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1. Introduction: Hi there, My name is her, Calvin's dad. I use the pronouns she and her, and I am an illustrator. So I am recording this class from my tiny studio in Queens, New York. I'm not originally from Queens. I was born and raised in Washington Heights, which is in Northern Manhattan. And my parents moved here in the my parents and my family moved here in the 70s from Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic. So I grew up in this huge blended family. And I don't know, growing up as a first-generation American, Hispanic and clear, it, it really gave me a very unique perspective, really unique experience that I cherished very much and I learned from a very young age. As I hope we all do that. As humans. We have a choice. We can choose to listen, learn, and be kind to one another. So as an artist, it gives me such joy to create art that celebrates people. So I'd like to show you some of my work. This is a coloring book that I created. It's called pins and needles, a bilingual coloring and activity book, and it also includes a sewing pattern. I created this er, sorry, I illustrated this book and dedicated it to my mom. Because she spent so many years seamstress in factories. She worked in a factory making curtains, then she worked in another factory making ties. And she never gotten opportunity to go to school and learn English because she was so busy making a living and just making sure that we have everything that we needed. So I wanted to create this book to celebrate her strength and her perseverance and also celebrate the fact that after she retired, she retired in her late sixties and she just started going to school. She taking English classes and she felt so taking computer classes. So we're really proud of her. She continuously surprises us. So in this book, I created illustrations and I wrote out the words in labeled all the illustrations in English and in Spanish. So these are also in tools. C. So this is sewing machine for example. So I have the word in English and then Lemma kinetic or said is the word for sewing machine in Spanish. So I'm just going to flip right through this and show you the little girl little sneak peek of sewing pattern, the illustrated sewing pattern in the back. Great. So that's that one. Here is another one. This is the second coloring book that I illustrated. It's called LGBTQ IA plus for kids. It's a coloring and activity book. It's the kind of book that I would have wanted around as a kid. It's for children ages seven to ten years old. It's right about that time. Puberty or like right before puberty when kids are learning about their bodies. And it just has, like it explains a lot of terms in very simple ways that children can grasp and understand. But it's great to have around the house because as children develop, they might have different feelings than their peers. So this book serves as a place where they can search for words that helps them describe and communicate to their parents how they feel. And it's also a wonderful book for children who are cis gendered or who, yeah, just what to understand people that are having a different experience than they are. And it's just great. I hope that this book helps inspires kids to create an inclusive and welcoming and understanding world when they're older. So that's that I'm just going to flip through it really quickly so you could get a little taste of what this book. And I'm so proud of this project. The third coloring book that I wanted to share with you is liberatory care coloring. But it was created and organized by awakening creatives like by Liberty. And they brought together many, many queer BIPOC Artist. And it's all about their vision of what liberatory care is. And it's very, very beautiful. I contributed one page to this. Coloring book, and it's this page, and it is about the stigma of mental illness in some communities. And it's a wonderful piece. I drew these two people surrounded by books that say love, empathy. You're not alone. Your feelings are valid. There is no shame in therapy. And they're on books to reference back, like all the resources and research that there is around mental illness and all the help that's out there that you can get. And I also put, of course, comforting things like tea and a sketchbook. I also wanted to show you some of my lookalike dolls. These dolls are portraits, if you will, or caricatures of real people. My customers commission these dolls to look like their friends or family. I offered them in lots of different skin tones and body types and they're just a way of saying you are beautiful, just the way you are to a loved one. It's a really, really nice gift. So as you can see, I have sewn portraits. I have drawn portraits. And now I am dabbling in collage and creating collage portraits of people who I care about and I want to see more represented in the world. So for example, I am concentrating right now on making collage portraits of my family, members, of my beautiful blended family that is now becoming even more diverse and blended as the generations get married and find love and have children or children of their own. So in this class, I am going to show you how to make a collage portrait. This is a class for the beginner. This is the class for the hobbyist. This is a class for the professional because collage is a very forgiving, an inexpensive medium to work in. So yeah, so it's really open for anyone. You can use materials that you have around the house. You can use materials that are on their way to the recycling bin. It's really fun that way. So that's the first part of the class. And then the second part of the class. I am going to show you how to digitize your collage portraits so you can send them to your family member or your friend that you care about, and you can email it to them, you can print it, you can share it on social media. These are endless in terms of what you can do with the digital image. So anyway, without further ado, my name is Raquel boost, and this is collaged portraits. Let's celebrate each other.
2. Inspiration: Okay, so I wanted to share with you some of my favorite illustrators. And I wanted to get started with picture book by Veronika Alvarez, three beta. And is that at Utica call? The book is called semen. And it's all about this little boy and his dog. It's such a warm and inviting book. I wanted to show you this page, especially because she does not depict realistic trees or foliage. It really is just a representation of a tree. So when you're thinking about collage and if you're intimidated and you're like, I can't draw, I kid, you know, do all these things. You don't have to represent something exactly. It's actually very fun and endearing when you find very simple ways of representing images. There's some things so warm and inviting about these houses that are like architecturally perfect and have little papers that are pasted over other papers maybe to hide mistakes, maybe to just add texture to the house. They're just very beautiful images. And this is what I mean by collages, such a forgiving medium. Because in her class she teaches about how you might want this entire floor depicted in orange, but you don't have enough orange paper or you don't have a piece that's big enough to cover the whole floor. That's okay. You're working with collage, put different pieces together and cover up the holes or cover up the areas that you need. Covered in orange if you see a seam, I'll add, say that adds a lot of character to your image and does not take away from it. So that's a lot of fun. And I hope you are recognized this book, it's called a snowy day and it's written and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats. It's one of my all-time favorites. I read this book when I was in the first grade and I was just blown away. By the way. He depicted the neighborhood repeats down. And I loved the way he included these little, this little fence, for example, That's all broken up. It just reminded me of my neighborhood as a child and left such a wonderful impression on me to still wonderful feeling that my neighborhood was special to. And it could be included in books. And as an adult, looking at the images, I realize how simple the images were. Collage doesn't have to be over complicated. It doesn't have to be thought out. You know, you could just kind of feel your way through collage. And I thought it was amazing. How would just simple pieces of paper and simple marks on the page? You can create a story book that has such a lasting effect on a person. So for example, this little person is just like the head is just a circle cut out with a little, another piece of paper that is represent, representative of a half. And it's just so fun. So this is another one. I'm going to show you this 1 first. This way. That's okay. So this is, hello, imagines a world. It is written by Matt de la Pena and it is illustrated by Christian Roberts Robinson. And Christian Robinson is quickly becoming one of my favorite all-time illustrators. So in this book and I'm not going to read all of it, just going to skim through it and show you the images. But I just love, love, love, love. The way Christian Robinson's depicts different types of people, different expressions, different emotions with just a few pieces of paper and very simple brushstrokes. If we really take the time to study these illustrated books, really, all of a sudden, illustration and art isn't as intimidating and it's, and it's just fun and beautiful. Another thing I just love about this book is that Milo is on a journey on the train and we don't know where he and his sister are going. It just though they're going on a trip somewhere. And on the trip, he is imagining the store, the life of the people that he sees. So for example, he sees this little boy who gets on the train and he believes that this little boy with his really clean outfit all done a perfect, you know, lives in a castle and has servants and, and whatnot. So we follow the story. And he's imagining like this drive, for example, that got on the train. He imagines her getting married to a groom and living happily ever after. So he's thinking about all of these people. I mean, look at these lipid, this illustration as just so, so beautiful, so dynamic. I love it so much. But I wanted to show you. I hope this does, is, well, I am going to spoil the ending, but I think it's important to touch to talk about it. So this is my low. He finally gets off the train and he notices that the little boy, the guenon, is going to the same place that he's going to. So now we're wondering a ligand that's where they're going. We see like a metal detector that gives us a clue. And then he starts thinking, Oh, what if I was wrong about all of those people, what their lives were different? So we see that Milo, in the end of the book, goes to visit his mom in prison. And he notices that the little boy that was on the train is also there visiting someone in prison. Maybe it says mom too. And it's just a wonderful story about two things, not judging a book by its cover. And also it's about telling a story from a different perspective. Children who have parents in prison, they are, their story is also worthy of being told. Their perspective is also worthy of being in a picture book. And it's a story about love. It's just, it's just a positive story and I love this. I've never seen this in a book before. I've never seen as a story like this told in such a beautiful and tender way. Omega ms. So round of applause for macula opinion and Christian Robinson, I absolutely adore this book. So this is another book. And then the last one I'm going to show you, this is the last, the last stop on Market Street. It's also by Mandela opinion and illustrated by Christian Robinson. And it is about grandmother and her grandson leaving church and leaving and it's raining and they're going somewhere. So it's all about the little boy and asking his grandmother, Why can't we write on a taxi? Why do we have to get on the bus? You know, why? Do we have to go into our neighborhood, for example, that seems a little maybe dirtier and not as nice as others. And all along the way, the grandmother teaches the little boy to open his eyes and see the beauty that's all around him. And I think it's so beautiful and powerful because again, it depicts a neighborhood much like the one where I grew up. And in the last section of the book, why I'm finally getting to the end of our story. And we see that they are in a soup kitchen and they are handing out food to people in need in their neighborhood. And this is so powerful, it's all about, it's all about telling the story that is not often told. And it's all about reflecting on the fact that all of our stories are important. We are all important. Every, everyone, no matter where they come from, is worthy. And I think that that's really beautiful. And I hope you do as well. And I hope you're inspired to create some amazing collage portrait set up your own.
