So great! You showed me this really quickly, but I didn't get the technique for erasing layers or doing the cast shadow - so useful! Tutorials like this that are just about tool techniques are so great! And the beauty of the piece of art you created is just devastating.
Lol. Right?! Expect my show at the MOMA soon. But seriously thanks for the kind words. Would be good to hook up that painting session we threatened months ago.
Hey thanks for the kind words! Yeah, I have a lot of years in Photoshop as well. The start of me learning was basically just trying to figure out how much of my PS process could directly transfer and then trying to solve everything that didn't work directly. I have to say, it's been fun learning.
Mike, I just got into digital painting and your videos are some of my favorite on youtube. Thank you so much for your demos, and videos like this. This helped me out so much. You deserve so many more subs/views than you have. I wish you the best of luck!
I am new to Procreate and your series of videos have been awesome! I was just about to give up on with this tool and just stick to Photoshop. Thanks for the motivation.
Thanks Mike. I just followed along on my iPad during the video and finally understand the select/clear technique you're always talking about. Love your videos.
This is great man... I honestly find the movement of the camera keeps me more engaged. Would probably be a bit more boring on a tripod. Good teaching speed on this one too btw man!
nice. just to note if you hold down the "select" button on the top menu, it'll load up previous selection so you don't have go back to the layer and "select content" again.
Excellent video, clear and not essentially demoing an illustrator's work or showing me design I probably wouldn't like anyway. And it's not NOT mute! Perfect:)
I’ve seen this video several times now 😅 but this time I actually have Procreate! I’ll watch your techniques one next, that one I haven’t seen yet so yay :)
Thanks for sharing this! I always just duplicated the layer and then locked the layer but always came up with problems if that makes sense, didn't realise this was even possible its going to help a ton, thank you! ;)
I came here from your “Intergalactic Buckaroo” video. This was really helpful! I've been a subscriber for a while now, and I can't believe I missed this one. Thank you so much for this neat trick! Also, yes, this may indeed be your masterpiece. Lol You mentioned in the video that you were watching Stranger Things while filming this video. Whenever I try to watch something and draw/scribble at the same time, I always find that, after a while, I focus more on the movie/show, and ultimately stop working on my drawing. Maybe it's because of FOMO on the show/movie. What would be your advice for dealing with this problem? Anyway, thank you again for your channel and Insta page!
Hey thanks for all the kind words. I appreciate it! As for your dilemma, I don't know how to answer that because I usually do the opposite. Maybe in that moment ask yourself why you're not absorbed in your art. Maybe you can make a small tweak to make it more exciting for you.
Mike, I love both your illustrations and tutorials. A question for you: is there a good source for thinking about different types of light and shadow. I am self-taught, and slowly piecing together, or rather learning to deconstruct a piece into constituent parts. Beyond color theory, how do you categorize the various elements of shadow and light? I.e., bounce, rim, et cetera. Any elements that you feel are universal, versus likely specific. For example, you generally apply rim lighting. Do you consider it essential to a (more) finished piece? And any tips on how to approach each of these? Or are there other sources you recommend? Again, thanks for all the videos! They are both hugely educational and inspiring.
Ward Wesley Vuillemot Ward Wesley Vuillemot Heya! Thanks for the kind words. I'll try to reply to it thoroughly. I'm bad at giving people specific things to look at because I'm largely self-taught as well. I did what you are referencing: deconstructing others' art. The best suggestion I can give there, is to continue to do that, focus on trying out something new every few pieces, and try to learn the "why" of the techniques you're trying. As for me adding a rim light, it's a good tool for staging the character in their environment while also separating them. So, it's not always essential, but it's a nice trick. As time goes on I'm getting more deliberate about how I treat bounce light and rim light and trying to not use an out of the box rim light. That said, sometimes it's just striking to slap a rim light on something.
Very good tutorial (again)! You're definitely my best reference on Procreate! I just noticed that you do 'select content' twice on every shape; one for clear and other to paint the shadow layer. I discovered that if you hold 'S' (select) button Procreate repeats the last selection.
This is just the kind of Procreate instructions I need. If you had time to add the highlights and rim light that would be helpful too. As you have guessed I'm a beginner. Thanks
Awesome. I haven't seen many tutorials in Procreate, so hope you will be popular more and more. :) Good job and keep making videos! More advanced too... ;)
very useful tutorial! thanks! btw can you explain why this happens? if you select layer A, and then work on layer B which is above, and you erase content on layer B, it only erases the area of overlap with layer A. I would have expected it would erase contents of layer B only. does that make sense?
