HOW TO PAINT A WATER DROP - iPad painting tutorial in Procreate

okay today's tutorial I'm going to be showing you how to paint water droplets last tutorial I was exploring painting ocean waves and it really got me thinking about water in general I decided to return to the theme of water and do something much simpler the starting point for representing water probably which is water droplets there's two ways I'm going to show you I'm going to show you the more manual more by hand methods where you construct all of the parts manually because we're working digitally I can also really show you the benefit of using some of the tools to give you a really quick much easier way to actually produce them as well now what I've got in front of me is a piece of wood that I photograph that was just around my house so I'm going to use this and I'm going to apply the effects of water droplets across this photograph and you can photograph anything that you have around your house I really like the idea of wood because it has a grain and you'll see from the effects that I'm going to do on it that the grain is an important element of how I'm going to actually portray a water droplet if you want to follow along with the exact same background image of masa as myself then you can actually go to my patreon page and there is a link in the description that you can follow and you can go and download this image for free now I'm using the app procreate and the brushes that I'm going to use I'm only gonna use the soft airbrush today now I say it's the soft airbrush please don't get confused there is another one at the top that actually is called soft airbrush it's really technically it's just called a soft brush but it's within the airbrushing set of brushes and in terms of the colors I'm going to use well I'll show you how I would actually construct a palette for this tutorial now so I'm definitely going to need a color that's within this kind of range but I want a darker version so I'm gonna look for somewhere on my image where I have all of my darkest colors are gonna press and hold go back to my palette and I'm gonna put it in there and that can represent the darkest color on my canvas and then also going to look for a light area but I don't want somewhere that's too bleached out like this I'm gonna look for somewhere perhaps that is a lighter but also quite a vibrant color area and if you're not happy with it you can zoom in and zoom in until you can isolate an exact pixel do you think would be suitable so I'm gonna zoom in here find a pixel that is pretty light add it to my palette and I've got the darkest and the lightest colors I'm probably going to use having said that I am going to use a pure white you'll notice wherever you are on this color disk if you go in the general area of where you want the white to be and you double tap it will take you to the pure white that's exactly the same if you go and pure black or it is exactly the same if you go on a pure saturated version pure version of that color in this case what we want is the pure white and I'm going to add that to my color now I think really that's quite a easy straightforward thing to do you might also in fact is probably important we're gonna pick a color there's somewhere in the middle of those as well so I'll just find somewhere that I think is a brown but not as dark as that obviously and not as life as that so if you've got something for example like a leaf photograph or fabric or I've got a metal texture and you're gonna have to construct your palette in the same way again if you want to use these exact same colors there we'll be on the same length of this photograph is on soryu to do is look down the description this video follow that link it will take you to my patreon page but you don't have to be a patron you could download this on the color palette for free spelling that I'll put there hexadecimal codes there as well okay so the first method I'm going to show you is the more manual doing everything by hand pretty much so we're gonna go onto our brushes first we're on the soft brush it is just the default version of that I'm going to turn it down to about 1% now there's two different versions of one or there's a range of one percents if you like if you do it right down at the bottom of the slider it's a very very fine point but if you go up towards the top of the 1% by sliding it up ever so slightly then it's quite a lot bigger as a brush so I'm gonna go somewhere in the middle of those two on the 1% I'm going to find an area I think would be suitable for my water droplet and I'm going to draw a circle now a percentage of the opacity is quite low enough so I'll probably turn it up to 50% so we can see that hopefully a bit better on camera and I'm just going to go around the edge of my water droplet hopefully we'll see that better known on camera now the next thing I'm going to do now we've got the overall shape is I'm gonna go to the smudge tool I'm going check on brush come on I'm going to use the soft airbrush again for the smudge tool I'm going to have it as around 2% put it on around a 50% again and I'm just going to use that now just to smudge out the actual texture that's on the inside now I want to be careful I don't want to get rid of an area perhaps where it should be darker rather than light but I want to get rid of some of the textures that are in that center area what I'm going to do now is I'm gonna go back to my brushes go onto my color palette again I'm going to turn the brush down on rather keep up on the 1% what I'm going to do is instead of the textures that are actually there I'm going to do them again by hand manually but I'm going to make them a bit more exaggerated in the middle so they're going to start off small similar to how they are as they enter the bubble as we get towards the center they're gonna get bigger and then they're gonna get smaller again towards the other edge you see effect the magnifying effects of the actual water itself so it goes in slimmer widens up