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PROCESS VIDEO // procreate character superpost
🕑 Added 2020-04-13 12:38:13 +0000 UTCI dug through my procreate folder and made a long video with all of the process videos featuring character art! It’s 1 hour 20 mns long in total.
Here are the main steps of my creative process, which you can see more or less repeated in each drawing:
1 // ROUGH SKETCH
I like to keep the sketch as simple as possible, to maximize movement and gesture! The less detail, the better, because that allows me to focus on the overall shapes and movement most of all. I tend to keep it fast and loose. In a lot of these drawings, you’ll see me making a bunch of different loose sketches before settling on my final sketch!
2 // CLEANER SKETCH AND/OR LINES
I usually make a cleaner, more defined sketch after that. This is where I start to think a bit more about the details, constructing those on top of the rougher sketch. I think it’s the balance of looser, dynamic lines with more defined and cleaner lines that makes a sketch look good, so I always do both - usually on separate layers. If I want to make a clean drawing, I’ll do clean lineart on top of that as well. But I always keep my rough sketch lines, because they give lots of movement to the drawing! You’ll see some of my rough sketch lines showing through in almost all of my art.
3 // BASE COLORS
On a separate layer below the lines, I block in the basic colors. Usually I’ll set the lines to ‘multiply’ and change the line color to something saturated, like brown or red, so that they interact nicely with the colors below. I use color editing tools to tweak the colors a bit so that they ‘feel’ right to me.
4 // MERGE & DETAIL
Once the base colors and line color are set, I’ll merge them together and start adding detail on top. I like leaving this til the end, because it’s just a lot easier to work in the details when the colors and overall shapes have already been established. It’s a more intiuitive process to decide which areas need more attention. When adding detail, I try to use the colors on the canvas as much as possible - so I’ll pick a dark grey or blue that’s already there, instead of introducing new dark colors. This keeps the color scheme more unified!
For more info on which brushes I use in Procreate, check out this post!
I might make another one of these for studies and speedpaints, let me know if you are interested! If you have any questions after watching it, let me know - I’m thinking of putting together a quick procreate tutorial and your questions can help me come up with ideas for one!
Comments
Loish
i wish i could make music! i'm a big appreciator of it but i'm not much of a musician myself haha.
Loish
thanks so much michael! I do think we're long overdue for another procreate tutorial, so I should really open it up and get doodling in it again. it has been a while! as for your question, i use layers more as a timeline than as a functional thing. i like to have everything i'm working on on as few layers as possible, otherwise i get lost in them!
Michael H
☕️ So many great examples! ✏️ 🎨👍🏻
Michael H
What would we DO if we couldn’t sketch, draw, or paint??🎨❗️ And we have Procreate!!👍🏻🎉🍾💙. (……and music🎸) 😌
Michael H
☕️. I discovered this video this morning. I use Procreate all the time. LOVE it (sketching—-painting). Thank you so much Loish for ANY future tutorials/videos you might consider doing on developing a step by step illustration in Procreate. (The slower the better ! lol). I’m guessing you don’t require many layers when you are just sketching/painting for own ‘experiments’? As opposed to your client work in Photoshop! I always learn so much watching your tutorials. Love your sketches/drawings and character work…..beautiful!💙👍🏻
opqunex
As someone who only uses procreate, this was AWESOME to find! Thanks for the description too! Soo helpful :D
Loish
thanks so much for your kind words! that is a great tutorial topic and it's on the list of stuff i wanna do in the future :)
cloudie s
Hope it's not weird to comment on an older video, but I love watching your process videos for inspiration and this one reminded me — I was wondering if you have any plans to do a tutorial on how you draw different bodies? (Also, the piece around the 58:00 mark is such a lovely depiction of a fat body, which as a fat person is always really nice to see in the art I love!)
Loish
for most of these I used the shale brush that comes with procreate!
Aadishri Soni
Hey Lois, what type of brush do you use for lineart?
Lily Red
What I meant to say is when you move / change the size, of an eye, of a mouth, an element without having to redraw everything. When I cut / paste and touch the size, this is where it pixelates. Sorry, I may not be very clear because I have bad English lol
Loish
I usually modify the colors using hue/saturation!
Loish
that's very odd! i am not sure how to solve this problem. i usually resize images in photoshop because i find procreate's tools for this a bit unwieldy.
Lily Red
I have another question, on Procreate, when I cut an area to modify its size, when I release it becomes pixelated ... Is there a parameter to modify so that it does not happen?
Lily Red
Hello, what happens when you make a first color on the whole (for example red), and then it is a completely different color (blue). Do you modify your red, or do you make two layers by modifying the opacity?
Loish
thanks so much! i'm glad you enjoyed it!!
Jay Penn
Just getting around to watching this now. Just... stunned!!!! The way you push pieces beyond what I would personally think are done and make them shine even more. The bathing suit one is a great example of this. What a lesson!
Loish
i usually change the line color with color editing tools! so just heading over to color balance or hue/saturation and moving the sliders around til i get something brighter.
Titah Lopes
Hi! Love to see the process videos, may I ask, how do you do your line art that orange look? Did you paint it orange after the black? Or it’s something else that I’m not getting 🤔
Loish
there's no audio for this one, but i'll be putting together something with audio soon!
David Nuttall
It's great to see your process. I must ask though, is there supposed to be audio? I can't hear any and would really love to hear you talking through your process a bit on a video in the future :)
Elvis Kub
omg thank you so much !
Loish
thanks! unfortunately procreate only exports pretty fast timelapses.. but i will definitely go into more detail with a procreate tutorial soon!!
Loish
thanks! i will be making a procreate tutorial as soon as i find the time! i don't use the smudge tool btw, i just paint with the brushes. i'll post the tutorial as soon as it's available!
Elvis Kub
Hey Lois i really enjoy your art and i really learn a lot from you. I am using procreate as well and when it comes to painting i just can't paint and use smudge tool properly it's because i don not know how to paint, i guess. :D Could you make a process video while painting ? Love you <3
Clélie
Love to see you drawing ❤️. It's too fast for me to integrate the process but I really enjoy watching it. I love your choices of color scheme (specially the blue-pink ones) could you give more explanations about how you pick it ?? Thank a lot !
Loish
thanks for the feedback! i will do my best to make that!
Loish
thanks! I will try to make one like that. it's too bad that procreate only exports fast time lapse videos, but i could record the screen or even film my drawing process over-the-shoulder. thanks for your comment!! :)
SK
Wow that you loish!!! Would love to see the process videos for the studies too! I learn so much watching how you approach drawing!
Joshua Baker
I’m very interested to see more advanced details on your process. Could be like a speed-painting where you slow the video down at key parts to go into more detail. Plus all I have is an iPad with procreate so this would all be exactly what would help me most I think. Thanks, Lois!
Turkishjade
Count me interested! This was wonderful!
Dennsi
Hey Lois I would love to see like a whole procreate process in Real time because its a lot different from photoshop. So i would love to see how you actually pick the color and work with the layers in Procreate.
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