How To Draw A Face (Portrait) • Procreate Tutorial • Foolproof Method!

hello wonderful people it is genevieve and in this video we are going to learn a full proof way to color a semi-realistic portrait in procreate and i will be suggesting free brushes from procreate as well as brushes that come from my brand new ultimate portrait bundle for procreate which will be linked in description below along with a promo code just for you guys as usual but again if you don't have the bundle that's fine you can still follow along the first thing to do is well to create a canvas i'm going to be using this pre like pre-made file that has layers and everything that comes with the bundle but don't worry i'm going to show you how to recreate this file um in this tutorial so you don't need to have the bundle again and the first thing to do is yeah like i was saying create a new canvas so mine is 2500 pixel per 2500 pixel with 150 dpi but you can really do whatever you want depending on the result that you're expecting one thing that i recommend also is to set the color of your background to a very light gray instead of just like pure white because that's really going to help you see your contrast throughout the painting process and we're just going to start by creating two sketch layers so the face layer which is going to be a layer set to multiply and the opacity around 50 but we're going to play with that so don't worry and then another layer that is also set to multiply 50 and this one is going to be named hair if you have the bundle there is a color palette named skin so that's the one i'm going to be using right now because i recommend that for your sketch you use some sort of a brownish color it's just going to look good and if you want to keep your sketch in the actual illustration then it's going to blend it a little bit better than if you are using a black color and for the sketch itself well this tutorial is really not about drawing the facial proportions i have other tutorials for that which will be linked in the description of course so you have a few ways either you go and watch those tutorials and draw kind of the sketch in in this file or you could just draw a face with the knowledge that you already have or your specific style and if you do have the portrait bundle you can see here it's really easy to create a super rough and quick sketch with just the um like the pre-made facial feature brushes so that's three ways of getting your your sketch in there you're also going to want to really roughly sketch the hair this is not something we're going to cover in this tutorial i'm actually going to talk about hair in the next tutorial which is going to come out this saturday so you don't have to wait too long it's just that otherwise this one video would have lasted two hours and it's already long enough this way so you just want to get some really rough sketch for both your face and your hair and then we're going to be ready to rock and roll so speaking of which this tutorial we're kind of going to split in multiple sections so we're going to start with the base which is just going to be the basic color super flat and then we're going to move on to the volumes and texture where we actually make the piece look like it's three-dimensional and in another tutorial we're going to look at the hair and maybe even special effects but let's start with just the base so the base is absolutely super easy we're just going to draw flat colors which might look a little bit boring and weird but believe me by the end of the video you're going to have something great so the first thing to do is to create a layer named shape and it's just normal opacity 100 and that's where we're gonna actually draw like the shape of the skin if that makes sense and you can use pretty much any brush from the inking panel for that you just want a brush that doesn't have a lot of texture i personally will be using like i was saying brushes that come from the ultimate portrait bundle so there is a texture category which has a lot of really cool brush like hair texture eyelashes brush for the skin and everything and also just like a very normal super simple base brush which is the one that i'm going to be using for this step so again you can use an inking brush or the base brush if you have the bundle and you're going to pick the main color you want for your skin so again if you have the palette you can pick in that otherwise you can just pick whichever color you want so i'm going to be going with this kind of on the screen it looks peachy but in real life it was just like this really nice rosy fairly fair skin and you're just going to outline the skin part of your portrait so make sure that you're doing this really carefully because this shape is going to be the base for everything else the only thing you don't really have to worry about is the hairline because we're going to draw hair later um in this process you can just draw this very roughly and then you're going to fill in your shape using color drop and a tip that i like just to make sure that my shape is fully opaque is to duplicate the layers swiping it towards the left and then kind of merging it so that way i'm just really sure that it is fully opaque and also recommend selecting a sharp brush for your eraser and just going around your um your shape so hide the sketch layer and just go around and make sure that your lines are really clean because again this base layer is super super important so once you have a nice shape for your base uh you're gonna reactivate your sketch and you're gonna create another layer this one you're gonna name undertones and you're gonna apply it as a clipping mask so it's just this option here in the layer menu and what a clipping mask does is everything we're going to draw on this undertones layer is going