towards the center and then maybe go swim again on the outside to maybe get a texture here if you need to add a little texture just so it gives you a place that we should join to make it wider or exaggerated in the center and then it can get narrower on the edge keep doing that as much or as little as you want you want to keep it general to the same effects of texture everywhere else the try and keeper is natural looking if possible something like that so what we've really done is swollen and magnified that area in the sensor thicken up the edges thicken up the shapes maintenance slightly more saturated in the center whereas generally keeping to the effect of these surrounding areas go back to my colors I'm gonna pick this color I'm gonna put my brush up to 2% keep on the 50% but I'm going to create a shadow and I'm only gonna press on lightly so I want it to be quite thin at this point and as it gets round here so thin at this point again as it gets round here we're gonna have the shadow extending a little bit further [Music] you want to sharpen up that detail turn the pliers of the brush down just sharpen it up as it comes around the edge like so maybe just extend that dart line around here a little bit too just to make sure that it doesn't appear too soft edge when we get around the front bit the next thing we're gonna go we're gonna go back to our brown I'm just going to have it there's another area here to soften in that edge just a little bit so I'm just doing like a brown line just after that darkest line next we can go to our lightest color and in this next area add quite a lot of this lighter color so in any gaps in between the texture that we manually painted on then we can add more of this light color I'm going to keep it like a crescent moon shape in this area it's not going to go up to here it almost much in like this darker darker blob in that area which leaves you something like a like a say a crescent moon shape [Music] [Music] you've really got salmon this really lights in on this area if you want to it should be noticeably lighter than this area of here having said that we're not finished up the top area either because we're gonna go to our darker color and we're just going to lightly because we're still on the 50% we've not changed the opacity for any of these brushes we're gonna lightly just go over this area just to really darken it up a little bit about front edge now if you find that you're getting scribble noticeable scribble lines on it maybe you could just turn these sides of these brush up a little bit to maybe around 2% you've got a definite crisp line around the front anyway which is why we did it and now we can just shade in there a little bit the next thing we're going to do is we're going to go to our white probably turn the opacity down to around 40% we'll stay at the large size of the 2% brush and we're just going to create an area here and the front of this dark section well we're just lighten in God for that area then we'll turn the size I'll brush down to the lower end of 2% maybe turn the opacity up by 50% then we can just create front edge of that light area which would create some intense light at that point you can take that perhaps right up to the edge a little bit that's pretty much the general effect you can also perhaps with your lightest color use that just to gently I mean just a real light touch of it just add some light into the actual shadow here a little bit because what happens generally is the light comes through and then it might just illuminate some of that shadow a little bit but not too much you can really overdo that and it will look a bit silly so that's how I would recommend you do it more manually you can go back over there sharpen it up in areas - I can notice little bits of it here perhaps have a derma brush down to the 1% again I can just go around it sharpener and that edge up there for example [Music] some minor adjustments but I think that's pretty much creating the right kind of effect in fact that would be going for so how can we do this in a quicker more efficient way we've got digital tools here so let's use them to our advantage I see what we can do with that effect now before you go on to change any other aspects using other tools there's one thing that I would like you to do you go into your settings go into your preferences and you've got what's called the selection mask visibility it might be by default but if somewhere lower than I had just had it set but what I recommend you do is you turn it up to around the 50 percent not precisely just there abouts because what we're going to do next is we're going to go into this selection tool we're going to select the freehand make sure it's on add as well because this is important we're going to do all in one action we're going to start drawing circles or blobs tap the circle to complete it and you'll notice it's really noticeable where your water droplet has been selected now if I hadn't or hadn't got used to change this section if it was by default and you was to go around doing the same thing you can see it's really not that visible so you need to change the opacity of that all the visibility of that roller so two notes about 50% again ish make sure you're on the selection tool freehand make sure the add symbol is highlighted they're going to create a lot of friends for this particular water droplet you can have some smaller you can have them clustered you can have some different shapes what would recommend is that you try and avoid anything that starts to pay like a sharp corner obviously so they're not all going to be round by any means but the edges of them are generally going to be rounded [Music] if you fill the safe of this is gonna bit wonky to any of these if you don't want and you don't like it ignores to think about words to finger backwards and you can redo those ones anyway or three finger forwards and add them back in we're going to do a mixture of different sizes going to fill the whole image full of them as this