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1. Class Trailer: Are you ready to explore
collage in Procreate and create a unique,
eye-catching piece of art? Then this is the class for you. This class is perfect for Procreate beginners
and pros alike. In less than an hour, you'll have a
one-of-a-kind collage. I call these
kaleidoscope collages. The inspiration for them came
from an unlikely source. I'll tell you the story, but first, let me introduce
myself real quick. I'm Kelley Bren Burke and this
is my best friend Murphy. I'm a self-employed artist
in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I love creating collage art
with the Procreate app. Back to the story. I was inspired by a
music video from 1988. The song was “Buffalo
Stance” by Nina Cherry. The video had all of these
computer-generated graphics that had to be like absolutely
cutting edge at the time. During part of the video, her backup dancers were
arranged in these kind of like kaleidoscope
columns behind her. To further date myself, it's like they were
dancing with themselves. I scampered off to do a
kaleidoscope collage. And then I did a bunch
more because they were so fun and easy to do. I'm going to share
them with you. All you need is an iPad, the Procreate app, and
a compatible stylus. As always, I have some free
assets to support you, like these isolated
vintage people, ready to collage, and my very favorite
texture brushes. But more about that
in the next lesson. During the class, we'll create two different
kaleidoscope collages. We'll start with an
isolated person. We’ll duplicate them to
create funky patterns. And then we'll add color and
texture to polish the piece. Are you ready for some fun, creative play? Let's get started!
2. Class Project & Resources: For the class project, you'll create your own
kaleidoscope collage. First, we'll choose a vintage person from
the class resources. Next, we'll duplicate them
into a funky pattern. Then we'll play with color and texture to
elevate your piece. This class isn't about
creating repeat patterns. Repeat patterns can
be repeated endlessly without any seams
or interruptions. This class is
simply about taking a single element and duplicating
it to create a pattern. To support you, I've compiled
some class resources, including a collection of cool vintage characters ready
to duplicate and collage, and my very favorite texture brushes by Abbie
Nurse at Uproot. I use these texture brushes in like 99 percent of my pieces, they are that good. She has generously shared some of her overlay
texture brushes with you. To access these goodies, click the Project
and Resources tab. I can't wait to see
what you create. Please share your
project on Skillshare. Upload your project by clicking the "Project and Resources" tab. Your work will inspire
me and others. I'll leave a comment
for every project. If you have questions,
I've got you. Click on the "Discussions" tab. I'll respond to every
comment and question. Ready to take the first step, download the class
resources here, and I will see you
in the next lesson.
3. Let's Get Started!: Let's get started. The first person I'm
going to be collaging today is this woman right here, and I have her saved
as an isolated figure. I've done that for you as well. You have a number of isolated
figures to choose from that you'll find in the class
resources and project area. Let me back out of here and
we will create a new canvas. I'm going to be using a
12 by 16 inch Canvas. It's a Canvas I use often. To create that Canvas, you would hit "Plus", you would click on this thing
that looks like folders. Procreate with
default to pixels, but we want inches, so we're going do 12 and 16. Procreate will default
to a DPI of 300, which is a good
printing quality, so we'll keep that. From my iPad, that will
give me 34 layers. Let's hit "Create", and
here we have our Canvas. I'm going to label
this Collage Canvas. I am going to grab a subtle paper texture
that I always start with, and I'll give you one
of those as well. Here's the layer with
the paper texture on it. It is subtle, so you
might not be able to see the texture from there, but it's there and it gives me a little something
to start with. I'm going to do a
three-finger drag down, I'm going to hit "Copy", I'm going to go
back to my gallery, click on my Collage Canvas, do a three-finger
drag down for paste, and there it is. It's a little small, so I will tap on the selection
arrow and just stretch it out so it covers
the whole Canvas. I'm going to import the figure that I'm going to use
for my first collage. I'm going to do that by hitting "Wrench" and "Insert a File". I'm going to go to my
Recents and here she is, isolated from her background. If you saved the isolated
figure to your camera rolls, you would hit "Insert a Photo". This is a wee little creature. A lot of times when you're
dealing with vintage images, they are pretty small. But that's okay
because we are going to be making a pattern
of her anyway. One of the things to keep in
mind is that you don't want to keep making copies of a copy. I'll show you what I mean. If I hit "Duplicate", then the new image
