Create Texture with Pencil Brushes in Procreate

1. Create a New Doc in Procreate

Step 1

Open Procreate and click on on the + signal within the top-right nook. A brand new menu will pop up the place you may select your canvas dimension. Look once more within the top-right nook of the pop-up menu—proper underneath the large + signal is the small + signal, so click on on it.

Step 2

It’s going to open a brand new window known as Customized Canvas. Within the Dimensions part, you may identify your canvas and enter the Width and Top. Be sure that your DPI is 300. Click on Create, and a brand new doc can be opened.

2. Create a Sketch Utilizing a Sketching Brush in Procreate

Step 1

We are going to create two sketches utilizing the most effective sketching brushes for Procreate!

First, you wish to create a tough sketch, the place you wish to determine the location of your illustration (the place the badger will sit, the place the desk and timber are positioned, and so on.). It doesn’t must be detailed. Use the Delicate Pencil Small brush from the Procreate Pencil Brushes set. The set has good Procreate brushes for sketching. This pencil brush for Procreate has an incredible texture that completely works for sketching: if you draw by urgent frivolously, it’s going to end up much less opaque, and if you press extra, it’s going to develop a darker colour and texture. 

To recollect what badgers seem like, be happy to browse Envato Components. Should you scroll down, you may even take heed to the sounds that badgers make!

Step 2

Now create an in depth sketch, the place you draw out all of the small components. 

First, decrease the opacity of this tough sketch layer, as a result of you’ll create your detailed sketch over the tough one and can nonetheless want to have the ability to see it. Open the Layers panel and click on on the capital N on the appropriate aspect. Within the pop-up menu, drag the Opacity slider to the left, at round 20%. 

Step 3

Subsequent, create a brand new layer to your detailed sketch. Use the identical Delicate Pencil Small brush from Procreate Pencil Brushes.

3. Choose Colours for Your Illustration

Step 1

After you’ve got completed your detailed sketch, you may delete the layer with the tough sketch. Open the Layers panel, be sure you have the tough sketch layer chosen, and swipe it to the left. Click on Delete.

Now, you wish to decrease the Opacity of the detailed sketch layer. Once more, open the Layers panel and click on on the capital N on the appropriate aspect. Within the pop-up menu, drag the Opacity slider to the left, round 20%. 

Step 2

After that, you need to determine what colour the background can be, even earlier than the colours of the entire illustration. We’re nonetheless on the Layers panel. Look down on the Background colour layer and click on on it. Select a light-weight inexperienced colour of your alternative and press Executed.

Step 3

Now for the enjoyable and necessary half: selecting the colours. Ensure you are on a separate layer, ideally between your Background colour layer and your detailed sketch layer. Take any brush, decide a colour, after which apply it to the chosen object. You don’t want to paint them properly—later you’ll draw a pleasant form for every of them.

There may be one trick right here: if the background is, like ours, mild inexperienced, then the colours that match can be a darkish inexperienced and a light-weight one, nearly white. In case your background is, for instance, mild yellow, a pleasant mixture of colours could be a darkish yellow and a really mild one, nearly white, and so forth. 

Going additional, in case your predominant colour is inexperienced, it connects properly with crimson and its tone variations (one other saturation or brightness).

Mess around with it! To maintain issues easy, I’ll assume later on this tutorial that you simply selected related colours to mine.

4. Draw the Illustration Utilizing a Pencil Brush in Procreate

Step 1

Draw your illustration as you’ll usually draw utilizing actual coloring pencils, stroke by stroke. For every bit of your illustration, draw a primary texture, then add a brand new texture over it, and infrequently add much more texture. You’ll determine the way it works later.

Take the Pencil 1 sketching brush from the Primary Pencil Procreate Brushes set. I used Procreate graphite brushes on this step. The comb dimension was too small to paint in all the weather, and on this case, it might take a really very long time. You should utilize a bit of trick right here: choose this brush and click on on it another time. The brand new Brush Studio window can be opened. Scroll down the left panel to seek out the Properties. Look to the appropriate to seek out Brush conduct > Most dimension. Transfer the slider to round 300%. Then press Executed. That is a simple technique to edit in Procreate your graphite brushes. 

Step 2

Create a brand new layer the place you’ll draw the badger’s head, ideally underneath the detailed sketch layer. Choose a light-weight yellow colour and begin to colour within the drawing utilizing the Pencil 1 brush from Primary Pencil Procreate Brushes.

Select one other brush, known as the Pencil Cage from Procreate Pencil Brushes, and make your colour a bit of lighter. Draw over it so as to add extra texture. By layering one texture over one other, you may obtain an attention-grabbing end result. In case your brush dimension is simply too huge, be happy to erase any strokes that go outdoors of the badger’s head.

