've increased my brushstroke. There we have it. Let's change the texture into natural wood. You can hide your layer and on a new layer, create your width texture. I'm going to select a different color. And as we practiced before by holding two fingers on the screen, we undo the blank sheet. Here we're testing the different pressures, heavier pressure and lighter pressure using the wood texture. This is another sample of texture. Keep referring to your library of brushes. It makes it easier to make your selections of your favorite brushes are needed brushes for different artworks. What's important is to keep practicing and keep testing those different brushstrokes and the different brushes in order to understand what you can achieve with them. What is suitable for different techniques. Keep in mind that you could increase our lesson, the opacity of the texture of your brush. Here I'm using a grid texture. Lowering the opacity helps us do our work layer by layer. Especially if we're shading and building shading, shading layers. We have a lot of brushes here in default, which it's better to test each one and see what we can do with them. Your hand pressure plays a role as well. So even if you've decreased opacity, you can increase your hand pressure at certain points. So all of these options are there. It's enjoyable to test all the brushes and their effects and using different colors and building layers. The more you practice, the more of these decisions will come to you depending on what it is you're trying to achieve. This next brush uses several colors from your palette. It seems like a suitable brush for background. Now we choose a brush that's like cotton. Let's try adding a brush to our folder. Just for practice. Just have fun playing around and discovering more about, about the tool, the Procreate program, the different tools and your own style, your own imagination with it. There are some brushes which gives us the base of different types of hair. Let's take a look here. This is the cotton brush. We have a variety of textures which we find in nature and they really practical. So sometimes if you're drawing a specific kind of plant or flower, some brushstrokes will give you the necessary texture easily. We're just going to continue testing some brushes, adding them to our folders. I'm creating a thin line drawing here. We lessen the opacity. We can choose different types of lines. Now I want to fill my shape here with the iPad pen. We need to practice how much pressure to put on it, how to use it, how to get comfortable with it. So coloring or shading as well. I'm using different textures here, changing the thickness of my brushstroke, the opacity of it. The idea in this first lesson is to look at the options, try them out, and get a feel for the application. Just to start getting comfortable with it. You have some brushes which have a watercolor effect. The idea of these brushes is that they, that they make digital painting faster or more instantaneous. Painting in itself. The original painting is the medium is quite enjoyable. It has its own set of positives, is just digital painting is trying to provide more options. And on a smaller timeframe. I'm trying to choose another texture to apply on top. And you can do another texture on a new layer. That way it doesn't affect your primary layer. Remember here we're playing around. Remember to use your eraser in order to remove any extra marks that are beyond the outline or the base sketch you've created. Just to clean up our drawing. The idea is to learn together and enjoy the process. Keep practicing and testing different brushes and different colors and also combinations of different textures. All of this is just to get more familiar with the tool. So it increases our confidence, increases the more we're comfortable with our art form. Hope you've enjoyed this tutorial and thank you for joining me and see you in the next one. 3. How to put procreate tools into practise: Hi there. Welcome to another Procreate tutorial. After we've worked on different brushes of Procreate and became familiar with them. We're going to work on the layers. If we press this icon on the top right, that looks like two squares on top of one another are different layers that we have worked on up until now. Open up. We can work on any of these layers that we want. By default, we have this background color right down here as the first layer. We can take it off and remove it. If we take this layer on, it remains here. One of the points we need to consider is to do each part of the work on a separate layer. In this way, we can erase and edit different details on different layers without damaging the work we have done. To add more layers, we tap on the plus sign here and easily like this, add another layer. If we want to remove a layer, we swipe the layer like this and then tap on delete. We can also have two versions of the same layer. We swipe it and tap on Duplicate. If we want to hide the layer, we take it off like this, so we won't see it anymore. This hidden layer easily comes back when we tap on the tick bar once more. Try it Yourself. If we tap on the N side right here, we can see the settings for the layers. By this bar, we can change the opacity of the layer and the rest are the different filters we can apply on our layer. To see the settings, tap on the N next to the layer. Take your time to explore the application and learn a bit more about your options. Explore the different filters. Now, we go back to the previous part and remove this layer easily like this. It is better not to work on the background and only on the background at it is good to work on the different layers. Another tip is when we tap on the layer itself like this, and a bar appears. Among these options we have copy, clear mask and many more that we are going to learn while working with them. Select the layer above background. We're now going to draw something on the next layer after our background. Go to the Brush section and choose a brush for sketching as we're going to draw a cloud. Take your time to explore the different brushstrokes. When you practice after the tutorial. Choose the brush that you most like. I'm using the color blue here. We select another brush and also a lighter color tone, and start adding different types of shadows to it. The more you practice and play around, the more you'll discover. In this way. We add dimension to adhere to the Cloud and our colors won't be flat by using different tones. I'm using different blue tones. Again, to add even more details, we open the layer section, tap on the plus sign and open another layer. Then after selecting the right brush, we start adding more details in the form of these raindrops. I'm using a light blue here. If we work on different layers, our initial layer and what we have done on it won't be damaged when we start erasing what we draw on this layer. If we had worked on one layer by erasing these raindrops, all that we have drawn underneath it would also be erased. Now I'm using a black color. Now I'm using a red color. Spectra. We have drawn this cloud on different layers. Another thing we can do with different layers as masking them, open a new layer. For instance, we're going to add more details to this layer. So we open another layer as we want to add a shadow behind our cloud. I'm going to use a light blue. If we do it on this layer, it would look like this. To prevent this from happening. Hold the tip of our pen on the layer and drag it down underneath the previous layer like this. Another point is that we can bring all our layers into one layer by pressing our fingers like this and bringing our layers together. And we can easily tap on the screen in this way so that we undo what we have done. So if we want to apply any kind of change on the lower layers, we should be careful about where the layer is actually located. In this way, the shadow that we add actually goes underneath the cloud, beneath the previous layer. I'm using a darker blue now, another point we're going to work on should be done on another work. So we close these layers, an open-end U1, hide the layers. I'm going to use a red color. We're going to work on a new sample. So we select the right brush in this way and easily like this, we start drawing an apple. Next, we're going to use a green color. We draw a leaf for the apple, we add another layer and draw the leaf. However, we do not want the leaf to be on the apple, so we easily bring the layer down like this. Now it's showing behind the Apple because I placed the layer underneath. And now we're going to add some lights and shadows on the apple, we tap on the layer and select the clipping mask option. By tapping on flipping mask, the shadow that we add on our drawing only applies on that layer. I'm using a darker red here. So what happens if we do not tap on the flipping mask? And like this, the shadow is applied on all the Canvas. But with activating clipping mask, it would be applied only on the layer that we want. So we're going back to the layer and activating clipping mask. And now all the changes that we are, we apply our only applied to the final layer. For instance, if we're going to apply some changes to the leaf, we should go to its layer, activate clipping mask and start applying the details. And easily like this, we have added shading layers on the leaf. We go back to the layer we're going to work on. And after choosing the right color tones, start adding the shading layers on the Apple. Add shading to the apple by using different red tones. The brush we have chosen actually has some kind of texture. It could have also been done with a simpler brush as well. We're going to add a background for the Apple. It's important to do it on a separate layer before the layer on which we have worked on the apple. We choose the color gray. And after choosing the airbrush medium and bringing the opacity down and add the shadow for the Apple right behind it like this. This is a soft blend. Hope you're enjoying testing all these options. So we go through all the details about the layers once more together. The two squares sign on top right of our screen includes the layer. By tapping on the plus sign, we can add more layers and each layer is removed if we take it off. And this is how we can easily erase our layers if you want to. Keep practicing. The more you practice, the more you'll remember all these options. There's a circle sine here on the top right corner. If we tap on it, we will have the color palettes. When we open it and tap on the desk on the bottom left of the window, we will have this color disk on which we can select the different colors that we want easily like this. We have the color itself on the round bar around it and on the disk itself, we will have the different tonalities of that color and how much of the gray color we want to add our main color that we have chosen. For instance, if we have chosen the color yellow, we can easily choose its brightness