#thank you linear burn on procreate

[finalfivecarts]

[botanicaxu]

Hello Botanica I admire your art so much ❤️ do you mind giving tips on how you improved your art over the years? I would also be delighted if you could show us what your drawing process is like a little bit, if not thats cool too🤗 have a great day!!✨

Hey there! (*waves*) Thank you so much for the love <3 I'd be happy to share some insights on the topics you mentioned! (Sorry that it took a while.)

I think I’ve been drawing for almost 20 years now (Whoa!). Honestly, I don’t even know how I made it through, but ever since I was a kid, I knew art was a necessary part of my life. Looking back now, I’m just glad I stuck with it!

This piece is like a visual timeline of my art evolution. It’s wild to think I went from those super basic kid doodles to the style I have now. Growth is real, y’all!

So the tips! (They are mainly for those hobbyist artists, since I don’t have the luck to make it as my career.)

Keep your eyes and mind open to learn from different fields. It’ll spark fresh ideas and enrich your art, but always double-check when diving into unfamiliar territory.

Find tutorials that vibe with you, and collect references IRL.

Use primary sources to avoid distorted or AI-altered refs.

Take your own photos as ref.

Use 3D websites like Sketchfab, Blender for 3D assistance, and posing apps or manikins to help with your art.

Practice consistently. Balance your time between quick sketches and more polished pieces.

Accept where you are now and improve from there. Don't let others' opinions or other artists’ activities throw you off your path.

If art’s your hobby, the goal is to have fun! No pressure to push boundaries unless you’re feeling it.

Let’s move to drawing process. I’ve been doing hand-drawn art for more than a decade, but had to fully switch to digital media after 2016. Now I usually use Procreate for sketches and lines, then use Clip Studio Paint and Photoshop for colors and adjustments.

I’m gonna share two sets of process. One is for generic character art, and the other one is for pieces influenced by environment.

So character art is like:

(More under the break.)

Do some (very) rough sketch to locate the characters → Line art

Define coloring section → Do flat basic colors, adjust the tone via gradient map, change line color

Add more details, use airbrush to shape the volume → Rendering (layer mode: multiply, linear burn)

More rendering (layer mode: screen, overlay, soft light) → Post effects

Done!

The next is art influenced by environment:

Make a color sketch to set the general tone → Line art

Flat basic colors (background & characters) → Darken the art (layer mode: multiply), add more details

Add more details and begin rendering → More rendering, lighten some parts (layer mode: screen)

More rendering, use gradient map to adjust the tone → Post effects

Done!

Wow, this turned into a long post! Hope you found something useful here! Thanks for sticking around till the end! 🙌✨

[perennimal]

In love with the final look of your illustrations … correct me if I’m wrong but you use lighter colour/linear burn with gaussian blur? As well as noise? What I’m curious about is how you go about first picking your colours. (Your compositions and themes are very cool too, big fan)

heya thanks! I think digital programs offer all kinds of tools that make fussing with colors like a magic trick. Unless I already have a strong color palette in mind, I usually just color flats pretty basic and play with the many tools Procreate gives me. I also like using various effects and layer types such as overlay, linear burn, etc like you mentioned. I’m continuously inspired by photography/cinematography and my fellow peers for color ideas. I’ve circled what you can usually catch me using below

[where-does-the-heart-lie]

im curious about you doing lineart, how you do it? you use a multiply layer or something?

Hello hello!

I usually draw with the brush Dry Ink which is one of procreate’s default brushes, but in my most recent post i use the brushes from this pack

I use a dark brown color (#816833 (hexidecimal)) that when im done coloring, i put the layer on Linear Burn 👍

Thanks for the ask!

[shyhandart]

Hey I really love your artwork, it looks like it was drawn traditionally and I was wondering how you're able to achieve that aesthetic. Do you use any specific programs or is it actually drawn on paper?

Hello!!! Thank you SO much.

I use procreate!

The first step i use is to put a paper texture over the entire background, and set that layer to multiply. All other layers are drawn beneath this one.

I use the peppermint brush in the sketching category for just about everything. Its a pencil brush i with a really nice texture to it.

