Outlining With Procreate

Learn to outline with these three techniques: standard brush outlining, adding a white stroke to an existing outline, and removing an outline to create a negative-space outline!

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Let me know in the comments what you would like to see covered in upcoming episodes...you might see your idea come to life!

[sweetirishrose]

I really appreciate that you show us that you erase a lot until you’re happy. Most people just can do it in one go and I thought I was weird for redoing lines constantly. You are so easy to follow along with, thanks!!

[deadbytwenty]

Would be really helpful if you showed how you set up your brushes to get those nice lines.

[REDP]

Have my 12.9” on the way. didn’t even think about how easy sketching would be and having no erase marks or faint old lines. I am so excited to get drawing again. For a while I was doing pen tool on illustrator and i felt pretty limited.

[davidbyourplanb]

I didn't know about that reference layer - that sort of changes everything
THANKS!

[jayarts]

For me, it depends on the mood of the artwork I'm doing! Right now, I've been doing a lot of fall themed art, so I make my lines layer in a very dark red, duplicate it, then take one lineart layer and apply a gaussian blur to it and it looks soft!

[SirDude]

I love it! I clicked on this video for the line information, but you answered two bigger questions / problems I was having. The "reference" setting and the "streamlining". Thank You!

[CrustyCowboy]

I learned that having the outline on one mask and alpha locking it, I could change the line color by painting over them. It doesn't let the color bleed to the other layers

[trasure]

I love the procreate two finger tap erase. The only problem I have with it is when I draw on paper I get annoyed that tapping the paper doesn’t work before I remember I need to use an actual eraser.

[CatAndCloud]

Just found this tutorial! Amazing - under 15 minutes you saved me days if not weeks of work. I installed procreate few weeks ago to create complex illustrations for my book and now learning it at the pace of 1-2 hours a day after work. The reference layer you mentioned and your method of creating shadows using black layer is a treasure! I will now go browse all your other tutorials to see what other hidden treasure are there :) The ones I am looking for in particular are:

1. Layer modes: multiply, difference, burn etc. So far tutorials from other people confused me even more!
2. Layer grouping but without merging

3. Perspective tool to create scenes and larger characters, e.g. to plan location/size of eyes, paws, etc.



Thank you again for an amazing tutorial!!!!

[magiashkii]

I love when I watch a video and learn something new. I didn't know about the reference feature when doing line work. This will make things so much easier! thanks

[Nancy__]

Amazing tutorial! I found it really easy to follow.. I appreciate that you filmed your natural flow and didn't edit

[MamaLionessBeauty]

I’m so glad I found this video! This is the exact style I’m trying to achieve with my drawings. Also a huge fan of the creepy cute art 🙌🏻

[danalane]

Still new to procreate- you just showed me a few tips that are gonna save me massive headaches! Thank you!

[ariagrumpy]

You can set your highlight and shadow layers to "clipping mask" so it technically can't go out of the layer beneath it

[Icht]

Just got myself an iPad Air 5 a few days ago and tried to start drawing without any experience or talent. After a few days and some tutorials, I was really upset because I was not getting the results I wanted. Just watched your full video and applied everything you said here. One hour later, my designs already look a lot better. You're a legend!! Thank you!

[kristoffalltrades]

Thanks for the great tutorial vid. I learned a lot. My favorite part was making the line art layer the reference layer. It made coloring easier.
I just noticed in the last technique where you let the background do the lining, we lost the white highlights. But overall, i love this tutorial vid. 😊

[sheldonlacsina]

Shadowing opacity technique...GENIUS! Thanks man!

[decalpals]

You showed how to select one layer, then move to another layer and clear the second layer of any overlapping pixels. I've been manually erasing to remove those extra pixels. This is much faster and will save me so much time as the designs I do very often require that technique. Thanks!

[jayillustrator]

This was an AMAZING tutorial! I learned so much in that small amount of time! Have you done a tutorial on the next stage in this process (formatting the drawing file for print on tshirts)? What does that look like in procreate?

[steveblais]

Great Video Just starting on Procreate. I appreciate the pace you work at to, well done! Learned so much. especially like the shadow trick too