hello are you doing so today I am all in
my little procreate setup it
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I am gonna create a little cartoon
cartoon a little cartoon a portrait of
one of my pals Charlotte and I recently
have been doing a bunch of these for
clients and I get a lot of questions how
I've been doing them so I decided to
show you the process so yeah I just use
procreate I've got an iPad pro I have
the bigger one I don't think Apple sell
this anymore but I got mine from like a
secondhand place and then I also have
the Apple pencil highly highly recommend
these two pieces of equipment if you
have the budget go for it I bought them
with my student loan when I was a
student so wise investment anyway let's
get into it so this is the photo I have
of Charlotte and I am just going to
outline it and make it look sort of
cartoony style I've seen this style
around but I don't know if it has a name
so yeah I thought I'd show you the
process so firstly I need a black pen
and I need to make a new layer so I'm
not drawing directly on the image of
Charlotte and then I have a studio pen
so I actually have two versions of
exactly the same pens so what I usually
do is firstly I'll zoom straight in
sorry about the close angle Charlotte
by the way Charlotte has a YouTube
channel she's a uni student fashion
blogger absolute babe I'll link her in
the description so what I like to do is
outline the eyes so I will go ooh
first I forgot something I'm gonna
change the opacity of the layer that
Charlotte's on so with two fingers click
on that and slide it down a little bit
go back to the top layer and then draw
it on because otherwise especially if
it's quite a dark image you can't see
your own lines so I do this
then sort of copy the outline and this
pen it's just the studio pen so if I
touch lightly it's thinner and if I
press harder it's thicker so that is
basically all I use for the outlines
I'll fast forward bits of this that
aren't very interesting but yeah that's
basically what I do also it's really
hard to draw at this angle usually I'm
all tucked up on my chair in my cozy
clothes and eating some chocolate so
drawing it on a desk is really weird and
it's very very flat as you can see
there's a bit of back and forth for the
eyebrows I never do the front bit
especially on girls because generally
it's kind of faded in and it just looks
a bit strange if I keep the full thing
in I actually think I've done that too
high up telling you this weird drawing
angle is not the one like that
there we go and then do the other eye I
like to do a classic line towards the
outer lash line mainly when they've got
makeup on because usually that bit of
lashes is quite thick and it gives the
eye some some shape or at least that's
what I like to think I'm doing then I'll
just do the features of the face
effectively so I'm going to outline the
shadow of the nostrils and then the nose
itself the nose is always the bit that
frustrates me the most not sure why it
just always seems to look weird
sometimes I do this bit at the bottom
sometimes I don't
I feel like today might be a don't but we
can go back to that and then for the
lips just the same again I outline the
top lip and I'm gonna close her mouth
fully because otherwise it might just
look a bit strange and then the bottom
lip again I always seem to struggle with
the bottom lip I always end up having to
do this one a few times because I feel
like if it's a bit off you can really
tell there we go alright so I've got the
main features of the face I'm just gonna
make this bit a little bit thicker so it
matches the other one then I'm gonna do
the eyes so I usually do the outline as
the is it the pupil the iris is that the
colored bit every time I do these
drawings I forget the names for body
parts why am I so incapable I promise I
am smart sometimes just sometimes like
that and try and make sure that the
pupils are both the same size cool then
I like to try and avoid doing too many
lines underneath because otherwise she's
gonna end up looking like an old lady
that's not what we want so we don't do that
and top tip for you there I'm just gonna do
a little bit of a smile line
and that's basically the face done I
so now I'll do the outline there we go and
then this is hair so I'm gonna start this
up here and make it a bit thicker on the
bottom I've actually overlapped that a
bit too much just erase that and then
yeah so that's the face we've got some
earrings so I'm just gonna do this and I
always press and hold on earrings
especially if they're hoop earrings
because I can never get the perfect
shape right so it's easier just to let
procreate do that hard bit for me why
not make the most of a good app procreate
by the way is like 9.99 I think on the
app store so under a tenner
so so worth it I always forget that you
do have to pay for it but I've just it's
just so valuable and so worth it it does
a lot of things that some very expensive
software don't even offer let's do the
outside of the hair first up it's not
working right so I am actually not gonna
do her hand just because I find hands
very difficult to draw and these icon
portraits are sort of like head and
shoulders passport size not size style
photo it's less of a mug shot though so
I will just end up creating a bit of a
shoulder here so what I'm gonna do is
kind of guesstimate where the hair would
be if it was like not being touched
like that right okay well just that more
when I have drawn the shoulder in then
for this bit I'm gonna start a bit lower
and actually join it back up with that
first piece I did because it all kind of
comes over together and then oh that's a
