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1. Mushroom Floral Class Intro: Hello everyone. My name is Amy Stoddard and I
invite you to join my class on creating beautiful hand-drawn
mushroom florals. This class aims to be beginner friendly and we'll be
done in a digital medium. We will first start with referencing and doing
practice sketches. This will help build
your visual library. So you will have
plenty of ideas ready. Whenever we begin
the final projects. As you gain confidence, we will move on to creating small flares like this
grouping of mushrooms. And eventually we will
build up to creating large, elegant floral wreaths that
can be used for invitations, scrapbooking, sticker
making, and more. So join me, won't you? And let's make some
beautiful art together. See you in class. Bye bye.
2. Lesson 1: Referencing Properly and Practice Sketching: Hello everyone and
welcome to lesson one on creating beautiful
mushroom floral art that you can use
in your scrapbook, bullet journal and etc. The first thing we're
gonna do is we're going to go ahead and go to Google and search for mushrooms
and just refresh our memory on what
mushrooms look like and do a little bit of studying of mushrooms for those
of you who have never drawn them before or are completely
unfamiliar with them. Google image search
will result in many different
pictures of mushrooms. And it can offer you a lot of inspiration for your drawings. So let's go ahead and take a closer look at a few
of these mushrooms. Here we have a pretty red cap on a white stem surrounded by moss. These type of red cap mushrooms, especially the ones
with the little dots, which I'm going
to click on here. These ones are extremely
popular right now and for good reason because they're very cute and also very poisonous. You don't have to
feel restricted to what is popular now, either. Mushrooms come in
all different colors and all different shapes. So feel free to
experiment with it. Here we can see there's
big clusters of mushrooms. And looking at these
clusters can give you ideas on how you can arrange
your groupings of mushrooms. When we finally get to drawing, Let's take a closer look at
this purple mushroom here. As you can see, there's all these lines
underneath the cap. These are called gills, and you can see how they radiate out from the
stem of the mushroom. These kind of detailing, when you add them into your drawings will
really make them pop. And the viewer looking at a bulbous cap with a bunch
of gills under it will say, aha, that's a mushroom. So let's go ahead and just get started on doing some
practice sketching. I'm going to pull up a
document here and I'm going to leave Google
images in the background. So I can reference one of the mushrooms in the
background. Here. You can just see me very lightly and loosely
sketching things out. This is just to give you a
little practice with the form and loosen you up and get you ready to get
into the work mode. We're not actually going to take these specific sketches
and turn them into your florals because that would be stealing from
the photographer. So we're just using
these practice sketching as a way to
get a feel for how to draw the mushroom
and to build up our visual library so we can
draw from imagination later. And here I've sped up just a little bit and I'm
drawing this look, these poisonous am Anita's is, are the popular ones
I was talking about. While you watch me
sketching here, I can discuss a few
of the key features. It will really make your
drawings come to life. And that is specifically there's these little frilly collars
underneath the mushroom caps. Those are key features specifically for these
poisonous mushrooms. Some other ones
have them as well. And then you'll also
want to make note of all the little dots on the
top of the mushroom caps. Those give them a lot
of charm as well. So keep all of these key
features of mushrooms in mind while you're doing all of your practice sketching. And then we will take
all of this work we've done and put it towards
doing your color pieces. Here I have jumped
forward to me doing a rough sketch of a completely different
shape of a mushroom. As an artist, this is
pretty much how I work. I do a lot of studies and then eventually I get into
doing my final pieces. It may feel a little
bit tedious and you may just want to go jump right
ahead into drying mushrooms. But I assure you if
you spend the time referencing and you spend the
time doing the sketching, your pieces will turn
out just so much better. They'll have so much
more life about them and it is really worth it. Alright, I'm going to leave
off this lesson here and you can spend the rest of the
time during your sketching. And when we come back
in the next lesson, we will begin working
on our color pieces. So thank you for joining me in this lesson and I hope to
see you in the next one. Have a great day. Bye-bye.
