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1. Introduction : Are you already
using Procreate but you miss the
traditional feel to it, or would you love to practice traditional
pencil drawing, but with all the benefits
Procreate offers? Well, if your answer is yes, this is the perfect
class for you. Hi, my name is Alexandra,
aka The Artmother. I'm an artist, illustrator,
online educator, and actually a
professional art teacher with a master's degree
in art education. I have taught over 60K students worldwide with my
online classes, and I have experience in both traditional and digital
techniques for creating art. Practicing drawing traditionally
supports your base and knowledge that you can
actually build your art on. Drawing still lives,
observational drawing, and sketching all
help you to build your skills and to
express your ideas. I also have a little obsession for creating Procreate brushes, and the best way to translate
the traditional into digital is to use real
marks that you create. I designed this class like this. You're going to create three
different pencil brushes; a sketching pencil,
a shader pencil, and a hatching pencil, and all three mimic the feel and the texture
of real pencils. We will also go through some drawing basics
like rough shading, shading round objects,
shading objects with edges, and I will show you
my favorite method, the coloring book method. Lastly, we will
create a drawing of an object with the pencils
that you have created. This class is perfect
for beginners in both Procreate brush creation and traditional pencil drawing. You don't need to be
pro in the Procreate, but a little bit of
working knowledge of the program will be a great
help for you on the goal. By the end of this class, you will be a pro in
Procreate brush creation. You will be ready to
create a wide variety of pencil brushes for your
future art projects. You will also have the
space and the knowledge to now explore pencil
drawing digitally. Are you ready to
start a journey of combining traditional
pencil drawing with the power of Procreate? If yes, see you
inside the class.
2. About The Class: Welcome to the class. I'm so excited to have you here. In this video, I'm
going to talk to you about the class structure, the class project, and
the class resources. As I already mentioned, we are going to create three different brushes in Procreate, a sketching pencil, a shader pencil, and
a hatching pencil. For these lectures,
you might need some extra tools like
pencil and paper, and I will describe these tools in more
detail in the next video. But if you will not
have these tools, it is absolutely not a problem, as I will include all
the images that I take and edit in the resources. If you cannot create
these textures, you can still use
these images to practice the skills that
we learn during the class. I will also include the brushes
I create in this class, in the resources, you can use them as a reference. If you miss a setting or something is not
working for you, you can just check the
settings of my brushes, it might be really helpful. We are here to have fun, and if you really don't want to create the brushes yourself, only to practice the
pencil drawing digitally, you will have my
brushes and you can freely use them and just
do the drawing exercises. After creating each brush, I'm going to introduce you to some drawing techniques and
theory like rough shading, shading round objects,
shading objects with edges, and coloring book method. We will create
drawings for each of them to see your
brushes in action. For the class project, we will choose an
object to draw. For the sake of simplicity, I will work with my coffee mug, as you can see here. You can choose your own coffee
mug or you can again use this reference photo
that I'm going to take of this mug as well. If you are a pro, feel free to choose a
more complex object. If you have the
time and the energy to put the effort
into the drawing, then put it into it. It'd be really valuable for you and also for us to
see what you create. I'd love to invite you to upload your class project into the
project gallery when you are ready and you are free to share your work-in-progress
photos as well, or the little sketches
that we are going to do in the practice
parts of the class. Include some words to describe your experience
during the class, it is really good
to read about them. It can give so much
motivation and inspiration to see your aspects
in the project gallery. It just makes sense [LAUGHTER] to finish the class
and do the class project. I really invite you to do so. In the next video, we
are going to discuss the extra tools you might
need for this class if you choose to create your own MARX as a base
for the Procreate brushes. But most importantly, at first, grab your iPad or your Apple
Pencil and open Procreate, and see you in the next video.
3. Tools: In this video I'm
going to talk to you about the tools that you might need if you decide
to create your own marks. At first you will need paper. Make sure that it has texture. It doesn't need to be anything special like watercolor paper. It can be a paper from
a simple sketch book, but it will need to
have a little texture so that's the graphite
that we put on it has the texture that we
can actually use in the iPad or in the process
of creating the brushes. I have this watercolor paper
here that I'm going to use. The other thing
that you will need is a pencil or pencils. They range on a
scale from 8H-8B. H stands for hard, B stands for black. Black pencils are softer and
they create better textures. I recommend to have
a 3B pencil and 7 or 8B pencil to
create textures. But if you don't
have these tools, you can use a simple plain
paper and any pencil that you have at home to
work with something. Actually maybe you might
be surprised what you can do with very simple, easy tools. I will just show you
that the hard pencil, what marks that leaves. [NOISE] The texture
shows through, but it is really light. You can actually work on
that later in Procreate, so I'll create bigger contrast. I leave this on you. I will show you what
the 3B pencil does. It is softer. You can create
smoother surfaces. It creates this nice texture
and this 7B is darker. It is really good to experiment with different softness of pencils to create
different marks that you can use
to create brushes. Just take a look
at this textures. Apart from these tools, you will obviously
need your iPad, Apple pencil, procreate on it the iPad's camera that
we are going to use. You don't need any other camera to capture these textures. You will need an object
for the final project. As I already told you, I will create a drawing
of a coffee mug. I have my favorite coffee mug here that I'm going
to take a photo off, but you can use your own
coffee mug if you have your favorite or you can use a
photo from a stock photo site. But we will talk about
this a little bit later. Now, let's just move
on to the next video. After you have these supplies
and let's just talk about the five things to know about Procreate brushes before we approach actually creating them. See you in the next video.
