Contour Line portrait Illustration in Procreate

1. Contour Line Illustration in Procreate: [MUSIC] Hi guys, I'm Priscilla, and welcome to my Skillshare class. Today, I want to show you how to create a contour line portrait in Procreate using a reference photo. This is one of my favorite styles of illustration. This style has a myriad of uses, from creating beautiful art prints to give to someone in your world, to making motifs for print-on-demand, or even as a quick graphic for your social media or website to communicate a message. A little bit about me, I am a trained teacher, I'm also a freelance illustrator, surface pattern designer, and owner of Cardwell and Ink, and I use this minimalist style of illustration to create illustrated mock-ups of my fabrics, motifs for clothing and accessories, as well as commission client work. When you watch this class, you will get all of the resources and Procreate brushes that I use to create the contour portrait. This set includes procreate brushes for line work and watercolor, as well as textured pattern brushes that we will use along the way. I will also provide a reference image, a link to my curated Unsplash pattern collection, and a Pinterest board for inspiration. This will take all of the guesswork out and help you focus on mastering the technique. We will begin with how to import and use a reference photo in Procreate. We will then work step-by-step through the process of how to choose what areas of your image to highlight for the contour portrait. Next, we'll go through some simple techniques to embellish your line work, first using basic watercolor, then bold color blocks, pattern brushes with blend modes, and photos with clipping masks, to show you how you can use the same illustration in different ways to create varied aesthetics. This class is completely beginner friendly and I will take you through each tool related to our illustration as we use them. If you are a complete beginner to Procreate, feel free to check out my botanical contour line class here on Skillshare, where I take a deep dive into the whole Procreate interface, which will give you a really comprehensive overview of all the main menus and what they do. To take this class, all you will need is an iPad, a stylus, and the app Procreate, I will be using the Apple Pencil and enough talking. Let's dive in. 2. Class Project and Resources: [MUSIC] Your class project will be to create and share a contour line portrait in the class project section below this video. It can be one of the pieces that I take you through or an original portrait using a reference of someone in your world. You can do this at any stage in the course. If you get to a lesson and create a great effect, I would love to see it. It also gives other students inspiration, which encourages us all to expand our creative skills. You will need to be in a web version of Skillshare in a browser to be able to upload this. You can take a screenshot of your project and upload it into the class project section. The class resources for this class can be downloaded from the class resource section in the Internet browser version of Skillshare, not the mobile app version. There you will find the contour portrait brush set and the reference image. The links that I'll refer to in the class will be in your class description. Save the brush set to your file storage, and from there you can export to the Procreate app. The reference images can be saved to your file storage or your camera roll ready for the class. Let's get started in the next lesson with importing our reference photo and setting up our canvas. 3. Setting up the Canvas: [MUSIC] In this lesson, we are going to set up our Canvas for our contour line portrait and insert our reference photo. When you open Procreate, it will open to the gallery view. You'll see a Plus icon at the top right hand side. Here you can choose an existing Canvas size or you can create a custom Canvas size. For our portrait illustration today, we're going to tap the Plus icon at the top to create a custom Canvas. I'm going to name it contour portrait. Then make sure the units are set to pixels, and create a Canvas 3,000 pixels by 3,000 pixels in size and 300 DPI. This is the minimum resolution for print ready files. If you would like a larger Canvas, feel free to do so. Once you are finished, you can tap "Create," and this will open to the Canvas view. Next we will import our reference photo of the girl drinking coffee, which should be in your camera roll if you have saved it to your images, or in your file storage, if you've saved it to a file. We're going to head up to the top left of the Canvas to the Wrench icon, which is where we add all our files and photos. Tapping on the Wrench and then heading to the add term, will give us a range of options. If you have your photo saved to your file storage like Dropbox, go through these steps with the Import a file text, if it is saved to your camera roll on your device, you'll need to select the Insert a photo option. If you slide the text to the left on the file or photo text, you can insert a private file or insert a private photo. This means that Procreate inserts an image that does not show up in a time-lapse feature. Inserting an image as a private photo means that as we create our outlines for our contour illustration, the reference photo will not show up in the video that you can export. Only your strokes will. You can then export your illustration at the end, to use on any of your social media channels as a time-lapse or a reel. Once your private image is inserted, head up to the Wrench icon and then to the Canvas tab, and toggle the drawing guide on. This will activate a grid that you can use to position your image and make sure that it is level. We can then