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A Beginner's Guide to Procreate: Digital Illustration on the iPad

teacher avatar Genna Blackburn, Surface Designer & Illustrator

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Intro

      1:41

    • 2.

      Class Orientation

      0:41

    • 3.

      Gallery & New Canvas

      3:05

    • 4.

      Time-lapse Recording & Procreate Handbook

      2:08

    • 5.

      Gestures & QuickShape

      2:21

    • 6.

      Brushes & Erasers

      4:44

    • 7.

      Color

      4:49

    • 8.

      Layers

      5:11

    • 9.

      Transform & Selection Tools

      4:16

    • 10.

      Symmetry

      1:39

    • 11.

      Reference Photos

      2:09

    • 12.

      Draw a Butterfly + Extra Tips & Tricks

      9:57

    • 13.

      Export

      1:49

    • 14.

      Conclusion

      0:48

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If you want to draw on the iPad, Procreate is the program for you. But are you super overwhelmed about how to get started?

Join surface designer, Genna Blackburn, as she walks you through the basics of Procreate. This class is a quick start guide so the most useful tools are covered first so you can jump in right away! Then, learn when to use each tool (and pick up extra tips & tricks along the way) while you create a butterfly illustration with Genna. 

In this class, you’ll learn how to:

  • Create a new canvas
  • Create a time-lapse video
  • Use brushes and erasers
  • Work with layers
  • Use the transform and selection tools
  • Add reference photos
  • Use the symmetry drawing assist feature
  • Apply each tool PLUS extra tips & tricks while illustrating a butterfly
  • Export your drawing 

This class is for you if you are completely new to Procreate and want to learn how to draw very simple illustrations, or if you are familiar with Procreate but are curious about how I work in the program.

Procreate is useful whether you’re just looking to have fun drawing on the iPad, or you’re an illustrator or designer who wants to take your work to the next level.

No prior knowledge of Procreate is required.

Meet Your Teacher

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Genna Blackburn

Surface Designer & Illustrator

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Hello, I'm Genna!

I'm a surface designer and illustrator in Detroit, Michigan. Inspired by my love of plants and animals, (especially my pets who make regular appearances in my illustrations), I like to think of my work as a playful exploration of shape and color stemming from my background as a graphic designer.

As a licensing artist, I've had the pleasure of seeing my work on many fun products for companies including Target, Papyrus, Hello Bello, Copper Pearl, Little Sleepies and JIGGY Puzzles.

You can see more of my work on my website and get a look behind the scenes on Instagram.

And if you'd like my free guide on developing your signature style as well as resources for dealing with fear and overwhelm,... See full profile

