Amazing Lines: Symmetry in Motion with Procreate

1. Amazing Lines! Intro: So what if I told you that you could create thousands of really amazing designs, right in Procreate. What's up, guys, welcome to amazing lines, symmetry in motion. My name is Dan Fried, better known as drug-free Dave, and I just love to draw. I love to create beautiful things. Now I went to art college. I went to school of visual arts about 100 years ago in New York City, and now I live in Brooklyn. I'm getting married and approximately 365 days. But enough about me. So in this class you'll learn all about symmetry. So we're going to use Procreate. I'm going to teach you how to make some really intricate designs using radial symmetry. These are designs like Mandela's and just other really beautiful designs using lines and different paint brushes and things like that. You'll be able to use these designs as decoration, as backgrounds for other artwork, maybe even for your logo. This class is perfect for beginners or experienced artists. Even if you've used symmetry before. I'm up here to show you a few new tricks, drug-free Dave style. And with that, let's move on to the next video class project 2. Class Project: So welcome to the class project. So there's gonna be five different types of designs for today's project, and you'll learn each one in each lesson. Here's a quick look at the type of designs you'll learn in today's class. This pressure is called stormy bay. By the way, never use it. It's really awesome. So we're going to make slightly different types of designs in class. But feel free to come back to this video if there's one that you liked in particular. So let's move on to the next video, Getting Started 3. Getting Started: Non-Rotational Symmetry: So we're going to make a new canvas. Just hit the plus over here. And I'm just going to use screen size. I normally, I don't like white. She's very bright. So I like to change the background. So I'm gonna go here. Actually, I'm gonna go here to the layers and then tap the background. And I'm going to choose this color. It's a little bit darker, tan. But of course, you could always go here and then you can like to use classic. You can choose whatever color you want. But I would suggest like something kind of dark, something kind of gray, and sort of neutral read. So now we're going to change our layer to enable the symmetry and enable the radio. And that'll allow us to make some really amazing designs. So first, let's check the little wrench. Check tap on the little wrench. And we're going to use Canvas. And we're going to use the drawing guide. Now, once you have the Join guy can see there's a grid on our Canvas, but we want to go to Edit Drawing Guide. So now you see a lot of options here that you can play around with. But for today, we're going to focus on symmetry. And I've done some other classes with symmetry. And you can adjust these symmetry options. Let's just make this thick. So if you wanted to do just both sides symmetrical, you can hit done. Then you have your layer here and it says assisted. That means it's using the settings that we just made. So if I add a new layer, it doesn't say assisted. So let's go to the brushes and let's use calligraphy. And let's use brush pen. Here's the color of my paintbrush. I'm just using this sort of dark red color. So we're using a brush pen and you make a circle on this side. And you can see it doesn't, it's not symmetrical because this layer doesn't have a cyst. So let's tap on it and clear that layer. And let's try it with the layer that says assist. Now you see that it mirrors everything. Okay, so that's symmetry, which is also really fun. But let's go back to our settings. So we go to the little wrench. We'll go to Edit Drawing Guide, Symmetry, and then we'll go to Options. So now we have a horizontal, so that is a horizontal symmetry. Then we have quadrant, which is four, and then we have radio. So let's stay with radio and let's hit Done. Okay, so now we have our radial symmetry on our assisted layer. So we're going to use brush pen. And let's start on one line. And then just think about drawing a spiral to the beginning point, to the center point. So we'll start here and just try to think about drawing a spiral. And you'll see it creates this amazing spiral design just with using the radial symmetry. And I think it's really cool. So of course then you can sort of add some details to this. If you want, you know, things like this. You can really go ahead and decorate this, you know, in any way that you want. You really give it some personality. And you can see, and you can pretty much make these anywhere. You don't have to do exactly what I'm doing. But notice that I'm really going after the edges making different designs. Okay, so let's hide that layer and then we'll make a new layer. And we want to tap it and hit Drawing Assist. So now it has this symmetry. So let's do something a little bit more fun. Let's change the background color to something a little darker. So I'm going to use something like that. Now, let's go to calligraphy and let's use Odeon. And again, I'm using this sort of darkish red color. Let's start in the middle. And it will make it smaller. And you can make some really amazing