Procreate for iPad Beginner Class

1. Welcome to "Procreate for iPad Beginner Class": Welcome to the procreate iPad beginner class. In this class, you'll learn all the basics about Procreate and at the same time, you'll draw some pestle limbs with me. So at the end of the class, you'll have an artwork you can be proud of and you can apply your new knowledge to a project right from the start and use it for many projects to come. If we haven't met yet. My name is Maria. I'm an artist and graphic designer and teacher, and I love to create digital products. To create these digital products, more often than not, grab my iPad and sit down for a drawing session in Procreate. If I'm not drawing, you can fight. You're working on my website, design resort.com, where I help artists and designers to enjoy drawing and building their online business. Procreate for your iPad is the app. When it comes to drawing raster images. It offers so many functionality and some aren't really hidden. So you need to get familiar with the app first to create your own artwork in watercolor, wash presto, any other technique you can think. I show you how in a nice project you can use to create some wall art for your kitchen or as a gift for a friend. In any case, it will be great fonts. So join me now. 2. What Procreate is for: So what can procreate do for you? Actually, procreate is not a vector-based program. That means that you can create a specific size, your images, but not that large as you could do with vector-based images. But as an advantage for raster based images, procreate is something which really pretends to draw on paper. Like when you use watercolor or gouache or whatever. You can totally get this paper feeling. And the real killer feeling actually, that what we are going to do in this class, we are going to sketch our lemon and we are using soft pastel brushes, which are already included in Procreate. And then you see how much texture you can add with that. And besides texture and besides layering and besides animations, you can also use the symmetry tool. You can do hand lettering in procreate, and so much more. We do not cover everything in this class. Just make sure you keep in mind, we are working in a raster based program and not in a vector-based. And that's why we adapt what we do to this program. 3. Save and organize your Artwork in Procreate: Once you open Procreate, you are in the gallery view. Here is a place where you can find all your artwork. And most probably when you started first-time, there's nothing in it. But when we start creating, you will quickly add up here and add all the artwork you've created. In the gallery view. We can start by creating a new document, and we will do so with these four menu points here on the right, I just click here on the plus. And now I have several presets here and I just create whatever document. And then you can see you have the tools which help you to create on the right. And the tools which help you to choose the right setting on the left. And we will go through all these settings. But for now you should just know that we have here the brushes, and you can pick any brush. There are already a lot of brushes included in Procreate. But you can also import your own and then start creating with that one. So just, let's pick a brush and a color here from the color wheel can easily pick whatever color you want. And then you can start drawing here on your Canva. So you can easily create here if you hold the pencil, not really steep, but this way, you see the difference here. Let's go out again. Now. I have my new artwork here. And now we can put them into a stack. Just let's open a few different templates. Now. I have one with the drawing inside, and now I create a new one. On, whenever I click here on gallery, I'm back in the gallery view. What I will create another one. And then I have three documents, two of them MTN, one was my scribble here. Whenever you draw something here in Procreate, it is saved automatically. You don't have any menu here to save your drawing. It just saves automatically and you can see it in your gallery. So in Procreate, you have stacks, sex or folders. And inside the folders are several artworks. So you can easily do that by putting those on top of each other and show you two different ways. So let's start by clicking here, select. And then you see this little dot here. And when I tap into that and create an arrow and then click Stack, it's all put into one folder. So let me get out there with x. And when I go in here, you see three different documents. Inside this, I can easily move my documents. So if I want to have that one was something on it on the left, I just need to move it there. Or I can also delete, share and duplicated here. If I want to just click Duplicate, I have another document. And when I click Share here, you can see that there are several formats I can choose to export and share my document. Let's go out of the stack. You can also just rename your folders. I say folders because these texts are nothing but folders. So when you click on the word stack and you've just click in here, you can now just type in any word. I just put not art work. And then I have a new folder named artwork here. 4. What Document Size and Color Space should I use?: Now we have two ways to create a new art work. Whether you click here on the plus and you