Create an Abstract Art Set

1. Welcome to the Class!: Welcome to the class, create an abstract art set. In this class, I'll show you how to create your own digital asset for sale. We draw our own clip arts and procreate, support them and create a graphic set from them. I also show you how to create your own compositions and use them to make your own physical products on pre-defined. If we haven't met yet, my name is Maria. I'm an artist and graphic designer and a teacher, and I love to create digital graphic sets for sale. Actually, I do that on my own website, each design resort.com since 2008. And I love to do it because this graphic sets are truly evergreen and will guarantee an income for years to come. In this class, we will first talk about why you should create a digital clipboard set and what you can do with it. I'll then tell you what material you need and how to get inspired. We will also have to plan our graph except before we finally prepare our brushes and colors in Procreate. To start drawing. I also show you how to export your artwork, create a composition, and finally, upload it to the print on-demand site, printed five to have them create physical product just like Max pillows and many more for us. If that sounds like a skill you want to gain, join me in this class and let's draw together. 2. Why we create an Abstract Art Set: Let's first start with a question why we should create digital art sets. So there are definitely reasons for digital assets. I know it's a lot of work. I can also tell you to create online class. It's also a lot of work. After all, creating a digital product. Yes, it's a lot of work. But it then has a lot of advantages because you can sell it not just once or twice. And exchange time for money, but you can sell it forever. So the idea here is to create digital assets which are evergreen, which are not related to a specific special event over the year, and which are also not related to a specific topic. If I create something, e.g. for Christmas, I can just sell is around Christmas. And that is basically not what I want. I don't want to make a lot of money in November, December maybe to create something for Christmas. But I need to make money over the entire year. Because of that, it's a good idea to have digital assets, which are actually evergreen. So we can do two sinks. We can, on the one hand sell digital assets, which means you can create a graphic set and sell that menu, give commercial use rights to others to work with your graphics. So they can create something from your designs. You can totally do that. And it also means that you can sell your set for a higher price. I'm going to show you that in a second on the computer. But let's first talk about the second option you have. Once you have created your ad set, you can also use the designs you have created and create something from them. So e.g. you're creating an asset and abstract outset. And you go ahead and create a wall art from that. You can sell on the one hand, the wall art. Or you can create phone cases or pillows or whatever you want. On the other hand, you can sell your asset. But you need to keep in mind if you have an art set and you give others the option to use it to create their own products from it. You also give away your exclusivity in this case. So keep in mind what you want. Do you want to sell your digital art set and that's it? Or do you want to create a digital asset, create something from it, and sell that, or have others by your digital asset. And then create something from that. Once you have thought about that and what you want to do, you can totally do that. You can create your own art sets and then start selling them. And that is what we're going to do in this class. We're going to create an art set. And if you are creating products from it or if you are selling them, That's totally up to you. But I want to show you both ways and how to create that. Let's jump on the computer and I quickly show you that there are actually such sites. Which cell, just these art sets and give others the right to create something from them. Knife, open, design cats on the computer. And that is just one side of many on the Internet which sell digital goods. I have also pick one of the sets here. I look at this one from pretty little lines. And this is pretty new and it's called make-believe animal flower and whimsical seen illustrations, adorable animals. So what can you do? Let's say you have created this beautiful animal set with lots and lots of creatures. And now, what do you do? Do you want to sell that set or do you want to create something from it and sell what you've created? After all, you want to sell what you make the most money with. I believe it's a good idea to sell such sets. No question. But on the other hand, you might want to have physical products. And then of course it's a good idea to create your own products from those. And this totally depends on what you want, isn't There's no good or bad thing. It's just something you make more money from them from the other. So creating such a set is a lot of work, Yes. But then you are done. While if you have such a set and then you are going to refine it and start creating products from it. You have more work on top, right? And then the question is, how much money do you make with that? Let's think about sidelight printed file. You create e.g. from the monkey, you create a beautiful mark. And then you are going ahead, upload it to print. If I push it to your store, e.g. to Etsy or two you saw on your website and start selling it. In the end you make 40%, just about roundabout. And then you can say, Okay, the Mac costs maybe $20 and you make 40 per cent, so it's about $1, Let's say it's to get something, a cut. And maybe you make $6 and selling that set gets you $20 minus the commission. Design Cuts gets here. Yes. Well, what is better for you and your business? After all? Most probably it is just to sell the set, but it all depends on what you want to sell. So just keep in mind there are two options. What you are going to sell is totally up to you. There's no better or worse choice. It's just the question, what you want to sell. So let me quickly go through here and you can see what you can do. You see what she has all included? Chris is her name. She has included a lot of different little animals and sky items, umbrellas, hats, accessories. Here you can see what you can create from that. So here's created cards, and she has created Wall Art. And let's