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1. Introduction: In the world of
digital illustration, mastering lighting is key to bring your creations to live. There is so much talk about
shading and contrast and so little about adding that
extra light to your artworks. Light brings characters
sets the mood and adds that extra magic
that makes your viewers. Okay. Hello, I'm
Alexandra, AKA Art motor. I'm an artist illustrator
and online educator. I have been teaching more than 75,000 students worldwide
with my online classes. When I was in art school, I struggled because
no one told me about the iss I'm a kind of person that needs exact
explanation of things. If you know what I mean. I had to decode
everything for myself. And my students say that this
is actually my superpower. So I make things
easy and digestible. Lighting isn't a common topic
discussed among beginners, and I really want to bring it closer and to give you
tips and hacks that you can really apply
to your birlow We will be focusing mostly on hacks
that you can do in procreate, but the base concepts will be
the same for any software. In this class, we are
going to start with creating an illustration
of a simple frog. Now, I wanted to include this detailed design process
in this class to show you that progressing
in baby steps in a thought process will
bring you better results. For example, I approached this class project without a warm up or sketching
or research, and I ended up intuitively
creating this illustration. Okay. Then I warmed
up, I sketched. I did my thumbnailing, and I ended up with
this illustration. Now, there is a
difference, right? And there will be
a difference in your illustration as well. This is the reason why I name this class digital
illustration and lighting techniques
because this first part will focus on only
digital illustration. The second part as you
might already guessed, will be all about
lighting techniques. We are going to light
this illustration, but you will be free to skip the illustration part and
light your own artwork. My artwork will be also
available in the resources, so you can just keep the
illustration part and use this artwork to just try the
tips and hacks out yourself. We are going to talk
about overcast light, glowing objects, rays
of light and key light. So it will be
really, really fun. If you know me, you
know that I have an obsession for creating
procreate brushes. So I didn't want to miss the opportunity to
teach you how to create your very own
luminance brush. And we are going
to use this brush to decorate our illustration. Whether you are a very beginner or a more seasoned artist, this class will take you on a
valuable journey, I'm sure. So are you ready to let your creativity shine?
Let's get started.
2. About The Class: Welcome to the class. I'm
super happy to have you here. In the Sudo you're going to talk about the
class structure, the class project, and
the class resources. So the class is divided
into two main parts. In the first part,
we are going to go through the whole
detailed design process, step by step from
warming up through character design to a finished illustration
that is shaded. Now, in the second part, we are going to go through
the lighting techniques. We are going to talk about overcast light, glowing objects, rays of light, and key light and create the luminance
brush and decorate with it. Now, if you are a very beginner, you can follow me
step by step during the whole process and create the exact same
illustration with me. You will learn a lot. If you are more
courageous beginner, you can change my sketch and use your own colors and make
this illustration your own. If you are more advanced, bring your own illustration
and light that up or create a completely new
illustration based on my guidance and use that
in the lighting part. You have basically artistic
freedom in so many forms. Generally, the project
for this class is to light an illustration
up with the techniques, I'm going to show you
in the lighting part. If you are bringing
your own illustration, apply all the hacks and tricks that I'm
going to show you. It will make sense, I
would really want to encourage you to build
your class project up, with process photos and it can be really valuable
for you to take a look back at your
build up projects in years and see the processes
and your thoughts. It can be really valuable
for other students to get inspiration from you or to see your struggles or
your hear comments. I really want to
encourage you to include some words in your class project that describes your experience. It is so heart
farming to read them. In the resources, you will
find my final artwork in the stage where it is not lightened so that you can use
that for the lighting part. You will have it fully finished so that you have a reference
to take a look at. You will have my sketch that you can change
during the process. You will get the
brash start that I'm going to use during
the whole clause. It will include the
aluminums brush that I'm going to
create as well. You will get my color palette and you can change that too. So I guess that's
all for this video. I'm so much looking forward
to having you in this class. And the first step you need
to take is to grab your iPad, download the resources and
see you in the next video.
3. Warm Up!: Okay. All right.
So in this video, we are going to do
a warm up and let me show you why we need that. Before approaching
any illustration, you need to do several steps, and I'm guilty of this still even though I'm in
this industry for years. Sometimes I'll just have the feeling that I know what
I want to draw and I just sit down and do it right away and expect
that to be perfect. And the illustration
might turn out stiff. What I know right now is
that I want to draw a frog. That is going to be
the main character of our illustration because
that is the object. I want to show you the
lighting hacks on. It has to be simple one
character in a background, and I want it to hold something. That is an idea I
got after I did this initial illustration.
Let me just show you. This is the illustration I
started with It is cute. The textures and the whole
illustration is really nice. I really love the textures
and the way I illustrated it. But if you take a look at it, it is missing something. I didn't warm up before I
approached this illustration. I didn't do sketches, I didn't do thumbnailing. I didn't do any research. This is what came out
of me right away. And This class will be as well, an example of how we can improve our illustrations if we do
these steps I just named. So we will see what
do we get into from this improvisational
illustration or intuitional or have to call that illustration to
the final illustration. I don't know how it
will look like now. But in this video, let's just create a new
screen sized canvas and do a warm up exercise. So We know that we
want to draw a frog. Now I will choose black
and a pencil brush. I will go to sketching and choose the six B pencil
that is my favorite. I'm going to create six blobs randomly and then try to
make frogs from them. It is a really fun
relaxing exercise, and it prepares us or muscles or imagination to be able to have that frog done as a final piece. I'm going to create
six random blobs. This is the first one. Second. Third, fourth, fifth, six. Now, this is going to be fun. I will just take the eraser. I have it as a clean
shaper from the brush set, and I'm going to erase the middle lines of
these shapes. Okay. Somehow, so that they
don't confuse me. So that I have
final silhouettes, actually, these are going
to be the silhouettes. Oh, this already looks like
a frog. Can you see that? This is frog as well. I can see frogs right
now everywhere. This is really an
amazing exercise to get into the topic that
you are working with. Even if you get a commission
and they are saying in the brief that you
need to create a frog, do this exercise or
whatever you need to draw, do this exercise and it will just pump up your imagination. I'm going to connect
these lines. Okay like this. Let's just start
with the first one. Let's just think about what
a frog has. He has eyes. He has a big mouth and legs. Somehow I need to find a shape within this shape
that can be his head. I can see an oval here. We need to break down the frog
to basic geometric shapes, so that we can find
these shapes within. This is going to be the head. Then we have a tummy and legs, and eyes as well. Let's just add the mouth here. I will add some eyes. I can do this really roughly, don't worry about that. These are ugly sketches. This is the. Maybe
this is a hat. I will you can erase
from the main shape, Because this looks pretty weird. I will make it a bit point. This will have a little
star at the end. This is going to be a hat. This is the frog. He has ears, and maybe he has a tummy ear, and he has the hints like this. And maybe I will you
can add to the shape, okay If you don't know the main subject
that you are drawing, you can look immediately at
reference photos to know. For example, what
body parts that animal or that object
has not body parts, but parts, you know what
you need to include in that illustration. All right. Let's move on to the next one. I will connect these. Again, I need to
look for the head. I can see that oval here. Maybe the stinks.
I have a mouth. It looks fun. And you have the eyes here. It looks like a monkey. Here is the I add
that hat, like this. Okay. This is cute. This is, again,
really nicely a frog. These are the eyes.
