IPAD PAINTING TUTORIAL - How to paint a realistic candle in procreate app

okay welcome to another of my ipad painting tutorials on today's tutorial i'm going to show you how to paint a candle flame something i've done before a few years ago but i feel like i want to do a better version today it's quite festive we're approaching christmas and it feels like an appropriate subject matter as well so as usual i'm using the app procreate i've opened an a4 canvas i have some pre-selected colors here the codes for these are down in the description of this video all you need to do if you use the app procreate which is this app is go down to the value section within the value section here you can type in the codes that are appropriate to those colors they put color will appeal up here and you just drag it down to your color palette and then you can recreate the exact colors that i'm going to be using for this tutorial alternative to that there is a link in the description there too which takes you to my patreon page and the actual color file is downloadable there for free the next thing you need to know is the brushes i'm going to be using i'm going to be using the soft brush within airbrushing i also later on we'll be using the medium hard brush and then when i come to do some other tricks on the eraser tool i might try some different things and i'll show you those a little later on so the first thing i'm going to do is go to my background i'm going to change the color to my darkest color here then on our first layer here we're going to go to our brushes we're going to select the soft brush we're going to go back to our colors and we're going to start adding some effects of a candle now so i'm not going to use this first color here i'm going to move along to the second color along and i'm going to put the brush at around the lower end of four percent and i'll put the opacity at around 50 percent so with this brush now i'm just going to map in where i want my candle flame to exist so the first thing you can do is you can just fill in this little bit it's going to be getting lighter as it gets closer to the flame that we're going to be adding anyway perhaps if you turn the opacity down to around 20 we can just soften that in a little bit what i'm going to do is i'm going to go to my gaussian blur i'm going to use the pencil on this rather than the the whole layer i'm just going to check that the size of my brush is appropriate so you can see somewhere around the three or four percent and i'm just going to use it here to soften in maybe turn the opacity up to around 50 and i can just blur it in where it's appropriate to i want to avoid the edges though let's put the opacity on full let's really blur this in i'm going to blur it downwards so it's quite a good way of preserving perhaps a neater edge here but at the same time blurring it down okay we're going to move along to our next color along which is this lighter color we're going to turn the size of the brush to around three percent turn the opacity back down again to around 50 and we're just going to use this a little bit more carefully now bring in this front edge of our candle and maybe the back edge of that shape too maybe the whole section at the top here is going to be a little bit lighter it's going to be directly facing the candle flame which is going to be in this area obviously and if we just turn the opacity really low again so we'll put it even lower because it's a really strong bright color so we'll put it at around 10 and then we can just soften that in a little bit around this point do it a few times you can see i'm allowing it to develop almost layers here steps and that doesn't matter because we can go back into it with our gaussian blur again so we'll do that we'll go to our adjustments gaussian blur use the pencil tool we'll keep on the same settings as before so it was around three percent but we will put it on full opacity again and we'll just blur that in [Music] try to preserve the the outside shape of the candle now i don't like the way that these edges are appearing here so you're almost getting like legs appearing on it there not a problem we can always just blur it up there and there and then down in the center and you'll find that it starts to even up okay we'll go back to our soft brush again make sure it's a little bit lower so the top end of two percent will turn the opacity back down again to around 20 and we'll just use this to define in this top edge of our candle for now now i'm not going to get too bogged down in the tiniest of details on this just yet i'm just setting the stage so now we'll move quickly on to the actual flame itself but what we will need is decide where our center point is so we put a little marker there we'll extend that up a little bit then we'll go back to our colors move to the darker brown one there i'll just show you that again so we've gone from this color we're moving to this one we'll use this color to bring our candle wick up a little bit then we'll go to this dark color and we'll add that as well okay we're going to create another layer we're going to go back to our colors and we're going to use the second row of colors we will come back to those top layers at a future point but we're going to move along to this first blue color we're going to go to our soft airbrush we're going to turn it quite low so we're going to put it at maybe the the lower end of two percent and we're going to put it very low on the opacity so we're going to put it at around 10 percent opacity and we're just at this point in our tutorial or our painting going to start putting in some of this blue at the bottom section here so it's going to just creep in and we're going to use it to define the outer edge of our candle flame now we can take it all the way up and have it describe the overall shape but we're not going to see the blue later on at the top of our flame really we're going to notice it here but we won't see it up here at the end but it's okay we're just using it to define the overall shape initially and like i say the most important bit is this section here so once you've got the lines in place you can go over them a little bit just make them really noticeable at this bottom section then you can turn the size of the brush up to around