Art Therapy - 10 Amazing Abstract Designs with Symmetry in Procreate

1. 1 - Trailer: Hello, this is my new class, Ar Trappy, Amazing designs with Procreate Symmetry. In this class, I will teach you how to use a very useful tool, it's called Symmetry Tools. In procreate, what you need is only your ipad you install, procreate, and use a popencil or any stylus or even your hand. I only use original procreate brass. I will teach you to create not only one or not three, but ten amazing designs like this. You can see how beautiful this one and this one. And also you will be amazed when you use it as a handphone casing, a, that bag or a notebook, or even a up for your coffee and a mask like this. And you can also imagine it as a pillow on your sofa, or even the design of your club. This looks nice also as a mouse path. And s, this is again as a to pack a drawstring bag or handphone casing. So I will teach you step by step, it's very easy, it's very fun. And it's also a good therapy for your mind, for your soul. I know you will love it, so let's do it. 2. 2 - My Art Journey: Hi, I'm Honey Agustin. Actually, I'm an engineer, but I love art so much. I put my drawing tools in 2014, but only in 2016. I start to draw every day, everywhere I can. Mostly of my drawings are because when you draw colorful flora like this, you can feel happy, you can release your stress, and you can soothing your mind and meditate like me. So I draw a lot on papers but also on my ipad. This is another freedom for me because no water, no messy table, and I love it so much. And then finally I realized that I have so many drawing on my table. One day I counted about 800, but another day I found more than 1,000 because each of my drawing has a story. Then I start to create the story card of each of my drawing. I can remember what is my feeling, what is in my mind when I draw each of it. And then I digitalize it and I transform it into fabrics and papers and leather to be what we call it, a wearable art. It's like scar or tile for your pack. Also a pouch wrapping paper and also tea towel. And of course the packaging pops that also originally S my watercolor have drawing. 3. 3 - Example of Amazing Abstract Designs: I will tell you why these two jobs sticks are here to accompany me while I record my video for this class. Last month in November 2023, I went to Japan to meet my friend, Matsu Tomoko. I call her and this is the picture in 1986 when we met in a student exchange program in Kyoto. And the second one, when we met last month, we have not met in 37 years. She gave me this jobstick. I love it so much. I keep it. I love Japan so much. I love the culture, the people, the clean air, and also the blue sky. That's why I chose the two chopstick to accompany me, record this class for you. Now I will show you some amazing designs created with symmetric tools and procreate. The first one I'll show you here is made with texture press category and the type is Optican. I like optican because once we choose the color, it creates a gradation of color. If I choose purple, then you may have a purple, light purple, pink, light yellow, and you can combine it. This is another example of Optican. Next you can find the floral textures. Its name is Victorian in breast category. Next is Rose. If you draw, it looks like just a line, but if you sum in, you can see the detail dots in every line. And that's beautiful for this blue design I use from abstract category and the breast is called for. This is very nice. You can made it. Later on in our class, I use elements drive and snow. I put a rectangle in the middle and then a circle side. It's very nice. The last one I made it with abstract spaklsd bright in the middle. It's very nice. I like it next. This design looks like a metal or a sword. In each line we can see a rich textures. This is made with abstract marble. I'll show you again the collection of my Rawls I love this vintage grew fy. It creates a small and medium and big textures by itself when we draw. So it will create a very rich design at the end. This is also grope. I use two colors, the green one and the orange one. When you combine it, it will look amazing. I create a diagonal lines rectangle in the middle and so on. The last one, I don, I love Odeon because it gives you a kind of lighting on the lines that we draw. I draw in the middle, zigzag, and then also at the G. Then for the other layer, I draw on the plan space. And when we combine it, it become a very beautiful design. 4. 