Okay? So cool. Let's just look for
the I added here. No. I can I can see a
frog with its back. So as as if this was
his head and his legs. Can you see that
This is his head. This is this old frog. I don't know what to
do with this one. This is a frog backwards. All right. Now,
let's see this one. I can see here. I will again add
these eyes here. I think that's what we
need to do for this frog. And Oops. My we'll just erase
this thing here, and he will have
his legs like this. Like this. And he's carrying something, I
don't know, a ball. He wants to play basketball. The last one, how
is this a frog? Yeah, he might have his hand up here and his other hand down. Maybe he sitting Like this. I don't know. And his head
is like this. All right. We'll just add singing. This is going to
be a singing frog. Singing I love this one. I like the moustache. I'm sorry, I enjoy
this thanks so much. Okay. This has been
my initial warm up. I already have some
character design ideas and shape ideas. So it is always a good idea to form yourself, your muscles, your imagination,
and It will just start the fun because sometimes people can
procrastinate over projects. To be honest, I was procrastinating
over this project a lot this just brings so much joy and you are
not risking anything. In the next video, let's look at real inspirational
images and then combine our inner picture of frogs with the inspirational
stuff and create a sketch. See you in the next video.
4. Find Inspiration: In this video, we are going
to look for inspiration. Let's just first look
at real frog images. I'm going to write colorful
frogs into Google. Okay. So we can get immediately some ideas for color palettes. I love this blue frog. He looks. I'm going to save two photos. This looks so cool. His colors are so amazing. I would also love to
look at shapes as you can see the eyes are coming
out from the main body. I love the shape
of this body that the back leg is at this way. This is a ceramic. If I'm right or no. Is this a real frog? So fun. Now let's go to Pinterest. I have written frog
illustration into Pinterest and let's see
what other artists did. I really love this simple
illustration here. It is not too complicated. I love that he is in the water, and then there are the
water lies around. You might already think
about the environment, and I think it will be a rock
surrounded by water lilies. Let's see. I love this one. I want this frog to
have something that will glow so that we can really go through those
lighting techniques. Water lily Frogs in water Frog on a mushroom
looks incredible. I don't want to do to
render the illustration. For example, like this one, I don't want to spend
too much time on that. I'll just go simple and Yeah. This looks so cool. All right. I think I am ready, so I will create a
new screen sized canavas In the next video, let's just do a little bit of character design preparation
and create a mind map.
5. Mind Map: In this video, we are going
to do a little mind map so we know what we need to incorporate
into our illustration. I'm just going to
write frog here. For the background,
I know that I want a water and water lilies. For the frog, I want it to be colorful holding something
that is glowing. Okay. Then I want this frog to
have something on his head. So a hat maybe or a crown as I had in the initial illustration
that I've shown you. I don't want to
overclicate this. I really love the idea
of the singing frog. Maybe he's singing. I love the triangular
composition. And I want this frog to have
some kind of a personality. So what kind of a frog
this is going to be a wizard or a smart frog? Because if he is smart, he will need glasses or
he will have this robe. So I want to go for the
Wizard Wizard frog, so he will have a robe. All right. So we have kind
of a mind map summarizing the things that we liked about this idea or that
completes our idea. See you in the next
video where we are going to do a little bit
of thumbnailing.
6. Thumbnailing: All right. In this video, we are going to do a little
bit of thumb mailing, which helps us to create a whole composition
of the artwork. We need to decide what
dimensions or artwork will be. I think I'm going to stick
with this queen sized canvas, so it will be a
landscape composition. If you want to go to
portrait, keep that in mind, or if you are going for
a square sized canvas, but still illustrate here, make sure that at
these sides there are no important elements so that if you do this illustration in this
landscape composition, you will be able to crop that, for example, for Instagram. I will turn this off and
create a new layer and I will create six little rectangles. You don't need to be very
precise with these rectangles. Obviously, if you're
doing portrait, you do rectangles in
the portrait format. Within the six
mnils we are going to draw little versions of our illustration and we
don't really need to go into too much detail just to highlight
the main elements. So for example here, there will be a rock. Let's just add a rock. There will be the frog. Here will be the frog. I will just make
him black so that we can see his silhouette. He might have one leg here, and I loved the
triangular composition. He might have this leg extended. This might be my froggy. I will be the water,
the water lilies. I will need to take a look at
how water lilies look like, and some foliage big
leaves, maybe like this. But I think in this Tumbnail the focus is
not on the frog itself, even though it is in the main
focus of the illustration. I might want to make a bigger rock and maybe
a little bit lower. Think about the rule of thirds. I almost forgot to
tell you about that. The rule of thirds is
basically that you divide the canvas into
free and parts both vertically and
horizonally and you put the main elements into
these crossing points or to the center or keep
in mind the horizon line. So the division in the
background between, for example, the water
and the background, et cetera should be either
here or either here, but not in the standard, that will not be like
that interesting. I already have that in
my eyes approximately, so you might need to have that when you are
designing these thumbnails. So I will add the frog. I love how I place this frog here so that he is not
exactly in the center of the of the Cavs. Oh, I love this one. Maybe he will have
this rope like this. Wow. Okay. Already looks
like a or unicorn frog. Okay. So here is the water. Here are some water
lilies, leaves. Okay. Maybe a little flower
here and there. Like that. I love this
one and some leaves. Can you see what kind of
progress we made here? I'll just fill in the third one. As you can see, I'm progressing, I'm doing something and I take what I like from it
to the next one. You can even select the area as you like and
just place it the next one, you don't need to
redraw everything. What I don't like
about this one. Actually, I think I think I
will go with this but let's try putting the rock
side of the canvas. Don't worry. We are really
just experimenting. Maybe let's try to make
this leg to this part. Here's my froggy Okay. Here is one leg, here is the other leg,
robe is like this. He looks like a hero Wizard. You will have something
that's glowing, but we don't need to
add that right now. And let's add the
leaves or the foliage. This looks cool as well.
He's not in the st. If I go and add the
rule of thirds, this is perfect, as you can see the faces at
this crossing point. Yeah. I might like this
one more than this one. Cool. Let's try to Try to add the
horizon line up here. If we place the horizon line a bit higher so that this
will be the water, this will be the background, we increase the viewpoint
of the viewer of the image. So we might see the rock here and have the frog, more like from an
upper view. Okay. Okay. Here are the water leaes. I remember now how
they look like. Here are the leaves. Okay. Mm. Let's try
different background now. So I will add just
the ground here, maybe the water will be
here with a water lily. Maybe there will be rocks, and maybe the frog will be here. Let's do a simple sitting
one, add flowers. Now, again, it is
not that much focus. For the last one, let's
make a giant frog. I am now perfect in creating the
silhouettes for the frogs. Okay. And here is the rock and here is just
a little bit of. Okay. I don't like
this leg. Okay. Now I have six
stumnails don't know. I actually like this one
where the frog is that big. But I like this one. It immediately gives
me the hero wipes, the sizard hero wipes. But maybe I will make
it a bit bigger. Not the small of a frog, but a bit bigger, if you know what I mean. But all of them pretty cool. Can you see how much
I progressed from this stiff drawing to this one, and this is more
like a scribble. It is not that
definite or defined. And this is why thumbnailing and sketching and this
warming up exercise is good because
you will loosen up because you might really just sit down to the
canvas and think that, oh, my God, I will
immediately create something, and your initial ideas
might not be that good. You need to humble yourself
sometimes in the process. So I'm becoming humble. I will combine these two. Basically, this is this
one a little bit bigger. What I'm going to
do is to select this thumbnail, cut and paste. It puts it to a new layer. I will turn off
these other ones, and I will put it to this side and I am ready
to start sketching. S in the next video. Let's start creating our art
See you in the next video. Okay.
