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1.3 meters 1.4 meters 1.6 meters 1.7 meters 1.8 meters 1.3 meters 0.15 m 1.6 m0.13 m 0.14 m0.15 m 0.23 m0.22 m 0.21 m 0.14 meters Hello Friends Welcome to another Draw With Me This is another Procreate edition this is a much more updated version of how I draw in Procreate because it's changed a lot since then last time Today we're going to be making a little notepad so I'm opening up a new Document here It's 4.25 inches by 5 and a half inches 300 dpi CMYK so it's going The Abbot of the monastery is the Abbot of the monastery the master of the monastery And I'm starting to sketch I'm using a technical pencil I usually always sketch with the technical pencil in red on a bottom layer um I actually scrap this sketch Later but I just wanted to show this to you I pretty much switch between like five brushes and Procreate like five or six brushes They're listed here so three of them They are Procreate standards that come with Procreate and then the three other ones I have downloaded I will have links to all of the brush packs and everything that I love down below Oh Max I forget his last name but there's an artist named Max and he does the most incredible Procreate brushes He just released a watercolor pack that's incredible So if you use Procreate a lot but you want a more traditional sort of feel to your work like Max's brushes are amazing for getting that traditional feel I end up scratching or scrapping this sketch later because I sketched it okay so I'm making notebooks and notepads for my shop update And um this was originally a notebook design but I realized they are also doing of course today of all days they are doing so much construction around like my building so If you hear things I'm sorry but this was originally a design that I had planned out for A notebook and then I realized after looking at it that it would play a lot better on a notepad So that's what I'm designing it for so I did a new sketch of that similar sketch I had Previously done but then I was this one kind of lacked there was something about this one I I didn't like it I don't know if it was because there was a lack of movement there was a lack of like a sort of loosey-goosey feeling that's the only way I can think of to say it there was a lack of e loosey-goosey nature of this sketch that was present in the other one and when I realized that I It was like oh you know I can do that that would be a lot easier than just having to go Through this pain just go to the other file and get the sketch but I don't realize at for a moment because I keep just trying to work this one so I have my little gnome perso They've kind of become like the new sort of mascot of my shop I suppose I've been doing a little A bit of rebranding lately and I just want to draw this character on everything they're so much fun to draw Draw so I drew them having a little fika with their coffee cups and because fika is amazing and all I want to do is have fika and draw fika and I just I just want an excuse to eat sweets Things and drink tea all day don't we Don't we all Uh and then I'm going around and drawing This little border that I kind of messed around with is the point here where I realized that you know what I'm gonna go back to my other file and get the sketch that I actually like So I go back into my Procreate library uh and I click on the notebook file where I was drawing Other notebook designs Oh look here's a sneak peek at another notebook This was actually a The design I had hand painted and now I'm getting it printed so I go to the layer with the sketc I hit copy and then go back to my current file and hit paste then you know resize it reorient it and erase the parts I don't like So that way I can have the one that I do so Just adding some you know last couple details like the steam to the tea and things and the border just sort of Finishing up the sketch will make doing the line art that much easier so for line art I also use the tactical pencil I've been really into doing line art with like A dark blue color lately so that's what I'm doing I'm just going in with a dark blue technical Pencil and the reason why I sketch so cleanly is so that it makes doing line art so much easier also on the sketch layer I can resize things reshape things warp them to be however I wa It's not that it doesn't have the most sophisticated resizing technology it's just that pretty good but just because I'm a perfectionist I can see how it kind of loses a little bit of Resolution so I like to mess around with my sketch resize that and then when I go in with my line art that way I have to do minimal resizing or adjusting so I can just go in and follow the line art Little lines and just having a great time I really like doing line art it's incredibly satisfying because I'm basically just tracing my own stuff I don't know I think I think The liner might be my favorite part of the process Also for line art I usually tend to go I've been really into using the technical pencil lately bu Sometimes I'll also use the narrator pencil if I want you know a line that maybe doesn't quite fit It has so much texture and is but the thing I like about the narrator pencil is that it's between like a monoline brush which is just you know flat and totally opaque and a technical pencil brush or even the 6B pencil which is very textured and the narrator pencil lies right Between that so if I want really clean lines but I'm not into using like a monoline or technical pen I will use the narrator pencil as a really nice happy medium I was trying to do something different with this particular mug I was like do I want to do a different kind of handle and then I decided that no I just want to go with a simple normal one I also really like drawing you know tea steam like this I've been experimenting quite a bit with my style lately and I feel like I've really come into my own something that feels really good