Transcripts
1. Class Overview: Procre is one of my
favorite tools to use as an artist and illustrator who prefers to work and
draw with my hands. There are tons of
options for brushes and other design tools that make
it really easy to work with. And you can turn around a
new project pretty quickly. Just in time for the holidays. I wanted to show you
how you can make some last minute
gift tags to add to your Christmas gifts or
whatever holiday you celebrate. So we're going to
turn this into this, but no matter what time of
year you're watching this, there are so many ways to take this class and apply
it to other things. You can follow these exact
steps to make stickers, labels, products to sell on Ts as digital downloads
or on your website. Possibilities are really
endless because all you have to do is print out
your designs and cut them. You can even make something like this banner behind me up here. This class is really great for two different kinds of
people, I would say. The first one are designers who already know how to use apps like Photoshop and Illustrator. Because those work pretty
similarly as far as layers and masks and a lot
of those types of features. Or maybe you're more
of an artist and illustrator like me and
you've downloaded Procreate. You've played around a little bit and know some of the basics, but you haven't made a
final project or product. I hope that this class
can get you there with something that's pretty
easy and straightforward. In the class, I'm
going to walk you through my design process. I start out with some
sketching and inspiration, then I'll move on to
more concrete designs. And then we're going to add
some textures using brushes. And this class will include three free procreate
brushes that I've designed, so make sure to
download those when you're working on
your class project. And then after we've added those textures and
finishing touches, I'll show you how to
export your design to files for printing and cutting if you have
a cutting machine. If you don't, no problem.
I don't have one. I'm just going to be
cutting mine out by hand if all that
sounds good to you. Let's go ahead and get started.
2. Document Setup, Layout, and Guides: All right, so we're going to
go ahead and get started. As I mentioned at the
top of the class, this class is for
beginners using procreate and people who
do have some experience. I'm not going to spend a ton of time at each and every step, but I am going to touch
on some procreate basics. I'm just not going to spend
the same amount of time on them that I would if this
were strictly for beginners. First, I'm just going
to go ahead and hit the plus icon to
start our new canvas. And since the goal of this is to print it out on just
regular printer paper, I'm going to use
this paper option, the 11 " by 8.5 okay? And I'm going to
reorient it then I'm also going to go ahead and add a grid right away so that I can know approximately what size my gift tags are going to be. I'm going to go to
the tool icon in the upper left hand corner
and select Drawing Guide. And then go ahead and
edit the drawing guide. Then you'll see near
the bottom right, this grid size option. You can either use this slider to change the size of the grid. Right now you can see that the dimensions used are pixels, but I want to go ahead
and change that 2 ", All I have to do
is tap directly on the number, then select inches. Then I'm just going to hit one. All of these squares
are going to be 1 " by 1 " And hit done. Great. Now I'll know exactly what size my gift tags are or at least close to exact, then I'm going to hit Done. Before I do that, actually, I just want to point out if you're not familiar
with the grids, that we can change the color of the grid up here at the top, whatever works best for you. I'm going to keep it
just a dark color here. And then we can also adjust the opacity and the thickness. I'm actually going to make
it just a little thicker, a little bit more opaque
so I can see it well. Okay, then I'm going to
go ahead and hit done. Then you can see that
we have eight squares here and then these quarter
inch parts of the square, so this is our 8.5 side and then we have ten
squares this way, and then a two square at
the top and the bottom.
