How To Color Sketches In Procreate w/o Using Outlines...Panda Edition!

What is up guys? Welcome back to the channel. In today's new video, I'm going to show you how you can draw this cute panda design from the sketch process to then rendering this out without using outlines. As always, if you take part in my tutorials too, post your work online on Instagram or Twitter and tag me at BJ Dell to have a chance to see your work featured in one of my upcoming videos like the people you see here that followed along with my last orange tutorial. Today though, it's all about the panda. So let's get drawing. Alright guys, so let's go ahead and draw a cute panda. Starting out, I'm using a 3000 by 3000 300 dpi canvas. It's an RGB canvas. For my brushes in this tutorial, we're going to stick to my first set. It's available right now on Gumroad. And for the color palette, once again, I've got this pre-made so if you want to download the exact same colors that I'm using in today's video, you can download that for free if you go to my website BJ Dell dot com. Underneath the YouTube reference materials page, you will find a link to that along with the video at the top of the page. It kind of walks you through how to install a palette in Procreate if you've never done it before. So let's go ahead and get started. This one is going to be kind of a rendered look. We're not going to have outlines, but we are going to start out with a sketch. So I'm going to use this blue right here for our sketch. And even though these are fur brushes, some of them you can use for things other than fur if you turn down the size. So for number one, I like for sketching too, it's got kind of a really, as we draw here, you can see it's got like a really kind of loose, very smudgy look to it when you make it small. So I've got the opacity down here set to about 30% and the size about 2%. So we'll use that for our sketch pencil or brush. So I'm just going to start out with the head here. So we'll just do a pretty big oval here in the center, starting out for the head to kind of map out where that goes. And then I want to kind of bring the bottom out on this. So we'll start to pull some lines there and connect them. Starting out with the basic shapes and then changing them like this can really help you kind of visualize what you're going for, rather than just trying to draw it straight off. So we'll draw that, get that kind of worked around there. Draw some ovals up here for the ears. Once again, basic simple shapes to just block out where everything's going. And then we can kind of add some detail. So I'm going to kind of pull this around and back into that oval. So it's got kind of this curve right there, kind of back in on itself, and then it's got just the regular curve there at the back where it connects to the head. So we've got that. Go ahead and kind of block in the body down here. So we'll just do a couple of sketch lines. They're curved coming down there, so it'll be kind of the outside of the arms as those come down off the shoulders. And then we'll draw a couple more sketch lines here, curved in, just kind of where that belly is going to be at. From there, also draw a line across here, curved, because that'll be the white part of the belly that comes up, that stripe going across. And this is where you really want to keep things loose. So you don't want to go in and try to add just a ton of perfect details. Like I said, this is not going to be an outlined version of this. We're going to do kind of a colored and rendered version. So adding too much detail right now and making sure everything's perfect is not going to get you too far in the whole process. A couple of ovals in there, just to block out where the inside of those ears go. And then once again, using those as a guide to bring around the inside. From here then, we'll do the patches on the eyes. So a couple of loose big ovals here, one on the left, one on the right, and I'll kind of adjust the overall shape of these. You can see I'm kind of making the bottoms now wider, like I did with the head, get wider and come back in and narrow up towards that top. Go ahead and get the nose in here, so just an oval here, we can bring down to a triangle there. And a couple of circles here for the eyes, get those in there, get the pupils, fill that in so we can see the difference there. And then for the mouth, let's just go ahead and give them kind of a surprise look. So we'll have kind of an open mouth here, which means then for the expression, we'll do some eyebrows up here, we'll kind of have those at an angle, completing that look of surprise on the little panda there. So there we go. Just a pretty quick basic sketch to get us where everything needs to go. So now that we have this done then, we can go ahead and move on to actually starting to add some colors. So to add the colors, first thing we're going to do is we're going to change the background color here. We're going to have a lot of white on the panda, obviously, so you're not going to be able to see that against the background color we have right now. So let's just change that. Honestly, here you can use whatever you want. It does not matter. I'm going to try to get something that looks decent on camera here and still lets us see the sketch. I'm just going to use that kind of pinkish purple there. That's not going to be the background color later. We'll add some different colors in, but that'll get us started out. Okay. So from here, let's go ahead then and let's switch our color. We'll start with white. Whoops. We were still on background there, so I need to get off of that. There we go. So let's go ahead then. We're going