
Explore bridging traditional pencil drawing with Procreate by creating three pencil brushes that mimic real marks, and learn rough shading and the coloring book method for beginners.
Explore the class structure, resources, and project expectations as you learn to create three Procreate brushes—sketching pencil, shader pencil, and hatching pencil—and practice shading techniques.
Explore essential tools for creating Procreate brushes, including textured paper, graphite pencils of varying softness, and capturing textures with an iPad and Apple Pencil for a coffee mug study.
Understand that the base shape is square and black-and-white, carried along the line, with spacing, jitter, scatter, rotation, opacity, size, and a texture below the base shape.
Create a sketching pencil brush in Procreate by making a square texture, importing it, and adjusting grain, tilt shading, size, and stabilization for expressive sketching.
practice tracing shapes from a doll photo on a new canvas, sketch with short lines, and add shadows to build observational shading skills; future video will teach a shader brush.
Create a rounded shader pencil brush in Procreate by editing the shape source, importing and inverting an image, and adjusting curves for texture and transparency.
Practice observational drawing with the shader pencil to create a detailed apple sketch. Combine reference shading with knowledge of shading surfaces using the sketching pencil and drawing guide.
Learn to shade round objects by mastering smooth gradation, light direction, highlights, shadows, drop shadows, and reflections, using basic geometric shapes as a foundation.
Explore shading the apple with Procreate brushes, using the shader pencil to build mid-tones, light falloff, shadows, and reflections, then preview hatching in the next video.
Learn to create a hatching pencil brush in Procreate by shaping a circular base, inverting an imported image, and fine-tuning curves, spacing, jitter, pressure, and tilt for shaded gradations.
Develop edge shading with Procreate's hatching pencil, using level-based tones instead of smooth gradations. See highlight, mid-tone, shadow, and drop shadow on a cube, with reflections.
practice shading an object with edges using the hatching brush in Procreate, using separate layers for front, mid-tone, shadow, and highlight, while adjusting opacity and adding a drop shadow.
Choose your own subject and follow a step-by-step coloring book method to create the final mug drawing, using sketching, shading, shader and hatching brushes, with options for beginners.
Master the coloring book method by sketching light and shadow shapes, then filling with midtones to create a realistic drawing; practice observational shading using reference photos.
Choose a simple reference photo from a stock site like Unsplash, place a mug on a clean background, and set a screen-sized canvas to observe shadows and highlights before outlining.
Set up a new layer, sketch with a black pencil, and outline the main object. Then define highlights and shadows with white areas and blacks, plus smooth gradations for shading.
Shade with a mid-tone on a new layer beneath the sketch, add white highlights and black shadows for a grayscale gradation. Switch between shader and hatching pencils to refine edges.
Learn how procreate brushes are created from real pencil marks to form textures and shapes for authentic digital brushes, plus shading techniques and the coloring book method.
Are you already using Procreate but miss the traditional feel to it? Or would you love to practice traditional pencil drawing but with all the benefits Procreate offers? Well, then this is the class for you!
In this class we are going to create 3 different brushes in Procreate – a sketching pencil, a shader pencil and a hatching pencil, that mimic the look and texture of traditional pencil marks. Then we will go though drawing basics, like shading round objects and objects with edges, I will show you my favourite, the „coloring book method“ after each brush and theory, we will do simple drawing exercises and see how our brushes work in action. Lastly we will create a simple drawing of an object using the brushes we created.
Practicing drawing traditionally supports your base knowledge that you can build your art on. Drawing still lifes, observational drawing and simple sketching, all help you to build your skills and express your ideas.
The class is perfect for beginners in both, procreate brush creation and pencil drawing. You don’t need to be a pro in Procreate, but a bit of a working knowledge of the program will help you on the go.
By the end of this class you will be a pro in procreate pencil brush creation - you will be ready to create a wide variety of pencil brushes for your future art projects, and you will also have the space and the basic knowledge now to explore pencil drawing digitally.
So, are you ready to start your journey of combining traditional pencil drawing with the power of Procreate?
Grab your iPad and let’s get started!