to stay within the shape of the shape layer so that's really useful and you're going to change the blending mode to soft light and you're going to say it around 20 but for now i'm going to personally set it around like 55 just so you can see what i'm doing and you're going to use a super soft brush so either the extra soft brush that comes with the bundle or you can go in just the air brushing section of procreate so the free brushes and pick the soft brush it is not as soft but it is still going to work and we're going to add some really crazy colors for the undertones which is just going to make the piece feel more realistic and more alive in the end because it's basically mimicking the different thickness of the skin throughout the face in a very quick way so anyway you're gonna start with this really bright yellow and just loosely color the forehead part of your character again i know this looks crazy but believe me this is going to make a big difference in the end and you're then going to move on to the mid section and this one is going to be in bright red color so like fire truck red and for the bottom part believe it or not we're going with this bright blue color which i know sounds crazy but again bear with me so you're just just brushing over the bottom parts of the chin the jaw and maybe the neck as well if you have it in your drawing now like i said mine i put to 60 so you could actually see it but i'm going to lower back the opacity around 20 and at this point you can see it's very subtle but it is there but then i'm going to move on to creating another layer this one is going to be renamed pink this is also a clipping mask which means everything we're going to draw on this layer is going to stay within the shape of the shape layer and the blending mode of this one is just normal and the opacity is a hundred percent and oops all we're going to draw on this layer is just kind of the areas that tend to be a bit more pink or more saturated on the face so go ahead and pick the color that you use for your skin at first and then you're just gonna make it a little bit more red dark and saturated you don't want to have something that is too different than your base color but you do want to make sure that you're actually going to see the color and with your soft brush again you're just going to brush over the cheeks to get started with kind of like you're applying blush you're also going to maybe lower your sketch opacity a little bit so you can see what you're doing a little bit better through these lines and yeah you're going to move on and draw the top of the ears as well you're going to maybe add a little bit of red around the eyes so kind of in the corner of the eyes the tip of the nose very very gently and very quickly a bit more precise than when you were doing the undertones in the previous step but still nothing too crazy here and we're also going to select the color of the lips so for the lips i actually recommend that you use a more detailed brush so either the brush that you use at first to draw the shape of your face like the base brush here or just any other brush that you you like using for solid solid colors and you're just going to outline the lips and then you can fill in them using color drop so for the lips you can use either same pink color that you use for you know the nose and the cheeks or you could go ahead and if you want your person to have you know lipstick or something like that that's that's kind of when you would put that that color in so you could go with like a purple if you wanted for for these lips another thing that you can do is use the smudge tool i like to use just the stucco brush that comes with procreate in the painting section and just kind of blend your colors a little bit but that that's optional if what you painted first was nice to you you can just move on and not blend in another thing that you can do that is also optional is add some freckles so for that you would just create a separate layer named freckles it would also be a clipping mask and the um it would be normal and 100 but we might play with that later so we'll see but for now just you would just set it at normal and the thing is procreate doesn't really have any great brush that can be used for freckles maybe in the spray paint section here there is this this one brush but as you can see it doesn't really look like freckles it's just kind of a little bit intense so you could draw them individually or if you have the bundle i've included of course a freckle brush and for the freckles i like using just like a really nice almost chocolate brown and just sprinkle them around on the face very very loosely making sure i have different sizes and making sure the pattern is not super regular otherwise that looks weird so you want something that is super organic and quite random now one of the great things about drawing all the elements on separate layers is that you can use the hue saturation tool in the adjustment panel to just change the color the saturation and the brightness of your element so you can see here i just went and darkened my freckles and also i'm going to change the blending mode to multiply but that's i mean that's an extra step because i'm just really picky you don't have to do that what you do have to do however is create this new layer set it to normal and rename it to eyebrows because we are going to paint some eyebrows and depending on the level of details you want in your piece there are a few ways you could go about this so you can use the medium brush in the air brushing panel and just fill in the shape very quickly or you could use like the hp pencil from the sketching panel and draw the hair individually or if you have the bundle you could use the eyebrow hair brush here which as you can see is basically just going to be