Procreate 4 tutorial - A complete app guide for iPad artists

[Music] first of all I'd like to say Happy New Year to everyone happy 2018 it's been a couple months since I did my last video I decided I just need a little bit a time off just to recharge my batteries get on with someone my own personal work and just generally think about how I was going to move my child forward in the new year so now that we're here I've had a little bit of a recap and looking back over my videos and some of the questions that people have been putting to me on material I've decided to do a procreate tutorial I've already done a different one for the previous version of procreate but it's literally about two years old now at the time of producing this video and we've gone from version three and now we're on version four been using procreate for about four years and sort of like 2013 an hour at the beginning of 2018 so just over four years first of all I was using her on the older iPad Air's and since a couple of years ago into 2015 in fact I've been using the iPad pro and Apple pencil I do highly recommend it as a tool I think it's a fantastic creative canvas in which you can pretty much execute anything that your imagination can come up with certainly there are things some things perhaps for certain designers illustrators or someone that corrects are with it the might be able to do one that bigger program like Photoshop or as an app I think it is 90% of what most artists and painters and drawers would actually require from Photoshop anyway so the makers of procreate have actually created a PDF or an e-book in which you can actually look through all the different functions of procreate but I thought I'd take that as a basis to create a video so rather than ploughing through hundreds of pages of a PDF you could just sit and watch this video I'm going to split it into the sections so if you look in the description you can jump to the section that you feel that would be most appropriate to what you need to know obviously I've done this kind of tutorial before so there's going to be quite a lot over that but there are some functions there's quite a lot actually this changed over the last couple years so there will definitely be some things that feature in this and also perhaps I didn't thoroughly cover some of the other areas in the previous app guide that I'm going to be doing a lot more in this one so when you first get procreate and you open up there will be a sample few images in the actual gallery area now this is obviously full of my individual artwork and projects so it won't look like this it'll be the example images that they give you but I'm just going to open up one of my images just to explain some of the basic functions of the interface so as we go around the canvas and the work area you can see there's various different symbols we have just come from the gallery and this is the gallery button to go back and you click on an image to go back into it across the top we've got various different icons that mean different things now just very basically we start off on the brush or the paint icon like again I'm going to go into lots of detail about this I'm just running through the basic interface for then we've got a smudge icon which is really good for blending we've got an eraser we've got all the different layers appear here and we've got the color selection tool here switching across the other side we've got a transform tool got selection tool which means you can draw around specific shapes and areas we've got the adjustments tool which you can change various different aspects of your image and we've got an actions so this is where you sort of share things or import things along with lots of other stuff and also at the gallery which I just showed you goes back to the actual gallery then you've got the brush slider which controls the brush size got a modified button I'll show you more about what this does later you got the brush opacity there so you can have it on full strength or fade it down and you've also got the undo and redo buttons now I've not done anything just now it tends to become blank when you've not done anything for a while so that's the basic interface anyway now in terms of the gestures you can see I've been using the Apple pencil I'm going to cover there in a lot more detail but the basic gestures that you can use are going to be zooming in and out you can rotate if it was to change something and I've just moved something up here and I want to to undo it I would do two finger tap and it would undo that and three finger tap would redo the last thing that I'd done if I decide that I'm working like this and I want to fit my image to the canvas I can quickly do that again just quickly do a pinching motion on top of the you screen anywhere and it will quickly fit the image to the canvas like I was just showing you before you can use the sliders to accurately control the brush size and the opacity as well another thing you can do with the slider by moving out is that you can move it up and down so that it fits better we'll also be featuring how what's showing you how we would move things to another part of the screen later if you decide that you don't really need to use any of these you just using one kind of tool by just the pencil sketch you just want to get lost in the image and lose the interface completely take your forefingers click like that and it just disappears all the different functions and to bring them back you just do the four fingers again so that's the the basics of the interface and the gestures and now we're going to spend a bit more time going in a bit more detail on how you would create canvases and how you use the day of various different tools etc so to begin with when you arrive in your gallery you go into perhaps want to create a canvas in order to do a painting or drawing on it now the pro create file system is really good and when it actually goes into detail and the handbook explaining that this is sort of native file format takes up less space on the iPad it loads more quickly it allows for layered files easy to share and it goes into the some of the advantages of it but it is a really good format actually it's a very similar kind of format to procreate back to when Photoshop rather so you can import Photoshop files and it work quite well in here and you can take your files on here and share it with your desktop as a Photoshop file too so they will function in very similar ways but when you want to concur to create a canvas there is a little plus symbol and it gives you some more options here on how to create a new canvas you'll see that automatically it comes up with some different presets now I've created my own preset there as well but it gives you some basic ones it will have a square a 4k resolution an a4 resolution and a four by six or a six by four inch sort of resolution if you've created a preset and you want to edit it get rid of it then you just swipe to the left and you can do things with it so I'm going to tell you I want to no longer need that preset one you can also slide it so that you could edit it you can change the aspects of it including the dimensions you can change the name of it all sorts of things like that I'm not going to do that just yet but if you want to create a custom size so a canvas size of your own you can choose your own width now either in pixels as it set here or you can change the format to inches centimeters millimeters whichever you want to actually to work in so you might have a specific project that you are working on and you know you want it to be a photo size or of fits a frame or whatever and if you know the dimensions in a real world kind of measurements then you might choose to do it in inches and then also you can set the DPI and an area like this it's obviously the dots per inch is your dpi and you can change that there so according to procreate the canvas size can be anything between one x one pixel to a massive 16 K in in any direction and obviously that depends on the other part models that you're using or if you're going to create an absolutely enormous canvas that is going to massively reduce the number of layers that you're able to use so that really helpful functionable to use layers is going to be restricted if you go crazy on the resolution on the DPI or the sizes in centimeters or pixels but you can try it yourself you can create some super panoramic compositions of some really tall ones or squares whatever it is that suits your particular project so experiment another aspects of this is the color so you can go with the standard sort of srgb colors or you have the p3 wide color which corrects really sort of vibrant greens sacré saturated reds greens and oranges but only works if you have a device that actually will display that so if you transfer in this to a device that doesn't really show this off then it's questionable whether you'd even need the p3 wide color gamut and if you're gonna print it off the chances are it won't really demonstrate well it's not going to show that off as well but whilst using on the devices that will actually show that then that could be something that you