4. 5 Things To Know About Procreate Brushes: Welcome in this video where
I'm going to present to you the Procreate Brush Studio and explain how Procreate
brushes work. The first thing is where we can find the Procreate Brush Studio, if you click on this brush sign, you can enter the
Procreate Brush Studio by clicking on any brush. Basically if I click this brush, I already entered a
Procreate Brush Studio and I can add it to the
brush that I clicked on. If I want to create a new brush, I can hit on this sign. Now I'm working with some default settings that
are stats of, for example, there is around the
base shape and there is a simple plain grain placed
into this base shape. Now, the first thing
you need to know about Procreate brushes is that
Procreate brushes are based on a base shape that is carried along the
line you are drawing. In this default case, it is this circle. But let's just take a look
on a different brush. I have some drawing
brushes here. This is a basic shader
that I have created. If I just tap like this, you can see the base shape. This is the base shape. It has an irregular shape
that is going to be carried along the line that
I'm drawing. Let me show you. I'm drawing a line and this shape is replicated
on this line. The second thing you
need to know about Procreate brushes
is that you can set how this base shape is placed on this line,
with different settings. Let me show you, if I
go inside this brush, we have different
settings at this part. Now I'm going to show you
the basic settings that are the most important to understand when creating
Procreate brushes and there are some bonus settings that I'm going to show you
during the process. Again, we had a base shape and we carry it along the way. If I increase the spacing, you can see that this base shape is placed in different distances from each other
or to each other. If I decrease the spacing, it creates a solid line. If I increase the spacing, these little shapes get
far away from each other. There is jitter. Jitter sets how this base shape is placed around the line, so above the line
and below the line, so not on the line
that I'm drawing. You will see it. If
I decrease jitter, you can see the
design that we get. I will increase a little bit
of spacing so that you can see how these little
shapes behave. If I increase jitter, can you see we have a solid line and if I increase jitter, they just start to fly away. We can create some pretty fun
things with these settings. Then the next setting
that I wanted to show you is scatter and rotation. If I decrease this, you can see that this
base shape is placed to the same direction around
the line that is drawn here. If I add scatter in the shape, it will just set how these base shapes are placed around the line
as I'm drawing them. Also in rotation it
starts to follow stroke. If I put it to max, it will make this
shape to follow the stroke that I'm making
with my Apple pencil. We can set also the opacity
and size of these shapes. If I go to Apple pencil, we can set pressure sensitivity. If I decrease or
increase opacity, it will not do anything, but we can play with size here. If I decrease size or increase the size to
pressure sensitivity, if I'm not pushing that hard, I'm creating a
very thin line and if I'm increasing the
pressure on the pencil, I'm increasing the size
of these base shapes. This is really fun to create brushes with this
pressure sensitivity. Again, small and it gets bigger. Now with opacity, if
I increase opacity, it got less visible. If I am adding this opacity
pressure sensitivity, I can create better
relations with a brush that is set like this, so that if I don't
push that hard, it is transparent, if I push harder,
it gets opaque. To wrap up this second point, you can set how this brush
in the base shape behaves, how is rotated,
how it is placed, and how transparent
or opaque it is. These are the base settings. Now, the third thing
you need to know about Procreate brushes is that it's
shape fits into a square. The base shape is in
a square dimension. If you want to put here
into the shape source, a different dimension shape, it will get distorted. Also, the fourth point is
that as you can notice, the base shape is
black and white. The black means transparent
and white means opaque. This means that you need to create an inverted
images in some cases, because the white
pixels are that you are carrying along and fully black pixels are
transparent as if in a PNG, you don't have a background. Basically you have
a scale within this image ranging
from black to white. Everything that is not black
will show on this image. If you want to separate
shape from the background, you need to make sure that the
background is fully black. If you have a little
bit of grayish, as you can see, I cannot
make it bigger now, but if you can see there
are grays here and they are shown as transparency
within the brush. If you have a gray
in your brush, it will create a
transparency in the brush. Everything that is below what
you are drawing will show. Let me just explain
this just a bit. I have transparency here. If I'm shading with
a brush like this, let's say I'm drawing
a dark pink here. If I want to paint
above it, I can, but this dark will
show through below it, if that makes sense. This is pretty
amazing when we are creating shader
brushes and shading, and with color we can create
so many different effects. This is some
incredible things that you have in a Procreate
Brush Studio, it is genius. The last thing I
wanted to show you in a Procreate Brush
Studio is that, you can place a texture
below the base shape. You can add grain. If you go to Grain
Source and add it, and you can import and
you have a source library here within a Procreate
Brush Studio. You can choose different
textures and you can create your different textures
that you will use, and we are going to do that. Basically, this texture
is based behind the shape and that will
show through your brush. I hope that makes sense. I hope this was not too much. These are the five things. Let's just do a little recap. Procreate brushes are based on a base shape carried along
the line you are drawing. You can set how the
base shape is placed on this line and how it behaves. The base shape fits into
a square dimension. The base shape is
black and white. Black means transparent,
white means opaque. You can place a texture
below the base shape. These are the five
things you need to know about Procreate brushes. Now let's move on to the next video where
we're going to actually create our first brush, the sketching pencil brush
itself. See you there.