and very me and kind of combines all the things that I find appealing and you know other people's work and I feel like I've been able to take those elements and incorporate them into my own style and I've just been feeling really like artistically and creatively confident lately which is a really nice feeling because I feel like I spent the The majority of us were really struggling so it feels nice to finally come into our own Hair is definitely my favorite thing to draw it's just so fun I just love drawing all the little lines and individual locks Also you'll see later I actually found out in coloring this piece A new way to color hair that I love so hair is definitely my favorite thing to draw right now Also this chair is basically the same as the ones I have in my dining room you gotta draw from what you know folks The reason I added a little extra illustration on the bottom was because when I initially made this drawing I forgot to account for bleed and then I was like oh wait if If I needed to account for bleed for my printer then I need to make sure to draw a little extra At the border this was unnecessary for me to do but it's good it's good practice if you 're going to print to draw like an extra eighth inch of bleed around your final piece So again I'm not sure it depends like it depends on whether or not I'm going to be bothered by something e faint de-rezzing that happens when you kind of warp and reshape things the border Obviously it was very simple so I wasn't too worried about it I just went in and did some warping distorting and things to make it look roughly evenly spaced because why Use math and grids when you can just guess as I want to do a lot of it too me I forget to name my layers but I find that my life becomes so much easier if I just take the Extra 10 seconds and name all my darn layers but that's our line art oh she looks so cute They look so good but now before we get into coloring I wanted to say thank you to Skillshare for sponsoring this video I've loved Skillshare for a while now they've go Loads of 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brown chunky body is in frame for a while But basically I just go in with all the sections and just layer in the flats um usually I'll group like all the clothes in one layer I will group maybe the hair in another layer the skin in Another layer so I break pretty much every individual color or group of items into different layers because then it makes shading and adding detail much easier Later on so here I'm doing the color of what the shirt would look like underneath the steam from the mug and I realized that drawing the stripes on the line art layer made it really hard o um it would make it really hard to like if I wanted to maybe change the color of the stripes It also made it hard to change the line art of the steam because I was like do I want to maybe Make the line art on the steam white to add that effect but I decided that I didn't like that So I just hit undo a bunch of times and then I went in and erased all the blue lines on the Shirt from the line art layer so I could go back and add them later on the color layer I find that when it comes to things like patterns or details like that they work a lot better if I include them on a layer on the color layer as opposed to the line art layer because Then it seems I don't know for me it feels like it's more a part of the thing also I wanted to ave Sophie next to me for as long as I could but then she started cleaning herself on top of the I had to take her away because she started grooming her legs I'm sorry Many treats are coming after this video don't worry I do nothing but spoil that cat with love and pets Though oh my gosh before filming this video I was scouring or before recording this audio I was Scouring my apartment for a double A battery for my microphone because I couldn't find one so I was looking everywhere that I possibly could and um it wasn't in our little miscellaneous box electronics drawer so I kind of shut it in the drawer underneath and then I heard a bunch of Like the sound of something rattling in the drawer like in our linen drawer and I was like "What is that " And I was like "Did something fall down " Then I opened it up and Sophie was in there and I locked her in and I felt really bad because she likes to use our linen drawer as a little hideout I left her in the nap spot but I didn't think she was in there so I shut the door on her and she was so scared And her tail was all poofy and I felt so bad and now I'm worried that she's mad at me so I'm I'm going to make sure to emphasize how much I love her later like I said okay so this is going back to what I was talking about earlier about the details reading better on garments And objects when there's no line delineating those details from the thing that it's a part of which is why I got rid of the line art surrounding the like um sort of ringed cuffs and Collar because it looks better with just the white as opposed to the blue separating it so This is one of my favorite tools in Procreate the ability to just drop color anywhere you want I do this a lot where I just take colors if I'm not satisfied With something and I'll just drop it I also love using the like hue and color balance tools That if a color is almost where I want it but it's not quite there I'll use those tools to just mildly adjust it without having to redo the whole thing So again going in erasing what is that extra line on the side there oh that's part of the border I just completely forgot what I had drawn earlier so I erased the line around the lace You know to make it look more delicate and lace-like and now I'm going into drawing all the details This is a very simple lace I could have it There are so many tutorials online for drawing beautiful Delicate lace patterns this is not one of them this is like simple lazy man's lace doily So now I'm starting to go in with the details for the skin