Cyanotypes - From Botanical Sunprint to Repeating Pattern in Procreate

1. Intro: Hi, and welcome to my class. Cyanotype from Botanical sun print two repeating pattern in Procreate. My name is Julia, and I'm a teacher and self-taught illustrator based in the lovely town of Oldenburg, Northern Germany. In this class, we will get outside into nature and collect leaves and flowers to create our lovely son prince. You can even take your kid along and share this wonderful experience of creating art directly from nature. We will then hop onto the computer, digitize our prints and turn our gorgeous flower motifs into repeating patterns using a foolproof and pixel-perfect method in Procreate. At the end of the class, I will show you three ways. How you can create multiple color ways out of just one repeating pattern block. And how he can put your design onto the provided Procreate mock-up to share it on social media. This class is perfect for you if you love nature and are excited about trying out new art techniques. Also, if like me, you are a mom and one to incorporate your kid into your art-making and design process. Of course, this goes for dads too. You can take this class as a complete beginner in both cyanotype and procreate. As I will explain every step of the way. But it is helpful to have a basic understanding of how Procreate works. So I would recommend taking a beginner class and procreate before you start with this class. There are tons of great Procreate beginner classes here on Skillshare. You will find some of my recommendations in the resources section. There. You will also find a list of the materials needed. The pre-made eight by eight inch procreate Canvas for creating your pattern. The easy way. Scans of my cyanotype prints a color palette and procreate mockup, which you can use to view and showcase your design. So I hope you're as excited as I am and that I will see you in class. 2. Class Project: Your class project is to create at least one Botanical sun print using cyanotype paper and press leaves and flowers. With these motives, you then create your pattern block and procreate. Because process is key, I would love to see not just your finished pattern block, but also photos of the flowers and leaves. You've collected. Photos of the creation process of the cyanotype and maybe the provided mockup with your pattern or a photo of the wallpaper or fabric you might have ordered on Spoonflower. For my photo collage, I've used the free and super intuitive app in shot. In the next lesson, you will get an overview of what you'll need for the project. See you there. 3. Materials: For the class, you will need the following materials. First of all, a cyanotype printed. You can easily buy these online. Mind contained about ten or 12 pieces of a relatively lightweight paper. And this paper is prepared with a chemical solution that will then react with the sunlight. The kid also contains a transparent plate which you need an order for your leaves and flowers to stay in place, especially when it's windy outside. Instead of this kid, you could also use cyanotype chemicals and prepare your own paper. This definitely has a lot of benefits and there is a great class here on Skillshare by Sarah gravity, which shows you how to do this. But as a mom with a limited amount of time, it will just devils in this technique, to be honest. And who doesn't need a certain size or quality of the paper. Buying a pre-made kit was perfect for me. If you can't get a hold of one of these kits or just want to start straight away because you're so excited about the project. I've uploaded scans of the sun prints I created with my son. And you are totally invited to use them? Yes. Also for commercial purposes. You will then need leaves and flowers to put on the paper later on. I really recommend pressing them at least for a day or two because they will live letter on the cyanotype paper. And so often produce a more crisp looking print. After exposing your paper to the Sun, you need to rinse it with water. I just used an old casserole. But really you could use any kind of container or even rinse it directly under the tab to digitize your artwork, I recommend a scanner for the best result. But if you don't own one, you can of course, use your camera. Last but definitely not least, you will need an iPad. The app Procreate and the stylus. The apple pen is of course, on the more expensive side. But from what I've heard, it works best in Procreate and I really couldn't do without it. You will find a shopping list of all the materials needed in the resources section. Now, if you're ready, let's get started with the printmaking. 