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Beginner's Guide to Procreate: A Graphic Design Approach

teacher avatar Bryan C'ngan, Graphic | Web Designer

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Hey There!

      1:45

    • 2.

      The Class Project

      0:22

    • 3.

      The Gallery

      3:55

    • 4.

      Brushes, Colors and Layers

      9:22

    • 5.

      Transform, Selection and Adjustments

      10:48

    • 6.

      Actions

      4:53

    • 7.

      Hand Gestures and Basic Shortcuts

      3:45

    • 8.

      Mixing it up, Using Texts and Finishing

      5:16

    • 9.

      Project One: The King

      7:57

    • 10.

      Project Two: Order Now

      5:27

    • 11.

      Project Three: Just Do It!

      10:46

    • 12.

      Project Four: Plants Are us

      5:56

    • 13.

      Closing: Thank you

      0:34

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Dive into the exciting world of graphic design with comprehensive class, the "Beginner's Guide to Graphic Design in Procreate." Whether you're an aspiring artist or a seasoned creative looking to explore digital design, this course is tailored to elevate your skills using the powerful Procreate app.

Key Topics Covered:

  • Gallery Navigation: Learn to navigate Procreate's gallery effectively and efficiently. Understand file management, organization, and discover how to showcase your evolving portfolio seamlessly.

  • Brushes Unleashed: Unlock the full potential of Procreate's extensive brush library. From digital painting to lettering, explore various brushes and discover how they can breathe life into your creative visions.

  • Transform Tools: Elevate your design game by mastering Procreate's transformative tools. From resizing to rotating and distorting, unleash the full spectrum of possibilities for your artworks.

  • Actions that Speak Louder: Dive into Procreate's action features, understanding how to create efficient workflows, automate repetitive tasks, and optimize your design process.

  • Hand Gestures for Precision: Learn how to harness the power of Procreate's intuitive hand gestures for precise control over your designs. From zooming in for fine details to navigating the canvas effortlessly, discover a new level of creative freedom.

  • Typography: Elevate your designs with impactful typography. Explore Procreate's text tools, learn effective typography principles, and integrate text seamlessly into your visual narratives.

Two Exciting Projects to Enhance Your Skills: Apply your newfound knowledge and skills by completing two engaging projects designed to challenge and inspire. Receive personalized feedback from the instructor and connect with a community of fellow learners, fostering a collaborative and supportive environment.

By the end of this Skillshare class, you'll not only have a solid understanding of Procreate's features but also the confidence to embark on your graphic design journey. Join us, create stunning digital masterpieces, and turn your creative ideas into reality!

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Bryan C'ngan

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I am a graphic designer from Montreal, Canada - a graphic/web designer & video content editor/creator. I solve visual problem. BUT I also love creating Collages and Digital Arts.

"Making the world a better place with colors"

