If you wish to discover ways to use Procreate to create an in depth illustration, you’ve got come to the best place. For this Procreate tutorial I’m going to clarify each step of my artistic course of, together with my portray strategies and highlighting the important thing brushes I exploit in Procreate. I’ll share how I take the illustration from very tough sketches, to unfastened thumbnails after which right through to the ultimate render.
You’ll additionally see how, as a full-time freelance artist, I develop and develop an thought for an illustration with my shopper and the way I observe a set development of steps whereas sticking to the temporary. For extra recommendation and Procreate course of, learn my tutorial ‘Use Procreate to create a fantasy character’.
For this tutorial I am portray a younger feminine elf. Creating this workshop, I discovered it simple to be impressed and give you some enjoyable concepts, however in the long run it turned out to be fairly troublesome for me to complete the piece. The expertise ended up being extra about endurance and sustaining the thrill of my concepts because the illustration progressed. I discovered that I needed to work laborious to get previous the frustration of messing up and feeling caught. I feel these little battles are all a part of the craft as a lot as the rest.
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Procreate tutorial: my brushes
These are the important thing brushes we’ll be utilizing on this workshop.
Default brushes: Burnt Tree
Helpful for including texture to a portray – on this occasion the pores and skin.
6B Pencil
This pencil brush is right for creating clear line-art for an illustration.
Nikko Rull
Acrylic is my favorite medium and this brush mimics it nicely.
Use Procreate to create an in depth illustration
There are a selection of Procreate tutorials on CreativeBloq if you wish to study extra, together with how to attract a dramatic feminine determine, and learn how to use the brand new instruments in Procreate. I hope you take pleasure in this tutorial – you’ll be able to scroll to the underside of the web page to see the finished piece.
01. Creating unfastened facial research
(Picture: © Fatemeh Haghnejad)
All of it begins with a short; the thought is for instance a feminine elf. The character is to be round 20 years outdated, with a attraction and wonder paying homage to Hollywood celebrity Audrey Hepburn. I produce some unfastened research, which helps me grow to be acquainted with the actor’s distinctive facial options and her attribute gaze.
02. Creating some thumbnails
(Picture: © Fatemeh Haghnejad)
I write down key phrases that spring to thoughts as I create thumbnails of the character: inexperienced, elf, crimson, pleased, playful, contact. I exploit these prompts to generate small sketches, specializing in drawing fascinating poses. I wish to seize a second from the character’s life, like a candid snapshot taken throughout their day. Utilizing this strategy might help to make my characters really feel actual and rounded.
03. Working up the chosen sketches
(Picture: © Fatemeh Haghnejad)
This illustration was created for a canopy of fantasy artwork journal ImagineFX, so I am adjusting the picture to go well with a canopy with area for textual content. These two sketches are ones that work on this context and I start to develop them additional. So the following step is to show them into worked-up sketches.
04. Attending to know the drawing
(Picture: © Fatemeh Haghnejad)
The picture I select to proceed with is one I actually linked with through the thumbnail stage. Taking it to the line-art stage is extra than simply cleansing up the drawing. It’s an opportunity to get to know the drawing and to grow to be absolutely conscious of each element, so that you simply’ll know what’s concerned as soon as it’s time to start out portray.
05. Breaking apart the colouring course of
(Picture: © Fatemeh Haghnejad)
This stage is made up of some key steps, the primary of which is to create the silhouette. I’ll additionally take this chance to decide on my base colors. These preliminary steps allow me to give attention to the character and helps me to maintain the portray course of clear in my thoughts.
I add the person base colors on totally different layers, which suggests every factor may be simply chosen and adjusted when mandatory. This sort of planning forward can take a while initially, nevertheless it at all times pays off in a while.
06. Isolating parts within the artwork
(Picture: © Fatemeh Haghnejad)
I rigorously separate parts such because the face, hair and gown, after which use Procreate’s Clip Masks perform to connect them to the silhouette layer. I’ve found that taking this strategy means much less cleansing up is required on the finish of the portray course of.
I nonetheless strongly join with my conventional artwork background, so for a very long time I felt most of these digital portray strategies had been slowing me down in comparison with working with conventional media on the canvas. Nonetheless, I’ve come to find out how these strategies can truly save me time.
