How To Paint Photos in Procreate: Let's Paint Breakfast!

1. Welcome: Hi everyone, This is Jay Johnson, and I'm here today to show you how to paint breakfast. In procreate. Painting your photos is a fun and unique way to create art. In Procreate. I've taught the basics of how to paint your photos using the Procreate app on the iPad and several of my other classes, I am beginning a daily painting project. And in this class I demonstrate my first two daily paintings. I've chosen breakfast as my first theme in this class begins with painting a simple photo of an egg. And I create these paintings with only one brush. For my second painting demonstration, you'll watch me create the entire meal featuring one egg on top of pancakes on a plate. You'll see me make painted adjustments to my egg to make it look better than it did in the original photo. And you'll watch me transform the dark table background into a softer blue background. In this class, you'll learn how I set up my Canvas, how I position my photo, how I paint the background, how I paint and blend with the brushes. How I enhanced the painting with additional color highlights and brush strokes. And finally, how I finished out the painting using a simple tool in I call aroma. In order to complete paintings like this, you will need an iPad with procreate installed. You may also wish to install the eye color aroma app in order to add the secret final step, I show you to bring your final painting to life. You will need an Apple pencil. You will need to have a basic understanding of using Procreate and installing brushes. And you will need to understand how to take photos with your iPad or transfer photos onto your iPad before starting this class. Provided with the class is my rich oil brush. I also provide you with a PDF file featuring ten tips you can use if you choose to immerse yourself in a daily painting process as well. So if you're ready to learn how to paint simple snapshot photos into fun art and embark on a fun photo painting process using Procreate. Please join me. I also invite you to consider beginning a daily painting process as well as it's very fun, rewarding, and it will enhance your skills as a painter in ways you can only imagine. Thanks for joining me. 2. Set Up Canvas & Brush Test: Hello, Hello everyone. Today we are going to paint something yummy. We're going to paint my breakfast, or at least the portion of the breakfast. I thought it would be fun to do a food painting. And my husband and daughter make these fabulous breakfast. And when they do that, it's just something I always want to remember. And I thought it might be fun to do a painting or paintings of this breakfast process. I'm going to use two programs or two apps. They call them on the iPad. One is procreate, one is eye color aroma. Now the eye color aroma is just a little bonus thing that we will use at the end. And I wasn't going to show you a really neat trick you can do using a function in that app to really bring your painting to life. But right now we're gonna go to procreate and we're going to create a new canvas. Now, I call her grandma. I usually do 6,000 by 6,000 canvases, eye color, aroma, the biggest size they will let you export is like 4,096 or something like that. And that's okay. I can do a 4,000 by 4,000. So I mean, it's no big deal because up sizing it from the 4,000 to 6,000 isn't going to make that much of a difference with editing and sharpening and all of that. But I'm going to just go ahead and do it at 4,000. That way the two programs will, pictures will match up. So I'm gonna hit the plus button in Procreate up here in the top-right corner. And I'm going to touch on the black plus box by the word new canvas. And I'm going to put in my width 4,000. And then click in height 4,000. I just like to do square paintings. So this is what I plan to do today. I'm going to hit Done and then Create. Once it created, it automatically opens it for you. And when you go back to your gallery and you go to create a new canvas again, you'll notice down here at the bottom that size is already there in your list. You can rename it if you want to. I don't ever do that. But you can do that. So I've already got this one created, so we're going to work on this one. I'm going to just tap it. And I'm going to squeeze this down a little bit. And I wanted to talk to you for a minute about the one brush we're going to use here. That's right. One brush. I know you-all are used to me giving you lots of brushes. And I have lots of brushes and I've, there's lots of brushes in my other classes. But you can do a painting with only one brush. And I pick this one because it's called rich oil. And it is very oily, very slick looking and blends really nicely. Or whatever secret gear getting this one brush. Do this class with. And let me just show you what you can do with this brush. So say I've got a color here, I've got a red selected. Let me go over to a blue, blue mode here. I'm going to raise it all the way up and just do just, I'm holding it down and going up and down. Look at that rich color, rich thick color. And then if you put it about midway, it's a square brush. But notice it's picking up some of the white. It's blending with what's underneath as it's painting. And then let's go down to very small size. We'll get there. If you want to do sketchy stuff, this brush will do it all. This one brush, different sizes. But look at how it picks up that white from the underneath layer and blend. Now let's put a different color on there. Let's go over here and get some orange. And let me just do some orange across here. So there's what it looks when it's on top of one color, on top of another color. And it has a kind of a rough edge on this brush. And you can do real light strokes, very light pressure like this to get a scratchy look. It's just so versatile. And now watch this when I get in here in the blue and I'm pressing hard and not letting up. Now on this next one, I'm just doing very light strokes. Look at that, how it looks like. It's layering it over the top with very light strokes allowing the blue to show through. If you want a solid look, press real hard and scrub. And if you want to just put another color on top of a previous color, just gently make your strokes like this. So some of that bottom color shows through. Now let's go to this as a blender. And see what it does. All right, I'm gonna go about midway on size and I'm just gonna get right here. And oh, that's really strong. That is a really strong blend. See that? Just turned some circles there. It really does blend strongly. So a lot of times when I blend, I tend to bring the opacity down when I'm using it as a blender. It just depends. Let me make this a little smaller for this section. You just might have to play with that opacity to get the blend you like. And I am at about, let's see, about 70% opacity. That's usually where I like to be on blending, but it gets those colors blended together very nicely. And whatever color you start on, it will pull into the other color. And as you scrub back and forth while not letting up on the pencil, it will blend them. And then if I wanted to blend the orange out, I would pull the orange first. If I wanted to blend the blue into the orange, I start on the blue and pull it like so she can get some really nice blend. And then if you really want to stir some pain up, go around in some circles while not letting up. And then you can do very soft strokes to make some streaky blend like this. Just very lightly touching it and moving this up and down. But it's a really fun brush to work with. And you can also use it as an eraser. And erase off. Now that's at full opacity. Lower that opacity and do that again. Say it's a little more streaky. If you erase it off at a like a midway opacity than if you did it here at full opacity. So just, you know, whatever kind of look you want to get it, play with that opacity and play with your pressure. If you push real hard, it's gonna get solid. That's a solid erased section there. And if you scrub real hard, it's going to be solid. So that is revealing the plain white layer underneath at about 50% on that. So I've got the blender at about 70%, and I've got the opacity of the brush itself at 100%. But you could always, if you wanted to lighten that up, see the difference, and made it midway. It made it much more lighter in pastel. Just depends on the look. You want to create. That solid. And then make it midway much softer. And this brush has some nice little feathery ends. So when you do light strokes, this is really good for, for C, those feathery ends. When you press harder. Move that back up. When you press harder, it makes that nice square edge, kind of blocky. Which I happen to like, especially when doing loose and expressive paintings. And you can see the lines in it to the actual lines of the oil paint. You can see that in the brush. It's just a really fun brush. And there's one way to really learn a brush. And that's to do a whole painting with that one brush and nothing else. So that's what we're gonna do. So that's my little tests there with that brush and I encourage you to do a little tests and kind of get used to the feel of it on a layer above your background color there. And once you feel like you've, you're used to it. And you can also like when you're ready to sign your painting, reduce the size. Pretty small, and sign your painting like so at the bottom. So you can use this for very fine line work at 1% or go really big. Really like fill in a whole background really quickly. And when you hold it down, it'll just cover everything completely. And if you just do short strokes like this, it'll pick up some of those other colors and allow them to blend in. But it's really fun for doing a quick background here, which I've just basically done. And then you can go to the blender and get a hold of that and blend it out and smooth it out. Like so. So if you wanted to start with a colorful background, started painting, or just make a colorful background of the colors of your choosing for your subject. You could do that. And you could add more colors in there. Let's see. Let me get a little darker. And then blend to create some shading. Like in your corners. Reduce your size. You can scrub it. Short strokes, lifting up on the pencil. Just play with it and experiment. We're gonna be doing some blending. We're going to be painting photo here of this breakfast food. So we're gonna be