3. Lesson 2: Drawing Mushroom Clusters and Learning Techniques and Tools in CSP: Hello everyone and
welcome back to Lesson two on creating beautiful
mushroom floral art. In our last lesson, we did some referencing and
did a bunch of practice sketching to prepare
ourselves to create our wonderful pieces. Now, we're going to
jump right in and just begin creating mushrooms
directly in color. I will share my
color palette with you in case you would
like to use it. But you're also very welcome to use your own color
palette for this, you can see that I
have my document ready here with my color
palette at the ready. And I also have a couple of the sketches that
I did up at the top, just to remind me of what I
had done and to inspire me. When I start drawing
the mushrooms, I generally like to start
with the cap first. As I think the cap
of the mushroom is kind of similar to
the head of the human. You usually start drawing a
human with the head first. So therefore, I have coded the cap of the
mushroom as being its head. For those of you working in Clip Studio Paint for all of
these color drawings I make, I'm using either
the mapping pen or the G pen set at
no anti-aliasing, fewer working in Photoshop or any other digital
illustrating software. You can just feel free to
use any hard edge brush. When I'm doing this
style of work, I definitely like to have crisp edges that
are vector like. However, if you
have a tendency to prefer more textured
pieces, by all means, use the brushes that you are
comfortable with and will make you feel the happiest while you're doing
these drawings. Okay, now here in the video, I am gearing up to do the
underside of the mushroom. And the underside
is going to be in a different color,
the yellow color. And I wanted to
make note that with each color or major
section of a mushroom, I like to put it on a new layer. This is really helpful for when you want to
add details later. And it makes doing
fills a lot easier. For those of you who are
new to Clip Studio Paint. I'd like to make mention of
the fill all layers option. You can find it in the subtype tool layer
underneath the paint bucket. What's important about this tool is that it will reference all of the layers and only fill the area that is empty
that you intend to fill. And it will only fill on the layer that
you have selected. So it is a very useful
time-saving device. Right now here I am beginning to add the stem onto
my first mushroom. Again, the stem is on its
own layer because it's a different segment of the mushroom and a
completely different color. Having things on separate
layers will come in handy later whenever we go in
and we do some detailing, particularly the gills
here in just a minute. Alright, now I'm going to break away from our mushroom here very briefly to explain a very
important tool that I use, we're going to find this
tool in the Layers palette, and it is called
Preserve Transparency. It has a little lock next to it with a little tile pattern. When you set this lock, a little icon shows up on the
layer associated with it. Then you can basically
draw anywhere on the circle without drawing anywhere else but the circle
because you have locked it. So you can see my strokes
are going really wide and long and there is nothing
outside this circle. This really makes detailing
a breeze and it is really an essential tool for me
anytime I'm doing a drawing. It appears to be very useful
for modern art as well. Alright, bad jokes aside. Let's get back to our mushroom. And here I am going to begin
drawing the gill details on the underside of
the mushroom using the technique that
I just went over. The one key point you'll want to remember when doing
the gill detailing is that all of the
gill lines come out radially from the center
starting at the stem. So in order to get a
more realistic look, you'll want to imitate nature. You may have also noticed while you were watching
the video that I deleted a big batch of my Gil lines because I wasn't happy with
them at the time. And you can obviously
feel free to delete anything you're not
happy with and just try again. The digital medium is really very forgiving
in this regard. Here I have the gills finished and I'm getting ready
to add the little dot, the tailings on the cap. And again, I'm using the
preserve transparency tool to draw directly onto
the layer that has. The cap on it. This allows me to
draw right up to the edge of the mushroom
cap without any worry. Alright, once we have
our core mushroom done, it's time to go ahead and start making our
little grouping. And as you can see, I was having a little
trouble finding the shape, but I eventually got it. So just persevere. But basically what we are doing here is we're pulling
from our memory of our sketching exercise and remembering how the
groupings of mushrooms went. And we're making up
our own drooping. Also. This is on another layer as
well so that it can overlap. Our core mushroom. We're going to go ahead and use all the techniques that we use to in making our core mushroom. But one key difference is that this mushroom cap is not
showing us its underside. So we're only going to do a little dot the tailings on it. Right? So here we have a cute little start of a
grouping of mushrooms, but I felt it was still
lacking in something. So I'm going to add a few
