Painting from GRAYSCALE to COLOR | TUTORIAL

Hey all!
Took some time but I'm finally back with some content!
I wanted to make this Procreate tutorial for a while cause it's something I used to struggle a lot myself until recently so, I hope this is useful!

Timecodes

0:00 - Intro
0:30 - Base value paint and its structure
1:51 - Which brushes I use?
3:35 - Layers setup
4:42 - How to colour without affecting the values
6:17 - Picking the colour palette
7:04 - Let's apply colour to my painting
7:42 - Adding direct sunlight
9:38 - Ambient and bounce light
10:23 - Balancing shadows and lights and polish
11:20 - Final touches.. does it ever finish?
11:54 - Depth of field
12:25 - Thanks and subscribe for more!

MUSIC:

Intro:
Sara De Santis

Background music:
Fabrizio Botto

Procreate, Procreate Tutorial, Procreate digital paiting

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[mox__art]

Ok, the sunlight part got me mindblown

[Anodoria]

The simplifying of lighting boiled down to sunlight/non-sunlight is an absolute game changer and really clicked as something I can more easily wrap my brain around when I’m trying to simplify my process!! Thank you for this, everything was explained so nicely and was super helpful.

[ingridchang]

This is a 2 yr old video but I felt the need to comment that your sunlight/bounce light/blur layer technique is going to simplify my process soso much, and as someone who isn’t familiar with color or color theory it is much needed. Thank you for this incredibly informative video!

[aspillust]

this entirely changed my worldview of digital art and i'm so excited to pick up my ipad and use these techniques for a new piece 💖

[miscellaneous]

1. By selecting pixels on existing layers, color the whole painting on color layer mode (base colors layer)
2. Copy and merge the whole thing and copy the layer again to brighten it with curves and warm it up with color balance (light layer)
3. Now you have the base layer and light layer. In between put a new layer and clip the light layer to it. By painting on that layer you reveal the sun light.
4. Add bounce light in the shadows

[Dazuam]

I would absolutely love to see a tutorial on how to do the initial sketch :3

[Kitomsg]

this was insanely helpful, I've been looking for a tutorial like this for days now but you seem to be the only one I've found who covered this topic so well. Thank you!

[lorandcherry]

What you started doing at 7:42 is mindblowing! I never saw that step in the millions of tutorials I've watched. This boosts me to try drawing an environment again after several disappointments ❤🥺

[IL_]

Going over the "warm light makes cool shadows" and environmental backlighting is so important. I only just recently discovered this and my work greatly benefits from it! Seeing it in action and hearing your explanation is wonderful and I wish I had found you way sooner. Thank you for teaching! ❤❤❤

[anamarleticia]

I've been trying to learn how to paint and this was great to strenghten my knowledge as well as learning new things, thank you!!

[wolflover]

Oh my god thank you. I just got into digital art and this is the first video I’ve found in the entire two months I’ve been doing it that actually answered my questions and helped me understand the process instead of telling me the skills I need to have (because I already have the skills from traditional)

[KevinSanchez-oljd]

Thank you so much for showing the layers. Gives me an idea of how to start background designing!!! Not all artist do that!

[NefelibataArtistEverythingArts]

THANK YOU!! Every other channel was just shooing away procreate artists and showing Clipstudio and Photoshop grayscale to color with gradient mapping. This is so fun and makes everything go faster!

[mavellan]

Thanks a lot for this tutorial! I checked many of tutorials for this theme but none of them were in Procreate and I really like your results! Also I use procreate for over a year and never realized how perspective tool works :’D

[tmvward]

This was incredibly helpful - I def need to try the technique with the lights and Gaussian blur on separate layers. Thank you for sharing this knowledge and skill!

[erinr]

Amazing tutorial and painting❤I’m so glad I found you🎉

[Ben]

I just found your video now and got mind blown with your techniques! I always wonder why my final artwork always feels so flat despite my attempt in colouring in the shadow and the highlight as well. I didnt realize when i paint directly to the layer without utilizing the layer blending mode or painting my values first in grayscale, i was losing all of the values in the drawings which is why it makes my drawings feels all flat. So, thank you so much for the explanation and guiding us through your drawing process from start to finish! <3

[waengboy]

thank you so much for telling us the detail of the layers, not many artist do that in tutorials but that is actually really helpful for beginners like me!

[_graymatters]

Holy buckets, that end result is STUNNING. Thank you so much for the tutorial!!

[matthieuhelias]

Your videos are incredibly useful!
I didn't know the full process to go from grayscale to color and was just doing the color application.
Now I think I can make more finished drawings.