Why Your Lines Look Bad In Procreate - And it's Not What You Think (Procreate Tips)

so before I start this video let me ask you a question when you're starting your new illustration and all of a sudden you're just deep into that illustration do you feel like your edges are just not feeling as sharp you feel like the edges are looking low-quality and the whole the whole drawing when you try to print your drawings they are just not feeling really high-quality there's something to them maybe the the edges are just looking really pixelated or like the quality of the drawing itself just doesn't look as good as it could be well today we're going to answer all of these questions and I'm going to show you a few places where you may be actually missing and we're also going to be building two custom brushes one with tapering and one without that both are going to be ready for high quality illustration this is a video that you definitely don't want to miss because the files that we will be creating in this video I'm going to be putting them as a link in the description box down below in my Gumroad page is gonna be free and it's going to be for you to be able to download these files and start working with some high-quality illustrations for your own artwork my name is Lena watching those papers so now let's get to it alright so the first possibility here is that you're actually working with the wrong canvas in procreate and that is something that is extremely important whenever you're starting to create a new illustration so for example we can make illustrations that should go or are going to go as posters so you're gonna send them off to print and you can also work with illustrations they are only gonna be seen digitally the problem is for example when you create a file that doesn't hold enough quality to be printed and you're trying to make a poster so to give you a very obvious example here like this file here doesn't have a lot of pixels at all to be seen as a poster and if you start drawing on this canvas you see that the lines already look quite jacked so you don't really have a lot of quality in the in the edges of your illustration so if you were to actually try to print this file even if you try to print this with a small kind of output so as a small you could still get quite a bit of low quality in your print so let's make one of these canvas templates here together and don't worry cuz those templates will also be in the file that I'm putting in the description box of this video so now if I were to create something that I want to print for example a poster I could go into the custom creation here on on procreate 5 and it could also change from the unit's I could change it to inches and now I have more control I don't have to be calculating in pixels what is this size that I need so in this example I'm just gonna make a 12 by 18 inches a poster which is a vertical poster at 300 dpi and then procreate on an iPad pro second generation is able to give me 23 layers to work with which I know it doesn't sound like a lot of layers but it's it's manageable it is possible to work with that if you keep cleaning up you know merging layers making sure that you're optimizing your illustration so once I create this file that's very same brush I would have to actually make it bigger so that I can get bigger bigger results here on my canvas if I put it more or less to the size that I had on the very small file this is the size of the brush so procreate actually is able to understand and and here you can definitely see how this file actually will already hold more quality to your illustrations and I forgot to say just one thing as you're creating this file I'm just gonna head back into the gallery here and go back into the canvas creating section once you have your file and I'm just gonna type those again 12 by 18 inches make sure to check with the print shop as well what kind of a color profile you need to deliver that file most of the print shops will actually ask you to deliver a CMYK compatible file which procreate 5 is compatible with but some other services such as society6 for example they actually accept an RGB file that you can send for printing they do some kind of a color matching technology there where your colors can actually retain some of the brightness and saturation from the RGB colors to paper I've actually tested a couple times and if I've gotten some pretty decent results okay now that we've covered the canvas section what other things could we be doing that is actually not helping our illustrations the second possibility that your illustrations may not be looking so good once you are exporting them it's because you once again you've actually worked with a wrong size canvas and at the end you actually need to resize your illustrations and you actually have to be really careful when resizing here on procreate for many reasons let me just show you a couple well if you go here on the actions menu and on the on the canvas section you have the option to crop and resize if you were to actually crop here and I'm just gonna throw a random number here 1024 by 2048 and I were just in heating done you're actually cropping your illustration and procreate actually deletes the pixels that were outside the boundaries of your new canvas so right there it's actually you know you could be losing your work especially if you were to hit gallery by by mistake procreate we then save the file and you will lose so if your work because there's no way to once you save a file by Xing to gallery there's no way to actually go back the other problem is when you actually try to scale the illustration by yourself here with the move tool so once we actually use the move tool you are actually allowed to do scaling however if you notice here at the bottom right section of the UI we have actually three modes to scale your your images and that is the interpolation scaling so basically within these three modes what I can definitely say is that bicubic is the one to go by cubic interpolation