Thanks! That sounds odd. If you still have Layer A's contents as your selection, the selection is what will be affected on Layer B. Maybe you still have Layer A's contents selected.
+Chris Sanford I don't use screen protectors. I usually like to get used to various tools in their most named form so I don't get used to an overly specific set up.
Hi Mike.. Just found your channel and love this tutorial video. Can you do more of these? After learning these techniques I found it hard to apply them to your other videos, especially confused on what colors you choose when blocking in and then choosing shadow colors using multiply.
Hey, thanks for the kind words! I wouldn't say that everything in every video works interchangeably. I think there are ways to implement all of the techniques, but you'll notice that I don't employ every technique in each piece. It's more about collecting a lot of techniques and choosing when to use them. Now, regarding the color choice, what exactly do you mean here? I want to make sure I answer you as accurately as possible.
Mike Henry actually this is a question I have as well. When you create your shadow layer is there any reason to choose a particular colour for the shadow? Something that I'm not sure about with using multiply is does it matter what colour you use and if so how do you decide what colour it should be?
Mike Henry Mike, Jeremy above is exactly what I was asking also. Any general painting techniques would be really great..I really need to learn workflow..I get lost after sketching in and then having to render it..Keep up the great work.
thank you we are eager to watch them i always have a problem to do highlights and shadows and fully take line art into a 3d looking illustration and i dont understand whats multiply or dodge or these kinda layer types or why they exist but thia tutorial really gave me a foundation to make shadows in procreate .
It is just sometimes a problem in Procreate. It COULD be a resolution issue. Also, sometimes I just spot it and smudge the shadow towards the edge to clean it up a bit. Lastly, it could be a brush you're using. If you're using a brush from my pack, my other suggestions could work. If you're using another brush, it could be too "fuzzy". That'll create a ton of aliasing issues with this method.
Mike Henry ah ok cool. So I work at 300 dpi minimum. So guessing it’s just the brushes. I’ll have to have a play and see which brushes work and which don’t see if i can figure out what’s happening. Thank you Mike
i guess im not udnerstandign a step- for the shadows, you paint in multiply? But what color? I didn't see you pick any colors when paintign in the shadows? do you just use a white brush in multiply mode to darken the layer color already there?
White won't do anything if the layer is set to Multiply. White is transparent in the eyes of a Multiply layer. In this case I use a light purple. You can see it in the video when I select my shadow color.
Great videos. You are very talented. Have you tried doing your flats and then alpha locking the layers? Wouldn't that be easier than painting, selecting then clearing. I subscribed and look forward to more videos.
Thanks for subscribing! Alpha lock doesn't give me what I'm looking for which is keeping the shadow layer separate from the other layers. With alpha lock you have to paint on the layer you have locked. If I could alpha lock a layer and then paint on others I'd be happy.
Mike Henry i watched the others. Allways a pleasure and allways something new to learn. Thank you for that. And for answering so much. Any business side videos planned?
At 2:45. When I typed tapped the layer, and then tapped "select" I got the select tool. There was no "select contents" option. Being that this is "the core of the process," I give up.
So great! You showed me this really quickly, but I didn't get the technique for erasing layers or doing the cast shadow - so useful! Tutorials like this that are just about tool techniques are so great! And the beauty of the piece of art you created is just devastating.
Lol. Right?! Expect my show at the MOMA soon. But seriously thanks for the kind words. Would be good to hook up that painting session we threatened months ago.
I'm making the leap from 20 years of Photoshop to my iPad Pro and Procreate and Sketchbook Pro. Thanks for your clear and informative tutorial.
Hey thanks for the kind words! Yeah, I have a lot of years in Photoshop as well. The start of me learning was basically just trying to figure out how much of my PS process could directly transfer and then trying to solve everything that didn't work directly. I have to say, it's been fun learning.
Mike, I just got into digital painting and your videos are some of my favorite on youtube. Thank you so much for your demos, and videos like this. This helped me out so much.
You deserve so many more subs/views than you have. I wish you the best of luck!
Thanks a lot! I'm glad I could help.
I am new to Procreate and your series of videos have been awesome! I was just about to give up on with this tool and just stick to Photoshop. Thanks for the motivation.