or the amount of the gray color in it. The smaller disk. It's important to open a new layer and work on it. If we do not as we have hidden the previous layers, the application won't allow us to work. Now I'm using a Salamanca color. If the layer is ticked off, we won't be able to work on it. So we open a new layer and after selecting a brush to start our practice on different colors. Another thing we can do on procreate that may come in handy is when we have drawn a circle like this, and now we want to color it. We can hold our pen on the color circle on the top right and dragging it down on the part we want to fill with a color. It looks like there are some edges and lines on the surface as if it is not smooth. We hold on the color circle, drag it on the part, and then by moving it like this, the opacity of the different layers is all gone. As it is clear on the top of the page, we can see the opacity and its level being written. Tried several times. By moving the pen on the smaller disk like this, we can choose different tonalities of the same color and start applying different lights and shadows. On this bar down here we can see the history of the colors we have used up until now. If we tap on the classic section down here on which we can use these bars to choose different color tonality is the level of brightness and all the colors that we have. And we might want to use. The next option we have down here is harmony when we tap on it and for instance, choose the color green like this. It shows us the colors with which our green color has the most harmony. In this way, we will have the harmonic colors automatically, a green and a purple, e.g. we can use this shade of green and purple to have harmony with this degree. And as we keep on adding the colors on top of one another, they become darker and darker. Just like this, we fade them together. This is for harmony. On the next part value, we can create our own colors like this. We can even give the exact number to have the color that we want. This option is really good for when we want to print out our work. We can choose the exact numbers for all the different features after we add the numbers on the boxes right here. Pause the video if you need to go over some of the details we're going through. The next part is color palette. Here we can add and create our own color palette. E.g. if we are going to work on a portrait by using this option, we do not need to choose each color every time. We can add them on our palate and easily select them whenever we are going to use them. Look at all the colors and tonalities you might need an add them to your palate. We easily go to our palette, select the color we want and add it to the screen by dragging it there. I'm drawing a closed circle here. Because if we do not have that closed line on our screen than the color would be added to the whole screen. So we need to have a closed line. Try it yourself. Then we drag the color into it. We can create our own palette on this part as well. To do so, we need to tap on the plus and then create a new pallet. And then we can add any color that we want to our palette. We can hold this square on the middle of the bar like this, and then tap on the color that we want with our Pen. Unlike this color is created. Then we can add it to the palette. This way we have all the color to analyses that we want and we can use them easily whenever we choose to. Keep adding the colors that you want to your palate. Practicing these different shortcuts helps a lot. This is the palette that we have over here. And if we want to remove this palette, we swipe it and then choose Delete. In this way, we can create different palettes. If you're uncertain at any point in time, just follow my lead. We need to make sure here that the closed line we have, for instance, in the form of a circle, does not have a low opacity. If it does, then the color we add would be added to the whole screen like it did before. But when we have the closed line with a high opacity, then we can add the color specifically to that part to go over it. Once more, we draw a shape like this, and now we want to add color to it. We hold our pen on the color like this and drag it to the shape and easily the whole shape would take the color that we add in this way. This is a good way for coloring large spaces. Try it several times and play around with the application. It helps us use our tool better. This is how we work with the color section. Now that we're on the color palette, we hold the square on the bar, tap on the color and add the chosen color to our color palette. Just like that. The next option that we have up here is this icon with fingers. It's called smudge, which is used for mixing colors. When we tap on it, we see that it has different forms that show us how we can mix the colors and we can choose from them. I'm choosing a yellow color. We start drawing something, add a color to it. And then right beside it, we're going to draw another shape with a different color that we choose. And now we're going to use the smudge to mix the colors on these two circles. We reduce the size of our smudge and apply it on this part. Smudge works just like our finger when we have two colors beside one another and we start blending them with our fingers. Smudge also gives us the middle color, which is a combination of the two colors next to one another. And we can select another type of brush for it and start blending and mixing the colors together. You can also use a hand brush. We may want to keep this color. We hold the square on the middle of the bar. As we did before. Like this. Tap on the color and then add it to the palette in this way so that we have access to it whenever we want. The next option we have on the upper bar is the erasers. Just like the brushes, we have different types and kinds for the erasers so that we can use them as a technique and our work, we can erase different parts with the special texture that our eraser has. Unlike this, we erase the color and add the texture that we want. So we can use it as a technique just like you'd use brushes for certain aesthetics. There are a lot of things we can do with erasers. We can even apply them like this with our fingers and erase the whole screen. We can add different kinds of textures to the surface. For instance, we choose cotton and then this is the texture we get when we erase the surface with it. If we select studio pen, than we would erase the surface like this in the form of lines. There are a lot of things we can do with eraser is also exactly like the pen and the brushes that we use. We can address the erasers with a bar we have here on the corner, the opacity and the size of it can change. And if we want to remove smooth layers of color from our surface, we can bring down the opacity and start working. If we have the highest opacity than the surface would be completely erased when we use it. This is a soft blend. This is a rough skin. The eraser can be used as a technique and an aesthetic in itself and help us apply different textures, e.g. we can choose the leather option and this is what we get. And this is how our four options on the upper bar of the program work. Thank you so much for joining me. Hope you enjoyed this tutorial and see you in the next one. 4. Beginner Flower Illustration: Hi there. Welcome to another tutorial. We're going to use some of the tools we've learned so far. First of all, we should open a new page in our gallery. We can use the drafts too. But let's select an A4 canvas. Then we can enlarge or not with our fingers. Then we should open the layer and choose a desired pen. And then we start sketching. Take your time to make your selection. I'm using a studio pen. We're going to start by sketching a flower and then add more details to our flower. Remember to make use of your downloadable resources. They have all the information for each tutorial you follow. I'm just outlining my flower here. Even the outline that we're creating now is available on your downloadable resources. Take your time to complete your sketch. Okay, This is the first sketch of the flower. If we want to lower the opacity, you should tap on the layer with two fingers. Like this. We lower the opacity in order to add more details on our work. We open another layer and start to edit our sketch carefully. In order to have the final sketch. We want to add more details to our work. And we want to create a clean and a better sketch in comparison to our last sketch. Let's refine the sketch that we have drawn so far. We're going to work on the outlines. One of the good features of Procreate is that you can have straight lines. If our line is not straight, we can hold our pen for 1 s, then it makes this line straight automatically. Observe. This feature works for squares and circles as well. And you can rotate it. You hold your pen at the end just for a second. And then it straightens your lines for you. Take a moment to practice. Play with your tool. I'm completing my sketch now. Now our sketch is complete. We don't need our underlying previous sketch, so we remove it. We select the previous layer and delete it. And we choose the other above layers to color. We want to make sure that all of our lines are connected and closed. I'm creating a new layer because I want to color in these spaces. Now. We choose the colors and brush and start coloring. Now we're going to shade on this layer. We want to keep this texture because we don't want to shade all parts. I'm going over all areas. Now we choose the next color for the next layer. This color is a little darker. I create a new layer, and we drag the color and fill this space so we can color a surface quickly. Take your time. If you need to pause the video and then play again when you're ready, go for it. We can add some shades here. I'm using a magenta color. If you're uncertain of any next step, just follow my lead. This tutorial is to learn more about this application and to enjoy the process of testing all these techniques. If we want to save the color in our palette, we should go to our palette and choose our color and add it there. We color flowers step-by-step. I'm adding one more color to my palette here, just because it makes it easier for me to reuse it again. The green as well. Now I'm using a different tone of green to fill in the leaves. Move your image around just like I did in order to color it in more comfortably. I'm using a darker green here to go over the details. We color every part in one layer. It helps us for editing easily later. If there are lots of layers and it doesn't allow to open a new layer. We can merge the layers together. Now I'm using a lighter green to add texture to my leaves. Now we can merge these layers by pinching them together like this. You can do that in the layers panel. Now we're choosing a light pink color. I'm selecting it from the below layer. Then we can start coloring. The next part. One of the good features of Procreate is that