is on the top. Instead of just
duplicating a top image, making copies of a copy, you want to stick to the original image right here
and make copies of that. You'd swipe this way,
hit "Duplicate", and I will go ahead and
label this one original. Then if I wanted another copy, I would copy from the original again and just label
this one copy. That's because Procreate
is a pixel-based program, the quality can get worse
when making copies of copies. I'm going to tuck the
original back here. I'll label this
one copy as well. I'm going to tuck this
back here as well. This is just the way
I organize things. I like to keep duplicates of things in the background
and then I will group these together
by swiping and then I will label this
new one background. We have our tiny
red-headed woman. Another thing that you
don't want to do with these images is make
them bigger and make them smaller and
do all that things because that could harm
the quality of it as well. It's okay to make it
bigger if you need to, I just wouldn't make it bigger and smaller, and
bigger and smaller. Just keep that in mind for this. I am going to two
finger tap to undo and bring her to her
little size there. One thing that we're
going to do here is use the drawing
guide to help us. If you also have a
12 by 16 Canvas, you'll be able to
follow this exactly. I'm going to turn the
drawing guide on and then I'm going to hit
"Edit Drawing Guide". It will default to a 2D grid. You can make the opacity darker, you can make the lines
thicker or less thick. I will do it like this. You can also change the color
by sliding around here. But for our purposes, we are changing the grid size, and here I am doing it to
a grid size of 600 pixels. Oops, this happens all the time. When I hit "Done",
it'll scroll over to the white side and then I won't be able to
see my lines anymore. Here we go. I'm going to hit
"Done" carefully. The reason we're
doing it like this is it will help us divide our work roughly into columns because we're
pattern-making here. For this one, I'm
going to keep her and her duplicate within
these lines here, but I don't need them because I have the lines right here. I'm going to make her
just a little bit bigger, and I'm going to do that
by clicking on that arrow, and I am on Uniform
and I am on Snapping. My settings for snapping are magnetics and
snapping is on, and my distance is 19, and my velocity is 3.4. That's what I'm using. If you use those settings, it should work well for you. I'm on Uniform here. A uniform selection will
change the size like that. A free form selection will
make it taller or wider and it's just not changing
in a uniform fashion. We're on Uniform, we're on Snapping, we are going to copy her and we're going
to hit "Select", and then we're going
to flip horizontal. I want her to fit roughly
within the middle column. So I'm just going to make
her that big right now. I'm going to take my left one. If you don't know
which one's which, you can do this or you can label them and we could
group them together. This is what we'll be doing for the class by swiping this way and we'll just
name this one DUO. We're going to take
our left figure and bring her this way. We're just going to
play around with what we might want
this to look like and the snapping will
definitely help us with this. Here she is, and we just want to decide what pattern we want. This could be a cool pattern, this could be a cool pattern, but I think what I
want to do is bring her mirrors together
in the center there. Right now they're
overlapping a little bit and I don't
think I want that, so I'm going to go
to the right one. Go to the Selection, I'm on Uniform and I'm just tapping
her over really subtly. What I want is for the mirrors just to be barely touching, and I think that looks cool. I'm going to take this DUO, I'm going to go to
the selection arrow, and I'm going to center her. She's not fitting exactly
within that center column, so I'm just going to make
her tiny a bit smaller. Here we can see that her shoe right here is a
little off the grid, and so I made her a
little bit tinier again. Now I'm going to center her. I get this gold bar in the center showing she's
centered there and I have this blue line showing
she's centered both ways. She is in the very
center of the Canvas. Since this is just for practice, I'll show you different
things we can do. We can duplicate her again, and then we can play
with more patterns. You can flip per vertically. That looks so cool
even like that. You can go like that, do a pattern like this. The possibilities
are really endless and that's what I
really like about this. It's really fun. We'll be doing different
things like rotating. I think what we'll
mostly be doing is flipping
vertically like that. I have selected these people for this to make them fun
and easy to collage. What I'm looking for
here is a full body. I'm looking for figures that
you can see their limbs, they're kicking out
in various ways. It's just a dynamic
figure rather than somebody just standing
straight up and down. Now that we've gone over
some of the basics, let's start creating
our first collage. I will see you in
the next lesson.