pick whatever you have here, or you can click here on top right to create a new one. Or you can also say, okay, I want to have it in that folder. So you can just create new artwork here in that folder. So click here on the plus, and it's exactly the same way as before. So let me explain what you can do here. So whether you just pick one of these, open them and create, or you create a new one. Then go here on the top right, and you start by choosing the right size. So in this case, I use resultant by 3,000 because for most cases that's enough. And I usually leave it to 300 DPI because 300 is pretty important. You need a high resolution because you have a register-based image. And that means if you really make it larger, it gets blurry. So make sure you have set this to 300 DPI, depending on the size of your document and the DPI of chosen, the amount of layers varies. And it also varies because of the power of your iPad at the age of your iPad. So if you have an older iPad that will be lower here, or if you have a newer one will increase, of course. So make sure you check that because it can always be that you have just 345 layers and that might be a little bit too less when you start creating your artwork. So let's quickly talk about color profiles. So here we have RGB and we have CMYK. Rgb is usually for anything on screen, and RGB is usually for print. I say usually because it always depends on the printer get what you want to do with your artwork. Sometimes it is that the printer says he wants to have RGB to start printing whatever you have chosen. And sometimes they want CMYK and sometimes they won't even their own color profile. You need to import. It's also possible, So no worries here. But for most purposes, RGB and displays a nice profile. And the colors are pretty bright and colorful, so I usually leave it like that. Then you have time-lapse settings. That means that video is recorded in the background with whatever you do when you create your artwork. It creates a several steps and then you can let it play and maybe show on social media. And she decided what size do you do that? You can do that in HD into k or a four K, low-quality, good-quality and studio quality. And as you can see, I usually use HD format and a good quality as a compromise, so it doesn't get that big. And that size is pretty much enough for every single need. You also have the Canvas properties with a background color and background hidden. You can toggle that on and off if you want to. I'll leave it as it is. So last but not least, we can name our artwork. So I just type in here and say in this case, three cells and pigs. And once done, I check everything here and click Create. And my artwork has been created. Let's switch back to the gallery view. And when I click now here, you can see that my preset has been created. It usually it saves time. One, you quickly want to start creating you and you have your presets. You don't have to create a new document all the time. So you can just use a preset and pull that up. And it is the size you have set here. Great thing. Also, you can always swipe to the left click Delete, so it's gone, or you click Edit, you can change the size of your preset here. I just clicked cancel and then I could just click Create. And here you go. 5. How to use Brushes, Blenders, and Erasers: Just as we have learned in the previous lesson, we start by creating our artwork. So let's go into this folder and you see there are already a lot of images, are a lot of canvases included, but I'm going to create a new one. So I click here on the plus, and I choose the one in 3,000 best result and pull that up. So now let's talk about brushes. When I click here on my brush symbol, you can see that I have a lot of brushes included. I can tell you there are already a lot included in Procreate light, all of these here. But you can at anytime import your own brushes, create your own brushes and also purchased brushes which you import here. Here are some brushes I have bought. And here are all the brushes which are already included in Procreate. Now it's a good time to get familiar with all these brushes because there are so many that you can hardly keep in mind what you have used and where you find what. So let's just pick something and start drawing. And to do so, we of course also need to color. So I click here on the little color sign, whatever color you have here. And then you can choose whatever color you want. And depending on what you do here, it changes here on top. If you prefer. This one, you can go here and pick your color, or you can choose a harmony we'll, which helps you to pick the right colors. So these are in harmony with each other. You could also go from there. And you can also pick a color based on the values you can choose here. And now the great thing is you can also create color palettes. So once you have found a few colors, you could hear create your own color palette. Before we talk about color prank, just, let's play with some brushes here. So I go here and just pick whatever brush and start drawing here. And now there are other options as well. I can just draw with that one, but here I can increase the size of the breast as you can see here, and just go here. And I can also reduce the opacity of the brush. So if I do that, you see there is a huge difference between those two depending on what