4 - Original Texture Brush: Now we will see the texture press from procreate one by one just for example, for you, we create the cavas of 5,000 times 5,000 pixel. Then we will see the brass library textures. We have many brasses here, desolated dark, gura sine, then we see here decimal Victorian wood, also rosette. This is a very simple but I like rosette. Let's try one by one. Now I chose blue and desolated. Make sure your opacity is 100% Now you can arrange the size. I try this one. When you zoom in, you can see the textures. Also, you can push your pencil harder to your ipad and the color will be darker. I don't lift up my hands, the texture is the same. But see I live again again. Then the result will be different because the second one will be darker from the first one. This is the first one. This is up, draw again. Draw again. Draw again, up. And it will look different. It's up to you later on. When you need a lighter color, then you draw without lift up your hands. But if you want to change, lift up your hand. Now we use two fingers or double tap to undo, then now I will use purple. Let's see how tarkin looks like. I make it a bigger size and then medium size. When I push harder, the color will be darker. This is one time, this is two times, Three times will be also different. Double tap again to undo. Let's see, Tim. I change to be P, now I make a bigger size. This is when you repeat it many times without lift up your hands. The dots will be on the same place, but when you lift up your hands many times, the position of the Ts will slightly move and will not be the same as the first one. This is 1234 and you can see the dot is moving slightly to the left or right. That's now we try Victorian, now we try different color pink. Let's try the small size first, the medium size and the bigger size. This is repeated without lift up. This is repeated by lift up your head. What I show you here, this is only a sample of texture press inprocreate. But later on when we create the project, I will not use textures only. We can try another bus category too, this is wood. When you zoom in, you can see how the darker wood, when you repeat it, the dots and the textures of the wood still the same. Again, we'll see another brass set. Now we try with orange. Yeah, when you try it looks like only a line. But when you zoom in, you can see a little dots there for Rost. Now we try me Lucca, the small size. This is a medium one, make it smaller. When I repeat it, it looks darker. If I just softly draw it, it looks like paper textures. I like it again. This is only, for example, for you to see how in your press library, in one category, you can have many good press. 5. 5 - Let's Try First Design (1): Now let's try our first design. We will use a very simple press and only one layer, and I'll lose your step by step. Create the canvas 5,000 times 5,000 cell. Then go to Canvas and turn on Drawing Guide. You click at the Drawing Guide, you choose Symmetry and Options. There are four types. This is vertical, this is horizontal. Because we want both vertical and horizontal, we choose quadra, and the other one is radial. Now our canvas is divided into four parts. And C, we use vertical and horizontal. We will draw only 14 of our drawing. I just escalated and I need something dark like this blue. Let's try. Okay, I like it use two fingers to undo. I start in the middle with the small drawing, you see. Because we squad run. Now our drawing is already drawn in all four parts of our canvas. I will continue to this part and then you can zoo in to see how it looks like out again. Now I make a smaller size of press. Yes, I create another drawing there. I need to tell you, if you throw slightly like this softly to your ipad, it will be lighter color. It will give you a darker color. Now, I will push my hand a little bit and you can see the difference. Now the lines become darker. There is no rules. There is no right or wrong. Just keep it throwing and fill in the white space, a small curve or the big one. And I can just continue without thinking. I feel in here again, you see you only draw 14 part, but because we chose symmetry, then your drawing will be in four part of your canvas. I continue again, See how big picture looks like. Sometimes I stop here, but no, there is a white space from the big press. I will make it small press first, and then I will fill in this white space inside the first drawing that I already made Here you can see on the top and the bottom, because we choose quadrn, now your throwing is on the left and right. Because we have vertical throwing guide top and bottom, left and easy right. You can also ask your kids to draw like this. They will love it so much the lines, and there is no rule your kids will like it, because it depends on their creativity. And give them freedom to draw and to move their hands just as long as they like it. Okay, I already fill in all the white space in the middle. Now we still have to continue again with the white space here. I try to find the perfect size. Okay, I like this medium. Now I get medium size here. And I pushed my pencil a little bit so you can see the color is darker than before. Oops, I don't like it. Just double to undo again. Okay. Don't worry that you will make a mistake. Sometimes I also repeat to draw so many times if I don't like it. Okay, we still have a little bit white space here. I make it smaller size. Okay, I just, this one, now I draw again. And we will continue in the next session. 6. 