three percent keep it on the low opacity and from the edge now you can just start to blend it in a little bit so you can have it creeping in from that outer edge a little bit more but you don't want to do too much that's probably sufficient we're going to create another layer prefer to keep everything on different layers just in case we want to knock something back later on go to our next color along which is this much stronger much warmer obviously an orange color so i'm going to use this on the same settings we did just then which is the low top end of two percent and we're going to keep it and the 10 opacity and we're just going to start feeding this into this candle flame not at the bottom of the blue section but just a little bit higher up this color we can allow to really be more noticeable a little bit later on as well higher up in the flame so what we want is almost like the blue is going to be noticeable just on the outer edge here the orange is creeping in at around this point and it's going to cross the center to the other side i'm going over a few times because it's on very low opacity and you can do that all the way across now i'm leaving this darkest darker section in the center and it is important it is left darker if you find that you've started to concentrate too much in there just go back back track it a little bit you want to have everything fading a little bit more in that center area zoom back out so you can see the whole thing and if you're not happy with the way it's going we'll do the same that we did before so we'll go back to our adjustments our gaussian blur we'll use the pencil tool and we'll keep it at the same here and the same there maybe the opacity can be up for the adjustments though so we can blend that in you need to be careful you don't do it too strong so we will reduce that back down to around 50 ish and we'll just blend that in where we need to now the good thing about using the pencil rather than the layer is the layer would just blur in every direction so you'd lose that outer edge whereas if you just do the pencil you can concentrate your blurring exactly where it needs to be and you can preserve the overall shape much better so go back to our just ordinary brush and you will need to knock your opacity back down again because the blur the gaussian blur actually change that brush setting for us so we're still on the top end of two percent and we're still on the 10 percent roughly 10 here so we'll just start to bring this all the way up it's going to be quite strong and bright all the way at the top anyway i'm not worried about neatness there because we're going to go over it with some brighter colors okay so speaking of radicals we'll go along we'll create another layer go along to our colours we're going to pick this really bright color now we're going to use this carefully so we're not going to change the brush settings it's still going to be at the top under two percent and it's still going to be on 10 there but now we're just going to start bringing it in at the edges and then letting it go across the middle section allow it to build up gradually take it to the top pretty much could always actually increase the brush size to around three percent for this take it up to the top [Music] bring it down a little bit we don't want to destroy the orange that was already there so we just need to be a little bit careful not to destroy we want to preserve some of it but we have the option again of going back with our gaussian blur and then just fine tuning this anyway so we'll creep it down a little bit into this area we'll do the gaussian blur in a moment we'll just really concentrate our brightness now in the center let's go back to our adjustments gaussian blur use the pencil so we will need to turn the opacity up to around fifty percent again for it to be noticeable we'll keep the brush size at around three percent that's fine for this purpose and we'll just soften it in in this area and then at the top as well we're going to create another layer i'm going to go back to our colors and we have a couple of different colors that are really going to help with the effects we're going to use this yellow color first we'll turn the size of the brush down to probably the lower end of two percent and we'll turn the opacity down to around 15 percent for this and just where the blue starts to fade out at the end of that so about halfway of our flame also where the darkness starts to disappear as well and it becomes bright we'll bring some of this warmer colour onto the edge if we zoom in a little bit just so you can really see this just some slight more golden of a yellow colour just along the edge and then we'll go back to our colours and we'll keep on the same layer for this we'll turn the size of the brush up to around three percent put the opacity really low at around we'll stay on the 10 see how that works and then we can just start to on the outer part of this flame start to add some orange warmth a real glow around that area i'm going to concentrate some of this up at the top as well [Music] now slightly different effect that i'm i'm going for with this color so we've got that section at the top but when we go to our gaussian blur we're going to affect the whole layer and we're going to blur it out to probably in my example around the 12 13 any more than that it just completely disappears so we'll put it somewhere about the 13 in we'll go back to our yellow color with this yellow we'll start adding a little bit more of that in there as well just in the center area again i'm going to blur it again gaussian blur fit the whole layer and blur it out a bit more to a similar point around the 13 now i'm just going to go back a layer onto this layer where all the bright color was but i'm going to really amplify that up now so i'm going to go back to that bright color i'm going to turn the size of the brush to the top end of two percent but i'm going to put the opacity up to 20 now so this is really going to have more of an impact for this color but we're going to make a sharper point at the top of our flame i'm just going to redefine that that edge for us and i'm just going to really intensify up in this center area as well just be careful you don't come down to this section so let's keep it really