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Beginner Friendly: How to Use and Make Your Own Texture in Procreate

teacher avatar Lisa Glanz, Illustrator & surface pattern designer

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Topics include illustration, design, photography, and more

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Join Me for a Fun Texture Class!

      0:52

    • 2.

      Using Brushes to Add Texture

      11:30

    • 3.

      Layering Colour to Add Texture

      2:38

    • 4.

      Create Your Own Stamp Brush

      6:52

    • 5.

      Using Clipping Masks to Add Texture

      4:46

    • 6.

      Using Alpha Lock to Add Texture

      2:40

    • 7.

      Using Masks to Add Texture

      4:00

    • 8.

      Create Your Own Texture Brush

      2:53

    • 9.

      Using the Selection Tool to Add Texture

      3:45

    • 10.

      Drawing Your Own Texture

      5:33

    • 11.

      Finishing Touches

      2:50

    • 12.

      Use Basic Lighting to Add Texture

      8:52

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About This Class

In this class, you’ll learn how to use and create texture in Procreate through practical techniques like brush making, layering, masking, and more!

Throughout the lessons, you’ll create a delightful textured illustration filled with charming animal characters – an ideal setting for experimenting with your new texture skills.

To make things easy, I’ve included a sketch of the full scene in your course resources, so you can jump right in. Head over to the Project & Resources Tab to download.

Each technique is taught step-by-step, helping you build confidence as you follow along.

Together, we’ll bring every part of the scene to life, giving you the tools to apply unique textures that add richness and character to your artwork.

HERE'S WHAT WE'LL BE COVERING: 

  • How to add texture to your artwork using brushes
  • Layering colour to add richness and cohesion across your piece
  • Learn important settings for creating your own stamp brushes in Procreate
  • Learn how to use Clipping Masks to apply texture
  • Quickly apply texture to painted areas using Alpha Lock
  • Explore Masks to create non-destructive detail and markings
  • Build your own texture brush using Procreate’s powerful brush settings
  • Useful tips for using the Selection Tool to add texture
  • Get creative as we freestyle with the Pencil and Erasure tool to add interesting grunge
  • And finally we add finishing touches, basic lighting and a quick paper layer for even more charm!

HERE'S WHAT YOU'LL NEED: 

  • iPad with Procreate installed 

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Lisa Glanz

Illustrator & surface pattern designer

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Hi! I'm Lisa, a multi-passionate illustrator living on the sunny coast of South Africa.

If you're on Skillshare I'm guessing you're a lot like me! We're creatively curious, hungry to try new things and want to better our skills.

That passion for learning has driven my creative journey. Mostly self-taught, I faced the same struggles we all do. From finding my own style, figuring out how to make a living as an illustrator, and everything in between!  

I feel super privileged to be able to make a living selling my art online because I know how difficult that journey is. Which is why I'd love to share what I've learned along the way with you. And hopefully you'll walk away with knowledge that will help you further along your creati... See full profile

