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Digital Illustration, Character Design & Lighting Techniques In Procreate

teacher avatar The Artmother, Professional Art Teacher and Artist

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      3:40

    • 2.

      About The Class

      3:12

    • 3.

      Warm Up!

      11:33

    • 4.

      Find Inspiration

      3:03

    • 5.

      Mind Map

      2:31

    • 6.

      Thumbnailing

      10:14

    • 7.

      Sketching

      6:20

    • 8.

      Detailed Sketch

      3:54

    • 9.

      Creating A Color Palette

      14:27

    • 10.

      The Overcast Light

      11:38

    • 11.

      Completing The Froggy

      14:41

    • 12.

      Painting The Water

      12:08

    • 13.

      Leaves & Background

      6:35

    • 14.

      Add Some Glow!

      10:47

    • 15.

      Rays Of Light

      6:44

    • 16.

      Bloom & Keylight

      11:05

    • 17.

      The Luminance Brush

      15:05

    • 18.

      Add Some Magic!

      2:13

    • 19.

      Final Thoughts

      1:32

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About This Class

In this class you will learn how to create pro digital illustrations in Procreate. You will learn a complete design process from drawing, sketching, character design, thumbnailing and base shading. You will also learn lighting techniques, like overcast light, glowing objects, rays of light, making a day scene a night scene, key light and you will also create your very own luminance brush in the Procreate Brush Studio.

In the world of digital illustration, mastering lighting is key to bring your creations to life. There is so much talk about shading and contrast, but a very little about adding that extra light to your artworks. Light brings characters alive, sets the mood of the setting and adds that extra magic that makes your viewers go like… WOOOOW. :)

The class has two main parts, in the first part we create the base illustration, and in the second apply the lighting hacks. You will have artistic freedom to either follow me through the whole illustration process or just light your own illustration up with the lighting techniques.

Topics covered:

Part 1. Illustration

  • Warming Up
  • Finding Inspiration
  • Character Design
  • Thumbnailig
  • Sketching
  • Creating A Color Palette (Color Thumbnailing)

Part 2. Lighting Hacks

  • Overcast Light
  • Glowing Objects
  • Rays Of Light
  • Changing a day scene to night scene
  • Keylight & Bloom
  • Creating a Luminance Brush
  • Magical Details

This class fits more experienced Procreate users better, but the resources provided and the detailed video guidance will help also beginners to successfully complete the class. 

You will need your iPad and Procreate, however the concepts can be applied in other softwares too but you will need to adjust the steps for yourself.

Whether you are a very beginner or a more seasoned artist, I am convinced, this class will take you on a valuable journey!

So are you ready to let your creativity shine?

Let’s get started!

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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.