Level: Beginner

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1. Intro: If you want to draw on the iPad, Procreate is the program for you. But are you super overwhelmed about how to get started? If so, I've got you covered. My name is Genna Blackburn and I'm a Surface Designer and Illustrator in Detroit, Michigan. Drawing in Procreate helped me solidify my signature style and turn me into an art-making machine because of how easy and fun it is to use. The artwork I've created in Procreate has been licensed on many products including fabric, baby clothes, diapers, greeting cards, and puzzles. But when I first began drawing digitally, I didn't know where to start and I was afraid I'd never get the hang of it. If you feel that way too, let me show you the simplest way to get started in Procreate so you can experience this intuitive and powerful tool. In this class, I'll be covering the basics of Procreate, like how to use brushes, how to work with color, and how to use the symmetry feature. Then we'll draw a simple butterfly together while I show you extra tips and tricks. This class is for you if you are completely new to Procreate and want to learn how to draw a very simple illustrations, or if you are familiar with Procreate but are curious about how I work in the program. Procreate is useful whether you're just looking to have fun drawing on the iPad or you're an illustrator or designer who wants to take your work to the next level. I love taking something that can feel overwhelming and making it feel doable, so I can't wait for you to say, I love drawing in Procreate. It's so easy. [MUSIC] Let's get started. 2. Class Orientation: [MUSIC] In this class, I'm going to teach you all of the tools needed to create a simple butterfly illustration. For this class, you will need an iPad with the most recent version of Procreate as well as an Apple pencil. First, I'm going to walk you through the interface and basic tools of the app and then we will use those tools to create a simple butterfly illustration together. When your illustration is complete, upload it to the Projects tab. I'd love to see what you create. [MUSIC] In the next lesson, we'll cover the home screen of Procreate called the gallery and how to create a new canvas. 3. Gallery & New Canvas: [MUSIC] Let's start by going over the basics of Procreate. We'll cover the gallery and how to create a new canvas. [MUSIC] When you open up Procreate, you will see the gallery which has all of your recent artwork that you've been working on. You can rename your canvases by tapping on them like this. I could name this flowers. You can rearrange your canvases by clicking and dragging them around. To group your canvases into stacks, you can drag them on top of each other like this. That will make a stack. If you click on that stack, then you can see all of the canvases within that stack. Then just click up here to go back to the gallery. You can rename that stack if you want. Call it flowers. You can also add to an existing stack like this one over here by clicking and dragging artwork into it. If you wanted to take something out of a stack, you can just click and drag it back up to here and go out to the main gallery and drop it back in there. You can also make a stack by hitting "Select" up here and then selecting multiple artworks, and then hitting "Stack". Then that will make a stack for you that way as well. If you swipe to the left, you get the option to share, duplicate, and delete. [MUSIC] To set up a new canvas, you just click this plus sign in the top right. You'll see some of the presets that Procreate comes with and you can choose one of those if you'd like or if you want to make a custom canvas, you can click on this plus sign here and will take you to this screen. Here you choose how large you want the canvas to be. I like working at 3,000 by 3,000 pixels. The bigger you make your canvas, the less layers you have to work with. You'll see right here I have 55 layers. If I make this 5,000 by 3,000, now I only have 31 layers. For me, 55 layers is more than enough. Everyone is different, but for the way that I work, I only use about 3-10 layers when I'm working so 55 is definitely enough layers for me. In Procreate, it's important to make sure your canvas is a decent size because Procreate is pixel-based and you won't be able to really make it much bigger without losing quality. You want to make sure it's a decent size to begin with. That looks good. There are some other options over here that you can also play around with. Then you can just hit "Create". Then you'll be looking at your new canvas. [MUSIC] In the next lesson, I'll show you where to find time-lapse recording and the Procreate handbook. 