Character Drawing in Procreate: Exploring Daily Life Poses and Composition with AI

1. Intro: Hi, I'm Daran, a freelance designer and illustrator, Bazan Lesbon. I share your passion for bringing characters to life using P create. Filling a blank page with your illustrations can be challenging. We all experience creative blocks or moments of uncertainty about where to begin from time to time. But don't worry, you are not alone. In this class, I will walk you through how I use AI to help me overcome creative blocks and create the word of your characters in your illustrations. Will explore how technology can inspire our imagination and enhance our creative journey. But that's not all. We will dive into the fundamental rules, basic of human anatomy, how to play with proportions, work on character moments, and more. Overcoming the fear of using colors will be easier as we learn about different color harmonies, psychological effects of colors, worms and cool colors, as well as complimentary or vagrant colors, darker or lighter shades. Colors will become a fun elements once you master all the tips and tricks in this class. The project that will be created in this class is to fill another blank page in our digital sketchbook with our unique character in their daily life. You will get to experiment with creating i catching compositions even when practicing. During the class, I will be using procreate on my iPad, but feel free to use any drawing app that you are comfortable with. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced artist, this class will provide you with the tools and techniques need to bring your drawings to life. Let's get started. 2. Class Journey: I'm true that you have chosen to join me on this class. Your project for the class is to create your own unique character and illustrating their daily life. You will fill your canvasses with drawings of your character in various pauses, surrounded by their favorite things. You will imagine and illustrate a whole scenario for your character. In this system, we will cover the different steps that we will take throughout the class. First, we will begin by creating your characters word using AI and GPT. We will learn how we can utilize creativity for brainstorming ideas and overcoming creative blocks. Together, we will generate different scenarios for your characters illustrations, each featuring different activities, elements, and details. From those scenarios, we will select three to four activities to focus on and explore additional ideas to enrich the composition of these scenarios. After completing the initial concept brainstorming for your character, we will dive into the tio of human anatomy, focusing on the skeleton proportions and moments. We will practice drawing characters in different poses based on reference photos, including standing positions, various sitting positions, and more. We will also cover how to capture your own reference photos and break them down to effectively draw people. We will also explore techniques for exaggerating your characters proportions, creating sem realistic fun and quicky illustrations. After working on our figure drawing skills, we will move on to another fun part, which is composition. We will bring our unique character to life by imagining them in different scenarios and explore how to combine these scenarios on a blank page. Using a college like approach, we will consider the overall composition and practice different arrangement techniques. We will also explore ways to enhance your composition by incorporating the environment and other characters. In this stage, you will learn how to choose colors and enrich your color composition with patterns and textures. We will explore different color pads and techniques to create vibrant and visually appealing illustrations. One last time, we will focus on arrangement, colors, textures, patterns, and more to create a cohesive and captivating overall composition. Throughout the class, I included various exercises, chee sheets, and resources to support your learning journey. You can access them in the project and resources section below. Now that we have a roadmap for our class journey, it's time to dive in and unleash our creativity. Get ready to develop your illustration skills and fill many pages in your procreate. 3. Brainstorming with AI: All right, we are going to start by designing our characters word. As you know, our project is to fill our blank pages with illustrations, showcasing our character in various activities, surrounded by their favorite things. To kick start our imagination, we are going to use AI technology. Cativity is an excellent tool that can help us generate ideas for our scene. If you find yourself in a creative block, don't worry. Happens to everyone from time to time. Instead of beating yourself up, let's turn to chat GVT for some much needed inspiration. Let's practice together how we can incorporate VT to brainstorm ideas for our drawings. We're going to simply engage in a conversation with it. You can ask for different illustration scenarios based on your topic, or you can describe the scene you're trying to illustrate, and chat GVT can provide you with additional elements, details, or perspective to consider. The list goes on, so let's write together. For a project, we are looking for different scenarios that our character is going to engage in a daily life for our illustration. For that, we can basically say, give me some ideas for illustrations, evolving a character engaged in daily activities. If you already have some ideas in your mind, you can try more specific. Like you're already imagining a morning activity in a kitchen. You can adapt to your sentence. You can write give me five ideas for an