3. Sketching and Brushes: All right, so now I'm
just going to sketch out my labels or gift tags. Here I'm going to start
out by selecting a brush and I want to select
something that will be good for making
an initial sketch. Included in this class
are going to be some of my brushes that you
can download for free, so be sure to check those out. I'm going to use one
of those right now, and that first one is going
to be this flat pencil. I like to use a pencil brush
for sketching initially. Even if you don't
use one of mine. There are some really great ones that come with procreate
automatically. I'm a big fan of the six
pencil, which you can see here. Okay, I have all
these messy lines here and I'm going to
show you a quick tip. If we want to undo anything, all we have to do is
tap with two fingers. You'll see a little thing at the top pops up that
says undo paint stroke. So I just can keep
tapping and it'll keep getting rid of the latest
things that we've done. Then if I want to
redo something, I can just tap with
three fingers, redo all of these. Then something else that can be helpful is if you hold down, it'll just keep doing. But now just undid
everything so I can just go ahead and do the three fingers
to bring back that grid, then I have a clean slate. All right, let's go
ahead and get sketching. And I'm going to go back and make sure that I have the
correct brush selected still. Another great feature
of procreate is that we can hit this
recent icon up here, and then I'll see all
the brushes that I used recently or brushes
that I favorited. These brushes that
have the stars are ones that I have
marked as favorites. I can show you how to
do that real quick. I can just slide over to
the left and then hit pin. Then. Now this will always
show up in my recent brushes, even if I haven't
used it recently. Before I start sketching, I do want to change my
color really quickly. I like to sketch
in darker colors. I'm just selecting
the first dark color that shows up in my
palette recently. Anytime you want
to select a color, you can just go up to the upper right corner and
select the circle up here. And it'll bring up
your colors options, but I'm going to stick with one color while I'm sketching. We'll get more
into colors later. I'm just going to zoom in. I'm aiming for 3 " by 3 ". I might go a little bit bigger, but I want to make sure that
these are small enough to attach onto gifts without
overwhelming them. But also big enough that
I can write on them. I'm a very visual person. I have some post it notes here, and post it notes
are 3 " by 3, ". Then I drew a two inch
by two inch square. And I feel like
this would give me definitely enough
room to write to and from my handwriting, I don't write super tiny, so I like to have a
little bit of room, do whatever works best for you. Then as you can see here, I have some old fashioned ornaments
and these are going to be my main source of
inspiration for these. I just love how they
look. They're so cute. I love a vintage Christmas look. And I'm just going to go
ahead and get sketching. And I'm not aiming
for perfection here, since I am going to
trace over this. Especially, I have not
drawn anything today. So these are going to be
pretty rough probably. It is amazing how much warming up can help you
with your drawings. So I'm also going to
consider this, my warm up. I want to get a little bit
closer to maybe like 2 " wide. That's where the
grid is helpful. And I'm not someone that
always works with grids. I don't know if you can tell
from my sketching style. I like to work a little
bit free form there. I think that will
be a lot better. I've got to Here of the ornament I am. This brush is
probably a little bit big right now for
sketching like this. If you want to adjust
the size of your brush, we'll just go over
here to the left. And we can use this slider to
make it larger or smaller. It gives you a little preview
of the brush size there. Let's see how this looks. Still a little thick.
And you notice if I press harder, it gets wider. If I'm using a light
touch, it's much thinner. And this will vary
brush by brush. So you may have to
experiment a little bit. I'm just going to undo those, I'm going to go a little bit
smaller, it's too small. And this is all just personal
preference right now. Okay, so I like this size, so I'm going to go
ahead and tap this. And then hit this plus icon. And that's going
to save that size. Even if I change the brush
and draw a little bit, I can always return to this by clicking on that little dash, and it'll bring me
back to that size. I got some stripes here. I'm using this as a
real loose guide. I might change the
look of this later, but that will just
get me going for now. Something else I am considering
as I start to sketch all of these is how easy
it'll be to cut out. I don't have a cricket or silhouette or
anything like that. I'm just going to be cutting
these out with scissors. You could also use
an Exacto knife, but I want to make
things easy for myself. This is just a fun
project, obviously. If you are making this professionally or maybe
you're going to make something like this to
sell as a download on C. You can probably have a little bit
more fun with these, but I'm trying to
keep the outlines easier to cut for myself. I'm just going to continue sketching and then
I'll come back. If I have something to
point out as I'm working, I can highlight another feature
that you may like to use. If we go back up to our tool icon up here
and we can go back to the drawing guide and we can hit symmetry with
the symmetry tool, we can actually draw
with perfect symmetry. Let me show you what that
looks like right now. I've just hit symmetry. And you can see that we've got this vertical line here.
I'm going to hit done. And show you how that will look. If I draw along the line, it's going to create something
perfectly symmetrical. That can be great to save time, especially if you like to
work with a lot of precision. You're going to get that
perfect symmetry every time. Now I like to work a little
bit more loose and care free, but that is a good feature depending on what
your style is like. There are a lot more
options with symmetry. I can go back, Edit, Drawing, Guide, and
then hit Options. So we can do horizontal. So if I do that, it's going to make it
symmetrical horizontally. We can do quadrant. So that could be cool if
you're trying to like, let's say you want to get like kind of four petal shapes
to look exactly the same. I can show you what
that looks like. Something like that I'm
just going to undo. Okay. And then I'll show
you radio real quick. So like I said, this isn't something that
I use very often, but I know there are
artists out there that really rely on it or
find it really helpful, especially with maybe making certain kinds of patterns done. That's just a quick
example of how that works. I'm just going to go back, I'm hitting undo multiple
times just to get back. And I am going to
have to go ahead and edit drawing guide to get back to that original
guide, two D grid. And you'll see that it just kept the settings that I
had from last time. Oh, and then this
is actually good, even though it looks
like I lost control. Okay, so one quick
thing I forgot to do. So I have to make sure to turn
off this assisted drawing, Turn that off, and
then I should be able to draw regularly again.
