Drawing Cute Characters in Procreate

Here we discuss what makes a character cute, starting with the head.

With the body we will need a cute body to help compliment. In this lesson we look at what makes a character's body cute.

Now that you know the rules of cute, let's play around! In this lesson we take a look at a few styles we could use for cute characters.

Now that we know the rules of cute and have an established style, let's see how easy it is to design various animals using one template.

In this lecture we will begin our first main project, applying what we've learned so far, and sketch out a cute fish.

Now that we have a sketch, let's clean it up! Here we will refine the line work, shape and proportions.

With the sketch refined and character features in place, we can apply clean bold lines to create our outline.

In this lesson we will discuss line weight, where you should apply less weight and techniques to achieve the effect.

We will apply our base colors for the fish using the color drop method.

In this lesson we will cover different ways you can shade a character in Procreate.

Knowing how we can approach shading, we can move in and apply our first layer.

The second layer of shading involves emphasizing certain areas of the original shade.

Like the shading, we will be using a separate layer to apply highlights to various areas of the fish (keeping our light source in mind).

A second layer of highlights will be applied to the fish to help make things pop more.

With the fish complete, we will quickly build up a background using various techniques and features available in Procreate.

In this lesson we finish up the cute fish drawing by adding foreground elements.

Here we will begin a second drawing, this time by sketching a cute glutenous cat!

We will sketch the background to help set up the composition of the shot.

Here we will take our time and clean up the sketch for both the background and cat.

Bold decisive lines will be applied to bring out the cat.

Ink will also be applied to the background outlines.

Instead of applying colors like we did with the fish, here we are going to use grey values to help us build up shadows and highlights. This is a good way to build dimension if you struggle with using colors and blend modes.

Now we can apply basic colors and allow the gray values to apply shaded and highlighted areas for us.

We will also apply color to the background using gray values and flat colors.

Here we will color the remaining set pieces in the background.

In this lesson we will finish by applying various touches, such as a brighter light, to make things pop.

Here we will export images out from our projects so they can be shared.

Our final thoughts on this course.