illustration scene, evolving a character doing different activities in the kitchen. It already generated very cool ideas to start with, but you can still take it to the next level and ask for suggestions to make the scene more inviting. You can also ask about the specific details. So you can How can I make the kitchen scene inviting? This can even help you explore other elements to add such as a pad or an interesting view outside the window. If you can find what you are looking for, you can go for more details. You can write things like give me five elements I can add as decorations on the kitchen counter. Every time you feel stuck, you can turn to hGBT for up. But if you are more interested in brainstorming on your own, you can start coming up with ideas and then share your initial concept with CheGBT and ask for feedback. It can provide alternative perspectives or suggest improvements you may not have considered. I know it's pretty fascinating, but I think it's important to remember VT is here to assest, and it's crucial to embrace your own creative instincts as well. Use the suggestions, it provides as a starting point and then add your personal touch to make the illustration uniquely yours. Since everyone has an access to AI at the moment, improving your illustration style will make you stand out from the rest. To wrap up this lesson, hit GVT and use its assistance to generate at least three scenarios for your character. You can go as much as detail as you would like. Then join me in the next lesson where I will show you how I capture reference photos to use as an inspiration for my characters. This process will help you refine the proportions and movements of your characters. 4. Capture Reference Photos: In this lesson, I will share with you the tips and tricks of taking your own reference photos for sketching. In your illustrations, you might want to draw your characters doing different activities, but you might still struggle to imagine them in different pauses to draw. In that case, one of the best ways is to take your own reference photos. You can easily use your phone to capture photos of yourself or others in various activities. Having at least a loose idea of your concept is important for you to know what poses you need to take photo of. Think about the story you want to create and experiment with body positions to capture different dynamic poses. You can try different angles and perspectives to add variety to your reference photos. I suggest taking several shots of each pose, capturing various angles and variations. This will provide you with a range of references to choose from when creating your illustrations. Consider the composition of your photos, frame your shots to leave space for additional elements that can be added digitally during the illustration process. If you are unable to take reference photos of exactly what you have in your mind, use your imagination. Try to imagine how you can recreate this sense with what you have. For example, if you imagine yourself sitting in a park, feeding cute birds or cats, you can take your own photo while staying on the ground in your house or in your garden, pretending to feed an imaginary animal. If you need to draw a character carrying grocery shopping, you can improvise and use something else like a pillow instead of the bags. Remember, it's always about your imagination. Be creative and use whatever you have around you to fake to pause and achieve your dream sketching scenario. You can also zoom in to capture specific details. For example, if you are focusing on drawing hands, taking close up shots of your hand is probably a good idea. Keep in mind that this is just our starting point. We will experiment with our sketching, work on reflecting our style in later lessons. To wrap up this lesson, I want you to think about the poses you need for the scenarios you choose for your character in the earlier lesson. Think about the specific pross you need for each scenario. Then take your own reference photos of yourself or someone else you know. Aim to capture at least a few photos from different angles. This will give you a variety to choose from. Then join me in the next lesson where I will show you how to break down reference images to capture the body proportion and the pause of the character. 5. Break It Down: In this system, we will practice, have to break down reference images to draw our figures in different poses. I prepare practice sheets for you, which you can find it in the project and Resources section below. I have prepared two different practice sheets for you. One of them includes four different stat positions. Together we will practice this one. Our goal is to understand the human anatomy and movements of the body using basic lines as shapes. My practice sheet is on my coms. Let's practice together to break down these reference images and create our characters pauses. I want you to use a light color or a vibrant color for your brush to practice, since the reference images are very colorful, I also want you to work on a new layer. First, let's practice the skeleton. We will try to understand its basic moments and the character pause. We will use very basic lines. Begin with the legs, and then the arms, just focusing on capturing the movement of the limbs and figuring out the skeleton of the character. Personally, I like using a triangle for the torso and a circle for the hips. Now let's identify the joints in this character and drove circles to represent them. The knees, ankles, elbows, wrists, and shoulders. Great our first practice is done. I know it's very basic, but it shows the moment. I want you to do the same for all the pauses with me in this practice sheet. This will help us understand the very