I returned my new surface pro to try the ipad pro because your videos sold me on it. I have to say, I don't regret it one bit, I absolutely love drawing with the apple pencil.
I found the color threshold by accident. My daughter had somehow fiddled with the setting and things were not filling properly anymore so I had to look into fixing it.
This has to be by far one of the best video tutorials I have seen on colouring in procreate. You explained everything in such a clear and concise way. You've really helped me out so much, thank you!!
Good video. I have a different add gradient to the hair. If you selected the layer, (in this case the foreground color layer) using select from the layer menu, when you stamp the gradient down you would not need to use the eraser around the hair. It will only stamp in the selected area. I do this all the time now. I often use select, and make a new layer. Good for highlights and shadows too etc.
I so needed this tutorial! I was flatting each and every shape and coloring it. Dang it was so tedious! I never knew about 'reference' option in procreate. Thanks a lot for for the tips. Helped me a ton!
I just learned the "alpha lock"-concept from this video! The world makes so much more sense now, thank you! (Using it on MyPaint on Linux, that programm has the feature, too)
I love your channel sooooo much! Jusy bought myself a ipad pro for uni and thats mainly because i felt like i was so educated in procreate because of your videos thankyou so much
You're videos are so helpful! I am still semi-new to digital drawing as I use a Wacom tablet on my PC, however I wanted an All-In-One and you sold me on the iPad and now seeing how Procreate works...oh man tomorrow I am going to Apple and getting myself the 9.7" iPad and Apple Pencil. Keep up the amazing work!
You know? At first I didn’t really like your videos but recently I started watching them more cause I ordered an iPad and I was interested in a lot of info and I sorta got used to you and now I really enjoy your content. Thanks for all of it.
Why oh why didn't I watch this as soon as I started using Procreate?! I had no idea how to save colors so I wrote down their values....now that a pain it the.....and so time consuming. So thanks for this tutorial.
Man! Thanks a lot I got this awesome app for school but I couldn’t find a proper tutorial vid to learn from. This was very helpful for my character design class. Thanks so much!
The color fill adjustment thing is such a cool feature, it's the kind of useful stuff I've been wanting in digital art for years! PS seems so anti UX and oldschool in comparison to this next gen imo
Man, ive been watching your vids lately..and it inspired me to go back to drawing..been busy with my accounting profession but i think its time to go back to my passion. Thanks man!
That was really good video. I didn't even know the reference tool was there. My mind is blown. When I use alpha lock on a layer, I tend to tap the alpha layer and choose the fill layer. :) Thanks again dude.
That was an amazing tutorial! Thank you so much for making that video. I have just started using Procreate with my apple pencil the last 3 weeks, and you have taught me everything I know!! I appreciate you taking the time to do this.
If you wanna do gradients, you can have color strips side by side with no space in between and then Gaussian blur them if u have them on the same layer and u get a smooth gradient
The reference layer is awsome! wish there was clipping mask layer though :P I wasn't sure I could use iPad professionally(pricey!!) but your tutorials and reviews gave me some hope to invest in myself!
Brad, thanks so much for your tutorials. They are fun too watch and very useful. I did the Udemy course and i think you are one of the better teachers;-) Thanks for the brushes tip! Keep up the good work, your work makes me a better artist;-)
Hi Brad. I just watched your udem vid tutorial and I love it from the very first second! Great to get into all those Details! Realy worth the little buks! Ipad realy changed the game of digital artwork has to be like! Thanks! And keep on!
Personally, I prefer Autodesk Sketchbook's way of doing gradients, since it allows for more customisation, but I can really understand why you like Procreate's way of doing things, since I will concede that it is much simpler.
Awesome tutorial, learned a lot from this! :) When erasing the parts of your gradient that were outside the shapes, is there any reason you erased manually instead of using a clipping mask?
Wow fantastic tips and walk through, these are the kind of videos I have been really wanting to find! definitely a new subscriber I learned quite a lot, going to go binge some of your vlogs =D!
Thank you so much for these!! This they will help tremendously in my work!!!! I don’t know how to pay you back, so I at least subscribed and hit a like!