using it as a blender. So practice with that. I'm just a layer like this. Just put a color down and then add a little few sections of other color in there, like so. Just short little taps and then blend it around and get used to it before you start working on the actual photo. And you can just hold down and scrub and do a really smooth blend like this, which that gives you a feel of how to do that. And you could do the short choppy. A short strokes like I tend to like to do. And a lot of my work because that gives it that bit more abstract feel, Impressionistic feel that I happen to really like. Because it really gives it that painterly look. I'm just kinda darkening this corner a little bit. So say that I'm happy with where these colors are, but I want a larger, smoother look. I'll make the brush really big and just gently drag it back-and-forth. Like so just to tone some of these marks down a little bit. Remember wherever you start as the color it's going to pull. And then you can go up and down. Got almost looking like a good Canvas here. Now. That's just a really quick background and a lighter, you press the lighter marks it will do. But you could also reduce the opacity. Yeah, that almost looks like a canvas. Because I'm pressing so light. It's getting those fine lines in there and you can reduce the size and make those lines even finer and smaller. I didn't intend on seeing here doing this, but this is what I mean with playing with the brush. Just play with it at first and get a feel for it and how it works. And this layer is going to be deleted anyway. I'm just going back and forth across now for I was going up and down. You go up and down. He got one look as you go across and you get another, end up with a almost a woven Canvas look when you're pressing real light. And I could sit here and do this all day. It's very meditative. Just sit here and do this. A lot of times when I don t know what I wanna do. And I just want to play, I will pick one brush and sit here and do exactly what I'm doing here with this one. I'll try it as a paintbrush, as a blender, as an eraser. And I'll try different opacities. And I'll try a different pressure on the brush and different movements across the canvas. And just see what I can get out of it. Different sizes. And just see what I can get out of the brush. That's pretty cool looking right there and you can always turn it around. You can go the other direction. You can, if you get something you like when you're playing like this, like I, I kinda like that. You can save it. And then you'll have a background that you can use with a future painting. If you want to. Blend with the photo, mask away the photos background. There you go. You got a nice soft blue background. There was some little color variation and some brush marks in there, even though there may be hard for you to see, I can see them. And then you can always add a texture on top of this and change layer modes and get a really nice background out of it. It's just a real simple way to do that. But for this exercise, this was just to get a feel for the brush. And I think I've done that now and I'm ready to start with painting. So in the next video, we'll get started on choosing the photo. I want to paint. 3. Painting The Egg: Alright, now it's time to pick a photo. We're going to clear this layer that I did with the brushes. And we're gonna go to the wrench tab and click Insert a photo. And I'll show you what I've done here. I took pictures of the breakfast process this morning. And I would like to pick one of these pictures to paint. Now, I have down here by the little deer head. You'll notice I have a single egg. Couple of pictures of that. And then I have the pan with the egg starting to cook different angles of that. And then as they proceeded to cook, a couple more photos, shot all of these with the iPad. As a really quick way to go ahead and find something to do a painting of. And then of course, the egg on the pancakes. And I'm looking at all of these pictures trying to decide which one I really like. This one here on the top far-right, with the egg on the pancakes. I really like on that one, my angle, you could see the edge of the pancakes a little better. So I think that's the one I'm eventually going to paint. I do like these in the pan here in the second row. If I wanted to paint a bunch of eggs, I think I would like to do one of those. I'm not thrilled with the first couple of the eggs and the pan down here on the bottom row, the third row. I just don't like looking at them undone. There. Just look slimy to me. I mean, I love eggs, but come on. Then we've got the two single eggs in their shell for it was cracked. I took one standing up against a roll of paper towels and then I took one just laying on a napkin on our table. And I think to get a little practice going this first one against the paper towels of his standing up looks kinda cool to maybe practice and work with the brush and see what we can do. So I'm going to click that one and bring in the photo, and I'm going to resize the photo to fit the square. Decide about how big the position I want the egg right there in the middle. It looks like I've tilted it. What have I done? I've hit the button twice. Okay, Let's redo this. We go back, Insert a Photo egg. I'm squeezing it up with my fingers and trying to position it where I want it. That looks like it might be pretty good. Now, of course, you can do whatever photos of whatever subject you want. I suggest to start with picky simple object like this, like an egg or just a piece of candy. I mean, people do careers out of painting simple objects. You'll, you've seen the daily painters. One of my very favorites is doing Kaiser. He does, a lot of, he does daily paintings. He, he kinda made that famous. He's like the father of it. And I have followed him for years ever since he started selling on eBay. And he would paint like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or a fried egg, or a piece of candy or a cocktail drink or something like that. Every day. Of course, he was doing his with oil paint, but that's the vision I have in my mind. And I'm just going to tap that to set that in place. I want to show you what I'm talking about. Let's go over here to Google. And here's some egg paintings I was looking at. Let me go type in Duan Kaiser and hit search. And I'm under images on Google. But these are the kinds of things He's painted. They have a very rich old masters kinda look. All of these may not be his, but a lot of these are his. He's done several eggs, pieces of bread. Here's the here's the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I just loved this. I mean, just simple objects, fruits. I even did a blog post on, as you'll see, the daily texture blog there, that I did a blog post on simple things you could paint. Um, and simple things you could photograph. And just to give people ideas of what they could do, you don't have to do anything. Just like super exciting. I mean, this guy got famous doing stuff like this. And I think it's fabulous. And if you wanted to do a daily painting kind of thing, this is a great way to do it by painting simple objects. So let's go back to our procreate. So here's my egg. And when I paint, I'm actually painting the photo. I'm not painting like from a blank page here. I'm actually going to paint the photo like I've taught in all my other classes are most of my other classes. I am going to duplicate this layer. So swipe to the left and hit Duplicate. And then I'm gonna go to that blender, brush, the rich oil. And I already have it set on the 70% that I like. Now I've got a really big brush selected. I'm going to use that at first just to kinda sweep over this background and just smooth out this paper towel roll. I don't want to show that there's a roll of paper towels there. But I do like the colors that are in this piece. From the roll of paper towels being there, the lighter whites and browns and grays. So I'm just tapping and making strokes on the actual photo with this brush as a blender. And as I get closer to the egg, I've made the brush a little smaller. And you don't want to sweep this bright white way over here. That won't look right. Do short strokes. And then from this side, the right side come back from that direction and get a nice little blend going on. Since you've practiced with the brush, you've got a feel for how blends. And I highly advise doing that first before trying to paint anything. Now I'd like this gray color under the egg. So I'd like to keep that. I'm going to start working that area a little bit. And just short strokes and I'm going different directions with my strokes. Left to right, right to left, up and down, kind of caddy corner. Short strokes working around the subject with not too big of a brush. You can hear the tapping the pixels in the photo. When I'm using this as a blender are my paint colors. These colors in this gray matter that this egg is sitting on is now my paint colors. That's my palette. This is why I like to do I love to paint photos. I mean, I use the auto painting programs. You may have seen. Let me go back to my desktop here. Ipad top, whatever you call it, you see impressed. So pro pastel yellow and this watercolor Pro, these are by a company called Dixie picks. Zip AIX. You do have to pay for these. I believe there's like $20 a piece well worth it if you wanted to do an automatic painting and you didn't want to sit here and do this and you just wanted to stick your photo in there and do an auto painting? I do that sometimes with some of my pieces that I don't have a lot of time, but I want to create something artistic. I'll take a photo, I'll use one of their programs and create a look. And then I'll bring it in, Procreate. And then using my brushes and my choice, I will then blend it some more fine tune it, add more brush marks to make it my own. A little bit more. I liked the hand touch of it by doing it yourself like this. But sometimes you just need a little help in the beginning. So if you're ever looking for something like that, I highly recommend their software. They make desktop versions and iPad versions. I have the desktop versions of all three. I don't use the watercolor one a lot simply because I'm not, other than painting some backgrounds here and there. I'm not really a watercolor painter. I do like to play with it sometimes, but I use the impressive Pro and the pastel, which is pencil and pastel. I use those the