Ive found that the trick to getting digital art to look traditional, is to use the same techniques i use when i do traditional art. Which means i often use an eraser at a lowered opacity instead of the undo tool, and i never have my pencil size set to more than 10% (tho i fiddled with the brush size settings so that may be larger or smaller for you) and its opacity is like 67% percent

This includes coloring. insert peter griffin death pose. It really does make a difference tho. Doing tiny little circles like you would traditional colored pencil gives it little gaps of less color that really makes it look real

As for my line work, im not sure this adds to the traditional illusion, but i duplicate that layer at set it to linear burn. Gausian blur the linear burn layer 2% and clipping mask a warm and saturated color

Also, i dont actually do ink. I just clean my sketch

Also also!! Above the multiply paper texture (sorry i lied earlier) if you do a fully white overlay layer at 20-22% opacity. If you add 167-169% noise, set the setting to multi and turn off additive, it gives the texture of noise without changing your colors!!

[itsoddissey]

IM SO OBSESSED WITH YOUR ART If I may ask, how do you color your line art? How do you choose the colors, since it's always so vibrant!

I often use a blend mode on the lineart layer called color burn or linear burn (on procreate) to help me to choose the colors I will use, or sometimes I do it manually with colors I think look good :]

and thank you sm!!!!! ^D^

[d1nnerd0g]

hii if you don’t mind my asking, what pens do you use to line/color in procreate? your art is really beautiful!

thanks! narinder pencil or more recently a (downloaded) drawr brush (just a flat circle with variable opacity), then color over on a layer with linear burn.

[nimesoreol]

Oh my goodness, I have to know, how do you go about making your art look almost lineless? I love the look of your recent post, it's so smooth!

Thank you! In a sense it is lineless but done in a way where you actually do line art if that makes sense. I'll post a little process breakdown below but basically...

First I have a sketch prepared and set it on linear burn at a low opacity setting like around the 30s or so

And then in layers below I'll start blocking out colors by line art with a textured pen and then filling it in.

I like using pen brush ♡ from the csp asset store but some of those drawings were also done in procreate that gives it the more textured look for those is use the dry ink brush

Example of how it looks when im doing it

Basically a lot of layering of like head - eyes - hair on layers under your sketch to use and a guide and once you do all that you can get more into details

I hope this helps! ＼(٥⁀▽⁀ )／

[cowboy-robooty]

Dude we gotta know, are your doodles traditional or digital cause

I CANT TELL LIKE IT LOOKS LIKE MARKER OR WATERCOLOR BUT LOOKS LIKE A DIGITAL LINE ART??? HUHH?????

What filters are you using, what programs, what markers, PKEASE EXPLAIN

OMGGG HAIII!!! **waves at you** okeoke so i assume that this ask is only for my most recent poast. bc also i sometimes rarely post my traditional doodles too lol dis blog is a mixed bag but my latest post IS all done digitally and heres what i did!!

the programs i usually use are procreate and/or ibis paint (for the ipad) and my latest post was made from procreate

as u can see.. i used different brushes in both drawings lol. i change the brushes i use a lot because i get bored of one brush and sometimes just choose random shit from procreates default brushes. abbie's watercolor brushes are a free to download brush pack though that you can find with this link below!!

for the extra paper texture for le drawings i looked up a picture of paper online (this one was used below)

and then i put it on top of all the layers and set it to multiplay and changed the opacity to what looked good to me. sometimes ill instead make the paper layer darker color or linear burn. it all just depends on what i toggle and looks good to me!

and then my lines were done with procreate default brush gel pen

i hope this was thorough enough........ and if it was too lengthy well.. its better to explain too much than too little ^_^ THANK U SO MUCH FOR LIKING MEIN DRAWINGS UWAAAA!! >u< ai hope this helps!!

[ash-and-starlight]

What’s your favorite brushes + coloring process on procreate? I love your palettes! They’re so vibrant! and how smooth the blending/layering is! I’m not exactly new to digital but my first program was painttol sai and making the switch to procreate has been so difficult... pls don’t feel obligated to answer this! I just really love your style and you seem like you won’t mind me asking! Love your art so much btw hshshsh zukka rights!!