4. Let's Create a Collage!: Welcome back. We are going to create our
first kaleidoscope collage. Let's get started. We're going to continue
to use this woman. Let me see. I think I am just going
to start over again. We have our original
and we have our copy. I will make another
copy of the original. I'll rename it copy and I will bring these two
copies up above the background. I'm swiping here and
bringing them up just by dragging them
above the background. They are here, they're
the same size, they're grouped automatically. I'm just going to
name this group DUO. Sometimes it's important
to name your layers and sometimes it's
less important. I would say, in this case, to label your groups just because we're going to
have a lot of repeated ones, and so it'll just be easier
to keep track of it. We have these two women and I am going to
take the top one. I'm going to go to
the selection arrow again and I'm going to
hit ''Flip Horizontal.'' There she is flipped. I want to move her over and I want her mirrors
to be just touching and you have your own
figures that you can use. I purposely did not give you the collages that I'm collaging because I want you to
experiment on your own. It's actually easier, I think, to create something original in this case than it is to try and replicate exactly
what I'm doing. We have her, she's duplicated
and we have this DUO, and we want her to fit
in the middle column, so within these
squares right here. I'm going to hit the
selection again. I'm on uniform. Again, my snapping
and magnetics are on. The distance is 19 and
the velocity is 3.4. I am going to stretch her out so she fits exactly
within these two columns. Here, I can see, if I zoom in, that this little shoe is
not touching the line, but this one is. Let's see if we can make
her tiny bit bigger. There we go. Now she is fitting exactly
within that middle column and not every pattern
will do that, but this is a good way to start. Grids can be really
helpful in this process. We have her, and now we are going to
make sure she's centered. We are going to just
move her around, so she's centered both ways. There's a gold line horizontally and there's a gold
line vertically. She is right in the center. Now we're going to
start duplicating her some more to
make new patterns. I had mentioned before that we don't want to
over-duplicate things, but at this point in time, we need them all to
be the same size, so we don't want to go
back to the original and try and copy that again. I'm just going to be copying
from this Original DUO. I'm going to copy
that Original DUO and I am going to flatten
these two layers. It's our second layer. This is going to be a copy and we're going to see what
pattern we want to make. I did a flip vertical. That looks very cool too. That could be a pattern or we
could stretch her out here. Just her toes are
almost touching. I think I will do this. I'm going to go
to the selection. I'm going to tap up here. These little toes are almost
touching or touching. I think that looks really good. Now we have our Original
DUO and our copy. Now we have a foursome and I'm going to
label that again and then I am going
to copy that. I'm duplicating that. What I can do here is I
can flatten all of these because I already have
the Original DUO. In fact, I'm going
to duplicate that and just tuck it
there if I need it. I'm going to actually flatten
this by tapping Flatten. I'm going to flatten
this by tapping Flatten. We have two, we have this right here, and then we have the second copy and they`re exactly the
same, and they're flattened. They're not each on their
own individual layer. Let's take our top copy
and bring her up here. I think that looks good. It looks cool no matter
what you do, actually. I'm going to bring
our bottom copy and bring her down here. This is interesting. I like this. Her head is covering her
head in a funky way. Her head wasn't upside down. We could just move the
bottom layer up here. She could either
be head-to-head, for example, like this, and we could make her
a little bit smaller. I think I will do that. One thing to know though if
you drag her off the page and you unselect her and
you try and bring her back, her head is gone. I'm just going to two-finger
tap to undo that. I think what I'm going
to do is take these two and make them just a
little bit smaller so she has all of her heads. This is our top one. I'm just going to label this top and this is our bottom one. I'm going to bring her up as far as I can without
her head being cut off and then I'm going to go to the bottom one
and do that as well. Her head is almost connected. Maybe we want it to be
connected, connected. I'm going to take this and just nudge it up
so she's touching. Here we go. This is a really cool pattern and I can flatten this as well. There's another way to flatten and it's merging
these two layers. Then what we would just do is duplicate this
again and then see what pattern we want and this right here is just pretty cool. We are not within the little
lines here, but that's okay. That was just a good
place to start. Her little toes are
not quite touching, so we're going to
relabel this one left. I'll take this arrow
and just tap her over, zoom in, tap this arrow again. There we go. I think that looks good. Now we are going to take this middle layer and copy it again and
we will name this one. Did I get this wrong
left and right? I do all the time. This one's right and
this one's left. If you follow my classes, you might know that I don't know left
from right very well. Let's move her on over
and there she is. Her toes aren't
quite touching so I'm going to go back to
this and tap, tap, tap. That looks really cool. I am going to turn
off the drawing guide because we don't
need that anymore. One of the things I like to
do with all of the pieces that I create make
it really small and see what it looks like. These are really cool because it looks like a cool
abstract pattern and then you zoom in and
you see all of the details. I just love the result here. We are going to take
it one step further though by playing around
with some color and texture. We will do that in
the next lesson. I will see you then.
