Create Abstract Wall Art in Procreate and Photoshop

1. Welcome to the Class "Create Abstract Wall Art in Procreate": Welcome to the class, create abstract wall art in procreate. In this class, you'll learn how to draw elements in Procreate and put them together as a wall art to create a digital product for sale. Or just brush up your help. If we have met yet, my name is Maria. I'm an artist and graphic designer and teacher, and I love to create digital products to set a passive income streams for me. As a creative entrepreneur, actually is this is what I do since 2009 when I first launched the safari lodge designer classes on my website, each design resort.com. In this class, I show you how to get inspired to create abstract artwork, including my magic ingredient, how to draw your abstract elements and procreate, and how to put your wall art together, e.g. in Photoshop. I also show you how to create different sizes of your beautiful art prints and how to create beautiful preview images easily. If you want to sell your artwork, you can download all the material from our website. You just need to sign up for my newsletter to get access to the designer's toolbox. Then you can download original PSD and procreate file, as well as a color palette. After you've done that, you can unsubscribe immediately, but then you might miss a great new student. In any case, enjoy the class and maybe even start selling your own ad. Join me now. 2. Here is the material you need: In this first lesson, we're talking about the material you need for your project. Well, that I'm going to show you the abstract wall art I have created. And I'm going to show you how you can create them yourself later on, sell them. So here are the two abstract wall ours, we're going to create. And as you can see for that, you need different elements here. And you need to put them on to a document. And later on you can print them out and put them on some mockups to have preview images. So you can add them to different stores and sell them from there. So what we need for this project is, of course, your iPad and invest case. You have an Apple pencil, or at least a pencil with, which works with your iPad, because we need the app Procreate, and Procreate is for drawing. So it's a very good idea to have a pencil here. So you can draw much better than with your finger. And we also use a brush which is already included in Procreate, which is from the inking palette. You can use here some of these brushes. It doesn't really matter which one. You can always use whatever fields suitable for you. I'm going to use this brush here, but later on we will see if we might need something else. So once we have drawn our elements, we're going to send them to the computer. And once they are there, we're going to put them together in Photoshop. So here is where Photoshop open. And even if you have no clue about Photoshop, don't worry. I'm going to show you step-by-step how you can put your document together later, print your abstract wall. Of course, you can use it just for your home. Just we save them in different sizes and you can make them perfectly for your home, suitable and have them on your wall there. Or you can create different sizes and put them together as a downloadable product because that's what it's all about. We're going to create downloadable products and put those together and sell them e.g. on Etsy. For that, I'm going to show you in one of the lessons how to use these mock upset we have here from Yuli. But you can basically use whatever you want. But what you need is a mock-up set which helps you to make beautiful preview images to showcase your mockups later more about that, but that's the material you basically need for this. As I said, if you don't want to sell these items, you don't need any mockups. Of course, you just need your computer so we can put the wall art together. 3. Get inspired to draw beautiful abstract shapes: Maybe you've signed up for this class because your sink, you can much more easily handle abstract images than realistic images. Guess most probably you are right? If you're not an artist, you are more likely to create splashes, then you are creating realistic looking images. Yes, and I'm no different here. It's much more exhausting to create something realistic than it is to create some splashes, some syllabus and whatever. So in this case, we're just focusing on the abstract images, but we want a meaningful image. This is where we are going to find inspiration. Yes, maybe anyone can just draw some circles and some squares, some splashes, whatever, and put them somehow together. But what about making this meaningful and telling a story? Let me tell you how I handle that. What I'm going to create an abstract image because I find that actually pretty challenging if I don't tell a story. So you won't see that in my image, of course. But usually I have a story in mind when I'm creating that image. Most probably any artists on this burst when he or she creates something has a story in mind. When we are standing in a museum and looking at the imagery often think, what has he sought about creating it like this or that, or whatever happened? What did he think about it? But you will never figure that except you ask the artist yourself, and that's most probably something you can hardly do. So it's always a good idea to develop your own story for each and every image you look at or you want to draw. I know it sounds a little bit abstract, but let me show you the example of my abstract images and let me tell you the story here. Okay, Let's have a look here on the computer where I have the abstract images we want to create. So when you look at those, you might think of, I don't know what you're thinking of. I would love to know. Maybe you sent me a message or write me in the comments. What are you thinking of when you look at this images? And now I tell you the true story. This is about a holiday we had in 2009 when we visited my friend Diane in the United States and it was the first time for me, was it easy United States and visiting her of course as well. She was with us a year ago. So in 2008 came over to Germany, but we went there in 2009 for the first time. We were in the desert in Palm Springs or close to Palm Springs, it's called Rancho mirage. And it was a very small town, but in the United States and nothing is really small, you know, that much better than me and I was completely overwhelmed about all the large distances between the simpler the single areas here. When we went to the center of the city, it was not just going over for half an hour. It was a trip for an hour maybe or even longer. So it's a large thing, although it's called very small there and it was a desert. Because the vegetation there, the plants, everything, whether it was