Procreate Bootcamp: From Sketching to Final Artwork

1. Class Introduction: Okay. Hi there. My name is Astral mesi, and I'm a two D illustrator and the IUX designer with three years of experience. As a self taught artist, I faced many challenges while honing my craft, but my desire to create a beautiful art never faded. I'm excited to share my knowledge and help other achieve their artistic goals. Join me in Brokerate boat cam from sketching to final artwork course, where you will explore Broker yates full capabilities from sketching to final artwork. This course is a table for both beginners and professionals who want to advance their digital drawing. You will learn essential skills that you can apply to your own illustrations, whether you are a hobbyist or a professional artist. All you need is a basic understanding of drawing and iPad tablet device with a brokeriate app installed. Don't worry if you are new brokerate and digital drawing. I will cover everything you need to know in this course. By the end of this course, you will have a solid foundation in digital art creation and be able to create your own stunning pieces. Our main project in this course will be to create a digital portray using pre create. I will guide you through the entire process from sktching to final project. Are you ready to take your digital art work to the next level? Let's get started. 2. Project : Good day, everyone, and I'm thrilled to be here today to show you how to make your own cartoon portrait illustration. In this project, you will learn how to use digital illustration techniques to bring an initial idea to life. We will be utilizing procreate to make a colorful cartoon portrait. To begin, we will sketch up our concept, utilizing symbol shapes and lines to construct the fundamental structure of our portrait. Then to develop a firm basis for our artwork, we will improve our drawing and add more details. We will then go to coloring where we will add bold and vibrant colors to our portrait. To give depth and dimension, we will also use shade and highlights. Finally, we will add finishing touches like ticture patterns and details to make our illustration really stand out. Remember to have fun with your illustration and don't be afraid to explore. Remember to post your complete project in the project gallery for feedback and inspiration. Gather your stuff and lunch procreate to get started. 3. Getting Started with procreate: In this lesson, we will dive into the basics of Procreate, one of the most powerful digital art applications available. We will explore its user friendly interface and learn how to navigate through its various tools and menus. By the end of this lesson, we will have a solid understanding of the procreate interface and be ready to create your first artwork. Okay. Let's begin by familiarizing ourselves with the procreate interface. When you open Procreate, you will see the gallery which displays all artworks. To create a new canvas, tap the plus icon, at the top right corner. Select your canvas size by choosing from the available presets or entering custom dimensions. Procreate offers versus preset options like square, portrait and landscape and more. You can also sit at resolution, which is DBI You can make it 300 in all your files and check your color profile if you want to make it CY K or RGB. Now that you have your Canvas ready, let's explore the different tools and menus in the procreate. Tap to the ph icon to the top tool bar to access the psh liability. Here you will find a wide range of brushes to choose from. Explore a different Prashes categories you like, Pencil, ink and more. Tap to the Prash to selected, LF, choose the rounded brush, and adjust the size as you want and the opacity. Layers are essential for organizing your artwork and making non destructive changes. Tap the layer icon on the top tool bar to as the layer panel. You can add, delete, duplicate, and re arrange layers as needed. Adjust the opacity and blending modes to achieve different effects. Tap the selection icon on the top tool bar to access the selection tools. Explore tools like free hand, rectangular and automatic selection. Use these tools to select, move, resize, and transform specific areas of your artwork. Procereate offers a variety of selection tools to pricly isolate and manipulate parts of your artwork. Tap the transform icon on the top tool bar to as these features. Scale, rotate, d store and wrap your artwork using the transform tools. Also, you can make color and tunnel adjustments using the adjustments menu. Procreate allows you to customize your work space to sort your preference and work flow. Tap the wrench icon to the top tool bar to exit the action menu. From the actions menu, select preps to exit the preference panel. Here you can adjust sitting like gesture, general preference and customizing the interface to your liking. Congratulations. You have learned how to create a new Canvas, navigate the procreate interface, explore tools and customize your work space. Remember to practice and experiment with different features and procreate to unleash your creativity. Stay tuned for more exciting lessons on advanced techniques and specific art styles using procreate. Happy creating 4. Getting Started With Sketching: After we have learned in a previous class how to create a new canvas and procreate and select a preferred size and orientation for your artwork. Choose a sketching Prash from the Prash library. Procreate offers a variety of prushes such as pencil, HP