4. Create Your Cyanotypes: Now, this is probably the most fun part of the class. I recommend taking an excited toddler long as you get outside into nature, breathing fresh air, and collect as many gorgeous flowers and leaves as you like. Like I mentioned before, I press my flowers to make them live flatter on the paper. This produces more crisp edges, which is helpful when converting them into digital pattern assets. When it comes to arranging your flowers on the paper, you have to make sure that the paper won't be exposed to direct sunlight too soon. To avoid this, we simply arranged flowers inside of my house, making sure there was no direct sunlight coming from a window. The blue side is the right-side-up. I let my son arrange Many of the prints. And the only thing you need to make sure, at least if you want to create a pattern later on, is that the flowers or leaves don't go over the edge of your paper. Otherwise they will be cut off. Obviously. You should put a piece of cardboard under your cyanotype paper because you have to be able to easily pick everything up and carry it around. We then went outside and expose the print direct sunlight for approximately 5 min. You can see how the paper turns white. This is how it's supposed to be. When time's up, you have to rinse the print and water. I had my old casserole with water right next to me. Then the print has to dry. And over the next 24 h, the blue will deepen much more. Creating these lovely prints. Now, have fun creating your son Prince. And I will see you in the next lesson where I'm going to show you how to digitize your prints. 5. Scan and Transfer to iPad: So to scan my image, I opened my scanning software. I will then hit four shell, which means preview. I mostly scan my images at a resolution of 300 DPI. And I wouldn't advise you to go lower than that. When I know I'll be making a pattern for wallpaper, I sometimes scan at 1,200 DPI because this will give me the opportunity to have my motifs at a big scale. But I only do this when I'll be working in Photoshop because at least on my iPad, procreate tends to crash when working with scans at this resolution. If I'm satisfied with the preview, I hit scan, the image will then automatically land and my builder, which means Pictures folder. I will rename the scan and put it in my Dropbox to be able to access it from my iPad. Of course, you could also use Google Drive, AirDrop your files when you're working on a Mac, or send the files via email. Okay, So now to get my image into Procreate, I'm going to go to my Dropbox and then find my image, which is in my cyano types folder, and photos, which means pictures. And then here is my scan. So I can either just of courage, passion, which means to save it to your iPad. So I could do that. And then I will find it in my photos. Or what I could do is I could go to Share and then go to the Thai expert in export. And then I can export it into Procreate. And this is what I'm going to do. So it sends it directly to procreate. And then when I get into procreate will be imported. And here it is. The other way is when you, what I just did, I saved my image and then I could just hit the photo button. And then here is my image which was safe to the camera. Roll. You go. Now we can go on. In the next lesson, you will learn how to create the assets for your pattern. See you there. 6. Create Your Assets: Okay, so now I'm getting back into procreate. And here is my scan. So what you need if you want to create a pattern now is individual elements. So right now, this is just on one layer. What I'm going to do is I'm going to cut out flowers that I want to use for my pattern. And I'm going to do that with the Selection tool. And right now it's all automatic, but I need the free hand. I'm going to tap that. And then I'm just choosing a flower that I like and just casually drawing around it like this. And then I can do copy paste. And that brings this flower on a new layer. Now if I want to get another element, I have to make sure to get back to my original layer here. And I'm going to go to the selection tool still on free hand. I'm going to draw around this here and going to go copy paste. And there is my new element. Again, make sure you get back to your original layer. So if something doesn't work out, most of the times you've just forgotten to get back to that layer. I'm going to choose one of these very transparent flowers, which are so lovely, but a bit more difficult to work with. But I will show you how I'm going to draw around that one as well. Like this and copy paste. Getting back to my layer. And then, oh yes, I like this one here as well. Then copy paste. Yes, and that's it for now. I might use the other ones on another pattern, but I'm going to work with this. So now what you also have to do is you have to get rid of that blue here. And I'm going to show you how to do this by, I'm going to use this one. Where is it? I'm going to toggle that off. It's a bit easier than to see. Now what you can do to get rid of that is to again go to your selection tool. But then instead of using the free hand, you go to automatic. And if you now tap on the blue, what that does is it selects this type of blue. So I can tap here and here, and here, and here, and here. And that's about it. So, okay, there are two ways now to do this. You could either, I'm going to do that now. You could either do three