7. Sketching: All right. In this video, we are going to create a
sketch of our p. For this, I will use the six B pencil
again and a black color. I will create a new
layer and I will make my little thumbnail
a bit smaller and put this to this corner so that it doesn't
bother me that much. What I need to define is this
lower third of the image. It will be approximately here. I will check the third. You can use the canvas
guides to help you with it. But you don't need
to be 100% per size. As you can see, I'm
using more short lines. That will help me to find the right shapes and
forms and lines. It will make my
sketch look messier, but I will clean that up later when I'm creating
the clean line art. This is a rough sketch. Now find this here. Let me see. Oops. I should have drawn that but here here. Okay. Yeah, cool. This will define the placement
of the froggy and here is the water level. Now I can place my shapes. As you can see, I have
in my thumb nail. It will help me a lot. Now I will create
another layer below this so that I can place my elements. I will draw the
shape of the rock here comes up like this. There will be some water
waves around the rock. I will place one water lily
here and maybe one here, one bigger one, like this. I will place my frog here, so it will be just a shape now. I can see that this
rock is too big. It is bigger than the frog. I will need to make
it a bit smaller. I will make this all a
bit smaller like this. Yeah. Now I have more
space to add water lily, for example, here with black. Looks better. Here is one leg. Here is another one. So this
rock should go like this. I need the oval for the head. Yeah. So you can see, I'm
really just working with base shapes now and
some rough sketches. You'll have these hands here, but I wanted him to hold
something that is glowing. What is going to be glowing? Here is his rope. He will hold something, so I will need to add to
him, either one hand. He will hold this in one hand. So we will not have
this will have. It is balancing him. So he will not fall
off this rock. Yeah. I will add some Some things here. Maybe even this one. Okay, looks cool. But I want him to
be a bit wider. I will select this part and hit free form and
just make him like this. Maybe. Not the full body. I will need to do
something with this leg. I will make it even bigger
somehow, like this. But I think the overall
body is too big. Now I'm really playing around. Yeah, this looks cool. Okay. All right. I have a really
rough sketch now for my image. If I were to put
this on Instagram, I would be able to cut
this part off to have a square sized canvas just
for you to keep that in mind. Okay. Now I have a rough sketch. See you in the next video and let's create a detailed
sketch from it.
8. Detailed Sketch: All right, so we have
the rough sketch, and what we are going
to do is I will at first turn down the opacity
of these two lines that I have here and go back to the layer I have my frog on and just add back the
water level like this. And I will turn that off cool, I will turn down the opacity of this drawing and
create another layer on top and now I can go into
detail with the drawing. So I will try to define
the whole catch. The main thing I'm going
to do is to really go for the details and create a clean line work that I can
work with when illustrating. I'm not sure if I will
create rounded eyes, and this is the
time where you can just grab those images that you have saved as reference photos and just take a look at them. All right, so I'm finished
with this sketch. I will just duplicate this layer so that you can see it better. It is more definite. It was not easy to create this illustration,
to be honest. I struggled with
it a little bit. You might have seen that
in the process video. With the process. Now I'm
going to do a few checks. I will just merge
these two layers and I will select
them and I will flip horizonal I will immediately see what
problems I have. I have problems with the eyes. For some reason, I
cannot get them. I will just select this. And I don't know place
it a bit more like this. Okay. So it looks
cool right now. I will select and flip horizonal again so
that I have it well. All right, so this
sketch is finished. You can find it in
the resources and definitely use it for
the class project. You might want to
change something in it. You can add, you can
remove work with it as you wish or you can create
your own sketch as well. So the next step is creating a color palette and
then illustrating. So see you in the next video. M.
9. Creating A Color Palette: All right. In this video, we are going to choose
our color palette. At first, let's just think about the elements
that we have here. It will define the base colors
that we need to choose. You can take a look at
the reference photos that you have already saved
to your camera roll. You can scroll through Pinterest
or Google again to check what colors you wish
your or froggy so have. I re allow this cer color with this blue This green, obviously, I love this effect this
dark blue with this red. I love this dark blue and green. What you can do is to
go back to procreate, go to palettes and hear this plast sign and create
a new palette from photo, so you can just import
a photo and I'll create immediately a color
palette for you. I already have a wide
variety of colors here and I'm not necessarily
have to use them. What we're going to do now is a little play with
color thumbnailing. It is pretty amazing to see different variations
of our artwork. Obviously, we can change colors later on in the illustration, but it is a great step to do so. What I'm going to
do is to duplicate the original sketch and just
turn it off for a second. And I will make this
sketch a bit smaller. And again, I will create
six different versions. Duplicate. I'm going
to merge this free together and duplicate
dose like this. Now I have six
different versions. I will merge these two again
and create a layer below. Now, you will get the brush set, the arts alum brush set that I usually use with
my illustrations, and in my classes, you
might already have that and I will use
a clean shaper. I will work on the first one. This is going to be really
just a rough drawing. I will choose a slight
green and just fill it in and just see how these
colors work together. If I fill this froggy
with this green. And I will choose a blue, maybe this blue, but
I have a green here. I will make it a bit more blue. And this blue for this stuff, I will just go through
now with the colors that I thought that would work well and it might
not necessarily be the colors that I will
end up using, you know. I have this blue. I will choose a gray
color for the rock. And the light blue
for the water, this one, maybe this
greenish. Let's see. For the water lilies, I will choose another green, maybe this light one again. What about the background? Maybe it gray light blue
Well, I'm not sure. It looks good. I'll
make it a bit bigger. I'm missing some
yellows and reds. Yeah. I don't think
that will be good. Let me just try another one. I will now start with
the background color. I will choose the
background color to be this darker green. Let's say, maybe choose
this light yellowish green for the froggy And I will add this
red to the leg. I don't know. Yeah. Maybe. Dark hat hoops. Maybe not that dark. Let's say dark. Green. What about the plants? Se Green for them. We need to keep in mind rules
from perspective as well. So for example, things that are further away are paler and brighter than things
closer to us. So Okay. Okay. Mm hmm. This will be the water
and the rock this dark. Looks a little bit better, but not the best. Let's see. I will choose a light yellow for the background as
things further by a per and brighter and
the water will be. This blue. And these lies will be green. The rock will be lighter gray. For example, this one. I love this green actually. So let's see. What about the froggy Let's see. If he is this green, how does that look like? What if he has discolred No, I don't like that pink. Okay. This is more vibrant. I love this one better. Let's think about another color. What if the frog is pink? Let's see, a background
color for that. Brown background color. For the water. I would
choose nice blue. I will choose the green. A bit darker one for the snow. Later. Okay. And here is the rock. And let's see how pink
works for the frog? No. Doesn't look good. Mm. Okay. Okay. Not bad. Kind of different moods. I missed the reds.
But I'm going to add the light beach
to this background. Maybe this blue for the water. I love this green, so I think I will stick
with this green. Okay. I need a color
for the rock. Yeah. In the last one, I will make
the frog completely blue. Let's see how that works for us. I will choose a nice blue, for example, this one. For example, yellow,
stuff like this. No, I like this blue
actually for the water. Okay. Light gray. Warmer. Take this. Okay. And let me
show you something. I will create a
value check layer. And I will fill that
layer with gray. And change the blending
mode to color. All right, so now that we
have these thumbnails, we can decide what value
range is actually, which makes the image readable. So you can work like
the other way round as well to define at first the value range and
then add the colors. But I love it doing this way because I love
to play morbid colors. Then just adjust them to make the image readable and not the other way around if
you know what I mean. I think I'm going to
go with this range. This means that my background
is going to be light Bach. The frog will be green. The water will be blue, the lily is green, and this is again going to be
a little bit darker green. Now, you can just pick
up these colors and create a completely
new color palette. I'm going to go to palettes
and create a new one, create a new palette. When I know that I
don't like this yellow, I will choose more beach color, so I will just put it there. I love this green It is a bit
darker, is a bit lighter. I will just use this greens and I love this green as well. I will use that for shading. I have a green here, I will put it right there. I love this blue definitely. I love this blue as well. Maybe I will use
that for shading. I will just add it here. These are going to be my blues, and I have the
gray for the rock. I will put it here, and I
love this light gray as well. So these are the nine colors I will start my
illustration with. But I will adjust that
during the process. Obviously, I already see some colors that don't
fit for me there. I might also add
these red parts to the illustration
to complement it because it looks
pretty cool to me. This whole. I miss warmth
from this one. All right. So now, see you in the next video where
we are going to block in the main colors and then
talk about overcast shadows. See you in the next video.