go to the Move tool, which has an arrow symbol and center our image on the Canvas. Make sure you have uniform selected in the menu at the bottom and then resized to your liking. Try and keep the image fairly large, so we can maximize the use of the Canvas, but keep the bottom of the image just above the bottom of the Canvas, so that we can create enclosed shapes. This will be relevant later after filling with color. You can also tap and turn on the snapping feature in the bottom menu to assist you in centering the photo on the Canvas. The yellow lines will show you when you have reached the horizontal and vertical centers. Once you're happy with the position, you can tap the snapping guide and turn off the magnetics and snapping sliders, and then tapping the arrow again to deactivate the Move tool. We can also head back to the Wrench icon now and turn off our drawing guide. Next, head to the Layer icon on the right-hand side. Go to your layer and reduce the opacity of this layer. You can do this by tapping the n on the right-hand side of the layer and moving the opacity slider at the top to the left. We'll then tap on the Plus icon at the top of the layers panel, to create a new layer for our contour illustration. I like to name it so that I can easily distinguish it, and you can do this by tapping the layer, which will open up a side menu with adjustments that can be made to this specific layer. Tapping Rename at the top of the menu, and then tapping your keyboard at the bottom of the screen will allow you to rename it. I'm going to call it line work. Tapping anywhere on your screen will then collapse this menu. We're all set to start and I'll meet you in the next lesson to start on our contour drawing. 4. Creating the Contour Line Portrait: [MUSIC] In this lesson, we are going to create our contour line illustration and prep it for color. Make sure you are on the layer above the inserted image in your Layers menu, and then in our brush menu, we are going to select the monoline simple brush. On the left-hand side of our Canvas, we also have the size and opacity sliders, which we're going to set at approximately 10 percent for the size, but then keep the opacity on maximum. I also want to talk a bit about where we place our lines for our contour illustration. We want to enhance the outlines and the main features of the subject, and this can be identified by looking at the overall shapes in the different parts and only placing our lines where we see the darkest shadows in the figure. I tend to use a double outline in many areas of my line work because it adds an organic field to the image. Also, take your stylus off the screen periodically as you draw. I don't recommend a continuous line drawing in a digital space as you do with traditional pen and paper. In Procreate, if you happen to undo with a two-finger tap, it will end up erasing your whole portrait. From time-to-time, pick up your stylus as you make your lines and reconnect them as you work. At any point, you can also redo a line with a three-finger tap on the screen. You can always use the eraser tool at the top right to touch up any stray lines. I will speed this up as I draw to allow you to see where I'm placing my lines, but feel free to pause whenever you need to and take your time to complete your illustration slowly. In this image, we're going to start with the facial features. I'll begin with the nose but as we do this we are not wanting to outline the whole nose, but just the main shape and shadows starting at the nostrils, and then on one side of the nose leading up to the glasses. I'm going to outline the frame of the glasses, first on the outside and then on the inner rim of the glasses. Then I'll go back and give a messy double line, picking up my pen as I go. For the eyes, the darkest part of her eyes are the eyelid and eyelashes so I'm going to limit my contour lines to the deepest shadows at the bottom of her eyelids, as well as highlighting her eyelashes. As you work, you can spread two fingers apart on your screen and this will allow you to zoom in to get the details. You can also twist with two fingers to rotate the Canvas for a better angle for you to draw. Next with the eyebrows, we will give a general outline as they are quite permanent. First on one side and then on the other. From here we will do an outline of her face, down and around the coffee cup, and then up on the other side. Then you can pick up your pencil and repeat with a double line to give an organic feel. Next the coffee cup. Again, we want the main contours, the outline of the lid, and then the outline of the cup. Next we move onto her hands. Again, we don't want to get caught up in the details, I just want the general outline of her hand with a slight contour where her fingers overlap and bend and then around the nails. At any point in this process you can go to your Layers panel and turn the photo layer on and off and see if you feel to add any additional contours or take any way. We're going to outline the main shapes of her jumper, starting on the left with her arm, then we're going to move to her right arm and make sure that we enclose the shape and double line it. Perfect. Lastly, we're going to do her hair. I'm going to begin with an overall outline of the entire shape of the hair on one side and then the other. Next, we're going to look at the contours. At the crown, you'll see the hair like ocean waves. We're going to follow those contour lines and shadows through the course. and 'm going to increase the number of lines when I want to show a bit more definition and double line along the way. Finally, going back to the Layers panel, we can always switch off the image layer by tapping the tick on the right-hand side of the layer so that we can look at our line