fingers swipe and then just go to cut that, cut away that blue. And then you could just use an eraser to erase all these parts that you don't want. Or you could also work with the layer mask. But I think I'm going to show you that on another flower. So I'm just going to erase that here for now. So I've created my first asset and I'm going to just move that a bit. To move elements, you can just use this arrow symbol. Okay, So now another way to do this is to just show you what this one is to use a Layer Mask. Again, I'm going to this and to automatic. And as you can see, especially here with the stem, it selects paths that I don't want to be selected. So the trick is what you can do is you go to invert. And then instead of erasing anything, you can go and create a mask. So with this layer mask, you're going to work with a brush. If you use black, then things will disappear. If you use white, they will reappear again. So I will show you. I'll just use, first of all, I toggle off my selection. So I will use black with a brush. And if I now just paint over this, everything will disappear. But if I go in with white, it will reappear. And that of course, is useful. If you just made the mistake and erase too much, you don't have to undo. You can just leave it as is, and then go on and make it real appear again by using white. So I will just get back here. And what I'm going to do now is I'm going to use white and a soft brush and I'm trying to bring back that. Them. And of course this is a bit difficult because it's barely visible. There is actually a much better way to do this by drawing it in. I will show you in a minute. But I just wanted to show you that there is a way to bring stuff back. And this can be helpful when creating pattern elements. So I'm going to speed it up again. Now I'm going to use black. And I'm going to get rid of all the grain here. And I'll see you in a minute. So now you can see I've created my second pattern. I said, I'm going to move that up. If you're satisfied with the assets, what you can do is you can just pinch these together and then the layer mask has disappeared. And it's just this acid. Okay? Now, another trick I'm going to show you, and I'm going to show you with this flower. These were so gorgeous, but as you can see, they are quite transparent. And it's very difficult to get a good selection with these if you use the Selection Tool and go to automatic, it tends to select way too much and it's very difficult to get that back. So what you can do, going to just undo, what you can do is to just enhance some of the elements are some of the leaves. And I've provided a color palette which you can use, download and use. But you could also use just use. The eyedropper tool. Sometimes doesn't really work for me there it is. And just pick a color from here. And I'm using a soft airbrush, but the small one, it's in the air brushing section here it is soft airbrush. And you can draw on that layer. You could also, and it's a bit easier to erase stuff, could also draw on another layer and then pinch them together later on. And what I'm doing is I'm going to, oh, that's way too big. I'm going to draw in here. I'm going to pick another color to pick this one here. And then very lightly, very lightly enhance the element by just drawing over it and making it more visible. It's especially helpful when you make the edges more clear and define them a bit like this. And I will also go and just make that a bit more visible. I named this here. Just very light pressure. That's already too much to try that one more time. So if you paint on it too much, the texture will disappear and that's what you not want. So I might reduce the opacity a bit. And I already reduced the opacity of the layer. So the texture shine through a little bit more. Okay, and maybe this one as well. Likely. Okay, so now lets it, before I use the selection tool, the automatic selection that I have to pinch these together. And then I'm going to use the selection tool. And let's looks, that looks a bit better. That goes inside of the leaf. But if I'm working with a layer mask, doesn't matter. So I might leave it at that gets inside the leaves again. But I can make it reappear with the layer mask. So I'm going to go to invert. And then whenever is it mascot. So first of all, I'm going to make sure to make the parts that I still want reappear with a white officer selection? Yes. And opacity again. And I can make this reappear here. And here you can see how helpful it can be to work with the layer mask instead of an eraser. Like these edges. So I'm going to make them more. Soft. Little bit. Might use my textured brush. Again. Dry ink that comes with Procreate as well as the dry ink if it's in the inking section. And everybody seems to love that one. And me too, I especially like it for line work. So I want to add that to reappear. And this over here, make that a bit bigger. Okay, Now I'm using the black to get rid of all the grungy bits that I don't want. I'm going to speed that up