6 - Let's Try First Design (2): We continue again. Sometimes you need to fix your drawing like this. I find that symmetry tools in procre can be therapy for us because when we are so tired, when we have an overthinking talk, a meditative action like this drawing could be a good solution for your mind and your mental health. Also for your kids. You can use this freestyle and free drawing to soothe their mind and to release their stress from their daily activities with school and friends and families and so on. Here we still have a blank space, now we fell in again. I remember when I throw this kind of design, very abstract and very loose style, I never thought in the beginning how it will look like at the end. Now we finish with the top side, and then now we continue on the right side. Again, this could be your artrapy for yourself and also for your children. We zoom in now and we'll see there is still a blank space here. We continue to draw with the smaller size of brass here. We have to fix again these little things. Either draw again and it's good. Now we fill in all the white space from the bigger sizes. It will be full and it takes time of. But I'm sure that after finish, you can feel much better. Your mind is very peaceful, your feelings become positive. And trust me, you will love it. And you only need to do as a daily activities, you don't need to finish one design one time, sometimes before going to bed. I took only 10 minutes probably, or 15 minutes to draw. And then I can continue the other day until it finishes. It's completed now. And if you think you still have to draw some more, you can give it with a smaller size and then you fill in again the white space. As far as you like, there is no rules. Follow your heart, follow your feelings and your hands. We'll know when you have to stop. 7. 7 - Tenun Thread With Crystal: Now we will try another brass, it's called Crystal. This session, I name it there, Ton. It means waving because in Indonesia the non is very popular. We can see many women in Bali or Sumatra or Jaffa Islands are waving this threat when the design for dress, it looks so beautiful on this woman. Like those pictures now we create a cavas 5,000 times 5,000 pixel. Then make sure you already turn on the drawing guides. Choose at the drawing guide, you choose symmetry. For radial option, we will have eight part of this canvas. Again, just make sure that you already choose elements and crystals. Now let's start first how this crystal looks like. Two fingers to undo. Okay, I'm ready now. I will choose the color. I click palate, and then I choose orange. And this is two fingers to undo. Adjust your precise and make sure your opacity is 100% I start to draw from in the middle and then I create a crystal lines. Now I add layer two and make sure you turn on drawing Assist. Layer two is assisted now and then I will choose blue. I continue to make a se, crystal like drawing because I live in Indonesia, there are so many ethnic textile like Pati or Non or A. When I draw this and then I remember it looks like the noon or the waving. Then when you row at the same position, you can see that the blue now is dark. Now I continue again, I go back to layer one for or I continue to throw some more lines. You can zoom in, zoom out to see how it will look like. If you hold your pen, it will be straight line. If you don't like it, two fingers to undo. You can enjoy throwing this with listening to the music. Feel calm and meditated. When you repeated the lines, it will look darker than the others. Now I go back to the blue one. I continue drawing this tenon thread with blue colors until it finished. You can check if you don't like it, use two fingers to undo. Enjoy your moment listening to the music. No two things just follow your head. Now let's continue. Go back to layer one and choose orange. Go on and on and on, and then when you see it, it will create a very different design. It's so fun, it's so relaxing. And it's good for our mental therapy. When we feel so stress, you are so tense. Just grab your ipad and your pencil and in free style like this, at the end, you will feel so relaxed, so peaceful. Trust me, I've done this so many times and I like it. When you zoom in, you really can see the details of this crystal which looks like, okay, it finish. Now I see for overall like it now we have two layers. Again, if you want to change the color, for example this Fia, then I track it to layer one which is orange, blue fuss. If we change layer two, for example, I just light green, then I track it to the blue one, light green. And pia, again, I want to change to purple. Now it's purple. With black colors, it will look like this. Beautiful, I like it. 8. 8 - Abstract Opticon: Next we will use another press. It's called Opticon, then create gun fast 5,000 times 5,000 pixel as usual. And then go to the press library on an abstract category. And we choose Opticon with a mini circle and pluri like this. After you finish this drawing, don't be surprised because the image will look blur. But it is not because of my videos blur but because of Oticon I already jose. Now we try a bit here. Then for the background, this time I will choose a light gray. And then make sure again click Drawing Guide is on at the drawing guide and symmetry option and quadrant. Now your cavas will be divided into four parts. Now we are ready to layer one is already assisted, It will be drawn on the four parts of your cava. I try a little bit here, smaller size. When I go to the center, it will create a darker color. This is a combination of light and dark color. This is another example. If