LANDSCAPE Painting on iPad in Procreate - Easy Digital Art Tutorial

You can draw this in Procreate. As always, I will guide you through every single step, so once you have finished this tutorial, you will have an amazing result. And you will feel so proud that you'll want to share it. And if you are sharing your work on Instagram, then be sure to tag me in the image, not just in the description. Because that way I will be able to find your work and perhaps we'll see your tutorial result in the next video. Like these awesome tutorial results. Or these tutorial works from my amazing friends at Patreon. That's where you need to go if you want to master Procreate. Or if you have a Procreate tutorial addiction. Because I have over a hundred Procreate tutorials there. Ranging from beginner level to more advanced levels. Get ready to create this awesome looking landscape in Procreate by using free brushes only. Brushes that are already in the app and some brushes that you can find through freefromflow.com The canvas we are using is 2300 pixels by 3000 pixels and I have the color profile set to sRGB. The color palette is linked in the description. You can grab it for free. That way you can use the exact same colors as I'm using. Even though they might look a little bit different because I'm recording my screen, of course. And colors can look a little bit different across devices. Now the first thing we are going to do is grab our pencil, of course. Or your finger. And we are going to fill our canvas with a color. We are going to fill it with the second color in the first row, to be exact. Drag the color onto our screen. And then we are going to make a new layer by going to the layer menu and tapping the plus. Now we are going to grab a different color. We are going to grab this third color in the second row. And for our brush, let's grab the monoline brush. You can find it under calligraphy. The size doesn't really matter. We are just going to draw one line. And we are going to do that in about the center of our canvas. The center, well, halfway of the height of our canvas. So that's about here. Let's just draw a line. I hope you can see it. Hold your pen in place so you can snap to the quick line tool. And then tap one finger on the screen to make sure that it stays perfectly horizontal. Also make sure that your line runs all the way from the left all the way to the right. And then drag in the color in the underside. Next, we are going to make a new layer again. Let's tap the layer menu. I can then tap the plus for a new layer and grab a different color. We are going to use this color over here. The second color in the third row. Now just make sure that your brush isn't too big. And that the opacity is set to 100%. I have the size set to 20%. And we are going to create a big triangular shaped rock. Let's start about here. It doesn't really matter. Let's just go up like this to about here. And then back down. And then close the shape on the left side. And then right next to it here on the left side, we are going to make another smaller triangle. Which is almost touching the triangle on the right. And then we'll fill these shapes by dragging in the color. Now in case you get a little white edge or if your paint is spilling all over, then you might need to adjust the color drop threshold. You can do that by dragging in the color and then sliding your pen to the left or to the right. If you are a frequent watcher, then of course you already knew this. But if you are new to the channel, then this might just be a useful tip for you. Now let's go and adjust these shapes a little bit. Making them look a little bit more rugged. It's not like a real rock right now. So let's go to the Treasure Chest brush pack. That's the Artworkflow pack. You can get it for free. Totally free through freefromflow.com. We are going to use the fineliner brush. It's one of my favorite brushes actually. I have the opacity set to 100% and the size is set to 10%. And you know what? Let's just zoom in a little bit and let's just adjust the shape a little bit. Make it a bit more irregular. Let's go along the sides to make it more jagged. And you can do this with the eraser as well. If you want to use the fineliner with the eraser, all you have to do is tap and hold the eraser. And now the eraser is set to the fineliner brush. Let's just make it a bit smaller. 13%. And you can cut parts off. So you can slowly sculpt your triangular shaped rocks. Let's also do this for the bigger one. Let's go back to the brush. Now let's just go along the sides. And you really don't have to give this too much thought. But you just don't want a very smooth edge for your big rock. That will look less natural. Let's just go a little bit like this. Give it a different type of shape. If you have a big gap like this, then you can just drag the color inside. And let's just grab the brush again to clean this up. But then you can just drag the color inside so you don't have to paint everything in by hand. Again, you can also use the eraser to gently sculpt some areas. Until you have a nice bit irregular shaped rock like this. I do feel like they look a little bit too similar. So I'll go back to the brush and add a little extra to this one. Just