Hello! Here is an art process tutorial, for beginners out there who might be interested in learning how I make a drawing start to finish in order to better help art skills! I did make one of these art process tutorials a while back on one of my inactive accounts, and I figured I should make another one. 1. Sketch! In this one I tried doing a certain perspective effect, I think it turned out pretty good. 2. Lineart! Gosh, in this specific piece the lineart took me SO long, especially on the wings. But anyways, lineart is just a way to draw over your sketch to make it look cleaner. Always make sure to put the lineart layer OVER the sketch layer 3. Hide the sketch layer, look how clean and pretty! 4. This part is never talked about enough. ADD LINE WEIGHT! To me it honestly just makes a huge difference and makes the lineart pop out more, and it also makes it easier to color in between the lines. 5. Here are the brushes I use by the way. I use a nice textured brush for my lineart and other effects, and I use a solid brush for coloring, lighting and shading. As you can see I also made the background color different, because when I start coloring it will be easier to see if I go outside the lines or not. This is a really nice trick for when coloring light characters, as it is hard to see light colors against a white canvas. 6. Heres the reference for the character I'm drawing! For context, she is a celestial being in the form of a unicorn luck dragon thing? By the way, I still don't have a name for her yet, so I'm open to recommendations! 7. Create a layer under the lineart, and carefully color around the edges with your solid brush, using the "base" color of the design--in other words, I consider the base color the color that shows up most often in the design. 8. Color fill! Super fast and easy and it looks real nice and clean. 9. Add a new layer above the base color layer but below the lineart layer, and set it to clipping mask. This makes it so you don't color outside the base color layer, but on a completely new layer! This saves SO much time, trust me. 10. Here's me coloring in the secondary color on the clipping mask layer. Very nice. 11. Now basically you just want to put every color layer on clipping mask to the base color layer. 12. Here's me coloring in the tertiary color, and I added a new "extras" layer. 13. On the extras layer, I typically color anything that isn't a part of the fur that needs to be in the front. This usually includes eyes, paw pads, scales, eyeshadow, etc. 14. Finished product after coloring is complete! 15. Merge all color layers into the base color layer to stay organized. 16. Duplicate color layer and lineart layer, and merge them together. 17. Move combined color & lines layer to the very top. We'll save this for later. 18. Underneath the color layer, choose the base colors you want for the background. Here I picked some purply blues and added an ombre effect with an airbrush. Typically I always have a light source, so I make the ombre get lighter where the light source is going to be. 19. Now go back to the combined color & lines layer, set it to alpha lock, and fill the layer with the darkest color you used in the background. Then set it to multiply, and adjust the opacity to your liking. 20. Above that layer, create a new layer or two for lighting. Set that layer to add, and adjust the opacity to your liking. 21. Now, create a new layer and move it underneath the lineart layer and set it to multiply. You're also gonna want to enable the clipping mask again. This is gonna be where you do your detailed shading. 22. WOAHH SO PRETTYYY.. So basically for detailed shading, I block out areas in which I know for a fact the light wont hit. This is usually limbs in the back, upper half of the eyes, etc. Then I add shaded detail in all the fur tufts and stuff like that. Adjust opacity to your liking. 23. Now with the combined color & lines layer from before, erase with an airbrush where the light is going to hit. (SOFTLYY) 24. Now make another layer under the lineart, making sure its above our detailed shading layer. Set this one to add-- this is gonna be our detailed lighting layer. On this layer I highlight areas where the light does hit, with the lightest color in the background. Adjust opacity to your liking. Oh yeah, I also moved the combined color & lines layer to underneath the detailed shading. 25. Duplicate color layer and lineart layer again and merge them. Set it to alpha lock, and fill with the same color you used for detailed lighting. Erase with an airbrush where the light doesn't hit, and adjust the opacity to your liking. Make sure this layer is ABOVE the shaded one, but below the detailed shading/lighting layers! 26. Okay.. so, a lot has changed. But its not that complicated! All I did was put some detail to the background, above the bg base layer. I set all of them to add because there's stars, and well.. stars make light.
26 (part 2). Ran out of space! Anyways, If you're interested in the brush set I used for the space effects, it is the "Free Galaxy Brush Set for Procreate by Di" on Gumroad. 27. On top of the lighting layers at the very top, make a new layer and set to multiply. Airbrush where you want it to be dark. 28. Time to draw some stars by hand! I put this layer over the other background effect layers, and under the color layer. Set this layer to add (opacity 100%) and draw some stars! 29. Duplicate, select bottom duplicate. 30. Gaussian blur! This effect is one of my favorites. Adjust the blur to the point where it barely glows (mine is at 3%). 31. Gaussian blur top layer, making sure its less blurred than the bottom one. 32. If you want some glowy effects, make a layer at the VERY top and set to add at 100%. Oh right, also duplicate lineart and set to add and alpha lock. With an airbrush color where the light hits with your lighting color. Put that layer on top of your regular lineart. 33. You guessed it, gaussian blur. 34. Made some more glowy effects using the same method. 35. Make another combined color & lines layer and set it to overlay, using a color that is similar to the background. Adjust the opacity to your liking. Put this layer above the lineart layer. 36. Thought we were finished? Nope. Save the file and create a new canvas, inserting the file into that canvas. That way every layer is combined into one. 37. Gaussian blur in areas that may not be the main focus. **USE THE PENCIL OPTION AND USE AN AIRBRUSH** 38. Same thing but with motion blur 39. Chromatic aberration, set to displace. Very slightly adjust it to your liking. Don't go too crazy. 40. Duplicate layer 41. Set noise effect to maximum 42. Set the noise layer to overlay, lower opacity to the point where you can just barely see it. 43. Add signature under the noise layer! I set it to add and lowered the opacity a lot, so it doesn't stand out too much. 44. Finished product! Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy! Feel free to remix or send me creations where you used this tutorial. Also, I’m currently sick so I might not be able to post anything else until the weekend, I’m likely gonna be drained all week Art & Character owned and made by me. Drawn in Procreate on iPad Pro w/ Apple Pencil. Music: Floods (outro) by Pantera, Tommy Rees cover