most want to use their software. But I use them a lot. And they're quite fun. And I they've been pretty stable for me. They'd been around a long time. And I saw I use them on my desktop and the iPad. Okay, we've got a good background going on here. I don't want to lose this shadow. So I'm going to make the brush a little smaller here and get under this egg and drag the shadow out where I want it. And around the bottom side of this a, I want to keep that shadow there so I don't want to eliminate that. By brushing too hard or too big of a brush. Keep that in there with some small strokes and kinda gently sweep it out to the right. And then of course he gets a little smaller down here. So I'm gonna go a little smaller. Brush, get right up under that egg where that shadow is. Not want to lose it. Here we go. Just to make sure I don't keep my egg-shaped bright. I'm going to go around the egg in these other areas. On the outside of the egg with the small brush as well. Just short strokes. And I can do some larger strokes later if I need to look at there, we've got a nice painterly look going on already. And I make the brush a little bit bigger. I started working around the upper edges of the egg. Short strokes, different directions. If I pick up some of the egg edge, that's fine. Because we're getting there next. But I like to paint the background out first. So basically I've obliterated the paper towels in the background, but I have used the colors from the paper towels and the gray matte to basically create a different type of background just by using this brush and the pixel colors that are there. But doing something simple like the egg. And this is what I want you to do. I want to, for one of your projects, I wish I I wish they had a way to upload more than one project here. But a lot of people are doing that in the discussions area, and that's fine. So go to your refrigerator, get an egg out to shoot a picture of it on something, standing up or lying down to shoot the picture with your iPad like I did. And do something like this. Work on this shadow area a little bit more on kind of pull down on that, pulling dark downward and then smoothing it out to the right. Just to kind of extend that shadow out a little bit. Now I'm ready to start painting the actual a. So I'm gonna go a little bit bigger brush. I'm going to be very careful on the edges because I don't want my egg to get misshapen like I just did there. And I can double-tap and undo a couple of those, maybe get a little smaller brush while I work on the edge. And if he gets a little misshapen, you can come in from the background over it and kind of trim it up. This brush is really slick. And I'm trying not to push real hard when I do this, I'm just doing some sweeping strokes in the direction around the edge of the egg. Getting down here near the shadow area now, so I want to be very careful to not mess up my shadow. I'm going up and down back-and-forth, letting up on the brush just very, very light strokes. And then I'm turning the picture as I'm working on it. Because everybody has a direction there. They like to move their hand. And I want to keep keep that going here by just turning it and working around this edge. Just keep turning it with two fingers. Once I get the edge done where I feel like it's pretty well in shape and painted like so. Now I'm back to the top so I can turn my painting all the way back around as it was and I've gotten, I've gone around the whole edge now. Now I can go with a little bit larger brush and work my way around this egg. Now I don't want to drag too much of the lighter colors into the darker sides of the egg. So I'm going back and forth. And if I see I'm dragging too much light, I'll come from the dark and pull upward. And I'm doing very, very light pressure here. Getting a feel for this brush. Obviously, you could see the pixels here on the left and the smoother paint on the right. When you zoom in real big like this, you can. See where you may have missed painting. And just kind of working around that egg was short strokes and working those colors. And you could start scrubbing in here if you wanted to hold down and scrub. But you know, an egg is very smooth Other than this, a little bit of it's got a little rough texture to the shell, but it's usually pretty smooth. So I don't want it to look too rough with texture. So I'm trying to keep the strokes fairly smooth. I mean, I will move around and go a different direction with the brush just to get some paint variety marks, variety in there that I liked, that mark that just made on the bottom. That's really nice. Now I have a lot of speckled shown here from the original photo because it was taken in my kitchen light, which is not the greatest. While a yellow overcast light in the kitchen. If you go out over the edge a little and it looks a little rough, That's alright. This is a painting. You just don't want to miss shape the edge. You don't want to get a big lumping it, which wouldn't make sense. All right. So there the egg is initially painted. So when you zoom out, you can kinda see what you like, what you don't like. I think I need to pull a little bit more of the dark from the bottom up around on this right side to give it a little bit more shape. So I'm gently making some right-to-left sweeping motion there. And I messed up. I don't want to mess up that one, mark, I did that I really liked. Kinda go back over this again when you're zoomed out, you can kinda see a little better. And I got a little nice streak of white when it picked up from the background and grabbed in there actually like that. Okay. That's pretty good. I do not like this super bright white on this left side of the egg. So I'm going to make the brush a little bigger and I'm getting this background and pull some of that gray up around there a little bit, even go over the edge of the egg a little bit in a few spots just to tone this down, pulling the grace toward the leg. That's that roll of paper towels. It's putting that bright white there. And I don't really care for that being quite so bright. So by putting a little pulling some of that gray in there helps that eliminate that. Pulling it toward the white area and blending that in some. Still got a little white rim around the side of the egg. Like to darken that up a little. Let me go a little smaller brush picking up some of the egg color. Interesting. And you can do that. You can bring some of the actual egg color into the background as well. Still looks awful right there on that left side. So here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna go to the main brush, not the blender. And I'm going to pick up some of this gray right there. And I'm actually going to that's a lot and that's not dark enough. Let's go over here, bringing some of this in. There. Left side, I still got that white rim. Might need to make a small brush and come along the side of the egg. Right along the edge of it there. I don't mind. I'm looking at the light is coming from here toward the egg, coming from this direction. So I don't mind. I'm just going to make a few little marks in here. I don't mind the bright light at the top. I just didn't like it so much down the edge now that I've made a few marks with that darker shade of gray, let me blend some of this in with some short strokes and just kinda mix it altogether. This, when you vary your strokes on brush size, um, you create interest. And then if there's too much little strokes, they're just get a bigger brush. And you can gently move that brush cross there like we did in that first brush video. And soften those up, just really gently stroking across. They're trying not to pull too much of that white back down in there. And pull some of this over this darker. Shade over and down a little and kind of scrub it. It makes some nice scratchy marks. When you do that. Really light strokes. Okay, and we're getting somewhere now. I'm starting to like it. So take a picture of an egg, get a guy refrigerator, everybody's got an egg, right? Unless you just allergic to eggs and I mean, I understand food allergies. Don't even get me started on that, but I'm something get a picture of something with your iPad, just something simple. And put it on some kind of plain background. And work the background like I've done here and work around your subject. You can actually paint your subject. That edge of that angle. Oops, that's too much. The undo button is fantastic. I still have this rim around this egg. I don't like, I'm going to come right over the edge of that egg, would that color, and then I'm gonna come back with egg color, sweeping it, trying not to get my egg out of shape here. Okay. That's looking better. A little bit of scrubbing here. Lightly. Lighter is better. The lighter touch. You scrub real hard. You're going to get really harsh marks. And I mean, that's fine if that's what you like, but I don't like it. I'm just kinda work in that background. When you zoom out, you can really see if there's a line somewhere or a part that you want blended a little better. You can really see that. Like where the shadow is off on the right now I would like to work on that a little. Well, I messed up that side of the egg. Okay, and let's go a little smaller brush. Bring some of that lighter color down and then go out to the right. Kind of work that around very gentle smile, short strokes in there. Then we have the shadow area. I'd like to sweep that out a little bit bigger. I'm gonna get on the dark part and pull with a very light touch. Right? I might even pull down a little pull down and then pull over across it. That gives it that nice streaky canvas blended look. If you get too much that way, pull back it too much down here, pull up from the bottom and then sweep left and right. Oh, okay. I messed that up. A little dark under there. There we go. Just maneuver that dark tone where you want it. Looking pretty good. I still not liking something right here. I think it needs to be messed up the edge of my eggs. So I'm going to sweep that back up, pull those pixels around. I'm messing up the whole edge of my eggs. I'm going to do a bunch of undoes there. There's a little section here on my egg. And then like, there we go. I'll pull this over here. You're going to mess up on things. That's why I say do something like this first before you start the actual food picture, just do something That's related to the food. And then if you like both of them, you might end