you need, but you can always pick them. A great thing which has been included is that here on top this recent. And here it tells you which you have recently used. Because sometimes you draw in a document and you can't remember what brush it was. So here you find the brushes you have used. So for sketching, I usually use the peppermint or servant. Let's use peppermint and pick another color. I go to the color wheel and pick another color, maybe hear something black. So let's go there and you see how different that brush is here. You see that now the opacity and the size is on top. So this one is for sketching. While you can always choose another one. And let's see the difference here between those. It's not here on top, so let's increase that. And you see it's also a bit different. Again. You see you have so many brushes included already, but you can totally at your own and you can also create your own. That's a completely different class. So let me just tell you you can create them. And we might go into that in a later class. I can now let's talk about the layers because procreate is layer based. And as you can see, I have put everything on one layer, which is not good because when I turn that off, everything is gun. While if I would have created a new layer and have drawn on that one. So let me draw here. Maybe I draw a little heart so you can see the difference. Then I can just turn that off or on. I can turn those off and on you or just stacking and putting that on top so it can happen. Assert layer. And maybe I just draw a little star here. Oops, doesn't really look like a star, so I use two fingers and get rid of that. So I better draw a triangle and draw a star like that. And then I'm going to fill it with color so I can easily have my star looks much better. When I draw here from top. So that's how your use layers because now I haven't closed that. That's why it just fills everything. Doesn't really matter now. So I just wanted to show you how that layer stuff works. So let's go back to the layers. You can see the star is on one layer while the heart is on the other end. All let's scribbling is here on layer number three. Now, you can also name the layers. So you type in here and say Rename. And maybe you want to name it like star. And when you click Return, you're done. As you can go ahead and do that with any layer. Or you can move it to the left, swipe it to the left and say log. So nothing will happen to the layer or you can duplicate it, or you can delete it. So I'm going to delete it now. It's gone. Yeah, that's how you go about these menu settings. While here, you have completed different settings for your program. Another thing you should keep in mind is that you do not just have brushes here like different which I'm using right now. You also have the fitting eraser. So if I have here my derivative and I click here for longer, and now I have the Durant as well. So let's do that again. I go to airbrushing, pick whatever brush, and now go back to my brushes. I have to derive, and right now here I have whatever airbrushing brush. And now I click here and keep it, keep the pencil on it, and now it switches over to derive. And so now you have determined as well and you can much better delete whatever with the same brush, right? So in this case, a bit tricky because it's so small, but basically you can just do that. We also have another tool here. It's a blender, true? Again, you have all the brushes here and you can use, Let's pick another color to just blend something in. I go here now on the layer we already have. And I'm saying it didn't work. So you can see it better. You can see I'm smearing it now. Although I have that red one, it's still picks up the green. And you can just smear here and blend something and make it different. So everything actually which is on one layer. So when I go from this to that layer and I keep going here, nothing will happen. Why? Because I'm on the wrong layer, so I can just do that here. Well, on that one, I can work on the heart. So let's see what's combat the heart and the scribbled. So I could use the blender tool here on that one. That's how you can go about that here. One click on top-left and we're back into our CEC. Or we have back in gallery. 6. How to add new Brush Sets to Procreate: So now let's talk about cleaning layers because it's pretty easy and we can quickly do that and importing brushes. So what I want to get rid of this mess, I just go here on the layer thumbnail and click Clear and it's gone. Or of course I can swipe to the left and delete the entire layer. That's also no problem. And now I want to show you that you can easily create your own brushes. So you do that by clicking here on the plus sign. And then you can name it and completely go into the brush studio and create your very own brush. So I just name it here. Artwork class. And now you have a hard time to decide what you want to recurse. It's not that easy. You really need to go into that and really just go through all the settings here and create your very own brush. So you see what I can create here. So now I have a new folder called our class and a new brush, which I also need to rename. So I go in about brushes and click here again the name. Then I can easily add a name for my brush, but I'm going to cancel that now because I want to show you how to get rid of that. So when