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1. Join Me for a Fun Texture Class!: Okay. Hi. I'm Lisa. I'm a full time illustrator and creator of digital resources. In this class, we'll be exploring all the fun ways we can add texture in Procreate. We'll be using a cute little giraffe as our guinea pig and play with some of the features available in Procreate to achieve some yummy texture results. You're welcome to follow on using your own drawing, of course, but I've made life easier by including the giraffe sketch, some texture brushes, and color palette, so you can follow along with these. All sound good. Let's draw. 2. Using Brushes to Add Texture: I've gone ahead and imported the swatches that come with the class and the brush set. If you still need to do that, I recommend just pausing the video and getting that into Procreate before you carry on if you want to follow along with the same swatches that I'm using. Okay, so I'm going to go ahead and create a new document. And I like to work in a fairly sort of medium to large size canvas. You can go a bit smaller if your iPad is smaller and you tend to run out of layers quite quickly. But the size I'm using today is 3,900 pixels by 4,950, and I'm just going to open that. And now I'm just going to go ahead and import our line drawing that comes with the class, and I'm just going to come over to my actions menu. And I'm going to insert a file. So I saved it on my dropbox. If you saved it to your camera upload, then you're going to hit Insert Photo. So I'm going to go ahead and insert file and select that. And if you'd like to adjust it at this stage, go ahead. But I'm going to leave it that size because it works perfectly for me. And I'm going to rename this and just call it sketch and then create a new layer and drag that underneath my sketch layer. And then I want to set the sketch layer to color burn. And the background color, I'm going to choose this sort of pale, pinky, sort of neutral color. Okay, so that obviously now means that we can see our drawing so coming back to my sketch layer, I'm just going to bring the opacity down too. So, let's say, about 60%. And on that new layer, we're going to start using some brushes to fill in the areas of the giraffe and the bird and the house. So with texture brushes, whether you actually buy texture brushes or you use the default ones that come with procreate, what I recommend is actually experimenting with the texture and seeing the best results you can get from that texture brush. So I'm going to show exactly what I mean. So just choosing one of the orange colors. And coming over to the class brush that you got with the class, I'm just going to choose cosmos. So this comes from my nitty gritty brush pack, and the other one isn't a part of any of my brush packs. I made that just for this class. So using cosmos, I'm just going to apply color with some even strokes. And with this brush, the more pressure you apply to your pencil, the more texture comes through. So that's what I mean about experimenting with a brush. You may want to get an idea of how much texture you need to apply for the particular type of sorry, how much pressure you need to apply for the particular type of texture you want to achieve. And, of course, each brush is different. So that's why it's important to get to know them. And if you found one that you really like or you found several that you really like, you can really get a good idea of the results you get with the amount of texture, amount of pressure that you apply. So I really like that look. I'm going to leave that. I want the texture coming through. And just with some quick brush strokes, I'm applying some colour. And I'm not being too particular about being too neat because that's the kind of look I'm going for, but you might have a different style entirely and want more nature edges. H Okay, so I'm pretty happy with giraffe. I just want to clean up that area. So coming over to my razor tool, I just want to make sure I have the right I want to choose the same brush I'm using, which is cosmos. And I'm just going to clean up that area. And again, using the same brush on the same layer, I'm going to apply color to our little bird. So I'm happy with that layer now. I just want to zoom in and show you you'll see all that lovely texture we've achieved with just using the brush and different pressure, and the background is basically shining through, and that's what we want. Okay, so I'm going to create a new layer and add some color to our house. So choosing the darker neutral color, I'm going to use the other brush that comes with the class, which is the smudgy goodness. And you'll see how different this brush reacts and how we're going to get different results. So if you can remember, we use kind of even strokes for the giraffe. So with this one, we want to have bitty strokes. Because with each brush stroke, you're getting let me just zoom in there. You're getting different texture. And that's why it's important to understand the brushes that you have and see the best results you can get from them because your linework action, how you apply the color, will influence the kind of texture that you achieve from that brush. And I'm just using the very light color to to add, you know, sort of a white area to the front of the building. So the front of the building is basically