


Once we finish this color pick the next color which is the hair color. Paint the areas which are naturally always a bit darker such as the forehead, the neck area and the inside of the arms. Usually an opacity between 20 to 35 percent will do, depending on how dark the selected color for the shadow is. Then you can go and test the opacity of the brush until you get a semi-transparent effect.

I recommend using either the Medium or the Soft Airbrush since we are going for a more dimensional result. You can use the Airbrushes available for free from the Standard Procreate Brushes. Since we want the shadows to effect only the color area we are going to use the clipping mask feature. To do so we will create a new layer just on top of the color layer and set it to multiply. Now we are ready to create shadows, shadows that create dimension. During our first tutorial we learned how to reference a layer, color beneath it, drag and drop color a color, and find matching combinations using the color classic view.
