Quick and Easy Procreate Coloring: Procreate Tips For Beginners!

1. Intro: Hi, and welcome to this mini course. It's time to use vibrant colors on your art easily and quickly. Think about your favorite digital artworks. What truly makes them pop. Maybe it's the bold colors of a sunset, the subtotons of a portrait, or even the eye catching palettes of a fantasy landscape. In this class, we'll cover all the essential procreate coloring techniques you need. We'll explore different coloring methods, learn to use selection tools like a P, and even experiment with color thresholds. By the end of this class, you'll have the skills to quickly and beautifully color any artwork in Procreate. Plus, I'll be here every step of the way to guide you. So are you ready to add a splash of color to your digital journey? Join now, and I'll see you in the next video. 2. Your Quest - With Resources!: Hello, and welcome. Before we start learning, I just want to give you a quick and simple assignment. Since this is a coloring class, I would like for you to draw something simple. It doesn't need to have a lot of details and you only need to draw the line art. This drawing will be used throughout the class as we explore different coloring methods. If you don't want to be drawing something from scratch, another option is to find a drawing you already have and save only its linear. Finally, I also have this drawing right here. This is the one I'll be using in each video, and I'll also leave you a copy of it. So you can download it and use it instead. So in short, there are three options. Draw the line art of something new. Use an old drawing of yours or download the one I give you. All right, this is it for now. I'll see you in the next video. 3. Method 1 Using A Reference Layer: So hello and welcome back. We're going to start with our first method, which is using the heifers option. I'm going to show you two methods of doing these two different ways of using the heifers option, and I'm going to explain you why and when to use each of them. Let's start. I have here my line art. Now, what I'm going to do first is go over here to the layer menu and I have here my line art. First, I'm going to create a new layer and bring it below my line art. Tap and holes and bring it below. I'm going to change the name right here just so we don't get lost to colors. We have a layer for the line art and a layer for our colors. Now, what I'm going to do is go to the inart layer, tap it again so we can see all the options we have, and now I'm going to tap the Hefras option right here. As you can see in your layer beneath the name, you have the option hefernce activated. If you tap it again, you can see this little check mark, which means this layer is set up as hefrance. Now, all we have to do is go to our color layer. Choose any color you want. It doesn't really matter which and press, hold ops. Press and hold it, and then drag it to where you want the color. As you can see, it painted within the lines of my drawing. What does the heifers option does? What it does here for coloring is that Procreate will take into account everything that's on this layer when you're working on the one below. It will always have into account all these lines and feel only inside the lines. As you can see right here. For example, I'm just going to show you if I don't have the heifers option on, I'm going to turn it off and now I'm going to grab another color and bring it over and bring it over here. Drop it, see, it goes out of my lines, it goes out of bounds because procreate is not taking my lines into consideration. Let's undo this and once again, set up preference on our line art. There you go. With this, if you have a line art like this one where there are no gaps, all you have to do is just choose colors and then drag them to where you want them until you have your whole illustration colored. Now, here's the problem when using the Heifers method on Lent. Let's say, I'm going to delete this, I have a gap on my drawing. For example, right here, going to make it a bit smaller. I have here a gap. Let's go back to our color. Layer and now I'm going to drag and drop the color here. See as you can see, the color goes out of bounds once again because there is a gap. In conclusion, using this heifers method on your line art in the inart layer is really good and very helpful if you have a line art that is completely closed off and there are no gaps on it. However, I do understand that sometimes when doing inart and you want more expression, you might have some gaps on your inart. It's normal, it's perfectly fine and okay. It depends on everyone's style. Obviously, but it can be a problem if that happens and you might want to force yourself to close all the caps on your line art, but honestly, you might lose some expression when you do that. Follow me to the next video where we'll be doing another heference method. I'll see you right there. 4. Method 2 A Different Reference Layer!: All right. Hello, and welcome back. Here we are for our second method. In the previous method, we talked about having or using the heference option in your inart layer. I still have this layer right here marked as reference, but you don't need to use this on your inart layer. You can do this another way. I'm going to go over here and select the option heference. There we go. Now I'm going to go to my colors layer and in here, I will mark it as reference. I'm going to go over here to my Lin art just so it's easier for you to see this and add a few gaps here and there. Another gap here and another here, so you see how it works if you have gaps on your inart. Go to your colors layer. Instead of holding the color and dragging immediately, first, we're going to try and do the shape we have where we want to color. I'm going to go right here and there we go and close that shape as you can see, I went a bit out of bounds here and there. It's fine for now. Now with that