you click here on this one, you can, of course move it wherever you want, or you can just type on it and then rename or delete, share, duplicate, whatever. You can do the same with a brush tool, swipe to the left. You can just delete it. Yes, I want to delete it. And now I want to delete the folder as well. So delete, delete. So now let's import some brushes. And we do that by clicking here on the plus sign and say import. And now it opens my iCloud Drive where I have Procreate resources. I have downloaded them on the Internet, so I'm just going ahead and importing that one. And now you can see here that I have all these brushes imported. Now. I can use them. That's why we have cleared our layer. Just make it green. Now. Let's play around with that brush. You see what works and what not. It looks really good, doesn't it? That's how it works with layers and also with brushes. So of course I can delete them. I can also duplicate them. I can even change them. So when I click on the layer here, I can change the entire brush. Great thing is, I also can reset the entire brush. So I'm back there. Or if I want to play with it, I could also just duplicate it so I don't destroy anything here. 7. Working with a „clean“ Canvas: If you want to create your art work, you need to take care of working with fresh canvases, with clean canvases. Because if I go now here on my layer and click here on clear, you should think that everything is clean. But when I go to the time-lapse here and video and then just see, you see that there is what I have had created before. So it's always better to then just go out here. The lead that can start a complete new one. So we have some new ones here. So I can just start by clicking that one. When I now go to the time-lapse, there is actually nothing but when I start creating something here on it and then delete it, it's not clean canvas anymore. 8. How to use Reference Images without Copying?: So if we now want to start drawing something, we need some reference images or actually I do that this way. I go to the Creative Commons. So let's go. I'm here in Google and now I just type in creative common. And it's on Flickr. So we can just pull that up. And here are lots of images to use for Creative Common. I just accept them all. And now I can use them. They are licensed free. So you can just type in whatever I'm looking for here. Maybe a Citron or just look here what you can go with. So I wanted to draw something like that. Citroen. And I need the dimension, how it looks with, which leaves without. So I'm just looking for images just like that one here. I know how the leaves look and how the size of my Citroen is. So I usually make that large and just do a screenshot. So I press both of these and then type in here, I can crop it and it's saved to my camera roll. So I just need sat here. And I'm done. Save to photos. And I can go on. I just pick a few images and to have some references here. So how it looks inside. So again, make it bigger. Press two buttons, hair, pull it up, crop it, and click Done to save it to your photos. Let's see what else we can use here. I'd like to have one with leaves, something like that. E.g. I. Now halls and lifts the lives of my Citron book. Okay, so now let's go back to procreate. I have already opened and now I go to gallery to chew this tool here, and go to Add. And then I click, insert a photo. And I can now pull up the images I just had here. So let's go with that one and another one. Click always on Insert photo, and you're good to go. Okay, so now I'm going to make a bit smaller. Want to go to the other one? Same way. And number three. So maybe I can crop it a bit. Click on Canvas, crop and resize. And then I can just make it a bit smaller. I will need to space. When I start drawing. Click done. And I have cropped my Canva. So now we need a new one. I create a new camera here, and then I use a new function, which is called reference. So let's turn that on. And if I do that little window here opens, which is pretty handy, isn't it? And I click here on image and important image, and then I can import the one I have. So let's go quickly back. I show you the mistake before it can do that. I need to save it or I need to export it actually. So it's saved, yes, in procreate, but I need to export to be able to use it. So I click on Share and I need it as a JPEG. Now I save image, and now I can go back into the new document with my reference image. Click on Image. And when I now click here, I see the board I have created. And now I can put it somewhere here and start drawing. I can even make it bigger or smaller again. So it's very handy if you need a reference image here. Now what I want is I want to have one of the search warrants here in the center and some open search runs here, the bottom right. So I use one of the brushes I have shown you already for sketching. Maybe Procreate weird to have that one. So let's use that one and see the sights. So it's here. Maybe it's okay to clean that again. Because I want black and to have that, I just type in twice here and it's switches to black. So you can see black here. And now I start drawing very loosely. So let's go. That's how my Citron will look. And here will be the open one. Make a new layer because I want to move it later a little bit. So I'm going to do it like that. You see you go very loosely. I just have