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1. Hey There!: Hey there and welcome. Did you know that Procreate is the number one graphic design on the ipad and it gain its reputation and user friendly interface, making it the most favorite among digital artists, illustrators and graphic designer. However, it's not always easy to get started. So I created this class and to help you get started on your graphic design journey. Hi, my name is Brian. I'm a graphic designer living in Montreal and most of my work is designing marketing materials, social media posts, and video editing. I've been using Procreate since 2018 and it has become my go to tool all my creative projects. All right, so this is the breakdown of what the class is all about. We will talk about optimizing your gallery. Being organized is a key and I'll share my tips that I pick up along the way. I'm also going to talk about transform tools, selection and adjustment. These tools are the bread and butter of creating your project and procreate. We're also going to talk about the actual tools and how to optimize your project and to make your workflow smoother, more precise. The hand gestures and basic shortcuts to speed up your workflow. And lastly, we're adding text on your projects, saving your projects. And I'll share my best practices to ensure your work is ready for the world to see. Hey, since we're learning about graphic design using appropriate app, we'll be making cool poster that you can share on social media or print out. And guess what, whatever you learn here is totally going to help you rocket in real life projects. Let's put those skills together and we'll see you on next video. See you there. 2. The Class Project: For your project, you'll be creating a poster from scratch together. We're going to be making this beautiful poster. Starting from the sketch all the way through the advanced details. Then on your own, taking everything that you've learned, I want you to create your own poster. Be sure to post your projects down below in the project section, and I can wait to see them. Let's get started. 3. The Gallery: Hello Ron. Brian here, and in today's video, I will just show you some of the Beginner's guide of Procreate App. Procrepp is actually just available on the ipad or an Apple store. It's actually currently number one as a graphic design tool and it's very popular with digital arts, but it's not just limited to digital art. You can actually do some photo editing here, you can do collage and all that. Once you download it, you can just open it right there. I'm already here in my procreate, so the icon, a procrit is this one right here. All right, so this is the gallery, this is where you can find all your previous artwork for your work previously and currently you're working. So it's going to be automatically saved once you created one. So let's go in this part of the the interface. So if you click this one, you could see the version you're in. On the other top right part of the screen, you could see the Select select, pretty much that you want to select. You can see I did some kind of pattern in the past, so I could just group them just like that and in a separate group. And you can rename them. Just click the name and you can rename it as you wish, Just like that. And you're good to go. And if you want to ungroup it, you can just go back select, do this one. And you click the pattern the right here and you can just put it right there. Import is just importing from your ipad or in the cloud procreate file that you download from the Internet. And then the photo right here. You can straight up access your gallery from your ipad and you can just put it, take note that when you do that, the dimension of the canvas will be based on the image itself. So just be careful on that one. You don't want to do some effort and you realize that the canvas size is too small. On the plus icon right here, this is square. You want to customize or you want to create your canvas to starter. I would recommend to just go with the screen size. Let's just take a look. Screen size is just the exact size of your ipad. Screen. Pinch it, just like this. Yeah, you can just play around, but let's go back. There's a pretty much built in canvas sizes in here. So like square especially this is for social media or Instagram post or any square canvas. You can also customize your canvas by clicking this plus sign again here. Dimensions or your units here? I usually use inches. I do. You can do pixels as well and all the units here, but I want to print it out. I usually go for 300 DPI, but if you want to, just like a simple digital R, it could go 150. Or you can also go for, if you're making like a web based images, you could go 72. The higher the DPIs, actually the file size is a little bit larger. Higher DPI or larger canvas size layers, max layers will decrease significantly. Be careful on that. Yeah, you Carl profile, you have it here. So RGB is for screens, just the difference is RGB has a larger color gamut or color range compared to CMYK. Well, depending on the printer or you have a specific printer, they usually tell you what type of profile. So you can just select this one right here. I just should go with the generic CMYK profile. Unless I know you can also use RGB for printing. Nowadays, printers just use RGB as well. I'm just going to go cancel here, and I'm just going to use screen size here. And here we go. We have our screen size here. We're going to discuss the central tools here appropriate on the next video, L s there. 4. Brushes, Colors and Layers: Hello guys, welcome back. In this part of the video, we're going to talk about some essential here. I'm going to briefly explain them the best of my abilities, how I understand them correctly. But yeah, we're going to start here. So if you want to go back to your gallery or to see some of your old artwork, you can just click this one, the gallery. And if you want to go back to your artwork, any of these, you can just click them. That's pretty much it. Let's take a look at this part of the tools. So these are the brushes. All the brushes appropriate comes with the pre built brushes that you could use. The brushes I usually use are online and mostly the sketching and the calligraphy and airbrushing. These are the most common brushes I use when I was starting because I was trying to figure out what's best for it. But on the later part of what I'm doing, I actually started buying some interesting brushes I saw online. So you might want to do that too. But first of all, I just have to, you know, I learn what you want to do. But these are all the brushes you can find. So much is like in between. So it does not paint. It does not just blend. Your, your paint brushes or any images actually just blending and all that. I don't really use them, but it's there for you to use if you want to. The eraser technically is definitely a eraser. You can customize them, actually even the smudge tool here, You can customize it to your liking. You can use different brushes to a. It might give you some interesting stuff or interesting results. You can play around with it. And the layer here, the layer is kind of a lot here, but we'll try it piece by piece. The layer, you can rename your layer by just doing this right here. So you can rename it to like first layer. This is when you're working with a lot of layers, you might want to rename them. Also, one trick that I want to show you is you can rename it using your ipad right here, but to do that you can actually go to your setting. Apple pencil right here. You want to go scribble. You