3. Materials: Okay, great. So I am going to go through all the materials with you that you'll need for the class. The first material you're going to need are pictures of the people who you want to make portraits of. So you only need to choose one picture. I recommend that you print out the picture. Or if it's already like paper photograph, that's grief, but you're going to need it out, out, out, out of their computer or out of that phone. I chose to create. To collage portraits. You only need to create one for your project if you'd like to do more. That's totally agree. I chose this is my niece, Carly, and this is my nephew, heavier. And currently is she is she just graduated. She is a psychology major and she teaches children that are 34 years old. She's such an interesting person. She also loves art and she is an artist in her own right. I love her and I'm so proud of her. How the this is a picture of him in Japan. He is a mine, currently stationed on the other side of the world, and we're super, super proud of them both. And I chose these two images because I loved number one, their pose. And number two, they're close. I liked the fact that they had some pattern in their clothes and they were different colors. Partly too. We can see in this picture she's wearing kinda like burgundy pants and like a plaid jacket and I, but that was really interesting and fun. And this is a fun picture to reproduce of both of them. Now, I'm going to show you two different techniques. That's why I chose two pictures. But again, you can choose to or you can choose one. But it will be really neat if you uploaded the picture that you choose onto the projects gallery and just tell us a little bit about the person that you're going to make a collage. So let's talk about paper. This isn't my paper Tupperware. And I'm just going to take you through some of the stuff that I have in here. I save envelopes. This is the easy way. This is like from junk mail. You can collect interesting looking paper. I like that color and ideas that several times also have in here. And have paper also, again from envelopes that have this like plaid design on it, but it's really neat. I collect magazines and I like, gets pretty messy. And I clip like designs that I find interesting from the magazines. I use those in my collages. I also use printouts, thinking just prints out like this is an old project of mine and I printed this out from like a regular printer and I can still use the backside of this paper. So these are just things that you, you have around the house again, that you don't have to necessarily throw out. So again, this is released pieces. This is another envelope that I thought was really pretty, I love that yellow. This is from a grocery bag that I colored over and made some fun patterns and use that in a collage. Because again, another fun pattern from a Verizon bill can use all of that stuff. It does not need to go into the recycling bin immediately. You can use newspapers, you get the idea. You can also use paper from a sketchbook, which is what I'm going to be using today. Let me show you. So this is thick paper is cold, hot press watercolor paper, which just means that the paper is smooth. That's just the type of paper that I use. Um, I don't I didn't particularly like this paintings, so I decided to keep it in my little bin for collages. And this is like an old drawing that I did. And like in my one of my sketch books and I just ripped it out and instead of throwing it out immediately, are used for collage. So what type of, oops, it gets messy. So I really recommend like a little container like this to keep everything if you're going to be doing collage on a regular basis. So and also before I go onto my sketchbook, I also keep like a small chapel where, where I keep my little clippings and then I put them in the recycling ban like after, after I'm done making my gosh, Great. So this is the type of paper. This is my this is the sketchbook that I use just randomly hearing there. I use it to to teach some of my classes. I use it to create some of my Palette to play around with the materials. So this sketchbook is not precious to me. That's why I can rip out this page and I could use the rest of it for collage and I'll show you exactly what I do. It's a mixed media sketchbook and it's 90 pounds. So that means that the paper feels a little bit like current stock. The pages are sturdy so that you can work with watercolors on there. See the little brush. You could work with pencil, watercolor, ink, markers. You can really work the paper and give it a lot of texture. And so this is great for collages. It's also acid free. And acid free paper just means that it's not going to yellow. Over time. It'll react much slower to the environment. Everything else that you're going to need for this project. I'll take this away. Is a little piece of cardboard to put your collage on to glue it on. So what I typically use is cardboard like this are usually comes like on the back of a notepad. Or you could cut out like cereal box if you want. This just helps you carry your collage from place to place. You could even use an old Manila folder, whatever, whatever you need. All right, so for coloring, you can use anything you have around the house. You don't necessarily need to use these materials. These are materials that I love. I love them so much and I am going to use them for this project. But like I said, you could use crayons, markers, colored pencils, anything you have to create, color. So this is a set of wax pastels from Karen dash. I'll just comes in this like amazing Tim. Show you what they look like. So they have two trees actually in. You can get like if you want to. But it's not necessary for this project. But they come in different size, fat, so you could get like a set of eight. I forget the number of sets, but you don't have to get this like huge, this is the biggest one They have. So what is so special about these pastels? And I'll tell you. So it's so neat that these pastels, they go on by crayon. Right? And then you paint over them with water and they turn into these beautiful watercolor washes. So what I do, and I recommend that you do this even if you're working with crayons or whatever you're working on, like just a scrap piece of paper like this. You should always test out your whatever your coloring or painting with so that you have what are called little swatches like this. So what you are trying to figure out what colors are going to work best in your composition. You have cards that are easy to refer to, a null. I'll show you how to use these. And it also reminds you of how beautiful these colors are. These are part of Karen dashes like they're called. They're very, what is it called? They're very light fast, which means that they won't lose their color over time. So these for my professionals out there, if you want to invest in some beautiful pastels slash watercolors, these are, these are amazing. So I'm going to be using this and I'll make a mess. Like surrounding the little area that I'm filming is becoming such a mess for me. Just tell you. Okay. So these are also by Karen dash. These are my set of colored pencils. They are not water-soluble, so they do not they resist the water. And they're also waxed beast. So they're permanent color if you see that, if you can see that. And so what I will do with these is I can go like I can draw a pattern and then put watercolor over it and it won't affect the design that I make. Or I can put watercolor down, let it dry, and then draw a pattern over the watercolor with these pencils. And they're made out of wood, cedar wood that is farmed sustainably. So I really appreciate what they're trying to do, not only for artists but for the environment. There also, there are luminous brand, which also makes the color really light fast. And so they will also not fade as quickly. You're like, I'm a very high-quality pencil. Again, if you're interested as the professional in like investing, otherwise, you can. If you're a hobbyist or if you're a beginner, I still recommend that you use regular colored pencils. And you go ahead and you create like little swatch cards like this so that when you are selecting the colors that you want to use for your, for your drawing or for your collage, or for your next piece. It just make selecting a color palette a lot easier. It's a great, That is what we're going to color with or where I'm going to. Oh my goodness. Okay. So this is my little tin of things that I use in my collage process as well. So I'll show you everything that I have in here. So I have double-sided tape. I don't use that a lot, but it's good to have. I also use these fun little photo slip. Slip. Or however you pronounce that they're acid free, which means that they're not going to react with the paper and meet the paper yellow. So these are fun. They're like tiny little, tiny little double-sided square tapes, which are very convenient. And then I'd have, of course, my handy-dandy glue stick. This is from the brand Avery, and it's washable and it's acid free. That's that's that I use this. Oh, and I don't know how my white out got in here. Don't pay attention to that. I don't use that in my collage. And I use little tiny scissors like this. I also use this size of scissors. These are not like I think they've got these in the Dollar Tree. They're just, you know, scissors aren't that important to just need like a small one and a little bit of a larger one. That's it. Tweezers. Tweezers are important, believe it or not. The, They're like an extra pair of fingers for hard to reach or hard to place little pieces of paper. So these are definitely worth having in your little kit. And a little hole puncher. Sometimes it's fun to create like little shapes. So that's it. These are all of the things that I use in my collage process. And no, no, no, no, no, no. There is one. You're going to need a tablet and a stylist. I'm using an iPad and an Apple pencil. You'll also need the app, Adobe Photoshop mix. This is a free app that's available for both Android and iOS. The other app that you're going to need is Procreate. It is for Android and iOS. It's a cost about $10 at then it's free after that.
