Beginner S Guide To Digital Painting In Procreate

Delve into the world of digital painting on an iPad with step-by-step tutorials, hints, and tips from professional artists.

Unleash the creative power of Procreate to bring characters to life on your iPad, from thumbnail designs to final pose.

While Photoshop and Procreate, which have always been trendy art mediums, are continuing to grow in popularity, undertaking digital art can be intimidating for many: fortunately, beloved artist Sara Tepes has used her self-taught knowledge and understanding of common struggles artists face to create the ultimate beginners’ handbook for Photoshop and Procreate. With step-by-step images that are easy for readers to follow, and through various in-depth projects covering the full spectrum from composition and lighting, painting hair and eyes, to skin tone and fabrics, readers—be they art novices or simply new to digital forms—will soon be amazed at how quickly their skills flourish. What is more, total beginners and artists looking to transition from traditional mediums will be given a comprehensive overview on brush types, sketching on the digital canvas and working with layers. Sara also includes a downloadable digital package of brushes and color palettes created specially for this book, so readers can easily follow along with her tutorials. With The Beginner’s Guide to Digital Painting readers will demystify the digital creation process, and gain the fundamental skills to take their art to dizzying heights.

Imagine, Design and Draw Your Own Characters! Draw With Jazza YouTube star Josiah Brooks breaks down an easy-to-follow method that will help you to invent and draw original characters time and time again. Whether sci-fi or steampunk, comic book heroines or tattooed action heroes, animal familiars or alien races, you will discover the limitless possibilities of creating your very own characters for comic books, cartoons, video games and more! No matter what your skill level, you can draw from concept to finished art with confidence. Jazza shows you how as he walks you through The Design Process! • Discover. Learn techniques just like the pros use for developing characters--their backstory, personality and physicality; decide your drawing style; and explore and organize your inspiration. • Design. Use brainstorm sketching to refine your character's persona. Use simplified lines and shapes to draw men and women, practice poses and play with body shapes, sizes, ages and outfits. • Develop. Refine your best ideas by choosing features, color schemes, settings and context to reflect your end goal. • Deliver. Finish your concept art with character turnarounds, expression sheets, pose variations and more to create a complete picture of your characters and their world.

Invaluable tutorials and insightful tips make Beginner's Guide to Fantasy Drawing a perfect start to a fantasy art journey.

The Beginner's Guide to Digital Painting series continues with the Beginner's Guide to Digital Painting in Photoshop: Sci-fi and Fantasy.

If you are a traditional media artist looking to try out the exciting digital medium, this is the definitive guide for you. As an artist primarily working in many traditional mediums, I faced a unique challenge. I always painted highly expressive paintings, and I wanted to bring the same expressiveness and spontaneity in my digital paintings. I did not want the typical ‘plasticky’ look for my digital paintings. In this book, you will not only learn the immense possibilities offered to us by digital painting software in general and Procreate in particular, but also to paint in a loose and expressive manner. The goal is to paint intriguing, catchy artworks that the viewers will love to watch again and again. Some of the tools and techniques you will learn in this book are as follows: -Methods I employ to paint expressively. -Why digital painting? What are the considerations while beginning with the digital painting process. -Color theory. -The concept of layers, using layers effectively in a digital painting. -How layers interact with each other, using masks and layer blending modes. -Procreate interface, menus, and the most used gestures. -Perspective concepts. Six step-by-step exercises: - Drawing a Simple ‘Pencil Sketch’ of a Tree - Using Layers for Painting Reflections in the Water - Painting an Old House with Trees with Realistic Textures - A Charming Village – Adding Depth to a Painting - Fun with Letters - Using Values and Curves to Paint a Charming Italian Town Start your journey towards the exciting digital art possibilities today!

Hand Lettering on the iPad with Procreate is the ultimate guide to every step of the digital hand lettering process. Using the versatile and intuitive iPad drawing and design app Procreate, author and noted lettering instructor Liz Brown composes a series of fun and easy lettering projects that will build confidence by giving all the necessary tools to create gorgeous compositions from the ground up. Each project comes with its own Procreate brush downloads so users can follow along to create their own unique hand lettered quotes, words, and phrases.

Featuring step-by-step lessons including:

-Finding inspiration with color palettes and letterforms for unique styles

-Using Procreate tools for creating and decorating letters

-Tips and tricks for adding textures, layers, shading, and depth to lettering projects

-Creative ideas for jazzing up space around letters

And much, much more! Whether you’re a beginner interested in learning a fun new skill, or an experienced letterer ready to start creating on your iPad, this book will give you everything you need to take the next step in your iPad hand lettering journey.