creating a penguin bird house building in procreate - episode 11
video - Episode 11
Buildings are a fantastic illustration subject to add to your portfolio of work, and I am excited to share some tips in today's episode on how to create buildings in Procreate.
There is more to drawing buildings than the structure itself. Some things to consider are the location, season of year, the surroundings, and who resides inside the walls of your building. In this case, mine were little penguins that lived in Antarctica.
Drawing A Cute Bird House Building in Procreate
When drawing buildings, using the Procreate canvas drawing guides makes sketching your lines for the building much easier. Use the customizations within the canvas drawing guide settings to adjust them for the project you are working on.
I have put together a Beginner's Guide To Drawing Buildings In Procreate that goes into more detail about drawing buildings and using the guides. You can get the guide below!
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Pink Penguin Bird House in Procreate Transcript:
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I am Denise Palmer and I am an illustrator,
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artist and surface pattern designer working outta my studio close to the
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Gulf of Mexico where water adventures and botanical plants surround my
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everyday life.
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Welcome to these video chats where I talk about some of the techniques I've used
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to create my artwork and chat about all things illustration, art, and design.
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In this episode,
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I will share about the progress of this Penguin Bird house building
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I created in Procreate.
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This house is part of a much larger design for a custom illustration project,
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and I will share how it turned out in the finished design at the end of this
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video. So stay till the end to see it.
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Procreate has some really great guide customizations to their canvas
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drawing guides that I use for drawing buildings.
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And if you have not used the canvas guides, I highly recommend trying them out.
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I also put together my favorite ways to use the drawing guides in a drawing
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buildings guidebook that I have linked to in the description below this video if
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you wanna grab a copy of it.
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This little penguin house is a very simple building design,
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but I made sure to note the important details that I wanted to include in
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the finished illustration in my sketch.
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Your sketch is your blueprint for your finished house illustration,
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so use it to guide you as you create your artwork and procreate.
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Once I got the main details in place,
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I continued adding textures and more fun details to this house.
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Adding in details is the fun part. It brings the artwork together,
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adds character to your illustrations and helps to drive home the story you are
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telling with your artwork.
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I wanted this penguin house to be reminiscent of a bird house,
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and that's why I included the upper round window detail.
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But this house is for penguins in Antarctica,
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so it's a different kind of birdhouse.
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And even though this design wasn't a holiday design per se,
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but I still had to include a wreath because it's snowing,
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and I really wanted to have a wreath on the house
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and add that. Welcome to my bird house.
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Feel here I am starting to play around with some of the details
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and changing things up,
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but ultimately I ended up keeping the little curved lines on the roof and
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I ended up removing the lines that I add here and
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removed the W Reef because with everything else,
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it really drove home a holiday feel, and that's not what I wanted to have,
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but I did keep the bow and the heart because it's still signifies a
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welcome to my little house feel.
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So this is how the penguin Bird house looks in the finished design.
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If you would like to get my drawing buildings in procreate tips guide where I
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share my favorite ways to use the canvas drawing guides to create buildings in
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procreate, you can find the link to it in the description below this video.
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It's how I've drawn all my buildings,
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so it's a great resource and it's also how I've drawn some of the
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castles that I'll be sharing. In a later episode,
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I will be sharing more process videos, so be sure to subscribe.
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Thank you for watching.