4. Palette Part 1: Okay, great, so now we're going to start putting together our portrait. So if you cannot print out your picture, just do this on another piece of paper or if you have a picture that you can't write on, just do it on another piece of paper, that's totally fine. So this, I'm going to make notes. Strangely the most like academic part of visible process. Okay, great. So I'm going to use my swatches, the ones that I spoke about in the materials section of this class to put together a palette for car least portrait. So this is currently, currently awesome. So the first color I'm going to pick, it's difficult to see in the recording, but she's wearing kinda like these funky Bergen Deep pants. So immediately I see this like purple color that my work. Let me just look for other I kind of like this color, even though it's not an exact match. Bright and fun. So we might use that color. So it's between. There's also this color that's kinda like a brown. Let's just be decisive. I'm gonna go with this. So I'll write down pants. And I will write down this number. So if you have crayons or something or marker that you're working with that don't necessarily have numbers. You can go ahead and write down like the color that you're choosing. So I am going to write 89. Perfect. Okay, great. So that's a fine like reddish color. It's okay to like change your mind too. So and so this one pops a little bit more. In this one, we're going to change my mind. I want to color that pops. So I'm going to go with 80. Nice. So that's that. Now that I have that first color, It's like the brightest color in curlies outfit. I'm going to choose the color for her jacket. And it's like this cool a cool gray color. So I am right off the bat. Know that I want to choose this gray. So jacket is 200 five. Now, there's a design that goes on the jacket and the design is in white. So I do have a white colored pencil that I can use. So I'm going to use, I'm just going to say colored pencil 000 001 for that white. I'm just going to look through again and I'm going to definitely need the black. So colored pencil 000 nine. So this is white. This was black. And I'm going to choose another gray that's kinda of like that similar and bluish hue as the gray wash that we chose. So this is a nice one tied to see on the camera, but it definitely is gray. So I'm going to have those out. So Cp 0 times 0, so this is my gray and I'm also going to have like 500 for I'm going to try have 000 two as well. So these are all these grays that I'm going to pull. And I'm going to try it out. Next. I might not use all of them, but it's worth having them all out. Now, Carly is here. I know that because I know Carly personally. I know that her hair is not like jet-black. So I want kinda of like this, like brownish black color to give her hair like all the awesome dimension, dimension that it has. So here I'm gonna go with 407. And she has this black turtleneck and these black shoes. So I'm going to pull Also the black crayon here. Why pesto? So I'm gonna say terminal node will turn TO that word. Adenoma. So yes, his right of way, meg slash shoes. I'm going to go with the 009 black and we're already pulling this black two, so it'll, it'll work. Oh, that's so cool. This number is the same in both. Nice. So we have a black we have her hair, her turtleneck, her jacket. Let's worried now about her bag. Her bag has like a metallic sheen to it. I do have some of these that have like a metallic sheen, but that's not really what we're looking for. We're looking for a color like this. So her bag oops. Writing 039403 for her bag. And I'm going to use some of these grays and blacks to give her bag a little bit more dimension and also varying the amount of water that I'm going to use. We'll also give it a lot of dimension to. But just in case I'm also going to pull the colored pencil another colored pencils to give it to help me give her bags some shape and dimension. And that's going to be this color here. Right? So we've done everything except for her skin tone. So skin tone is a little tricky because we are never going to match it exactly. And that's the video having kind of like a caricature instead of like a real portrait. So currently has centered beautiful complexion. It falls somewhere in here. Kind of like this really beautiful, like PGE2. Oh, I really like this combination of these two. This is really where she falls. Like finding the right foundation for somebody. So skin. It's going to be 042051. Nice. So the city has like a really complex, but when we pull everything out, you will see that it actually makes our lives a little bit. Easier. Alright, nice. So I went ahead and pulled all of the colored pencils and pastels. Then I'm going to be using, and now I'm going to test out how they look together. So I'm going to start with the two colors that I chose for Carly skin tone. Just kinda, kinda put them over here. I'm going to mix them together. So I think that looks cool. And I'm going to choose the color for her jacket that we chose for her jacket. Makes C is not like exact like we're not like trying to do like a photo-realistic picture. We're just China's see. Oh, I like that. There's just dynasty of the colors work well together. Because this is a cool gray that has like blue tones. These colors are working really nicely together and I like that. This is her bad. Very cute. This is like the color I chose for her here. It's a dark step. Yeah. It's not black. Black. And then this is the black for her turtleneck and for her shoes. I like that. I think that's cool and powerful. So these are all the colored pencils and they're mostly grays, grays and blacks. But let's just see how they all look together. These are all blue grays. It's a little difficult to see on camera. This is a warmer one that goes with her papers. These are ones that I picked to help me design. Jack the plan on her jacket and this is the white, which you really can't see. Okay. So now that I've put everything together, I don't like this color. I think I'm going to go with the original color that I wanted, which was the purple color instead. Like immediately when I cover up this read and look at the purple, I like it a lot more. So it's not going to go with this. So see how important that is like you're not going to, like. Choosing a palette ahead of time. Really helps. Um, because what if you went ahead and my committed to a color and like, you know, covered a whole page in it. And at the end of all that work you realize, but you don't like it. So this is a super helpful technique. I'm just going to rip off a little piece of paper. I'm going to I know. I'm such a mess. That's okay. I'm just going to put this over it like that to see how I like it. Oh my gosh, I love those colors like so much better and it's actually more loyal to her. Her picture. Choices like awesome, like New York style. In this picture. I'm just going to take a little piece of t and I'm just going to touch it here. Not in a very professional way. She said that I remember what I have. So instead of the pants being this color, they are now Zu 99. Perfect. Even the past styles like look like really nice together. So it makes sense. Awesome. So let's do the same thing for Hobbes. Picture. Great, So off-camera, I already picked out the colors that I'm going to use for hobbies, for Hobbes drawing. So I picked out these blues for this blue for his hat, or light blue, and dark blue for the plaid and his shirt. I'm also going to use some white to create some of the details and some black as well. So for his pants, I'm going to be using this color that when I add the water to it, it really does add some of that quality to it, like that light, yellowy quality to it. And I took out the same color in the colored pencil for these dark areas. Nights. So heavy skin tone is really beautiful and it's a combination of two colors as well. And I choose these two. And since they are a little lighter than this, so when you add watercolor to it and it really matches his look or the closest I can get to it. He's a really handsome guy. So I am going to choose this red for the flag. And of course, there's little accents in black everywhere. So I'm going to use my my black for his sunglasses. And of course I'll go in and add some details with my black colored pencil. So this is such a great way of choosing your colors. It's really helpful to have these swatches nearby so you can really see what your colors look like. Because, for example, for Hobbes pants, I would probably have chosen this color just by the look of it, and not this particular color, which is a better fit for for this piece. So it saves you a lot of time and a lot of experimenting. Great. So now we can put away our drawings for now. Actually, no, we can't put them away. Don't put them away. Oh, I just have to clean up my space a little bit. But next, we are going to actually create the paper that we're going to use for our collages. So I'm going to clean up a little bit and give myself a little bit of space.