can just turn on the scribble right here, layer. You can rename your layer just like this. So you want to name it, label. It should go label just like. You can erase it, just like this. You could just put it whatever you want. She but I don't really use it because it's kind of like I don't really like to use it, go back to setting and then I'm going to just turn it off. I like to use it just, you know, keyboard right here, but it's when you want to use it. Yeah, right here. Besides renaming, you can click this part or any part actually this part right here. You can rename, select, Clear the layer, just like this. You can alpha lock mask, invert reference. If you click the end right here, it's actually the blending mode. So the first one is the opacity, so you can reduce the transparency or the opacity of this will give you some good results as well. These are all the blending mode. This is not a beginner's guide, but is there for you to play with it, learn with it, but that's pretty much it. To add layer, you can just click this one right here. You can add as much as you can, depending on the layers that you saw when you were creating your canvas. You can select layers by swiping to the right. You can group them by this here you can delete. Also, you can merge them by pinching like this. Let's just do some real example here. I'm going to delete all the layers just like that. I'm going to just create a circle. I'm going to do this, Let's, I put some branch right here. I'm going to make a new layer, just here. If I got to combine them, because I'm running out of layers, I can just pinch them right here. I can delete them, duplicate them, or lock them if I want to. Also the background color, you can select your background color here. It's easy way to change your background here. You can also tuggle to different colors, but that's the background color right there. You cannot delete this, you can disable it. But you cannot really do it. It's not a layer, but it's just there forever for the color palette. This is interesting thing here, this is the disc, like a color wheel you could play around. So this is the hue. You can change the hue right here. And once you change the hue, it changes the tint or the saturation and all that good stuff right here. That's just pretty much it. You can also get your previous color here if you want to change that. And then you went to a different color, just like this, you go back to color. You can always go back just like that. And you have your history here. You can clear that out and you can, yeah, these are your palette. Let's go here. Before I explain the palette, if you want to go classic, this is just the hue here. You change the color. This is the saturation. It just goes like this to unsaturated saturated. This is the lightness. It goes to the brightest and to the darkest mode. So that's pretty much it. Harmony is where you find a good, interesting contrast of the color. If you want to go complementary, this is usually the one that I usually use because they always go hand in hand with the color. They have a good contrast with each other. So I just use complementary. But you can change the mode to analogous. They have pretty much similar tones. If you want to go here, this is a warm tone. If you want to go here, this is like the colder tone colors. That's pretty much you can do experiment here. If you have a good red, I just go with the complimentary most of the time. And then for the value, you can pretty much have the value if you have a specific color from like specific projects. I usually get the hex code here, It's pretty easy. You can just tap and paste. Compared to when you have your RGB, you have to input all of it at about one by one. I just get the hex code and I'm good to go for the palette. This is interesting. You could create your new palette right here. You can also get the cars here. It gives you some name. Procreate names. It, yeah, for the compact, I usually create my own palette right here. Create new palettes. If you want to use this here, you can, you can stop right here. You could pretty much add anything basically, and then you could share, duplicate, or delete them. Just delete this one just for a show. Another one here is you can get some interesting color palette. Hold on 1 second. Let's say example. You have your camera right here. I'm going to take this, actually I'm going to get this plant right here and I'm going to get some interesting color palette just by topping from this plant right here. So I can just, you know, top and it goes directly right there. That's just one of the nice features. Procreate. This is a update or recent features that they just put in, which is pretty nice. You can also get it from a photo, maybe this one right here. It gives you also all the color palettes. It's pretty auto generated, it's freak me out. Sometimes it's there for you to use it if you want to. That's pretty much the tool right here. Yeah, let's end the video here, but on the next part, I'm going to explain this part right here, the adjustment, the selection, and some of the actions or these tools on the left side of procreate. I'll see you guys there and thanks. 5. Transform, Selection and Adjustments: Hello guys, welcome back. In this part of the video, we're just going to talk the left side of the procreate app. Let's use the mono line brush here. So I'm going to create some circle right here. So if you hold just like this, it will just do a perfect ellipse. And if you tap one of your finger here, you're just going to get into like full circle. And that's a good shape, you can just trap a color right here. And sometimes you encounter kind of this one right here that you have those lines there that you don't want. And to fix that, let me get another circle right here. Yeah, just like this one right here. To fix that, you can just drop a color right here. Don't let go. Just you can see that the color drop threshold right there. So this is the original one. You can still see once you increase the threshold, it gives you a good result. There's no more like the weird lines in there. So that's just how to fix that. Okay, so let's take the circle again, let's make it perfect circle. Let's use some of this one right here. Since we're on the first layer, we can use the transform here. This tool right here, especially this three right here, it just affect per layer. Use this one right here. This is actually called transform tool or moving tool. You can move around with this, you can do free form it. Yeah, you control how it is. But if you want to uniform it, this is usually the one that I use just to make sure that the proportion is good, it's not weird and all that, especially for circle and square objects. If you want to distort it, you can just play around with it. This is actually good if you're drawing, doing some different tree D dimensional and stuff. So you can do the distort. You can also use warp to change it to interesting shape. Yeah, you can even change the color of this one right here. You get interesting abstract flow, I guess. Flow shape. Now you have a abstract stuff. You can also flip it horizontally. Also use the advanced mentraight here to just do some stuff. Get some good example. We'll get back to that. But this one right here, since I'm working with this one, I'm going to get to the layer first which I want to target to maybe extend it to flowing leave. I can also the advanced mesh could make it a little bit more control. Just know that it exists just right there. Let's go back to our main specimen right here. I'm going to get rid of that. I'm going to