Creating Digital Stickers in Procreate

1. Intro : Class. This is my second class on skill share. In my first class, I showed you how to create digital stickers with your illustrations and procreate. This time I'll be teaching you how to create the same illustrations but use them for digital apps. If you converted over to digital planning, this will be perfect for you. 2. Class Description: In this class, we're going to cover how to plan out our sicker themes. Some tricks with layering, how to minimize white space. And much more, stay tune to the end because there will be a project that you have to complete at the end of the class. Don't worry, it's nothing difficult. I just want to see what you've learned in the class. Stay tuned and see you in the next video. 3. Materials: Computers for this class is just the Apple pencil and an ipad, you in the next video. 4. Finding Inspiration: But inspiration for my stickers. I normally use Pinterest. I will go on here and find different images that I want to use as inspiration. I will make them my own. For instance, we're going to be doing this one. I'm going to add my own sayings on top of the cup. Lately, I have been feeling more into reading books and stuff, so let's see what kind of images you can find for books. I'm going to say coffee and I just want like a stack of books. Nothing too fancy. But something like this looks good. I might just free style because books are pretty simple to do. But Pentrius has a wide range of things. Sometimes I struggle with colors, I will actually do that too. So I'll go to color palette on here. You can pretty much p anything into procreate. If you want to bring colors in from a particular palette, you can do that. And procreate. All you have to do is just save it and then upload it onto it so they have different things. I love pink. I'm thinking of something with a mixture of pinks and greens. This purples really big. Okay, let me not get that chart. All right. So basically to find inspiration or to have references, you can use Pen, you can use Google, you can use whatever you like. Since you're not using this for commercial purposes, it's just for your own personal thing, That's okay. This is basically how I come up with my inspiration from my stickers. So we're going to go ahead and move on to the next video. 5. Planning Part 1: All right guys. This is what I came up with for my clip art with the books. I added some flowers and I brought in this color palette for the books. That is going to be the first image. I have already started to set up my second image. I've learned to put these on different layers really quick. I just want to take this off and show my second image. This is the cup, the mug that we saw, and these are the words that I want to add for the cup. All right. I did want to incorporate some flowers. I'm not sure how I want to set the flowers up right now, but they're there to minimize white space. When you get ready to export this over to procreate. I'm sorry, not procreate. Good notes. You're going to come up to this section up here, and this monkey wrench sign here is what you're going to be using. So you click here. Then we're going to select Canvas, Crop and Resize. That's located right here. And look at the setting. I have this set up 3 " by 3 ". That is pretty much perfect for me to bring. It is slightly bigger enough for me to keep my resolution good. As far as my colors, it also has just enough so I don't have a whole big old sheet of white space. So to change the settings, you just basically tap there. You put in your numbers and then you hit done. And it actually says and crops all. Just make this down. All right. Another thing that you can do as far as tips and tricks to something. I have these flowers and I'm not sure where I want to place them. So I am going to play with that now and see where I can put it. I think I want to separate the flower from the leaves that's put here. Now if you're like me, I don't get many chances to draw flowers very well. Anytime I can use my little heat to save time, I do that, I go here and I will copy this and come down to the bottom of the screen, and it has like a copy paste feature. And then I will come back up. I will come here and I will duplicate. And I'm going to duplicate more time. Okay? Then I will take one layer and then I will fit the flowers up according to how I want it. Three. And then on my original layer, because I still have the flower on my original layer, I'm going to take the leaves and I'm going to add them somewhere. You know what, I may not even need them. Oh, yeah, I may not even any of them. I want to erase that part. Okay. So my other selections of my original I'm going to select. All you have to do is hold down and drag it. Select them all, because I want to make them smaller. 