5. Palette Part 2: All right, yay. So this is also part of creating your palette. I took, like I said before, I just ripped out an old page from my sketchbook that I really didn't Blake. And this is what I'm going to use to create the color that I'm going to be using in my collage. So first things first, I'm going to start with the largest area of color, which is going to be her jacket. So as you recall, we selected this gray for her jacket. So I'm going to just double-check 0, 0, 5. Perfect. So check the number. And very lightly, because this goes a long way. And think a little bit of this pesto goes a long way. So I'm just going to mean a little bit more. Then. I think I'm going to need for the collage. Okay, so that's about as big of space is I'm going to use and just going to put down some water because I, this gray is going to be the background wash. This process creates so many interesting textures. So we have this like crayon texture and then as we're putting down water, we can decide how much of that crayon texture we want to erase. You'll find that collage is all about preserving all of those imperfections. Because unlike any other medium, we want our viewer to know that or see the process, we don't want to hide any of that from the viewer. So the more they can say like, Oh, they used crayons. Oh, they use paved. Oh, there you go. Whatever. The better. So I like this level of finish. Nice. So I'm going to go on to the other washes. As my wet. I'm gonna go onto the other washes. So another wash that I'm going to create our is the purple wash for her pants. So again, you make a little area that's a little bigger. Then the area that you're anticipating using and your collage. And you know what? I don't know if I want to make this a wash. I kind of like having an overall dark having it nice and dark and kind of feel like helped a little bit. So I just going to expand a little more. Just Eye Gaze, I make a mistake and need more paper. You could always create or paper, but I'm going to just add a little bit of water, but not a lot. That's nice. That's really nice. I want to preserve some of that texture, but not yet rid of all of it. It's really pretty, and it's a really pretty purple. I'm really happy that I chose it. Nice. So that's that. And then we are going to meet a couple more and washes. So the black Let's try. I'm not gonna do a Washington black. I really want the black to be dark. So I'm going to just take my colored pencil. Go add some color for the shoes as well. All right, that's good. And then I'm going to get my inner try to fill in those areas. We can experiment. Let's see what that looks like with a little bit more. A little bit. Oh, that darkens and beautifully, That's exactly what we're looking for. Is looking for this like jumped are kind of fills in the area at the colored pencil. Did not fill in. That's nice. Oh, that's beautiful. I love working with his best DO like magical maize. Maize makes a so. Next is the bag. A nice little section back for the mag. Create some areas that are lighter so that we could create a little shine there. Perfect. We will need also come along to use Hopefully that strap. So just try to lighten mess as much as possible because that strap has a shine to it. How much sharing you want to be late. But we also wanted to have that pigment in their maize. So we have her jacket, her pants, her turtleneck, her shoes, and her pocketbook here. Let's just test. This is pretty dry. So you could start going over it. But maybe we want to create the skin tone first. Just give it a little bit more time. So I decided to use two different hairstyles for her skin tone. Put down a light 1 first and then add this color. Can I give myself plenty of room? Because we also have her hands involved and have a whole thing going on. So I got some water on them. And the picture nice. Tone has like pink center. I feel like it needs a little bit of my pink and some right over it and go over with your brush. Mix it. Okay. If we have texture. Nice. Okay, so now we need to give her hair almost forgot. So I have this beautiful like dark CPR teller start we're going to use for her hair. So any spaces that are poor on that sepia tone. So pretty these colors together. I open translates well in the video because it's really looking pretty nice. So we created that wash, and now we can go back to our first wash. So curlies plaid. You have all these different great ways that we can work into the plan. So let's get started. So we're going to get started with this. So it's not going to be exact. So I'm just going to turn this folder because I can give me I'm really close and they're ambitious over this is not going to be exact, but it doesn't need to be exact. It just means to represent currently struggling. If you're really seeing like all the layering that went into that. And it really reminds me of pled. Great, So what's next? Okay, So Carley has this amazing curly hair. So we are going to recreate that texture here with the black. Just going to sum over corrodes. Not gonna do a lot of it just because this is great for after you cut and paste into the position you want to color. And like the area that you want, the color in the curls in the direction that you want the girls to hang. Okay, so I'm gonna make a little darker area. Psyche really fill in that, those give that bags dimension. Ooh, nice. So our palette is ready for curlies collage. So now I'm going to move on and make the palette for Hobbes collage. And we're gonna do it off camera because it's basically the same process. Well, we start cutting is when I'll show you how the different techniques between Carnegie's and Hobbes collage. But for creating a palette, the techniques are basically the same.
6. Cut and Paste the Eye Ball Method: So we are now ready to start our collage. I wanted to show you my space. I'm working on a big surface area right now. And that's perfect for collage. So few. Can this is great for this project is great for a dining room table. What's important is that you have a board or something that you can work on so that if I don't finish your project, you can carry it. And you will lose all your little pieces, just like you would a puzzle or something like that. So I have my board and my Tupperware full of extra pieces of paper that I might want to use. I have my small tupperware that I can fill with little tiny pieces that are not going to reuse and are going to go into and recycling bend. And then of course, I have my 10 with all of my scissors and fluids takes and all of that. But most importantly, I have my collage portrait inspiration here, the person that I'm going to depict in collage. And they also have all of the paper that I prepared for the collage. So I just prepared this surface area for paper because I'm going to stay true to this size. But if you're going to make a collage that's bigger than like a regular photo size, irregular leg, five by seven or four by six. Then you'll need to make a lot more paper or collect a lot more paper like you saw in the beginning in the materials video. How I collect paper from magazines, from newspapers from a US grocery bags, they use envelopes. I use all of these things. Okay, so now that that's done, let's get to the task. Cutting and pasting. The first thing I do is I take my scissors and every person for an amine. All of this stuff here. I take my big scissors and I cut out sections of paper. Collage gets messy age quickly. So just keep this topo whereby or sign these pieces dried really nicely. Want to keep big pieces like this to decide just in case I need to create, recreate some more. Paper that's like, let's see here. Since when I created before, this is not need to be perfect. It's just a way to help you get organized. Okay, great. So first things first, we're going to need a piece of paper to paste everything on. So I'm just grabbing a regular old pad of paper and say, regular people who could even use printer paper. Collages do curl. So you don't want that to happen. You can paste this piece of paper right on your board so that it doesn't, it doesn't curl up. But I'm just going to paste it on this piece of paper. Because and then I'll show you why I do that. I'll show you why I do that. So I'll show you with this first. I make, would I make collaged pieces? I paste them in directly into sketchbooks like this. It keeps it keeps the collage relatively flat, right? And I can then scan the collage, which we're going to do in this class as well. And rearrange, remove the back that in there, rearrange the pieces how I like them. So if you go on my Instagram, he can see what I did with some of these pieces. I could even post them on the video. I'll post a couple, but there's little time on my Instagram that you can see. So yeah. This is just what I do. So I'm just going to skip forward a little bit. Sure. Your recent yeah. Here's a recent one that I did. This is a collage portrait of my knees and her boyfriend. And I also pasted it on like a white piece of paper. And then when I was done and happy with the work, I moved everything into my sketchbook to preserve it. And to scan it so that I can work with it later on. And a digitally added phases, which is something that we're going to do as well. So that is what I do with my little collages. And I'll show you in this sketch book. I collect whatever I have leftover pieces that I really like. I collect them and I paste them in this book. I make all sorts of different shapes out of them. And then I scan this in and make patterns and all sorts of, all sorts of different. Here's a fun pH for you to look at. This has hearts on it. This became a pattern. I'll show you another one. I became a pattern to also be human pattern. Oops. So I just keep them in the sketchbook. It keeps them organized. Ooh, this is where the piece that you see behind me came from. Where it started, I started collecting link little colorful drops and then some clouds and it became a quick yeah, this is another Christmas. This is not like him any chronological order, but you can see this is where what I do with my collage pieces after they're done. So that's exactly what we're going to that's exactly what I'm gonna do with this piece of Carly. I'm going to paste it onto this piece of paper, and then I'm going to transfer it over to one of my sketchbooks, cubed greet. So the technical term for this collage method is eyeballing it. Not really a technical term. It's just something I made up. First, we're going to start with her jacket. So we're going to look closely at the shape of the clothes and we're going to break it up into parts. We're not going to just magically cut Carlos outfit. So this jacket is kind of like a rectangle. So we are going to cut a rectangle shape and you could put the paper right on the full breath. So you can eyeball how big of a piece of paper you want. Always do like a little bit bigger so that you can fix it later. Liter. So that's pretty good. So now we are going to make it a little bit better. Notice how I switched it just because I see that this part of the paper