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Create Fully 3D Water Droplets using Pastel Chalk and Blending Techniques with 10 Brushes Included

teacher avatar Delores Naskrent, Creative Explorer

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Intro

      1:41

    • 2.

      Explanation and Starting the Background

      5:43

    • 3.

      Methods for Creating Contours

      7:05

    • 4.

      Adding Some of the White Contouring

      3:05

    • 5.

      Creating Varied and Brightest Highlights

      4:15

    • 6.

      Finishing Up the Water Drop

      10:20

    • 7.

      Conclusion and Wrap Up

      1:47

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About This Class

This new class, Create Fully 3D Water Droplets using Pastel Chalk Techniques, is the shortest class I have ever produced. It will show you in a step-by-step fashion how to create these pastel water drops with texture and a full 3D appearance. I will show you my illustration methodology, and ways to create the graphics that make it easier to duplicate. In the class, I take you from start to finish in creating a full water drop on a background. One of my goals is to show you how quick this is to complete.

In this class I’ll walk you through:

  • my step-by-step method for making a 3D water droplet
  • tips for creating really varied droplets
  • creating color palettes
  • airbrushing for dimension and shine
  • my workflow for use of layers
  • making selections and adjusting selections
  • using selections as quick masks
  • methods for keeping the droplet fully editable for making duplicates 

If you’re an aspiring illustrator with a basic knowledge of Procreate, you’ll be able to go through all the steps. This class will benefit anyone who wishes to learn additional Procreate techniques, especially with making selections and adjusting selections to use as masks for making highlights and shadows.

The key concepts I will include:

  • review of my brush alterations and adjustments
  • how to create a shiny 3D effect
  • approaches you can take in your creative work

This is an ideal class for you, even if you are not sure what you will use the water droplets for! Learning new Procreate workflows is always desirable. I guarantee you will create a great 3D water droplet, and it’s so much fun, once you get the hang of it!

Intro to Easy Watercolour Seamless Patterns in Procreate using Brushes

This short intro will give you an overview of the class.

Lesson 1: Discussing the Overview and Objectives

In this lesson, I will show you the objectives for class and I walk you through the beginning of the layout. I will show you how to create a color palette from an image. I explain some of the things we will do.

Lesson 2: Methods for Creating Contours

In this lesson, I will break down the complete process of making selections. I show you a couple of methods, both of which are useful for creating dimension with an airbrush technique.

Lesson 3: Adding Some of the White Contouring

In this lesson we are working on the contouring some more. We will use a soft airbrush and work with both white and blue. We slowly start creating real dimension.

Lesson 4: Creating Varied and Brightest Highlights

This is the lesson in which I teach you several different methods for creating highlights. I will show you ways to make it easy to move the highlights around as well as keeping everything fully editable.

Lesson 5: Finishing Up the Water Drop

The finishing touches are added here and then I show you how to make the drop and then several iterations of it. The fact that these are fully editable really helps here. You can experiment with making all kinds of changes.

Lesson 6: Conclusion and Next Steps

We will conclude everything in this lesson.

Concepts covered:

Concepts covered include but are not limited to creating three-dimensional water drops, 3D shading and highlights, Procreate brushes, layering, transparency, the Brush Studio in Procreate, adjusting Procreate brush grain size in the Brush Studio, adding texture brush stamps, procreate brushes for adding interest, workflow best practices, painting best practice, Procreate composites, techniques with paints and blending, and much more.

You will get the bonus of…

  • 30 minutes of direction from an instructor who has been in graphic design business and education for over 40 years
  • knowledge of multiple ways to solve each design challenge
  • an outline with links to further research
  • a list of helpful online sites to further your education into surface pattern design

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Delores Naskrent

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Hello, I'm Delores. I'm excited to be here, teaching what I love! I was an art educator for 30 years, teaching graphic design, fine art, theatrical design and video production. My education took place at college and university, in Manitoba, Canada, and has been honed through decades of graphic design experience and my work as a professional artist, which I have done for over 40 years (eeek!). In the last 15 years I have been involved in art licensing with contracts from Russ, Artwall, Studio El, Patton, Trends, Metaverse, Evergreen and more.

