Let's Draw The Creature From the Black Lagoon...

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 creature from the Black Lagoon using the iPad and Procreate just in time for Halloween. And like all my videos, it's all in real time too. So no time lapse, no edits. If you want to follow along step by step and draw with me, keep watching. Alright, so let's go ahead and draw the creature from the Black Lagoon, the Ghetto Man, whatever you want to call it. Starting out, I'm using a 3000 by 3000 300 dpi canvas. It's an RGB canvas. And for my color palette, once again, I've got this pre-made. So if you want to download this for free, follow along with the exact same colors that I'm using in today's tutorial. You can find that on my website if you go to bjdell.com underneath the YouTube reference materials page, which I'll link that down in the description below. You can find that along with the video at the top that walks you through how to install a palette in Procreate if you've never done it. And then for my brush to begin with, I'm going to use my cartoon brush pack. And I'll just use the cartoon sketch pencil to begin with. And for the start of this tutorial, I want to do something a little bit different. This isn't a feature I usually use, but we'll talk about it and talk about why I don't use it and why we're going to use it today. So if we go up to our wrench icon, go over here to canvas, and then we turn on drawing guide. You're going to see it shows this grid here. That's not what we want though. So we're going to go to edit drawing guide, and then we're going to go ahead and go over here to symmetry. You'll see there's this vertical line right there, right down the center. And basically what this does is anything you draw here on the left is going to mirror to the right. So it basically just doubles that drawing there from one side to the other. Draw here on the right, shows up on the left. So we'll hit done and you'll see that line stays there. So the reason I don't use this that often is just because I think things look a little bit too mechanical, a little bit too stale and stagnant when you use this. But I think for this drawing today, I've got this idea of kind of a cutesy, simple Gilman. So I think it's going to work for today's drawing. So we'll see how this kind of shapes out. So now that we've got that set, let's go ahead and start sketching. I'm just going to start out once again, basic shapes like I always do. So we'll just do an oval here in the center. That's going to be our head. And then we'll go ahead and get the eyes in next. We'll do some really big eyes here. So just an oval here to the left and you'll see shows up on the right. So it does save some time when you're kind of maybe in a rush or in a hurry. Do an oval down here for the mouth, kind of block in where that's going to go. And then we'll throw in some pupils here and the irises around those. So I want these eyes to pop out a little bit. I think the best way here is to kind of pull in kind of like a brow here, coming around there. And the mouth will kind of pull up a bridge here. The mouth, there's some lines there crossed. Block in the center of that mouth there. And then let's also pull kind of an area here, kind of like a bag here underneath the eye. So once again, that makes that eye pop even more. So you can pull that up and then connect that to the mouth there with another line. I think I want the head to come up a little bit more too. So just kind of pull that up a little bit further. Then from here, we can go ahead and kind of work on the gills. Those can come up from here. It's a curved line coming out towards the edges and then back in towards the face. One more there. So we've got the gills there. I think that's pretty much for the head, except maybe do a couple of curved lines here just to add in some more kind of details there. All right, so from here, let's go ahead and work on the body. I do an oval here to kind of shape out the body. And then for the arms, I think we'll have the hands kind of, arms outstretched and hands coming towards the viewer. So maybe he's coming to give you a big hug. Draw an oval here for the hand. You can actually make this into two ovals so you can kind of see the palm a little bit better. Pull out a thumb here up into the rest of the fingers and those little webbing parts there in between. And from here then, let's go ahead and pull like a neck down, do this little chest plate thing here. We have a belly here coming out. Have some lines across there. And then down the sides, we'll do kind of like some scales here that overlap. Just kind of like that. Then we'll get these arms in here just like that. OK, so there you go. Pretty basic sketch, pretty basic design. But you can see how fast it goes with using that symmetry function. So that's going to be our sketch. Next up, we're going in and inking. This is where we'll add the details. So to begin inking, what we're going to do is we're going to come up here to our layers menu. We're going to make a new layer. And once again, we're going to tap this and