Digital Illustration for Beginners in Procreate

1. Introduction: [MUSIC] Getting started with digital illustration might be confusing not just for very beginners but also to those who are using traditional media already. Digital simply works differently. It is not necessarily harder, it just has logic that you just need to understand. When you get it, you will be just ready to use it automatically just as when you are playing on a musical instrument or you're driving your car, it is a tool. You will be ready to use it for your purposes to create beautiful art for example. Hi, I'm Alexandra or the Artmother as you can find me online. I'm a professional art teacher and illustrator. I have taught art in person for eight years and since 2018 I'm teaching art online full-time. Since then I have more than 50k students worldwide and I have created more than 35 art courses in all different kinds of topics. I can tell you with confidence that I can guide you through this process. I have build this class to demystify the digital media. I have chosen Procreate because it is the most user-friendly digital art app out there which means that literally anyone can learn how to create digital art. Before Procreate it was a very unique thing to do. But if you just take a look on social media it is full of Procreate illustrations because all different artists and using Procreate as their tool to create their art. In this class we're going to create one full illustration together with animation. Don't worry, the whole process is divided into five comprehensive stages that build upon each other so when you finish one stage, you and your skills will be ready to continue to the next stage. This is how we are going to build up your skills in using Procreate, so the technical things and I'm spicing up this class with art theory as well. You will learn about those things too. Let's just take a very short look on these stages. In the first stage we are going to create some leaves, you will learn the basic tools of Procreate, how to create shapes, lines, and textures. In the second stage we are going to create a very simple and easy character, you will learn how to shade it and a little bit of character design. Then the third stage we are going to put it all together. We're going to create this jar and import different elements together. In the fourth stage we are going to create these wonderful landscapes that you can see all of our social media, so these mountains with this beautiful sky in a jar. [LAUGHTER] In the fifth stage we are going to add a very easy animation around your illustration so that we add a little [NOISE] magical spark. [LAUGHTER] By the end of this class you will be confident in using Procreate, you'll have a finished illustration with animation that you can be proud of and you will have the skills and knowledge to continue your digital illustration journey. This class is perfect for beginners who are just opening Procreate for the first time. For those beginners who are already using Procreate but might get carried away by the illustration process itself, it is also for anyone who just wants to create something beautiful or is interested in this type of illustration or just to those who want to use this time for artistic [LAUGHTER] self-care. Now, what you need is your iPad to Procreate on it, your Apple pencil and if you're already lets just get into it. 2. About The Class: [MUSIC] Welcome to the class. I'm so happy to have you here. In this video, I would just love to talk to you a little bit about how the class will look like. In this class, your class project will be to create a digital illustration with a simple animation in Procreate. First of all, as I already told you, we will have five stages. Within each stage, we will have different videos where we are going to progress in a very little steps so that we really build up your skills. When you finish a stage, you are ready to complete the next one. Your illustration will need to include botanical elements, a simple character, jar, a landscape background, and a short animation of two free simple decorative elements. It is recommended to follow the video guidance, but you have artistic freedom in the brushes you use, in the colors you choose, and in the shapes, textures, and details you create. For the resources, I already have in the resources below the video, my finished piece that you can use for reference. I didn't create brushes and worksheets for this class because I wanted to teach you how to rely on yourself and that you don't wait for some outside source that will magically help you. This is your journey and you can do it. I am convinced that Procreate comes with everything you need in order to create artworks like this. You can use that Q&A section below to ask me anything. You can contact me on my social media. I'm here to help you. If you don't have Procreate chat on your iPad, go to the app store and download Procreate. You will have to pay for it, not a big fee and it is not a subscription. You pay this amount of money and you will have Procreate for your lifetime. Keeping in mind that you are a very beginner. All these stages done altogether might be pretty overwhelming and I want you to keep your feeling of success. There are five stages and do one at a time. It can be one every day or one every week, don't make it too long. The point is that step away from it a little bit, mainly if you're really a very beginner and go back to it in a reasonable amount of time. Regarding the class project, you can find about them throughout the video. To add your class project, I will be very happy if you will build up your project and at everything you knew that you have created during these stages and then post the final fees at the end. I also allow when you describe your experience and your ideas and here link your moments and what you like about it. Make sure to include some birds in your class projects. I'm super excited to have you here. See you in the first stage [MUSIC] 3. Stage 1. - Botanical Elements - Setting It All Up: [MUSIC] Welcome to the first project. In this first stage, I'm going to teach you the basic functions of Procreate, the interface, and the most important things like how to create shapes, textures, and details. We'll just get started. [MUSIC] Let's open Procreate. When you open Procreate, you end up in the gallery. This is the place where you have all your artworks or canvases that you have ever created. You can create stacks, so you can create groups of these canvases so that you can organize your work better. Now you have a menu up here and you can select. When you hit "Select" it opens up a button so you can select an artwork and decide what to do with it. You can preview, share, duplicate, delete. To delete this menu, you can hit this ax that will turn to a plus sign and we're going to use it. You can import a photo, our files, and you can create a photo but now we'll just create a new canvas, so hit this plus sign. You can create different sizes that you have here. You can save your own sizes, you can create custom and you can choose from these possibilities. For now, let's just choose the screen size canvas so we are going to play with the other options a little bit later. We create a screen-size canvas. In the next video, I'm going to explain the interface really shortly. [MUSIC]. 4. Basic Tools: [MUSIC] We're going to talk about the basic tools that we have. I'm not going to go into too much detail because you don't need to know everything right now, only the things that we are going to use and how we are going to use it or even in the process that we are going to go through I'm going to explain everything. But let's just go through it. Here you have the gallery bird, and if you hit that, you go back to gallery. Then you have the actions orange button here. You have different menus here you can set things regarding the whole canvas. You can share, save at a drawing guides and things like that. It is not regarding within your artwork but setting the canvas itself. Then when you go to adjustments, you adjust things within your artwork, within the layers. You have different tools in adjustments, like hue saturation, brightness, blurring, and different modifications for the pixels that you select. Then you have the selection tool menu box pops up here where you can select areas of your artwork in different ways. Then you have the Move tool and that's all for this part. In this part you have the actual tools that you are working with. You have the brushes. If you open the brush library, you have the brush sets here. Within each brush set you have different brushes. When you hit a brush, you enter the brush studio where you can set different things with the brushes and you can create new brushes as well. This is what is good about Procreate, that you can create new brush sets as well. If you go up here like this, you have the plus sign here. As you can see, you can create simply a new brush. If you swipe a brush, you can share it, you can duplicate it and reset it. If you change a setting, you can revert it to its original settings. Then you have the Smudge tool here. You know what smudge is. What you can do with your fingers like you have a finger there. Literally. You can set a brush so you can't just smudge in with the shape of your finger, but you can smudge in with different brushes and that is awesome. As well, you can use different brushes for an eraser as well. I'm going to show you a trick. If you double-tap on the Apple Pencil, it switches the tool. Can you see that? This jumping. It is very handy when you are creating anything you can just switch, go back