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Beginners guide to drawing cartoon characters in Procreate
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Beginners guide to drawing cartoon characters in Procreate

Learn the basics of drawing cartoons on your iPad with your Apple Pencil. Step-by-step lessons for Procreate
Created byAlan Balodi
Last updated 5/2019
English

What you'll learn

  • You will be able to create your own high quality art elements
  • Download custom drawing brushes specifically tweaked to draw cartoons

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Course content

4 sections • 20 lectures • 3h 32m total length

  • Introduction1:08

    Find out what to expect in this course, and learn about the instructor. 

  • Importing Custom Brushes6:48

    Learn how to import a set of custom brushes specifically tweaked to be used in creating cartoon art elements.

  • UI Basics14:30

    Get a quick understanding of the main ui elements and tools we will be using.

  • Tracing10:22

    As a quick warm up we will trace and paint an existing simple cartoon character.

  • Highlights and Shadows12:36

    Let's get a little more fancy! Time to add gradients, shadows and a few highlights.

  • Sketching11:22

    The magic starts with a pencil! In this lesson we will draw our own custom character, deciding the basic shape and other fun elements.

  • Outlines15:08

    Let's trace our sketch with clean lines and get ready for painting.

  • Gradient7:45

    In this lesson we will decide which colors we want to use for our cartoon, fill them all in and then add a little gradient effect on top.

  • Shadows and Highlights14:14

    Once we have the base color, we will then add our shadows and highlights to make the character pop off the page!

  • Final Touches9:39

    As our final touches, we will add a cool drop shadow effect, cartoon ground and a few minor paint tweaks!

  • The End2:10

    You did it! Congratulations! :)

Requirements

  • Procreate App for iPad Pro with Apple Pencil

Description

Once you learn this amazing and fun app on your iPad you will become an unstoppable cartoon expert! One of the biggest things that made me fall in love with my iPad Pro and the Apple Pencil was to find the proper brushes in Procreate which allowed me to draw cartoons just like I do with the real paper and pencil. I will share my 4 favorite cartoon brushes which have been tweaked specifically to create clean sharp lines and produce eye candy results.

If you love to doodle and have been looking to jump into the digital art world, this is it! I take you from the very beginning. You will be able to take your existing sketches or create new ones and turn them into final polished high resolution art pieces.

You Will Learn How To:

  • Draw Fun Cartoon Characters in Procreate App on iPad Pro using Apple Pencil

  • To Import Custom Brushes

  • To Import Reference Images

  • Sketch Using a Pencil Brush

  • Draw Clean Outlines by Tracing Your Sketches Using Custom Paint Brush

  • Fill In Colors, Add Gradients, Highlights and Shadows to Your Final Art

These techniques can also be used with many other drawing application such as Photoshop.

Remember your only limitation is your own imagination!

So sharpen your pencil and jump right in, well I meant charge your pencil :)

Who this course is for:

  • This course is for anyone who loves to draw cartoons
  • Anyone who wants to learn the basic techniques for drawing on the iPad

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