basic representation of the moment with just a few lines, circles and triangles. Let's have a look without the practice sheet behind. I know it's very basic, but it shows the moment. You completed the first practice, let's take it one step further. Create another layer for the second practice and turn off the layer of our first practice, and choose another light color for this run. In the second practice, we will break down the reference photos into basic geometric shapes instead of lines. We will use triangles, circles, and rectangles to represent the legs, torso and arms. Breaking them down into the most basic shapes will help simplify everything. I start with the legs. I just d throw a triangle for the tie and another one for the second part of the leg. Another one for the leg behind. I try to capture the form of the torso and I draw a rectangle for it. You can use ellipses, rectangle, triangles to create those shapes. Now the arms. See, it's not that difficult. We're already getting used to the puzzes and the characters form is starting to show itself. It's done. Continue using geometric shapes for the other puzzles as well. Our second practice is also done. Now let's move on to the third practice. Create another layer and turn off the second practice layer and select a new light color. Okay. In this practice, I want you to outline your character. You can use lots of straight sharp lines like I personally do, but you can also use more car lines in your. Car lines give a softer and friendlier wipe compared to the straight lines. It's up to your style and you want to create in your. You can always mix it up too. Okay, our first pause is done. Join me a while. I will do the rest. The ever practice, you will get more into the pause of the character. As you can see, even though the pose may have looked complicated at first, I hope it doesn't feel that way anymore. Great, you completed three different practices. Remember, you don't have to follow all these steps every time. You can just jump straight into the last practice and still draw the pose comfortably. If it's complicated for you, maybe it's better to start with the very basic skeleton pose first. But believe me, you can draw any pose by taking your own reference photos and breaking them down into simple shapes. You can play around with the arrangement and mix it up with your imaginations as you go. Reference photos will help you place everything in place in your drawing. To refer this lesson, I encourage you to go ahead and practice all the puzzles in the practice sheets. Maybe go even further and start practicing the puzzles of your own reference photos in the scenarios you created in the earlier lesson. You can set a time for 1 minute and capture the puz as best as you can. Now join me in the next lesson where we will talk about the basics of mon anatomy a bit more. Understand how the eight H rule works in illustration and experiment with the proportions of our characters to create even more interesting los. 6. Play with Body Proportions: In this session, I'm going to talk a little bit about the basics of human anatomy, how the eight Has rule works in illustration, and we are also going to have some fun by playing with our characters a bit more. We will create even more interesting looks by experimenting with the proportions of our characters. We can distort things and try less realistic and more abstract looks. Let's start with the basics. There's a guideline in illustration called the eight Hz rule that can really make drawing figures easier for you. According to this rule, and average human body can be divided into eight equal parts with each part approximately the size of the heat. So here I'm drawing nine lines with equal distance from each other. The first part is for the head, so I draw an val for it. It says the scale for the rest of the divisions. It's followed by the shoulders starting from the middle of the second part. I plan to draw a triangle for the body and the hips goes until the fourth line here. Then I draw another val, this time vertical for the hips. This one is between the third and fourth line. The legs goes until the eight line, and the arms goes slightly past the fourth line. For the joints, the legs are just above line six and the shoulders are above line two. This is basically how we divide an average human body. Now let's try to draw a figure using this guideline. Very basically, I draw my lines using the guideline here, nothing fancy. I draw the pens. Shoes, and the arms. Let's add some hair to this body. As you can see, it's pretty easy, but keep in mind that this rule is a general guideline, and the proportions may vary depending on the style or purpose of the illustration. Let's take this round to the corner and see what else we can do. I will create a new layer for my character. Time, I want to go for a shorter and wider upper body. I draw the arms as I like. No rules here. This is just a practice to go outside of our regular drawing style and have some fun. At the end, this can add a new perspective to our drawing styles. Perhaps this one has a smaller head. I imagine bigger ties and bigger feet. I want to make my conva bigger because I want to experiment more and draw more characters. For the third one, maybe an even bigger torso, and a very small head relative to her body. Maybe even smaller. I want to keep the same chunkiness for the legs as well. And draw. Little feet, little hands, and a tiny head with a huge body. I'm just letting my imagination guide me. Let's create another layer for another one. This time, I want to change my style of it and go for more curvy lines. I will basically draw an arc for the shoulders and another one for the hips. Somehow I find myself enjoying