How to FAKE LINE ART in Procreate
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- Here’s a line art trick that I’ve used in almost all of my illustrations that have taken a lot of time. It’s one way to reduce the amount of hours that it has taken to create these artworks.
I wanted to create a separate quick tutorial for this so that people wouldn’t have to comb through one of my longer process videos to find this information.
Let me know if you’d like to see that line thinning tutorial. It’s a bit more complicated way to editing masking selections.
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Thank you for taking the time to make this! I had asked about this technique when I saw you do it quickly in the Zero Hour video. This will save me so much time! I almost always avoid doing line art because I’m so lazy haha. Thanks again! 💙
Ps love love LOOOOVE your watercolor brushes right now. I was taught to paint with watercolor at a young age and it’s been so much fun to play around with it digitally. Your brush making needs more attention because they are so beautifully made it’s like paint art with art.
Thank you. I’m just going to awkwardly pin this comment as a way of shameless self promotion 👀🐻💕
I couldn’t agree more Michelle!! Mikko is 💯!
Its an fact to became lazy on detail work lols
I do this a lot to make sticker outlines. But for me, after I do the guassian blur, I auto select the area around the blurred object with 0% threshold, then I invert, then I fill the selection with the same color. That way the line isn't blurred at all, it's nice and crisp.
This is a cool method, thanks for sharing
This works for single objects but auto selection isn’t great at jumping from one colour pool to the next even if it’s on the same layer so I wouldn’t trust it to handle complex unconnected line art shapes.
Thanks for sharing this. How do you do the auto select?
@@angrymikko Yeah, more suited to something like stickers or if you want tbe character to pop out of background 🙌🏻 also, what you explained was a killer 🔥🔥 Thanks for that too man ❤️
@@east_coastt It's the 'Automatic' selection in Proceate. When you go to selection and tap to select an object in "Automatic" mode. Best for selecting 1 color/closed area or after finishing something like a sticker.
You have no idea how much this will help me, I recall struggling to slowly and painfully draw inside and erase outside of lines and all that pain can just now go away?! Thank you Mikko!
Select your layer
Inthe palette menu, use "select"
Use the Feahter tool to expand the selection
Create a new layer
Use the Fill layer option in the palette menu
Selet the original art again
go to your new layer and use clear
Done
This is a great technique that I use myself. You can harden up the lines and shrink them as well by selecting inverse and deleting. This combined with your technique can help you finesse the line weight and hardness a little more.
oooh, that is a neat trick did not know you could even do that.
I’ve been using Procreate for years now, and yet I still don’t know all the handy-dandy art tricks.
Thank you so much for making a great drawing hack video, I will definitely be using this in my future artworks!
This is the most ingenious thing I’ve ever seen. Also, this illustration is incredible.
Double thanks 🐻
As someone just getting into the digital space you really expanded my way of thinking in how these tools can be used. Thank you!
Exactly! As you can see, it is not so much interesting to learn a way to do things, but rather to know how the various tools work in order to invent new ways.
Me: reads "how to fake a lineart"
"I'VE NEVER CLICKED SO FAST"
On basically any software that has layer effect, though, it can be done with a single button click (to turn on either "outline" or "outer glow"). Procreate is like one of those apps that are both claimed to be pro enough yet not providing layer effect.
As someone who is still learning Procreate. I appreciate any technique videos you put out. Could you please do a video on how to make sunlight "POP" in the sky and clouds? I think you used the technique in the video with the house, cherry blossoms and sunset sky. I know many people would really, really, appreciate that.
This is helpful for people like us, who are transitioning to Procreate from desktop programs. Mobile apps still has their limitations, but they also have so many good things about them too.
Thats really helpful..and yes, would love to know, how to make the line art thinner.
Thank You.
It’s basically the next level of crazy after this technique. I’ve done it a few times in my livestreams but honestly I’ve never been explaining it while I go through the steps because it can be kind of a brain twister.
Both of these techniques are great for opening the creative possibilities with masking and selections.
Once you have the basics down it’s possible to adjust these methods to whatever it is you’re trying to achieve through masks and selections. All of my graphic illustrations are basically just variations on those masking tricks.
Not sure if it's possible on Procreate but you basically have to erode the line art. Maybe gaussian blur then adjust brightness curve would work. But of course that leaves really weird looking crosses.
