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Collage in Procreate for Beginners: Play with Pattern, Color & Texture

teacher avatar Kelley Bren Burke, Artist & Educator

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Class Trailer

      1:56

    • 2.

      Class Project & Resources

      1:35

    • 3.

      Let's Get Started!

      8:27

    • 4.

      Let's Create a Collage!

      8:05

    • 5.

      Let's Add Color & Texture to Our Collage

      7:16

    • 6.

      Let's Create Another Collage!

      8:34

    • 7.

      Let's Add Color & Texture Again

      7:31

    • 8.

      Congrats & Thank you!

      0:45

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About This Class

In less than an hour, you’ll have a one-of-a-kind digital collage featuring a cool vintage person. This class is perfect for Procreate beginners and pros alike. No drawing or collage skills are necessary. I’ll supply everything you need for the class. All you need is an iPad, the Procreate app and a compatible stylus.

In this class, we’ll:

  • Play with pattern by duplicating a vintage person to create a funky pattern
  • Use Procreate’s tools to play with color 
  • Add instant texture with my favorite texture brushes 
  • Explore Blend Modes in Procreate 

But wait, there's more! You'll receive free assets, including

  • 15 cool isolated vintage characters, ready to duplicate and collage.
  • My very favorite texture brushes. I use them in 99% of my illustrations. They’re by Abbie Nurse at Uproot, and she’s sharing three Overlay Texture brushes with my students. Enjoy 10% off everything in her shop with coupon code KELLEYBURKE 
  • A subtle paper texture

This class isn’t about creating repeat patterns. Repeat patterns can be repeated endlessly without seams or interruptions. We’ll simply be playing with a single element by duplicating it and creating a unique pattern. 

The class assets are here.

READY for some fun, creative play in Procreate? LET’S GET STARTED!

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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 Skillshare classes. Want to be the first to know about my new Skillshare classes or bonus lessons? Follow me on Skillshare by clicking here. Thanks so much for joining me, and I hope to see you soon.