Create a Surrealism Poster in Procreate

1. Hey there!: Hey there, and welcome. Hi, my name is Brian. I'm a content creator and graphic designer. In this class, we will be working our magic to create this trippy surrealism poster using the Procreate app. I'll share with you some of my poster tips and tricks and ways to arrange everything and not to get lost in the abundance of all the elements. We will create two poster compositions that are out of this world. We will apply some basic graphic design principles to create a good contrast, color harmony, and balance of all elements to create history in a poster. Let me point out that this might look complicated than it is, but don't worry, just believe in the process and go with the flow. This is an intermediate class, but if you're a beginner with a good understanding or basic of Procreate, I'm pretty sure you'll be able to follow along, so grab your iPad and let's get started. 2. Project: [MUSIC] For this project, you'll be creating a Surrealism Poster of your choice or you can follow along and use all the assets that I'll be providing in the project and resources tab down below. The main goal is to play with colors, movement, composition, and cutting images, blending them and making them fun and trippy. Once you've finished, go to the project and resources section of this class and click on the Create Project button and share what you've made, and tell us a bit about your process and results. 3. Resources: These are my go to website that I like to go. This is Unsplash, and pexels.com, I'll also go for pngimg.com to have some transparent images, these are all free, all you have to do is to attribute them. Now, let's get ahead, I'm going to go type in a sample images here, you can pretty much select anything that's pretty interesting or this one. I actually like this one, so I'm going to download it, and you can easily download, you can do that, but I pretty like to just go in, and then add to photo. If you want to print it out, make sure that you get the original size somewhere here, so you get the best quality of the images. We can also download that by this. Let's take a look at Westphalia, because I usually incorporate a lot of subjects as well. This one looks good. I like to have this color as much as possible, like the orange van, blue, or orange and teal look. Usually they gave me a lot of flexibility in terms of design, because they are really, really natural colors, that goes with all the composition I'm doing. I like this one as well, so I'm going to just get it just like this, and then I'm going to add to photos, and it should automatically be saved on my gallery of photos. It's easy for me to incorporate all the elements. These are great subject, and what are we going to do, we can just keep going. I probably will put a bird there just to give interest, so these are nice. This one right here, this kind of free, so you can just get that part, and pretty much to the same, I can just add to photo. It should be on the photo. This is a transparent background, you just easily incorporate it into your composition. That's all there is for here. I'm going to think all the images for the project of this class so you can follow along, and I'll see you there. 4. First Poster: We can start creating our Canvas. I'm just going to go ahead and create a Canvas that I could print after this. I'm going to go 11 by 17 inches. I'm going to go for 250. This is our Canvas. It's 11 by 17 and we have a DPI of 250, so it's high-quality, so we can just print it out. You can also crop this, and then you can just post it on your social media platform. I ended up getting this image right here because I think it has a good opportunity for me to manipulate the image. I can incorporate some of background images and click them together. What I'm going to do, I did share the link actually here. If you go to the restores is in materials, so you can just get that. I'm going to import our first image right here. I'm just going to go to Action and add it, so insert photo, so it's quite nice color already, so I don't have much things to do here. All I have to do is to make sure that the colors and all the elements and the patterns and the textures goes with this one. What I'm going to do now, I'm going to go cut the background. I'm going to go selection right here. I'm going to go try automatic and see if it works. I could increase the threshold right here. As you can see, the threshold is going up. That's good. I'm going to go get all the blue ones in here. It's always tricky to have those extra blues here, so I probably leave them there because it's being problematic. Let's see how it goes. I'm just going to invert it. I'm going to go to the layer here and I'm going to mask it. I didn't delete anything. I just hide something here, so I can just turn it back on and off. I could probably trim those colors right there if I want to. But that's the first step so far. Then I'm going to insert one of our images here. It's a cloud, just going to position it just like this, just to cover something here. The cloud's right here, I'm just going to rename it quickly, cloud. I'm going to put it just below the first layer. I'm going to rename it as walls so I can easily get into this. Although you can see the thumbnail here, it's also a best practice to rename your layers. I will just position it just like this to somehow cover up some space here because we have a big canvas size right here. I want to make sure that they have a good proportions. I will remove the background as well so I could get the selection. I probably will try automatic again to see if it works. I'm just going to invert it. Again, I'm going to mask it. I could even position it again like this so it has a bigger atmosphere and all that. Also, insert another image of this one right here, I think it has a good contrast with what's going on. You