5. The Sketching Pencil: I'm so excited. Let's just
create our first brush, the sketching pencil brush. This is going to
be a really easy. We are not going to go into too complicated
settings at first. What do we want to create
with a sketching pencil? When we are drawing with a
irregulars sketching pencil, we are using the
tip in two ways. First, we are placing the tip from the top
to create a line. We're drawing a line. When we tilt the pencil, we can create
something like this. This is very good when sketching to note
where the shadows are. We can have the pencil tip used for a line and a tilted tip
to create a little shading. We are going to create that into Procreate brush studio to
both functions in one brush. The first thing
we're going to do is to create the texture that we're going to place into
the new brush as a texture that shows through
the default settings, the circle, if you remember
from the previous video. Let's just create the texture. I will move this a
side, grab my paper. What I'm going to use to
create this texture as the sketching pencil
is going to be the sepia drawing lights. I will just grab one
piece of paper from here. If you remember from the
Procreate brush studio, the shape source by
default was a circle and the grain source
was square size. Now we're going to
create a square size or dimensioned texture
onto this paper, and it doesn't need
to be perfect. I will show you in a
minute in Procreate how you can add that texture. Try to create this
texture and drawing from one direction to
the other and keep that direction throughout
the whole time. Also, don't create the texture with the
tip of the pencil, but when it's tilted, so tilt the pencil. Looks fine to me. Now, I will just grab
my iPad and open the camera and just take a
picture of this texture. Makes sure that it is sharp, so I will just click on it, make sure it is sharp
and create the photo. Now open Procreate. The first thing
we're going to do is to create a new Canvas. As I already told you, the Procreate brushes and also the grain sources
is square size. We are going to work
on square size Canvas. Hit the "Plus" sign and
create a square sized Canvas. Now we're going to
create a new brush set and how to do that, go into this brush sign and where these brush
sets are listed, swipe up to the top. If you swipe to the top, this plus sign will show you. If you click on that, you will create a new brush set. Let's just name it, I will click here to show
the keyboard and I will just write pencil brushes. Wonderful. Now, if this
sign is blue here, it means that it is selected. Now I can go to
this plus sign and create the first brush off
our pencil brush stuff. We don't need that
now because we need to prepare the
texture at first. What we do is to click
here and insert the photo. When I have the photo, I will make it as
big as the Canvas. It doesn't matter
if it is cutoff, and if it has these
empty spaces up here, because we have a
wonderful tool called the Clone tool that
we're going to use. I will click here, the adjustments and I have
the Clone tool down here. If the Clone tool appears, you will have a circle. You can see it here that
you can place around and it is the source
that you are cloning. If you place it somewhere
and you start drawing, and you will need to select
the brush, what brush? Let's go to painting and the
round brush will be fine. It comes with Procreate. All of you will have this
brush in your brush library. You place these shapes source anywhere and you
will just paint. Makes sure that you have
the opacity set to 100%. You'll make it a
little bit smaller, you can just clone
these textures into it, I will place it here and here. I will just fill in the whole square with the
texture that I created. If I see some
uneven things like, for example here, it is darker. I will also work on that because that will show repeatedly in the texture that will be
imported into the pencil. Clean up this image
with the Clone tool. I think it's pretty nice now. I will just show you
how to import it. Three fingers swipe
and hit 'Copy'. This way you copy this texture. Let's go back to the brush
that we have just created, here is the pencil brushes,
the untitled brush, and go to grain, edit grain source,
import and paste. Now you'll have
wonderful pencil texture as texture of your brush. I will hit "Done". Wow, can you see that? Wonderful. I wanted to show you something that you can do
within the grain source. If you go to Edit, again, you have an auto
repeat button up here, this will create
a bigger pattern from this image that
we have just put here. Let's just hit that. Can you see that you have different
settings here that you can start to create a
more smooth texture. You can set the grain scale, I will make that a little
bit bigger, mirror overlap. It doesn't look like jagged. We have mirror overlap,
you can rotate. I don't want that and
you can mask hardness. I will put that there
and hit "Done", and it will create a bigger texture for me
to have in this pencil. Amazing. Now what I want to add to this pencil is the size, pressure sensitivity that I
already talked to you about. Go to Apple Pencil
and hit "Size", and now if I don't
push that hard, it will be smaller and if I push harder it will be bigger. Also, what I wanted to add
is that as you can see, if I draw this line, it has every movement in it
that I make with my hand. If I go to stabilization, as it says, it will
stabilize my lines. Let's add a little bit of
streamline to it, maybe 50%. Now my line will be more
stable, more straight, etc. Let's just try out what we
have done with this brush. I will turn off this and create a new layer and
just choose black. I have a wonderful
textured brush here. Looks super cool. It is totally cool and
good for sketching. I will clear it up. Excellent. Now, there is
the last bonus setting that I wanted to show you here that when you are drawing
with the real pencil, if you tilt it, you can shade with it. You can create lines with the tip and shade
when it's tilted. We can do the exact same thing in the Procreate brush studio. I will go inside and go
to Apple Pencil again. You can see a tilt setting here, and you can set the angle. I will set it to maybe 30%. This means if I tilt
my pencil to 30%, this settings will apply to the Apple Pencil
that we have here. I can add opacity and gradation. Can you see what it does? I can draw a line
and if I tilt it, I can do a little
bit of shading. This is perfect for sketching, so I will hit "Done". Let's see, I have a line and I can do a little
bit of shading with it now. This is incredible. Well, now we have an
incredible sketching pencil. What do we need to do
with it is to name it. Let's just write
sketching pencil. If you go into About this brush, you can change its name up here, and you can add your logo, you can add your name and also sign it. The Create new reset point
is a very important to set, just click on it and hit "Save". It will save the
settings of your brush. If you go inside the brush and enter the brush
studio through the brush, and you decided to
experiment with some settings and you
mess it up, that happens. Hit the Brush reset and it will get back to the
original settings, Hit "Done" and you have your first pencil,
the sketching pencil. I'm so excited about it. Now let's just do a little
drawing exercise in the next video to see what we can do with this
brush in action.
6. Drawing Exercise - The Doll: In this video, we
are going to do a little drawing exercise to see what we can do with the
brush we have just created, and what we'll use as our model is this
cute drawing doll. If you don't have one, I am including the photos
of him in their resources, and it is a very good
tool for learning drawing because it has
different surfaces on his body. You can place the hands and legs as you wish
to create poses. You can clearly see the
shadows and the light on these shapes that
he has in his body, so it is a pretty good for
observational drawing as well. Now, we are not going to
observe him like traditionally, that we are looking
at him in the space, but we're going to use
photos that I've created. I created a new Canvas, a new screen size Canvas. I have my sketching pencil
selected with a black color, and I will just import
a photo into a Canvas. This is the photo that
I'm going to work with. I will just place it aside. If it is in a landscape mode, you can just turn
your iPad over, place it there, and
copy like that. Now, how we are going
to draw right now, if you are a very beginner, this is really just an exercise, so you can trace the body. You can create a new layer and you can lower the
opacity of the image, but only to the extent
that you see actually the shapes because
that's the point. Onto a new layer, you can start
tracing the shapes. If you are a pro, then to this next
space that is here, you can just start observing. Actually, you can call to your help the Canvas
and a drawing guide, so you will have a checked space here where you can
like approximately see how big these shapes are and you can just start sketching with your
sketching pencil. As you can see, I'm using
short lines and just trace the shapes approximately. The first task is
to create a sketch, and then we will
add the shadows. I'm going to speed this up. I will turn off the drawing
guide and see my sketch. Not perfect, but
it will work well. I will have a sketch like this. I somehow missed this. What I'm going to do
now is to add shadows. If I tilt this pencil, I can add shadows. Again, it will be an
observational exercise. Where I can see shadows, I will just tilt my
pencil and just add that. I don't need to be really
precise with this again. It's a line, so I can add a little
bit of line here. I'm adding this shadow here. I will add shadow here. Basically. I'm looking here
and adding a shadow here, and it is a really great
observation and practice, so I'm going to speed this up again so that I don't bore you. If you want to erase, you can go back to
the sketching pencil, brush and erase with that. That will help you to keep
your drawing quite consistent. It looks pretty good to me. It is not perfect in any ways. This was a really great exercise to train your eyes
and get them warm for a more observational
drawing that we're going to do later and more detail drawing that we're going to do later. This is absolutely
incredible brush to practice shading
and sketching. Later, we will learn
a little bit more about shading and what
to look for in shadows. I hope that you
enjoyed this exercise, and now let's move on to the
next video where we're going to create a shader brush. Because when you
take a look at this, we had the line and we
had this little shadow, it is not really sharp. It is good for sketches, but if you want more
detailed artwork with a nicer texture, you will need a texture
that shows through more when we are drawing. We are going to create a shader
brush in the next video, and I'm pretty excited about
that as well. See you there.