up having a pair of pictures that you can print and hanging your kitchen or in a restaurant or put it on a greeting card or whatever. Okay. Looking pretty good. I think what I need here is a table line behind the egg a little bit. So I'm gonna hold down on here and pick this dark color. And I'm gonna go with a really small size of the brush and just kind of gently scratch in a little bit of a line there, see what that looks like, and then pick it up over here to a little bit. And then you can go back to the blender with a small brush and work that in blend some of that. Yeah. You could have done that on a new layer, by the way, which I probably should have done. We doesn't mess up what you've already done. She adds a little strong. How about we go the bigger brush and blending that out? Let's pull some of this color from the top down over it to lighten it because it is a little strong. I just want a hint of a shadowy line there. There we go. Let's settled it down a little. Maybe you can go bigger, brush, pull down some more. Well, I don't know if I've screwed it up. There. There we go. I mean, you'll you'll know as you're doing something like this, you know what you like and what you don't like and where you need to trim up. And I messed up my edge of my egg there. I'm going to have to go back and fix that. But first I wanted to get this other shadow table, shadow area and pulling down color over top of it to soften it a little. And then sweeping it to the right. Sweeping that shadow out some more. And if the shadows too much you can sweep back from the very edge. Pull back in. I'm getting off track here on the side. I tend to get kinda messy. Short dabs on a messy. But that makes it look interesting. Okay, let me fix this over here where I've done the egg kinda out of whack. Pull that edge. This is all done with blending here. We'll look a little better. I'm still out of whack. I need to pull that blue tone, gray blue over into it. Trim, trim and my gap. There were given egg a haircut. That's kinda what I'm doing here. That's a little better. But now it looks like it's sitting on a table and instead of where we were before, which was that we're getting somewhere. So at this point, once everything's painted out and I kind of have a good feel for it. Take a break and I step away from it. And then when I come back, I look at it from a distance like this and I figure out what's, what else is needed here. What do we need to do to really intensify this and pump this up. So when I come back, that's what we're gonna do. 4. Enhancing The Egg: Alright, I've took a little break, I've come back. And the first thing I notice is there's a lot of bright light coming down toward the top of the egg. But the egg itself needs a little brightness on the top to pick up some of that light. So here I'm gonna do a new layer. And I'm gonna go to the paintbrush this time. I'm going to pick the color that's on the egg at the top, which is this orangey peaches brownish color. And I'm gonna move it up a little bit on the color wheel and over to the left a little bit, just to get a lighter shade of that. And I'm going to pick a brush size. If it's not right, I undo it. I'm going to make a mark here at the top. Who that looks nice. Looks pretty good. Let me blend that just a little bit. Go back to the blender brush and blend some of that in word downward. I mean, sort of blend it out. It gives it a little bit of a nice touch there. Let's go a little lighter. So go up and to the left, little bit more. And let's make another mark there at the top. Right there on this top side. And let's blend that. Gently short strokes, very light touch. Blend that in a little bit, just a little bit. And this is on its own layer. So you're not messing with the original egg or whatever it is you've chosen to paint. So you look at the light source, Let's go with a little bit bigger blending brush is sweep that out a little more. So you're looking at the light source and you're seeing if that needs to be adjusted, That's what we're doing here. I'm going to pull it down some more. And out toward that left edge a little bit. Doing a little shading. You can turn this layer off and on and you see where we're at. And you can adjust the opacity of that layer. If you want to. I like it at full opacity. I would like a little bit brighter texture at the top. So we're gonna go up some more and over to the left a little more. Make sure we're on the right layer. And let's do a little mark or two in here. Just little dab of it right there. And with a smaller brush. Let's zoom in a little and blend some of this little dab. And I really liked the painterly stroke there. So I don't want to blend this out too much. Like I did that first little bit. Maybe a little bit bigger on that. I want to keep some of that painterly stroke. I don't want to, I'm going to undo a couple of strokes there. It looks too choppy. Just little short, very light touch. Just work it until it looks right at a distance. Look at it from a distance. It looks too sparkly. We're going to have to sweep it a little bit more. Because I used a small brush, so it looks a little too speculative. I might do this a lot to get a nice highlight in its graduated and not so strong. But now I've lost my little painterly mark I like so well. The little bigger sweep a little bit more across that top and down this front side. Alright, back to the paintbrush. Let's do another little short mark right there. Now. Just one mark. Zoom in so I can see it go the small brush and just gently go on the edges of that mark in a few spots to soften it. I want it to look like that's an actual paint stroke. There. There we go. That's pretty good. Now, another thing I like to do is add a little bit more color, a little more saturated color here. So I'll pick the color in the middle. And this time I'll pull to the right a little bit. I'm not going up because they don't really want to lighten. So I'm just pulled it a little bit to the right. Make sure I'm on paintbrush. And go the little bit larger brush and do a stroke or two in here. And do that one that may not be lighting or saturated. Now, go over to the right a little more. There we go. You don't need much of this. And I'm going to blend that just to create some color variation in there. And I am blending this quite a bit because I don't want my egg to look too textured. That's pretty good. Now, let's go back to the paintbrush. Go a little bit bigger. And like writing here. Still very light sweep. And then back to the blender and soften that up just a little. Like so. And like I said, you can turn that layer off and on. And you could do these on separate layers. But notice my color is boosting up a little bit. Now I want to go to this side and I want to boost this color. I'm going to pull that a little bit more to the right and do a couple little strokes in there. And this is very subtle at this point. And then when I get one that's real strong, blended in, a little bit better over that orange area. Might wanna go a little bit lighter and brighter with this. So once again, over to the right and then let's go up this time to really bright orange and put a little, oh, that's too bright. We need to go more toward white. Pull it across the top of the color, we'll make a mark. There we go. That looks better. It's a little bit brighter and a little bit lighter. And kind of work that in with the colors that are underneath by doing a little blending. Now remember you're only blending what's on this layer. You're not blending the egg underneath at this point. That stress and up my egg a little bit. See, looking a little bit more exciting now. And then down here on this side, grab this dark color, hold down, grab it. Okay, Let's go downward a little bit. Grab a little bit darker shade and whoa, that's too dark. I mean, two big sweep some of that in here, just a little bit of it on that bottom edge. And then back to the blender. Softly. Work this in. Let's turn it off and on. Okay, let's give it a little interest. Now the shadow area, let me get that. It's a dark gray. See it's not black. Will pull it down closer to black. And then we'll make a couple of little marks in there. Right up against the bottom of the egg. Right there. Whoops. Now it's on its own layer, so it's not messing with my eggs and I'm going to blend that in a little bit. Just a little bit. Sweep and blend. I I like some of that scratchy look. The brush made off to the right there. So we'll leave that, just darken that a little bit. So now my egg color wise is starting to pop a little bit more. So now what do I want to do? This little exercise with this one simple object is really giving me a good feel for the brush. I wonder how it would look if we put a little bit of a color in the base. I'm like this. Maybe just go find a shade here. How dark I want to go. Maybe that shade. And makes sure on paintbrush. Let me just make a few little marks here. I don't know about that. Maybe a little bit. Just very light touch. Oh, no. Zoom in so I can see better. I'm just trying to gently get a little that egg color in the base. And it may or may not work. I'm going to blend it out Some. Remember it's on its own layer. So it's not hard to blend it. You can blend it completely out. It just gives a little hint of that egg color down in there. This is all just experimentation. There we go. Very, very light. And if you turn it off and on, you can see it's just a little hint of that color in there in that base. I'm pretty happy with that. Now that I'm looking at it. At this point, I'm gonna go ahead at this point and merge this layer down with the egg layer. Merge down. Now I can blend some more actually on this layer if I want to. And I'm just looking to see if there's any areas that I want to blend out in the picture as a whole. Because before I was just blending out the highlight and color and all that on the top. Now I'm actually blending with the color of the egg a little better. Just touching it up around there to get it looking like I want making some additional strokes around the egg. I'm actually quite happy with that. Except for down here at the bottom, it looks like the egg may be a little skewed. Pull the base color towards the a. C, an egg is a real good thing to practice on because it's an oval and you don't want to mess up its shape. It gives you, I mean, unless you're painting hyper-realistic, least not gonna be perfect anyway. Messing with that dark down there