I repeat it, draw a circle and then a circle again. In the middle, it will be Y. When you hold your hand, it will look different. Okay, Now we start to draw. I hold my hand. The shape will be formed by procreate. Then I create again a six sac lines. And then when I hold, it will become a very sharp edge shape. I add layer two. Now make sure drawings layer two is assisted. Now I choose screen. I draw again a six lines and hold my hand for a while until the jacket lines is created. Again, I hold my lines and now it's become bigger. I go back to color history and choose thing. Then I, and you can zoom in and zoom out to see how it looks like. Draw again and hold. If you don't like it, just double tap to undo row again and this space hold again. Okay, I like it. I will go back to layer two and then in history, choose your green color throw and hold and fill in the white space. Hold again. This is still another wide space. We draw again until it's full now. Okay, for the below part. I will also add some more lines in row and hold again, and little bit more. Okay, I feel this is still playing, so I will add a little bit, row and hold. Okay. Now it's full. It's very simple actually, but if you want to add some more, you can do it. Okay. It's finished now. And then we see the background color. We already use optical, it's blury lines. But when you put black as your background, it will look like this. I love it. I love it. I love this so much. 9. 8 - Groovy Dance: Now let's try another one. This is Dance. As usual you create a canvass of 5,000 times 5,000 Now we go to Find, and I choose groovy. I love groovy so much. Because a simple drawing, the result will be very amazing and will surprise you again. In symmetry option, I choose radio. It's done now. Now I will try a soft color. I like this. We take the size first, and then two wingers to undo. I make it smaller. And look at this, I draw continuously without lift up my pencil at all. I draw without thinking. Sometimes it's truly fun because I just move my hand and then add again continuously one time. Then I will add layer two. Don't forget to take your drawing assist. It is assisted now and I will choose the second color. I will dry the lighter one. Then for the precise I make it smaller, little bit 38% Then again, in one time, just draw without thinking it is so meditative it is reliving your stress. I like to do this every day. Just continue to fill in your play space. Move around your hands. Now we still have a little bit white space. I go back to my layer one and then I use this, you can find history. That's the dark brown color I used before. I move up to 43% and then now I draw again for the rest. Okay, this is very nice, very simple, one time drawing. This is layer two, and this is layer one for two colors. Then if you change the background with dark blue or okay, I choose this one. This is a indico blue, it becomes so beautiful. I like it so much. By fines and groofy textures, you can throw out this simple but amazing design. 10. 10 - Driven Snow: Now we try the design. It's called Driven Snow, and let's play like a kid. I already created my canvas. 5,000 times 5,000 pixel. Then I choose blue for the background. And now we will play like a kids with the brass from elements and driven snow. I choose oranges because orange and blue is contrast. Make sure you turn on drawing guide, then you also choose quadrant. I like the size. Now we start to play around. I make a circle and then going around as much as I like. Remember when you were a kid, you also like to play. Now I create a layer two. Make sure you turn on drawing assist. It's assisted. Now, then I a different color, light green. In the layer two, I draw with light green again. Let's play a kid, it is enough. Then once more, I create layer three. Drawing assist is on, and now I choose light blue. Okay, I add some more with light blue. Let's no restriction, just play around like this. Now you have three layers. For example, you want to change the color with red. Make sure you choose layer three, which is light blue. You want to choose with red, but oops, this is what happens if you track, not precisely do it again and track the red color precisely to the light blue, and then your drawing becomes red like this. It's up to you. Now when you want to change the color can also change all, or you leave it like this as I did. 11. 11 - Jagged Lines: This time we will see that procreate gives you capability to draw a checkout line like this design and it's very easy. Let's do it now. As usual, you create canvas 5,000 times 5,000 pixel. We will use sal, crappy brass and you choose mono line for the color. I choose black. Now for example, you want to draw a circle. When you hold it, it becomes very precise circle. And it's done automatically by brocriate. This is ellipse also, if you draw a triangle, hold it, then it will be precise triangle by bcriate. I draw again the square or the rectangle says hold it. Now I draw a diamond. I hold it a little bit and it will be a very nice ships. This is about ship, but also you can draw like a star. And then hold it will create a check out line. Again, when I draw a curve like this, like a flower, but