My work ranges through acrylic paint, ink, marker, collage, pastels, pencil crayon, watercolour, and digital illustration and provides many ready paths of self-expression. Once complete, I use this art for pattern design, greeting cards,... See full profile

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1. Intro: Hi guys and welcome. My name is dollar now script and I'm coming to you from sunny Florida this week. I wasn't going to publish this week is I have a really busy week coming up. I have to travel back to Manitoba for some medical tests. But I decided that I would do a really quick class instead of doing nothing. You know me, I like to feel every minute of every day. So in this class, you're gonna notice that some of the techniques that we use are quite similar to techniques that we use when we were doing this, snow globes nomads. So if you enjoy that project, this one should come quite easy. We're going to be producing just single water drops. And I'm going to show you all the techniques you need in order to get that done. Like I said, this is a different format than most of my other classes because of course they're usually about an hour long. And I specifically wanted to keep this one short so I could get it done for this week. So I hope I didn't go too fast for you. If you haven't done so already, you can hit that follow button up there. That way you'll be informed of any of my classes as I released them. And I would encourage you to also get your name out it onto my website, mailing lists and that such shop, dot dollar or a dossier on that site, I feature a lot of my artists resources. And if I have freebies mats or anything coming out, I definitely will give you a short note from that mailing list. So if you don't want to miss anything at all, make sure your name is on that mailing list as well as following me up here. So are you ready to get into it? All right. Let's get started. 2. Explanation and Starting the Background: Hi guys, welcome to lesson 1. And less than one here we're just going to get started, would explain a little bit about the process. And then we're going to work on our background real quick. Let's get started. Okay, guys, I wanted to bring you this quick class today because I don't have a lot of time for editing this week. I thought of this project when I was doing the snow globe Santa. And it uses a lot of the same principles. So we're going to be able to use a lot of the same techniques that we used in that class when we were making the glass. Using this new brush set that I've developed called pastel brushes and blenders. And whatever brushes I use today, I'll stick into a folder for you and add that to the course materials. So basically what you're going to see me do today is create this background which is really strongly textural. And I'm going to be using a really textured brush for that so that I don't really have too many steps with it. And then we're going to create all of these. And I'm going to show you ways to create a master and make some duplicates so that you can build the illustration a lot more quickly. Now you can choose to do a different background completely. You could actually do a water drop on a leaf or a water drop on a flower or some different sort of a printed background that you may already have. It's kinda fun sometimes to take and add water drops to something that you already have existing like a photograph. So those are a few ideas that can apply when you get to the project section yourself and you're trying to put it together. And we're going to be creating the background for this first. So let's go into the gallery. I'm going to create a document about 12 inches by eight inches. And pretty much all you have to do here is decide on a color scheme and then go for it with the brush. I was using a kinda blue palette quite a year for you. This one here, you could use something like this. Basically I'm going to be sticking to the blues Today's. So I'll create a palette from my image and I'm going to show you how to do that in case you ever want to do it. I'm going to hit the plus key on my palette. I'm going to create a new one from a file because I have saved this finished illustration and I've got that in my brushes folder, in my pastels set here. And here's the project. And that will have created a pellet at the top here. The colors from that illustration, I'm going to give you that palette so that you have it for this illustration work. So let's go back to that new document that I created. And here I basically use, started with one of the lighter blue. So let's start with that blue right there. And I went in and grabbed a square soft pastel. And this, with this one I've got actually a built him texture. Now I'm going to make my brush a lot bigger. I've got a bunch of different textural brushes. And you can see that the texture is built right into them. Okay, so that's one of the brushes I'll give you. And one of the things I want to show you is that with a textured brush, whenever you get it, you can affect the size of the pattern. Now, I've created some sizable patterns as it is. So this one here has quite a bit deeper of a green. But if you get a brush and it's a textured brush in that grain doesn't seem quite