how i illustrate using procreate⭐️(brushes + techniques)

[Music] okay so this is the tablet that I used to draw this is the iPad pro 12 point 9 inch so it is the larger run I don't remember exactly what model it is but I believe this is the 2019 version so it's not the newest but it's almost the newest and then of course I have my Apple second-generation pencil and you do have to get the second generation for the iPad pro because it charges by attaching to the side and my little case is from Amazon I can link it down below for you guys and I do have a paper like screen saver on it and essentially what it does is it just makes it feel like you are drawing on paper and it also just keeps the screen matte so there's not as much glare when you're drawing so the app that I used to draw is called procreate it is ten dollars on the Apple store it is not a subscription basis app you just pay the ten dollars one time and you don't have to pay any other fees okay high me editing very quickly I just want to say that this is not a procreate tutorial and a breakdown of procreate this is just how I use it and the tools that I use I don't use every single procreate tool so I just want to disclaim that I am NOT here to give you a tutorial on the app I am just showing you how I use it to create digital illustrations so now let's just get into exactly what brushes I use and all of that stuff so the first thing that I always do is set my background to this off-white color just because I personally don't use pure white in my drawings this is my color palette that I use for all of my drawings I very rarely will stray from this as you can tell I don't have any purple here because I do not like the color purple whatsoever I will only use it if it is crucial to a character design and fan art or something so yeah the first thing I will always do is set this to this off-white color now I also have my set of brushes that I like to use I didn't create these brushes this is just the set that I made because these are the brushes that I frequent and I just named it my set these two brush sets I did buy I will link them down below because I don't remember exactly what they were called but if you are interested in them I will link them so you guys can purchase but yeah these are the brushes that I typically use my go-to brush is the 6b pencil which is a brush that comes with the procreate app this is the brush that I use all the time I just really like how it really feels like you are using a pencil and it's nice and dark enough and consistent enough to do anything with I mean it's just usually what I use I will use it to sketch I will use it to fill in I will use it to color it is my main brush that I like to use my style is definitely much more sketchy than the traditional digital art that's more clean and very filled in I like to definitely do stuff that's more sketchy so now starting from top to bottom I have the Nair under pencil which is another brush that comes with the procreate app so this pencil is similar to the 6b but it's much tighter and it feels much more like a mechanical pencil so I will use this if I need to get really small details I don't very often use this brush the next brush that I use is the smoky shader brush and that did come with the brush set that I purchased yeah it just creates like this really nice dotted texture I really like to use this brush to do the cheeks on my people or to read in areas of the body so yeah you can get really light with it or super dark so it is pressure sensitive and if you layer it you will be able to see where it's been layered next brush I have is the butter knife which is another brush that came with this set and this is a much smoother pen like it you can see that it's very similar to like calligraphy or a brush pen but I really like this because it has already built into it like a little breakup points so the line isn't perfectly clean which I really appreciate like I said I don't like very smooth styles I like to really have a nice rough textured style and this already has the little holes built into it which I think really breaks it up I don't very often use this because I don't often do line art but when I do have to because of the structural integrity of whatever I'm drawing or something I will use this to do some line work next brush I have here I only use when I am doing the outlines of my stickers because it's a mono line pen and it is very consistent as you can see because of the behavior of the brush it just is a lot more streamlined and it won't show if you waver a little bit as much so and it's very consistent it's not size dependent or anything depending on pressure it will stay the same width and the same opacity so that is what I use that brush for next brush under the 6b pencil is Eaglehawk and I think from yeah from now on it's all procreate brushes so this one is like a really nice almost watercolor effect textured brush it's similar to the smoky shader where it's pressure sensitive the opacity and the intensity of the color and the size so yeah you can really see the texture and it even has texture that comes out from the brushstroke so yeah I really really enjoy this brush I don't get to use it as often as I would like I definitely have it there in case I want in effect like this next brush is pretty similar it's called gloaming but it's slightly more pen like like more calligraphy and it's slightly more controlled as well so it's not as textured but it still kind of has that watercolor II texture it's kind of similar to maybe a gouache pen or something on digital art next pen I have here is chalk I used to use this one a lot more in my previous pieces but I don't use it nearly as much it is originally supposed to be like a calligraphy type of pen you can really see that maneuvering when I use it and it's just another textured pen it's a lot more controlled than the previous two but it is still very textured so next one is the actual gouache pen and this one just has like a very smooth gouache texture to it it's not as like gritty or bumpy as gloaming or what's it called Eaglehawk it just has this really pretty wash of color look to it and you can build it up of course I used to use this one a lot as well lately I haven't as much but I do have it there as an option in case I want to use it so next brush is the StuCo brush and I also used to use this one a lot this has kind of like that I mean it's StuCo it's called stucco yeah it kind of has like that brick outside of a house kind of texture to it it's a very