Try to hit "select" on the layer, that You want to be your highlight or gradient or whatever. Then go to a new layer and You can work only in this selection (clearit, add color, paint in it) ... You don't have to manually erase whats outside... I hope You will understand what I mean. It's a bit difficult, because I'm not native to english language.
super usefull tips! thanks for sharing! I'm especially happy to now understand the refference layer! It's going to save me alot of time rather than jumping in between layers and using automatic select on ink layer. quick question.. whats the difference between alpha locking your lines layer instead of just using "select" on it before recoloring the lines?
Select (if you mean the automatic version) only takes a certain amount of the lines. The amount varies depending on the threshold you use and on how much the lines stick together. That can work, if you manage to select 100% of the lines' area. With alphalock you can be sure to have 100% "selected". Plus it's much faster.
Oh - the selection method has one advantage - as I can see: When you use it for example on the "foreground colors" layer, you can select - for example - only the skin color. Once you have the selection, your added gradient wouldn't have to be trimmed into shape with the eraser.
I just got an iPad Pro and procreate and am interested in your udemy course. Will you be updating it when procreate 4.0 comes out? (Prob tomorrow) Thanks in advance!
Brad there is a Procreate tool that will save you hours of time !!' It's a lasso tool, that lets you select and outline an area, Then when you are highlighting or colouring the area, it will not allow any colour to appear outside that area, You could have used it when colouring the guys Hair with the fading orange, (and then you would not have had to erase the extra orange that went outside the lines ) This tool saves HOURS of erasing afterward :)!!!!!!!!!! :)
I thought about putting that in there, for this tutorial I thought it added extra steps i would explain in this video even though it's faster than erasing manually.
That makes sense!! :) The lasso tool also works in reverse, (it can lasso an outline in the middle of the page and will only allow shading/ highlighting outside that outline) as well as the other option of within the outline chosen :) It would have saved me HOURS of unnecessary erasing had I known about the lasso tool :) Also: :) I heard of the idea of copying the blank ink outline layer and putting this also down on top of the final layers too ;) (as this saves unnecessary erasing from highlighting shadows / brightness also :)
Brad, I know this is an old video, but I am interested in the Procreate brushes and the link does not work. Any assistance would be apprecieated. Sincerely, Aarin H.
really informative video... lol @ the initial title. Great job once again sir !! do you plan on reviewing the new tab s3 and galaxy books whenever they come out ?
If you are going to create so many layers to facilitate the gradients, why not just flat your colors and use them to create alpha lock or selection layer masks so you don't have to erase away the non-gradient areas?
A Procreate thing? I'm pretty sure I'm using the same Procreate app so I'm not sure what you're talking about 🤔 He's already made color breakdowns on his character on a separate layer. All you have to do is set the gradient where you want it like he did, choose your character color breakdown layer, go to Selection mode, select automatic, touch/threshold the shape you want to select, invert it, go back to the gradient layer and then choose Cut and it will clear all the excess color outside the shape you want filled with the gradient without having to spend all that time erasing it away. I know that sounds complicated but it's really quick when you're doing it and a lot faster than having to erase the excess away every time. Or you can just use the reference layer to put all of your different colors on separate layers (a process called "flatting"- the same thing he did except putting each color on its own layer) then selecting the layer content, inverting it in Selection mode as explained above, going to the layer with the gradient you've set, and then choosing Cut to clear it away. Again, no tedious and time consuming erasing away the excess.
It's no more accurate and far more time-consuming than what I described above-I've done it both ways. There are times when you have to do it the more time consuming way, but it's always best to find shortcuts when you can.
Greetings from Ohio! Love the channel and tutorials. I realize this one is kind of old, but wouldn't it have made more sense to color the hair with an alpha locked channel or first select the hair shape so that there's no need to erase (and potentially leave marks behind)?
I returned my new surface pro to try the ipad pro because your videos sold me on it. I have to say, I don't regret it one bit, I absolutely love drawing with the apple pencil.
7:00 - I can't believe I didn't know about color drop threshold! SUPER handy!
I found the color threshold by accident. My daughter had somehow fiddled with the setting and things were not filling properly anymore so I had to look into fixing it.
the reference layer and alpha lock changes my whole procreate experience! Thanks for the tutorial
There is a god! I have been looking for someone online who teaches as well as you do! I shall sign up for this course straightaway! Love ❤️ it!