details I like to use the gouache brush It comes with Procreate and I will usually go a little bit redder and more saturated than whatever my skin tone is and I will use the gouache brush to add in my blush I also like To add these details on a clipping mask above the skin layer which is why I do this skin on its own My own layer because it makes adding these details so much easier so I add the layer on top of the skin layer set it to clipping mask and then everything that I draw on that clipping mas The layer gets confined to the skin layer I learned about the magic of clipping masks like I wanted to last year because for some reason they always confused me and then I used them In Procreate and then it suddenly clicked so now I love clipping masks and I use them all the time Sometimes when you use clipping masks though just because it only adheres to the colored pixels on the layer below I realize that I have gaps in my coloring where the clipping mask doesn't cover It's not showing up where I want it to so this is me going in and essentially filling in all the tiny little bits like tiny little white specks usually around the edges where the color is missing Since I was doing that on the skin layer I just went ahead and did that on all the other layers of my flats um again not necessarily making sure that everything is super even or you know I guess Like I could essentially just use a model line brush but I just really like drawing with it A softie or more like a pencil-like brush it's just more fun for me it might not sound logical but I like it so that's what I do So now I'm going in and adding the details in the hair when it comes to details and kind of like my second layer of coloring I use the watercolor flow round brush by Max This basically just adds a really wonderful texture to things and I'll go in and I'll first use the color of the thing I drew then I'll mess around and basically just use it Shades that are near the thing to kind of because the way that this brush lays on top of itself and e way it acts is kind of really beautiful and magical so I just kind of use a bunch of Colors near the color I used for the flat with the watercolor brush on top of that flat color to create a lot of interesting texture and light and it just looks it just looks Really cool and I really like it Also as I was talking about earlier I found that I really like drawing within each individual lock of hair for some reason This was the first time that I had I tried this particular coloring technique using the watercolor brush to really define the flow and light of each lock of hair and I love how it turned out so now this is how I'm definitely going to do it It's going to be coloring my hair from now on um again the difference is subtle but it really truly pays off and creates something kind of magical and beautiful and lends a depth that I think the Flat colors by themselves otherwise just don't have any impact This watercolor brush is so amazing because as you layer the same or different colors on top of each other the way they interact is really incredible and magical very similar to how traditional watercolor works or the traditional medium and um Max is just like a Procreate brush wizard I guess but I would highly recommend this pack He also has a gouache pack a painter's pack and a bunch of other packs but I would highly recommend I'm also using the watercolor brush to add just a little bit of nuanced shading around e elbows like this much detail isn't really necessary because this is going to be printed at such a small scale um but honestly like or it may or may not be necessary but I think it really It comes through and shows up in the final product so it's also really fun for me and this is just really fun for me and makes the drawing really come alive in my eyes so I'm always I recently discovered this sort of coloring workflow and I was very excited by it because I love it and it just looks oh it jus Looks so cool so now I'm going in on the color layer um with the technical pencil and adding in if I'm adding details on things I like to use the technical pencil because it matches the line Art and it just keeps with the whole clean yet textured look that I love so I just went in and added the stripes using the technical pencil and now I'm coloring in the table Uh so I tend to only use the clipping mask when it comes to the blush on the arms with everything else I usually just tend to lock the layer's pixels and just draw on the layer because the watercolor brush needs to react with the color that I've already laid down and if I put it on its own layer or even a clip on a clipping Mask layer it won't act the same so I just draw straight on the layer but I lock the pixels which makes my life a lot easier so that things don't get all muddled you can see here how putting on the lighter color on top of the darker color creates that really cool sort of I don't know It just looks really cool I'm trying to sound like I know what I'm talking about but I really don' I just do it because it looks cool and it's fun and then I went in and added my little sparkles Because I don't know anything I make would not be complete without some sparkles for a good measure and now I'm just finishing up my little last details I'm going in and you know resizing the Making sure that everything looks good and that I like the spacing and fixing the corners on the border as well because they were just a little too wonky for my liking And that's the finished piece that's my finished little 2B notepad I'm so happy with how it looks It turned out I think it looks so cute and I can't wait to get it printed and use it Oh this was So fun I hope you enjoyed this insight into how I use Procreate Maybe you can incorporate some of the tools and tips and tricks into your own workflow Thank you again to Skillshare For sponsoring this video and uh I'll talk to y'all soon I love you so much stay brilliant Bye