just move this one right here, so you can use your fingers or your pencil. Okay, one side note here. Also by default, you can also draw with your fingers right here. And sometimes it's annoying, especially where you want to be precise with you're drawing. And then you do this run right here because everything like skin it register into your canvas. So if you want to be like precise and doesn't have this annoying, you know, extra pains in here, usually it's off. But if that happens to you, you can just go to the ranch. Here you go to preference, you go to gesture control. Make sure that you disable touch action. And that should make your life a little bit better because you don't want your hands to also paint also. Everyone can just paint around so it's not really that good. Okay, to best demonstrate the selection because usually it's good for selection, for images. If I'm doing like collage, I could just use the selection here. This is going to be a combination of layers and all the transform tools. So I'm just going to pack it in. So I'm going to do selection here. I could definitely use automatic for this one. But if the colors are not even or not the same, I usually use free hand. I can just free hand this one right here, just like this. I could move it with this one right here, just like this. Or I can do uniform. I can move them around Ops, even to go to my layer here. And I'm going to select this thumbnail here. I'm going to go mask and everything will go. So that's just a quick way to get rid of the background by using the selection. But since I use mask, I can always disable the mask and it should always, you know, I still have the copy mask is one of the powerful tool here in appropriate because it's just kind of like non destructive way on working on some of like images or object that you're working on. Let's say I want to get this part as well but kind of like smoother that blends with the art, the image. I can just do this one right here. I can go feather it out. It has a smoother blending. It has a smoother edges. I can just copy paste. And I'm going to go to the transform tool and it should give me a nicer result because it's like feather out, do rectangle. Maybe you want to get this part right here, copy and paste. And you can want to move around here also, mixing it with the selection and the adjustment selection first. And then let's go automatic, just there's just a yellow. And then you could just go adjustment and then you could change the saturation of the yellow that was selected. This is one way if you want to work pretty fast, want to change color, especially if you're just hitting yellow, That's something like this color balance. Let's say you want to change the color of yellow. You can go specific with this. You can go for the shadow. Shadow is like the darkest part of the image. You can just do that something here. You get a good result as well. With this one, you can play around, you can look at this image right here. Let's go check out the adjustment right here. For the adjustment, you can use the liquefied tool, especially I use this for photos if you want to do something else. So this is like experiment. If you want to use this, you want to try it for front first, I'm going to use the push. I want to push the lips right here. You can go crazy. Make the lips a little bigger, probably like that. This is a way to do retouch of your photo. Make sure you do it correctly, but that's just a good way you can also expand, probably expand some eyes right here if you want to do some good stuff. Something like this. This is a fun way to experiment around. That's the power of liquefy. Sorry Olivia. Another good thing about this adjustment here is let's say example. I'm working with this image right here. I could just select this part right here, adjustment here. I could change the brightness or the saturation of the color of the image. This is a fun way to change the color of some image, It just gives you a good result. This part right here, before we get to the ranch here, this one right here is your control of your brushes. You could just go, probably like that. But you could decrease or increase the brushes right here. This is just the opacity of your brushes, the lower the opacity. And this one is the undo. I don't really use this one right here because I use my fingers to undo and then redo. Two fingers for undo. The three fingers for redo. That's one of the trick as well. You can also use your fingers here to put the sel color. Let's say, let's see. Let's get some image right here. Let's, you want this color right here? Just do this one tap and then press, you see this color wheel here that gives you all the colors. That's good and it will register in here as well in your history. Then this one here, use it. And it will register directly here as well. You can clear it out and then you can start over. It will just give you the history of your color. That's pretty much it. I will continue in the next video while we explore the actions. I'll see you there. 6. Actions: Hello guy. Still here. Brian, you're going to go to Ranch. Like this is kind of like the file or the settings of the procreate app. You can darken your canvas right here, which I don't really like to use during the day. I usually use this lighter interface during the day. But if I go to the bed and do some stuff, I just use the dark mode. If you're left handed, you can just turn this pretty. If you click Add right here, you can pretty much insert file photo and all that. You can add text right here which will get into later on this video. So for the canvas here, you can pretty much do crop and resize. So if you want to change your setting, like if you want to go a lower DPI because you're running out of layers, you can always decrease your DPI. You can resize it pretty much like this or from the setting, pretty much Animation insists. This is actually one of the interesting features of procreate recently because now you can do some minimal animation earlier or frame by frame. So if you want to add more frame, you can just do this run right here and you can create another one. Let's just do it a couple of times, probably a frame, so you can see the possibility here. Now you can do the setting. I probably do slight frame by frame and you can start playing it and you have a good animation just like this. You can get created with this. But it's going to be layer per layer. It's there for you to try. Let's just clear this out. See, it gives you a created couple of layers here. If you're working on this, if animation, make sure that your DPI is very low and you have a lower canvasize, You can maximize all the layers or the frames. Let's just do that. I never use pages, but drawing guide I did use, this is pretty interesting. It gives you all this grid right here. If you're working on like a building or you're working on a perspective drawing, you can use the drawing guide. You can customize it, change the color here, make the capacity opaque and visible. But I usually use probably like that, but you can use that. You can also use the grid size if you want to make it specific. With a grid you can go, I usually go inches, probably five, and you get a division. So you can use this probably if you're making stickers you can there for you to use. So another thing with the drawing guide is you can get creative with probably Symmetry Radio because this is one of the kind of like therapeutic way to do some creative stuff as well. So I can go done, make sure that it is drawing assist is turn on. If you click on the layer, you can now do some interesting a