07. Producing tones and textures
(Picture: © Fatemeh Haghnejad)
I begin on the face, utilizing flat colors to select particulars that I wish to emphasise. I choose Procreate’s default Nikko Rull brush and add my base colors, earlier than switching to the Inked Blink brush and drawing key facial parts such because the eyes and eyebrows. I then return to the Nikko Rull to go down via the layers and add some texture, utilizing a barely offset color to make the tones vibrant.
08. Directing the portray’s environment
(Picture: © Fatemeh Haghnejad)
Now I’m fascinated by feelings within the scene. I wish to push a contented, relaxed environment so I exploit shiny orange and inexperienced colors that convey the sunshine and shadow of a mild afternoon. I’m eager to seize that feeling of a second suspended in time. I additionally add the strongest mild supply as a result of I would like the art work to really feel painterly, drawing on my expertise as a conventional painter to maintain management of the artistic course of
09. Creating the lighting within the scene
(Picture: © Fatemeh Haghnejad)
To offset my sturdy greens and oranges I select a desaturated purple coming into the scene as a blooming mild. As a result of this mild impacts the complete scene, the crops will give off a inexperienced mild as the daylight passes via the leaves, and that is essential to get into the piece.
After I add the colors with a heavy hand, I am going again over with a Smudge device utilizing the Grunge brush to mix and make the transitions. As a last a part of this step I started limiting my darks, as a result of I do know the artwork will seem on the quilt, and it must be shiny and attention-grabbing.
10. Developing the background
(Picture: © Fatemeh Haghnejad)
Inverse deciding on the character’s silhouette means I can work on the background with out worrying concerning the determine’s edges. I exploit the Lasso device to pick the leaves, portray them in mild inexperienced tones to echo the pleased color motif of the character, then use a Blur filter to make them recede into the background so that they don’t distract from her.
The leaves act as a framing system for the character: their forged shadows assist me darken the elements of her that really feel slightly busy.
Subsequent, I choose the white of the background and construct up colors to indicate it’s a sunny afternoon. I add texture utilizing the Nikko Rull brush and play with saturation and juxtaposed color tones. I deal with the direct mild as initially chilly, turning into hotter as soon as it hits objects within the scene.
11. Rendering the art work
(Picture: © Fatemeh Haghnejad)
The very first thing I do as I decide to the rendering stage is to color my line-art. This helps it to mix into the portray extra simply, in flip aiding the method of turning a colored drawing right into a painted image.
Now that the portray is nearing its end, I wish to attempt to deliver every thing collectively into one pretty package deal. My subsequent step is to merge every thing into one workable layer.
I copy and paste them so I nonetheless have the person layers beneath, however from right here on in I deal with the portray as a single picture. After all, preserving the unique layers means I can nonetheless return and choose particular person parts for engaged on, and make use of these clear outlines.
12. Fixing minor errors
(Picture: © Fatemeh Haghnejad)
At this level each little mistake within the art work begin to grow to be apparent. For instance, I discover that her ear isn’t sitting on her head accurately, so I exploit Procreate’s Warp device to seize the purpose of the ear and pull it nearer to her face. I exploit the Recolor device so much throughout this step, too. It’s a great way of adjusting colors and making an attempt out new concepts that come to you through the artistic course of.
13. Including texture to parts
(Picture: © Fatemeh Haghnejad)
I am going again to my conventional roots right here as nicely, utilizing Procreate’s Stucco and Pencil brushes so as to add texture. I draw a myriad of traces to wrap across the numerous varieties such because the clothes, pores and skin and hair, which quickly provides depth to the character. It’s an effective way of making a stable, completed really feel in your art work. One other nice Procreate brush to make use of is Burnt Tree, which produces particularly good outcomes when detailing the character’s pores and skin.
14. Now it’s over to you!
(Picture: © Fatemeh Haghnejad)
As soon as I’m proud of the extent of texture within the portray I name it completed. Be at liberty to make use of the strategies I’ve defined right here in your individual work, and share the outcomes with me on Instagram. I can’t wait to see what you give you!
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