and forth from painting and erasing, and you can create better shapes with that. Then the most important tools here, the layers renew canvas comes with an empty layer and the background color. You can turn off the background and you can create new layers up here. Again, when you swipe a layer, you have different options, so you can lock a layer, duplicate or clear or delete. When you hit that here you have a different menu as well, so you can rename and we have different tools here as well that I'm going to show you later. Then we have the color menu. There are different ways to choose colors. Here is a disc. Down here you can choose a disc. You can choose different colors. We have the hues in the outer circle, in the inner circle, we have the saturation. Then we have the classic where we can choose again different hues. You can set it here and you can set the brightness of the color and smudge. We have to clean on horizon, you can go within this. You have a history. Here this is a very useful tool. You can just find a color and when you use it, it pops up here in the history and you have a color palette down here. When you go to harmony, we can choose from color harmonies. Here we can set the values and you can enter an exact color number here that is very useful for designers. In the palettes, you can create new palettes. You can create a new palette that you create on your own. You can create from a camera so you can take a picture and it imports a color palette. It does it from a file and photo as well. We are not going to use this option, but you have it right here. Then we have some other things here. We have this menu here where you can set the brush size and the opacity. You can customize this whole interface for yourself if you're left-handed or right-handed, et cetera. It is very user-friendly. You can do things as you wish, but I'm going to work with it this way. What I wanted to show you in this little short video, as well as the gestures that we are going to use. Swiping with two fingers, you can make the canvas smaller or bigger than you can do and reduce it. I'm just going to paint here something with a tap with two fingers. I go back and tap with three fingers. I go redo, like I redo the things. I can swipe three fingers for a quick menu that you can set as well. Here you have a copy paste menu actually. Yeah, I've already shown you the double-tap on the Apple Pencil. I guess this is very quickly just enough for you to know where we can find anything. I'm going to comment on everything during the whole process. Don't worry, if you're very beginner, you will be ready to follow me along. See you in the next video where we are going to start to draw. [MUSIC]. 5. Lines and Shapes: [MUSIC] All right, so let's get started. In this video, we are going to talk about lines and shapes. Well, lines and shapes are the basis of any illustration. You're drawing lines, and then you close them, you have a shape. When you have a shape you can build up absolutely everything [LAUGHTER] in an illustration. This is what we are going to practice in this video, you are going to create shapes, and I will just show you how to do that. Let's just choose a brush. For this practice, you will need a solid brush. To create a base for our illustrations, you always need a solid brush that creates shapes that are not transparent because you can build textures, and shading, and details over solid shapes. There are several brushes in the Procreate. In this class we're going to use only brushes that come with Procreate, but keep in mind they might disappear, and that the brushes I'm using might disappear with an update because they're updating this brush sets as well. What you need to remember that it has to be a solid brush. You can basically see that when you see it, for example, this one that it is a bit transparent at the edges. I'm at the inking and I'm going to use the syrup brush. It is a good brush because it has a little bit of streamline. Let me just tell you very quickly what it is, it makes your lines nicer, and smoother. If you have streamline set within the brush, we are not going to go into brush settings too much, I will just show you this one. It would in the stabilizations you have streamline. It is said right here, it will make your lines smoother, so it will not recognize every little move your hand makes, so you will not make this shaky lines. If you're a wary beginner who is afraid that you just cannot create nine shapes with this inking brushes, most of them have this streamline, some have more, and it can be also annoying, but for example, this syrup is quite nice with that. We're not going to use the smudge tool, we are going to have our use an eraser, and it is good to set your eraser the same brush that you have for painting because to have a nice shape sometimes you'll have just to use the eraser, and you have the double-tap. There is a way to set it, so if you hold down the eraser, it will erase with current brush, it will set the brush to the one that you have set as the painting brush. Then you have the layers. You don't need to create a new layer yet, we are at this default layer. As for the color, I love to use the classic color palette to choose my colors, but you are free to use any of them. What is an important thing now to use a darker color because we are going to then build up layers over it in a second. Choose a hue, I will use this little bit turquoise color here, and make it this dark, and this is going to be the color that I'm going to use. Now, let's just try out what we are going to do, and then I will let you to do the practice for this class. We are going to draw plants. Let's just draw a shape that is a leaf shape. I have drawn a line, and it created a shape, but we need to fill it. How? We can, like normally painted with paint. Just fill it. You can make the brush a bit bigger, and you can fill it. As you can see, this is not really good because I can go out from this main shape. How can I adjust it? I go to the eraser, and I can make this shape smoother with the eraser, for example. It is a very nice way to make your shapes look better. You can curve from the shape, and if you curve too much, you can just go back to the painting, and make it smaller, for example, and do that thing like this. This is one way. Another way is to color drop. How to? Quick here, up here to the color, and take it here, release, and there you have your shape. Now, it can leave out some pixels, so you can just fill it inside. You have to just take care of the threshold, so take a look when I'm color dropping, and holding down a ColorDrop Threshold just appears up here, and it can be bigger and smaller. If it is in 100%, it will fill the whole layer. For example, this is my thing I want to tell you, if you choose a very textured brush, for example, my free illustration brush is a very textured one, if I create a shape with it, and color drop with a low threshold, these little pixels can be seen as left out. What you can do here is to at least fill this line around. It is good for big areas, but we are not using the brush now, we are using the Syrup. Here it is, and I will tell you now what you need to do in this practice. To start with, we are going to use this floral decorative elements in our final art piece, so we'll just start learning with them. One thing that is good about them, that they are flat, and they have very easy, and nice shapes. What I used to tell my students is, you cannot be more creative than nature. There are so many differently shaped leaves out there in the world, you cannot count even if you go for a walk. Once I was on a walk, and I just collected on one street, 30 differently shaped leaves. [LAUGHTER] Your task is now to find five differently shaped leaves. I don't want you now to rely on digital references or photos, one reason is because as artist, I think you are on a journey of becoming an artist, an artist is observing his environment that is where you can get a lot of inspiration in the future. Find five differently shaped leaves on the street in your home, in your house plants, or you can go online, and browse for them. You don't need to be 100 percent specific how these leaves are looking, we are creating now illustration, and we have endless possibilities, you are not limited, so this is why you can just work from your imagination. I mean, from your brain, from your observations, and not having literally these leaves placed here, copying etc, but just look at it, and draw it like that. Now, I'm going to speed this up. I will paint five different leaf shaped plants. Don't forget to use the eraser to get your shapes well, and give it time. Don't rush through it. Oh, and one more thing, pressure sensitivity, I forgot to tell you. This Syrup brush is very pressure-sensitive, this means that when you are drawing with the Apple pencil, and you push it harder, it will get very thick, and very light. It is very similar to normal brushes, when you push a brush, it will just make it a thick line. When you are drawing these shapes, keep in mind to use this pressure sensitivity in your drawings. See you at the final part of this video [MUSIC]. Okay, so here are my five different plant shapes. They are not perfect. They don't have to be perfect. See you in the next video where we're going to have a little fun with them. 6. Textures and Details: [MUSIC] In this video, we are going to add textures and details. You will have shapes and we're going to leave them as they are. We are going to work in layers so that you understand what layers are. You need to understand how these pixels work. If you go to the layers now, you can