completely different. So when we arrive first, my friend had to go back to Los Angeles to pick up her friend from there, her boyfriend from the airport. And he left us back together with her little son. And we both stayed at her home. Around lunchtime. We got hungry. So we he called the little boy, called his grand father, and the grandfather told him to go with us somewhere to eat something. Okay. So we started working. And usually it's not a big deal, right? But large distances there. Plus the fact that we had the hottest day of the year was 48 degrees. And we as Europe pins, I'm not used to temperatures like that. Really. It brought us completely out of everything. So we had a really hard time to get to the restaurant, to eat there and to get back actually, looking around. We looked at us like we looked both probably pretty pitiful because we didn't even have something to protect us against the sun. So this is a story from my image and this is why it's called desert. So what I had in mind was the sun here on top, together with some areas with these brown areas. And I was thinking, okay, maybe I could get into a whole so to protect myself from the sun. So that's the story behind it. So I had the hope of finding a hole or a cave where we could just hide from the sun. And this green thing here might be the cave where we can hide. The plants here. Little bit of vegetation. The plants which were in the desert, which were very strange to us. Most probably they don't even exist in the desert, but it doesn't matter in this case, it's just my story for this picture. You see, this picture somehow has a story and you might look at it. Never have realized that I'm thinking of a story. I had in 2009 when I first arrived in the United States and walked around at 48 degrees through the city and wanted to have some lunch. So you can always make up stories. You can always think of something and dream often thing. Or you can of course, think of stories you really have experienced. This works with some images or any kind of images actually. So that's why I've pulled up those. Let me quickly also tell you that this is now these are two part images. This is a two-part image which belongs actually together. So you can put that next to each other on the wall and it will go over here, you see, but you can also hanging them on their own. So here's my cave and here's a little bit more of the cave and here is going into the depth. So it's just my imagination. And this is what I want you to get as well. As quickly go to Pinterest. I always love Pinterest to get inspiration or to get inspired. And now I want to add something maybe like desert here. Of course, this is all about Desert, palm Springs. So now you see there are several images about desert. Maybe you have been to a desert, I don't know. Or maybe you have been to Alaska and it's not hard, of course not, but the vegetation, it looks similar where there are icebergs. Here are just Sam, so it's completely up to you, what you think of and what you make of it. So let me pick one of these pictures. So here is, this reminds me of the word 66. Don't ask me why. Mountains in the background, the cacti here in the front. So I'm thinking of the root 66 thing here. Even more images which reflect that to me, I can be right, or it can be completely different to you. That's fine. It just about getting inspiration and abstract images are all about that. So if I would want you to create an abstract image from this imagination effort first think of a story. That's what I told you. I think of a story. And the ones I have the story in my mind, I'm going to find some images to get inspired to create something similar. So most probably I would look at these plants here and draw something like that in an abstract way. Or I would go here and see the mountains and what to draw them out and something like that. Then put together my wall art and maybe some of these pictures which inspired me and some of the others pictures which inspired me. That's what it's about. So you need to create something new. You can easily do that when you tell yourself stories. 4. Let's create a Color Palette in Procreate: So now that you are inspired, you most probably need colors. Yeah. Because without colors you cannot draw your abstract. While arthritis, you need it for your shapes and in best-case it all fits together. So I'm going to show you how to pick the colors from my pictures and you can also use my color palette. I'm going to add that to the class. But in case you want to do your own until you went to Pinterest and just typed in desert and you have images there. Now I'll show you quickly what I do and then we move to my pictures. So now I'm here on Pinterest and I have several images here. And just in case I pick that one, we have already talked about that. I'm going to put it up and then I make it as big as I can here. Then I just do a screenshot, so I just press the two buttons here. Maybe it's different for your iPad, you need to check that, but then you have a screenshot. You can easily move to your Procreate app. And I just created whatever size a document here. So just go to plus on top right and click on screen size. You have whatever kind of image. It doesn't really matter which Canvas we have here. We can work with whatever. So now we need to put the image inside. So I go here to settings and then I click Insert Photo and pick my image. And now I can go from there. I can make them smaller of course. But now I can start picking my colors from that image. So that's how easy it is. And now I'm going to grab my images and put those in, Procreate and grab them from there. We delete that one, swipe to the left and click Delete. And now I go back to the settings, click again on Insert photo and pick my first picture. It gets pretty large, so I'll make it just smaller. Turn that off and do that again. Insert photo, picks a second one. And you see it usually takes a second. And then I put it next to the other one. So that should be enough so we can get started. And to start, you go here on top right, on this little circle with a color, whatever color you have in here. Then you go here on the bottom on palate. When you do that, you have all the pallets you already have inside. There are already some included, but maybe you have created or you are going to create know with mesa more. So what you do now is shift click on the plus and then say create new pallet. And then you have a pellet here and it's typed on by default. I'm deleting the untitled and typing here. Let's call it desert. And once done, just click in here. So you have your palette, you're empty pallet here. Now we start, I just type in with my finger here. And you see what happens. There is a circle and it's hop half yellow and power of the color we had before. When