PROCREATE Character creation

1. Introduction: and this course, we're going to see how to use procreate, to create characters from simple techniques to more complex. Once this course is going to give you plenty of tips to help you to create. By using this, catching the inking and coloring techniques in the end, you will have to see more examples and techniques that will give you more ideas how you can use pro creates toe work on your illustrations. 2. Different drawing and coloring techniques: in this video, I'm showing you how you can use the pencil and the brush is to create the face off. Kind character is going to be a girl, that he's cute and how we can simply, from a sketch to the inking, work with procreate to create such administration. The first I'm trying to find a very small brush in the pencil tool. To draw this catch, you can see hair I'm creating first the construction lines. And from this construction line, I'm placing the eyes he knows and different elements composing the face. So from this, I'm placing also the here the hairs and the usual elements. So if you don't have the abbots to draw faces, you can before to try the and conceptions of self directoral through the banking and all the stuff like coloring. Soon you can first try to take a course without drawing fishies in anatomy and so on. It would be really helpful for you to be more confortable to draw these so otherwise you can just continue. And even if you don't have the habit, you can just try to reparation is what I'm showing you here. We have the hairs we have the very simple forms. If you just observe the drawing here, this is very simple. And even if I'm doing it's rather easily Just because I have habit draw a bunch of them. And the key off the drying is to draw in quantity so you can just observe these draining just joint again and beginning again. And especially if you try to draw it with your iPad, you will have a habit to draw on iPad. It will be even more useful if you want you to draw on procreate. So now I'm drawing the main alliance. I'm done with the construction lines. I know now what this character is looking for is looking Sorry is looking like And we had just doing now another layer and I'm decreasing the layer a festive the later where we have the sketch. And now I'm going and jumping on the coloring in King Lear and start using in the inking tool trying to find the right thinking tool that allowing me to draw very straight lines and when you found it when I mean to find it means to find the tools you lights and you feel this this too is done for you. I am not. Ah, I can tell you this brush is good and so on. But the only person you can release brush is good. It's you. You have to test the Russians and decide which one is best for you. So now I'm drained. L fines and may techniques to our outlines inside the character that are thin and outside that are thick. You could really make a difference. Give some kind off dynamic things to the character. So completing I'm just completing this inking instant very simple with just full the main lines that it means That sketch has to be clear enough for you to know afterward what kind off lines you have to follow while you are doing the thinking. This is very important because if you try to ink a line that is not the correct one, and that will lead you to draw with Anna to mistakes, it will be not the good way. Of course, with now, with the digital tools, we can erase easily, but it's better to do it right the first time from state of raising over and over again. So now I'm zooming in coming into the drawing to work in the eyes. Aziz, the eyes are very sometime hard to do. It's better to work with. Zoom in and to be more to be more confortable drinks. - Then you zoom out and you can see that I added some details on the hairs under naff and so on. Just my style, my own star. But you don't have to add so much detail. You can just keep the main outlines. Ah, Then I'm creating another layer and I will do some tests with the color for the color. We can see that we have many tools. Ah, you can see that you can try. Try different tools. You can see that some tool will be very interesting to you and some others. You will not be here. Good. So when you try to try also with the different opacity tried to feel an area, this one is quite difficult because you can see that when you draw on the color you just previously draw it will it will trace. And this is very realistic because it looks like 10 zone cancel. That's this is very hard because he would just have the feeling that she's got some things weird with their skin, so it's not right way to drive. So try another one and see if it's better. This one is very good, because you're gonna have rapidly some dark and clear colors. But once again it could be quite tough to use to fill. You can see the not touching do. I'm almost not touching the pressure, and we can already see difference of coloring, of color of tongue. Hey, could be hard to use, so I will try another one. This one is like the color was sticking also not the right one. So if you want something like color that is flats, you can just go back into the in king option and instead, off thinking you're coloring. This is the best way to have a kind of you try to fill the form with flat color, and then you can see that you can Gento now that kind of tool like brushes and soon when you feel more confortable with this one first. - So here is I can play with different colors. I'm sometimes leaving just light lying on the right side of the character, just to suggest the length reflecting on her. So this is a technique like many other that exist in this one could be very efficient if you don't want to fall into the trap of having Onley, flat colors and more. If you're comfortable with the techniques, more, you can try different beginning of different tools and some final details. Many things can be added to this character. It's not finish at all that it show you. Many ways high can play with the brushes, two at colors. I even created this kind of flights in the eyes that can make this girl not just a simple girl but Kato, which are something this and then you can see there is some shadows. You can really try to make this different kind of brushes to create the effect you want, and I suggest you to do different deaths. You can, for instance, black