Create Illustration in Illustrator on the iPad from Photo and / or Sketch - Step by Step Tutorial

In this step-by-step tutorial in Illustrator on the iPad, Tim takes you through all stages of creating Illustrator artwork on the iPad starting from a sketch or photograph.
This is a small part of a Sketch to Vector course which is comprised of 10 separate standalone projects where he shows you the techniques for creating most types of graphics in Illustrator on the iPad that are based on an original photograph or rough sketch. Whilst he will take you through every stage of the process, it might be helpful for you to do my Illustrator on the iPad course first before starting these, however it is not essential. There are coupon codes below to get this course for a great price.
Tim will be using a range of tools from brushes, pens, pencils through to basic shapes as well as the Type tool. He will also show you how to do shadows and highlight. For coloring up we will use flat color. There is some time spent in Layers and Properties.
Tim will be using Procreate to create his initial pencil sketch from the photo but you can use any software you like. You could even print the photo out and sketch over it with a real pen or pencil and then scan in your sketch.
All you need is an iPad with an Apple Pencil and copy of Adobe Illustrator for the iPad.
The video is made up of chapters so you can stop throughout the video and practice on your own. Any questions, please ask.
0:00 Intro
0:36 Choose Photo & Trace in Procreate
3:13 Draw in Color 'Flats' with the Pencil Tool and Color Panel
9:01 Use the Pencil Tool to Create the Eyes
13:33 Paint and Blob Brushes - New Adobe Illustrator iPad 2022 Features
15:23 Draw in the Ink Lines Using the Illustrator Blob Brush
21:47 Create the Imperfect Circle
25:18 Using the iPad Illustrator Pencil Tool to Add in Some Shadows
29:55 Using the iPad Illustrator Pencil Tool to Add in the Highlights
32:18 Finally Add a Striped Background with the Rectangular tool
32:51 Free Skillshare course details
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[@be_ai_art]

You are a good teacher! I enjoy your lessons! Thank you!

[@RedrocketstudioUk]

Thank you so much, and you're very welcome! 😀

[@CathyNeale1]

Thank you so much for this video I tried learning illustrator as a fashion student when at uni I gave up! But now I’ve gotten more into art I use Procreate I want to start selling my work but I need it to be in vector so I can save as an SGV. After watching this and you explain everything so well I’ve decided to give it another go! Thanks again

[@RedrocketstudioUk]

Glad I could help and so pleased to hear! That's really encouraging. Enjoy and good luck Cathy!

[@rosemhdl1351]

Your voice is so calming I feel like I’m watching art therapy lesson yk, reminds me of Bob Ross’s voice 😅💕

[@RedrocketstudioUk]

Thank you. I’m just not sure about getting hair like him 😬😬

[@pappysprite]

@@RedrocketstudioUkThank you for the video. I’m just getting started on Illustrator for iPad. Can you help me with something? How do I crop my artwork? I want to make sure my design is absolute center. Thank you!

[@RedrocketstudioUk]

@@pappysprite so sorry I missed your comment. I've only just seen it. Best thing to do to crop is to make a rectangle shape the size of the crop on top of all the artwork, then select all the artwork including this shape and choose Make Clipping Mask from the Object area on the right. I hope this helps.

[@Witchhazelway]

This was one of the best tutorials I have ever watched. Thank you for being so helpful, clear and not too fast describing the steps. :)

[@RedrocketstudioUk]

Thank you so much! Really appreciate it! 😀

[@nine-fivemeta6897]

Thank you and God bless you

[@RedrocketstudioUk]

You are so welcome!

[@legionforwearemany]

Brilliant! Thank you so much!

[@RedrocketstudioUk]

You're very welcome :)

[@ravaandugan9239]

very easy going and helpful tutorial, thanku!!

[@RedrocketstudioUk]

Thanks so much Ravaan!

[@Mana_Ski]

This is such a wonderful tutorial, I'm a Procreate user which I very much enjoy but I'm beginning to feel that a more powerful programme may be needed as I'm focusing more on my art nowadays. I've been looking into illustrator and this has really helped me to see whether the programme would meet my needs whilst demonstrating a simple yet well executed project. I'd probably still be using procreate for sketches so it was nice to see you demonstrate the same tactic :)

[@RedrocketstudioUk]

Hi Mana - Thanks so much for the lovely feedback. I also use Procreate a lot. However, I also use a similar package called Art Studio Pro. It's very similar to Procreate but has a lot of extra features that one gets in Photoshop. Worth a try. Of course it is not vector. If you find that the Adobe packages are too pricy it's worth having a look at Affinity Designer - very similar but there's just a one-off fee. Hope that helps! Tim

[@erlenwillim]

wahhh, thankyou for the tutorial, do a lot vector illustration please, i'll waitting for it :D

[@RedrocketstudioUk]

Glad you've enjoyed 😀

[@missdomo21]

You are AMAZING!! This is such an amazing tutorial! Very happy I found your channel!