4. Bonus: Brushes: As I mentioned in the intro, this class does include three free brushes that you can download and
import into procreate. And these are brushes that
I think will give you a nice starting
point for procreate, especially if you're new to it. First, I have my flat pencil. I'm just going to turn it up, but it'll give you these nice textured pencil
marks if I bring it down. It's really nice for sketching, especially if you like to do some preliminary sketches before you get started on
a final design. The next I have my dry ink. This is maybe a little
bit more fluid, but I still have
some texture and grit to it, which
is what I like. Then finally, I'm including
one of my texture brushes, which is going to be this
diamond crystal salt. This is actual salt that I
used to make this brush. I use some kosher salt, but it'll give you these
really nice textures. It's really fun for shading and just adding some
grit to your work. I hope you enjoy
using these brushes, but I think this is a
nice variety to get started beyond what
comes with procreate, although there are a lot of really great brushes
in procreate already.
5. Color Palettes: Okay, now I've got all of my ornaments sketched
out or my gift tax, and I'm going to start filling in and making my actual designs. But before I do that, I want to pick out
my color palette. Some artists prefer to
work in black and white, or shades of gray first, but I like to work in color. I have a specific
idea for what kind of colors I want to use
for my color palette. And I'm going to show you
a couple of ways that you can create a color
palette from an image. One way to create my
color palette is to tap on the color icon in the
upper right hand corner. You'll see that there are
a bunch of options here. I'm just going to go through
them pretty quickly. We can look at our colors
with this disc view. And I can rotate around through basically
the whole rainbow. And then here is where I can
play with values and tints. Then we have our classic view. We can use this slider
to change the hue. This one will change saturation, then this one will change
from light to dark. Then we have color harmonies, which we can play with here. We can also pick the type of color harmony by tapping
underneath where it says colors. Then we have value. We can play around with
all these sliders here. I hardly ever use this one, but we can add a hex code here. If you have a specific color,
it's really great for that. Then last we have
our palettes option. That's what I'm going
to use right now. We can click on this plus icon, and then we can actually create a new color palette
directly from a photo. I'm going to tap photos, and then this is the
photo I want to use. I'm just going to scroll back. This is the color palette that
it created from the image. You can see that there are
quite a few colors here. I definitely don't
want to use that many, But it can be a
good starting point to create my own color palette. I could either get
rid of colors that I don't like to do that. Let's say I hold onto this
one and then I can tap delete Swatch and it'll delete that color from
the color palette. But actually I want to
create a new color palette. And then I'm going
to use some of these colors,
create new palette. And then it gives me this
completely blank palette. I like this color. For sure I wanted a bright pink, so I'm going to tap and
drag that up like this. It might be too close in
color to this pink though, but it could be a
good starting point. I like this orange. Then I really did want
to get a chartreuse green and more of a turquoise, dark green, maybe
a darker green. For some contrasts there, I am looking for
variation in value. If I were to picture
these in black and white, some of these would
actually look very similar. For example, this orange and
this pink are very similar. Those might not look
very good together. There's not enough
contrast there. I could always adjust that. I can tap on the orange and
go over to our classic view. Maybe I want to lighten it, or I could make it a little
bit darker or more saturated. I have a lot of different
options to play with to give it a little bit more
contrast with some of the other colors
that are used. I could also drag
this and make it a little bit more
of a true orange. It's really red
orange right now. Then I can add that to my color palette by
clicking Palettes. And then add the new color, which this is almost exactly the same, not very different. There may make it a little bit more
of a rusty brown. Let's see if this is any better, I'm going to drag it. Hmm, They're still pretty close, but I can keep
playing around with those until I get
the colors I want. Okay? All right, so I can keep
playing around with these, but I am going to
show you another way to create a palette
from an image. So I'm just going
to tap out of that. And then I'm going to
go up to the tool icon over here and insert a photo. Okay, so I'm just going
to make this bigger. I'm just dragging my
fingers to make it larger. And this won't be pictured in
our actual document later. But I'd want to pull colors maybe a little bit
more specifically, and this is one way to do it. Rather than getting colors
from all over the image. I can be a little
bit more specific. I'm going to go back
to color palettes. I'm going to hit
create a new palette. I'm just going to deselect
that when you add an image, it's automatically
selected here. And you can see that by the dotted lines around the
image known as Marching ants. I'm just going to deselect that. Okay, I really like this chartreuse bright
green on this ribbon. I want to pull that color. All I have to do is hold down with my finger and it's going to pull up this color circle. As I drag it, you
can see that it's pulling the color from wherever
my finger is touching. I can drag around and I can get really specific with the
kind of green that I want. This is what I'm looking for. And then you'll see
that that's what's selected in my color up here. And to add it to a palette, I'm just going to
tap in that square. And then I can just do that all over with the
colors that I like. Okay, I have a lot of colors here and I'm definitely
going to narrow these down. So I'm just going
to do that and then I'm going to go ahead
and get started. But just so you know
what I'm looking for, I'm really trying to find a nice amount of contrast
in these colors. I also want to have a couple
of more neutral colors too. Something that's close
to white and black, or maybe white and true black. But my ultimate
goal is I'm going for a vintage Christmas vibe.