going to have more of the light onto it and the side has a bit of a shadow. What I want to do is just use cosmos just to to finish off this building a little bit for some smoother areas. And I just want to add a bit of color to this window. Oh, actually, I missed a spot. I missed that spot. Our building is done now. What I want to do is create a new layer that just has a little bit more defined linework over the features of the animals. So above our sketch layer, I'm going to create a new layer and set that to linear burn because I'd like it to be quite dark and kind of burn into the rest of the painting. And just choosing our kind of, like, quite darkish brown color. Just gonna use a pencil. I'm using Lisa's pencil, but you can literally use any pencil. Doesn't really matter. Whichever pencil you enjoy using. And I'm just going to essentially define those important features. So just here and there, not everywhere. Here and there. I'm just going to add some linework. We want to show off's little nose. Well, actually, her little nose, which looks like a her. And you can decide how much detail you want to add. I just want to ensure that once the piece is finished, that all those important features of the animal are not lost. And again, you can decide if you want a smoother brush, a smoother pencil. I really like that gritty kind of textured brush in my pencil work. And that's also another great way of adding texture. So I'm just going to define these these sort of stringy lines. I don't really know what this is if it's a scarf. But it's cute. Okay, so this is sitting essentially above. It will be sitting above everything. I just want to make sure the eye is very clear. 3. Layering Colour to Add Texture: Now we're going to move on to using color to add some texture, how you can layer colors to give more of an interesting texture result in your work. So I'm going to create a new layer above my house and choosing that same orange we originally used. I'm just going to grab a brush from nitty gritty set, but you are more than welcome to use any one of these that came along with this class or any one of your other texture brushes that you have in Procreate. So I'm just using my canvas grunge, and I quite like the messy sort of edge that it gives. So I'm very quickly applying color, and I'm intentionally not being too worried about staying within the lines because I like the as I said, I like the sort of messy edges. So on that same lab, I'm now going to use pink, and I'm coming over to Cosmos. And what I want to ensure is that have enough texture kind of shining through. So the orange comes through onto the pink. And this is a great way to actually tie in your colours or your palette across your entire piece. So even though the orange is going to be underneath the pink, there's going to be areas that it peeps through, and that's a great way to, you know, kind of make your whole piece more uniform in terms of the palette. So I'm ensuring that I'm getting some nice texture and pushing down on my pencil. So that's giving us a really nice result where they're mashing the two colors together. So although your door is pink, we can still see orange coming through. So I encourage you to experiment with layering different colours. The orange, you know, could have easily have been the dark brown, and that would have given us a much stronger result. So in this case, it was more subtle, but I think it works really well. 4. Create Your Own Stamp Brush: Okay, so now we're going to move on to creating our own texture brush, which is really fun. So coming out of this document, I'm going to create a new document, and it's going to be really large. We're going to use at least 7,000 pixels by 7,000. And the reason why we want that is we want a really high resolution image that we're going to create a stamp brush out of. And I'm going to use black. So I've just double tapped on my color, and it will automatically give you the darkest color in that circle. Using one of the texture brushes, you can use either one of these that come with the set. I'm just going to use one of the standard brushes that come with procreate in the drawing sort of tab. And we're going to create a leaf pattern. Well, it's not really a pattern. It's going to be a leaf stamp. But essentially, we're going to be using it like a pattern. So I'm aiming to keep my leaf design in a circle. Just a rough circle doesn't have to be too specific. Okay, that size is a little large. So the brush I'm using is Blackburn, and that comes, as I said, with procreate. And I'm just roughly creating sort of a leafy design. And I'm making sure that my leaves are going in all sorts of directions. So again, as I mentioned, we're aiming for kind of like a circle design. And this makes it much easier when you use your stamp for it to be a little bit more uniform and not so blocky. I think we're happy with that. Now we need to copy that coming over to our actions, make sure that you select JPEG. And I'm just going to hit Copy. And then opening up our brush library. I'm still in the class brush set, which is important, but you can, you know, add your brush anywhere you like. I just find it's going to be easier keeping it all in the same place. I'm going to hit that plus. The first thing I want to do is change the spacing. I'm going to move that all the way to 100. And then