Create a Mobile Phone Wallpaper in Procreate

1. Welcome!: Welcome to the class, create a mobile phone wallpaper in procreate. In this class, I show you how to draw your own mobile phone wallpapers, even if you are not an artist, but willing to create a digital product for sale or just for you? If we have met yet. Hi, my name is Maria. I'm an artist and graphic designer and teacher. I love to create digital products because I deeply believe that making these kind of products can help you to create a sustainable and Eve environmental friendly business. Actually, that is what I always do since 2008, even without even knowing it those days. And the digital products I created them, I still selling as digital scrapbooking kits. So yes, there is nothing better than creating your own products and building a little empire consisting of business assets it can sell again and again without any further production costs. After you've created them. In this class, we'll grab our iPads, explore the app, Procreate, and draw two different mobile phone wallpapers together. I show you how the Procreate gallery works, how you can handle colors and brushes, and even how you can add a bit of depth to your wallpapers. We do that step-by-step together so you can follow along and in the end, you have your first wallpaper. No matter if you use it for your own phone, give it as a gift or sell it online. Join me in this class 2. What you learn in this Class: In this class, I'm going to show you how to create a wallpaper in Procreate. We start by creating this one and adding some depth. So we're going to use different brushes here. We are also adding different layers. So we have a depth here in our artwork. And we also draw this line art here on our wallpaper. We also create this document and the right size. So you can start creating drawing right away. And later on, we're going to create this wallpaper. And again, we are adding some depth here was different layers. And even more important, we're going to add different blending modes. So we're going to go to our layers and we're setting the blending mode right now. You see it's all with m. But we can easily change that to another blending mode. And that is what I'm going to show you in this class as well. 3. What you need for this Class: For this class, you need your iPad. Of course, it doesn't really matter which iPad it can be an older one. The only difference is that you might have less layers when you set up your document. You will also need an Apple pencil, or at least your iPad should have the capability of using an Apple pencil or a stylus pen, whatever you have. And this might be, that might result in iPad Air, e.g. or an iPad Pro. So just make sure you can use an Apple pencil with it. We will also use Procreate, which is this program here. You can see here on the bottom and you can find it in the App Store. It is not really expensive, it's above ten. I say ten to $15 because of course it will vary and depend. But the number you have to expect when you purchase procreate. We will also need some brushes. I am using the acrylic brushes and the instant artists brushes from these are glands. But you can basically use whatever brush you want. You don't have to use these. You can also go e.g. to Etsy. And when you type in here, procreate brushes, procreate stamps, you will get a ton of brushes and stamps so you can just pick whatever you want here. You may also find some free ones online that here is recommended. I recommend just to check out Etsy, you see, that's not very expensive. So in case you want something else, but you can always get along with those which are already included. Of course, you don't have the same results, but you have a lot of brushes included already in Procreate so you can totally get along with that. 4. Let's explore the Procreate Gallery: So now let's explore the Procreate gallery. First of all, you should know it is a very good idea to have these stacks. Stacks means nothing but folder. So when I click on that, you see there are two artworks inside and here are even more. You see, I can just stack them. So that means I can put them on top and have them together and it looks much more clean up here. So let's take something. I just hold my finger down and then I move it on top of this one, you see the blue line and when to release it, it's not stacked. So when I click on it now you see both are inside. So let's go back and I can add a third one. So let's go to this one. Again. I move it on top and you see now it even opens and I can release it in. The same thing happened. It's all inside. And now I can even move these. So e.g. if I want to have this here on the left side as something there, so I can just move that one to the left, release my finger, and then go back. And you see this one is on the left saying is now you don't really see that there is something under it. So let's move it back. And you can just have all your artwork inside. You can also name your stack. So this is this thing here. You can just say, I want to give it another name and I just say now wallpaper. And then I have