7. The Shader Pencil: In this video, we
are going to create a pencil shader brush
and we are going to only change the shape source and we're not going to work
with the grain right now. I will put the iPad aside again and grab a new piece of paper
and my sketching pencil. You remember now that the best shape for Procreate
brushes is rounded, and now we are going to
create a rounded shape. You don't need to create
a perfect circle. It will be fun to
have a little bit of going outside of the circle. Again, work with the side of the tip of your pencil and
just create a rounded shape. Like this. Not a perfect circle, but looks fine to me. Now I will put this aside
and grab my iPad again. Again, what you need
to take care about or pay attention to is to
have a sharp photo. I will open Procreate and
this is my working file, so I'm going to
work in it again. Again, import the photo
and now make it bigger, maybe to the center
of the canvas. I will show you how you can invert it to make it black and white as I already told you that you need to do
that in the brush studio. There's two ways, but
this is the easiest way. You click on the layer of
this image and hit "Invert". Now it is inverted, but it is not true black. You need to go to
Adjustments and hit "Curves" and this setting
will open up here. You need to toggle it. If you take this toggle at this corner and
place it not inside, but at this level or access, I'll have to call it, and you just push it, you will see the background
getting completely black. Don't worry about
this main shape because if you toggle
this one to this angle, you can get the white back. It is really
important to do this. What I wanted to
show you is that you can paint inside this image. As you can see at
this right corner, I have a little texture here. You can edit this image. I will go back to painting
and get that on the Recents. In the Recents you will have the brushes that
you used recently, so I will just hit the round brush and
completely black and just paint into this image where I see that it is not
completely black. You can adjust and add it. Also the shape. If you manage to create parts like this
that you don't like, you can just edit them,
make them smaller. You can make the base shape
rounder a little bit. If I three finger swipe
and copy this shape, I will be good to go
into the brush settings. Now let's go back
to the brush set and hit the plus sign
to create a new brush. Now let's go to Shape, Edit, Import, and Paste. Now we have our shape as the base shape of our
brush. Hit "Done". Now I will clear the drawing pad and increase the preview size so
that we can see better. You can see that I am dragging
this shape and this line. Nowadays, font settings are coming where we can
set the spacing. Let's go to Stroke Path. If I'm increasing the spacing, you can see these
individual shapes. I don't want this brush
to be completely solid, but to have this
transparency within it. I will put the spacing
approximately to 30% and I will also
add a little bit of jitter, maybe 20%. But I will decrease the
spacing a little bit to 25%. Twenty five percent
spacing and 20% jitter. Looks fine. Now clear drawing pad. Really cool. Now let's go to Shape and add that scatter
and rotation to create a more or better
variety within the brush. I want to add pressure
sensitivity to size and opacity as well, so I will go to Apple
Pencil and increase size. I have the opacity by
default set by max. If you don't have that, make sure that you
have it as well. Now if I don't push that hard, I will have a smaller shape. Push harder, it will be more opaque and it will
be a bigger shape. The last setting that
I'm going to add it is the preview size. I will go to Properties and
decrease the preview size. Again, preview size
is the box that you see in the brush studio. I will just start it in a
second because if I set the maximum size and
the brush behavior to at least 300%, you can add even more. Let's say 350. If I hit "Done", you can see that this brush
preview image will be big. The brush will be big in it. If I decrease the preview size, I can see the brush better. If I increase it, just
take a look at it, it will exceed this
rectangle that it has. This is just for the aesthetic
of the brush itself. Nothing complicated. I will hit "Done" and
I have the brush here. Now let's create a new layer
and see what we have done. Wow, this looks amazing. Can you see that? Pretty cool. More sharp texture
that we can use. Its flow is good as well. Amazing. The last
thing we need to do with this brush
is to again name it. I will go to About this Brush. I will hit here and
name it Shader Brush, Shader Pencil and write my name and sign it and
create a new reset point. Done. In the next video, let's do again a little
drawing exercise to try out what we can do with
this brush. See you there.
8. Drawing Exercise The Apple: In this video, we are
going to try out in action how we can use
our new shader pencil. But at first, in the
previous drawing exercise, we had a rough
observational shading, meaning that we looked at a reference photo and roughly noted where
the shadows are. Now I want to take this to the next level and
create a sketch of an apple with a more detailed shading
that includes knowledge. Because when we are shading, we can either shade
by observation, and we can shade
from our knowledge of knowing how to shade
different surfaces. In this video, we
are going to create this catch with the sketching
pencil of the apple. In the next videos, you can learn about shading round objects and shading
objects with edges. Then we are going to shade
the apple to gather. This is going to be the
theory part of shading and actually learning the basics
of drawing and shading. Now, I have already created
a photo of an apple, you can use your foot off an apple or you
can use decimals. Find this photo in
the class resources, so I will just
import a photo here. This is my little apple. What I'm going to do is I'm going to draw this
shape of the apple. Again, if you are a beginner
and want to save time, you can just trace it or you
can observationally draw approximately the
shape of the apple. I'm going to cut a
little bit this image, it is too big. I will put this aside and
draw the apple next to it. I will choose the
sketching pencil and the black color and short
lines I will observe, and I can again use
the drawing guide. For example, I go to Canvas and just hit drawing
guide sorted. I can see better the size of the object that
I'm going to draw. I will start by
looking at it and read short lines onto a new layer. I will just try to find
the perfect shape, and it doesn't need
to be 100% perfect. We are now practicing actually
observational drawing. Again, this is very important, so this is the shape. I will also note this line and this stem is coming off out of it. I will make it a little
bit more definite, and this is a sketch
of the apple. See you in the next
video where we are, at first going to learn about shading round objects.