just scroll here. So it's about cards and most probably things for kids. She can create beautiful stuff for kids. You said something together here again, card or invitation cards, something like that. That's totally perfect. Or you create maybe stickers from that is also fine. Yes. So you see there are lot of options. You can use the work from her to create your very own stuff. And that's totally fine. So just to keep in mind that there are these options, you can also go ahead and just, just purchased these items and then start to refine them and create a mock from that, you totally jump over the creation state of Europe digital archives is also fine. It just maybe not 100% you, because you have a style, you have a way to create and draw. And maybe because of that hue, want to create your very own things. I just wanted to mention to you these different options you have. You decide what you want to do. In this class, we're going to create an abstract artist. And of course, yes, we want to create something from it. 3. What Material you need: In this lesson, we want to talk about the material we need for this class. And that's really not a lot. And actually, you can do with the material I'm showing you now. You can do so many different classes here and everywhere we curse. That's basically all you need. If you are drawing digitally, you can create whatever kind of material you want on your iPad. This means you can draw that with acrylic colors. You can also draw with oil, you can draw with watercolor or parcels. It just doesn't matter. And even better, it comes already. The program we also need comes already with many inbuilt brushes, but we can easily expand that. Let me show you what you need for this class. First of all, of course you need your iPad and I am using an iPad Pro, but it's totally up to you. You just need to make sure that your iPad is Apple Pencil capable, because that is basically what we need for our app we use. And that is procreate. And procreate is also a very nice app which has everything I've just talked about already included, which means there are about 200 bucks brushes already included in Procreate, and you'll get it for a very cheap price on the App Store. The disadvantage here is definitely that you can just get it for the iPad or for Apple products and not forming those products. So in this case, you just need an iPad to work with Procreate. I'm sure there are other apps for Windows as well. I just not aware of those because I'm usually use Apple products because they are all connected. I can share my files between them. So basically what you need is your iPad, your Apple pencil, and the Procreate you can get for a onetime fee on the App Store. 4. Get inspired!: So now I have opened my Pinterest app on the iPad. And what you see and now my ports here. And I have already created a board called abstract art. And let's go in there and see what I have already collected. Maybe we can get something from that. And if not, you can always go back and just type in here a keyword, like whatever we want to draw. So I have typed in, Let's see, abstract art, desert. Let's see what is coming up with. And you see already, I already have. But maybe there are few more. I also liked that one. I don't know why it's abstract, but okay, so let's just pin that. I just click here pin and put it on my abstract art board and collect all the images I think, which could help me to get inspired. E.g. these are the leaves. I really like these leaves. So that is what I would also just pin here on my board. Some are also great to create. Some maybe, maybe some color palettes or one color pallet. Actually, you see there are tons of paints. You can just scroll through and see lots and lots of stuff. So e.g. here, if I want to have some green tones, so I might just grab that picture for green tones later on. Once you feel that you have enough. So let's go into my board. You of course, can add many more keywords here. Scroll through and see if it's all you need actually. So I think this one will be pretty nice for color palette. And then I might add some colors from that one. And I'm also going to need some shapes. So these might be the shapes I use later on or similar ones. So it just goes through and see if there is anything which inspires me e.g. here, I totally like these two images over, over. One actually is the one image over to abstract art pictures. And I like these mountains here, which I could have totally separately in my kid. As well as the moon and the sun. Yeah, later we can create some compositions from that. And the same here, there are some cacti. Maybe I need them. I would now take notes to plan my kid and see what I can use from that. I also totally like here these shapes, this, these are just organic shapes. It looks like you just put your brush down and made some blobs here somewhere. Then you use a thin pen and go over it. And nearly around your blob and have a new element. So this is also something I want to include in my kit as well as like something like this. Here, this filled plants and this is how I would now go through my inspiration board here and see what I could use for my kid. I never want to copy, Of course this just for inspiration. So just let's go through, see what we can use here for the kid. Because you cannot just draw ten elements or 15. You want more. Actually you want many more. Because you want your kid to be huge, to give your customers a huge verity of things so they can create many different artwork from that. 5. Plan your Clipart Set: Before you can actually start drawing, you definitely should plan your kit is a note. It sounds a little bit awkward because actually you are a creative person and you just want to stop drawing. Now you are inspired and you have collected ideas. And now why can't you just start drawing? But well, we want to sell these things. And because of that, we really need to plan and think through if everything we create is in it, in which if that can do what we actually want the kid to do. Because there are several positions of course. So e.g. the kid Chris created here from pretty little lines I have shown you before. That's a kid with a lot of cute elements and animals, which also comes with some flowers and some scenery and all of that. And it has a totally different purpose than a kid, which comes with compositions and landscapes and all that kind of stuff. So you need to make sure that you know, upfront what you want to create with your kid or have