How To Draw Tattoo Stencils In Procreate

everyone so today I'm going to be making a tutorial about procreate and how I make my tattoo stencils on my iPad I'm going to do two different stencils I'm going to do a realistic rose and a traditional rose to show you the difference on how I prepare my stencil so check it out okay so once you are now inside of procreate you have to go and open up a new canvas I usually go with the a4 is the closest to what a real size of a piece of paper actually is so the first one that we're gonna do is gonna be the traditional Rose and then after that we're gonna do the realistic Rose I just went online and I got a traditional Rose off of a flat sheet and just a picture of a actual rose obviously you can sketch out your designs I don't encourage tracing online but this for today at the sake of today's video I just grabbed some pictures offline so the first thing you're gonna want to do to import your photo reference is go up here to the layers tab and make sure that you have the layer selected that you want to import the photo on to if you don't want it on the first layer you can always create multiple layers so once you have the layer selected you go up here to the wrench icon and go to insert photo all photos and down here I took the screenshot of this flash sheet and we're going to be doing this rose today so you're able to resize the photo with your fingers and if you want to warp it or anything like that you can use that to change the shape of the picture so once you have it at the size that you want it to be I just wreak lik this selection tool to get rid of the selection so once you have your photo reference at the size that you want it you go up to this little selection tool up here and what I'll do is select the part of the picture that I want to keep for my stencil so I'll get as close as I can to the actual photo reference without cutting any part of it off with this you don't have to be perfect with it but I like to get as close as I could so it looks neater well I'm drawing the stencil [Music] so once you have the image completely selected you click this little dot that then completely selects the image and then I'll go down here to invert which then selects the image outside of what you've selected and you click this tool up here and you're able to move the outside of the picture away so now you just have your photo reference and you're able to work on a clean image now that step is not completely necessary I like to do it just so there isn't any distractions all around my picture so the next step is to go up and create a new layer and once you've created a new layer you can do one of two things you can come up here select the layer that the image is on and bring the opacity down and just use black to draw your stencil so you're able to see right over top of it or if you want it to keep it at full opacity you can use a different color than black so that you're able to see what you're doing overtop of the image so you're not using black over top of this and then you don't know what you're doing I'll usually pick a blue or a green once you have your color selected you go up here to the brush selector tool and the brush that I always use for my outlines is under the inking tab I'll go to technical pen and a little secret that I like to do is I'll turn streamline all the way on what streamline does is it'll basically take any jitter that is extreme out of your hand motion obviously you can still put jitter in your stroke but as you can see it smooths out your stroke and it's a lot easier to get a smoother cleaner stencil so I always make sure to put that on you can take it off if you're doing something that's jagged so you're able to get those jagged lines and edges because if you streamline on it kind of changes the edges to where they're not as jagged or sharp the technical pen brush usually relates to needles pretty well so size number three or four is usually a three or liner same with five or six or seven that's usually around a seven liner so I usually try to pick the thickness of my brush too I'm thinking about what kind of needle I'm gonna be using during the tattoo so for this I'll be usually using a nine or fourteen depending on how big the design would be so I would probably pick a 10% brush size so then that way when it prints out the stencil is as thick as the lines would be on the tattoo so once you pick your brush size you go up here make sure your layer is selected that you want to draw and don't draw on top of the actual picture reference because then when you go to print your stencil out there would have been no point in actually drawing an outline so get on a clean layer and just start tracing basically now little trick besides streamline to get your lines crisp and perfect is holding your your line down without releasing it and it will correct your shape and make it perfect so for this straight line you just take it and let it straighten out here I'll show you on a bigger line so you can make a line like this and it'll correct it to being straight if you want to do a circle you can do a circle and hold it and it'll still be like not a perfect circle but then if you press with your other hand it'll release it to a perfect circle and you're able to change the shape but you can also release back and be that oval if you have an oval and you want to change it its shape a little bit you let it go and it will stay up here as edit shape then it'll have all these different points on the actual circle and you're able to move it and manipulate it so I use that feature a lot just to make sure that my stencils are where I want them to be I try to make them as perfect as I can that way while I'm tattooing I'm able to make my tattoo as perfect as I can now this would be a good example where I can edit my shape over here it wasn't completely on the line once it corrected itself so I'll take this and kind of drag it over something that way this line instead of being over in the red it's now over top of the actual line [Music] [Music] alright so now that I have all the main lines outlined I go and I will hide the actual photo reference so I can make sure that I didn't miss any lines and I'll just click back and forth like this a couple times and once I've done that and made sure everything was actually properly outlined I'll go back and fill solid color in places that is gonna be totally black so in this leaf right in here in this little gap in here also I'll just take this color and I'll drag and drop and it will completely fill it so now those solid areas of black are filled with your color I'll go back and I will use a smaller brush just because I want to put in my details and where my shading will go and I'll usually go with four percent of the technical pen now what I'll do is I'll open another layer just in case I mess this up and I have to erase or whatever I'm not messing up my layer with the actual outline on it I'll always start a new layer for this part so now I'll go back and I'll put in the little details like little veins in the leaves and I'll also start adding in little dashes to where the shading will go so now I've got all the veins in there you see I have the full outline a lot of times I want to do this next step with traditional work just because they are more simple tattoos and I've done so many traditional roses where I know where black goes but it is good practice to be able to know where the black goes to be able to do this so when I'll go in to figure out where the black goes I'll just do dashes basically in the areas to where the black will go so now there is your full stencil a lot of times if you are not used to reading stencils and you're just starting out tena tooling I would recommend inside of the dashes doing slashes basically to tell yourself like this is where the black goes so you're not confused so this way it's easier to read but people that are more experienced you know you're not you don't have to do that it's just easier to be able to read the actual stencil so now once your entire stencil is done what I'll do is come up here to the layers tab and only the layers that you've drawn on not the actual photo reference you're gonna take and you're gonna pinch them together and they're all gonna snap together so now they're all one layer and once they're all one layer you're gonna go up to this little magic stick looking thing and you're gonna go to hue saturation and brightness and then you're just gonna take the brightness all the way down so then that way when you go to print your stencil it is black for the stencil machine and that is how I would stencil a traditional tattoo on procreate and let's move on to the more realistic style rose so if you're still working within the same canvas obviously we would start a new layer again and go through the same process of importing the picture you go up to the wrench icon down to insert photo and let's see where do I have it of Rose somewhere I know I have one saves alright so here is the Rose that we are going to stencil today so once you import it like I said you size it click this to unselect now go up to here to the selection tool and go as close to the image as you can to get rid of the background now like I said you don't have to get it perfect I usually just do it as quickly as possible just so I can get a cleaner image to work off of and usually I'm not just doing one Rose I'm usually compiling it within a couple different elements so in that way I'm able to basically morph all the elements together and with a background that's basically impossible so I always remove them and once you get back to where you start it you click the little circle click invert and go back up here to this tool and make the background just go away now if you are super zoomed in like this like me and you want to see what's going on out here and you have this tool select it you're gonna end up shrinking what you have selected so you do is you hold it in the cursor button and you're able to actually rotate and move and zoom without shrinking or making your image bigger so that's a little tip hold this down and you can move it without it you move this image so once you have all this cut out and ready to go you open up a new layer again select your brush size now for more realistic photos I usually stay around 4% brush size with the technical pen and I usually have streamline all the way on now I don't do a lot of color realism I'm usually doing black and gray I honestly don't do very much color in general I usually just do black and gray so what I'll do is if I have a color photo reference I'll go up here to this magic adjustments tool and you'll go to hue saturation and brightness and down here you'll just desaturate the photo so then it's a black and gray photo you're able down here to go with the brightness so you can change it however makes you more comfortable so usually I like to darken it up just a little bit so that I can see where the blackest blacks would go and that's where I'll leave it so once I'm on my new layer I have my color select that I'm gonna use and my brush selected I just go through and I'll outline the entire thing first before I do any of the shading marks just like the last stencil [Music] [Music] okay so I thought I was done outlining but once I hid my reference layer I found that I forgot this line right here so going back and forth like this when you think you're done is really important because it definitely shows what is not actually drawn all right so now I got my outline so the next step would be starting another layer and you're gonna go back and you're gonna get all the little details and the shadow areas and all the blacks so now right here this area is gonna be black so I'm dashing that out and this is I know now going to be fading out into a mid-tone so it's gonna go black and it's gonna fade out into a darker tone here but I want to make sure that my black I know where that goes because the blacks are very important have you ever seen a tattoo to where it's just all one tone it doesn't really