4. Time-lapse Recording & Procreate Handbook: [MUSIC] In this lesson, I'd like to show you two nice features of the app, time-lapse recording and the Procreate Handbook. Once you're inside the Canvas like this, you can see the whole Procreate interface. We've got the painting tools in the top right, we've got the sidebar on the left over here, and the editing tools in the top left. I want to point out two features for you. If you click on the wrench, that will pull up the Actions menu, and if you go to video, you will see the options for a time-lapse recording and replay. While you're drawing, if you have the time-lapse recording turned on, it will record every move that you make, and then you can do a replay of it and see the whole thing played back, which can be really cool and can be a fun thing to share to social media. You want to make sure that you have that turned on, and then you can export your time-lapse video here. You can either do full length or a 30-second, which will condense it down to 30 seconds. You have two different options for exporting your time-lapse video there. The other thing I want to show you under the Actions menu is the Procreate Handbook. If you go to Help and then Procreate Handbook, this will pull up the webpage for the Procreate Handbook, which is really helpful. You can look through all the different chapters like this, or you can search for something here in the search bar if there's something specific that you want to look up, and this has basically everything that you might want to know about Procreate. If there's something that you're stuck on or something that you want more information about later, you can easily get to this from the Actions menu up here under Help [MUSIC] and then Procreate Handbook. Join me in the next lesson where I'll go over gestures and quick shape. 5. Gestures & QuickShape: [MUSIC] In this lesson, I'll cover two ways to interact with the app, gestures and quick shapes. There are many gestures that you can do in pro-create to move around the canvas. So I'm going to go over a few of those now. You can zoom in and out with two fingers and rotate with two fingers. If you want your canvas to snap back to fit perfectly, you can just swipe with two fingers real quick like that. Tap with two fingers to undo, tap with three fingers to re-do. Then if you swipe with three fingers back and forth, you'll clear a whole layer. So everything on that layer just went away. I'll talk more about layers in a following lesson. Then if you swipe down with three fingers, it will bring up the copy-and-paste menu, which is really helpful. [MUSIC]. If you draw a line and don't pick up your pencil, it will create a straight line that you can then move around. If you put one finger on the canvas, it will move at 15 % increments. So if you want it to be completely straight up and down or horizontal, you can just do that by holding one finger down here. You can also make a curved line, hold down, and it will clean it up and then you can move it around like that. Then if you make a shape like a rectangle and then hold down, it will clean it up. Then if you hold down one finger on the canvas, it will make it a perfect square. Then you can also rotate it and make it different sizes by dragging your pencil around. You can also do this with a circle. So here it's an oval. If I put one finger on the canvas, it becomes a perfect circle. [MUSIC] Join me in the next lesson to talk about brushes and erasers. 6. Brushes & Erasers: [MUSIC] Now let's go over the brushes and erasers of the app. The brushes in Procreate can be found up here under this paintbrush. Procreate comes with a whole bunch of brushes to choose from. You can also buy brushes and import them. There are sketching pencils, inking brushes, drawing, calligraphy, all different brushes that all have different settings and ways of working. Some have texture, some don't, some are thicker and thinner, some are tapered at the edges. If you choose a brush like this, like water pen where it has a thin and a thick, then you can see really clearly when I press down, it gets thicker and when I am not pressing down as hard it's thinner. This is a brush that has pressure dynamics where it depends on how hard you're pressing, how thick it gets. For me, I almost always stick with the studio pen or the dry ink brush because I don't use a lot of texture in my work. I like to keep it simple. I don't switch brushes very much and this works really well for me. Up here. You can choose the size of the brush. If I turn it up, you'll see that it's thicker. If I turn it down, it gets thinner and then down here is the opacity of the brush. Right now it's at 100% and if I pull it down, you can see that it gets lighter. You can see through it a little bit because it's not at 100% opacity anymore. I don't usually change the opacity because with my style, I like to keep everything at 100% and not have any transparencies. But that's up to you [MUSIC]. Over here are the erasers. If you click on that, you'll get the same menu with all the brushes. You can draw with one brush and erase with another if you want. But a lot of the time I like to use the same brush for erasing as I'm using for drawing. Because when I erase, I want it to have the same quality as the brush that I was drawing with. If I'm drawing with the studio pen, then I'd like to erase with the studio pen. An easy way to do that is just to hold on the eraser and it will say erase with current brush. If you saw that pop up, erase with current brush, and it will switch to whatever brush you are using. If I go in and erase something, you can see that the edge has the same quality as the drawing because it's the same brush I was using to draw with. Whereas if I chose something that had a completely different shape, it's going to erase differently and it's not going to have the same quality as the brush I was drawing with, which you may choose to do that intentionally. But if you want the edges to be the same, then you