so that they're not exact copies of each other. And I want to make the underside a little bit more blurry. We'll do that with the smudge tool. That's the little finger. And I have it set to the watercolor brush. You can find that under painting. It's a procreate standard brush. And the opacity of this brush is at 100 percent. And let's set the size to 10 percent. And let's go along the edge. And you might not even be able to see it on camera. But it's smudging that edge a little bit. Making it look more blended with what will become the water. Now it's just a purple area. But this is softening it a little bit. So now we have our basic shapes. We have our sky. We have the water. And we have our rock. So it's time to add more color. More texture. Just about everything actually. And let's start with our sky. Let's go back to layer one. That's our sky layer. And for our brush, let's go grab the soft brush under airbrushing. It's over here. The soft brush. And for the color, let's grab this darker blue first. That first color in the first row. Now let's set the opacity to 60 percent. And let's set the size to 25 percent. And let's add this darker blue to the upper right side. I'm not even sure if you can see it properly on the recording. But just make this area a little bit darker. And then we'll switch to this pink over here. That third color in the first row. And let's go over this lower area here. Making very gentle motions. I'll also go along the horizon here. Making circular motions using very little pressure. Then I'll lift my pencil and go over again to make it more opaque. And while I do this, I can see that I have a little hole here in the rock. I'll need to fix that later. You know what? We can use some editing magic for that. Let's fix it. There. Now let's continue. Let's go and grab this color over here. The fourth color in the first row. And let's go over this lower area here. Along the horizon. And I will switch to the final color here. The fifth color in the first row. And let's make the brush a little bit smaller. Let's go for 8%. And then we'll go over this area with circular motions. Brightening up this area. And to make it more soft, let's go to the magic wand. Then to Gaussian blur. And slide to the right. In my case, I'll go to about 20%. But of course, it could be that you need a little bit more blur or a little less. And we have a lovely looking sky. Let's also add some stars. Just to be sure, let's do that on a new layer by tapping the plus in the layer menu. And for the brush, we are going to the luminance brushes and use the light pen. And for our color, let's grab this fourth color in the second row. I have the opacity of the brush set to 100%. And the size is set to 28. And now let's just place some random stars in the sky. Not too close to the light because over there, you wouldn't be seeing the stars that well. And the reason we're working on a separate layer here is that it's just very convenient. You can always remove parts of that new layer with the stars. Or you can move the stars around. It just gives you a lot of flexibility. It's like putting a new transparent sheet of paper on top of your artwork. I think we have enough stars here. Let's move on to our rock. First, we'll need to go to the layer menu and go to our rock layer, layer 3. And we are going to turn on elf lock. To turn on elf lock, you can tap the layer and turn on elf lock. Or you can swipe to the right with two fingers. And now, whatever we paint, it'll only show up on the rocks. But if you are a frequent watcher, then of course you already know that. Let's go to the brushes and then to the industrial brushes. And we are going to use the twisted tree. Even though it's called twisted tree, it's great to create rock texture actually. For the color, we are going to use this color over here. The first color in the third row. I have the opacity set to 70% and the size is set to 35%. And now we are just going to go over our rocks. We're just going to gently go over. And you can see this nice rock texture appear. Although I'm realizing that it might be a little bit dark on camera. But on your own screen, I'm sure that you are seeing the magic happening here. Now, what you can do to add even more rock texture is add a new layer on top of this layer by tapping the plus and turning it to clipping mask. So whatever we paint doesn't show up outside of our rock. And then by changing the layer blending mode, you can do it by tapping the N. And we are going to scroll up to multiply. And multiply is really great when you want to add shadow or dark areas in your artwork. You don't want to lose any of the texture. We have just created this awesome rock texture and we just don't want to lose it. So that's why we are using multiply. For our brush, we are going back to the fineliner brush from the treasure chest brush pack. There it is. And for the color, you can actually just pick a local color. You can tap your finger on the screen and hold it, grab that color. And the opacity of the brush is still at 100% and the size at 10%. And now let's just add a few cracks. You can make some straight and diagonal lines to add more of a realistic look to these rocks. And so multiply, even if you paint on