Getting Started with Procreate - Tutorial (Tool Usage - with Practice Exercises)

Hello friends, welcome to my channel. My name is Diego, and today we're going to start a tutorial. to learn how to design in Procreate, if you're new to the app or don't know it And if you want to learn how to handle it, this tutorial is for you—let's begin, ready to start? The first thing we're going to do in the application is create the canvas, which is where we'll begin. Let's get to work; to create the canvas, we're going to come here, and it will unfold a window where We are going to find several standard sizes, and as we continue creating ours The canvases will bring us here everything we've worked on, ready for this exercise. Let's create a new canvas of 2000 pixels by 2000 pixels, ready, it shows us here the resolution we are handling, which is 300, and a maximum number of layers that is of 130, already having this, we click Create and it's ready. Here we already have our canvas for Start working; now we are going to begin with one of the most important tools What are the brushes? Once we install the application, some brushes will appear to us. They come by default; let's go ahead and check here, and we find a large library that comes with it. Upon installing the application, I invite you to take a tour of each one from your folders, and go through them to see which ones best meet your needs, There are many, many to choose from; for this exercise, we'll pick a brush. In the calligraphy library, and we're going to use this one called monoline. Once we have chosen our brush, we will go to the color bar, which we can find here part, when we touch here, this window unfolds, showing us here in the the bottom part has several options for selecting colors; the one I use the most is this one of the one that allows me greater ease when choosing colors, such as It has a wide range of colors, which allows me to choose from, then after I've chosen it here I'm going to the palette tool, and I'm going to start creating my color palette, just like we create a palette Colors, we simply give them here; we see that it brings us an empty window, and we go to disk. For example, I need a red color, so I'll be selecting here; this is the color I want. As we can see here, it's selected; I go back to the color palette, and here is where I created this. I'll keep touching it, and he'll gradually form himself, I'll pick up another color, for example a Blue, we see it's selected here. I'm going to the color palette and touching it too. Ready, like that. Before starting any project, what I do is create my color palette first, and then If I start working, I'm ready—I already have my color palette created here to get started. exercise, now that we've chosen the brush, we will begin as follows: first, we will Choose the background color; to change the background color, go to the Layers tool, which is this one, it it displays an empty layer because we haven't done anything yet, and one that says background color, Let's go here to the background color, and I'm going to choose a dark color; I already had it here in my palette. Colorful and ready, no more. We give OK; now we see that it changes the background color to this one and the layer It's empty at the moment; let's get started then. Let's choose a color and let's make a circle; in this section we find the brush size or brush opacity, if I want it to be more transparent or for the opacity to be 100%; here with this tool we select And here we're going to change the brush size; let's select a size of 30 over there, there you go. Showing the percentage, there's the 30%, and we're going to draw a circle, it doesn't matter if we don't manage to finish it Perfect, let's do the following: let's draw the circle, and when we finish, don't We let go; when we don't let go, he will improve our stroke, as we can see here on this side, he's already got me Improved the stroke; to make the perfect circle, I'll touch it with a finger, and now it's already created my Circle, let's draw a circle roughly this size and that's it. Now, how are we going to fill it in? In this way, we will select our color here and drag it over here; if the figure It's closed; he's going to do the filling for me. Let's see, I'll drag it and let go—there, it's already created. The filling, and we see that we are working on this layer, to make some movement or modification We'll select this layer; now let's choose this tool and notice that I can already move it—let's position it. Right here and done; once we have our circle here with the filling, we'll add a texture. How are we going to do it? We're going to do it with a mask. We're going to go to the Layers panel. We're going to create a new layer, and when we tap it, a menu will unfold, offering these options They say "mask of cutting," let's apply it here and see if he believes me here, he shows me like one the arrow indicating that this layer is a mask for this layer, meaning everything I painted here on this layer will You'll only see it in this section, in everything within this layer, we'll display it graphically. So let's stop here on this layer; let's select a brush with a texture—there's a folder. It's called textures; here it is, and we're going to select this one, the first one that appears there, we'll mark it And we're going to use a darker color, maybe this one, and we're going to paint, we're going to set the size to the largest big brush, something like that, and let's paint; he's creating the texture for us, but it's not overflowing from the circle, why? because we created this mask; maybe I paint more here toward here, but it won't matter to me showing nothing, it will simply paint whatever is on this layer, that's why it's showing me only the texture within the circle and it doesn't spill over, ready, now we already have our textured circle, if I I'd like to remove the texture by simply turning off the layer, and that's it—it hides the texture for me. Let's keep going. Let's create a new layer. Let's select the brush we're currently using, calligraphy. And I'm going to use a lighter color, maybe this one—ready, let's also apply a clipping mask. This layer also matches, being a cutout of this figure, so now we'll do it, finally already It's a clipping mask; we're going to make a shape like this, we close it here and fill it in—look here. Yes, the figure appears, but it has no texture—could it be due to the layer order? I already have the texture above that layer, which is why it's very important order of the layers; if we want it to have the texture, we simply lower it, we're going to do this Next, we're going to clarify the color a bit; for example, this one is clearer over here, and we're going to Lower it now, so it's