10. The Overcast Light: All right, so I just
get to illustrating. What I'm going to do is to merge these two
layers together, the linework of
the thumbnails and the colors so that they
are on the same layer. I will select this one, free fingerpipe
and cut and paste. Make sure that you
are on that layer, and turn off the other ones, and I will just put this into this corner and turn
on the catch itself. Let me now introduce you
the overcast light concept. Now we are not going to
set a light direction, so not saying light is coming from the side or
from the side, et cetera. Okay Overcast light is the
general light that we have. If the weather is like that we have clouds and the sun is
shining through the clouds, but let me just
show this to you. I will just create a
screen size canvas. We have an object. Let's
say we have a circle, and we have the
sun shining right here and we have some clouds. The sun is not directly
shining to the object, but it shines to
the clouds and it dissolves the light
to all directions. This means we will have shadows. I will just alp this layer
and choose a darker one. We will have shadow down below. We will have a drop
shadow below the object, not too harsh, but it is just the surface
this object is on, and we will have shadows. This is called inclusions
where do things touch, for example, my two fingers, we will have a shadow there. We are going to shade
this frog this way. That we block in the
main shape and add this overcast light shadow
or how to call that. We will add that base shading that is created by
this overcast light. It will generally add that three D feeling to
the illustration. Let's just get into that. I will go to the satch
and decrease the opacity. I will create a
layer below that. Choose my color for the frog. And I will choose
the clean shaper. I will just fill in the
main shapes and then talk about this base shading. Yeah, I will set the background
color to a darker one so that I can see my color is better and set the mood
of the illustration. So I have the head, and I will put the body onto
a different layer. So I will create a
new layer below. Okay. I have the hands and now I will proceed
with the belly. So again, a new
layer and a below. And lastly, I will create
a layer for the back legs. I will create another layer and put that below everything. Okay. Basically,
this is going to be the first lighting
hack or theory that I'm introducing you
to this overcast shading. This is a general
three D shading. I choose a darker version of this base color
to shade the frog or I can push it a bit further
to have a bluish color. Basically, I think this one, this green would be amazing. This green. Maybe push a bit
greener I will put it here. I'm going to choose
the shader branch and alpha lock all the
layers that I have here, and I will start with the head. The way I'm going to shade it
will make this brush a bit smaller is that I'm going
to shade around the shape. Can you see that it
already gives it some of a dimension and also texture because this branch
is incredible for texture. I will add a shadow just like this around
this base shape. Basically, I created a shape
and I'm going around it. I will then add a
little bit lighter to the middle to add
that free effect, but that's a bit later. I can make the brush
a bit bigger and just roughly go through these edges
so that is not that harsh, maybe even bigger
and that it creates a smooth gradation from this
color to this darker one. This will make my
frog a bit darker, but it is important that we have this shading and
gradation right and then we can play with
the overall darkness and brightness of the object. Okay. Now, I will proceed to
the belly and here really will have a little
bit of a trick because we have these
hens right here, and I would want to
shade over dose as well. Let's just start with the belly. I will add a bit of
a darker shading here because this is
where these two things touch and it will cost a bit of a drop shadow below the heat. I will now go to the hens and just make sure that I
am at the same shade. With the belly and maybe
like this to make it smooth. I will go back to belly, and add and add darker, add a little bit of shading
here. It's too much. Below the belly and
to the side as well. Yeah. I can make it again
a bit bigger and just add a bit of the texture to it. Don't berry, we will go back
to it to light on it a bit. I'll go to the hens. I will make the brush smaller
smaller and I will add this inner this inner darkness to it also outside just a bit. As you can see as these
brushes like big and round. I shade with its edges, so I'm not directly shading into the
shape but next to it. I had a bit of a shading
here here as well. Like this, and I will go to the legs add to the
exact same process. This creates also
color variation. It's too dark. Wide bit up here. Okay. Cool. Can you see that this
looks pretty amazing. Now I will go back
with this light green and just to the
head maybe as well, and just add this light part of the face maybe around
the eyes as well. I can go even light to the
middle. That's too much. Like this add that freed effect. Okay. Cool. To the hands. Just to lighten a
bit to the belly. Now don't care about the
object it has in the middle. It will just add this nice freebie effect
and then to the legs. If you miss some shading from here and there,
just add that back. I miss some here below the legs one side. Like this. Now what we need to do
is basically go through the whole image and do
the same exact thing with all elements, fill in the shapes
and shade around them to create this
free D effect. But first, let's just
finish up the froggy completely in the next
video. See you there.
11. Completing The Froggy: All right, so let's
complete the froggy. I will create a new
layer and choose this color for the
hat the clean shaper. I will just add this hat. Okay. And the robe as well. So I will place
this layer behind the frog so that I don't need
to worry about this part. Okay. All right. So now let's add shading. It is a pretty dark color. Let's just add a little
bit at the edge of the base shape with
a darker version of the same color like this. I will darken it behind the frog so that there
is a bit of shading. And I will add some shadows where
the waves are. Where there is this inner wave, I will just add a little
bit of shading there. There is an inner wave again, I will add the shading there
and there is this wave, I will add shading there. It will create the
effect of of textile. At the top, I will go back
with the lighter version of the same color and
add some kind of light. As you can see, these shapes will end where there
is this outer wave, and also at the top, I will follow these
waves and go there. Yeah, cool. I will add to the middle of the cap as well to light on it. And it looks brilliant. I love that. Maybe it
is a bit more contrast. Maybe I can add
just a little bit of light to the overall
at the inner part. Like this or no. Just a little bit. So
I will make it bigger. Just pretty lightly, go over it. Okay. It looks super
cool. I love it. I will add this little
star at the top, and it will be yellow. So I just choose a
nice yellow color. A bit orange. Maybe this one. Okay. Choose the clean shaper, create a new brush. And let's just move
on to details. So add the details to the
clothes and the frog as well. So let's just add the yes. I will choose white
and the clean shaper I will add yes here. Okay. I will create a new layer
and make it a clipping mask. This will do that when
I will add the pupils, they will be only within this white shape I
have just created. I will just choose
black and this circle. Look super amazing. I will need to add some
shading here as well. I will phage both shapes. To this white, I will go with a polite gray and
the shader brush. And again, I will make it smaller and just add a bit of a shading
around that shape. Just like this. Cool. And as the eyes are black, I will just add reflections. That is another thing about light that we are going
to talk about it, but I am just adding that immediately to the
eyes because it will make it look super cool. I will choose white and adds on new layer about the pupils. I will add one dot, and I like to add a
rounded shape like this. But Let's do that with a shader, so I will make it small. So, fill in the shapes and shade around them to create
this free D effect. But first, let's just finish
up the froggy completely. In the next video.
