Hi and welome to my new Skillshare Class on having Fun with Illustrations and photos using Procreate. Make sure you read all of the description below before starting the class.

Before you start this class I will tell you that this is not a class about illustrating itself although you will find several walk throughs of my illustrations and my workflow as well.

In this class I will show you my way of mixing illustrations with photos I took myself in in my everyday life. For these photos I’ve been using the camera of my iPhone so nothing really fancy.
I will also use my iPad with the app Procreate and and apple pencil. (But if you are using a different drawing programm you can also join but you have to adapt it to your own system).

I will teach you on how to import a photo into Procreate and how you can make changes to make your photo look more interesting or even magical.
Once you are happy with the photo as a background it’s time to incorporate your illustration (either premade or draw inside the canvas itself).

I will show you how the layer mask will work and why it’s best to use it for this process and workflow.
I will also teach you and what else to look for to really incorporate the illustration on order to get a more 'realistic’ picture. And I will take you through that process step by step.
And of course, since we are creating our own magical reality here, we can add moonlight, stars and glowing objects to our own liking.
Wouldn’t it be fun to show your children, grandchildren, nieces of nephews a little made up fairytale which can take place in their own environment? After this class you know how to do that ;)

Because this is not a class about procreate itself a little bit knowledge about the app procreate would be welcome.

Astrid Meijer

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