something in mind, what your customers can create with a kid. So it's always a good idea to try things out. And what I mean with this is what I'm going to show you now on the computer. So here on the computer you can see the kid from Chris once again. And you can see all the different elements here. You can see them on the left now and the description. And you can also see all the images. And what you see here is that you already had in mind that you can create cards with this kid and that you can create Wall Art and maybe even stickers here because I'm sees this as a sticker because it has these edge as a sticker has. So maybe she also had stickers in mind. And of course here some pattern. So you already know what you can create with most probably also what she would want to create with a kid if she uses it for products. So you can totally do that, of course. But she needs to keep in mind that many other people will have the same elements as well. That's why we talked about in the first lesson, you are losing your exclusivity. If you give the right to other people to use your products, to create products from that. So here you go with this one and she had in mind that you can create cart with it, that you can create patterns, and maybe even you can build your own scenery as she is shown here, create an article scene. So you can create your own scenery from that with all the different elements included in the kit. Of course, this is not just for cars, although she has that in mind. You can totally put that on a Mac or on a pillow. And that is what we're going to do in this class once we have our elements ready. So this is just one example. Let me switch to another one. Here. An abstract example. Here you see totally different elements. There are not just these kind of figures like animals and something, but there are also flowers, of course, this just a type, but there are a flower included in a scenery in abstract painting, e.g. here you can see some mountains behind the mountain, Zeus's son. So there's a completely different thing. It has been created to be able to give the customer the idea of creating abstract art from this kid. Of course, is completely different. The one is abstract, the other one is hand-drawn kid with comic, similar elements. But you can get it here. You can see there are already compositions included in this kid. While Chris from pretty little lines just gives you the image and says, if you add this to this to that, you can get something else from it. And this kid says, okay, here is a composition. Do something with it if you want to. You don't even have to put it together. So that is what I want you to keep in mind when you start creating your kit, please make notes. Go ahead, get a piece of paper and a pencil, and take some notes and think through what you want your customer or yourself to deal with a cat actually. Do you want them to put something together themselves? Or do you want to create already some compositions so they can use a ready-made elements and put them on products. That's totally up to you of course, but maybe you rely on the sentence. Don't make me think. There's a very famous book actually about web design, which is called Don't make me think. So. Which means give them all they need so they can easily put things together. It's up to you. Again. I always prefer to add those to my kids because I want, on the other hand, that people are able to create something new from my designs. But on the other hand, I want them not to think, but just create elements from it. So think about your goal of this and what you are going to do with it. And from there on, plan your kid and see if you need compositions, if you need backgrounds, if you need maybe some landscapes or something like that, if you're just need elements. So it's up to you. But please go ahead and plan before you start. 6. Prepare: So I'm back in my abstract art board on Pinterest. And now I pick one of the images and take a screenshot from it to create a color palette and procreate. So let's do that. I guess I'm going to use this one because I really like it with the green, red, blue tones here, creamy tones. I think that will look very good. So to do so, I just press two buttons here on my iPad. And then I have a screenshot. It's now here on the bottom left and I've put it into my camera roll, and now I swipe over to pin to my procreate. I have created whatever kind of can vary you can, it doesn't matter. The size doesn't matter right now. So now we just load our image, insert a photo, then pick the image you have just done a screenshot from. And I'm going to put it somewhere here. The problem now is that I have a lot of black here, but I'm going to try it. Otherwise, I need to cut that first. But for now, I just try it. And I can now say that I want a color palette from the picture. I would not even have to open that. I can just go in here, here on the plus sign and say New from photo. And then again, I pick the same photo and it's going to create a color palette for me. And now I name the color palette. I really like it. I'm naming the color palette and I just say desert. So I have maybe a work title or maybe that's my title. Now I can get rid here of this one. And let's try the different colors now. So here's the black, I guess. Yes. I just picked one of the lineup. Those simple brushes which really loved me, draw something. Maybe this one has a little bit too frazzled edges. And most probably you don't have that one. So you can always go to inking and pick the mercury but brush, which will do the trick, or this one, or this one, they all will do the trick and just have, you see the difference. If I zoom in here, there are no edges. Sorry, I guess I'm going to use that one. As you see, I now have a brush called Trisha seigneur. Read this because I often have my iPad and German and sometimes in English. So maybe it's different for you. But pick one of these brushes, fine tip is also good or guilt pan is nice. Pick something like that which has not so many firsts that edges. And then you can test all the colors you pick. Now, let's go over that. I like that one. I also like that one. And maybe some are too similar. If so, I can maybe this one is very similar. I can try it first. Let's see this one. And then we pick that one and see they are very similar, right? So I can get rid of one of them. And to do that, I just type here on the color. I want to get rid off and click Delete swatch, and that's it. And now I have an empty