have any dimension or anything like that that's because they don't have blacks they put blacks in those roses then they would pop much more and they would look much better so getting your blacks in there and clearly identifying where they go is really important another little thing that I'll do is I'll do the dashes and then I'll outline them in little dots and that way I know that's exactly where the black could end and blend into the other tones [Music] now I find that photo references of a picture out in nature like this flower they aren't totally what I want for my tattoo so I'll go in and I'll add tones where I know that they will look better for the tattoo so if you see me going rogue on some of these shadows I've just done so many roses to where I know that a certain shadow in a certain place will make it look better for the tattoo so once you're doing so many of these different designs over and over you get to figure out for yourself what will look best for a tattoo so you don't have to completely follow your reference don't think that you have to make sure that it looks exactly like this every single time because a lot of times a weird shadow in a nature picture will throw off the way that you want your tattoo to look so go and kind of rogue and thrown in some different shadows will make it look better so don't be scared to be creative with realism even though it's not on your actual picture changing the light source up a little bit or adding another one will make it look better [Music] alright so in my mind that is a pretty complete realistic style tattoo stencil for this rose I mean it's not completely exactly what this Rose looked like but just like this is called a photo reference it's a reference you don't have to completely copy it I'll put up a couple pictures of a couple different roses that I've done to show you what I would turn this into so then that way you kind of see how I go from using this map basically in to translating into a tattoo one thing that I do recommend doing because obviously not very many people are just getting one realistic rose so what I'll usually do is I'll take my layer with my stencil on because usually you're adding some type of other element say you're adding a skull on to this you don't want to just start drawing on top of that so what I'll do is I will duplicate the layer that the stencil is on and how you do that you swipe over from the right to the left and this menu will pop up you go to duplicate you hide one of the layers so in this way this layer is your saved stencil this is your whole stencil like you're not gonna mess with at all so you hide this one the duplicated one is the one you're able to play with so say you're gonna add a skull in here there's gonna be a terrible skull because it's not gonna be really a skull here's your skull so say you want this rose to go behind the skull you're gonna have to erase part of this rose so you have to go on to the layer with the Rose on it take your eraser and he raised part of the stencil that you just drew so now when you erase the part of the stencil 8 you just drew you might not like it you know 20 minutes down the road the way that it developed you still have that full stencil of the Rose saved so say you know you'll have the skull and rose and some other stuff every single stencil that I draw I have back up stencil somewhere down in my layers so just in case I messed that one up I still have a backup just in case so I don't have to redraw the whole stencil all I have to do is say oh I don't like this delete this one and I still have this and I'm still able to reposition my elements and I just do it over and over again say I wanted to try at a different position I'll just duplicate it again hide this one and use this one as my experimentation layer basically so basically yeah that's kind of it one last tip that I forgot to mention when you go to print your stencil I recommend taking your reference layer and you take two fingers and you tap it at the same time the opacity pops up so you bring the opacity down to like 50% so then that way you can print this out you're able to see what you stenciled on the reference so print this out and then also print a full 100% opacity version so then that way you can see this burden to see where your stencils supposed to go and what you're actually outlining and then also version of this so then that way you can see the full value picture procreate is a really awesome program for tattoo artists I know a lot of old-school tattooers don't like the whole digital age and they want to just say like you know just use a pencil and paper the whole time but the amount of time that I save and the amount of time that I'm able to put towards something else by just using this iPad and procreate is really incredible instead of using 15 different pieces of paper to you know Sketch up my stuff and draw at all I have it all right here it's all organized and it's all so easy so one last little tidbit that I have for you about drawing your stencils on procreate you're able to take a picture of your clients body parts say you're taking a picture of an arm and you're able to import it into procreate and you're able to draw right over top of that body part so when you print out your stencil you know that it's gonna fit the area that you drew it for and there's no guesswork saying like oh I hope that this fin on this shark doesn't run into this other tattoo and I have to redraw it while my client is here let me know if you want to see more appropriate tutorials and how I use it every day as a tattoo artist let me know what you would want to see if you want to see more about how to take pictures of your clients and draw over the pictures I'll do that too just let me know what you want to see I hope this video helped you I don't have a good day and that you eat some pizza today because pizza is good for you [Music]

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Length: 19min 36sec (1176 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 24 2019