is unfinished. So I know that when I am going in this next part, when I round out all the corners, I can cut that little piece out. So that's the next part. So I have the basic shape of car lease jacket. Now, I'm going to round out these corners. Rounded corner doesn't have to be perfect. You're going to have so much more fun than I am doing this because I'm a little bit stressed out that I'm recording this in my head. I'm like, Oh my gosh, I'd like to try to be bird vague behaves, recording and what are they going to give me and you're not going to have any bad stress. I'm just going to be home or in your studio space. And you're going to be like, oh, this is, This leads us. And if you messed up, you have all this extra paper to work on. Now, you could also, what you could also do, or you're just eyeballing these pieces. The shape of these pieces is to an amoeba little corners a little bit too round, is to use a blank piece of paper. And trace. Cut out the shape of this piece of paper and then trace this piece paper onto here and then cut. If you're worried about like, like wasting paper. But this is part of the fundamental. This is what I like, how I like to do it. Nice, so awesome. So this is the shape types, but it doesn't have to be exact. So now let's figure out grab a pencil. Figure out about where her jacket is, like the flap of the jacket where it closes. And now I'm so technical with my fashion terms. Again, this is all like eye rolling it. Okay, Nice. So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to take this shape. I am going to show you whenever we create it, when I recreate it, so that I can cut an overlap the pieces and I'll show you what I love. It's easier to show you. Okay. So I just drew a line where I wanted her jacket to be. But if I cut this piece right. And I just put it next to this piece, like this. It's not going to look as interesting or as believable that they're overlapping unless I put it over another design like this. And we're, the pattern changes a little bit. So that's pretty fun. Don't have to get rid of this piece. You can use for her lapel. I'm going to use it for her lapel. I'm just going to cut a little piece. So this little piece is huge, right? So that's perfectly fine. We're going to go back in like that. So that's a little better. Let us have, I haven't yet like pasted anything down. Just go Create. So now we are going to do the same with the other side. We're going to do is cut out this part here. And we're going to add a lapel on this side. Okay? So we want to layer the pieces in such a way where we can see and notice how I just grabbed some like a little piece from in here just because they're in good. On my way to the recycling bin, Tupperware does not mean that we can't reach your hand in there and use some of the pieces. So this piece is kind of perfect for the other side of the lapel. Just need to kind of cut out like this. See, nice. It's not exact. We're not looking for exact here. We're looking, we're eyeballing it. We're just looking for fun. Like a fun match. Nothing has to be exact. But the reason that I do, that I don't paste anything down at this point is because I like putting it over the picture to see if if I'm heading in the right direction. Thanks. So the next part is her little turtleneck. And her shoes. So I have plenty of black or white, but I have plenty of black. I'm just going to make a little step here of black. Put it on the other side. Now I'm not gonna cut that yet. Just want to let it cook there for a little while. So let me do the arms next. She needs arms. I'm just going to go into okay. So how do we do the arms? So let's notice the way the patterns go. So her patterns on her jacket go horizontally this way. And the arms kind of go the pattern on her arms go diagonally this way, like this. So we are going to use that as well in our sheep. Use that angle. We're going to draw right on our piece. Draw right on there. This is the length of her arms. So we have the the pattern. It's going in the direction we want and we dry it. We drew our seam in the direction that we want it. Kind of eyeballing where those where her shoulder begins in and nice and then this is where her and leave. Okay. So I just realized something. I drew this leave when I drew this lead this way, the pattern continues. You can make a choice here to leave the pattern that way. Or you can choose to cut out another portion of the pattern that's going in the correct direction to finish her arm. And they think that's what we're gonna do is we're going to cut her arm out. Cut her arm out like so. And then we're going to cut we're going to figure out what direction is this going in. Going in this direction. We're going to count her arm out going in this direction. Okay, Well, spine the direction again. Nice. And it's like this. How we're cutting the shape of the arm link. So this is why this is such a great project for beginners, because you're really putting, you know, you are holding the shapes close to the picture. And they don't have to be perfect. So just a nice way for beginners to start out and for hobbyists to start out in a collage. Art form. Just like it's so forgiving, could make plenty of mistakes with how I adjusted her arm and made it like a little bit thinner. Made it fit a little bit better? No. So that's where peas is going to go. See how the angle may not be totally correct here. That's okay because you can stick that on top and just move it or you can stick it below and move her arm into the angle that looks more close to the picture. This arm Stoics a little thick. Sorry, I'm just going to cut it. If I were to color this, it would be very, very difficult to adjust for all of those so-called mistakes. Mistakes, pieces. There's no like better word for it, but like him are you don't have to get it the first time. No. You don't need to get that. Perfect. The first time. You could keep going and going until it looks just about right. Great. So now we are ready to paste the jacket down. So I'm going to remove this black fees. And I'm just going to work bottom up. So because we're not finished with the collage, I recommend that you leave the edges are glued. Okay. So I'm going to paste the body, right? Like the jacket without the lapels or anything. But I'm only going to paste the middle. So every, all the other edges are our app. And do this for two reasons. One, because as I'm going along, I can cut and like wiggle things underneath or like leak adjustments that way. And 2, you get these awesome, awesome shadows that try all you might like. They're so difficult to replicate in. Like Illustrator or Procreate or whatever program you use. Photoshop. They're just very difficult to recreate because they're uneven. You know, some little pieces stick up more than other. There's the angle that the light is hitting it. It just, just so random and are not random, but like there's so many variables that it's hard to recreate digitally and make the piece so beautiful and make you, makes the viewer know that, wow, you did this by hand. I just stuck back arm right underneath there. So make sure you get the right angle. Glued drives. I'm reminds the viewer that this was all done by hand, which is super, super nice green. So you see this little corner, I'm just going to click Next, Next, Next. So I just dirty paper a little bit with my fingers. And I'm going to panic because when I scan it, I can just clean that up. Not a big deal. And again, that makes for an image that people can say, Yeah, that was totally done. Because you can see that the paper was switched. Night sky. I am going to continue and do the rest of this piece. Hello. Whenever you are getting frustrated with the keys. Since remembering that this is symptoms to be fun. And if things look a little wonky, that gives the piece lots of life, lots of life and character, and be okay. All right. Great. So I think I am done with car lease fees. We are going to add her fees. And speaker here a little bit more. Add some details here on the bag and everything on the computer. And bye for now.
7. Cut and Paste the Tracing Method: Okay, great. So we are going to get started with this second way that I do collages. It's faster and more precise. I came here, they Malik, I'll get there some way we teach, as we said before, it's so much faster, much more close size. And the reason I didn't teach you this way before is because this way doesn't lead you to make happy mistakes. So for example, you see how big I drew the buttons here and how her shoe doesn't exactly in line with her pants here. Those are mistakes that I like and I want to keep. And this method that we use before allows us to practice looking at shapes and really helps train our eyes to draw and cut and create what we're, what we see and make decisions as artists. The way I'm going to show you now is yes, it's faster. Yes, it's more precise. But I'm going to lose some of that. Some of that fun of collaged like they're unexpected and some of the like the troubleshooting and the problem-solving, all of that fun stuff. You're not going to, not going to get as much of it using this method. So you can decide which method you'd like to use. At the after watching all of all of my videos, like after watching both methods and say, okay, this works, this doesn't, okay. We're gonna take this printout. And again, this also works only if you have like a printout of the picture. I wouldn't recommend you doing this with like an actual photograph that you want to keep. Its it only works if you have a printout. So I'm going to take a pencil just like so. And I am going to shade the entire back of the picture. Like this. I can kinda see where it can end. I'm not sure you can see it as I'm recording, it. Can kind of see where I'm going to shave the entire body of the person that you are going to cut out. So we are going to trace now, we're going to put this piece of paper. I'm just going to cut out a little little things so the paperclip a flat properly. So I'm going to stick this piece of paper under his pants because this is the color that I'm going to answer a stance. And I'm going to literally trace where his pants go. Remember we trace back right here, spans go. I am going over his shirt a little bit and past the end of the picture a little bit as well. So WHO? The thing I did that because kinda messed up here and I went over the paper a little bit. That's okay. So I'm gonna go ahead and cut that out. So this is a faster way of eyeballing a piece. All right, great, so now that's done. All right there, Let's see. It didn't matter if we didn't cut out this little piece. The whole purpose of going beyond the pan a little bit is this piece is going to go underneath the shirt when we cut it. So now I'm going to take a darker section of pants. And I'm going to put it right under again ocher. And I am going to trace. All right, I see. I'm going to overlap them because again, you're going to be overlapping them when you cut. Like when we paste, I'm sorry. That's what I meant when you paste. Nice. So this piece is meant