hey guys it's Alice so today I thought I would show you how to cartoon yourself
in procreate as you guys will know this is not me I pinched a photo from G's
Instagram and she's beautiful and her photos are really good quality so you want
to make sure you've got a photo of yourself that's bright and good quality
and that you really really like and what we're going to do is we're going to
bring it into procreate and I'm using the ink pen tool and all you need to do
and this is where you don't need to be able to draw at all it's amazing is
basically trace it so what I'm doing is kind of adjusting the pen size to suit
and I'm gonna trace it and don't worry that the lines won't be completely the
same thickness that kind of adds to the effect of the cartoon style and you can
do it quite boxy you don't have to be completely neat so I am gonna
fast-forward through quite a lot of this tutorial because it is kind of
repetitive but if you do have any questions or anything that I missed let
me know down in the comments below and also I'll be putting this tutorial up on
my website once my website is ready so if aren't already subscribe to my
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to create things like this so yeah subscribe to that and then once my
website is live you will know and be the first to grab your freebies so yeah I'm
just kind of outline in her face and then I decided to do some little accents
on the jumper the eyebrows gave me so much trouble and I feel like this is
kind of mirror in real life because eyebrows in real life are really
annoying to get the hang of so doing this was frustrating me and you'll see
later on in the video that I ended up changing them again but again I'm just
outlining them trying to do smooth sleek strokes and then again I'm going down to
the nose just get in the accents I think less is more
with these drawings which is what I've learned so try not to add too many
accents because it does end up looking like you've got like a wrinkly model or
something but yeah outlining the lips and just going back to the eyes I'm just
going to do one line for the eyelid and then I'm tracing the eye shape I do go
back later on and make the top lid a little bit thicker because
of the eyeliner and then I'm doing a little accent under the eyes I tried a
little like dimple line on the chin line I'm it didn't look right so it's all
about experimentation it depends on what model you have and then unfortunately I
had some fingers to draw so I'm not the best at fingers fingers and hands are
hard to draw so we'll just kind of ignore that so now I'm doing a little
box around the outside and you can kind of leave this blank if you want I
decided to kind of make a little statement like pretend it was like a
Polaroid photo let's let's say so I'm using this shape tool and you basically
draw a very rough looking rectangle hold it down and then the new version of
procreate actually creates a solid shape so I just did that and kind of leveled
it all out so I'm just checking my lines now I am a bit of a perfectionist so I
do like to go back in and fix things sometimes so here I'm just doing the
eyes it takes me a lot of goes to kind of get the shape I like I draw an undo
quite a lot and then turn off the image to check it and then I'm doing the
eyeliner so the lines look really weird by themselves what you also need to do
for this process is to ensure that all the lines connect so make sure they all
touch each other so I just went brown I did that and then I'm doing some
eyelashes I'm exaggerating them G has gorgeous eyelashes anyway but I'm gonna
make them a bit bigger than what they are as it's a cartoon you know so now
I'm doing the kind of the dimension of the hair so as you can see the top of it
is kind of darker and then the bottom is like a baby blue like canna shade so I'm
just doing a very rough version cartoon style of the roots and again I'm going
through the lines and just rubbing out any mistakes and things I don't like the
look of you don't have to do this I'm just like I said a bit of a
perfectionist so once I've got the rough outline I'm gonna turn the picture back
on and what I'm gonna do is create a new layer so up here new layer and drag it
underneath the ink lines then I'm clicking the ink line layer and making
it a lair this is a new trick that I've
learned and it's amazing so what I'm gonna do is select the color I want kind
of like a mid-tone blue by pressing and holding and then I'm gonna drag the
color swatch over the bit of hair and it's going to fill it in and I'm just
doing that with the two blues and then you'll see in a second I'm gonna do the
darker bits and because it's referencing the ink lines above it's going to like
mirror the shape exactly which is saving me so much time recently I'm so excited
that I found this tool so now I'm just going to do some different shadows and
dimensions and strands of hair so just using the same ink pen tool and I've
picked up a darker shade from the original image and I'm just gonna do
some lines as and when I find them you'll see that I'll switch back to the
image to just check where the shadows are you don't have to be precise it's
only you that's gonna notice if they're a bit off so yeah just play along with
it and see what you come up with and then similar kind of process I'm picking
up a lighter color and I'm gonna do some more depth of field lines is that what
we can call them probably not at home so yeah I'm gonna do some more lines in a
different shade and then I go back in with a lighter shade and so on
don't forget with this pen as well you can vary how much pressure you put on
the pen which changes the thickness so for these black lines here I'm kind of
adding a bit more dimension to the root area and if I press harder the line gets
thicker and if I press less the line gets thinner so I kind of use this to my
advantage for these ones so the lines kind of taper off at the end and then I
colored in the middle section so it all blended together and then I'm just doing
some kind of accent lines obviously her hair didn't have black streaks in it but
because it's a cartoon I decided to add some additional little things now I'm
doing the lips so the same principle I'm adding a new layer underneath the ink
layer selecting the color of her lips and dragging it over and because the ink
layer is a reference layer it means it is kind of filling with reference to the
top layer and a game of the eyebrows selecting the color dragging it in these
eyebrows honestly gave me so much hassle stupid eyebrows and now I'm gonna use
the airbrush tool so this is one of my favorite pens I guess and this and the
smudge tool so I've got an a brush brush up and I'm making the layer of the lips
and eyebrows an alpha lock layer so what this does is means it means it means I
cannot go outside the lines effectively so it's kind of hard to tell now but I
am using a darker shade to kind of add a little bit of a gradient to the eyebrows
and then again if you look now you'll see that the eyebrows are darkening up
but it's not going on the skin or outside any of the lines because it's an
alpha lock layer same again with the lips I'm using the airbrush tool and a
darker shade of purple I'll mix it up between a dark shade and then for the