See you there. Wow. It's so sweet. All right, so let's continue. What I want it is to have this part of this head
to be different colors. What I'm going to do is to
select the shape of the head, hit the select tool, and free handly select approximately this
part of the face. Maybe I will work on
that shape a bit more. Oops. Like this. I will go to adjustments and
hue saturation brightness. And I can play with the hue. I want it to be a
bit more yellow. Bit more yellow. Maybe
brighter a bit. Okay. Well select Amazing. Let's do the same
with the belly. I will hit the selection
tool in select an ellipse, maybe an ellipse hoops
Maybe like this. Again, saturation
brightness, I will put the a bit more yellow
and a bit more bright. Do you select it
looks super cool. Yeah. I also wanted to add these colors to the
bottom of the ties. So I will do that as
well to those parts. So select the legs. With free hand now. Situation, brightness,
bit yellow, bright. But as you can see, the
shading remains this way. So I am not affecting
the shading itself. I will will again selling this
tie saturation brightness, push it to yellow,
make it brighter. And looks super cool. I love this guy so much. Okay, I will add
these little details, and I will choose
this dark green and the sketching pencil I
have in this brush set. I will create a layer on top. And I will add. It is not a clipping mask. Okay. Make that layer
not a clipping mask. I will make it smaller and just add these dots that I have here. Okay. I will alpha lock it, and I will choose
this really white yellow and just draw
an edge for them. This is kind of this
reflection thing. But it will look like holes
a bit and it will add just a special facts
to these details. I love to do it this way. These dots are a bit dark, so maybe I will just
select it all and go to saturation brightness and maybe make them a bit lighter. I different to you, maybe more into greens. Lighter? No. Okay. Looks cool. Now I will
choose this dark green, make it even darker. Keep the sketching pencil,
create a new layer. I will just add this thing. You know, where the
robe is put onto. Nick. Like this. Cool. I will need to add the
nose and the mouth. So I will choose very
dark green for that. Again, a new layer. All right. And what
I'm going to do is to turn off this sketch right now to see how my illustration
looks without a sketch, and I need some line work. I love to add details like this. So for example here, I will need a bit
of a line work. I will need a bit more shadow below the hat so that
I can see it better. So I will just do those steps. So I will choose
the shader brush, this darker version
of the green. I will go to the
belly and just throw even darker shading
below the heat. Like this. Also at the hands. I'm just refining this. Thanks, go to the belly. I will add even
darker shading below the hands so that there
is this inclusion. These are really
fine shadings now. I will go to the hands and add a bit of a darker
shading below the hands. It is more defined. It's really about
refining this whole. I will add a bit of a
shading to the circles here to get more dimension for
them. Here is the belly. I will add a darker shading to the bottom. Maybe even darker. Maybe for the legs. Again, a bit of a darker
shading to the bottom. Like here. Like this. Here this inclusion is. And this is where I'm going
to choose a sketching pencil, create a new layer above. And I will just add a line here. Here, I will add a line. Here. Just like that, here. Here. Super cool. I love this so much. All right. So I think we
have the frog finished. I will need some
details for the ropes. What I'm going to do is
to create a new layer above that had clipping mask. I will choose this light yellow. Turn on this catch. And I will just add the hopes
with the sketching pencil. I said the sketching pencil. I will just add
these little stars. Okay. And now you can see
that these are pretty harsh. So I will go to the
blending mode of this layer I like
the light and one. I will also choose
a darker version of the color here of this yellow. Choose the shader and go
to the star alpha locket, I will turn off this catch, and I will add a bit of this
base shading to it as well. As you can see it already add
some color variation to it. And I will just era from the
edges of the star to make them more sharp. Okay. All right. Okay. So what we
did in this lesson is that we created the illustration of the frog and did an
overcast light shading, so the basic free render without any direct light set, okay? So in the next video, we are going to work on all the other elements
we have here. And like the water, the water lease the rocks on this part and then
work on the background and then add some extra
magic with lighting hacks. So see in the next video. Okay.
12. Painting The Water: All right, so let's move on to the other elements
of the illustration. Let's work at first on the water and the rock and the
water lily leaves. So what I'm going to
do at first is to create a new layer below with all and choose the
color of the water. I had this really vibrant blue, and let's just
start with that and we can change the colors later. I will choose the
clean shaper brush and basically create the
shape for the water. I will hold down
this line to create a straight line and
I don't like that. It will start here. I will hold down and try to make it straight like this, maybe. Maybe I will need Canvas
guide for this one. So I will go to the ring
pattern Canvas drawing guide. Now I will see the
straight line. So this will start
here and go like this. I will fill in the shape. Cool. So now I have my
base shape for the water. I will turn of the drawing guide because I don't
really like that. For the shaping of the water, I would want to use
the color rule of perspective if I can
say it like that is that things that are
further away are lighter and things that are closer to us are more saturated and darker. So I will try to create a nice gradation from
light blue to darker blue. So I will hold down. Okay. I have this color. I will choose a lighter one. I will grab the shader brush. I will alpha lock the
shape of the water. I will make the
shader brush bigger. And add a bit of shading. And as you can see, di
creates a little bit of texture like this, and I will choose a darker
version of the color. And from this part, I will add a bit
of darkness here, maybe even darker add the front. All right. I went through the hole and it created this
really, really nice ticture. Can you see that? I love it. And we'll try to
make it a bit more. Like this. Cool. I love it. We will add some details to
the water a bit later. Now let's work on the
shape of the rock. I will create again a new layer and choose the
gray for the rock. I wanted this rock to be dark. I was picking up this dark gray. I will just put it here. Again, with the clean shaper, I will just fill in
the shape of the rock. I will alphag this layer. And I will do the same. So I will choose a
darker version of the color and choose
the shader brash. We'll make it a bit smaller
and shade it to create this. Okay. Cool. I will choose this main
color and make it a bit lighter and add a bit of
light into the middle. And I will choose
the dark gray and add these cracks into the rock. Yeah, that's enough. We don't
really need to overdo it. Like this. Cool. It has this rock effect. We don't need to overdo it. We don't need to go
into too much realism here, let's do leaves. I will create another
layer and choose that shaper and just fill in
the shapes of the leaves. Okay. All right, so let's just shade these
little leaves here. So I will choose this
darker green and the shader brush and alpha
the layer of the leaves. And I will just lightly go
through them to add a bit of a texture to the color
and make it less vibrant because I think they
are just a bit too vibrant. I will make it smaller. And again, I will
just lightly go around the edges to
add that dimension, but add is it as flat surface, I don't want to overdo that. I will maybe similarly
do it as with the water. So at this point, it
will be a bit darker, make it a bit bigger, a bit darker and
then slightly liner at the back. Like this. So it is a flat surface. We don't need to add
that dimension to it. But we need to add
some details on top so I will choose
a sketching pencil and a lighter version of this base color and find the
center of this circle and, and add some lines around. Yeah, it's a bit
weird this one. Mm. Let's see how we can fix that. Okay. So I need to
fill this part, but I already added texture, and I will show you something. I will unalpck And I will just use the clone tool
to fill this part in, and I will create another
cut into the leaf. So I will go to
adjustments clone tool, and it will bring out
this circle that we can place anywhere and clone that area where
we are painting. So I will choose the clean
shaper. I will put it here. And as you can see,
I really nicely just copy the whole area with
the shading itself. So I don't need to redo the shading or the
texture on this part. So I'm going to grab the eraser. The meal will be somewhere here, so I will just add a
different cut here. Like this cool. Now I will alpalock it again. I will choose this sketching
pencil on this light color, and now create a new layer, find the middle and
draw some lines around. Cool. I will add some
lines like this. Okay. And let me just play around with the blending modes
for these lines because I find them
a bit bit Harsh. So this is normal. I think I will go with the soft
light, not that harsh. Yeah. Okay. And the last
thing I'm going to add in this video is the
effect on the water. And I will create a new
layer above the water. Choose a white and
the shader brush. And I will try to make it th. Okay. And just draw these
lines around the rock, you know, as if it
was like waving. I can add a little bit
here and there. Lines. Yeah, so cool fact. I will try and on another layer and
the sketching pencil to add some more lower
the opacity of the pencil and make it thicker
and just enhance some of these lines around like this. Maybe add some dots here
and there for extract. That looks so cool. Yeah. This is so
nice. Oh, my God. And what else I want to do is to duplicate the layer
of the leaves. Select Joe black, fill in
the layer and unalph that. Now I'm going to go to
adjustments, Gabler. And as you can see, I immediately added some
drop shadows to those. I will just select this layer
and put that a bit lower. So it has that,
you know, effect. And I will just lower its paces, so it is not that harsh, but we immediately
have some drop shadows here below these little leaves. I think this looks super cool. Let's just move on
to the leaves in the next video and
the background, and we are going to be finished
with the illustration, and we can move on
really to the lighting. So see you in the next video.