that as a reference. I don't want to do exact same thing or copy it somewhere. I just want to place it by now and see how it goes. Now I can go to that layer and move it over. And the other one is here. And I can bracket here over. This is just my sketch showing case. Most probably will need that image. But now I start by refining the image. So let's say here on that layer and say a bit here and start. Keep drawing. So just see what you can do here. Maybe we want to add a leaf here. And here, another one. And here it's in the center. Let's see how that looks. Now I have my leafs here on that layer. Okay, This Pretty matter because I won't need them anymore. But just case, I also need that inside here. So that's what I do know. Maybe I put that on a new layer. I have something here in the center. And then I go from there. Okay, that's the basic here. Maybe I add another leaf here on the bottom. Maybe I get rid of it later. Okay. I guess we can make that smaller enough. So now things are lying on top of each other. So maybe I should change that and I'll use the eraser tool. So I need to check what's on that one. You see here on the bottom, there's the first one and I need to get rid of those. So I'm going on the first layer and then click here my brush. And maybe a use another 16 be pants. Maybe. I click on that under that took over. And then I can actually delete what's inside here to have a first overview. So that one is in front, that one is behind. So let's just see to get it right for now. Which changed the layer to get rid of this here. Okay, so for now, I just have a very loose sketch and I need to keep cleaning that up a bit. Here. We need to get rid of that. So I have a first impression how my picture will look. Yeah, I'll leave it like that for now. So now we can need to take care of the right layer. But for now, that's how it will look. And my Citroen here in the back and two here in the front. And maybe a leaf or two. Who knows? 9. How do you sketch using Layers: So now we have done the sketch, please make sure you will have just one layer left here of your sketch. And we use this sketch like a tracing paper. If you create a new layer here on top, you can move it to the bottom, another layer. And then you can basically draw on that layer and have this sketching layer on top. So let's do that for now. That is on top here. I just drawn all the colors and for that, we actually need some colors for our lemon. So to do so we create a color palette and then we go here to pellets. We have several options. So whenever I create a new palette, now create new pallet and age, just say, let's call it lemon. And click Done. And now I can just type in here to my color wheel. And you can also use the other wheels here, of course, but I'm going to use that one and I'm picking now nice yellow. So let's see if that's a nice one. I just draw something here. On my layer. You see, it's hardly need a bigger brush here. Now, we see it really. Well. We can always clear the layer. So just go here. Go on the layer. Number two, click here and say clear, and we are rid of everything. Now this one is under it again. So now we need some colors. We go here and just start by picking here some colors, whatever color we use, actually it's up to us. But the good thing is to have a few choices here. And we need yellow and green. We can do it like that and just start picking our own colors. We can also go to our pellets. Then click here on the Plus and say New from photos. And then I pick one of the photos we have. And now the picture is the reference for creating all of these beautiful colors and have that power. So now I can just click on that one. And now it's here on top and I can click here to have this one. Let me get rid of those because they don't match anymore. And maybe I get rid of the entire palette here. It's just one way of creating pellets. And now we have this one. And let me give that a name. Let's name it lemon. So we know this is our color palette for now. Now, I start with a yellow and go to my sketch layer. As I said, we use it as tracing paper. So we're now here on the bottom. That's our motive. And here on the top we can start drawing. Now we just need a nice brush. I have the soft pastel brush here. We can of course also use another one. So let's go and see which one painting, maybe C, which we have. You should have all those as well because they are included. Let's see. That one is a nice one. No, I think I'm going to stick with the one we had before, the soft pastel brush because I like the texture here. Now that we have set the brush, we've got the opacity. She has a top and maybe see what size we need the brushes much too big. So let's get rid of that and reduce it. You can hardly see that. So it's always better to try it first here and then we get rid of that. So again, make sure we, on the right layer, we start drawing our lemon based on the shapes we have here. I'm just going to fill that now. You see if I lift my pen, here are some holes under it and shining through. So I might go over that again. But I actually like the shading, so I will leave it at some parts like it is. But you can always go over again and get rid of that. We're going to get rid of the edges at a later time. So for now, I'm just filling it. And I still have, you see here, I still have these edges here. This structure shining