6. Illustrating in Layers: Okay, now I have my color
palette all figured out. I'm ready to go ahead and get started with drawing my tags. I'm just going to go ahead and move over to the
layers panel over here. And I'm going to
delete that layer. Then I'm going to
create a new one. Something I'm going
to do throughout this is I'm going to keep
everything in separate layers. And that means that
I'll be able to go back and edit each
layer individually. I'll just show you a quick example of
what that looks like. I'm going to go ahead and select a different brush and just
draw this circle shape here. And then select another
color and draw on top of it. I'll make my brush
a little smaller. Okay, let's say I don't like
how these squiggles look, or maybe I want to make
them a smaller size. It's going to be
really hard to do that because these are
all on one layer, so they're connected to each
other, they're not separate. If I try to erase something, it's going to erase all of it. But if I work in
different layers, I select this layer
using the select tool, I can make it smaller or larger, but you can see that it's on its own completely
separate layer. I'm just going to
delete those two layers and start all over and
go ahead and get drying. Actually, I think I'm
going to stick with this with light blue color here. But I'm just going to
make my brush smaller because I'm going to be
drying this entire shape. Then I can actually fill this in by clicking and
dragging the color. And then it'll
automatically fill in. Now if I do something like this and that
points don't totally meet, it's not a closed shape. It'll fill in the
entire documents. I'm just going to undo that, but that's a helpful
thing to know. Okay. You can see here that I traced over my initial drawing, but now I can't see
any of those details. What I can actually do is
flip our layers around. So I'm just going to select a layer and drag it
to change the order. Then I can actually change
the opacity of the layer. I'm going to tap this n here. That will change our opacity. You can always it to
multiply or darken. You have all these options here. If you ever used Photoshop or another app like that,
it's very similar. I'm just going to
keep it at normal and change my opacity so
that I can see through it. And then I'm
actually going to be drawing under that layer so that I can see all of the
details that I drew before. Okay, so I'm going to move on to a different color and I'm going to create some kind of
stripes and designs. So I'm going to go ahead
and create a new layer. And you can see that I'm
going right over the edges. And I'll show you
why in a second, just after I finish this. I can go up here and
tap on this layer. And I'm going to
hit clipping mask. What it's going to do is clip this new drawing to the
shape of the layer below it. You'll see that those edges
don't matter anymore, even though I was sloppy
and carefree with them, it will totally work. I'm just going to make
some adjustments here. Oh, and you can see I was
drawing on this layer. I want to undo that, make sure I have the
right layer selected. And then I'm going to
add another layer. And I'm going to create
this oval in the center. Then I'm going to click
and drag to fill that in. Whoops, If I hold
this down too long, it actually changes the color
to the last color used. Which can be really
helpful if you're going back and forth
between two colors. But let me go back, select the white and click
and drag to fill. I'm going to try to
mimic this center here, give it a little
bit of dimension. But this is the
part that someone's going to be writing
to and from on. Because this is a gift tag. I don't want there to
be a ton of contrast. I'm going to select this
color and change it up. I'm just going to go a
little darker with it. Then I'm going to find a
brush with some texture, but that's maybe a
little bit sheer. Let's try this
one. It's going to change the size to make sure I'm working
on a different layer. It's a little too small, so let's make it
a little larger. Okay, I'm going to show
you something else. It's bothering me right now that these red stripes are crooked. I can easily adjust that without having to change
everything I worked on. I'm going to go ahead
and select that layer and then I can that
select button there. And then I can actually rotate this and change
the size of it. All sorts of things. I'm going
to on this green up here, and that's going
to help me rotate. I just want to straighten
it out a little bit. That looks completely
better to me. I could also change the size, make it smaller or larger. I'm just going to undo that. I also have options here to flip it horizontally
or vertically. Right now I do have
uniforms selected. If I do change the size, it's going to keep
those dimensions in the same ratios
to each other. If I do free form, I can change it in
every possible way. I'm just going to do
then to deselect, I'll just tap that again, and that already looks
a lot better to me. I want to add some
dimension around this. Let's add a new layer. I'm actually going to add
another clipping mask. The clipping mask won't
be to this layer, it will be to our original
layer here, this circle. I can still draw all over it. I'm going to do the
settings multiply. I want to do the same
opacity that I did here, 48. And I can actually change
that by tapping here. I'm just going to drag. All right, so I'm just
going to continue on drawing all of these ornaments. In the next lesson, I'm going
to show you how to make edits after you've created
your initial drawings.