drawing smaller heads according to the body. Now let's draw the legs end of it. I continue to experiment with curve or straight lines, distorting some elements of the body, making them bigger or smaller, and it becomes really abstracted. Here are all my characters. I had quite some fun coming up with all these quirky characters. Now that we learn how to simplify body parts and think about different proportions, you can experiment with proportional variations and have some fun creating unique characters for your illustrations. Remember, there are no strict rules, embrace experimentation, and let your imagination guide you. To wrap up this sisson, I want you to create your own unique characters playing with body proportions. Now, join in the next sson variable mix everything we learned so far and work on creating a few different composition ideas for illustrations. S. 7. Play with Composition: We already learned about taking our own reference photos, breaking them down, playing with our character proportions and brainstorming a few scenarios for our characters. Now we are ready to create a whole page composition, giving glyphs into our characters life. On my comas, I draw three squares to practice coming up with three different compositions. I want you to do the same. Draw three squares of the same size on your comas. I'm starting with the first square. Ional nucleer, using a yellow sketching brush for my character sketch. I really enjoy sketching with colors. I suggest you try sketching with colors to. It's a lot more fun. For sketching, I like using six feel brush in Procreate. We will planting step by step. We will also use very basic lines and shapes to sketch without worrying about clean lines. We will think through our concept ideas and find ways to combine them like a collage. For each composition, we will draw three different character puzzles with their surroundings. I find three characters to be a good number for square convas, not too overwhelming to plant, but it still allows for diversity. Before starting, you can refer back to the ideas you had for your characters work. Here are my ideas for each composition and I courage you to do the similar planning before you begin. If you haven't planned your scenarios yet, you can go back to the lesson tree to create one. For my first composition, I imagine a day in the park and outdoor setting. First, I will draw boxes where I plan my characters will be place. I'm thinking of having a character on the left in a standing position, and I will draw a big rectangle for that. It creates diversity when you mix standing position with sting position, half body position, or even more vertical positions. Now for the right corner, I plan to have a half body position, so I drove another box for that one. The idea is to have these scenarios blend together in some ways, so I intersect my squares with each other. I want to add another stating position in the top corner. Now that we roughly position the characters. Let's move on and put our actual figures in place. I create a new layer and pick another color for character sketching. This time I will go with the red. I check my list and one of the figures is carrying something. I imagine that she carries like a plant or flowers while walking. Since we practice drawing characters, I'm sure you will be able to draw your characters roughly very easily. If you have trouble, you can always go back to the earlier lesson for character drawing. So basically, I start with the head, then drawing a triangle for the body with very basic lines to give a rough idea. As my first figure is supposed to be holding something, I very roughly imagine that and draw a ectangle for it, just as a placeholder for now. Let's move on to the second character. The second character is an a sting position as my scenario says, relaxing and feeding an animal. Very basically, I draw a triangle for the hat. But you can also try using circles. Then I sketch triangles for the body. I like using H shape for the cross legs as it helps a lot to sketch them. Here comes the arms. My favorite park in Lisbon is full of ducks, so I can easily imagine my character feeding a duck with an apple maybe. I roughly sketch the dug too. Just some circles and lines to imagine the scene. For the third character, I want to draw a character showing half of her body and maybe holding a bird in her hand. I will use very basic lines and shapes for this sketch to. I like to try to draw my characters in different angles as it gives a dynamic effect to my composition and allows me to experiment with different positions. In this case, I imagine this character from my back view. All done. This is just a rough sketch and I plan to spend around 5 minutes on each composition. What is totally okay if you go at your own pace here. Now let's try another one. I move on to my second square here. I will try another composition. This time maybe a standing position on the right side and two other half body figures on the other side. I'm going to think about ways to connect them to each other later on. I start with the standing position character. My second character will be holding a package. You can check the scenarios you plan before you start, but don't forget, you can always change them up along the way. There's nothing strict here. I quickly draw a character in a standing position holding a package. I don't know what's inside yet, but I imagine there are some things in it. I also imagine her in the kitchen behind a table. I draw a rectangle for the table. There can be a few things on the table, so I sketch some lines for those. By the way, I'm such a cat lady, so I easily imagine a cat between my legs, waiting for something to drop to it. I sketch the cat