click drawing assist. So this is going to allow us to do that same thing using that symmetry. We don't have to go back into the wrench icon because it's already turned on. And then we're going to come down here to layer one. I'm going to tap that N for the blend mode. Just drop the opacity of this. We want to be able to see it, but we don't want it to be too dark as we draw on top. Now back up to layer two, I'm going to come up to my color palette here. And for the inks, we're not going to use black. We're just going to use this dark green to ink this guy. So let's go ahead and select that. And then on layer two, we'll go ahead and start drawing. Now, I'm going to start with the eyes here. You'll see I'm basically going to do everything that falls to the left or to the right here. Anything that comes here in the center, I'm not going to do this because where it connects, it's kind of wonky trying to connect that at that line. So you'll see here when I do that, I'm going to come to a different layer to do that. I do need to switch my brush, though. For inking, we're going to come back up here to the brush library. And I'm going to use the standard inker streamline. And then we'll go ahead and start here with the eyes. I go ahead and do an eye here, hold down, hold down again. It's going to lock it into that perfect circle. Now, if you've watched my videos before, one thing you might notice is usually when I do the inking before I start, I decide where is my light source coming from because I want to use different line weights throughout the design to represent areas that are towards the light source and that feature highlights and that are further away that's where the shadows are going to be. Since we're using the symmetry function, anytime that I draw something here on the left, it's going to show up on the right. So the line weights aren't really going to matter. We want them to be pretty much even across. So that's why we're just using basic line weights here. Not going to do anything special with those. Go ahead and get my pupils in here. And you'll see I'm not lined up exactly with my sketch layer, and that's OK. Like I've said before, in my videos, the sketch layer for me is always just kind of a guess of where things are going to go or just a loose representation. It's kind of a guide that you don't have to follow to a T. I think following them too close gets you a little bit too, once again, mechanical. So now I'm going to switch. I'm just going to choose white here by holding down on the background. And I'm just going to come in here and draw in some round highlights on the eyes, those little reflections there. Then I'll come back and switch over to my green again here. Go ahead and bring this brow around here. You'll see just holding down there kind of locks it in and smooths out that line a little bit. That one there. And once again, this is in the center, so I'm not going to use that one there. I will pull in a line here and then kind of erase close to where that mouth is going to come. Same thing here then for these. And I think for this, I want a little bit more detail. So as I'm doing this, watch as I come down and around. I'm going to bring up some triangles here to kind of make those look even more like fish or gill-like. Once again, not something that's in the sketch, but something that I add later. I think I want one more of those down there. We'll just connect those. Pull them back. That's what we're left with. And now then, I'm going to go ahead and see. I want to move these hands down just a tad bit. I don't want them to overlap there too much. So if I go to my sketch layer again, use my selection tool here with freehand selected, I'm just going to kind of grab these, maybe, and then kind of move these down just a tad bit. I just don't want them overlapping those gills that I did. So we'll pull those down just ever so slightly. All right. That looks better. Now that those are done, we can go ahead, coming back to our layer 2, and start kind of drawing in those hands. Up and around to the thumb, to the index finger there. That around there. That around like that. And get those kind of webbing in there. And we'll pull down some tapered lines here to kind of give that webbing effect in there. Just like that. Let me kind of finish this off. I'm coming down there to the hand. And then once again, these cross over to the middle. So I'm not going to do those. But I will do the scales there coming down the sides. Try to pull some tapers there. Extra details there. All right. And that's pretty much it for the left to the right. Now I want to go ahead, like I said, come in here and do the new layer without the drawing assist turned on. So once again, make a new layer here. And we'll start here at the top then, at the head. Bring this around. You'll see the nice thing here is, too, with this drawing assist on the other layer, this one on a separate layer, since they are two different layers, I can kind of overshoot what I've already done here. And I can erase. And I don't have to worry about erasing the stuff that's already