When you re-color the lines you can also just put alpha lock on and click "fill layer"
This was probably the most helpful video on Procreate I've seen yet,! So thank you !
That's what the reference layer is for!!! So useful!
Just got my first iPad and drawing app. This is my first video tutorial I found and I don't need to look any further! Thank you for the help
This has to be by far one of the best video tutorials I have seen on colouring in procreate. You explained everything in such a clear and concise way. You've really helped me out so much, thank you!!
This tutorial is the reason I could finally paint properly ✨ I can't express in words on how thankful I'm for this tutorial. Wishing you grace!
i had to pause in the middle of this vid just to thank you because a couple things i genuinely had problems with and youve saved me so much time!
Good video.
I have a different add gradient to the hair. If you selected the layer, (in this case the foreground color layer) using select from the layer menu, when you stamp the gradient down you would not need to use the eraser around the hair. It will only stamp in the selected area.
I do this all the time now. I often use select, and make a new layer. Good for highlights and shadows too etc.
Yup. That. Or alpha lock, or reference layer etc
When you say stamp down, what do you mean? What are the steps?
I so needed this tutorial! I was flatting each and every shape and coloring it. Dang it was so tedious! I never knew about 'reference' option in procreate. Thanks a lot for for the tips. Helped me a ton!
You're a lifesaver. Gonna get me that turorial bc I needs it.
I just learned the "alpha lock"-concept from this video! The world makes so much more sense now, thank you! (Using it on MyPaint on Linux, that programm has the feature, too)
I love your channel sooooo much! Jusy bought myself a ipad pro for uni and thats mainly because i felt like i was so educated in procreate because of your videos thankyou so much
You're videos are so helpful! I am still semi-new to digital drawing as I use a Wacom tablet on my PC, however I wanted an All-In-One and you sold me on the iPad and now seeing how Procreate works...oh man tomorrow I am going to Apple and getting myself the 9.7" iPad and Apple Pencil. Keep up the amazing work!
This is hands down one of the best tutorials I've ever seen...Procreate or otherwise. You're an artistic genius my friend :).
You know? At first I didn’t really like your videos but recently I started watching them more cause I ordered an iPad and I was interested in a lot of info and I sorta got used to you and now I really enjoy your content. Thanks for all of it.
Why oh why didn't I watch this as soon as I started using Procreate?! I had no idea how to save colors so I wrote down their values....now that a pain it the.....and so time consuming. So thanks for this tutorial.
Man! Thanks a lot I got this awesome app for school but I couldn’t find a proper tutorial vid to learn from. This was very helpful for my character design class. Thanks so much!
The color fill adjustment thing is such a cool feature, it's the kind of useful stuff I've been wanting in digital art for years! PS seems so anti UX and oldschool in comparison to this next gen imo
Man, ive been watching your vids lately..and it inspired me to go back to drawing..been busy with my accounting profession but i think its time to go back to my passion. Thanks man!
Dear Brad... thank you very much. I learned a lot. Reference layer was new... greetings from Germany.
I dont use the same program but this is a great tutorial to go back to when trying to remember how to color line work.
Best video on Procreate features I’ve seen yet! Tons of new useful tricks I need to try out now.
That was really good video. I didn't even know the reference tool was there. My mind is blown.
When I use alpha lock on a layer, I tend to tap the alpha layer and choose the fill layer. :)
Thanks again dude.
Your tutorials have been extremely helpful for a new user like myself and I really dig your style. Keep up the great work and the videos coming.
That was an amazing tutorial! Thank you so much for making that video. I have just started using Procreate with my apple pencil the last 3 weeks, and you have taught me everything I know!! I appreciate you taking the time to do this.
Omfg THANK YOU!! That thing with the reference layer is going to save me sooooooo much time holy shit!
Omgosh thank you! I am always going through my pictures making sure every little line is connected, but ha no more!
If you wanna do gradients, you can have color strips side by side with no space in between and then Gaussian blur them if u have them on the same layer and u get a smooth gradient
Loved this tutorial but the link to the gradient brushes is broken.