I release it now the color turns into the yellow I just picked from here. Now I click in here and I have my palette where I have my colors saved. Let's go on with that. Again, typing in half the color here, put next to that one. And I have the second car. Maybe you have a duplicate like I have now. How should we get rid of that? You just hold down. And that comes a little sign up here and it says delete, and I can just click Delete and M rid of them. So don't worry if you have too many or too less or whatever, you can always just delete them and go on later. So I have 1234 colors, maybe five. Well, I think I have five colors. I'm going to pick that one as well. You see it's a black or green and then this creamy color, the brownish and the yellow. Maybe here are some more. But no, I just picked those five. Once done. I have my five colors so you can most probably hardly see the last year or this black one on the dark green one here, the three tones. But that's basically how it works if you create a color palette and you can always share it. When you click here on the three dots, you can share it here and save it on your iPad and then give it away. Just like I do with a pellet. Now, you can get it from the class and download from there and use that one for whatever you want, of course. But you don't have to. Of course, as I said, you can go to Pinterest grepping image and just go from there and pick some colors from that one. But since we want to do this project, I just picked the colors from these two images. 5. Drawing shapes and using basic tools in Procreate: Now we start drawing our abstract elements. So what I have done here is I have these two images from the last lesson. They are still here and we're going to create a new document and insert just one of these images because we need to start somewhere. So I go back to the gallery here and click here the plus sign. And I just use pretty big one maybe, because I later on want to have enough pixels to use it on my computer and to have the Canvas pretty big. So because of that, we create our own document. And this is where I click here on the little plus. And I can say, okay, I want it to be 4,000 by 4,000 pixels. Okay, here it already has four cells and I want to have 300 DPI recurse. I'm mers probably want to print it. So it's always good to have 300 DPI. You can see I still have 61 layers here. Maybe you have less, are most probably you have another number here may be more or less. It depends on your iPad and its size and how much it can do for you if you have a pretty new one or an older one. This also has an impact on the layers showing up here. Okay, What you also need to do is you need to click on color profiles and need to make sure that you have CMYK profile here. Because it's pretty important. You want to print your wall art later on, no matter if you want to sell it or not, but you want to print it. So it's always a good idea to put the CMYK color format here. And once you have done that, you can say here on top right, create. You have a documented, pretty large document for cells and by four shell, we can start creating our abstract images here. So let's go to the Settings tab again and say Insert photo. And I pick just one of the pictures, doesn't really matter which one right now. I make that smaller because I just need it for my inspiration and see what I need to draw here. I put a two here in the top left corner. And as you can see, I now have a T on a separate layer. The first thing I do now I create a new layer because usually most property would happen. That is, put whatever I draw on layer one and then I have to start all over. So make sure you have a new layer and always check twice if you have, once you have, go to your brushes and then go to inking, and here you can use pretty much whatever you want. I use this one now, but you can also use that when I take care of is that there is nothing at the edges. It is not frazzled. We'll take care that it looks like really a stroke. So now we can start drawing. Here. You can of course, increase or decrease the size of your brush. You always need to try that because you can hardly see. So let me draw whatever. Yeah, maybe I can make it a bit bigger. I also want to get rid of that. So I use two fingers and type in here. And it's got now, again, shaking new layer. My brush and I also pick the first color is yellow here I have here on top. And once I type on it, it's here on top. I can start drawing, so I first need to circle and never draw cut off shapes here. I won't do that because maybe I need that later for something else. So I just draw a circle. You see, my circle does not look very nice. But as long as I don't release my Apple Pencil, I can just make it look nice so it gets a rear circles. Maybe. You can check if it looks how it should. More or less. It does. It looks a little bit oval. So we can do it again. I get rid of that. Let's draw another circle. That looks better. I make it pretty big because as I said, I can always reduce the size, but it's hard to increase. So this is all pixel-based. And now I drag my color here inside and it's filled. I can make it bigger to check if everything is filled, but it looks good because of the brush we have picked. So make sure you have the right brush here. So I don't need that right now. I just put it somewhere. And then I go ahead and turn it off here. I just have that. And now we're going to draw this shape here on top right. And for that, I need another color. Maybe most probably that one. Again, I don't want to have cut off edges, so I make up whatever is here. So let's draw that again. Make pretty big. You see what happened? I have turned off that layer and create a new one, so I should definitely do that. As I said, we need a new layer for each element because we're going to export each of these elements separately. It doesn't have to be completely alike. So if now you hold it down, you see what happens. It's not what we want, so we need to go back. We need something like that. Let's drag in the color and see how we can improve. So here it's a little bit wonky. So let me draw that again. Fill the color in here. So it's just similar, It's not the same and that's what I want. So you don't want to copy yourself nor do you want to copy anyone else. So you always want to make your own stuff. Can also drag the color here. So it fills again. No, I could hold it down. So if something is missing here, it doesn't fill, you need, just need to use your pencil. You see here is an edge. We need to get rid of that as well. But that's really not hard. It's just you go along and see what you can do to improve your drawing, to improve your abstract edges here. And that's it. We're done, looks similar as the same but similar. We can test it will move a tissue the top