coming down to our shape, I'm going to hit Edit, and then import and paste. We need to invert that, so I'm just going to use two fingers and tap on the screen once. Hit done. Then coming down to Apple pencil, we're going to move that all the way down to zero, the opacity because we don't want any opacity variation as we stamping. And I'm going to make sure that my shape, coming back to our shape is scat on scatter. Every time I stamp out, it's going to change the direction of the actual stamp, which is what we want. We wanted to look organic. And then the last thing I want to do is just increase the size, probably three t is fine percent. And then if you want to just name your brush, leaf stamp and you can decide to, you know, sign it and name it, all that kind of stuff, which we're not going to do right now, and we're going to hit done and done again. And there's your stamp brush. Just now, we're going to test it, but for now, I want to create another stamp brush. So creating a new layer, turning the other one off. We're still using black. So I'm going to be using sticks which come standard with Procreate. It's under the drawing brush set. And the idea, again, is to keep the design in kind of like a circle shape, but we are just going to be using Random strokes. Hm. That last one makes it look a little too square. Let's see if we leave it there what happens. Okay, so we're going to do the same thing coming over to action, share, JPEG, and copy. In our same brush set that we created the other one, we're going to hit the plus and our spacing all the way. This time, again, import and paste. We're going to invert it like we did previously with two fingers. But this time, I'm not going to change the scatter. I'm going to leave it exactly like it is coming over to Apple Pencil, and we're going to bring that opacity all the way down. And I'm just going to increase the size like we did with the other one. And this time, I just want to add a dash of grain to the brush. So hitting our edit, I'm going to hit Import and then source library. So that comes with Procreate. And I'm looking for something grungy. So let's try. Let's try that guy. So I just want to up the grain of that, or should I say the contrast and the scale. So the movements on rolling. You can experiment with this and see, you know, kind of texture you want to achieve. But essentially, we want sort of a roughsh texture to our linework. I think that's about it. And I'm just going to name the brush. Let's call it lines stamp. Done and done. Okay, so now we're going to put out brushes to work and use them on our drawing to add some texture. 5. Using Clipping Masks to Add Texture: Coming back to our giraffe, I'm going to apply a lovely little botanical pattern over the house using the stamp brush we just created. Coming to the layer where we create, the actual house. I'm going to hit Plus. I'm going to set that to clipping mask. So what that's going to do is it's going to clip to everything that's underneath that layer. So we could paint really outside the lines. It doesn't matter. It's basically going to only keep whatever is underneath that layer. It's going to retain it to that specific area, which is really handy if you're using something like a stamp brush. So I'm going to use the same color we use for the shadow. And using our leaf stamp, I think the size is about right. We are just going to randomly stamp out a cute little leafy pattern. I think that looks pretty good. And then on our roof, we're going to using a much lighter color, we're going to use the other stamp. I just want to bring that size down a dash. And we're going to set that to a clipping mask because, again, I want to clip it just the roof. And while we're using clipping mask, I'm going to add sort of a whiter area on the giraffe. So making sure I'm above my giraffe. I'm adding a new layer. I've still got my light color, and I'll use cosmos. We're going to clip it in a minute. And I'm just going to create a cute little area underneath his tummy. And then make sure we clip that to the body of the giraffe. And what I want to do here, I just want a couple of roughish edges along that part. So using my eraser tool, I'm going to use one of the standard brushes that come with procreate called sticks, and just going to lightly take away some of that, giving the edges a bit of a more organic rough look to it that matches the rest of the giraffe and a dash over here. I think that's it. And then finally, using a clipping mask again, we're going to use a stamp from another one of my sets, but you can use any stamp you like. The idea is to create sort of variation in the color tones of the giraffe. So I'm going to use a stamp from my aquaril set, and I'm going to use the random blooms. Using, you know, the darker sort of must not mustard orangy colour, like a burnt orange. I'm just going to create a new layer and stamp once, see if I'm happy with the placement. I'm going to set that to color burn, which I'll adjust in a minute. And now I'm going to set that to clipping masks. So what's going to happen, as we've said previously, it's going to clip to everything underneath that layer. So where people get a little bit confused sometimes, you'll see if we didn't clip it. The results are quite different. And it's still retaining its original shape, what the stamp originally looked like. But the minute we clip the stamp, it's going to take on the properties of the original underneath layer, and it'll take on all the imperfections and even the opacity. So sometimes people get confused and they can't understand why their stamp or their clipping mask doesn't look as strong as they wanted it to. It's because it's taken on all the properties that your original layer had, and that includes the opacity of that layer. So in this case, I'm just going to bring the opacity down of my colour bone because the red was a bit harsh. But that's a nice way to add just a bit of variation in your colour application without having to paint again. 