5. Let's Add Color & Texture to Our Collage : Welcome back. We are going to play with color and texture. What I like to do is make a
copy of the original here. We have our collage Canvas. I am going to relabel
this redhead original. Then I'm going to duplicate it by swiping left and hitting "duplicate" and I'll label
this one Redhead edits. I do this because once
something is flattened, it's a little bit harder
to edit after that. I am going to merge all of these layers
together with a pinch. I am going to delete the things that are
in the background. Now we have two layers. We have our women
on one layer and we have our subtle paper
texture on the bottom layer. We're going to start
experimenting with color. I'm going to make a new layer above my paper
texture by hitting plus and that's where we
will start adding color. What I do first is
I assess what's the main color in this piece? It`s the color of her skin, which is two different colors her leg is a different color than her chest and
neck and face. I'll just grab this
color right here. If I tap on it, I'll sample it, and I have
the color here to start. I've sampled the
color of her skin. It's this peachy, orangey
color and I am going to tap on that and
I'm going to look at the different options
down here for color. We have disc, classic, and then we have color
harmony which we're going to be using for this class. If you look at the colors, this is like the color wheel
and it'll help you with the different color schemes,
such as complimentary, which is opposites, or
split complimentary which is two colors opposite the original color
but split right here. You can see here that the
complimentary color is right here and the split
complimentary color, it's two colors on
either sides of that. I often will use a split complimentary
color palette that makes the color scheme that
will pop a little bit. I`m just going to take this purply color and I'm
going to fill it in there. It's interesting, I
don't know if I love it. Let's take this other
color and fill it in. I like that better. I am going to go with
this blue color to start and we're going to
continue adjusting that. But first what I do with this, is I tap on this color and I am going to bring this to
a multiply blend mode. It's difficult to see here, but when I have a
multiply blend mode, it will interact with the
paper texture below it. Then this layer
isn't a flat color, it's a little bit textured
and I am just going to merge these two because I know that's how I
want it for now. Let's play with saturation
and brightness, and this is something I
love to do with procreate. We are on our color layer, I'm going to go
to the magic wand and I'm going to tap hue, saturation, and brightness. I want to keep the hue the same but I'm going
to play around with saturation and brightness
and all of these start at 50 percent and you can
change it from there. You can make it brighter, or you can make it darker. Tap and bring it back to 50. You can make it more
saturated or less saturated. That's interesting
and if you want to see what it looked like before, you can tap on your
screen, tap preview, this is what it
looked like before, and then you lift
your finger and see what it looks like there. I do like it as is, but let's see if we want
it brighter or darker. It just gives you
different effects. I think it's all pretty cool. I have that at 46
percent for now. This is what it looked like before I lifted up this little looks like now I am going
to apply that change. I can play with the saturation. I have it at 45 percent. If I tap here, preview, this is what it was before. This is what is
now pretty subtle, but I will apply that. Let's add some texture now. Abbie Uproot has gifted us some texture brushes
to use in this class. I love these overlay brushes. They are from Abbie Uproot. Like I said, I use it 99
percent of my artwork. It gives a great texture. You'll have a few of these in your class resources as well as a link if you're
interested in the whole set. I'm going to start with
the Half Tony overlay and her intention with these is to use them with a pure black. I'm just going to
grab a pure black. The value is six zeros.