next method really is quite quick you should be able to get pretty close to the same effect and if it doesn't get you 100% the same effect but at least get you close enough that then you can refine it more manually to get at the last few steps of the way I'm gonna take it off the edge of the canvas there you have a few slightly a wonky shapes like that one you're not sure about the ones you're doing really close up zoom in have some of them more stretched out like egg shapes or ovals have some more like unusual shapes perhaps you could do some that are more like kidney bean shapes [Music] there's many of or little of these as you like I quite like the effect when there's a lot of them which is why I'm doing a lot I might have a couple more going off the edge of our image [Music] now I want to make sure that you use some that are really close together as well you don't want them all completely evenly spaced out maybe just you notice that they're looking a little bit too uniform just do a few that seem to really get close to another one you don't want to have them touching but if you've done them too evenly spaced apart it might look a little bit artificial so there is up a little bit just a few stragglers here I guess I'm creating a lot of work for myself so maybe I should stop at that point and that should be enough okay so the next stage because there's not many stages to this but this next stage is going to be really important so you go to the adjustments you go to the hue saturation and brightness and we should by default be on 50% for brightness I want you to turn it up just about 5% more than it would be four or five percent should be plenty I also recommend that you turn the opacity up a little bit as well by about 3% up to 53% what I then recommend you do before you turn off this visibility mask is you go to the selection you press and hold it can then go along here and invert it so now what you've got selected is the background so anything you do in and around them is not going to affect the original blobs that you created as we did before we're gonna create some shadows around these shapes we're gonna go to our darkest color we're gonna make sure on the right brush to soft airbrush top-end of 1% have the opacity at around 50% and then what we can start doing is start adding shadows so we start off thin alongside thickens up at the back and then thin at the other side again we'll start adding shadows to all of these now strangely even though you might have a bigger shade doesn't mean it's necessarily going to cast a bigger shadow sometimes the smaller of the droplets sit more upright so they can actually have quite a substantial shadow and sue them even though they're a smaller shape so don't assume just because you have a bigger water droplet that it's gonna create a bigger shadow it might be that if it's a wide stretched out water droplet that it's quite low-lying so it doesn't have any more height even though it has more surface area so we're gonna try and use that as our basis however so we do need to make sure we're getting something similar in terms of the shadow already have started to go a little off now if you remember I added something of a little bit of a highlight into that shadow it really wasn't very much but what I could do when I'm creating the shadow now is he's not gonna go across it this edge but I can just create almost like the outline of the shadow where it's dark within the center area it might just have a little section that seems to be a little bit illuminated you don't have to do that on many of them you don't have to do it very much but a little hint of it here and there is actually going to be quite a good thing so maybe turn the opacity down for this actually it's really quite strong with the what we're creating here in terms of shadows I'll put it down to about 40% it maybe turn the size of the brush down a little bit so it's the top-end of 1% we're just gonna go around these shapes creating a shadow for the back half of the droplet and I've done a lot of droplet so it's gonna take me just a couple of minutes to go around the entire image to create shadows for all of them but it's really quite a quick process like this because you don't have to be too precious around the edge because you've already got that selection mask which means that you can't really step beyond the boundary which is great so you just need to make sure that you are keeping it quite thin as it goes around the front and then as it comes around the back you have wider angle on it there so fern around the edge and then it runs wider like I say maybe just in the middle section there it's a little bit lighter so focus it really perhaps just in the center [Music] [Music] [Music] okay I'm gonna do the rest but for this points in the tutorial I'm just gonna stop and then show you the next part I'm gonna press and hold us again I'm going to invert it again so now that we've inverted again and we've got the inside of the water droplet selected we're going to go to the adjustments we're going to go to the liquify very suitable title for what we're going to be working on we're going to go to the expand option and we're going to put it depending on the size of the droplets but I would say an average of around 35% for these particular examples to what I'm going to ask you to do next is go to your individual droplets press and hold just for a moment and you'll see it expands it's a very similar effect to what we were actually doing before now one thing I just noticed there is expanding across the two actual shapes so maybe what we need to do is be a bit more precise with our liquify tool maybe turn it down to around 25% that way I can hold it in the center of that maybe turn it around there a little bit press it in the middle of that in the middle of that and then it really just affects the actual water droplet that I want to for most of them it's just going to require a patate and a whole just for a moment and in some of them you're not going to notice