to switch to white for the color of the panda here and the belly, so the face and the belly. And then for the brush, we're going to go ahead and move over back to our fur set here. And I'm going to use fur number five for the brush. That's going to be the main fur that we use. And then I just need to kind of test out the size here, maybe about 10%. We'll see. All right. For the layer here, usually if you've watched my videos before, I will draw then on top of the sketch layer when I'm doing an outline design. However, with this, we need to still see where those outlines are because we're going to be filling it in with solid colors. So it's going to be a little bit different. We're going to keep the sketch layer on top. So we need to make a new layer and then we need to drag this down underneath layer one. And we are still going to drop the opacity of layer one though. So we don't want it too solid. So if we hit N for blend mode, we're going to drop this down to, let's say, about 50, 52, 53%. I think it looks pretty good. And then this allows us to do the colors and still be able to see. So let me test the size of this. I think that's pretty good at the 10% there. Got the opacity set at about 30, 31%. And I'm just going to kind of follow along and draw or color in the inside here. Now, if we wanted to up this just a little bit to give it a little bit more of that fur texture along the outside, feel free to do that too. It's totally up to you what size you feel comfortable using. Let's get this filled in. I think out here I went a little bit too far. So I'm going to hold down eraser. So this will select the same fur brush that we're using. I'm going to pull this back in just a little bit. And then I'm going to go back to my brush and do it again just so it has the same look as the rest there. And from here, if you want to go ahead and come up to your layers menu, you can click off of the sketch layer so you can actually see what's going on here. Got a little bit of some of that background showing through there. So fill in a little bit better. Using this technique, you'll see me kick on and off that sketch layer quite a bit just so I can see exactly what I'm looking at. Okay, so we've got the head done. Let's go ahead. Let's make a new layer now by hitting the plus button there. And I'm going to bring this layer down underneath layer two. And then I'm going to go ahead here and switch over my color palette to this gray. That's what we'll use for the body, for the ears, and for those patches on the eyes. Coming down here then, I'm just going to go ahead and fill in this section. This filled in just like that. Then we can do the ears from here too. I'm going to drop the size of this down to that 10% to do the ears. I just want a little bit more control since these are smaller. That filled in. Then once again, we can drop the sketch to kind of see what we're looking at there. We can kind of fine tune from there. Okay, turn the sketch back on then. Oops. Let's go ahead and do the patches there on the eyes. So once again, I'm going to come up here to my layer two and make a new layer on top for these. Still with that same 10% there. Let's go ahead and get these filled in. With this one, if you want it to look the same from left to right, we can always duplicate this instead of doing this again. We could have done the same for the ears too, but to do this, we just come up here to our layers menu. If we slide this layer to the left, duplicate, go up to our arrow here, and come down to the bottom, flip horizontal, we can drag this over to the side and get it placed exactly where we want it. All right, there we go. Next up, let's go ahead and get this white added in for the belly. So if we come down to our layer three here, let's go ahead and make a new layer on top of this one, switch back to white here, just get the white added in. Switching off the sketch layer here just to see what we're left with, and we can fine tune that a little bit. If you want to up the size again of that just to get more of that fur texture across there, you can. Sketch layer back on now. Let's go ahead and let's do the eyes next. So we're going to come up here, layer four and layer four. We're going to pinch these together so they're all on one now. And then we're going to go ahead and make a new layer on top of this one. Now we're going to switch our brush here to do the eyes. Once again, if you drop the size of a lot of these brushes, even though they have a really nice fur texture when you've got them set fairly large, when you drop the size, you can get different results out of them. So for this, what I'm going to do, I use this one quite a bit using the single strand thick. I can use this one for a really kind of nice edge overall brush for a shape. So if we just draw in here an oval, do I have a new layer? Yes, I do. Draw an oval in here, holding down our finger to lock it into a circle, then using that arrow again to just kind of bring it over, adjust the size a little bit. There we go. At the start of the eye, now we're just going to drag and drop our color in there. Next up, we're going to come up here to our layers menu again, we're going to make a new layer and we're going to come back to our color palette and I've got this dark green right here. This is going to be the outside then of the iris. On this new layer that we made then, we're just going to draw, once again, a circle. Hold down to lock it in. I'm going to zoom in here a little bit bigger so we can see it better here. Hold down to lock it in. That's going to be the outline then of the iris. We're going to go ahead and come back up to our layers menu, make a new