I'm going to put it here. That's just something that I like to do in my
color palettes. I like to have a pure
black and pure white. I have this Half Tony overlay. I'm going to create a new
layer and do it on top of the blue layer using
my pure black. You can zoom in here. It looks like a
halftone effect and it took me awhile to figure out
that that's what she means. That's why the
name is Half Tony. I was slow to get it. The intended use
is to then go to overlay and that will just give a cool texture and it'll take on the colors that
are already there. I think that looks great. You could do a number
of different things. We could duplicate it
and see what it looks like on top of her. There I turned off
the background layer and it's on top of her. I don't like the
way that changes her skin color for this one. So I'm just going
to change that. I'm going to turn this one on. Again, this is a subtle
change that just gives a little texture and
the halftone texture works really well for the vintage look of
our red-headed friend. What I also like to do is label because I'll come back to this later and I won't
know what I use. I'll label this Half Tony and then I'll have that for later so I'll know what I chose there. This does make the background a little bit darker and
if you don't like that, you can go to the color layer and experimental
little bit again. We could make it
brighter, darker. I just play with it without looking at the numbers
to see what works. I'm at 52 percent there. Again, if I tap on
"preview" and apply, I think I will apply that. Then again, I can look
at the saturation, make it more gray,
more saturated. It's pretty subtle here. It's a fairly saturated color
to begin with 46 percent. I tap "preview" here. It looks exactly the same actually. I'll just
leave it as is. To save that, we would just go to wrench, Share and save it as
a JPEG and I will just save that to
my camera roll. Congratulations, you are over halfway through this class, we are going to do
one more kaleidoscope collage and I will see
you in the next lesson.
6. Let's Create Another Collage!: Welcome back and congrats on being over halfway
through this class. Let's do our second collage. For this one, I'm going to
use a black and white image. This woman is Vivian
Blaine, she's very cool. Again, I chose her
because it's a whole body and she has some dynamic arms
and legs and everything, that's what I'm
really looking for, for this type of collage. Here she is isolated, I'm going to do a three-finger
drag down to copy her. I'm going to first make sure
I'm on the right layer, I am. I'm going to hit "Copy" and then I'm going
to bring her in too. I'll just reuse my
original Canvas so I'm going to duplicate
redhead original. You don't have to do it this
way it's just easier for me. I always drag the new
Canvas to be first, I'm going to merge these
together for a quick delete. I'm going to delete
this, delete this and so all we have left
is our background layer. Then I'm going to do a
three-finger drag down for a paste and here is our friend Vivian. I will do another paste, so we have two Vivian's. I will call these
both, original. I will tuck one of the originals in the
background there, I could turn her off
but she's hidden by the paper texture. I'm going to do one
more paste of her and I'm going to hit
the selection button and I'm going to start by
hitting flip horizontal. Let's move her around and
see what we would like here. One of the cool
things about this is there is no right
or wrong answer, this isn't a pop quiz. It would look cool
any number of ways and you could take
the same figure and re-collage them in
different positions. This looks cool and if we
redo it and go this way, that would be interesting too. I'm just going to
flip it horizontally. Let's see how it looks here. She's overlapped. Her heels are just
barely touching there. I think that looks
really interesting, so let's start with that. Let's turn on our
drawing guide Canvas, edit drawing guide because
I'm using the same Canvas, it has the same settings. But just as a refresher, if we go to edit drawing
guide the grid size is 600 pixels on a Canvas
it's 12 by 16 inches. I'm going to group
these two together, I'm going to name this, DUO. I think I'm going to make a
copy of this one and just tuck that in the background
so we have it if we need it. Here we have her
and I'm going to center her and see where
we want to go from there. She's centered here, we
have our gold bars that go horizontally and vertically and I'm going to copy her again, I'm going to flip her vertically
and I'm going to try to start with this head-to-head
kaleidoscope effect. That looks good I think
I want her little rosettes on her
head to be closer, they're touching or almost
touching right here. If I back her up one more pixel, I think that looks good. It's already looking like
a really cool pattern, I'm going to group these
together and rename this Four. Let's duplicate this again and see what we want
to do from here. I can just move
her over this way. I think I just might want a really symmetrical