done and be sure there are no gaps when doing this. Now, yes, we're going to hold and drag that color into the shape we just drew. There we go. This is an optional way of using the hefraz layer without worrying about the gaps on your lines. Yes, it might take a bit longer than the other method. Mostly because you have to be creating some shapes inside your line treat as you seen me doing it, but it doesn't take that long. Of course, it depends on the on how detailed your drawing is or how big it is. But with time and practice, you'll get there. As you can see, yes, I might miss here some places or go out of bound with others, but usually it's small stuff and I can just go in and finish coloring. Same thing with the mistakes here, I can go in and just erase what I don't need. This is it. It's very simple. To ways of you using the hips layer, it really depends on preference or as I said, if you tend to have some gaps on your inart and you don't want to lose that expression. Personally, I really like using the Heifers option on my inart, but my inart is always very simple and there are no gaps. I like to have everything very clean. I use the Heifers option on Lin art and then use another layer and add colors to it as I go. The other option is doing this. One thing to pay attention to and that might change the way you'll do this is that some brushes have texture. Another reason to use this second method with a reference using the reference option on the colors layer is because your brush is too textured and Procreate won't really recognize where the gaps are or not, that might be useful in that way as well. Reference method, two ways of doing this, use the Heifers option on your line art and then Color everything in a layer below or turn on the heifers option on your colors layer and then draw shapes inside the area you want the color to be and then drag and drop the color and so on and so on until you're finished with your drawing with coloring and drawing. This is it for this video. We've seen two methods using the heifers layer. Feel free to practice the bit and see how it feels for you and whenever you're ready, follow me to the next video, where we'll talk about a third method. This is going to be a bit different. I'll see you right there. 5. Method 3 Using The Selecting Tool: Oh hello and welcome back. In this video, we're going to go through a third method of coloring your drawings as quickly as possible on Procreate. This time we're going to use the selection tool right here to color on drawings. Let's go here to our layer menu again and I have here my line art right and then my colors layer. I'm going to leave the colors layer selected because this is where we want to add our colors. Next, I'm going to go over here to the selection tool and tap it. Now, as you can see, there are many options in your selection tool. You have the automatic in which you tap and it will select, in this case, need to be on my Lanart. If I want to select just this area here, I can use the automatic and then continue selecting things. This is one way of selecting your drawings. Let me go back here, get to the selection tool. Then you have the free hand. So with the free hand option, you can draw any shape you want like this. You have total control of what you're selecting. Just go over with your pencil and draw different shapes, whatever feels better to you or whatever you need to the free hand tool is very useful because you have total control over the selection you're making. Then we have these two options over here, the rectangle one, you'll be able to make rectangular selections. This is very useful if for example, you want to select some buildings or anything very geometric, you can select them, make different squares or rectangles and so on and so on. Finally, you have the ellipse option. Here, it's similar with the rectangle option. You draw circles, ellipses, whatever you need in any shape and size until you have the selection you need. This is useful, for example, for the circles perhaps or anything circle if you want to select. But again, you have a bit less control because you are limited by those shapes, either the circle or the rectangle. Either way, you can still use it for this method. How are we going to use the selection tool to color our drawing? So I'm going to go over here to the free hand option, mostly because it's my favorite and because it's the most useful in this case. Now, all I have to do is go over my drawing, draw the shape. I want to have colors. There we go. See, I selected this whole shape of the mushroom and now I'm going to go over here to my color, drag and drop it, and this is it. What I did here was make a selection and when I drag and drop the color inside that selection, procreate will only color inside that selection. Makes sense. This is another way you can color your drawings by using the selection tool. You can also use, again, the ellipse tool, I can create here an ellipse and then drag and drop it. The fun thing about using the selection tool is that you can create very interesting shapes. For example, I could draw a shade right here, drag and drop, and there we go. You can create right away some the base colors and then the shading on top of it, you can decide what to do. For example, if I go over here, I'm going to select the whole body using the free hand tool. I'm not being perfect about this. It's better to have a rough shape drawn first and then fix whatever needs fixing instead of just spending a lot of time having that selection perfect. As you can see, I color the whole body. Now let's do this again and I want to create a bit of shading on my mushroom right here. I draw the selection, now go over to my colors, choose a darker tone, and then drag and drop inside that selection. There we go. As you can see, I very quickly drew and shaded my character using the selection tool. So choose whatever option you prefer. Either the automatic, the