swatch here, which in best-case, I'm going to fill later on. It could now test each of these colors if it all goes together, but I think it will. I might not use all the colors, but that's okay. I just go through it and see if it's a good choice if it all works together and how it suits my needs. So it looks like white, but it was actually a little bit of gray. So let's see what about this one very similar. This one is white. We don't need that. I guess. I'm going to delete that. And now you see I have some empty spaces here. And I showed you how to fill that. So let's get another image from Pinterest. And I go back and see, maybe it's totally up to you. You can use these cards if you want to. Yeah, Maybe we do that because I want to have some yellow tones as well. So let's take a screenshot. And now I'm going to show you what I can also do here. I pull it up and then I cut it already so I don't have all the black inside and cut it nicely here. So this is just what gets into my Procreate app. And this is helpful if you want to create a color palette from that image. So let me show you, I just click Done now and save to photos and go back to procreate. And now we can do two things. First, we can create a complete new color palette here. Let me quickly do that because that's not where I wanted to show you. So you just pick that. I have a complete new color palette. You see it's really beautiful. So I just leave it as it is and just get in my image. Click here, Insert Photo, make it smaller. And then I go here. And maybe I pick some of these colors to fill. Tool is here, so let's pick just one and see if they go. Yeah, that goes just well. So I'm going to add this to the other color, Pell. See, I just typed into the hole here. I have one of the colors inside, of course I can also just type in that and then just go here and I have that one also included. These are very similar now. So let me get rid of that again. I just want to make sure you know how to play with these different colors. Let's get that one in until you're completely happy with your colors because this is the base of your kid and this is what makes you sell or not sell because actually people look at something and they see the colors and they decide, Oh yes, it looks great or it doesn't. So make sure you spend your time with the colors here you have. Once you have your colors ready, you definitely should have a look at your brushes. So let's go here. And the problem now is that we now have on the recent brushes, all the brushes we have used recently. But this is from all projects you will have in your library. It's not just based on the project you have just opened. So it's better to have a folder with the brushes you use for the project. And this comes while you're drawing. You will figure out which brushes you use and whether they're your own, or you just grab them from your different brushes you already have or which are already included. It doesn't really matter. What matters is that you have a folder where you have your brushes inside. Here's one I have created, but I just wanted to show you how to create such a folder and add a brush there. What you do is you go here to the plus sign, and then you have a new folder here, and you can name it. When you type on that here. You can just delete what? Untitled, and then you say desert in this case. And then you have your folder done. And now it's a bit tricky. So we just copy this brush into that folder. So you have, whenever you open a new project, you have the set desert and you know which brushes to your views. So what I do now is I swept the left and click Duplicate. So I know these are duplicate brushes and but after all, I have all my brushes together and that's really helpful. So now I just type on this brush and go over my folder and you see it gets a little bit black. Here. You really need to need to get over it and make it black. Otherwise you are not in that folder. Then your brushes wherever you see now here's a blue sign, so you are in the folder and then I can release it. And then my brushes in here. So you see here sketchy brush inside and he is sketchy brush one. Now, I want to rename it e.g. so I go here about this brush. It's my brush so I can do whatever I want and I just name it sketchy, brush, desert and click Done. And then I have my brush here. And now with that brush, I can do all the sketches. So now we're prepared and we can finally start growing. 7. Let's draw (Part 1): Cell. Now let's get started with drawing our elements. I have opened Procreate, and now we need to document. So to get it, click here on the plus. And now make sure that your document has not the smallest size because we need the elements larger. Otherwise we need to convert them into vector. But I want to have high-quality or raster images, so pixel images. So we can work with those as well. For that, I can choose here one of my templates for Tilden pixel is just fine, but you don't have them. You can create your own by clicking here on the plus and the corner. And then you can type in here whatever size you want. And four cells and pixel are just fine here as well. Now we draw them as large as possible, depending on the size of your iPad and the DPI you have chosen, and you should always have 300 DPI here for printing quality, you have a number of layers you can use. And for me it's 61, that just fine. I want to put a lot of elements in it in the document. Of course, once it's full quotation marks, we can always use another one, so it doesn't really matter. Now make sure your color profile is RGB because I like it more because of the hue and saturation, you would just have more colors. But usually if you want to print, you should use CMYK. But I stick with the RGB display p3. Here. I don't care about time-lapse settings now, also don't care about Canvas properties. It's nothing we need to work on right now. What we can do is we can give the entire singer name and I can just name it desert e.g. then I click Create and my document is ready. So now we can start drawing. And after you should have planned what ever you want to draw. And that's why, I guess it's a good idea to start with just the organic shapes here. So for me, I have picked the organic shapes. Then I have picked some line art I want to draw, then some leaves. That's all I'm going to show in this class because otherwise you watch over my shoulder for hours, meet drawing some elements. And I don't think that's really helpful for you. It's just you need