6. Using Alpha Lock to Add Texture: Okay, so we're going to move on and use Alpha lock to apply some texture. Again, creating a new layer. I'm going to use the mustard, and coming back to those brushes that come with a class, I'll just use the smudgy goodness, and we're going to apply some color to our little mounds or hills, whatever you want to call them. Oops. Now we need to Alpha lock that layer. And what that means is you are essentially locking the pixels and not allowing if you're going to apply paint onto that same layer and not allowing that paint to go beyond what you've already painted. And I'm going to show exactly what I mean by that. So selecting that same layer that we've just added the mustard to I'm going to select Alpha lock, and you'll see the transparency has come up. So what it's indicating to you, you can essentially only really paint on those areas that you've already applied color to. It's a great way to quickly apply color just to specific areas that you've already applied paint to so that you don't essentially go beyond the lines, so to speak. So I'm going to choose this pinky color and our stamp that we created, bring it down a dash, and I think I'm going to go bigger, actually. So you'll see it automatically clipped just to that mustard area. It's essentially doing the same thing that a clipping mask does, but it's applying it to the actual original layer, which sometimes is a good thing, sometimes you don't want. But in this instance, I know I want that pattern on the mustard heel, so I'm perfectly happy applying it straight to the mustard. And the same thing goes for here, I'm going to choose Oops. Kind of like a mustard color, and just apply some lines. So that's really handy if you're doing pattern work yourself and you wanted to clip it to a specific area. 7. Using Masks to Add Texture: Now we're going to have some fun using masks. And the best way to understand that it's almost like a stencil, like you are applying stencil areas to a particular layer. So I want to use a mask for creating spots on the giraffe. And just coming above that clipping mask we created, I'm going to use sort of that darky brown color. And let me just use I'll use Blackbne for now. And I'm just randomly painting. And then I'm going to turn that into a mask. So automatically, it's going to add a layer mask above that. And now, essentially, what we're going to do is we're going to create a stencil like effect on that mask layer. So it's important that you use black to do that. And I'm just going to use in fact, I'm going to use the same brush that we just used for the actual colour laying. And what you're doing is it's similar to if you were using an eraser, which you can, you can use the same effect, you know, with an eraser tool. But what I like about using a mask is that you can move it around. It's not damaging the original layer. So if that was quite an important layer to you, for example, it was, you know, special texture that you added or even a photograph or an image, this is a nice way to create your area that you don't want without actually damaging the original layer. And I think taking away sometimes gives you really interesting results as opposed to painting, you know, adding to it. What I mean is I'm essentially removing color, which gives us kind of a different end result. And the beauty of it is if we don't like it, we just delete the layer, delete the actual mask, and start again. If you made a mistake and you wanted to add some color back, you would just simply make sure that you are using white, so we're coming all the way, and we're essentially adding that area back. But in this case, we don't want to. So it gives you, you know, especially for mark making, like I'm doing now, it gives you a nice interesting sort of cut out effect, which all adds to the overall interest of the piece. And finally, if you wanted to have more impact, you could always set that to linear bone and just bring the opacity down or even multiply. Maybe multiply is a bit better. 