How to Cartoon Yourself in Procreate
How to Cartoon Yourself in Procreate
In this tutorial, I’ll be teaching you how to cartoon yourself in Procreate. Even if you have no drawing skills you can take a photo and easily draw a cartoon-style look using the procreate app.
I saw this technique of drawing a cartoon of yourself on social media the other day and it quickly brought back memories of how we would pop art or cartoon ourselves in Photoshop, back in the 90s. Yeah, that’s showing my age, but what goes around comes back around. Almost always!
So I thought since I can’t draw a cartoon on my iPhone like the young kiddos do these days I’d show you how to do it in Procreate on your iPad. It’s super fun and you really don’t need any drawing talent whatsoever to do it!
Tools I Used in This Video
This is an older tutorial – tools I use now may be updated.
- iPad Pro Gen 3 12.9″
- Apple Pencil Gen 2
- Procreate (2018 – version is older – and screens may look different)
- Shutterstock for stock image
- Default Procreate Brushes: Studio Pen (Inking) and Soft Airbrush (Airbrush)
- My Creative Light Procreate Brushes: Stars and Sparkle
Watch How to Cartoon Yourself in Procreate
*Throwback Thursday Note: this is a post from 2018. We are re-promoting it. While Procreate has had updates over the years you should still be able to follow along and make this!
I start the actual tutorial at 03:10 if you want to skip over my explanation for the video, etc.
A few notes from your questions:
- No, I didn’t fill the skin. I leave the natural colors of the skin. You can fill the skin if you want.
- The link to the image is up above in the list.
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Every picture I try to upload comes out very pixelated. How do I get the picture to be clean like the one you use?
You’ll need to use a high resolution image. If you’re pulling from Google they may be really low resolution/quality. You can get high res images from unsplash.com – or buy quality ones from shutterstock.
Can you do this on a pc?
Everything we teach here is for iPad use. So I am unaware of ways to do things on a PC that are similar. Maybe with Photoshop?
I create my art in procreate but how do I get it ready to sell? I make it at the highest size possible to print but how do I scale it down to multiple different sizes to list them to print? I don’t want to lose quality. Do I need photoshop? I have Adobe illustrator. Thank you!
Photoshop would be best as it’s a raster/pixel app like Procreate. If you’re scaling it down, just make a new canvas in Procreate and then go in and chose Copy/Canvas on your original and paste to the new sized canvas.
I watched your video and it really helped me a lot!! So thank you very much!!☺️
That makes me so happy to hear!
Is there any chance you can do written instructions with pics for step by step? It’s kind of frustrating just going back and forth from your blog and then to procreate. I’d watch it on my phone but the screen is just irritating because it’s too small. Yours is the most detailed instructions I’ve seen so far.
We will take that into consideration. It’s very time consuming and we’re currently on hiatus from tutorial writing, but will look when we get back from that!