the area with the same color as the underground, it'll still make it darker. So you don't really have to think about what color you should pick for the dark areas. You can just grab a color and it'll automatically make things darker. You can make this side a little bit darker. Perhaps we can make a bit of a diagonal crack over here. And this is not a hyper-realistic piece of art, so don't worry. Just a few of these diagonal-like cracks will really add to it and make your rock look even more awesome. You can also use some different type of brushes. For instance, we can use the round chalk brush over here. Also, one of my favorite brushes. The opacity is set to 100% and the size is at 6%. And we can darken the right side of the rock a little bit more. And the reason that this side is dark and the left side isn't is because of course that light is over here on the left side. So more light will hit on the left side of our rock and not on the right side. We're making that a little bit darker. And I'm making these jagged motions to just get a bit of that rocky feel. Let's also add some shadow on this little rock. I'll make a bit of a jagged shape here on the right side. Just like this. And the great thing also about using a multiply layer like this is that it gives you full control. If you feel like the shadows are a little bit too dark, then you can just tap the M here and lower the opacity. Let's go for 60%. If it was already hard to see on camera, then it'll be even harder right now. Now let's just add a little bit more shadow. Let's go and grab the soft brush under airbrushing. There we have it. And let's add a little bit of shadow to the underside so later it'll nicely blend with the water. We can also add some shadow here. And also on the lower side of our small little rock like this. So just a small soft edge. Now that we have this, let's move on to the water. Now what I want to do with the water first is get rid of that very crisp edge here. That horizon is far away, so it will be a little bit blurry. Let's go to the layer with the water. But you know what? First, we can actually merge the layer of the stars with the sky layer. That's handy if you want to save layer space, but only do it if you're happy with the stars. And I'm happy, so I'm going to merge them by pinching them together. Then we'll go to layer 2, the water layer, and we are going to blur it a little bit. Let's go to the magic wand, then to gaussian blur. And slide to the right to, let's say, 3%. That's enough. Then we are going to turn on elf lock here. So whatever we paint, it's not going to show up outside of our shape. And we are going to grab our soft brush. We don't have to grab it, we already have it. And then for the color, let's grab a darker color. Let's grab this one over here. That's the second color and the second row. Let's zoom out a little bit. Let's set the size of the brush to 25%. The opacity is still at 60. And let's glaze over this area near the horizon. Make that a little bit darker. And let's darken it here a little bit. That's where our little tiny little beach will be. And let's make a little bit of a shadow already for our rocks. Let's make the brush a little bit smaller for the left one. Let's go for 8%. And add a blurry little shadow here. Now for some texture. Let's go to the brushes and then to industrial again. And this time we are going to use concrete block. And then for our color, let's grab this one. The fourth color in the second row. I have the opacity of this brush set to 100% and the size is at 60%. And we will just go over this area adding a little bit of this texture. I think it's looking really nice. And if you feel like it's getting a little bit too light here, then we can just go and grab this color for instance. That first color in the second row. Very dark. And we can add some dark texture there. For our next step, we are going to work on the water. And we are going to use a layer with a different layer blending mode again. Let's go to the layer menu. Then tap the plus for a new layer. And let's set it to clipping mask. So whatever we paint, it'll only show up on the water. Then tap the M and set the layer blending mode to color dodge. Now I'm not sure what calculations get done with the colors when using color dodge. There are like these formulas behind all these layer blending modes. But all I know is that it gives lovely colorful effects. And this is one of the few layer blending modes that I use on a regular basis. But sometimes I'll just use it to experiment a little bit or to get crazy colors. And for our brush, let's go to the painting brushes. And use the oriental brush. And for our color, we are going to use this fourth color in the second row. Now the opacity of this brush is at 100%. Let's set the size to 10%. And let's just make some of these diagonal strokes here. Just gently. And let's make them a little bit smaller as we move to the background. Add a few here. Let's also make some smaller ones, some small dabs. And let's make the brush smaller as well, 5%. Some tiny little specks. Well, they're not super tiny, but I'm trying. A little bit over here. Perhaps some more over here. Just these diagonal swipes. To make this more subtle, you can go to the