named that wallpaper here. So it's pretty handy. I don't have to have to guess what's inside. I just go through it and see here It's wallpaper here, Bo who patterns. And so of course, this gallery will also allow you to duplicate and delete artwork will let just go over your artwork and you see here it says duplicate, so we can just do that. So I have something to delete and then we can also get rid of it. Ups. I go over it again, say delete. So you see, I can easily delete my artwork again here. Yeah, it's pretty handy the gallery and when you have it's sorted, it's much easier to handle it. You can of course, also import photos and also files. Just click here on important you see, it goes to my iPad, to my iCloud Drive on my iPad, and I can get my files from there. I can also just click here on photo. And then it goes to my photo stream for the library. And I can import whatever Frodo I want 5. Your Document: Find the right size, color profile and resolution: So now let's create our own document. And for that, I go here on top right on the plus. And I also have already some presets in here and I might need them or not. I can always get rid of them. If I swipe to the left, you see I can edit them or delete. I won't do that right now. What I'm going to do is I create a new canvas. So I click here on top right on the plus. And I can now set the width and height I need for my wallpaper. And for that, I just type in here in width. And I'm now a need of the size. So what I need to do, I need to figure what size my wallpaper needs to have. And for that, you just go to the website. So I pretend I'm in it. I have an Apple iPhone and now it's already 14 released. But you can basically find for any iPhone you have the size. So just go here, just go to the specs here, Learn More, and then you go through it here. I just ask Google, you find the size of resolution. The iPad or iPhone or whatever you are creating should have. So once you have figured the numbers, you can go back to procreate and type them in here. So for me, the width is thousand 170 and the height is 2532. And then I can create my canvas. But before I do, let's quickly talk about the resolution. On the website. It says PPI, while here it says DPI, there is not much of a difference. I'm going to use these DPI they have asked for. And that was 460. I believe it wouldn't really matter if you use 300, but okay. We'll go with it now. And now. It says I have 349 layers I can use, so there's a lot of space, so it might differ the size on your iPad. It depends if you have the iPad Air and the iPad Pro, an older version, whatever, this might differ. And now you can name your template and I do it now, I say no iPhone searching. Then I have my template ready and I can just click Create. So don't get confused. You haven't named your document. When you go to the gallery, you say it says untitled artwork because now we have just temp and template. When you scroll down, you see here iPhone 13 is my template 6. Give your Wallpaper Depth and Splashes: Now we start creating our wallpaper. Let's start by explaining these tools here on top, we are going to need all of these here. So let's quickly talk about them. This is your brush library. So here you have all the brushes which are already included in Procreate, which are those. You also have those you have important because you can easily click here on the Plus and import whatever brush you off board. When you click on that, you're sent to your iCloud Drive or you can just add drop it to your iPad so you can just get it from there also from Dropbox. Get it on your iPad. So once done, they are showing up here and you can easily access to all the brushes. So you see here are some of mine, but it depends, of course, what you have board, what brushes you need. So you have them all here. And now here is the smudge tool. When you have drawn something and you want to make it a little bit blurry so you use your smudge tool, you can use the same brush you have here and then go over it. We don't need it for this artwork, but in general, it's pretty handy. Then we also have the eraser, which have the same as your brushes actually are all your razors. So once you have chosen a brush here, e.g. this one, and you need the same brush as arrays that you just type a little bit longer here. And you see now it's set out in jumps to the magic textures and pigs, the brush we have just talked about here in the brushes section. And you can then erase something with this brush. Pretty handy as well. Then of course, we have our layers palette, which is super, super necessary and super important. Of course, because it always says new color, new layer, which means whenever we have a new color, we also need new layer, otherwise we getting confused. So that's my rule of some new color, new layer. Keep that in mind. And here are the color palettes. You see I have already imported a lot, but you might not have them all. Doesn't matter really. It's just you can create your own ones, but you also can import tons of them from the Internet. You can even find some free ones at digital