work and see if there are any lines we want to add to correct or erase. Also check to see that your lines of the main shapes in the image are fully enclosed. Once you're happy with your line work, we can prep for adding color. I like to create a background layer of the illustration just inside the line work. This means that later when we export our files, you have a few more options of uses with your final image. Then heading to our color disk, we can select a bright color, and then on the left-hand side in our Selection menu, select free hand selection and color fill from the bottom menu. As you start to draw with a freehand tool, you'll see little lines that look like marching ants and they will show you which areas of your image are being selected. Follow your line work around the whole outline of your illustration, and then make sure when you complete the outline that you tap the gray circle where you began, and this will fill the shape with color. While it's still active, you can see the dashed lines and you can add to the selection by adding in close shapes if there's an area you didn't quite get to the line work with. Now we can tap on the selection tool to deactivate it. At this point, we're going to use our brush and eraser tool to clean up the edges. If you are using an Apple Pencil II, there is a great feature on your stylus that allows you to double-tap, to change between the eraser and the brush, which makes this process so much quicker. Zoom in with two fingers and tidy up the edges where the color may have strayed or fill in any areas that didn't quite touch the line work. Once your boundaries are done you can go to the layers menu on the right hand side, tap the layer to activate the layer menu and then select Alpha Lock. You'll see a checkerboard appear in this layer to show it has been activated. This function means that you can only make strokes where pixels or strokes have already been made on the Canvas, but it's also a great way to change the color of a whole layer at the same time. Now we can select a pure white color from our color menu by double tapping in the white area on the color disk. This also works for black, but we will be using white for now. Finally, drag the color into the layer to fill that entire layer because we want the section to blend into our white background for now. That's it. Join me in the next lesson to learn how to use a simple watercolor technique to enhance your portrait. 5. Enhancing the Line Work with Watercolour: [MUSIC] In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to enhance your linework with watercolors. This is a really easy way to complement the minimal line work of this style. The first thing we're going to do is create a watercolor texture. First, head to your Layers menu and use the plus icon to create a new layer. Then head over to the Brush menu, and in our contour portrait brush set, we're going to select the watercolor paper brush. I'm going to go to our Color menu and select a light gray color from the color wheel and set the size on the slider to a grain size that suits. Then without raising your stylus, run the brush across the canvas to get an even layer. Feel free to undo with a two-finger tap if you want to have another try. When you're happy, head over to our Layers menu and to our watercolor layer, and tap the N. In the list of blend modes, select "Linear Burn". We're then going to duplicate this layer by swiping to the left and tapping "Duplicate", and then change this new layers blend mode to color burn. Now that our texture layers are created, we're going to create one more layer with the plus icon and hold and drag it underneath our linework layer. This is where we're going to add splashes of color to our illustration. When you're using watercolor, it's important to know where your light and shadows are in your image. I'm going to insert the image that we used using a new function of Procreate which is the reference window. This way, we can see the image clearly and use it as a reference to place our shadows and highlights in our watercolor painting. Head over to the top-left of the Canvas and tap the wrench icon. Then in the Canvas tab, we're going to select the reference toggle and activate it. You should see a box appear on your Canvas with text options at the bottom of Canvas, Image, and Face. We're going to select "Image" and then import the same photo that we used for our linework from our camera roll or file storage. Now, we don't want the watercolor to bleed outside of our linework, so we're going to use a great little function in the Procreate layers panel to keep our color only inside the areas that we want. To do this, we go to our Linework layer in the Layers panel, and we tap the layer to open up the side menu, and then tap the text reference. You'll see that it's activated because the text will show up in the layer. This is going to allow you to use your linework as a reference to fill color in another layer without affecting your linework. Now, we can select our watercolor layout and we're going to use a function in the selection menu on the top-left. When we tap it, we're going to choose "Automatic" from the menu at the bottom and make sure that only Automatic and Add are highlighted in blue. For this activity, we're only going to color the skin, clothing, and the shirt. I'll start with the skin. Use your stylus to tap the areas of the skin in her face and her hands, don't forget the thumb. You should see all of those areas now activated in a blue color to show that they've been selected. Now, we can go to our brush set, and we're going to select our watercolor starter brush that I've supplied, and we're going to start painting the layers of her face with a skin tone. I'm going to keep it fairly light and