we can choose the color that we worked on or used previously. We don't need to find the color in waste time. Now we color this part in a lighter color and in a layer below. Now I'm choosing a tone that's a little bit lighter for this part. The more you use Procreate, the easier they'll come to you. Will start easily knowing where the tools are, what are the shortcuts. It'll all come easier to you. I'm adding some tonalities here. And now we start adding more smaller details. I'm using a dark green. We're going to color this part here with purple. The next part and we should try brushes, textures, and etc in order to see their effects on our work. If you're worried about ruining any anything, you can create a new layer and test, tests the brushes and textures on it. I'm using a magenta tone. Textures give us different effects. So it's good to try them out. The colors that we use are saved in our history. We can easily go back and select them again. We can keep our colors too, so hold it and add it in this part. We can have a pallet here under the history to keep the colors that we want. So you don't have to be limited to only using specific colors for a specific picture. You can save them as colors that you like and use and other pictures or other drawings. Now I'm using a darker green. We can mask it in order to speed up our performance so it's applied within the space that we have marked. These are different shortcuts that we use and we practice using them because that's the only way to kind of memorize them or refer to them and use them easily. Or creating a new layer here. We choose a simple eraser to remove this extra line. We select the layer that it's on and remove it. Now I've created a new layer to color in this pink or this space. Now, we choose a thinner brush in order to add more details. Now at this point we don't need our base sketch. So we go to the lower layer and we remove it. We remove this base sketch. We've used all the tools that we had and tried before. We can add details or remove some details as well. All of these are all of these options are possible depending on what you want and how you want to work and how you want your drawing to show. Finishing a drawing really depends on each one of you. Because you might want to add more details or refined more lines. You might want to test the textures of different brushes. All choices are good choices. Just keep practicing. Our flower is now complete. Thank you so much for joining me. Hope you enjoyed today's tutorial and see you in the next one. 5. Adding adjustments to your artwork: Hi there. Welcome to a new tutorial. Today we're going to learn some of the other tools available to us on Procreate. First tool is the selection tool. When we tap on the Selection, we get a drop-down menu. We can apply changes according to our layer. This will automatically select our layer. If we select any one of the layers and then select selection tool, it allows us to highlight or move around our layer, make it bigger or smaller. You can drag to move it. Play around with this option for a moment. This is kind of like Photoshop. You can select any layer and then adjust its size, its placement, it's perspective. It's really up to you. But you can play around with the perspective like this. Take your time to play around with your tool and you're drawing at different layers, of course. Now, when we choose reset, it goes to first position, which means the drawing goes back to how you've put it together initially. Although it's always good to have some depth and dimension to our work. So move around the layers have different tonalities. Fit to screen increases are selected artwork to the size of the screen. So it makes it just fill the entire space. Rotate helps us to move or rotate the selected part in 45 degrees. Flip vertical helps us to invert the selected part. Horizontal is for horizontal movements. With advanced mesh, we can change the dots in our shape. We can use undo to go back to the original drawing. We can use these dots to stretch it in such a way or exaggerate something. Take a moment to practice or use every tool. When we use Alpha, our shape, we'll move on its axis so the form of our shape will not change. Almost locks it within those dimensions. It maintains the same proportions no matter how enlarged or smaller we make it. If you unselect this option, then you can stretch these dimensions of that layer. However you want. Pulling on either corner or any dot. Take a moment to play around with the different tools and options we've explored so far. Our next option is to select manually. It helps us to apply some changes. When we choose this option in this layer, then choose automatic. So it helps us to apply changes only in this part. Observed my steps. Freehand selection allows us to select a specific part of our drawing and we move and resize it accordingly. I'm choosing another layer. Automatic selection allows you to select the entirety of a layer. What do we use freehand? We select a part manually and change the position of it. E.g. we select this part manually for coloring. We replace this part with manual selection. We can separate every part we want. We can remove the lips e.g. and place them somewhere else or remove part of the cloud. The important thing about Procreate is to play around with the options. That's the only way to know how to, what they can offer you, how to manipulate them. You can also have your shape, your selection shaped, not organic. It can be a rectangle or a triangle. Rectangle selection like this. I'm creating a new layer, filling it with green. You can do the same with any shape, color, the selected part. Remember to make use of your downloadable resources. They have all the information necessary for every tutorial you follow. It has the outlines for the drawings that we create, the color palette, and any information you might need. And also feel free to send me your final drawings. I'm more than happy to share some feedback. Now we are going to draw a new shape in our layer. We use freehand. We fill in our shape. We create a freehand selection. We separate a layer around the line. So we've created that shape separately and now we're separating a layer from inside the flower. Just like that. It's a way to make duplicates, but also maybe create negative space is in a beautiful way. Just drawing and coloring in a bit of the stem. Now we select this part and replace it. Make it bigger, move it around. This selection option gives you the freedom to move a certain part of your drawing around. Now I've created a layer and duplicate it. You can minimize it to have smaller flowers around the big flowers. The next tool is adjustment. We can change our color in the first part and other parts we can blur it. Adjustment is one of those really helpful tools in Procreate. Very useful. The different options that Adjustment can give you such as color correction or editing or adding blur effects or artistic fillers. These are different options which we will explore. But for now we're going to choose another image from our gallery and work on it. Just to test these adjustment options. So tap adjustments in our colored layer. Select the layer and adjustments panel. You can increase the saturation at the bottom or the brightness and whatnot. So these are the tabs that come on below. And you will choose a pencil. It will apply the things that you select my pencil. But we're working on layers and changes will apply according to layers. The first option has brightness that we can apply. The color changes like from dark or light. We can undo it by tapping two fingers on the screen, as mentioned earlier. The next option is like Photoshop. When we apply changes on the portrayal of an image. This specific option is very much like Photoshop. Take your time to test it around. It controls the brightness and darkness as well, whether you can make something darker or lighter in different hues and tonalities. Below we have a gradient library for black and white as well. Now the next option is blur. The blur effect. We can blur everything that we want. We can decide how much to blur as well. The kind of fades out, the colors that you've applied and you can choose to fade them out only to a certain degree. It's also very useful to use this option if you're trying to create a very dreamy background, very cloudy. It's useful for that aesthetic. Keep exploring and testing the different options. Now, let's work on another image from our library. Let's try a another option. This is called Liquify. See how by using this option, moving either our pencil or our fingers on the screen, we can apply changes on the characters and shapes we have drawn. By selecting the next option. And using the circular movement of the pencil, the shapes merge into one another. We can play around with these options to know how they work. This option allows us to crystallize the form, make it cleaner. And on the toolbar down here we have more options. We can adjust the size and all the other options you see down here can easily be adjusted. All these icons, you have more adjustable settings down here. It's just a matter of playing around with them. This last option is really useful when we're going to work on the texture of the glass. Based on what we are working on, we can apply different changes to the work with these options. Test them for yourself. And remember if we tap reset, we move back to the first version. If we use pinch, it will go inwards, the image will move inwards, e.g. this option is useful for editing photos as we can use it to reduce the size of a specific part easily. We can also adjust the level and the size of the pinch so we can go outwards and control these changes. If we do outwards, we magnify our image and we expand it, which is exactly the opposite of pinching inwards, it makes a selected part larger. These are very useful for caricatures and deforming or adding dimension. Now the next option is setting. Here we have some toolboxes. The next option we're going to use this animation assist, which can be used to animate different drawings. If we select the Drawing Guide, a full grid will be added on the work, which can be used as a background to help us draw. If we tap on Edit, we can apply changes to the grid. And simply like this, we can change the type of the grid. Selecting, Edit, Drawing Guide, and tap on the last option and select symmetry. The work is then divided into two. Then we open a new layer and whatever we draw on this part is going to be drawn symmetrically. Simply like this. This is an efficient tool in designing a logo. As you can see, there is perfect symmetry in what we draw. Going back to that part, these options are for opacity. We can choose them to be vertical or horizontal. We can decide what kind of lines we are going to draw and how our divisions look. Going through the options again, just like what we did up until now, we keep on drawing. With the Flip horizontal or vertical. We