textured enough for you to come back to that past our wedge. You can go into the green setting here and increase it yourself. So you can see here the proportion based on the brush stroke. And once you're happy with that, then you can go in and just start laying down your color. So I did mine quite roughly. I wasn't too particular about how I created the blend. One of the things that you can do with this palette here is to just pull it off and you can have it open to be working with it here. So I just increase that texture a little bit again. So you can really see the texture prominently. Now here you can choose to just continue just by choosing different colors to create a different blend. I'm kinda slightly overlapping them so that you get some of these areas that are a little bit darker. So that's one of the ways you can do it just with your palette or if you had that color. So if we have that one chosen and we go to the colors, the color wheel there, you can also just move that color picker getting darker and darker as you go. So it's a question of whether you want to go darker and darker or whether you want to start moving into the purples partway down. So I'm going to do something like that. I'm not putting it on very heavily. I'm going to move into more of this sort of a purply blue and throw in maybe some actual purples, purples with this one I think. And then of course you can pull it in, add something dark along the edges. And this is just one idea for a background. Think about any surface that might have water drops on it. I've just created this just to make it quick. Now if you don't like this sort of software outside edge, which I don't really mind. But if you don't like it, you can just take an enlarge your background a little bit so it fills up the space better. So now we've got a background, we're ready to go. In the next lesson, I'm gonna be showing you how I went about constructing those water bubbles. All right. I'll see you there. 3. Methods for Creating Contours: Hi guys, welcome to Lesson 2. So unless until here I'm going to explain a few of the different techniques that I use to make this kind of a job easier. Let's get started. All right guys. So in this lesson we're going to start creating the water bubbles. And I wanted to just add over here my reference as well so you can do this. I'm going to give you a copy of my finished piece. And you can go in and go to Canvas, go to the reference. When you turn on the reference, of course is just going to show you what's on your document Currently. That's why it says canvas over here. I'm going to switch to image. I'm going to import the image. I've already saved it into my photo roll. So there it is there. And now we've got this that we can kinda refer to when we're drawing the bubbles. So you can have that as a reference as well. And remember that with a two fingers, you can enlarge what you've got there. So decide on which one you're using as inspiration. And like I said, you can move it around with a single finger or enlarge with a two-finger gesture. So you can see here the basic construction of this design. What we've got is a really sharp and clean circle, and then it's filled and has a very deep kind of a highlight. On this side. There's definitely shadow around the perimeter of the circle, so you get kind of that feeling of dimension. And then this really bright highlights that are again brought in to make it look really shiny. Once that's completed, then I also add a drop shadow on the outside of the circle. So I'm doing a very basic sort of a shape for you here today. And you can definitely elaborate on it just like everyone good with the snow globe santa, the globe was part of the project and everyone has kind of a different take on it if you go and see the project in that class. All right, So what we'll start with is this circle. So I'm going to go a bit smaller here. And I can see by my background, I'm likely going to go back in and make it a little bit more like the original that I had there. But this way you can really see the texture on your screen. Great, So to make my circle here, I want to add a new layer. I'm going to go to a basic brush. I keep my Posca paint marker here in my recent. Basically the posca is a monoline brush which you can also get in your calligraphy sex. So that's built-in rate in Procreate. And I am going to grab a kind of a whitish brush or the lightest blue I have. So I'm just grabbing that one. You can definitely go in here and get the pure white if you wanted to. I'm okay. Uh, grabbing just kind of a lighter blue, you can even go into sort of a medium tone like, like this one here if you wanted to. And I'm going to draw a nice big circle. Oops, I don't have my mono line there. Do I know had my texture brush. So I'm going to draw my circle. Not much of a circle can hold down my single finger. Let me do that again because I want that end to overlap. So I'm going to overlap single finger, mix it into an ellipse, a perfect circle. And I'm just gonna show you that again because when you make the circle and you close it along, hold down your pencil there, you're getting a closed shape. You can see here it's not exactly a circle. So that's why the single finger on there. I'm sure