• Dark grey cover with images of colourful characters including portraits, fantasy and sci-fi. Title is in white and pink text.
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Beginner's Guide to Digital Painting in Procreate: Characters

Beginner's Guide to Digital Painting in Procreate: Characters

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This book comes with an exclusive bonus Companion Booklet.

Bring characters to life on your iPad® with creativity and ease, using Procreate™ to conceptualize, sketch, and paint directly onto the screen.

Master the basics, from setting up your first canvas to using a selection of tools such as Brushes, Layers, and Adjustments to add depth and energy to your creations. To achieve details such as hair, skin, and garments, you are guided through tools and techniques for character-specific results.

Whether you draw characters from reality, or dream up new, fantastical beings, this book unlocks your design potential with Procreate for next level-results.

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This book comes with an exclusive bonus Companion Booklet.

Thanks to Procreate, designing characters for the entertainment industry can be done creatively and efficiently on the iPad. In this book for newcomers to the software, several renowned and experienced designers demonstrate how they do it, sharing not only their professional tips and tricks, but also how the traditional character design process translates to Procreate. Whether you sketch or paint, draw from reality, or dream up new concepts, you will become fluent in using Procreate for all stages of character design.

Take the opportunity to observe and practice the techniques as part of a real-world workflow, as professional character designers demonstrate in seven step-by-step projects how to use Procreate’s tools to successfully evolve a character from initial thumbnails to final hero pose.

Whether or not you have used Procreate before, the Beginner’s Guide to Digital Painting in Procreate: Characters ensures your character ideas and concepts become fully realized creations on the iPad screen. Expert artist-authors include: ANTONIO STAPPAERTS, AMAGOIA AGIRRE, KORY LYNN HUBBELL, PATRYCJA WÓJCIK, JORDI LAFEBRE, OLGA “ASUROCKS” ANDRIYENKO, and FATEMEH HAGHNEJAD “BLUEBIRDY”

- Begins with an easy-to-follow introduction to Procreate’s essential tools and techniques 
- Explores rendering skin, hair, garments, and other character-specific elements
- 6 fully illustrated, step-by-step tutorials reveal your iPad’s potential, from thumbnails to final pose
- The gallery breaks down further workflows, showing key stages of an expert design process
- Techniques, tutorials, and artwork specially written and painted by industry-leading character designers

Product details
Softback 216 pages
Dimensions: 280mm x 215mm
Paper quality: Full-color premium paper pages
ISBN: 978-1-912843-35-0

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Contents and contributors

INTRODUCTION

HOW TO USE THIS BOOK

GETTING STARTED

The user interface
Setting up
Gestures
Brushes
Color
Layers
Selections
Transform
Adjustments
Actions

CHARACTER DESIGN FOCUS

Workflow
Lips
Ears
Noses
Eyes
Hair
Materials
Liquify

TUTORIALS

Solarpunk girl
Olga “AsuROCKS” Andriyenko

Phantom musician 
Lisanne Koeteeuw

Sorceress 
Amagoia Agirre

Mongolian rider 
Jordi Lafebre

Potion-maker 
Fatemeh Haghnejad “BLUEBIRDY”

Gunslinger wizard 
Kory Lynn Hubbell

BREAKDOWN GALLERY

GLOSSARY

TOOL DIRECTORY

DOWNLOADABLE RESOURCES

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

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Cedric
a good base and a lot of different examples

The book is synthetic and progressive to have a better comprehension of colors and is full of different type of examples. The companion booklet is also interesting for step by step method.
you can download materials to follow the book. It 's very easy to work everywhere with your ipad and the book.
I just test two of the examples and will work on the others as soon as possible.

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