see on the layer in this small image right here, and you can only see this color. You cannot see the background, but I can just turn off the background. Now you have these individual pixel clusters. If I can say that, and you can use these and move these around it, it's not like you paint it on a paper so that you have to cut them out. They live individually as a sticker. You can just peel it off and put it here and there so you can move around, you have the selection tool for them. We are not going to use that for now. I will turn the background back on. But keep in mind that you have these individual shapes in one layer and as if they were like cut out. Now we are going to work over these layers. If I create a new layer, I can work on a different layer and just, I didn't know, paint something randomly up here and just ruin my [LAUGHTER] beautiful image. I can turn it on and off within the layer. I have this checkbox here so I can turn it on and off. I will turn it off and I will even delete it. If I want to add a differently color the something over it, let's just choose that. Let's just choose the same hue and keep it the same hue, just make it lighter. I will choose a texture brush now. Now I'm going to choose a brush that has an opacity. Using textures in digital is very important because it gives this natural feel for auto x. Because when we are painting on paper or we're painting on Canvas, it has its texture. It gives this little grainy feel to the aspects, but when we are in digital, you don't have that, like you have very edgy and straight difference between the background and the color. I think textures, we'll add feel and the mood to our illustrations and you can use textures for shading as well. I will show you that later in the class. Now, I will just delete this layer, slide it and delete. I will create a new completely free layer. Do you have a lighter color now? You'll have a new layer and I just choose a transparent brush. I will just go to the textures. Choose maybe like toggle, we just try. It looks great. As you can see on this layer when I'm painting, I will make it a bit bigger. I'm painting over it. It doesn't really look good. Now I want to add textures to these shapes. There are two ways to do so. I can also lock the layer or I can create a new layer over and create a clipping mask and I will just show you the difference. Now I met this layer at the top and I will just take this textured brush making with less snow pack so it will be more transparent. I will just add a texture over these things here. If I go to the layers and hit this layer of this a random painting and hit clipping mask. It will clip it, it feel cut out the shapes from this texture. Can you see that? What is good with this is that I can move this layer around, I can move this texture around. I can modify this layer. I hit the n letter here, I can lower its opacity. I can choose different blending modes that will somehow enhance the hole. For example, I love this color dodge, it looks great. I will move this around a bit, move tool. I'm moving it around. When you had the move tool, you can make it smaller, make it bigger, etc so I can move it around. If I just use Alpha Lock, I will turn off this layer now. I will go back to the layer of the shapes. Now I'm painting directly into the shapes, but I need to Alpha lock them. When I go to the Layer, click and hit Alpha lock. It will lock the leg air. If you take a look at it, it will have a checked background. When you have a checked background, it means that these shapes are locked so you cannot paint outside them. You are going to use this future a lot and there is a shortcut to it, if you take your two fingers and just slide it like this, like this layer, like this. It will Alpha Lock and on Alpha Lock, Alpha lock, on Alpha lock. I will Alpha lock this layer now, I will just go through these shapes and just add a texture to them. Can you see the texture? Looks pretty nice. What is a disadvantage now is that now I have the original shapes colored. It can be a disadvantage. You might not want to modify this textures over it, but you might want as well. You will need to decide whether you want to have a clipping mask or not or just directly do it into the into the main shapes with Alpha lock. Now I will leave it with this Alpha locks thing. I will remove the clipping mask and keep it within the Alpha lock. There is a third way that we are going to add our details with. I will choose an evil, lighter color. Now I will go for a detail brush. Let's go to a sketching and choose the 6B pencil. I love the 6B pencil because it really works as if it was a colored pencil, for example. Now, as I have this layer with this shape here, I can hit Select. Now I selected the shapes that I have within this layer. I can't just simply create a new layer over it and a selection remains. I don't know if you can see it, but it is with these lines outside the areas that I have selected. Now I can draw within these shapes, but to a new layer. I'm painting to this shape, but to a new layer. Now I'm going to add some details, but I've just changed the color photo a little bit lesser, why brands? Let me see. What I'm going to do now is to add details to these leaves, and you can do [MUSIC] so as well. Now I hit the selection tool here, and as you can see, I have these details on a separate layer. I've had turned his back on. Let's just do a little recap on what we have learned, how you can paint within these solid shapes. The first one was to create clipping mask, where you can paint on a completely new layer and clip that to the shapes that you have here. Second way is to Alpha lock the shapes that are on the layer and paint directly into the shapes. The third one is to select the shapes you have on a layer and create one over. Then the select. I hope that it makes sense to you. You don't need to use all three. I use them in different situations during illustration. You can choose whichever felt the most comfortable for you. The most important thing is to get results that you like. Congratulations on finishing your first project, I hope that it wasn't too demanding to you. I think this is very easy for beginners and you had a chance to try out most of the tools and to understand how these pixels and layers work. I'm so excited to move on to the next project where we are going to create a character already. Don't be afraid, I'm here for you. I'm explaining everything and you can do it. See you in the next part. 7. Stage 2. - The Character - The Sketch: [MUSIC] Welcome to the second stage. I'm so excited that you are here. We are going to create character, but don't worry, it is going to be very easy. We're going to use a sketch, so we will have a sketching phase and then just paint it and use the knowledge that you've got from the first stage in here. Are you excited? Let's do this. Welcome to the second project, the character. We are going to leave this first project right here and just hide gallery to go back to gallery and create a new screen sized canvas, and this is when I'm going to show you how to stack the canvas is. Again, go back to gallery, select these two canvases and hit "Stack" and hit the "X" and then you go inside, you will find the two new canvases here. I will go inside and we just talk about character design. What is character design? Every illustration needs protagonist. What is this illustration about? It's telling the story you need, like participants of that story. These characters are usually either human characters or inanimate objects having faces, for example, or some human traits, or the third one is animals with human traits and that is called anthropomorphism. We are not going to go and do human characters, that would be a little bit too much I guess, but we are going to choose an object with a face or an animal away to human accessory. Let me just show you what we are going to do. At first in this part, we are going to talk about this sketch, so we are going to work with a sketch. I would love you now to choose the sketching 6-bit pencil and choose black and we are at these default layer. What I love about this sketching pencil is that, you can create nice lines with it and when the Apple pencil is stilted, you can really shade with it. We are not going to shade right now I just wanted to show you this. Let me just draw this to you, so character. We have humans, human characters, we have objects. With human traits so let's say would face or with eyes. Creating objects with eyes is a very nice way to create fun illustrations and then there is anthropomorphism, where you give human traits to objects or animals. We have a human, for example. I will just draw a human character. We're not going to work on this one, but for example we are having objects with eyes. I can think of objects include everything that is inanimate, so mushrooms, strawberry, fruits, vegetables, etc. I will just draw here a strawberry. I have a strawberry with a face. This is a character, and I can have fox, for example, or a dog. Let me see what it will be, a dog, yes, with a scarf. This is a character or let's say he has glasses. [LAUGHTER] In this part we're going to think about a character that will be in or automatic and we are going to illustrate it. Now, I don't want you to go into too much detail with these things and don't go into too complicated things, we are going to work with simple shapes. If you are a very beginner, I suggest to go with the objects with eyes. The objects have very basic geometric shapes. For example, fruits or vegetables. Or you can choose your favorite book, or objects like a mug. They're simple shapes