Thanks Mike. I just followed along on my iPad during the video and finally understand the select/clear technique you're always talking about. Love your videos.
What a treasure trove of useful demos!!! Just subbed, and thank you, thank you.
Thanks for watching!
This is insane, been subbed for a few weeks and I'm convinced that wont ever change. Get a Patreon going, dude! Top ratings
Thanks a lot! I've considered it, but I don't want to make promises I can't keep. I'll see if there's some way to do something similar.
I have watched this ten times. I think I finally have it down. Would love to see you add the highlights someday. Go nuts.
This channel needs more subs and view . One of the most helpful tutorials I've seen for Procreate !
That's very kind of you. Thanks!
Jonathan Rodriguez p
Agreed
This is great man... I honestly find the movement of the camera keeps me more engaged. Would probably be a bit more boring on a tripod. Good teaching speed on this one too btw man!
Smart way to keep the layers easy to manage. Thanks!
No problem!
nice. just to note if you hold down the "select" button on the top menu, it'll load up previous selection so you don't have go back to the layer and "select content" again.
azn samasepakat That's great! I'm going to include that and some other tricks regarding select I recently learned in an upcoming techniques video.
Excellent video, clear and not essentially demoing an illustrator's work or showing me design I probably wouldn't like anyway. And it's not NOT mute! Perfect:)
Thank you for making this! I was wondering what would be the best way to do this. Excited to try this later!
Glad it was helpful!
This was great! I've been wondering how people were doing this! Thank you so much!!
No problem!
Great job! Thank you for explaining.
Thanks for watching!
I’ve seen this video several times now 😅 but this time I actually have Procreate! I’ll watch your techniques one next, that one I haven’t seen yet so yay :)
Sweet! Hope they're helpful.
Amazing! Thank you so much for the new study! 😍👍🏾
Excellent! I was wondering if this could be possible on Procreate. Thanks so much for producing this video. I've learned a lot.
Awesome!
thanks for sharing this! def will add this method to my workflow when necessary. take care!
Great!
Thanks so much this has been really helpful, there's so much in procreate i still learning even thought I've been using it years
Great! Happy to help.
Thanks for sharing this! I always just duplicated the layer and then locked the layer but always came up with problems if that makes sense, didn't realise this was even possible its going to help a ton, thank you! ;)
Yeah, I can see how that could cause problems. Hope this works out for you.
This is awesome. I have already been doing something similar, but you have taken it to another level. Thank you!!!
This was very helpful, thanks! ❤️
You're welcome!
very well explain and demonstrated.
Thanks!
I came here from your “Intergalactic Buckaroo” video. This was really helpful! I've been a subscriber for a while now, and I can't believe I missed this one. Thank you so much for this neat trick!
Also, yes, this may indeed be your masterpiece. Lol
You mentioned in the video that you were watching Stranger Things while filming this video. Whenever I try to watch something and draw/scribble at the same time, I always find that, after a while, I focus more on the movie/show, and ultimately stop working on my drawing. Maybe it's because of FOMO on the show/movie. What would be your advice for dealing with this problem?
Anyway, thank you again for your channel and Insta page!
Hey thanks for all the kind words. I appreciate it!
As for your dilemma, I don't know how to answer that because I usually do the opposite. Maybe in that moment ask yourself why you're not absorbed in your art. Maybe you can make a small tweak to make it more exciting for you.
Mike, I love both your illustrations and tutorials. A question for you: is there a good source for thinking about different types of light and shadow. I am self-taught, and slowly piecing together, or rather learning to deconstruct a piece into constituent parts. Beyond color theory, how do you categorize the various elements of shadow and light? I.e., bounce, rim, et cetera. Any elements that you feel are universal, versus likely specific. For example, you generally apply rim lighting. Do you consider it essential to a (more) finished piece? And any tips on how to approach each of these? Or are there other sources you recommend? Again, thanks for all the videos! They are both hugely educational and inspiring.
Ward Wesley Vuillemot Ward Wesley Vuillemot Heya! Thanks for the kind words. I'll try to reply to it thoroughly. I'm bad at giving people specific things to look at because I'm largely self-taught as well. I did what you are referencing: deconstructing others' art. The best suggestion I can give there, is to continue to do that, focus on trying out something new every few pieces, and try to learn the "why" of the techniques you're trying. As for me adding a rim light, it's a good tool for staging the character in their environment while also separating them. So, it's not always essential, but it's a nice trick. As time goes on I'm getting more deliberate about how I treat bounce light and rim light and trying to not use an out of the box rim light. That said, sometimes it's just striking to slap a rim light on something.
landed here on my search for procreate tutorials. This nade my day. I can now do shadows!
youre subbed!
