(happy piano music) Hello friends,
welcome to another draw with me! This is another Procreate edition, this is a far more updated version
of how I draw on Procreate because it's changed
a lot since last time. Today we're going to be
making a little notepad, so I'm opening up a new document here. It's 4.25 inches by five and
half inches, 300 dpi, CMYK, so it's gonna be all ready to go to print straight from my iPad. I'm so happy that Procreate Five has CMYK compatibility now. It's a life saver. Here I'm adding just like
an extra quarter of an inch, or like I guess kind
of an eighth of an inch on each side for bleed,
but it turns out that that's unnecessary to use with my printer so just ignore that. I really could've just kept it at four and a quarter by five and a half. But here I'm going in and
I'm starting to sketch, I'm using the technical pencil to sketch. I usually always sketch
with the technical pencil in red on a bottom layer. I actually scrap this sketch later, but I just wanted to show
this to you, regardless. I pretty much switch between like five brushes in Procreate,
like five or six brushes. They're listed here. So three of them are Procreate standards, they come with Procreate, and then the three other
ones, I have downloaded. I'll have links to all of the brush packs and everything that I love down below. Max, oh I forget his last name, but there is an artist named Max and he does the most
incredible Procreate brushes. He just released a watercolor
pack that is incredible, so if you use Procreate
a lot, but you love, you want kind of more
of like a traditional sort of feel to your work—like Max's brushes are amazing for getting
that traditional feel into your digital work. And so, like I said I do
end up scratching this, or scrapping this sketch later
because I sketched—Okay, So, I'm making notebooks and
notepads for my shop update and this was originally a notebook design, but I realized—also they are doing, of course today of all days, they are doing so much
construction around, like my building so if you
hear things, I'm sorry. But this was originally
a design that I had planned out for a notebook and then I realized after looking at it, that it would play a lot
better on like a notepad. So that's what I'm designing it for. So I did a new sketch
of that similar sketch that I had previously done. But then I was, this one kinda lacked, there was something about
this one I didn't like. I don't know if it was, there was kind of a lack of movement, there was a lack of like, sort of loosey goosiness, that's the only way I
can think of saying it. There was a lack of loosey
goosiness in this sketch, that was present in the other one. And when I realized that, I was like, "Oh, you know what I can do
that would be a lot easier as opposed to just having
to go through this pain? Let's just go to the other
file and get the sketch." But I don't realize that for a moment 'cause I keep just
trying to work this one. So I have my little gnome person, they've kind of become
like the new sort of mascot of my shop I suppose. I've been doing a little
bit of re-branding lately and I just wanna draw this
character on everything. They're so fun to draw. So I drew them having a little
fresco with their coffee cups and 'cause fresco is amazing and all I wanna do is have
fresco and draw fresco and I just want an excuse
to eat sweet things and drink tea all day. Don't we all? Don't we all? And then I'm going around and
drawing this little border that I kinda mess around with. This is the point here
where I realized that, you know what? I'm gonna go back to my other file and get the sketch that I actually like. So I go back into my Procreate library and I clicked on the Notebook file where I was drawing
other notebook designs. Oh look, here's a sneak
peak at another notebook. This was actually a design
that I had hand painted and now I'm getting it printed. So I got to below the sketch, I hit copy, and then I just go back to my current file and I just hit paste. And then I, you know,
resize it, reorient it, erase the parts that I don't like so that way I can have the one that I do. (upbeat piano music) (upbeat piano music) (upbeat piano music) So now I'm going in and
just adding some, you know, last couple details and you know, like the steam to the tea
and things and the border, just sort of finishing up the sketch. So doing the line art
will be that much easier. (soothing piano music) So for line art, I also
use the technical pencil. I've been really into doing line art with like a dark blue color lately. So that's what I'm doing. I'm just going in with a
dark blue technical pencil and the reason why I sketch so cleanly is so that it makes doing
line art so much easier. Also on the sketch layer,
I can resize things, reshape things, warp them
to be however I want. Procreate isn't, it doesn't have the most
sophisticated resizing technology. It's pretty good, but just
because I'm a perfectionist, I can see how it kinda loses