bit large I always find the end of hair
like the ends of hair so difficult to
draw I don't know why it's just always
been the case I've just never ever liked
to do in these bits does anyone have any
tips on how to get these actually
looking okay because I can never perfect
it and I always get so annoyed at
myself I mean that kind of worked cool
so I need some shoulder the shoulder and
I hate trying to guess the other the
other arm especially when it's not
already drawn I might end up having to
move it later on I've got to try and
guess where our arm would naturally be
yeah I feel like that's pretty good and
then just fix up this bit of hair what
does that look like right now this is
the time I usually turn it off and see
usually like flick between that looks
quite good just gonna do a little bit of
arm detail bit of her top but she's got a
gin glass in her hand I think so that's
what's underneath at bottom got a love a
gin and then this is where the other arm
would be alright so I think we have the
basic outline so what I'm gonna do now
is create a new layer and I'm gonna
create the little shape at the bottom
it's like a wonky diamond I never do it
super even I quite
like this a bit abstract I always draw
that press and hold and then procreate
makes into a solid shape and what I'm
gonna do is just place it so then once
that's drawn I'll zoom into that and
I'll just get rid of if I put the eraser on
for the eraser I just use either the
soft airbrush or the hard
airbrush I'll just switch between them
depending on what I'm using it for
currently, it's on the soft wait no
currently it's on hard airbrush and then I'm
just gonna get rid of the bit that would
be behind her like that and I've
actually got a dot there that shouldn't be
there on another canvas I do this
a lot I accidently put dots on a layers
and then I can never find them my camera
stopped recording here but basically all
I did was I erase the parts of
Charlotte's arms that were outside of
the diamond and then I went on to the
definition in the hair that's all right
right I'm gonna do the eyelashes I
always almost forget the eyelashes so
I'm gonna make a new layer so what I do
I use the same brush I press a bit
harder on it so they're a bit thicker
and I'll do a couple of eyelashes a
little bit of curl on the end and what I
do oh and don't forget the bottom ones
I do the bottom ones a little bit
thinner because obviously they're not as
pronounced and then I'll take the brush
I'll make sure it's on the hard
airbrush setting and I'll lower it so it's quite
a small teeny tiny little brush and then
what I do is go in and at this point I'm
zoomed into the point where you can
literally see the pixels and I will sort
of point the end so that you can see
them a bit better
like cool and then obviously the same
for the other side so I could go in and
do it again so let me just show you a
quick before and after so this is
effectively if I left these brush
strokes like that
can you see the difference between the
eyelashes they look like big slugs so I
don't do that I obviously use the eraser
but as a little cheat method because I
am lazy I'm gonna duplicate the eyelashes and now I have two and then I'm
gonna click this cursor flip it
horizontally so now they're the other
way around and place them like that
let's just get rid of these bottom ones
I'm just going to turn the image off in
the background again and see what it
looks like
cool I'm happy with that I'm just gonna
merge all these pen layers together now
so they're all just one image if there's
any shortcuts that I'm doing by the way
that you don't quite understand why I'm
doing it or what I'm doing I have a top
ten tips for procreate video I will
leave it linked in the I button I'd be
happy to create a new one so just let me
know in the comments and I will create
another little like procreate procreate
top tips video like I said I love this
application a lot so this is the basic
outline have i drawn in a random spot
again yes I have I always do that and
now what I do is fill it in and add the
color but my cameras dying so I'm gonna
change the battery quick and we're back
right let's do the color so I'm gonna
put the image of Charlotte underneath
again actually wait I'm gonna move it
let me put it back up to full opacity so
you can see there if I left it on
full opacity the whole time you can't
really see where the black lines are
that I drew and so I just find it much
easier to do that so I'm just gonna move
this image like so and I will now create
a new layer in between the photo and the
outline
so I'm gonna collect a color off of
Charlotte's skin tone usually it
translates to dark on like on digital
images it did it in Illustrator as well
when I used to do a lot of illustrator
portraits so I usually take the color
and then brighten it a little bit so
what I do is because I have created the
layer underneath the outlines if I draw
you can see that the color is going
underneath them so what I'm gonna do is
just outline the skintone color and then
all you do is drag and drop the colour
over and it colours it in fully as long as
you've got like a solid shape I usually
get a darker color so I'll just pick
this up myself create another layer and
make sure it's still underneath the
drawing lines and I'll do the same with
this before I carry on actually
something I used to do was just sort of
fill in this and I could do the same
with the hair color and it fill it in
however that really restricts me when it
comes to shading and sort of making the
most of each portion of color you'll see
in a little bit that I like to sort of
isolate each different color I've used
and add a bit of shading and a bit of