blended in smoothly we can always turn the opacity up to 100 just see what impact that has if you've gone over it enough times in that center area now it shouldn't make a difference that's a good way of testing whether you've built it up enough but yeah generally it would be best to do it a little bit more gradually so it does stay more soft focus or blend it in more gradually i'm going to go back to this layer above i think it actually is important that it doesn't compete with that layer so i'm going to put it underneath that layer and that way i fill now with this layer even though it was a later layer now it's underneath and go back to these warmer colors and i can start using them but it's not going to interfere with the overall intensity of that flame so i'm going to keep it at the top end of two percent we'll keep it at the 20 opacity and i can feel like now i can just a bit more confidently start to place it at the top and have it creating another warm spike at the top there if you feel like you want to use the smudge tool you can go to the smudge tool maybe put it on the medium brush and just smudge it in there so it extends up a little bit that could be a nice effect go back to our brush bring it back down along the sides go back to our yellow color which was the one before this add a bit more in this center area because the most intense part of the light is going to be this middle section so it makes sense that you have some slightly more of a glowing section surrounding it as well and again we can go to our gaussian blur affect the whole layer just move it in a little bit this time so around the seven or eight percent another thing we can do if we go back to this warm color is we could create another layer i'm doing this so just in case i overdo this uh we'll turn the size of the brush up really quite big to around 20 and we'll turn it really low at around the five percent opacity now just zoom out a little bit so you can really see this and it's a large brush so i can just start to add it generally to the area and you can see it's just starting to create that overall glowing appearance now it's easy to overdo it so i'll backtrack that back to the beginning of it again that will go to that layer and we'll clear it i'll turn the size of the brush even further up to around 30 and maybe i'll just concentrate it in that center area a little bit so now when i turn the layer on and off you can see the impact it's having if you want to exaggerate it a little bit further you can do you can just spread it out a bit more again double check the effect it's having see whether it's beneficial whether you like it if you like it and you want to test it a bit more test it a bit more is that having the effect that you desire i think that probably does impact and help it somewhat i do feel it perhaps it could compete too much with what else we've got there so what you can do is you can just move it down your layers until it finds its right spot and maybe it should be underneath all of those flame colors and then we can just see the overall effect that it is having let's put it behind the candle too why not but you can see the effect it is still having we'll go back to our blue layer let's just refine a little bit so we will zoom in a little bit i don't often do this but it is more of a detailed tutorial so we're going to reduce the size of the brush to around the lower end of two percent and just turn it up a little bit to around 15 opacity and just with the blue we'll start to creep this up a little bit more just refine it so you're getting a nice sharp detail maybe change this shape of it slightly we will go to the gaussian blur we use the pencil tool just turn the size of it in fact it's still on the same setting so we can just go straight from the brush to the blurring tool and just soften it in where it feels appropriate so i'm just going to take some of the intensity away from the middle section just so i can really sharpen up that edge if you can see what i'm doing there so i just want to extra emphasize that that edge i think that works better if i can also go in with the eraser tool and just maybe remove some of this little bottom section here just so it really emphasizes it on this edge as well now i feel like i wanted a little bit more on the layer above so we go back to our colors that it was this color and this color i'm going to put the brush on this color to around the lower end of three percent and we'll keep the opacity low at around five percent i'm just going to start bringing some of this orange color down a little bit now i feel like the wick isn't defined enough so we need to see that a little bit more clearly by bringing this orange color down a little bit more we can really start to leave that center bit darker and it reveals the wick that is there and we'll do the same go to the next color along which is this color we want this really low opacity we'll put it around the three percent so easy to overdo this color in fact we will turn the size of the brush down as well to the lower end of two percent and we'll just sharpen this around the edge where it meets the blue so it goes from blue and then it goes this brighter color now getting into more detail at this point the overall effect was achieved anyway but we're just refining a little bit more so you could stop at that earlier stage and your overall effect was definitely still there but we're just pushing it a little bit further see if we can ramp up the realism a little bit so we can continue with this lighter color now to really define where the wick is going to be as well so i'm just going to bring some more of this light into this section you're also going to lose some of that candle wick we can always go with the blur and just blur some of it away anyway but we'll stick the with the actual brush add some extra light so again we're still on the two percent and we're on the three percent opacity we'll just add some more of this bright color [Music] bring some of this brighter color down so it really blends in more almost with the blue it actually exists on the inside of the blue so the blue sort of hugs the outside of this brighter area [Music] and then maybe just lose the top of our wick as well soften it in with the bright light we could also go back to