IPAD PAINTING TUTORIAL - Snow Tree Winter Landscape in Procreate

this video is sponsored by brush galaxy okay welcome to another ipad painting tutorial on today's tutorial i'm going to show you how to paint a snow scene with lots of kind of fir trees with snow on them it's one of my favorite subject matters so it's going to be fun so i'm using the app procreate i've opened an a4 canvas and if you want to follow along using the same colors and brushes etc then i've pre-created a color palette if you look down in the video description there is a link that takes you to my patreon page and you can download the colors there for free as a file or if you look in the video description next to that link there are some codes and you go to the value section within the color and you can type each one of those codes in one at a time press enter the color appears up here and you can just start so one at a time piece it together there in terms of the brushes i'm going to be using well i'm going to be using airbrushing i'm going to be using the soft brush and possibly the medium brush too i'm also going to be using the artistic brushes and i'm going to be using the hearts brush and last of all i'm going to be using the organic brushes and i'm going to try the rainforest for some of the snow now with all that being said if you followed all that then you're good to go if you do follow along and you're pleased with your results make sure to share them with me i've got my instagram link in the video description and also a link for a facebook group where loads of other people post as well and you can get feedback from all the members there so first thing we're going to do on layer 1 go to my colors select the first color i'm just going to drag that color and flood fill the first layer with that color really nice and simple next we're going to go to create another layer go back to my colors and pick the second color this time go to my brushes i'm going to go to my airbrushing and soft brush i'm going to put the size of the brush up to 15 and the opacity up to 100 and just about halfway i'm going to put in just a couple of strokes here so we'll create a nice thick band there then i'm going to go to my adjustments i'm going to go to the gaussian blur and i'm going to blur it in to about the 70 percent and that just created a nice sort of gradient between that original color and this warmer color so we've got a sense that as we come down closer to the horizon that the the sky is actually emanating this nice warm glow we're going to create another layer want to preserve those we don't want to work on top of them go back to our colors i've left a gap that's not a color so go to these colors now some of the colors might look quite similar on camera and truth be they're quite similar but they're just subtly different and it's a lot of subtle differences in this type of scene so this first color we're going to go back to our brushes i'm going to use the medium brush this time i'm going to put it up to 10 and 100 opacity and just in this bottom section this lower third i'm going to create a section here that is just going to be snow if you feel like you've gone too far it's very easy to fix this you don't even need to erase it you can just go to your transform tool make sure that it's on freeform and then just pinch it down to wherever you feel that it's working best we'll leave that layer alone we'll go to another layer go back to our colours we're now in the second in from the right which is the middle of these two colours and we're just going to start building in a sense of slightly more distant trees i'm going to go to my brushes this time i'm going to go to my artistic brushes and i'm going to use the hearts brush i'm going to put it down to about two percent size and i'm going to have it about 80 percent opacity and what we're going to do is we're just going to start piecing in a sense of foliage and trees in that background area so i'm starting with a spike at the top obviously we've got fur trees there's going to be that point and then i'm just kind of moving rocking left to right i've done this kind of tree on several different tutorials but if you're not familiar with it this is the method i'm using so i'm going left to right i'm lifting the pencil off the screen a little bit so it is quite this kind of a texture but a little bit more clustered together allowing the trees to collide to merge together as they get lower down so it's only really the top that you're going to see the sky coming through in the gaps and then the rest of the way down it's all going to merge together cluster together and you're not going to see that kind of gap coming through so you can see how i've managed to merge two together there so we're going to do the same effect as we go along all the way from left to right so again i'll zoom in a little bit more just so you can really see what i'm doing so maybe i have a slightly a taller one here so left to right leave some gaps don't have it too uniform and then as we come further down it obviously gets wider and don't worry about the fact that it's only on 80 so we're leaving some patchy textures there but we're going to cover that up with snow anyway and it's better if it's not too flat in the background if it was all just one type of tone and color then actually it's going to create less texture and it's going to look boring by comparison so it's much better that we have a slightly lower opacity that's around the 80 percent it just adds a little bit more depth a bit more texture okay so you can see the effect again repeated and i'm going to move all the way across left to right repeating that technique i'll do this in fast forward now okay i'm sharing with you an amazing black friday deal from our partners brush galaxy the deal includes unlimited downloads of more than 50 000 brushes and more than 12 different brush categories like portrait pattern texture nature and many more all designed to help you craft more amazing art in less time the deal will last for only a couple of days so grab yours before it expires find the link for the steel in the description and the comment section maybe