again. Okay. So now there is one last thing that I want to show you. Just finished that one. And that is what you can do if there is an asset. Turn that around and just move it a bit down here. If you've got an asset where there is, like in my case, something probably the leaf just broke there. And I mean, this could look nice, but I don't really like that here. What doesn't work? I'm going to show you what doesn't work. Is Joseph just painted in because even if you get a better color than I just did, you see the texture is obviously completely different. So you would really see that. What you can do is you're going to, I'm on the right layer. Yes. You can just stop it. Go to freehand again. And then you can just cut that out. Because this very probably looks similar to the one that's missing here. And then I will go to Copy Paste. Then I've got just this part on a new layer. And I'm going to flip that and maybe turn it around. And I'm going to put it in here. I can do is to make it a bit bigger. I could also distort it, but I want to do that right now. So I think I'll leave it at that. And before I pinch them together, what I will do in a minute, I will just very carefully erase with a soft brush again, I will erase parts of this. So the, the transition from one part to the others a bit smoother. Erase this a bit too much. And then I can pinch it together and you can still see now, but from afar, He wouldn't really notice that much. And then I'm going to do the same I did with the other leaves. I know I probably going to draw in the stem before I do the automatic selection, but I'm going to create my last asset with that. And then I will see you in the next lesson where I'm going to show you how you can prepare your canvas to create beautiful repeating pattern. See you there. 7. Prepare Your Canvas: Okay, so now before I show you how to prep your Canvas to get a repeating pattern, I actually wanted to show you what a repeating pattern blog is. And this is not a repeating pattern block. If I were to put this design here on a wallpaper as it is right now. No, repeat this block over and over again and cover war with it. There would be a very obvious line going right across it here and here. I just added this to make it more visible. And this is what you want. If we were to zoom out you would, you could really tell. It's just this design put next to each other. So what you're going for is a repeating pattern block, which looks like this. And the differences that there are elements that are cut off on one side and then they are continuing directly on the other side. Like this one for instance, or this leaf, you can see half of, half of it is here, and the other half is up there. Or this element here, actually, it continues here. And then in this corner here. And if you repeat this on a wallpaper and put one of this block next to the other. It's really much harder to tell where it starts and where it ends. And you can see there are always elements which are crossing this border, which was so obvious before with the block that was not repeating pattern block. Now, more than just one method to create a repeating pattern block. And there is a very popular method which involves the snipping tool. So what you're doing is you're duplicating your canvas. And then you start with snapping and magnetics on. You start dragging it into the corners and you just have to let go when this orange cross appears. And this method is very easy. But what I don't like about it, that at least in my case, it didn't always work properly. The snapping didn't always work. And then I had white hair lines running from my pattern. So I was quite happy when I discovered the method. I'm going to teach you later on, going to delete this. And with this method, do you prepare your Canvas beforehand? Then you distribute all your elements and you've prepared selections in your Canvas. I will tap the selection and then you can flip the four parts of your canvas. When did I start? What's already there? And the last one, you flip it, and then you've got your repeating pattern block. So this element, this element repeats over here, and this continues down here, and this continues down here and so on. So I'm going to show you how to prepare your Canvas to get this type of repeating pattern block. Okay, Now to prep your Canvas, you're going to plus sign new canvas. And I'm working with inches. And I recommend to make sure that you've got enough layers to work with. So if I'm going for an eight by eight inch canvas, I've got about 90 layers, which is enough for me. The more complex your pattern gets, the more layers you're going to need. And I make sure it's at 300 DPI. Then I just hit Create. The first step is to just drop any kind of color into your canvas by color dropping. And then you have to duplicate this three times. And it doesn't really matter what color it is because you're going to delete that later on. You don't need it anymore. So now what you have to do, I'm on my first layer here and I'm hitting