our gaussian blur go to the pencil soften that in a little bit as we require so we'll put the the gaussian blur brush around three percent and whack it up to around fifty percent again just soften it in a little bit if we're starting to get too much texture in our brush then actually for this type of subject matter we don't really want any texture so we'll eliminate that one thing we could do with our different layers if we go to our layer four we could try this out it might be a little bit too much we could go to the bloom setting we could try the whole layer and intensify it up and it really does help actually so you don't have to do too much you could just put up to around seven eight percent if you do it anymore you know it looks realistic basically if you just add that little bit it doesn't need a lot so no more than around ten percent and it definitely has helped it's not essential but it does make it look more realistic so i'm going to put that up to around the eight percent and that's definitely massively helped you could try it with the other layers i don't think it really needs it i think just for that brightest layer then that's where it's most significantly needed but if you wanted to try it with another layer you can go to the blue affect the whole layer and ramp it up with another color as well arguably that helps it intensifies it i quite like it actually so we'll leave it there we're going to go back to our candle layer let's start adding a little bit of detail to that too go back to our colors we'll use the colors up here again we don't want to use those bright colors really we use that color now the light from the actual candle is going to pick it up here so we'll just turn the size of the brush down to the lower end of two percent have the opacity to around 30 and because there's a bright light here it's going to reflect on the the whack obviously the waxy surface of the candle which is reflective maybe if you have any little anomalies around the the edge of it too then you would expect it to pick up on those if we wanted to just grab a color from here in fact let's go back to our colors let's use the colors we used so let's use that color turn the size of the brush up to the top end of two percent and we'll just add some sense that bits the candle or not completely smooth go back to our colors use this color and we could have perhaps add a little bit of uh an area where the wax is trickled down maybe go back to our colors again go to this middle color of these three just add a little bit of a highlight on the edge if it's needed like so maybe along this edge too slightly downwards doesn't need a lot your imagination is it's quite good at filling in the blanks but we'll just sharpen up a little bit that back edge so we'll turn the opacity down a little bit to around 20 and put the brush at the lower end of two percent we'll just go around and sharpen up that back edge of our candle a little bit but the opacity on that is too strong so we'll turn it down to 15 and we'll also put the brush up to the top end of two percent we don't want to keep it we don't have it too sharp because then it's going to detract from whatever detail we put at the front so sharpened up that back edge a little bit create some more variation of tone in this center area [Music] a bit more of a glow around this section too because it is translucent so any bit at this front is going to have the light penetrating through it go back to our darker colours go to this colour we turn the opacity really low to around the five percent and we'll just almost create like a little bit of a shadow now it seems strange but almost a shadow on this section here like that last couple of details i will go for this brighter color turn the size of the brush really quite low to the lower end of two percent and we'll put it up to around 15 percent opacity just exaggerate perhaps the the light that's reflecting in the center area especially and then maybe just there's a couple of points around that are really reflecting back as well now we're going to create a background effect now like a bokeh effect now as much as there is an actual brush that will do it for you so if you go to the luminance and there is bokeh lights there you can actually just quickly do something like that but i actually think that looks pretty rubbish even if you turn the opacity down and you get more of a subtle effect i'm not really a massive fan if you're after speed over quality then then go for that it will certainly do the job quickly for you but i think there's a slightly better version of that that we can go for and i do think it's satisfying to have done things by hand yourself anyway so i'm going to create another layer for this put it above the candle but below all the flames we don't want it to go over the top of the light but it can go arguably in front of the the candle and what we're going to do for this is we go to our soft or rather our airbrushing we'll go to the medium hard brush we'll go to our colors go to our blue we'll put it at around the 50 opacity and you can vary the size of this brush now and all you need to do is a few taps so you can press on hard or you can press on light so you can try a few different ones we'll put it a little lower down in fact we'll maybe just create an area around this section so you can tap lightly you can tap more firmly you can change the size you can vary it up a little bit if it drags a little bit and it ends up with a slightly more irregular shape it doesn't really matter too much but you can start to build up some blue shapes more manually sometimes you press very lightly sometimes you press a bit more and it appears more apparent you can overlap them so just like we saw on the burger effect that it created for us when they overlap because it's at 50 percent when they overlap you get more of a concentration there too and that's a really important part of this effect so we'll do some blue ones to begin with and then we'll change and shift the tone we'll go back to our colors we'll try a different term we'll try this orange we can overlap and mix them again change the size this way you can really control the size the position the actual colors of them i just prefer using this kind of method so we'll go for some of these other colors