single tone mushrooms in the background just to kind
of spruce it up a little bit. I feel like when it
comes to composition, it's one part intuition
and one part rules. There are of course, a lot of rules
regarding balance and symmetry and so on when
it comes to creating art. But I feel like when you're
doing a nature drawing, you can go ahead and
let your intuition go. So just trust your gut. If something doesn't look right or if it seems
like it might need a little something
more than just go for it because you're
probably right. Your eyes. You will, you can
trust your eyeballs. This is what I'm trying to say. Alright, so at this point, our little mushroom cluster
is really coming together. And in fact, it could probably
be done at this point. But I kind of felt like
adding a little bit of green just for those
balance of colors. And I'm just adding a
little bit of grass, grasses and such to the bottom just to tie all
of the bottoms together. So it looks like one
contiguous piece. And again, these little bits of grasses are on their own layer. Now for a little edit depths and just a little
bit of extra flair, you can go in with a darker green color behind
the foreground grasses. Just to kind of tie
it all in together. It's just a nice Look. At this point, our little
mushroom cluster is done. But if you would
like to go ahead and add some extra
little flares, go ahead and go to it. Here. I'm just maybe
adding a couple of leaves just for the heck of it. And if you want to
add sparkles and just give it your own
unique personality, just, yeah, go for it. It will turn out great. Alright, since this
little mushroom cluster is basically done at this point, I'm going to go ahead and
end this lesson here. And then the next lesson
we're going to gear up to do a much larger
project with our mushrooms. Are a little preview. We will be amping up to create really gorgeous mushroom
rates that you can then use for invitations, stickers, notebook, scrapbooking,
whatever you feel like. So again, thank you for
joining me on this journey and I look forward to seeing
you in the next lesson. Have a great day. Bye-bye.
4. Lesson 3: Creating a Modern Mushroom Wreath.: Hello everyone and
welcome to lesson three. I'm creating beautiful
floral mushroom remarked. In the last lesson, we went over some very
helpful digital tools. And we work together
towards making our own very cute
mushroom clusters. In this lesson, we
will be focusing on more advanced techniques and tackling a larger floral project like creating mushroom race. So let's go ahead
and get started. So to make some wreaths, I'm gonna go ahead and
start up a new document. And I'm going to go
ahead and choose a very dark color so I can
lay out my circles as a form. I'm using the little circle draw tool and I'm just going to make a wreath shape that I like. In this case, it's gonna
be a perfect circle. You can make your wreath shapes, any shape you want. You can make them oblong. You could make them
perfectly round. You can even do half wreath. However you feel. Just trust your gut. But basically laying out
these circles gives me kind of like a
foundation to work from. And this will be
on a lower layer, and I will probably apply the
blue tone to them as well. And they just give you a
really good base to work from. Also, don't forget, if
you want to work from a specific palette
to go ahead and paste your palate into
the document as well. So the next step is to lighten these circular ring basis so they don't interfere
with my drawing too much. In Clip Studio Paint, you can just go ahead and click the blue
line button and it automatically makes a
soft pale blue line. If you're working in
any other programs, you will just need to
adjust the opacity, the specific layer
that these are on. Now the first thing I'm gonna
do is go ahead and make another layer above
the circle base layer. And I'm just going to
choose a different color. And I'm gonna go in and do a very rough sketch of an
idea that I want to try out. Doing really quick rough
sketches of kind of getting a very loose layout
can really help pull your pieces together
rather than just starting on one mushroom
and going from one to the other to the other
because you can very quickly see how a whole
layout is going to pan out. And then if something
doesn't look right, you can just erase and
you've only wasted like, you know, 60 seconds
of your time. So here I am pretty
satisfied with this generalized rough
sketch layout that I have. So I'm gonna go ahead
and reduce the opacity, a bit of that sketch. And I'm gonna go ahead and
start drawing on top of it. Now for this wreath, I want to start out and
do kind of one of those like modern wire
basis for the wreath. So I'm just going to draw a few rough circles until I
get something that I like. And that will be the
base for my wreath. If you at first try
do not succeed, then just erase and try again. But I am actually
fairly happy with this. I just need to clean up
where the connected lines connecting our I'm
happy with that. It is time to go ahead and
start drawing some mushrooms on a layer above the little
wireframe that I've made. Also of note, you can still see my rough sketch very
lightly in the background. And I am for the most part following around this
rough idea that I had. For the most part,