the arrow symbol, and I'm going to this little blue node in the corner. And it shows me the dimensions of my canvas or of this square. And it is 2000, 402,400 pixels. And now I just need to divide that in half and then type that in and you have to be quite quick. We'll show you later on what happens if you're not quick enough. And this looks about right, it covers about. One-quarter of this whole Canvas. So I'm going to the layer beneath, hitting the arrow symbol, going to the little naught, tapping the NADH. And then again one tau 1,200 and covers one-quarter. That's perfect. And by doing that, you're actually working with pixels and you make sure that you're not getting these white hair lines. So I'm hitting the air, I'm going to my third layer. I'm hitting the arrow symbol and now I can't see it. So I have to get down here tapping the NADH. And and the last one I'm going to show you what happens if you're not quick enough. So I'm hitting the arrow symbol, tapping the NADH. And then I do just already didn't work. So and then it's always quite difficult that worked immediately, but sometimes it doesn't. So I don't know if you can see, but there is this white hairline right now and that sometimes happens, but it doesn't mean that you will see it in your pattern. Because very likely if I just zoom in now or it's already disappeared. So you can double-check. Just zoom in, but there is no hairline in here. I just reduce them all to a quarter of the canvas size. Now the next step is to again tap your first layer. But instead of going to the arrow symbol, you're going to select the second tier, select. And then it opens this menu. Then you hit this hard sign, save and load. Hit the plus sign. And now what that does is it will save this square down here, which is my selection. And then it's saved from now on. I'm going to my next layer. Again. Tap on the layer, tap on Select, go to the heart. And plus, this is now my selection tool. Back to your layers. Next layer, tap on the layer, go to Select save and load. Plus. Already the last one, tap on the Layer tab, select save and load. And now it's the square over here. And plus, and that's it. I can delete all this and will already drag to, toggle off the selection. Otherwise it would just drag it in this, I can already drank a blue background and here, because that's what I'm going to need to create my cyanotype pattern, which I will show you in the next lesson. See you there. 8. Create Pattern Tile: Welcome back. Now, as you can see, I renamed the canvas we created before into pattern eight by eight. And I will select and then create a duplicate of this one. So this can be my next pattern. Then I will rename that into cyanotype. Skill. Share. This is the Canvas or will be working now on my first pattern for the class. I've created these assets and I've got to get them into my other Canvas. So what I'm doing is I'm, first of all, I've decided that I just want to use this type of leaf here. So we'll toggle off the selection. It's a bit easier to see then. And I will swipe to the right, create a group. And now what I can do, I will drag out that group and get back to my gallery. And then I have to get it into my Canvas. I will check on that canvas and just let go. And there they are. It very often gives this warning. Not everything is important, but it is. As I can see, I've got three assets and they're all in here. So I just ignore that. And there they are. For my pattern, I want more than just three assets. And what I can do is I can duplicate this one. And the first thing I'm going to try to make it a bit lighter because these are very light and this is very dark. Next to these two. I will try to adjust that with use saturation brightness. You have to tap on the Magic Wand. Use saturation brightness. And I will just try to adjust the brightness a little bit. And as you can see, it gets brighter. And if I go too far with that, it looks like this. It's turning white. And if I think about 60, 64, 63 is a good number. So I won't use the dark one, I will just drag it down here. So what I can do with this now is I go to the selection tool, make sure it's on freehand. And I just want to kind of cut out this one. I go to Copy Paste. Now this gives me a fourth element. And I think I will do that once more. I will get back to this one and maybe grab just one leaf-like. Maybe just, we'll just grab this one here. Copy paste. This gives me another acid I can play with. And I think I will do that with this one as well. And I will just, this looks quite nice. Get this copy paste. And I can just drag it over here. And might also get this bigger part up there. Go back to the magic wand. Make sure I'm on the right layer. And Magic Wand. Go Copy Paste. Now, I made seven out of three elements. And this will make it easier for me to create my pattern. Now, what I will do now is to just, just to build all these elements on the canvas. So I will just start in the upper hand corner. We'll drag that over here. And I tried to get it as close