pencil, or graphiti that mimic traditional drawing tools. Experiment with different brushes to discover which one suits your style and preferences. Adjust the Prash size using the size slider. Excluding different brushes and settings. Tap to the brush liability, tap on the brush you want to modify it. This will open the brush studio, and the brush studio, you will see viruses settings and options to customize the brush. Here are some key sections and settings you can adjust. Shape, in, dynamics, apple pencil, and more. Tap on each section to expand it and reveal the available settings and options. Make adjustments to sittings by dragging sliders, tuggling switches, or selecting options from the drop down menu. As you make changes, you can test approach by drawing on the canvas to see how the adjustment affect the stroke. If you want to revert to the default settings of a specific section or tap on the reset potum by dragging the modify it to the left. It will show you reset poom. You can also save customized prush as a presented by tapping the plus icon in the top right corner of the psh studio and giving it name. Once you are satisfied with the brush adjustment, you can start using the modified brush in your artwork. Layering techniques for sketching and drawing. Start with a base layer for your sketch and add additional layers for different elements or details. Use the layer opacity and lab mood options to control the visibility and blending of your layers. Utilize layer clipping mask for restrict and drawing within specific areas, allowing for more precise details. Skitching and drawing exercise. Practice sketching different subjects, like as objectives, landscape, or characters. Using the techniques discussed. Experiment with different brushes, truck size, and texture to explore the range of effects you can achieve. Try using layers to separate different elements of your drawing and experiment with different blending modes for interesting effects. 5. Color Theory Basics: Color theory basics. Understanding color theory will enhance your ability to create balanced, expressive and visually appealing artwork. First, we start with color wheel. It's a visual representation of how color relates to one another. It consists of primary colors. These are pure and cannot be created by mixing other colors together. They are foundation of color wheel. They are red, blue and yellow. Secondary colors, created by mixing primary colors, and they are orange, green, and violet, and tertiary colors, a cobination of primary and secondary colors. Now, let's talk about basic terms of color theory, value, which is referred to lightness and darkness of the color adding black, white to color, create different values resulting in shades and tints. Saturation. On the other hand, refer to the intensity or purity of a color. A fully saturated color is vivid while desaturated color appear muted or great. Let's talk about temperature. Colors can be categorized as warm or cool based on their physiological and emotional associations. Warm colors such as red, orange and yellow. Create a sense of energy and excitement. Cool colors such as blue, green, and verbal, evo calmness and tranquility. Here are some of the most common types of color scheme. Let's refer to pleasing combination of colors and artwork. There are several color scheme that artists often use, Complementary colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel, such as yellow and blue. They create high contrast and vibrant compositions Agus colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel, such as yellow, green and orange. Triadic colors that are a spaced on the color wheel, such as yellow, blue, and verbal. They create a vibrant and balanced composition. Understanding how to mix colors is essential for achieving the desired use in your artwork. By mixing primary colors, you can create a wide range of secondary and tertiary colors. Experimenting with color mixing help you gain confidence and control over your palette. 6. Coloring and Painting: Let's begin by exploring the color palette and procreate. To access it, tab on the color icon located at the top right corner of the screen. Below, you will see five options that you will go through one by one to understand each of them. First, let's look at disc option. Taping on it while reveal a slider and a circle. By dragging a slider, you can change the color. For example, I will choose yellow. Moving to the circle, you can control the color saturation and value. Sliding to the right increased vibrancy. While sliding to the lift adds more grains adjusting the value which affects brightness or darkness, can be done by dragging the color up or down. Moving up, make it brighter while moving down, make it darker. For more precision, we can go to the classic section. As we discussed, here you can choose the color from the R. You can also fine tune the color saturation and value. Next, let's explore harmony section, which involves color schemes. Uin the color were you can select multiple colors to ait the color schemes. Tap on the complimentary to the top left corner. It will display a list of color schemas from which you can choose. I will select a yellow color and see which colors complemented. Adjusting brightness and darkness is also possible within this section. On the value option, it provides similar controls at the classic section, hue saturation, and brightness. If you have a specific color value from a website or a source, you can paste them here to select a