right. Yes. It looks similar. We can work with that. So I turned it off. Again. It can offer always recolor things later on. But I just don't want to draw each and every element with you right now, but let's do one more. So you get a feeling for that. Again, I need to create another layer. And now I want you to create my case. Maybe, I guess it's just for me, a cave. So the brown color. So let's go to the color palette I picked. And then we create the cave or the door of the cave. You see how big I make it? I can already tell you this is not what I want. Here's much wider than here, so I guess I can go over it here again. Let's fill it with color to see how it goes. I go around to get rid of all these little edges here. That's the beauty of digital, is you can always redo or undo things and get another chance. And you can turn it on or off, which is also pretty handy for this kind of work. Yeah. I guess I want to leave it like it is here. You see it looks a bit different here, but doesn't matter. If you want to have it differently. If you want to distort it, you can always do that. So I just clicked here on the arrow. And now I can say okay, distort. And then I can just pull it down. And then up. And you see it looks much more similar here. Okay, another one, ready? Turn it off. And now I want to draw some of the leaves with you. So another layer, another color, I believe it's black, but I just pick it from here. We have a new layer. And now I make that a bit bigger so I can see it better. I just made it bigger. And now I draw the stem here. You cannot just leave it like that. You see it gets trait is more of what we want. So I go over again, go back and make it a bit smaller so I can put my first leaf here on top. Again, it doesn't matter if it looks a bit different, that's okay. And what you need to take care of that gets smooths here. So again, I go around if it's not, just have an ion that, but basically draw whatever I want here. Now here is something. So I need to get rid of that. Well, that you have Your rabbi here, and this is all in the brushes you already have as well. So make sure you ask the right one and you can go on with the next leaf. In nitrogen. Not everything is the same as well. So that's why I draw some bigger, some smaller. So that's how it is. Take care of making it looking nice later. So for now, I just draw my leaves. And I also control here over it doesn't really matter. You, Chris, I'm on a separate layer. So what I do now is I just turn off that image and you see my leaf is fine. So let me make a smaller loop. You see I'm not on uniform again anymore so it gets distorted. Need to change that back to my leaf layer. And now again, I zoom in and see what I can improve here. There is some, I need to go over this up to you. Of course, you can also leave it as it is. Okay. I guess I could do more here, but I don't want to keep you online while I'm doing that. So again, I just turn off my leaf layer and you see what happened. I just, whatever I did, I did that here on this layer. So I need to get rid of that. So again, we just get rid of that. I guess I need another another brush. I go to the inking mouth. It's fine if you make mistakes, don't worry about that. It can happen in this case because we own the layer we don't need anymore anyway. So I could just get rid of that, but I want to show you how to get her to just delete it. So I go to the same layer I have for drawing. And then I can much better eraser let you see, it looks much better. But you can totally increase that and then get rid of that. Or just as I said, delete the entire scene. The best thing here is that we now need to do it again. I need to turn on that layer and move to that layer and then start fixing it. So once again, I have black as the color. And here my brush or a half now, the eraser. And that's fine too, because it can also erase something here. Instead of drawing something came back. So again, just as you like to draw or delete, That's the beauty of these things you have here. Because it's much easier to erase abstract elements than it is to actually do that with realistic looking element. Again, you know, go on. You can get the other image in here and then start to draw some more of these shapes. The more you have, the more flexible you are. So you shouldn't stop here. Just move on and put them each on its own layer. And we're going to take care of exporting those later in another lesson. 6. Creating Wall Art in Photoshop: In this lesson, we are going to export our PSD file to the computer and start to put our wall art together. And you will see it's not that difficult and you could even do it on your iPad. I'm going to do that in Photoshop because I find it way easier to work on the computer. And besides that, to later on export my files in different sizes. That's why. But if you prefer to work on your iPad, just go ahead and do it. I have now the file open with all the layers and all the different elements we need for our artwork here. Now, I'm going to export that. I'm going to turn that on. When you click here on PSD, it starts exporting. And once that is done, you can ask it to send it to your computer. In case you don't have a Mac computer, you can of course, also save it here into your file, save to files here, or you can also save to your Dropbox wherever. And in my case, I just click here drop. I pick my computer, my MacBook. You can already hear that it goes over to my computer and that accepted there. And it starts to download to my computer. To my downloads folder. Yeah. Basically, that's it. Now I have it on my computer and we can switch over so we can start to put our artwork together. As you can see now, I have here in my Downloads folder as a PSD file, and I'm going to open that here in Photoshop. As it's a PSD format, it doesn't matter. I just pull it out here. Now you can see that here are all the different layers, including the layer with the original artwork. I'm going to delete that one because I have opened it here so we can have a look where we have to put what and go from there. Delete layer don't show again. Yes, please delete. And now I first turn everything off here. And you see how nicely that those two just put things from there, here on the computer. So what is now is that there are different sizes. So I can easily check, come on out and I what side this has? This is centimeters and inches, so I just put over 100 by hundred 50 " is really lush. But it's 77200 pixel by tensile and 800, I can create that hundred per hundred 50 ". So let's do that. File New. In case your computer cannot handle that, it might happen because it's really a large file. Then you just make it smaller and make a bite of that. So not 100, 150. So maybe you do 50 by 75, something like that. So I'm going to choose