13. Leaves & Background: All right, so let's get into it. From this thumbnail,
I will just pick up this green and yeah, I will choose a clean shaper and basically create a
layer above it all. And just fill in the shapes. I will actually turn off this thumbnail because I
will not need that anymore. All right. And now I will
alpha this layer again. Choose a darker
version of the color, choose a shader
and just make it. And shade a And where two leaves me, make it smaller and add a bit of a shadow to
the one that is behind, and it will create the
effect of this dimension, and also for example here, let me show you I will add a bit of a shadow here
and make it even smaller this cool and you can even just choose a sketching pencil
with a darker color, just add a line here. A little bit darker. Yeah. Like this. You add that line here? Here as well and here as well. And I can add some details
into these leaves with this color so I can add
theses of the leaves. All right. Let's just
work on the background. Now, we had this really light beach
color for the background. So I'll just create
another layer and choose that beach
and just fill it in. And we'll put it
below the water. So I think we should create
a blurred background. That would be the easiest way. And I thought that
in the background, there would be rocks
like at the edge of the water and some
leaves like this. And if you are
following the rule of having these leaves
like closer to us, so they are darker, we should
choose a lighter color. But I want this frog
to be in a focus. So I want a little bit of
darkness in the background. So I will choose
this exact color. Maybe a little bit darker. And just add some shapes, mainly behind this frog so
that it can be emphasized. Like this. And I will choose a dark gray and add the rocks to the edge
like this with random shapes. You don't need to
be precise with this because we are
going to blur it. So I'm going to hit adjustments, Gas blur and just blur the
background, like this. And, it looks super
cool, as you can see. What I can do to check if
everything is readable, I can go and create or I have the value clayer I will
just turn that on. And I think it's cool. I can see everything. Maybe I can make these leaves a bit lighter or darker.
Let's just see. I will turn off the value check layer and check these leaves. Go to saturation
brightness and make them brighter or even darker. I will increase the saturation to make them a bit more green. Yeah. Maybe lighter or darker. I think the dark
works gold or well. Okay. I think this
illustration is perfect. It looks so cool. So we just have a base
illustration now. We have gone through
already a lot. I will turn off this catch. What is going to be the next
step is adding some glow. So this is what we are going to work with in the next video. So we are going to draw this image and add a
bit of a glow to it. So I'm so excited to
start with the lining. See you in the next video.
14. Add Some Glow!: All right. So in this video, we are going to talk about
glow and the glowing effect and how we can achieve
it in procreate. We will have this globe inside or in the
hand of the frog. I will create a new layer
about the stomach but below the hand so that I
can really draw it here and turn on this catch. I will choose the clean shaper. I will choose white color
and just fill in the shape. All right. We have a
white globe in his head. What I'm going to do
is that I'm going to at first turn off the sketch. I'm going to duplicate
this object. Go to the object that is below, and I will just show you
how to make things glow. I will go to Gs blur
and I will blur it. As you can see, as I am
extending this blur. Let me just make it bigger so that you
can really see that. This glow extend what I can
do is to make a big glow. Then I can either duplicate it to make it glow
even more or I can duplicate this again and
just go blur this just a bit so that there is a harsher glow outside
of this object. Now we have this
glow pretty simple. It is affecting
the object behind, but I want this glow
to be colorful. I will just turn this
off or delete them. I will duplicate this again and just fill
it with a color. I can adjust that color later. I will just go with
this light pink. I will select this
object fill layer, and now I will Gach blur. I will make it bigger. I can duplicate that and
do the exact process. Now I will merge these two layers and actually go to blending
modes and hit add. Can you see that? Oh, my God? It looks so amazing. What I can do now is
to go to adjustments, hue saturation brightness and change the hue and you can play around with all the colors
your object can glow in. For some reason, I like
this cool pinkish effect. Like this. As you can see it
affects this part of the belly of the frog, but I want it to be
also on its face. What I'm going to
do is to duplicate this glow and just bring it up. I will place this layer
above the frogs head. It is not a clipping mask. Wow. Can you see that I am lighting his head now
from a little bit below, and it already made this
shadow below his head a bit purplih is so cool. If you think it is too much, you can just lower its opacity and make it not that harsh. I will duplicate this layer
again and I will place it down to the rock.
Can you see that? And now I have the light
on the rock as well. I came make it bigger to
light bigger surfaces. So I made it a little
bit bigger so that it affects also the legs
and everything around. Now, I have this giant kind of burnt out part of
the illustration. I want to see that globe. What I can do is go to that globe duplicate
it at the layer below? I can again fill
it with a color. Select and fill layer and just go blur it
just a little bit. Like that. How cool is that? Can you see this light? So cool. You can play around
with lowering the opacity of the
light, for example. You can also do that you
select the globe itself, alpha lock it and go with the shader brash and
just shade around it so it is not that Harsh
very much, for example. You can add dimension to it, just a little bit, for
example, like this. Let's just do a little recap
on what we have done here. We had a base shape
that we duplicated. Okay. Then we gosh and blurt it. You can change the color
of the base shape that you have duplicated to
create a colorful light. And you can duplicate
the layers to get more intensive effect or you can lower the opacity
to get less harsh light. And you need to add the blending mode to make
this lighting effect. And you can duplicate this
light and bring over to face to lighten it and
also the surface below. And we can add some
more shadows to enhance this slide and to
make it more realistic. And we can do that
with drop shadows. So I'm going to add a bit of a drop shadow below
the frog itself. So I will create another
layer below the frog, choose black, and I have a drop shadow brush
here in the brush set. So what I'm going to
do is to, I'm here. Increase the opacity a
bit, make it smaller. And I will just add
some drop shadows. Ops to the rock. You can darken the drop shadow by adding more and more layers. I will hit Goshen
blur and blur just a little bit. Like this. I will create another
layer above the frog. I will add the drop shadow
is a clipping mask. Do it. Below the light and below the hands
because there will be a drop
shadow of the hand. But it is not a clipping mask. Why is it adding it
as a clipping mask? Yeah. There will be
on the leg as well, and a little bit of
shadow of the hand on the leg going a little
bit to the rock. You can just catch it. We
will go and blur it in a bit. I will add a bit of a shadow to the opposite
part of the hand. Maybe a little bit of shadow behind this globe to
make it even more like seen I will
darken it a bit. I will hit Goshen
blur again. Yeah. So there is a
shadow of the hand, as you can see, and I can
darken on a new layer. I will darken this part of the head and maybe
this part of the head. As if it is really light. Because the light now
comes from the middle. So you really just need to think about the objects that
are blocking this light. You don't need to worry
about the color, the ad. Well, do it for you. Yeah. The add blending
mode. I really love it. And just add the add bit of a shadow here bit
of a shadow here, Maybe to the hands. Like this. I will again just
cation blur these channels, just a bit to add
more dimension. And how cool does it look
like. Can you see that? I love how we can play with
the light if we want to. You can really just play around, maybe make the
color a bit bigger. But maybe I will
just duplicate it, make it lea and smaller
or bigger, I don't know. Place a little bit of light to the robe as well.
Can you see that? I just put this light here, duplicated it and I will
just put it to the robe. And it is also lit. I love how we can
do these things in digital
illustration. So cool. Yeah. I will maybe lower
capacity a bit more. But we can see that
there is that light. All right. So that's on glow. In the next video, we
are going to play with the rays of light with transparent layers.
So see you there.