to, and again, very roughly, just some circles and a few lines. I like the table concept. To complete my composition as a whole, I want to draw a table on the top two. This way, I can draw my character having a drink. As you can see, I draw the characters very basically here. You can even just use lines as circles. That's totally okay to. You can add more detail later. Sticking with the cat concept, I imagine a cat sitting with me. I draw some circles and some lines for the cat. To complete my composition, I draw my chart character scenario, a character or holding a t. Another trick here for your composition, it's always a good idea to create a diversion in sizes. One character can be bigger and another one is similar. You can try a close up capture in one drawing. It can be interesting. Let's try one more composition. I am on my art box. As always, I start with placing my characters positions. Maybe one with vertical position this time. It can be here on the top and two more figures on the blow. I try to play with the sizes they are going to take and how they try to interact with each other. I want to try a casual home composition here. I locate my list to get inspired. On my list, there is a character with Diogo pose, which can be interesting for a vertical position. But I could easily see switch for a character lying down on the couch or the floor. It's your call, but I want to continue with Diogo pose. I sketch very roughly, not worrying too much about proportions or whether an arm is too long at this stage of the process. If you are having a hard time drawing the pose, you can always take your own reference photo for it. I want to add a cat, but try dogs birds or anything that comes to your mind as a second sole in your drawing. For the second character, I want to draw a sitting pose for my reading a book scenario. I really encourage you to try different kinds of poses all the time. You have to capture your own references and break them down, so don't be afraid to try new things. To the last one, you might feel stuck on idea, since we draws many so far. In that case, you can basically use the same idea, but change it up adult. For example, I like the idea of holding my cat, so I want to give that one another go. But let's spice it up adult. This time, let's try drawing the character from the back, and maybe this time the cat's face is. You can see it's almost the same idea, but it creates a totally different log. We try three different compositions for our illustration, and I like all of them. For now, I only want to choose one of them and work on it more. To rough up this lesson, I want you to roughly plan three different compositions and choose one to develop further. Use the activity ideas you came up with from the brainstorming session with GBT in the earlier lessons. First plan out your characters positions on your comas and then roughly sketch your characters. Now, join in the next lesson where we are going to enhance one of our compositions by adding more ideas to our illustration. 8. Upgrade your Composition: In this lesson, we will work on unaching our compositions further. We will imagine the surroundings of the characters and more elements and find ways to connect all these scenarios together. To begin, I create another layer and pick a different color to see my progress by unaching the composition with more elements. Let's start with the park scene. I begin by adding more details to my character. Adding hair is an easy starting point. I can also include an accessory. I will drove ahead and then add the hair. I might change the head style later. But for now, I will stick with this one. I want to add more details to the board as well. Since it's a part scene, I can easily incorporate greenery into the composition. I want to draw large lays in front of the characters as I enjoy adding elements like big leaves to the foreground to give the composition depth. I go into a lot more in detail about composition styles in my composition class. I highly recommend checking that one out two. For the second character, I also want to add some lays in connecting the characters together. I want to draw the second characters. I like the hair to be up this time. I always aim for diversity in everything. Even small differences can have a significant impact on overall composition. I imagine her holding some flowers, maybe she collected them from somewhere in the park. Now I will move on to the chart character, perhaps a pony sale for her this time. I will add a few more details to the duck to bring my characters to live. Drawing an apple for the duck, I can easily imagine this dug as a mom with her little babies following her. I will draw a few ducks behind her. I also try to imagine her clothes. Maybe she is wearing a jacket. I want to add more greenery to the scene to give a little dimension to the character and connect all the scenarios together. Maybe she has a bag full of apples as she enjoys feeding animals while she is there. Considering the ducks, it's easy to imagine a small lag in the scene. I would like to add a few baby ducks swimming in the background. You can always add accessories like a bag, sun glasses, or an earring as your characters outfit. But don't worry about drawing down perfectly at this stage. You can always use chat GBT if you are having a hard time coming up with ideas. Simply describe the scene you're drawing and ask for suggestions on what other elements to include. Now let's move on to the second scene. I start by adding hair to my character, which is always an easy starting point. I feel like I can place a big plan next to her to make the scene look fuller. For the second character, a pony tail might suit her well. You can always draw more items