Transcripts
1. Welcome to Your Quick Class: Hello, I'm Kelly. I'm
a digital artist, and I love using
the Procreate app. I also love collage
and collage prompts. Studies show that when you have constraints like a prompt, it actually enhances
your creativity. I'm sharing a fun new prompt
today stripes and strips. I'll walk you through
the process of creating a collage using
stripes and strips. We'll also be using Procreate's Gradient Map for
some cool color changes. Let's get started.
2. Add Shadows + Gradients to Your Picture : So this is a sneak peek into the kind of prompts I
share in my Skillshare class. Explore collage
art in Procreate, seven prompts to spark
your creativity. And here's something
to get you started. I'm giving you ten free photos curated just for this prompt. All you need to do is grab them through the link in
the description. Let's start by looking at a few collages that
I've created using the stripes and strips
technique that we'll be using today along
with a gradient map. There's one right here, and you can see there's shadows and that her face is just a little bit off kilter for kind
of an interesting effect. This is another one. This is the same one with
a different gradient and here's one. I like the others better,
but I think this is okay. And this is one that I
don't think works well, and the reason I don't think it works well is that there's a lot of negative space or white space around this couple. There's not the same
kind of visual interests going on like there
is around the girls here or in this one where the profile takes up
pretty much the whole page. So that's something to keep in mind when you're
selecting a photo. I experimented with
this one by putting a textured blue sky behind them, trying to get a
different effect. I think it could be a
really cool effect. I just don't think that
was a great photo. This is the image that
I am using today. I have a procreate canvas
that is 12 by 16 ". And the first thing I'm going
to do is duplicate her. So we have two versions. Actually, I want
three. The bottom one, I will say, copy, don't edit. So we have one just
in case we need one. So let's turn these
bottom two off and work solely with
the top layer here. I'm going to turn on a
drawing guide right now. So toggle drawing guide on, and I'm going to edit
the drawing guide. And with the drawing guide, you can change a lot of things. You can change the color. I think I'd like a
lighter color with this. You can change the opacity
and the thickness, and I'll bump this up so
you can see what I'm doing. And you also want to change the grid size by
moving this around. And for this project, I want 14 different
horizontal rows. Okay, this is at 3:45, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
nine, ten, 11, 12, 13, 14. There we have it. So I'm going to hit Done. And what we're going
to do is we're going to start removing strips in a really easy way
using the selection tool. So it's selection, and I
have rectangle selected, and then also add. And the first thing I look
at is what I want to keep. And I definitely want to
keep this eye right here. I think it's a really
important image, and then we'll be able
to keep with that to the top of her lips because we're going to be going
in alternating rows. So I'm just going to start by removing the
row above her eye, and I'm going to go off the screen and draw a
rectangle like this. And if you don't
know this technique, it can take a while to
get the hang of it. So that's selected,
I'm going to drag down and hit cut and paste. So it looks like
it's still here, but you can really
toggle it on and off. It's on its own layer now. So we're going to go
back to this image, and we're going to do
the same thing again. Selection, rectangle,
and then we're going to alternate a
row and cut that out. So cut and paste, turn off that and keep
going in that fashion. Selection, rectangle,
drag it across, cut and paste. Whoops. I'm glad I did this. I'm on the wrong layer,
which is really easy to do. I didn't toggle
back to this layer, but I can fix it
really easily by toggling back to that layer and then hit cut and paste
again and turn that off. And I'm going to keep
going in that fashion, remembering this time to
toggle back to this layer. So here we go. We have seven stripes cut out, and because I like
some tidy layers, I'm going to group
these little strips together in case we
need them later, and I'm going to turn
off the whole group, and there we go. I'm just going to tuck it behind just in case we need it later. So now we're left with
these two layers, and they're exactly the same, so you can't tell right now that one has the stripes cut out. But we are going to go
to the bottom layer, and we're going to play with the hue saturation and brightness. So if I can bring the
brightness up here or down, to get a different effect. Here the brightness is up 48%, and I can also bring