and you can just put a face on it and you have a character. That's one way. Another way is to choose a bit more complicated character. This is for those who are not the very beginners and are using, for example, Procreate for a bit of, a little bit more time and they're more used to the interface and how to digital media works. They can choose, for example, a unicorn or a dog or a fox, but give it a human accessory, for example, glasses, scarf, or sweater, or I don't know, headphones, etc. I love to put headphones on my characters. I will just show you a new dashboard that I forgot to show you, it is the free fingers swipe and it clears the layer. I have just used that and now what your task is to choose free characters. If you have time or mood, you can do three from the easy objects with faces on this strawberries and carrots, for example. If you are more advanced, you can do free from these animals. Let's just have a little sketching session. I'm going to speed this up and see you down after the video. Drawing tip, use more short lines for sketching, it will help you to be in the loose style and to maintain the shapes. You don't need to go and be really precise at this part. [MUSIC] I have created free things; a strawberry, a book and is this a flower or maybe is sun made of face. As you can see I have created very simple phases, like two dots and a little small mouth. I have created it here as well, and also closed eyes. I have created a unicorn with a scarf, a jellyfish with glasses, and a fish with a necklace. [LAUGHTER] I think I will choose the unicorn, my daughter's favorite thing is a unicorn or are unicorns, so I'm going to use that. Keep it simple. You can follow me along with this little unicorn as well. Do your own version. What you need now is a simple sketch. You can refine it if you wish. The way I used to refine my sketches is that I create a new layer over it. The layer I have created a sketch on, I will lower its opacity and I work on the new layer and make that sketch like refine it. I will just refine it in a speedup process so that I can have something to work with on the new layer. [MUSIC] I will turn off the sketch behind it. I have them refined sketch, and now I can hit the move tool and place it to the middle. I can make it bigger or smaller. I will keep it here in this size, approximately in the middle and now see you in the next video where we are going to choose our colors for our illustration. [MUSIC] 8. The Colors: [MUSIC] In this video, we are going to talk about the colors. I already told you what options you have within the color menu but we haven't created the new color palette. Let us go back to the palette. Just hit the plus button and create the new palette. Make sure that it is ticked here, so it is a default one now. I will go back to classic and I will just tell you the way I used to choose my colors. Basically, what colors this unicorn will have, it is going to be white so I will choose white, I will choose a little bit of gray for shading, this is going to be the base of my illustration. Then for the hair, I will love to use magenta and when I choose a color, I choose a middle range for it. Choose a lighter version for the light and the darker version for shading. This is the easiest way. There are so many different ways to choose colors but this is a very basic one that I'm going to use. Then I will need color for the scarf. Let's choose this blue for it. I will maybe choose a little darker one. This is going to be my color palette. Now, you have several options for using a color palette. What I love to do is to create a new layer and with the brush I'm going to paint with, I'm going to paint with the syrup brush again for laying down the main shapes. I just paint a color palette for myself from which I can pick up colors so this is one way. Or you have now the option to drag down and put it here. Choose the color palette option here, then you have the colors. Now you can move around the color palette menu. I don't like to use that. I sometimes use this one but nowadays I just really just click on it because then I can really manipulate the colors if I need different ones. I'll see you in the next video where we're going to start painting. [MUSIC]. 9. Painting: [MUSIC] Let's get into this exciting part. Again, what I'm going to do is to lower the opacity of the sketching layer. I go to the sketching layer, hit this "N" button and lower its opacity. The reason is that I'm going to paint these shapes below it and I want to see how these shapes really look like. If I have this drawing over it, I will not see the edges and it is important to have the edges clear. I have it. Sometimes I set it to multiply, so that I can see three. This is important when you have a sketch that is not a PNG. I will explain a little bit later. But when you have an image which is a solid one layer with a white background, it is JPEG and in PNG you only have these pixels without the background that I have explained to you in the first project. Now, you don't really need to set the multiply but if you have a sketch where you have this white background and set to multiply, it will remove the background from the sketch. I will create a new layer but below the sketch. Now, I'm going to show you that if you hold down a layer, you can move it around. I will place this layer below the sketch. As you can see, we can set the background color, so we can turn on and off the background. As you can see, we have in the color palette this white color, and we have to set the background color for white. Now, let's just take a second to talk about values. Values are the intensities of color. If you want to have something in focus, it will be brighter than the surroundings. Just imagine that this unicorn is going to be white, so everything else has to be a bit darker so that you can see it. Or if it would be this pink, also you should have everything around a little bit darker. In order to see your colors well, it is a pro tip to set the background color to darker. I will set the background color. I will click this background layer, and it will open up a menu with this color options as if it would be here, but it isn't the layers, as you can see here it is blue, so this is active. I can set it to any color, but I will just set it to a middle range of gray here so I can see the colors pretty well. Now, we have prepared everything for the painting of the characters. We have the colors, you don't necessarily have to have them here, like you have the color palette here. We have the sketch with lower opacity and we've set the background color to right. I have a layer below the sketch. I have selected the inking syrup brush. Now, I will show you the color picker tool. It is when I place my finger onto the screen and hold it down, I activate the color picker and I can pick all different colors. Now, I'm just going to pick the white or if you don't have it like here, you can just select a white color. I will just block in the main shape of the unicorn. [MUSIC] As you can see, you don't necessarily have to follow the sketch, but it is good sometimes, but absolutely not necessary. For example, with this legs, I want to keep this drawing really simple and don't go into too much of a detail. What I'm going to include in this layer as well is the ears, I forgot them, sorry. [MUSIC] Like this. The hair will be on a separate layer and I will just erase this here like this. A scarf is going to be also on a separate layer. I will include this things down here, so I will need a brown color. I will go to red and choose a darker version of it, a little bit orange and that is going to be my brown for the legs. I'll just add them here. Now that I have blocked this shapes, I will create a new layer over this for the hair. I will choose this middle color and the syrup and just draw in the shape for the hair. [MUSIC] I will create a new layer below the hair and choose a yellow for this horn. I will go here and find this orange ocher yellow color for this horn. To this layer, I can actually add different details. I will just choose black and draw the eyes. I'm going to make it big, that's too much. I want to draw the eyes, the nose, a little bit of mouth, and I will choose this light pink for the ears like this. I forget the tail. I will go back to the layer of the hair. I will pick up this color and just draw this one. I will add the scarf. On a totally new layer I will choose this blue and I will add the scarf. I can put it below the hair like this and I will alpha lock this layer with my two fingers, choose this darker but maybe an even darker blue. Maybe I'll alpha lock it again and add a little bit of these stripes with this color as well. Nice. Now, we have all the colors blocked in. Let's move on to the next video and talk about shading. [MUSIC] 10. Shading: [MUSIC] In this video, we are going to explore different types of shadings. There are three types of shadings I would love to talk to you about. The first one is when you give a dimension to the shape, then there is the inclusion where things touch, and when there is a drop shadow. We are going to create it all three. Now, I'm going to turn off the sketching layer and I will need a brush for shading. Again, as we have done with the texture, we will need a brush that is textured or has transparency, so it's less opaque and maybe it has little grains in it. Let just take a look on these brushes. You can shade with any brush actually, you can choose the airbrush. It will create a really soft shadow. You can go to the textures. You can use these textures for shading, you have spray paints, you have, I don't know, charcoals. That