smudge tool, which is still set to watercolor. And then you can just go over and gently blend it. Just make sure that you paint or smudge in the same direction as you created the strokes. You can make the brush even a little bit bigger. Let's go to 16%. And just go over and smear it around. We can go back to the brush and add a little bit more over here. You can just go back and forth between the smudge tool and the brush. Let's smear it around again in the same direction. And the more you smudge, the more transparent it'll look, more subtle. Now I feel like this area is a little bit too light. Now we can either change the color of the smears or we can make the underground a little bit darker. Let's do that. Let's go back to layer two. Then let's go back to the industrial brushes and use the concrete block brush again. And now let's grab this purple. That, well, the third color and the second row. Now let's just go over here. And that makes the effect a little bit more subtle. Next, we are going to make another layer with another layer blending mode. Let's tap layer five first and tap the plus for a new layer. Set it to clipping mask again. And this time we are going to set the layer blending mode to add. And it works a bit like multiply, but in this case, it's great for adding light areas. Now for our brush, we are going back to the painting brushes and use the turpentine brush. And for our color, we are going back to that light color, the fourth color and the second row. And we are going to use that paint and smudge technique again. First of all, of course, the opacity is set to 100% and the size is set to 6%. And let's start over here. Let's make some of these smears. Appropriate really has some nice painterly brushes. Let's do it over here as well. Just some subtle light areas. Some over here in front of our rock. And then over here. Now let's make the brush a little bit smaller. Let's go for, well, let's say 3%. And let's go along here and make like that edge of the water where the wave has hit the shore. And now it's retreating. And this is that edge. Let's go in here and go back to the right. I'm just making a bit of a wavy line. Wavy. Of course, it's wavy. We are creating this wave. Just some light strokes here. All the way to this side. Add a little bit more. And then once you have that edge, we can go back to the smudge tool. First of all, let's smudge this a little bit. Using very light pressure. And making these horizontal strokes. Horizontal motions. Now let's make the brush a little bit smaller. 10% perhaps or 9%. Let's go for 9%. And let's smudge it over here. And I'm starting at that edge. And then pulling it to the left a little bit. With the smudge tool, you can push and pull colors on your canvas around. I do want to make sure that I follow those same diagonals as I created at the beginning. Just start at the edge and then pull that color in that diagonal direction. And if you feel like it has gotten a little bit too light. I feel that way right now. You can just push that color back. To make it more subtle. We just want a very nice light edge there. We can just pull it back a little bit. And then you can go back to the brush if you feel like you need. And then we can make it a little bit more crisp, that edge. Just by painting. Because that's really the lightest part of that wave. That's where that like foam is. And the rest of the water as it retreats, it's more transparent there. So we have this nice light edge. Liking the way it's starting to look. Over here it's pretty crisp. And then over here we'll have like another part of the wave. But that'll be more blurry, less defined as it's moving away. Moving back into the ocean. Just make another little diagonal edge here. Don't worry about how it exactly looks right now. Because we are going to go over with the smudge tool. Let's go grab the smudge tool and then go over. Let's make the brush a bit bigger again. 17%. And make these diagonal motions. On top. Smearing it around. Sometimes you might need to go back a little bit to make it more subtle again. Now let's also use a little bit of pink. That third color in the first row. And for instance let's add a few like more wavy shapes over here. That's where we have these real waves. They're not super high or anything but it's a bit more like choppy. So some shapes like this. And then we'll go back to the smudge tool again. And we'll smudge it a little bit. It's quite blurry over there. It's further away. There won't be a lot of detail. So just smudge it. Making a bit of wavy shapes. I feel like this is actually starting to look quite nice. If you are enjoying this tutorial so far then don't forget to hit that thumbs up. It is really a great way to help this channel. It's totally free and it's really not that big of an effort. But you will be helping this channel and making sure that we keep creating these videos. So let me just give you a moment. All right let's continue. Now let's make a shadow that this rock is dropping onto the water. An easy way to create that shadow is of course by duplicating our rock. Let's just merge these two layers. The multiply layer and the base rock layer. And we'll drag to the left and tap duplicate. Then we'll grab the bottom