and white drawing and with different layers, you could try to use different kind of techniques. It will be good for the handling of your software 3. Testing bushes for the character creation: we can start with a sketch of this character. We're going to draw a kind of helmets from the future, and we're going to apply a couple off coloring techniques to create some interesting effects. But first we create a kind off, ah Skitch and for to do so, I'm using the pencil. And from this pencil, we're going to play with the layers. You can see that first. I'm on Lee sketching something very simple. The eminent is, Ah, something like will drink, create a metal aspect and some reflect on it. So first I'm drawing some details. We have the hand during the shoulders from shadows, and I'm not going too much into very precise lines because this situation is really done with meaning the color. In fact, the situation could be done to illustrate video games. What we call the concept Art Kensit Artists are using such techniques, so we have the first layer, a decrease capacity, and it created a single in the year running. To use the colors, you can search for different brush, the one I'm using here, giving in terrorist ing things because it gives some color and some texture, so I can use the selection tool confined on the left side, and when you select it, you can draw in it and it will be on Lee applying to this area. So I'm using different kind of texture and you can see that it could give rapidly something interesting. Such texture could be easily done, and it could take you much more time if you will be trying to do it with the normal pencil . So this tools are there a really valuable to, to create rapidly, very interesting effects so you can see that I am just touching a little bit with my been adding some colors, no using too much pressure. And then I'm mixing two other colors, and I tried to play with the mixing of the colors. And when the calls are mixing the point where this is mixing, you can have really interesting graduations created, and from there we can play on different areas as enduring here and using quite a Cine technik and why I'm doing every parts of the helmet with that lipstick niche, it's going to give something interesting. This is very interesting because the effort we want to create is suffering rapidly on the screen. So when you try to create some armor are shoots off the future or something, reflecting the light of something very interesting, you don't have to try to find very complex techniques. This one is very easy enough to be used for plenty off characters. Then sometime I'm also feeling with one flat color. And on this flat color, I can use another brush that is giving some texture or some interesting aspect because of the graduations. Ah, ask, make like this. For instance, I'm not feeling all the area with the same color. I try to always to think about the lights that cool reflects, and I'm not trying to feel all the area in a row. But I tried to apply my pencil peas VP's because sometimes you just have to add a small touch of color just to have enough fixture. And, of course, you can overlay a different kind of fixture and brushes effects because this is this addition off. Ah, effect the one on the others. It could create something very interesting. If you don't find the right one, don't erase necessarily what you just you just what you consider as being a mistake, because if you add another ah, layer or lay off color by using another rush, maybe we could give you something cool. You can see that now. I'm using a very dark color, and maybe the mixing between the first color and the 2nd 1 could give something interesting . This is this kind of research you have to do, - and you can see that by looking at different techniques and erasing are mixing, flouting the colors with the finger, which is their second option on the upper side, on the right top right of the screen. You can also create interesting things, but this is a matter of what kind of tools you will use better what you will prefer to use because every artists using procreate can really have a different use of the tools and prefers something more than something else. - So here, playing with friends, kind of gray's very dark grays colors on on the back of the head of this character. Maybe because when you add something very dark, it will increase Ah, the light on the other side of the character so you can also play with the difference. Uh, between the dark and the light, and maybe you can then add some dark signs on the other side, the dark lines on the other side, and try again to play with a different pressure because you can keep the same brush but playing with the pressure to make sure that you can get some different things. So the different effects you can see here I'm not using very complete things. All the tools using here are already proposed on the basic version of the software. I didn't create any brushes. Everything was already set. So what you can do as an exercise to try different brushes by yourself and see what you prefer in most. 4. Using different brushes for a black & white character: Now we're going to see how we can sketch face and how we can in kit what we mean by thinking it means that we're going to work all the outlines of the character with the black line that will give the comic book aspect. And when you create characters, it could be very interesting to have this kind off black and white effects. In addition to that, we're going to see where we can the the shadows. So first I'm drawing a face with the outlines in the face, the eyes, the eye, bro. And I try also to position nose and mouth in such a way that we can Ah, we can don't we don't have so proportion problems, so you have to get already some an end to me. Rules on know exactly where you have to place every elements. Many videos and courses and proposing are trading the subject of anatomy and how you can draw step by step and do not make too much and too many states. But here, what I can say is just make sure that the eyes are the same or intuition in on the same horizontal lines and don't have a knife that he's higher than the other one. Teoh, Make sure that then you can just draw the entire face, including the air's and different ah, elements that constitute this administration. So right now we're just drawing