just do a quick wash over her hands and over her face. You'll see that regardless of how messy you are with this, it doesn't matter because the selection only allows us to stay within those areas. Now, if we look at our reference photo we can see the areas where there are a few more shadows on the edges of her face. I'm going to go to the slider and reduce my brush size, and I'm going to add more color in those areas, so just around her cheekbones, on top of her eyes, and on the perimeter of her face. Looking down at her hands, I can also see shadows between her fingers on her hands as well as just beneath the coffee cup, so I'm going to add some more color there too. I've created this brush so that every time you put the brush down, it's going to add a slightly deeper color. Now, blending is a really important feature of watercolor. Once you've laid down the color, head up to the Smudge tool on the top right-hand side, and long press which allows you to use the same brush as a blending tool, and then we can head back to our image. Just blend any harsh edges that we want to soften. You can adjust the brush size with the slider to a size that suits you as you do this. Remember, you can always undo and redo with the two-finger and three-finger tap. I'd also like to add color to her nails in this layer, but I'm going to create a new selection so that I don't disrupt the work that we've done on the skin. To do this, I'll tap the Selection menu to de-select it, and then tap it again to reactivate it. This time, selecting her nails to coloring with the Brush tool. I'll go to our Color menu and select a red color, and just color her nails in with a watercolor wash. Next, we're going to go into her clothing. This time, I'm going to untick that selection and head back to our layers and create a new layer, then head back to the Selection panel and start to select areas of her clothing. I'm going to select another color, maybe a bluey teal color. We can increase the brush size with the slider and go over all of the areas that we've highlighted in that color. This time, instead of blending I'm going to long press on my Eraser tool at the top-right and reduce the opacity a bit and the brush size. Now, looking at our reference image, I can see the lighter areas on the image in her jumper around her arms and sleeves, and I'm going to use the Eraser tool to remove a bit of color to create those highlights on her clothing. Once that is done, we can go back to our blending brush to blend any harsh edges. The last section is the paper cup in the coffee cup. First, undo the selection for her clothes, create a new layer in the Layers panel, and then head back to the selection to activate the selection of her cup. I'll pick a brown color that I could use for her coffee cup, fill it with color, and then I'll use the eraser brush. I can see the areas that are a bit lighter on the side of her cup, and I'll use my eraser to then highlight those areas. We're going to leave the linework here and not add any more color to the actual portrait, but I will go through one last step to add a splash of color to the background. This time, we will create a new layer, and use the selection tool to select the background outside the linework and create a wash of color behind the illustration to make the portrait standout. I'll select a yellow color and then select the area outside the linework to apply the wash. I'll swap the eraser and erase around the edges to blend a little. Now, you can see that a subtle addition of watercolor can really enhance your illustration. I really love this effect when I create wall art and portraits. We're finished with our watercolor, but one last thing, you'll notice that we've done this in layers, so if at any point you think I'm not quite happy with that particular watercolor wash or I wish I could change the colors, you can always head up to our Adjustments menu on the top left-hand side, head to the hue, saturation sliders, and then you can change the hue, you can change the saturation, or the brightness of any of the layers independent of each other. In the layer with the skin, you can also create a selection if you just want to say change the color of the nails, and then adjust it that way as well. Finally, we are going to select our watercolor texture and all the watercolor layers, highlight them by swiping until they turn blue. Then at the top of the Layers panel, we're going to select the text that says Group. Now, when I tap on the whole group, I can rename it Watercolor, to keep our layers organized. Feel free to also go through and name each of the layers. It really does help when you can just glance and take a look at what your layers are. I'm also going to deactivate the reference function in our linework. I encourage you to have a play with the watercolor brushes. The most beautiful effects with watercolors happen when you experiment, so you may want to color in the whole illustration or add different colors to the background. Also, Procreate has some great watercolor brushes that come with the app in the artistic section that you may want to try out to see how different watercolor textures look like with your linework. When you are ready, join me in the next lesson, and we will look at using vibrant colors to add a modern pop aesthetic to our linework. See you there. 