Creating Your Own Themed Stickers!

1. Intro: If someone asked me about my art, I will tell them that this is my life, my biggest passion and love. I love to make people feel oh, variety of things with my illustrations and make their day a little bit more interesting. Hi, my name is Natasha. I'm a professional illustrator. I'm basing my lover, but I worked for many different clients all around the world. Today I'm gonna teach you how to make your own illustrations seekers without having any special skills. I'm going to follow you through the whole process from choosing the theme for your sticker pack, in choosing the perfect color for it to definitely go. Things like how to prefer you speakers for printing and for digital use. Let's get started. 2. Brainstorming ideas: Every project starts with idea. So let's come up with ideas for your sticker pack. For me, it's October, Halloween, it's right on the corner. So I decided to make my stickers halloween theme. You can choose anything for your seekers. It could be flowers or maybe some fun stickers. Stickers with all the places you like about your favorite CZ or country. You to. Remember, not all of us have very imaginative brands. Not all of us have instant ideas in our heads on command. It's totally okay to take inspiration from other artists on different platforms like Pinterest, e.g. now that we have a theme for our sticker pack, When did you think about the exact respirations we want to make? Halloween. What do I associate with Halloween? Maybe goes and vampires and parkings. Skeletal gravestones and copies of witches and some black cats. Yeah. Now I have ideas, but I could sketch. See you in the next video. 3. Sketching ideas: Okay, now we can start sketching. You can do it on your graphic tablet for any device you use. But I'm an old school, so I'm going to use my sketchbook. Let's start with the first Tucker. I'm thinking about pumpkin. I want my stickers to look cute and playful, and I love creating silly faces, pull my characters. I looked at some photos of pumpkins to have a general idea of how usually it looks like. I'll be honest with you, I don't see pumpkins or eat pumpkins that much. I only usually see it around Halloween time. I want to create a few characters with different face features and with different poses so I could choose the one I liked the most. Great. Now we can move to our next topic, which is choosing the perfect palette for your sticker pack. The next video. 4. Choosing colour palette: It's time to choose colors for your secret back. Your project is gonna look much more consistent and balanced if you're going to use the same set of colors for every secret. To be honest with you, I never make my own color palettes. So I will show you a few ways you can get a colorful it without much effort. If you are using Procreate, there is a very easy way to create a color palette using pictures and photos. You just choose any picture from your gallery. And app automatically gives you a set of colors that you can use as you please. The second option is very easy as well. You can search for color palette generator. You'll see many different websites where you can generate color sets in just a few clicks. Let's move to the next lesson where you can see how you can use your new color palette for your own set of stickers. 5. Adding colour: Now we get to the most interesting parts of our course, which is aging colors and detail, sorry. Okay, first of all, let's create our canvas. I'll put it at just as an 80 pixels square. I think it's going to be enough for sticker, will put it to 300 DPI because we want to get it printed. And I choose some RGB color mode because we can use it digitally as well. We need to switch some colors right now, so RGB is the best. Alright? So let's start. I will insert my sketches in this document so I can choose one. There are like all these are kinda cute, but now that I'm looking at it, I don't think I like the upper right one. It's cute, but it's just too simple. So I think it's not it. The other one. It's kinda scary. I don't like it as well. I can. I like the one with little pumpkin on the hat. It's kinda cute. So let's choose this one. I don't like this one as well. I don't like he's ice. I like the the one with Illinois mug. It's a very cute I think. I'll go with it. Yeah. Yeah. I'm definitely going with this one. Okay. Let's crop it. Let's zoom in so we could see it clearly. Because looking nice, deem it to lower opacity. I'll show it. I accidentally dropped the facility again. Okay. Alright. Yeah. Not as good. Gay put it to the low opacity. Let's start coloring. I'll choose this dry ink brush because I like it very much. It's very nice. Okay. It's not the right layer. Alright, I'll set, I like this color of pumpkin. It's very vibrant. It's very, I didn't know it. I don't think pumpkin things. I usually this color, but it's close. It's close. This is the closest color I chose from the plasma. Now let's draw his face. This little ice that looks like buttons. And he's face expression, It's like a little bit angry, like he was woken up in the morning and he has this morning coffee. He haven't drunk it yet, so he's kinda angry. Let's draw a branch on his head. I think it has a good addition to our character. I really liked the colors. I like this muddy, muddy colors. It reminds me of fall. I really