a time saver it is not anything fancy but it's kind of it has seven strokes in one so instead of drawing all the individual hair uh you're just saving time but again you could just use a regular sketching brush and draw the hair individually with the bundle there is this hair color palette that comes with it so that's that's kind of a shortcut as well but you can just pick whichever color you want for your eyebrows i'm going with a dark brown almost black and you're going to start by pointing the hair upwards and then i'm going to curve and kind of lay almost horizontal on the face the closer to get to the tail of the eyebrow so as you can see here it's just this really nice flow that's going to make it look way more realistic than if you were drawing or painting all your hair pointing towards the top and at this stage you don't need to be super precise you can really kind of go out of the line because we're also going to use the eraser and kind of clean out everything so hide your sketch once you have the base hair drawn and then with a soft eraser you're literally going to pretend that you're either like trimming your eyebrows or plucking your eyebrows whatever you do so you're just going to make everything a little bit nicer and neater and that's just way quicker doing it that way than just trying to be super precise when we are actually drawing the individual hair so anyway one thing that i also like to do is with a super like nice sharp brush so either like a sketching brush or the detail brush that come with the bundle i like to go it with a lighter version of my brown and just adding or whichever color that i use for the hair and just adding some stray single hairs on top of everything that's going to help kind of break the pattern especially if you use the eyebrow hair brush um like it's going to create eyebrows that look like super super structured which is not necessarily the most natural but it's also going to add more dimension because of course it is going to be a different color kind of mix in there the last thing we're going to do before moving on to shading is adding the eyes of course so you're going to start with a shape layer that is just like the base layer that you used for your skin so a layer that is going to be normal and 100 opacity and just like we did for the skin we're going to draw the general shape of the the eyes but of course we're going to use not a skin color we're going to use kind of a cream color not pure white otherwise you won't be able to add any like light effect in your eyes later which would be a shame so with the same brush you use for your face shape you're going to just draw the shape of your eyes and again you're just drawing the outlines and you're using color drop to fill it in because that's just way quicker and just like we did for the shape of the face we're also going to duplicate the layer and then merge it to make sure that it is like fully opaque once you have your eye shape go ahead and create another layer this one is going to be named iris and it is going to be a clipping mask so everything we draw on this iris layer is going to stay within the eye shape and this one is also going to be normal 100 so nothing fancy there and you're just going to pick the color you want your eyes to be so again there is a color palette that comes with a bundle otherwise just pick your own color um that's totally fine and yeah i'm going to go with this super dark brown and just with the same basic brush you're just going to color in the iris i realize you won't be able to see anything in my drawing so i'm just going to change the color of my eyes here really quickly and make them a little bit lighter but you don't have to do that what you do have to do however is as before just kind of duplicate your layer and merge them together make sure there's no like weird texture in it and it's like a solid fully opaque shape and one really cool thing about this technique is you can always move your things or your layers around really quickly so you can see here if i just select the error tool i can just move the iris around which is great because i can change kind of the direction in which the character is looking so that's a really neat trick and it's just one of the perks of kind of organizing our file in a really super clear way so anyway we're going to add the pupil to the iris so selecting an almost black brown color not fully black otherwise we won't be able to have shadows which would also be a shame you're just going to draw like a pupil in your iris um depending on the angle of your face the pupil and the irises themselves are not going to be fully round so make sure that if your face is three-quarter of profile you're actually drawing an oval and not a like perfect circle and without going in lighting and shading just yet we're going to add a little bit more texture in the iris so kind of the like sunlight or sun rays or whatever that's called pattern of the iris and to do that you can use whichever brush you're comfortable with i'm going with the detail textured brush and with a darker color i'm i like to kind of just outline the outside of the iris and then go in and add the little like sun rays i really don't know how to call them but you know you know the texture like really typical classic uh eye texture it's not even a texture pattern would be better so yeah just drawing that with one two three different shades and hues of your your um your basic color can add a lot of dimension but you don't have to worry about lights or anything yet you just want to make it feel a bit more interesting and less flat because yeah irises are real interesting and they have a lot of personality so you just don't want to have just like one solid color in there and since we're drawing a full-on portrait you don't have to worry