look with her. The second copy right
here of the Four, I can flatten because I
have the original there. I'll rename this copy. Let's see what we have here. If we zoom in, her little ruffles
are almost touching and I think I want them to get a little bit closer
so I'll nudge them this way a little bit closer, I think that looks really good. I'm going to take this
copy and this group and I'm going to
group them together and then I'm going
to duplicate them. I can flatten this new
group and move it over and we got a space problem
here, that's okay. We weren't really using
our grids but that's fine, let's just see what
we can do here. That works. That was a happy accident. Her ruffles are a little
bit overlap right here, so what I'm going to do is group all of these things together and make her just a
tiny bit smaller. The snapping and
magnetics is great but sometimes you have more
control if you turn it off. I'm going to turn it off here
and you can see what I mean so I can make it just
a tiny bit smaller. Snapping and magnetics
is a great tool and sometimes you have more
control if you turn it off. I can't center her
because I don't have snapping and magnetics
on so it's back. She's centered here but we want her ruffle to be a little
bit further apart. Seeing that she's centered
but you can see here that we have less space here and more space here
so this is the group that I'm going to
tap over this way. I think it looks good. We are going to group
all of this together, we will call it
the Whole Shebang. Here they are and
let's center it again and we will keep going. We have a row here, I want to do another row of her and let's just see
how this works. I'm going to duplicate
this whole thing, I'm going to flatten it
and let's keep going. Here we can do a
number of things, her head is cut off here
so I don't like that. It's cool but for our purposes we don't want her head cut off, it looks the same here. What I'm going to do, I'm going to delete that one. I think this is one
of our original, so I'm going to
duplicate this one. I'm going to bring
it to the top, I'm going to turn all of
these layers back on, and we have our DUO here. That looks cool,
that's really cool. We're going to
duplicate this DUO, we're going to bring
her over this way snapping and
magnetics is back on, duplicate this
original DUO again, bring her over here, back to the original
and duplicate it, and bring it over here. I like it, I think that is cool. Let me group this DUO
together, flatten this, and duplicate it and
bring it down here, flip her vertically again, I think that looks really cool. I'm going to turn off
this drawing guide. I did this before
actually let me show you. It looked like this and here's a little trick with
Procreate you may not know. You can take your artwork and swipe it out like
that and then you can swipe through your gallery like this so you can compare it. This one doesn't have the color
in the background so it's not a totally fair comparison. Both patterns I think are cool. I prefer this one, it's a
little bit more complex. For this one, I started her like this, the same way, knee to knee, and then I copied her and I put her shoes
together, toe-to-toe, here. But I do think this is
a more dynamic pattern. I'm going to do this pattern
for the finishing touches, we're going to add some color and texture in the next lesson. I will see you there.
7. Let's Add Color & Texture Again: Welcome back. In this lesson, we are
going to add color and texture to our
second collage. Before we get started,
I thought it would be interesting to show you
some other examples of different collages
I've made with the same people and how they
can turn out differently. Here we have an ice
skater collage, and she's here, and I did her here as well. The difference with this one, we have columns here that
are not symmetrical exactly. Her head isn't lined
up with her head and I think that gives
a cool effect there. Here is another pattern
using the same ice skater. Here is our red-headed woman. This is another one where
I took the foursome and just did a
different pattern. Again, this is not a pop quiz. There's no right
or wrong answers. Just play around until you get a composition that you like. We're going to go
back to this one. I am going to label this
one Vivian unflattened. I'm going to duplicate
Vivian unflattened, I'm going to bring her
to the front here. It's just how I work. I like to have my newest
one, front and center. I don't know if I have
my paper texture here, so I'm going to bring that in. It is in the background here. I can't really see it
with all the Vivians. I'm going to delete the
things I don't need and flatten the things
that I do want. Tap on this row, hit flatten. Now we have the top and the bottom together
in the middle. Again, we can just
flatten the whole thing. We have our paper texture. This layer is an overlay, so that's why I can't really
see my paper texture. I'm going to go to normal, and here is my subtle
paper texture, and it's so subtle it's
probably hard for you to see, but I'm just stretching it