to the border as possible without it being cut. So if I zoom in, I can see it's not over lapping it. I start with this one and then I will just, I think this is here. I will just drag that down. With this little green node. You can just turn it around. You can also go and flip horizontal. Flip vertical. We'll just put that here. And then we'll take one of these, maybe this. And again, I'm trying to get it as close to the edge as possible. That one a bit more up. You can just take your time with this. The more thorough you are, the less you have to work on your pattern later on. Quite sure about that one, Maybe I'll put it like that. Then I will just use this one up here and put it. Oh, I forgot to mention that before. It does make sense to have your elements also upside down. Because for wallpaper, it really doesn't matter if they're all facing one direction like this. But if you're using them for a fabric, it is nice to have them tossed around like this. Instead of being just into one direction. So with these elements, it looks quite nice if they are turned into all sides of directions. Think I'll just leave it like that now. And I might use this now. Just use this again, putting it a bit closer to. And then I've got, I think because these are different in colors, I want use this again. I will use this here, which is a bit darker blue. I will duplicate it, swipe to the left and duplicate. And then I put it down here, turn around. And I will put it here. So now I will use this morning I might quoted here. From now on, you just have to duplicate one element after the other and distribute them over the whole canvas. And I will speed it up now for you. And then I will meet you in a minute and show you how you can create the repeating pattern tile. See you in a minute. So now I'm, so now I'm quite happy with this. As you can see, I've got many, many layers. That's why I recommend it to make your pattern not bigger than 8 ". Now, you have to create a group. Now, out of all of these, sorry, I have to de-select the background without the background. So I create a group. And then I can collapse that group. And now this is all of my elements and the background. Now to use the selections we've created before, we have to mark the background and the group. And I'm going to the Lasso, I'm going to save a load and selection, and I'm tapping this selection, this is this over here. And now I'm going to the arrow symbol. Doing flip horizontally and vertically. Now I'm doing this with all the other selections as well. This is still selected the group and the background. Now, going back to the Lasso Tool, save and load, I'm hitting my next selection. Going to the arrow. Flip horizontal, flip vertical. One more time. Save and load selection. Arrow flip horizontal, flip vertical. And one more time, save and load selection, one, flip horizontal, flip vertical. And you can see it created a repeating pattern block. The element that is cut off here, actually continuous on the opposite side over here. Here you've got the very tiny part of the stem of this element. And this is already my repeating pattern. I'm quite happy with this repeating pattern block. There is one thing that I don't like. It's maybe this element over here. And I think what I will do, I will flatten that group now. Maybe I will try if I can get a duplicate just in case if I've got enough layers, I can get one. Yes, I can. So I will put that duplicate down here and I will flatten this image here. And what I don't like is these so close together, so I will just go on my flowers layer of leaves, layer, cut that out, or select that going to the arrow. And then I can do you also turn it around a bit? That's better. And I can work on all of these elements on the pattern block except the ones that are already cut off. I can't touch these. So I could, for instance, I don't know if these are both facing the same direction. So I could select this one here and then maybe just turn it around a bit like this. I like that better. And here I think here is a gap. So I will just use one of these smaller elements, maybe this one, go to Copy paste and make it a bit smaller and I will put it in here. The gap is not that obvious anymore. Maybe it got a bit small to you. Yes. I will just leave it at that size. What else do I not like? Maybe this can be a bit more down here. This one here. I will select it. Arrow symbol and arrow selection empty. That means that, oh yes. That's why, because I'm on that layer, I have to merge these. So, and then one more time I'm going to this here doesn't seem to work. Oh, I just I don't know if you can tell, but I just went to the side and I really have to make sure that I'm double tapping and getting back. Yes, that's perfect. Now, one more try. Selection. Arrow and maybe I'll leave it at that. And I will see you in the next lesson where we are testing our pattern block. See you there. 