corresponding color. Additionally, the xdsmal value of them. Choosing color, for example, if you know that the y color is hashtag six F is, you can add it and will be displayed. Lastly, let's explore alled section. By default, procure provides a few predefined palettes. If you wish to create a custom palette, tap on the plus icon in the top price corner. You have several options to choose from. For example, selecting create new palette, will directly open the color sections. Where you can add your desired colors by dabbing and holding them in the swatches, or you can use the color picker by tabbing and holding your finger or apple pencil in a color. Of which will automatically added to the color section. Tap on the colors icon and tap on swatch and add the color. If you want to create color palette from a photo, you can tap on from photo and select any photo from your gallery. The colors from foot we extracted to create a ready to use color palette. Similarly, you can create a color palette using the camera. Feel free to explore these color panel features and experiment with different palettes to enhance your artwork and procreate. Start by laying down the base color in your canvas using the Prash of your choice. Choose a prush with bending properties such as soft brush or water Prash. These brushes are ideal for creating smooth color transitions. Switch to the smudge tool by tapping on the icon that look like a finger. Adjust the size and opacity of the smudge tool using the sliding at the top of the screen. With the smudge tool selected, use your finger or your apple pencil to drag and smudge the base color. Drag the color toward the area where you want to transition to occur. Experiment with different pressure trucks and pressures to achieve these desired effects. Lighter trucks will create a subtle transitions while heavier trucks will result in more pronounced blending. Continuous smudging and blending the colors until you achieve a smooth transition. You can go back and forth between the presh tool and the smudge tool to refine that transitions. Take your time and practice observation to refine your color transitions and achieve the desired smoothness. 7. Procreate Gestures: Okay. Hi. In this lesson, we will explore the powerful gesture features of procure gate that can be streamlined your digital art creation process and enhance your workflow. Let's begin by discussing convas navigation gestures. First, pinching to rotate the convas and zoom in and out. You can make the convas fill the entire screen by pinching out quickly and sing. We all make mistakes, and that's where the undo and redo gesture come in handy. With two finger, you can do. If you hold down your two finger, it will undo multiple times for the redo using three fingers, and the same thing if you want to redo all at once. Use your fore finger to remove the appropriate interface if you want a gun. Next step for clear the layer by quickly scrabing back and forth with your three fingers to remove everything from the layer. The copy and paste menu is displayed if you swipe down the three fingers. When you press together multiple layers, you can actually combine them. For example, all you have to do to combine both of these layers into one is being them together. Also, you can measure a set of layer at once in the same way. If you want to pick more than one layer, you can swipe the right after selecting the first layer for every more layer you want to select. Lastly, if you want to tweak or modify any gesture, simply click to range icon up here, select preference, and then select gesture controls, and you can customize any gesture you want. 8. Finalizing Artwork and Exporting: Finally, I will show you how to share and export your artwork in procreate. Go to action tool, select share option, Procreate of a VRsSFile format for sharing. Select the format that suits your requirement for sharing or social media or online platform. I suggest P&G formats are commonly used. Once you have set the export settings, you will present it with virus sharing options choose the method that suits your needs. Procreate allow you to share your artwork via Airdrop, social media platforms, cloud storage surfaces, or by saving it your devices local storage. For now, I will save in the iPad so I will tap Save image. If you want to share multiple layers at once, select all layers you want to share. Go to action, share, tap on PNG file, save to file, create folder, and save. Go back to file created. You will have all layers at once. Happy sharing. 9. Conclusion: Hi there. First, I want to take a moment to thank each and every one of you for joining me on best creative journey. It has been an absolute pleasure to teach you and I'm grateful for the opportunity to share my passion for Procreate with you. Throughout this course, we have covered a lot of ground from the basics of Sketching and inverse techniques for creating Final Artwork and procreate. We have explored viruses, tools and features of Procreate, and I hope you feel more comfortable using this powerful app. Create a digital Art. Remember to take time to practice and experiment with different tools and techniques. Don't be afraid to make mistakes or try new things. And most importantly, have FUN and enjoy the creative process. Finally, I want to remind you to share your final project in the Project Gallery. And I can't wait to see you what You have created. And if you have any questions or feedback, don't hesitate to reach out to me on Skillshare or in social media by