a little bit of resolution. So I like to mess around
with my sketch, resize that, and then when I go in with my line art, that way I have to minimal
resizing or adjusting. So I can just go in and
follow the little lines and just have a great time. I really like doing line art,
it's incredibly satisfying because I'm basically just, I'm basically just tracing my own stuff. I don't know, I think, hm I think line art might be my favorite part of the process. (soothing piano music) Also for line art, I usually tend to go, I've been really into using
the technical pencil lately but sometimes I'll also
use the narrator pencil if I want, you know, a line that maybe doesn't quite have so
much like texture to it. But the thing I like
about the narrator pencil is that it's between
like a model line brush, which is just, you know,
flat and totally opaque. And a technical pencil
brush, or even the 6B pencil, which is very texture-y, and the narrator pencil
lies right in between that, so if I want really clean lines, but I'm not into using
the, like a model line or technical pen brush, I
will use the narrator pencil as a really nice happy medium. (soothing piano music) (soothing piano music) I was trying to do something different with this particular mug. I was like, "Do I wanna do
a different kind of handle?" And then I decided that no, I just wanna go with a
simple, normal handle. (chuckling) I also really like drawing,
you know, tea, steam like this. I've been, I feel like I've
been experimenting quite a bit with my style lately and I feel like I've really come into something
that feels really good and very me, and kinda
combines all the things that I find appealing in, you
know, other people's work. And I feel like I've been
able to take those elements and incorporate them into my own style and I've just been feeling really like, artistically and creatively
confident lately, which is a really nice feeling 'cause I feel like I've
spent the majority of like, the last half of last
year really struggling, so it feels nice to come into my own. (soothing piano music) Hair is definitely my
favorite thing to draw. It's just so fun. I just love drawing all the little lines and individual locks. Also, you'll see later
I actually found out in coloring this piece, a new way to color hair that I love, so hair is definitely my
favorite thing to draw right now. (soothing piano music) Also this chair is essentially just like the ones that
I have in my dining room. You gotta draw from what you know, folks. (soothing piano music) The reason I added a little bit of extra illustration on the bottom was because when I initially made this drawing, I forgot to account for
bleed, and I was like, "Oh, wait if I need to account
for bleed for my printer, then I need to make sure to draw a little extra at the border." This was unnecessary for me to do, but it's good, it's good practice if you're gonna send
products off to print, to draw like an extra eighth inch of bleed around your final piece. (soothing piano music) So again, I'm not, it depends, like it depends on whether or
not I'm gonna be bothered by like the tiny de-resin that occurs when you kind of like
warp and reshape things. The border, obviously is very simple so I wasn't too pressed about it. I just went in and did
some warping, distorting, and things to get it to kinda look roughly like it was evenly spaced. Because why use math and grids and things when you can just guess-timate,
as I'm going to do. Also a lot of the time I
forget to name my layers, but I find that my life
becomes so much easier if I just take the extra 10 seconds and name all my dang layers. But that's our line art. Oh, she looks so cute! They look so good. But now, before we get into coloring, I wanted to say thank you to Skill Share for sponsoring this video. I've loved and used Skill
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to get two free months of Skill Share premium membership and explore your creativity. So, when it comes to coloring I like to use the Softie brush, which is a brush that I downloaded. And I just basically use that on a layer underneath my line art layer, and just fill in all my flats. Also, hi Sophie. Sophie. (chuckling) I love, I love her so much. Even when she gets in the
way, I just don't get enough. She's so cute, she's so cute. She's just gonna sit next to me of a bit, so her little brown chunky body is going to be in frame for a spell. But basically I just go
in with all the sections and just layer in the flats. Usually I'll group like all
the clothes in one layer, I will group maybe the
hair in another layer, the skin in another layer. So I break pretty much
every individual color, or like group of items, I
suppose, into different layers because then it makes like
shading and adding detail way easier later on. (soothing piano music) So here I'm doing the color of
what the shirt would be like underneath the you know,
steam from the mug, and I realized that drawing the stripes on the line art layer
