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Drawing Cute Characters in Procreate

Learn how to draw adorable animal characters using the iPad Pro's robust Procreate app!

Drawing Basics

The first part of the course spends time examining basic drawing skills that can be adapted to any style.

Cute Theory

What makes a character cute? We will explore this concept with several styles and approaches, giving us the building blocks to tackle our projects.

Drawing a Cute Fish

We will take our drawing basics and cute theory and build a cartoon fish from scratch. Here you will learn all about inking, line weight, coloring, shading, highlighting and basic background design. 

Drawing a Cute Cat

We will draw a second animal from scratch. While several steps from the fish are repeated, new approaches to sketching, coloring and composing are applied allowing for more variation.

Procreate crash course that can be applied anywhere

While this course also acts as a crash course for Procreate, you can use any drawing app you wish to follow along. Perhaps your old school? No problem! Break out that pencil and paper and let's get drawing!

Contents

Downloadable Source Files

Files for following along with the course.
Overview of Exercise Files
Cute_Characters_Exercise_Files.zip

Introduction

What You Will Learn in this Course
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Prerequisites for this Course
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Quick Overview of Procreate
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Basic Drawing Guidelines

The Theory of Cute

What Makes a Character's Head Cute?
Examining How to Design a Cute Body
Exploring Cute Styles
Exploring Cute Versatility

Sketching and Inking a Cute Fish

Sketching Our Fish
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Refining the Fish Sketch
Inking the Fish
Cleaning Up and Adding Line Weight

Coloring, Shading and Highlighting Cute Fish

Applying Flat Colors
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Overview of Shading Techniques in Procreate
Applying First Layer of Shading
Applying Second Layer of Shading
Applying First Layer of Highlights
Applying Second Layer of Highlights
Designing a Background
Finishing the Background

Drawing a Cute Cat

Sketching the Cat
Sketching the Background
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Cleaning up Sketch
Inking the Cat
Inking the Background
Applying Gray Values
Coloring the Cat
Coloring the Background
Coloring Other Set Pieces
Adding Final Touches to Cute Cat

Wrapping Up

Here we export our projects and I share my final thoughts.
Exporting Files from Procreate
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Final Thoughts
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