on the bottom. See, I've got this little lump here hanging off the egg, and I don't want that. So I'm going to sort of pull this lighter color towards it and blend it in the direction of the egg, if that makes any sense. Smooth edge. I don't know if I'm doing more harm than good here. I won't know until I get back myself out of it a little bit so I can see it at a distance. I do think that might be a little better. There we go. Okay. I better stop. With that while I'm head. Now. This is just a, a warm-up painting, a little simple painting, so I can see how the brush works with the actual subject. Got this shadow in there down here on the bottom right, and may even pull some more smaller lines of that out. Just a little bit. Right there. I've got a shadow, I've got to highlight. I've got some painterly strokes. The backgrounds mixed up pretty good. If I want to soften that background a little more, I can lower the opacity of the background brush and smooth this out with a bigger brush. I'm not going to lower the opacity, but I do want to do a couple of oh, I like that Mark. See, sometimes you'll just make a mark and it'll make this really neat look and texture. And I really liked the way that looks. See the egg doesn't really need a lot of texture, but the background can have some texture. I want, I liked that one market just made right there. Where it's lighter. It, that really looks fun to me. I'm going to check this. Check your corners when you're painting a photo because a lot of times you'll be so focused on what the subject is, you'll miss the edges and the corners. So I go around and check everything and just kinda make sure see this bottom corner, there's a little blurred area right there That's from the actual photo. So we need to sort of blend that in a little better. So check your edges, check your, here's another part is from the actual photo right here. Check your edges, check your corners and make sure that everything is painted. That you're not seeing the noise and the speckles and marks from the original photo. And edges and corners are where those tend to be showing up just all on this bottom edge is showing up and I'm getting actually off the edge and pulling up toward the painting when I'm making these strokes to blend this. And then I'll go sideways too. Just to blend that in a little better. There we go. And then I'm going to check my left edge, which I believe since I usually start on the left side, I'm usually pretty strong on the left. And I usually get most of it. The one about the time I get down to this bottom right corner, I'm usually like tired of the background and wanting to do something different. And I tend to miss this bottom edge and bottom corners sometimes. So, you know, check those all around your painting. Before you call it finished. Now, I do like this for a warm-up, simple warm-up painting. If I was doing a daily painting, this could be one of my daily paintings of a simple object. And I'm gonna go ahead and sign this. And I'm gonna make a really small brush, like maybe down to a two. And you'd like to sign the bottom right corner. Maybe even down to a one. And you can sign on a new layer or right on the painting layer. I'm just going to leave that signed on the painting layer. There's where we started. There's where we've ended up. Let's look at it as if we're looking at it across the room. There's where we started, there's where we ended up. Now, at this point, since all, all the layers I did were, are already merged together, you can make adjustments like hue and saturation, color balanced curves, things like that. You could do that. You can use another program to do that after you save this out. So I'm going to save this out. I'm going to share it as a JPEG from procreate and hit Save Image. And so now this image is saved down. And I can open this in another. I keep saying program. I know they're called apps. I'm old school desktop kind of person, this iPad stuff. I've only been doing this maybe four or five years with the iPad. And I'm still calling these things programs and they're called apps. I mean, it's the same thing. Really. It does an operation that you wanted to do. Anyway, it's saved out. So now I can open it in another app if I wanted to and make other things happened to it, which is what we're gonna do with this fun little thing I found and I colored grandma. If I'm pronouncing that right When we come back. 6. Painting Breakfast Part 1: Okay, now I've gotten to what I really want to paint, which is the egg on the pancakes out all the pictures I took of the egg on the pancakes. This is the one I liked the best because it shows more of the edge of the pancakes together. Instead of a top view, It's more of a side view. Before I paint, I'm gonna do two things. I'm going to resize the photo to fit the canvas the way I want. And this is a 4,000 by 4,000, just like the last one with the egg. And then I'm going to go over into, I call it Rama, and work with some color tones because I really want to boost these color tones up. And I like to do that before I start painting. You can definitely just pick color tones as you go. But I want to try to just choose some before I start. So I don't have to do that. Because these are meant, these paintings I'm doing here are meant to be just quick paintings, quick exercises, not a lot of thinking, just painting, getting used to the brush, getting the feel of things, getting in the mood to paint. First thing I'm going to do is resize this. So I'm going to click this arrow to top. Make sure it's on uniform. And I'm going to use my two fingers and squeeze it up. And I don't care if the plate goes off the edge. The focus here is the eggs on the pancakes. And I'm just gonna go, I'm just going to leave a little bit of the plate showing at the back and kind of skewed it where I want it skewed it here, about like that. And then click on the layers panel. And then I'm gonna go ahead and save this Share JPEG. So it will be saved in the size I want. There we go. Now I'm gonna go to I called her grandma and open that saved photo right here. 4,000 by 4,000. Okay. Now, I want to I want to try that match color I showed you in the last video. So I'm going to click on tone, click on match, and click on photo down here on the bottom right to pull up my photos. And I'm gonna go find that one picture, that painting I saved that has all the colors I like right here. And so now if I click before, hold down on it, that's my colors before. And if I lead up, that's my colors. Now, you can kinda zoom out to see before. Now, it's very slight difference. It tones down. The egg had some blue tones in the white area before, bluish green. And now it's warmed it up a little bit. And that's what I like. That's what I like about her painting. That's why I saved it. Because of the nice warm tones. And I think I'm going to save that now. As a JPEG. I could have chosen one of their color presets, you know, gone through here and found something that I liked. But I really liked the one that I matched. It's just very subtle changes. And I don't like to go too strong on my color changes. So I'm going to get out of that and go back to procreate. And then I'm going to add a new layer on top and open up the one I just saved on top. And if I click them off and on, you can kinda see the difference. It's just a little bit That's before. That's now. It's just a little bit warmer. It takes some of that green tones down. And I like that now I can also adjust in Procreate if I wanted to. I could do hue saturation layer and then bring up the saturation a little bit. If I really wanted to boost the colors up, play with brightness, you know, that kind of thing over here as well. But I think I'm just going to leave it like that. Like I said, it's real subtle, but it's enough for me. So now I'm ready to start painting, but I'm going to duplicate this layer because I don't want to paint on the original one. And I'm going to get the rich oil brush. And I've still got it set about 70%. And I'm going to start painting. I'm going to paint the background out first. Like so. Around the edge of that plate. I'm not worried about showing the wood grain. The focus is not the table here. It is the egg and the pancakes. I'm trying to keep the edge of that plate intact. Just turn it around my fingers. As I go around. And of course I'm messing up the edge. Go over the edge just a little bit here. Very slightly. Turn it around, go back the other way, go over that edge. I'm doing that in one stroke. So I maintain a good edge. So I've got the table painted and the back edge of the pipe painted. Now I'm going to go ahead and paint the rest of this back edge. Behind the egg. Short strokes. I'm going in the direction of the plate. In a circular sweeping motion around the back of that. Got a little highlight there on the plate. Makes sure to keep that kind of work my way around these pancakes. But these, these kinds of paintings are just fun little exercises to get you going. And like I said, you could do one of these every day. I have been for years wanting to do a daily painting challenge and just paint something every day. Um, it doesn't have to be elaborate, like an eagle or elk are the things I normally paint. I'm going to keep this shadow under the pancakes. The best I can. Still working on the plate, working my way around. Not even getting to the shadow yet. Make sure to get these corners. Over here on this side. We've got I play it, highlight it, this bottom corner. Highlight right there. I don't want to wipe it out too much. I don't want to try to keep that under the shadow. And we've got a little oil bubble there. I can lower the brush size and try to lower it a little more. Try to keep this bubble in place by painting it exactly like it is with the little highlight their work my way around that bubble. And here's another little bubble here with a little highlight. Here we go. Now I'm ready to paint that shadow under the egg. Don't want to do too big of a brush. And I wanna keep along that edge very nicely of the pancakes there. I'll go ahead and do that edge first. Paint that. Then work on the shadow area itself. The shadow has got some nice blue in it. It's also got this greenish brown, which I may adjust by adding some more blue on top of that, will just take, do this first and then take a look at it. There's another little bubble right there. Lower the brush size. I want to try to keep a little bubbles. That makes it interesting. Color variations in the shadow make it interesting. So I want to try to keep those work in a way around the edge of the bottom of the pancake and the bubbles. I'm just working on that shadow area. Right now. Try not to really touched the pancake too much. Make sure I've got this. Add some smaller brushstrokes around there just for interest. Here we got out of the shadow where the green meets the brown. That looks a little choppy. I'm gonna go with a bigger brush and sweep that not worthy green or the blue meets the brown. Sweep that bluish tone up into that greenish brown tone, tone down some of those choppy strokes because the shadow would be smooth. Then around this side. Here we go. Okay, so that's looking pretty good at this point. So I'm going to take a little break from it and then come back and start painting the egg on the pancakes. And then see where to go from there. 