can apply changes to the canvas. And the last option is Canvas information by which we can see the information of the canvas. We can apply changes to the Canvas from this part as well. We can change all these options here. Just like the size. The next option is shared. It helps us to share, send, Save As in the format that we want, JPEG, PNG or tiff and more. If we select the format this page opens up and we can select Save Image and send. We can choose the format we want and easily save it or send it from here. When we choose video, we can see our process or work from the beginning to the end. If we choose inactive time-lapse, it will not record our work. We can export our video and we can choose whether we want the full version or just 30 s of it. This video will be exported in the format that we want and we can save it like this. The next option is called prefs, gives different options for our pen and page. By choosing light interface, we can have black or white background. With the right-hand interface, we can change the placement of this toolbox to the left or right. The brush cursor is for applying changes to the brushes. Project canvas allows us to apply changes to the canvas. All these options help us adjust the workplace for ourselves. With this option gesture control, you can select and apply some changes to the pencil, the touchpad, and set these changes as default. By activating any of these options, some changes will apply for us, e.g. we can activate this option in order to use fingers for drawing. We can apply every change for our pen, brush, page, touch. We can apply changes to every tool such as the erase tab, the smudge, and many more options that you can see right here. Any changes can be applied and adjusted on different tools and options of the applications from this part. Now we almost learn the usages of toolboxes, tools, brushes and etc. From a to Z. In the future, we will learn how to perform these things that we learned. Now we are going to open a new page and create a new illustration in the next tutorial. Thank you so much for joining me today and keep exploring all these options that you have. The more we practice, the more we are comfortable and confident with our new medium. See you in the next tutorial. 6. Draw and color a cartoon cat Family : Hi there. Welcome to a new tutorial. We're going to apply all the different tools that we have used on Procreate on a single work. The first step is to open a new canvas. We're going to choose a 50 by 50. However, any size can be chosen based on our preferences so that we can start the work. If we tap with our four fingers at the same time on our screen, we can start working on the full screen. Give it a try. And again, if we tap on the top-right corner of our screen, the icons, we'll be back on our screen. The first thing we need to do is choose a layer. We do have a background layer by default that we can remove if we want to. We can also choose if we want to have the white background or not. It's completely up to you. Now, we open a new layer to start the work for every illustration that we do, one of our main initial steps is to do a sketch. Make sure to make use of your downloadable resources. They have all the information necessary for the tutorial, including the outline for the base sketch that will be creating. We can do this sketch with any color that we want. For instance, we're going to choose gray. And now we start doing the sketch. We need a thinner tip for our brush. We make our adjustment and we start doing our initial sketch. We're going to illustrate some cats next to each other, like a little family. We're going to use lines to show the general form of what we are going to do. We're also going to determine where every character is placed on this layer. Follow my lead. I'm going at my drawing very freely. Moving on to the next layer, we reduce the opacity of this layer so that we can start adding more details to our sketch. Now that we are going to add more layers or more details, we choose the right brush and start working on the previous lines we had more delicately. We're creating more intentional lines here. They are neater outlines. We create light sketching lines in the first layer, and now they are more definitive lines. As mentioned earlier, in procreate, we can draw perfect shapes such as circles. In this way. We draw the shapes and holding the pen for a little second at the end, the program changes it to a perfect line. We can even make them larger or smaller in this way. We keep on working on our initial sketch to the point that we have our initial drawing draft ready. We draw the hair for our cat character, and also we start adding more details to it to create a unique character. We are drawing this character from imagination and without any reference, pictures or samples. However, we could have used a picture reference. To do so. We should tap on the Add button, on the actions, then tap on the Insert photo and add a picture that we have already saved in our gallery to our Canvas. Like this. We can also add a reference to do so we tap on Canvas and also the reference been. This way we will have this new window on which we can import the picture we want to use as the reference. In this way, we can have our reference on the screen and keep working on our sketch. We can also make this reference window smaller or larger so that we can work in the way that we want or habit out of the way. So we can easily bring a picture of a cat here and create our character from a realistic photograph. If we do not need it, we can close it easily like this, so it is removed from our screen entirely. We continue working on our sketch and towards finalizing our work from the lines that we have already drawn. We can keep on working like this with our lines still visible from our base sketch. And we can also keep them, especially when we're working on children's work. We can also work on different layers and surfaces. Erase the initial lines we had for our sketch and illustrate our characters in that way. However, both of these methods can also be done at the same time. The latter style of work that was discussed means that we will work only with textures and using different colors. We keep on adding details more and more as we move along from one part of the drawing to the next. We've included the bird. If you want to work on the clothing as well, that's an option. Filling in the eyes. The pause. Now we start working on another character of these cat characters that we have created here. We're not going to change our brush as we are working on this layer still. And adding more details. Later on when one we are adding colors, we can choose different brushes and pencils to work with depending on what we want to achieve. We pay attention to all the details that we have added on our initial sketch. Like the gaze of this character which is looking up. And also all the other details that follow this facial expression, like the smaller forehead and larger chin and jaw line. We hold our pen on the circle that we draw. And as it was mentioned earlier, it will be adjusted easily. So any line you create, if you hold it for a split second in the end, it just softens and becomes straighter. It's something that the program does for you. You can also choose not to do that and use your organic lines. When we tap with our fingertips on the screen, the part we have just worked on will be erased. And if we tap with three fingertips at once, all the work that we have done would be gone. Now we start working on this cat here. All these lines, and thus these characters with all their details come out from those initial lines and sketches that we are doing on our first layer. With a simple sketch determining what we're going to do and where all the different characters would be located. We take a step forward in our work. We can determine our placements, details, lights, and shadows, all from the initial sketch that we're doing. So take your time to create this base sketch. Digital illustration will help us a lot to progress and easily create different characters as we can redo all the different parts as many times as we like and keep practicing on our craft. Just like this, we have our initial sketch completed so we can remove the layer which had our sketching lines on it. And then we open another layer and start adding more details to our work. We've hit our base sketching lines. We're going to apply some changes and add more details on this sketch. We are still working on the same layer we were working on, so that we can erase some of the lines we do not need or not good enough and apply any needed adjustments as well. We are adding the details for their clothes at this stage. We're also going to apply some changes to the foot as well. So we erase these parts and work on them. Again. Don't worry about the amount of times you need to make adjustments. That's the only way to practice. And we draw shoes for this character in this way. For this other character as well, we're going to draw the dress and add the necessary details. And we keep on adding details like the pattern of the dress. This is the simplest way of character design and illustration, illustrating different parts and features such as the hair, the face of different characters, or any accessories they might be wearing. All of these can be totally added and adjusted in different ways. Easily like this, we've added the texture to this cat character on the body. And we change some details. As we keep on working with changing the nose. And just like this, we've added more details to the work and edited the different parts. It's important to have clear and clean lines would that when we are working, especially when we're illustrating different characters. For children's books or educational curricula. Are lines exist on this layer and we're going to add more details and colors on the lower layers. Take your time to complete your value lines here. These are the parts on which we are going to add the colors on our cats and create their textures. We work on the tail of the mother cat character. Now, we draw the dress for this cat character here. We can easily apply some changes on different parts like this when our two lines cross one another. We're going to draw this part one more time. Use my eraser. And I go over it. We work on its hair on this part. Take your time to observe any additions you might want to make to your characters. We're going to add different types of texture on this cat character. They have a button down shirt. Also on this part, we are going to apply some changes on the whiskers. So we easily erased it with our pencil and now we're going to draw them again. It feels like we need to draw a larger body for this character so we easily erase the line and work on it. Again. Filling in the eyes and taking a moment to look at my drawing and decide what to add next. It feels like we need to draw a larger body for this character. So