So alternatively you might try just use an auto vector tracer to convert the whole thing, then adjust line width there. Not sure if there's actually any auto tracer that converts lines to lines rather than filled shapes, though.
Or you might as well just trace the whole thing yourself, which is the "correct" way to do it. And next time you might choose to draw on a vector program before colouring instead.
This is the kind of video we need! Tips and Tricks!! Thank you most art videos when they say tips tricks / hacks / etc usually just instead talking about the same color theory, color picking, hadings lines, human proportion, and other generals info within 30 minutes videos -_-
Thank you so much for sharing literally tips and tricks 🔥
Most of the content on this channel is about art videos and tutorials. This is not an art tutorial. Learning to use an app has nothing to do with learning to paint. However this is a useful workaround to using this app until it (hopefully) gets updated so that this video becomes obsolete.
Amazing! That logic makes sense. For PS you can choose "stroke" to create an outline outside of the shape of the new layer.
very helpful- pretty new to procreate but man i learned a lot just watching how quickly you do things- like pinching layers to merge - i didnt know you could do that - thanks!
The thing with touch screens is that it makes some buttons unnecessary because of gesture controls but I understand that some of those gestures can take a second to learn. In the bigger picture though. All apps are easy it’s art that will always be hard but that’s what makes it exciting too.
oh my god, thank you?? this is the BEST trick i’ve ever seen, i already know it is going to help me a lot!!! you’re a life savier
What an absolutely brilliant technique. Thank you for dropping the knowledge!!
I am 100% obsessed with your videos. Lol you have some of the best advice and your art is everything I inspire my art to be. Never stop🥰
wow this just blew my mind. Thank you for sharing this. it will definitely be useful in the future.
interesting what you did there , creating the plant lines that way ! i`m new to procreate, glad i found this
Wow your line art is amazing
This is super helpful, thank you! Just recently subscribed but I'm really glad to have found your channel; your tutorials are easy to follow and understand, and your works and personality/mindset are very inspiring. Keep up the great work!
Fun fact:
This is only an 8 minute video but there was an hour of footage.
Why?
Well I’m so glad I asked myself that!
My neighbour was drilling her wall so there’s. 50+ minutes of drilling noise and me in between trying to get through this tutorial literally one sentence at a time. There’s literally 10 minutes between several of these sentences and footage of just me staring at the screen while listening for the next break in the noise 😅
Gosh that sounds painful 😭
Your dedication and hard work are very much appreciated here, honestly 👏👏👏
omg u opened a lot of new possibilities for me right now! Thank u!!!!!!!!
Thank your this tutorial! I already use to use it for making thicker outlines around characters. Very useful indeed.
I’m very intrigued by the “Leaf Ornament” brush, under BOM folder in your brush library. I’d love to see it in action and understand its dynamics as well.
That seems like a good situation to use this :)
Leaf Ornament is a brush that creates outlines for a brush stroke. It’s made to fit the stroke width of the other brushes I gave for channel members around that time. (It matches Cell in that collection) I used it in both of the illustrations shown in this thumbnail too.
Thanks, Mikko!!!
Thank you so much for this!
Omg what a amazing hack Mikko!!! Also YES PLZ plz plz plz on that video about how to make your line work thinner!! I feel like I struggle a lot with that in procreate 😭! Amazing video as always Mikko!! 🥰🥰🥰
All right I guess it needs to happen. Would make sense to make one after this video because the information here is sort of a good stepping stone to the thinning method.
this illustration is AMAZING and this video was really helpful!!!! keep doing your best!
How has no one else told us about this!? I've never seen this before and It would have helped me so many times.
also yes please for the other video
I'm a beginner artist so I'm nowhere close to getting to using this tip but keeping it in mind for later will surely be helpful for me, thank you
Yes, it's definitely important not to miss the beginning part where I explain the context in which this is useful. In a simple drawing this would take more time than save it.
such a cool and usefull technique! Thanks!
Love the tips and tricks thanks!!
MY MIND IS BLOWN!!! WOW
That avatar image is amazing ❤️🐻
that technique is genius
Great stuff mate! Thanks ✏️
Glad you enjoyed it
Very clever!