one or two places you can just leave some gaps we can always go back into it later on if we go to the airbrushing medium brush we can just turn the sides of the brush down and we can just okay so i'm sharing with you an amazing black friday do some of that later if we feel it's necessary still includes unlimited initiatives you can leave those gaps knowing that we are going to go back into it just okay i'm sharing with you an unlimited black friday deal from our pastors galaxy hearts brush for now and carry on with the general question i'm sharing with you an amazing black but do feel free to leave today i'm sharing with you an amazing black friday deal where you can see the trunk coming through my partner's brush galaxy the deal includes unlimited downloads of more than 50 000 brushes in more than 12 different brush categories like portrait pattern textured nature and many more if you want to speed up the processor move it over to the other side and then it's on freeform so i can pinch it in i can distort it slightly i can make them taller you don't want to make it too obvious so what i recommend is once you've done that is that you go in and anything that obviously looks like a repetition because you know some people are more sensitive to recognizing that kind of repetition you can just go in there whoops i'll go in there with an eraser turn the strength of it up and maybe just get rid of one or two of the more recognizable things just change it up a little bit so if i remove and destroy some sections then i can go back in with the brush and i can put them in and make them a little bit more unique compared to that side and there's going to be a chunk here where i'm going to put a ring this nice big tree obscuring that anyway so you don't want to spend too long in this section if you're just going to cover it up but it's useful just to get that band across initially just to get a sense of the overall scene okay so i'm going to take those two layers because obviously we duplicated it i'm just going to pinch them together a bit fiddly to do but it's possible there you go i'm going to create new layer on top of that and then going to go back in exactly as we said with the airbrushing medium brush put it down to about top end of one percent or two percent at the bottom end somewhere between those two i'm gonna put it at one percent put it up to eighty percent opacity again and i'm just putting some of these trunks back in in fact that looks a little bit too narrow so let's put it the lower end of two percent just a slight bit thicker depends on the tree i guess maybe at the bottom of the tree you can have it at the two percent and then as it gets low down you can switch it to a more narrow brush or narrow it down to one percent okay so once you've done that we're going to create another layer i'm going to go to our colors we're going to go to the last color on the end and go back to our brushes and we're going to try the organic set of brushes and the rainforest brush so we're going to have this quite small so if i start to show you in an area that's probably too small so let's put it up to around the top end of one percent and that's going to look a bit more what we're after so what i'm going to do now is just start to add some texture over the top of snow features so you don't really need to be too precise with this you're just starting to build up a sense of of noise some areas that are gathering snow leave some gaps because if you don't leave some gaps it's going to look too uniform but just generally kind of give it a smattering of this snow texture as we go further down perhaps it's going to get into bigger heavier clumps something like this and then maybe a little bit more sparse near the bottom and then we can even sort of blend it in there near the bottom so we eliminate some of that hard edge at the bottom area so you can see the effect of that instantly it gives quite a nice look so we're going to apply that pretty much all the way across that background layer a little bit repetitive and time consuming but do you know what it's so easy and i think the transformation is satisfying so it's not such a difficult task to do and i've said this before and i repeat it that really honestly if you're doing art do it for the love of the doing of it i mean the finished product is all well and good you've got to enjoy the process so some other trees could be a little bit further back so you don't see the highlights of the snow quite as much so think about which ones are going to jump forward and which we want the real highlights on and then just spend your time on those a little bit more then we could always turn the opacity of this down to about 40 and then if it's a more background one you can still add a sense that there's snow on there but it doesn't jump forward as much of these ones so we're not not doing it but it's just not quite as impactful and then turn the opacity up for the ones we want to really bring forwards in our scene like so zoom in and out just keep checking is it working is it looking good this is not the kind of scene where we're going to zoom in too much i'm helping you create the overall effect it doesn't really require you to zoom in and be too specific this is just the effect and then if you want to spend the time to go in and really super focus on those tiny details then you can do that maybe leave some gaps you don't want it so absolutely uniform that there's no variety maybe you can have some sense that there's some bushes down here that just take a bit more prominence and then you've got a section behind it that you turn the opacity down again so below the 50 and you know they still have highlights but these ones that are smaller lower lying bushes slightly more foreground just take a bit more prominence so you're creating depth within there as well so put that back up not 100 more like the 90 again so again we can create perhaps a more foreground bush where you're really getting a lot of compacted snow on turn the opacity down for the ones that we can see they look smaller they still look like substantial trees but they do look more distant so we'll just keep a slightly