7. Groups and Masks: All right, so now I have a lot more detail
going on with these. They're almost finished,
but I just want to cover a few more things
to show you how I got these more
complex designs. You can tell they're a
little less flat looking. And I'm also going to
go over some tips for helping to organize
yourself as you work. Let's start with that. I'm
going to go back over to my layers panel in the
upper right hand corner. You can see that I have a
lot of layers going on here. Some of them I've already
grouped together. As you can see here,
I'm just going to create a group for
this ornament down here. All I have to do to
create a group is select all of the layers that I want to be
grouped together. I'm just going to tap
on the first layer and then swipe onto each of
these layers to select them. Okay, I have everything selected and I'm just
going to tap on group. Now I have a new group
for that ornament. Where this comes in
handy is if I want to select everything and
transform it all at once, all I have to do is make sure I have the whole group selected. And then I can the
arrow up here, and then I could go ahead and change the size of
this all at once. That can just be super helpful. I'm just going to undo that, not try to change the size. Then something else that
this is useful for is if we want to merge this
layer right now, we're trying to work
non destructively, keeping everything
on its own layer. But to cut down on file size, sometimes you may want to
flatten the layers together. All we would have to
do is tap flatten. Now this image is
totally on its own. You can see that there's
no group anymore. The group has been condensed
into one layer altogether. If I tap it, you can
see that here as well. I'm just going to undo. And I should have my group. Yeah, I still have my group
and all of my layers. And I'll revisit why you might want to merge
groups later. Okay, moving on. For the most part, I've
used clipping masks to add texture to a lot of
these different layers. Here you can see that this
looks a little bit like felt. I used a nice
texture brush to get that effect and a clipping mask. But I'm going to show
you another mask that can come in handy. Let's use this as an example. I'm going to select this layer. You can see right now all of my groups are just
called new group. I haven't renamed them, we can actually
change the names. If I tap on that group, I can select rename and then
I can say what this is. So I'm going to bring up my keyboard and
I'm going to call this pink and green ornament. Okay? And then
that'll just help me as I'm selecting my
different groups. So I'm going to go ahead
and rename all of them. Okay, I'm really happy with
how this ornament looks, but I want to add some shading
to the entire ornament. This is an occasion where a clipping mask isn't
going to work for me because I want my shading to be clipped to this entire image, not just the background
cream image or the stripes. Let me find that ornament. I basically want this
entire area selected. I'm going to scroll down
and I'm going to tap. I'm going to tap on
this space layer, which is essentially
this entire shape. And I'm going to duplicate it. Swipe over to the
left, hit duplicate. Then I'm going to drag this
to the very top of the group. I'm going to drag it just below. I have all these white marks. Those are those shiny marks.