You are the MAN!!! Exactly the coloring tutorial I needed. Many thanks! 💯
Thank you for a terrific tute. I love Procreate - good to watch some pro-tips
I was already sold on getting the Surface Pro 4 (Watched your iPad x Surface Pro 4 comparison) but now you're making me change my mind again. Hahaha!
This is the most informative procreate video I’ve ever watched it was a lot of help thank you sooo much
This video made me be a subscriber! Love it! I love videos that teach me about procreate for drawing, painting, writing etc!!! Great info!
I love the colors you chose
The reference layer is awsome! wish there was clipping mask layer though :P I wasn't sure I could use iPad professionally(pricey!!) but your tutorials and reviews gave me some hope to invest in myself!
Great tutorial Brad. Very clear instructions!
Brad, thanks so much for your tutorials. They are fun too watch and very useful. I did the Udemy course and i think you are one of the better teachers;-)
Thanks for the brushes tip! Keep up the good work, your work makes me a better artist;-)
Thanks! I really appreciate hearing that.
Awesome dude.. Before i avoid using procreate. Looking at ur tutorial make many things clear..
Hi Brad.
I just watched your udem vid tutorial and I love it from the very first second! Great to get into all those Details! Realy worth the little buks! Ipad realy changed the game of digital artwork has to be like!
Thanks! And keep on!
Thanks for the tutorial. I really enjoyed. And thanks for the brushes they’re very helpful. 👍🏻
Thank you so much! Will use this advice forever! Also I lol’d because the teacher looks Just like my dad too!
I loved his procreate course. It really thought me a lot. 👌
Personally, I prefer Autodesk Sketchbook's way of doing gradients, since it allows for more customisation, but I can really understand why you like Procreate's way of doing things, since I will concede that it is much simpler.
This is super helpful thanks!
Thank you, I have learned a lot with your video :)
Awesome tutorial, learned a lot from this! :) When erasing the parts of your gradient that were outside the shapes, is there any reason you erased manually instead of using a clipping mask?
Nice video Brad 👍😉 i would love to see some more procreate tutorials
Great tutorial, glad I found your channel
you're one of my favorite youtubers
Super useful - thank you ... and thank you to all the useful comments too :)
Thank you, not only full of information but also hilariously narated :D
Wow fantastic tips and walk through, these are the kind of videos I have been really wanting to find! definitely a new subscriber I learned quite a lot, going to go binge some of your vlogs =D!
Best tips ever, best vídeo about procreate
extremely helpful tutorial. Thanks!
Thank you so much for these!! This they will help tremendously in my work!!!! I don’t know how to pay you back, so I at least subscribed and hit a like!
Great Video Brad, next time could you get into using the selling tool for masking areas you want to apply gradients?
Apple Pen on order! Awesome lessons!!
I really like your style Brad, nice video too :)
Love it...learning so much
This was super helpful thank you so much!
Try to hit "select" on the layer, that You want to be your highlight or gradient or whatever. Then go to a new layer and You can work only in this selection (clearit, add color, paint in it) ... You don't have to manually erase whats outside... I hope You will understand what I mean. It's a bit difficult, because I'm not native to english language.
Ahhhhhh so the reference layer is like Parenting in Adobe After Effects. Neat. They should allow to have more layers as references to make it better.
THANK YOU for this tutorial, it helped me *so* much :)
Such a dopd tutorial. Learned alot
Thanks Brad, I learned somethings there. God bless
Have you ever thought about doing a video on "Traditional" drawings/comics.
Superb lesson - thank you
This was so helpful, Thank you!
Thank you so much. This was extremely helpful :D
Its cool, man! You always inspire
This is great video. Thank you so much.
super usefull tips! thanks for sharing! I'm especially happy to now understand the refference layer! It's going to save me alot of time rather than jumping in between layers and using automatic select on ink layer.
quick question.. whats the difference between alpha locking your lines layer instead of just using "select" on it before recoloring the lines?
Select (if you mean the automatic version) only takes a certain amount of the lines. The amount varies depending on the threshold you use and on how much the lines stick together. That can work, if you manage to select 100% of the lines' area. With alphalock you can be sure to have 100% "selected". Plus it's much faster.