the effect too much anyway but some of them for example like this one you can really start to exaggerate and you can go over a few times exaggerated out some of the textures and it's going to be much more magnified in the center of that than it is on the surrounding areas so I'm just going to do all of these now it won't take me a moment it's a subtle detail but it's one that the I think the eye can actually detect and appreciate the difference like sound also on some of the smaller ones you're not going to have much of a noticeable effect but it's the middle sized ones especially that I think you noticed that really quite a lot and it gives you that extra sense of round magnification which is really effective for what we're trying to do if you feel like you've moved around too much just go to the center again press and hold just adjust a little bit more until you're happy with it now I've got quite a few on the edge here you've got any really noticeable texture in the center then definitely use that one there's no opportunity to show the effect some of them are not worth bothering with as much maybe just single out the ones that are really going to create that effect the best for you as you can see I'm just tapping a few type tapping and holding a few times around the center area that perhaps is the technique is gonna work better for the larger shakes anyway okay that will do for that a particular part of the effect we're going to go to our brush go to this color here which is the not the darkest color but the next one along we're going to have our brush it's around two percent opacity it's about forty percent and what we're going to do next is we're going to just create an area on this half of our water droplets that's a bit more in shadow you don't want to go over the top with it it's just a little bit more to press lightly if you don't seem to be getting the same effect by pressing lightly it could be that under the preferences you've got the Edit pressure set differently than mine by default it would be something like this I change it so it's a sharper pitch at the beginning that means that basically I'd have to press as hard to make something happen with the actual Apple pencil so I'm just pressing like I say around that edge transfer blends it in a little bit it's on a soft airbrush anyway so it should be fairly easy to blend it in so I'm just concentrating on the ones that have already created a shadow on the back half for them I'm going to do the rest of them but for the sake of the video I'm just going to concentrate on some of them I think I maybe overdid it in terms of winner initially drilled shapes but I do want to create the overall effect so I'll probably do the rest of the effect after I've finished this video and then I'll show you the end results anyway I suppose you have already seen it on the thumbnail when I'll sort of start to the video but I'll show you the full finished version anyway okay that's much the ones that had a shadow on I've now added the darker edge to that so what I'm going to do now is I'm gonna press that's and deselect and you can see work well most of the way there in terms of the actual effect we are missing the highlight and perhaps just a few refinements here and there as well so what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to my white I'm gonna have the brush size at two your pasty down to around thirty percent and I'm just gonna lightly go over the area similar to our did they want most of the reflected light I can do this for all the ones that perhaps I've already added shadow for if I'm doing is small or what's the droplet I'll turn the size of that brush down even more to a suitable size for what I'm actually working on and then I can also go back over with a smaller brush I did turn it down already so I turned it down so around the one top end of the one percent for the smaller water droplets but also for the smaller highlights within the bigger water droplets around that percentage it works pretty well as well so you can see just by doing those effects were most of the way there with the ones that were actually working with highlights on them now it's not to say that you can't further refine them because I would still probably want to do that with these extra ones anyway it's definitely bad as up enables to get to a slightly better position where creating the overall effect now if you want to refine them I recommend the same things that I showed you before so go on to perhaps some of the textures here except you don't have to make them up this time turn the size we brush down so you can be more precise but you can see the textures are there in fact you can just go over them so they stand out a little bit more clearly you have to make them up you're just making sure that they stand out a little bit more you can also go into this back area and just create another section here just to soften that edge because we had the selection which means that when we have the shadow here it was impossible for it to cross over the edge which means that the edge is a little bit sharp you can just go over it and soften it up a little bit you can also go around this edge with this brown coal we've got celexa just to sharpen up around the front a bit perhaps but you can see the effect of using the two different techniques is pretty similar now at this point there's not a lot to choose between them but we've managed to create a lot more in that space of time perhaps they need a little bit more refinement and that's fine but we have reached a point where we've done a lot of them a lot more quickly than we could have done them all completely manually I went a bit daft I did rather a lot of them so if it'll it just a touch fewer of them we perhaps could have actually got them all done within the video but we still gets in the overall effect you can see that one was done completely manually and that one is utilized some of the real excellent tools that you can use within the app got a really nice one here