Digital Drawing in Procreate: Illustrate Your Favorite Decade
Color and Final Touches
A course by Cat Willett , Illustrator and Digital Artist
About the video: Color and Final Touches
Overview
“Here I will add color to my artwork using different painting techniques. Then, I will use Procreate’s color palette tools to help me keep my colors intentional and cohesive. I will also explore using the color drop function to drop color into targeted areas and experiment with effects and textures to create the desired aesthetic for my decade. Finally, I will add final touches to my piece, including highlights and shadows. ”
In this video lesson Cat Willett addresses the topic: Color and Final Touches, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Drawing in Procreate: Illustrate Your Favorite Decade. Learn to use Procreate’s tools by creating illustrations inspired by your favorite era, while exploring color, highlights, shadows and effects.
Partial transcription of the video
“ In the last lesson, we created the outlines of the drawing with the inking. In this lesson, we'll bring it to life with color. Based on the work that we did in the previous lessons, we're all set up to be able to effectively color this piece. We have our color palette. I have all of my colors already saved. I've already thought about which colors I want to use where in the illustration, so I'm ready to start painting. To start painting, I make sure to add a new layer, of course, and select a Pen tool that I feel comfortable painting with. There are a lot of painting tools that come with P...”
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Course summary for: Digital Drawing in Procreate: Illustrate Your Favorite Decade
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Category
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Areas
Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Editorial Illustration, Traditional illustration

Cat Willett
A course by Cat Willett
Cat Willett is an illustrator and digital artist based in Brooklyn. Growing up in a creative household, she eventually earned a degree in printmaking at the University of Buffalo and went on to study illustration at the Fashion Institute of Technology. After working in a marketing job supporting other creatives, she decided to become a full-time freelance artist.
Cat’s nostalgic and whimsical artwork fuses historically inspired elements with flora and strong female figures. Her illustrations have been featured by Dr. Martens, Apple, Adobe, Spotify, Madison Square Garden, the Museum of Arts and Design, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and more. She is also the author and illustrator of the graphic biography Queen of Wands: The Story of Pamela Colman Smith, the Artist Behind the Rider-Waite Tarot Deck, published by Running Press.
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