designs. Let's see what happens if we change the color. So let's go to classic and maybe we'll try maybe like a golden color and just see what happens. Maybe we'll add some little diamonds type shapes. And of course, let's change to something else. Let's do, let's do a blue. Let's change to another brush. Let's try Blache. Blache. See what that looks like. Water pen. And I knew I knew pretty much what I wanted to teach in the class, but I can't help it, but to kind of explore and just see with the different brushes have to offer. I think that's really fun. And remember you can also use the layers to it. So you can add layers. And then you can use some of these brushes behind the layers. But I made a mistake. I forgot to tap the layer and hit Drawing Assist. Kinda give it some interesting color. Bind some of these 4. Rotational Symmetry: Okay, so let's go back and check the option for rotational symmetry. So we're going to check the wrench, edit drawing guide options and just make sure that you check rotational symmetry. Also, you can change the color of your symmetry lines up here if you wanted to. New layer drawing assist. So that's a big difference than the other option. So we'll go back to it at drawing guide option will turn off rational symmetry and do the same thing and see how the regular symmetry, they both come towards each other. Whereas rotational symmetry, they all go in the same direction. How cool is that? So much fun. Okay, so I'm going to use brush pen and I'm going to use a brighter color. Maybe we'll make it orange or hallway. All right, so let's see what we can get here. So let's start right at the center and we're gonna make a loop reading this wedge, but we're going to hold it at the end. So then you can adjust it. You can even make it really big and you can make all these cool shapes. So we're just going to do just kind of irregular loop like this. And then let's start in the middle of these two and make a bigger one. And it will hold it. Then you have something like this. Now let's start in-between all of these edges. And let's do a shape like this. It will come out like that. Bigger one. And then a little one. And let's make some little pops like that. Let's duplicate it. Let's change the color of the bottom one. So let's go here to huge hue saturation. And let's make it darker. So we'll bring the brightness down in the saturation up a little bit. So we have this one now. So let's tap on the little arrow and let's just slightly move it. And they can tap to adjust it. That's pretty cool. Let's take white. Let's make it small. And let's add some little pops right, in all of these little things. So what happened here? Here? Here? We can even add some here too. Just a little line. Now we'll do something really cool. So we'll take the assisted one, the one underneath. So let's duplicate that. Will take this one, the one that we've just cloned. So the bottom one. Let's go back to hue saturation and let's turn it all the way down. So now we'll go back into these options, adjustments, gaussian blur, and then just see how it says got causing blur zero. Let's just slide a little bit on the canvas and it's going to blur it. So now let's make sure we're on the bottom one. Will tap the whatever that's called again, the arrow transform, I think it is. I'm just going to slide it by tapping. You can make some really cool effects just by doing those two. Just cloning them and doing different colors underneath and slightly moving them, you can make some really cool effects 5. Brush Variations: But let's just have some fun and just kinda freestyle and see what cool things we can come up with. I haven't used od on yet. So let's do that. Trying since k minus two to a bigger one. It's really cool. Alright, so let's do something else underneath it. So let's change the color. Let's see how this green looks. Maybe we'll try, Let's try some other brushes. Hexa vector. So this is an abstract rule. Let's put it underneath. So let's add a new layer underneath. Drawing assist. It's kind of interesting. It looks kinda nice. I want to change the color, so I'm gonna go hue, hue saturation. That's nice. Let's add a new layer underneath drawing assist. Now let's change the color again. Let's try spray paints. Let's try spatter. It's really cool. Let's go ahead and adjust the color. That's kinda nice. That's really cool. It. But hopefully that was fun. There's so much more that you can do and make with this, so please just explore and have fun with it. Also, sorry for the construction behind me. Hopefully. It's not too annoying to knowing to me, but but yeah. I can't wait to see what you guys make. Again, please remember to rate and review and let me know. We think there's lots of other fun things with Procreate, I'm going to try to make some smaller classes like this, just to sort of explore and go through some of the really amazing stuff that you can do. Things that it's relatively easy and that anyone can do 6. Sharp Edges / Corners: Okay, so let's do a little bit different of a design and color. So I'm using this really bright green and let's use syrup. So this is an inking and syrup. So let's start in the middle and then let's make some really jagged lines and sharp edges. Then