The brush I use are basically all Procreate default, mostly the hard edge airbrush for lineart and coloring, the ink studio pen for base colors (and sometimes shading), and the fine line ink pen for tiny details. As for the coloring 1) thANK YOU??? And 2) like literally everything I do, it’s mostly fooling around and finding out, i think for me something that really smoothed my coloring process is adding a low opacity layer above the base colors in a bright-ish shade and set it to either linear burn, color burn or multiply (depending on the vibes). And yeah I totally feel you, I switched to procreate about a year ago and I STILL find out new stuff about that app on the daily ((there are a lot of good tutorials on YouTube tho if you have the patience to watch them …which I don’t lmao))

[hansketchbook]

Supergirl Art Process

Hey guys! so I posted a Supergirl fan art post recently and I thought hey, maybe I should do a process post for Supergirl and dive into the steps of how I made it. I won’t be going in TOO in-depth but I’ll do my best to elaborate on each step. One thing to note is that I drew this digitally with Procreate using an iPad Pro, not traditionally with pen and ink. Okay, let’s jump right into it!

1. Sketching

Of course like any other artwork, it started with an idea - and I had this idea of creating a fan art of a DC character and somehow I thought of doing Supergirl. So, I started brainstorming and sketching it, thinking of what pose I should make her be in - I ended up liking the idea of her just flexing her bicep, doing a power pose cause… she’s Supergirl, and she’s… super strong. Okay, I honestly didn’t do a lot of alternate poses, I just did one, and immediately liked it so I ended up just sticking with it xD Anyways, this is the preliminary sketch that I ended up with. I did it in a blue pencil sketch just so it’d be easier for me to do the inking later. The brush that I used is the default Derwent pencil on Procreate.

2. Inking (outlines)

Next step, inking. So, once I’m happy with the sketch, or once everything is set in place and I’m at a point where I feel like I don’t need to add anything else, I’ll start inking using Procreate’s default Gesinski inking brush - I really like this brush, mostly cause there’s this texture feel to it and I also like how the thickness of the lines spread when applying pressure. It’s one of my favorite default Procreate brushes! (maybe I should make a custom brush someday).

3. Coloring (flats)

After outlining the sketch, I then applied colors to it. My coloring process is pretty simple. I don’t have a painter mentality so I mostly just do flat colors or simple cell shaded style coloring. I sometimes play around with gradients but for this particular artwork I just stick with flat colors with no shading whatsoever. I did this by carefully selecting each part and just applying color to them - I separated each coloring area into different layers e.g. yellow hair layer, red cape layer, blue costume layer, etc. This is to make it easier if I were to make changes to the different parts of the coloring without affecting the other colors - also, it’s nice to be organized :D

4. Adding details

At this point, I added a bit of detail onto the hair, the cape and her face. I applied some reds to her cheeks, lips and nose (I imagine applying make-up to her face, how would it look?). Also, we have blood running through our veins and sometimes it shows naturally on our faces, so applying some ‘blushing’ effect would make it more interesting.  

5. Adding shadows

This is the step where I feel like the artwork starts to pop off, giving it more depth. The way I did the shadows is by first establishing where the light is coming from (in this case, it’s coming from the top left), then from there I only apply darker shadows to the area I believe would have shadows (where it would make sense). The shadow is on a separate layer - which I set to ‘Linear Burn’ and dropping the opacity down to where I think would look okay. Where you put the shadows depends on where the source of light is, as well as your knowledge on where shadows should be casted (it also depends on the complexity of your illustration e.g. simple shadows for simplified drawings). 

6. Highlights

Now, aside from adding shadows, highlights can also help in giving ���depth’ to your illustrations - making it feel much more three dimensional, like an object that’s actually placed under a source of light. In my opinion, it can help significantly boost an illustration, and helps make it pop off the page / screen.

7. Color grading

At this point we’re pretty much done. But for extra icing on the cake (depending on the type of mood you’re looking for), you might want to do a bit of a color grading just to add a certain mood or tone to your overall illustration. In my case, I added a new layer on top of the artwork, give it a dark yellow color, set the layer to ‘Hue’ and drop down the opacity to 30%. It gives out this washed out color tone to it instead of having the overall color being too bright (keep in mind that I do have the option of applying a washed out color from the start but this trick is much more flexible as I could experiment with multitude of different tones / mood on a single layer). But this is ultimately an option and completely subjective. Some might prefer the overly saturated color instead of under.

AND THAT’S IT! 

Hope it helps a little or at least gives a bit of insight into my art process. Thanks for dropping by and till next time! :D