pattern stuff here. You can get created with this. And yeah, it's there for you to try. One of the good thing about procreate is they added this reference feature right here. If you click the reference here, enable it, just stay there. You can actually import an image right here, probably. We're going to do this one right here. You have a reference here. Do some drawing here. I don't know, this is not a good you draw, you could drop colors right there and you can select the color as well from there. So you can just do the color picker here, You get the idea that, and you could probably mess around with it and all that crazy stuff and you can always clip it so it just goes on the main image if you want to share it to the world. Let's say I'm going to go back to my gallery and I'm going to share this one pretty much here. This one right here. If I want to share it, I'm going to go back to that trench or action, I'm going to share it actually, there's a lot of format here. Do that also as PSD is in Photoshop. Definitely the standard one. Png or Jpeg and all that good stuff right there. Screw you the video. And also for the action, you could see Procreate record your artwork. Sorry guys, I'm going to end this video now. But hopefully you pick up some new tips and tricks so far. And I hope you're enjoying this video. And I'll see you on the next one for more. 7. Hand Gestures and Basic Shortcuts: Hello guys, thank you for tuning in. I'm just going to address some of basic procreate shortcut and gesture. I'm going to create a new file here. Let's say I'm going to go draw some, let's say the circle right here. I'm going to add a shape circle that duplicate this one, new one here. This is supposed to be Sherry, but there's a couple of layers here. If you want to merge these two layer just like this can just do that right there. If you want to zoom in, you can just do this one right here. If you want to undo your action, you can just do your two fingers like this and it gives you the undo. And then if you want to go back to your latest work, you can just do 23 fingers, just like that. If you want to erase or clear the layer, let's say I want to clear the first layer here. I can just 23 fingers and just scrub it. And it should delete it, but you can always undo it. Yeah, pretty much that. If you want to go, let's say you're doing this here, here and you want to make sure that you have the exact size of the screen. You can just pinch it, just like that. Pinch and let go. And you get the full screen or the size of the actual size of your canvas. And if you want to have a full screen, like just for a show, let's say example and done with my artwork like this one right here, I want to make sure that I want to show it in a full screen. I can just do four fingers and I can just do this and it just, you know, blows all of the extra menus here except for this one right here, but it's not that visible. You want to show all the menus and tools, you just do the same thing. So four fingers and then that's pretty much it. And if you want to cut, copy and paste, you can your three fingers here, you can swipe down and you get all the cup, copy and paste Again, if you want to merge your layers, you can just slick all of it and then you can pinch just like that. I'm going to explain Alpha lock in a quick way. All two fingers right here, you can swipe it and you can see this like a checkered board up behind the artwork. So you can just undo it. Do Alpha lock is a way to, let's get some color right here. It's a way to draw without, you know, not spilling the paints all over. Because if it's not alpha lock, you get all the color spill. Let's say here you get color spill all over the art board or the canvas if you want to alpha lock it. I'm just going to go back. Let's say, let's say in this layer right here, I want to alpha lock it. So I'm going to swipe two fingers. It's not going to spill all over the artwork. So I'm just going to merge this one. So it's not going to spill everywhere compared to if it's not alpha lock, it's just going to spill. So it's a quick way to do it if you want to precise or if you're doing some shadows and good stuff. That's how it works with this one. Also, do it here awful lot. It's everything that we learned today. Hopefully, I covered it out, everything. And I'll see you guys on the next video. 8. Mixing it up, Using Texts and Finishing: Hello guys, thank you for tuning in. And we're going to create a new canvas right here. I'm going to go for square. And that's pretty good. I want to show you some of the tricks that I learned. If you want to have like a split screen here and you want to have like a reference on the other side, I'm just going to use my thumb here. Slide it in, browser here. It should give you this like a box here. You want to put it on this side right here. Let go, and you get all this split screen. You can use this border right here and you can to the way you like. So I'm just going to do this right here. I guess that's the minimum, Minimum size. If you want to draw, get this one right here, top it, and then save image. And you should have the image in your gallery. So you can just import it right here. Add, and you have the strawberry here. Just like this reference. I'm going to go, I get the reference here. I'm going to put it here. And now you can close this one since you don't need it anymore. But if you want to leave it there, it's kind of nice to leave it there. And you just have to go here and you can do some other stuff here. You want to check your e mail and stuff, but that might distract. Let's get to example here. I'm going to create a new layer. I'm going to get the brush right here. I'm going to do some sketching here, because I want to sketch the strawberry probably. I'm going to use the model line for this one. I'm going to get the color. I'm going to sample the color right here. I'm just going to trace it just like this. And I'm going to fill up with color just like that. Then I'm going to create a layer. I'm going to get another sample of color right here. I'm going to do abstract drawing here, since that will be easier for me. I'm just going to do this like this. I could turn off my sketch right now and I just trace it and draw it at the same time go to one of the projects I was working on. I'm just going to group this one here so I could actually move them pretty easy. I'm going to group them. When you group them, you can move them all over the place just once instead of just moving piece by piece. That will be not the greatest. Okay, let's go, let's add some texts as well. Say banana, banana leaf. And there you go. There's a text, it says text layer right here. If you see like a, if you want to add your text, you can just go to your layer right here. Or you can just click this one right here. You can select, you can change your front size right here. It customize it to your liking, especially if you have probably two lines of text. That's where this goes. More interesting I'm, you can also change the letting here, the base if you want, and the opacity. You can change the attributes or the alignment to here, you can put under, but this is not a good font, Celso aerial, you can select all of it. Select all there. You can underline them. Doesn't seem to work. You can outline also your text here. You can also text vertical here. Never use them. If the font has, let's go back. It's a line. Let's go back. If you want to make all your betters in a capital or capital mode, in the capital letters, you can always turn it on just like here. Instead of deleting and putting it into capital letter, you can do some interesting stuff with the letters or the type. If you rasterized a text, you could pretty much do anything with this, liquefy it something like this. You can even twirl it like this. You have this good effect in the banana. You can just pretty much do it. You can also, let's say select and then color fill with this one. Just one way of doing this. Color something like this. All right guys, this is the end of this. Beginners got to procreate. I hope you learn something. 