inches now and say hundred 550. And I say, I want pixel per inch, so I have 300. And I also want the CMYK color mode because I want to print it. So once I have set my file, I click here create, and it's now here inside the document. I have to keep that open, of course, because it has all my elements. And now we start by filling our document with the right color. So I click here in my layers palette in case you don't have this Layers palette showing up here. You go to Windows and then layers. So it will open. Once you have your background, you go here on this little circle and then you click Solid Color. And you're going to pick the color here from the background or from whatever element you have open and click. Okay, and now I have my document filled with the same color. So next step, we need to start by turning on all the different layers here. So what I do is I click with the left mouse here on my layer, pull it over and then release it. It asked me to converge and yes, it should convert. And you see it's already here. It's far away. What has happened? Now? There's a very interesting thing. It's, I have already drawn it in 4,000 by 4,000 pixels. But when I put it on such a large document, it gets really tiny. So what are we going to do now? Yeah, well, that's something we can't change because we otherwise had to convert everything into a vector format, then we could make our elements as big as we want to. I don't wanna do that now because then you would need Illustrator, Adobe Illustrator. And most probably you don't have that. If you do, please go ahead and convert each of your elements into vector form it. I won't do that right now. So what I do is just decrease the size of my documents. So I use a fraction of the document on the left. So let me delete that layer. Then I press Command I, and then I just say I make it a quarter, so 25 " here. Then it's here, 37.5. So should look better. Let's see. If that's enough. Maybe I need to make it even smaller. Just you need to take care of that when you draw it small in your, in your vector, in, in your rest UP program. In this case, in Procreate, you don't have a very large document on your computer. That's how it is. Okay. So let's do it again. Pull it over and see what happens. It's better, but by far not as big as here. So we still need to get it smaller. Command I. And I will just do it in 10 " by 15. That should be fine. Let's see. I press Command plus so I have my document larger. I pull it over again. That's good. Now it's even larger. So Command Minus I make it smaller. I have a better overview here. You can see now that it needs to be even smaller. So I've put that here on the top. And was Command T, I am pressing the Shift key. I make it smaller without distorting it here. So that's how it is. The aesthetic works, maybe even a bit more. You can be really free here, just about putting something together, but you can always do it differently. You don't have to form along here. You can always also do something completely different with your elements, of course. But in case you just want to try these things out, you might follow along and see how that goes for you. Okay, You see also my elements look a little bit different, but it doesn't matter if it's really it's totally up to you. Let's turn on my cave. Just drag and drop the layer over. We see I usually aren't. Here, is, here is the rounding, so here's a middle, so it's slightly on the right. So in here it's middle. I known move it slightly to the right. So it should work. For whatever reason this color here is darker than it is here. That's pretty strange because we have picked them from our from our documents. So it should be the same, but actually it isn't. It might have something to draw with color profiles on the iPad and the computer. Sure. So what we can do is we can just fill it with another color. Just go to my bucket tool here and pick the other color from the left side and then just fill it here with a right. You see it's a little bit darker. We go ahead, turn that one off, turn the next one on. But again, I drag and drop it over. With Command T. I can turn it around. A little. Leaf also looks different, but as I said, doesn't really matter. We don't want to have an exact copy here. We just want to have similar to what we had. So you get an idea of what we're doing here. Okay, Next step. Let's go back to the document here and turn that one on. And it goes into the foreground. Now let's see how big that is. So press Command T because it needs to be slightly smaller here. Okay? And you might see that this one is now behind that one, so I just drag it down here. So it goes over it and it looks similar to this one. Okay, Let's go ahead. Next one. This block here. And again, it needs to be in the back, so I pull it down here. So it's behind my cave. Now let's see where we put that one. Yeah. Shouldn't be like that, right. More or less here it's a bit bigger than here, but it's okay. Okay. Next 1 s part of the cape. Again, it has the other color. Again, drag it over and fill it with the other color. Okay? So this one looks not the same anymore. We need to get that bigger. Very dominant here while it was pretty small on this page. So I make it small, bit larger here. Okay. And again, the colors are a little bit different. So let's pick the color again and change to the bucket tool so we can fill it for the right colors. Now, it's different. It's completely different. Okay. Next one. I wanted that in black and actually it's green. Maybe most probably that was me. I'm going to turn that into black. I'm saying is I need to touch it here and move it into the right direction already. So it's behind that blob here. And you know, That should be fine. Maybe smaller. Because I want to Black Knight, press Command plus and zoom really n. Of course it gets blurry now, but that's okay. What I do now is I'm going to select the entire layer and fill them with black. Otherwise I would have to pick each of these little dots and fill those. So I go over this layer, press Command and click here. So everything here is selected. Then I press him a little circle, solid color, and go into them. Bottom left, I have six zeros to have black and click, Okay, and now it's black. We can merge these two layers now so we don't get confused with that. I'm going to mark them both with Command Shift. And then I do a right-click and say Merge Layers. And then I have just this one, single layer with Command Minus, I go out again. Okay, so now we need to get more elements from here. We're nearly done. So let's drag that over. Here is the leaf. Again, it should be black. So we do the same trick with command. I select everything, press the little circles, say solid color. Going to the bottom left of black, everything zero here, and then click Okay. Then