See you there.
9. Shading Round Objects: In this video, I'm
going to talk to you about shading around objects and share a little bit about
drawing basics so that you get to dive a little bit
deeper into this topic. Drawing basic geometric
shapes is the base for everything and this doll is a great help to
demonstrate this. Complex forms are put together from basic
geometric shapes. Every complex form
can be broken down into basic geometric shapes
like a sphere or a cube, or a rectangle, or cylinder etc. Learning how to shade this basic geometric shapes is key to learning how to draw. Now we're not going to do
any complicated shading. Now we're going to explore
only two categories, shading around objects and
shading object with edges. Because these two surfaces act differently or the light
acts differently on them. Just to take a
look at this head. As you can see, his head is
rounded, it is circular, and the light on it is gradual. It is a smooth gradation
from light to dark. Here where you have
this flat surfaces, so it has edges, you can see quite
definite line here, or surface or edge. When shading a
surface like this, you don't need to create
a smooth gradation, but rather leveling the
intensity of the color. Another thing that I
wanted to share with you is that in real life, there is no a line mark. If you take a look
on any object, let's bring this doll again, you don't see the line mark, you only see light,
shadow, and color. We use lines for sketching, for noting these shapes that we have to put that light
and darkness into. Obviously with illustration,
we use lines for outlines, for decorative elements as a stylistic element
or stylish element, but we are using for sketching, it is a really
good thing to use. But now we are actually
focusing on the shading thing, so going from dark to light. When shading round objects, we need to create a
smooth gradation. Now what I'm going
to do is to practice smooth gradation with
my shader pencil. The first thing I'm going to do is to go to the selection
tool and choose a rectangle. I'm going to just draw a
rectangle like this up here. I hope you can see that. I have a rectangle up here. I will create a new layer. I have black selected
and my shader pencil. Now what I'm going to try to do, I will make this
brush a bit bigger, is to go gradually
from light to dark. I will leave a little bit
of place at this rectangle. I will lower it's
opacity to 20%. This is a nice gradation. Every brush acts differently, so you need to find the perfect spot where
you can push harder. You can just practice
it in a rectangle, how you can get a better effect if you are layering the layers
on each other, or you play with the
opacity of the brush, for example or you get back
from getting dark etc. Your task now is to try
to play with this brush, your brush that
you have created, it might act a little
bit differently as mine. Try to create a smooth
gradation from white to dark. I will just add a little
white to its edge. As you can see, I can create a smoother gradation
by painting into it. The point is to have this smooth going from light to dark. I will deselect it and now
I will shade a sphere. I will again go to the
selection tool and hit ellipse, I will just draw a, circle here, and if I tap this circle will not be an
ellipse but a circle. Now I will create
a new layer above it and I will shade it. I will keep the
selection so that I'm shading in the circular
shape that I have here. The way I'm going
to start is to fill in this shape with a mid-tone. As you can see, it
is at the middle of this range from white to dark. This is a mid tone. You can use either gray
color to fill it in. I love to play with opacity because it has the
same effect and I can just tabulate here
so much easier. I've got to mid-tone. This is actually the
color if we would be in a colorful environment. Now, the light hits the
object from one side. We're going to emulate that
light comes from here. It will be light. The opposite part of this
round object is going to be in shadow as the object
itself blocks the light. I will at first
paint the shadows. I will go back to this
one and just add shadows. Pretty nice and I will go darker in here to
have the shadow. Now as the light hits
my object like here, I will now choose white or the eraser and just
add light up here. I will increase the opacity
and lower it to note where the light pretty
much hits the object. Now, what we have
here is the shadow, the mid-tone, and the highlight. There are two other things
that appear when we're shooting is a drop
shadow under reflection. I will now de-select
it and create a layer below the circle. Now it is a sphere
and with black, I will just add a
little drop shadow at the opposite part, actually of the shape. Because it is like
casting shadow. You can call it
also a cast shadow. As you can see, it didn't
not blends together also. It is also a drawing trick
to add a reflection, but actually the surface
the object is placed on is reflecting a little
bit back to the object. I will now again choose
white and select this shape that I have here. I will hit ''Select'', I will just paint
a little bit of reflection to the bottom. Now I have a beautifully
shaded sphere. I'll just do a little recap
and I will just write this things here so
that you remember. Here is the light's direction, this is the highlights. Am I on a new layer? Yeah. Highlights, this
is the mid-tone, this is the shadow, this is the drop
shadow or cast shadow, and this is the reflection. When you're shading a sphere, you'll need to take care about these shadows so have
a rendered sphere. Now you know the
shadows and let's just see in the next video
how we can shade our apple by this knowledge or using this knowledge.
See you there.
10. Shading The Apple: Let's just get back into
shading this apple. I'll grab my shader pencil. If you haven't yet, just try out how you can
create a value scale. I will make this
brush a bit bigger, change the opacity, and how you can go from
lighter to darker. Practice it a little bit. Nice. Let's get
into the shading. I will create a new layer for shading so that I can
easily work with it. I will choose the shader
pencil, black color, and I will lower its opacity so it gets gray and I can more easily get the mid-tone
that I'm going to fill this apple with. Let's just note where the
light is coming from. As you can see here
is this white spot, it is going to be
light direction. This is where the light
hits the object most, so this is going to be our fully white thing and at this part it is completely dark, apart from having
curves in the shape of the apple so it gets
darker and lighter again, we can play with that as well. But now at first, let's just fill in the shape of the apple with the mid-tone, with the 50% opacity
of the shader brush. If you go outside the outlines, you can just grab a pencil, for example, a
sketching pencil as an eraser and just go around it. This is one way and
now I will show you another way for selecting the object and then shading with that because
that will be much easier. I will go to selection
and freehand selection, and I will just
outline the apple. Now I have the
shape of the apple selected and I will create
a new layer above it. I'm going to lighten and darken this mid-tone on this new layer. Keep in mind to keep
the selection open. I have shader brush, I have a black, and now I will put
the opacity a bit up, let's say to 70 %. Let's try it. I will now go and try to
create a smooth gradation, so going from light to dark. No. Now I'm observing and
trying to apply what I know. Creating a smooth gradation
from light to dark. Now I will grab either the eraser as a shader pencil or I
will paint with white. You can choose. I will erase. I will make it a little
bit smaller and I will lighten up here where the
light hits the apple and here, at this part down here. Add a little bit of light
here as you can see that it hits it here like this. I will make the opacity to
100% and lower it and just add this completely white spot here and try to create a
smooth gradation. Going from this light
spot to a little bit darker one like this. Looks good to me.