9. Test your Pattern: Now to test your pattern, you have to kind of zoom out because then you often spot mistakes that you can't really see on your original pattern block. So this is my original pattern right now. And I will duplicate that four times by swiping it to the left. And I will rename that one down here to regional pattern. And what I will do now is I will, just like we did in the beginning. People like them by half by tapping the nodes and the corners. No, number one, night go over to this node, 200. Next layer, going to that node over here, 1,200. Now with the last one, it all comes together. I have to go into this corner, 1,200. And now I've created for little copies of the original pattern block. And you can already see it repeats perfectly. And I think it looks quite nice. Zooming. Oh, yes, but there was one thing that I don't like. I just saw that these are very close together. Think it looks a bit weird. So I might change that. If I were to change that, I wouldn't change it on one of these layers. That doesn't make any sense. That's just your test, will just make it more clear and rename that test. I would have to change it on my original pattern block, and I have to find these elements now on my original pattern block. Sometimes it's difficult to spot them. So I will see, oh yes, they're over here. So like I said before, you can change elements that are inside of the patterns that are not cut off. But you couldn't change the position of this one. At least. I mean, you could, but then you would have to grab this one as well and use them and magnetics and snapping. And I don't really like that. I will grab this element here by using the Lasso selection tool freehand. And then I tap on the arrow and now I can move it. I think I will make it a bit smaller. That might already do the trick, maybe move it a bit over here. And maybe at the top. And now I've changed my original pattern block. And I hope it will look nice when I upload it to Spoonflower later on. But before I'm doing that, I'd love to show you three ways how you can create multiple color ways out of this one pattern block. So hope to see you in the next lesson. 10. Different Colourways: Now to me, this is the most fun part about creating patterns. I really like playing around with color. And I can show you several ways how to create multiple color ways out of this pattern block you just created. Now, the first thing I want to show you is using blending modes and you need your original pattern block and create a duplicate of it and just put it down here. So you've always got your original if you need it. I will put the test down there as well. And I will try this method with three different backgrounds. So I will create a duplicate of this background. And now I will use a lighter blue as a background. So I will drag this blue in here and we'll do another duplicate and use an off white. This is a wide, so this is kind of an off white. Yes. I will start with the dark blue. To change the blending mode, all you have to do is tap on that little n here. Then you see all these different blending mode. I will start here with multiply and then just go through all of them. So this is normal. And then you can see with color dodge, it gets kind of like neon blue. Sometimes you get quite nice results. For instance, this one, I like these colors. I might try that this blending mode will change if you've got another background. So if I toggle that off and I use it with white, it looks like this. And if I use it with a light blue, it looks like this. You see this especially a difference between the dark blue and then the light blue. I think I like that. So what I'm doing is I'm saving this block in my camera roll. And for that I tap on that little I don't know the word for that right now. And I tap on Share and then you can either share it as a JPEG or PNG. I will use the PNG and save the image. And now it's saved to my camera roll. Then go on and look at the other blending modes. Kind of like that one as well. I will save it, maybe I will use it later on. Png. Save the image. Now that's my pattern block with a dark blue background. I'm will now use it with the lighter blue. And I'm down at luminosity and then I will go up. Oh, I really like that one. This is the divide blending mode. I didn't like that with the darker blue, but I like it with a lighter blue. Another tip I've got for you sometimes when you use another blending mode, there are things that suddenly stand out in your pattern that you think are looking off. Let's just look at that leaf and I thought I might drag it over to the side of it. So I will do that right now. Maybe turn it around like that. As I told you before, you can still change all of the elements that are not cut off like these. All of these elements in the middle can still be changed. Then I will go on here. Did I save it? I'm not quite sure. Save Image PNG. So going back to the blending modes, oh, that's nice as well. I really like that exclusion. Where is it? I'm wrong. We'll save that. Save image. And then go back. This is kind of a wide, that's nice too, but I can achieve that look later