to, you need to keep drawing. Actually, if you have 100, 250 elements, that's just fine. So don't worry too much about having just 20 or 30. The more you give your customer, the happier he or she will be. So give him a lot of value. So here's a color palette and we start by drawing some shapes. When you hold it, you see what happens. If that happens, doesn't matter if two fingers go back to the shape you had, and now we're going to fill it. Just drag over. And if it doesn't go into the corners, you can always draw with your brush. And I'm using the sketchy brush desert. Let's just fine with me. And I can always here like this, go over it. So I have let's sort it right away. Okay? Then once you have your shape ready, make sure you create a new layer. Otherwise you cannot access them separately, which will really lead to some trouble once you, if you wanted to, you can now turn that off as the first element is ready. And now we can start drawing a new one. But later on you need to export each of them separately to provide your customers with a PNG file or whatever. Even if you don't want to sell it, but create your own products from. It's also good to have your very own shapes here. You, your own elements on each on one shape. So let's keep drawing. I pick another color just to give you some options. So you see that's not, you don't have to be an artist to draw some shapes. You can also always adjust the size of your brush here and of course your opacity. But for now and we'll keep the opacity as it is on hundred percent. And I have also the brush pretty big because I need large elements here. Of course there will be more colors, more shapes of each color. But for now, I just like to have a variation, a very t. After all. I want to have some things to get something done in the end of the class so we can actually start creating something. You saw, I just went over the line, but it doesn't matter. It's cut off. So this is my element. Have a nice smooth edge. And now I'm going to add some line art. So what I do now is I turn one of the items on the bottom layer and then I go on top and draw over it. So what I need now is black. If you don't have black hair like this one, you can go to your desk and just double-tap here and it jumps to black. So it wasn't real black as you saw. We can keep drawing here. That happens. Don't vary. You can always go back. Okay, you see what happened now here. It's not very nice, so I need to draw that in one rounding. We need to do that again. Okay? We can always adjust it a bit. So if you need the same brush you are using now as an eraser. You just saw here this little line. And now I have the same brushes, same sketchy brush with all the settings I have chosen here. And now I can just erase a little bit here. Okay. It was too much. Okay. Dan, next one place. And same thing. Just make sure you are on the right layer. Better. You double-check. Otherwise we start all over. Again, gray line. And now I can erase you layer. Okay? You see it's always the same process. You just need a little bit of patients. And then you can definitely draw an abstract art set. Okay, Let me turn everything on now. So now we have already eight elements here. And I can basically use some and drag and drop them from left to right or just use. Some edges from that. And now here's the line art. Here. I can turn everything off when I tap here inside. Then it just the last one which is on and I turn that off now and just have these two here. Let me go to the orange one now and drag it somewhere. I just go back in a second, but I want you to see what's possible. You see you easily get your line art done. So let's go back. I don't want to transform anything right now. I just want to have my shapes ready. So now I could say, if I would have now, let's say 30 more, I would consider this one as done and go to my next document because then I have my line art and the organic shapes done. Then I would go back to the gallery named my artwork like line art and let's say line art and organic shapes. Okay, Now, now we could put those two into one folder, which I personally always like. So I just drag that over this one. I know it's just one project and I release it. And then I have a folder here with these two documents. One might test document here, and one with the layout and organic shapes. And now I can create a new one. So click here on the plus. And then I have created the desert one. I just click on that and I have a new one. I keep drawing. I have my colors, I have my brushes, and now I can keep drawing. Let's go on. Now. I will use this document for some leaves and maybe sun, some stretches, beer, whatever. We just keep going because this is definitely not ready. As I said, it should have. So maybe 150 elements, 100, 250, I said, but the more, the better. So make sure you have a new layer, which usually is created already. And now we pick another color from our palette. Maybe now I use touch green. Stick with my brush. For now. When I do the scratches a little later, I won't, I need a new one. But for now, we can just use that one. Once my leaf is ready, I just drag in the color. Later on, I check if everything looks good. But for now, I just keep drawing. My shapes. Don't forget there's no leaf like the other nature. So you can go from here. So now let's go over it to see. This one doesn't look so good. So I'm going over it. Once again. You really need to check each single leaf here to make sure they look as you want. When you are happy, we can just keep throwing. Go back to my brush. Then I need to turn that one off and get a new one. And I also pick a new color. Okay, Let's edge. So now we have two leaves. And now I go ahead and of course usually I create more leaves, maybe ten to 15. But for now, I just want to have a son maybe. And as I said, some scratches. So for our lessons should be fine. You can just you just keep drawing with me, draw whatever you like you see. Make sure you have the right layer and just keep drawing. You can always get rid of the elements later on if you don't like them. 8. Let's draw (Part 2): Now I draw a circle and you see doesn't look good. But if I hold that down, it turns into a circle. With two fingers. It even gets a regular circle. So I just drag that in here. And I want to move it a bit down. And now I make some, now I make some stress here. But I will do that with a drawing guide so you know how that works as well. And when you click on Edit Drawing Guide and then symmetry, you can move