down the saturation, and that's at 27%. I think that looks pretty good, so I'm going to apply that. We're going to do a
couple more things here. First, we're going
to create a shadow. On the stripes layer, and we're going to do that by
duplicating it and then hit Alpha lock and then change
the color to a pure black, and I'm going to hit fill layer. I'm going to change the
blend mode to multiply because I like the multiply
blend mode for shadows. I am going to turn
Alpha lock off. So I'm on our shadow layer right here and I'm going to
give it a gauge and blur. So magic wand, gauge and blur. And as I slide it
across the screen here, you can see the
percentage increasing. So currently, this
is a gauge and blur of about 13%. I like that. And so I'm going to apply that I'm going to group these two striped
layers together, and I'm going to turn them off. And I'm going to
move the shadows. But first, I want to see where the light is coming
from the photo. The light is coming right here. I hits her hair, and there's
more shadows on this side. So I'm going to
turn this back on, tap on the shadow layer,
tap on this arrow, and just tap down and to the left a few times so
I can move that layer. That looks pretty good. You
can see here that we have a little gap in the shadows because we moved them, and
we're going to fix that. We're going to tap
on this arrow again, and we're going to
change to free form, and we're just going to
stretch this out a little bit. So now we have our consistent
shadows throughout. And that looks cool. The next thing we're
going to do to give it a more interesting effect is we're going to tap
on our bottom layer, and we're going to
move it a little bit to give it a bit of
a off kilter look. So I'm just going to
move it down this way. I think that looks interesting, and I'm still on freeform, so I can stretch her
over a little bit here. So it's just a
little off kilter. If we wanted to
increase the drama, we could give the top layer
gradient map really easily. So I'm going to show you how
to do that by duplicating the stripes layer
and I'm going to turn off the one
that we had already. I'm going to
desaturate this layer, hue saturation and brightness and turn it all
the way over here. So we're starting with a
black and white image. And then I'm going to go to
Magic Wand gradient map. And I am on a gradient map
right here called mystic, and some gradient maps are
preprogrammed in to procreate, and I think this is one of them, and how you change it is by
moving these little squares around until you get an
effect that you like. So we could do this one
or we could keep going. I'm going to hit Done and try
a different gradient map. I like instant a lot. That one also came
with Procreate, and we can do more than one. So let's just duplicate this, turn it off and keep going. Now I'm going to change going to desaturate
the top layer. Go back to Gradient Map and see if there's
another one that we like. This one is called Venice
and I put KBB on it, so it's probably one I created. And real quick, you would create a gradient map just
by hitting plus, and it starts with black, and usually want two colors
that are a little contrasty. We'll start with this being
a dark kind of red purple, and then we'll tap this
little square here, and make this a lighter
color, another pink. Then you can tap in
the middle and I could choose, say, a blue. I think that looks nice
and move this blue around so we can get
different effects. And I'm going to hit Done. I don't know if this is
a perfect gradient map. I do think it's kind
of cool, though. And you can keep adding as many different colors as you want by tapping and
then moving it around. You can get some weird effects. I'm just going to
go ahead and delete this one by tapping on
it and trashing it. And then I can name this if
I want to. It's right here. And I'm going to change
its name to Burgundy Blue. And I'm going to put my
initials in there so I know that I made it, and
I'm going to hit Done. And now I hit Apply. So you can see the cool
thing with this effect is that you can play with
different options, different colors, and
get different effects. I think I like
this one the best, but I could keep playing
with this all day. I hope you feel inspired to try the stripes
and strips prompt. Don't forget to download
your ten free photos. They're perfect
for this project. If you love this
idea, you'll find even more creative prompts
in my skill share class. And if you want a treasure
trove of collage materials, take a look at my collage kits. They're packed
with unique assets to spark your imagination. You'll also find them linked in the description.
Thanks for watching. I would love to see your
stripes and strips collage. Please share it in
the class resources. And I hope to see you soon.
Kelley Bren Burke, Artist & Educator
