Draw Anime Sticker Designs in Procreate (Complete Workflow)

Master sticker-friendly lineart in Procreate by turning anime Nana characters into crop-ready stickers, using clean lineart or color-based contours, inspired by manga style, with a lineart brush and brush pack.

Establish a light source, fill the line art with gray, and build general shadows using a multiply layer and round brush, then switch to pink tones for color layers.

Learn to blend soft and hard shading to create dimensional anime sticker designs, avoiding airbrush pitfalls, with soft shadows on hair, forehead, and clothing, using RossDraws painterly brush.

Master hard shading to add contrast by painting with a brush and using lasso selections with gradients. Apply pink shading to white fabrics and add blush.

Master the lighting stage in Procreate by applying color dodge highlights to hair, eyes, and shirt folds, using layers and liquify to add glow and shine.

Perform final adjustments by duplicating the layer, adding a gradient, lowering opacity, and multiplying to deepen tones. Darken hair, clothes, and face; add highlights, rim light, and chromatic aberration.

Develop lineart for Nana and Hachi as nano illustration stickers in Procreate, preserving a front-facing theme with Nana looking sideways. Download your brush and prepare for the grayscale lesson.

Create a grayscale base by filling Nana's shape with blue-tinted gray and adding ambient occlusion shadows on a clipped multiply layer; switch to pink for color layers on multiply.

Master soft shading by adding color-rich shadows on base colors using a multiply layer clipped to the base, while organizing layers and avoiding pure black shading.

Color lineart in Procreate with alpha lock, use a shade darker than hair and skin, then duplicate and merge lineart layers before hard shading with round brush and lasso tool.

Add bluish light to Nana's hair to contrast with Hoshi's warm colors. Apply lower opacity highlights on the chest and eyes, and emphasize Nana's skinny look with warm facial highlights.

Master final adjustments by refining hair, contoured frills, and a ripped shirt, adding highlights and purple eyeshadow, then improve contrast with multiply and overlay layers, merge, and apply chromatic aberration.

Finish this class by previewing the final two anime sticker illustrations in glossy and holographic finishes, invite reviews and questions, and connect with the community on Instagram.