9. Project One: The King: Hey guys, thank you for tuning in. And in this part of the video, we're going to create our content right here. I'm going to be using landscape right here. Since we're going to put a little bit of images text, I think it's best for us to use the landscape mode for today. I'm going to do a custom new canvas right here. As you can see, I click this plus icon on the right upper part of the screen. And then the same thing, the right upper part, right here. As you can see, it's supposed to be 1080 by 566 and I'm going to go 96 DPI. You can go like maybe 150 here, so you have more definition. But we'll see. Well, we'll use that for now. Okay, so we don't need this anymore. So I'm going to just close it. And as you can see, you have all the canvas here that you can play with. Our target today is to create a post for popular brand. It's called Burger King. If you're familiar, I'm pretty sure you're familiar with it. Create them a social media post that is very Burger Kingish. In terms of branding imagery and style. I'm going to go ahead and create early out right here. So I'm going to go for the ranch icon. I'm going to go for canvas. I'm going to go drawing guide, Edit. Drawing guide. We're just going to make like a margin right here. I'm going to increase the capacity so you can see it. These are the places that you cannot do anything, especially with text images. I think it's okay, but unless you're aiming for offset text. But I'm going to go done and then we'll start putting our images right here and we'll start the actual creation. I'm going to go ranch icon at photo. I'll be using this background right here. This one. I got it from Unsplash.com and you can search for barbecue grill. And I'm going to be inserting another photo right here, but as you can see, there's a little bit of problem right here. We might need to fill it up with the same color this. But as you can see, this image is pretty much no details at all. I don't think we can have this pixilated. I'm being creative here. I'm going to go for selection rectangle. I'm going to get this part right here. I'm going to go for copy and paste. Then I'm going to go for free form. As you can see when as I hit a copy and paste, it created a new layer right here, I'm going to go for free form and then I'm just going to stretch it just like this. I don't see any difference actually here the transition is pretty seamless. I'll be putting text right here so you can see I think I'm going to change the color of my drawing guide because it doesn't look like it's showing pretty much. I'm going to go for maybe white. I'm just going to drag it right here. White it is. Don't worry about the lines. It's not going to be printed or visible. Once we export this, I'm going to get another image right here. I'm looking for burger. All right, so I got this image right here from splash as well. So you can just put for burger and this will definitely appear. If not, you can go pixels or Pizza Bay. We're going to cut the burger. I'm going to go for freehand. I just went to selection freehand. I'm just going to start doing it pretty much everywhere you can. Start slowly tracing it, just like this. Don't have to be perfect with this. But I'm just going to go roughly something like this. You don't have to get all the details. We can always modify this as well. I'm going to go for the layer, once still selected, I'm going to go for mask. And as you can see, I was able to cut the burger just right there. We're going to move it pretty sure here to fit into the canvas. We're just going to put it right here, just sitting, just being delicious. It's pretty good with the contrast and all that. What I'm trying to do here, I'm going to put some text right here. I'm going to create a new layer. I'm just going to put beer way is Burger King's tag line. We're going to put that and then we're going to put the logo here and maybe the year that was founded or something. And then we could put like 100% beef here. Just put arrow and that's it. Pose it as it is, and that's one of the content as basic, but it gives you the strong branding of Burger King. I'm going to hide this, create a new layer. I'm going to insert text. We will put the beer way, don't worry about the text. Since we're going to modify it, make it all caps, I'm going to go left a line right here. We can start positioning right here, make sure that it doesn't go out from our margin. We will design it letter by letter. I'm going to be just like this. I'm going to go fix the leading right here, just enough. I'm going to modify the way as well. Fix the leading right here. Actually forgot. I'm going to change the font to Nonito, I downloaded it in Google Font. You can just do that as well. I'm just going to make this a little bit bigger. Okay, we'll make the way again a little bit bigger. It occupies the thing right here that I'm aiming. We could duplicate it. I'm going to insert the logo of Burger King. I can get the color of Burger King from their logo color from here. As you can see, the history is there. Once we apply this color here, we can actually select color fill. We could do some magic right here. Maybe this is enough. Put it right here. I'm going to make it a little bit bigger for sure. I'm going to get the logo right here. Tone it down a little bit just like this. You can read it in a little bit more contrast. I'm probably going to make the burger a little bit bigger. Right here on 100% beef right here, it has a little bit more personality. I'm going to handwrite it to see if it's a little bit better. I'm going to use maybe, let's try it out. Let me put 100% beef, something like this probably will make this a little bit bigger. Yeah, I think it's very simple. Capture your audience. You have your burglar right here. Fun fact, your burger logo and your way. I think this is a good way to exercise and we were able to get into a little bit of typography, a little bit of masking, getting to get images, a little bit of text right here, putting logos and all that. Export this one first and I'm going to share, I'm going to go for PNG because it's a little bit higher quality. Save image right here. 10. Project Two: Order Now: We're going to make a little bit of animation to the social media posts or social media content we'll be creating. I'm going to utilize the square feature. The one that I'm going to be using is if you go to canvas, you can see it's 2040. By 2040, I will go directly to drawing guide and then we're going to make a new alignment and all that for the capacity. We're going to go to different color right here. I'm going to be utilizing the same concept here, but we're going to add a little bit more functionality. This is going to be another photo, a bit of text right here to put a call to action right here in a little bit of fine print. So we're going to deal with food again because it's more engaging. If we talk about food and all that, I'm going to disable the layer right here. We're going to insert our first picture or image right here. So I'm going to go through the range. Insert photo. I got my new photo right here, so I'm