will hold down and say Edit with current brush and then you can go in there like that. If you want to edit any of your brushes, I would recommend making a copy first, so you can swipe to the left and say Duplicate, and then you'll see this little icon up here. You know that that's not an original brush. Then you click on it and all of the options come up. You can go through here and make changes and you'll see the changes reflected over here on the right. If you come in and make changes, you will see those changes reflected over here and you can get an idea for the changes that you're making. But I would always recommend making a copy before you do that because you don't want to edit over an original brush. This right here is the smudge tool which will allow you to push the color around and blend it. Again, you get the same selection of brushes under here, so you can play around with smudging, with different brushes. I don't ever use the smudge tool because I like very clean lines and shapes. [MUSIC] But it's there if you want to play around with it. In the next lesson, I'll show you how to work with color in Procreate. 7. Color: [MUSIC] In this lesson, I'll show you how to work with color in Procreate. Up here in the top right is the color palettes of Procreate. You have different options for views. You have the disk view where you can select colors like that, classic view which is my personal favorite, and you can select colors by moving these around and moving this around up here, harmony, value, and then palettes and Procreate comes with palettes you can choose from or you can make a new palette. I have my favorite colors palette that I've made up here. You can make a new palette this way. You could say create new palette and then give it a title here, favorites. Then if that palette is selected, that's the default palettes. Now if I go back to one of these other views, you'll see it down here and it's empty because I just made it. What I can do is pick some colors like this. Then if I want to add this color to my palette, I'll just click down here in this box, and it will add that to my palette that I'm making. I can go over here, maybe I like that, I can add that here. Then you can move these around by clicking and dragging them. You can delete them by clicking and holding and then say, delete swatch. If you have a color on your Canvas that you've used that you want to pick up, you can use this square over here and you hold down, and then you'll get the color picker. You can see the top of the circle is the new color and the bottom part is the color that was currently selected. Let me do that again. Now blue is on the bottom and yellow is on the top. You can go around. Wherever you land you'll pick up that color, and then you can go in here and add that to your new palette that you're creating. Then under here is the history. It will show you the last colors that you've used in case you didn't save it and you want to access it under here, you can do that too. To change the color of elements already on your Canvas, you can use color drop, which means you just drop the color from up here onto the shapes like this. Then you'll get an option up here that says continue filling and you can click on that. Then you don't have to drag from up here, you can just click like that. If you want to get out of that, you just click on that color drop or click anywhere up here in the menu to get out of that. Now when I tap, I'm not automatically coloring things. In order to use the color drop, you have to have closed shapes. If I have a shape like this that isn't closed and I tried to color drop, it's going to fill the whole Canvas. You need to make sure that your shape is completely closed before you can drop a color into it. Then you'll notice when if you click and hold down, up here it says threshold. If I just keep my pencil down and drag it, you can see the threshold is changing. If the threshold is too high, you will fill the whole Canvas. You need to come down a little bit in order to not fill the whole Canvas. If you're using a textured brush and you do a color drop and your threshold is really low, you'll see it's not really filling the shape very well. That's another time that you would want to change the threshold because maybe you want it to be really close to 100 percent so that it fills the shape as best as possible. You can also fill everything on a layer with the color by going up to the layers palette, clicking on the layer that you want to fill. If you say fill layer, it will fill the whole layer with that color. But if you just want to fill what you've already drawn on that layer, you can click Alpha lock, which will lock just the pieces that have been drawn already and then say fill layer, and you can see it filled everything on that layer with the current selected color. [MUSIC] In the next lesson I'll show you more about how to work with layers. 