Step-by-Step Procreate Tutorial: Textured City Landscape


Brushes

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For the print textures, I used brushes from Uproot’s Big Procreate Print Pack. I love a good print press effect, and these brushes are ✨chef’s kiss✨.

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I also used brushes from my own Scatter Stamps to create the stars.

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palette

The color palette this tutorial uses is the March 2021 palette, which is available for free for my newsletter subscribers. You can become one (and access all kinds of other goodies!) by signing up here:


Layers Set Up:

⤹ Clipping mask - texture
Sky elements
⤹ Clipping mask - lights
⤹ Clipping mask - color fade
City skyline foreground
⤹ Layer Mask
City Skyline background
⤹ Clipping Mask - Dark - Multiply
⤹ Clipping Mask - Dusk
Base Shape

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Background colors

  • Base layer: Draw shape with pink, fill completely

    • Litho Crayon Brush

    • Draw a circle shape - duplicate and position to Venn Diagram, merge layers

    • Draw vertical lines to connect the circles

    • Color drop to fill

  • Dusk layer: background colors with textures

    • Monoprint Messy Brush

    • Fill upper portion with bluee, fading to a slight gradient towards the bottom

    • Dust bottom portion with mid teal - leave a gap of pink

  • Dark layer: create an even darker texture effect.

    • Printing Press Mess 1 Brush

    • Use dark purple to layer in color over the blue, not covering it completely

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City Skyline

Background buildings: Paint as rectangles with color-picked swatch from dark of sky

  • Brush: Litho Crayon

  • Use Bristling Scratch eraser on layer mask to remove some color

  • This is a non-destructive way to erase. So if you remove too much, you can use any brush on white to restore the color as originally painted.

  • Paint foreground buildings with same dark sky color

    • Color drop to fill buildings with solid color

    • Brush: Litho Crayon

  • Clipping mask - Color Fade layer

    • Dust in dusk blue color

    • Brush: Printing Press Mess 1

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  • Clipping Mask Window Lights

    • Brush: Litho Crayon

    • Use light yellow to draw vertical lines, holding til they are straight

    • Vary line weight between buildings, keep lines evenly spaced

      • Erase in horizontal lines with Litho Crayon to create windows in a “grid” layout

      • Then individually erase various windows (so the lights aren’t all on)

Sky Elements

On the Sky Elements layer, draw in clouds, moon, and stars.

  • Use Bristling Scratch brush on a larger size to draw clouds using circular motions to build shape

    • Light peach

    • Large brush size gives them a more airy look

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  • Use Bristling Scratch Brush on smaller size with same light yellow from windows

    • Draw a crescent, holding to snap to a quick shape

    • Then touch the screen to snap to a perfect circle

    • Repeat with a smaller circle to close the shape

    • Scribble to fill

      • Smaller brush size retains some edge texture but gives more definition to shape

  • Use scattered stamp brushes to add stars - or draw them in manually

    • Crunchy Stars Brush

  • Color fade Clipping Mask:

    • Brush: Printing Press Mess 1

    • Use ultra-light-peach to dust in texture on tops of clouds, also on top of moon

    • Use mint and teal on stars and moon bottoms

  • Optional: On City Color Fade layer, add dusting of mint to balance out all colors.

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