layer, drag this down underneath layer seven then, and we're going to go ahead and fill this in with this green color right here. Drag around here and drag and drop that color. Let's go ahead and get the pupil in there now. Let's make a new layer on top of layer seven here. Coming back up to layers, select layer seven, new layer, grab our color palette again and select black, draw an oval, hold down, make a circle, drag and drop the color, move this over just a little bit here, get that kind of centered in there. Now let's make this look just a little bit more realistic here. If we go to layer eight and we select this and then set this as alpha lock, this is going to allow us to color in on this layer and it's not going to go outside of that green that we've already colored in. Coming back then to our color palette, we've got this dark green right here. Selecting that, just going to kind of make a crescent moon shape here at the top and then coming back to the color palette, we'll switch to this white here and make, once again, a crescent moon shape here at the bottom. With that done now, we're going to come up here to our adjustments layer here and we're going to use Gaussian blur. Slide this to the right, you can see it's going to give us a nice fade from that darker color to the lighter down here, just like that. Turning off the sketch layer now, you can kind of see what we're left with there. From here now, let's go ahead and zoom out a little bit so we can see. And then I'm going to go ahead from here and let's just group all these. So if we pinch 9, 7, 8, and 6 together, now our eye's all on one layer there. And then I'm going to go ahead, slide this one to the left, I'm going to duplicate it. Now we've got two and then we're going to flip this just like we did the patch. So if we go up to the arrow, flip horizontally, I'm going to make sure we have snapping and magnetic turned on so this way when we bring it over here, you're going to see it's going to line up perfectly. We've got all these lines to tell us that's exactly horizontal to that one. Alright. Now you'll see with the fur, it's kind of got that soft, diffused look to it and the eyes right now are really kind of hard line. So we're going to blur those just a little bit to make them match everything else. So let's pinch these together. Those are now on one layer. Then we're going to come back up to our adjustments menu and we're going to go to Gaussian Blur again. We're just going to slide this to the right and about 3, 4% looks pretty good. It's up to you which one you want to go with. So there we go. They just kind of look a little bit more fitting with the overall feel of the fur. With that done now, let's go ahead and add some highlights in here. So let's make a new layer. Still using that same brush then. Single strand thick. I think I'm going to have the light source coming in from this way. So we'll have the highlights then falling on the right-hand side here. So let me draw on an oval here, hold them down to make it look nice and pretty. And then another small oval or dot there. Do the same thing over here. And on that top right-hand corner there. Come on. It looks like maybe I'm frozen here. What is going on? Come on! Alright. It looks like it crashed. So even though I'm able to switch stuff here, let's see if doing this will help. It's not doing anything. So I'm going to have to exit and come back in. So stay tuned. Alright, and we're back. So let's go ahead then and zoom back in here. Get this highlight done. That one filled in. Once again, just a little dot there. And now, just like we did with the eyes, we want to come back up to our adjustments. Go to Gaussian Blur. Slide this to the right so we've got just that nice glare there. Get that at about 7%. Okay. Now also with the eyes, we want to have those look a little bit more three-dimensional. Look like they actually have some curve to them. So to do this, we're going to come up to our Layers menu again and go ahead and pinch these together now. We've got one layer here for the eyes. We're going to make a new layer on top of this one. Then we're going to tap this and we're going to set this one as Clipping Mask. So Clipping Mask works a lot like Alpha Lock, however, it's on a separate layer. So any changes you make does not affect the layer that you're adding them to. We're going to blur this one again. And since we've already blurred the eyes, we don't want to blur them again once we blur what we're adding to them. So doing a separate layer is kind of the solution here. So let's go to our Color Palette again and I've got this blue right here. We're going to use that. And this is going to be kind of a shadow. So once again, a light source is coming in this way. So we're going to have the shadow kind of fall on this back. Draw kind of a tapered, moving curved triangle here. You'll see I'm just doing this really sloppy. It doesn't have to be perfect because it is going to be blurred. Once again, do the same thing here. Pull this around to that taper there. And this, like I said, just doing it real sloppy. It does not matter. Now, going to Adjustments, we're going to go to Gaussian Blur again. We're going to slide this to the right. You're going to see now how that gives a very believable kind of spherical look to those eyes. Once we pull back out then, you can see it's got a nice three-dimensional look to it. All right. To save some layers now, we're done with those. We can go ahead and pinch those together. From here, let's go ahead and do a nose. Another new layer here. Color palette. We're going to go with this dark gray here. I don't want it to be super black, so it's