6. Enhancing the Linework with Bold Colour: [MUSIC] In this lesson, we are going to enhance our contour portrait with bold colors using the autofill function in Procreate. To start with, we're going to go to our Layers menu and create a new layer using the plus icon and hold and drag it below our linework layer. Next we can tap on our linework and in the side menu, activate our reference function. This time, unlike when we created our watercolor effect, we want solid blocks of color. Making sure that we select our new layer from the Layers menu, we can head to the color menu and select a color for the clothing. Then if you head over to the selection menu on the left and tap it to activate the menu at the bottom of the screen, this time, select Automatic selection, and make sure that the color fill function is activated. Now we can just tap on the areas we would like to fill. If for any reason when you tap on an area you see white on the perimeter of the colored area, and I'll zoom in to show you what I mean, this is because the threshold of the selection is too low. To fix this, I'll undo and tap the area again. This time, just swipe your stylist to the right-hand side on the screen and you'll see the threshold at the top of the screen increase. Set it to its highest setting, and this will eliminate any of the white artifacts that you have between your color and the line work. Go through and select all the areas of clothing that you want color in. While that selection is active, you can always go back to your color disk menu and change the colors if you choose. Once you're happy, head back to the Layers menu. This time, create a new layer for our coffee cup and select a brown color and repeat the autofill selection using the selection menu. Next, we're going to create a layer for the nails and the glasses which I will have in the same color. These are very small areas, so feel free to zoom in when you are making your selections and just tap through the areas until you fill as much as you want. I actually don't mind having little bits of white in-between the line work, but if you do, just zoom in and tap the white areas to fill. Finally, I'm going to go to a new layer. Again, choose a color for the skin tone and then activate the selection tool and tap the areas of the face to fill. Then the fingers and not forgetting the thumb on the right. Now, I'm going to leave the hair in this case and keep it white. Instead, I'm going to pick a color for the background to just really emphasize that line work. But feel free to do the hair in the same way that we've just done with the autofill selection, or use the free hand selection tool that we did in one of our previous lessons to do a whole block together. But I really do like how the linework of the hair stands out without color. I'm just going to make sure my background is the color that I want. Once you have all your colors selection's done and on different layers, you can name each of your layers in the Layers menu to help you distinguish them easily. It's up to you then which colors you want to activate or deactivate by clicking the ticks on the sides of the layers. You may choose to have the whole image colored or just have sections of color to keep that minimalist feel. I would encourage you to go through and see which you prefer. But that's it for our bold colors. In the next lesson, I'll go through using textured brushes, adjustments, and clipping masks to enhance these blocks of color. See you in the next lesson. 7. Clipping Masks, Patterns and Adjustments: [MUSIC] In this lesson, we'll look at ways we can use patterns to really enhance our line work. We'll do this in a non-destructive way using clipping masks. First with Procreate brushes and then with adjustments in the adjustment menu. A clipping mask is a layer that is attached to the layer below it. In this example, I'm going to focus on our clothing layer. If we hit up to our Layers panel, we can then untick every other color layer so that we can focus on the clothing. Then use the plus icon to create a new layer above the clothing layer. Tapping on it will activate the side menu and allow us to activate the clipping mask. The first thing you'll notice is that there's a little arrow on the layer panel onto the layer below. Now, anything you draw in this layer will clip or attach to the colored areas in that bottom layer. It's similar to alpha lock, but the changes are now in a separate layer, which can be turned on and off without affecting the color layer below. First, we're going to add patterns using Procreate brushes. I love a liner cut or screen-printed texture, and I have created two brushes that we will use to show you this effect. In our contour portrait brush set the first brush is the terrazzo spots. I'm going to go to our color menu and select," White." Now, I'm going to tap on the clipping mask area around the jumper and you'll see that the spotty print texture shows up as an overlay on the color below. If we look at our layers panel, although it goes outside of the colored layer radius, it's still only shows up in the colored area of the layer below. That's one easy way to overlay some texture. I've also included a seamless line and cut texture brush that I've created for this class. I'll turn off the terrazzo dots and then head up to the plus to add another layer and convert it into a clipping mask using the side menu. This time, I'm going to use the liner brush to layer the pattern in black first and then I'll head to our color menu and select, "Watch." Now, this brush has a slight offset every time that you place it down. This adds another way of staggering the pattern. You can also adjust the blend modes of your clipping mask to give a range of different effects. You can do this by going to the layer panel and tapping in. This time below the opacity slider, you can see a range of blend modes. Scrolling through them will change the way that your pattern layer is going to interact with the color layer below it. Another way you can add patterns to your line work is via settings in the adjustments menu. Now, I'm going to turn off our pattern layer and then this time duplicate our color layer to create a clipping mask with