to be a lot darker than this piece. So remember, we got our pencil. So I'm just going to make sure that I trace my pencil so I don't lose the lines where I want to cut. Just going to go right over. And we can start for just like that. Okay? And there's some areas here in this piece. And I want to make dark too. Again, there's just, that needs to be exact. This is done photo realism. This is just a fun with collage. If you bear with me and don't hate me for like not showing this to you sooner. Alright, so now we're going to cut out this other pant leg. Nice, nice. So here's what we do. So this is the piece that's gonna go on the bottom right. So I just line it right up on the paper and then write out the arm and photograph. And then I take my glue stick and I'm just going to glue just the edge That's going to be overlapping. Just like that. And my line everything up nicely. Cool. And these are hobbies. Now, I'm not going to cut, paste anything down on paper yet. So just let everything kind of hang out a little bit. I want the contrast to be a little darker. So I'm just going to go in point the colored pencil. Just gonna meet that contrast darker between the parent links. Not a big deal. I think that's where I'm gonna I'm gonna stop terms of darkening it. Thank you. Great. So we did the pans and we're just going to put my little cancer side. And now we are going to do how these shirt, I love that. This is not in proportion at all. Like this print is so much bigger than this. I like that, That's fun. Nothing needs to be exact. So we are going to cut this out in sections so that we can it can look like a shirt or looks like we have a shirt. So you have to be very careful. I mentioned going to set this in half. We have to be careful because I don't have a lot of this paper. And I want to make sure that everything is make sure everything well. Okay, Great. Thanks. This week, we'll briefly, it needs to be. Okay, great. So now I am going to start with the bottom piece. That goes out like this. And I'm going to overlap it like so. So that's the bottom piece and the best part of the shirt. Great. So it's difficult to see for you, but I can see it. The Council in just comes right out. Just a little difficult for me to see when. Because that sure. Okay. So this is the piece that we want. Yes. Yes, it is. Nice. So I'm going to put this aside again. We can turn this over so that you have going on with the different part of the pattern so that it looks like it's two pieces overlapping. I'm gonna make sure I get this. And you get that best. I'm going to go over the sleeve here because this is all going to be underneath. It's great. Being very lucky about where I place this paper. Um, different thing. Great. So now we can paste these two pieces together. So this goes down first. And then take this piece. And I'm just gonna glue the edge that's going to go down. Nice. I kinda like seeing that he's becoming a cartoon. So that's really nice. Now the pants. So I'm going to put the pins down and then put some glue on the edge of the shirt. I know. I know everybody shaking their head. I do like them, but life isn't fair. So we have this going on. I'm already like super excited about this piece, so I'm going to put some little detailing. Gosh, I got to sharpen the pencil. Okay. Nice. So we're not, we're not finished yet. We still have to do the sleeve. So okay, now this is getting a little bit wild with all these little pieces coming out. So I'm just going to cut the extra little pieces. Just going to make sure that I can use it for the sleep. All right, great. So now again, we're going to trace a little bit over the sleeve, like over this part because this is the part that's going to go underneath. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks. So we're doing it. And it's going so quickly. I know. And this is also really fun for kids if you want to show them how to make a collage portrait like this, they'll have lots of fun. This is the part that goes under. Nice, nice, nice, nice. So I think then I need to make this a little bit. Great. So let's put it right over. Anything. Nope. Let me see if I could erase some of this depends on which it can. Great. It's okay if you see pencil work, it's okay. I see some of the work of Illustrator that have me like beautiful. We could have made beautiful like storybooks. And you can see there are marks. So it's okay for us to have pencil marks as well. Okay, great. So now we're gonna do this arm in two pieces. So we're going to do this shape here, The Golden Circle and paste. So I gotta get it a little rounder here. And I get some glue on there, just done a little bit That's going underneath. So it still has this like Beautiful, cartoony quality to it because of our big, big marks and the way we colored everything in. So even though we're tracing it and making the portions perfect to what the picture is. It's still have this like endearing fun quality to it. So what this sleeve, we're making sure that if our directional lines from the pattern are pointing in the correct direction. Sure. That this is going so quickly. Yeah. So his body is done. That was ridiculously fast and fun. So now I am going to stop this. I'm going to stop. I'm going to take a break and off-camera. I'm going to ask finish all these little details here. And I'll be back. So we finished piece. I'm going to compare it to this currently is entirely his selects a lot messier. By. They both have this like really cute, cartoony quality to them. And I really like that. So I think they're both a success. This is a little bit rockier and most year around the edges, but that's okay because we're going to scan them in or sorry, take pictures of them. Actually, we're not going to scan and we're gonna take pictures of them and continue our process in an analog, like in a digital way. Using Procreate and Adobe Photoshop Mix. So if you wanted to, you could, you can continue. And Mike actually Like draw in her face or cut out with the little pieces of paper, like her mouth and her eyes like on, in your, in your portrait, you can continue doing that. You don't have to continue on this like digital path that we're going to go on. So at this point, if you want to continue, sorry, if you want to finish in an analogue way and do it that way, like by all means, go ahead and do that. We're going to we're going to do it digitally. So I started cutting out like the little details here, like how these sunglasses. I decided that I'm not sure if I wanted to do, like do it with paper. I think I'm going to draw it on digitally as well. So remember how I showed you this artist before. Her name is SDG goal. And in the video where I show you my inspiration, I showed you this book of hers. And what's so amazing I was watching a interview that she did is that she does not do anything digitally after the fact. She cuts everything out. She says If I cannot cut it out with paper, then I won't do it. I was like, Oh my goodness, That's amazing. That's wonderful. I could see here how she drew in like the little rain droplets. But when it comes to like the little boys like eyebrows, eyes, mouth, nose, cheeks, even she did all of that with paper. So my pieces are tiny. I like working small. She works very large. She has a lot of room to work. So she's able to do this. I personally find the face very intimidating. So I like doing it digitally where I can easily, you know, try different angles and different colors and not ruin all the work that I've already put into it. But she's a lot braver than I am. She's also had a lot more experience in collage. So that's her way. We're going to teach you my way to do it. So get your pictures ready. We are going to the second part of this series, which is digitizing our work.
8. Digitize with Photoshop Mix: Great. So the first application that I'm going to need to use is Photoshop Mix. So that's Adobe Photoshop mix. This is the icon for it. I'm going to, once you open it, you're going to get this plus sign here. And it says Start your project. So I want to go ahead and select my image. All my images are going to pop up. I'm going to go ahead and select parties. Emerge. Great. So there's a blue box around it. It's been selected. So I'm just going to tap outside to select. And I'm going to tap again the image layer to select it. Down here. I'm going to use the Cut Up tool. Great. So you're going to see all these tools down there. So let's auto smart, basic lasso, shape, refine, and reset. We are going to use only a couple of these tools. We're going to start with the, the smart want here. And we are going to go up here and select, subtract. So that means that everything that our stylists touches is going to be subtracted from the image. And you're going to get this like checkerboard option. So it is doing it and the computer's doing it for you in a smart way. And what it's doing is it's looking at all of the pixels and choosing and similar colors. And it's subtracting all of those similar colors. So I'm just going to go through okay, Awesome. So your background is gone. I'm just going to use my two fingers and I'm going to pinch to get into this part here. So you see how it left this nice shadow, but just took off the paper. That's exactly what we want it to go in here and take out the paper, but leave in the shadow bits. So here are moved quite a bit of shadow. And we don't necessarily want that. So we want it back and you can get it back. You're just going to press the add one here. And you just going to go over this area where the shadows. So the shadow is kind of wonky. Don't really like it. So I'm gonna go here and I'm going to choose Basic. Basic is just a one, so it's going to remove the pixels that you tell it to remove. And it's also going to feather it based on the hardness, hardness that you choose. So that means that the edge with this hardness is going to be a little soft. We can adjust that by going up and down here like this. Pressing like inside of this or sorry to the side and o private, I do it. Okay. All in a little ball here. Turn it. You go up and down and that changes the hardness. So 0 is no hardness whatsoever. And then you go all the way up to a 100, which is like really she will, which will give you really sharp lines. So that you can also change the size to the little tool that you're using, which is great. So this is pretty hard. I don't want it at heart here. Like using a very soft Lee, especially on shadows. So I'm gonna go ahead and go to subtract or the eraser. I'm just going to go ahead and just really lightly add shadow a little less. Wonky. So much better. So much better. So I'm just going to look at everything, all my little details, and I'm going to make sure that everything is two-way liking. Here's a little bit of paper that didn't get removed. Now. Nice, nice, nice things. Nice shoes or anything. She's are a little wonky. And add this time some shadow. Nice. Noticed here some spots going to remove. Okay, great. So you get the idea. You just go around and make sure that everything is nice and crisp. Way you'd like it. What's