you're going to want to use all
of the techniques that you learned
in the last lesson for drawing all of
these mushrooms. The separate pieces
on separate layers. So that makes it
easier for you to edit them and add details later. And it gives you
more wiggle room for edits later in the process. I'm just going to go
ahead and speed things up just a touch so
you can kind of see how things get
started here without being too bored watching
me in real time. Now at this point, I've
decided that I would like to incorporate some pine
branches into my wreath. I'm just doing a quick
research here and looking at a bunch
of different ways the pine needles look to give me some good ideas on how
to draw them correctly. Here you can see that
I've found a nice kind of photographic
botanical piece that has lots of different
branch styles in it. This type of thing is
okay to reference from, because this isn't, It was never intended to be a
specific piece of art. But more just showing you
very raw images of like, hey, this is plant. Those, some of
those mushroom ones were more artistic than this. So what I'm doing is I am just going to keep this in
the background and I'm going to use it for a very
loose reference just to get an idea on how the little pine needles
are going and such. So the first thing
you want to do whenever you're
drawing a branch is you actually want to draw the wooden portion
of the branch first. And typically how
things worked with tree branches is that
there's gonna be one end it skinnier and one
end that's thicker as the branch gets thicker
as it goes toward the trunk. If you follow these rules, you should have convincing
branches every time. Don't forget to add a few
smaller branches jutting out from the main branch
because that's what trees do they spread out. And then once you have your
branch where you like it, then you can go ahead
and start adding the little pine
fronds and needles. Jumping ahead a
little bit here you can see that I have a bunch of little pine needle formations already going in the
dark green color. And I just wanted to make
a draw some attention to the fact that while you're drawing these like pine leaves, if you've chosen
to draw the pines, you don't have to. Adding a little bit
of variation in your green is just
going to give the piece a little more depth and more interesting to look at. So keep those things in mind. That little subtle color
shifts, very simple. They can really do a lot
to bring a piece together. Now I'm going to speed things up just for a little bit
so we can get food. This part to my
next talking point. So right now I have
a good base for the left-hand side of
my asymmetrical wreath. And I'm gonna go
ahead and create another much longer branch
here on the right hand side. Doing this will also
create some balance, but also keep the
asymmetrical vibe. And again, we're going to use all the same techniques that we used on the left-hand side. And I'll speed this
little part up. Next, I want to point
out that it is good to vary your mushroom
shapes a little bit. I had realized that on
the right hand side, I didn't have any
mushrooms that we're showing the underside gills. So I went ahead and I
started adding one here. Just having that extra bit of variety really pulls
together a piece. And it adds a lot
more visual interest. And also don't forget to add in your little details
here and there, but don't overdo it with
a very large piece. You want to space
out your detailing. It's kind of like
adding salt to cooking. If you add too much salt, it's too salty and
it pastes nasty, just the right amount of salt. Perfect. So basically, don't visually overwhelm your viewer
is what I'm saying. Alright, so I've skipped ahead a little bit
and I wanted to talk a little bit about
adding some variety. As you can see, since we've skipped ahead, that I've added some
additional leaf shapes. And I've also added some pesto mushrooms and a little bit of blue pine
needles in the background. These kind of
variations just gives more visual interests
in your piece. And I know I say that a lot, but visual interests
is really important. Because if a person
is interested in it, they're going to like it. They're going to maybe buy it, intending to sell these. So it really is very important to do these
kinds of things. So go ahead and play
around with a lot of different shapes and maybe
vary your colors a little bit. And really just get out
there and have fun with it. I also wanted to make note
that whenever you get to this point in the process where things have
really come together, but it still needs just
a little something else. This is another time
whenever you're going to be considering things like
balance, symmetry, and you're just
going to have to use your intuition and
what you know of different art rules
to really make things come together
perfectly as you want them. I just want you to
remember though, that when I say perfect, perfect for you, it doesn't need to be
perfect for anyone else, as long as it looks
perfect to you. That's all that matters. Alright, I'm gonna go ahead
and end this lesson here. And hopefully I've given
you enough tools so you will be able to create some beautiful floral
wreaths yourself. And I look forward to seeing
you in the next lesson. Have a great day. Bye bye.