liked the colors we chose. Let's move on to his little hands does hold the mug. I think it's super reciprocate. The other hand is he puts it on his, I want to say hip, but it's not really a heap. In this case. It's like his cheek or something. Okay. A little legs with some slippers on it. Because I wanted to make him like very like he was just woken up in the morning and he just put his little slippers on and just met his little coffee and his little mug. Let's add some steam to show it that this coffee is very hot. He just made it. Okay, Let's throw some slippers on him. I want these to make like a little bit fluffy. I think this brush is perfect for, for the illustration, I make. Let's add some details. For that. I did a clipping mask on the layer with the pumpkins hat. So I added some shape to it and some hello details just to show the texture of the pumpkin. Also, I want to add some shadows. So I set this layer to low opacity and I chose some brown color just to, just to make some shapes. In this case, we have our light source on the upper left. That's why all the shadows are on the button, right? Maybe we'll add some highlights as well because things are a little bit Chinese sometimes. Especially when we have the trunk light source above it. I just kind of get our hockey. Honestly, I love him so much. Okay, let's, let's add some details to the leaves. I chose a darker color just to, just to show some, some details of the leaf. I'll add some details to his hands as well to show that he has her fingers like his hands. Now it's time to make his slippers fluffy. I don't really like how it looks like. It looks like it's spiky and not Fluffy. Okay, let's do it another way. Let's just draw some fluff on it. Yeah, this one looks better. It looks more fluffier than before. I'll add some shadows to the slippers as well. This is it, this is our illustration I think it's doing now. It's super, super, super cute. I love it a lot. Now that you're happy with your final results, let's move to the next lesson, which is exporting your file and prepare it for print. 6. Exporting files: Yes, I want you guys to work best for raising and for digital use. It's very important to prepare it in the right way. Once your design is ready, you go to your layers. You'll remove the background and then you save it as a PNG and save it on your device. If you go to your gallery and open your sticker, you can see that your illustration has no background and you can use it. Now I'm going to teach you how to use your digital stickers for Instagram stories. First you create an Instagram story. You go to your photo gallery and copy your sticker. Then you come back to history and the seeker should appear on your screen. This is it. Now you can use it just like a regular sticker that you can choose from the Instagram gallery to show you how to prepare your stickers for printing. The easiest way is to go on websites like sticker app, where you can upload your design and then prepare it for print right on the website, you can choose the size of your sticker, the cut line, the material. You can add some texts, even a background. It's very easy to use and I really recommend it. The other option is to ask printing company designer to prepare files for you for additional payment. You only have to choose the material and wait for your order to be done. If you're skilled users of Adobe Illustrator, you can prepare your stickers by herself and send your files to print company. Let's create a new document which has the same dimensions, but this time we choose M YK color mode for print. Here's our Canvas. Now you should insert your design onto the canvas. Just scale it a little bit. Now, don't forget to go to Properties. Click the Embed button. If you don't click it, then the printing company is not going to see your design on their computer. To create a new layer. We choose the pen tool to outline your design. If you can use pen tool, it's very easy for you to do that. If you don't, then look up on the Internet how to use it because it's going to help you in the future. Don't worry, you don't have to follow the exact shape of your design. But it's better to do it as closely as you possibly can. Once you've finished, make it a solid shape, then go to Object Path, Offset Path. And I'm gonna make my outline 5 mm and press. Okay. Now select your shapes and delete your original shape, the one that's in the center. And then set your new shape to stroke. And here go. Now you have your outline. You can, you can name your layer cut. So the printing company would know that this is the part they shoot laser cut. At this point, you can click on your outline and twitch a little bit because you still have all the points. Once you're happy, go to File, Save As, and choose the format, either Adobe PDF or illustrated EPC. These are the best formats for print. Then Coke safe and okay. Here you go. Now you have your design all prepared for print. You can send it to your local print company and they would know what to do. And then you can go to the company and choose the material for your stickers. And now you're done. 7. Outro: Oh wow, great job with your stickers. I hope you enjoyed this course and I thank you so much for attending it. I hope you share with me all of the operations here. And I will do my best to comment on them later on my next course.