6. Planning Part 2: Okay. How about I just had a thought. How about I put them on top of the clip, Excuse me. Now I have to drag and select all of these so I could pull it all down. Okay, I think that looks okay. Yeah, so I am going to Okay, so here is my placement for my cup. I'm going to be showing you a few things you can do to save you time when it comes to coloring. The first one I'm going to show you is the color field technique with Proc. So if you hit at the top of the page is usually where your buttons are. Take this. All right, up here is what you're going to hit and it will bring down that bottom. Anything highlighted in blue is basically selected. So it's already selected. And of course, you want to have your color up there that you're going to be using With the cursor, you can change how you want to do it, but I normally just use freehand and use it that way. So I'm going to start selecting it Doesn't have to be perfect. Again, you are going to be putting in and you just tap it to get that one. If you want to stop it, you just unclick there and it will stop. Okay. I'll show it one more time. I select my color, I'm going to hit the cursor there. It's already still populated and I'm going to do a couple of flowers. Let's go in and show you how you can do that. That's basically what you would do and then you would stop it there. That's a cool tips that you can use to speed up some more time. I'm going to go ahead and finish coloring this one and I'll be back. 7. Coloring tips: Okay, now we're going to play with texting. I have my thing that I want to have there, so I'm just going to go ahead and start. I'm just basically freehand writing. I do. Once everything is done, I will go back and finalize the details of it, but for now I'm just freehanding in. Okay, So I have this here and I basically want to make this thicker. I think it's too thin, so I'm going to make it thicker. And to do that I will duplicate my same layer and then I'm going to slightly drag it over and that gives it an extra thickness. Let me hide this layer. You see it? Is it made it pretty much thicker. If I wanted to do anything else I could before that. You merge those two down and that becomes a layer. Another thing, you can make this layer a clipping mask. So you can only be able to draw on the text that you have here. If I wanted to go in and say, for example, I wanted to add poca dot, let's just say, let me use a different color. I would go in there, let me change my pen to the brush. And then I could, I could add separate poca dots to my words. It will only add to the words. It won't go anywhere else on the paper. You see how that going? Only on there. It's a bit light. So I can duplicate and darken it and I could merge it down. I could also come up here and let's say that's not a good color. I don't like that, and I can drag this into there and it changes the dynamics of the whole image. Here is my second image, the colors and everything that I basically want to use for it. I am going to add the remaining details off camera. Then I'll be back to show you all how to export this into good notes. 8. Exporting to Good Notes: All right. This ended up being my finished look for my first sticker. Then I'm going to go down here and hide this one and show you my second one. I did not stick with the polka dots, I just did that to show you guys how to add things to text and stuff like that, but I just did something very simple and did like a double outline for the wording part. I think they both came out pretty much good. I'm going to unhide my image here because now I'm getting ready to show you how to transport the files over from this view. You're going to come up here to the menu that's over here by the gallery. And you're going to hit this sign that's going to bring your job down. Menu, and you're going to hit Share. We are going to be doing the P and G files, because I want both of them to go together. And I'm going to save two files. Go on my ipad. I'm just going to do that. Then I I'm going to hit I'm going to All right. Sorry everyone. My screen share was not pulling up everything that I needed you to see inside of good notes. This is the Good notes app, how it looks. I had to go back into my images and take the background, the white background off and I'll show you why to make it. You're going to press the image and it's going to ask you where to insert from. And then you just click Insert From. I saved it to my ipad, so I will press that. Then I am going to select, it, comes up just like that. Now, previously before what I had was the white background still attached. So I'm going to show you what that looks like. That's what it looks like. If you want that white border around, that's totally fine. It's totally up to you. But you can always use it without it. If you save it, you can make it bigger and it doesn't do anything to the quality, you could make it smaller. Let's see how the other one looks and there is the coffee milk. That is how you bring the images into. Good. Ok, I hope you learned something today and I look forward to seeing your projects. Thank you. 9. Class Project: You've made it to the ends. Thank you for taking the time out to watch the video today in the class section project. Just submit an image of what you've created along with me in class. It can be finished or it can be still in progress. It doesn't matter. I just want to see what you created. Thank you so much for taking this course and I'll see you in the next video. Bye.