Painting from GRAYSCALE to COLOR | TUTORIAL

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Hey all!
Took some time but I'm finally back with some content!
I wanted to make this Procreate tutorial for a while cause it's something I used to struggle a lot myself until recently so, I hope this is useful!
Timecodes
0:00 - Intro
0:30 - Base value paint and its structure
1:51 - Which brushes I use?
3:35 - Layers setup
4:42 - How to colour without affecting the values
6:17 - Picking the colour palette
7:04 - Let's apply colour to my painting
7:42 - Adding direct sunlight
9:38 - Ambient and bounce light
10:23 - Balancing shadows and lights and polish
11:20 - Final touches.. does it ever finish?
11:54 - Depth of field
12:25 - Thanks and subscribe for more!
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[@Ariabba]

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[@poplyrics169]

Thank u for the video.. It's wonderful.. Btw, do u know how to do it in krita? Because i couldn't find the blending layer

[@Ariabba]

@@poplyrics169 in Krita you can find it in the Layer tab, over the layers you can see a drop down menu with the written word "normal", if you click on it you can choose the others!

[@mox__art]

Ok, the sunlight part got me mindblown

[@Kooparik]

Yeah 👀

[@wooshinwev4329]

Fr my life is changed

[@Killaskills101]

@@wooshinwev4329 fully changed

[@Anodoria]

The simplifying of lighting boiled down to sunlight/non-sunlight is an absolute game changer and really clicked as something I can more easily wrap my brain around when I’m trying to simplify my process!! Thank you for this, everything was explained so nicely and was super helpful.

[@Dazuam]

I would absolutely love to see a tutorial on how to do the initial sketch :3

[@Ariabba]

Will post it than ☺️

[@Zazash_91]

@@Ariabba whate brushes do you use ?

[@Ariabba]

@@Zazash_91 I use the round brush in the painting section and sometimes the flat brush or the airbrush

[@Zazash_91]

@@Ariabba thx

[@Curryfishballa]

One tip, paint in shapes. Alot of artist paint like they are sketching or drawing which is not recommended to achieve a painterly look and feel.

[@ingridchang976]

This is a 2 yr old video but I felt the need to comment that your sunlight/bounce light/blur layer technique is going to simplify my process soso much, and as someone who isn’t familiar with color or color theory it is much needed. Thank you for this incredibly informative video!

[@Ariabba]

Really glad this is helpful 😊

[@aspillust]

this entirely changed my worldview of digital art and i'm so excited to pick up my ipad and use these techniques for a new piece 💖

[@Ariabba]

Glad I could help!

[@Kitomsg]

this was insanely helpful, I've been looking for a tutorial like this for days now but you seem to be the only one I've found who covered this topic so well. Thank you!

[@drawideas223]

I never learned so much in a single tutorial, thank you very much!

[@anamarleticia]

I've been trying to learn how to paint and this was great to strenghten my knowledge as well as learning new things, thank you!!

[@KevinSanchez-ol3jd]

Thank you so much for showing the layers. Gives me an idea of how to start background designing!!! Not all artist do that!

[@ikumiikumi7512]

This was SO MUCH fun! I appreciate how clear you were. I'll try applying this on my drawing tomorrow. Thank you so much ;33

[@MohammedAnsariRiz]

Awesome. You explained the process so clearly and simply. 10/10.

[@lilcoolbean2048]

This is incredible :0 I found everything super useful and easy to understand, I’m very excited to use these tips :3

[@happyfishdesign]

Genius instruction on adding sunlight and reflecting light / color! Thank you!

[@Ishidalover]

Going over the "warm light makes cool shadows" and environmental backlighting is so important. I only just recently discovered this and my work greatly benefits from it! Seeing it in action and hearing your explanation is wonderful and I wish I had found you way sooner. Thank you for teaching! ❤❤❤

[@marshalllee7418]

i am surprised you only have 10k subscribers,, this is a professional level tutorial and very straight to the point and short. I haven't got my tablet but I'll definitely keep this tutorial in mind, thank you so much!

[@mirtki8749]

This is the first video about this topic that actually helped me understand the whole process, so thank you! You’re amazing

[@ilariavitali8409]

Your videos are the most informative tutorials I've ever saw. Great process, thanks for sharing

[@cherry-zg9ln]

so useful and PRETTY! thank you!

[@lhiljulianne9067]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!! you have no idea how long I've needed to find a proper colouring tutorial!! ie always had trouble with colouring and with procreate itself and I knew I was only good with colouring in greyscale but I thought that I was doing it wrong. Also thank you for showing us how you do the lighting!! :))

[@Evansmustard]

I can’t wait to get home and play with this method tonight. Awesome guide~

[@amylunden8246]

Your videos are so helpful and well put together! Thank you so much for putting this together. ❤️

[@mavellan796]

Thanks a lot for this tutorial! I checked many of tutorials for this theme but none of them were in Procreate and I really like your results! Also I use procreate for over a year and never realized how perspective tool works :’D

[@supernu21]

I love this method! Thank you for this in-depth description of the process ⭐⭐

[@donutyue]

Thank you so much for sharing your techniques! I would usually stop at layering base colours when trying to paint on grayscale because it always looked so ugly but now I understand the stages afterward!!