through. Here's the first lemon. And now I want to have these lemons and front. So I'm going to create a new layer and draw these here. A little bit tricky because they are the same color now, we could change that, going to do that. So let's go to my colors color wheel actually. And we make it a little bit brighter. And then we're going to check if we're on another layer. Yes. And then we just go over it. You see it's a little bit brighter now. Just as before, I can zoom in. You can really feel that. And I think we can do the same here for this lemon. And now I'm going to pick this color again because I want to create this bottom here. Can even go crazy about the layers and just create a new one. So we can clip that Intuit. Going to show you that in a bit. You see the edges get sharper, smaller. I make my brush. Okay, we need to get rid of that. Hopefully is on that layer. Maybe not. Let's see where it is. Yeah, it's on the other one. So I go to that layer and just erase that. I cannot erase anything from that layer. And that's the beauty of this because it's on a separate one, so that's pretty easy. Now, let's make sure you're on the right layer. And I'm going to just refine the edges a bit here. I can't hear draw over it to make it sharper because the slides here on top, over the layer on the bottom. So let's go over that. Okay, so let's the lemon for now. We need to keep going here. We now have to create these leaves. And I go back to my color palette and see if I have a nice screen. I pick that one. And now I go over the sketch layer, click new layer, and put this one under it. Just as before. Because of the tracing paper effect, I have my leaf under the lemon already. I could also move that up just by moving the layer. That's not what I want right now. So I'm going to draw each of these leaves for now, but I'm going to put the other two on another layer because they are more in front. And a mantra still the same, new color, new layer. So I'm going to make that a bit brighter here. You see I have to go over it several times to make sure that I have covered it all. Something on Android. So it's not looking at. So let's see what that is. You go, something is here still on this layer going on it and just erasing that. Okay? So it still doesn't look that clean because we have that sketch layer one. If I turn that off now, it looks much better. You could of course, refine that even more. So in case e.g. these leaves here, I pick the color again and make it a bit bigger and larger here, actually, and go over my edges again. You see I have now the eraser brush. Of course, you can also use your brush and make it look nicer. But I believe on me, That's helpful now. Okay, let's go to the other leaf here. Same thing, picking the color and going over it. Now it's color and not with the eraser. You see those options work well. Okay, for now, I think yeah, More or less we have our sketch done. So let's see. Yeah, yeah, right layer and just picking here, because here I saw something. You can keep going. Of course you can go crazy with refining this. But for now, it's okay. If we have this rough sketch ready. 10. How to add Color: Okay, Now let's open the Layers palette, and now we want to delete all the layers we don't need anymore. Remember, I said new color, new layer, and that's why it can hardly merge anything here. This color is unique, but those two are the same. So we can definitely merge them. This one and the one on top. So let me move that above. And we can pinch those together. So they are on the same layer. Actually the lemon peel it is. And the inside of the lemon is on another layer. And now we have here our leaves, but this leaves are a little bit brighter than this one. So I'm going to leave that on a separate layer as well. Yeah, I guess that's it. We can turn on our sketch layer. So actually, we don't delete layers here at this point, we better merge them. But sometimes it's the case that you need to delete or it can delete them actually, in this case we cannot. But usually at this point you should clean up your palette and start deleting. Let's start here by now, renaming our layers so I can type in here and rename it. Or I can just go here on the on click rename, and then I name it sketch and return. So I'm done. Now, I create a new layer and drag it below the sketch layer. And let's turn everything off. I just keep it a little bit longer here on top than everything turns off except the one on top. And now I can just turn on what I need. Let's go to the sketch layer and reduce the opacity here. So I go to n here and just, you know, I can turn it on and off. So let's pretend it's on max now, I reduce it here. Now let's turn on alpha lock on this layer. You can do so by tapping here on the sum and click here on alpha lock, and then it's here on alpha lock. When I click here, you can see that it's turned into a checker box here. So now you can see that alpha lock is on. And now we want to make our sketching more clear. So I go to the colors double type in here, so it jumps to black, turn it off, go back to my layers palette, and then I click here on fill. And now you have seen it. Everything turns pretty dark here because it's not filled with black. So the great thing about alpha lock is it everything which is already drawn on the layer will be filled. That's a pretty sing about alpha log. So you can