Inking in Procreate
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Getting familiar with your brushes
The first thing I'd recommend doing is finding or fine-tuning your brushes. Procreate comes with some very nice, default inking brushes. Create a new test document or a new layer to test out and get a feel for your brushes. Give the Studio Pen, the Technical Pen and the Brush Pen.
Scribble for a bit. Doodle. Get a good handle on your brushes and how they feel. Make any adjustments you need to so that they feel right for you.
Once you've got your brushes the way you like them, create a new layer or canvas. Start your sketch using whatever you feel most comfortable loosely sketching with. Inking brushes are nice to sketch with with the opacity turned down a little bit. Or, you might prefer a pencil brush with some grain.
Sketch loosely and freely on a new layer. Get the whole thing down quick, more gestural for now, don't worry about each eyelash. You can always turn down the opacity of this layer and make a new one on top of it and clean up your first sketch. This is very useful when they drawing isn't necessarily flowing and needs a little figure-out.
Adding detail
Once you have a sketch that you're happy with, and it contains enough information for you to go to ink, create a new layer and reduce the opacity on the sketch layer.
Stick to your sketch as though it were a very good suggestion, but don't be scared to make new adjustments that come to you along the way. If one part of the sketch is exactly how you want it, stick to it exactly. If you find yourself improving another area but straying a little from your initial drawing, don't worry about it. Nothing wrong with improvement.
Pinching-in to get closer to working areas will improve the accuracy of your lines. Zoom in as far as you need to. For more detailed areas, zooming in even more will prove very workable. With Procreate you can quickly, intuitively and very naturally zoom in quite close to an area to lay in even more fine details. You may need to adjust the size of your brush, making it smaller the closer you get.
Moving the canvas for easier strokes
Don't forget to quick-pinch your canvas to snap out to a full view of your image often. Procreate makes it very easy to quickly get in there for details but you don't want to stay in on one area for too long. You need to keep your entire image, the total, in mind.
Pinch and rotate your canvas as needed, as you would if you were working on natural paper. Certain strokes will be easier to accomplish with the canvas rotated to accommodate your hand's natural movements.
The further along you get in your piece, the more finished your drawing gets, the more often you might find yourself zooming in to certain areas. Don't stay zoomed in too long though, move in and out to make sure what you're doing is working for the image as a whole.
Finishing up
Once you're happy (or in this case, satisfied) with the inked layer, you can either hide, clear or delete the sketch layer leaving only the finished, clean ink drawing. In most cases, I would just recommend hiding the sketch layer so that it's there to be turned back on if needed.
This is the first of two guides I have done to Inking in Procreate. See the second guide here.
2nd
Start with doodles
Again, I recommend starting with some loose sketching. Just draw whatever comes to you. After I had a couple of scribbles I decided to do something more with the face. I duplicated the canvas, erased the flamingo and the rest of the other doodles and sketched the rest of the man's face. Went with whatever came to me at 4:00 am—some corny sci-fi theme.
Setting up
By transforming the original sketch layer, I was able to position it with room for more of his body. I sketched with a pencil brush using blue as a color. Then I adjusted the opacity to let it fall back, to ghost it out and began inking.
Adding detail
Once I had everything blocked in pretty good, I started making new layers so that I didn't have to worry about new adjustments. On a separate layer you can draw over, fill too much or draw right through a form and just erase out the parts that aren't supposed to be there.
I create new layers all throughout the inking process and merge them down once I like them. The sweeping lines of his helmet/hat thing for example, we're done with separate layers so that I didn't have to worry about having the line begin and end at specific points. I just swept right across and erased out the parts which went too far.
The importance of blacks
At this point I went with black areas to pull some forms out toward us and push other back behind others. This is what my blacks look like with the line layer hidden.
Kind of has a neat look to it. And just inking the black areas of a sketch (not each and every line) can produce a nice blown-out look. From this point it was just more layers and more details—zooming in and out, merging layers when I was happy.
I opted for a dark background and using other large brushes, dusted in mostly black. I did this on a new layer, not worrying about the drawing. I blocked blacks right over him. When done, I reduced opacity so that I could see my guy here and erased any of it that covered him up.
Putting it all together
Once clean, I brought the opacity back up and made all layers visible.
Don't be afraid to head straight to ink!
Sketching with ink is fun too and can produce some very lively and fresh drawings. Often when images are inked meticulously they can lose their life and feel too rigid.
But if you are going to clean up a sketch with ink, I'd highly recommend a well thought out under drawing. Invest the time. it makes a big difference not only in how easy the inking process will go but also in how strong the final image will be.
Happy inking in Procreate!
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