15. Rays Of Light: In this video, I will show you a super cool lighting hack. We are going to create
a rays of light and kind of a night
mood in the image. What we are going to use is the drop shadow brush that I have included in
this brush set. I will choose a light
orange, yellowish color. And I will place free rays
of light into the image. I will just create another
layer on top of everything. Now, you need to set the
direction of the rays of light, so if they are coming from
this side or from this side, I will make them
come from this side. It will fit decomposition
a bit more. As this brush is
pressure sensitive, make sure that you are
creating a shape like this, as I'm doing it right now. No bigger and smaller
and stuff like that, but the rays of light are
coming in a triangle, so they are thinner and
then thinner and then increasing and also make
sure that they are straight. I will place free rays of light coming from
this direction. I will make one thin
here behind the rock. Okay. Like this. I will make one. I will make it a bit smaller, maybe it will be easier to
draw and control the brush. One hitting the frog
itself. That's too much. This is cool. Try to have
the same angle as this one. I will make one come like
this, hitting this leaf. Okay. Like this. I will enhance
the bottom a little bit. Man here where they are
touching these parts. You can just paint into that a bit and make this
race look better. We are going to Goshen
blur in a second, so you don't need
anything perfect, I will hit the adjustments
and G B So cool. You can play a lot with this. It will create such
an incredible effect and it will enhance the mood. Let me just show
you another trick. I will create another layer
below the frog itself. I will choose a dark blue. You can choose even black, but the blue will add
really nice mood to it, fill in this layer and
lower its opacity. Now, I will go to
the rays of light. Select go to this layer, this blue free finger
swipe and cut. Have you cut out the shape of the rays of light
from this blue layer. Now with this blue layer, if I'm increasing its opacity, I can create a really
dark 90 mood to it. Can you see that? If
I'm decreasing it, I can actually play with
the time of the day. Can you see that this
early morning and it is going down to very
dark night scene. I will keep it at
approximately 45%. To have a cool night scene. What I don't like is this
part of this ray of flight, and I can just adjust that, so I will go back there. I will grab my shader
as the eraser, make it small and just gently erase from the
ray of light here. So I really just effects here a little bit of the
water and the shape here. I will erase from this one. And that is pretty cool. I kind of miss this part here. I'll just add that back. So you can really play
with lights here. Okay. And make this rays look amazing. I love that. I love that. I love them so much.
I will Gah and blur, and maybe I will Gash blur
the rays of light a bit more. Yeah. Super cool. We can even play with
the color of them. If you hit saturation
brightness, you can make it a
little bit lighter or brighter color or
less saturated, decrease the saturation,
play with the color. You can have all different
kinds of rays of light. You can play a lot with that. I want to be
yellowish colored ray of light rays of
light, yellowish. How was it before? Yeah. I love them brighter and Maybe this situation
would look totally cool. In the next video,
we are going to talk about bloom and key light. I hope that you are excited, see you in the next video.
16. Bloom & Keylight: All right. In this video, we are going to talk about
key light and bloom. What does key light mean? It means that there
are light sources, maybe not even very defined, but they are creating a light around the silhouette
of the main object, this fill help us to bring more focus to the object itself. What I'm going to do now
is to create a new layer. Now I'm going to add this
key light to the frog. I will choose or pick up
this light green color, make it even lighter. I will choose the clean shaper. And what I'm going to do is to raw on the silhouette
just these lines. I'm sure that you've already
seen illustrations where you have the outer light
of the characters. So this is kind as a
reflection of the light on the main object or the
character, et cetera. So I will just add
this to this part. I will add one here to the top of
the tie as well. I will add one here. Think of it as if there would be a light coming also
from here or maybe this light is just
hitting the little froggy or this ray of light is just
adding this extra key light. I will add some reflections to the blobs is from this. Okay, I need to choose
an erasor Better one. Okay I add this here. I will add a little
bit to the side of the tummy and maybe to the
bottom of the face here. And let's add this part
to this side because we don't have really
this key light, Set, if there is a harsh light, for example, coming
from this side, you can set that these reflections are just
on this side of the frog. Maybe we can do that, but let's see how does
it look if we just add here and just
a little bit here. Maybe this part of the hand as there is this
giant light here. Maybe we should add some
here as well to the tummy, to the top of the thigh here. Maybe this part of the thigh. I will add to the little
parts of the leg. I don't like this
one. Let's add up. Okay, cool. And now
what I'm going to do is to hit adjustments
and hit bloom. Now what Bloom does, I will just zoom in. I will add bloom.
Can you see that? If it is like a glowing. Can you see? Adds a little
bit of a glow to it. You can play with the
size of this shine, just make it smaller like this, I will maybe a little bit. In the burn, you
can make it burning really harsh light
or you can decrease that to 22% and I think
it looks super cool. Maybe 35 40. I will add a 40. I love this effect. Can you see that we
have this key light in this character in
Loose super amazing. Now we can do that with
all different objects. So for example, I will
create another layer. And it is good you can do
this with white color. I've chosen this slight
green because it fits the character itself
and the white would be like a little bit
too harsh for my For my taste. And I will do this with
this light green as well. I will choose lighter green. Let's see how that looks like. I will that's not that light. This light? No. Uh uh. Maybe. To this little hat, and maybe to the
part of the rope. And as it is really lit
with this ray of light, you can really enhance that, for example, here as well, here. Just like that, I
will go to bloom. I will add bloom burnt
Play with the size. Yeah. So cool. This is so cool. I love it so much. Now let's add some to the rock. New layer. I will add just a lighter gray. And I will add I
will add one Here. Maybe to these cracks as well, so it will add a more
realistic effect to the stone, and there will be a
little bit of that here. I will go and bloom and burn it. Add that bloom. Less burn, but it looks super cool. All right. And I will add
some with this green. I will choose a light green to the little plants
here as well. Mainly add the parts or
there by the race of lights. Okay. I will again hit bloom
at a little bit of bloom. Wow. It looks super cool. Just look at these. Just
look at these. Oh, my God. Super amazing. I love that. I love it so much. Okay. And I will create
another layer and choose white and just play with the
light here in the water. So I will just add some more effects where
I've drawn these lines. I will just enhance
them a little bit and these dots as well, so that they are blooming. And they have light.
I love light. So cool. Yes, and I will again hit bloom to it. And I will make it
burn like this. Okay. I think this
looks super amazing. I love how the rocks It
looks like a magical rock. It is from a fantasy movie. I love how this frog turned
out with this key light. I love this ha, the bloom and the
key light hack. It really makes
this mystical mood or adds this mystical
mood to the illustration. I love how the water looks like. Here, can you see the add this snippet of
this illustration, you can see purple light here. You can see key lights, you can see the ray of light is so complex with a
simple illustration, you add these hacks
and it will be just wow mind blowing Okay. All right. And what else can we do something else? Yes, sure. And procreate counts with
some cool luminous brushes. And in the next video, we are going to create
our own luminous brush. So see you in the next video.