5. Lesson 4: Creating Traditional Mushroom Wreaths and Exploring Leaf Shapes: Hello and welcome to lesson four on creating beautiful
mushroom floral art. In the last lesson, we created a more of a
modern style wreath. And I felt it would be
remiss of me not to share a more classic style of wreath. Now, just as with
the modern wreath, I'm starting out with
my basic circular form. That is going to be
my guide for this. And I've just started doing some rough sketching to kind of get a feel for how I want
the design to pan out. And this is exactly what we
did with the modern wreath, except we're doing
something more traditional. You may notice that my
sketching this time is a little more defined and less
loose and less rough. You're always welcome to get as much detail in your
sketch as you would like. Just do what works best for you. And here, I've already started
working with the color. And I do like to start
with the brightest, most eye-catching color first, because that's what your eyes
are going to notice first. So you really want
to make sure that you have a good balance there. And then you can
start filling in with the yellow mushrooms or whatever colored mushrooms
you're working with. And now I'm going to speed up just a little bit here to get us through it a
little more quickly. But I wanted to repeat that. Be sure you're doing these
all on different layers. So if you need to
do any editing, you feel like you've
made a mistake. It'll make it a lot
easier on you later. And it's also a
lot easier to just layer these mushrooms
on top of each other. On separate layers. Your lines will stay
crisper this way and it's also a lot easier to add
the detailing later. Alright, so here I have the
mushrooms pretty much done. I'm going to go
through and start adding kind of like
a laurel style leaf. I feel like stylistically Laurel is a pretty traditional
sort of plant. So I think it goes well to make a more traditional
style wreath. Now I want to break from
the wreath here for a minute just to go over how I do draw my leafy bit in florals in Clip Studio
Paint specifically, I use the G pen a lot
and you will see why. It's because the
natural pressure of this brush kind of really makes a nice sort of leaf shape. You can also use it for grass is really easy just with one stroke to get
a nice leaf shape. Here I will just briefly
show you how I go about making a stylized Laurel branch. And that is just stroking
out the little leaves. And then eventually I start
adding the stems and, and drawing those in very
gently with a light touch. And if you make any
mistakes, just undo it. It's a real random,
I guess process. So just go with the flow and
see what you end up with. Okay, so here I have two
little laurels done. If you don't want to just do the quick hash strokes
to get your leaves. You can make specific
shapes and then fill in. I find it to be a
little more work, but it does provide a different
sort of shape of leaf. So if you want to
incorporate that, you can go for it. And then here's how I do my
little oval shaped leaves, which I feel is a bit of a fake eucalyptus or
something like that. I think that's what
that plant was called. And then just draw
in the stem and start connecting
things just like this. These circular leaves are
also very easy to do. There are of course, a lot of different
types of leaps, leaf shapes in the world. So you can just experiment and reference and look at all the leaves
that are around you, especially if you're
experiencing summer right now. Another thing you can do is, well heart-shaped
leaves for one. And you can also take a
lighter color and start overlaying one branch on
top of another branch. There's just a lot that you can play around with when you're drawing leaves and
flowers and such. So just really go with the
flow and have fun with it. So getting back to
our wreath here, we're going to apply a lot of those
techniques that I just showed you to creating our
more traditional wreath, which is going to include
a lot more greenery. Here. I'm going to speed up the
process a little bit. And you're going to notice
that I'm going to draw a whole Laurel branch and
then I'm going to redraw it. So this is just to show you that even I draw things and hate it and delete it
and draw it again. I think every artist does. So don't feel bad if you have to erase things and
try and try again. Because part of the process, here, things are slowly
starting to come together. I'm layering lighter
colored leaves underneath just to
boost the fullness. And I'm incorporating
a little bit of pale pink mushrooms, just trying to get it all