Step 3

Utilizing the identical technique of layering texture over texture, draw the black components of your badger’s head and arms. First, create a brand new layer for it. Then take the Pencil 1 brush from Primary Pencil Procreate Brushes, select a darkish grey colour, and draw the black components. Don’t press too arduous. 

Subsequent, change your colour to an excellent darker grey, and alter your brush to the Pencil Cage from Procreate Pencil Brushes. Selected a big brush dimension, and add a brand new texture over it. The large dimension of the comb will go behind the darkish grey spot, and that’s why you want a separate layer for it. You possibly can simply erase the surplus.

In case you are pleased with how every part appears thus far, merge the 2 layers by pinching them collectively on the Layers panel utilizing two fingers. Now you’ve the badger’s head (mild and darkish components) on one layer. It’s best to have three layers: Background colour, detailed sketch, and badger’s head and paws.

Lastly, return to the Pencil 1 brush from Primary Pencil Procreate Brushes, make the colour black, and add the nostril.

Step 4

Now let’s draw the badger’s fur. To make the method fast, you want the wonderful Frequent Thorns Pencil brush from Procreate Pencil Brushes. It means that you can create a fur texture in a single stroke. Take this brush and create an overview across the head, utilizing white.

First, it’s essential to modify your brush dimension. Then decide black and draw black fur like within the picture under. Don’t neglect so as to add white fur on high of the badger’s ears. 

Utilizing black as soon as once more, add the eyes, however change the comb to the Pencil 1 brush from Primary Pencil Procreate Brushes.

Step 5

Let’s draw the badger’s shirt. Use the beige colour and the Pencil 1 brush from Primary Pencil Procreate Brushes. Once in a while, swap your sketch layer on and off to see how the sides of the objects look. To take action, you need to tick it on and off on the Layers panel.

After that, we wish to add extra texture to the shirt. Select a darker colour, the Pencil 21 brush from Primary Pencil Procreate Brushes, and canopy the shirt once more. Press frivolously, however not too mild, so that each one the textures stay seen. 

Draw the vest with the identical technique. Select a reddish-brown colour, take the Pencil 1 brush from Primary Pencil Procreate Brushes, and colour within the vest. 

Make the colour darker, change your brush to the Pencil 23 brush from Primary Pencil Procreate Brushes, and draw a brand new texture over it. Simply take a look at this wonderful texture!

Step 6

Subsequent, let’s draw the teapot and the teacup. As these objects are small and the feel gained’t be very seen, we are able to use simply the Pencil 1 brush from Primary Pencil Procreate Brushes. Select mild and darkish pink for them, and brown for the tea.

Step 7

Let’s proceed with all the weather of the desk.

Maintain the  Pencil 1 brush from Primary Pencil Procreate Brushes and draw the cake, the cake slice, cookies, and strawberries, all in numerous colours. Then take the Pencil 23 brush Primary Pencil Procreate Brushes and add an additional texture to the cake and the cookies’ surfaces.

Now we wish to draw some cherries and a ladybug. Simply use the Pencil 1 from Primary Pencil Procreate Brushes because the objects are very small, and an additional texture gained’t be seen. Should you draw the cherries and might nonetheless see the background colour by them, colour the berries once more with a darker crimson. Press frivolously.

Create a brand new layer underneath the cake, cookies, and berries. Maintain the Pencil 1 brush from Primary Pencil Procreate Brushes and be sure you have a light-weight yellow colour. Draw the plates and the fork.

Step 8

Let’s transfer on to the chair and tablecloth. Create a brand new layer for it, underneath the plates and fork. Maintain the Pencil 1 brush from Primary Pencil Procreate Brushes and select an off-white. Draw the tablecloth.

Change your brush to Pencil 16 from Primary Pencil Procreate Brushes, make the colour lighter, and be sure that your brush dimension is huge. Cowl the tablecloth with this texture. Don’t fear in case your brush covers extra than simply the tablecloth as in a while you may erase any strokes that go outdoors the strains.

Step 9

On this step we’ll deal with the flowers and butterflies on the again.

Change your colour to inexperienced—it must be darker than the background colour. Utilizing the Medium-Exhausting Grain Pencil brush from Procreate Pencil Brushes, draw the stalks. Utilizing the Pencil 1 brush from Primary Pencil Procreate Brushes, draw the leaves of the flowers. 

Take an analogous colour to the one that you simply used for the tablecloth, and use the Pencil 1 brush from Primary Pencil Procreate Brushes to attract the higher components of the flowers.

Now we wish to refine our flowers and provides them extra depth. Take the Pencil 10 brush from Primary Pencil Procreate Brushes and a light-weight pink colour. Draw over the flowers as within the image under. Change the colour to white, preserve the identical brush, and canopy the highest of the flowers as within the picture under. 