I will deselect. I will create a
new layer and with a sketching pencil and a black, I will just draw the stem
here a little bit more. Actually now I can use my
sketching pencil like this, with a tilted position to add a bit of
shading to the stem. I will erase with the sketching
pencil from the stem, because, from the shading. Here, because it is like there. Looks cool, and now I will
just add a drop shadow. I will create a new
layer below the apple, and I will choose the
shader pencil again and add a bit of a drop shadow. You can see it is
creating a little bit of shadow down there,
but doesn't matter. We have shadow here. What we learned that
we have a reflection. You cannot see it here, but let's just now
shade with knowledge. Again, go back to this
shading of the apple. You can either erase from it or add paint with white.
You know what? I'm going to paint with white now to add a little bit
of reflection to it. I will just select the
layer of the shading and add a little bit
of reflection back. Deselect. I have it there. I'm going to turn off
the Drawing Guide, and can you see that? What a nice drawing of an apple? This is how you can play
with the shader brush, you can play with the
opacity, the size, getting back from it with an eraser or
painting with white. You will have this beautiful, wonderful texture inside it. I think it is super amazing. Now lets see you in the next video where
I'm going to teach you another drawing technique, which is called hatching, which means that we are
not drawing with textures, but actually with lines. Let me show you that
in the next video.
11. The Hatching Pencil: So I'm super excited, we're going to create the
hatching brush right now, and again, we will
need a piece of paper. So I will put this aside again. I have the piece of paper
and I have my pencil. Now, as we are going
to again change the shape source of the pencil brushes
or the pastel brush, we are going to need to work in a circular base shape and we're going to
create lines like this, let me show you, too small. That looks good. [LAUGHTER] So again, I will grab my iPad
and take a picture. Make sure to have
it again sharp. What I'm going to
do is to import the image and I will place it to the middle
of the canvas again. Now, I will show you the second way to invert an image to make it
black and white, and I am going to hit adjustments
and go to Gradient Map. Now, by default for me, it jumps out like this. But if you hit gradient, you will have toggles here, so I think for you automatically
did something like this. To make it inverted, you need to change the toggle bars so
you have it inverted. And now you need to do the exact same thing as
with the previous brush, so go to curves and
toggle these bars. As you can see, this looks a little bit different
because this is not a gray-scale image. The previous one had a
little bit of color. I will increase the whiteness
and degrees this one, you can see that I have some white dots here that
I will need to get rid of, I will just, again, choose a brush, choose black, and just fill in the
spaces basically. And also what I don't
like is that these two are too close to this one. I will go to select freehand
selection and I will select these two little lines and just place them a little
bit to the side, and I will just
fill in this black. You can manipulate your drawings and place base shapes that
you are placing into. I will make this one
a little bit smaller, and I think that I am finished with editing
it this base shape. I think it looks amazing. What I'm going to do
again, three-finger swipe, copy, go to the brush, select the pencil brushes, and create a new brush. Go to shape, edit, import, and paste, and now I have this as the base
shape hit "Done". I will clear the
drawing pad again and increase the previous
size so that you can see what we have created. So now there are several
settings we need to add to it. Obviously, we will need to add a little bit of jitter and
play with the stroke path. I will add a little
bit of spacing, and I will maybe add 30% of spacing and
maybe 25 of jitter. Yeah, it looks nice. Then I will add pressure
sensitivity again, so I will go to Apple
Pencil and add size. Like this. Opacity is there and I will add the little tildes to
this one as well. So I will add opacity
and gradation to this brush as well so I
can really shade with it. I will hit "Done" and let's
see what we have done. I will turn off this layer, create a new one. Looks fine to me. Amazing. As you can see, I didn't add the rotation, the scatter because I want
to keep that 1-1 direction. We need to add the
maximum size as well so I will go to properties, decrease the preview
size and increase the maximum size maybe
to just 300, done. I will see what it does. Amazing. It is pressure sensitive with the
size and the opacity, and as you can see, I can create really nice gradations
when the pencil is tilted. Now we have three
incredible pencil brushes. I think this knowledge
is like golden, that you have just
received and the way that you can create your own
brushes like this is amazing. I think we are ready for the next drawing
exercise in which we are going to try out this
brush in action as well. I'm super excited
and see you there.
12. Shading Objects With Edges: In this video, we are going to try out how our hatching pencil works
when it comes to shading. Now, it actually works
pretty much the same as the shader pencil
that we have created, but now we are
basically working, not with a texture
but with lines. We can create with this brush similar intensities as we
did with the previous brush, but now we can actually create nice smooth
gradations with it. We don't have the
textures but the lines. I would love you to try out now, a smooth gradation in
the rectangle that we have done previously. Go to the Selection tool, rectangle, select a rectangle. I will create a new
layer above it. I have black, and
the hatching pencil. I will just try to create a smooth gradation
from light to dark. As you can see, I'm
getting this pencil up there when I want to do a
little bit darker version. It is really worth to try
out how these brushes work. Yeah, really nice. It just has this effect,
and I really love it. It is really authentic, and it really replicates
the traditional media, and we can so easily
create this effect. This again, works with the
rounded shapes as well. But now I would really
love to talk to you about shading
objects with edges, and how a value scale works in a case when we are
not shading around surface, but a surface with edges. Basically, we have
levels of intensity. This is the basic
difference between shading a round the object and an object edges, that
in round objects, we had a smooth gradation, so gradually going
from light to dark, and now we have levels
of intensities. I will just show you
what does this mean. I will select another rectangle, create a new layer above it. I will leave out approximately
one, what is this? Square part from it. It will not have a smooth
gradation, but jumping levels. Again, I will just leave
out approximately a square. Now it gets darker again, and it's completely
dark at the end. Can you see that it
is jumping levels. It is not perfect, but I think I demonstrated
the main point. It is leveling and not smoothly gradually changing from
one color to another. This creates these
harsh lines in the shadows when we are
drawing an object with edges. But what does that
mean in practice? We have a cube, and
if the light is coming from the top, let's say, from this side, then it will hit the top and not hit the
middle or this side. This top will be light, we will have them mid-tone here, and we will have a shadow here, and as well as drop shadow. Let me just show it to you. We will have a
mid-tone at the front, and we will have a
shadow at the side. It is at the top, and we will
have a drop shadow here. This is what you need
to remember when it comes to shading objects with edges that we don't have this gradual things but levels
and where there are edges, these light is getting
into a new level. Again, here it creates
a highlight at the top, so is a to highlight, let me just write it to you. A mid-tone, shadow, and we have a drop
shadow as well. What is left out? Here is still highlight,
we have this. We have the mid-tone, and we have the shadow. These two highlights are not
involved in a rough shading. If we go into more
detail shading, we can see that we can have a gradual thing in the surfaces, and changes in the surfaces, and the light is hitting
this object more complexly. This is just for a beginner
entry level of shading this. Also we can have a reflection
here as well as we did with the round objects, so that the surface
is reflecting back to the object as well. Now let's just go
into the next video, and see how this
works.. Let's just use this brush in action with
this theory together, so see you there.