Yo mikko my favourite artist ! great work ur growing faster than ever ❤️🐻
It’s a constant source of surprise that so many people have chosen to follow this channel. Without a doubt it’s the biggest art project I’ve ever done. Now that so many artists are doing the #artfromcomfortzone challenge, it feels like the channel message has grown much bigger than anything that I could ever have accomplished on my own.
@@angrymikko well either way you are a great artist who is doing fantastic work u are are an inspiration
You’re too kind 🐻❤️
Oh my god I tried it out and I love it-
!!! This is so helpful! And it's helpful even if you don't have procreate, I use medibang paint pro, and I just tried this out and it works! ^^ Thank you so much!
Thanks for sharing this. I’m sure I’ll find a lot of uses.
Interesting method! This is how the Difference of Gaussian (DoG) edge detection algorithm works, just done manually.
Awesome! Thanks
I dont know why I'm here because I use my messy sketch as lineart but this is interesting
In my next video I used my sketch lines as final lines. It’s not necessary to use all techniques for all art but it’s good to have options to choose from when deciding what’s a good fit for the work you are doing.
This technique is only useful in very specific situations as outlined (ahem) in the beginning of the video. But when it’s a good fit it can really save time and energy.
This is so clever!
Thank you for sharing this!
Juste.
Génial !
Thanks you sooooo much.
Excellent!
Omg this is genius! Thank you for this
Thank you, Mikko.
Thank you so much!! I’m gonna save so much more time
I tried this technique on the human face 😅 the results were interesting 😅 but at least now i have a way of blocking poses from references
This is such a slow way to create fake lineart. What I do is just draw the filled layer, add a contour effect it and set the color fill of it to the BG color. Takes 30 seconds at most, instead of 8 minutes. And it looks way better too, becaus the contour is sharp, unlike the gaussian blur,
Thank you!
This is so brilliant and useful! Thank you!
OMG thank youuu so much this is actually really really usefulll aaaa thank you
No problem!!
I wish procreate had a better way of outlining selected areas. This trick works but the lines get pretty deep fried, which is fine for small details but can get noticeable on larger ones. In paint tool sai I remember there being a feature where you could do something along the lines of expanding your selection outwards by 1 pixel in every direction, so you could select the plant, expand the selection by a few pixels, fill that on a layer underneath and bam easy outline.
Yesssss for the longest time I've wondered how to mimic the PS "stroke" function on procreate, I guess this is the closest thing!
Awesome great job👍✌️✌️😃
Amazing tips! Thanks 💜
Thank you for making this tutorial!
This is so incredible amazing! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
your art really really inspires me! Thank you so much!
That is so smart!! Thanks for sharing
Awesome! I would gladly see a video on how to make the lines thinner
Already published one after this.☝️
This is such a huge time saver, thank you🤙🏾
It takes a certain kind of scenario where these steps save time. But when working with super detailed scenery it has absolutely saved my ass from tight deadlines and more importantly from the headache involved in trying to untangle the overlapping lines. 🤦🏻♂️
:00 that blew my mind!! thats amazing!!
this is so helpful!! may i ask what size canvas you use?
Depends on the painting and the phase of that painting. Easy answer is: as big as my iPad allows it to be.
Useful 🌺
Oh, this is cool! Thank You!
Terve Mikko! This was an awesome video! These tricks you shared wow! I would’ve never have thought to try that trick and to be honest, I didn’t even know you could even do that! (also the Finnish lessons are going great, I’ve been busy so I haven’t had the time to practice again but it’s going well :) ) Paljon Onnea! -T
Good to hear you’re making progress on this language :) Pian voidaankin sitten kirjoitella kaikki kommentit suomeksi täällä.
@@angrymikko rakastan tuota 😌
You can actually do this on Clip Studio Paint.
The Guassian blur is in the filter tab on top.
For erasing/isolating the space around the lineart after you merged the layers multiple time you jist need to use the magic selection tool (it's a magic wand. Dk the proper name) and the select the area outside of the lineart. Then just press delete onyour keyboard. It will erase everything in the selcted era.
Sorry if it's unclear.
There’s a stroke function like in Photoshop so I would just use that instead if you’re working with CSP. The filled shape is needed for erasing and colours so I’d keep them for the same reasons no matter what program you’re using.
Thank you for this! :D
Ooh, technical wizardry 😯 so handy once you know how.