out so it covers the canvas. Here we have Vivian and we're going to give
her some color and texture because it's a black and white, we can do any color we want. Let's just start a
little rosy color. I'm going to go to the layer
above the paper texture, fill it. I like that. I do like it. I am going to change the
blend mode here to multiply, so it interacts with my paper, and I know I want
that paper texture, so I'm just going to
merge them together. Now that I have this rosy color, let's just play around with
different colors this way. I'm going to go to magic wand, Hue, Saturation, Brightness. I'm just going to
play with the Hue by dragging this around. I'm into some unusual
greens lately. Let's keep playing. Let's drag it around. Let's do this greeny color here. Let's start here. If you still liked
that pink background, we could duplicate that. She looks like ice skatery. It seems like a blue
background would make sense, but maybe that's just
me and my biases. Let's do a blue background. I'm going to copy
this green one, scroll through and see
a blue that I like, or blue-green. Let's try this. I think that's really
cool and the green is just a little bit
more interesting. Let's go with our green. I'm going to add a new
layer above the green, and I'm going to add texture. Before we use the
half tony overlay, which was gifted to you by Abbie Uproot from her
overlay brush set. This is the whole
set right here. It is absolutely amazing. I use it all the time. I'm going to use the
crumbly lines overlay, I'm going to choose pure black. This is what it looks like. You can see it better
when it's black before we change the blend
mode to an overlay. Let's keep it like
that right now. This one is crumbly lines and then we'll try another
one also in black. We're going to do this
nice paper overlay. These are nice big brushes. You can cover the whole
canvas really easily and this one is
called nice paper, and here is half toney. You can see what they
look like black, that'll give you a good
idea of the pattern. We use that before. I'll probably tuck
that in the background and maybe not use it. We have crumbly lines. This is what it looked
like if we zoom in. Let's go to overlay that's
what they're intended for it to be used in black with
an overlay blend mode. Here it is on top. Let's try dragging it down
just above the paper. I like that better. Here the crumbly lines
is on the paper, and of course, it makes it
a little bit darker here so we can go and experiment
if we wanted to. I'm on the olive layer, I'm going to go to Hue,
Saturation, Brightness and I'm going to
brighten this up. I did 56 percent. We can hit Preview. Yes, I do like that better. I hit "Apply". We can make it less saturated, we can make it more saturated. You can play with this. It is intended for the
overlay blend mode, but let's just explore the
blend modes a little bit here. Blend modes always start
at normal then the middle. The ones below
normal are lighter, and the ones above
normal are darker. The best way to play
with blend modes is just to play
with blend modes. So we can start at
the bottom here, we have Luminosity, we have Color, we have Saturation, we have Hue, Divide, Subtract, that's interesting. We'll remember
that like subtract we're being mean Exclusion,
Difference, Hard Mix. That's wild. Pin Light, Linear Light, Vivid Light, Hard Light, Soft Light, Soft
Light is interesting. It's neoney, Overlay, Lighter Color, Add, Color Dodge, Screen, Lighten. For this in general, we're not going to want to do
the darker ones, but let's just look at it. Darker Color, Linear Burn. That is interesting. Color Burn, Darken and Multiply. For fun, let's see what happens if we pull this over here. Again, I don't like it,
but it is interesting. You could give the whole
thing some texture. You could also bring down
the opacity here with the slider to give it
all a more subtle look. Crumbly lines on top, on the bottom, I still
like it below the pattern. Let's bring the opacity up. These are just the
finishing touches. I think this is
one of the reasons I love Procreate so much. You can just keep
playing with things. Here we have our pattern
and that was crumbly lines. We could bring up nice paper and do the whole
thing over again. But you get it. You can do it on your own. Have so much fun playing with all of your new overlay
brushes and your patterns. We are almost done
with this class. Congratulations, and
I will see you in the next lesson for
some final thoughts. See you there.
8. Congrats & Thank you! : Congratulations, you've
completed the class. Thank you so much
for joining me. I hope this class has sparked your creativity and expanded
your procreate knowledge. I'd love to see what you create, so please share it in
the class project area. If you share it on Instagram, please tag me @kelleybrenburke. If you'd like lots more
resources for collage checked out my website,
kelleybrenburke.com. If you'd like to learn more
about procreate and collage, check out my other
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