hey guys so today's video as you can tell from the title is a procreate
tutorial kinda thing my top 10 tips for procreate I use procreate pretty much
every single day for a bunch of my Commission's and yeah if you want to
check out my Instagram to see what I've done I will leave it on screen and link
down below and but yeah I hope you enjoyed this video if you do please do
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freelance fridays and let's get straight into the video firstly I've never filmed
like this so let's hope that you can see everything and yeah if you enjoyed this
video let me know and I'll definitely do more of these so I am just in procreate
now I have an iPad pro and an Apple pencil I'll leave the links to both in
the description and you will have to see the specs of them procreate is actually
£9.99 from the App Store and I also realized whilst researching for
this video that they do a procreate pocket version so for your phone and
that's $4.99 and I've not tried the pocket version but I definitely
recommend this one so this is procreate open on my iPad and I thought we could
talk through ten different things that I've learned whilst using procreate
first of all in this top right hand corner I'm gonna open a new canvas and
I'm actually just gonna go for screen size just for the purpose of this video
so it will just open up a white screen and hopefully the reflections are okay
and you can see everything so tip number one is streamline brushes so I
originally kind of bought this iPad to try hand lettering I tried it on paper
and I wanted to give it a go digitally so I have a bunch of hand lettering
brushes these all come with the procreate app itself and then the top
two I have downloaded online I tend to stick to this one which is the script
one and and just for demonstration purposes this is what I have my settings
on so if you want to pause and have a look go for it so I'm just gonna write
hello to start with this won't be the neatest thing ever but you can see that
it's quite smooth and all the lines are pretty neat and if I'm
to change the thickness of it you can play around with it and it just gets
fatter I'm not the best at hand lettering but the iPad definitely helps
and the reason for this is that I've got the stream line setting turned up so
this set in here is turned right up to 100 if I turn it down you'll be able to
see that if I write hello now let's just get rid of those two it's quite jittery
and like I'm writing it exactly the same as I did before
but you can see that the lines are nowhere near as smooth and it's all a
bit wobbly and a bit corrupt so yeah tip number one is to turn on a stream
line in the brushes so this set in here which is in stroke down at the bottom
and then I turn that up to 100 and then we'll compare and it just makes such a
big difference so if you look at the different lines that you can kind of
tell that this one is a whole lot Messier than this one tip number two is
actually you can select colors from various photos so using the eyedropper
tool as if you're using Photoshop you can pick up colors so I've got this
photo here which is just from my Instagram and say I wanted to recreate
this draw in or I really liked the color red all I need to do is go into a new
layer which is up here and the plus return and then there's a little square
here in between the two sliders if you press this it comes up with this circle
here and if I take this over the red color you'll see that the top half of it
is changing to whatever color is underneath it so all I'll do is go under
there and then now my color of the top corner is that exact red color that I've
chosen so if I were to do some coloring or wanted some fun or whatever in that
color again if I type hello all right hello should I say it is now in that red
color tip number three is actually something that I use every single day in
my drawings and I'll just use this for an example now so if I wanted to change
the color of the word hello and you can actually
drag and drop colors into solid shapes so let's say like an orange a nice
autumn not orange if I click the color drag it over it's now on my Apple pencil
and if I put it over the exact spot it changes the color and this applies to
anything so if I want to change the background I drag the color over and it
will change the entire background but you'll notice it doesn't fill in the
different bits the only thing I can think of to compare this to is the Paint
Bucket tool in Microsoft Paint and anyone remember Microsoft Paint that's
where it all started for me so another example of doing the fill tool or fill
color tool is for drawings like this so this is just a drawing that I have now
completed and I've just kind of stripped it back to the start and let's say we
want to color her jumping gray all I do is get to gray click the gray color and
then drag it over her jumper and it will color just those bits and again you can
just go through so if you had brown hair there you go and I just kind of follow
that through so this fill tool is so so handy in many situations tip number four
is drawing straight lines now this is something I haven't used that often but
I know it could come in handy for those of you who draw maybe like buildings or
architecture anything like that so for this I'm just gonna get up the mono line
pen out of the calligraphy section and just click it to black Oh sneaky tip
here if you double click in either of the corners it will go to pure white or
pure black there's a little bonus tip for you so if you want to draw a
straight line it's quite difficult to try and get a straight line wow that was
really bad let's try again okay that's as straight as I can get it
if I hand draw it but if you click down with the pen and start to draw and keep
hold of it it like pops up this thing which says line created and now it's
created a line for me so I can continue using that I generally would probably
use this in the sketch tool so again I'll show you with just the HB pencil