on there. Going back to my brush then. Go ahead and let's go ahead and combine these now and make another new layer. That way, if I don't like where this goes initially, I can control it a little bit. And you'll see I've got some overlap there. I can erase that bottom layer. That's done now. I can go back up to that layer that I just made. Pull that one around. Some tapered lines here for where that bridge comes. And you'll see, if you hold down to lock it in and you don't have enough of a curve, it's going to lock to a straight line. So you can use that kind of how you want to. And if you don't have enough of a curve, it's going to do that straight line there. Go ahead and get some teeth in here. Here's where we're kind of adding details that don't exist in the sketch stage. Those tapered lines across here. Now with these, I like to just use the regular version of the anchor instead of the streamline. When I want to get some nice kind of fluid tapers, just use that because that kind of flick of the wrist, the flick of the arm gives you a little bit more control over that and doesn't make it look as kind of mechanical. Kind of want that to hit towards the center there. There we go. This one's a little bit off here, so I'll try that one one more time. You'll see these kind of bigger, longer as they're at the bottom here. And then kind of get shorter there towards the top. If you don't like the tapers too, you can always go back in with your eraser and kind of clean those up. That's another good way to make tapers if you don't have total control over it. And you're not that good yet with the tapering technique, you can do that. Now that we've got that done, I'm going to do the same thing with the tapers down here on the gills. So if we zoom in here, you'll see I'm just going to pull up some tapered lines here from the bottom. And then we'll also bring some in from the top. Kind of give a little bit more detail to this, make it look a little bit more fin-like, gill-like. Now this is a good way. You'll see this is done on a separate layer, so it's not showing up here. So even though we're using symmetry, it looks a little bit stale. If you do little techniques like this, little details on a separate layer, don't have them on the symmetry layer, then you can at least change up some of the stuff on the design, and it doesn't look so mirrored from one side to the other. So that's why I did this on this layer rather than doing it on that main symmetry layer, just so we've got a little bit of variety to the design, and it doesn't look so perfect from left to right. All right, so we've got that done. Let's go ahead and work on the centerpiece here, the belly and the neck here coming down. I think I'm actually going to, on layer two, I'm going to have this neck come past the arms here. If we can get it to where it's not touching this other gill, move back to streamline anchor. And I'm still on the assisted layer, and you'll see that's why I don't use that, because you see how those meet up. So I need to be on that other layer. I was on the wrong layer, of course. There we go. That looks a little bit better. Bring that up, and then we'll bring some tapered lines here. Get that a little bit more detail there. Then finally, we've got the belly here. Zoom in here so we get these lines lined up. Let's bring these down, and then some tapered lines here crossed on the belly coming down. And pulling back out here. I think we're done with the inking then. Let me go ahead and turn off the sketch layer. We're going to go ahead and pinch these together. So all of our drawing now, all of our inks are on one layer. And I think that looks pretty good. So from here then, we're ready to go ahead and start the coloring. So to lay the color flats, what we're going to do, we're going to come up here to our layers menu. We're going to make a new layer. I'm going to drag and drop this below layer 2. And then we're going to go ahead and set layer 2 as reference. So this is going to allow us to drag and drop all of our colors onto layer 3 using layer 2 as a guide. So we're going to come up here to our color palette then. We're going to choose this third one here, the second green. Third one over on the top row, that's going to be our base color. When I drag and drop this then, I'm going to go ahead and select this continue coloring with recolor that pulls up there. You'll see this cursor right here in the middle. If I drag this down then, I can just start tapping and filling in all of the areas that I want colored. This is kind of nice because otherwise what we're going to be doing is just dragging and dropping that color swatch over and over again. It's a little tedious. So we can kind of stay down here and just finish it out really quick. So there we go. Coming back up to our color palette then. Actually, I'm going to go ahead and click over to eraser and then back to color palette. If you go back into color palette right away, it's still going to have that recolor turned on. Let's go ahead and choose this yellow color next. We'll use that for the eyes. Continue