8. Create Your Own Texture Brush: Now we're going to create our own texture brush, and I'm going to use the same shape that we used for our stamp, and you'll see how easy it is to create different texture brushes of your own. Coming over to our brush that we created, the line stamp, I'm just going to duplicate that and select that. This time, we're going to bring the spacing down. Probably something like 10%. And I want to make sure that my shape is I want that line work because this is going to be for the main of the giraffe. So I'm not gonna use the scatter at all, because that'll obviously just change the shape entirely. I'm going to keep all those lines, and coming over to our grain, this is where you can have some fun and create some interesting results. So I'm bringing the brightness down quite a bit, and I'm going to change that to linear bone because I find that often gives it quite an interesting grungy effect. And I'm just playing with a scale and even the movement, sort of figuring out the look I'm going for Yeah, I would say that that's quite a good result. And we just want to rename that, and we could call it something like, hey. So on a new layer, I'm using one of the darker browns. And we're gonna start adding some main texture. Of course, you can decide how intense you want it. Using our eraser tool. I just want to clean that up. I think our giraffe is taking shape. I just want to move the stamp that I use on his body to underneath the white layer because it's creating kind of a yellowy glow, which I don't want. So I'm just going to move that one clipping mask underneath the other one. 9. Using the Selection Tool to Add Texture: Another great way to add texture to your work is using the selection tool. So I'm going to be doing that for this little hill or bush, whatever you want to call it, and even the hooves of the giraffe coming over to our layers, creating a new layer. And I just created it above the mustard. I'm going to use this khaki color and using our free selection tool, I've made sure that I've got it on and because what I want to do is I want to make a selection and then add another selection to that. So I'm just free drawing as I go and then hitting that little dot and using the same selection as the one we just created because I'm going to apply the same technique for both of those. Okay, so to apply color, I'm going to be using a stamp from the nitty gritty set. Again, you can use any stamp you prefer. And I'm just simply going to stamp until I'm happy. I think that looks pretty good. And then on our linear bone layer, I want to create a selection for the hooves. So again, coming over to my selection tool, I'm just going to select free draw, should I say, the hoof area. And using the same color that we used for the features, I'm coming back to one of the stamps we created this linework stamp, and I'm just going to stamp and stamp until I'm happy. And then last but not least, I just want to use that same stamp on our bird. And I just need to create a new layer above that. And I want to use a lighter pink. And what I want to do is actually change the direction of those lines to be the other way. So just for variation so it doesn't look exactly the same as the roof. Coming over to that stamp that we created, we're going to select shape and then edit. And then taking two fingers, I'm just simply going to rotate and drop and then hit done and test the size. I think that looks pretty good, but I just want to make sure. What I'm going to do is not make it a clipping mask. So I've dragged it out of the clipping mask area, and I'm turning off the clipping mask, and I'm just going to stamp once. 10. Drawing Your Own Texture: Another fun thing that I love to do is to draw my own texture. And what I mean by that is I love using a pencil tool and just making scrubby marks or line work. Sometimes I use the eraser tool to create texture as well. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to create a background, and then we're going to use the eraser tool to add some interesting mark making on the background layer. So right at the bottom, I'm going to create a new layer, I'm going to drag it below Al giraffe. And choosing the same color as a shadow of the house. I'll just use cosmos. And I'm just simply kind of drawing like a hell. I'm varying my pressure every now and then, picking up my pencil every now and then just for some variation. And then I'm going to use the other brush, the smudgy goodness to create some trees. So if you can imagine a great big tree sort of coming up here. And a little branch that comes out. Maybe the branch does that. So I'm just going to bring the opacity down a dash of that layer. I'm just going to see what multiply looks like. Yeah, I think that looks pretty good. So what we want to do now, I prefer to have more rougher edges to that piece, so I'm going to use the eraser. You can use sticks. You can use any one of these texture brushes that'll work just as well. But I'm going to use something from my nitty gritty collection. And it's the canvas, actually the dirty grain. And I'm just here and there. Going to take away the edges. As I said, I'm doing this because I really like that sort of rough textured edge look. You might prefer a cleaner line. And still using our rays, are we going to now take away some of this area, but it's going to be more controlled and more precise, and I'll tell you what I mean. I'm going to use the grimy shy pencil, but again, you can use any type of pencil that has a nice, good texture to it. So what we want to do now is we want to create sort of more deliberate markings, and I'm going to throw in the odd little plant. And this is a really fun way to essentially draw your own texture. And you can decide how much you want to add. So one of my other favorite things to do is add some scribbly linework as texture. So I'm going to use it on the same layer as our original sketch. So selecting that layer and selecting a similar color, which is one of these browns. That one should be fine. I'm going to