17. The Luminance Brush: Alright, so in this video, we are going to create our
very own luminance brush. And now you might ask, why do we need a luminance
brush or to create a luminance brush if Procreate comes with
luminous brushes itself. And now I have an
answer for that. It is because it is so
much fun to experiment. I am obsessed with creating
procreate brushes and figuring out how they work and how to create
unique brushes. First of all, creating your own procreate brushes will make your work
more personal. Now, for example, with
this illustration, I created all brushes
that we have worked with. And it is just such
a good feeling. It brings this digital
world closer to real world, most of the time I'm creating my source images from real pencil marks or paint
marks or pain drops or textures from the
environment that I'm in So it makes the artwork more personal and I can
create textures and other elements that
are mine in the artwork. It makes the artwork
more unique. Again, it is so much fun. We are going to create
now aluminum brash. If you don't want to
create this brush, just watch this video, I'm going to create
my source image. So as you can see, I've
prepared some tools here. So I have a piece of watercolor paper because I want a little bit of
texture in the glow. I have a soft pencil, graphite pencil, and
a pencil sharpener. If you don't want to
create your own marks, I will provide the source image that I'm creating
in this video in the resources so that
you can just use it while creating the brush
itself to learn the settings, or you can just use the
brush I'm creating and just launch this video and then just apply what we
are going to do. But you will understand
how this brush works. Okay. So I will just show you the light pen brush that
comes with procreate. So if you click on a branch
sheet p the brush studio, If you haven't created any
procreate brush before, I will just say that there
are two things you can change within procreate brush, and that is the
shape and the grain. The shape is the
shape of the brush. There is this one base
shape, for example, a circle that you are carrying along the line that
you are drawing. Grain is a texture that is behind that shape that can be fixed or move
along with the brush, and this can help you to
create several effects. Every setting that you have here will have an effect
on these two things. Either on the grain or
either on the shape. So how this base shape
is in distance from the next one or how is it placed along the line
that you are drawing, or is it smaller or bigger with pressure
sensitivity, et cetera. I'm not going to go into too much detail with these settings. I have a class on that, but
you can just trust me and trust the process and see the settings that
I'm going to talk about. So we are not going to
do anything with grain, we are going to work with shape. As you can see this base
shape has this outer glow, and this is what we create that glowing effect or light effect with
the procreate brush, and it has a solid circle in the middle as the
base for the line. What we are going
to do is to create this outer glow And
part of it will be from a shape source that
I'm creating on a textured paper
because I wanted to have a little bit of texture so that you know that
smooth gradation, and to have kind of something
unique because you can just replicate this
brush in a way that we have actually
created this globe. You can create the base
shape digitally as well. If you create a
circle duplicated and a Ghenblur the one that is behind that main
circle as we did here, you can just use that as a
shape source for that brush, and you will have the exact same brush
that you have here. But we want to create something
unique and different now. This is why I'm going to create the base shape with the tools. I will just put this aside, and I will just
grab these things. I will zoom in a bit. Okay. What I'm going to do is to get a little bit of graphite onto this paper
with the pencil sharpener, and with my hand,
I'm going to smudge it into a circular shape. So I am placing the graphite onto
the paper. Hoops. With my finger, I'm
going to create a circular shape to really got
that texture of the paper. I will try to make the middle, more solid or more darker
and create this outer glow. Cool. What I'm going to do is to take a picture of
it with my iPad now. I open the camera and
I will make sure that the photo that I'm creating is as sharp as possible. Okay. What you need to know about
the Procreate brush studio is that it works with images
of square dimension, so we need to create a square size canvas to
create the base shape. This is what I'm going to
do. I will go to gallery, hit the plus sign and create
a square size canvas. I'm going to import that
photo into this file. Okay. I will increase its size. Now, another thing you need to know about appropriate
brushes is that it works on the concept
of masks or layer masks, this means that white
pixels are going to be the actual brush
shape that you are carrying along the
line that you are drawing and black pixels
are transparent. I need to invert this
image and it is very easy. I will just go to layers, hit the layer and hit invert. Now as you can see, it is not fully black, but it is gray. If I would use this base shape as the
shape source of my brush. I would carry along the
whole square with my line, and that would look awkward. So I need to make this
black totally black. So I will go to adjustments
and hit curves. Now this bar appears here, and I will grab this
tuggle and slide it this way at the bottom until I have my background
fully black. And I can increase the whites if I'm tugling this one this way. Now, this is so cool. I love this base shape, but I will need a solid
base into the middle, and I actually want
a glow outside. So I will combine this textured circle with
the digital circles, okay? So I will create a new layer, choose white and
the clean shaper, and I will create a solid
circle into the middle. We'll make this
brush a bit smaller. Draw a circle. Hold down. Circle, fill it in. And I will just adjust
its shape a bit. Okay. And before I add that glow, I need to clean this up
at the outside part. So I will just grab black, and I will just paint over
these excess dots that I have here that I don't really
want to be in the brush. That might be disturbing. I've just got rid of those. Cool. Now I will create another circle with white
will make it a bit bigger. Fill it with white.
I will KochblerGsbl. Maybe even bigger. Yeah. I'll paste it
to the middle. Yeah. I have this glow I have a bit of a texture
within that glow, and I have a solid middle. This is going to be the
base shape for our brush. Let's see what we
can do with that. I will merge these
free layers together. Free finger swipe and copy. You need to merge these layers because if you copy
just swan layer, you will place that layer as the shape source of your brush. Now, go to the brush library, choose the brush that you're
adding this brush to. I will create another brush, hit this plus sign
and choose shape, add it import and paste. Okay. I can see now that I have something at
this edge that is not good. And what is that?
Okay. I get it. When I go and blur this one, it exceeded this square and it was cut off and
it will not look good. So I will need to go
and blur it again. And make sure that it keeps it rounded part. Huh I will make it like this. Cool. I will merge these
free layers together, copy, create that
new brush shape, add it import and paste. Now, it is not good because
this glow is making this whole gray. Again, back. Okay. I will need that
blur not to be that big. I am gas blurring maybe to 40%. Maybe a bit. More. Let's see like this.
Copy, create a new brush, shape, edit, import and paste. Okay, so cool. I will clear the
drawing pad and make the per size big so that I
can really see my brush. So nice. Okay. Now, let's see what
settings we can do. You can see that
texture in this glow. I will add a little scatter and rotation to the base shape so that this texture
is more random. I will go to Apple pencil and make this brush
pressure sensitive. So I will add size
here at pressure. I will go to rendering, and this is where
the magic happens. I will go to intense blending and here you have blending modes and go to the blending
mode and make it add. This will be similar when we created that glow
in the glowing part. I will hit the. Let's
see what brush we did. I will turn off
this space shape, create a new layer, choose a color, and Okay. Can you see that? I will
choose a more intense color. Woo. It is a il on brush. Okay. But you need to play with
these two colors up here. I don't really understand how
it works because sometimes it just jumps like randomly. Okay. So now I have
this pink on brush, but I want the
middle to be white. So I have chosen this
color and now it creates this really nice
textured glow for me. If I add these dots, I have no nice outer glow. It looks super cool. I love it. Whoo. Yeah. Can you see that? So cute. I hope you
enjoy this tutorial. Let's just name this
brush and save it. So I will just go to the
brush studio of this brush. Go to about this
brush and name it. And I would textured glowsh
you can add your logo. Okay. I will add my name. I will sign it, creating a reset point that will
actually save the settings, save it done, done, and now we have the
texture globe brush. I love it. Okay. S on the next video where
we are going to use this brush in
our illustration.
18. Add Some Magic!: All right, so let's just
add some glowing dots into this illustration
with our new brush. I already have this
pink selected. I have my texture globe brush. I will make it smaller, I will create a new layer and I will choose a
lighter pink color. I will just add some dots. Yeah, it looks super cool. Maybe to the face as well. No around this little globe. Okay, cool. And now I will add
some to the rays of light, and I will choose a
light yellow for that. Let me see. Maybe
that's too light. I will make it a
bit more orangey. Yeah. Okay. I tried not to overdo it. I love the small
little glowing dots. But, I might erase. I will erase this, for example. Yeah. Okay, cool. I hope you
like the lighting has. We have created an
overcast light shading. We have added glow, we have added key light
and gloving dots. I think this is so much fun. I hope that you enjoyed it. And now see in the next
video where we are going to wrap up what we have
learned in this class.
19. Final Thoughts: Congratulations. You did it. I'm so proud of you for sticking with the
process this far, and I'm sure that you have now an illustration that you
can be really proud of. Let's just do a little recap on what we have
learned in this class. In this class, you have learned
that taking baby steps in a thought through process
will get you better results. You learned a little
character design, filing techniques, and you
ended up with acute design. Then you have learned that
with the overcast light, you'll give dimension
to your drawings. You have learned hacks to
make your objects glow, to add rays of light, and to make a day scene
a nighttime scene. You also learned
about key light. You learned to create your
very own luminance brush in procreate and used it to
decorate your illustration. Wow, this was fun, right? I just can't wait to
see your final artwork, so don't forget to applaud
them into the project gallery. Follow me here on Skillshare and all my social media
to stay up to date. Also, don't forget to
leave me a review. It is really important to me
to see what you think about the class and for others to see if the class is a
great fifth for them. It was a pleasure to
have you in this class, seeing my other classes
and happy creating.