with a pencil and from this pencil we are drawing the sketch. This is fence. This pencil is really representing what you can just do with a simple sketch with the normal pencil and normal paper. So you just draw it. It could be this face could be another drawing. All the is taking, just showing you how you can simply go from sketch from drying on procreate. Choose something more advance lead the inking technique We're going to see a couple of minutes. Then now we start the thinking. You can try to shoes different tools. And what is interesting is that you confined into tools, options. Ah, a tool that is called inking. So you know exactly where you can find it to get is aspect the Cygan advice I can give you . It's to do the banking on a new layer. The reason is that when you do the thinking on the single layer, you will have while the thinking is going to be complete just to hide the pencil later, because the pencil year is just don't to create the first sketch, and the thinking is to create the final version of your illustration. So you just keep in the end the inking layer, and if you want later at some color you will have to create a new layer color. So now and by the way, yes. And of course, if you want to create a layer for the color and layer for thinking, this is the same kind of layer. Procreate propose on the one version of the layer. But on these different layers, you can also notifying some options like the capacity and the way the colors are going to be of the others of the layer are going to be mixed, the one on the others. But we're not talking about the colors right now, and we're just trying to end this character. So the inking taking I'm showing you here is also quite simple, but you will have to take your time to draw every lines and to do not use too much pressure On pen. You can see here and on the left side of the screen. There is a bar, and there's a cursor you can puts up or down this cursor, the one that is higher is the one about the side of the brush. I'm not really touching. I'm mostly playing with the pressure of Bennell, my iPad. If you really want to have a nerve, you change of your change on the brush. Yes, you can use this, but otherwise try to play with only do pressure the pin only it will really make sure skill as a new straighter, using appropriate improving, especially for the ones like the mouth where the line has to be very thin. You have to play with pressure. You don't use almost no oppression on such details There. You can also see that I'm working on the face. I'm working left and right, left and rights. I'm always trying toe work on the face by starting with eyes and a valuing voting on the inking of the different elements. But always from the right and the left, on left and right, and always playing on these two sides, not for kissing on Lee on one area specifically, otherwise, you could create some mystic. If you are too much for cues on just one one place, adding many details and not having the same amount off details on the other parts of the drawing and this is valid for drawing face or a character in full or landscape or whatever , this is always the same there . I'm just drawing the hairs with the Nanya technique. What I mean by Mangga technique is to has a girl who has brown hairs. But whatever the hairs has to be Braun or Dark, I'm still leaving some white space, uh, in the hairs. This is a very efficient you can also try to use, and especially when you are thinking he could be a very relevant to use state. They're the inking zones. Done. So no, I'm trying to add a couple of details. Um, maybe we also add some shadows. And to do so, I'm creating a new layer and this layer I'm used it, selecting the first options that allowing me to and some great values on the drawing, but still have, you know, in transparency, the dark lines, the drawing. So now I have selected a new entire different brush, which is containing a kind of texture, and I'm applying to the areas of the face where the shadows are supposed to be located. And I'm keeping the whites arias of the face where the light is supposed to touch the character. So this is something you decide in first place because you cannot in the middle of your drawing, decide to change the orientation of the light. So if you're the beginning, decided to have the lights on the right. So keep this for the rest off your drawing. Otherwise, there would be something very weird toe Afghani shadows with the left and the rights, it would not really make sense. So try to respect some kind of reality, and things like this could be consider us small details. But in five really create troubles to the understanding of your frustration. Besides that technique itself, all the tools we're using So now I'm not using much details, but I try also different kind of tools confined in the options I'm showing you here. This is very good to try. Things have kind off stains are things like this. You can see the shadows and used on the left of the character. Could be used for some fewer of some different kind off leather takes her, so I'm playing it to the face because I found it very nice. And don't be stupid. Stick by the name of the brush. Maybe the brushes called fewer and you don't want to use for fewer of the beasts are creature you want to use for something completely different. So the name of the brush must not stop you to use it for something else. This is by searching different, kind off elements and how you can use this brush that can really feel free to create illustration once and for search character. This is very interesting to play with different brushes, to increase, to increase the intensity of this character. 5. Advanced coloring technique: in this video, we're going to see how I can play with colors, but this time we are mixing plenty of different techniques. So first we're trying to. We first do its catch, and it will be the face for wounds and from this gets willing to on colors and techniques to mix different kinds off Carter and have some interesting aspect. So first we tried to do a normal face trying to respect the basic and Natsumi roles and having something that this new image not too much far from reality, meaning that this character has two eyes, one mouth, one knows a couple of years and some hairs so we can see that these sketches would be life normal, and it will, knowing you as to just a different kind of coming. 