on the counter such as basket of full vegetables and some food boxes. To make the cats come alive, I want to add scars and ice. Since this is a home scene, I will think about home accessories like a clock on the wall, to add a home wipe. I want to add more details to the table as well. Let's take a look at the third character. As usual, I will adhere to the character and some details to the cat. Maybe she has a wine bottle on the table and some frames on the wall behind her. I think it looks pretty good. Let's move on to the third composition. I might add a yoga mat or a carpet like aleman for the yoga gar. I can also add big windows in the background that show the trees and the garden. And some candles in front of her might go well for this characters. I will also add like adding some details to their clothes. Maybe another carve here. And a cat behind the character. All these details help us imagine the scene. We did a great job upgrading all three compositions. Adding elements, imagining the outfits, and the character surroundings have reached the composition and created connections between all the characters. To ref up this lesson, I want you to imagine your characters in more detail, including their hairstyle, outfit, and the elements in their surroundings. Try to connect all these character poses together and think of your composition as a whole. Now, join me in the next lesson where we will move on to the color phase. First, we will discuss how I approach choosing colors when drawing, different color types and how to use them in your illustration. 9. How to Approach Colors: Great. Now that we have our composition for the illustration, it's time for another fun part, adding color. In this lesson, I will show you how I think when choosing colors. We will talk about different color harmonies, the psychological effects of colors, warm colors, cool colors, complimentary or vibrant colors, as well as darker lighter shades. I will give you a general idea of how to approach choosing colors for your illustration. Let's explore various color combinations together. I always begin by selecting the background color and then work my way up from there. For this illustration, I will start with a soft pink as my base color. Pink is a warm color associated with energy, excitement and warmth. So if you want to convey those feelings in your drawing, you should use warm colors like red, orange, yellow or pink in your overall composition. But if you want to create a calmness and relaxation in your drawing, the cool colors like blues, greens and purples are your gott. Now let's create a new layer for the colors we want to add. For a soting background, you can complement it with pastel shade to create a harmonious and gentle color palette. For example, try adding light mint green, lavender, or pale pitch. See all these colors work well with soft ping as they share similar light and suiting qualities. These are all analog colors and complimentary to soft ping. It creates a harmonious color combination. You can try placing them on top of the pink or next to it in the corner of your cavas to see how you like them before painting large areas. Procreates color charts are excellent to help you explore different color combination. You can hit the color segment, choose harmony at the bottom, and see analogs complimentary and other combinations of the color you selected. I encourage you to use it to your advantage as you experiment with colors. All looks quite harmonious, but I usually add a few more colors to enhance the diversity and visual interests of my illustration. Whatever color you choose, you can add a slightly deeper shades of these colors. Like I can choose a slightly deeper shade of this pink that compliments the soft pink background, like this one here. Or even darker tone like this one. You can also experiment with darker or more vibrant oions for all the colors on top and see how they interact with your background color. A I can add a light folio that pairs well with mint green. I think it might add a touch of freshness to the composition. For that, I just want to find a complimentary to for this peach color with a little h. It's nice to see how all these colors work together. I can also add a pale to add a soft glow to the certain elements in my illustration. Just experiment with different yellow tones to see which one you like the most. A neutral color like a soft gray is an always easy choice to add your color composition. It can be used for accents or to balance out the oral composition. Just check which tone you like and how it goes with your colors. Another important take that I should mention here is that I never use a full black in my drawings. I offer darker grays insight. While creating a harmonious color palette, you might also want some objects to stand out in your illustration. This is where color contrast comes into play. By choosing colors that contrast with the background and surrounding elements, you can draw attention to specific objects. You can add one or two vibrant bold colors that contrast with soft pastels. For example, I can choose a bright coral or deep tal can make certain elements. Let's see how they look with my colors. These are definitely stand out alongside the others. Since your background color pink is a warm color. You can create a great contrast by using cool colors like blues or greens for the objects you want to highlight. Another option is to increase the saturation of the colors for focal objects compared to the rest of the illustration. This will make them more eye catching. You can always add light and shadows with slightly different es to add some dimension to the objects. I just go to adjustments and play with colors a little. Experiment with colors, tray them next to each other or on top of each other to see how they work together. This was just a basics, but it's a good start to understanding how to think when choosing colors for your illustration. Now go to procreate select background color and play around with color combinations or color doors based on these steps and tricks without the pressure of coloring and illustration. Now let's move on to the next lesson where we will put this theory into practice. We will do some quick color blocking and experiment with color combinations. 