textured it's definitely the most textured brush that I have in my set I used to use this a lot to create shadows so that the shadows could be nice and textured instead of flat but lately I've been going more for a flat shadow but I do like to have it here to add extra texture and last brush that I have on here is the dry ink brush and this is probably the most controlled or smooth brush that I will use in my actual art it's similar to the 6b pencil but it has less texture and less gaps in it it's much more uniform but it still has a little bit of roughness again I haven't been using this one as often as I used to but I will if I have to do lettering sometimes or if I want something that has a little bit less gaps than my 6b pencil so these are all the brushes that I use I am going to move on to the section of this where I show you how I actually use them instead of just talking about them but yeah so I am going to be working on this piece that I had already started and as you can see I have my off-white background and I whenever I make pieces I always do square format because that's what fits on Instagram for my personal pieces at least but yeah I always do the square format that comes and procreate and now I am going to show you guys how I actually draw so this object is already pretty much finished I might go back and add some more or take away and whatnot but I am gonna start on the next object so I'm gonna create a new layer and I personally don't name my layers because I'm lazy but it definitely would be helpful if you did so because my theme for this piece is laundry items I am gonna do a fabric softener over here because this is the detergent so I always look up reference photos because art is a very observational practice so it's very important to always have reference even if you feel like you know exactly what something looks like so I'm taking a look at this and I see that there's a lot of pictures of flowers the jugs are very smooth and soft looking I assume to get the message that this fabric softener works I see blankets I see a teddy bear I see just a lot of curvilinear shapes so I'm gonna keep that in mind and I'm also going to pick a shape to do my fabric soft inner preferably something different from this just to get some variety now for sketching I always do a dark gray just because sometimes if you do a black on a white the contrast is so extreme that I mean at least for me it makes me feel like my art looks worse than it actually does so softening that contrast kind of helps during sketching so I take this dark gray that I have here and I have my fix B pencil like always and I'm just gonna start doing a really rough sketch this does not have to be exact whatsoever I'm just kind of gonna get the shape down on the paper so I can start refining so now that I have that rough shape down I'm going to lower the opacity of that sketch so it doesn't get as in the way and I'm gonna do slightly more refined sketch because I don't do a line work I have a very lineless look to my work I tend to not get too exact with this sketch so I am just doing some quick refining okay and now that I have the refined basic shape down I'm gonna delete that other rough sketch turn down the opacity of this one make sure the size and the placement is how I like it make it a little bit smaller maybe place it down here and now I am gonna start blocking in my basic colors and if you guys struggle with color palettes I will link down below some color palette resources and I definitely recommend you guys read up or learn a little bit about color theory not that you necessarily have to in order to make good art but I feel like if you learn a little bit about color theory it really helps the art making process a lot smoother and a lot faster so here's that technique that I do when I fill in I am still using my 6b pencil and I'm not going to do the classic drag-and-drop to fill in oh that dropped to fill in a shape so it's a nice smooth color I like to color in with this 6b pencil because again I personally like a much more sketchy textured look to my digital work so this is about the desired amount that I would want so almost completely filled in but not so much so that you can still see a little bit of the gaps underneath so that is my basic block of color I'm gonna go in and add another layer underneath because I'm going to be doing the top of the bottle so I'm feeling a little bit of a peach for the top of the bottle again all of this could change I just kind of start laying down some colors and now I'm going to show you guys how I do a clipping mask and I used to only do alpha lock but clipping masks actually helped out a lot so you just make a layer on top of whatever you want to work on and then you click on it and you put clipping mask and essentially what this does is you can do stuff on top of your object but it won't go outside of it so it's very useful so I'm going to lay down the label and I'm thinking now because this is a clipping mask I am just gonna do the drag-and-drop and that texture will still show through underneath now I can get rid of my sketch and now I'm gonna start working on the label so when I use my eraser I always have it on 6b pencil because I don't when if I make a mistake I don't want to take away that nice texture that I created with my brush so having the eraser as 6b it still keeps in that texture so for instance right here I'm not super happy with the placement of the nose and the mouth so I'm gonna go - I think this is called the Select tool and I always use freehand and I just select that and then I go to the move tool and I'm just gonna move it over a little bit and that's how I use that now sometimes I play something and things touch where I don't want them to touch so to group something I'm gonna have one of the layer selected and swipe like this group it and then just move it because sometimes I don't want to merge it just yet because maybe I want to do some adjustments to certain layers and that is how I ella straight using procreate you guys I hope this was helpful for you I got a lot of questions asking me what brushes I use and how I use them so I just wanted to show you guys exactly what they were and how I use them so yeah I hope you enjoyed and I will see you guys in the next one [Music]

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Keywords: procreate, digital, digital art, illustration, digital illustrationn, illustrator

Id: FZC3LznrCBE

Length: 15min 10sec (910 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 10 2020