
Illustrate characters with Procreate through paper sketches, pen liner, and watercolor shading. Create a Puss in Boots storyboard by studying personalities, emotions, and anatomy, and develop your own style.
Ava Moretti introduces the Procreate illustration course on Udemy, guiding beginners to advanced practice with warmups, incremental lessons, and character storytelling through hands-on assignments.
Design a cat character through layered sketching in Procreate, align proportions with the final frame, and refine with value lines, clothing details, boots, and a bag.
Illustrate the Marquis as the main protagonist using Procreate, starting with sketching and layers, then adding details while reading the story to plan the character and scene.
Sketch and develop rabbit characters from light drafts to bold lines, plan storyboards, and refine mood, clothing, and scene details for this Procreate illustration course on characters and storytelling.
Sketch and illustrate the king character within a storyboard-driven workflow, balancing main and minor characters, planning scenes, and maintaining consistent style across layers, brushes, and value lines.
Explore Procreate and character design by sketching a princess from initial shape to final line art, using layers, value lines, and detailing to build personality and storytelling.
Explore ghoul character illustration in Procreate, starting with sketching and geometric simplification, refining with value lines on new layers, and detailing features to maintain story harmony.
Create the mouse character in a ghoul transformation using Procreate, preserving ghoul traits like the mole, eyebrows, earring, and tail to hint the change, with layered editing for consistency.
Draw a farmer character in Procreate, sketching the hat, eyebrows, clothing, and a sickle while applying value lines and maintaining harmony across features.
Create a character mood board in Procreate by setting up a 40x50 canvas at 300 dpi, importing reference images, and organizing layers as a blueprint for sketches and frames.
Design and refine a Procreate storyboard by planning frames, sketching key scenes with the marquis, Puss in Boots, and rabbits, and applying a warm color palette.
Add details to the storyboard frames of the main characters, refining the marquis and cat, adjusting composition, poses, and backgrounds for a cohesive Procreate illustration.
In the procreate illustration course, adjust the cat and rabbit for the chase frame, craft the rabbit hole scene, and practice drawing them from three quarters angle views using layers.
Create a Procreate storyboard frame with a cat, rabbits, and marquees, using reference layers, adjusted expressions, and layered backgrounds to convey mood and depth.
Design a castle scene frame by adapting Puss in Boots and ghoul characters, adjusting gestures, expressions, and layering to tell the story using Procreate and downloadable resources.
Learn to craft king and queen characters for a marriage scene in Procreate by building frames on separate layers, applying skin tones, shading, highlights, and detailed textures.
Apply a warm color palette and layered coloring in Procreate to bring the cat and ghoul frame to life, using separate layers, brushes, highlights, shadows, and clean lines.
Color and layer the puss in boots cat with lighter and darker tones to create dimension. Add textures, refine edges, and simulate depth against the castle backdrop.
Color, shade, and detail a ghoul character in a castle scene using Procreate, mastering color layers, textures, and highlights for vivid character identity.
Color and adjust characters in Procreate using layered edits and a model, then organize frames into albums and use downloadable resources to practice textures, depth, and tonalities.
Outline rabbits with light gray, add tonal shading and textures across multiple layers, and maintain consistent techniques to reflect the story through careful details and harmonized color.
Build a king frame in procreate using multi-layer exploration, adding background, skin tones, shadows, highlights, textures, and crown details to tell the scene.
Learn to craft a queen character in Procreate by building skin tone layers, shading, hair and clothing details, using multiple layers and careful merging for a cohesive, textured character.
Layer by layer, color skin tones, hair, eyes, and clothing with shading and fine lines to add depth. Save and merge layers as you add background details like a castle.
Apply color layers to the mouse character while preserving its personality, using consistent features, palettes, and layering to tell a cohesive story across frames.
Add color and texture to the character by using new layers, sample colors, and brushes, while refining outlines, shading, and highlights for depth.
Master procreate illustration techniques for character outlines using Puss in Boots, guiding layer management, color picking, shading, texture, and references for accurate caricature drawing.
Learn to design Puss in Boots in Procreate by coloring and shading with layered tonalities, building hat, cape, and boots details with precise edges.
Develop leather shading on the boot using reference images to guide light to dark tonalities, blending with textured brushes. Practice step-by-step color application in Puss in Boots part II.
Color and detail the cat character's facial features by managing layers and palette, shading around the eyes, adding highlights, and refining edges for consistency.
Learn to craft a cat character by painting the nose, shaping round eyes, and adding hair texture with layered colors, palettes, and brushes guided by a reference image.
Master fur details and texture for the Puss in Boots character by applying light color, shading, and brush changes in Procreate, while keeping recognizable features consistent.
Learn to build fur texture and facial details for Puss in Boots using layered brushes, shadows, and color spots, then add feather textures and final shading techniques.
Choose the right brush, shade with layered tonalities, and add fine hair strands to bring textural realism to the Puss in Boots character.
Master color harmony and shading by layering tonalities to render the Puss in Boots, with fur details, highlights, and metallic sword textures using varied brushes and final details.
Designing a character and telling a story through digital illustrations has never been easier than it is today, thanks to tools like the iPad and Procreate. With these tools, anyone can learn to create captivating illustrations and designs that bring their ideas to life.
This comprehensive course will teach you all the techniques, tips, and tricks of Procreate that are useful in character design and illustration, whether you want to pursue a career in illustration, book design, or simply enjoy it as a hobby. You'll learn how to create original characters, design storyboards and sketches, combine characters and story, and ultimately create a brand new digital illustration artwork.
Throughout the course, we will focus on the original Puss in Boots story as the main core of the curriculum. In the first chapter, we'll work on a project together where you'll learn how to work with Procreate, including how to use different brushes, layers, colors, and all the other capabilities of the application for character design and illustration.
The next step is learning how to work on a story for illustration. This includes reading a story and determining the main characters and their distinctive characteristics, deciding which scenes to work on, and remaining consistent throughout the work. We will work on all the main characters of the story together, as well as all the important features and elements of the story, creating an archive of all we need to start working on the main scenes.
Working on several scenes from the story, you will learn all you need to know about composition, storytelling, and adding details. Along the way, different techniques, detours, tips, and hacks used in illustration will be explained and applied on different samples.
All the lessons of this course are accompanied with FREE additional resources such as outlines, grids, and carefully designed assignments that will help you enter the field you love and practice what you have learned right away.
Throughout the 25 lessons of this course, you will learn how to use Procreate for character design and illustration. You'll get familiar with the fundamentals of character design and illustration, learn how to develop a unique style and maintain it throughout your work, and explore how to work on different scenes of a story while adding relevant details. Additionally, you will learn how to effectively tell a story through your illustrations.
By the end of this course, you will have the skills, knowledge, and resources needed to create captivating illustrations that bring your ideas to life.
How to use Procreate for character design and illustration
Fundamentals of character design and illustration
Developing a unique style in design
Maintaining style throughout the work
Working on different scenes of a story
Adding all kinds of details and staying relevant
Storytelling with illustrations
Working on original characters and designs
Designing storyboards and sketches
Combining characters and story
Creating brand new digital illustrations
Techniques, detours, tips, and hacks used in illustration
Different samples for applying techniques
Composition, storytelling, and adding details
Assignments to practice what you've learned
Free additional resources such as outlines and grids
Valuable knowledge and skills for pursuing a career in illustration or book design, or simply creating art as a hobby.