it. Now, when we head to our adjustments menu on the left, we can scroll down to the half-tone option. In this menu, we have three options at the bottom of the screen. The first is full color. For all of these effects that I'm going to go through, you need to slide your stylus on the screen to the right to increase the intensity of the effect. Then you can adjust the different options at the bottom. The next effect is screen print. I'll just undo and show you what the screen print looks like. Then finally, the newspaper's setting. I'll undo with two fingers and head back to the adjustment menu list. This time, I'll select the noise option and slide my stylist to the right across the screen. In this menu, you'll see at the bottom that you have three noise options available to use. The clouds is first and can be adjusted by scale, octaves and turbulence. The next is pillows, which also has the same options to adjust. Then lastly, the ridges, also with those same options. These are the two main adjustments that will create regular patterns out of your flat color. But do explore the other options in the menu like bloom, the glitch, and the chromatic aberration. They are a whole lot of fun as well. Remember that at any point, you can also go to the hue saturation and brightness sliders at the top of this menu and you can make color adjustments to your clipping mask this way by moving those sliders until you are happy. That's where we will end this lesson. Join me in the next lesson and I'll show you how to use photographs and clipping masks to create a collage style feel to your linework. 8. Photos, Clipping Masks and the Transform Tool: [MUSIC] Photos are another great way to add a pattern or a texture to your portrait illustration. You may not be able to create your own patterns yet, but using royalty-free images is another great way to enhance your portrait illustration. I've added a link in the class resources to my curated pattern folder that I've created on Unsplash. In it, I've selected two royalty-free images to use for this technique. You can download these images by choosing the image and pressing the down arrow on the bottom right to download it to your camera roll. The first image we're going to use is the floral pattern. This is going to be used to mimic clothing. Head to the wrench icon and select "Insert a photo" and choose the floral print from your camera roll. Once it's inserted, reposition it, tap the Layers panel, and make it a clipping mask. Then you can use the arrow or move tool on the top-left to position it where you want it sized and that is it. It's pretty straightforward. With the line work, this can really easily enhance your illustration. The next image we're going to add is the photo of the numbers. This adds a great pop field to the picture. I'll just head to my Layers panel and undo our floral pattern and then head up to the wrench icon to add the next image. Once you've inserted the image, head to the Layers panel and tap and select clipping mask. You can also move it around until it's positioned perfectly and then in the Layers panel, adjust the blend mode, which adds a lot of interesting effects. You can also use the same photo in a clipping mask on more than one layer or two with different blend modes. Using the photo with numbers, I'll duplicate it and move the new layer above the coffee cup layer. I'll set it as a clipping mask and this time, use the Screen blend mode and activate that coffee cup. This creates a beautiful cohesive look to the illustration by using the same pattern in different ways. This is one of my favorite techniques as a surface pattern designer because I love to use images from my prints in illustrated mock-ups to showcase the designs. Another fun technique is to add a new layer on top of your photo layer and then fill the layer with color. Then when you adjust the blend mode to color, you can overlay the entire pattern in a new column. Lastly, because these photo layers are completely separate to the color layer underneath, you can also manipulate it in several ways using the Transform menu on the top left. At the bottom, you can select distort or warp to adjust how the layer moves, and this can give you the effect of close wrapping around the body. In the Warp tool, the Advanced Mesh option gives you even finer control, where you can adjust the handles to pull the pattern around. The pattern is still limited to the area of the block of color below it. I'll just undo this effect and then show you one last way to manipulate your clipping mask. In the Adjustments menu, there is a tool called Liquify at the bottom. This activates a new menu that allows you to push the pattern around more precisely by adjusting the size, pressure, distortion, or momentum at the bottom, and then activating to either push, twirl right or left, pinch, expand, crystallize, or edge a pattern. This is actually really great if you want to marble some colors together to create a marbled pattern on clothing. If you think you've made a mistake, there's also a handy Reconstruct tool that allows you to undo specific areas that you have manipulated, but only while your selection is still active. I really love that one. That's all for this lesson. Have a play with the effects and then join me in the next lesson to talk about how to export your files. 