more noticeable; if you see, the color is there, but it already has this texture, yes Yeah, I'll turn off the texture because it will just show me the circle with the two shapes I have. I've done it; let's keep the texture, now let's lower the opacity here, and we can see that it leaves us the texture, but now very soft—let's leave it like this, ready. We're coming to this side; let's create a layer. New one, we're also going to give it a masking brush, let's pick another brush, this one too, I'll show it to you I'm going to leave it together with the color palette so you can work on it; we're going to put a Dark color, this one can be it; let's choose this color and draw some shapes on it, let's Choose a larger brush size and let's draw some shapes here, something like this, ready, these They don't have texture because they're above the texture layer; let's create another layer, let's also apply a cut mask, let's select the single-line brush and we're going to Choose a darker color here, and then we're going to do the following: we're going to create a shape and we're going to Fill it in, let's do another one over here, and let's do one here, and maybe one over here. I'll explain to you what we're going to do, ready? So, we're done, we're going to do something like, this is like a planet and this, we're going to do as if they were drillings, as if they were holes, we're going to To achieve the effect, we're going to go to the layer and draw inside these shapes that I just finished. to create, without stepping out, we're going to give it a touch and apply alpha lock, what he does is Block out all these parts and let me design only where the figures are; let's see it. Let's pick a color here, clear, maybe this one, let's choose a brush a bit smaller Ancho, let's change the thickness and do this, something like this, something like this, ready, ready, we already have it Here our planet, what are we going to do, we're going to create, we're going to create a lighting effect with A blur, let's do the following: let's select the planet's layer and slide it to the left, here it gives me the option to duplicate, let's duplicate it, here it is, we'll remove it The transparency option we see here is active, so let's give it a touch and We disabled blocking alpha. Ready, let's first change the color. Since the layer is here, we'll go ahead and Let's clarify this: we'll select a white color here and drag it; nothing changes here, but Here yes, because we can see that we're on this layer and dragging it changed its color, ready, let's go create an effect here, this one I made with Gaussian blur, let's apply it, and with the pencil we'll Moving it, if you see how the effect is growing, here it's appearing, as you can see, so then we'll create it Something like this, more or less, and that's it—there we already have our lighting effect. We'll come over here now. to the layer's properties and we'll put here where it says bright light, okay, there it is already we have our planet with a lighting effect around the edges, ready, now let's create a New layer, let's reduce the brush size and draw an oval, we're not going to release it pencil, I'm going to keep it there so he lets me define the outline and allows me to modify it Its size or rotation, we'll do something over here and that's it; we'll go over here to the tool Draft, we're going to go to the folder named Paint and select the round brush, set a size Medium, and let's delete this. Let's create another layer here as well, let's draw a circle. Remember that's how it's done—you keep it pressed down and with your finger, he creates the perfect circle for me. Let's leave it at that size, let's fill it in, ready, let's do it here, come on, let's insert it A lighting effect is also applied to the hoop, so what we do is duplicate it, selecting this part, We're coming here for effects; we're going to blur it again, and once more with the pencil—notice how it's creating Like a glow from below, we'll place it roughly right here and that's it—we already have the effect. For lighting, we'll do the same with this—let's duplicate it and go to blur and insert Also an effect, something like this: we're going to do it, we're going to take these two layers and join them together. As we can see, the lighting and the circle are no longer separate; instead, both are now in a single layer. If you see it, now we're going to duplicate it, and using the selection tool, we'll drag it over to this side. We're going to add a design to the background, so it doesn't look so empty, we're going to do the following: We're going to create a layer at the bottom; we'll place it above the background but below everything else. What we've been working on, let's now choose a slightly wider brush, perhaps this one for painting. For the round brush, I chose a color different from the background, but slightly lighter. For example, this one, and we're going to make a stroke here, something like this; we're going to select the eraser tool. And we're going to make some figure here and also here, we're going to add something more in the background, We're going to go to brushes, we're going to come here to luminance, and we're going to select this one called Sparkle, let's take a light color, maybe this white, and here we're going to create, on top of this Let's create another layer and make several points, perfect. Now let's go on top, Let's create another layer; let's choose a yellow color, maybe this one, let's select the Calligraphy brush, single stroke, and let's make a circle here, remember to keep it pressed down He perfects my outline with a finger, giving me a perfect circle; let's paint it, as we already have We learned how to make a clipping mask; let's create another layer and make a clipping mask. And we're going to choose another color, a bit darker, a bit thicker line, and we'll do this. If you come, there we'll create another planet. Ready, friends? That's all for today. I hope it was helpful to you. The tools, there we saw the brush tools, we saw the eraser tools, We handled layers, the color palette, and learned how to create our own color palette. I hope you do the exercise, friends. That's all for today. Don't forget to subscribe to my channel. so that the tutorials I will be uploading gradually don't get lost, later on we will Animate this same one, what we did today, this very planet, let's add something to it Of movement, so don't miss it; let's keep looking at the tools we still need And some effects we're missing—don't forget to follow me on Instagram; I'm leaving the link here. in the description, and don't forget to tag me on Instagram so I can see the progress of your work, Alright, friends, thank you so much, and see you next time. Bye.