we easily erase the line. And work on it again. As we have drawn all of these lines on one layer, we can choose the Select option. Like this, enlarge the picture or make it smaller. Use the selection tool to resize your drawing. If we press this, store it, we can change it in this way. We can also apply changes to the size of it by our hands as well and place it in the middle of our screen. If we're going to work on the background or other parts of the work, we can add a layer underneath this one and work on that. Take a moment to make the adjustments necessary. Or just to try this feature. Well, this is our initial sketch and now we're going to start coloring our characters. We're going to continue working with keeping the line layers in place. If we were going to work on a portrait or use a different style in our illustration, we could have removed the line layers as well. So we need to work on another layer. So we go back to the lower layer and add a new one above it. We press the plus sign. We start adding colors. We go to the color selection and start thinking about, and then choosing the colors we're going to use on our characters. We choose this orange tone from our color wheel in this way, also choosing a different brush. First, we are going to consider which texture we want to add our characters. We can test the different brushes as well. I'm using a pale orange. And the next step is reducing the size of the brush. And then we start adding the color on our character. This color layer becomes darker and darker as we keep coming back to it and add one more layer on top of, on top of it. We can use this technique to make some parts darker if we want to. It is better to work layer by layer. When we start adding the colors, we add the first color layer and then on the layers that come on top of it, we can add more and more details because we have already saved the lines in the previous layers, they won't be damaged. But if we want to also apply changes to our lines so we can move this layer higher like this. In this way, we can cover the lines when we add the color layers. Give it a try. Now we need a slightly darker color. We choose it in this way and then start applying it on the parts that need to become darker. We keep on adding more and more colored layers and details in this way. For instance, on the area around the eyes, we're going to add this darker color layer and also on these parts on the corners of the face. The darker color must be added on the area that comes underneath the hair and also on this part. Now we choose a warmer color in this way to work on these parts of the chin. The different colors that we're using on the different parts have the same color contrasts and tones. Also the brush that we have chosen has created this texture as well. To show the texture of the cat's skin. We're going to add this darker and warmer color on the cheeks of our character as well. We continue working on the nose of the character and again, choosing a darker color tone and applying it here on the nose. It is good to consider a source of light for our work, for instance, from here and then apply the lights and shadows accordingly based on that, take your time to test it and see the differences and what works for you. So we start applying lighter and darker parts, considering the point that was mentioned just now, we chose a darker color in this way and start applying it on these parts that need a smooth shading layer like this. We choose the right color for the hair and start applying it on our character. Working with Procreate enables us to work realistically on the hair, the skin, and the, and to create different textures using the different brushes it has and applying different brushstrokes. But right now as we are doing a simple character design and illustration, we're using the simplest ways and methods to be able to learn the basics better as well. And to practice. For the smaller parts, we reduce the size of the brush that we are using. We choose the right color and start working on the eyes. We can also use the special gloves while working on our tablets so that we do not damage the screen while working. We constantly add lights and shadows on every color layer that we add. We also keep on adding more details. For instance, these small dots that we add to create a different texture on this part of the face. We add a bit of a darker color layer on the area around the eyes one more time. We can always add more and more details to it. E.g. we can add the texture of the hair by either choosing a different brush that easily creates that texture for us, or by reducing the size of the brush we're using at the moment and applying them like this. Take your time. These small lines help us create the pattern we're looking for. It all depends on how many details we intend to add to our work. However, it is better to add more details on different layers. We can go back to the previous layers as much as we want by tapping on the screen with two fingers at the same time. We continue working on the other parts of the hair. We can change the place of this bar easily like this and place it where it is more comfortable for us. Now, we want to make sure that we are using the exact same color that we had on this other part. So we hold this part of the bar with our finger like this and choose the color that we want. Then we start applying it on the other parts of the work. We choose the right brush and keep on working. We choose the color we added on the skin like this. And we start applying it on the ears. And we choose a different color, this time a darker color to add on the area inside the ears and also. On some parts of the skin, it is good to apply the color layers one layer at a time. It's not satisfying to just have one layer. It gives a depth of perception here. So we try to have a color palette with different color tones on it. For instance, different turns of ocher, orange, brown and so on, so that we have a more developed final result. We choose another brush and also a different color to work on the bow tie on the head of our character. The brush that we're using right now has a shorter tip, like the airbrush and helps us create the texture that we're looking for. Remember to erase any extra or an unnecessary parts. We open another layer to continue working. Right now we're going to work on the body of the same character. So we choose the color like this and also choosing the other brush we were using for the skin texture and we start working on it. Keep in mind that we can easily save the brushes we are working with on our folder in this way so that we do not look for them whenever we want to change the brush. As we have worked on different layers, we can easily erase the parts that we want without being worried about the work and the lines being damaged. And we add the spots on the body of our cat. And this way, the application saves some of the colors we have used on its history, such that we can go back if we want it to and save them in case we haven't saved things, saved them. If you need to rewind some parts and watch them again, go ahead. And if you're uncertain of any next step, just follow my lead. Remember that you can share with me your final drawings. I'm more than happy to give you some feedback, maybe some guiding pointers. This line has been drawn on the previous layers. And in order to erase it, we need to go back to that layer and delete it from the work. As we want to create some textures on our CAT scan, we add colors in this way in the form of colors stains. These methods of adding colors can differ from one work to the next. E.g. when we are working on a portrait, we're going to need a softer texture. Adding colors can also be different when we, when we are working on different textiles or cloth materials. Now, we continue working on different parts of this CAD character. Take a few moments to look at your drawing. Now we're going to start working on the dress. It depends on each one of us and our preferences to choose the different colors for the dress and other parts. Here we've chosen this pink color as this is the mother cat character. Choosing the right colors for our works can also go back to the color psychology and what each color has to say. For instance, if we wanted to convey the feelings of depression and sadness, we could have chosen gray color tones and to show happiness, we could have used sharper puppy tones are poppy colors. To show that the character is feeling ill, we can use colors that have blue or green tonalities. These are all among the points that go back to the feelings and expression one wants to convey with their color palette and they're illustrated characters. We can also change the texture by changing the brush that we're using in this way. I've reduced my brushstroke just to fill in these smaller spaces. I'm going over all parts. I'm using a different tonality of pink, using a darker color tone to add the shading layers on different parts of the dress, like the area beneath the hands. Just to show a little bit of shadow. We continue adding details to the work as such. Now we're going to add some patterns to the dress. After we have added the color layers in the way that we want, we can add different textures to the fabric. We are now working on this part of the neck that was left out. And now we start adding the texture to the dress in this way by simply adding dots to it. It's completely up to you and your own preferences to add different details to the dress. Or choose whatever style of texture to add. This is it for the details of the dress. Now to work on? The chick the mama cat is holding in her hands. We're going to open another layer and start working on it after we have chosen the right color and the right. Rush. We should not work with only one color. Instead, we tried to create different color tones and layers on our work by choosing a slightly darker or lighter tone of the same color that we've started working with. You're also adding small patterns and textures to the work. We can choose a different color for that. We add the first layer of color like this, and then we add details. And now we start working on our next character. We add the first layer of color like this. Then we add more details as we move along. Make sure you don't fill in the eyes. Now, we choose a slightly darker color tone and we start adding more shadows. It's good not to use only one color on our work and apply different tones to add depth to our work. If we are working on educational books in which usually flat colors are used, using only one color would be good. If the latter is the case, we can select the work using the appropriate buttons and add the colors to it from our color palettes. We're going to change our brush and start adding more details with different colors. Take your time to use your tool and practice. It gives you a better sense of what it can offer you. The color spots are going to be added like