really enjoy using I personally will stick to the standard color but it's nice that you have that option so that's how generally you would change the settings once you're happy with your choice you can then click create and then you can see the I've created a really bizarre looking canvas butter that might bit happen to be their kind of canvas that suits your projects I'm going to get rid of it though because it's not going to be of any use to me another way of creating a canvas in here is to import and you can import it from various different locations it might be on your iCloud drive you might have a Google Drive or Dropbox for example might be you've got some files located on your iPad now especially the newer operating system iOS 11 has a file system so you can actually if you've got any files on your iPad and I have not really used that as of such yet but if you had you'd be able to then just open those in procreate another thing you can do is import from your photos so you might have something stored here and then you can just import it straight from there like so now in terms of these supported file types you can actually import other procreate files that you may have transferred from other iPads obviously or you may stored it on your desktop you want to transfer the file across you can open Photoshop file so PDF files or sorry PSD files TIFF formats PNG and JPEG now when it comes to organizing your artwork you can move your images around so if you press and hold it will sort of pop and then you can drag and drop it around also if you swipe on an image it gives you the option to share to duplicate or to delete if you were to share it you can share it as different file formats you've also got the procreate which is the native file within the program or the app you got the PSD which is the Photoshop PDF JPEG PNG in TIFF formats there if you want to do bulk actions you can press select at the top and then obviously it gives you the little circle if you've selected it you can do various things you can share you can duplicate you can delete or you can stack them now if you stack something so I'll just do that because as you see it's a duplicate I what really delete one of them just for the purposes of this I'm going to stack them by selecting them both and you see here that it's placed one over the top of the other and I can actually click on here and just put it's just for demonstration purposes I got a duplicate there and that's retitled it another thing you can do with your canvases even while sits in the gallery is you can rotate it so that when you open it up now that is the new format of that particular file and it remembers that interesting sometimes I know when I start a piece of work myself especially when it's slightly more on the abstract side of it starts as the doodle you may change your mind about how it's going to be positioned and just a really quick easy way of just controlling that even when the gallery is just to rotate it just like I was showing you how you could rename the stacks or the folders you can do that on individual paintings or pieces of artwork here by clicking on it so you just click on the name and retype wherever you want and then you don't if you have two images that you want to stack together manually instead of using the select button you can just press and hold one move over top and it will turn the image underneath it blue let go and then you'll notice they've stacked them together if you want to unstack them go into the folder press the image you want to take out that stack hold on to the site you'll notice the words turn blue when you let go that it's on stack them so it separates them back out into individual visible formats again once you do have a stack what you'll find is that the front image takes priority you can't really take a single image and stuck it over the top that's not going to work or try it again look if you try and do that turns blue but it won't stack it what you can do is place the bigger stack on top top of an image and then it formats it like that so in addition to holding it over there till it turns blue you can pick it up move it and then with another finger click the start button and then it gives you the option to place it somewhere else as well if your decide you're wanting to share various artworks or stacks and you share it you've decided to share as JPEGs and then we'll give you the various different options of where you're going to actually share it to so you can share it to files you can share it to iTunes or send in a message obviously alternatively as possible to share to iTunes apparently it's really good for backups and good for speedy transfers things like that but it's not something that I personally ever do but it is an option - now we're going to go into a canvas I've already given you a very brief overview of the different sort of functions anyway but I've got a piece of work that currently working on our present so just to run through some of the finger gestures again when you've got the settings set to standard I'm just going to go into the standard gesture settings selected tool would be the standard settings so your finger can act as a brush it would be your smudge tool come on at a particular layer that's visible it's gone to a layer where you can actually see this much tool like so it would also be your eraser as well so your finger would be the main way of enter actually interacting personally I tend to deactivate the the finger gestures to actually use the tools and I just use the Apple pencil instead but I'll go into that a little bit more detailed later you can see that I've just been double tapping with two fingers to undo that if I want to redo it's three fingers two fingers to undo now if I want to create whilst one here a quick line so I do a wobble here and I hold it down for a period of time you'll notice it change your snaps to a line that's generally more useful perhaps when it's a fine line and you doing something more architectural or something more precise and you can also notice by continue to hold on by moving it you can change the length of it as well as the sort of angle of it if you decide you want to clear a layer and use three fingers like that user backwards and forwards motion you'll find that it scrubs and deletes the entire layer I don't want to do like I said put a lot of time and effort in but sometimes you just want to clear it a layer you want to start from scratch quickly without having to go into the settings on the layer that's a quick option for doing that zooming in and out obviously there's a sort of pinching quite straightforward I think we're all used to that gesture now on mobile phones and all sorts of devices again we're rotating canvas pretty straightforward stuff as I showed you earlier quickly pinch outwards so if you start like this and you decide you want to see the whole canvas as big as possible pinch outwards and it fits into the screen if you wish to have a detail that you've selected and you want to copy and paste it then use three fingers down and it gives you the option now I've got think selectively in a moment I mean if I press copy it will copy the entire layer and if I paste it again you'll see that it's doubled up that layer so now when I go onto here you'll notice that I've got a repeat of that layer which can be quite useful because you can see how it's intensified the deep the layer in itself actually because you can't see through a lot of the gestures you won't necessarily have painted everything on a layer 100% so by doubling your pick and sometimes really intensify and make that way a little more interesting but obviously there are shortcuts to that so you can just copy and paste and it will do it quickly as well if you want to get rid of all the tool bars and extra clutter on the screen four fingers tap gets rid of it you can just work I don't tend to use that very often because I don't find that the interface interferes very much at all it's a very very streamlined operating system or interface rather so I don't find the interface at all it's not like some of the other programs out there we have various different wheels and boxes that are in the middle of the screen cluttering up the the interface this is really quite minimal to begin with sort of to be honest that's something that occasionally might do inadvertently but it's never something I would do deliberately when you actually on layers there are different gestures that you can use to effect the layers too so one of the ones that I do use quite a bit is to merge different layers so if you wanted to select a whole selection of layers and just make it into one flat image you can do lights by pinching and dragging them together and don't want you to do that right at the moment but it demonstrates that it's quite a useful function that's something I will definitely use as I go further and further away the painting I find a very stage as I've got too many layers and sometimes they can just be condensed and pinched together and it will do that whilst you're in layers it is all part also possible to select different layers so just by tapping with your finger you will