we'll go for more of these kind of cream yellow colors go for a nice bright one there couple perhaps change and vary the size of the brush you can do as much or as little as this effect as you think sometimes you get too much of one type of brightness or color you can just backtrack it and try again vary the colors between probably those three colors or some of those as well maybe go for some of the cooler colors make it really quite large for here for the foreground let's make it even bigger maybe some slightly smaller ones for the background whoops smaller ones for the background go for the lighter color again so maybe that's a bit bright well we'll try it let's have a look yeah i think that's a little bit too bright actually so we'll go for those colors in the background i think they're a bit better so try and cluster them together get some nice overlapping formations [Music] the next thing you can try the next stage of this if you go to your eraser tool and you're on the soft airbrush and you put it at the around well at around the five percent and turn the opacity up to around 30 is you can go in the center of some of your shapes and you can start to just soften the middle of them a little bit now you can go a bit heavy-handed with this it is supposed to be a subtle effect but you want to just remove some of the intensity from the center of those so when you get to the outer edges brighter and then in the center it's a bit more removed now like i say you can vary the size of the brush and you don't want to overkill it if you do it just enough here and there you're going to create that overall effect it doesn't need to be on absolutely every single one the next stage that really isn't apparent on the bokeh brush that procreate gives you is a grain and more of a an interesting texture on that bokeh so if you go to your eraser tool you go along to your charcoal brushes and i'm going to use the vine charcoal now change the size of your brush to suit the bokeh shapes and just test out the different strength of a razor now you can easily go too much on this so if you put it up too much like that it's just going to obliterate it but if you put it on too low you're not even going to notice it so i would keep it on the larger side in fact so let's put it up somewhere quite high in the brush size we're not near the top but we are probably around the 25 but we'll keep it light quite low on the opacity let's try it on the 25 and you can start to see we can add a texture to it perhaps a little bit too strong even then so we'll put it lower down around the 20 and it's not going to be incredibly noticeable but it's just going to soften the artificial appearance of that bokeh it's just going to give it a bit more of a personality a bit more of a life you'll actually see it looks more analog and less digital so we'll just soften it in here and there like i say it can easily be too much you could always turn it down even lower put it around the 10 go over a couple of times in fact that works just about right it's a very subtle effect but it is just giving it a slightly more natural appearance so yeah around the 10 is about right i would say now obviously the amount to which you press on with it is going to be a determining factor as well and pressing on quite hard but don't press on hard it doesn't really do anything press on quite hard around the 10 percent and i think that's a nice effect so just move around the canvas to the appropriate bits and then you can start to see that works a little bit better so now that we've got that we will duplicate the layer again on this new layer i'm just going to move it around i think i'm going to increase the size of it maybe just have the effect going off the edge of our canvas so i'm just having some of it like this around the edge maybe even have it just more in the corner like that you can play around with it with all sorts of techniques and positions i'll duplicate that original layer again but i'm going to move it again to a different area maybe flip it horizontally increase the size we'll try it in this bottom corner perhaps maybe a little bit higher up this time i think that works quite well we'll duplicate that layer perhaps it just intensifies it brings it forward a little bit we could do the same with the layer under above it duplicate it again brings it forward a little bit i think that's quite a nice effect you can move these around find a position that works really well for you there's lots of experimenting to be had with this effect now if i just compare that with the actual bokeh brush again just so you can see the difference i think it's a much more synthetic look than the one we've created and controlling the colors is also quite tricky by comparison a good thing you can also do with these layers is distort them because sometimes the bokeh effect isn't an obvious circle shape it might be more of an ellipse so by changing it on the transform tool you can just stretch it out a little bit makes it a little bit more convincing more believable um see what you can come up with have a little bit of an experiment see how you go if there's some that you don't like higher up you can always then if you go back to the correct brush obviously go back to an appropriate brush maybe on airbrushing turn your pasty up you can soften some of the ones that you don't want to be as apparent and interfering you can just knock them back until you find the right level keep experimenting and see how you go with it and i've just deleted or removed the original layer i actually think now that the the ones that i've distorted and moved around were better on their own so find the right balance for you see what works best and yeah i hope you have success with it if you've enjoyed watching this tutorial make sure to press the like on the video leave a comment suggestions perhaps of things you'd like to see in the future obviously i'd like you to subscribe press the bell notification you will be notified about future videos if you do that and i hope to catch you back here again thanks for watching have a fantastic christmas see you later

Channel: James Julier Art Tutorials

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Length: 30min 36sec (1836 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 20 2020