just going to position it right here. That usually is the most frequently used format. To make sure that it eclipse or it gets into the ural I created, I'm going to make a background color, maybe something like this one right here, teal blue and orange or yellow. Since we get all the colors from here, it will match pretty much. I'm going to get our text right here, Something catchy here. Not too long, but just enough. Get five meal as usual. We're going to use the line to the left because that's easier to read. Another line break right here. I'm going to make this all caps. I'm going to make it a little bit bigger. Fix the leading right here. I think we're going to change the font to something a little bit different, something standard. Maybe I'll use area, rounded, empty ball right here. Think it's too big. So I'm just going to put it right here. We're going to add cl actions right here. Add a new layer and I'm going to use probably model line and we'll get, I'm going to get this color right here for cal to action. I'm going to just maybe like this, maybe rectangle and I think that's good enough for me. I'm just going to reposition it. You can do free format if you want it uniformly scale it. Think I'm good to go with this. I'm going to fill it up and I'm going to add a new text. I'm going to just put, try now. I'll change the color of the text to something white. I'll put it right here. I think this is good enough. I'll make sure that it's snapped. We're going to put a little bit of text right here. Just a little bit of fine print. I will just paste and select all. I'm going to just remove, change the areal to italic, and put it right here. Something like this. I'll put it all the way down. It doesn't stand up. We're going to go offset the text right here. The get five meal. We're going to change the color. This one right here. We're going to put the color palette that we used. We're going to move the orange to here. Something like this. I think we're good to go here. I think this is a good pose as well. All we have to do now is to make sure that we animate this. We're going to set some settings right here first. While we're going to achieve this one right here, the one that blinks and you get some attention. What I'm going to do here, I am just probably group this one right here. We're going to go for canvas animation as is turn on. Then we're just going to set this as a background, this one right here. We're going to turn that off first. And then we'll get a new frame and turn it on and we are going ping pong. And then we will decrease the frames per second. It doesn't look overwhelming, probably like three. Play out full screen. We're going to remove the drawing guide. First I'm going to play it. I'm going to go for Share animated Jeff actually for Instagram. They don't accept Jeff. We're going to go for animated P four. And we're just going to export it right here safe. We'll get into another lesson. It's just a little bit of more functionality. But we'll get into the final project and I'll see you there. 11. Project Three: Just Do It!: We're going to get into another example of how I create some social media content. It's going to be another brand that is very popular. It's going to be a shoe brand which is called Converse. Create them a post, something similar to what they're posting. I'm going to go ahead this time. We're going to get into different layouts. We're going to get a text right here, something like 50% off or something like that. I'm going to get something. Shoes, right here, different shoes, something like that. It's circle out and it's going to move circular pattern. Probably put some call to action here like so now we're going to put a skateboard platform as a background on the entire canvas right here. We're going to mix things up a little bit and I'm excited to do it. I will turn this off. We're going to add a new photo right here as a background, but before that actually we're going to go canvas drawing guide to make sure that we're on point. We're going to just create a little bit of alignment right here. Yeah, that's it. Oops, done. Okay. I'm going to go quickly to Splash.com and then I'm going to go to Skateboard Arena. Let's see if we can find something interesting here. We can go to Pexels Skateboard Arena. We're going to use this. I think I'm going to be okay with this one. Add the photos. I'm just going to open up the procreate app. Insert Photo. Let's see if it's going to work. What I'm going to do here, I'm going to go and insert text. First 50% of, actually I'm going to put it one word and then of probably going to use this font right here. I'm going to fix the letting right here, they are not that far. And make it bold perhaps. Okay, we're going to 50% off something like this. I'm still going to tweak it because every time I change size, it just goes off. I think this is good. I might need to change the color to I think black converse usually use black color. Something like this is good. It's a little bit off. We're going to change the color of the image. We're going to go to the adjustment right here. We're going to do hue and saturation. We're going to go desaturated to almost like it looks like black and white. Increase the brightness right here, the 50% off pop a little bit. We're going to need some shoes from Converse and their logo as well. Okay, I'm going to get to Converse shoes right here. Let's get some of their famous ones. We'll probably going to go P and G right here. It speeds up our workflow. Maybe this one right here, I'm going to go back to procreate. Probably I'm going to insert their logo first. Let's see. You can see that it's black and white. I'm going to put it on top, the center part of the screen. And I'm probably going to make the 50% off a little bit smaller and a little bit here. I just want to center it out quite a bit. Okay, so we have a shoe right here that is pretty much cut. And we could start, put it right here, and we can actually duplicate them, or actually make it bigger a little bit. Then we can duplicate them here maybe four times. I'm going to duplicate, duplicate. And then we're going to put it right here. This one right here. We're going to recolor each one by one. I'm going to go hue saturation, we'll see. We're going to go for blue. This one. For this one right here, we're going to go another color. Just going to hue saturation and brightness. You can change the color to any color that you'd like. Something like this. I think this is pretty good. I'm going to saturate it, actually, make it a little bit dry. That's good enough, so I'm going to just hide it for now. I'm going to put like circle in the center here. I'm going to use white colors. Or actually red, I'm still white. Okay, I'm going to put it like this. I'm going to put all our shoes right here. I'm going to make sure that probably I'm going to go something like this. Since we have our guidelines, we know where to put the shoes. I'm going to go for this one right here. I'm going to go pretty much the same. Okay, something like this. I'll make sure that they're on the circle. It looks good. I'm going to go for the green hoops. I think I'm going to go something like this. I think that's good. Finally, the last one, I'm just going to put it a bit like this. That circle really helps with the alignment. Actually, it's quite big. I'm going to make it a little bit smaller. I just selected all of them. And then we can just do something like this. We could just align it pretty well, just like this. If it's too big, I think this is quite enough for now. I'm going to group them together. Group, I'm