that it stays as a circle. And once you have the shape, you can go to Edit shape here and then click on circle just to be absolutely sure mine was fine. So at all worked out. So now what I want to do is I'm going to start doing sort of fills that will work to make it look like this water bubble. So what I need for definition of the dimension is to have kind of a buildup from dark to light, at least on this side. And I think I'm going to show you a bunch of different techniques for kind of achieving that. For now what I'll do is I'm going to fill this circle and then I'm sure that that fueled nice and solid. Yes, it did. And then I'm going to use my Ellipse Marquee. So I'm going to be selecting, but I'm going to be using the Ellipse to do the selecting. I would start way up here in the corner and you'll see why in a second. As I draw, what I want is to have some of the circle disappear so that I get this soft finish on the inside of the bubble. But I'd still want to have my solid edge here. I'm picking actually what I'm gonna do is duplicate this first so that I always have that to help me with my selection. So I've turned off the one, the back one, and I'm on the top one here. And let's just, oops, let's just grab that ellipse. And we're going to kinda just grab a big section of it. So you can see here I'm leaving kind of a half-moon. And the next thing I'm gonna do without selection is to feather it. Now, you can see that as I start moving my feathering, making my number bigger, it's cutting into the selection that was already there. So that's the area that will be feathered. So I will now three-finger swipe down. Oops. You have to turn off that feather by clicking back on it. And I'm going to hit Cut. And you can see I've been left with baited edge on the one side. Now on this side here I want to airbrush it possibly, or show you a different technique for doing that kind of soft edge. And believe me, there's a 100 different ways of doing this. This was just one of the ways that I wanted to show you and the other way, so I'm going to undo this other way that you can do this is to use that circle as a means to make your selections. So I'm going to turn off that other one. I don't need that at the moment. I'm going to hit my automatic selection here and I'm dragging here on the outside. If I drag too much, it'll include the circle, but I really just want to select this area here and then hit Invert. Alternately, when I could have done is to select the actual circle by dragging. So that's another method. And what I'm gonna do as a new layer here, Let's hide the template kind of a layer. And in this case we're going to grab a really soft airbrush. And I'm taking this one that's marked softer brush, you can take a medium blend would probably work pretty good, but I find that the soft blend is, or the soft airbrush as the best one is soft all over. So in this case, what we could do is take and just start springing our airbrush along the edge to start giving that contour. So this might be the easiest way would be to use this. You can go nicely big with your brush and you can see that the point of my stylus is actually on the outside of the circle. But you can see how that's a nice way to add that little bit of darkness around the edge. So we'll go around the whole edge. We're probably going to adjust a lot of this when we start doing the white and the lighter colors. And I think we can save that till the next lesson. So I'll see you there. 4. Adding Some of the White Contouring: Hi guys, welcome to lesson 3. In lesson 3 here we're going to add to that dimension. Let's get started. All right, so in this lesson here we're going to be doing our highlights. So I'm going to switch back to my circular color picker. And you can make the inside itself bigger just with a double swipe. So you can get that just your gradient kind of circle. And that's what I find really helpful for something like this. So I will move this closer to the whites. Actually, I'll bring it right to the engineer, which will make it white. And we're going to start airbrushing some of our circle, the white highlights on our circle. So now I'm going a little bit inside my circle. I'm not aiming out here so much as being a radial side. And I've got my brush nice and large. I think on this side I'm going to go quite white. On this side I'm going to still work out or work out my blues. So we started with approximately that shade there. So I just sampled from there. So that's approximately right for that, I can then start spring in some of my blue. And as I move closer to the white, as you can see that I'm getting sort of a gradual buildup of the color from dark to light. Probably a lot of this will end up kinda taking out of here. And I'm going to start adding just a little bit of blue over on this side. So I'm doing it quite softly as you can see. And already you're really seeing the dimension here. And I think now that I've done that, I've lightened edge of mine. So I'm going to go back in and go quite a bit darker and just run my brush, my airbrush just along the outside edge again here. You can make your brush smaller and go in even a little bit darker. And you know, I did five or six water bubbles for this particular layout, for