select the different layer and then swiping will select as a secondary layer as well another quick way of getting access to the layer opacity is to double tap it and it will instantly jump to the opacity controls and then by swiping left or right you probably just noticed some details there that disappears down on the opacity and then increases to go upwards with the opacity so that's just a quick way of accessing that I'll just demonstrate that again on another layer we're going to here double tap on that layer with two fingers whoops got a laceration I'll try that one double tap and you'll notice that that blue slider at that's at the top by sliding left and right you'll notice that the changes that I've made along the way another thing you can do with a layer is alpha locket so if you just take two fingers and swipe to the right when you tap them there you'll notice that it's artha locks it I'll go into more detail about what actually means later on but just to give you the information how to access that if you tap on a layer with two fingers instantly you tap and hold with two fingers it will give you access to all the information like layer you can see where it's selected it where it hasn't perhaps one of the biggest sections really needs a cover and this is going to be the brushes now the brushes is this symbol at the top by clicking on it you can access all the information about brushes now the brushes system works on the basis that there are different aspects to it so you're gonna get the the shape of the actual brush and the grain and then the combination of the two results in what you see is the actual brush itself so it is the overall shape and then that texture which is the grain now you notice here you've got a nice sort of scrolling list it's not excessively long unless you've imported loads of your own but within each of these you can get all sorts of different pencils or inking brushes or airbrush some textures and elements and things like that as well I generally stick with the pencils and when I'm quite traditional artist personally so when I'm starting a piece of work I'll choose and either a HB pencil or a 6b pencil but if you like more expressive sort of mark making with large drawing formats like parcels and charcoals then this might be quite useful for you there's more charcoals you can actually rearrange them if you want all your favorite brushes at the top you can just hold and drag them and move them around because you may not want some of them whereas some of them you use all the time so I know I used the airbrushes pretty much all the time I'll put that at the top are you sketching a lot and the rest of them I may use occasionally if you want to move various ones quickly you can do that and then move them all and you can move them all to a different section for example I'll just run that by you again so just by clicking or swiping to the right and then pressing and holding you can move the whole stack of them or a whole load of them into a different area if you swipe brush you see you can share it you can duplicate it and you can even reset it now if you change some of the information within that brush then resetting it sometimes can be quite useful because you might just find it through their experiments that you've kind of done something really weird with it and you don't quite know how you've managed to it arrived at that so having that reset option can be really a lifesaver and obviously if you most do duplicate it and you've got two versions one you can experiment with a one that's the original version so you can keep both the original and the experimental version as well and then if you decide you don't want that experimental version anymore then obviously you can just delete that if you want to share it it will share it as a dot brush file and you can share it in all the kind of usual ways so you can send it as a neat inner a message or an email or you can save it somewhere now importing brushes is obviously one of the things that people may wish to do by clicking on the plus symbol you will open up different other options now if you've got a dot brush file somewhere else and you tap on it you're probably going to be prompted to import that brush and it a pro crate will be one of the options so that's one way of doing it or if you're from here then you can actually import it and if you've got it saved somewhere then you can click it here and it will import it into procreate so you can also if you got an extra window up and drag-and-drop brushes into the brush set as well now in terms of the advanced brush settings so if you were using like the charcoal and you click on it then you're going to get more advanced settings so if we start at the bottom on the stroke you'll notice that you've got various different aspects here the first one is spacing so if you control space is the amount of gap and space added between each plot points into into stroke so increases the space will create gaps in your brush so this is a streamline and as it says in the e-book this stabilizes you strokes in real time for perfect precision curves and flourishes so the higher the value the more streamline will smooth your strokes out now you've got jitter here as well so it refers the amount distance by which your shape will be offset from the stroke plot so smaller values will look more like a solid line so when you're down here you can see that in the little visualization or higher values were spread the shape out and hide the visible Lyle line you actually draw fall-off effects the visible length of your stroke and you can see that so it shortens the length you've also got the stroke sort of taper settings here so for God's my brush the perhaps a little bit clearer we'll go on to inking perhaps I'm so studio pen you can notice it getting thicker or thinner tapering off at the start or it could taper off at the end the opacity stroke taper allows you to adjust the amount of a pasty applied to a taper as well so you just need to experiment a little bit with these and you've got the the size of the stroke taper so it allows you to adjust the size of the taper so you just need to experiment a little bit there's no really right or wrong with these it's just a question of fine-tuning the brushes that you want personally it's not something that I get too involved in and more often than that I will just reset whatever changes I've made because I like the default settings usually we move on to the shape settings and you've got the scatter effect I'll move on to it again I need to move on to a brush really that demonstrates this a bit better if we go into maybe painting try that one okay so it seems to change the orientation of the brush as your stroke progresses so the higher-value you can see there's more raggedy more kind of messy and there's more uniform as you turn that down so you can see a really nice straight edges on there when I turn up it's like it's just wrote and changing the position of the stroke so you get a real Messier edge the rotation it says affects how your brush reacts to directional change so a range of unique effects can be achieved from this will flats a calligraphy brush - ribbon affects the rotation slider has three main points so 100% inverse makes the shape rotate inversely to stroke direction not something that to be honest I'm really got to grips with but you may found it useful now randomized is quite an interesting option it can give a perhaps a more organic more natural feel because it just changes more randomly the direction of the stroke so the beginning of every mark that you make is going to be a bit more organic a bit more unique so if you wanting to create something that is more painterly and looks like the kind of random effects of a brush then using the randomized shape properties would be really quite useful now the azimuth here it describes it as being used for brushes where the direction of the brush shape on the canvas should be the same as the direction of the Apple pencil just like a calligraphy pen nib so this is going to be really useful for anyone wishing to do sort of writing in calligraphy effects so turning azimuth on will make the shape follow the perpendicular angle of the Apple pencil so that's going to be really useful for some people now grain so you've got movement here in the grain and it describes it it is when it sets a stamp which is at this end of the spectrum the texture will not enroll at all so you'll get a very kind of smeared effect of the grain but when it's set to rolling you'll notice a lot more texture you can see that as I draw here you'll see the texture so if we just go and demonstrate it from the other end and draw your seal much more smeared effect and then we've got scale so if you reduce the scale of the texture you're going to get a really small texture that's so compacted you won't even notice it or if I turn it up you'll notice the grain and the texture a lot more when you've got the zoom set to follow size at this end of the spectrum it will scale the texture with your brush shape when set to cropped I'll move it to the other end so the grain is locked and the brush segment scale will