design resort. We're going to use this color palette now, which is also included in the class. So now I set this as default so we can easily access it. Now let's start by filling the background with the colors. So I pick this light creamy color. And once I type on that, it jumps here on top into my color. And now I can just drag it onto my Kendra and it is filled with a color. So now we start by picking a brush. Let's quickly talk about recent brushes, which are important. Once you have just work with a brush, you'll also find it here and a recent because sometimes it's pretty hard to find all the brushes you have just used and you cannot see which one it is a new document. So it's handy if you have them under recent. So now we need to go to the acro real collection. And I need to find the subtitle brush, septal irregular splashes here. That's the pressure of my choice now. And then I'm going to create a new layer because you remember new color, new layer. And I'm going to create a new layer because I'm not picking a new color. And I'm going to use this even lighter color now, nearly white. So we see how that goes. Now, the problem is, I don't really know what size my brush now is. It depends really here. You see here on the left. But you can hardly say, I just type in here and you see it's not that big. I put like to have it a bit bigger. So two fingers I can get rid of it and increase the size of my brush a bit. And then I type in again, and you see it's bigger. Now, I can go here to my transformation tool and I can move whatever I have on that layer. So let me put that here. And you should not really increase that because these are pixels. So better you do it with your brush and firsthand that you make it bigger. But you can. It's not a big deal. But if you need to really increase that, please do that over your brush pallet here and say, okay, that's you increase the size of your brushes. Okay, let's do that. Again. I don t need a new layer because I don't have a new color. I could do that because then I have each on a separate layer, but in this case, I'm good with this one. So I just need to put another splash. You see, I can hardly say where it goes. And now I have the problem that when I go here, I have to move the entire thing and they cannot move just this one. So let me quickly show you how that would look. If I had another layer, I create a new one. And if I have another splash here, I can just go here and just move that one. What I cannot do when I have them on the same layer. And in case you want to do that, but then have new color, new layer in your head. You can pinch them so we can just put those two together. And then I have all my splashes here on one layer 7. Using Brush Stamps on different Layers: So now we put our next brush. This is again from the actual real set. Again, keep in mind, you can use whatever you want. I'm using a tiny spray brush too. Sometimes you have to go through it so you find what you're looking for here. And now I have my tiny spray brush, and now I need to pick a new color. I know pick the dark red so you can really see what I'm doing. Again, I type on that and you'll see it jumps here on top. And then again, new color, new layer. So we need a new layer. And now I just go in here again, I can hardly say what size my splashes will have, so I can increase or decrease it here. But I just type in here and I'm happy with it. You see now it's already come that it has these steps because there are these light blobs in the background, while here is blushes, I'm moving more to the foreground. This is pretty nice. Now let's create a new layer. Although we won't have a new color, we just have a new layer because in this case we have new brush. So yes, this rule of some very slowly Lapiths. So make sure you have a new brush now. And I'm using now the pattern mechanical brush. So let me look for that one. Here you go. I stick with a red color and now I start to put my brush here on the new layer. You see this is a new one. I can just add some leaves here. I'm going to add it here. Here. I just keep brushing for now. You see what happens is cut off here the edges. So I definitely need to work on that. But for now, I just want to draw a little bit here. Once I feel I'm done, I can do what I've already shown you. I can keep the eraser down. So now I have the same eraser as I have in brush. And now I can just make it a bit bigger and cut everything that is cut off. Like this one is also cut off. I can just delete that. I like to have the same brush while I'm doing that. But you don't have to. Of course, you can also use something else. Okay, now let's make it look nicer. So I go through all the leaves I put here. You see my splashes from the layer underneath are not affected so I can get rid of that. But the color, the sprays, the splitters is all stays. Okay. I think I like it now and leave it now as it is. 8. Let’s draw some Lavender as Line Art: Now we add some line art here. And for that, again, we create a new layer here. And I pick black as my color, or a really dark gray, e.g. that if I want to have black, I