SECRETS TO ✨PERFECT LINE-ART✨ | Beginner Line Art Tutorial #procreate #arttutorial

Hey Artlings! 🧋here’s my beginners lineart tutorial in which I teach you how to draw Perfect line art in procreate and any other program with streamline. I show you the secrets to do smooth clean lines and get rid of that chicken scratch and how to actually make your line art look like your sketch! While it can be as simple as using the classic line technique, there are a lot of things that can help you have the best lineart experience ever! These are all the things that I wish I knew when I was making manga style commissions and trying to get clean lines as a not so clean artist. As this is a #beginnersarttutorial I will be going into some depth of some settings that might be, and while my lineart is technically not perfect, this information in the right hands (aka someone dedicated to line art) will definitely be able to make their lines perfect.

(Also sorry for the plosives in the first audio and the general audio levels, I'm still working on my recording skillz 🙏🥲)
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The brushes I used were my own sketsaas and lining brushes.

artsyTsaa’s BRUSH SET 1 buy here if you would like 😊
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I’ve been thinking about it for a while, but I wasn’t sure what content I should post. But now I’m posting full speedpaints, and articles/personal blogs on what I learned after each youtube video. I have many ideas, but since I can’t execute them all in youtube videos yet, I was thinking of sharing the knowledge in advance to my kofi supporters ( and I mean like months in advance, not just an early week).

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Resources That might help Ya!

The difference between streamline and stabilization in Procreate article

Pressure Curve settings
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Chapters✨
0:00 The Road to Perfect Line Art
0:37 Canvas size
0:50 Sketch set up
1:28 ( Secret 1)How to make your lineart look like your sketch
2:34 hand equip
2:50 brush settings
4:13 (Secret 2) How to stop chicken scratch
5:11 how to do ze line
6:20 Customize
6:52 Clean up
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[artsytsaa]

CLARIFICATIONS 🧋1. DPI ONLY HAS TO DO WITH PRINTING, CANVAS SIZE is what will make the difference
My mistake, it is more important to look at the canvas size. I was misinformed when I created a canvas at a smaller dpi and thought it affected the pixelization, when it was the canvas size that was making a difference. (900 by 900 vs 3000 x 3000) Thanks to those in the comments who informed of such (some of you nice others not so much 🥲😆 ).

2. IT IS BETTER to have LESS STROKES in the first place, than a ton of undo/ redo.
When I was learning how to make "perfect" line art, technically impossible as humans, it was actually for a very specific manga type style on an ipad for commissions. Any line that looked out of place and resized would be pixelated therefore I would keep redoing it til it fit, and developed this technique. This will work for art that require this amount of cleaness, like a coloring book.
As a habit many artists should practice having clean, confident lines in the first place so we don't edit a ton. Thats why many of us, including me today, don't even have a lineart layer. So as a traditional exercise you can even practice drawing with intentional lines from your arm in pen a lot so you have to live with your mistakes :> (like me HAHA).

3. the Tips in here apply even to traditional art and other softwares
Such as clear, lower opacity sketch, (use putty eraser more) drawing from the arm, and reducing friction work in most digital art softwares, you DON'T need procreate. Also the above clarifications doesn't mean the rest of the techniques are wrong. These techniques still genuinely helped me to get better at line art, soemthing that was a weak point of my mine since my art is usually on the messy side. I'm really happy that it's helped many of you!

TLDR just read points. :> Thanks for the love and see you in the next artventure!💛💛💛

[Maren]

Tip to save you from future wrist pain: train to hold your pen differently. If you hold it in the classical posture gripping it more with the tips of your fingers (between thumb tip and pointer finger/middle finger), you can draw small details by moving your fingers instead of your wrist. Some schools don’t teach pen postures and then people end up suffering their whole lives due to never having learned more efficient and gentle ways of holding pens, so I thought I’d share this technique in case someone finds it helpful. ❤

[imrankabu]

Please don’t delete this, this is really helpful!

[michealadebz]

Just saved this video dunno how your giving this out for free.

[Jonanation]

5:23 I was studying Akihito Yoshitomi, a great mangaka who posts his process on youtube, and he doesn’t go at a medium pace. For long strokes, he goes slow with more pressure to kinda feel out the direction of the stroke. Then he really quickly, precisely finishes the stroke. In his videos the sound of the pen is very apparent, and there’s a specific combo of sounds that I’ve found is the ultimate lineart trick. It goes (Bear with me here, it’s hard to replicate sounds in text lol. Watch one of his videos and you’ll hopefully get it)
So yeah! I think it’s good practice to draw the lines as fast and energetic as you can without sacrificing precision. You can do line excercises too, enabling you to draw faster lines more precisely.

[кошка_в_окошке]

me, a person with no lineart or even sketches: yeah, that's exactly what i need
there's no videos with the technique i draw in so i watch everything

[Hurrurhooligan]

Just dropped by to say that I am absolutely infuriated with myself. I spent y e a r s wondering why when it came time to draw line art, it came out awful. Turns out putting effort into sketches is beneficial lollll Seriosuly thank you! It feels like I just whipped through a years worth of practice, all because I took time to actually put love into my sketches instead of trying to scribble out a vague outline of what I'd eventually want!

[yankee]

The day i realised that line art =/= tracing literally changed my life. I’ve stopped trying to trace any of my work, and sometimes, my line art looks as messy as my sketch, but it just looks so, much better.

[ItsScapeGoated]

I've been recently following Mika Pikazo and LAM for inspiration for my lineart and creating my style. I love the slightly wobbly, broken like lines they use. Especially for when they draw the eyes, what most people would see as a mistake/imperfection they use to give the eyes more depth and body.

[andrea_granieri]

I love ambient occlusion and hatching too (but not cross-hatching)! I get very inspired by the lineart of Even amundsen, Tb choi and Knight Zhang.
BUT sometimes I also like even lineart, it gives almost a "cozy felling".

[cheese_k]

bro dropped the best lineart tutorial and thought we wouldn't notice

[JayMutzafi]

I’ve been on a week long deep dive into drawing videos and this is one of the better tutorials I’ve seen all week.

[remuvs]

Can't be understated how useful brush pressure is, having lines which aren't uniform in width do a lot for the personality of the final product.

[Blue_Orchid_Flowers]

This has definitely changed the way I think of doing line-art now, this was so useful!

[SkyPearlzG]

Thank you so much! I'm still a beginner artist(and don't really have many art tools)so I'm not the best at drawing just yet, but I will make sure to keep these things in mind the next time I do draw! I'm sure it will help me improve my lineart and art in general a lot!😁❤️❤️

[luvrbeau]

this is actually the most helpful video i’ve come across so far.
i’m new to digital art and i was having such a hard time. thank you SO much!

[vantran]

Thank you so much for the useful and brief tutorial!!!

[kubraozdemir]

This video answers all my questions. I’ve been looking for a content to fix my lineart for a very long time. This is very helpful. Thank you.

[thatsmaik]

Amazing tipps, really helpful, and chill vibes - thanks!

[no]

Oh my god, this tutorial is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much!