going on here? I'm going to switch over. Okay. So in this area I just added a little bit more because I wanted to see exactly what was going on. So I know what's going on here, that the computer's picking up two layers of paper that I stuck together. One is lighter than the other. So I don't want I want to make sure that this line is Chris and I don't want any of that paper showing on that side. So we don't use the Lasso tool. And we're going to make sure it's on subtract. And what the lasso tool does is it allows us to circle an area and add it or remove it with nice sharp lines like that. Okay, so here I am going to use the Lasso to just kind of trace this bag and make a circle here, just make sure that all of that area is in the picture here. Okay? Okay. I think that's pretty good. Now I'm going to go crazy. And now I'm going to have you make a mistake if you do something that you're like, Oh, maybe that was like too much, too far. I don't want to do that. Then you can always reset here and it'll put everything back to its original form. And here is a little arrow. That's the undo button. Okay, but I'm happy with this, so I'm going to go ahead and click Done. So this is a way that I check to see if everything is to my liking. I clicked over here, this is showing you there's a little plus sign here. Comes up is this textbox that asks you to add a layer, which you'd like to add an image, texts, or color layer. And in this specific case, I'd like to add a color layer. So I am going to add a color that I don't see here. So we'll just add like a green. It doesn't matter as long as it's not in the picture because I want to see whether or not I got all the little I cut out everything the way I want it. So this is green, but the green layers on top of my little collage. So I'm going to take a little collage long, press it, and then just drag it over the layer. So it's some tough, nice. So I'm going to click out so that that box is removed. And I'm looking at everything and all the edges. And it's really nicely cut out. So I'm happy with this. Okay, so I'm gonna go ahead and tap that layer again. And long temperate again. Once it's selected, I'm going to delete this layer because I don't need it. I want a transparent background just like this. So when I click this little box here with the arrow, I'm going to export this to my camera roll. And it's going to export it to my camera roll with this transparent background. So then I can open it up in Procreate. Great, So we're gonna do this one more time. We are going to select Hobbes picture. So this is Hobbes picture here. Okay, I'm going to click out. Take a look at where I'm working with. I am actually going to crop this picture. So let me go back. This is the way I crop, it's this little box here. Click on that. And I want to bring it in. And so that most of the picture area is him. And then I'm going to click the check box here. Nice. So now I'm going to go down here and just select a cutout tool. I'm going to subtract. Whoops, sorry. Make sure that down here you've selected the smart. That's how I always start and then select, subtract. So you're selecting the smart one down here and subtract up there. And you are asking the computer this point to just subtract everything, everything, everything, everything that you don't want in the picture. So with Hobbes picture, it was a little old. See how? I'm going to show you that again and undo. This color is very similar to this color. So when I selected this color to subtract, I did it very quickly and the computer just read the pole as the same color as the paper. So it's subtracted it as well. So you gotta be careful. So a subtracted everything, but as you can see, the little parts that I still have to fix. So I'm gonna go in the basic and I am going to add back a little parts that the computer to go away. So here I've added a little bit too much. We're gonna go to my Lasso Tool. Lasso it back. Yeah, so that's great. This little section, everything looks okay. And last a lot of shadow here. So I'm going to go back to my basic, excuse me. I'm just going to add in that shadow. And I added a little bit too much. So I'm gonna go in with my Lasso Tool. Nine, going to just circle the staff that I want to remove. Perfect. So yeah, me continue. Basic. Just going to make this a little bit nicer. It's good enough. Let's add that shadow back in. Nice. So I noticed again that I added, as I added that shadow work and I added some of the paper and take my lasso tool that's almost a chart Road. Less all that in. It's attractive. Nose. Looks nice, nice. I'm just going to go over everything. Basic. Again. Just going to add, it's going to check to see like sometimes you think that you're missing one little piece, but that's just the way that people who cut. And to make sure that this line is nice and curves. Okay, lasso tool. That's great. Oh, it's starting to rain outside. You could hear that. Oh, it's really starting to come down. Right. Like you want to arrange. It gives me more of an excuse to stay inside and make art. Okay, so again, there's some paper here. So the lasso tool, I'm just going to get that paper out. So this is the way I use my tools in combination, but you don't have to use the tools like I'm using it. You can experiment and you can use the tools, or you'd like to use them. So again, I'm going to test this out. I'm going to press the plus sign and I'm going to choose a color. In this case, I'm going to use a pink. Pink, some just something that's not in the picture because TO even worry about it being too choosy with this one because she's a color that's going to help you see the image. Okay, so I already noticed that this, oops, we don't want that. Already noticed a couple of things about this image. The here I see some way and also here I see some light on the edges of the paper itself. So I'm going to make sure that I'm on the layer with heavy and I'm going to put a cut out. And I'm going to go to the smart cut out. Make sure it's on subtract. I'm going to subtract out more of that paper up here. All of this just makes it easier to work later on. So there was a lot of brightness around here. I'm gonna go to my basic tool. I'm going to go to subtract. And I'm just going to very gently just go around and kind of erase out all of that white paper rice. So that should fix it. So I'm gonna go here and just accept that change. And I'm going to click on that color layer and delete it. Then I'm going to go up here to the box. I'm going to save it to my camera roll. Nice. Okay.
9. Removing the background with Procreate: Okay, So unfortunately, Adobe Photoshop Mix is
no longer available. So I would like to
show you how to remove the background
right on procreate. So I'm working on some holiday cards and I took a picture of
my sketchbook where I cut and pasted some
little ghosts and some elements that
I'm gonna be using in cards and patterns. So I took that
picture and I just uploaded it here on procreate. It's right above my
background, which is white. So what I'm gonna do is I'm
just going to duplicate that layer and I'm going to hide that first layer and do use the duplicate layer
just in case I make a mistake and something happens, I just want to be able to
preserve its first one. The way that I like to
remove the background from my my images. It's a little tedious. But here knows. I tap on the Selection
tool right here. Make sure that it's on freehand. And I go ahead and go into
the little area where I want to remove the background and I just kind of outline
the background where I would like
it removed. Okay. I want to remove that, the white of the paper that's showing through the
little ghost eyes. And then with three fingers
swipe down and cut. That removes the little ghosts. I, but I also like to add a layer of black to make sure that I really do have all that white
out of there. And I don't. So what you can do is you
can go in with an eraser. You can use any eraser you like. I like going in with just the regular
mono line eraser and I make sure that it's small. About 1%, about 1% is fine. Make sure you're on
the correct layer. So I got to have to be
on that ghost layer. And I go in and just make
sure that I really am getting all of that white out. Just like that. Have the TV in the back
onto my wife is downstairs. Alright, there you go. So it's nice and cat, Let's just turn off
that black layer off. We're good. There you go. So that's how I would
go through the tire. Little ghost here and remove it. Another thing you can
do is use the eraser to just go over make sure
the opacity is turned up. Not like, Oh, I just had it. We could do that first. Just like toggle back and forth. And then when you're
all finished with that, you can go in with your
selection tool and cut out the entire ghost. I'm just gonna go ahead and
do this really quickly. You can also use this tool to of come in and do these really
complex little areas. Right? I've just selected an
entire little area that I want to remove. Whoops. Toggled down with three
fingers and cut out. Race. Perfect. Coming in again with the tool, the selection tool outlining the shape that I
want to cut out. Cut it out. Then. I don't really want to, the eraser that I'm using
is as small as I can get. So I'm just gonna go in with the door with the
selection tool in here. I don't want to cut
out the shadows loops. Don't want to cut out too much in the shadows. Perfect. This is a very little
complex area here. And selection. I'm using the eraser right now
to just kinda go in there. You can use a different eraser, but for the sake of time, I'm just doing this pretty quickly. Okay? See, I want to get in
there a little bit more. My selection tool is
perfect for this. You can make it smaller. I just like to see
what I'm doing. I like to kind of
nutty that way. I like to see like at the pixel, like when it starts
getting pixelated, you can really tell link which pixels are the white
of the page and which pixels are becoming
the the shadow that's around the paper
that we just cut out. Sure you get all that. Great. I'm just going to cut
out a huge chunk. It's very tedious
to do it this way. There's another
way I'll show you, but it's not as precise and you wind up doing
this anyway at the end. So why not just do it
correctly from the beginning? Okay, great. So I went around my whole little ghost pieces. I'm just going to get this to go in there with the
eraser a little bit. Okay. Page. Perfect. Nice. So now we have this little
ghost floating in here. We're going to take the
selection tool again. We're going to outline
the entire little ghost. A little boost. See how having this little channel
makes it a little easier. Now to select the ghost
with our selection tool. Okay, great. So now we're just going
to click Copy and Paste. And our little ghost, It's in
its own little layer here. On the white and the black
over the black layer. So that's pretty good
and transparent. So yes, it is a little tedious. However, if you're listening
to a good podcast, you can, can just relax and
cut out your little shapes. I hope this helps.