filling with recolor again up there. Maybe, I'm not sure why, maybe it's really weird it's not showing up. I don't know if it messed up here. We might have a glitch. I think we have a glitch. You can see the yellow showing up here. And it's not showing up inside the eye on the thumbnail. So this is a glitch with Procreate. You can see it's not undoing. So let me exit out and I'll come back. OK, so we're back in. You can see once I reopened it, the yellow is not showing up at all on the screen. And it's not in the thumbnail. So let's try this one more time. There we go. Continue filling with recolor. All right. It worked this time. So we are good. I'm going to go ahead and use this for the belly. And then also for the palms of the hands there. Coming back up here then, we've got this pink. Let's go ahead and use that for the lips. And you can see that's where I was talking about hitting that eraser to turn that off. Because now we've got to come back in here and drop that yellow. Next up, we've got this red. We'll use that for the eyes, the irises there. And then we've got this dark green here. This I want to use for the bottom gills because we want those to kind of stand out from the head. We don't want those to get lost in the head. So those look separate now. And then finally, we just need to do white. If we select white here, you'll see the teeth look colored in. But when we turn off the background, the teeth are not colored in. So we need to fill in the teeth with white. And try not to hit the line because that's going to fill in the line work. All right. So if I turn my background color back on, you'll see color flats are now done. Super easy, super quick. Next up then, we're going to move on to shadows and then to highlights. So to do shadows, first thing we're going to do is we're going to come up here to our Layers menu. We're going to make another new layer. We're going to tap this. And we're going to turn on Clipping Mask. So this allows us to draw on this layer. And it's only going to show up on things that are colored in on Layer 3. See that little arrow there? Coming back up here then to my color palette, I'm going to choose this purple color. That's going to be our shadow color. Drawing on Layer 4 here. And I'm going to go ahead and just kind of drop in some major areas here. And get all this left-hand side colored in. So if you can tell, I'm doing shadows on the left. So we've got the light source coming in here from the right. Get a pretty big area filled in there. Now I'm going to come up here and I'm going to go ahead and turn off Reference now on Layer 2. So when I go back in here now, I can fill in more areas and then drag and drop the color as I fill them in. If I left on Reference, it would drag and drop that entire area just like it did the color flats. Now when I drag that, it only fills in that area that I kind of had outlined there. Around the eye here, nice oval shape there. And just kind of tracing around the outside just so everything connects. And then we can drag and drop the color in. And do the same thing down here. Get some shadows in here around where that bridge comes up. Down around the bottom here. Once we've got all that connected, dragging and dropping that in. Let's go ahead and kind of pull in some shadows here as it comes down and around that line. You'll see a lot of times when I do shadows and people wonder how do you know where to put them, you want to kind of follow the lines that you already have there for your ink stage. So it should just look pretty natural and flow with the design that you already have. And do the same thing here, kind of pulling in an oval around the left side of this lip. Same thing here on this side. Shadow here across the bottom. Have that overlap kind of shadow there, the chin and the head where that's going to cast a shadow. You'll see too as I'm erasing, I'm just using the standard ink or streamline, just the same version of that brush that I'm using. Same thing here. Pull in the shadow on the bottom of this chest plate. And we'll add some shadows here on the left-hand side of those lines. Finally, one more shadow here on the bottom of this one. So just kind of following the way that those lines curve from the inks layer. I'm gonna color in all these here on the left. And then get a little overlap here. Get that out of the way. Get in some shadows here underneath the bottom of those curves. Moving over here then, underneath the bottom of these scales. And then on the bottom of this arm here. Try to pull some down here too. Looks good so far. Clean those up there. Of course, these gills here, we're gonna have a shadow here underneath those. Pull in a line there. And then underneath that face and that cheek, kind of have a shadow there as well. Just like that. And then probably have one down here kind of pulling off that bottom of the face. Just have that tapered back there. Let's get a little bit of a shadow here on the bottom of the hand. And then finally, this part of the eye here. Drop that color in there. And then the overlap here, I'm just gonna go back