shadow and highlight and it kind of
makes the image pop so that's why I do
spend the extra little time of sort of
outlining it also gonna cheat on this
bit because I'm gonna put hair color
over the top so it doesn't matter that
I've sort of gone over that line I
should have done that here but I just
forgot so I'm just gonna do the hair
quickly so I take like the mid-range
color actually I asked for a photo of
Charlotte's hair in a good light so I'm
gonna download that quick can we firstly
just take a moment to appreciate how
beautiful Charlotte's hair is and very
jealous what I do is just use the
eyedropper tool I'm gonna pick up like a
mid color
this again is trial-and-error a lot of
the time I'll end up going back because
I've not picked a color that's dark
enough that'll do for now and then again
same process create a new layer so each
different color is a new layer don't
forget that part because that is very
important right I've outlined the kind
of perimeter of the hair and because I'm
gonna put it underneath the face color
I'm just gonna do this like that and
then I don't have to go all the way
around this bit fill that in and then if
I put it in the right order move the skin
layer up you can see that that line has
gone and everything's in the right order
all right hair is complete so I'm gonna
do the eyes because that is looking
increasingly creepy so again new layer
and I just have pure white and then on
the same layer and this is the only time
I do this I pick up like a darker skin
tone II sort of pink shade and I just
put a little bit in the corner because
obviously at the whites of your eyes
don't go right to the corner and I do
that on the same layer because I never
actually touched that layer again
because there's no need to eyebrows so
let's again pick up the color it's gonna
be like the light brownie shade and I
can always change the opacity new layer
again and what I do is outline and take
it further try again
take it further which looks crazy I've done that very wonky let's just straighten
that bit off okay and then I do the same
imagine if I just left them like that
we've all had our brows like that at
some point let's be real then into the
eraser I use soft brush I bump it up
quite high or actually I could use the
medium soft brush and then I just smudge
in the middle gradually
and get rid of that harsh line that I
initially created magic I'm actually
going to adjust the pen layer because I
feel like I've drawn this line a bit too
far
so again just go back to the harder
brush I'm gonna go in and just adjust
this line a little bit right so the
eyebrows are done I've done the little
like fade thing next is the lip color
loving this lip color new layer again as
always and outline the lips and as I'm
zooming in I keep finding flaws which is
absolutely fine I just noticed some
white patches and there's also a white
patch in here this is the basic colors
now I'm going to do the eyes so for the
eyes it's very important to know what
color your clients eye is so what I
decided to do this time around because
I've learnt the hard way that cameras
don't always do eye colours justice I
asked for people's eye colors so let me
show you this cool little thing I made
so I made this which is a bunch of
different eye colors and Charlotte says
she is 17 so I'm just gonna crop that an
import eye color number 17 again I'm
gonna create a new layer underneath the
drawing layer
I should probably name all of them but
the lazy life is my life I'm not lazy
the lazy life chose me so I'm gonna try
and pick up a brown let's try that color
for now and I'm just gonna do one big
block color now the cheats way of doing
this would to be to put this image in
the photo but I don't want to cheat not
today
so once I've done the big block I then
click on the layer and then click alpha
lock I'm not going to go into alpha lock
but if you want to know again that video
I mentioned earlier that helps you out
with that and then I'm gonna pick up a
darker shade and
just go around the edge so I don't know
if you can actually see what I'm doing
properly here but and then I take the
smudge tool which is always on an
airbrush setting for me and I just make
it a bit smaller and I'm gonna blend it
together so just tiny little taps and
like circular motions and then get a
lighter shade and put that sort of
behind the pupil area maybe not that
much and then get the smudge tool again
all there is it a smudge tool yeah just
spread that out a little bit so I'm sort
of like blending together my own little
DIY eye color and then a final touch I
put the smudge tool right down to
basically one pixel and I'll drag it out
I don't know if you can see that
hopefully you can it adds those like
lines that eyes have they we go so
that is that done what I'm gonna do
instead of having to do it twice
duplicate it like I did for the
eyelashes so duplicate and click on the
first flip horizontal and we have same
little eyeball I'm just gonna rotate it
a little bit because obviously she's a
bit of an angle cool and then I'm just
gonna turn the alpha lock on that one
because off on that one sorry because
there's a little bit extra down here
there we go so we have the eye colour
you can get rid of that template layer
now I'm gonna join those two layers
together and then I always at this point
create a layer on top of the initial
lines to do some little specks on the
eyes because I think the eyes look so
weird and flat like look at that give me
a second we'll compare the before and
after and then you add some little dots
and like look at the difference between
those two eyes I think it just makes
such a good difference when I was a