easily change the color of your layers. And that's also why it's so important to have different colors on different layers. Now, I'm going to move these layers, another sketch layer, or I can move the sketch layer on top actually. So I can now see what I'm drawing here when I turn that on, I could now also change the colors here, all these layers. So let's rename these layers here to, let's say here inside or a lemon inside. Maybe. Here it's lemon peel. And Hera, the leaves. We need to work with leaves in front and leaves in the back. So now let me show you how to change the color here. And we can easily do that by clicking here on the leaf, click Alpha Lock. And as I said, what ever is now inside what we have drawn will change. So we can now change the color here we go better too. Use such realization here. Then we can change the color here to our liking. Maybe it's a little bit more saturated or brighter, too bright, so I'll leave it like that. But you can change that all here in Procreate. That's the beauty here because if you have it on different layers, you can easily change that. Now, we need to make decisions all the time. It doesn't matter, we can do that. So let's go swipe to the left click Duplicate. And now we can go back to use such realization. And make completely different looking leaf, maybe more saturated but brighter. Then we can decide the darker or the brighter leaf. So let's see, see here which one is better for our composition. So I believe it's a darker one. I'm going to delete that layer swiping to the left click delete and it's gone. Okay? So we're not done with our composition because we want to, of course, draw the inside of our lemon. So let's go back to the color palette. And I grab white creamy color. When a type on it here, it comes here on top. And now we go back to our brush and see the size, new color, new layer. So let me go here and create a new layer. And see how that looks. I'm going to reduce the opacity of the sketch. Again. We can see that better. Maybe that's enough already. Let's turn it off the sketch layer and see how that looks. Yeah, it could meet a little bit more actually, so I think it's not bright enough. So now I'm going to do what I've just shown you. I'm going to change the color of these and I do that with usage organization. And I'm going to increase the brightness here as well as the secularization. So I like that much more. And now I can also refine that a bit more. Make some parts a little bit bigger. Or you see it still has the old color. So let's get rid of that type in here. So it takes over that color. And we keep going over it. And we need a second row here on the left side. And I guess I'm going to create a new layer, although I don't have a new color recurse, I will leave the brighter one. I still want to remove some parts. So it's easier for me. I turn on the sketch. You see, that's what I'm going to remove in a bit. I don't need to sketch anymore. So let me turn that off and see what I need to clean up here. Okay, So now we have to decide, so this lemon here is in front of that one. So I need to get rid of these here. So back to the eraser and make sure you're on the right layer. And then you are just getting rid of that. So it looks as if it is in the foreground, what this is in the background. We can make this effect a little bit stronger by just going back to the layers and going back to this inside part better The Also because I'm going to increase this one a bit. So I need to pick that color again and go over it here. So as I said, that's the beauty of Procreate. You can easily switch back and forth as something, get rid of something, whatever you choose here. Now, I have drawn the surrounding and you see what's wrong now, recursively inside of the lemon has to go. So we need to go back to this layer here and erase a bit here. So it works again. Okay, for now. 11. How to add different Background Color: So now let's put the finishing touches on our lemon. It needs some shading on the inside and maybe some stippling here and there and some veins in the leaves. But before we do that, we want to change the color of the background. To do so, let's go to the Layers palette and go to Background Color. And then I can just switch here between the different colors and see what fits best to my composition. So actually, I'd guess I'm not a big fan of all these colors. In general. I would hardly choose something very a bright and blinking more. The person who would use something like that or dark green or so, usually I will end up here with a creamy white or gray background, but that's totally up to you. You can choose what appeals to your needs and what fits whatever you choose to do with your composition here, you can change the colors even in your color wheel a bit more. For now, I keep working on the rest of the layers, and I do pick the color, the background color first, because the composition, Oh, it looks a bit different depending on the color you've picked there. So it most probably a good idea to first have the background color before you switch somewhere else. But now let's merge these two layers together because we don't need to change the colors anymore here. We don't need this sketch anymore at this point. And now we can start refining each of these layers to our liking. Let me know first, pick one of the stippling brushes. I use