go to my desk and just type in here so it jumps to black. And I can start fresh with my brush. I use, or I like to use one of these, maybe the fine tip or I also like to use the mono line or this one. So it doesn't really matter, it just shouldn't have for edges. So you better choose something which is really straight, like a marker or something like that. They are already included. So you shouldn't have a hard time to find one thing. You shouldn't have a hard time to find one of the brushes. So now let's draw lavender. I just draw here a line. Let me do that again. I can always move it later on because now I think it's a little bit too wide. So I go down here. Yeah, that's better. Now I really need to go and to create my leaves. Now vendor has pretty tiny leaves, so just put them here on the stamp. You don't have to be an artist. You know, it's not very hard to draw some of these leaves. And you feel it looks better at some more. Of course. It's up to you. You don't have to follow along here. You can do it to your liking. Once done, you have a stamp with leaves. And if I go now on that, you see what mistake I made. I put it on the same layer listening, I want you all the time. I didn't know. So I have two choices now I can weather selected and put it on a new layer, or I can just get rid of it. And those what I want to do now, again, I'm just typing here on this one, so I have the same brush and I quickly get rid of that. I could also use my two fingers and just get rid of all that if I want to. It's just harder. You can also select the entire thing and then cut it off and move it to a new layer. But that's maybe something for another class. Right now. We just want to make sure that we are on a new layer. So here you go. Let's do that again. Half the same brush and now withdraw our leaf. You see what happened? If I hold it down? Let me do that again. A little shaky and it gets trade when I just hold it down. So I get rid of that. And now I start again with my little leaf. Make sure they're going into different directions because nature is unique. Each leaf is unique, so it doesn't look alike. And usually no, they are not going to the bottom but they can, on your leaf, they can often put something like that in which is not so common. And makes mine look unit. Once done, you have your stem with the leaves ready. And now you see it's different. This one is on one layer so you can easily move it. What we do now is we're going to duplicate that and then we flip it. So let's do that first. Go to my layers palette, swipe to the left, click, Duplicate. And I have a second stem. But now you see it looks pretty alike. That's not what we want. We have here now flipped vertically, we have flip horizontally and that's fine for now. So I'm going to transformative it. Now I put here and maybe turn it a bit around. I have something really unique here. Once I'm done, I released the button here. And you see now my wallpaper is done. I could have some more here. I think it would look nice. I could also draw some more because then it gets even more unit. So that's, I guess what I would do now if I want to create something for sale. But for now, I can just modify that one. Just duplicated. Flip it, be creative here, or rotate it a bit. You see, now it doesn't look like the other one. Okay? With a few you get along, you need more. If you need to draw some more. I believe our wallpaper is ready now and we can move on. 9. Export your Document: So now let's export our wallpaper. It's pretty easy. Just go here. And then you say share. And now you choose how you want to share it. If you want to save it as a Procreate file or as PSD file. The huge advantage is that you keep all the layers. If you don't do that. Take here a JPEG, you flatten your entire image, but then you can use it e.g. on your phone. Now you would just say JPG and it is exporting now and you can now send it directly to your iPhone. Or when you click here on on AirDrop, you can send it directly there. Or you can even email it to you if you have something else, not an iPhone or Samsung or something, you can just email it to you and then have it on your phone. There are several options what you can do with your artwork now, and then you're done. Quickly. I want you to name the thing because it says Untitled Artwork and I really want you to name that. You don't have a mask layer. And I say lavender wallpaper. Okay? And now you see it says Love and wallpaper. And now what you already learned, we can move it to the folder and stack it. There 10. Bonus Lesson! Let’s do another Wallpaper together: Now let's create a new wallpaper for that typo here on top right on the plus. And I don't have to create a new canvas, I just can pick what I created before. So let's go to the iPhone 13 template and pull that up. And now you see the same size as before. And now we pick a color. So maybe let me pick a light blue. Then I use it and drag that light blue here onto my document. And then we use the splatter brush from the incident artists collection. You see here it is. It's an artist buildup splatter brush. And now