the cover shot that you saw, my title slides, and every one of them was a little bit different in the way I did this kinda shading. So that's something that you want to do as well. Now I'm thinking that I could erase away some of this and I know I can use the eraser as a soft airbrush as well. So if you hold pressure on your brush and it didn't work, I'm not sure why mine does not seem to work to do that must be something in my settings. So I'm going to just choose the airbrush, but my airbrushing here, soft airbrush. Now my eraser, it will be a soft airbrush as well. And I can go in and erase away anything that I see. Kind of taking away from that sort of transparent look that you want for a bubble. So really in the middle part here, I'm keeping it quite transparent so you'd be able to see through to the background texture. And in the next lesson, what we're going to do is start adding a bit of texture and a little bit of these white strong highlights. All right, so I'll see you in that lesson. 5. Creating Varied and Brightest Highlights: Hi guys, welcome to lesson 4. So slowly, but surely we're, we're developing this whole water drop. Let's continue. So in this lesson I want to definitely add a lot of this highlighting. And I will do that in a couple of different ways just so you can see a couple of methods for getting that done. Now, some of these highlights can have soft edges. So in a case like that, you might want to just use your airbrush in pure white and get it quite small. Experimental little bit to see. Now in this case, in order to be sure I'm on my pure white, I double-clicked on that white area and it brought me right to street, 100 percent white. And you can see this highlight is a little bit light, but I'm still on that soft airbrush. So when I press harder with the airbrush, you see how it is not quite as soft. So that's something to experiment with. And that's just the resident brush in Procreate. So here I'm going to go back to pure way. Somehow I switched. So here I'm going to just kinda sprayed on some soft edge highlights. So there are quite a bit softer than what we're gonna do on the other side here. Now, you can tell that the light source, in this case, instead of coming, let say, from an app's upper corner or having a cast shadow this way that what happens with a water drop is because it is three-dimensional like this. Light will create shadow sometimes all the way around. So we've got this kind of shadow happening to make that contour look good. And, you know, here in there I'm going to add just a couple of brightest areas. I'm making this one a little bit different than this one. So you can see that just an alternative method for doing highlights on this side now I want to make them a little bit hard edge. So you could do that by spraying or pushing a lot harder on your stylus. It's a soft edge, but then it gets kind of harder because we're pressing harder. So that's one way of making a fairly hard edge circle. Or you could, now we're still selected and protecting this outside area. But what we could do is use the Elliptical Marquee again and this time poll, I'm going to do this on a new layer two. So going to add a new layer and another large circle is not going to be positioned exactly where I want it, which is why I have it on another layer. I'm going to use the power of the selection, so the Elliptical Marquee to make a nice hard edge highlights. So here I am spraying kind of same way as I did the other time where it was either right on the line or just kind of on this side of the line. When I turn off my marquee and start moving it around, you're going to see that nice hard edge there. So I'm building up and making it a lot deeper of a white along the edge of that marquee. You can reduce the size of your brush to make kind of highlights. And I'm bringing those right up to the edge so that you'll see what that hard edge highlight looks like. So at this point, once I go back and select it, I'm going to deselect the selection. Then I've got this other nice highlights. And because it's on a different layer, I can move it around. I could also make it bigger or change the shape of it if I wanted to. But I think that one works out good. Maybe we'll use that one down here. And I think I'm still going to go back and make a hard and brighter one here. So another way to do that would be to use a hard-edged brush. So let's go to somebody who's my tapered pen pressure brush. I'm going to make a new layer. And on this new layer here now, I can use that hard edge brush to make some bright highlights, so that's a light blue. Let's go into the pure white. And that's made some really nice bright highlights too. So in the next lesson, what I want to do is show you a little bit more ideas for getting some really nice bright highlights. I'll see you there. 