and I love the HB pencil for draw in and shade in and stuff if you'll tip my
pencil this way it shades if I tip it this way
it draws just like a pencil would if I draw a line and hold
it will turn it into a straight line and I can stretch that as long as I need it
and use that so tip number five is to merge layers so I use this one quite a
lot when I'm doing my illustrations and I'm just going to draw something super
simple to show you so so let's say I've drawn a bunch of flowers I'm gonna
duplicate these so they'll all turn up in different layers so now we've got a
bunch of different flowers really badly drawn flowers I have to say and if I
actually wanted all of these to be part of the same layer so if I select it now
is only gonna select the one that I have clicked on in the layer panel but if I
went into the layers panel and get two fingers like this and pinch it will
merge them all into one a single layer so if I click now they're all fastened
together another important tip that I keep doing you've probably spotted this
is to undo something that I've done so there is an undo button in this bottom
corner here but there is an easier way so let's just color something in and I'm
just gonna do it the easy way I'm gonna use the paint tool that showed you
earlier and we're just gonna color these in or of course you could do like paint
in so if you wanted to get texture in you can obviously just paint as you go
and maybe you end up doing this like this is smudging everything what have I
done I'm panicking I've messed it up oh my god there is an undo button here
which will undo it for you but if you get two fingers and just press the
screen with two fingers it will do that so I find this really really fluid
because as I'm drawing I kind of have my other hand rested here ready and if I
mess up I can instantly just get rid of it and try it again
tip number seven is the alpha lock tool and I've only just learnt this one
myself and I think this is kind of them in so
handy so what you need to do for this one is click on the layer that you're
looking at so for me it's this one I would like to color in this layer and
all you do is single press it you can press it with a pen or your finger and
there's an alpha lock button there so once you click that
if I want to do some shade in and not go outside the lines it's gonna restrict me
to the outline of this drawing so for example let's get a simple airbrushed
all up like a nice soft one let's put some like blonde streaks in her hair
this is going to look so Nath but and I'll just color in and if I try and go
outside the lines you'll see that it's restricting me it's not letting me go
outside those lines so the Alpha lock tool is great if you want to do some
shading or for example I do quite a lot of smudge work if I go into this much
tool and light blend all this in it's not going to go outside the line of that
drawer in itself by the way if you'd like a more detailed tutorial of how I
do these so you can see me actually physically working with my hands in the
shop let me know because I'd definitely be able to do that one for you so tip
number a is there three finger copy and paste so this is another kind of swift
shortcut to copying things so let's get back to the Nath flower shall we so
we're in the flowers we're on the right layer and all I'm gonna do is swipe up
with three fingers on the screen and it will say cut copy copy or cut and paste
or copy and paste so in this situation I want to copy and paste and you'll see it
just kind of popped up and then now I have two copies of the naff flowers I
mean if you didn't like the flowers enough you've now got two copies of them
love it the penultimate tip is automatic
selection so if you've accidentally drawn your flowers in the same layer and
you want them all to be separate you can select them so this little ribbon up
here you click and I want this one to be moved along a little bit I want it
separate so it selects it you press the arrow tool and now I can move this free
rein or whatever I like play around with that but recently I discovered that
there's an automatic selection tool so if I click the ribbon again and go down
here there's an automatic button and I want to move this orange one I want to
make it a little bit bigger but I can't make that one bigger without making all
of them bigger because there on the same layer so I'm gonna click the
bits I want and it's highlighting it and I also want the outline and then
clicking the pen tool it's selected everything that I needed and I can
adjust and change that as I wish so for the final and my favorite tip which I
love doing is the time-lapse replay and this is something you can turn on in
procreate and it will be doing it in the background without you even realizing so
up here in the settings there's a little spanner icon if you click that you'll
see a bunch of different options if you go over to the video section you can see
time-lapse replay time lapse recording start live broadcast export time lapse
video so if you want your iPad to do this for you you need to have this
checked and because I've had this checked if I click this button it will
show me the time not to replay of me draw in this drawing let's press it
together so yeah if you want to see the process or you guys have seen these kind
of videos before of me showing you what I do this is how I do it and I can just
export this it just puts it all into one quick little video and you can see the
process of your work which i think is a really cool little feature so there I am
using this much tool and the Alpha lock tool and I'm kind of combining
everything I've just shown you in this little tips video to create these
drawings like I said at the beginning let me know if you'd like me to do a
more in-depth tutorial on how I draw these drawers in particular and let me
know if you've liked this video please do give it a thumbs up and subscribe to
my channel if you have enjoyed it and yeah I'll see you soon for another one