use my pencil. You can use any pencil you like. So what I want to do first is create a selection. So using our selection tool And for the fun part, I'm just simply going to scribble away. 11. Finishing Touches: We're just going to quickly finish off the drawing by finishing this sort of tree area here, adding some color to the pompoms and things like that. And then we're going to move on to adding some shadow. So using the same layer as our little actually, let's do the hells first. So I'm just going to make sure I'm off Alpha and on that same el layer. I'm using darker mustard and coming back to our smudgy goodness. And the pinky color. Feel free to experiment which colors you want to use. I just want to add some stepping stones there. So on the same layer as the house, I'm just gonna use the darker color. And let's add some color to the pompoms. Some clouds. 12. Use Basic Lighting to Add Texture: Now, we're going to have some fun with very basic lighting, and you can decide how much you want to add to this and how detailed you want to become with your shadow work and your lighting. But I'm just going to show you a very simple quick way of adding just that additional thing that adds some dimension to your work. So if our light source was coming in this direction, very roughly, the shadow will basically fall this side of everything. So creating a new layer, and we can work below the sketch layer, no problem. I'm going to turn that to multiply, and I'm going to first, I'm going to work on the giraffe. So we're going to be using kind of like a warmer color. And I'm going to use that one for now, one of the orange colors. And you can use any brush you prefer, but I particularly like a grungy brush on my shadow work. So I'm going to use one of the nitty gritty brushes and using the dirty grain for this. And I'm just at first going to see just bringing that opacity down. If I'm happy with the tone of this shadow on my giraffe, so far, it looks good. As mentioned, we are just being rough with our estimation where the shadow is gonna fall. And I'm going to do the same on our bird. I'm going to increase that opacity just to make it a little bit more pronounced. And using that khaki color, we're going to add some Okay, so that is too dark if I want to use the same layer. So I'm going to use the lighter version. I looks better. And I'm imagining this little roof casting quite a biggish shadow that does something like that. Same with the door. I'm visualizing all of these, casting shadow on the ground. And the giraffe. That is definitely definitely not correct because that should have been lighter and that should have been darker, but it doesn't matter. We are not going for scientific correctness. So Shadow is another fantastic way just to add that extra bit of texture and finish off your drawing. And you can do the same with some lighting, which is what I'm going to do and using the lighter color. I'm going to use one of the stamps from my it's my instant artist collection. So this is one of those build up stamps that basically it's very soft, and as you apply this stamp, it kind of builds up the texture. So applying this is a nice way to apply texture, but you can apply the same kind of effect using any brush that has a soft texture. You can use something that you've got from one maybe you've got pastel, a pastel brush collection or charcoal brush collection. You can get the same results and just apply it in certain areas. So coming over to our Layers panel, I'm going to create a layer just above our background trees that we created. And starting in this corner, it's a very subtle texture, but it's giving us helping us lighten that area, but still giving us a lovely soft texture, which is what I'm going for. I think that's about it. Oh, what I wanted to do is just create some shadow work for our clouds. I forgot to do that. So using the same color, and we are coming back to our nitty gritty. So this is just helping the clouds with some definition. And finally, just some detail on the window and some of the little trees. So on our very top sketch layer, using the same colors that layer, just go to use a pencil and finish off these trees just to kind of define them better. And I just want to add a couple of baubles above everything. I think it needs it. Just using smudgy goodness again. And then finally, we're going to add some paper texture, which is a really fun quick way to add interest to your work. Coming to our actions, we're going to add. And again, I have mine on Dropbox, so I'm going to insert file, not photo. So I'm using a paper from my paper box collection. You're welcome to use any texture that you like, any paper texture. I'm just going to change that to free form. And then set that layer. I'm going to just experiment and see which one looks best. I think linear bone looks quite interesting. And then just bring that opacity down. Let's have a squize. Yeah, so what's really fun about that, it's kept, you know, the lovely texture of the paper and also all those little grungy bits. And you can experiment with whatever layer works best for you. But I think Linear bone works best for me in this case. So I hope this class has given you a good idea of how you can use all the different functions within Procreate to apply some interesting texture to your work. Hope you enjoyed that and happy creating.