hello hello welcome to another procreate video so for this week's video i wanted to
try something new and i wanted to draw this beautiful little kitten luna so
luna is a white cat i'm not quite sure what breed she is but she's beautiful and i've never drawn a
feline or a furry friend at all really i only have ever done cartoon versions so what we're gonna
do is talk through how i did it so firstly i've imported a photo of luna i also have a bunch of
other photos besides i've lowered the opacity and the first task is to outline the facial features
and the body the only well the main difference i guess with this compared to doing a portrait
i found is that you don't need to be as precise like you'll see that the little tufts of hair that
i'm doing and i'm sort of not being so strict with my brush movements i'm using the studio pen by the
way it's my favorite brush um but you can see i'm attempting to do the whiskers and i keep deleting
them that was one of the harder things but yeah i'm kind of being fluid with the motion so you can
see there that i've got some little flicks of fur but i'm not necessarily joining all the lines up
and i'm not making sure that it's a solid block like i would if i was going to portrait so you'll
see that i'm doing the whiskers here this is the only time i changed my brush throughout the whole
whole tutorial um i actually ended up going to like a fine hair brush i downloaded it
from a set on envato so i'll see if i can find that i'll leave that linked in the description
but i found this was a lot like more realistic i guess for the whiskers and it took a little
bit of trial and error and you have to have a really really light hand but i feel like
these look a lot better than the studio brush the studio well the studio pen is quite clunky
so yeah we've done the face we've got sort of the main features and now i'm gonna go for the
body so it took quite a while for me to get the proportions right obviously one of her paws is
covered up so i had to sort of guess what that would look like and i think she's just woken
up in this photo so she does look a little bit tired one of her eyes is slightly closed bless her
so i had to sort of improvise so you can see that i'm sort of doing like very faint brush strokes on
like small parts of her foot i didn't want to do her entire body as like zigzagged bits of fur
you know because it kind of loses shape so look at me saying all this like i've done it before
so yeah that's what i'm doing so you can see that there's some parts of the outline of like
her front legs are like a solid line and some parts are fur and i sort of applied that roll
all the way around not sure if this is the thing to do but we did it anyway so yeah i'm just going
to go around and complete all of these little bits and i actually realized towards the end that her
tail isn't showing so i actually asked for another photo of her so i could include the tail and then
i just sort of made up where it was going to go so i turned off the image so i went into the layers
turned off the image and sketched out a tail then i lowered the opacity of this oh look i'm
just tweaking the the hairs on the eels i think i realized that i wanted them to be a bit more
prominent so you'll see that i kind of go around and tweak things as i go but yeah with the tail i
created it on a new layer lowered the opacity and then drew over the top of it again with that same
principle of like a little bit of solid line a little bit fur nothing like uniform just kind of
free-flowing and wherever and you can see again a little bit of a little bit of straight line
so we have the basic body shape oh i forgot her chin the little cute chin so um yeah now i'm just
filling the background with whatever color and then i've picked a sort of paley pinky white brush
and i'm still using the studio pen i've created a new layer and i'm just going to outline
the head and the body in a solid white now luckily for me luna's colorings are actually quite easy to
do because she's mainly white and then there's just a few patches of colour and then her tail
is black and sort of like a brown gingery colour this colour was too pink so i ended
up changing it but you can sort of see it coming together at the minute she looks kind of creepy
but i actually decided to go in and if you can see i'm sort of like extending the white color
away from that initial line like i'm not doing it on all of the
sort of hair strokes that i did but just so it's not like a solid black color i'm sort of flicking
them out a bit i'm not sure how to describe that you can probably see it best here on the tail
you see that i'm like making it not a solid line i thought this just kind of blended her in
to the um to the line drawing so now we're going to do the markings now you'll notice in a second
that i did something wrong but we'll just ignore that for now what i'm doing first is her nose so
again look at how cute that photo is on the left she's a really tiny kitten there so i did the
pink of her nose and i also used the same color for in her ears i did end up changing this color
further down the line just make sure that you've created it on a separate layer so
each new color is its own layer otherwise if i do something wrong it makes it really hard for me to