to come together nicely. This is also the point at which having some ideas about balance, symmetry and composition
really help out. Composition is basically like all those rules of art coming together in
a pleasing manner. So here you can kind of
tell that I have balanced by not quite having
perfect symmetry, but the top and the bottom
balance each other. Because there's a straight line down through where
there's the mushrooms. And then I also have a balance of mushrooms
on either side. And of course, working
with a circular shape automatically gives you a
certain level of symmetry. Alright, so this is gonna
be it for this lesson. And in the last
and final lesson, we're gonna go over adding
some special effects to these. Basically, we're going to
be using layer types like overlays and glows and
things like that just to add a little bit of
pizzazz, some variation. So thank you for joining
me in this lesson, and I hope to see you in
our last and final lesson. And it should be
fun and exciting. So have a great day, Goodbye.
6. Lesson 5: Layer Effects and Using your Finished Pieces.: Hello, and welcome to our fifth and final lesson on creating beautiful
mushroom floral art. In this lesson, we will
be focusing on adding some layer effects to jazz
up our pieces a little bit. If you would like to just
keep your works as is, that is also
completely acceptable. But here what I've
done is I've added an overlay layer above
all of my artwork. And I've taken a
really bright red and I'm going to start
using the air brush. Just to air brush a little
bit of color over my pieces. You can see the upper
right-hand side of my wreath changing
colors a little bit. Because of this, I'm gonna be choosy about where I
put the bright red. And I'm also going
to incorporate, I like to use a
vibrant purple on the overlay layer because it gives it a little
more cooler depth. And I like to combine
these two things for a little bit of a cooler area and a little bit
of a warmer area. I just feel like it makes
things pop a little bit more, but you can of course choose whatever overlay colors
you would like to use. I'm going to backtrack
just a little bit, zoom in and get into the nitty-gritty of how
to do this properly. The first thing you're
going to want to do is you're going
to want to go ahead and select all the layers
that have your art on them. And we are going
to control click. And we're going to choose
a selection from layer. We're going to create a
selection from all of those layers that we
selected, not suggested. And you can see here what this does is it selects
all of our artwork, but keeps the white
out of the selection. This is important before you go airbrushing like I just did, because you'll end
up having messy, messy airbrush effects like
when you try to export these. So you really want to instead make a
selection and then you can safely airbrush
over them and it will restrict just to
where the earth is. So you can have like
transparent background in the back or white or whatever
layer you want to have. So now I'm going to zoom in
and give you a better look at the overlay layer
airbrushing technique that I like to use to finish
off a lot of my pieces. I'm going to start with the purple and add in
that airbrush effect. And here it goes. And you can see a
lot better here how it adds a lot more cool tones to that area that I just
lightly airbrushed on an overlay layer over
all of this artwork. And then I can go in and I
can take the red and I can add a little bit of
warmth to an area. So you can get a real nice
amount of variety of colors. I kinda feel like it works
a lot like watercolor. It gives me that
feeling of like when watercolors bleed
into other colors and they make new colors. Even though you've
only started out with just your base colors that
you are working with. I really do feel it gives a nice watercolor
effect, basically. Another key thing I would
like to note is you're not restricted to just doing
airbrushing on an overlay layer. You can also go into
your gradients menu. And you can basically overlay
any gradient that you find. There are any
gradient you custom make to add other new effects here I'm going to choose a sunset gradient and you'll
see how that pans out. Now, of course, the rest of
the pieces on this are kind of ruined because I'm just focusing on this mushroom group. It does produce an
interesting effect. And you can try it from different directions and
just see what works for you. And if you like it, keep it, if you don't like it,
undo it and try again. Another benefit of a gradient
layer is it can indicate where a light source may be on these otherwise
flat pieces of art. Here. This makes it look like there's a light source