After that, be sure you have a barely darker inexperienced than the leaves, take the Medium-Exhausting Grain Pencil brush from Procreate Pencil Brushes, and draw little veins on the leaves. Should you see that the background remains to be seen by the leaves, you may add this darker inexperienced to the leaves. Press frivolously, simply right here and there.

Maintain the Medium-Exhausting Grain Pencil brush from Procreate Pencil Brushes and draw butterflies and the stamens on the flowers.

Step 10

Now transfer on to the timber. Create a brand new layer for them on high of every part, however nonetheless beneath the sketch layer.

The Primary Pencil Procreate Brushes set has an incredible brush known as Pencil 21, and we’ll use it to attract our timber and bushes. Select the darkish inexperienced colour and draw swirls on high of the illustration and on the underside, the place the bushes are. They play the position of foliage.

Proper after that, we have to draw branches. Take the Pencil 1 brush from Primary Pencil Procreate Brushes and draw the branches in brown. Change the brown to a barely darker variation and the comb to the Pencil 10 brush from Primary Pencil Procreate Brushes, and add some darker components on the branches to offer them extra depth. 

Change your brush once more to Pencil 21 from Primary Pencil Procreate Brushes, make the inexperienced colour lighter, and draw extra swirls on the highest and backside of the illustration.

Maintain the Pencil 21 brush, and reduce the comb dimension. Make your inexperienced colour even lighter, and create these little swirls to point out the entrance foliage.

Step 11

Right here I made a decision so as to add some particular person leaves. Utilizing two brightness variations of your inexperienced and the Medium-Exhausting Grain Pencil brush from Procreate Pencil Brushes, draw sharp-edged ellipses in your foliage. Utilizing the identical Medium-Exhausting Grain Pencil brush, proceed to attract pink blossoms on the timber:  

Use the identical course of with the brushes. Remember so as to add the berries!

Step 12

Bear in mind the Frequent Thorns Pencil brush from Procreate Pencil Brushes, which we used to attract the badger’s fur? Make it larger, select a inexperienced that is darker than the background, and draw the grass. You simply must make just a few strokes, and this wonderful brush will draw the grass for you.

Step 13

So as to add a last contact to our illustration, we have to create clear edges for every object. Change off the layer with the sketch. Take the Procreate sketch brush Medium-Exhausting Grain Pencil from Procreate Pencil Brushes, use a small brush dimension, and create mild outlines for every part. I even added buttons to the badger’s vest.

Don’t restrict your self to simply outlines; you may add some dots or tiny curves. The sketching Procreate brushes are good for this course of. 

Have a look at the distinction within the picture under, with out and with clear edges (Have a look at the sleeves and cookies, the place the impact is extra seen):

5. Add Paper Texture in Procreate

Including a paper texture in Procreate would be the last contact. Take the Watercolor Paper 8 brush from Procreate watercolor cotton paper, use the largest dimension, and select black. Create a brand new layer the place you’ll draw a paper texture. Utilizing your Watercolor Paper 8 brush, cowl your entire canvas with this brush. Don’t carry it up as a result of you’re going to get a unique opacity of the comb.

After that, change this layer’s Opacity from Regular to Colour Burn. That is it!

Bear in mind the satan is within the particulars. Including a paper texture in Procreate to our paintings will assist it seem like conventional artwork. 

You Did It! Now You Know Add Pencil Textures in Procreate

Should you’re studying this, you are in all probability accomplished with the illustration. Or possibly you scrolled down simply to see the method? Should you discover it difficult and need extra of a proof, simply inform me! In case you are completed, I congratulate you! Inform me on the discussion board the way it was for you, and share the outcomes.

Fashionable Procreate Pencil Brushes From Envato Components

Are you aware how one can have limitless entry to Procreate pencil brushes like these? You possibly can subscribe to the Envato Components library and at all times have the enjoyment of attempting a brand new pencil brush for Procreate. In case you are all for attempting them out, listed here are a few of the greatest sketching brushes for Procreate:

1. Primary Procreate Pencil Brushes (Brushset)

Right here I’ve linked a few of my private favourite brushes that I additionally used within the tutorial! They provide all kinds of hatching and texture brushes. These are in all probability the most effective sketching brushes for Procreate that you will discover on Envato Components. 

2. Procreate Pencil Brushes (Brushset)

This set has these wonderful brushes that make it in order that if you draw one stroke, you get many strokes. Procreate Pencil Brushes is an ideal approach so as to add texture to your illustration.

3. Procreate Texture: Watercolor Cotton Paper (Brushset)

Should you miss actual paper if you find yourself drawing digitally, this Procreate texture is your resolution. Obtain it and get a helpful watercolor paper texture. I extremely advocate it to you all!

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