the center. I believe that's a center. Yeah, maybe that's better. And click Done. Then when you draw here a sun spray, here comes the other one. So let's do that. So of course that gets better. It looks better. But I'm going to do that again. I zoom in more. Hold that down now you see what happened. And now I can easily fill it on the right side and I have the same one on the left. I could not just duplicate them and put them on a separate layer. The next maybe. And then just duplicate to go around. Or I have different ones all the time and later I can merge that all. I guess I won't do that right now because I just keep, keep going here and draw my son race. I don't want him to equal here because I released my pen. This is why it didn't work here. So I really need to do that in one drawing scan. Now. If you release, it has a problem. And it was too close, then you also have a problem. Okay. So do that again. You see what happened. The drawing guide is not on anymore, I guess because I went to New layer here. So you see here it says assisted and here it does. So now it's, it doesn't really matter. Recursive, I can just duplicate it. I don't have to have an equal on both sides, so I can just duplicate that. And then I can move that around here. Let me show you one more thing. I'm going to merge them all now. I have half of it ready and now duplicate it. Have it done. And now I can just flip it vertically and horizontally, so it doesn't look that equal. And move it to the right. And now of course I have here some sunrise, some too many. I'm going to to work on that in a second. Okay, so let's go to this one to be assisted one and we turn these off, or we just get rid of them with our eraser. Now you know how it works. And you see I just erase on the right and the left is also erase. We could have done the entire sun-like this, of course. But I wanted to show you two ways of doing that. Can also just select this here. And then do three fingers and say cut. And it's gone as well. And now I'm going to turn my sunrise on again. And now I will adjust them a little bit to have it looking nice. I guess I need some more here. So I'm going to select them just like I did before to get rid. I just need those to maybe too much. So let's go around the sunrise here. Again three fingers. Say Copy this time. And again three fingers. And you say paste. And now you have two more sunrise, which I can place here. Okay, looks good. I could duplicate that one, these two, and then flip again. So let's do that. Duplicate. And then flip and move to the bottom. You see I usually make them a bit smaller, bigger, whatever. Just to yeah. To make them different again. Okay. You can leave it as it is. Or if you feel there are too many or the covered one, you can delete that again. But for now, I think it's okay. So I merge all of those. So my son is ready and I can also make it a bit smaller. That's it. So you learned a lot with this sun here. And now we can do the scratches I talked about. I turn that off. These are basically just some dots, but I want a new brush. I'm going here over my brushes and see what I can use for that. So you see, I can create these. They have a lot of texture right now, so I might get rid of that again. Let's see if there's another brush. Maybe that one. Whoops. Pretty large. Yeah, well, it depends if you want something like that or not. I do not want it mostly without texture. So I go back to my desert brush, sketchy one and created in another way. I just draw some squares. I just released. It. Can't work as we learned. So I'm going to just draw it here like that and then drag the color and see that everything is filled. You don't have to be equal. You just have to be somewhere looking nice in the combination. And of course we can get rid of these edges later. All right, now, these are just filler elements. You can use for the one-one either drawing. But this one is a bit too big, so I cut it here and get rid of it. Okay, Another element is ready, so let's make it smaller. And you can use it later, e.g. for their organic shapes that should look nice. And now you keep going. You just draw some more of these. Maybe draw some rainbows and stars and all the things you get in mind when you think of a desert, maybe some cacti, cacti. And there are so many elements you can draw. Check your Pinterest board for more inspiration. And just keep drawing. Here you see I have four elements and then I have, I think eight. So I just will keep drawing like that. I'm also turning them on, so I have a little bit of an overview. And in the next lesson, we are going to export our elements into a folder so we have them ready and can do something with them. Let's keep going here. 9. Export your Files: So now we're going to export our elements. First of all, just because I renamed my sec, I name it of course to desert. And have my SEC ready. Let's go in it and pull up one of the documents. And now you see I have four elements here. And I also have a background when an export something with the background. And even if just one element is turned on, I have a white background. But what I don't want, I just wanted like that. We need to cut later because it has a lot of space around it. But after all, if I turn off the background, it gets a PNG and PAG means it has a transparent background. You can see that because you can put something over it. You see it's still shining through here. So that's what we want. So just turn that off right now. And I need to do it separately with each of the elements. So now I have the background color off. It's very important and now have marked one layer, turned it on. Now you go here and click Share, and then you click on the PNG. And then you go here to save to files. Or maybe you have Save to Dropbox is fine as well, but a save it in my iCloud folder. So I just click Save here and I create a new folder. Just say here and name it. Desert. Click done. And I'm inside the folder. And now I need to name my artwork. Was leaf. Doesn't really matter. We can do that later on the computer. So now I have exported this one element. And when I go now to my folder here into the desert one, there's one item. And this one item, although it looks like here, it has doesn't have a transparent background, like it's white, but it's actually is not. Click on it. You see it's black and it's definitely a PNG file. I can work on later. You see now it says Untitled Artwork leaf, but it doesn't matter. We can do that later on the computer. So