8. Layers: [MUSIC] In this lesson, I'll show you how to work with layers. Up here is the Layers palette and since we're in a new canvas, we only have the background color and layer 1, which is what you automatically get with every new canvas. You can't draw on the background layer. You can only draw on layer 1 and other layers. Let me draw a little bit on this layer so you can see how it works. I've drawn this shape on this layer. Now you can see it here and I can toggle the visibility of the layer here with this checkmark. I can swipe to the left to lock the layer, duplicate it, or clear the whole layer. If I click on the "Layer", I get all of these options. I can rename the layer, select what's on the layer, copy it, fill the layer with a color. Like I showed in the last lesson, if we have a color selected here and we say fill layer, it fills the whole layer with that color. But if we click on "Alpha" lock first and then fill layer, it will only fill what's already drawn on that layer. There are also a few other things that you can do here like mask. But I'm not going to get into that in this class. Then over here, if you click on this "N", you can change the opacity of the layer here. There are different blend modes that you can play with. I just usually keep it at normal and then click on the "N" again to collapse that menu. Then if I click on "Background Color", it automatically pulls up the color palette and you can change the background color up here like this. Now, the background color is filled with this orange. I'm going to put it back to white for now. Now I want to talk about why you might want to use multiple layers in Procreate. Right now we're on layer 1. I have this green circle drawn and if I want to draw something else on this layer, and let's say it overlaps with what's already on that layer. Now this is one piece. I can't separate the two. If I use the transform tool and I move it around, it's one piece. I can't move those elements away from each other now. They've been automatically merged. Whereas if I undo that and now I create a new layer and I draw on top of this. You can see now they're separate. The yellow is separate from the green. If I wanted to move pieces of it around, I could easily do that. I never want to draw on top of something else without putting it on a different layer. If I go to this piece here, you can see that I have the leaves are on one layer, the petals are on another layer, and so on. Nothing that's overlapping is on the same layer so that if I wanted to, I could easily make changes. If you want to delete a layer, you just swipe left and say delete. If you want to move a layer, you can just hold it down and drag it. Now that layer went below layer 1 and so those dots disappeared when I moved it below. If you want to make a new layer, you just hit this plus sign and it will make it above whatever layer you're currently on. I'm currently on this layer and if I hit the plus sign, it'll make the new layer right above that. Then if I want to merge layers, I can just use two fingers to pinch the layers together and that will merge those layers and you can do that with multiple layers if you want. Like that. You can also make groups by sliding to the right and selecting the layers and then clicking on "Group" and now I've made a group of all those layers, which can be helpful. I might use this feature if let's say I want to make a copy of everything and make changes to it, but I want to keep the old copy. Then I might swipe and say Duplicate and then hide one of the groups and then go into this group and then I can make changes to it, do whatever I want, and I'll still have the original like that. That's an instance of why you might want to make groups of your layers. [MUSIC] In the next lesson, I'll go over the transform tool and the selection tool. 9. Transform & Selection Tools: [MUSIC] In this lesson I'll show you how to work with the transform tool and the selection tool. The transform tool is this arrow right here, and when you click on it, it automatically selects everything on the layer that you're currently on. I'm currently on the layer with the flower petals. When I click on the transform tool, the flower petals are selected and I can make changes by clicking and dragging on the box like that. I can take this green line up here and rotate, and then down here there are a bunch of options for how to use the transform tool. Right now I have Uniform selected. That means when I'm making things bigger and smaller they aren't getting skewed, whereas if you have free form the proportions are not constrained and then you can also distort. That allows you to skew things and then warp which will allow you to use this mesh to warp. Then down here you have some options for flipping horizontal, vertical, rotating, and then also reset. Up here is the selection tool. With that, I can select just part of a layer. Here I've drawn a circle around the blue petals, that's because I'm on the layer with the petals. Now I can just move those blue petals around and I'm not moving everything on that layer which would be the pink petals and the blue petals. Then also when you use the selection tool to pick part of a layer oftentimes I'm doing that because maybe I want this to be on a separate layer, maybe I want the blue petals to be on its own layer. I've accidentally drawn it on the same layer as the pink petals, so then I hit the transform tool and I use three fingers to swipe down to pull up the Copy & Paste menu and then I can do cut & Paste. Now you'll see that the blue petals are now on their own layer. With the selection tool, you can draw, and then add to your selection by clicking on the circle and then drawing another circle like that and click and it will keep adding to your selection as you can see