10. Digitize with Procreate One More Time: We finished our first picture. Now we're going to concentrate on currently curlies photo is really rad. We are going to add 0 layer. Make sure it's on multiply like before. Multiply, great. And I like everything that I see, like in her outfit. Just want to add a couple of details on her bag. So I'm going to go to colors and just add mixture. It's a little, oops. First you gotta make sure you're on the right tool. So click the brush. Go to sketching. Six the pencil. Make sure you're on the right tool. Make sure it's the size and opacity that you'd like it to be on. And I'm just going to draw on the little zipper. And like this little thing here, Right there, other details in the bag. But that's all taken care of with the folds of the actual cutting that we did. Great. So we're going to show you something else to add another layer. And I'm going to leave it on normal. There are some pencil marks here that I don't want. Like the pencil marks here on the edge, find jump over me. But this one, it's kinda bothering me. So I'm gonna go to the eyedropper tool and select a color in her hand. And I'm just going to color over pencil mark. So that's the kinda of like a way of erasing when you can't erase. And I think it would be fun to select a white. Just make some button holes on here. That too much, yeah, maybe too bright and white. So what we're gonna do is we're going to change all of these to a gray that's in here. So I'm just going to use like maybe start or grays. And then I select my little cup groups. Started. We'll go ahead and select the little color circle thing, and I'm going to drop it on the button. So now, that's cool. Now that is less contrasty and I like it. Okay, great. So O'Charley's head is a little bit big. And also all these pencil marks here that I was using, I don't want them in there. So let's get rid of the pencil marks first are going to go back to our history of colors and we're just going to select color we were using before. I'm just going to kind of note this is a little bit too opaque. I'm just going to lighten it up and it's also a little bit dark. Color. Is a white color. Lighter color. Might involve all up. This is going to actually do it really thin like on the actual color itself. Let's see how that works. How that works out. All right, yay, much better. You're going to race. Can't be too perfect because the color in the back is a perfect. There we go. There we go. So that's nice. Center East colors. You can't really tell that it was there. Just amazed he didn't even choose like another color and kind of move over it a little bit. Okay, So that's great. So great. Okay. Thanks. So now we are going to concentrate, going to go back to the multiply layer. We're going to choose our black color. And we're going to have add it at curlies hair. So we are going to just draw curls to Carlos had just like this. And this is just going to add a lot of texture and dimension, which we want. Nice. So I also realized that her face here is a little, should be a little bit wider. So we for eye color in this second part of her hair, I'm gonna go back to the layer that's normal. I'm going to select some of the colors that we were using before. I'm going to just kinda outline where I think the face should have been. I think the fees should have been like this. So I'm just going to go over that black like this, but that shape looks more like curlies. The shape of her head. We still have some tweaking to do and we started to make it smaller among show you how to do that. So I'm going to go on and on. I'm going to show you one more thing. So you see how this texture here is not the same texture as the paper. So how do we make sure that we cut a piece that will that is excuse me. How do we correct that? So we're going to go to the ribbon tool freehand. We're literally going to cut out a little piece like this. And here we're going to copy and paste. We're going to select the arrow tool. And we're going to move this piece where we need it. So that piece looks good right there. And I'm going to move it above this layer so you can see what our, what I just did and see that it's like I copied a little section of her paper and I just moved it over. All right. Thanks. So I'm looking at the lines and I'm figuring out that curlies hair is big for her face is actually in proportion. Charlie's hair is a little bit too big. So what I am going to do, oops. I have to combine some layers. So I don't want to mess this up. So I'm gonna go to my first layer with yet what the original collage and I'm going to duplicate it. I'm going to turn off one layer of the collage and I'm going to leave that copy. So now I am going to merge this car B with the little pieces that I've cut. Okay? And also I'm going to merge it with this P, the, the, the layer that I drawn merge down. I know it's a little nerve-racking, but we were going to live through this. So what I'm going to do, this is an experiment. I'm winging it again with the little ribbon tool here, free hand. I'm going to go ahead and I am going to cut out. Of her hair? Just like a circular part of her here like that. Okay. And I am going to with my three fingers down exists and select cut and paste. So this literally like cuts it off Bu, Carly look, Harrisburg. But what I'm doing is I'm going to make it smaller and put it right back on her head. Look at tricky. Okay. So I'm going to actually turn it a little bit. Check it. Okay. So happy. Smooth. Like oh my goodness. That is so much more of what I was looking for. Okay, great. We make that correction. So I'm going to add another layer now. It's going to be a multiply layer. And go back to my brush tool. Oops, cancel brush tool 6 B, pencil in black. Nice. So I want to make sure that we have like that awesome texture that currently has in her hair. Yeah. It's like a little bit like around her face there. We're going to go in, Don't worry, and we're going to make admins. That looks so cool, that looks so much better. And I'm so happy that I made that mistake because I got to share with you how I fix it. So now let's work on Carly beautiful fees are Reagan myth. Now I'm all a bundle of nerves. Again. We're going to add a new layer, multiply. And I realistic with the black and I'm using just want to make sure it's a little big for me good. Slowly. Yeah, that's cool. So car leaves eyebrow extends and I'm just going to lightly do this first. Extends down. Can't really see this eyebrow. So that means that this has to come down a little bit more. Oh my goodness. Okay. So. And her eyebrows because I'm confident that it goes there. Tip of her nose goes here. Drawing really nerve-wracking. But it can also be very rewarding. Oh my gosh. Oh my goodness. Yeah. Okay. So then we continue. I'm going to now choose a god, Burgundy. Her lip. I love that. I'm going to add a new layer, another multiply layer. I like this shape that I've created here. It's very true to her lips, but I don't want that, I don't want that black line. So I created another layer, right? And I, and I drew this blip. And now I'm going to go back to the layer below and I'm going to race. So cool. Okay. So Hersch, the shape of her lupus stomach, correct. So mechanist celebrate. Yet there we go. That's more like it. And it's also I'm gonna go with this purple, even though her lips aren't that purple. This is the color that I want or chocolate. To be. Kinda goes better with the picture. And then I'm going to cheat, lighten this up. And I'm going to do her bottom lip. My gosh. I'm so excited. Charlie's really pretty so I didn't want to like most of this up. Okay. Great. So that I like her lip. This chin mark is a little bit jarring. And I'm going to delete it or delete it or erase it completely. Her lips. In the requisition. Say there's always things when you draw and you think like, Oh, yeah, like this is easy. No, it's not. You really have to. It's all trial and error. It's all like bots erase. Let's redo and see where that takes us. Ok. This is the layer should be on right here. Revenues. I had her nose like way up here somewhere. That's not what women should be. There's a good shadow involved too, so I'm going to leave it like that. Okay. I currently has like these big, beautiful eyes she's always had like ever since she was a baby, it was like she was like All eyes, if you could imagine like a baby with too big like with her eyes were just like took over her whole face. And she's still like that. Being beautiful eyes. Yeah, that's her schooling Currently. That's a drink or do them right. Girly. Oh yea, I really like that. So we're gonna get rid of a copy of the collage that we need and we're going to start merging things down. It's for x-dot down. And all of these are multiplied layers are going to merge and merge. Great, So we have the cartilage and the drawn elements. Beautiful. So now, just like before, we're going to select a background to actually, okay, we're going to select a background color. And I think a nice background would be like a blue. Oh yeah, that would be so cool. Let's try a pink just for I like the blue. Think it makes her PowerApp. I think it's very true to woo you in a darker blue. I like that darker blue. Okay. Just preference doesn't matter. So up here, we have I don't know what's going on here, so let's fix that. So let's see. It's definitely on the collage layer. So I'm just going to use the eraser tool. And I'm just going to erase it all. White area here. It's probably like leftover from the paper that we didn't see before. Oh my gosh, that's so cool but so nice. Okay. What? We're going to try some other colors in the background just in case they're like something else. Oh, I think the green kinda looks really cool. Green and purple tend to look really cool together so they can actually going to leave the green. I really like, good, I see. So I'm going to export it now as a JPEG. And we're done.
11. Final Thoughts: Great, So we did it. I hope you enjoyed the class. In today's class, you learned all about what materials are useful IntelliJ, how to create a collage palette. You also learned how to prepare your paper for the collage, two different techniques about collage making and also how to digitize your collage. So and excited and happy that you were able to take this class. And hopefully I get to see some of your work. I would love to see a picture of the person that you decide to illustrate. I want to know a little bit about them. What are their legs to flakes? Why you care about them so much, et cetera, et cetera. And I also love to see the collage that you've put together. Tell me about the things that were difficult for you. The things that I loved about collage me gain, and anything else you'd like to share. I will check the project gallery periodically and get back to you. Also, if you'd like to visit my website, feel free to follow me on Instagram. Yeah, I'll put all that information in the course description. They cubed, thank you so much and yet, have an awesome day.
Raquel Busa, Queer Illustrator