fainter highlight on those snow bits and just kind of merge it into the ground as well and then we're going to do this all the way across back up to the 90 let's get the main trees in remember this section is probably going to be covered anyway this middle bit so we're really only focused on that part and that part but i'm doing the whole thing anyway just in case it really isn't only taking me a couple of minutes really maybe five and again turn the opacity down maybe not all the way to 50 but just a touch less more like 65 and then i'm just going to continue adding highlights but it doesn't jump forward as much as this smaller one does maybe in this more shadowy bit it just doesn't create the highlights on top of the snow it's more in shadow anyway maybe some of them you just don't even really add hardly anything at all it's a very tough the more sense of different depths i think the more convincing it's going to look okay so that will do for the highlights of the snow on those distant trees we're going to create a new layer we've used all of the top colors now we're going to do something rather more dramatic we're going to use this first color here which if you go to the color disk it's pretty much black but it's not quite i'm going to go to our brushes we're going to use the artistic brush and the hearts brush again for the general foliage but perhaps before we do that we should really go with the airbrush and the medium brush and start to add the trunk first so that we know what we're attaching everything to so i think i might go for something almost central i'm going to start down here maybe that's too thick so i'll turn that down lower end of two percent decide where i want the top of my tree to be probably want it here and then bring it down again it doesn't have to be a straight line in fact it's better if it isn't this is an organic thing so we need to make sure that we've got the base of the tree looking thick enough and then the top of it needs to dwindle into next to nothing and honestly we're not going to see this anyway we're going to cover it so much with all the other elements it's just there for our benefit so again go back to our brushes go back to the artistic brush and the hearts brush put it at around the two percent size and i'm just going to start adding some foliage at the top now initially i'm going to create these almost like these shapes that shot upwards like this i mean really you could go to a lot of detail with this i'm trying to avoid being overly detailed but i do want to give a sense that there are some little branches and little bits of foliage here as well so just moving left to right keep it pretty random but i am doing this kind of motion on this side and that kind of motion on that side a little bit just to create the sense of the upward movement again allow some gaps and as well as those little gestures you can see that they're following a kind of trend of a bigger clump it's almost like a larger branch that we're not going to draw the actual branch but we're drawing all of the the things and the stuff that's attached to it there's going to be so much snow on this that honestly there's no need to draw the individual actual branches just like really probably we could have got away without drawing the tree trunk as well but it is useful to have that there as a guide so again just moving left and right and as it comes further down it's going to start to change from being upward to being more flat and then as we get further down it's going to slightly slope downwards the overall tree shapes anyway all the branch shapes obviously the branches themselves get heavier and gravity is having more of an impact but then you're going to add snow to the mix and the snow is going to weight it down to now already you can see the contrast of this really dark tone at this point it really starts to sell the illusion that these features obviously if they were in the foreground they would be this dark but they're faint because we've got atmospheric conditions and it's pushing them further back now so for the background ones to really work you need this foreground element to show a difference to contrast with and it's on a separate layer so if i wanted to i can move it anywhere i want in my scene as well so if you decide that you particularly like a section there of trees we could put it over that side yet we've not yet decided we're still just doing the tree and then we'll figure it out later and as we come over here i'm really loose with these branches but i'm just generally bringing them downward and in the bottom section you're not really going to see this i'm going to just create such a dense area that merges with the snow that you're not actually going to see much at all so we can start to fill this in you could even turn the size of the brush up to about four percent start to block this in a little bit start to shut some of this down like so something like this then gonna go back to our colors we've got a slightly lighter and a hint more green as you can see in the color wheel and we're just going to turn the brush down again to about the top end of two percent we'll keep it at the 80 opacity and we just want to create some slight changes of texture even before we add the snow so this doesn't need to be too dramatic you're just creating another layer on top of a slightly different tone of that dark colour don't need to spend too long on this particular part just you can see there i've left some gaps so you can still see the dark but the green is having a little bit of an impact in there as well don't worry too much okay so that's the overall base it doesn't really look that effective yet it's only when we start adding the snow that it starts bringing it to life so that's on that basis start to add some slightly more shaded snow so we see you've got three different versions of the snow we've got this darker one we'll go back to our brushes back to the organic and back to the rainforest brush we'll put it at the two percent size i'm going to turn this down to about 50 percent opacity now i'm going to start bringing this in a bit more carefully than i did in the