one. Let's turn off alpha lock here. Then go to the move and transform tool. That's a little arrow. And then tap flip vertical. Then go to snapping and make sure that you have magnetics turned on. That way you can make sure that it aligns with all the original rock. Let's zoom out a little bit. I want to make it a little bit longer. Let's turn on freeform and just drag this handle. So we get a nice long shadow. Or it's not even really like a shadow. It's a shadow but at the same time it's also a reflection on the water. Now that we have this, let's go to the layer menu. Let's make sure that this layer is clipped to our water layer. So tap it then use clipping mask. And now let's give it a blur. Let's go to the magic wand and then use motion blur. Now the direction of the motion blur depends on the way you move your pen on your screen. We are going to move it downwards so we get this vertical blur. We don't need too much. Let's go for 24 percent. And now let's go to the layer menu. Let's tap the N and let's set this layer blending mode to multiply as well. Because we don't want to get rid of any of the texture of course that we have already created. Those waves that we have created. Subtle lights. Of course this reflection slash shadow is way too dark. So let's use this little slider to make it more subtle. Perhaps something like... Well what shall we do? 38 percent. I think that's nice. Now let's go to the smudge tool again which we still have set to the watercolor brush. Now we can also use that to blend this in a little bit. Not just vertically. We can drag this down. Make it nice and smeary. But also horizontally to make it blend with the water a little bit more here on the sides. And here you can make these diagonal motions. This way it's nicely blended with the water. Now it's time for another layer blending mode that I use a lot actually. It's the overlay layer blending mode. Let's go ahead and add an overlay layer on top of our rock by tapping the plus. And by setting it to clipping mask. Then we'll tap the N and we'll scroll to overlay down here. I really love overlay to add color variation or more vibrance to my paintings. I feel like our rock is looking... Well let's check it. It's looking a little bit dull while everything else is so nice and colorful. I feel like this light over here it'll shine on our rock and it'll make it look more warm. An overlay is a great way to achieve this. For the brush let's go and grab a soft brush under airbrushing. I will stick with the pink. Let's set the size to 25% and let's just glaze over this area here and here as well. Adding a little bit of that warmth to the left side of our rock. Because that's where the light is. Finally I want to refine some of these waves a little bit by adding some more shadow. We'll do that by adding another multiply layer. Let's tap layer 3 first and tap the plus. Make sure that you use clipping mask just to be sure that you will stay on that water layer. Even though I don't think we'll get close to the horizon. But well you never know. Let's set the layer blending mode to multiply and for our brush I want to go and grab the basic flow brush which is part of the free treasure chest brush pack. The basic flow and for the color we are going to grab the second color in the second row. The opacity of this brush is set to 100% and the size is at 7% or 8%. Let's go along these edges here. Right next to that light edge of that foam let's add a little bit of a shadow. It'll separate that water from the sand and it'll give it a little bit more volume. We'll do the same over here. Add a little bit of an edge. Because that that edge that foam it has a certain volume a thickness and it's casting a little bit of a shadow here. Let's also add a little bit of dark touches here. These are some dark areas in the shadow of the rock. You can add a little bit of shadow to the undersides of these little choppy waves. Just gently adding some little extra detail to our water. For some final extra color variation I want to go back to this color dodge layer and I want to add some blue touches. Let's go and grab the second color in the first row and we can go back to those painting brushes. Those are my painting brushes. Wrong set. Let's grab the turpentine brush again. Let's add a few blue touches here and make diagonal strokes. Perhaps a few over here and of course you can go and grab the smudge tool again. Smudge it out a little bit. And then for a final touch let's tap the plus for a new layer. We'll just set this one to normal and we'll grab that light color again. That fourth color in the second row and we'll make a few little dots in some random places. Let's go ahead and place some like this and then we'll blur them by going to the magic wand and using a motion blur again. This time we'll slide our pen diagonally and add these small little blurry foam particles. Then tap the magic wand again and that's it. You have created a fantastic landscape. You should be proud of yourself. Don't forget to hit that thumbs up if you have enjoyed this video. Also be aware that if you are a first-time watcher that there are a whole lot more Procreate tutorials here on YouTube. 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