I do want those on top. I'm dragging it just below that. Then I do also want
a copy of this, let me hide my layer real quick. This blue area here, because that is the
top of the ornaments. I'm going to duplicate
that and drag it up here. Then I want to merge
these two images together so that I have
one basic overall shape. Let me show this again. All I have to do to
merge them is just drag the two layers onto each other and then it's
merged that layer. If I hide it, they
both disappear. Okay, I've got that done. With that merged shape, I can now create a mask so that my shading will only
cover this area. With that selected, I'm
going to go up here to this looking icon and then
I'm going to tap automatic. All I have to do is
just tap on that shape. Right now we have
that shape selected. I'm going to tap this again. Hit mask and then you'll see that we have
our mask created. It's hard to see, it's
a little bit small, but basically this white area
is where we'll be drawing. If I just tap a random
color and I try to draw, it's only going to stay within
the bounds of that mask. I'm just going to
undo that. Now, we don't need this anymore. This image was just
to create the mask, what I'm going to do
is tap on that layer. And I'm going to hit clear.
Now that is completely empty, but we'll still be
able to use the mask. Now all I have to do is select
a color to add my shading. So I could use black
just to make it dark, or I could keep this dark
blue and see how that looks. Because I am going to
change the opacity later. Actually, let's just
change the opacity now. See what that looks like. I also change it to multiply. I think that might work, so it's a little bit
too big right now. This is a just my
personal preference for how I want this to look. You may have a totally
different approach. This is more about
style at this point. I like how that looks. Now we have this nice, shiny ornament, and I feel like you can see that even more now with this shading. Now for the next lesson, I'll go ahead and show
you how we can change the colors in your design without having to
start from scratch.
8. Editing Colors: Okay, we're almost done, but I wanted to show
you a couple more tips for changing your colors after you've already
created a design. This is great if you simply
just changed your mind, or it can be a good way to maximize your design
so you can make copies of the same design and change it with
different color ways, and then you have
multiple designs to use however you want to. I'm just going to go over
to the layers panel. I want to change the color of these red stripes
to that dark blue. There's a couple of ways that
you can change the color. One way it's pretty simple. All we have to do is tap on the layer and then
select alpha lock. Then you'll see these squares
appear in the background. This will indicate that
alpha lock is turned on. That's helpful in case you forget that you
have that selected. With alpha lock turned on, we can actually draw directly
onto those red stripes. Now this will be destructive. This is altering
the layer itself. Rather than applying
a clipping mask. I'll show you what
that looks like. So I can just draw over this. Actually, the brush I have selected is more of
a texture brush, so you can see that it's
not covering completely. I like to use just a really
big round brush for this. I have that in my resins here. This is just native
to procreate. You'll find it under painting, I believe it's just
at the very top. I'm going to select that. I
have it nice and large here. It's probably going
to take me no time at all to cover this area. That's it. We just really
easily change that. It changes the whole
look of this ornament. I love how that looks now, but you'll see over
in our layers panel here that it is also
blue here now too. It's not red anymore. Okay, I have something else that I want to
change the color of, that's this shading over here. You can see it's pretty
light. I'm going to find it. My layers panel. I'm
going to hit Alpha lock. Then I'm just going to
turn my opacity up. You'll be able to see
the difference and I'll fill in. There we go. We've changed that color. Just going to bring that opacity back down so
it's not quite so strong. I think I'm happy with it there. Those are two examples
using alpha lock. Now I'm going to show you
a different way to do it. We have our original layer here. This is that blue,
light blue background. I'm just going to
go ahead and create a new layer because I created
it below a clipping mask. It's already treating
it like ones. You can see that
little arrow there. All I have to do is click
and drag to fill in, I'm just going to
click and drag. And then that completely
changed that background color. I'm going to tap to undo. And I'll show you
another example. Because this layer was
automatically a clipping mask. It might be hard to
tell what I did there. So I'm just going to
delete that layer. Okay, I want to show
you another example that doesn't already
have a clipping mask. If I can find one. Okay, let's say I want
to change the color of these ink marks here,
these lined rinds. I'm going to create a new layer and then I can fill
the layer with, let's say this orange. So you'll see it filled
everything in that layer. I'm just going to tap it
and hit Clipping Mask. Now it's applying that
color just to those areas. The nice part about
when you can use a clipping mask to
change the color with the entire fill layer is that you're
definitely not going to miss anything because
we're not drawing it on, it's applying it to
everything in that space. It's also great if you have
a large area to fill rather than trying to fill all those
gaps by using your brush. But there are other times
where you won't be able to use it because
you already have a clipping mask and you can't keep building the clipping
masks on top of one another. I'm just going to delete that. Then If you wanted, you could just repeat
your design over and over again and keep
changing the colors. I could make a copy
of this ornament. I'll just do this real quick. I have this group
selected, the felt heart. All I have to do to make a copy, slide to the left and duplicate. Now I've got my copy here. I'm just going to
select it and drag it somewhere I can see it. I'm going to make it smaller since I'm just using
this as an example. Okay, let's zoom in. And then I can change
the complete look of it simply by
changing the colors. So I'll do that really fast, just so you can see
what your options are. As you can see in
just a few steps, I have a totally
different looking design. All right, so I'm just
going to get rid of this copy here and I'm going to make a
few more tweaks to my designs and then I'll be ready to get this
prepped for printing.