[@bigprwn9922]

One of the best videos ive seen for digital painting! Thank you ❤

[@dee2035]

this has genuinely been the most helpful video ive ever seen on coloring, thank you!

[@Lisa_Thy]

Thank you for the awesome tutorial, one of the best tutorials I’ve ever seen! You’re great at explaining :D

[@rhorodz7779]

Thank you so much for this tutorial!! I hope you publish more.

[@Drawing-Life]

Great tutorial! So well explained, love your painting style :)

[@God0nion]

Thank you so much! I was looking for that kind of tutorial :D Well explained!

[@Armilar255]

I just found gold! thanks for sharing!

[@elboman]

Amazing as always!

[@alfredmanzano680]

Thank you! Definitely learned something new in procreate from this.

[@marieunuka22]

I really love your technique at the end when you blur things out and erase the foreground! Such a great tip to know 🥰 Also love how you add sunlight and bounce light by duplicating and adjusting the saturation Arrrg so cool! Thank you 🥰🙏🏽

[@dellawoo6045]

I know this video has been out for a while hut thank you so much for the detailed step by step explanation! I was trying to do values painting but everything turned out so dull and I was so lost but your video helped a lot!

[@flet7355]

You explained it so well! Thank you for the tutorial :D

[@artbyot]

extremely helpful video!! thank u!

[@tuvx4081]

SO GOOD THANK YOU

[@daywalkertpify]

Some really good tips. Thank you Ariabba

[@tempodreams2130]

That was amazing! I didn't know about this technique to do sunlight, but I'll definitely try it now.

[@yehezkielferdin2036]

Thank you very much for this!

[@DragonHeart55]

I have been trying to find a tutorial on how the heck you're supposed to turn a grayscale painting into a color one for FOREVER and haven't been able to find one, thank you so much for making this!!

[@Donma_Lardo]

This is the best video I have seen in my life! thank you thank you thank youuuu! 🙌🙌🙌

[@freshguac3148]

im not an artist but i love to see the process, its sooo relaxing and calming🙂

[@arianaaguilera8572]

i lov your work ! thanks for your beautiful tips!

[@gulsahinan74]

gosh this was SUPER helpful and easy to understand, thank you so much!!!

[@brandonjacksoon]

Awesome tutorial))) thank you Ariabba!

[@marcelo25758]

Amazing! thanks so much for all the tips. That sunlight one blew my mind :)

[@mylittlemeowmeow5256]

Thank you so much. I’m really love your videos 😭🙏❤️

[@waengboy4258]

thank you so much for telling us the detail of the layers, not many artist do that in tutorials but that is actually really helpful for beginners like me!

[@Ariabba]

Really glad it was useful!

[@gkzx6933]

Thank you it helped me very much

[@godjihyosdisciple]

this is perhaps the coolest video i have ever watched it feels like my third eye was opened thank you so much

[@galaxydriver32]

god this tutorial is so good and full of clever steps, thank you!!!

[@Ariabba]

Glad you like it!

[@shennaki8517]

I’ve learned so much! Thank you

[@Ariabba]

Happy to help!

[@Eagle_Owl2]

The advice with the sunlight layer was so helpful, thanks a lot!

[@Ariabba]

Glad it was helpful!

[@sleeplesspanda9794]

I can't thank you enough for these tutorials ❤ every technique is useful and effective yet you explain them so well, easy to understand

[@Ariabba]

Happy to help 😊

[@tmvward]

This was incredibly helpful - I def need to try the technique with the lights and Gaussian blur on separate layers. Thank you for sharing this knowledge and skill!

[@Ariabba]

Glad it was helpful!

[@dks9151]

this was super helpful thanks

[@maikoe7198]

Absolute masterclass

[@monkeymonkey789]

Thank you for this video. I was struggling with this.

[@Ariabba]

Glad it helped!

[@Hayonaaa]

love this tutorial, thanks

[@exleydragon231]

Thank you so much for the tips

[@djkohai8882]

you have no idea how much this helped ilysm

[@Ariabba]

So happy to hear this!

[@simsley5501]

I didn’t know about the save and load option for selections - that’s game-changing!!! Thanks for the awesome tutorial!

[@Ariabba]

Happy to help!

[@lucasarnack2610]

Hey, your work is amazing!!! Thank you for explaining so well

[@Ariabba]

Thanks! I'm glad you like it!

[@danielavillalobos2757]

I really appreciate this tutorial ❤ l learn new things 🤩

[@sittruslight4242]

This was so helpful! Thank you!!!

[@lynn9265]

Thanks for the great tips!