9. Exporting Files and Stickers: [MUSIC] Now you have created a beautiful contour line portrait and a whole collection of different prints that can be exported. You can save the different iterations of your portraits by going to the wrench icon and then selecting the Share tab. Here you can export files in several different ways. Just activate the layers that you want to export and then share them in the different file formats. Generally for files you want to be able to edit later, the options are the Procreate and PSD file options that will export your illustrations as layered files. For art prints you can export the full Canvas as a flattened file as either a PDF, JPEG, PNG, or TIFF file. Generally, most print-on-demand sites for art prints we use either the JPEG format that will have the full Canvas area in white or any other color you have chosen for the background. Remember that even if you deactivate the main background of your illustrations, JPEG files will still show it up as a white square or rectangle. Please be aware of this. If you want to have a transparent background, you need to deactivate your Canvas background in the Layers panel and export the file as a PNG. This is a wonderful option if you would like your image to be able to be used as a sticker. Generally with stickers, you want to have a border around your image for cutting, but you also want to be able to maintain the texture in your images. I will just briefly touch on a new feature in Procreate that makes it much easier to create a textured sticker. For this, I'm going to use our most textured version, which is our watercolor version of our contour portrait to demonstrate. In our layers, the first thing you want to do is make sure that your background is deactivated. But the background that we created earlier that was limited to only our line work is active. Next, head over to the wrench icon and then to the Add tab and the text copy Canvas. This will create a flattened layer of your entire Canvas. Next, a three finger swipe on your screen will activate a menu that will allow you to select Paste. Now, when we go to our Layers panel, we have a new layer that incorporates everything that you had visible on the screen, including that beautiful watercolor texture. The next thing we need to do is head to the selection menu and make sure that our color fill is deactivated in the menu at the bottom. Otherwise, the steps we'll be taking will not work properly. If you have any problems with that, just check your color fill. Now you can go to the background layer we created that was limited to our linework. Tap the layer and then tap Select from the side menu, then head to our new flattened layer, tap on it, and then do a three-finger swipe down on your Canvas. Now, we can tap cut from the menu that pops up, and then repeat that three finger swipe again and select Paste. Now if we look at our Layers panel and deactivate our watercolor group and the main background, we have now cut out a perfect sticker to our contour portrait. You can now clear or delete any excess backgrounds by sliding and tapping Delete. Next to give the stickers a border. I have created a large version of the mono line brush that has an increased streamline. We're going to create a new layer underneath our cutout watercolor layer and just go around the border of your image in a pure white and then you can color drop to fill the interior. When you export this image as a PNG, it will export with that border and you can now use it as a sticker. I'll show you what it looks like with a simple line work with the border as well. The plane line work can also look amazing as a T-shirt motif with a transparent background. You can do that by just deactivating the other layers. If you would like to see my process of placing images on print on-demand sites, I have a section in my liner cut class here on Skillshare, which takes you through that whole process. Finally, you can always export the line work as a PNG to a free app like Adobe Capture, to convert your line work to an SVG vector file, which is able to be scaled to any size without pixelation. You can then send it from there to any vector-based program like Vectornator, Affinity Designer, or Adobe Illustrator to adjust that vector file. If you use your illustrations for content creation on social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, or TikTok you can export your whole illustration process as a time-lapse by going to the wrench icon and going to the video tab and selecting Export time-lapse video. You can also play your time-lapse in here and the beauty of inserting that private photo is that when you do the time-lapse replay, it will export only your process without that original image in the background. Then you can use a video editing program like iMovie or spliced to easily cut sections that you don't want and add in transitions and you'll have a video ready to use in real or on any of your social media platforms. Thanks so much for doing this class with me. I hope it has expanded your understanding of the varied ways that you can create and use contour line portraits in your illustration workflow. 10. Outro and Class Project: [MUSIC] Thanks so much for doing this course with me. I hope it has expanded your understanding of the varied ways that you can create and use contour line portraits in your illustration workflow. Your class project will be to share an image of your portrait using any of the skills that you have learned in this course. It can be your version of the illustration we've done today, or one of someone in your world. It's always inspiring for other artists to see your take on this style. I've already placed a few examples of mine for you to look out for inspiration in the class resource section just below this video. Also, if you have some time, I'd love it if you could leave a review of the class. Please feel free to ask questions, or share ideas, in the class discussion section. You can also follow me here on Skillshare at Caldwell and Inc Design to be notified of new classes and if you are on social media, you can tag me at Caldwell and Inc. I would love to see and reshare your projects. Have a great day people and happy creating.