Use Procreate to create a detailed illustration

Use Procreate to create a detailed illustration; a painting of a young female elf
(Image credit: Fatemeh Haghnejad)

If you want to learn how to use Procreate to create a detailed illustration, you've come to the right place. For this Procreate tutorial I’m going to explain every step of my creative process, including my painting techniques and highlighting the key brushes I use in Procreate. I’ll share how I take the illustration from very rough sketches, to loose thumbnails and then all the way through to the final render.

You’ll also see how, as a full-time freelance artist, I develop and grow an idea for an illustration with my client and how I follow a set progression of steps while sticking to the brief. For more advice and Procreate process, read my tutorial 'Use Procreate to create a fantasy character'.

headshot photograph of Creative Bloq contributor Fatemeh Haghnejad
Fatemeh Haghnejad

Fatemeh, also known as BlueBirdy, is a freelance illustrator and character designer working on children’s books, young adult novels, magazines, games and more. She experiments with traditional materials as well as digital painting, and uses an array of media including acrylic, gouache, ink, and coloured pencil. She lives and works in Oslo, Norway, with her husband and two cats.

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