10. Color it: We learn how to think about choosing our colors in theory. Now it's time to put that theory into practice as we work on our color blocking for our illustration. Sometimes I do quick color composition practices before deciding the final colors of my drawing. I make my composition sketch smaller and create another copy of it. Then I draw colors on top of each other in my drawing to see which color composition works best for me. I don't worry about outlining my lines or perfect lines during this process. You can find more details about how I work on quick color experiments in my earlier class. Go check it out if you want to learn more. Today, we will focus on a cleaner version of our color blocking. Let's get started. I have my sketch on my commas, and I want you to lower the opposite of your sketch layer around 10%. I already created a color palette using the colors isolated in the previous license practice. You just simply need to tap on the plus sign icon at the top. I. Then tap on your colors and then add them to the square boxes on the color palette. Now I will create a new layer and place it under my sketch layer. First, we will color the background. We already decided it will be pink, so I will drak and drop the color onto my new layer. Then I will create another layer to continue adding my colors. Working on different layers, y coloring is much better as it allows you to make changes easily. I will start coloring the biggest pieces and my drawing. I want to start with the lives. I will pick one of my green colors, outline the lives and now fill in the color. I continue color blocking the other lives. I think this green works really well with the pink background. Next, I want to paint some of the layers in different green colors. For that, I will create a new layer. Quickly outlining and then dropping my colors. Creating diversiten colors is crucial, especially when I'm painting plants and flowers. Maybe I will add another dark green here. Now I will start coloring the character behind the big leves. For that, I will create another layer right on top of the pink background layer. I feel like picking a blue color for the characters outfit. Let's give it a try. I can always change it later. I think blue works well with pink and green, so let's see how it looks. I quickly outline my characters outfit, using my sketch as a reference, making cleaner lines and fixing a few Ts. I will also make some improvements as I color now. Let's paint the face. I also encourage you to embrace diversity and use all skin colors in your artwork. As you see, I create a new layer for each different part I'm coloring. I want to go with black hair, and I will also decide on the hair style. This way, I'm not just coloring. I'm also improving my sketch in the process. Moving to the head, I will stick with the same blue color for now, but I might change it later. It seems like a small detail to finalize at the moment, so I will leave it as it is. To keep things organized, I will keep the characters layers in the same group. I suggest you to do the same, especially when I'm working with loss of layers. Now let's work on second characters colors. I'm thinking of using a darker, more vibrant pink for the pants. I feel like it will compliment the colors around it, especially the soft pink and green. I want my characters to stand out with vibrant colors that shine in the composition, so I'm thinking I allow for the top. The face and the hair. Now let's work on the plant she carries. I believe a darker tone green color will really pop against the yellow and pink background. I don't stress myself to make the plant a perfect shape. I let it flow and have fun with this kind of practices. Remember to use different green tones for variety. I will add some dark g rays in the front and the back for that. All right. Now let's t the hands. The second character is mostly done. Before moving on to the third character, I want to color the leg behind. It's a big piece close to my third character, so it's better to color it first. I'm not liking it much. It's too dark and dominant and it's making my second character head get lost. I think I will switch to a lighter low. Moving on to the third character. I want to pick another bolt color, perhaps an orange from my palette. We already tested the colors in the earlier liston, so we know they will all work well together. This is just to figure out the color composition. Outlining the character very quickly. The face. And the pens. For the pens, I will choose a dark blue for a great contrast with the orange, using complimentary colors. I will continue adding colors like the greenery behind her. I just want to ensure each piece stands out why remaining coherent with the others. Now that my characters are almost coming together, I will work on the similar elements, such as the duck family and the flowers on the lake. I want to add vibrant color flowers in front to create more contrast. A darker pink similar to the one on the pens should work well. I continue coloring other elements in my drawing, making sure each one shines. I also want to change the characters top color as it matches the too closely. Maybe I