end will scale independently from the grain so again something you just need to experiment a little bit now we've got rotation see if you see by moving it you can see that it rotates the grain as well so it's quite similar to grain movement the more I move it to that end it gives a more smeared look because it's wrote tilting it that way and move it that way it's tilting it that way but it's smearing it so the best kind of grain in a way is the way it's like Bank in the middle and then we've got a filtered thing here if it's off apparently it's going to cause the grains become more jagged and course when it's filtered or it's on it's going to give that kind of softer edge to things apparently got dynamics it's by default set to normal so each brush rendering option affects the overall behavior of the brush and provides access to different dynamic settings so on normal the normal mode will allow your stroke to build over time and has no special dynamic settings but when you're unglazed your brush will paint in a uniform transparent manner and will no longer build up over time because of this the glazed effect behaves exactly the same as defaults or Photoshop brushes and then you've got the wet mix and this mode gives you brush a wet look and now it's a number of settings to affect the dilution of the paint so the amount of paint supplied and how much your brush will pull paint around on the canvas you've got opacity speed and come to normal so the opacity will vary depending on the speed of your stroke and you've got jitter so the stroke will vary in opacity and as it is stamped across the canvas you've got high speed the size will vary depending on the speed of your stroke and then the bottom one size jitter the stroke will vary in size as it's stamped across the canvas now again this is not something I tend to get involved in this is fairly deep into the settings personally I don't have a lot of use for it but it's good to know these options so with in place you've got pretty much the same kind of factors there and within this one as well you've also got dilation charge attack and pull in terms of what they mean dilation is directly related to the paint mystics so varying values of dilution will create different levels of water in your paint so it's not real water it's just the water effect so when a high amount of dilution is applied to your brush the brush will mix more paint with each stroke then you've got charged as a charge refers to the amount of virtual paint applied to a brush so literally like chart how much has got loaded for instance when you set to zero the virtual paint will run out almost instantly and the charge set is great for traditional artists and you've got attack so tack is a pressure based setting designed for use with Apple pencil so the higher your tack setting the more variation in a stroke shape with pressure the more pressure you apply the more of the shape area is applied to the canvas just like pressing harder with a physical brush and then we've got pull I'm just reading from the manual for this so perhaps saves you the effort of having to go through it but it's not something that I get involved in so it is perhaps necessary for me to read this for you for the pull feature it is based it's best using combination with dilation and effects how much paint your brush will pull around on the canvas a brush with high pull and low charge well that's a bit like a smudge so demagogy opacity dynamics as before and you may have this size donut mix as well so let's concentrate on the pencil settings no like I said the pencil is what I tend to use more so you've got the pressure opacity you've got a slider here and I'll just show you with the Apple pencil so when set to 0 which is in the middle an actual fact if you can get it on that's quite difficult together they go the brush will not react to pressure changes at all so when sets in max which is up here the more pressure will make the stroke opacity stronger and obviously the inverse 100% inverse more pressure will make the stroke transparency increase got pressure bleed so the pressure bleed applies the threshold to your entire brush which is then mapped to pressure a high bleed setting means that the brush will have less detail and impacts with live strokes so the brush detail will bleed through the canvas as pressure is increased size is obviously a pretty fundamental one just like opacity so this is when you press on or that it's gonna get bigger this is when you press on more you're gonna get a smaller version pressure softening is not something that I've really investigated too much but when set to zero any changes in pressure will be immediately acted upon so larger values will smooth out the pressure response which is excellent for getting gradual changes with glazed brushes so lower values will give brushes a quick response in changes in pressure I've also got the tilt options so it affects the tilt angle you may get a you can you know show how sensitive it's going to be how much you'd actually have to tilt the pencil in order to get a response so if you set it so that you have to tilt it quite a lot then these aren't going to be affected until you've actually tilted it you can change the opacity the gradiation bleed size all the other kind of things so let's go into general you can change the brush name if required you can have a preview is that off or on you can change the size of the preview it can also change the behavior of the brushes so you can have it so or intense to the screen you can have different blend modes so you can will experiment with some of these in a little while but you can see the different settings here so size limits you can have a maximum or a minimum and you can have opacity limits too when we come to the source this is perhaps one of the really useful elements for really modifying your actual brush so for example you can invert it you can insert a photo so you can change the entire shape or the grain by inserting a photo you can really modify it you can create your own brushes this way obviously you've done it over the top of another one so you're changing a specific brush in there you could choose to add your own brush set as well that's important to bear in mind that the white areas is actually going to be the bit that impacts so that is the bit that mark makes the black areas where it's not going to have any impacts and the white areas is good bit where it's going to have any impact now when it comes to making custom brushes that is what the plus symbol is for and that's perhaps a better way of doing it than really modifying some of the preset brushes so that here you can see it's actually blank so you can create your own brushes so here you get to choose the shape and the so these are the two elements of a brush that are really important so the shape is going to be the outline of the actual stroke that you make so it might be a very geometric shape or it might be more of a kind of irregular looking shape and then that mixed with the kind of filter or the texture that is the grain is gonna the two combined is going to create the actual brush effect officer there's nothing that inverts at the moment so you can insert a photo or SWAT from pro library so this is something you just need to experiment with it's not something I've done a lot of but it's definitely perhaps worth a go out so if you were actually in here you can actually alter the brushes and the grain and things like that actually within if you wanted to invert what you've got double tapping with you've got the option there anyway but if you want us to do as a gesture you can do it with your fingers now if you want to share the set you've got the option there of sharing it in the usual kind of formats and methods you can also drag and drop it into different areas too so when it comes to the smudge tool it works much like the brushes so a fear on the smudge you can actually choose from all the different textures all the different options that I've run through what the brushes are just as applicable with the smudge tool as well if you actually go onto the the brush here you have the option of how aggressively the you know the actual smudge tool is going to impact your work so if you want it to just be a bit more gradual like that you see it's a really good way of mixing things together or if you want it to be really quite aggressive you'll see that that it preserves a bit more of the kind of texture so this is a way of blurring and blending whereas this is like you've got a real kind of coarse rough blending together so experiment a little bit you'll find the right and appropriate kind of textures and level of smudging for you it's a really good way of getting a very natural look of real painting now it's not something I tend to use very often I used since use airbrush and go for much less visible textures in actual smudging anyway so it's not as applicable to my work but for plenty of people who like to the images all have been using real kind of oil paint and this is gonna be an incredibly useful function when it comes to the eraser again you have all the same function so you can erase in an interesting