that I think I'd like to just work into a little bit more as well so let's have a look at that one look at our darker color here I've got the edge here where we had the shadow we're just gonna soften the edge a little bit can also come back to our darker brush just a little bit more darkness even their shadow we can create that shadow round to the front a little bit more it gives us a nice crisp edge at the front now we're getting a really nice result with that so we can go back to our brown maybe exaggerate some of the textures to a little bit more yeah that's working quite nicely so remember I also recommended that we perhaps leave an area at the back of the shadow maybe in the center that is left a little bit illuminated because like I say what you'll generally get through water droplets is the light coming through and actually creating a little bit of a light area at the back there as well so I'm just gonna work round my canvas now I see if we can get some more of these done so I'll just walk you through the process just a couple more using this slightly darker Brown crisping up the front edge or softening in the area where we had it masked off we need to go over the texture in the sensor it even add a couple of blobs if you feel that it would enhance it and this one's particularly nice one to add texture to but work on what's already there really push it a little bit further concentrate a little bit of a lighter area in the middle of that shadow the lights coming through yeah and I think that one's working nicely as well that's another one we're doing all of this now on this color got the brush set at the top end of 1% and we are at around 30% opacity so I'm just going suffering the edge maybe just crisp it up at the front a little bit account areas of the texture that we want to exaggerate bring out a little bit more out bits in there if there's not quite enough for your liking and then we're pretty much done with it so from the edge bring it around the front just to tidy it up a little bit exaggerate the texture on the inside in this example we haven't added the white highlight so we're just going to don't change any of the other settings just lightly create an area at the front which is like a soft white and the center that we can just go over a few times to create that harder light as well on that as well I'm gonna repeat the process for some of these you start to see the effect build up more and more for all of these [Music] I excite if you feel like you want to sharpen up the shadow make it a little bit stronger in places you could even go into the grain is another example if you feel like the grain should be a little bit darker in the shadow area it always adds a little bit of that darker color in there as well remember you want to keep something of a light area there to them show up a bit of the white reflected in the fronts as well [Music] [Music] if you've got a larger shape like this you can turn this size of the brush ups around well top-end of 2% in the example I'm creating more of a stretched out highlight there in the general sense but then I'm going to turn the size of the brush down again to the top end of one person and I'm really still I'm going to concentrate the reflected area the really bright white area just for a small part of it okay I'm gonna tackle this last larger water droplet and then I'm probably going to do the rest off-camera but I'll show you the results at the end Oh again I'm just softening up this edge where it meets the shadow I'm not happy with the look of that shadow which is one of the reasons I just wanted to sort that out before all this tutorial finisher is gonna sharpen up around the front edge [Music] maybe bring that shout out a little bit more so it's more rounded and I was gonna go right sometimes you need to work a little bit longer on some of them that's just part the process let's pick out some of these or exaggerated pieces of the grain can make more of them than it perhaps is actually naturally there to make them a bit thicker a bit more prominent right in the center is going to be definitely getting that magnification effect you don't want to go too crazy of it though because if you start just go and really preserve because you think it's a bigger shape you're gonna push it too far and it will look slightly silly so you just want to increase the size but only by a certain amount okay I'm gonna go to my darker color I feel like it needs a little bit more of that front as well and schedule our white just like we did here we're gonna create at a gentle kind of light that goes across maybe a bit fading in and out turn size of the brush down and we're just gonna create some areas that really have a shot of life and because it almost has two points there we might have two points at which it really reflects back a lot of lights as well and again if you want to put a little bit more of the lights into the center of the shadow you can just use the lighter color perhaps should have gone that way use that color I'm just a touch more without lighter color into the center and I think I'm gonna leave this video part of the tutorial at this point so you can see now the it rests the effects in full finished detail and it's quite a simple technique when used correctly really really is so I hope you've enjoyed watching this tutorial this is just I thought I'd go back to the beginning of water stick with the most basic effects although I've done it before in slightly different fashion I felt like this was not dated version showing you how to do it more efficiently I'm going to do lots of other water tutorials all sorts of different kinds of water in different states and different shapes make sure to press the bell notification button when you subscribe check out 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Channel: James Julier Art Tutorials

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Id: XG5ime6ppSM

Length: 30min 37sec (1837 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 11 2020