9. Creating an Outline: All right. Now I have
my finished gift tags. I want to bring this into a new document because I'm going to merge a bunch of
the layers together. If we look back over here, I have four different groups and so many different layers. It's pretty
complicated document. I just want things to be
a little bit simpler as I this to make it a print file, all I have to do is go
over to the gallery, then I'm going to tape. Then I'm going to
select this document, our working document,
and then hit Duplicate. Now we have a X out. Now I have our
original document. I can go back and edit, or I can make as many
copies of it as I want, but it'll preserve all of
my editing capabilities. Let's go into our
new document then. I'm just going to
flatten each of these layers and I'm
going to get rid of this original sketch layer because I don't
need that anymore. Delete then flatten, and I'll
just flatten each of these. We have something
that's a lot simpler, we only have four layers now, as you'll see, I have some
very thin lines here. I have these loops at the
tops of the ornaments. I also have some
complicated edges here. Right now I'm trying
to think about cutting and how this will
look after I printed out. You can also see over here, this line overlaps
the edge of the bow. We have some space there. What I want to do is
add outlines to all of these that will make it easier
for printing and cutting. Especially if we're using
a Cricket or a silhouette, or is it cut Cricket. I say Cricket,
whatever it's called, it'll work either way. We're going to add some
outlines and that will just help simplify this for us. Later on, I'm just going to go ahead and select
a pure white. The first way is pretty
straightforward. All I have to do is
create a new layer. I'm going to move it behind. I'm going to go
over to calligraphy and find this simple
monoline brush. I'm just going to play with the size to make it
a little bigger. I think that will work. You can see that this brush smooths things out as you draw. That will be helpful in
giving us a smooth outline. And I'm just going to
draw, I can fill it in, so it's not gonna be perfect unless you really take
your time with it, but it will give us a
nice clean outline. And then I'm just going to click and drag to fill that in. So I'm just going
to hide that layer. So you can see that
I missed a spot. It's totally filled in now. Okay, that's option one. Okay, let's look at
something a little bit more complicated for
a different example. This one down here, not super complicated,
but we do have this bow, throw something
different into the mix. This other technique
might be a little First I'm going to start out by selecting that
layer and duplicating it. Then I'm going to select the bottom layer and
tap it, Alpha lock. Then I want to make
sure that I have the color I want to
use for my border selected tap again
and then fill layer. I'm just going to
hide the top one. And you can see that this layer is filled completely in white. Now, this is something
we could have done earlier when we were
changing our colors around. But just note that this is
going to be destructive. It is changing the
layer completely. But that is another option for quickly changing the
color of a whole layer. Okay, let me reveal that again. After we have that white, I'm just going to tap the layer again and turn off Elfa lock. And that's a really
important step because if I don't turn that off, then our next step
won't work at all. So make sure to
turn that off then. I'm just going to
show my background to make this a little
bit more obvious. With our border layer selected, I'm going to tap the
magic wand, Gci and blur. And then I'm going to turn this Gaussium blare
up so you can see that there's this white
glow surrounding our drawing. And it gets bigger and expands. When I drag it
further to the right, you can also see the
percentage at the top here. I'm just going to bring it down because I'm really just trying to get an initial border. I really don't want it to be
bigger than it needs to be. Let's try around this 18% okay? Okay. After you've added that blur, we're going to go ahead and make sure that you have automatic and
color fill selected. And you want to make
sure that your color up here is the color you
want your border to be. Then I'm just going to tap
somewhere in the image and drag somewhere around here. Looks good to me. I'm
just going to select. Then you can see that everything is contained
in this border. Just going to zoom
in, but you can see that the edges are
a little bit rough. So we still have to
finish this off a little bit because that could
cause us some problems, especially if you are using
some kind of cutting machine. So I'm going to go
back to my brushes, make sure I have
mono line selected. Then I'm just going to
smooth out these edges. So I'm just going to
continue smoothing out these edges and add borders
to the rest of my gift tags. All right? I have all of
my borders filled in. I'm happy with that
and how that looks. I'm just going to hide my background as I
mentioned before, so I don't have a
cutting machine. I'm going to take one extra step because these white borders will not be helpful when I'm
printing on white paper. However, I am going to
use these borders as a guide for me to draw
dotted lines for cutting. I'm just going to
add one new layer. I have a monoline brush
here that's dotted. This is really easy
to make your own. I'm just going to show you how
to do that really quickly. This is the original
mono line that's native. With procreate, we can actually duplicate
this brush the same way that you
duplicate a layer. I'm going to slide it
over and hit duplicate. Then now we have a
copy of that brush. Now I can make edits to the brush without doing
anything to the original. I'm going to tap on the brush, then this is where
I can make edits. All I have to do to make a dotted line is turn the
space scene all the way up. Now I can get a
nice dotted line. I think that'll be
perfect for using as a guide when I'm
cutting with scissors. I'm not going to get
too far into brushes. There's a lot of ways you can change them and manipulate them, but I will show you real quick. If I go over to shape, you can see that a circle
is the basis of this brush. By increasing the spacing, it's basically stamping
a bunch of circles. That's just a real
quick explainer I'm going to hit done now. I can use this to
make cutting lines. I'm just going to
trace these shapes in black so that they're
nice and easy to see. And it's pretty large right now. So I'm just going to make
that brush a lot smaller. I think that should work.