[@Ariabba]

thank you so much, I'm really glad it helped 😊💙

[@user1086982812]

Great! Big thanks!

[@matthieuhelias1400]

Your videos are incredibly useful! I didn't know the full process to go from grayscale to color and was just doing the color application. Now I think I can make more finished drawings.

[@Ariabba]

Glad it was helpful!

[@_graymatters]

Holy buckets, that end result is STUNNING. Thank you so much for the tutorial!!

[@Ariabba]

Glad you like it!

[@exleydragon231]

Criminally underrated

[@wolflover1223]

Oh my god thank you. I just got into digital art and this is the first video I’ve found in the entire two months I’ve been doing it that actually answered my questions and helped me understand the process instead of telling me the skills I need to have (because I already have the skills from traditional)

[@Ariabba]

Really glad this helped!

[@doctorlatte2515]

really helpful video!! thank you so much!

[@Milan-cw7zs]

Amazing! So glad I found your video! After looking at so many greyscale to color videos… I found yours which is the best. It was incredibly helpful. Thank you 😊

[@Ariabba]

Glad it helped 😊☺️

[@alanclinton7044]

Love your work and seeing the process is amazing I'm definitely subscribing

[@Ariabba]

Thanks! I hope this was useful! 😊

[@user-dz3ij5gz5h]

Thank you for making this tutorial! This was very informative and helpful!!

[@Ariabba]

Really happy to hear it was helpful!

[@eliz.107]

what an amazing human you are! so much information is put into this video in a way that teaches and inspires everyone who watches. like, seriously! out of all the tutorials I've seen on grayscale painting, yours is the first that makes me want to immediately pick up my pen. so thank you so very much! 💛💗💛

[@Ariabba]

I'm so glad it helped 😊😊

[@sergioflores5149]

this is such a grate tutorial !!

[@Ariabba]

Glad it helped 🙂

[@HiepHoang-xk5lo]

Thank you, this video is very helpful

[@lorandcherry]

What you started doing at 7:42 is mindblowing! I never saw that step in the millions of tutorials I've watched. This boosts me to try drawing an environment again after several disappointments ❤🥺

[@netofacci.animations7512]

So nice! thank you!

[@guillaumecorbin8133]

Amazing content! Thank you very much!

[@kinanintan1668]

it’s really helpful thankyou so much

[@Ariabba]

Glad it helped!

[@NefelibataArtistEverythingArts]

THANK YOU!! Every other channel was just shooing away procreate artists and showing Clipstudio and Photoshop grayscale to color with gradient mapping. This is so fun and makes everything go faster!

[@Ariabba]

I'm really glad you liked it 🥰🥰

[@mehsido6750]

Thank you so much for this ! Pls keep up the good work, your art is awesome !

[@Ariabba]

Happy this helped!! 😊😊

[@fat0meh165]

So Helpful

[@Akimitsu64]

Thankyou! I’ve been looking for how to do this for over a year! 😁

[@emiliapraharasukma3852]

This is really helpful for me who didn't even know how to started in digital painting especially the value part. Thank you so much for this amazing tutorial and the artwork is really pleased my eyes. Keep up the good work ✨✨

[@Ariabba]

Thanks for your kind words! I'm happy this was useful!

[@jakewaitart9507]

This is awesome! Been trying to work more this way lately to make sure my values are better defined, can’t wait to apply some of these methods to what I’ve been doing! Crazy to think I’ve been using procreate for over 5 years and still get shown new things lol (Also thank god you noticed the issue with the Sun I was getting worried 😂)

[@arnoutmeysman2380]

Amazing tutorial!

[@nabilaputri6902]

Oh my god, thank you, this was rly helpful💕🥺 bless u

[@cherbelle93]

Thank you for this video! It was incredibly useful!! Learnt a lot of tips that I will be applying in my drawing.

[@Ariabba]

Glad it helped 🙂🙂

[@Zutto95]

I'm 3 years late to the video but thank you so much for sharing this amazing process! I've been in a funk lately but this has gotten me excited to try it out! Thank you again!

[@Rivendone]

thank you so much for this tutorial! i always struggled with painting sunlight and your method with the extra layer and clipping mask is so so helpful and smart!! I will definitely do it like that from here on so THANK YOU!

[@noahgopeteo177]

very detailed and helpful thank you for the information. more please

[@re-artwork]

I love your artwork. Watching you do one, just blew my mind! I’ve never thought of using “saved selections” to stay within layers, or editing procreates curve/colors, or using a clipping mask to reveal those bright Sun colors. Now excuse, I’m going to watch every other video you’ve ever done. Truly amazing work, with a clear description. Thank you.

[@Ariabba]

Really glad you found useful stuff here!

[@JuvA31]

wow this is stunning! Thank you for the great tips. I am learning this technique and I'm still struggling with my values. But I am making progress!

[@Ariabba]

You can do it!

[@Xanderful209]

I learned so much from this video ❤

[@Ariabba]

That makes me happy!