Very nice
This is amazing I can't wait to start using it
Too genius to be true, thanks!
What a procreate GameShark!
Lol. It is in the right situation.
Magic
The mans a genius
Thanks Mikko for your talent and tutorials. Awesome
how do you make thinks glow or shine like that? I've noticed that you've used some shiny things that you already had saved somewere, are those things that you can buy or that you make and save for future designs?
I paint the glowing parts separately for each painting. Usually I use additive/screen or lighten blend modes for those.
cool!
Nice
Honestly rather than adding thickness after all that done, drawing the line art by tracing the green color is still faster
Great work! How long does it take you to get finished with an outline? And do you have a service to get outlined work done? Like a coloring book art style?
but the thing is after trying to select the green one, when i try to change the layer the selections like stop pls help 😭😭
huh... blown away by the fact that it was a clickbait that actually delivered
I am not sorry 😂
All that for Procreate not willing to introduce layer effect and nondestructive adjustments... Like sure, it only cost like a fraction of what other apps might charge for, but on larger projects those extra features likely would save loads of time, for those that do the whole project on iPad.
This is cool and tysm BUT hear me out why not just open ibis and click extract lineart?
I’ll assume that you didn’t watch this video because that function in Ibis only solves the easiest part of the three problems that this technique is useful for.
Extract lineart in Ibis is handy for sure but even if it was a feature in procreate it wouldn’t speed up the workflow regarding the problem this technique is solving.
Doing the cut takes the least amount of time compared to erasing the overlaps or making a selection mask for painting later.
Also to state the obvious; this is a procreate trick. Like mentioned in this video you could also say that using stroke in photoshop does the same thing as all of these steps but that’s not really helpful for people using this app. It wouldn’t even be useful for photoshop users since layer styles aren’t on the iOS version yet.
@@angrymikko fair point. Didn't mean to disrespect your effort tho. Actually now that I learned this I'll be using it myself - so thank you a lot, my comment was more of a joke and I had no clue you'd actually read it
angrymikko? More like bigbrainmikko
I have a question, when I go to the layer where I have to "select it". I don't get the crossing hatching lines and it turns everything black. Not sure why. :(
Could you point out the time in the video so I might be able to understand the situation a bit better. I can’t guarantee that I’ll be able to help but I can try :)
@@angrymikko It's was at 4:28. When I tried to do it, it wasn't selecting anything. Thanks for the help, I found out what I did wrong after like 20 mins of fooling around with it. It appears I had the fill tool selected as well. So instead of going around the selection, it was filling it in with another colour. I appreciate the help. :)
I’m glad you figured it out. I honestly wouldn’t have been able to guess what the issue was without actually seeing your screen in that case. There’s a very thin context sensitive bar that appears in the top of the screen when working with tools that use the slide feature. It’s kinda hard to notice because it’s so small but it also says which tool you are currently using if you find yourself getting unexpected results from doing the sliding action.
Sweet
when i click "select" on the layer it says "selected layer contents" but I don't see the stripes that usually appear when u select something and when I click ont eh layers tab my selection goes away
Procreate, but I can do this in CSP also~ thank you!
CSP has a layer stroke that you can use to skip the layer expansion phase completely. Just make sure you use the antialiased version or the stroke will have jagged edges.
I would like to see a tutorial on how to make the line art thinner.
Just released a follow up to this today :)
Wow.....Mikko you are the Procreate god...so creatively using those tools~*
Does ProCreate not have expand/contract for selections?
I made a workaround tutorial for that after this video. Hopefully it will be obsolete someday.
Wait why not just make the layer underneath slightly bigger instead of use the Gaussian blur thing? Or am I missing something?
That would only work with a geometric symmetrical shape and that would be faster to draw with your normal line art brush anyway. This method is only useful for complex shapes that can’t be easily selected nor traced by other means.
Instead of a new layer with clipping mask, you can just alpha lock your layer and fill it.
That is sometimes an option but fill thresholds can sometimes leave elements unfilled especially if they are not physically connected. That’s why I described the clipping mask because it works with any kind of layer below it. Those leaves btw aren’t all connected so a fill on the same layer would miss the unconnected leaf bits. In a complicated element those can be easy to miss sometimes so I use the clipping mask as an additional safety net to avoid reworking stuff I might have missed.