in and erase. All right, finally, we've got the top part here at the head. That'll be the last part of the shadows. Line here, here. Once again, just curving this one with the outside of how that line goes. From the ink stage, we can pull a shadow here underneath these. Kind of touch this up here so it meets a nice crisp angle. So now we've got the shadows done, but of course we've got this big purple blotch in there. We don't want purple per se. So we need to drop the opacity of this. So we're gonna go back up to our layers menu, tapping the N again, and just dropping the opacity down to, let's see, maybe about 20%. I think that looks pretty good there. Now this is really shadowed in over here. There's a ton of shadow. And I've talked about in my previous videos too, I like to go back in at this point and kind of remove some of that shadow so that there's two different values against each other and the viewer can tell that that is shadowed in. So if we go to our eraser now, go to streamline, I can come in here and kind of start removing just a little bit of these shadows. So I just kind of trace around these outer edges. Once again, just using those curves that we have from the inking stage, erase and put some of these different values in here. So we've got the two and it's pretty visible as far as there's two different colors sitting next to each other. And that's actually shadowed in because you can see these lighter areas in here. Kind of follow up and around. And then erasing on the right-hand side of those tapered lines. I'll hit the bottom of this one too here. If you go outside of it, you can always go back in down here with your purple again and just kind of fill in where you erased too much. Do a back and forth process if you screw it up a little bit, not to worry. We've got that, let's go ahead and pull this away just a tad bit up here. It's again, following that curve that we laid in on the inking stage. Same thing here, following that curve down and around. Went over the edge there, but I can just go back in, ink that back in like that. And I think that looks pretty good. Last thing to do is just kind of erase some of this down here. Some of these out, pull on the right-hand side of the hand here. Zoom in a little bit better here so we can get really close there to get a nice taper. Have those two tapers kind of meet each other right there. All right. Finally, then we've got the scales here at the bottom. Kind of hit the side and then that taper of those. All right, looks pretty good. So that's it for shadows. Next up then, let's go ahead and move on to highlights. So I'm gonna come up here to my layers menu, add a new layer. I'm gonna go ahead here and select white. You can hold down here or go up to your color palette. It's up to you. Once again, we're gonna tap this layer. We're gonna set this as clipping mask. So it only attaches to what we've got colored in on our color flats layer. And then I'm just gonna go around and now fill in parts with the highlights. I don't go as heavy with the highlights. Seem to go a little bit more crazy with shadows in my work. Highlights I use a little bit more sparingly. We're just basically going around those edges. Go ahead and do some oval shapes here in the eyes. We get some reflections going on in there. And over here, it's a little bit smaller since it's further away from the light source, but still want some reflection there. Pull in some highlights here. Come edge that one and down here. This one will hit the right-hand side here. And then we'll come across the bridge here on the left-hand side or the right-hand side, but on the left of the line. Some highlight here in the lip. Once again, just following that curve of the line from the ink stage. Pulling it off kind of gives that nice curved taper there. All right. And then let's go ahead and get a couple of just oval reflections here towards the brow. All right. Looks good. So now we can come up here to our layers menu and for blend mode, drop the opacity of that down. So it's not too bright and that looks good. So now something else I want to do is kind of change the value of the green on the creature itself. So this is another technique that we'll use here. And we're going to go ahead and make a new layer. Once again, we're going to tap on this one, set it to clipping mask. And then for color, we're going to come back up here and we're going to use that yellow color that we used for the eyes and the hands. And then I'm going to switch over to my bold inker just because this fills in a lot at once. And I'm just going to do just a big block of yellow right here. Just a block there towards the right. And then coming up here to our adjustments layer, we're going to go ahead and click on Gaussian blur. And we're going to select layer and then holding down the pencil on the screen, we're just going to slide this to the right. And you're going to see it's going to start to kind of fade that across. So now we've got this kind of moving. We've got the light source coming from here. We've got the shadows over here. And now we've