when I hold it gives you straight lines like this. Now double tap to undo this first. That's the way we draw after this to create a jacket line, make sure you use material and grass and we will see how it will look like. Make sure your drawing guide is on at the drawing guide, and then you choose symmetric option and Squadra. Your cavas now divided into four parts. There is a vertical and horizontal line. Make sure your press in the materials and for no, I try to adjust the precise first to find the size that I want. Then now I start to draw. And then I hold my pencil again. I draw a curve, but I hold it and it becomes very sharp edge like this. Again, you'll see this is what I call check out Line. Now we try a smaller size, but the press is still the same. I use purple now. Again, I hold it. Just hold a while. And then it creates a different lines. You can zoom in to see how it looks like. And then I go back to black. This is in the same layer, I still only have one layer. And then I go back to draw again with black color. If you don't like it, just double to undo. I don't think before to throw like this. I just follow my mind and my hands and we can fill in the white space until it's full. I continue to then after black, now I go back to purple. I adjust again to be a smaller brass, again, finishing all the white space here. If you don't like it, just double tap to undo and redraw again. Don't forget to hold your pencil a bit. So it will be the same checkout line everywhere. And then still the plank space here. I will finish it. Okay, We'll see it's complete now. It's finished. That's the way you draw with holding your pencil and create a check out line. 12. 12 - Pinky Bokeh Abstract: This design pink abstract will make you surprise. Let's see how to make it. Now we start to make another design. For example, I create a gain 5,000 times 5,000 pixel canvas. Now we will dry luminance and poker lights. I use pink color. This is a medium size. If we make it a bigger size, it will look like this and we get smaller one. This is a very beautiful texture brass, I like it. Then make sure drawing guide on and then at the drawing guide again, we use symmetry. And an option I chose radial. We have eight parts separated and now we are ready to draw. If you repeat it in the middle, it will create a lighter light. And then now I move to this part, then I add layer two. Do will get to take drawing assist, I will use a dark blue. I will add some more in the wide blank space, for example, in the middle in this part, if you don't like it, just tap with two fingers to undo. I will create again here. Okay, I'm happy. Now I will add layer three. Take drawing, assist, and then assist it. Now I chose purple. Then I will add some more again in the white blank space here. Another one here. It's up to you. It's freestyle. There is no Rom or right, And we have three layers with three different colors. And then when we chase the background to be black, you see the Luminance Lite give you a very colorful design. You can also change to dark gray, but I like black. Okay, This is a very nice with aluminum spoke a light. 13. 13 - Calligraphy Odeon: Now this is my favorite press, calligraphy, Don. As I told you before that when we use Odeon, the press gives us a shining effect. Your lines will be looks like this design. As example that I show you here. This design is created with two layers. Let's try it now. Create a new gun F 5,000 times 5,000 pixel. Then let's change the background color from white to be black. You can use double tap on this, this and it will be automatically going to be black. Then make sure again your drawing guide is on the drawing guide. And then symmetry option and radial. Now we cannot see the guidelines because it's black. I need to change to be white. Double click the white line and then click. Then make sure your opacity is 100% And then this is to adjust your breast. We try first. I think it is too thin. I make it bigger. Okay. I like it double tap to undo now. I just fusia. I love it because it's a mix of Gia and yellow and orange. Look at this. When you draw, and you repeat it at the same position, such as in the middle, it gives you a brighter or shining color. This is the interesting thing about press. I'll show you what I mean. If I make a line and then I repeat it, you see there is a shining and brighter color. Again, if I three times, it's shining more, the only two times. Now we continue. I throw on the diagonal line. I hold it but I don't like it so I want to have an original line. It will not be check out line. Then on this part I throw again with the curve six second lines. You see you may have Fay, or you may have light yellow and so on. To make easier, you can rename your layer with Odion one. Then I make layer two, make sure your drawing assist is on. Layer two is assisted. Now I, I start to draw in the plan space. I adjust again the precise to be 25% Okay. This ping gives the design a different color. When I draw slowly, you can see that the white or the light color is blooming. Now I draw with more six lines and fill in so you can combine it between two colors. Now we still have many plank space. I will draw a, sometimes I like to draw inside the drawing like this. I like the bright color. It's like a sparkling on this design. Okay, this pink is also combined with orange. I like it now. I go back to Don one, the first layer, and I go back to Pia. I draw some more lines again. Here I continue into inside the first line. Now with two colors, two layers and diaconal line create a very beautiful design for layer two. You can also rename it with two now this is Odeon one, Don Two. When you combine it, it looks much better as overall I like it. But later on you can draw not only with two colors, but maybe three colors. I'm sure that will be very amazing design. 