too much about being super detailed here we just want to see that you know there is something happening in the iris but don't don't spend too much time we are going to cheat and add a little bit of highlight um not highlight but i light so a new layer is set to add any clipping mask as well and we're just going to draw this like little blob of light in the center of the eye we can we're going to move it around later but if we don't draw it now the character is just going to look really creepy in my my opinion so i like drawing it in this space even though that is technically a light effect uh but yeah i just don't like the creepy look of the eyes looking super dead and weird without this little like speckle of light so anyway and at this stage if you want to add any makeup that's where you would do it like eye makeup eyeshadow or something like that you just create a new layer set it to normal and with a soft brush um you would just draw you know your makeup i'm not going to do that because this tutorial is already long enough but yeah you're then going to create a layer name eyelashes and this one is also going to be normal 100 opacity and you're going to pick a very dark brown color or i mean it could even be more of a like blonde color depending on the character and you can pick a thin brush from the inking panel or the sketching panel and just draw the eyelashes individually however if you have the bundle i'm going to show you how to use the eyelash brushes so you can see there are a bunch of them and they're really a great base and a way to save time just like the eyebrow brushes so they come in a pair of two so you can see here you have like left and right every time and the way to do it is to pick one style so for example i'm gonna go with long and natural and the left would be for the left eye and the right would be for the right eye does it make sense and you always want to use them starting from the left and then moving on towards the right so example you also want to make sure that the brushes are both of the same size i'm going with seven percent and yeah starting from the left just swiping towards the right as easy as that and then you can use the arrow tool to move everything around and maybe even distort a little bit the shape so you have something that you prefer and you can also just you know do trial and error and just kind of move around and just experiment you could also use liquify in the adjustment panel with push to just kind of move the shape around a little bit until you get something that you like so it's super easy really a nice time saver and yeah for the other eye would be the same starting from the left towards the right but this time with the right eye brush and yeah you can see it took us a few seconds and we have our base for the eyelashes and we can also move it around i quite like it not like exactly on the eye leaving a little bit of room for the eyelid in there that can look really good and even though i am using the eyelash brushes i always like to go back with a like a detailed inking brush or sketching brush in this case just the detail smooth brush and add some random lashes in there that are not kind of part of the brush so just to add a little bit more dimension and have a little bit more control and make everything feel more natural with some lashes are curved differently and just kind of yeah adding a little bit more more life to this this basic brush and while you have this brush you're also going to add a few like bottom lashes that's very important that's something that i personally tend to forget but remembering it and doing it even if it's super subtle and you only have a few super short ones it's going to make a big difference in the end it's just going to tie in everything a little bit better together um so yeah just a few little lines super simple doesn't take a lot of time but it makes a big difference so yeah the last thing we have to do is just group our layers and then we're gonna be ready to move on to shading so to group your layers you're going to start with the eye layers and you're just going to swipe them toward the right and then click group this is going to create a group that you can rename eyes and then you're going to do the same thing with all your other layers including the eye groups and you're going to create this base layer group and with that done we're ready to finally add some volume and like shade everything in a way to make this look actually interesting so we're going to create a few layers for this volume slash texture layer group the first one being the base shadow and the base shadow layer it has a layer mask so i'm just going to show you real quick by deleting this one the way to create a layer mask well you're also going to set the blending mode to multiply but the way to create a layer mask is just double tapping on the layer and then selecting mask and you can see it adds this white layer mask on top and what this is going to allow us to do is basically block the shape of the face so that we have a little bit more control of our base shadow so make sure you follow these next steps super closely so you're going to select your shape layer and then on the layer mask itself you're going to use black to just fill in and it's not going to appear on your actual drawing but you're going to see it on the layer mask you're going to then double tap on the layer mask and click invert now everything that you draw on this base shadow layer here is going to stay within the shape of the face as you can see here and that's going to be really helpful because what we're going to do now is we're just going to really loosely start creating some of the um the volumes of the piece so you're going to pick a color you want your shadows to be i recommend you go with not like a full on grayish