going to duplicate it four times. I'm going to just rename this one as 123.4 I know which one is which. I'm going to delete this so it doesn't look that bad. I'm going to group this as well. I will hide this all for now. I'm going to go for the canvas animation assist. I'm going to duplicate this and put this all the way down. I'm going to merge this group right here right now. It doesn't give you the background options right there. To fix this, you just have to disable the background color right here. Okay, we're going to enable as a background we could started animation right now we're going to reveal the first frame right here. Everything is actually on the same frame right now. We're going to add a new frame. Procreate animate is frame by frame. Since we define this as a background, this won't go. Anyway, this is the second frame. We want to animate this as something like this or two times. Then we're going to go third. We're going to animate it, 1234. Then this four right here, we're going to animate it, 12345. Think, let's take a look. It's quite fast right now, but it's working. We're going to decrease the animation to maybe 4% something like that. It looks like it's going to be okay for our animation. Let's actually play it again. As you can see, it looks great. It gives you the 50% off as well, and it's like circulating a little bit. I think I'm going to add a little bit of a frame, but I forgot to add halo action right here. I'm going to put a little bit of rectangle. Added shape rectangle. I'm going to fill up with color. I'm just going to add a text here. I'm going to put shop. Now, I'm going to select all and make it all capital letters. Oops, all capital letters. And make sure that it's white. It blends perfectly right here. I'm going to remove the magnetics, something like this. Okay, let's try it out and make sure that you combine everything here. Also, it won't mess up with your animation right now. I think I'm good right here. Let's remove the drawing guide to see the full potential. As you can see, it's quite okay. We probably need to fix some stuff here, cleaning up the logo and all that. Maybe we could move this a little bit higher. Let's try again. We're going to save it for now. Animated MP four. We're going to just export it. Just like that. We're going to save it. We're just, there you go, simple animation for our social media post right here. There's a little bit of improvement that I could make, make the 50% up a little bit higher. But it looks great. You get the idea, and thank you for watching guys. I can wait to see what you come up with and I'll see you on the next video. 12. Project Four: Plants Are us: Hey guys. Thank you, Virginian. We're going to get into another piece of social media inspiration that you can create and put your brand or put your personality to it. This time we're going to go for a square. We're going to lay out interesting pictures and some text in there. Let's get started. We're going to put some, our images right here. I think we're going to use one, but before that we're going to go to here, the action. We're going to go for canvas as usual. We're going to go edit, drawing guide, and we're going to put some margin right here. We're going to put some engaging photo here on the other side. Just pretty much text right here with some text. And then we'll put something here as well, like a little bit of text cut into half but that's our wire frame and go to hide it. And we're going to just serve photo right here. I'll be using this photo right here. I will put it on this part. We still have our guidelines right here. We're just going to position it just like this. I think this is quite good. Get some interesting color palette to apply to this half of our canvas. A new layer right here, pressure here, and I'm going to get the money line. And I'm just going to put some division right here. If you go like hold it and navigate it, it's going to give you some good straight line. But if you like press it with your one finger right here, it's going to make a straight line and it does increments 15 degrees. I think we're going to put a little bit of shade right here, but I think we're going to get into this color right here. Probably we'll put that right there, but I think I'm going to get for some darker version, something like this. Yeah, this is what I'm looking for. We're going to just put some text right here. Probably we could maybe mask this one right here, get them on the line, and see if we could delete this and just show this part right here. It looks like it's seamless. We're going to go back to our layer and we're going to go white. It looks like it's seamless. Just a little bit of detail. Yes. Going to put a text right here. Actually, I'm going to recolor this right here with probably white. It stands out quite a bit. I'll put plans on us. And I'm going to modify the text right here, The styling, because it looks like it needs a little bit of letting. I'm going to put it right here. We're going to fix the leading right now because it's still a little bit off. I think this is good. We can make it a little bit bigger, just like this. I like the way it's overlap, but I change the gill songs. I'm going to fix the letting even the kerning because they look like the letters are too close, like this plants are. I think that's a good statement. If it's too big, you can always modify the text. I can put it right here. You can put a little bit of logo right here. I think I have a couple of logos here For plants company. I'm going to put the logo right here, but I'm going to put it in this part right here. I think that's okay. Plants, I think too big right now. I'm going to just modify it again if you want to precisely with your alignment, you can go snapping, and magnetics, and snapping, actually just snap to the alignment that you create. So I'm going to make it a little bit bigger. Right here could put a little bit of fine details here. Tiny text right here, for hierarchy sake, I can change the text to light italic. And a little bit like this, limited time, maybe something like that, 20% off. I'm going to put it right here. I'm going to change the color of the drawing guide so you can see the alignment that I'm going for. I think this is quite good. We can change this one right here. Something a little bit like this. I think this is quite okay. We could turn off the drawing guide, see the result of what we made. This is just one of the ways that you can plant. Actually, I'm going to fix the grammar issue here. Plants, plants are. And they have a good alignment. Good, the plant is here to stay, and it has a clear message, branding here. All we need to do is to save it to share PNG. And I'm going to save it as like that. And then we're going to go to our Instagram and we're going to add a new, this one here. Very simple, everything is there. All you need to do is to put your descriptions in here. See you on the next video for another more complex tutorial on how to create another content. So see you there. 13. Closing: Thank you: Hey guys, Welcome back. This is actually the end of the class and thank you so much for spending the time with me and watching this class. I really appreciate it and I hope that you learn something new. And learn the basic of graphic design using the procreate that and I can't wait to see what you come up with. And I'll be happy to see Beautiful Project. And if you have any questions and clarification, feel free to send me a message on the discussion panel down below. And for sure I'll get back to you and I'll see you on the next class. See you there.