you need to pick another color, of course. So I'm using the darker blue now, here. And then I create a new layer is pretty important. So always create your new layer, new color, new layer here, remember? And now we need to figure the size so it's okay. If I decrease it, you can hardly see it. So be careful with that one, so make sure you zoom in. Otherwise, you might have the impression that there is nothing on your paper. Okay, so now we have some splatters on it. Asked me go back here, create a new layer, pick another color. Maybe now we pick a lighter, creamy, this one. Brush on top here. You see, I just tried to give it a little bit of depth. Satellites should be fine. Now we create a new layer and we use powder puff brush from the incident artist collection. You go. And let me see what color I use now. I guess I will stick to the creamy one for now because I need to get a little bit more here. Yeah, you see what happens? So very large splash. Maybe. I want it smaller. So let's try that. Yeah, I think it looks better. Feel free to play around. I just realized this color on the bottom is not the right one. So let's pick a light blue here. Maybe it didn't work. Yeah, it's better. Okay. Now you can see the brush much better. Maybe you don't want it like that. Let's see. You see now it's all on one layer so you cannot really get rid of it or not of all. But what we can as what we learned already, I can get the same brush and just get rid of a little bit here. So it's not that strong. Okay, I think that's fine. So now we're going to blend that in. You see it here and you see a little bit of it there. But we want to now change the blending mode. Click here on the N. And now you have different blending modes here all over the place. And one, you now go through each of them. You can see a little bit of a difference. It depends. You see, here it's brighter or darker, more light. And you pick one of your choice. I like that one, lighter color. You can go through all of them here. You see I will leave. Soft light is nice. You know, depends on what you want to reach, what effect you want. This is what you pick here. If you have a hotline, that also looks good, okay? Now we have set most of the things we need. Now we want to draw a bit on our background. And for that, of course, again, I create a new layer. And then we use the pattern brush, pattern waves brush from the instant artist collection. Let's see this one here. Or this one pet on waste. So now we need another color. So to give you can't see it right now. Maybe I pick that one. Let's see if that works. If not, because he's too much blue, we need to pick another one. But again, checking I'm a new layer. So I can just go in here and see anything. Okay, that's fine. Let's clear that. But I guess okay. You see here, you can see something is too small. So again, clear it and makes it a bit bigger. And then I also pick another color here. Now you can see a little bit. At this point, we might want to change the background color. I'm going to show you that as well. Because otherwise it gets, it doesn't really work. So let's see what we do. If we want to keep this pattern brushes. We can do here. We can pick another color, maybe a lighter one, or we can turn off one of the sprays here. Also something we could do. We don't need all the layers that maybe adjust this color here. Now, the fun stuff, because now you can just pick whatever you want and play with different colorways. But you can just do that if you have set it to different layers. That's the most important thing. You see. It pops out a bit more. I really like that. So it now it's a question if we still need all the splashes here, maybe we don't need that, or we use another color mode here. So it's not popping out that much. Yeah, it's better, right? You see, you can do what you want here. There are so many options. So you really need to figure out what you like or what you want to have for your artwork. And now it might be a good option to have the pattern waves with another, with another color. So let's create a new layer. I just turned it off. So I pick the darker blue. Now my pattern brush. And now I go in here again. You see, we can see it better now. Okay. I like that. I believe that it's ready for me now. But as I said, you can play around here. Just be creative. That's the point of all of it. You should be creative and see what you like best here. 11. 10 Skillshare DDR 2: Congratulations, you did it. You've mastered this class and you can now create your very own wallpapers. And now it's time to do exactly that. Grip your iPad and your pencil and start drawing your own wallpapers. Start mixing with different brushes, create different shades and different layers with different chest. Start creating your very own wallpapers is totally up to you. As I said, you can use whatever brush you want. The main thing is that you have fun and that you start layering. And once you have created your own wallpaper, police post them here in the class section so we can all see what you've created, looking forward to seeing your creative endeavors.