this. When the colors pass the lines like here, we can easily erase them like this. We go back to the previous color we were using to add more details. We erase all the extra parts, anything out of line. And now we start adding some lights and shadows on the texture we have created in our final layer. And this part is going to be lighter. And we keep adding more details like this. Using a brown for the eyes, making sure they're similar in size. Adding highlights inside the eye. Now we start coloring the hands and the feet of our character. But first, we need to change the brush that we're using. Then we choose a darker tone and then a little bit of a warmer tone, and we add the appropriate color layers. We also add the appropriate colors on the spots we have already drawn on its skin right here. And just like this, we keep working on its body and applying the colors for the parts that we want to make it a bit darker. We use the back-and-forth movement of our brush and also increase the hand pressure so that more color is applied on the texture of our canvas. We adjust our lines by erasing these parts. Here. We choose the orange color and start adding it on the spots on the cat character's body. We go back to our palette history to choose the right color as we want to add the necessary colors for this part. Layer by layer, the work shows itself better and better. It starts to pop. We are working with different tools and all the options procreate gives us on a single work to see how they work and how we can use them for character design and illustration. We first sketched our work and then we started adding color to it. As we want it to save our lines, we added the colors on the layer that we added underneath that line layer. Something we won't do when we are working on a realistic portrait, for instance. In that case, we would work on that first sketching layers so that we have a smoother final work. We choose the appropriate brush based on the texture we want to add to the work. Now, the back-and-forth movement of our brush results in darker layers of our color. And the lower hand pressure results in a lighter color layer because your iPad can detect the pressure. The smaller brush tip. If you change your brush a smaller tip, it gives us a smaller patterns and textures and thinner lines. Whilst the larger brush tip results in larger textures. Feel free to send me your final drawings. I'm more than happy to share with you some feedback, some guiding pointers. Now, we want this character to have a slightly darker color compared to the other ones so that we have more color contrasts. So our selection changes. It also gives us a chance to try different brush strokes and textures on each character. Now we're going to use a smaller tip for our brush to be able to work on these parts. Just to be able to be exact and apply our color to smaller spaces. Now, we want these spots to be darker than the previous ones. So I'm going over it a little bit more. Going back to this layer that we had here above this one, and start adding more details to it. I'm catching some missing details as as I work on my drawing. So you can add these along the way if you've missed them like I have. And adding the highlights to the eyes here, which adds beauty and detail to our work. And we start working on the hair of our cat character and we adjust its different parts as we move on. I'm using my eraser here. Just to adjust these lines. We start adding more details, choosing the right color and also a smaller tip for our brush. If at any point in time you're uncertain as to what the next step is, just follow my lead. You can also rewind the tutorial, rewind the video, and re-watch some parts. Then play again when you're ready. Observe the very slight difference in tonality in the hair when I added those strokes and also the nose putting some red on top of the brown. Because when we apply our colors in a lower opacity, they translate into each other. So keep that in mind. Now, we choose a different color for this, for this character. Remember how this cat has a little bit of a brown or tonality. We're using a darker tone. I'm going over all the edges using a second tone. Then going over the other paw. Use the same colors for both of them. Now, we choose the color that we want to add to the papa cat, the papa cats clothes. And after choosing the brush to give us a different texture, we start applying the color on the shirt the character is wearing. Take your time to apply your color. Zoom in to make it a little bit easier or exact. Again, we apply the first layer smoothly on all the different parts and then we start adding details and different layers of color, lights and shadows on top of it. I reduce my brush stroke. Remember we easily erase different parts that go beyond our sketching lines or our drawings are based drawing or coloring. We choose a slightly darker color tone and we start adding it on the lower parts of the work. And also those areas underneath the pause or hands of our character so that we have applied the shadows and added the dimensional value as well. We add some darker parts and then some lighter ones to create that contrast or that aesthetic. For instance, on this part of the hand or the arm. And now we choose the Brown we were using alongside the previous brush to work more on the pause. Right here. We continue working on this part of the clothing. Notice how placing the lighter tones where the highlights are and the darker tones where the shadows are, just gives more dimension to the clothing. And the drawing in general. We add a slightly darker color tone on these parts, like this, like underneath the chin part. We are going to add a lighter layer on the cheeks of our character. And then we're going to start adding color to all the other parts of the body. The remaining parts. We first add the darker layer on these parts. This is the, this is the pulpal character and we don't want it to be as soft as the rest of the characters. We want to create that color contrast and our work so we can easily rotate our canvas in this way to work on different parts more comfortably. Saving colors on your color palette, just how to easily select your colors. We start adding these black spots on the final layer of our work. And now we go back to the previous layer and we keep working in this manner. Now we're going to add more details and textures to the dress of this character here. So we choose a different color and also a different brush. And we start adding the texture on the clothing in this way. But on another layer. I think I want to go for a brighter color. I went for a bright orange. Now I'm going over that texture. Just trying to select the right layer to erase that spot. But I'll get back to it. I'm going to continue adding the texture to the papa cat shirt. Now I'm changing my brush, chose a pale orange, and I'm starting to work on the next character. And I intend to use brighter colors for this baby character. Too bright orange. Exactly like this, we start applying the lighter tonality of color. We can also change the size of the tip of our brush to fill all the parts. Take your time. I hope your confidence has grown with using this tool in this art form because it gives you leeway to make changes, but it also, we need to add so much texture and detail and colors. Okay, we're going to add a slightly different color tone around the eyes. Just by making these slight difference in tonality selection, we add lights and shadows to our character. We do not work with only one color. Instead, we're choosing different tones of that color. That adds to the depth of the work. It gives it character, it gives it texture, and it looks richer. By the end of it. We work on the hands of our character to the different colored spots on its body. Now we choose a slightly darker color tone and we add it to the lower parts like this so that we have a different colored tonality on different parts of the work. This is slightly darker as well. Just to give some shadows. We go back to the face to add more details on it. But also the bottom here. We started with the nose and then we erase the parts that are not neat or clean with our eraser. Then we add these small dots on the baby CAT scan to show a different kind of texture and also the whiskers. We add a blue color here on these parts of the eye. Now the only thing remaining is the clothing. And just like this, we start adding more details in the form of another bird on top of the head of the mama cat character. So we need to go to the appropriate layer. You can hide and unhide parts of your layers just to see. But let's start by drawing the outline here of the bird little chick. Then we go back to the layer that we were on and we start working on the on the clothing of the other characters. Choosing the right brush and the right colors. There we go. This is almost like a lime green. We add the color to the whole surface of the shirt. And then because of the patterns that it already has, we choose a slightly darker tonality. And we apply it on some parts, an alternating squares. Now we go back to the tail of our baby cat and we start adding a slightly darker color tone on it. Just like this. And now we're going to start coloring in the clothing of this other baby cat character on the right. I'm using an orange or an orange red. We continue coloring in this way. And just like that, we have finished this character design and illustration of the family of cats, in which we have used all the essential tools and materials and shortcuts that you can use on procreate. Take your time to complete your drawing. The most important thing is to practice and enjoy using this tool. Hope you've enjoyed today's tutorial. Thank you so much for joining me and see you in the next one. 7. Creating a background for your characters: Hi there, Welcome to another Procreate tutorial. We learned all the essentials to start creating our own cartoon and comic characters on Procreate all the shortcuts and reviews the tools of the program. Now we're continuing our drawing from last time of the family of cats. We're adding more and more details. And all the details in the color selections are as per your preference. On this layer here that we're working on, there's a blue part we need to erase. So we go back to the layer that this color was added, erase it, and then come back to the last layer we were working on and continue adding more details on the bird. We're adding a darker tonality under the eye. The wing, and the hair is a little bit more orange, so that's a red, orange and a bright red for the beak. We add the darker layers wherever it is necessary to show to the different tonalities are the different layers here. On our work. We also add these dots by tapping our pen on the surface just like this to create texture. At this stage we're almost done with this work. We just go to different layers and we start adding more and more details on those layers. For instance, we