can try a darker u for the top and a lighter color for the head. For the bird, I want to use a lighter like in the. It looks great. I also like to add colors from larger pieces as details in different parts of the illustration. For example, I will add pink and orange flowers to the flower bouquet. To create depth in the elements, I play with darker or lighter tones of the colors and I slightly adjust the station. This helps me create contrasts and add details to the greenery and clothes. It's looking pretty good. It's not a final illustration, but it's quite enough for a drawing practice on different characters for us. You can always take it to the next level by adding more detail to the coloring and patterns. To wrap up this lesson, I want you to work on your color composition for your illustration. Ensure that your character stand up rent colors while maintaining an overall cohesive composition. Try to improve your sketching, while working on your color composition. Use different layers for different elements and try to use each color in multiple spots in your drawing. Now, join in the next lesson, where I will show you how to take things one step further. 11. Spice It Up: We made great progress in our illustration. Now we just need to do some cleanup and add the final touches to the drawing, such as pattern and texture. Let's start with our first character. First, I want to work on the leaves in front of my character. I planted some texture, so I go to my layers and find the leaves layer. I tap on it and enable a fog feature. This feature allows me to really paint without worrying about overliging my drawing. I want my leaves to be dark green, but I also want lighter green to show through when I add the texture. First, I repaint them to my base color, which is light green. Next, I choose the texture brush I want to use from my brushes. I edit this brush that I created to the project and resources folder, so feel free to use it as well. You can easily dvload and import it to your procrate. Now with the darker green, I repaint the leaves using my texture brush. For each liaf, I choose two different green tones, one for the base color, and the other as the original color of the leaf. I will do the same with all the lives, ensuring I work on diversity for the colors. I can also add some patterns to the leves. I off for a single pattern like some basic straight lines in the middle, but you can go for more intricate details if you prefer. Moving on, I will add some texture to her top using the same method. I will also clean up my lines, making them more precise. To create the stripes on her clothing, I will use the clipping mask feature. I create a new layer on top of the clothing layer and enable the clipping mask feature. This way, everything I draw will be on another layer and will allow me making easy changes when I need it. This time, I work more precisely on my alliance. This is basically what I will do in the rest of my drawing, cleaning up my lines, adding texture, redrawing some elements with more detail and incorporating patterns. You can use patterns like stripes, geometric shapes, dust or flowers, anything that sparks your creativity. I prepare a few pattern ideas for you to use in your drawings. They will work great with your characters clothing. The file is in the project and resources folder. Go ahead and download and import them to your Procreate file. To wrap up this lesson, do some cleanup in your drawing, add some texture to certain elements by using Alphag and clipping mass feature. Feel free to use pattern examples I've prepared for you on your characters clothe or anywhere else you would like. Now, join me in the final lesson. I will share my final oughts about the class. 12. Final Thoughts: Congratulations on completing this illustration class with me. I hope you enjoy creating your own unique character and drawing your character in various stated activities. Throughout the class, we focus on developing your skills in using AI technology to overcome creative blocks and brainstorm ideas to build our characters word. You'll learn how to draw your characters in different puzzles by breaking down our own reference images and most importantly feeling an empty as without feeling over them. You also learn an approach to choose colors and how to use patterns and textures to enhance your illustrations. During this class, I provide you with exercises, cheer sheets, and valuable tips to support your artistic journey. I encourage you to continue practicing and exploring your own unique style. Embrace creativity, experiment with new ideas, and always trust your artistic instincts. To get the most out of this class, I encourage you to engage with other students and the community here on skill share. Invite your friends to take the class with you and you can provide feedback on each other's projects to help improve each other's work. If you have any questions as you are going through the class, please post them in the discussion tab below. I'm always excited to see your creations. Please remember to share all the steps of your registrations and exercises in the project section below. You can also take me on Instagram when you share your work because I love showcasing my students projects there. I have six more classes on the platform and if you enjoy this class, there's a good chance that you would like them to. Go ahead and check them out. Remember, creating art is a continuous learning process. Don't hesitate to revisit the techniques and concepts we cover in this class. Thank you for taking the class and I look forward to seeing your future creations. I will greatly appreciate it if you could provide maybe a review. Thank you and I hope to see you in my next class.