Beginner Tutorial: How I illustrate my children's books in Procreate

I've gotten so many requests for this video, so here it is! I'm not an amazing artist by any means, but since this has been highly requested I decided to make it for you.

Here are my videos that I mention in this video:
Children's Book in Procreate (Set up proper page size etc)
   • Children's Book Page Layout in Procreate  

RGB or CMYK?
   • Color Mode for KDP Children's Book - ...  

What is Bleed?
   • What is bleed? for KDP children's book  

Here are some better artists with drawing tutorials:
   / @lisaglanz  
   / @genevievesdesignstudio  
   / @bardotbrush  
   / @artwithflo  
   / @beejaydel  
   / @jamesjulier-artist  

🖼 CANVA 🖼
Canva is an awesome platform for laying out designs - it's super easy to learn, has licensed illustrations ready to drop into your work, great collaboration tools, and so much more! Here is my affiliate link, thank you so much for your support!
https://partner.canva.com/heathercashart

📖 SIMPLEBOOKLET 📖
Simplebooklet is an amazing platform that is great for previewing your children's book spreads!
If you'd like to sign up for Simplebooklet, here is my affiliate link! Thank you so much for your support!
https://simplebooklet.com/signup.php?...

🎨 CREATIVITY CLUB 🎨
Join my Creativity Club, where we discuss our projects, and motivate each other!
  / heatherscreativityclub  

👩🏼‍🦰 CHARACTERS & TEMPLATES 🐸
Here's where you can order some character illustrations for your book, templates with proper sizing and guides, and other products & services:
https://www.heathercash.art/category/...

💻 TUTORIALS 🤓
Here are some tutorials to help you lay out your children's book in Canva:
   • 🟣🟣🟣 CANVA 🟣🟣🟣 - Children's Book for A...  

My website:
http://www.heathercash.art

My Facebook:
  / heathercashart  

My Instagram:
  / heathercashart  

Email me!
[email protected]


00:00 Introduction
:36 Recommended Channels
:58 My Equipment
1:50 Procreate Disclaimer
2:19 Let’s Draw
2:40 Size suggestion
3:00 New Canvas
3:30 Sketching the scene
4:40 Design Tip #1
5:07 Design Tip #2
7:00 Building Layers
8:53 Layers to work behind parts of sketch
10:52 Clipping Mask
11:12 Hiding sketching layer
11:36 Changing Procreate settings
12:20 Adding texture
14:05 Adding shading
16:35 Relax & Color
18:16 Forgot Bee’s Wings
18:52 Adding texture to background
21:04 Export
22:05 Final thoughts