want this color to cover this part completely. So we choose it like this, and we start adding it on this layer, covering more parts. Although I like that texture, but just in case you do want to fill in that texture. We can see the white color of the canvas and some parts and we are going over them to cover them up a little bit more. We repeat the same process on the ears. We can go back to previous layers and work more on them, be at this cat or any of the other characters in our drawing. We're going to modify the color layers we have added on these parts as well. Going back to the original layer. In this way, we adjust the color on the different parts. And it's a way to let you know more about Procreate and the tools you can use to go back and make changes. Because once you take a break from looking at something you've been drawing are working on a long time and you come back and you look at it differently, make adjustments. At this stage, we're adding the final touches, an additional details where we are also going to work more on the background of our work. Take your time to make these changes or adjustments. You zoom out of your drawing just to look at it at a distance. That's how you get a better sense. Should you add more detail? Maybe work on different layers, maybe work on some highlights or shadows. But the characters are, characters are nearly done. Now we want to start working on the background. As it is the background, we need to work on it on the lowest layer. Here. Before starting to work on the background, we want to bring all these layers on which we have worked together into one. So we pinch them with two fingers. And all the color layers are all in one layer. Now, we go back to the lower layer and start working on the background. We are going to draw a house in the background. Let's start with a basic sketch. So we're going to do the basic sketch, which is there. And then analyze it to see what suits our sketch and the whole work better. This is the process of hiding different layers just to see. We remove this layer like this, then bring all of our layers together and also fix the frame so that it remains in the same place when we start working on it. Now we go back to the lower layer. We make sure that we're on the right layer so that we do not see an error. We opened the layer and we start doing our sketch. We are now going to work on the space around the work as well. Just to add a little bit more on beyond to the whole drawing. So I've added some grass on the side. Now that we're done with this sketch, we open another layer to strengthen our lines using the color black. We reduce the opacity on our previous layer so that it is lighter and we start working on our new layer. Remember to create smoother lines at the end of each line that you create or shape. Hold your pen on the screen for a split second and the program smoothens it out. Now, these are the different parts that we're going to be working on. Just adding these lines to our roof. Now we raise the previous layer, go back to the layer we were working on and add another layer underneath it to keep on working. We're going to work on the clouds, so we choose the right colors and the right brush, and we start the work. We're adding more than one tonality here. We use our eraser to make some corrections or adjustments if the color is outside our line, our cloud is blushing. We also work on the unnecessary lines and we erase them. But we continue adding our details just in that way. Repeating the process on this cloud here. We erase any extra lines. We had a brush that had a texture of the woods, so we selected and we start working on the house with it. It's better to be done on a separate layer so that we can easily erase the different parts of it. Rigorous testing, which brush, brush stroke is best. There we go. The terracotta color is an orange brown, earthy tone. Now I'm using my eraser to adjust the colors and the lines just to have a cleaner look more neater drawing. Going around where I colored outside the lines. You can zoom into some parts if it makes it easier. But this is how colors and lines would be modified. We can also select the mask option on the layer and easily keep working on it. Now we change the brush that we're using to start working on the lower parts of the background with a grayish color. We apply it like this. We want to add it in a smooth tonality, this color to the internal parts of the house. To work on the grass outside the house, we change the brush we're using and also the color. And we apply it accordingly. Just filling in the foreground space. Now, if we want to be more accurate and work specifically on the background, we need to consider the perspective and the point of view as well to have a better result with more details based on our story. Now we start adding a darker tone here. Remember how we talked about different tonalities of the same color, bring out those details and heightened the contrast. So that's what we're doing. At this point. We start adding in the shadows and the highlights. And on the lower layer we change the brush and the color to add this texture to the work. I'm erasing this inner, inner layer that I have created for inside the house. We're going to place it on its own layer and do it again with another brush. Going back to the lower layer, we choose a different color to add on the internal part of the house. And we choose another brush I'm using the noise brush. Change my color to gray. You can play around with the choices of color you have, the techniques, the brushstrokes, just depends on what image you're trying to achieve in the end. Now I'm adding a, another tonality to the background, just to give it a little bit more character. And we've changed our eraser as well to apply these final touches. Adding some texture to my grass. This work is done at this stage in which we've learned how we can use the different tools and we've used the shortcuts of Procreate to illustrate different characters. We could have kept on working as much as we want it on these different parts as well. It's completely up to you how much further you want to go. And using this tool, we can see how our work looks like in these different layers. It's like an image reveal. Thank you so much for joining me today. Hope you've enjoyed this tutorial and you got to try the different tools and maybe got a chance to learn more about your own techniques and preferences. Take your time to practice. The more you practice, the more confident you are in this application. See you again in the next tutorial. 8. Advanced Prince Drawing: Creating your outline: Hi there. Welcome to a new tutorial. Today we're going to learn how to create shade and dimension in Procreate on a more complex image. We're going to open a new page and open our layers. First of all, we have to sketch. We can stretch our page to full screen with two fingers or reduce it as such. So have it to what is more comfortable for you. Now we're going to sketch the little prince. And we're also maybe going to apply some shading and highlights or indicate where they are. We've chosen our brush. We consider this for the moon or the circular shape. We lower the opacity and change the sketch in the next layer. What I mean by that is that once we've done our rough sketch here, we lower the opacity so it becomes really light. And then we create a new layer which will have more definitive lines. There we go. We add details in different layers and we do it step-by-step. First sketch with lines to have the entire base sketch of our character and the moon or the sphere He's standing on. Then we add layers in the next, like details in the next layer. Remember to make use of your downloadable resources. They have all the information necessary for every tutorial that you follow, including the outlines to create your base sketch as we are doing here. The color palette. Again, we add a new layer and we lower the opacity. We want to create as many details as possible. We select a darker color. And we add details such as the hair of The Little Prince and the clothing. As we've learned throughout the course, having different layers allows you to make changes on separate layers without affecting the layers underneath or above. So it gives independence and more chances to changes, to make changes and adjustments. Zoom in as much as you need to in order to be able to draw in the little details or to be more exact with certain lines. Now we add another layer for his flower. We draw a perfect circle by holding the pen down at the end of our stroke, dressed for a second. And the program smoothens that line or gives you a more perfect line form of Drawing Assist. Notice how I'm using my base sketch as a way to reference what adjustments and edits to make. As I'm applying value lines which are darker lines, more definitive lines. I'm erasing any extra detail or mistakes. We do that with a simple eraser. And it's important to keep in mind as you're working which layer you're working on. So we've hid the sketching layer. Now we're creating some holes that are inwards or outwards on our planet. I'm erasing any unnecessary lines. We want to work on the shape of the globe here. Now this is our primary base sketch. Then we create shades in layers. We use a brown color. For this planet that the little prince is standing on. We create shade in the edges and dark central parts, or maybe some parts of it. You can achieve these different tonalities with your hand pressure or changing the size or opacity of your brush. But we do want to have some texture. I'm reducing my hand pressure on the edges. It also increasing it to continue. I want to choose a dark background or a darker background. I've applied a purple color. And we're outlining the globe. It's a way to begin shading the edges. The center of our sphere should be dark and the edges should be lighter. It's just a way to work on showing a bit more of the curvature of this little planet or moon or sphere. I'm keeping the motion of my brush, the movement of my brush circular. Just as a way to mimic the shape of the globe. You can shade in any technique that you find as more suitable for you. I continue to blend a little bit more between these tonalities using bit of a different brush, but also a reddish brown. When the edges are lighter and our center is darker, we're adding some dimension to our globe as if there's some light shining from the other side. Take your time to achieve the tonality and the texture that you're most happy with. I'm using a warm brown here. We apply some colors to our globe, especially lighter colors, with a lower opacity. So we can have those dark, darker tonality is translating through. So they, they almost communicate with each other all these colors. I'm using a medium brush now. And I created a new layer. I'm reducing the size of my brush just to be able to fill in some of those smaller details. I'm using different tonalities here because it adds