Procreate Cartoon Tutorial: From Sketch to Finished Design!

Grab your iPad and draw along with me as I create this wacky, cartoon fish! We will start with a sketch, add inks, move onto color flats, drop in our shadows and highlights, and then wrap it up with a quick background!

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[CraigBabin]

I still remember the first video of yours that I watched, I think it was "Digital Art 101", I remember you were drawing a turkey. It had to be about 2 or 3 years ago. And I remember thinking, what a great cartoon drawing style you have and I hoped your channel would get big and that you wouldn't quit before it did. It's nice to see your channel doing so well. Great traditional style cartooning artists are in short supply on YouTube, I'm glad you stuck around. Your work is a big inspiration.

[lemmingwrangler]

Literally just started learning digital art with Procreate, and this was my first tutorial. Every step so clear and easy to follow, and I'm already chuffed with the results

[Flite]

omg...my jaw dropped when you dragged the color to the picture and it filled in automatically. Picking up so many cool shortcuts in this video (yes I am a new Procreate user). Thank you!

[englewood]

I am a 70 year old illustrator who has decided to take the Procreate leap! Thank you, thank you for assisting me in learning this program. You are helping me so much!

[alexnewmann]

Thank you! After all those years I did a good art thanks to you

[jakenastysnake]

I’m just starting out with Procreate on my iPad. Watching your videos is helping me learn the ins and outs really fast. You’re very good!

[DavidNeal]

Thank you! I'm so glad I watched your video. I learned how to use Reference + Recolor. Daggum, I've been doing it the hard way for years!

[katiehoeppner]

Thanks again! Today I finally get how recolor works…. Plus, what a fun grumpy fish!

[rhondamoore]

New to Procreate, and I’m really enjoying going through your videos!

[marcschwertfager]

My favorite sketching technique:
1. Create a black silhouette first. (Helps me in focusing entirely on proportions.)
2. Lower opacity of previous layer, add a new layer and create my first sketch over.
3. Again, lower opacity of previous layer, add a new layer, then refine, adjust and add a bit more detail.
4. Repeat step 3, until satisfied. 🙂

I find creating new layers of sketches in steps helps me create "Save Points", if you will, in my project in case I want to revert back to a certain point.

Also, thank you for sharing your process with us. It is very interesting to see how others work and very helpful as well!

[Thatboiijeremiah]

Love from Indianapolis, Indiana. Son of an artist named Donald Walton… This video has blessed me … thank you 🙏🏼

[fitsumaberatsehay]

Great work, BJD, and very best way of teaching. With love from Ethiopia 🇪🇹.

[Urbestieivy]

Wow. Just did this. Thank you so much for breaking down the layers! It was so confusing. But I did it and it’s awesome! Thank you!!

[beatsbydivine]

This takes me back to art class in high school. Enjoying learning this. Waiting on my apple pencil so I can download Procreate and start doing graphics. Thanks

[danielmason]

Happened across your channel a couple weeks ago, and have been binge watching when I can … love your work, and really appreciate the in depth tutorials with procreate … thank you :)
Will be giving a couple of them a shot soon …

[artat]

You make it look so easy. Amazing video.

[jadeclayson]

Massive thanks - I am learning SO much watching your videos. Appreciate your efforts 💕

[sidneyjohnson]

This was pretty cool. I have been messing with procreate for a little while now and I like your process. Thanks for the lesson.

[HANAAEWAS]

Cool cool cool thank you very much 🌸🌺👍

[simmo]

Easy to watch hard to do. Creativity isn’t something we all have, great job really enjoyed this 👍