is a way of interpolating data points in a two dimensional regular grid basically the surface is smoother than the corresponding surfaces obtained when you scale with bilinear interpolation or even nearest neighbor interpolation to give you another clear example nearest neighbor is really when you're dealing with pixel art that is the mode you actually want to have when you're scaling things with pixel art so that when you're you know pixel art you're actually working with a really small canvas so that you can blow up the canvas and the image as well and the pixels will retain its sharpness it's not going to add anti-aliasing to the pixels the pixels are going to be very strong and opaque and without the you know the artifacts so you definitely when you're working with more you know stylized illustrations or realistic illustrations you definitely don't want to be using nearest-neighbor and I'm gonna put on the screen right now an example of two illustrations it's basically the same but both were scaled up with a different algorithm the one on the left was scaled with the bicubic interpolation and the one on the right was scaled with the nearest neighbor and just noticed that and I hope they that this is actually very visible here on the screen that on the right side the nearest neighbor you already get way more artifacts just just straight-up looking at the edges and looking at both illustrations although like they do have a little bit of a compression that one on the left is still better I do have to say that this is already not the best way to go once again is really important for you to know what are these sizes that you need to work with and in many ways is actually better to start with the biggest size make your file so that you have the best resolution and then scale down to other deliverables that is the best way and not the other way around of course not working with the smallest file and then scaling up scaling up to the other deliverables because it's only going to be losing information pixel quality the only way you can do that is with vector files and procreate is unfortunately a raster program so it turns your artwork into pixels so once again be very careful when scaling artwork and try to work with the right size from the beginning all right now let's set up some brushes and the first one we're going to do has tapering to it so if you actually like to make illustrations where there's pen pressure applied to the brush that's where we are going to set up first and then we're going to set up a brush pretty much the same brush but without tapering so it's more of a constant width line and that is if you actually like to make illustrations like the ones that I like to make in this channel which kind of look like vector art outline illustrations so now let's get to the part where we create the two brushes for this video the first one is going to be the tapered brush and the second one is going to be more like this solid line so the very first brush is going to look at something like this that's what we're going to be creating and when your site what you probably want to do is to hit the brush library and click on the little plus sign here and that's going to take you to creating a new brush but in my case here I'm just going to go through all of these sub panels so that you can pause this video you can play this video as you're 0.5 speed and it can also head up to the link in the description once again and you can download this brush for free so just looking here only first paying the stroke path I believe that procreate by default gives you about 16 percent on the spacing please drop it down to about 9 percent on stream line we're actually using 30 percent of stream line and that is because it takes about a third of the human error when you whenever you're creating strokes on your illustration no jitter and no fall-off when it comes to tapering I would say a little bit of tape tapering because it's necessary for this brush make sure to link the tip sizes before you start dragging these handles size we're going to keep it about 47% no opacity and a pressure of 60 percent tip sharpness we're going to leave all the way back to sharp no tip animation and we're not really messing around with the touch tapering features because those are for drawing with your finger we're going to leave this brush here straight to just drawing with your Apple pencil next on shape make sure that you're using the solid circle if you don't have this shape over here you can always click Edit go into the shape editor and click import and from the source library make sure to choose the hard shape which is this one right here then all I have to do is click done don't use any scatter rotations should be set to zero count should be set to one because adding multiple counts actually duplicates the number of shapes with each stroke and then I actually change the variance on the edges of your stroke you may actually duplicate the pixels generating that pixelated effect that you probably don't want to have so count jitter set to none no randomization because this is just a simple circle make sure that the shape is full and not just something like this pressure round this roundness should be set to zero and tilt roundness as well and one of the most important things is the shape filtering for both the shape and the grain shape on shape filtering and the grain shape make sure that the filtering here is set to improved filtering which has a quality that procreate adds to your brush and to the strokes they've create with that brush if you leave it to no filtering that once again is an example for pixel brushes for pixel art brushes when you actually don't want to add any anti-aliasing to the edges of a pixel brush in the case of these brushes you definitely want to have with improved filtering now for the grain source make sure that you're using the full-on white square and if you don't have this option here again just click Edit go to import source library make sure that you