Most Tattoo Artists miss this design step, and it shows!

Quickly add tattoo shading to your digital art with Part 3 of our Procreate Basics Tutorial Series. In this episode, Russ Abbott shares invaluable insights into creating value studies in Procreate, an essential step for every tattoo artist. Plus, we're giving away FREE brush kits and color palettes used by Russ himself!
🖌️ Learn how to transform your line drawings into detailed value studies, ensuring your tattoo designs are perfectly planned before inking. Russ will guide you through the process, showing you how to add shades of gray to your artwork efficiently.
👩‍🎨 Discover Russ's favorite brushes for outlining and shading, and see how these tools can elevate your design process. Don't miss out on the chance to download these resources for free and follow along with the tutorial.
🔥 Subscribe for more tutorials and tips. Stay tuned for the next episode, where we'll dive into adding colors to your designs, making them come alive. Embrace the power of Procreate and take your tattoo art to the next level!
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00:00 - FREE Giveaway announcement
00:29 - Welcome back
00:46 - Why do a value study
01:38 - Adding values to line drawing
02:10 - Using the RA Brush Set
03:06 - Outline rose using RA Brush Set
03:30 - What’s in the RA Brush Set
04:38 - Starting a value study
04:56 - FREE color palettes
05:53 - Apply a skin tone
06:24 - Add a values layer
06:54 - Lock the lines layer
07:07 - Adding gray to the values layer
07:38 - Quickly color inside the lines
07:50 - Make a reference layer
08:07 - Filling with gray
08:34 - Threshold settings
09:07 - Adding different values
10:56 - Visualize grays on skin tone - Multiply blending mode
11:48 - Adding shading and highlights
12:24 - Selecting and shading inside line layer
13:33 - Adjust threshold for shading
15:03 - Using FREE Magic Spitshader
16:23 - Black shading complete
16:39 - Up next, how to color your design

[@LilaLestrange]

You're the best! Thank you for your tutorials and the wonderful give away. I'm a total beginner with procreate. You explain everything so good that it is easy to follow. You have such a calm and great way of explaining that it's fun to listen to you.

[@nicon.l9739]

Clean course, as always !

[@Inactivewall]

Thank you for the courses and materials, very helpful!

[@Tattoosmart]

You're very welcome! I just posted the last of the series videos today so go watch and let me know what you take away from it.

[@darrenkingstree1490]

Really enjoyed the lesson ,thank you

[@Tattoosmart]

Glad you enjoyed it! The rest of the episodes have all been posted so be sure to watch them all.

[@snuzstillfree]

Thanks so much for all these tutorials really changed my sketching flow and thanks for the brush set with the pallets was really game changer!

[@Tattoosmart]

Glad I could help!

[@Vitaminepille]

this is so helpful ❤ thank you

[@Tattoosmart]

Hey! Thanks for watching. The rest of the series is now online so don't miss them.

[@devilandthesunink]

Hi, thank you for sharing all this knowledge. Been using procreate for couple years but still kind of as my paper sketchbook, and it was hard slow and confusing with so many options. Now learning to use these tools makes me excited to make more stuff digitaly.❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[@Tattoosmart]

Glad it was helpful! That’s exactly why I wanted to make these videos. Thanks for the feedback!

[@GrimReaper369.]

Great videos, your teachings are highly appreciated. I would like to ask, why some of the tones in your grays look blueish? I turned off True Tone and night shift in the iPad.

[@Tattoosmart]

Could be one of a few reasons. 1. My camera settings or the color grade I applied to the videos. 2. I used a cool gray palette (I do that sometimes) 3. Your display. Glad you enjoyed the series!

[@GrimReaper369.]

@@Tattoosmart thanks for replying! I’ll keep learning from you

[@federicoronzi83]

Where I can find ur brush set ? Which one is on ur site ?

[@Tattoosmart]

Check the description text on this video for a link.

[@federicoronzi83]

@@Tattoosmart thank u so much 🙏