can twist and turn it, reverse it. I need to put it just below everything, so just like this and see if it has a good contrast. It's overpowering everything. It's dark here and here, it's super white. I'm going to go to the cloud layer, I could probably go to adjustment, I could reduce the brightness, or I could put color, probably I'll go for orange tone. It should give you some orange look and something like this. Think I'm going to go with that. It's not that colorful. I'm going to go again second time. I'm going to increase the saturation just to give it more like a pump in colors. I could probably increase something like that. I'm going to apply another adjustment, which is the chromatic aberration. It's going to give you more colors and holographic effect if you do that. It gives it more a trippy look and that will give you more interest in the composition. I'll probably do that and the same thing with the van and probably will apply a little bit of chromatic aberration just to give it more like a trippy look, not too much because you don't want to have super blurry composition. Something just like this to give it a little bit of trippy look because that's what we're aiming for at this composition. I like that, it's getting there. For this one, I probably want to go ahead and correct or put some adjustment here as well. Probably I'm going to go something not too dark because right now, it's super dark. I want to make it a little bit like a muted black and I can go for saturation. If you want to have different colors and combination, I think I like this one here, but I'm trying to find a color that suits with the blue tone, probably something like this. I'm just going to go play with the saturation and the brightness and hue. I'm just looking for a good tale look. I think that's good enough for this one. I'm going to apply another chromatic aberration again, just to match with the overall looks. As you can see, there's a chromatic aberration percentage in here. If you go super extreme, you can see a lot more colors to it. I guess that brings a nice holographic effect or more trippy because you're getting all these different colors and whatnot. I guess I'm going to go with that. I'm going to apply probably motion blur just to give it a little bit more interest and movement just like this. Just to give it a trippy effect, get another layer but below the skies, get the color of this car right here, the orange. I'm going to go get the monoline brush. I'm going to put the layer just above the sky so it shows up here. I'm going to go put an orange circle. I'm going to drop my one finger right here so I can get a perfect circle. I'm going to drop the color. I'm just going to position it to where I wanted it to be. Something like this probably here. I will actually get more trippy with the trees. I'm going to go to the layer mask, I actually going to combine the layer mask of the van. I could just get the liquify tool and then I could probably experiment with the twirl or pinch and I could make the composition a little bit more interesting and trippy. I think that's too much, but it just gives it more movement of some sorts. It gives it more inviting and a little trippy if I say so. I'm going to go add another image right here just to give it more interest. I'm going to put the birds somewhere, probably touching the clouds just to give it more interest onto what's happening into the scene. A little bit bigger so it's more catchy to the eye's color grade, this one right here as well. Let's see if we can get more interesting result. We could even pump up the saturation or we could find another hue that fits into the space. I think I'm not going to do that because it's going to be too much colors. I'm actually going to add a layer. I'm going to put light flashing here just to give it more interest with the van and so I'm going to add layers. If you go to luminance, it's one of the free brushes on Procreate, it's built-in light pin. We just need to get probably white here and then we could blend it with some nice glow of the lights here just to give it visual interest so it doesn't just look like a static. I'm going to blend it screen. We're good with this composition right here. We could go for another composition, something that's moving and some more trippy than this one. I'll see you on the next one. 5. Second Poster: We're going to go ahead and create a new art board. I'll be using the same art board, which is 11 by 17. I'm going to insert a couple of images that I found on Unsplash or Excellence. I'm going to go insert photo here. I'm thinking just to make like this. What we're going to do now, we're going to mask it and delete all the axis and a part of the photo. I'm going to go for free hands and hopefully I'll get all the good side. We're just going to go ahead and start here. You can do this pretty much a couple of times to see if you get it right and I'm just going to move it just like that. I'm going to finish it right there and I can proudly close it just like that. I'm going to feather it out quite a bit. Let's see the result here. I'm going to go for layer 1, and I'm just going to mask it and see how it looks. I think it's okay for now since we don't have anything on the space. I'm going to insert one of the photo to make this composition a little bit more lively. I got this cloud here, so I'm a fun of clouds and I'm going to just put it here. I will put it just below the background color. Something like this, but I'm not really a fun. That's one of the things when I'm doing collages, it usually doesn't go for what I envision, so I just deleted the photo. I'm going to reinsert it again. What I'm going to do, I'm just going to reduce the opacity of the photo so I know how to position it correctly. Hopefully that helps. Make sure that this part right here goes all the way here, so it does not look like it's