7. Painting Breakfast Part 2: Alright, I've painted the plate, the table. Now it's time to paint the egg. And I can tell you right now that the top of this egg here, more of the white has gone over it. I don't like that. So I'm going to paint that in as yellow. I'm going to go ahead and do that on this layer. I'm going to pick a nearby yellow color right there. Make sure I'm on the brush correctly. And I'm just going to paint that color in right there. And maybe get a little bit lighter. In the center. There might be a little too light, so bring some of this yellow back in. Just doing short little strokes and I'll blend this in a minute and get some of the darker color to come around it. And then let us get the light yellow again, but let's go a little brighter with an actual yellow. And put some of that in there in that brighter area and there probably would be a highlight there. I'm going to do a little dot of white in there because there's some highlights along the edge there. So now I've painted a way that white spot and I can blend that in. And I did it right on this layer. So I'll go to the blending brush and I'll start with the yellow area. Don't wanna get too big of a brush. And work my way around, working my way into the middle area. Like I said, these are meant to be fast, quick. I don't want to spend too much time on these. These are exercises to get you used to painting simple subjects. Let me get a little bigger brush there. Get some of this blend in their work. My way toward that highlight I put it in, get a little smaller brush to capture the, keep the highlight and I want to keep the highlight pretty much. Then I can start working around the edge and keep some of these highlights that are in here working around the outside edge. But now let's say that yellow, it looks better now that it's got the yellow there. Might need a little more blending of it. Just kinda smooth that color out because this is the top of the egg is real smooth. That yellow area, okay, smaller brush and work around. Now getting into the white of the egg, but I want to keep the color, variations and highlights. So I'm using a pretty small brush, so I don't obliterate those. I'm just working around that yellow area, working my way out. You can even drag some of this white over there. Little short strokes trying to keep these color variations in here. And as I get to a larger area, I will, I missed that side up there. There we go. I will go with a larger brush. So let's go a little bit larger here in this area right here, there's some little white highlights in there. I'm kinda wiping out. I can put them back in. If I want to go smaller brush and keep them there to start with. Either way. Alright, let's get this back corner of the egg. Here. While I've got a smaller brush selected, I want to keep these color variations so we're going to stick with the small brush and get this little piece right here. The sort of hanging over and get around the edge of that pancake. Sum up some of my brush strokes here. I'm just scrubbing. Others, I'm doing short little choppy strokes or just sweeping it. Were this is touching the pancake here. I want to try to use pretty small strokes in this area. Actually start getting into the pancake around the edge of the egg. So smaller brush and smaller strokes for smaller areas. Larger brush for larger areas. And if you lose a highlight, you can always add it back in. I'm trying to keep them and work around them as best I can. And you can get a little scribbling and messy. The whole point of this is loosening up. Having fun, getting used to the brush. Get this dark area down that pancake around there. Now this area, the egg, get a little larger. Brush right there. And I'm kinda just work my way around. There we go. Let's see. I think I want to finish the egg before I start on the pancake. Now this little piece egg out here, off to the side. I could leave that, I could wipe it out. I'm going to leave it. I think it gives it interesting character. Kind of work my way around that on the actual pancake. Now, smaller brush and go along the edge of this part of the egg down here to where it drips down a little bit. I'm just follow all the way around the edge while I've got this small brush going. Some of these highlights, because I'm going to switch to a larger brush simply because I'm trying to do these fast. And I don't want to take a lot of time on these. Keep that small brush there at the edge where the pancake is an actually go on the pancake as well. When I'm going around that edge. And then if I wipe out some of the highlights, I can always add them back in. But if you do short, choppy strokes, some of them will still be in there. As just little dots. You can sit there and do a small brush and paint each individual little highlight. But I tend to like, I know there's highlights there. So I can always go back. Was small brush and dock them in rather than paint all the way around them. They don't need to be exact. I'm just short strokes here. I'm dotting stuff in with this larger brush. So it still looks kinda lumpy. I've lost some of my highlights, but that's okay. Let's go back to the paintbrush and let's go to white with a small brush and just maybe a little bigger than that. I know they're, they're just dot them in. Then back to the blending brush. Really small. And blend in what I just dotted in. Now they're back, but they're painterly. And I can go back and go little smaller and not in a couple of more gray on top of that. Back to the blender. And just kinda touch on those to blend them in a little more. Artistic license here. Getting around that into the pancake now on the edge, those highlights are a little strong. When you zoom out, you can kinda see where you need to make some changes. So I'm going to blend them down a little bit more. Just soften them up, touch on them. Just a little short. Taps will help to blend them in. Now zoom out. This one up here that looks a little strong. That one there. That looks a little better. They're not quite as strong. Now, make sure I have all this painted and do believe I do. Now, it is time to paint the pancake. And you can always turn off the layer and look at your egg or your object, whatever it is, looking at it from far away to see if it's looking like you want. I mean, it's getting there. I think once you get the pancake part painted, it will all come together quite a bit better. So in the next video, I'm going on to the pancakes. 8. Painting Breakfast Part 3: Alright, I've got the ink painted plate painted. Let's do the pancakes. Make sure I'm on the right layer. To make sure I'm on lending brush. And I'm going to start with a smaller brush working around the outside edge of the pancakes. Now pancakes are a little bit fluffy, so I can get a little messy. With these. They don't have to be as smooth as the egg. Just going to work with a small brush around these edges first. Little short strokes and scrubbing and kinda work in these color edges. Keep them intact, the edges. And try not to mess up my egg. Around this edge on the bottom. I'm just kinda one all around these edges. Trying to maintain them. The brush could probably be smaller, but I'm just leaving it the size. I can get up around the edge of the egg. Here a little bit. If you start to blend in, one color is coming in and you don't like it, stop and go the other direction with the brush. I probably do need to go to a little bit smaller brush down here. Get this little piece all painted. I will tell you when you do this and you paint your photos. And the more and more and more you do it, the more you realize are the more you learn about painting and how the brush works, and how you can just paint with it naturally. Without painting a picture. It gets you sort of trained to like shapes, I guess is what I'm trying to say. Somehow gotten a streak over that side of the pancake. There's a nice highlight there. I'd like to leave that they use a small brush on that. I'm just working very fast. The faster you work. Looser it will be. And that's that's all around that edge. There's a droplet here on top of this pancake. I want to maintain that. So I'm gonna go ahead and paint them as dot the little highlight. Oops, I've switched to paintbrush. Let me undo that. Alright, back to Blender. There. I'm zoomed in really close, but I'm working this little droplet with the small brush because I'd like to maintain that. And you'll see when I zoom out, it's their dark edges around the droplet. Little highlight here in there. Because the droplet is showing the pancake underneath. So it's kind of reflective. Droplet and transparent at the same time. See when I zoom out, it's still looks like a droplet, but yet it's painted. Now. Here's a couple of highlights over here. I kind of obliterated them. That's okay. Alright. I'm looking to see if there's any other areas. I really need to use this small brush, maybe a little bit bigger brush right in here. In this section. Where the area is a little bit skinnier, little short strokes in through there and through here because I want to keep that gray color variations that are appearing there. You don't want to paint it one solid color, it won't look right. Work my way around here. Then as you zoom out, you can see where you need to paint some more. Okay, Let's get this top part of the pancake here. And it's got these little colors here that are lighter, like little streaks. I'm going to try to keep those, but I'm gonna go with a little bit bigger brush for this top part, little short strokes. And then as I get to the little