13. Drawing Exercise: The Milk Box: In this video, we are going to create a drawing where we have an object with edges
and we are going to use the hatching
brush to shade it. I created a photo of a
milk box that I had here. You can use this image, but feel free to use an image
that basically you find online or an object that has these edges and you just take
a photo of it and draw it. I will just import
that image here. This is a wonderful
example of perspective, and I will just
cut this image to a smaller version so
that it is not that big. You can find this image
in the resources. As a first step, I
will just create a sketch of its shape. Again, you can just trace it
for the sake of easiness, or you can practice your
observational drawing and try to get these angles right. Again, you can also use the drawing guide as a reference to help
you out with this. Let's just shade this
a little sketch. If you remember from
the previous video, we told that every side
will have a different tone. If you take a look at
this reference photo, you can see that the
light is hitting actually the front, this part. Then we will have a mid tone
up here and the shadow here. This will be a mid-tone, this will be a shadow, and this will be a highlight. But not to leave this
completely white, we are going to add a
very light shading there. We're going to gradually
go from that to that. I'm going to to use the freehand selection
tool and select the front side and create a
new layer for the shading. Now I will choose my
hatching pencil, black. As you can see, I again have 50 percent opacity and
I will just fill it in. Amazing. I want it to be
a little bit lighter. What we can do, go to layer opacity and just
take it a little bit lower. Nice. Now I will
deselect and I will select the top and
create a mid-tone there. Ops, selection tool. Again, I have the
hatching pencil. Now I will go darker. Let's create a new
layer for this. A bit darker and let's
create another layer. Again, go and select
this part of the objects with a hatching pencil. Go dark and dispatch. This is not a 100 percent copy of this image as you can see, because this object is
not like completely edgy, but there is a little
curve on these edges. We could create a nice gradation only there to
create this effect. But now let's just
leave it like this. I will turn off
the drawing guide and I will just fill in the top. We have a gradual
shading here at the top. As you can see, it is
a round object on it. You know what, I will
pinch these three layers together so that I
can erase from it. Because I want to erase
this top thing from here so that I can create a new layer and with
the hatching pencil, try to create a nice
shading for this surface. I will have a darker
version here. Maybe we'll make it smaller
a little bit. I like this. Really nice. I will add the little drop shadow
for this object here and to the bottom,
let's say here. We have a nice drawing
of a object with edges. [LAUGHTER] You can
add more details. You can fine tune the
shading if you wish. You can go more into
detail by adding these details as well
that are on the box. I just wanted to show you how
you can use this brush for shading and how shading objects
with edges are vertical. All right, so now we have
tried this out in action. Let's just move on to the
final part of this class, where we're going to create a class project
together. See you there.
14. The Final Artwork: We arrived to the illustration
part where we are going to create
the class project. You are free to choose your own object that
you are going to draw. I'm going to work with
this little coffee mug. You are also free to use this
reference photo and also feel free to do
the class project in any technique that
I have shown you. If you don't have
that much time, you can just create the
sketch of the mug and shade it roughly and post that
as a class project. If you have a little bit
more time and you have the energy to put
the effort into it. You can use the shader brush or the hatching brush
for different effect to create the drawing. In the next part, I am going to use the
coloring book method to create the artwork of the mug or the
drawing of the mug. It will be a
step-by-step tutorial actually how I'm going to do it. Very beginners, feel
free to follow me step-by-step and create
the drawing with me. If you are more confident
then just really watch the tutorial that I'm making just to grab up a
little more knowledge. But do the drawing on your own and choose different subjects
for your drawing, etc. I'm really curious what class
projects when you create, it'll be super fun. I'm really looking
forward to see our brushes as well,
how they work. I just get started.
15. The Coloring Book Method: In this video, I'm going
to talk to you about the coloring book method
that I really love. I already told you
how a drawing works, that it basically shading
shadows and light. The coloring book method is basically creating a
sketch where you define the shapes of the light and the shadow and then you
just fill it in and then you have a perfectly contrastive
and realistic drawing. For example, let me show
you this on this doughnut. You define the shape. This is an observational
practices well, so I will just create
a new layer and a sketching pencil right now. You don't need to
do this, again, I'm just demonstrating. Basically you create a
sketch of the object, of the main shape, and the main parts like
for example these icing. It is not going to be perfect. After you have the basic sketch, you observe the
shapes of the light. For example here is the shape of the light and here is
the shape of the light, and here is the shape of
the light for example. I know it is from the
dough but whatever, and here is the
shape of the light. Then you define the
shapes of the shadows. So here is a shape of a
shadow like coming here. This is a full in shadow. This is full in shadow, this is fully in shadow
and this here as well. Here's a big shadow
and that's all. Then if I fill it, I have a completely perfect
image with light and shadow. I will just turn
this reference photo off and you need to just
remember which shapes were the light and shadow
and whether you will have a nice drawing.