delete i've learned this the hard way so i drew the pink of her ears and then i decided to go in
with the eraser tool so i just set the eraser tool to the same pen so it's the studio pen
and deleted or erased bits of her so again i'm doing the light white effect with the fur on
her ears so it's sort of like overlapping the pink and sort of made it blend in a little bit
then i'm gonna tap with two fingers on her ears and lower the opacity too all right i've moved
the main image of her up so i can see the shape of her eyes and i'm also adding the pink to under
there and you can see on the eye on the left i've made it a little bit bigger because she does have
a little bit of a squinty eye in that photo so yeah you can sort of see we've got all the pink
it's all on the same layer and i'm going to change the color and the opacity of that in a second
uh just doing a few little tweaks on the eyes and here i am like changing the color of the pink and
sort of adjusting it a little bit so it looked a little bit more natural right and then imported
another photo actually it's the exact same photo as on the left so i could pick up the color
of her eyes so i went with this like brown shade and what i'm gonna do is what i do with like human
portraits i'm gonna add a lighter shade oh in fact i did the dark shade around the outside this was
something i noticed when i zoomed in on the like reference images that cats have this like black
almost eyeliner it makes sense that eyeliner is called cat eyes now
why haven't i thought that before um anyway but i did that black like dark brownie outline
then chose a lighter brown just slightly lighter and did it around sort of like the pupil area and
then taking the smudge tool on a soft airbrush setting i just smudged it out a little bit and
you can kind of see that it makes the eyes look a little bit more three-dimensional i
didn't want to do this too precisely because i want it to be like obviously a cartoon
then i had the little uh light reflections on a another new layer because it's again a different
thing and yeah i guess now it's to the markings so at this point i started drawing this big um like
black marking on her head did the same technique i just lowered the width of my studio pen and
i'm just sort of using the same technique i guess so i'm using the eraser to erase some white parts
and just i keep looking over at the photo on the left to make sure it sort of looks realistic
and you'll see i end up blending a bit of brown into it and etc so i'm just gonna sort of fast
forward this bit and yeah then i'm doing above the eye and this was the moment when i realized i'd
done that big brown splodge on the wrong side so i went into the layer i selected it and i
flipped it horizontally and then i just sort of repositioned it and i'm sort of rubbing out the
bits i don't need again and adding in the bits that i do because i realized that that photo
from before was a front-facing camera photo so her markings were obviously flipped over
so yeah i'm just going to go around do the markings this is when she really sort of came to
life i thought she was really looking like herself and yeah i just went in with the same technique i
drew a blob and then i used a combination of the studio pen or the eraser to get rid of things now
i'm just adding a bit of shadow on her skin so i just upped the size of my studio pen
chose like a mucky white sort of shade and then did what i like to call shadows on her again a
similar technique to when i do humans but with fur i found like the darker areas of her face
and her arms and their paws and just squiggled on them then i realized i'd forgot to record
the colors of her tail but i got a photo of her tail and it's like a black and brown like i said
filled that in with the same technique and then we will have a play around with the background so
for the background i grouped all of the layers together so i just click on the layers panel swipe
right on all of the ones that i want to group and then hit group this means i can now move like the
entire cat all in one go then i'm going to draw a circle behind it so draw a rough circle press
and hold onto the screen tap at the top and select circle and then i can position that and change it
and then i'm gonna i think i oh yeah i'm adding text so just into the top left on the little like
spanner thing click that click add text choose your phone i upped the track in to make the space
in between the letters bigger kept it in white and i've put it at the top i thought having the circle
behind her sort of goes with her name because luna means moon so i thought the little circle behind
it was quite cute but i guess you could sort of do whatever background you want then i decided
to just play around with the background color so it turned out i wanted it sort of more pink
and i felt like this made luna stand out a lot her name stand out and i don't know i just thought it
looked really cute and i was actually really impressed with myself so here's a lesson for
everyone if you feel like you can't draw something give it a go because you're probably doubting
yourself and i believe in you if i can do it you can do it so have fun drawing your furry friends
and let me know if you'd like me to do any more videos like this thanks for watching guys bye