we can do the same thing out here. Make some smaller ones maybe. Then you can kinda just have fun with it. And you can go in depth as much as you want. And that's what really makes, makes it fun is you can really make some interesting things and go in depth. Let's try something else. Let's make this a little bit thicker. Let's just try some interesting linework. Line weight is really important and really cool. And even though these lines are wavy, I still think it looks pretty interesting. Let's see if we can get something like this. But straighter lines I would probably use. Let's go back to calligraphy. And script or brush pen might be good. Brush pen might be nice. So let's try that again. Little bit cleaner. But either way, it still looks cool. 7. Mandala: So let's do a little bit more of a traditional design. I'm going to change my background actually, I'm making my background as it is and I'll use white that way you can see it really clearly. So I'm on a new layer. And for the brush, I think I'm going to use script up on my brush around 60%. So start really simple, swirl like this. And then I'm gonna make a loop in the middle of each one. I'm going to hold it so that I know it's nice and clean. Then I'm going to take the two outer edges like the two longer ones and make another arch. Now I might make two in the middle of this. Now I'm going to do an outline around each one. Hold it. Now obviously, you can keep going and it'll just keep getting bigger and bigger. But let's break it up with nice little loop. But as I go and close, I want to make it. So it's more like a teardrop shape. Let's make a big one. So in the edge of this one, I'm gonna make the brush a bit smaller. We'll go down to about 20. Will do something like this. Then maybe in the myth and the edges of these, we'll just make some loops. Okay? And then maybe we'll make some, some little designs. Like it's greenery or something, or like berries or something. Just kinda organic. If you want to kind of bring that, this flavor in the middle, you can sort of go like this and add it like that. Maybe do something like this. You can get some really beautiful designs. And the secret weapon for things like this. I love it white, but let's clone it and hide the white one. That way we have our design, it's safe. So now we'll take this white one, tap it and hit alpha lock. So now we're Alpha locked. So we'll take our paintbrush and let's find something that's really soft, like maybe an airbrush. So we'll go with soft brush here. Maybe we'll make that really big. Let's try like a lighter pink first. We using our airbrush. And remember where alpha locked on this on this design. So now I'm just going to softly, we can make it a little bit smaller. Softly color that in. Let's change the color to maybe something a little orange, perhaps, maybe a little darker orange. School, lower the brush to about maybe ten. Actually, you know what, that's actually better. So I accidentally painted the whole thing pink. But I kinda like that. So let's start in the middle and make it orange and slowly go out towards the edge. Now let's do a little bit lighter. Let's make it a little bit lighter, orange for the middle. And then maybe let's go a little bit more towards yellow. Then do that in the middle. We have some really nice color designs as well. So remember, you can do this with any brush. You can use your favorite brushes. You can use my Disney style brushes, which I didn't use because I always use those. But Procreate has plenty of brushes that have a lot of different effects. But I just wanted to do something a little more traditional. And as you can imagine, you can make, you can have a lot of fun with Mandela's. It's really, I think it's, it's really relaxing and therapeutic. I kinda just get lost in it. So hopefully you feel the same way. So yeah, go forth and make some really amazing things. 8. Thank You! : What's up, guys, Welcome back. I hope that you enjoyed yourself. I hope that you're still drawing and creating designs right now while you're listening to this. If so, then I know that I did my job, right? I love creating designs this way. I love using radial symmetry. It's really fun, It's really relaxing. And I hope that I got those points across to you as well. I'm really looking forward to seeing your class projects. Of course, please rate and review. That really helps me. It really helps the class. Of course, you can follow me for more artwork and more tips and more 3D on YouTube, youtube.com slash drug per day. I'm on Instagram and TikTok also as drug-free day of and Facebook. Probably know all of you from there already. But please, if you post, tag me, I love to share your work and I'm really looking forward to seeing your work here on Skillshare in projects and resources. Just remember to experiment with different types of brushes, different line weights. Remember to push the envelope, just see what you can do. That's the real way that we all learned. And with that, I can't thank you enough. I really appreciate you for watching my classes and listening to me talk. Hopefully you got a lot out of it. I really, again, I appreciate each and every one of you keep drawing, keep sculpting and I'll see you all in the next video.