background one so this is going to form the underpinning for all the bright snow that goes on top so this is quite similar almost to the the colors that in the background but then when we start adding some of these brighter colors they're going to stand out especially this one a lot more than the background but even now we can start adding some real heavy clumps some areas it's going to be really heavy and really amass into a big blob but it is also important that you do leave substantial gaps when you're doing this effect if you imagine if you zoomed in on this section there is a big clump there but there's also an equally big gap so you're going to have to do something similar otherwise it's not going to look like it's related to what you see in the background too in addition to that we're not just doing it off to the sides we're doing things that would be projecting out with that us so just like that goes to the left there'll be another one that comes this way so you need to get some of those clumps right in the middle there and that's going to help them push kind of in our direction i'm going to turn the opacity up actually to about 70 and then just do some smaller dots of things as well as the bigger clumps and then as we get towards the top we're not going to have so much of the bigger clumps we are going to have perhaps even more opacity towards the 90 and we're just going to have lots of smaller broken sections and we can really start to surround these sections at the top almost obscuring them really they're still there and they're still coming through you really are obscuring them somewhat and yeah the snow is going to cluster on it it's going to cling to it so that really all you're seeing predominantly is the snow i'll just do that near the top as well mean much of the underpinning of the dark colours they're not going to show through at the end we're going to you know certainly the the shapes of them the effect of it's coming through but those individual branches and weird shapes that we created you know we're not going to see much of them anyway the forms are going to be pretty much obscured with the snow texture so you didn't need to be that neat or that accurate or careful as long as you created the sense of how it's looking maybe a couple of extra bigger clusters and clumps here right in the center you can probably hear from the tapping when i have the volume up that you know keep it fragmented you're not you're not doing this all the way across it it will not create the right effect you need to keep it broken sometimes you can go over and over and build up the amount of little clumps but yeah keep it quite fragmented and maybe down here there's not much at all just the odd little piece that's clinging to something and if you don't like the way that some of the dark colors are appearing just add a bit of snow on the top release it's quite easy to hide any issues any things that you're not happy with not cheating it's just part of the overall effect so we'll go now to another color a brighter color this time we can create another layer if you're not confident you don't want to obscure too much you want to keep it separate we've created another layer and we'll go for the second color in again we're still on the rainforest and this time we can start adding some more highlights and bringing out the sense that it's a bit more 3d really it has volume it has clumps where bits of it get highlights and then other bits because it's almost like a rounded effect don't get as many highlights maybe aim the highlights now in a slightly more controlled way so the lower end of two percent or one percent even and just more on the top of some of these shapes is collecting more light and this now should start to bring it a bit more forward than the two colors that are there again turn it down if you want to be super precise down to the one percent we can go in just as much with like a an airbrush if you want to be even neater so i'll show you this we can go with an airbrush maybe the soft airbrush but we'll turn it down so the two percent put it again around the ninety percent if you wanted to create something of a neater edge perhaps on just the top surface so it doesn't look quite so broken then we can do that but in other areas you know we want it to look really fragmented so maybe the combination of this airbrush and also the rainforest brush maybe it's just the top edge we want to smooth it out and then the bottom edge we can keep more textured in areas so maybe i'll even turn that opacity down a little bit it's quite strong so put it more like the 70 percent i can always keep going over the air if i want to bring out that brightness anyway i quite like the way that it's rounded at the top by using the airbrush i'm only using this really for the top sections now just creates that dome effect maybe turn the opacity down really quite low and again we can go into some slightly more recessed areas and just continue to add more texture just creating different depths just like we did in here same concept same principle but just applied to a smaller area now turn it back up again to the 90 or 70 rather add some more highlights maybe move the tree around or before we do that actually i'm quite happy with the background let's merge those two layers now difficult to do there you go and then we can again just move it to another area and perhaps sometimes by moving it you can see it's in isolation there's some bits that i haven't added snow on yet you couldn't always tell that because it was confusing with the background so i'm just going to move that around to a different area and then continue adding the snow perhaps where i couldn't see that it it was necessary before but now i can again just move it whenever you feel it's necessary add the snow then we can go along to this last color and i'm going to use the soft brush but i'm going to turn the opacity really quite low to about 20 and i'm going to use it on the top sections of some of these really nice big clusters of snow i'm just bringing some of the the light that's obviously in the sky and in the area just bringing it in a little bit i don't want to