way so just like it if you were using like real charcoals for example on a member or nurse at our College if was doing life drawing it would be almost as important you use of the eraser as it would be the actual charcoal itself so you can actually use for example I could charcoal texture on your eraser and you could actually use that to erase and you can obviously control the strength of it and the size of the the brush and the opacity varies according to tilt and pressure on the pencil as well depending on what settings you've got it on on the Apple pencil settings another method of erasing or redoing is to use the gesture so if you use the double finger it will undo all the gestures three finger tap will redo or if you want to slide through all of the gestures quickly or all of the the marks you done quickly tap your fingers and hold and it will race through them likewise if you want to redo hold down the three fingers and it'll whizz through them quite quickly I tend to do it individually just because you can go back to a specific point and what you find if you hold it down so you can always past the point at which you wanted to stop a bit too quickly another thing you can do with a layer is to clear the layer by sliding to the left you've got the option you can just clear it like that so various different ways of deleting your work if I just go to an appropriate brush for this demonstration and choose a clear process setting now when you're using a quick line you can as I said before if you create something you gave me for a solid line but it's got a bit wonky like so if you hold it the end it will snap to your line I'm moving up and down you can change it you can also for short you can shorten it or lengthen it and really it just like lines to be specifically away you want it to be if you know you want to adjust your line by a specific angle and you've drawn a line right so and you want to move it by 15 degree increments if you hold a little finger down on the screen and then move it it will adjust that line like I say in 15 degree implement if you find you've drawn a line and you want to change it click the transform tool and this will allow you to after the fact for just now what you'll find as I was showing you is that the if you do it quickly it's not going to snap what you have to do is hold it now the length of time that you hold it for for some of you that might be too short will enter time you might do that naturally and not once it's it's not so a straight line you want to preserve the initial mark that you made without it automatically snapping to a straight line afterwards so it is something you can change in the settings on the quick look line delay to much longer periods is one and a half seconds and I've drawn a line after really hold it for quite a long time now before it snaps I'll just show you if I reduce that that might be a bit too quick so you can either disable it if you have it really a short amount of time you'll notice now that it just almost instantly as soon as I stopped my fingers still on the screen and it snaps so that's perhaps a bit too quick for some people I generally have it somewhere a little bit sort of in the middle ish so very definitely have to intend it but it doesn't take forever I don't get fed up before it actually does it now one of the other really important sections obviously is going to be the cause and the color interface now you've got different ways of viewing that so you've got the classic sort of interface here you've got the disc and we got the values and you've got the pallet so there's various different things along the bottom there so this is the way it used to be I've gotten used to using the disc these days but it's whatever suits you if you tap on hold on here it will revert to the previous color that you were using so if you've no you just change the color you want to go back neatly back I could say I won't be using black and white so by pressing and holding it it keeps reverting back to the previous color which happens to be black and white at the moment so that perhaps is going to be one of the most basic ways of switching backwards and forwards between colors another that if I go back to an actual image no excuse another picture that I've done if you want to select one of the colors that happens to be on your picture its hold down your finger let go and you can see it selected it there so now I want to start using it you can see that it's now using that color on the canvas there is another method for doing this if you hold this and click anywhere on there this is perhaps a quicker method of doing that it's basically the same as what I just did it's just otherwise you'd have to click and hold for a while before it does that you want to do it like instantly you can just do it by holding down the symbol at the side and you can see that this keeps changing now according to everything that's I've simply by holding this icon here if you want to adjust the length of time that it takes to access a color you can change the eyedropper settings here so I've got it set to these different settings you can change the settings as well now I've got it 22.4 of a second it's just the right amount of time for me so I can access that by there touching at holding holding the icon that side and tapping with the Apple pencil or holding that and then touching just like it demonstrates it but you can have it on the other ones I just think to access it by touching is going to be a little bit you're gonna do it inadvertently you're not going to intend to do it every time you touch the screen but you could set it to that I just personally think that would be a bit too much okay so when it comes to the color disk which is the one I use the most you've got all the colors around the outer part of the disc so that literally is all your different colors but you've also got the strength of color side with the light and dark you've got a sort of grayed out versions you've got a real saturated intense vivid versions and you can see exactly what you suggest what you're picking by the color changing up here so this shows the previous color that you've had this shows what you've just been selecting now the previous color I was drawing with or had selected was this but what I'm currently changing is the one next to it it's useful to have the two side-by-side than you if you're making a slight change slightly darker and you can really can compare the two like that so once you've found the perfect kind of hue around the outside if you paint like this you can really focus on this so you can do the two separately so you're not going to be confused what I do find sometimes is because I'm doing that and this it is a little bit confusing to the eye whereas if you just go in the center push it out you can really focus on the saturation of it pinch back in and you combats of things so select your hue your color at the outside push or pinch outwards and then you get to choose the saturation pinch you back in and you go back to the full version of the whole disk if you're on the classic color picker you've got the hue here you've got the saturation and you've got the light and dark at the bottom as well so you can see it moving up the different axes for the saturation and the lights and dark so when it comes to values you can really can control that here if if you've got color presets or somebody's giving you the exact figures and numbers you can actually change its being incredibly accurate here with the various different numbers the levels of red green and blue and the other aspects as well something I've never been involved I've never really been so concerned I tend to judge things by I more than anything else but if there's a very specific colors that you require for something to be uniform then you do have the various different numbers and settings here that you can take note of when it comes to saving your color that you actually like or a set of colors that you might actually like and then you can do that by creating color swatches or palettes so you can see here I've got some particular colors that are already saved from a different picture and because I've already here they're accessible and it will automatically put it there now if there's a color here for example I know once I can put it here so I can choose all sorts of different colors to actually create a new color swatch too if I want to reorder them I can press and hold and I can move it to a different area see so I can rearrange the two so if I want to move the green more over to this position you can see it rearranged it if you decide you want to get rid of one of them hold it down and it deletes it obviously if you've got old pallets that you've created there may be set here there's very sort of default ones that are here naturally anyway and if you want to add them you can rename them here type it in and then you're done and if you want to pick any of these you can just choose to put it as you default and you go back onto here and it's going to be there waiting for you so obviously you can rename your pallets you can click and hold and drag them and move them around all the same