would be nice. Or you can use the sketching pencil as well for shading. What I'm going to use now is the spray paints and use this medium nozzle. I love it as you can see it has pressure sensitivity, and it has transparency. Let's just take a look what it does. Now I will alpha lock every layer that I have here and then I'm going to work on. Let's choose the layer of the body now and try it out. I will make this brush a little bit bigger and lasso pack, so I will lower the opacity and choose this gray. I will just go off through, and I'll make it a little bit bigger. I will just go through this little belly to add a little bit of shading to it. As you can see you already have a little bit of dimension. You don't need to go into shading theory right now. The main thing is you have shadows on the opposite side where the light is coming from. We have a light from the sky and we are going to have a night scene where the moon is shining from the top, and you can just add a little bit of shading down here and you absolutely don't need to overdo this. You can go here to the hair and choose this darker version of the same color. As you can see, I'm shading with the darker version of the same color. There are different theories and ways to shade, this is the easiest one. What I'm going to do is to again, I will make it a little bit smaller and add this little shading, make it bigger here to the hair, and to the tail as well. We have a little bit of a shadow here, and let's do that on this horn as well. I will pick up the color and make it a bit darker. Make this brush a little bit smaller, and just add a bit of a shading here. You can always add back, if you overdo something then go back to the original color and just shade back with it, it will create a nice texture as well. There is another way you can shade, and I'm just going to use that for inclusions. I'm going to create a new layer, choose black, and go to the painting, and choose the round brush here. If you do so, you can see you can create a transparent layer over things. Now I'm going to make it small and just add little bit of shadings below things that touch. I will lower the opacity and make it even smaller. I will just add little bit of shadows where things touch. For example, here. You don't need to overdo this as well. It looks pretty nice. If I want to shade into this shape, I will go to the shape and select it, and go back to the layer of the shadows because we are doing it on a new layer. Now it will not go outside of this main shape. Can you see that? Pretty nice. Now I unselect it. Now I go here to the legs. I can do it again. I can select the layer of the body, with select. I just simply don't go outside. I hope you'll get the idea. I don't go outside of these shapes. I can just add these little shadows here and there where I need it. This is with a transparent layer of black. Now let's talk about the drop shadows. I will create a new layer below it all. I will make this brush a bit bigger and just make a circle below it. I can go to adjustments, and there is the Gaussian blur. Here is Gaussian blur. It is zero percent, and if I just drag my Apple pencil here, I increase this threshold. As you can see, I'm blurring this shape here. I will go, for example, seven percent, and I have a drop shadow below my character. See you in the next video where we are going to add some fun details. [MUSIC] 11. Details: [MUSIC] Wow, it looks great. I will turn off this color palette here and create a new layer over the whole character. As you can see if I want to create a layer over something, I go to the layer and when I hit it creates a layer right above it. So now details. Now I have this light pink that I have chosen, I will choose the sketching 6B pencil and I will just draw details like I have done with the floral. I will just add hair to the hair like these lines. It looks pretty nice. If you want to do something to the body, you can choose a little light gray. I have added these details right to the hair, but it doesn't really matter now. You can add little bit of lines to the character to have it like hair, for example fur. With these little lines you can create so many wonderful textures. I can do something to the horn. Let's say I choose a really light yellow and just add some lines to it. I will go back to the tail and add hair to it. I will turn off the background for example, so that you can really see that and now we have a character. So what do you say? I think it is pretty amazing. Your second project is done, let's move on to the third project, the jar. [MUSIC] 12. Stage 3. - The Jar - Setting It Up: [MUSIC] Are you ready? We're going to create something really cool at this stage, we are going to paint with some built in tools, appropriate acute jar, add the glass of fact, put these elements together and have already almost finished illustration. This is when it all comes together, let's just take a look at it. Welcome to the third project, let me just let you know that I'm really proud of you, that you are doing this and that you are coming with me on this journey, so let just come click the gallery and let us create a new canvas, so hit a plus sign and now we are going to choose a square sized canvas because I think we are illustrating for Instagram, [LAUGHTER] so it is very useful to use this one. In this video, we are going to set it up, we are going to use some built in tools that come with procreate and are extremely amazing, for example, we have a built in drawing guide, symmetry tool, pretty amazing that we have these things in digital. At first we are going to set up the Canvas, this is going to be your final artwork, we are going to then improve the decorative elements and the character into it and not, but now we are going to paint the jar at first. We are going to set the background color to a darker, so I will go to the layers and set the background color to a darker room. No, I will go and choose the 6B pencil and choose white for my drawing. We are going to create a glass jar, this is the reason we have this setting that we have a dark color, we will change the hue at the end, but it will basically have this darkness and now go to the orange button and hit Drawing Guide, but you can edit this drawing guide. Then you'll have some guides like to degreed isometric perspective and symmetric and click the Symmetry down here. Now, you will have one line here through the whole canvas. You can change the opacity of this lines and you can see it. You can change the thickness of this line, you can change the color of this line up here. Like this, it can be any color, can you see that? I will change it to white so that I can see it better like this and now you have the options here. If you click the options, you can choose to wet cool symmetry to Horizonal, to quadrants and to radial. Radial is good for creating mandalas for example, you can change the middle button here, but what do we need now in options? Choose the vertical one, we'll need a vertical one and now hit Done. Then you will see this vertical line here that will not be seen in your artwork, when you go to the layers now you can see a word below the layer, it is called assisted, this means that is drawing guide applies to this layer. So when now, I'm drawing in vertical symmetry. When I select the layer and I see these options, I can see that drawing assist is ticked here. On a ticket, this assisted bird disappears from here and now I can draw without this symmetry. I can draw with a symmetry and then if I turn it off, I can draw without that symmetry. Now I will turn on the Drawing Assist and let me just introduce you the quick shape function as well, so you have a quick shape function, which means that if you draw a shape and hold it down, it will make it smoother, I will just turn it off for a second. If I want to draw an ellipse, I hold it down and it creates a perfect ellipse for me and if I want to make a straight line, I just make a line, hold it down and it will make it straight. If I want to make a circle, I draw a circle, hold it down, I can edit the shape and choose circle up here, if I want to make half circle I hold down or half [inaudible] it creates it like this. You can create perfect shapes by holding down the shape you are drawing, this is helping you a lot. I have the assist it already ticked in, so make sure that the layer we are drawing on is in Drawing Assist and I will try to draw the top of the door, to make this shape is going to be a little bit harder because it is not like this. If you draw an ellipse, it will be like this. So try to start at this line, make a half circle and hold down and you can just push it up and down to make an ellipse. I want this not to be perfect, we have a symmetry, but I want this hand-drawn feeling to it, so what I'm going to do is to draw up for it, I will not adjust this and draw aside for it. The reason that we are using this symmetry tool is that it is good if we have these two sides like running along, if you are the person like me, I can never do the same shape or same angles in the both side, so this really nice thing. Wonderful, I will hit the Move button and move it a little bit up here, even more I get this, I'll try to keep it in the middle. I have my jar and now I will turn off the Drawing Assist and go to the range button and turn the drawing guide off and now I have my jar. In the next video, we are going to create the glass effect, and I will show you the different ways to select areas in your artwork. 