Procreate: Sketch, Draw, and Paint a Shirt Design 2022

Navigate the Procreate gallery to manage artwork, organize into stacks, edit and preview pieces, share, duplicate, delete works, and create new canvases from photos or files.

Start a new shirt design project in Procreate by creating a print-ready canvas at 1800 by 2400 with 300 dpi, then save a reusable print template for future drawings.

The instructor invites you to rate the course honestly and promises updates, bonus tutorials, and expanded workbook content to enhance your Procreate shirt design skills.

Explore essential Procreate tools for quick illustration: use brush tool categories—sketching, inking, painting, airbrushing—plus layers, color palettes, and options like non photo blue, RGB/HEX values, and undo gestures.

Explore three techniques to sketch the head in Procreate: freehand, circle-based shapes, and tracing a reference photo using layers.

Use Procreate to refine facial features by managing layers, reference images, and the shape assist tool; learn to draw eyes, eyebrows, nose, and hair with precise editing.

Adjust facial features in procreate by repositioning the eyes, moving the nose and mouth, reshaping the hairline, and merging selections with insert image, select, move, and erase tools.

Practice drawing different head shapes using only circles and lines to develop your own iconic facial style. Create a new Procreate canvas, use layers and opacity to refine proportions.

Learn to ink simple heads using circles and lines with the studio pen, adjusting pressure for variable line weight and refining shapes with arc edits.

Explore a variety of hairstyles and practice drawing them in Procreate, using an inspiration board for reference as you complete the hairstyle sketch assignment.

Master speed drawing to quickly create a variety of hair styles using Procreate, integrating sketch, draw, and paint techniques for shirt design.

Clean up hairstyle sketches, merge eyebrow layers with hair layers, and finalize six hairstyles for your assignment, then learn inking techniques with varied line weights.

Extend a floating head into a full body using references, photo tracing, and layered sketching in Procreate, then refine the jacket and proportions in part two.

In this real-time procreate sketch session, clean up the jacket, refine the hood and zipper, and shape wrinkles, arms, and hands in a cartoon vinyl style.

Learn to ink in Procreate by blending imagination with references, switch to black ink on clean layers, and refine curves using shape assist and precise erasing.

Master the inking process in Procreate by varying pressure for dynamic line work, refining jacket wrinkles, zippers, and pockets, using layers and eraser cleanup to prepare for coloring.

Choose a mid-tone color in Procreate, outline shapes, and apply color drop with a hard-edge brush, then set a clipping mask on the flat layer for clean shading.

Finish filling flats using the same technique, refining eyes, clothing tones, and shoes with grays and blues; maintain clean layers and sample colors. Preview upcoming lessons with rough shadows.

practice creating shadows and highlights in Procreate by building layers, choosing light sources, and blending with brushes and erasers to achieve reflective bounce light on a circular shape.

Create a shadows layer set to multiply, pick a light gray, and apply hard shadows with softened edges for depth, using clipping masks and brush control to mirror light source.

Change colors in Procreate by selecting flats, using the magic wand, and adjusting hue, saturation, and brightness to swap shoes from tan to gray, for any part of your drawing.

Learn to blend shadows in Procreate by using dual shadow levels, adjusting brushes, erasers, and selections across layers to sculpt light, shadow, and highlights for a 3-D look.

Master adding a second level of shadows to a shirt design by using a darker shadow layer with a clipping mask and multiply blending, then refining with brushes and erasers.

Learn to add highlights in procreate by creating a highlights layer with clipping mask, using a yellow-tinted light on screen blend, and blending highlights on head, hair, and features.

In Procreate, blend and shrink highlights on the jacket, pants, and shoes, using eraser and brush work to follow the light source, refine pockets, and add texture.

Procreate: sketch, draw, and paint a shirt design 2022 teaches adding comic book style hotspots using cell shading, highlighted shapes, and clipping mask techniques to make the jacket highlights pop.

Add a glow to metallic elements such as medals, zipper, and buckles using a dedicated glow layer set to screen with a soft brush in Procreate.

Add and position text in procreate, adjust fonts and sizes, place text behind color layers, and preview the be yourself quote on a black shirt-ready design before printing.

Make the background transparent, manage the glow layer, select and erase outside the subject, then export as PNG and save to a known location for shirt printing.

Place your design on shirts and merchandise for selling using a free Printful account; upload designs, choose products, adjust print area and color, and prepare for marketplaces.

Thank you for joining this procreate course; bonuses and advanced concepts expand material, with a discount on the Etsy print on demand for passive income course and a downloadable workbook.

Watch a time-lapse of a Procreate drawing that applies course techniques from pencil to ink, color, shading, and tattoo design on layered highlights and shadows.