Great! Happy to help.
Thanks so much for taking the time to create this! It was very helpful!
No problem!
Very good tutorial (again)! You're definitely my best reference on Procreate!
I just noticed that you do 'select content' twice on every shape; one for clear and other to paint the shadow layer. I discovered that if you hold 'S' (select) button Procreate repeats the last selection.
That's an awesome tip! I'll try that out ASAP!
+Mike Henry - Feeling honored for helping!
This is just the kind of Procreate instructions I need. If you had time to add the highlights and rim light that would be helpful too. As you have guessed I'm a beginner. Thanks
Great to hear! I probably won't revisit this exact video/piece, but you can see the rim light stuff in several other videos. Hope that helps!
That's way too useful for begginers, thanks! Keep it up with these kind of tutorials please (:
Haha, Thanks! Will do!
Awesome. I haven't seen many tutorials in Procreate, so hope you will be popular more and more. :) Good job and keep making videos! More advanced too... ;)
very useful tutorial! thanks! btw can you explain why this happens? if you select layer A, and then work on layer B which is above, and you erase content on layer B, it only erases the area of overlap with layer A. I would have expected it would erase contents of layer B only. does that make sense?
Thanks!
That sounds odd. If you still have Layer A's contents as your selection, the selection is what will be affected on Layer B. Maybe you still have Layer A's contents selected.
Okay, that's about what I thought it was from your descriptions elsewhere. I do something similar in Photoshop, although less artistically.
Glad to hear the explanation made sense, hehe.
Thanks, this answered the question perfectly!
Great! I hope it's helpful.
This is SO clear. Thank you so much! I love all your demos! They're all super helpful.
Thats exactly what I needed!!! Thank you
Great!
wow, this cuts down a lot of time!! thank you for sharing!!!!
No problem! Happy to help.
You make this so clear. Thank you.
No problem!
Great video Mike. I Love this app but struggle with developing techniques of my own.. I have enjoyed all your videos Thank you so much..
Great! Glad I could help. Just sitck with it and you'll get a flow going for sure.
Excellent. Thanks
do you have a demo with Procreate's redesign of the select tools? at the moment it feels counter intuitive to do what you did in this demo
Many thanks, Mike, have been looking for this info for ages.
Why do you set the Shadow layer to Multiply ?
Cool tutorial! After procreate added clipping masks, is there still any benefit to using this technique over clipping masks?
Thanks! Just a cleaner file and less layers.
Thank you for doing this video. Pretty much an eureka moment for me, very helpful!😊
That's great to hear! Hope it goes well for you.
Thank you for sharing! Much appreciated.
awesome! this has helped me figure out the program a little more, thanks!!
Hey Mike do you like to use a screen protector to get a more toothy feel or do you like the glass feel of the ipad?
+Chris Sanford I don't use screen protectors. I usually like to get used to various tools in their most named form so I don't get used to an overly specific set up.
I think I watched this video now 3 or 4 times... always come back
Thanks Mike for explaining this :) really appreciate it.
No problem!
Hi Mike.. Just found your channel and love this tutorial video. Can you do more of these? After learning these techniques I found it hard to apply them to your other videos, especially confused on what colors you choose when blocking in and then choosing shadow colors using multiply.
Hey, thanks for the kind words! I wouldn't say that everything in every video works interchangeably. I think there are ways to implement all of the techniques, but you'll notice that I don't employ every technique in each piece. It's more about collecting a lot of techniques and choosing when to use them.
Now, regarding the color choice, what exactly do you mean here? I want to make sure I answer you as accurately as possible.
Mike Henry actually this is a question I have as well. When you create your shadow layer is there any reason to choose a particular colour for the shadow? Something that I'm not sure about with using multiply is does it matter what colour you use and if so how do you decide what colour it should be?
Mike Henry Mike, Jeremy above is exactly what I was asking also. Any general painting techniques would be really great..I really need to learn workflow..I get lost after sketching in and then having to render it..Keep up the great work.