Let me show you. Something like this. I just filled in the shapes
with mid-tones going from light to dark and I have a
rough drawing of a doughnut. This is what we're going
to do in the next video. We are going to take our own reference photo from a stock photo site
or create our own. I will create a photo of my favorite coffee mug and just with the
coloring book method, I'm going to paint
it or like fill it in with these pencil brushes
to have a beautiful drawing. See you in the next video
in which we are going to choose our reference
photo. I'll see you there.
16. Choosing A Reference Photo: In this video, we are going
to choose a reference photo. I just wanted to show you a
stock photo site I have got my doughnut from and
it is on unsplash.com. Now, what object do
you want to draw? I would suggest anything that is simple and doesn't
contain too many details because now we are not focusing on drawing
the details that might be pretty frustrating for the first time for the beginner. Maybe a variety coffee mug
or something that is plain, that is easy to draw. You can clearly see the shadows and the
highlights on the images, or choose your own mug. This is what I'm going to
do now and I will just place it to a background
that is not annoying. Place it in a way that I
can see everything in it, every part of the mug. I will create a
screen-sized canvas and insert the photo of
my mug. Here it is. If you have your image, see you in the next video
where we are going to create these outlines and observe the shapes of the
shadows and the light
17. Creating The Sketch: In this video, we are
going to create a sketch. What I'm going to
do is to go into layers and create a new one. I will choose black and
my sketching pencil. What I want from you now is
to create an outline of the whole with the main object, so I will have display
to spell on my drawing. I will speed this up so
that I don't bore you. I have it drawn. Let me see. I click and here is the
simple outline I have. Now what I'm going to do is
to select the highlights. As you can see, this shape here is where the light
is hitting the mug. I also have the main
highlight here. This will be fully white. Here's a smooth gradation. I will not select the white here because it will be a
really smoothly going there. I'm selecting those parts
that are fully white. For example here, this shape is fully white, and actually here, this is fully white like this. This is fully white and
basically that's it. Now let's select the shadows. The darkest shadows are here. Again, this is a smooth
gradation from here to here, but I will know that this
is absolutely black. I have this totally
black part here and here is the drop
shadow approximately. This part is fully
black or very dark. I have a shape here and here. I think that's all. Let
me see. I will turn off. I have the main shapes. I will just open this layer, select it and make
it smaller so that I have it as a
reference back here. Now see you in the
next video where we're going to shade it all.
18. Shade It All: Let just start the shading. What I'm going to
basically do is, again, start with
placing the mid-tone. Actually I'm going to
work in another layer, not on the sketching layer. If I need to erase from this
catch to make it smoother, I don't have problems. This is the power of
Procreate and you can actually choose whatever
paints pencil you wish to use. Hatching pencil
or shader pencil. I will add first create desk
with the shader pencil. But I think at the end I will
do this exact thing with the hatching pencil
as well so that you see what results we can have. I selected the shader pencil. I'm on a new layer
below the sketch, and I will just fill in a
nice mid-tone into the hole. I will just grab
a pencil and make on the eraser the
sketching pencil. I will just go around and just erase the parts that
like extend the sketch. What I'm going to do is to select the shader
pencil I have the white and increase the opacity for me so that I
have a truly white. I will fill in the
shapes of highlights. I have the highlight here. I have some highlight
around here, as you can see at
the top right here, all around, basically up here. All around this part of the mug, I have white. It is parts. I have white here. Basically I can see
I forgot this shape. But it is basically
the shape that the cup is costing here, when you see that like
a triangular things. I will just add it here. Like that and at
the edge of it all, I have again white. Like this. I will make
it big and I will add this smooth gradation
here at this part. This part of the mark as a [inaudible] and it follows
the shape of the mug. Like this. It looks good to me. It was really quick
[LAUGHTER] and I didn't even add shadows yet. It looks great. Now,
let's do the shading. I will go to black and
I will try to fill in. I will make it
smaller so I can do this part like a
little bit more edgy. This part of the mug
need a smaller pencil. Then I can increase the
size and basically fill in the shadow here. To create a smooth gradation, I will make it bigger
and lower its opacity. Try to go from that dark. Lower the opacity again to the slider to create
a smooth gradation. I will decrease the size and try to make it more
like definite at this part. It looks good to me. Maybe I will get back to it. I will choose white and make it bigger and light in this part. It is a play of going
back-and-forth in grayscale. From white to dark. If you can see this
dark side approximately ends when this shadow
starts. Can you see that? I will need to add
a little bit of a mid tone black to it
because it's too white. Looks good. [LAUGHTER]
So much fun. Let's move on to this part. Let's move on to the plate here. I will need to be pretty
harsh with this shadow here so that it replaces the
outline, should have there. Like this. The drop-shadow will
help me with this. I will create a
layer below it and I will create pretty
harsh drop-shadow. What do you think? I think
it is pretty amazing. I go to the sketch and
actually erase these parts. I don't actually need them. Like this. Somewhere I can leave it. I think there should be
a little bit more line. You can just keep it there. Just as if we were drawing with a pencil and then just
erasing the outlines. Like this. I think this
looks pretty amazing. I hope that it is easy to you to work with
these brushes that you have created and that
you enjoy the process. I promise you to create a quick sketch with the hatching pencil to
show you the results. I'm going to do this
right now very quickly.
19. Final Thoughts: Congratulations, you did it. You finished the class and
I'm really proud of you. Now you have three
different procreate brushes that you created from
real passive marks. I think this is incredible. I bet you have a class
project finished, so make sure to upload it
to the project gallery, I'm really curious to
see your artworks. I also invite you to check out what others did for the class. If you want to stay up-to-date, make sure to follow me
on my social media, on Instagram and Facebook, and also here on
Skillshare so that you get notified about the
latest classes, challenges, and announcements. Also, please leave a
review for the class, it is really important to me to know what
you think about it and for others to see if it
is a great fit for them. Let's just do a little recap on what we have
learned in this class. In this class, you have learned how Procreate
brushes work, how to create textures
and shapes from real pencil marks as a
base for a digital brush. We have learned a ton
of useful settings to make our brushes feel
more real and authentic. We learned some cool
drawing methods, observational shading, the
theory of shading round objects and objects with edges, and I have shown you my
favorite coloring book method. Now you have a wonderful drawing that I bet you are proud of. I hope that you
enjoyed the class and I am looking forward to see you in my other
classes as well. I wish you all the best
and happy creating.
The Artmother, Professional Art Teacher and Artist