color something that has a little bit of color to it is going to make everything a bit more interesting and i'm going to go back with the extra soft brush but you can use one of the airbrush that comes with procreate and here the whole point is to just start modeling everything so it's kind of like you're you're sculpting basically i know you're drawing but it's kind of like you're pretending to to sculpt and you're adding the areas where you would get really simple shadows and right now we're really just thinking of the shadows that you would get on the face without any crazy light effect so we're just thinking of the actual volumes of the face so below the chin around the nose around the eye um around the hair kind of between the lips on the bottom of the nose and that's it like we're not drawing any crazy light effect here and you can play with the opacity of your layer to get something very soft we really are just starting to lay down the shadows you're also going to create another layer that is going to be rename hair shadow you're going to set it to multiply but we're going to come back to this one in the hair tutorial but we just want to make sure that we have it for now the next layer you're going to create is going to be rename texture and you're going to set it to overlay and somewhere around 50 and this is where we're going to add just a little bit more texture you guessed it to our skin because right now it looks like almost plastic and that's not a good look so for that i recommend you go with a nice cream color and one of the skin texture brush that come with the pack i haven't found any like really nice skin texture brush that comes with procreate so if you do have the brush pack or the bundle i should say go ahead and do that otherwise you can just pretend this step doesn't exist the next one however is probably the most important in this entire tutorial so create a new layer rename it to shadow details and set it to multiply and i recommend you lower the opacity of your sketch a little bit because at this step we're going to add quite a lot of details and shading and it can be a bit confusing if we have our sketch a little bit too dark go back to your main skin color that you've been using for the like skin shape and you're gonna pick a nice brush that has a little bit of texture to it but also you're able to be fairly precise with it so you could use an airbrushing brush or you know a inking brush that comes with procreate i'm going with the detailed texture or texture detail brush or whichever one it's called i always forget and all you're going to do is you're going to start kind of mapping out where the detail folds and holes and crevices are going to be in your face and again in this tutorial we're not drawing any crazy light effect we're just trying to show that the face is three-dimensional and not just this flat little thing so the shadows you're going to draw here are going to be very subtle and we're gonna add more and more layers as we go on so you're gonna start by drawing the nostril then probably the side of the nose if your face is three quarters um you're probably going to draw around the eyes as well a darker line and maybe above the mouth there's going to be this little dip maybe the corner of the corners of the mouth himself and kind of between the lips you're going to shade that as well and yeah you might just also add some texture in the lips very thin you know lines that kind of show that the lips are you don't want to have full on cracks but you you do you do want to have some texture in the lips so something super simple and you can always use the the smudge tool to make them look a little bit less intense and yeah the bottom of the jaw around the ear just kind of separating that so something very simple so try to think where there are two separate parts of your your face that connect together or overlap you're just going to add a very simple nice little shadow there we're going to go lighter and darker i should say as we move on but before that we're going to focus on the eyes a little bit because right now they're kind of flat and scary so still in your shadow detail layer this time you're going to move on to more of a purplish gray color and your same brush you're just going to add some shadows in the eyes themselves so that's probably going to be somewhere along both eyelids so top eyelid and like the bottom eyelid you just kind of have some sort of a shadow line there and depending on the length of the eyelashes you might even see the shadows that would be cast by the eyelashes on the actual eyeball and you can start with a very light color and then move on to a darker color to add more emphasis the closer you get to the actual eyelid and the thing to keep in mind is you know an eyeball is actually a sphere so what we see kind of looks flat but making it feel like it is actually like a three-dimensional sphere is going to make your eyes look way more realistic so once you have something you like for your eyes we're actually going to go back to our main skin color and then we're actually going to darken it a little bit and make it a bit more gray without going full on gray just a little bit more gray and we're going to go back and kind of rework some of the areas so since this is a darker color we can go in and just accentuate some of the areas where the shadows need to be more permanent so of course you're going to do the nostril again maybe the side of the nose the corners of the mouth for sure are going to be darker between the lips themselves as well depending on the size of the nose you might have the bridge of the nose here maybe the side of the face as well and definitely definitely behind the ear and in some parts along the jaw and the chin or you're going to make that darker as well as you can