highlight bit I'll pick up a lighter shade and then I'll use a little smudge
tool which is what I'm using now which is a little icon shaped like a finger at
the top and I just kind of smudge it out to blend it all together I honestly love
that tool then decided to go back to the eyebrows this is kind of a common theme
throughout this video I just couldn't work them out until the very end and now
I've decided to do the skin so I've created a new
layer again so the skin has its own a separate layer in the list area creating
a new layer dragging the skin color over and I've also made this an alpha lock
layer so it doesn't go outside the lines and I'm just picking up skin color from
the photo the original image and add in shadow just where the shadow is kind of
naturally fall you'll see that I flick between the image and the drawing quite
a lot just to kind of gauge where the skin gets a bit darker this just take
practice and I'm not perfect at it but you know I'm getting there so yeah I did
a few different shadows I'm using the finger smudgy tool again and just kind
of working as I go so I forgot to do the nose shadow which is very important it
looked like her nose was flat so I did that smudge that out and then kind of
has the base idea for the shadows I also need to do highlights on this so I will
be putting a lighter color on the top of the cheekbones under the eyebrows on the
chin on the nose to kind of match up with G's existing
highlight and the kind of natural light where you light would fall anyway
without makeup on I'm honestly talking nonsense
okay so forehead nose under the eyebrows top for the Cupid's bow smudge it all in
with the fingers emoji tool there we go Bob's your uncle then I realized she
looked very very pale so I went back in with some darker shades G has a gorgeous
town so I mean I'm very jealous for one but I went back in with a kind of
orangey skintone color and smudged that all out kind of went around the forehead
and got the shadows all sorted the bigger the brush the better by the way
it creates a softer kind of transition
now for some blush so I picked up the blush from the original image and put it
on her cheeks and smudged it out once again with the smudge tool honestly I'm
like a broken record the smudge tool and the airbrush tool are gonna be your best
friends right so now I believe I'm about to do the eye shadow so for this I
created a new layer again and I picked up the color of the eye shadow because G
is amazing a shadow there was many colors so I picked it up and kind of
gradient it down and used you'll never guess the airbrush and the smudge tool
and then I realized I was making that eyes look terribly creepy so I filled in
the whites of her eyes with the same process as before new layer and just
drag over a white color to fill it in and then I did the colored parts of her
eyeballs what is that like pupil no the pupils the black bit isn't it what's the
cool it I swear I did good in science at school anyway moving on I'm doing some
highlights on the eyes now so this is just where the light kind of catches in
the eyes I'm just doing a big dot onto little ones you can use squares you can
use whatever shape you like really just to add a bit of life and now because
it's a cartoon drawing I'm adding a very very exaggerated highlight obviously G
didn't have lines of white on her face but for the purpose of the cartoon I've
just kind of added them where the light would fall and then also added a few
streaks to her hair and I think I did a couple on the jumper as well
now if you've got an eagle eye you'll realize I've only done one eye worth of
eyeshadow so what I'm going to do is duplicate the one I have on the left
then I flip it and drag it over and there you go I've done the other eye
this is a cheats way of doing it but I mean if your face is pretty much the
metrical you can get away with it I'm just lining it up and then there's a
little bit going on to the hair so I've just grabbed the eraser tool and I'm
gonna get rid of that so just save myself some time there now I'm just
gonna add some eyeshadow underneath her eyes so again a brush tool what a
surprise and I'm just gonna smudge this out with the smudge tool and just kind
of delicately go around with the eyes
then I realized she had kind of like a highlight color inside so I've picked
this from the original image and I just kind of painted it in those of you who
are any good at makeup which I can't say I am will know exactly why she's done
this and I think it made such a difference when I realized this was
there and kind of painted it on it just brightened her eyes up quite a lot so
now I'm just doing the jumper just used a great color same principle as before
create a new layer underneath paint it in use the airbrush and then smudge and
then I actually used a different tool as well I used a texture tool in the cotton
one which is just a generic one that came with procreate just to add a bit of
texture because obviously the jumper had texture so now I'm going back in with
the airbrush tool and I'm adding a little bit of black to the kind of
eyelid area just because G's lashes were quite full and I didn't want to draw
them in with the pen tool so I decided to use it as like eyeshadow and I think
this finished it off really really well can you tell I'm really proud of myself
for this drawing I've never done a drawing this style before but I'm very
very happy with it and I definitely do more if you enjoyed this video let me
know if you do give this video a thumbs up and comment down below if you'd like
me to do more of these so now I'm just doing the neck same principle and I
realized I'd missed out a line in the initial sketch so I went back to it
turned it off as a reference point and then kind of adjusted it because her
neck looked very wide before I did this so I just filled that in black and then
it went back to it with the shadows and you know what by now I don't know why
I'm still sat here talking you through this and now I'm just clearing in the
background as you can see I went for a mint green kind of color and then I
decided to do little halos and accents I actually got this idea from Holly pixels
who is a pro create Pro and she did a style like this which totally inspired
me so I cannot claim credit for this style of drawing at all definitely check
Holly out if you're into procreate but I just added these little halos and like
got rid of the back part so it looked like it was going around her head
and then I decided to add some little love hearts and then I added another
little background element so I used the shape tool I drew a very very rough
looking rectangle held onto it and filled it in with the like a darker mint
green just had a bit of texture and dimension I changed the background color
added a scribble because why not it was all kind of experimentation at this
point I'd not really planned what this drawing was gonna end up like but I
actually really liked the finished product so I guess that kind of shows
you that's what art is all about just kind of experimenting and expressing
yourself so yeah I hope you enjoyed this video please do give it a thumbs up if
you did and I'll see you soon for another one