6. Finishing Up the Water Drop: Hi guys, welcome to lesson 5. So this is pretty much yet, I think we've done a lot of the highlighting and contouring that makes us look really three-dimensional. And I also want to explain to you some really fast ways to duplicate this and make some changes. Let's get started. As far as the highlights go, I think this one could definitely be a lot bigger. So because I've still got that tapered pen pressure brush selected, I'm just going to go and enlarge when you are drawing a curve with this, if you do hold your pen down at the annual, see that an arc has been created and you can go in and edit the arc. So I also do Edit Shape now, I could adjust to get it to perfectly match the outside. And basically that's what you're doing, is as you're doing these highlights, you want to make sure that you're absolutely matching the outside contours of your circle. Otherwise it's going to just look a little bit weird. Okay, So that one's done. Make sure I've got that white still selected. I'm going to do another arc and adjusted. Let's just fill this one. And if you want to get really sharp ends to it, instead of struggling and trying to do it with your actual pen eraser at this point and erase your lines. Now this with the soft air brush is actually kind of a nice eraser because it makes it fade out a little bit. So you could do that, or you could get that brush smaller to do a nice hard kind of a finish. And you can split these highlights and they still look great. That's exactly how I got that look. Now here, I did an arc again, I'm with my eraser so that I'm able to get that really sharp edge barrack and just erase this off. Because I've got that on its own layer. Then of course I can adjust, move it to where I want. The only other thing that I'd like to do here is group all of this to make it easier for me to duplicate and make other bubbles. And I think I can just eliminate these at this point. So I'm going to hit Delete on both of those. I also want to add a little bit of texture to my circle. So what I'm gonna do here is I'm going to select this one here. So I'm going to use the automatic selection. And now, because the inside is all faded out like that, you can see that my selection would actually include some of that unless I went quite a bit lower on this threshold. So we know it's not going to even work. I'm going to go back and I'm going to keep those two are at least one of them. So I can undo until I see my layer come up there. I only double-clicked until I, without this point. So I kept checking back on my layers palette here to make sure that I had one of these. I can delete one and keep one. But let's use it for the selection instead. So I'm going to use the automatic selection selects for that. I'm just getting the outside here and I'm going to invert it because what I want to affect is a circle, the exact match to the bubble that I had. I'm going to create a layer and I'm going to do it right here inside this grouping. Because what I want to do is add just a little bit of a texture to it. And let's turn off that blue layer again. And in my pastel brush sets, I've actually created a whole bunch of textures here. So if I wanted to kind of match the green that I had, other kind of grab this pastel paper green. And right now I've got a really light blue. So let's just try that. I've enlarged here so that you can kinda see as I'm painting and you can see I'm only going to be painting within the circle and I'm going to be doing it on a separate layer. So I'll be able to reduce the opacity or whatever. I'm going to slightly increase the green on my own illustration. I probably wouldn't have done that, but I just want to be able to have you see, like I want you to note the texture and I'm not adding a bunch of it, but I just want it to look realistically like the bubble is on top of this textured paper. So I'm adding a little bit of texture. I can reduce the opacity of it or change the blending mode as I see fit. I think right now I'm going to keep it on normal and I'm going to reduce the opacity of it. So there's just a slight texture on it. I think that, that makes it look more like it's working with this background here. Now I've mentioned before that I might want to go in and change that background and make it look a little bit less textured. That's also up to you. At this point though, what I wanted to show you is that you've got all of this in one layer so you'll be able to easily duplicate it to make other bubbles. So I'm going to go into this layer here and I'm going to shut off my reference. So I have more screen area to play with. And I'm going to go back to a blending, kind of a pastel brush. So you can see here I'm definitely eliminating some texture. And that's okay because I'm also leaving a lot of texture. So as we go through and work my way towards the purple, so as I'm working my way darker here, I'm also going to be moving a little bit more towards the purple. So as I am. Darkening this background. And you can see with the less texture, it kinda makes it look a little bit shinier. I don't know what I'm trying to emulate there with that background. Doesn't matter. It's just an experiment in learning how the brushes work of the textures and all that. So sometimes it's just fun to do this kind of art where you're playing and you're not necessarily going to use it for anything. Yet for clear, that's a word. You how easily could you make that background into some sort of a beach scene? So I think I'm pretty good here. I've got my little background change to what I want and I've got one of my bubbles done. So what I could do here now, I can move this