streaky areas, I'm gonna go with a smaller brush and pull upward sort of into the area I just did with the larger brush. Trying to maintain my droplet there and work around that. Let's zoom out. I could pull my little lighter areas back toward the darker areas a little bit more to keep those streaky areas in their different color. There we go. If you turn it off and on, you can see the difference there. Maybe a few more little streaky areas in there or ground the bottom of this part of the egg. Then we've got this side with same type of situation with the streaky areas. I'm going to go with a little bigger brush on the dark and just kinda blend that out. And then little smaller and pull not quite that small. And pull upward. And I'll pull the dark downward to, to create some variation. Some of that down, pull this back up. This is certainly teaching you that the pancake has quite a bit of texture in it. It's not just one solid color. Right now Let's get that rim underneath there. A little better. Which I've pretty much done that anywhere. It looks a little choppy, too choppy. You can sweep that brush and a longer stroke. We've got this dark area under here, under that rim. So I'm going to pull down downward and then I'll come back and pull upward from the bottom into the dark. Pulled down, pull up, get that color variation, and then across the bottom is just kinda respectfully. So I'm just going to tap the brush in there multiple times. We've shown a tap, it picks up a different color and moves it. Like I said, pancakes are fluffy. So if you get a little messy edge, that's okay. Then you can zoom out and see where you might want to smooth something out or move something else around this edge. I think we've got the pancake pretty well painted and look at that water or oil droplet right there. When you look at it up close, it looks totally ridiculous. You thinking that's that doesn't look like a water droplet or oil droplet at all. But when you zoom out, it does. Alright, let's turn it off and on. Zoom out some more, off and on. So it's still pretty realistic looking, but it's definitely pulling in. Now. The next step now is to bring in some more color. And I'd like to make this piece a little bit more fun by boosting the color a little bit. And I'm looking at the brown table underneath it, and I'm thinking about changing the color of that background area to a blue. I actually have a little blue table here that I photograph a lot of objects on that I just love the color blue. I don't take it's in my studio. I don't take my food down there and photograph it, but the color is pretty strong in my mind because I do photograph on that table quite a bit. So I'm thinking about changing that. And so when I come back, I'm going to add a new layer. And I'm going to start adding some additional colors into this piece and blending them in. 9. Enhancing The Painting: Okay, it's time to add a new layer. And let's work on this table first. I'm going to choose a blue. Now my table downstairs is sort of this color blue and this color blue. I'm gonna choose this darker one first. And I'm just going to get a fairly large sized brush. Go around, leaving a little the brown showing I'm going to blend this. So the brown we'll give it that darkness it needs around that edge. And then I'm going to choose the lighter blue and make a few strokes of that in there. A little bit smaller. Right around the edge of the plate. A little bit. Just a few little marks. Alright, let's go to the blending brush. Let me work on blending this in and this is on its own layer. So I'm not going to mess up the egg or the plate. I just think a different color in the back would be interesting to try. This is all about experimenting and having some fun with color, learning what you can do. And like I said, I'm, I'm not messing with the plate. It looks like I am, but I'm not because I'm on a new layer. Go a little bigger blending brush here. Smooth that out a little more. I want the focus to be on the plate and the egg. So the background is just extra here. Alright, let me go back to that darker blue and puts more of those marks in there. Maybe even go a little darker on the color wheel. There we go. Now let's go back to the lighter blue. Put a couple of those marks in there and blend some of that. Pull down, go across. Just working it in there. Comes over the edge of the plate. I'm not worried about that because I can get rid of it if I need to. That's creating a different background. For sure. Now I'm going to make a couple more strokes of color. It's right along that edge. And then go to the little darker shade around on top of that. Go different directions and then pull down and go a little darker, long that back edge and corner. So I just keep doing this until it gets to looking like I want. Make a smaller blending brush and blend some of that end. And let's tidy up the edge of this plate and blend some of that blue that whenever the plate blend it back out by pushing it, probably need a dark blue shadow around the edge of the plate. So I'm gonna go a little darker on the blue smaller brush because it doesn't look right having that brown shadow there. Now that I've done the blue. So go with a little darker and then the blending brush a little smaller and kind of work that dark shade in scrubbing it a little bit. Working across it very quickly. I can go a little bigger brush and actually pull some of that upward. And then come back down with a smaller brush and go on the edge of the plate. That looks a little better now that it's got that blue tone in that shadow behind the plate. Off on zinc. See see where it is. I don't think I need to blend the background. A little bit more. Zooming out will help you see where you might want to blend a little more. Whoops. I came right on into the plate. That's okay. I'll just blend it down in there. Let me go back to that lighter shade of blue. I want to put a couple marks in here. Not too strong. Whoops, what am I doing here? With my palm? Just very light loops. You do a mark, you don't like pull back on it. I mean, undo it. Just very light strokes in there to get some streaky paint marks. Here we go. That looks kinda interesting. A little bit right here I like to blend down. Okay? Still not satisfied with this right here. Blend this down a little bit. Being picky now. Alright, I'm gonna leave that part alone for now, but that same blue, I'm looking down here at the shadow area under the egg and thinking it'd be good to bring some of that blue in there from the background so I can hold down there. I'm finding the darkest let me find the darkest spot. Probably right there, sort of a blue-gray. Select that. And I'm still on its own layer. I'm going to bring some of that color down here, maybe a little bright. Let's pull it down, darken it some more where it's dark. Okay, now let's go back to that other shade. Pole. Shades from the background to put in here. Makes it kinda interesting. Now let's go to lighter shade and pull some of those in there. Now let's blend. Because this is on its own layer. It's just going to blend with what's underneath, just trying to get my brush the right size there. And I'm just lightly sweeping across that shadow area and scrubbing a little bit. Even going outside the shadow area. Kind of really making it soft. So it really does blend with what's underneath. Just a lot of fast lending through. There may be a little strong. Now because this is, I should have done that on its own layer, but because this is on this layer, I could adjust the opacity down if I wanted to. Or I could mask some of that back off that I just put down there because it's a little strong. Or I could just keep blending it. And if you keep blending it and it will tone it down. Go with a bigger brush and blend a little better, see as toning it down. Now the more I blend. If someone, if it comes off onto the plate out of the edge, It's okay. Bring some of that color in there. So now let's look at it before. After. Okay, I like that. I want to pump up the yellow on the egg a little bit. Now. I'm going to do that on another, its own new layer. I'm going to grab this yellow color here. And I'm gonna go to the left and up a little bit to get a little brighter shade in there. And where that is right there. That lighter color, yellow. I'm going to put some of that in there. And I'm going go to straight white dot that highlight again, some of these highlights around the edge loops. And then this yellow here and grab that. It's more of an orange. I'm going to go up a little brighter on that. Just to get some color variation in there. Now I'm going to blend all of that different directions on the blending to create interest. Remember, like I said, the more you blend, the more it'll soften up. And then because it's on its own layer, I can reduce the opacity about where I want it. I tend to do about 70 to 80% on my opacity layers. And you can also, because that's on its own layer, if it's not saturated enough, go to hue saturation layer and pull the saturation up really high if you want to. Which I like it up a little bit higher. But once I've got it up a little higher, it needs to be blended a little more. So go back to the blending brush, turn it off and on to see where you might need to blend some more. Just very subtle. But it kinda brightens up the top of that egg. There's a little blue shadowing here under that. So I think I'm gonna get that light blue and do a couple of streaks in here of that. Couple little marks. Just looking at where that blue might want to be and then blend it. We're still working on that like 70% opacity layer. So it's not totally too strong, but it gets some of that blue tone in there to boost that egg color a little bit. And if it's too much, just keep blending and it'll blend its way out down to a lower amount. Turn it off on, you can see the difference in there. Now I might want to get this and go a little brighter and put some of those marks in there and blend some of those out. Just keep adding color. Now, what about this pancake? Should we brighten up the colors of it a little bit? Let's see if we can. Let's get this rich color here and go a little brighter. Dot some of that in there. And then let's get the streaky color right there and go brighter on it. Kinda work in a way around it. Let's go to a little more yellow tone on the color wheel and pull up and get a little bit of that in there too. Now the light is more coming from the