with the Shift key, I merge them both. With Command T. I can move it much easier here, and I need to put it here in the left butt in front of bad ones. So let's see how that works. Okay, when we zoom out, we might see some more arrows. So I go in at a later time, but for now that's fine. And the last one, again, I drag it over. Click Okay. Again, it's great. So let's do that again. Command mark every sing and solid color go into bottom-left was black. Click. Okay? And then again, we're going to merge that one layer. And now we just need to move it here and make it smaller. Okay? I believe it's okay. We will see Command Minus I go out here and make that one bigger. And it looks kinda different. So let's see. Let's turn that off. Don't save. Yeah, I need to figure out what's going on here, What's wrong. So first of all, I believe that cave thing here is not really what it should be here. This one is smaller. So what do we do about it? You press Command T, and then we're going to distort it a bit with this tool here on the top and then see how it looks. I just move it slightly. Not that much. Because as I said, it can be different. It doesn't have to be the exact same thing here. It actually should be you're at work. So you see it hasn't filled entirely here because it was over the edge here. So we need to fill that again. Okay. Yeah, I like that more. I have still black and can do my bucket and fill that again. So now it's anteriorly black. Dark green. Dark green? Yeah. Okay. Let's go on here. It's okay. Maybe a bit smaller. So we can see more from flowers. Here are the leaves more or less. Let's see. I just click here on my end and then you see it switches in the layers palette to exactly that layer. That doesn't happen for you. You need to mark that here, so it works for you as well. Then you can just click on the layer in your habit. Otherwise you need to find it in your layers palette. And sometimes it's a bit difficult if you want to have it larger than Y. So you just take on here this little Shane and then you can pull it up. Yeah. That's on top. Okay. To make definite bit larger. I need a bit more space here. Okay? Okay. I think it's okay. It's not 100% same and we didn't want it to be because then I would have had to copy my picture because I can't do it from my mind or just from the picture. Do it 100% the same, that will never work. It doesn't have to. So I think that wallet looks good now. And hopefully you have pulled along and already started drawing your elements. I believe that's the hardest part to draw all these separate elements. And then later on put it together. You saw the mistake you can make here, and that's the size of your document. If you have a really large document, you need to set up a really large document on your iPad as well. As a wise, you have a problem with your images. You get the elements much smaller than you will have here. A big learning from this lesson is that you need to think about the size you want to have later and the size you are going to create in the bigger size on your iPad, the less layers you have. We already figured that. And that's why you need to find a sweet spot. Most of the size you can make on the iPad. And what you can actually do in Photoshop. Please keep that in mind when you start creating alone, we go on. 7. Create your Wall Art in different sizes: No matter if you want to sell your art print or if not, just have it in different sizes, you should be able to differentiate your size on the computer. So now we are going into Photoshop once again and see what we need to do when we want to have our artwork in a different size. It's not as hard as it sounds, but I'm going to show you step-by-step how it works. And you can also adapt that to all sizes. I'm going to show to you how to do it in a4. A4 is the international format. In the US, it's 8.5 by 11. You use and year in Germany or wherever we mostly use A4 because that is what our printer knows and can do. And that's why I'm going to show you that format, but you choose whatever you need for your home. You can also send it to any online printer and have it printed there. Of course, I still have our files open. The one we have put together and the one the old one, the original one. I'm going to close that one now because I want to modify with you the one which has all the layers here in the Layers palette. Now, let's have a quick look. We know the size already, it's ten by 15, and now we need to switch that. So what do we do? First of all, we create a new document. So let me go to File New. And then here you have all the formats already are many of them. Otherwise you need to create them here. But in case you want to follow along and have an A4 format, you go to Print. And then you can pick here it's a letter size or here the A4 size. And you see it has millimeters, but still pixel per inch. And it has the RGB color mode because we want to print it, of course, we need to change to the CMYK color mode. And one son go bottom-right to create. And then you have your document which has tabs and I'm going to move it out. So we have both of them together with command minus. I go out a bit. So I have a better overview here. And now I need to move all these elements, all the layers from the left to the right and see what the size is and how it adapts. So let's mark them all. Pretend we haven't. So I just mark the bottom and move to the top Presley Shift key and mark them all. Then again, I just drag them onto my new document. You see what happens? It is pretty large and it's pretty messy as well. So I press Command T, and if I do it that way, I press Command T for all the layers I have already selected. So now I can hear change the size, the percentage. Make sure you have this little shank clicked because you don't want to distort it. I just estimate, let's say 80 per cent. Yeah, it comes close, let's say 70% better. Okay, So let's move it to the bottom and to the left. I can always have a look here if it still works. Otherwise it can lead to move the layers a little bit, doesn't really matter. So that's on the left, it's fine. On the bottom, it's not. So let's see. Yeah. Okay. I double-click and now you see this one is smaller than this one. So I need to move this thing here to the right. At least. It's always if you want to. But in my case, I want I want to change it up a little bit. And I also just want to have half the sun here. And here you see what happened to us before. With these green. We have again this strange half green because it was out of the file and so it didn't get filled entirely. So let's click here to black again and go to the bucket tool. And then I can just fill it again. I felt it now with black instead of fried. So click in here, pick the green color. Click Okay, and then go ahead and fill