anywhere because it's its own grouping. I can resize it. If you want to make sure that you're constraining the sizing, make sure you hit uniform here to do your resizing. And I'm wondering at this point whether it might just be easier to add my shadow around the circle. I should have kept my reference here so you can see it. Let's do that. I'll look back at the reference is still going to be there. Remember we were going to add this dark shadow here. So I'm thinking, let's do that right now before I move this around so that this circle can still be used for my Selecting. So what I've done to create the circle or to create that dark shadow is used the circle again for selecting, in this case, I'm not going to hit Invert because this is the area that I want to work with. I'm going to add a new layer. I'm gonna move this one above, but that way, this one stays in the group. And here we want to go to pure black. And again, we can use either a soft passed out or we can use medical uses, big softy or I could have used also the airbrush IGAD. So if you don't have a brush that works well, I'll give you this one. But if you don't have one that you like, then of course you can use the airbrush. So this time I'm drawing kind of like I'm on my circle and I'll just little bit of that just coming through on the outside, see how that creates that outer shadow. You can decide how far you want that shadow to go. Usually it's only kind of a small area, kinda feathering it out a little bit. As you can see here. You can do that with the airbrush or you can do that initial drawing of it and go into your Gaussian blur here. For caution. Caution. I don't know which way it's pronounced. I've heard it both ways. So here I'm just dragging. And as I drag you can see that I'm softening that shadow so that that doesn't really nice spread. So maybe I'll leave that, but then I'll still go back with my broad you a nice harder edge there. So we're giving, we're getting that nice soft shadow, but we're also getting that soft edge. And I'm thinking that maybe what I'll experiment with his time is doing a soft shadow kind of all round. So I'll do that with caution blurred. And then I'm just going to go through and erase some of the areas that I don't want. Shadow. And that kinda gives me more of a kind of an all-around shadow of really, really subtly as I'm erasing a lot of it away. And then I'm going to go back in and go really heard in this area. And remember you can still drag to create a hard but perfectly curved line. So if you get the line right, but it's a little bit too harsh. You can also go in and erase it off. And then I'm going to leave excited in mind that at all. So add anymore block that you want here. And then the good thing about this, as we included it right into this group here. So now when we duplicate the group to make a smaller bubble, we've got that shadow already in there. So that's the long and the short of making these bubbles, you guys, because really once you've got this master, you can create duplicates of it. And to make it look more realistic, having several bubbles, I would not keep the same highlights, so I would go in and make adjustments. Actually make like to do it on this one. Close that reference again. And now this one here, I will, maybe what I'll do is I'll select that harsh shadow there. And I will use the Gaussian blur to just soften a little bit and maybe use the airbrush for the big softy to just change the way this highlight looks. You can also use the airbrush to erase. And you can definitely change the amount of breaks in that line and the shape of all of these little highlight pieces. One of the best things you can do with a project like this is to just observe what other artists have done with their highlights and shadows. And I'm sure that if you were to google it, you would find a lot of reference for something like this water drop. I've seen it many times before. I taught this technique in school using Photoshop or Illustrator. So this is something that you can definitely find a lot of reference about. So definitely go to town, draw yourself a bunch of these bubbles and blow me away with the projects that you create. I'd love to see it. Remember to go ahead and duplicate your entire set. And then you can easily use these bubbles over and over in the different sizes. Okay? All right, so that wraps up this quick class for today and I hope to see you next week. Bye for now. 7. Conclusion and Wrap Up: Well thanks guys for hanging out with me in this very short class. And I hope that you enjoyed it and have something really cool to show for it. I'd love to see your projects. Please post them here. If you ever have questions. Don't be afraid of adding a question in the discussion area. The good thing about the discussion area is then we can have kind of a dialogue. And I must say I really enjoyed doing that. So don't hesitate for a second. Thanks again for some of those wonderful reviews you left me last week. That turned out to be a really popular class. So would you, I never know what is going to be popular and what is it. So I'm glad that, that resonated with a lot of you. I hope the feedback has been super-helpful. 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