here. You can also click to make your selections if you want to make a very specific selection like that. Down here you have some options for adding and removing. Right now I have Add, so everything I select is going to be added on to the selection. You can see the selections here. If I go to Remove then when I draw, it removes from the selection. You can also select with the perfect rectangle like that or with an ellipse. Let's say up here I have all these dots on one layer. Maybe I want to move these dots around, but I don't want to move everything else on the layer because if I just go to Transform then I'm going to have everything on that layer. Maybe I just come in here with the selection tool , select those dots, hit "Transform" and now I can move just those dots around without moving everything on the layer and then hit the triangle again to commit the change that you've made. [MUSIC] Join me in the next lesson to go over the symmetry feature. 10. Symmetry: [MUSIC] In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to use the symmetry feature. To be able to draw in perfect symmetry, you go up to the Actions menu here, click on "Canvas," and then turn on the drawing guide. Then click on "Edit Drawing Guide," and then click on "Symmetry" down here, and then automatically it will turn on vertical symmetry. You can click on "Options" and change it to horizontal, quadrant or radial. Let's say I have quadrant turned on and I'll say done here. Anything I draw on the Canvas is going to be recreated in each quadrant. If I go back to Edit drawing guide, Options and I just have vertical symmetry turned on, then it will only reflect vertically that way. Now if I go to the layers palette, you can see here it says assisted on layer 1. If I make a new layer, it doesn't say assisted, and so now when I draw, it's not going to have the symmetry. If you want your new layer to have this symmetry, click on it and click on "Drawing Assist" and now it says assisted, and so I can draw on this layer with the symmetry. [MUSIC] In the next lesson, I'll show you how to add reference photos. 11. Reference Photos: [MUSIC] In this lesson, I'm going to show you three different ways to add reference photos to your Canvas. The first way to add a photo is to simply go up to the Actions menu and click Add, insert a photo and then you select a photo and it will import in to your Canvas and then you can draw right on top of it if you wanted to use it that way. I could use it as a reference to draw on top of or if I just wanted it on the canvas so that while I'm drawing I can look at it. I could have it just there as a reference that way too and then I could draw next to it like that or another thing you can do is go up to Canvas and turn on reference and then go to Image, Import Image and then select an image that way and then this will just float above your canvas and you can use it as a reference image and then as you're drawing, it's just floating on top. That's a nice way to have a reference image as well. The last way to have a reference image is to do a split screen. While you're looking at Procreate, you can drag up and let's say you have an image already pulled up in your browser, you can click on the browser and drag it to the side and it will show you that as well as your Procreate canvas and then you can click on this slider to make one or the other bigger or smaller and so that's another way to have a reference image while you're drawing. [MUSIC] Join me in the next lesson to learn extra tips and tricks as we create our butterfly illustration. 12. Draw a Butterfly + Extra Tips & Tricks: Now that I've covered the basics of Procreate, let's make a butterfly illustration using the tools you've just learned. Plus, I'll share extra tips and tricks as we go. I'm going to start by making a new canvas by hitting the plus sign in the top right, and then I already have a preset, save for 3,000 by 3,000 pixels square. But if you don't and you want to work in a square, you can hit this button here to make a new canvas. Then I'm going to turn on symmetry by going to the Actions menu, Canvas, Drawing Guide, and then Edit Drawing Guide, Symmetry, and then the vertical symmetry is already on automatically so we can just hit "Done", and then we're ready to go. I'm using the dry ink brush, which can be found under inking. But you can also use a studio pen or whatever brush that you want. But I'm going to use the dry ink brush for this. I'm going to start with black to make the body of the butterfly. Then what's great about butterflies is you can make up whatever you want. You can just draw the wings and then fill them in with whatever shapes you want. But if you want to pull up references of butterflies, you can, if you want to make it look more realistic. If you want to make sure you're using the same eraser as the brush that you're drawing with, just click on "Erase", and hold it down, and it will switch to the brush you're using. Now I'm using dry ink brush for erasing and for drawing. When I come in and erase, it has the same quality as the brush I'm using. Then I'm going to make the brush a little smaller and I'm going to draw the antenna. I'm going to make perfect circles for the top by holding down with one finger, and there you go. Then I'm going to go up to the layers palette and make a new layer, and I'm going to drag