just going to be a darker gray color. We'll draw an oval here and drag and drop our color to fill it in. I'm going to use the arrow. I'm going to get it a little bit more centered here, number one. But from there then, I'm going to use the Warp option and we'll drag that down so we have that kind of triangle down there. If you don't like the position then, you can always use Freeform again and move this around. From here, if we turn off snapping now, we have a little bit more control over it. I'm going to get it to be about right there. Now, from here, I'm going to go ahead, add a highlight to that. So, grabbing my white again, I'm just going to do that on top, a little tapered line. Then we want to adjust this just like we did the eyes, a little bit too hard lined, doesn't look right with the overall feel of everything else. So, going to Adjustments and Gaussian Blur then, we can blur this to about 4% and it just matches up with the design a little bit better. Okay, looks good. Let's go ahead and do the mouth as well here, so another new layer. Grabbing that dark gray again here, we can turn on our sketch layer to see where we want this at and we'll draw the oval there. Drag and drop the color in and then once again here, coming back up to our Adjustments, Gaussian Blur, just blurring this to about that 4%. Okay. Next up, let's go ahead and get those eyebrows in there. So, the nose and the mouth then, we can go ahead and combine these together to save a layer and then we're going to make a new layer on top of that for the eyebrows. We're going to stick with the same color that we've been using and we're going to switch our brush now, still staying with that same fur folder. We're going to go over to fur number 9 for the eyebrows and with this, let's try that 10% and see how this works. That looks pretty good. So, you're going to see, I'm going to do these really big and they're not going to match up with that but that's okay because what we're going to do then, holding down the eraser to once again make the eraser the same brush that we're using here, we're going to go in about 7%, just kind of clean these up and make them match what we initially saw there with the sketch. So, you can see just adding that in really quick to begin with and then coming back in with the eraser gives us exactly what we were going for with our sketch. Gives us the ability to taper those in really nice and then with that sketch gone too, we can come back in, maybe up the size a little bit. If you up the size on the eraser, what this is going to do, it's going to pull in more of that fur texture back into it and just hit those edges again, give that really nice fur look. Okay. Turn on our sketch one more time. Last thing we need to do color wise is just add in the insides of those ears there and just realize I didn't actually add this color in there, maybe I wasn't going to do the insides of the ears. So, let's add in this color. I'll just put it down here in the bottom corner since I kind of forgot it. So, with that, let's go back to our fur number five and let's see, selecting layer three, that's the ears. We'll do a new layer on top of there and drop the size of this down to probably about eight or nine. Let's do the inside of the ears here, just like that. I think that might be a little bit too orangish. Let me get a little bit more pink here. There we go. I like that a little bit better. So, I'm going to change that out now. Okay. So, from here, let's turn off the sketch. Let's pull back out and see what we're left with. So, this is our base design. We've got all the components in there. Everything is filled in. So, from here, we're ready to really make this pop, go in and start doing the highlights and shadows. So, to begin highlights and shadows, first off, we're going to switch our brush. We're going to come up here to the brush library again and we're going to use fur number one. That was the same thing that we're using to begin with with the sketch. That's what we're going to use to do the shadows and the highlights. And then, let's go ahead and start with the eyes first. So, I'm going to go ahead and see here. Let's select black and then I'm going to come in here on layer four. We'll just go ahead and tap this and hit alpha lock. We shouldn't really go outside of this, but it just saves us the hassle if we happen to. And then, for the size, let's test this out and see. Maybe a nine. Too small there. Maybe a 15. I think 15 looks pretty good. So, I'm just basically building up a shadow there around the eye. Just going in really light and just building it up, barely pressing on the screen. I don't want it to get too dark there. I think that looks good. Next up, let's go ahead and do the face here. So, switching over our color here, I'm going to use for this, let's see, let's go ahead and use this blue that we used inside the eyes. Blue is nice to use as a shadow on a white color instead of using black or gray. Blue tints really work well for shadows on whites. So, that's what we're going to use here. Then we're going to come down to layer two, which is our head, and we're going to alpha lock that. Still using that same fur one here. Probably going to up this a little bit, maybe, let's see, 20 and see what that does. I think that's pretty good. So, we're just going to start to pull down the shadow on the left-hand side and then also down here around the bottom of the head, bringing it back up. Drop the size just a little bit, and go in here underneath the eyebrows, down towards the nose. Do the same thing here on this side, do it a little bit lighter, and I'm not going to come all the way down to the nose like