let's go back to procreate and do it once again. Turn that off, turn that on, and go again. Here, Share PNG. And then again save to files. And then I just don't name it anyway. So just go there. And again, turn it off, turn the next one on. Here, Share PNG, save to files. And the next one you see the second one is here as well. Click Save. And now it says replace, okay? Of course, because it has the same name, I just say keep both. And now I have here in my folder all three of my art work. Okay, let's go back to procreate and do it with the last one as well. The small dots will again asked me if it should replace, but of course I just take you both I'm going to rename that later on the computer. Okay. So going to turn on again. And then we go back to the gallery, to the next one. And we also do the same with these eight elements. Again, make sure you have your background color off. Then we need to do that for each of the items we have drawn here. Now keep going. Just go ahead and do it with all the elements you have drawn. Then we have a look at the folder. Just what I already said, just go back in and you can see I have it on a transparent background. And even more important, I can rename it if I want to. I can do sit here as well. I can just type on with my finger, keep it and then just say Rename. And let's rename it to leave. Two maybe. But doesn't really matter. You can better do it on the computer layer. For now. You just have your elements all in one folder. And then we can go from there and create something from it. 10. Let's make a Composition: So now let's create a first composition. I want to put on a Mac on print d Phi. But we just create something simple for now. So for that, I create a new document here, like the one we had before for sound before. So that's just fine. Let's go out here again. And I'm going to grab some of the organic shapes maybe or let's say to turn it all off and grab orange one maybe. And just as before, I go in here, my layers just have that one here. Three fingers. And I say Copy, and now I don't paste it inside this document, but I go to the new one and paste it in here and it's pretty cool. So I can just say Paste and I have it from the other document here. So now let's place it somehow. Of course, the more elements you have, the nice side will be. But for what I'm going to show you is I should be fine. So now let me grab one off the line art we have. It can also turn them all on. And then just go to one layer and copy them. So let's go here. And I can just again three fingers and say Copy. Go to my other document and place it here. Can turn it around a bit. So maybe like that. And now I grab something from this document. Again, I might I might take the Sun, so I don't want that layer. Again. Three fingers say Copy, go to gallery and place it here. On that. Of course, we need to make it much smaller. And I guess I also need another colors will look nicer. So that will be a mock. And let me give it some more depth here. I go to organic shape layer and I pick another color, maybe that one. Let's see how that looks. I believe it already looks better, but we can, of course, try different ones here. Yeah. So not bad. Maybe we have the dark brown. Yeah, I like that. Maybe a little bit brighter. Now. You see you have to make decisions all the time is not that you have something done and that's it. So now, I think the question is now, do we need that? Yes, I think we do. So that's how I leave it now. And now I want to add some text here. I can totally do that here in procreate. But I hate it. I hate to use the text tool because it's pretty hard to work with. I show you click here and type in something. Okay? So now we need to make it smaller to have it all in. We need to, It's hard to work with that thing actually. You see, I now have my happy day here, but I want to have another, another form here. So let's go here. That's why I prefer just exporting it and doing it. E.g. in Affinity Designer of them saying, but you can totally do it here as I show you right now. If you don't have affinity or something, as also a good idea, maybe we need we pick something playful. No, no. Yeah, that looks good. Okay. So click Done. I'm going to move that now. You see it works, but it's a bit hard. It's a bit hard to work with that thing. It can change the color of the entire thing as well. I guess I want this color here to have it all similar. And once done, we can go out of all this and maybe move it a bit more. So we really have it in the center. And that's it. Now we have a quick composition ready. And now we're going to upload that to print it and put it on a Mac. Let's do one more thing because now we have a composition ready and we can totally use it for kids, but with texts. And I'm going to just turn off the background and turn off the phone tier. And then, whoops, I just go to my, to my composition. I'm merging that. It's now in a group, but it doesn't really matter. Can also take it out again and get rid of the groups just happened. And now this is my composition and I'm going to export that for our kit. So let's go back here. And since we have merged altogether, you can totally do that. You can just click here on Share PNG again. And we can save to files and you see it in my folder and I click Save, and it has been saved. Now, I'm going to turn it on here, what I need and I also need to as a PNG. So let me put that into the folder as well so we can upload it later on to the, to the POD side. I just say keep both. And now I have them all in here. This one was happy day. And the other one. Let's go into the folder. And the other one was out the PSD. So without the phone here on the bottom. So that's it. You can hardly see the line art right now, but it's there. Yeah, let's see. We have that ready now and we can start creating. 