hello good morning how are you doing hope
you're having a good day so in today's studio vlog firstly i have
my regular admin things to do but then
i've blocked out the rest of the day to attempt
to learn something new so i've actually had a lot of you guys
ask me about how to draw beards on procreate and to be honest
i haven't really done it i've tactically avoided it and when i have done it
i probably didn't do it very well but it's been a while since i've actually
drawn any people on procreate so i thought rather than
attempting to call this a tutorial because it's not gonna be
i'm learning like you are i'm gonna give it a go
i'm gonna watch some videos maybe download some new brushes and we're
gonna have a go on procreate but we can't do that until i have
completed my admin for the day so i'm gonna do that quickly
and then we will get to creating i'm kind of nervous
i am so done with staring at a screen it's been a lot of days of me just like
working hard on screen things although the irony is is it ironic or is
it stupid that i'm gonna be staring at a screen
but at least i'm drawing rather than like doing boring admin stuff
it's a screen it's just a different kind of screen you get me
i do have the ipad pro but it is the older version and it is the larger
version so it's the 12.9 inch i feel like that's the measurement
and it's the one that still has the button on the bottom
not gonna lie i have been eyeing up the new ones for a while but
so far i've managed to resist because i don't think it's really justifiable
because this one works absolutely fine there's literally
nothing wrong with it i'm just getting even more of the apple bug
and i want the new pen and i want just new things
so yeah apple branding have got me like hook line and thinker
we're going to attempt to draw some beards
i guess we'll do this together let's see how this goes
i like i said i avoid drawing beards at all costs
i'm really bad at drawing hair and i did find it quite funny that a lot of you
asked me how to do that and i was like i need to learn myself first so let's go
to trusty youtube i'm gonna search drawing stubble in
procreate i had a quick look yesterday and i feel like there's actually not
many tutorials for it so it makes sense
that you guys wanted me to uh help you out or
attempt to so i think i'm gonna download some brushes
watch a few tutorials and then we will sort of have a go if you are
watching this and you are a pro at drawing hair
let me know because it will be very much appreciated i need all the help i can
get at this point
okay i've spent some time looking at some tutorials
and the general consensus is that i need to get some good brushes
and i need to take my time and lower the opacity
so what i've done is downloaded a couple of stock photos
and i guess i'll show you the screen recording of me
drawing the cartoon up until i get to the beard bit and then we'll try and do
the beard bit together if you do want a tutorial on how i do my
cartoony portrait things in the style that i'm about to draw in
i do have a video for that and i will leave the link
to it in the description i think i've done like maybe two of them
one was in more detail and one was just like a chill draw with me so
yeah you might find that useful but i'm just
gonna screen record my ipad so you can see what i'm up to
and we will get to creating this bearded man also the names
for the stock photos were really fun it was like
handsome man with strong beard and it was like
witty young man with stubble and i was like yes that's the kind of man i need
in my life
all right so i've done the basic solid lines i've sort of made the
hair a solid line and then i've left off the beard if i
just turn off the layer of the photo you can kind of
see i've left the beard area so i think what i'm going to do first
i've made a new layer at the top and i'm going to just sketch
out roughly the shape of the beard so then when i
try out the brushes i can give it a go guess we'll see although this guy looks
very angry at the world so yeah right let's carry on let's see how
this goes
all right so i've done the rough sketch with the pencil so that i could turn the
thing off again i can kind of see where i need to do the hairs
i think it's about layering so let's have a look at these brushes
so i have the brushes in here i got these from
envato by the way and there's like soft shader ones which
i think i'll need to use later on oh five o'clock shadow this guy
definitely doesn't have a shadow what does this do oh okay cool to add a bit
of shadow it's an interesting brush then there's
stubble which i think i'll end up doing like up
here what does this one do the harder i press the bigger it gets
cool then what else beardier i'm enjoying these names okay so you can
see like actual physical little hairs sort of for that
one see what i mean then beard fluff
oh it's like a really fuzzy beard you'd like build that up i guess
fully fuzzy so this is lots of beard fuzz so i feel like this beard is gonna
need lots of beard photos like that so i am gonna give this a go
i guess we'll just build up the layers i think to begin with obviously i need a
new layer and then i'm thinking possibly
shading it first because in that brush set there was some brushes that
let me shade it so soft shader you know just to get the basic
color down so maybe we go with like blacky brown so let's just shade in the
bits that are like definitely there's no skin color coming
through at all i don't know how i'm going to
neaten up the edges maybe i should dump in a clipping mask
oh well like that and then mustache just the bits that are like definitely
no skin involved like down here i feel like i'm
doing this wrong already wow such a masterpiece i'm going
to turn that layer off i don't think i'm doing it the right way
maybe let me duplicate the layer of the image i'm gonna just resize it and i'm
gonna put it next to the drawing so i can use it as reference
and then like it's not all in the way let's just
get rid of you okay so now i have reference photo next to
my shocking drawing oh i need to do his eyebrows as well looks like an alien
okay i'm gonna give it a go with these brushes i think
maybe start with the five o'clock shadow and like work my way up
let's see how this goes
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i'm determined to master these beards
oh my god i don't even know how long i've been trying to do
this drawing ugh i'm gonna insert what it looks like
currently on screen and you can see i feel like i
might fiddle with it a little bit more but i
just i don't think beard's my forte you know
i don't think i'm going to be volunteering to draw beards anytime soon
that was a lot harder than i thought it was going to be i'm glad i sort of
challenged myself because to be honest if you guys hadn't have asked i would
have just continually avoided it which is obviously not good i
need to learn i need to practice so yeah thanks for challenging me i guess
maybe you learned something from this video
i feel like i tried we'll see how it goes
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