6. Drawing and coloring without black & white outlines: in this example, we're going to draw character from the sketch to the color. But this time the sketch is going to be drove with colored brush. And the reason is because we are going to use this catch. And this colored outlines to create a kind off character without black outlines as we confined in many coming book to do so at first light pencil brush and select a kind of arrange color. And I'm starting growing this character. So first I ever start by the head and I can draw some details like the nose. The nose is very, very good point by which you can start drying your face are you can stone ring by the high start for the ice and whatever you can, you have to start like this. Made ahead anyway. Otherwise, if you start drying by drawing the feats of the character, you can have some problems off anatomy, and it's not very good. Stop at this point. Always start drawing the face, so this is exactly what I'm doing here. Face the beer and you can see that I'm really trying to do some outlines that are rather clean, but I still have some construction lines and trying to drew the first volumes, composing his character, not going into too much things, too much details. First you drove the main lines, and when these main lines are down, you can go into more details. And then when the details don't, then we can speak about ending the color. So I'm drawing these lines, and when this is done, we're going to see how conflict with layers tow the car when we have more sent Inti about the final results. Where were green? You can zoom in with two fingers off your on your graphic on your iPad and you zooming and you can work more correctly. You have to understand that you don't have necessarily to change decidedly brush. You can really also play on the zoom in and zoom out just by using two fingers of your hands. Use Armenians from out, or you can also use option on your left. You can see you have to cursors. The one that is down is, um, on the the one on mute moving here. Seidel brush. The other one is the opacity, as I want something with the capacity at one and red. You can see that this cursor is at the top and the other one I'm playing with. It's just to find right size of brush to see what could be more accurate ful such creation . But you have to play with the side of the brush and zoom you can use on this illustration, and this is by these two means that you can decide how think has to be your outlines and has these outlines are done in color. We have to be really a curing because the color waggling to add on the new layer to fill this gap will cover a little bit this nine. So we have to be precise and do not lose too much time in in drawing. Things that will be he raised by the color are in a single option that will be wasting your character. For instance, if you will have to much construction lines and in Jan you don't know anymore where you where are your final lines and so on. So this technique off drawing directly with some colored brush to draw their things could be quite risky, because you can if you don't have too much certainty on your drawing skill, and you still isn't teach a little bit. Maybe it will be good to draw when you start drawing illustration to add another previous step, which is very rough sketch with the normal taking except just drawing a sketch. Or you can draw this catch on the normal paper. Then you take the picture with your iPad of the other sketch, and from there you can just important sketch on procreate and use it as a basic layer and add a couple of players bloviates there I can now on a new layer and handsome color. I would start by filling this area of the hairs, and you can see that the color is not so easy to feel to use to fill in area so you can be slowing down. But you're drawing. Um, don't don't be too fast in drawing these hairs. You can go step by step and you can see that the brown color is you can see the lines behind the wrong color, and it is exactly the effect want to we want to create. I wanted a character that is not done with black and white are fines, So trying to be careful in north going and trying to respect the outlines. Otherwise, you can just erase with the third option in the upper right side of your screen a freezer. You can play with a razor if you were doing any statements. If you can do writes, the first time is very so we're drawing with the coloring tool doing the flat color desert clean so the frustration looks like on the meeting movie character, and we're just now. Also, you can use the inking options to have some color that is very flat because sometimes in is a brush. Options confined software were present ing normal brushes confined in reality, but you have many traces and stain adding, adding to the the brush in. Sometimes it's not really what you want to get if you want to have. If you want to get very normal flat color, you can just use your, um, inking tool instead of the painting tool. - There , I'm adding some shadows and gradients nothing that he should have more Grandin's. I'm just using a darker color than the original one. A plane it's and using the finger tour to flat the color a bit to get some mix mixing the colors, It could create some interesting things like watch we can see here. It could take time to create many interesting aspect, and you have to search a little bit. What will be the use that correspond the most to what you want to create? So you have to do some research into what kind of fuse you want to do of these tools. But you can see already here that I'm playing the with light colors and the Dockers colors to create some more impact on the face to create more shadows. - And in the end, I'm also adding some additional stuff like colors like this. Additional lights reflecting on the skin and on the different details of the face, even having a very, uh, yellow color and using the finger tool to kind of mixing. And this technique is very useful every time you can fly too many, many occasions and you can see that this technique is lying. YouTube create some kind off light reflection on the hairs on the skin and on the other part of the counter. So he have done here a try off, drawing directly with a character with colored outlines in the playing the color on another layer just above