I did on that one. Drop in the size here to, let's see, about a six. Come down underneath the mouth here and kind of around the top, just a little bit. Make that look a little bit more three-dimensional. Come in under the nose with that same size, just like that. Up this to about 10 and bring just a little bit here on this side, not a lot. Go back up to 12 here, just a little bit. All right, that looks good. We can do the same thing here with the belly, so if we switch over to layer six, tap this, whoops, set this as alpha lock, go ahead and build that up a little bit, and go in really light, barely touching the screen. If you're having problems that it's getting too dark, you can also play around with the opacity slider, depending on how heavy your hand is. All right, and I think that looks pretty good. Let's go ahead now and do some of the shadows on the gray. So if we go up here and let's select black, let's select layer three, which is this body part here and then the ears. We'll alpha lock those, bring this along the back here just a little bit, up in the size here to that 20 again, go underneath the chin here, build that up, and then drop in the size down to about 12, just add this in here so it kind of breaks up that belly from the arm. Okay, going back up to about 18, hit along the back of this ear here, just a little bit down here, not too much, drop the size down a little bit, hit this one more time here. Okay, now let's add in some highlights there as well. So coming back up to the color palette, we're going to go ahead and go over to this light blue color here, and we'll hit along the sides here, and this is kind of cool too. So using light blue, we used blue for shadows on white, but using that light white blue on the gray or the black can work as highlights. So you can see using a somewhat similar value can do the exact opposite of what you're going for depending on what color it's going on top of. Just hitting around the sides here, get that nice highlight glow from that light source coming in. Up in this a little bit here, we'll hit the eye here if we switch over to layer four now. Don't want to do too much here because it's going to blend into that white. Just a little bit there, a little bit there, just like that. I'm going to hit the side here, switch over to layer three, dropping the size down just to once again break this out and bring in that difference between the arm and the body there. And then let's get inside the ears here as well. So coming back up to our layers menu, layer nine inside the ears, we're going to set that as alpha lock. Color palette, going to use this darker reddish color here, and we'll up the size maybe to about 16%. Come in here around that inside part, darken those up, just like that. And then I'm going to switch back to the black here and just go back in closer to that edge just so it's got more of a transition between the different colors there. All right, finally then the eyebrows here, let's go ahead and do those. So we've got layer eight, we tap that, set this as alpha lock, and then drop the size down to probably about six, five or six, and then we'll use that white blue color here. It's kind of hitting there just a tad bit, don't want to get too much because it's going to blend in once again to the body there. So, all right, there we go. So that's pretty much our design as far as our character goes. Let's go ahead and add a quick background in here. So to do this, let's go back up to our layers menu, we're going to come down to the very bottom layer, and then we're going to go ahead and make a new layer on top of this one. We're going to touch that one and we're going to drag it down underneath layer three. So this one's at the very bottom now. And then from here, we're going to come back up to our brush library and let's switch over, let's see, let's use brush 15. This one has got a really good texture to it. Once again, if we go real small with these brushes, we can use them for sketching. If we go really, really big, we can almost blow out that entire fur texture and enlarge it so much that it's just going to give us nice background textures. So with fur 15 then, got this green at the bottom here. Let's just drag and drop that, that's going to be our base background color. From here then, we've got a dark green. Let's just use this. And I've got the opacity set, let's go about 30%, I think that'll work. And we're just going to go in here in the background, bring in that darker color, oops, around here, just going in real light and splashing the color. Then switching back here, we've got this lighter color here, let's use that on the sides here. Once again, our light source is coming in from this way. So if we use that over here, it's going to go with the kind of color scheme we've got. I am going to pull some of it over here just to lighten this up just a little bit, just like that. And then coming back in to the color palette with this yellow, I'm going to grab that and just kind of splash that more here on this side. Finally, I'm going to come back in with that first green color here and just kind of pull in some more back in here so it's not too dark. So there we go. Finally then, I'm just going to come up, make a new layer at the top, like I always do, grab a outliner here, which is going to be the single strand and come down to the bottom, just sign this guy real quick. And there you go. We're going to be done. So there we go, a nice little tutorial of how to draw this cute little panda, kind of a rendered effect rather than a heavy outline. So hopefully you guys enjoyed today's video. 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