automatic can also be very useful, especially if you have very simple shapes like these ones and everything is closed off, it can be very useful because again, Procreate will have your lines into account and select things according to that. But for that, you have to select your line art first, select, and then go to the colors and color whatever it needs coloring. Let me just show you very quickly. For example, go over here, automatic and I want this shape right here. Now I'm going to go to my colors, select my color and drag and drop. See? Using the automatic tool, unless you want to color it in the exact same layer as your Lin art, usually it's good to have things separated into different layers just because if you want to edit some one thing and not the other, it's much easier. So, to use the automatic option in the selection tool first, select, be sure your line art is selected. Do the selection, so you just need to tap wherever you want to select and then don't forget to select your colors and then you can drag and drop the color. I would say for you to just explore the selection tool, explore all the options you have over there, the automatic, the free hand, rectangle, circle, and just have fun with it. Play with it, see what kind of selections you can make. And have fun collecting your drawings. We've gone through three different methods of flooring your drawings, but don't go yet. Follow me to the next video where I'm going to just talk about two little things that can be very useful for you when coloring inappropriate. I will see you right there. 6. Easy Color Drop Threshold & Continue Filling!: All right. Hello, and welcome back. For this video, I just want to give you two small tips on things that can be useful about some features here on Procreate. The first one is the continue filling option. I have here my line art. I activated the Heifernce option and then I have my color layer, and now I can drag and drop my colors. I'm going to go over here. I'm going to go over here and there we go. We have here the continue filling option. Simply tap it and now you can just by tapping your pencil, continue to filling your drawing. But you don't need to use the exact same color. While this option is activated, you can go over here, choose another color, and then do the same. Just continue, tapping, tapping and tapping. This can make your coloring a bit quicker because you don't have to be continuously dragging and dropping, dragging and dropping. Until you have the whole drawing colored. I'll just activate the color filling option like I showed you. If you drag and drop the first time, disappears here, continue filling, tap it, and then you just need to tap everything until it's fully colored. You can change colors as you want, and there we go. Tap, tap, tap. Now, the threshold is something you can change when coloring, for example, I'm going to draw this circle right here and I'm going to drag and drop my color, as you can see, there's here a bit of white, there's a limit there and my color can't fully occupy the shape I want. This is a threshold, the color threshold. You can have it higher or lower if it's lower. Things like this will happen the small white gap or bigger throughout your shape, or if the threshold is higher, then it will go over your color. So how can you change and control the threshold? Very simple, drag your color but don't lift your pencil. Don't lift, and now go right and left, see the threshold appearing right there. So if I go lower, you see the gap. If I go higher, it starts filling my shape. But if I go to overboard, it will go over my layer. Just slide your pencil to one side or the other until you're happy with the threshold. Another way you can control the threshold is do the dragon drop, drop your color. Now, tap continue filling and do you see this blue bar beneath the color drop? This is the threshold. Again, you can just slide your pencil to the right and to the left until you're happy with the threshold of your color. So these are two things to take into consideration when coloring, change the threshold of your coloring, if you see some white gaps or the opposite, if the color goes beyond your shape, the shape you're coloring and the continue filling, it's very useful to just continue filling your shapes and coloring without having to drag and drop your colors over and over again. I think this is it. Three very simple methods and a few tips when coloring, just so you can fully master coloring on Procreate, but don't go yet, follow me to the next video where we'll talk about your assignment. I will see you right there. 7. Final Practice Time! Assignment: Hello, and welcome back. All right, we went through three different methods on how you can quickly color your drawings on Procreate. So now it's time for your last assignment. Simply choose one of the methods we talked about and color your drawing. You can use the reference option on Linart or on the coloring layer or use the selection tool for coloring. Remember to download the drawing I left you if you want to use it. That's it. Take your time, coloring your drawings. And once you're done, don't forget to post it. I always love to see your work and available to give you any feedback or answer any questions you have. This is it for now. Take your time, and I'll see you in the next video. 8. Conclusion - Before You Go!: Hi, again, artist. Congratulations on finishing this class. I hope you had a blast and learned a ton about coloring Inprocriate. Also, thank you for joining. It's been a pleasure guiding you through each colorful step, and I'm excited to see how your artworks have transformed. If you've enjoyed this class and found it valuable, I would greatly appreciate it if you could leave a review. Your feedback helps me improve and helps other students find the right courses for their coloring needs. Until next time, happy coloring Inprocriate and as always keep on drawing.