Inking the Jacket

Inking the Jacket

With the torso inked, the jacket can be overlaid.

Designing Animatable PSD Characters in Procreate

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Downloadable Source Files

  • Accessing Course Exercise Files
  • Animatable_Characters_Files.zip

Introduction

  • What You Will Learn in this Course
  • Adjusting Canvas and Resolution
  • Setting Up a Reference
  • Quick Overview of Procreate

Sketching Our Character

  • Sketching the Head
  • Adjusting and Refining Head Sketch2
  • Sketching the Hair
  • Sketching the Body
  • Sketching the Limbs
  • Adjusting Arms
  • Cleaning Up Sketch

Inking the Head

  • Examining Layer Hierarchy and Layout
  • Setting Up Document for Inking
  • Inking the Head
  • Inking the Hair3
  • Inking the Hair Strands
  • Inking Ponytail

Inking the Body

  • Inking the Torso
  • Inking the Jacket
  • Inking the Neck and Collar
  • Inking Limbs
  • Inking Hand Poses
  • Duplicating Front Limbs

Coloring the Character

  • Coloring the Head
  • Coloring the Body
  • Coloring the Limbs

Shading the Character

  • Shading the Face and Hair
  • Shading Bangs, Eyes and Ponytail
  • Other Ways to Shade
  • Shading the Body
  • Shading the Limbs
  • Shading the Feet
  • Shading the Hands

Highlighting the Character

  • Highlighting the Head
  • Highlighting the Body
  • Highlighting the Limbs, Feet and Hands
  • Merging Shading and Highlighting Layers

Creating Additional Mouth Poses

  • Sketching Out the Phonemes
  • Inking the Phonemes
  • Coloring the Phonemes
  • Shading and Highlighting the Phonemes
  • Shading and Highlighting Lips

Sketching Profile and Front Head Views

  • Creating Guides for Head Phases
  • Sketching the Front Head Phase
  • Sketching the Front Hair Phase
  • Reviewing Front Head Symmetry
  • Sketching Profile Head and Hair

Wrapping Up

  • Exporting File for Animation1
  • Final Thoughts