pretty cut. If you can move around just like this. Ensure you have a good space here as well. I will just probably do this here. I'm going to twist it a little bit so it has more intriguing point. I probably going to go here. Now let's see if that's going to work. I'm going to increase the opacity to 100. Go to the selection again and then try to roughly trace the path. We could always modify it. I will just mask it and see how it looks. I'm going to go to airbrush and I'm going to go for a soft brush and make sure that you're on the layer mask. Let's try to soften the edges and probably bring back some details here because I went overboard and delete some good stuff here and you can just switch to black and white. You can take your time here because this is actually the define detailing that we're going to do. [MUSIC] I just have to remove this part as well. I think I should have done that when I was doing the mass. [MUSIC]. I think we're almost done. [MUSIC] I think we have a good point right now. I know it still doesn't look good, doesn't look right but don't worry, we're going to get there. Right here, I probably will increase size. Probably going to go like this, just above the cloud layer. Probably going to go for orange, just like what we did in the last one, just to give it more visual interests. I'm going to go "Edit Shape", "Circle", and make it a little bit bigger, just like this. We're going to fix something here because right now this one looks odd here. What I'm going to do, I'm going to go to this layer again and I'm going to go bigger here, something like this. If you go to organic on the brush library, there's a rain and this one will give you a brush for a cloud and that will give us opportunity to hide some imperfection of this collage. Let's try that. Add a new layer first and then we can start putting some clouds right here, different shape and we can always change the brightness of the cloud to something super bright so it blends perfectly with the atmosphere. Change the opacity as well. You can also use the cotton here if you want. It's a different texture as well, but I think that it's too much. I'm just going to go decrease the opacity of the clouds layer. I think that's good enough. We can change the color of the orange here, because I think it's to unsaturated, so we're going to saturate it quite a bit. We can even change it to something more darker. We can even play around with it since it has its own layer. The thing that I like to change is to color grade this image right here because it doesn't really go with the flow. It's super unsaturated. What are we going to do here we can pump up the brightness. We can saturate it so it gives it more of an orange and teal look. We can start manipulating the hue here. We could even go for curves here, and we can start pumping up the highlights of the photo. The thing that I'm going to do now is the background image, because it doesn't really go with the flow with what we have right here. I'll try to change it to some teal look that goes with the color, but not too much. I'm going to just increase this one right here. I could increase the saturation, increase the brightness, or decrease it, something like this. I think this is going pretty good right now. Added this part right here because I don't like the thing that's hanging right there. I probably will go back to the brush. If you go to your recent, you still have the recent brushes that you used, so I'm going to go use the medium brush here. But I'll make sure that I go to the layer mass of this image. I just want to connect something here. Found this one as well on Unsplash. I just get rid of the background. I will use this selection tool freehand. I'm going to go start here and point this one right here. This is good for a geometric shape. [MUSIC] I think we're good. We can just select the layer here and we can go mask. I could just put this one right here just to give it a little bit more interests and whatnot. It's like a State band. I will just color grade this one right here because I want to make it orange as well. I'm going to merge it, modify the color so I can just go hue, make sure that it has the same color of this one [MUSIC] I think this is good. I think that sets the tone. I could even duplicate them here. I'm just going to put it right here. Birds are going everywhere. I think the message that I'm planning to say here, it's the end of the world vibe. I can gush and blur this here so it gives it some illusion that they're out of focus. I can make it darker so it pops even more because the original color doesn't really pop much. Doing this make it a little bit brighter or darker depending on what's going on. It just gives it a little bit of interests. I could probably decrease the opacity here because it's too much for that, but it's still a good way. I will increase the lights of the car right there. There's a little bit of life going on. I will use the light pen and I could use some brighter color here. I'm just going to lighten up those cars, [MUSIC] changing the color as well. [MUSIC] We created something that's similar of what we did previously. This is more calm and relaxed. This is more end of the world thing, but it's still a dreamy vibe. It gives opportunity for you to put something else here. You can even put different texture, but I like this composition just because of the colors. There's movement going on, there are birds around, a statement here. I hope you like this composition right here and see you on the next video. 6. Thank you!: Hi again, and thank you so much for spending your time with me and watching this class. I hope you enjoyed it and learned new things inspire you to create Surrealism Poster. As always, I'll be here waiting to see your beautiful project. If you have any questions or something, feel free to ask anything and I'll see you on next one. [MUSIC]