made it really hard to, it would make it really hard to like, if I wanted to maybe change
the color of the stripes, it also made it hard to change
the line art of the steam 'cause I was like, "Do I wanna maybe make the
line art on the steam white to add that effect to it?" But I decided that I didn't like that. So I just hit undo a bunch of times and then I went in and
erased all the blue lines on the shirt from the line art layer, so I could go back and add them in later on the color layer. I find that when it comes
to things like patterns, or details like that, they work a lot better if
I include them on a layer, on the color layer as
opposed to the line art layer because then it seems, I don't know, for me it feels like it's
more a part of the thing. Also, I wanted to have Sophie next to me for as long as I could, but then she started cleaning
herself on top of the iPad, she started like grooming her legs and I'm so sorry but I
had to take her away. She got many treats after
this video, don't worry. I do nothing but spoil that
cat with love and pets. Though, oh my gosh,
before filming this video I was scouring, or before
recording this audio, I would scour my apartment for one double A batter for my microphone because I couldn't find one, so I was looking everywhere
that I possibly could and it wasn't in our little miscellaneous electronics drawer, so I kind of shut it and the drawer underneath it. And then I heard a bunch of
like rattling in the drawer, like in our kind of like linen drawer. And I was like, "What is that?" And I was like, "Did something fall down?" And then I open it up
and Sophie was in there. And I shut her in and I felt so bad because she likes to use our linen drawer as like a little nap spot. But I didn't think she was in there and so I shut the door on her and she was so scared and
her tail was all poofy and I felt so bad. And so now I'm worried
that she's mad at me, so I'm gonna make sure to just like emphasize how much I love her later. Okay, so this is going back to what I was talking about earlier with the whole like, the details read better on garments and objects when there's no line
delineating those details from the thing that it's a part of. Which is why I got rid of the line art surrounding the like, sort
of ringed cuffs and collar 'cause it looks better with just the white as opposed to the blue separating it. (soothing piano music) (soothing piano music) (soothing piano music) This is one of my favorite
tools in Procreate is the ability to just
like color drop stuff where you can, I do
this a lot where I just take colors if I'm not
satisfied with something and I just drop it on. I also love using the like,
hue and color balance tools that if a color is almost where I want it, but it's not quite there, I'll use those tools to
just mildly adjust it without having to redo
the whole ding dang thing. (soothing piano music) (soothing piano music) (soothing piano music) So again, going in erasing, what is that extra line on the side there? Oh, that's part of the border. I just totally forgot
what I had drawn earlier. (chuckling) So I erased the line around the lace just you know, to make it look
more delicate and lace like and now I'm going in a
drawing all the details. This is very simple lace, there are so many tutorials online for drawing beautiful,
delicate lace patterns, this is not one of them. This is like simple, lazy man's lace dole. (soothing piano music) (soothing piano music) So now I'm starting to
go in with the details. For skin detail, I like
to use the gouache brush, which comes with Procreate. And I will go usually a little bit redder and more saturated than
whatever my skin tone is and I will use the gouache
brush to add in my blush. I also like to add in these
details on a clipping mask above the skin layer, which is why I do the
skin on it's own layer because it makes adding
these details so much easier. So I add the layer on
top of the skin layer, set it to clipping mask, and
then everything that I draw on that clipping mask layer
gets confined to the skin layer. I learned about the magic
of clipping masks like, I wanna say last year, 'cause for some reason
that always confused me and then they, I used them in Procreate and then it suddenly like clicked. So now I love clipping masks
and I use them all the time. (soothing piano music) (soothing piano music) Sometimes when you use
clipping masks though, just because it already
adheres to the, you know, colored in pixels on the layer below, I realize that I have gaps in my coloring where the clipping mask is not showing up where I wanted it to, so this is me going in
and essentially filling in all the tiny little bits,
like tiny little white specks usually around the edges
where the color is missing. And since I was doing
that on the skin layer, I just went ahead and did that on all the other layers with my flats. Again, not necessarily making sure that everything is super even, or you know, I guess like I could essentially just use like a model line brush, but I just really like