11. How to turn your Digital Artwork into Physical Products: As I said, you can totally stop at this point. We have our kit ready. You can basically draw 100, 250 elements, just export them, put them on previews, and then sell them on sites like Creative Market, you need to apply for store there. But once you are approved, you can sell your stuff there. And you can do the same with Etsy, but you don't have to be approved. So maybe that's better for the beginning. And you just can keep creating and sell there and don't forget, put more compositions in it and all that kind of stuff. Because if you give your customers a lot of value, they will, yeah, it will be a good decision for them to buy your stuff. And instead of the other ones, there is a lot of competition. But if you give well, you, you don't have to worry that much about competition because there are people who like your set. So makes sure they have good reason to buy it. So now we go one step further. We use one of the compositions. You can do that as well as your customers so they can create compositions as we have done in the last lesson. Then they can use print if I e.g. print if I, I like that, Good. I like that a lot because I can easily connect it to Etsy, to my website, other stores as well, and then just publish it there. I like it much more than red bubbles was hired to SIG and all the sides and not that they are bad it just because I can't exchange images and all that stuff there. So that's why I prefer to have my own. So now let's go to catalog, make sure you are registered and logged in. And then click on macs. And now I just pick this mark here. Half an eye here. It is produced in the United States. So depending on where you want to sell, you have to also pay for shipping or your customer has to make sure you keep in mind that shipping costs money. And if someone artists your mark and it's shipping to England or wherever, it costs about 99 to $49 in the United States for 99. So that's okay. I click that. Just have it in mind and check always what you can expect your customers to pay. So now at this point, we can get the file from our device. So I just click here on my device. Click Choose File and I'm the folder in my iCloud Drive. And you might have it in your Dropbox as fine as well. So now I click here on my artwork and it's uploading now. And now they place it here on my Mac. I move it a bit up, and now we can preview it before we save it actually, I just click here preview. And now you see how your mark will look and I think it looks pretty good. I will leave it as it is. But you can also check all the other images here and you can totally rid of all of these ones. It is added to Etsy or your own store. And upload your very own Max is fine too. Just make sure you click Save product. And then you just push it to your website. You can, you can turn that off. You don't have to get all these images here, especially those where nothing is on. And you just have the title image and maybe you create some of your own. So you order your mark and then here's it. And now you click Publish. And basically that's all you need to do. You just click here on the three dots and say Publish. And wherever it is connected to here, I can just click at new store and it will have a new store. And then you can just publish it there and you have your product or hit your very own handmade product, which is available nowhere else but in your store. So that's it. Yeah, So now you have learned two important things in this class. First of all, we created this kit, so you have a totally unique graphics from this kid. You can create your very own compositions. And even better from these compositions, you can create your very own products. And the best thing is, it's all for free printing PHI is free. One you sell. Come thing here. Of course, you are charged, then. It is published to Etsy. Let's say it's published to Etsy. And then you sold your mark. And then HE charges you, of course, a 27 to publish your product. They are then they charge you for the product, for the sale itself. Then of course, you or your partner printing file is going to charge you. They are charging you can see that for 63 or if you have premium is 356 and plus shipping. And that is what you need your charge your customer. So whatever you do, you need to cover your costs and then you have to pay yourself for the design you've created and you can do all that here on printing file. Let's see. I think it's here or no, Here's the design scope back. But you can also click on that. And then you can say how much you want to make when you sell the product. Here you go. Product description. You can of course change that on Etsy as well. Here you can set the price and you had to prove profit. So I can say, okay, I want a profit margin of 40 per cent, which is in this case $3.09 send why would he charges me a bit? So I might change that price, but you also don't have to have too much. It's 772 plus shipping. So you need to find a price which is good for you because you need to make money, which is good for your customer as well, because they don't want to pay too much, of course. But you can figure that it's totally up to you. You decide what price you set here. You decide about the description. This is a nice one, but maybe you give a bit more or you give some more images. Please. Take care of each of your products and treated with would love actually, the best thing I can tell you. Treat it with love. And then you have it in your shop and you can just keep going. You can create from your one kid wait, which you can sell as well. You can create, yeah, basically 1015 products and sell them as well. And of course, you can give your customers the right to sell your products when you tell your kid or you don't do that, it's up to you. Okay, I hope you enjoyed this class. Now, let's get to the project. 12. Your Project: Congratulations you did it. You have finished this class and hopefully already created some shapes and procreate. This is also your project. I want you to draw some shapes and procreate. And maybe just take a screenshot of these shapes or take a picture with your mobile. And then upload that to our project gallery and that we can see each other's pictures, which is always great. Well, we can maybe get inspired from each other and figure what we can draw. Because what I show is just one way of doing things. You can do it completely different and have a beautiful abstract art set. It's up to you, it's totally up to you. And it also depends what has inspired you. So please go ahead, take a screenshot or take a picture with your mobile from your iPad and then post your image so I can see what you've drawn and all the others can see it as well. If you now want to go one step further and work with the items you have created. You might want to watch the class create abstract wall art in Procreate. Because in that class we go ahead and pick the elements we have drawn and create something from them. So maybe you want to follow along there and join me there. So then you go one step further and we're going to create some abstract wall art from what we have drawn here in this class.