photographer I always got taught to make
sure there's always a little glint in
both eyes otherwise you look a bit weird
so there we go these are the final
steps basically what I'm gonna do is
the hair color first so I'm just gonna
pick up that hair color again and go
into its layer I'm gonna use alpha lock
again alpha lock in short basically
means you can't color outside the lines
so if I'm coloring in here with my brown
pen and it won't go over the line let me
just demonstrate so I'm coloring in blah
blah blah blah oops have gone over the
line it's not going to let me do it look
because I've locked the layer so that's
effectively what alpha lock does and
what I'm gonna do I'm gonna um sort of
try and replicate her ombre a little bit
which I have a love-hate relationship
with people that have ombre because it's
very pretty
but really hard to draw I am NOT a
hairdresser so it's very hard to
replicate the hairdresser's amazing
skills so I've done that I've
filled this weird big blob in I'm gonna
cheat and sort of use the Select tool so
I'm gonna select the existing hair shape
invert it so now it's selecting
everything else go back to my weird blob
shape and then erase everything outside
that shape hopefully that makes sense
I'm gonna just lighten that a little bit
so I'll change the opacity and I'm gonna
add a couple of darker brush strokes to
it so it blends in a little bit more
right so we have the lighter little
portion I'm gonna use that light color
and go back into the alpha locked hair
layer and there's actually a little
strand of light hair up here and there's
a little strand sort of in there and
there's also a little bit of highlights
up here and what I'm gonna do is just
add a few up here to cool really happy with
that so far then I do the low-light
select the dark bits of her hair so
again I can change the opacity or
actually I'm gonna do it via this hair
color so I'm just gonna pick up the
original hair color and make it a bit
darker and same principle again just in
the shadowed parts
I'm gonna go in again with like a
lighter shade right I think I might have
finished with the hair I need to
remember it's not going to be completely
realistic it's a cartoon that's the
whole point
what I'm gonna go on to now oh I just
remembered I need to do the earring
so again just new layer I'm gonna pick
up the color of it so it's like a
silvery color and what I do is just
start out quite thin on the edge and
then go thicker as I get closer there we
go so now she has a little earring and
now I'm gonna do the shadows so
we're going into face color section I'm
gonna alpha lock it again and I'm gonna
pick up a darker shade I'm gonna make
sure my pen is now going on to the
airbrushing tool so different tool soft
airbrush and what I do is sort of trace
out roughly where the darker parts of
the face are so generally around the
forehead and in the cheekbones
like this and then around the bottom of
the chin I'll do that area first and
then you use the smudge tool with the
soft airbrush sort of tap and blend
there we go so she's coming to life a
little bit more I'm gonna leave that
cheek quite dark because it is on the
image then I'll usually darken it up a
little bit more again make my brush a
little bit smaller and I'm gonna go in
on the eyeshadow area and then go in
here it's this and again just smudge it
out like you would prefer a shadow and
then it's the nose area and she's got a
couple of like smile dimple things here
and then I like to do the Cupid's bow
I'm gonna do that whilst I'm here so I
remember battery died we're gonna have
to flick into screen record mode because
I have gone through three batteries
whilst recording this video and I don't
have any more the other ones not charged
so you can still see what I'm doing but
you just can't see my hands right so
we've done the shadows then I like to do
a little bit highlight so again I pick
up sort of she's got some good
highlight here I could pick this up or
just pick up the skin tone and make it a
little bit brighter and then same again
bet you can guess highlight the bits
that generally are highlighted
now quickly for the skin so like the
chest area again on alpha lock I'm gonna
select the chest color and I'm just
gonna choose a darker shade with the
same soft airbrush like that and I've
also just realized
Charlotte's got a little birthmark and
on her chest and I can't be leaving that
out can I because it's a big part I
should have done this at the beginning
but obviously I missed it and I'm just
gonna do a new layer and do sort of
trace it a little bit I'm gonna go back
to the inking studio pen and just
trace just change the opacity of the
freckles a little bit and I think that
is pretty much done so the final little
touch which I like to call my little
flourish is to do the little highlight
bits so I'm back on the inking brush
which is fine that's the one I need and
I'm just gonna do some little flourishes
so I usually do one down the nose so she
wants pastel or baby pink so I think I
have a baby pink here I'm just gonna
adjust it a little bit like that and
then I always add a little extra bit of
dimension to it so I'll take a brush a
big soft airbrush and then draw a little
circle use the Gaussian blur tool
and just blur it out a little bit I'm
actually gonna use it as a pink color a
bit of a darker pink shade on there and
I like to just fill in these bits
and actually I think I'm gonna do my
usual little accent so I do a couple
little sparkles and also I'm gonna do a
little halo and there we go I finished
it's all complete I'm really really
happy with it hopefully you guys learned
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