13. The Glass Effect : [MUSIC] In this video, we are going to create a glass effect. We will need to have a transparent layer, inside this jar so that we can really see that it is a glass and there are reflections over it. I'm going to also show you how you can select things in Procreate. Now the first thing is to make sure to have approximately close to these lines so that you really have shapes, not just unended lines. I will make sure that where these lines touch, they are closed. This ensures that I can really select around it. I have the selection tool up here, and I have the menu bar down here. I can select in different ways, and I have the automatic selection. I have the freehand selection, so the automatic is that if I click on a surface, it's selected. Again, have a threshold. If I have it at 100%, it will select the whole area. If I go below it, it selects the area I clicked on. You can increase this threshold to have more pixels selected at the edges of these textured brushes, for example. It is really good that you can edit this thresholds. You can remove, invert, copy, paste, feather, save and load, color fill, clear this selection. We are not going to use these things now. What I wanted to show you is the invert selection. Is a really cool thing that you can invert the selections. Then you can free handily select, you draw around it and it's selected. Then you can use rectangle and ellipse selections. But now we have the automatic selection. Now this is the part that is selected, and if I click now on a brush, it will be not blue, but you will see if you see it from closer, that there are these lines to the areas that are not selected and it is empty where it is selected. When I'm painting now, I'm only painting to this part of the drawing. We have done actually the same thing with the shapes of these plants, but now we don't have shapes painted. We have outlines. It is a different thing. This is why I added this jar into this class project so that you understand how the selection stings and different ways of illustrating work. Now we have this area selected. I have white selected, and I will go back to the brush that I have chosen for shading. For me, it was the spray paint and the medium nozzle. I will make it big. I will create a new layer and make it big, and really lightly I will just go over this whole selected shape. I can make it or lower the opacity of this layer. What will this make is, it will instantly add this grainy texture to the whole jar inside. I will make this even smaller and just add a little reflection in the shape that you are in the angle that you have here as if it was following it. Line here, and maybe two dots here. This is enough reflection. If you want to learn how to add reflections to different materials, I really suggest you to just take objects and just observe their reflections. If you can see now, here, we have differently shaped highlights here. The more objects you observed and better you will be in drawing reflections. In the next video, we are going to put it all together. [MUSIC] 14. Putting It All Together: [MUSIC] What is left from this project free is to put everything together. I will now deselect this inner space. What I'm going to do is to paint a ground and paint the top of the jar so I will create a new layer below it all. I will select dark blue color, gets the syrup and just paint a ground here. [MUSIC] With darker gray, I will just paint this top. [MUSIC] Maybe choose a dark color and the sketching and a 6B pencil and just add these. Now, hit "Gallery" and go to the character and what we are going to do is that we are going to make one full finished image from this one without the background. I have my sketches turned off I will select the layers as they are. To select more layers, slide the layers like this. Now hit "Group" up here. Now you'll have placed these layers into a group. What I'm going to do is a very practical thing to do in the future when you're going to illustrate so I'm going to slide this group and duplicate and I'm going to hit the top group and hit flatten. Now I will turn off this group, turn off the background color, and as you can see, I have a full finished illustration without a separate layer. Now I'm going to use this for my illustration as this is finished. But if I would want to change anything within this, I have the original layered illustration here. The reason why I'm duplicating this group and I'm flattening these layers together in a different group is so that I have the original one and there are several ways to place one element from one canvas to another one. I'm going to show you several versions and now the version is that I hold down to layer more width, keep it, hold down. With my other finger, I'm hitting gallery. I hit the jar as you can see there is a plus sign that appeared here and I release and it imports into the arctic. Now, as you can see this move tool up here is turned on. Now I can make it smaller and make it bigger. Now, what do you need to remember with the move tool is that if you make the selections more and turn off the move tool and move it again and make it big. You lose from the quality of the image. Another thing is that if you place it outside to canvas and turn off the move tool and then you want to move it again. Your little baby will be cut off. You can see the edges of the canvas cuts off these selections. You can always go back. Another thing to remember, is that you can go back and undo things if you don't go to the gallery every time to leave a file or canvas and go back to the gallery, you will not be able to do undoes. You only have the undoes from the time you spend in the canvas. Every time you leave the canvas. The procreate program forgets the steps you have done within it. Keep in mind not to leave the canvas if you want to undo things, make sure to undo them first. Now I'm going to make this little baby a bit smaller and place it to the middle of my jar. Yes, I have it below this class effects so make sure that you have this character. Above the ground, would it below this glass effect. I will maybe place a lipid-like here. I will go back to gallery and go to my little florals that I have created. I will choose this one as this is what I liked the most, and I am just going to simply merge these layers and now I'm going to show you the way of merging the layers. You can click on the top layer and you have the merge down. This will merge these layers, really flatten them. Now you have them all on one layer, I can turn off the background color. Now you cannot move the detail layer, etc, that we had here. Another thing to do this is when you have two separate layers is to pinch them together. Pinch, little pinch if you have more layers, you can pinch all of them together and they will just come together This is just a little fun gesture you can use if you don't want to merge, merge, merge and select the layers so I will just create free layers, pinch them together, and I'll have one layer from them. I will turn off the background color so that it doesn't confuse us. Now select the selection tool and now we're going to freehand around them so I love this one that I have created, so I will just simply cut around it. You finish a selection by clicking on this dot. Now, I will use my free fingers to slide or swipe, and now I have the copy-paste menu here. Now I can cut copy, copy, or duplicate, cut and paste and paste, etc. I will hit on copy live to the gallery, go to my jar. Free fingers swipe and I will hit here paste. Now I have my little floral here that I'm going to place. For example, here like this. I will place it behind the little character now I can duplicate it. I can swipe the layer and duplicate. Now as you can see, I have two of these. I hit the move tool and the move tool menu is here. You can flip horizon, flip vertical, rotate, distort warp so there are several things you can do with it. You can just now flip horizontal and to place another one here. You can just fill it with wonderful florals. I don't want to overdo this as well. Maybe I will make this a bit smaller and I will go back to here and I will select, now this one, I love it. Free finger, copy. This is the second one you can paste things if you are not pasting full layers, I am going to just place this may be in front. Your task now is, I hope that it is clear, fill this button with this florals that you have created. I will select again this duplication flip horizontal. Don't overdo it. You can obviously add some more by your hand if you wish, some decorative elements. I think this is wonderful. At first, let me congratulate you that you have come to this stage. It is amazing. It is already a very big thing that you have done these things as a beginner. Now let's move to the fourth project, where we are going to create a landscape behind this all to make it even more exciting. See you in the next project. [MUSIC] 15. Stage 4. - The Landscape - The Background: [MUSIC] I am really proud of you again. Now you have an almost finished art tech. Let just add these beautiful landscapes that you see all over Instagram and social media. Pinterest is very easy to landscapes. Also staring night, sky [LAUGHTER] it will be really fun, so let's just get into it [MUSIC]. This is going to be so exciting. Creating this background is going to have three main stages. You're going to create a background with a background colors. We are going to create mountains and sky. The background colors are going to be actually the colors of the sky at the back, I thought we should not do a daytime because I would love to add stars at the end as an effect. You can have a sunset where you can, for example, place the moon already or we can have just a night sky that is really the stage of the sunset where