top. So all of this is kind of in shadow. So I don't want to brighten it too much. Let me blend that before I go any further. Just kinda work that in kind of gives it a little color variation on C. Just making little more interesting. My dot on my oil droplet looks a little too sharp for the rest of this. Let's see what I want to do. Alright, add another new layer. And that little dot there. I don't know if I blended that real well. I'm going to do a small brush and just do a little mark there. Oops, that's too big of a blender. And sort of blend that little mark in. These two little marks I just made. Blend it in. It looks a little more painterly then zoom out so you can see, I still want a little bit of a sharper. I mean, a more painterly stroke there on that highlight there. No. Blend it. Okay. I'm not going to fuss with it too much. And do you want to put a few more highlights in here? In a couple of spots? So let me go around the egg. I guess it would help if I got on white. Remember this is on its own layer, so I get a little too much. Let me blend some of that. I like to blend as I go on this stuff. Alright. Let me go back to the there's this yellowish color right here, but it's sort of a yellowish green. I want to brighten it a little bit, pull that over to a brighter tone and just kinda do a sweep right there. Maybe a little strong, just very lightly. That's too strong right there. And sort of blend that in the edge of this pancake right here. This get this color. Can go a little brighter. And do all those loops. That's too strong. I press too hard, do a little light stroke. I don't want to go more towards the yellowish color there. I'm just starting to fuss with it now. Let's blend that a little bit. This a little more shadowing, they're off on. This needs blended more back here. A little strong. Okay. Off On. Step back a little more. Off on. Actually is looking pretty good. But I do not like absolutely do not like is this little bit of egg right there. Don't like that. So on the same layer, I'm just going to go ahead and add some paint. That's the colors that are around that and get rid of it. Well, I thought I was keep touching and adding those colors and then blend it a little bit. There. It's gone now. Gone. Because that to me was taken away from the just adding something that my I was going to I didn't like. So he can paint anything out by either blending it out or painting over it. And now I want to merge 654.2 here together. So I'm going to squeeze those layers altogether. So turn it off. There's my before, There's my after. Zoom way out. Before. After. Yeah, I'm liking it a whole lot better now. I'm going to duplicate this. And just on a, just to see what it does, I'm going to try to raise the saturation overall. Give a little more color. Because I'm, I'm kinda picturing a fun image here. And to me when it's, when it's lower saturation, it looks more elegant, I guess. And then as you raise the saturation, it becomes more fun. I'm doing this on its own layer. And I'll play with brightness a little bit too. Just a little bit. So that's on its own layer. So I can turn that off and on and you could see what it has done. An a, I like that color boost. And if it puts a little bit too much somewhere, you can always do a mask, which I think it did put a little bit too much on this left side of the pancake. I do like the darker tone underneath the egg. The egg and plate to be brighter and more saturated. So, okay, on that I'm going to do a mask. Click on the layer click Mask. Make sure you choose black paint and the paint brush. And on this left side of the pancake, I'm just going to brush that down. Dark, which will darken that little section backup. You can see the little mass there. So now turn it off and on. And the shadow area too, I think I need to on that side, I think I need to darken that by putting that mask on that shadow area to maybe that whole section right there. Okay. On. Zoom out. Off on. Okay. I'm happy with that. Now. At this point I want to save this out and I'm going to take it over to I co Rama and use that special little button I found over there to really enhance this painting. So we're going to click the wrench, Share save as a JPEG. Save. 10. Finishing Detail in iColorama: Alright, I'm in eye color aroma. I'm going to get that photo. I just saved of the painting, 4,000 by 4,000. And now at this point, if you don't, don't feel like you're stuck with color tones. If you wanted to change color tones here, you could do so. You could go here and play with the different ones. And if you come up with another one, you like better what you did. Then you can use it. Feel free. And you can always click the before button here at the top. Hold down on it and see what it looks like before and after. You can even run your match again. If you've done that, picking a favorite picture or a painting with color tones that you like. And let it match the colors again. Now say, when it matched your colors at tone them down. Because I brighten them up. This is before, see how bright that egg yolk is and then this is after the color match. So I like what I did with brightening it up. So I'm not gonna do any of this color stuff, so I'm not going to save that. Alright, let's go to effects. And click on raise over here on the right. Now click the presets and it's chosen number one, which is pretty strong. And then there's number two. If you click before, Let's zoom in a little. Hold down before let up, you can see the difference. So two is definitely a lighter rays look, or one is a stronger rays look. But you can reduce the size of the rays look and the opacity down to where you want. And I like to zoom out when I do this because I don't want it like super-strong. Before I did like 0.28. And the opacity, I can't remember what I had it at in the egg. I'm just kind of moving this slider around to see where I want it. And then I'll click hold down on before, after, before, after. Zoom in and take a look before. After. That raise may still be a little strong. Pull the opacity down just a little bit more. I don't want it to be too much. So before, after, but it does give it a nice thicker painted look, which I really do like. Especially up here where I put the streak, where I painted the blue, look at them before, after, see how it raises that up. I really liked this function. And you squeeze down on this with two fingers and then use one finger to move it around by the way. So I like the way this looks. And I'm going to click save as JPEG. And it has saved it. And now let's go back to procreate. And let's see. I'm just going to add that on top and a new layer. Add Insert Photo, which is going to insert the eye color ram a photo. And then I can click it off and on. So you can see the difference. And you could also adjust opacity here a little bit more if you wanted to. I did already adjusted it enough, I think and I call aroma, so I'm going to leave the opacity like it is. I really liked the way that looks. I can see that I did not blend the corners totally like I should have. I could put a mark on there now and sort of sweep that out. We'll get this corner over here. I did that one. Okay. Alright. I'm ready to sign it now. So I'm going to pick my brush, make it quite a bit smaller. I think it was one or two. And I'm going to pick a color to sign with. And I like to pick a color that's close to the bottom area of the painting. I like the blue. I'm going to try it and zoom in real close so I can see what I'm doing. Loops. Maybe a little thick. Let's go down to one. There we go. There. There we go. Now I could have signed that on a new layer and adjusted the size of my signature. But I actually liked the way that looks. So I'm going to save this out as a JPEG save. Now. I'm going to turn off everything underneath except for the original photo. There's the original photo. There's the painting. See how fun that is to just paint a simple object. Cool. Alright, that's it for the egg on the pancakes. 11. Your Class Project: Okay, so let's talk about your project. Now. I am starting a daily painting project for myself. My goal is to start it at the first of the year since we're in November right now, I thought I'd go ahead and get started now and kinda get in the habit of it. And I picked breakfast to paint for a couple of my daily painting simply because it was easy and accessible. And you don't have to pick breakfast, but I think food is a good choice to pick a because food has multiple components. Like here. You saw me do the egg, which is a component of the meal. If you were doing a pie, for instance, like say a strawberry pie, you could take a photo with your iPad of one strawberry and paint it like I did the one egg. And then you could take a photo of the finished Pi and do that as your full painting. By painting one component of the meal. It kind of gets you in the, in the mode. And it's in, it kinda goes fast. When you're painting only one component. It goes a little faster. So it kinda gets you in the field of how to do it, which is why I set this up this way to do two things. The component of the meal and then the actual meal. So your project is to do something similar. If you don't want to do food, you don't have to do food. You could do something else that you may do. Like do a flower, like just a simple flower. And then maybe you put that flower in an arrangement in a vase and you paint that as your full painting. You'll paint one component of it and then the full thing, it's a good way to get integrated into painting. And if you want to do a daily painting project like I'm doing, you might find my daily painting tips useful. I have uploaded a PDF of my tips, ten tips into the resources section of this class. So be sure to download the one brush that I used for this so you can practice with that brush. And be sure to download the daily painting tips if you're interested in doing a daily planning project where you pick a photo each day to paint. You might find those helpful. As always, thanks for being with me, thanks for watching my class. I look forward to seeing your projects. And remember, if there's only one project allowed to be uploaded per class, but you can always go to the discussion tab and upload your picture in there. I will see them. And if you have any questions, be sure to ask those in the discussion area as well. But I look forward to seeing everything you create. And thanks for being with me. You guys have a great day.