4. Create additional highlight in the shadowed area using saturated yellow colour, and soft brush on 20% flow.
How to convey the texture of gold in a digital illustration
How to render gold texture in Procreate? How to achieve accurate invoice transfer? How to make your drawing realistic?
The answers to all these questions are waiting for you in this article! Step by step instructions on how to draw a golden ball in Procreate.
How to render gold texture in Procreate? How to achieve accurate invoice transfer? How to make your drawing realistic?
The answers to all these questions are waiting for you in this article! Step by step instructions on how to draw a golden ball in Procreate.
The texture of precious metals is smooth, even glossy, mirror like, it glares well and reflects nearby objects. Gold or silver can also be matte and can even have a grainy texture.
In the illustration, gold can be easily drawn with any artistic materials. But if you draw with markers, you need to stock up on a wide palette of yellow-brown shades, or gray if you draw silver.
The illustration is rendered with markers.
Let’s take a step-by-step approach to conveying the texture of gold in a digital illustration, using a gold ball as an example:
Fill the ball with a generic light tone, in this case ochre.
Outline the semitones with a darker shade. Emphasize the shape of the ball with strokes. Lightly shade the borders.
With the darkest shade, outline all the dark areas on the ball. Draw reflective objects. In some points you can leave sharper borders, while in others you can shade them.
Draw a flare with the lightest shade of yellow, emphasizing the shape of the ball. Lightly shade the borders.
Show the glare with white color.
Add details: draw a reflection in accordance with the ball shape, and add color spots with a soft, translucent brush.
Fill the ball with a generic light tone, in this case ochre.
Outline the semitones with a darker shade. Emphasize the shape of the ball with strokes. Lightly shade the borders.
With the darkest shade, outline all the dark areas on the ball. Draw reflective objects. In some points you can leave sharper borders, while in others you can shade them.
Draw a flare with the lightest shade of yellow, emphasizing the shape of the ball. Lightly shade the borders.
Show the glare with white color.
Add details: draw a reflection in accordance with the ball shape, and add color spots with a soft, translucent brush.
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And on Fashion Illustration in Procreate, we will draw in the Procreate program on the iPad. We will also go through the basics: a figure and a portrait, learn how to convey the textures of different fabrics, we will stylize our illustrations and create animation.
Learn to draw in different styles with courses from Fantasy Room Online. On the course “Profession of a fashion illustrator: from beginner to professional”, our students will work in the most such painting techniques as watercolor, alcohol markers, gouache, ink, collage. And also in the program of the course: a lot of fashion images, we will learn how to convey the texture and texture of the fabric, draw faces of different races and illustration of fashion accessories.
And on Fashion Illustration in Procreate, we will draw in the Procreate program on the iPad. We will also go through the basics: a figure and a portrait, learn how to convey the textures of different fabrics, we will stylize our illustrations and create animation.
analyse the colours
First, we need to find some references for various golden surfaces. They should be both polished and rough. I’ve used free photos from Unsplash as my references.
Basic tone is orange/yellow. It’s quite saturated. Reflected light is usually cool and desaturated. Notice that shadow is never black, and highlight is never white. Keep this in mind while painting.
Base
1. Draw a basic flat shape.
2. Add shadow using soft brush at 20% flow.
3. Add highlight using soft brush at 20% flow..
4. Add reflected light using soft brush at 20% flow.
This unfortunately is not enough to create an object that will look like the one made of gold. The sphere looks plastic and matte, instead of metal and shiny. We need to create a texture.
texture
1. Take a shaded base.
2. Use a messy spotted brush at 50% flow to break smooth texture.
3. Add some random lines using soft edge brush at 50% flow to create scratches. Keep in mind the shape of the object you’re drawing. Straight scratch on a sphere will be curved.
4. Use dark shadow colour and hard edge brush on 50% flow to make the scratches look deeper. Add a highlights on the edges.
Better, but it still lacks this shine we’re aiming for!
Gold-looking color may be an issue when working with vector graphics because they do not use pixels, they are an assortment of individual shapes with each shape filled with a solitary color. One option for mimicking gold is to create many different color-shapes but this is often time consuming if done manually. In addition, processes that utilize vectors-only images typically require a limited amount of shapes or colors.
Printing a gold image using a single color, that is not a metallic ink, will typically result in a tan, yellow, or mustard color.
Replicating gold images in vector format
When redrawing a gold pixel-based image as a vector-based graphic the new vector image may look considerably different depending on limitations due to requirements, time, and cost. The purpose of the examples below is to emphasize these differences so you may get an idea of what to expect.
Here are some options for redrawing pixel-based gold images in vector format:
1 Vectors-Only Automatic Conversion
• Unlimited colors
• Unlimited shapes.
For this option you must have a good quality/size image to begin with. Poor quality images need to be done manually at higher costs. Auto-tools do not always produce desired results.
2. Vectors-Only Manual Conversion
• Limited colors
• Limited shapes
3. Vectors plus Raster effects 1 – Manual Conversion
If supplier requested Vectors or High Resolution, they don’t need a vectors-only graphic. This option may work for images that have softer blends as we may use the raster effects tools within the vector program such as gradients and feathering. Depending on complexity of original and time/cost constraints this option may or may not look identical to original. Amount of colors/shapes is usually irrelevant. If supplier requires vectors-only then you will need option 2.
1 If supplier accepts vectors or raster then to redraw an image only makes sense if you cannot use the original because it is poor quality, needs to be enlarged, or needs to be different (such as photo to drawing conversion).