it under the body so that the wings are under this body that I've already drawn. Then you see how this layer says assisted, but this one doesn't. We have to turn on drawing assist on this layer now it says assisted. When I draw, it will do the symmetry. I'm going to pick a different color. You can pick whatever color you want, and I'm going to draw some wings. Then I want to make sure that the shape is closed so that I can fill it with color drop. Then I'm often using two fingers to pinch and zoom and rotate the canvas so that I can clean it up like that. Then I'm going to make a new layer, and I'm going to put it under the top wings and turn on Drawing Assist, and then go up to the color palette and pick a different color, let's say blue. Then I'm going to draw the bottom wings. That looks pretty good. Make sure that's a closed shape, and drag the color drop. Now I'm just going to fill in with whatever shapes I want to make this butterfly. I'm going to make a layer above the wings but below the body and turn on the drawing assist. Then I'm going to use white to start. I'm going to come in and just draw a circle, hold my finger down, color drop, and maybe another circle right here, and color drop and maybe a big circle up here. This circle is a little too close to the edge of the wing, and if I wanted to come in and use the selection tool to move it, and I select this one and then hit the transform tool and move it, it's not going to do that on the same side. A better way would be to just undo that and draw it again to make sure it stays in the same place on both sides. Then I'm going to draw a big circle down here. You can draw what I'm drawing or you can make up your own butterfly, and then maybe a circle right here that I leave open. Then I'm going to come in with black. I'm going to stay on the same layer because I'm going to draw some shapes that don't overlap with these white circles or actually maybe I will make a new layer just in case. I'll make a new layer, turn on the drawing assist, and then this way it'll make it a little bit easier if I want to recolor or move things around. I'm going to draw some lines in here. I'm going to try that again. Like that a little bit better. You can just make up whatever lines you want. If I wanted that to be a perfect circle, I could do something like this. Use my finger to make it a perfect circle, and then come in here and erase part of it, that's going to be small, let me make that bigger. I could erase part of it like this. That worked out pretty nicely. Then I go back to my brush and draw another line. Because I am not on the same layer as the white circles I can draw right on top of them. Maybe I'll draw some circles like this. Yeah, that's pretty good. There you have it, there's a butterfly. If you wanted to change the background color, you could just come up here to the layers palette, click on "Background Color", and maybe I'll make it a light pink, that's nice. You could also come in and if you wanted to draw some flowers, you could do that. If you wanted to add a little bit more to your composition, or you could just leave it as a butterfly. I'm going to draw a little bit more here just to fill it in. [MUSIC] There you have it. There's our butterfly. If you want to come in and draw some extra flowers, you can, or just draw your butterfly and I can't wait to see what you create [MUSIC] Join me in the next lesson where I show you how to export your final drawing. 13. Export: [MUSIC] Now that you've made your butterfly illustration, I'll show you how to export it. To export your final drawing, you can go up to the Actions menu, and go to Share. Then you have some different options. You can save a PSD file, which is a Photoshop file that will keep all of the layers that you've made. Or you can save as a JPEG, a PNG, or a TIFF. I personally like PNGs the best for images to share on social media. I like the quality a little bit better than a JPEG. With a JPEG it compresses it a little bit, and so you lose quality every time you save a file that's a JPEG. PNG has a little bit better quality. TIFF has very good quality too, but it tends to be a bigger file size. PNG is the best of both worlds of a smaller file size, but also a little bit better quality. Then when you click on which option you want, it will take you to how you want to save it. You can AirDrop it to your phone, or you can save it right on your tablet and post it from there. You can also export from the gallery. If we go back to the gallery, you can swipe and hit Share, and then from there you can also share a PNG, or a JPEG, or a PSD. Again, you can AirDrop it to your computer or save it to Dropbox, or send it to your phone. [MUSIC] 14. Conclusion: [MUSIC] Congratulations on completing this class. I hope you now feel confident navigating the basic tools of Procreate so that you can have fun drawing digitally. If you'd like to get a copy of my custom Procreate brush that I use to create my artwork, you can download it at gennablackburn.com/procreate. If you have any questions, you can ask them on the discussions page of the class and if you like this class, hit the "Follow" button by my name and please leave a review. I'd love to hear what you think. Finally, I'd love for you to share your completed illustration here on the class project tab. I can't wait to see what you create. [MUSIC]