drawing with a softie, or like more of a pencil like brush, it's just more fun for me. It's maybe not logically sound, but I like it so that's what I do. (soothing piano music) So now I'm going in and starting to add the
details in the hair. When it comes to details, and kind of like my
second layer of coloring, I use the watercolor
flow round brush by Max. This basically just adds a really wonderful texture to things and I'll go in and I
will first use the color of the thing that I drew
and then I'll mess around and basically just use shades
that are near the thing to kind of, because
the way that this brush lays on top of itself and
the way that it acts is kind of really beautiful and magical. And so I just kinda use a bunch of colors near the color that I used for the flat with the watercolor brush
on top of that flat color to create a lot of
interesting texture and light, and it just, it just looks, it just looks really cool
and I really like it. Also, as I was talking about earlier, I found that I really like drawing within each individual lock
of hair for some reason. This was the first time that I had tried this particular coloring technique using the watercolor brush to really define the flow and
light of each lock of hair and I love how it turned out so now this is how I'm
definitely going to be coloring hair from now on. Again, the difference is subtle, but it really, truly pays off and creates something
kinda magical and beautiful and lends a depth that I think the flat colors by themselves
otherwise just don't have. (soothing piano music) (soothing piano music) This watercolor brush is so
amazing 'cause as you layer either the same, or different
colors on top of each other the way that they interact is kind of really incredible and magical, very similar to how like
traditional watercolor works with a traditional medium. And Max is just like a
Procreate brush wizard, I guess. But I would highly recommend this pack, he also has a gouache
pack, a painter's pack, and a bunch of other packs. But would highly recommend. I'm also using the watercolor
brush to add just a little bit of nuanced shading around the elbows. Like this much detail
isn't really necessary because this is going to be
printed at such a small scale, but honestly like, it may
or may not be necessary but I think it really comes through and shows up in the final product. So and also this is just really fun for me and makes the drawing really
come alive in my eyes, so I'm always, I recently
discovered this sort of coloring work flow and
I was very excited by it because I love it and it just looks so, it just looks so cool. (soothing piano music) (soothing piano music) So now I'm going in on the color layer with the technical pencil
and adding in the stripes. If I'm adding details on things, I like to use the technical pencil 'cause it matches the line art and it just keeps with
the whole very sort of clean yet textured look that I love. So I just went in and added the stripes using the technical pencil. And now I'm coloring in the table with, so I tend to only use the clipping mask when it comes to the, when it
comes to the blush or the arms with everything else,
I usually just tend to lock the layer's pixels
and just draw on the layer because the watercolor
brush needs to react with the color that I've already laid down and if I put it on it's own layer, or even on a clipping mask
layer, it won't act the same. So I just draw straight on the layer, but I locked the pixels which
makes my life a lot easier so that things don't get all muddled. You can see here how
putting on the lighter color on top of the darker color
creates that really cool sort of I don't know, it just looks really cool. I'm trying to sound like I
know what I'm talking about, but I really don't. I just do it 'cause it
looks cool and it's fun. (soothing piano music) (soothing piano music) (soothing piano music) And then I went in and
added my little sparkles because I don't know, anything
I make would not be complete without some sparkles for good measure. (soothing piano music) And now I'm just finishing
up my little last details. I'm going in and, you
know, resizing the border, making sure that everything looks good, making sure that I like the spacing, and fixing the corners
as well on the border because they were just, they were just a little
too wonky for my liking. (soothing piano music) And that's the finished piece, that's my finished little 2B notepad. I'm so happy with how it turned out, I think it looks so cute and I can't wait to get
it printed and to use it. Wow, this was so fun. I hope that you enjoyed this insight into how I use Procreate. Maybe you can incorporate
some of the tools and tips and tricks and things
into your own work flow. Thank you again to Skill Share
for sponsoring this video and I will talk to y'all so soon. I love you so much. Stay brilliant, bye. (soothing piano music)