Oh - the selection method has one advantage - as I can see:
When you use it for example on the "foreground colors" layer, you can select - for example - only the skin color. Once you have the selection, your added gradient wouldn't have to be trimmed into shape with the eraser.
nice work Brad! thanks for an awesome tut :+1
Thanks bro! Love the video
Thank you so much 😱 so useful 🤩💗
I just got an iPad Pro and procreate and am interested in your udemy course. Will you be updating it when procreate 4.0 comes out? (Prob tomorrow) Thanks in advance!
Brad there is a Procreate tool that will save you hours of time !!'
It's a lasso tool, that lets you select and outline an area,
Then when you are highlighting or colouring the area, it will not allow any colour to appear outside that area,
You could have used it when colouring the guys Hair with the fading orange, (and then you would not have had to erase the extra orange that went outside the lines )
This tool saves HOURS of erasing afterward :)!!!!!!!!!! :)
You just click the third circle icon on the top left of the screen, of the tape,
I thought about putting that in there, for this tutorial I thought it added extra steps i would explain in this video even though it's faster than erasing manually.
That makes sense!! :)
The lasso tool also works in reverse, (it can lasso an outline in the middle of the page and will only allow shading/ highlighting outside that outline) as well as the other option of within the outline chosen :)
It would have saved me HOURS of unnecessary erasing had I known about the lasso tool :)
Also: :)
I heard of the idea of copying the blank ink outline layer and putting this also down on top of the final layers too ;) (as this saves unnecessary erasing from highlighting shadows / brightness also :)
I think you should definitely show how you use the lasso tool in a new video :)
Awesome work Brad as always!!!!!!
Thank you so much for your help..
thanks, well explained.
Such a helpful video. Subbed.
What ever happened to your weekly journals for learning to paint environments? Awesome video. I use Procreate app to
Short answer... I dropped the ball, probably going to be doing some follow up down the road.
You are the best! God bless you!
For deleting texture overflow, make colour reference layer, select colour, inverse selection and you have accurate area to erase on, faster?
Thank you so much!
did the class loved it thanks so much
Thanks!
lol the way i do my colouring in procreate is i duplicate my line work and fill it in XD
thank you for the info on the reference
Brad,
I know this is an old video, but I am interested in the Procreate brushes and the link does not work. Any assistance would be apprecieated.
Sincerely,
Aarin H.
Humphrxy @ me if you figure it out
Amazing!!thanks!
Thanks a lot :). I have been using Procreate in the wrong way
really informative video... lol @ the initial title. Great job once again sir !!
do you plan on reviewing the new tab s3 and galaxy books whenever they come out ?
AC AC I would love him to review the book
Thanks!
If you are going to create so many layers to facilitate the gradients, why not just flat your colors and use them to create alpha lock or selection layer masks so you don't have to erase away the non-gradient areas?
Darren Albertson uh-huh what
Darren Albertson it's a Procreate thing
A Procreate thing? I'm pretty sure I'm using the same Procreate app so I'm not sure what you're talking about 🤔
He's already made color breakdowns on his character on a separate layer. All you have to do is set the gradient where you want it like he did, choose your character color breakdown layer, go to Selection mode, select automatic, touch/threshold the shape you want to select, invert it, go back to the gradient layer and then choose Cut and it will clear all the excess color outside the shape you want filled with the gradient without having to spend all that time erasing it away.
I know that sounds complicated but it's really quick when you're doing it and a lot faster than having to erase the excess away every time.
Or you can just use the reference layer to put all of your different colors on separate layers (a process called "flatting"- the same thing he did except putting each color on its own layer) then selecting the layer content, inverting it in Selection mode as explained above, going to the layer with the gradient you've set, and then choosing Cut to clear it away. Again, no tedious and time consuming erasing away the excess.
Darren Albertson do it like this so u can be more accurate
It's no more accurate and far more time-consuming than what I described above-I've done it both ways. There are times when you have to do it the more time consuming way, but it's always best to find shortcuts when you can.
Bless you!!
Greetings from Ohio! Love the channel and tutorials. I realize this one is kind of old, but wouldn't it have made more sense to color the hair with an alpha locked channel or first select the hair shape so that there's no need to erase (and potentially leave marks behind)?
12:16 why not create a selection of the hair invert the selected area and use the clear tool in the layre menu?