it. Okay, so now let's see if it looks good or if we need to move our files a bit. So that's what happens when you create your file in different sizes, but that's okay. You need to modify it a little and you still need to make it look good. So it's a good thing to just look at each format itself and modify and just cat and safe, but look at each file and see if it still works. So if you need to do something differently. So yeah, I guess it's okay. Always looking here or there, but I happy with it. So I guess we can do it like that. Here is a bit overlapping and whatnot. So I can press Command T and pull a little bit bigger, but don't do it too much because you will get pixelated here. So make sure it's not happening that you pixelate your image a little bit more. I like that. Okay, so now we have our A4 format done. 8. Save and export your Art Prints: Now that we have our new document ready and it's an A4 format. We of course want to save it properly. So what you want to do always as a designer, you always want to have your original file. And this means in this case, you need a PSD or a tiff file. I usually save a PSD file. You might prefer tiff. That's up to you. The main point is that you have your layers. You want to keep all the layers in your layers palette because you might want to change something later on or you might want to have another former. So it's always good to keep your PSD file. And that's what I'm going to show. You know, we are going to save the file as a PSD. Then we're going to export as a JPEG, but in high-quality. Okay, we're back in Photoshop and you see it's still untitled and it still has all the separate layers here. So what I do now is I go to File and click Save As, and then I'm going to save it on my computer. Usually when you have the Cloud, you have the possibility to save it in your Cloud. But I don't want to I want to save it on my computer because I let's say one day you don't have the Cloud anymore or whatever can happen here. You don't have your files anymore. So of course, they would love to have you save everything in the Cloud. And of course you most probably, I haven't checked little bit. Maybe you can even purchase more memory, but we don't need that. We actually save it on the computer. So I click here, save on the computer, you can even click here, Don't show again, that's up to you. But I just want to have it in PSD. As you can see here, it says dot PSD. And here also Photoshop format. And you also have here is a tiff format if you want to. But I'm going to just save it here as, you know, whatever artwork or desert artwork. Click Save. Now I have my PSD save. You can see it here on top. It says desert and artwork dot PSD. And now when you do a right-click, you see it's on my desktop. That's very important for now. And now we want to export it as a JPEG. No matter if you just want to print it for yourself at home, or if you want to have someone printed for you, or if you want to sell it, you need to provide different formats. So in this case, I want to provide an A4 format. That's what we created this in. So I go to file and now no longer to save as because then we don't have jpeg format. We now go to export and say Export. As. Now you see it opens a new window. And here what happens is that it says here PNG, and we want to have a JPEG. We can also choose the quality. And no matter what, I always choose the highest quality here, because if there is a difference, I really want to have the highest quality for my customers and also for myself if I want to put it on my wall. So I better choose highest-quality here. So let's see, it's all fine. Then click Export and it of course, us again where I want to save it. So I today's desktop again, and I don't need to put anything behind. It usually puts dot JPEG later on. It has the same title as it had before when I saved as a PSD. So I can just click save, and it's done. For now. You have a high-quality PSD file and a high-quality JPEG file. That's a file you would give him to print. From here, you can move on. You can now create a different size. You don't have to create an A5 because that's half of A4. It could be just printed. It has no new relation on your ratio. But if you want to have another size, another inch file, whatever you would need to go ahead, watch the lesson before and just start all over. And to create a new document, put your elements there and modify them and export. Once again, as I said, it's always good to have a look at each and every file size or size of your document you want to have. Don't just save it and never think about it again because then usually it cuts off on the left, right, top, bottom, whatever. It might not have, what you wanted your artwork to say. So please keep that in mind and then go ahead and export as many files as you like. 9. Create Preview Images with Mockups: This lesson is for you. If you want to sell your artwork, if not, you can skip directly to the next lesson. If not, if you want to sell, you really should look at this because I'm going to show you how to create lovely preview images. And you will always need this preview images because if you want to sell something, you need to show it in action. This means that if you have a wall art, you can not just say use my wall art. Okay, you could basically put yourself somewhere and say here's my wall art, but then you would still have to print it. But if you have a mockup, which are endless possibilities, Basically there are n plus mockups online. They're not free, or at least the good ones are not free. But it's well-worth to spend a few dollars on these mock-ups so you can showcase your work. I see it like this. If I'm not sure to spend, let's say $20 for my artwork and I can use it as often as I want to. It's not just for one artwork. I think it won't most probably it won't sell that. I don't have to create it, right? So if you want to sell it, you should be also ready to invest into something like your mockups. I have omega set from URI. This is a pretty good desire I think, because his mockups are really detailed and I really love them. If you don't, if you have something else, please go ahead and use that one. I'm going to show you two ways how to use mockups, because sometimes you have PSD file with smart objects, and sometimes you just get a JPEG. And getting a JPEG makes things much more difficult. So I want to really show you What's the difference is so you can decide upfront before you purchase what kind of mock-up you want to purchase. So now let's go to the computer and I show you how that works. Okay, I have are at work. Open the JPEG file, as you can see on the top. And now let me show you my package from UE. I'm going to give you the link to this package. Of course, so you can get it or if you don't want it and use