it is already getting dark blue. But it's still a bit brighter, but you have already the stars on the sky. What I'm going to do now is select the jar, outline, hit Selection, hit Automatic, and select D. It's inside area, then go to colors and choose Free colors, go to the blues and choose a color that is going to be light. Let's say this light. I will choose the syrup brush and create a new layer and make this layer below with all. Make the brush big and at color here. Now, make it darker and make it color darker here. I will maybe call back a little bit to paint it right here. The darker here and the most dark to the top. Now you've already been introduced to the Gaussian blur and Gaussian blur like blurred it around. We have different blurring options. Now I'm going to go to Adjustments and I have motion blur. Motion blur does that. It blurs the colors together in the angle that you are drawing in. I'm going to do it like this. You see, I move my apple pencil in this way. If I would make it this way, it will blur it horizonally. But I went to blurred vertically. This is how you create degradation and this is the background for it. In the next video we are going to add some mountains. [MUSIC] 16. The Mountains: [MUSIC] So we are going to add some mountains. I will again select the inside of the jar, so I will hit "Selection" in Automatic. I will go down to this blurred background layer and create a new layer over. I have the Syrup brush and I will choose a color for the mountains. Don't worry, we will have a part where we are going to adjust the colors the way that they really look good. What you need to know about these mountains and why I am including them in this illustration is to learn a little bit about Perspective. Now you already have a little ground and you have this little character in the middle. As you can see, you placed these florals here and there, behind and in front of. There are several rules within Perspective. For example, things that are closer are a little bigger than things further away. Within the colors, things that are closer are more saturated, warmer, and darker than things further away. This is an easy landscape thing that you can see in different tutorials. This is a very trending thing to draw these mountains that are getting paler and brighter at the background. This is because of the rule of perspective that it getting paler at the background. Let just create a middle range color for the middle mountain. I have a new layer above. I'm just going to paint in mountain really random shape. I will need to close it, in both size for color drop. This is going to be very easy. This is the mountain. I will choose a darker version and create a new layer above it and create a mountain that is closer. I need to close these two and color drop here. I will need a very light layer behind these two and with a light pink. I will need to close it in both sides. Like this. I don't like its shape. I will make them a little bit smaller. I will select these three like this and hit "Move". If I move these three layers like this, I will have them go out from the shape of the jar. I have a uniform here. If I click the Freeform in the Move tool, I can freely change their shape. For example, like this. But now I just want this top part to go a bit lower, so I hit this dot up here and make it a bit lower. Wonderful. I will edit them separately a little bit because I will make this darker one a bit bigger, this middle one a bit smaller, and this light one maybe a bit bigger like this. I will show you a trick. I have some pixels here that I don't really want and I don't know what layer they are on, so what I'm going to do is to hold down this little rectangle here and move my finger about these pixels that I want to find and it is in this layer, on this one. It shows me. I can erase from it. I will choose this color here and fill in this ground. Now let's move on to the next video, where we are going to paint the sky and try out some luminance brushes. [MUSIC] 17. The Sky: [MUSIC] We are almost finished. In this video we are going to paint on the sky. Go to the layer of these blurred colors, create a new layer. Now let's explore the luminance brushes procreate offers. So here is the luminance brush set and there is some extremely amazing brushes. What I love the most is still light pen, let me show you what it does. When I create a dot, it makes it like a little star. You can change the color, obviously. I will choose some yellow or orange color. The light of this star will be orangey, but I want it to be more lighter, maybe, like this. What I'm going to do is to go through the sky and just add some little stars. I want to add a moon as well. I will just choose a simple white color for it and the syrup brush that I have for the solid brush, I'll create a new layer for it and just draw it. [MUSIC] I will show you another trick to make something glow. I will duplicate this moon, go to the one that is lower. Go to the adjustments and Gaussian blur and Gaussian blur it. Now you have a glowing moon. Excellent. I call it finished like the illustration part. In the next video we are going to do a little adjustments. See you there. [MUSIC] 18. Adjustments: One of the most important things in illustration is that it is readable, and it is readable in grayscale too, so there is a value check layer I will just create so that I can see the whole illustration in grayscale, and I can decide whether some parts of the illustration are seen enough, and then I can make adjustments in the hues as well. What I'm going to do is to go to the top, create a new layer, select gray and fill the whole layer with gray, with color draw. Go back to the Layers and change the blending mode to Color. Now I can see that things are blending to each other just a little bit. I will turn off this value check layer and I will change the hues a little bit. I don't like actually the mountains too much. Let's just start with the ground. I think the ground is too bright. I would love to make it darker, so I will go to Adjustments, Hue, Saturation, Brightness, and I can set the brightness. I will make it simply darker like this. Then I will go to the mountains, and I think that these mountains are not the best hues. I will change different hue. I will just go through in the hues and change them. I love it little bit more in this purple color and make it a bit darker, maybe or lighter, darker. I will go to the middle ground and do the same. Adjustments, Hue, Saturation, Brightness, and I will change it to a little bit too more of violet, and maybe make it a bit darker. Go to this one, hit this back and, again, change the brightness. I will make it a bit brighter. Make a hue I love that it is a little bit this orangey. Let it be like that. I will sketch this middle one a little bit lighter. I set it a little lighter like this. As for these two, I will put them to one layer, so I pinch these two. These ones go to hue saturation brightness. I will make them a bit brighter with the hue. I loved this orange. Let's keep them like that. These top ones, I will pinch them together as well. Now let's see. They look pretty good with this red. I love the way they are right now. Maybe I will go back to this little unicorn and place it a little bit differently. Also I will just play a little bit around here. I don't want to over-complicate this. I think it looks pretty nice. You can add textures over these mountain shapes if you wish. There are so many things you can do, but I don't want to work too much in this, unnecessarily. Let's move on to the final project where we are going to do a little animation. Don't think about anything complicated. We are just going to add some moving elements around and to finalize the auto exam. See you in the final project. [MUSIC] 19. Stage 4. - Animation - Finalizing: [MUSIC] Now your illustration is actually finished. Now you have these decorative elements, your character, you have the jar, the background, and what is left is to make it a little bit more lively and to learn another built-in tool of Procreate that is just incredible and that is animation. Don't worry, it will be really easy so see you in the last stage. [MUSIC] I'm extremely proud of you that you have finished the class until now, you already done a lot of hard work. This animation is just the cherry on the top. At first, we are going to just finalize the image and then move on to animating some little parts and then we are going to save and export and we're going to be done for this class and you will be a hero. One thing is that we have only this jar. We will need something around and I will change the background color of it all it to be lighter, so can we really see this whole? I also don't like that it is dark gray, so we can just choose a different color and I like this indigo blue, but you can totally work around it and just go around and see what colors fits your jar. I loved this one. You can also add texture. What I would love to add is the drop shadow below it. To create the drop shadow, I will choose the round brush, the black. I will create a new layer below it all and with the round brush just draw a drop shadow here. If you want it to be a bit darker, make some more layers and now hit "Adjustments". Just Gaussian blur. We have a drop shadow here. Now, I love to decorate my illustrations with decorative elements, if that makes sense. I love to choose different shapes and to just place them around it. What I have in mind is that I will create a layer above everything, choose white and the Syrup. I have some shapes that I love to draw for example; these stars with this shape. I love to