have blank selected and if you do have it just click done you can leave these options on moving movement to rolling scale about 20% zoom follow size rotation set to zero depth to max tap the minimum non tap the jitter none and then don't have to worry too much about these options but once again such as the shape make sure that the grain filtering is set to improved filtering when it comes to rendering we're using the intense glaze because as the name says creates a better more opaque line blending flow work and I leave in a max wet edge is 1% and these options I believe you don't have to touch them at all same goes for wet mix we're not really doing anything with the wet mix for this brush and nothing really for the color dynamics as well we're just trying to get a basic brush that you can choose your colors and get just paint the colors that you choose now for dynamics speed and opacity set to 0% gear and on the jitter side now size and opacity set to none on the Apple pencil features size set it to max opacity none flow 0% bleed and smoothing set to none and a response of about 30% when it comes to tilting we're just going to zero that down so we don't really want to have that capability of having your hand tilting and creating different effects we're trying to get this eye you know just like a straight up a stroke that works every single time that you draw opacity gradation bleed size all set to none with size compression marked checked on finally on properties we do want to have oriented screen a preview of about 30 percent knows much in brush behavior minimum size to 100 minimum maximum size excuse me to 100 minimum size to none maximum opacity and minimum opacity maximum set to max minimum velocity set to none these two options here for brush brush behavior if we do want to increase these are the default sizes so if you leave it to a hundred and none these are the values that procreate understands whenever you are working with the size of the brush here on the outside of the brush studio so if you set your inside of our studio if you sell your brush to a hundred on the max when you go here to a hundred percent you're using that 100 number in other words if I go back into the brush studio here and I set my maximum size to 300 and now if I go into my brush settings or to my brush size you see that when I put it at a hundred percent you see that the brush actually takes over the whole thumbnail here and that's because the brush is now set to 300% because that's the number you set for maximum in the brush editor I hope that makes sense but it's basically an idea on how you can actually set a default size that will be bigger especially if you're working with bigger canvases if you're doing stuff for print you may actually want to tweet these numbers a little bit otherwise if you leave it at 100 and you set up to max size this is basically the biggest size your brush will ever get so if you you need to cover a bigger area or orifice for some reason you need strokes that are like thicker than this one and this is a canvas I believe in the moment this is this is just a screen size canvas so it's not even a print size canvas maybe you do want to play with those numbers now for the on tapered brush we're just going to go into the options here but the biggest difference they are pretty much the same but the difference is that on taper no taper and no linked tip sizes then I believe that on dynamics size is set to zero and opacity set to zero and on Apple pencil size is set to zero opacity none and that should actually create the same brush but with no tapering on the beginning and at the end of the stroke just hit done and both of yours you know both of your brushes will be ready to go and this is the result so this one I don't have to really worry I can go as hard as that one here on the canvas and the brush is actually not getting bigger or if I go you know very gentle it's not also going with a smaller size so these are the two brushes that will guarantee you better work when using high quality illustration files and finally guys one last tip whenever you're drawing on procreate if you're drawing here your illustration try not to actually have your hand sliding through your through the canvas especially if you don't have a screen map protector such as the one that I'm using here on my iPad if you have that glossy the glass screen that comes with the iPad and you're actually drawing with your hand very close to the screen it's kind of sliding over and especially if it is glass it's probably gonna have a tendency to draw and hold your hand a little bit so it can create these like kinks in your lines so I guess the best way one of the best way that I think that I believe is good to draw is to actually draw with your shoulder try to actually put the drawing motion and try to lift your hand and just place the pencil onto the canvas and try to draw with your moving your shoulder rather than your hand that being the driver so by doing that you probably a chief better results of course takes practice you'll have to it might be even good to do some warm-up warm-up exercises before you actually get to the illustration but you've probably yield better results so that's it for this video guys I hope you guys enjoy it now I'm going to be leaving in the description box below I'm going to be leaving a link on my Gumroad page and this one's going to be free and it will contain a few of the template files and the tube brushes the brush with tapering and one without for you guys to download and start making your own illustrations knowing that there's some really good quality from the get-go from the start so make sure to hit that link if you want to download these files so that you have these two brushes and the template files as well if you did find this video helpful a like would be super appreciated as well as make sure to hit the 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Length: 19min 16sec (1156 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 05 2020