something else as you, please feel free to do and use whatever you want. So here are two kind of mockups. So here's a PSD file and he has a JPEG file. And I will first use this PSD file. So I'll show you how easy it can be. Then we will see how hard actually it can be worked. Pretty hard actually. Let me go here and you see, here are so many different layers. What I can do now is I can double-click here where it says double-click and then change some things. So let's see. Here I can change the grid and see what else I can do with my, with my file here. But I don't want that. I can change the world design here. What I want to change is this one, the frame design. When I double-click into that one, it opens the frame of the artwork of where I should put the artwork here. And now I have a new layer or a new set of layers. Actually. I need to double-click again so I can put my artwork in it. So here is another layer. Double-click on that one. And now I just have the inside of the frame. So now let me get my artwork, press the Shift key, and move it over and you see it's much too big, but we can either change that commodity and then we just made it smaller. Just make it very small, then place it and increase the size again. So you see it now if it's 100 per cent, so that's fine. Okay, So once done, I can just close that. And when I click null the red button, it asked me saved on safe cancel. Of course I want to save. And you see it goes into the frame. And let me do that again. I close that click Save and now it goes into the Walmart. Yeah, that's how easy it is. And now you already have your first preview image. You saw. How many I have here. So I can just basically go through each of them and just save them. And then I have all my preview images ready. So let me quickly save that. So File Export, Quick Export, Export As, because I need to export it as a JPEG file. So in case you want to sell it on Etsy, It's fine if you have 2000 pixel by two cells and Pixlr, you see it, does it automatically. And then you just export it, save it to your computer, whatever, give it a name if you want to. If not, just keep the name you have here, we can always rename later. You're done. Okay, let me close that. The first option you see, that's actually the better one. Okay, let's go to the other image. If you don't have Photoshop, just in case you also have the JPEG files. So let me open that one here. The JPEG, and you see it goes a little bit into the room. It's not straight on the wall. It goes a little bit into the room, which means that we need to make our outward fit. So let me pull it over. First of all, it's very, very large, so I deleted again, decrease it here. This command as I, I just put it here in percent and let's say I want 30% and click Okay. I can now easily drag it over better already. I now press Command T and make it a bit smaller here. I usually look for one edge here and make it fit to that one edge. So here, more or less, it works. And you'll see now that it goes here into the room. So I need to distort my image a bit. For that, I use this tool here on top. And now I have several dots here where I can distort my image. And now I need to place these dots here on the edges. That's a bit tricky. You need to see that and you need to be carefully where you place the dots here so you make sure that this gets a straight line. Otherwise it looks a bit strange. Let's do our best now. To get here something straight. Let's go move that up. You see, it works. It works. Yeah. Somehow it works, but the other way is much easier. So you see there's a good reason to have Photoshop if you want to do that more often. Okay. I believe that my dad's Yeah. No, You're on the bottom. They are not. So let's put them as well. You can just eyeball it so it's a little bit hard. Maybe it works, or hopefully it does. You would need to zoom in to make it work hundred percent, but I think it's okay now so we can go ahead and click Okay, and then you are done as well. So you can basically use a JPEG file in case you purchase a set, make sure you have PSD with what objects. You can do that in the big size as well as on Etsy. Usually they're, they're much cheaper. And then sometimes you just have this JPEG files. Without Smart Objects, you better look for smart objects. You have seen how easy it is to use your file there. Okay, that's it. If you wanted to sell, go ahead create several images and place your artwork somewhere so people can see and get an impression where they can put your artwork you've created. 10. Your Project: Let's start creating your Wall Art: Congratulations, you made it that far. I hope you enjoyed this class and I hope you already grip your iPad and started creating little elements for your artwork. If you haven't, please go ahead and do so. If your iPad start creating your artwork or a sad creating your little elements for the artwork. Of course, you can copy mine. That's totally expected, expected, and that's what you should do right now, because you should go ahead and try out and get your fingers dirty. If you prefer not to draw, just put things together. You can also do that. Just go to my website, sign up for my newsletter, and download all the material for all classes I have from there. And after you've done that, you can totally sign out again for my newsletter and you will never hear from me again. I won't save your email address and I won't do anything to it. Just go ahead and get whatever you need and then you can start creating right away. The thing is, I need you to sit, need to send you an email with a link and the password to my sacred area on the website, it's the designer's toolbox where you find everything you need for that class. I will put the color palette there, and I also put all the elements there. Actually a PSD file for Procreate. So you can use that one and start creating your artwork right away, no matter if you want to put things together on your iPad or if you want to do it on Photoshop just as I did, you can do that. The only thing I asked you not to do is start selling. It would be strange if you start selling my artwork after you just put together the elements. So then I would ask you to create it yourself. So in any case, once you have done that, please upload your artwork to the gallery because I would love to see what you have made from it. Even if you have used my elements, you can totally do it's still do it. Because it might look completely different. You don't have to put it like I did. You can use the elements, whatever you want and put them somewhere else. So I'd love to see them and please go ahead, do set. And if you would review the class, I'd be forever thankful because this goes a long way for us as teachers here. And we always love a, we get a review. Until the next time I say bye-bye.