one I have got for free, but you can use whatever you want. I'm sure there are others included already in Procreate. So just go through your brushes and choose whatever you need. Once done, once you've picked one, go to one of the layers, create a new layer, Buffett, and pick the color. Now I'm make it a little bit darker so you can see the stippling here. And we start drawing here, make sure you're on the right layer once again. And then you start by just drawing over and you see it's too big or too small whatever. So we can, we need to adjust it a little bit. You can hardly say before. So just go over it and you see then if it fits your needs or if it doesn't, you see, I need a few tries to get that right. And maybe it's the opacity I need to reduce. And then it looks fine. I think so because it's not that strong right now, but still a little bit darker. I like that. So keep shading here. On the other lemon peel. You see I do all the same. They're on the same layer. So I can just use a clipping in a bit and clip all, everything which goes over it inside. So just type on the nail and then choose clipping mask and it's got, let's check that you see there is no more siblings over the edges. And now we can keep going, keep shading here a little bit and make it even darker, but that's too light. You can totally decide what you want to do here, but make sure you have something on the edges here, on the lemon peel. And then we move to the inside of our lemon. And to do so, we just move to another layer, of course, to the inside layer and create a new one. And then we start shading once again, pick the color, don't forget that. And choose one which is a little bit brighter actually than the one we had up front. That's because we need the inside of the little lemon a little bit brighter. And to give it a little bit more depth, actually, just go over it and brighten it up a bit. We can do it on other ways. I know, but that's how I do it now because I want to have a similar look and feel everywhere. Again, we are using the clipping mask. So tap on the thumbnail, click clipping mask, and you'll see what happens. The stippling disappears once again. Now we're done with the shading of the lemon and we need to switch to our leaf layer, create a new layer on top, and then pick the dark green color here. And we need to go a little bit darker even. So we have the right color for the vein. Before we do that, just go to the recent brushes and shoes, maybe the soft pastel brush and make it really, really small. So it looks good. Let's start by picking the right colors. So pick the green and then go into the color wheel and make it a bit darker. And then we can start drawing, make sure you're on the right layer. And then I start drawing the wane and you see a typo over the edges. It doesn't matter right now. I'm going to show you in a second how to get rid of that. Let's do that again. Start somewhere here and go over. So we have a wane and we need to get rid of that. Of course, we click here on Sunday, I'll click clipping mask. And it's got a pretty easy right? And it's really nice if you have clean edges. We do the same now with a second leaves and choose another color. We also go a little bit darker here. And we start drawing the veins on another layer here. So again, I start from the top and go to the bottom. It's easier for my hand to move like that. You need to figure how you'd go about it. But you see what happens if I don't do it like that? I just don't. I miss the edges. Let's try it again. Get rid of that beauty of digital painting, isn't it? So I start on the left side and go from left to right and clipping mask. So all the same edges are gone. Now maybe let's pick another color for the vein, like I showed you before. Go to hue saturation, brightness. And now we just move here, secularization of bed and maybe brightness. And also we have a completely different color, but make sure it fits too. The overall look and feel of your composition. So yeah, it's a bit tricky. So we need to slide foreign bank and see what works best for our leaves here. Okay, at this point we are done with our lemon, and I have picked a creamy gray maybe in the background. But as I've shown you, you can totally go with something else and choose another color. It's totally up to you. I'm more prefer this calm backgrounds rather than they're really colorful ones, but that depends on what you want to use. Your lemon Four. 12. Your Project: Congratulations, you've done it. I hope you enjoyed the class and you'll learn a lot. I know this, the foundations class. So I have added a level of things you need to know for further project. Just like filling layers or using the Alpha Lock are using clipping masks. All these kind of stuff we have covered in this class. But I guess you didn't even notice that you learned all this stuff and that's a great thing if you did. Congratulations. And now it's up to you to get started and to try something. You don't have to draw Lemons, but you should draw actually something. It's up to you if you use lemons, if you use apples or whatever, maybe you want to drop and I know you're very welcome to do so. But once you've done, please show me you're at work. You like the class. Please also check out the other classes we have on this topic. Look for more Procreate classes. And I'm sure you will find something you enjoy.