see here i'm being very loose and quick and i'm just kind of sketching because in the next step we're actually going to blur everything so no worries and depending on the base color you use and the colors you use for your shadows you might want to go back with an even darker brown almost gray this time and just accentuate even more some of the really really dark spots so behind the ear the corners of the mouth again the nostril maybe a little bit of the fold above the eye and like the bottom eyelid but nothing too crazy it's just kind of to add a little bit more detail and even more dimension once that is done you're actually going to select your smudge tool again i'm using just the sticker brush that comes with procreate in the painting section and you're just going to blend roughly some of your shadows and with that done we're going to move on to the lights which is going to make everything come to life so you're going to create a new layer and you're going to pick a super bright gray color as well as a really soft brush so i'm going back to my extra soft brush and the light layer i forgot to mention it but it's going to be set to overlay and you can play with the opacity and pick something that you like and you're just going to quickly brush some light area so that's usually going to be the top of the cheek and the arch of the eyebrow in the corner of the eyes on the bridge of the nose on the tip of the nose kind of on top of the lips and on the lips themselves so making sure those lips are nice and voluminous you're probably going to get something on the chin as well and a little bit of very diffused light on the forehead and maybe even a little bit of light on the corner of the jaw and on the ears and you don't have to be super precise here we're gonna blend this later when you're kind of sculpting you might realize that some parts of your drawing are not exactly where you want to be for example this eyebrow i didn't like the positioning of it so you can always go back and use your selection tool just move stuff around just like i i did just then and then come back to whichever layer we're working on in this case the light layer and yeah like i mentioned we're just going to blend in the lights a little bit better um with the same smudge tool which is the sticker brush that comes with procreate and finally we're going to add the highlights which is definitely the most fun step of all so you're just going to create a layer set it to add and then lower the opacity somewhere around 15 and with a more precise brush so any brush from the inking panel would work or the detail texture brush from the bundle and you're you're same super light gray color you're going to add like extreme highlights that are going to be fairly precise so in the corner of the eyes maybe on top of the eyelid fold you're gonna get a little line there you might get something kind of in the arch of the eyebrow maybe kind of along the water line of the eye maybe in the middle of the eye you might even get something kind of in the little wrinkles below the eyes you're probably going to get some highlight in the corner of the nose and definitely some on the tip of the nose and on the bridge of the nose you're probably going to get some highlight as well on the top of the cheeks and those highlights i like to draw kind of really nice little scribbles and then blend them in a little bit again with my stucco smudge tool and just add a little bit more and kind of build like that probably gonna get some highlights and the center like between the eyebrows as well and definitely gonna get some highlights around the lips so the lips we haven't touched much the highlights is really kind of where you get to add a lot of dimensions on the lips so just some little fun little speckles like this that you can blend mostly for the top lip i like to not blend the bottom lip but blend top lip for some reason i i just think it looks really nice and you might get some highlights on the um the ear as well depending on you know if you have hair covering the ear or not and at this stage you really are kind of refining everything so what i like to do is just going back to my layers and the volume and texture panel just kind of uh playing with the opacity a little bit maybe upping some opacity lowering some opacity maybe going back with my smudge tool and smudging some stuff and just kind of reworking the whole piece a little bit so that everything flows together really really well and so that the textures are nice and everything just makes sense if you want your illustration to have more of a like actual illustration feel to it you can show the layers where you have your sketch again and you can kind of create a mask and erase some parts where the coloring doesn't really match the sketch like the eyebrows in my case which is way off so i just erase the sketch there but it's kind of nice to have the sketch marks it just makes everything feel like it's an actual drawing and you can select the entire portrait layer group and with the liquify tool set it to push you can kind of reshape the portrait a little bit that's kind of a face tune of your illustration at the end that you can do if you want to just change a little bit of the shape of some of the facial features so there you go this was how to color a semi-realistic portrait in procreate there are many ways to do this but i just think this method is like i said in the beginning very foolproof it is time consuming but that's to be expected when you're trying to draw something that is kind of realistic i'm going to put out a video for how to draw hair very soon so later this week it will be linked in description below if 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Length: 35min 0sec (2100 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 20 2021