on with another technique. Okay, That's about it. I'm going back to normal many and then try it with white. And you can see this doesn't do that much. Yeah, That's nice. We'll save it. And I'm quite sure that I won't be uploading all of these onto Spoonflower. But it's always better to save an image. And then you can later on decide if you want to use it or not. Exclusion, divide hue saturation. Okay? So I'm going back to normal and then I will not think I will keep the white. Now the next Way to get different colorways is to use, use saturation brightness with your pattern block and that will change the color of the leaves. So I'm going to the Magic Wand. I'm tapping hue saturation brightness. Now I will start with you and that, as you can see, changes the color. I think I like the pink, but I will put down the saturation. If I put it down completely, it gets gray. I put it away up, it gets very bright pink. So 50 is the middle. I think I'll go with this and I will just have a look at the brightness. Whereas 50, I think I will keep it at 50. And then I will save that again. Png, Save Image. And of course, you could have a look if this pink looks nice with the blue, light blue, or maybe with a completely different color as well. You could now use maybe kind of a, what do I have here? A brown that doesn't look very nice. But you get my point. So I'm going to get back to my white and get back on that layer, tap the Magic Wand hue saturation, brightness, and maybe get some kind of a green. Maybe. Oh yes, I like that as well. Get it a bit darker. That's too dark and share PNG. Save this image to my camera roll. The last method I'm going to show you is to make this a solid color. Right now. It's kind of a textured leave. But what I'm going to do now is to put a clipping mask above this pattern block. I will tap that layer and tap clipping mask. I will just note just to show you drag a color into that layer. And then what happens is these all turn the color I put into the clipping mask. And now from here, sky's the limit. You can use any kind of color that you like. You could use the bright red like this one. If you are into that. Or you could also go, I think this is I put it on the wrong layer that's not double-tap to get back. Use this kind of and I really like that. Save that, save image. Now, I'm really interested what kind of color combinations you find. So if you like, include them in your class project. And I will see you in the next lesson where I will show you how to use this pattern block on a mockup in Procreate. See you there. 11. Bonus: Use a Mockup: Welcome back. So quite recently I took a Skillshare class by myofiber and I really enjoyed it. It was about creating mockups in Procreate. And I have to admit up to that point, I had always been a little intimidated by creating my own mockups. I thought that it was very complicated, but it actually isn't. And I really recommend taking this class. But until you do that, I provide a mock-up that I've created. I'm taking myofibers class and that is this one here. I got a photo from Unsplash. You get a lot of great photos there. And I will show you how to use this mock-up. You tap on the layers panel. Here's a clipping mask above this pillow. And you have to go to the belief that I forgot the name again, something with wrench. You tap on that and then you go to add and you can insert a photo. And I'm going to see this one that puts your design on the mockup. And I can make it a bit smaller here. And that's about it. And if you want to share it without the photo credits, just toggle off that layer and then you can share it on social media. Now, if you feel that your design is not the right scale here, what you can do is you go back into your gallery and you use one of the designs you've created before, like this one, and you open it. And now, just like we did before, we are creating duplicates of this layer. And we're tapping the blue corner nodes to get four little squares. I will speed that up now for you. And wallah, here you've got your design, but at a smaller scale, and you just have to export that now, Share PNG. And I will save it to my camera roll. Then I'm getting back into my mockup. And I will clear that layer here. And I will import the design I just created. Insert a photo. And here you can see, here it is. And now this is your design at a much smaller scale. And I think this actually looks much better with this design than the one I've done before. So that's how you put a design on a mockup. Make sure to include this mockup with your design in the project gallery. 12. Thanks!: Thank you so much for taking the time watching my class. I really hope you enjoyed it and that you learn some new skills. I'm looking forward to seeing all of your beautiful sun prints and repeating patterns. So make sure to upload them in the class project section. If you want to connect with me, you can find me on Instagram. My name is Ed julia, Alpha, illustration. Hope to see you soon and have a lovely time creating.