coming from the top. And therefore under the
mushrooms are all in shadow. And this works because in nature That's also how it would appear. So using overlay layers is
my preferred way to add just Additional color
touches two pieces. But you can definitely
experiment with multiplying and adding
glow and other things. Just really get out
there and experiment. I really feel that
art is just a lot of experimentation and finding
what works for you. Oh, and don't
forget to have fun. Alright, so I'm going to
backtrack just a little bit and explain how you fix
making the mistake like I did with not making the selection and
spreading airbrush everywhere. What you're going to want
to do is you're going to want to go ahead and select all your layers again and
then create that selection. But the key is, is you are going to go ahead
and invert the selection. And then this will select all of the white area and leave all
of the artwork unselected. And you can see the little marching ants are marching lines are all around the
outside of the page. And so what you're gonna do
after you get that is you're going to go and you're going to click on your overlay layer. And you are just going to
hit Delete and presto. All of it should be gone if you had the overlay without
doing it in selection. Here, I will show you
what that looks like on the, without the background. See there's no air
brush marks anywhere. It's nice and clean. And finally, for the
last bit of this lesson, I thought I would show you an application of using
your beautiful wreaths. And what you're
going to want to do with your file is
you're going to want to go ahead and merge
all the art files, but be sure you do not merge your white
background with it. You want to just merge the
artwork layers only so you can copy and paste them into new documents to make things
like thank you cards, invitations, make
your own stickers, whatever you feel like making. So here I have all
my layers selected, the art layers only. And I'm gonna go ahead and
merge the selected layers. And that puts everything
on one nice little layer. So I can go now and I can grab the Lasso tool and just select any piece that
I want to work with. And then I can paste it
into a new document. And here we go. I am selecting this wreath and I'm gonna go ahead and create a new document. And I'm gonna go ahead
and paste it inside here. And I'm going to just center
it for the heck of it. And I also wanted to
mention that at this point, if you feel like it on the
layer beneath your artwork, you can fill in with any
background color you desire. Personally, I want
to work with white, but you know, you do you. One thing you can do with urethra is you can
go ahead and grab the text tool and write a little message inside
juries for this example, I'm just going to
make a thank you. And of course, it's showing
up in the wrong color, but we can fix that in a minute. So I'm gonna go ahead and get my text set up the
way I want it to be. And I'm gonna go ahead
and enlarge it a bit. And then I'll have to pull it back and put it
back in the center. Right now it's a
little bit too big, so I'll shrink it. Now I want to switch the
color to match the wreath. So I'm just gonna go
ahead and collect a sample color off
of my mushroom. And I'm gonna go
ahead and select the text again and apply it. And then I'm gonna go over here and find a nice
font that I like, which is clearly not going
to be the typewriter. I think something coercive will work for the thank you message, and I'll just give
you a capital Y. And then we're
gonna go ahead and center it and resize it. The U part is also way too
far away from the bank part. So I'm gonna go
ahead and select it. I'm going to choose the
little wrench icon at the bottom of the texts palette. And I'm going to go into
the second selection in the left-hand menu and choose to adjust
the line spacing. There we go. Here's the menu
and I'm just going to shrink it up just a little
bit, so it looks nice. And after I do this, I'm just going to make it a little bit larger because
it seems too small. And then of course I'm
gonna go ahead and center it a little bit
better because it's way off. And that's pretty much it. This is one way that you can use your brand new mushroom wreaths. And this is pretty much
the end of the class. So, yeah, thank you
for joining me on this journey and I look forward to seeing
all of your artwork, please do post them. And if you have any questions you can feel free to ask me. So again, thank you
for joining me and I will see you in the next
class. Have a great day. Bye-bye.
Amy Stoddard, Amy Illustrates