like a depth to our work, some richness. It appears less flat. You're drawing appears a lot less flat when you use more tonality is especially of the same color. Just gives it dimension. Our globe here should not be smooth and polished. It should have texture. We should show these little, little textures here and there. So we keep building on that. We want to show these holds that appear on the globe, either in convex shapes or concave shapes. Adding details requires us to zoom in. But every couple of minutes, take a moment and zoom out and look at what you've created. It keeps us in check as to whether we've missed something, whether we need to apply some more highlights. We continue keeping the highlights on the edges of the globe. We're also creating these shadows around the holes. If you're uncertain as to what next step to take at any point in time, just follow my lead. We fade the edges with a brush, which is like an airbrush, or even lighter in terms of texture. Feel free to send me any questions you might have at any point in time, or even share with me your final drawings or sketches. And I'm more than happy to share with you some pointers, some feedback, some guidelines. I'm rotating my image in a position that's always comfortable for me to draw in the details. Now we're going to add some highlights. On the globe itself. I'm just cleaning up the edges here. We hide and unhide different layers just to see, to see the effects and see what's happening, what needs to be done. And also what's more comfortable for our eyes. Now it's time to add details with darker colors. I've reduced the size of my brush stroke. I'm using another color just to add some texture here. We're working on fading the light parts with some light colors. And if you find that some parts are a bit too bright, you can go back and reduce that. Are shaded differently. Take your time to achieve the textures that you want. Procreate gives you all these options. So sometimes we might end up feeling not sure as to what to use. But with practice and now that we have practiced on several tutorials, but we can still, there's still room to explore and find out more. I need to work more on my highlights and the details and the texture of the globe here. Now we're going to work on the background. We need to build it up. We want to create some shade. So I go to the right layer. I select another color and the tonality that around the tonality of the background that I've selected here. And of course, choose the brushstroke that is more suitable. Creating a bit of a halo around my globe. I'm using a medium nozzle here, going over the corners. That's also a kind of halo around the entire image. Now I'm using a light indigo or in a lilac. Remember different tonalities. Make your image look richer and hand increases the depth of perception of it. Now on a new layer, I've chosen another brush. Just to apply this texture here. Almost looks a bit like the stars. I've created a new layer. And now we're going to work on our flower. We should show the glass material and the shape of the glass. Make sure you're in the right layer. We've created a new layer, so it's neither the sketch, neither the background, not the globe. We zoom into it. We want to create a three-dimensional shapes, so we have to include shading and the highlights in a very clear way. Now with a light gray going over the inside of my of my glass globe. I've created the highlights on the glass globe here. And now I'm using a green to go over the leaves, reduce your brush stroke or the size of it. Just to be able to color in those details. Using a different tonality. By going over the highlights and the lighter shades and the darker shades and creating those contrasts. We, we add dimension to our work. It takes it away from being flat, flat image. We use the same colors which we can find in our history to continue coloring in the flower or other parts of the flower. Adding this darker shade of green just to add some shadow. Now we start coloring in the flower stem. It can take time to make some selections so it's completely okay. I was adding some highlights to the leaves and just deciding on every next thing. We're building up on the highlights and the shadows here. I'm using a warm brown for the flower stem. I'm using a red pink for the flower petals here. We're using a thinner brush and we're drawing linear shadows because we want to keep that texture. I'm using a purple just to show some shadows on the petals here. Just follow my lead. Remember you can move layers around. So the shadows we've created for the globe, the glass globe, we've moved it behind our flower layer, our flower color coloring layer. I'm trying to go for a darker tonality here just to add a bit more shadow. Using a lighter hue for a bit of highlight here. A light pink. Again working on the shadows and the highlights like this with different tonalities implies as well the curvature or the shape of the object that you're working on. Zoom out just to take a look at what you've created and what it looks like. Now we want to shade this part underneath the glass globe. I want to make it a bit brighter. Again, remember, we can keep going back and forth in our options are brushstrokes or colors or tonalities and make these choices as we work on our drawing, we can keep erasing and adjusting right from the start. And it's completely normal and fine. Thank you for joining me for this tutorial. I hope you've enjoyed completing these two parts of our drawing. We've done the background, the brown globe, the glass globe with a flower. And in the next tutorial, we're going to complete this drawing fully. And we're going to work on the little prince himself. Take your time to complete the details. Hope you're enjoying the process as we go along and see you again in the next tutorial. 9. Adding Color: Advanced prince drawing: Hi there. Welcome to another tutorial. Today we're going to complete our drawing of the little prince. We color the face of little prints in a separate layer. And in this tutorial, we're not going to need to work on the base sketch drawing because we've already done that. We just need to use the appropriate brush and color and we start coloring the little prince's face. We lighten some part and darken some parts in order to show the different features, different tonalities of the same color. Now we're going into color his hair. Maybe use a different brush stroke. Reducing the size of my brushstroke just so I can apply it within the right space. I'm doing you get into these circular motions to achieve the curly hair. Giving a texture. I'm switching between tonalities that are more orange or more yellow. Find it quite enjoyable to create textures of hair. Now applying different tones here because the light is hitting, remember from behind. So there is some light on the left side of the hair as 0s in profile, side profile. And there's some shadow on the back of the head and this side of the head. So we're using more browns and oranges here. Different brush, smaller stroke. Now we're adding the facial features, eyes with a little bit of eyelashes, the Libs. We've added a tiny shadow for the cheek and a bit of the nostril on the ear. And zooming out just to take a look at what I've created so far. Now I'm changing colors and brush, adjusting my brush size using magenta for the little prince's scarf. Now a different tone of pink. This adding some details to the scarf here. I'm using a dark magenta and also a cotton brush for coloring the clothing in general. Now I'm adding the details of pattern of their clothing or on the scarf specifically. The larger the size of our brush stroke, the more textured our stroke is. Now when you reduce it, you are able to achieve layered a little lines like this. Back with a dark magenta just to make an adjustment here. Now I changed layers. You always wanna make sure you're in the right layer. And changing my brush using a light blue, trying to cover the entire area. We have different textures. We have the cotton brush stroke for the, for the top, and a different brush for the scarf. And we could use a different brush for the trousers. The idea is to maintain texture. We can use brushes that give you that texture. They help the, help in creating that texture. Just adding some details with a lighter blue here. In trying to choose a color for the trousers. So bright red here. Using a medium soft brush. Make sure you're in the right layer. Now I'm using a different tonality of the color, which is closer to Cornell. Now we're coloring in his shoes. We keep zooming out to see our image in general like altogether with everything that we've created, we get a better sense of whether we've missed any highlights or any shadows. Now I'm going over the hands here. If you want, you can go back in your color history and choose the colors which you have used for the skin tone on the face. You can go backwards just like I did by tapping your screen and doing it again. Going over the other arm here. Now I'm going to add some texture to the edges of his clothes. Just trying to work on those highlights like the lightest parts. I'm changing my brush and I've selected a color from my palette here. I'm creating a shadow for the prints here. Just like we've created a shadow for the globe. The glass globe with a flower. Zoom out of your image and take a look at what you've created so far, it gives you a better sense of what's missing, what needs to be added, what you might like more. Now, let's create a new layer to draw some stars. Now I've used color fill to color in my star. Trying to use a different tonality on the star here. I'm using a gleaming brush. Just to go over those edges. Take your time to perfect this first star that we're working on here. Now we want to create a duplicate of it. So we've created one duplicate and we can stretch it and make it smaller or bigger. The idea here is to create many duplicates. Once you've created a few, you go into your layers and you pinch them together to make them into one layer and then you duplicate that layer. So you have multiple stars and you can resize it smaller or bigger. And you place them all around your drawing. We keep repeating that process. You can reverse them as well by dragging your pen across to the other side. You can duplicate several times. Play around. Now we want to add some stars like dots, so we create a new layer, new brush. We select a new brush. We go in. We add those details. It's like a shooting star. We can add our dots all around. This gives us a depth of perception that some stars are further and some are closer. That's it for our drawing. It's complete. But don't forget to save your work. To save your artwork, go to settings and then share. And you can choose from a range of different file formats. Select your file format, and then you export it and it's saved. Thank you so much for joining me for this course. I hope you've enjoyed the tutorials and see you in the next course.