[@RedrocketstudioUk]

Thanks so much Annette! 😊

[@Eyan-]

this video was amazing! I just got illustrate and this was basically a full tutorial and I learned so many new things from this

[@RedrocketstudioUk]

Brilliant so pleased to hear!

[@WarPhotographer1974]

You are a Godsend! Thank you so much for all the help. I recently finished the graphic design part of my Web Design degree, and your help has been immeasurable.

[@RedrocketstudioUk]

Thank you so much for your comment. That’s such good news and so pleased to be have been able to help. Best wishes on the rest of your degree. 😊

[@MsWearer]

Best tutorial so far, you’re going nice and slow. I can actually keep up! 👍

[@RedrocketstudioUk]

That’s great to hear! Thank you 😊

[@masgarch]

Thanks a lot for doing this totorial. It was peaceful, very clear and learnt so many things. 😊

[@RedrocketstudioUk]

Thanks so much Annavel - really glad you learned so much!

[@formfransyskan]

Thank you so much for this! Peacefullness and clarity (so rare) 👍🏽😊🙏🏽

[@RedrocketstudioUk]

Thanks so much Anna. 🤩

[@shiueweiliu6772]

So interesting and inspiring to watch the digital illustration.

[@RedrocketstudioUk]

Thank you! So glad you enjoyed it!

[@johramusa7230]

Really amazing explanation.

[@RedrocketstudioUk]

Thank you so much!

[@ARTTHERAPYbyShelly]

Enjoyed watching this! You're such a good artist. Don't stop creating Red Rocket 😉 Greetings from my side, see yah 🤗

[@RedrocketstudioUk]

Thanks so much Shelly! :)

[@tonic4834]

Great tutorial

[@RedrocketstudioUk]

Thank you Toni 😊

[@CHAPTERZONE]

Enjoyed and looking for more tutorials about line art logo in illustrator

[@merce414]

Thank you very much

[@RedrocketstudioUk]

You're welcome! :D

[@usoz6853]

Very very helpful clip this one. Thank you ❤

[@RedrocketstudioUk]

You're welcome! Glad it was helpful!

[@NedaDraws]

Nice work!

[@RedrocketstudioUk]

Thank you 😊

[@NoorSadrilahAhmad]

That is such a good video. You are such a good teacher. It is easy to follow step by step on how to trace from a picture. The only thing is that after we fill in the colours, and add in the shadows and highlights, what do we do next? Do I remove the tracing layers if I want to print my artwork?

[@RedrocketstudioUk]

Thank you so much for your lovely comments! So glad you enjoyed this. You can either hide the layer, or if you've finished, you can just delete it when you're ready for print. Hope that helps. :) What sort of image did you do?

[@NoorSadrilahAhmad]

@@RedrocketstudioUk Hello, thank you for your kind reply. I want to design a contemporary artwork for fabric but first, I want to practise drawing like what you have taught online.

[@RedrocketstudioUk]

@@NoorSadrilahAhmad that's great. Keep practicing and you'll get to where you want to. I have a Facebook group that initially was only for my Udemy and Skillshare students, but I'm going to open it up to others with an interest such as KZbin followers. If you're on FB and are interested it's facebook.com/groups/590509472874195 - there are questions to enter, but instead of username for Udemy or Skillshare put KZbin. I'm going to change them soon - Ally

[@lsdreamls4752]

Thank you

[@RedrocketstudioUk]

You're welcome :)

[@jayt214ify]

You do such amazing work what is the charge to redo art with step by step guide video so I can re color an use for t shirt screen prints etc. ?

[@RedrocketstudioUk]

Sounds interesting. :) Can you send me a low res jpg of the artwork so Tim can see the artwork before we quote. [e-mail]

[@BBBDD1974]

You forgot important thing how do you pick your pictures from your photo or procreate into illustrator you did not show me that part, please show me or tell me how?

[@RedrocketstudioUk]

Hi Baloys - ensure it's on your iPad - then you choose the Place tool on the left hand side and click on Files. This will allow you to choose the image and you can then just click and drag the size you want it onto your Artboard.

[@CesarJuarezVargas]

Why not doing the initial tracing directly on Illustrator?

[@RedrocketstudioUk]

Hi - it's much easier to do it in Procreate as it becomes a sketch and it gives it a bit more of a freehand look. However, if you feel comfortable sketching directly into Illustrator, then by all means miss out that step and do it in Illustrator itself.

[@CesarJuarezVargas]

Thanks for responding. Well, starting from the fact that any sketch look has the same origin (a photo), the work of creating the freehand look would be the same with either Illustrator or Procreate. I am not sure were the advantage of using Procreate is versus Illustrator is both start from the same image. Maybe I'm missing something. @@RedrocketstudioUk

[@RedrocketstudioUk]

@@CesarJuarezVargas If you use Illustrator to sketch with, you will get very smooth lines which follow the contours of the photo fairly closely and I find my images look too close to the photo original. By having the inbetween stage of the sketch I find that I am reducing the detail and when I redo the sketch into vector, it's less like the original but more like my own freehand style which was what I was after. Neither way is right or wrong. Just do what works for you. Hope that helps.