10. Exporting: Okay, so now I've got
all my dotted lines complete and we can
talk about exporting. All right, I'm just going
to turn off the grid real quick because I
want you to see how the finished tags look. Just going to hit
the tool and go back over to canvas and turn
off drawing guide. First I'll show you
how to export this. You want to have those
dotted lines for cutting. I'm just going to turn
our background layer on and make it white. There we go. We have
our nice dotted lines. This will be easy
for cutting with scissors or maybe
an Exacto knife. I'm going to go over to our tool icon and then
we're going to hit Share. Share is where you export. It can be a little
bit confusing, it doesn't mean
you're sharing it to social media or
anything like that. Then I'm going to export
this as a PDF for printing. Then I'm going to choose
the best quality. Then I have all these
options of where to send it. I'm actually going to send
it to my Google Drive. Great. And then I
have my finished PDF. All right, so now
let's export for printing out and then having
it cut on a cutting machine. All I'm going to do is hide my layer with
the dotted lines. I'm going to hide
my background so that I'll have this
transparent background. Then I'm going to hit that tool icon again
and transport as a PNG. I'm going to save it
to my same place. You'll notice that it just
says Untitled artwork. We can go ahead and update that. I didn't do that last time, but it will make
things easier later. So I'm just going
to say ornaments, gift tags, and upload. All right, let's go over to my Google Drive just so we
can see what those look like. Here's our PNG, so we can see that we have our nice
transparent background. It's appearing as
black on my ipad here. Then this is our PDF
version from here. Now you can print your
custom gift tags, or labels, or whatever
you made in this class. And I would love to see
your finished tags. So please make sure to take a picture and upload them
to the class projects.
11. More Ideas: We're almost ready
to wrap up class, but before we move on
to your class project, I wanted to leave you
with a few more ideas of how you can use this process. Obviously, you can
use it just for fun when gifting
friends and family, or decorating your home. However, there are a lot of products that you can
make with this process. You can order stickers from
print on demand sites. You could sell files as
digital downloads on etc. And I do have a class here on scale share about selling
digital items on TC. Be sure to check that out if that's something
you're interested in. You could also sell
downloads directly from your own website or you can print and cut your
own stickers at home. Especially if you have a
cutting machine that makes it a lot easier for a lot of
artists to sell their artwork. So those are just a few ideas
off the top of my head, but I wanted to share those with you because there really is so much versatility with procreate and this
process specifically.
12. Class Project: So now that I've shared
my process with you, I'd love to see what you create on your own for
the class project. I'd love to see your stickers, labels, gift tags, et cetera. You can either upload your
finished design as a J Peg or feel free to share your finished project
in the physical world. I'd love to see it in action.
13. Extra Bonus: I do have a bonus for anyone
taking this class today. If you sign up for
my newsletter, which you'll find under
the class description, then you'll get a
free download of the ornament gift tags that
I designed in class today.
14. Final Thoughts: Thank you so much for joining
me in this class today. I hope you found it valuable. And I can't wait to see
your class projects. I know they're going
to be amazing. Don't forget to leave a
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and happy creating.
Shayna Sell, Illustrator and Creator