kind of functions and once you get a little bit familiar with procreate you're gonna find that most of these functions sort of apply throughout so you can change the order of your brushes of various different things including palettes again just like you can with other things you can share and you can delete it too if another artist has shared their color swatches or their palette then you can actually drag and drop them into here as well or another option you have is to fill areas with color best way of doing that if you've got a particular area or a shape that you want to just block in with color and you've got it selected here hold it down let go and it fills the area so it depends on you setting it mean if you've got a particular shape so if I created another layer with my shape here I can create a shape that's closed and if I'll zoom in you'll see it a bit more clear I've got a blue line that goes run there and I just click and hold it and fill it you'll see that it's filled that shape and it does it on maximum opacity you can see some of the other areas will be on a different layer which is why they're more visible so if I show you remove that now you can see it is a solid fill so if you were to drag and drop like this by holding your finger down and then moving it left and right you can actually change the drop threshold now it is not working particularly effectively with the image and the layers that I've got but if you're trying to just fill a particular sort of shape and it's fine it's going out of it you can actually turn the threshold or pull down and it's are they're gonna flood that area or flood outside of that area depending on the threshold so behave very much like the paint bucket tool in Photoshop okay and another aspect that I've mentioned but I'm going to go into a little bit more detail on is the actual layers now this is the layers tab if you press on it you get access to the layers that you've used I find it really useful because sometimes you want to experiment on a separate layer without damaging the artwork or the state you've already got to so in order to create a new layer there's a little plus symbol press on that and it will layer a new one there you can rename it by pressing on it gives you option there you can select copy fill all the different options are there as well if you want to introduce something or any effects or changes you want and make into the primary layer which is the one you've got selects like this this will automatically be done but you want to do the same effects to various different layers at once without merging them you've got the main one selected by tapping it but then you can just quickly swipe to the right and then you'll affect all of those layers as well and to undo that effect you just click on the way so that's the primary layer so everything you do on that layer will affect that layer but if you want to everything you do on that layer also effects all the other layers just swipe those and it will also change those so for example if you are working on this and you want to change the opacity of this it will change the opacity of those two linked layers as well but without merging them if when you have two selectors you want to make a group out of those you can do that by pressing the button there so you can see it's created new groups so - your primary layer you created a group click on here it's now made into a group you can fold that group down so you can see just the title of the group or you can open it down so it expands and shows you what's in that group as well and obviously you can rename that group so people whatever you want just helps you organize a bit cube write might really have a lot two different layers so it might be appropriate to create different groups of ways if you want some move layers around you press some holes and then you can rearrange and just like you can with all it does for other different areas if you want to make that particular layer invisible you've got the little button there I don't think on that layer will either become visible or invisible if you check the box or uncheck it if you want to change the properties of a layer so you're on this layer and you want to go into the settings press the end you can change the opacity you can change the different factors here so you want to go back to normal it kind of reset so you can multiply linear burn call burn you've also got the lights and effects you can normal lights and screen add color touch you really just have to see or works for your work of art in this particular example there's nothing you can do to damage it because you just click on all and it goes back to the original image you're working on anyway if you wish to merge down a layer you can merge it down it merges it with the layer underneath I'm just going to undo all adjustments have just made because I want to make sure that I'm not damaging its current piece of work that I'm working on I don't want to permanently damage or affect it I'll just show you that again so if you click on it you can merge it down and it combines those two layers together but it only merges it down with the active layer and the one immediately below it I've shown you earlier on where you can pinch you can do that with a group where you can do that with two individual ones and it will merge those two layers together another option you have is the background layer now there's not much you can do with it other than remove it so you might have a design that you want to print onto a t-shirt or something you don't want a background on it but if it's just gonna be a regular painting you might want a flat color you could insert the flat color özil an actual controllable layer in which you can draw run as well but it if you just want it as a background layer then there's your option so if you want to access other options within the layer by tapping it you'll see various different options here so you can rename it I've already gone over that if you press select it selects everything on that layer so you can do various different things from here you can transform your selection copy it spades inside of it or any other applicable can action really when you finished and you happy with that just press the selection ding and it will come out of that option you can copy the options or everything within that layer to your clipboard so therefore if you open that open another canvas you can paste it onto that canvas for example or you can email it or put it opening it in another app as well you can fill a layer with the color that's already matically selected I don't want to do that you can clear the layer is here you can employ your alpha lock you can apply a mask and you've got some various different options here as well another really useful function within your layers is if you tap on here and you create a mask you can do various different things to your mask layer itself a zoom in on that let me use the Apple pencil so you can see perhaps it affects some of the details here but it isn't affecting the original layer is it only creating like a duplicate that is over the top where the changes are being impacted but actually you can get rid of those but it's a way of experimenting on a layer without actually damaging or impacting the original layer is copied from which is can be really useful so obviously you create a layer mask is quite easy to just delete it as well so ok and one of the most important things you're going to want to do is add some adjustments so that comes with different effects different kind of ways to adjust all the different aspects of your image so the color maybe the blur all sorts of things like that the most basic one is your opacity so as I showed you will you can swipe up and down to affect the opacity you can apply a blur so you press on that and you can slide up and down if I go back out on the image you'll see that a bit more effectively so I could go up and down you can see it blurring details on a particular layer you can create a motion blur and again if you move your finger rotate your finger you'll see it rotates it as well as affects it's two different functions actually with the motion blur if you notice it go straight up and down in terms of Z the strength of the blur but then also the kind of the rotation of it too you've got perspective blur as well so obviously wherever you put this is going to be the center of your perspective so all kind of blurs to a vanishing point if you like so this is going to be where the center of your blur effect is going to be so if you want to move it to here this is where the clearest bit is going to be if you like you can turn the effect up or down you've got a sharpening you can really just improve the the vividness of the the lines and the marks that you're making probably notice that more as you zoom in and move it up and down you can see it just sharp and it got the edges a little bit like so you've got noise so you can see it really adds that kind of a grain to it and then you've got the hue saturation and brightness so you can change the hue of a particular layer the saturation is the strength of the color so you can make it