overdo this i'm just bringing in just a suggestion and obviously snow is highly reflective so if it didn't reflect some of the the colors in the sky including the warm colour it would make a lot of sense would it so i say i'm not going to overdo it then probably i'm going to overdo it but the way it goes sometimes sometimes you enjoy effect and you know you can't stop adding it we'll see okay i'm gonna go back to my blue color again turn the opacity up to 70 i'm going to turn the brush size down to the one percent really quite low and i just want to create more precision broken fragments coming off there i need to just break it up in some areas otherwise it's in danger of looking a little bit too simplistic we need a hint more fragments in there maybe turn it up slightly in the size more like the lower end of two percent seems to be that the sweet spot really for these types of tutorials is that i do use a small brush but it's the lower end of two percent somewhere in that region seems to work really well for being slightly zoomed out but then obviously if you want to zoom in you want to do more detail go to a smaller brush be a bit more precise okay so i'm going to create another layer go to my colors you can see i've used all the top row and all the middle row we're going to do some stuff with the foreground i've got this first color i'm going to go back to my soft brush i'm going to put it at around the 3 size and turn the opacity down to about 20 percent and i'm just going to start bringing in some break some shadow certainly here at the bottom because obviously our tree needs to interact with the snow we're going to have some changes maybe create a section here just to merge those two colors together a little bit have some banding perhaps in the snow some hints it's not all completely flat not too much because i'm going to go in with my darker color now turn that down even more to the lower under 2 percent again and i'm really going to bring in some slightly more deeper significant shadow just around the base of the tree we have quite a diffused light source so i don't need to do a very distinct shadow but i do need to add just generally a hint that obviously the lower area here is not going to be getting 100 of the light because of the well the large tree above it really so if there's light coming from here and there's light coming from here it's still going to get light in these areas all around but just a bit less than it would have done i think diffused light sources can sometimes confuse people a little bit it appears like there's a big light source coming from there whereas actually if you will look to turn around and look the other way you'll probably find that there's just as much light there because you've got a very atmospheric and very hazy scene which means that it will bounce light around all over the place i'm going to turn the opacity down to 10 and the size up to 3 and again start to add some maybe some banding in here generally increase the slight sense of shadow over here and then around the tree maybe just a bit more over here as well and then i can go in with my middle color now which is a highlight in fact so it's a little bit lighter than all the colors that are there i'm going to turn this down to the two percent and i'm just going to start adding some of that in in addition so we need to turn that up to about fifty percent of our past otherwise we're not going to even see it it's quite a subtle addition now compared to the other things we'll just turn that down even more and maybe turn that up and just create maybe a clear crisp edge perhaps just on at least a band anyway it doesn't need to be a definitive edge but a band certainly across that area at the back maybe break it up slightly do it a couple of bands but then we can create more directional highlights that cut across in the back there perhaps turn the size of the brush up in fact i'm going to go back to my first color i've just had a thought i'd quite like to bring some of the warmth down a little bit but need to be a little bit more sparing with this so we'll put it at the two percent size and about the 20 opacity and i'm just thinking i'll bring some of that warmth down onto this snow just to start to tie the two areas together a little bit more and being careful as i get towards the edge of this really perhaps i could have put this as a layer underneath so we'll do that now that just stops us obscuring things it can be a bit more bold and do a band that goes all the way across perhaps another one there something like that go back to my slightly more shady color here and again still on the soft brush i think i do want to shut down some of the light in this area just to give the sense that it's almost a shadow that's coming this way but really not too much for 20 opacity and it's just five percent size so i'm just gonna slightly shut down this not as a clear and definite shadow just i think there needs to be a little less light in this area and i think that works a little bit better go back to my tree layer go back to my colors i'm going to use this darkest color that we had initially turn the size of the brush down to two percent we're almost there now and just maybe a higher percentage so 80 opacity and just create a nice crisp clear edge here perhaps we've got a smooth lip before we get into almost like a trench where the trees sat we can just a few dots just to show there's disruption in the snow there as well and if we need to we can just close down some of the area here to make it extra dark i think that actually looks pretty good by doing that i think i prefer it that way okay i think i'm going to leave that particular tutorial there at that point i hope you've enjoyed following along do hit the thumbs up hit the like button really helps the video and the channel and check all my links go to my patreon page go to my playlist check out loads of other tutorials like this and i hope to see you back here soon see you later you

Channel: James Julier Art Tutorials

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Length: 34min 37sec (2077 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 28 2021