14. 14 - Vintage Groovy With 2 Colors: This is an example of different texture bras. We will use find screw here. I draw in a very different way. I just draw in the middle and in the four sides we use rata symmetry. Then the second layer, the green one, I draw like this to fill in the plan space of layer one. Now if we combine two colors, it will look like this. Make sure you are on the feints and we choose crew. Now we create a new fast, again 5,000 times 5,000 pixel. I try to use a dog background. I choose black. Make sure your drawing guide is on, you choose option, make sure the line is very clear enough for you. I choose white on black. And now done again. Finta Scroofy. Now we try the size. I start to draw in the middle. There is no rules to use. Grope. I like this press very much because you can see how rich our drawing can be created. I just move my hand wherever I sometimes straight and sometimes I make a curve. Now I feel in this part. Okay, now we have a cross line and four parts. Now create another layer, layer two. Make sure drawing assist is on. Layer two is assisted. Now I choose green color. Now let's continue on layer two. Two fingers to do, I put smaller size. Okay. I like it again. You can see that when I draw this, I never think about how it will look like at the ends. I just move my hands. Sometimes I repeat it the same part, but sometimes I create a new one. Now I continue, I do six there. Then I continuously, until I want to stop. I throw akin here to fill in the blank space. And then now I continue again until this space is full. Sometimes you can zoom in and zoom out to see how it looks like. As I also drag the long line like this, this is enough. This is still a blank space. I keep it okay. I like it so much. We have layer 1.2 with different color. When we combine layer one and layer two, it will be looked like this. We only use two colors at this time, but later on you can choose more than two. You can try three or four colors. 15. 15 - Floral Style: Floral style would be our last design. It looks like flower in the middle. And then we draw some leaves surround it. And it will be very amazing design too. As usual, we create new canvas. Then again, we turn on the drawing guide. At the drawing guide, we choose symmetry and option. Before we use Squadron. Now we use Radial. Our canvass will be divided into eight parts. Then we just textures and desolated. Now I straw in the middle. Just a free style of flower. Now we create layer two. Again, take the drawing assist. Layer two is assisted Now to find the second color, I click this and then you can drag your pencil to find the right cream that you like with the same isolated. And now I continue to draw this flower back again to layer one, the purple one in history. You can find your purple from the previous choice. In the layer one, I draw again some more. Now I go back to layer two with the green color. I add again. Here I add some more sometimes I sped up the video so you don't waste your time. I go back to purple. In layer one, I make a bigger curve line, The flower looks like it's pluming. Now this flower is enough. Now I go back to green again. For the leaves, I choose rose and smaller size. Now I throw leaves here, I fell in the leaves. I try to zoom in and zoom out to see the size is proportional with the flowers. And then I draw again a big leaves, a small leave. Just fill in the white space. I like it now I try to again fill in the wide space. I create a smaller size brush and then I throw the little leaves without fill in, it will be variation of the leaves again, just double if you don't like it and you can repeat it. After you do drawing leaves like this is also meditative. I like it so much, I zoom in, take a look, and now I work some more. Now I draw a branch with little Eps. This is a part of the leaves or the flower again. I continue until all the white space is full. Now I move on, on this side, this is still a lot of white space. I draw again the leaves, and if you see the line is too thin, you can re draw again to make it nice. Okay, let's see Now we still have a little white space in the middle, at the top and bottom. Okay, let's finish it then. If you think that you need to fill in again, this little white space, it's up to you. You can draw again the leaves or the pads wherever you like. Finally, if you see As overall it will be look like this. When you change the background color to be black, your design looks so beautiful. You can draw again with different styles of flower or leaves, but I'm sure you will like it.