black and white or a more vivid you can make it darker or you can make it lighter and if you want to reset it you can click that if you don't want the preview on so if you've got it here and you want to go back to the original rather so you press it and takes it back to your original thing let go and it shows you the preview because once I undo okay so you've got the color balance if you go onto here you can really push either the shadows towards the red and mid-tones towards the red or the highlights towards the red or you can push it towards mother scions likewise you can push the mid-tones or the shadows there's various different things you can control and then you can reset it really quite useful sometimes but just shifting the tone of your piece of work if it's somehow just not quite working quite right it feels a bit too pitched into warmer colors you can just change it a little bit another way of doing that is to use the the curves so you've got all the different colors here you got the red green and blue and you can shift all of the different values here and just experiment with it sometimes you might find that just by changing the different elements then you can get something quite interesting another thing that you can do is use the recolor so if you click on that it gives you a little cursor and it uses a selector call you go up here and you can just use it any will fill in a certain works better if there's a flatter kind of color as well okay moving along so you've got the adjustments that we've explored and now going going to go onto the selection so you can use this if you're on a layer that actually has some information to draw a selection of a bit that you want to change in order to close that loop that shape you need to click on the gray circle and now that line disappears but there is an area say here for example where this area is selected but this is not now you can actually do the inverse of that by clicking this button and now it's the outside that selected Buddhist shape that you're drawn isn't but whilst that selects it you can change aspects of the selected area see you can just affect the hue and color and saturation and brightness of that particular part another aspect you can do is to simply use taps so that's the starting point if you know you need to go straight onto here it snaps to that area and you want to create another line here and if you've got a more geometric shape with straight lines just a series of taps will allow you to press with a bit more precision straighter edges and this it's got an organic shape but you can see that this is quite a good way of selecting even that area then as well obviously another aspect of when I've got selected is that I can just paint inside the area and you can see if I'm just rough it's only going to paint inside the area and not an outside you'll notice that you can make various selections drawing into the areas you can notice the bits that are not selected by they're kind of lines and then all these different shapes have just drawn and now selected if you've made a selection and he wants it clear or you can click that if you've drawn something you've done it in a couple of movements and you just want to undo the last section of that selection then you can do it on the undo and the redo another way of using this selection tool is to have it on automatic click on an area and then by moving in left and right it changes the selection threshold if you want to change just the area that's just been selected then you can do that in this area yeah or you can paint over it so if you want to paint a nut area only then along here we have the transform tool so anything that would happen to be on that layer can now be controlled here so you can see I've just reduced that's the background and I've just pinched in and out to reduce the size of it I can rotate it I can distort it by pulling from one of the edges if I press and hold you'll see it starts to distort it can be really useful if you wanting to apply a texture to something that's going off into a perspective or a surface it can be really useful that you can really make it fit more of a geometric shape perhaps obviously if you've got a particular section that you have selected works exactly the same way and then you go into transform you can transform just that particular area rotate it again distort it anything you want just that particular part as well you can use combinations of the different selections and the transform tools and the adjustments they all kind of work together to really create the kind of effects and the kind of things that you would want to do if when you're using the transform and you want to just be able to squish it left and right from the corners in every which way then use it on the freeform if you want the basic proportions and to be kept to the initial ratio then you put it on magnetic and then unless you pull from the edges because that will distort it if you pull from the corners it will keep the ratio the same so it's not going to distort your image you'll just reduce the scale so you can rotate it and reduce the scale and increase the scale you you have a particular section for example let's just select an area here and you've got it here if you want to make it fit the canvas now it fits the entire expanse of the canvas now it's not going to be very particularly useful for this particular image but again just like with the other tools you've got the undo and redo if you've got something that you've wrote you selected here you can flip it on the horizontal or the vertical you can rotate it by 45 degree increments so you're all the way back to the beginning I know you can just undo anything that you've just selected and transformed if you have a selection of a particular shape so again I'm just going to select a random area and select it you can move it around like this so you can just sort of nudge it just ever so slightly into the position that you want it's really quite grateful getting things exactly lined up in detail where you need them now actions are the kind of things that you might want to do after you've completed a work or at the beginning of a piece of work there's all sorts of quite fundamental things here this one is quite simply inserting a file or a photo or taking a photo with the camera you can cut copy copy canvas or paste in there as well that deals with the image the canvas here you can add a perspective guide which will go and deal with that a bit more you can flip the horror there Kamath horizontally or vertically or you can get canvas information there's all sorts of information here about the number of maximum layers you can use that how many layers you have used the video length when you play it back the track time working on a particular image this session you can share in all these different formats if you can choose JPEG then it will ask you where you want to share it to you've got your video so you can replay the recording this happens to be the beginning of that and you if you want to whiz through that a bit more quickly you can slide it across and so you get to the very end you can choose to have a time-lapse recording or not you don't want it to record then you do it like that if you do want it to record start that you can actually start a live broadcast so you could put onto YouTube for example or you can export your time-lapse video from here as well you've got different preferences here now if you're working outside in the Sun or a sunny in vibrates environment you might want to use a light interface so it might really help you to see your tools and your cameras more clearly you might want to change to a right-handed interface where everything or this part of it flips over to this side you might find that more useful you may wish to have a brush cursor so you'll notice if you look very carefully especially if I turn the brush size up just before I commit bouts of I turn the opacity down you'll see it more clearly near the nib there is an actual circle so it gives you a cursor as a guide to what you're actually go out to draw you can air play canvas to an airplay device to wrap it undue delay is if you hold down two fingers and keep them held down then it will one start to undo all your previous things and that's the delay on it really so if you have it to be over a second you'll have to hold you two fingers down for quite a while before it will start rapidly undoing all your previous actions I preferred generally not to use that I do them individually so I haven't somewhere set slightly higher up so I have to hold it down for quite a while before activates you've got your quick line delay which was covered earlier so if you want to snap to a straight line you have to hold it down at the end of that line for a period of time and then it will start to a straight line and there is a nice Oh hide interface so this is the interface with all the icons you can have it set to hide the interface after 10 seconds or a period of time I have it disabled I don't want it to hide the interface at all you can have the selection mask visibility so you may find that what I was drawing before you couldn't