got a different value of that green, more of like a yellowish green fading over then to that right-hand side that's darker. Drop the opacity down just a tad bit. That looks pretty good there. All right. Now, finally, let's go ahead and add a background to this guy. So if we come up here to our layers menu, I'm going to come down to the very bottom and I'm going to go ahead and make a new layer. Coming back up to my color palette then, I'm going to choose this dark midnight blue. We'll just drag and drop this into the background here. Then coming up to my arrow here with freeform selected, just going to drag this in a little bit here. So it kind of frames him just like that. Now I'm going to go ahead and make a new layer. Coming back up to my color palette then, I'm going to choose this lighter blue color here. And I'm just going to make a circle here, holding down my finger to lock it in. Drag and drop here. Use my arrow then. Just kind of pull it out and resize it a little bit to where it's exactly what I'm shooting for. All right, there we go. That looks good. And then from here, how about we go ahead and add some trees in the background. So if we go back to our color palette, go to that navy blue again. And brush library. This was actually one of my Halloween brushes from last year. If you guys didn't check out my 31 days of Halloween drawings. We go to my Halloween set. Got the spooky tree here. I'm going to go ahead and make a new layer so we've got some control over these trees. Let's just tap here. Arrow then. I'll just kind of bring that around to where I want it. Resize it. That looks pretty good. I'm going to erase that overlap out here. And then we'll add one in over here. Back here. Now once again, just erasing that overlap there. And then let's go ahead, make another new layer here. We'll add some kind of stars and a moon to the background. So if we select our color palette and go to white, using then back to the cartooning set, just using the standard anchor. Go ahead and tap here just to add some stars. Tapping with different pressure is going to make different sizes. You can get some bigger ones, some smaller ones. Bring those around like that. And actually let's erase these here. I kind of want a moon in there too. Let's go ahead then and let's make a moon right here. Drag and drop that color in there. And then with the eraser, we'll go back in and erase the circle so we got a nice crescent moon there. I think that looks pretty good. From here then if we go to our adjustments layer, our adjustments menu and go to bloom and layer, we can slide this to the right and kind of get a nice bloom glow effect off those stars and that moon. Looks good. Don't like how the blue there shines through there to the back. So I'm just going to go back in here on that layer and just erase that. I want that solid color behind there. And then finally, making a new layer. I'm just going to go ahead and sign this and we will be done for today's tutorial. All right, so there we go. A new Halloween tutorial, how to draw the creature from the Black Lagoon, the Gill Man, whatever you want to call him. Hopefully you guys enjoyed today's video, got some value out of it. If you did, make sure you share it with a friend. Definitely like the video, leave a comment. And if you haven't yet, subscribe to the channel and hit the bell for notifications so that you can get alerted when I post new videos. Also, if you guys take part in any of these tutorials and you post your work online, which I definitely urge you to do, if you're on Instagram or Twitter, tag me at BJ Dell. I want to check them out and see what you guys made. Just a reminder though, because this keeps coming up and it's in the description to every video. These tutorials I do, learning purposes only. You can't go and sell the stuff that you make by following these to a T. So definitely branch out on your own, do some stuff from your imagination using these kind of as a guide. But if you follow along step-by-step with these, that's not what they're for. Do not put them on products, please. I put that in the description of every single video and I still get messages every day of people saying, is it okay if I do this? No, it's not. That's not what these videos are for. So please just respect my copyrights as an artist and what I do putting these videos out for free for you guys to watch, because that's not what they're for. So that being said, if you do post them, I want to see them, Instagram or Twitter, personal use, definitely show them off and share them. Or if you're on Facebook, I've got a group over there called Keep Creating A Group For Artists By Artists, a place where you can give feedback, get feedback, meet new people. It's an awesome place to be. You can share your designs based on these tutorials or just really anything you're working on art related. It's a great place. I want you guys to be a part of it. So that's it for me today. Got some new videos lined up, new studios done. So more videos coming. Can't wait to share them with you guys. And until next time, keep creating.