Sounds good. Thanks for the suggestion!
really appreciate if u could post more tutorials like this
I plan on doing a collection of techniques video next.
thank you we are eager to watch them i always have a problem to do highlights and shadows and fully take line art into a 3d looking illustration and i dont understand whats multiply or dodge or these kinda layer types or why they exist but thia tutorial really gave me a foundation to make shadows in procreate .
Freakin amazing! This helped tons! Thank you!
Awesome!
Great! Thanks so much!
You're welcome!
Thanks for this video! Fantastic stuff!
Thank ye, sir! How've you been?
Quick question? How do you stop this technique from leaving a small line between the select clears on the shadow layer?
It is just sometimes a problem in Procreate. It COULD be a resolution issue. Also, sometimes I just spot it and smudge the shadow towards the edge to clean it up a bit. Lastly, it could be a brush you're using. If you're using a brush from my pack, my other suggestions could work. If you're using another brush, it could be too "fuzzy". That'll create a ton of aliasing issues with this method.
Mike Henry ah ok cool. So I work at 300 dpi minimum. So guessing it’s just the brushes. I’ll have to have a play and see which brushes work and which don’t see if i can figure out what’s happening. Thank you Mike
Thank you! Today you are my n.1! 😁
i guess im not udnerstandign a step- for the shadows, you paint in multiply? But what color? I didn't see you pick any colors when paintign in the shadows? do you just use a white brush in multiply mode to darken the layer color already there?
White won't do anything if the layer is set to Multiply. White is transparent in the eyes of a Multiply layer. In this case I use a light purple. You can see it in the video when I select my shadow color.
Great lesson thanks👏🏽
My pleasure!
Soooo helpful! Thx! I was shadowing so tediously before this video lol . Appreciated
Timothy Otero Awesome!
Learned a lot. Thank you.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!
Hehe, thanks for watching!
This really good, thanks for sharing!
Great videos. You are very talented. Have you tried doing your flats and then alpha locking the layers? Wouldn't that be easier than painting, selecting then clearing. I subscribed and look forward to more videos.
Thanks for subscribing! Alpha lock doesn't give me what I'm looking for which is keeping the shadow layer separate from the other layers. With alpha lock you have to paint on the layer you have locked. If I could alpha lock a layer and then paint on others I'd be happy.
Ahh, makes sense. Thanks for pointing that out to me.
No problem!
Very informational! How do you have a cursor?
Beau Prince You mean just in general? I think it's standard in Procreate.
thanks so much!!
Great tut! Thanks!
Oh thank you!!! I was almost going insane doing each of this things manually...
What brush did you use for the initial shapes?
Just the hard round brush.
Is this the 10 inch or 12 inch iPad pro?
12.9" to be exact.
really lovely
Very helpful. Thanks.
thank you for this, this is so helpful
VERY nice!! Thx for putting this together! =]
Thank you Mike!
love your videos and style of your drawings!! and how do you like Stranger Things?! Sick show!
Thanks! It's pretty darn good. The kids are awesome. We're halfway through it.
Thank you, Mike!! This is exactly what I needed! You're a life (art?) saver!🤓
Haha! Glad I could help. Hope it works for you.
Extremely helpful!! Thank you!!!!
No problem!
this is a lifesaver !!!!
now a video with all the bells and whistles. Rimlight, Bouncelights and so on... 😋👍
That would be all the other videos, hehe.
Mike Henry i watched the others. Allways a pleasure and allways something new to learn. Thank you for that. And for answering so much. Any business side videos planned?
Awesome man!
Hey, is that an ipad (with its ipen)?
I looks great and more interactive than an intuos :d
Thanks! Yeah, it's an iPad Pro with the Apple Pencil.
What program is that?
seems really cool
+Arturo Lòpez It is. It's called Procreate.
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At 2:45. When I typed tapped the layer, and then tapped "select" I got the select tool. There was no "select contents" option. Being that this is "the core of the process," I give up.
THANKS so much
Thank you!
🙌 Procreate should commission you!
Ha! Thanks, man.
Thanks for the tip!
Thanks for watching!
You are amazing.
Fantastic!
Thanks!
Can’t thank you enough
love this
thaaaanks
Excellent👍
very helpful! thank youu! 😊
Thanks for watching!
Thanks - that helped.
Bravo!!
amazing app!!!!!!
cool!
Thanks a lot.
I wanna request a Steampunk pilot :)
I FKNG LOVE YOU....
Well, thank you.