see it the way that this rayline's very clearly if you have it like this you've got to see it you won't get to see the background for that matter but depends how you want it I tend to have it quite low really long as I can see it I mean normally I'm not working on camera so it's fine you have the option to connect a third party stylus although with the Apple pencil I don't know why you would do that you can edit the pressure curve now this is an incredibly useful thing to be able to do if you have it pitched quite steeply at the beginning then it takes less pressure to start to make a mark what I found is by default it requires you to add quite a bit of pressure to the screen with your Apple pencil before it starts to make a mark and it used to annoy me quite a bit really so now I'm applying pressure it's hardly showing anything off the press really hard before it even becomes visible so what I do now on those settings is that I make it quite steep at the beginning and just sort of gentle it out at the end so now when I press adaptive press is hard to get a market of a press really hard and obviously it changes but those first marks are not too difficult to make just a little bit of pressure now it's all I need to make and here we have the advanced gesture controls so for example with my Apple pencil what I wanted to do is is use the selected tool I don't want it to be only those other aspects you could have it for paint only or smudge only or arrays only but I want it to be whatever selected as my tool that's why I want the Apple pencil to do now when it comes to touch you might find that you don't want to draw with your finger inadvertently you only want to draw with the Apple pencil if that's the case you can either post it to arrays only but then you might accidentally find yourself a raising small areas or smudging small areas so I put it on gestures only so that's just get multiple swipes you're pinching in and out so the only thing that my hand will do are the kind of general gestures I won't be able to draw or erase with my fingers anymore so that's really completely useful for me and it gets rid of this need for palm rejection I've got the eyedropper selection so you can choose how you will select the eyedropper and how long you might need to hold down for and we've got quick menu options as well which is from the little icon now and again if I just said it so you can tap it or you might set it so you have to hold it in other areas so they see a quick selection so when I click that I have the options that create a new layer flip horizontally copy most and clear layer or flip vertically and we have the help option so you can ask what's new it gives you a video it tells you what's new to procreate you can restore purchases you guess you have advanced settings and various different things ways of receiving help or leaving reviews etc ok and one of the other important features is perspective guide the first thing you need to do on the canvas is turn on the perspective guide and then once it's enabled you can edit the perspective guide you have down here the opacity of the lines that you're going to add and then the width and size of the lines that you're going to add as well so the first thing you need to do perhaps is create a vanishing point so if I just turn the thickness of the lines up so you can see that and you can see all these lines go towards that vanishing point and you can move that vanishing point anywhere on your canvas if I just zoom in a little bit you'll see it more clearly but that's obviously to see a single vanishing pond which it is useful for an awful lot of cases but you can create one two or three point perspectives if you want to change the horizon line which is the strongest blue line here there is a little dots around the edge if you do it anywhere else on a circle it won't work but there is a little blue dot there so it might be for example the although that's the vanishing point that might be - horizon line you might be a character that's lay looking at it from an unusual angle or you just your horizon line is not going to be straight forward left to right you might be offered an unusual angle like that but as your vanishing point on a weird looking horizon but you can create a more dynamic looking composition that way if you want to add a second perspective if you just click somewhere on the line there and you can move it on that cut line so it becomes further away or closer to that helps just create two senses or the sense of it going off into separate directions so if you wanted to create like a cube with two facets that vanished to two different vanishing points that's how you would do that it might be like the corner of a building it's a road that goes up here in a road that goes up there and they meet in this section which is the corner of two buildings for example if you want to create a third vanishing point click on the line and then move it and you've just created a third vanishing point now if you've created a vanishing point and you want to get rid of it all you do is tap on it and delete it simple as that if you are working on a particular layer I'm going to create a new layer and you want to use perspective assist now what you'll find is that I've got two appropriate colors you can see I'm drawing a line that's I'll choose a bigger line so you can see it I'm drawing the line now it's going to be impossible for me to go up here anywhere else I can go back with some forwards along there but it won't allow me to deviate from that at all so I can go over that and really create a line that works in connection with that but I can't go this way in a way that's awkward I can either go horizontal I can go vertically or I can go with the vanishing point which can be really useful for perspective drawing or technical drawing see for example you can really draw shapes that fit to a vanishing point when this isn't very good because I'm just doing it very quickly as a demo but you get the idea on the worst cubes I've ever drawn but it gives you the the sense of it anyway only the layer that you've actually clicked on an activated layer assist will have that activated so if you've drawn a box or cube with a layer that's got lyricist maybe use another layer you can add shading on the other layer see how it goes or you could even draw your straight lines on the layer with a layer assist and then on another layer on top of it you could use that as a web tracing over it for the bits that you want to have those lines on anyway okay as I briefly touched on before one of the really useful things within the new procreate is the Quick Menu now you've got all the different options here if you've got it set so the in preferences I'll just go on to it different ways that you can access it so it gives you a range of options here you can choose to not use it at all but if you want to use it you can use it with different methods here so I've got it by tapping on that little icon but also have it by touching and holding so maybe I'm going to have it so you have to touch and hold it quite a while just for the benefit of showing this demo really normally I would just have it set to that cycle so if I'm doing the touching and holding you'll see it opens it out for want to for example choose a new layer I can just swipe up to the top and it's created a new layer I'll hold that down again and you can see that it's got a copy option that's why I swipe into that it will have copied and then it can paste that later on a little one like I say if I click on there it is exactly the same thing and way of editing you different options here or to press it and you can see you can change it could be layer opacity click and hold you can have it to be how old manner of different things by scrolling up and down just a couple of quick comments about the Apple pencil if you're not familiar with it then it's perhaps just important to be come aware of it so when you're in your Apple pencil settings there's all sorts of things that you can change here to affect it but generally speaking I think a lot of people like the pressure to affect the darkness of line perhaps to affect the the width of line there as well you can see that it's changing the width but also the tilt to actually affect the type of might that you get as well so you can see there that the tilt like shading from the side of a pencil and you can even apply the pressure like that as well so it just becomes really like a natural feeling tool anyway I hope that you've enjoyed watching this tutorial if you want to make sure you subscribe press the bell notification next to the subscribe button to make sure that you notified of all of my future videos I'd like to say a massive thank you to those people that I've been over to my patreon page and supports me there too there is a link down on the description otherwise I hope this has been useful please check out my future videos and I shall catch you back here again see you later

Channel: James Julier Art Tutorials

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Id: 4xwphxM73jc

Length: 73min 35sec (4415 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 13 2018