draw stars like this. What I want from you now is to choose two decorative elements, let it be stars. Or I didn't know, dots or hearts or other nice elements and just paint them around the jar like this. I will choose another color. I love this paint, but I will make it a bit more orangey, maybe lighter like this. I will just add dots. What I forgot is to add texture to the background so that we can just jump into the animation, the next video. I will just create a new layer below the drop shadow. Go and find the texture brush that I used. It was the rectangle, if I remember, well. Let it be a texture brush. Choose a lighter version of the color of the background. You can pick up the color and just go find a lighter version of it. Now we're going to bring out the texture of the brush so we are not going to go through background, but make sure to make the brush big and just hit it. This way creates really nice texture. If you think it is too much, you can always just lower the opacity of this background. You have a nice textured background for the illustration. Make sure you have a texture over the background, you have the drop shadow below the jar, and that you have the decorative elements around the jar. Make sure to have at least two, so dots, hearts, rectangles, triangles, little simple drawings, I have these two types of stars. What I will just do is to maybe make darker this background. Sorry, this is a little bit more textured. See you in the next video where we are going to animate these little elements. [MUSIC] 20. Animation: [MUSIC] We are arriving to the final stage. [LAUGHTER] I hope you feel well. There is a built-in tool in Procreate called animation assists. It is a big hit. It was a big hit a few years back when they introduced it. It gives us so many opportunities in leveraging core skills in the program and our artworks to make something really cool with them. If you hit the Wrench button, you have animation assists here and you just turn it on. Now what happened? In animation assist, every layer is a stage in the animation. What I'm going to do here within this hole is to select the layers of the illustration without the elements. I have it all and group them. This group is one stage of an animation. What are frames, these are frames. If you take a look at it in this bottom, you have now frames. You have the illustration, and you have the elements. The two layers that I have here turned on our two frames. If you think about animations, think about down that every frame is one second. You have to paint the movement in these little frames. There is something changing throughout these little frames or seconds, etc. There is the starting frame per second. There you can set how many of these little images or frames or layers appear within one second. Now what we are going to do is to go down here and where you have it, click on it. This is the main illustration here and hit Background. Turn it on. This means that the illustration with a texture in the background will be fixed. I will turn off the elements. This is the background. This is what we are illustrating over or animating over. The elements that we have here in a different layer are going to be turned on and are going to be the first frame, if that makes sense. I hope you understand what I'm saying. Here's the Value Check layer. As you can see, the layers that are not turned on are not appearing down here in the animation assist. I will just delete this value check layer so that it doesn't confuse you, so I deleted it. Now we have one layer. This is the illustration, and we have another layer with the elements. Now I'm going to create another layer. As you can see now that I created another layer, this layer below got a little bit muted. This means that you can use this muted layer as a guideline. What I'm going to do is the most simple animation formed that exists is that, I have created at least two different elements. I'm not even going to change their way as they are moving around the illustration. They are just going to blink. If you go to my Skillshare profile, I have very easy animations here. As you can see, I have this eye here, for example, that is blinking. I have two images played, blinking, open eyes, closed eyes, open eyes, closed eyes. Then I have this learn to draw animation where these little flowers are just falling in one direction. There's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, maybe five different images as you can see, and the background is fixed. When you go here blinking, paint water, paint water, paint water, there's little moving bubbles, coffee. There are these steam is moving on free stages of the steam. It's absolutely not a complicated way to animate. This is what we are going to do here. These are going to blink one element to the other. I have this new layer. I will choose my whites and my inking syrup. I'm going to change them. Where I have one way of the star, I will draw over the another one. I hope you understand what I mean. [MUSIC] What about the dots? I will go back to the color of the dots and just paint over them. You don't need to paint them to the same place they have been in because if you add it a little bit of a movement that will be interesting. Now, I will hit Play here. Play. As you can see, it is blinking, but a little bit quickly, I will pause. Here down, you have settings, click Settings. Now you have Loop. It is good that it is Loop set. There are different playing modes like Pink-Pong and One Shot. Frames per second are set to 15. This means that within one second, there are 15 images played or layers played. That's a lot. We only have two, so we need to lower it, we lower it to for example 4. This means that it is going to blink more slowly. Can you see that? Settings. If we make it like 2, it will be even more slow and this is what we want. We want two frames per second. It is enough. It is just a really nice touch to the artwork and you don't even need to do more. For a beginner, this is an extreme thing if you can understand what's happening here. Let's just do a little recap on what happened here. I hope I was clear when explaining, you can fix your illustration as the background if you make a group of them. You will have the whole layered illustration in a group right here. To make it a background, click on the Frame and turn on the background option. Then to have something to illustrate, you have your elements, at least two, I have three like adult and the two ways of illustrating star, I have it on a one layer. Then I have another layer where I exchange their positions. Where I had the first type, I painted the second one where I had the second one, I painted the first one, and where I had these dots, I had a little bit of movement if I make it closer these are the two layers and as if it was moving, if I would make a third layer, for example, and I would place another dot here in the illustration, it would appear as if it was moving, but we are not doing that. We're not doing a blinking illustration so I played again and I think it's wonderful. Now you have the animation and in order to have it longer, because now we have two images per second, so how long this animation would be, one second. We should export at least a three second animation. That means that I'm just simply going to duplicate these layers. Duplicate and place it to the top. I'm going to do this several times in order to have a longer animation. Make sure that you have the variation of these two layers. Layer 20, 18, 20, 18, 20, 18. When I played it is the same, but it will be a three second animation. See you in the next video, where I'm going to show you how to save and export your artwork. [MUSIC] 21. The Class Project: [MUSIC] In this video, I'm just going to show you how to upload your art work into class projects. To create your class project, click here, ''Create Project.'' Now the first thing you need to do is to export your artwork. I will go here back to Procreate and hit the Range button. Then in the actions I have to share and I have several possibilities, I can share image and share layers. Within share layers, I'm actually creating this video files. An animated GIF. This is what we will need. Animated PNG, which is good when you don't want to have a background. Animated MP4, which is a video file, and what do we will need is the animated GIF. Let's just click on it. You will have some settings here. What is the most important is the frames per second. We already started to two so that we really have this blinking effects so you will have a preview here. You have a max resolution, and you can click to ''Web Ready.'' It will make it smaller so it will really make it ready for sharing. This is what we will need. Now, you can hit ''Export.'' It was exporting and choose, I will just save image. It will save it to my camera roll. Now, I also want you to export this artwork as a JPEG or as a static image so go to ''Layers'' and turn these animation as these layers apart from the first one. As I said, for this one to have it really as a decorative surface around. Go again to ''Share'' and also you can go to ''Canvas'' and turn animation assets off. Go back to ''Share'' and you have five formats here. For example, Procreate. Procreate means that you saved the procreate file itself and if you open it in a different procreate or iPad, you will have the same exact things inside. PSD is for Photoshop. If you want to work on your artwork in Photoshop, you can do so. You will have the layers there as well. You can save it as a PDF or JPEG. PNG is again, when you don't want to have a background, and a TIFF is a printing format. Go to ''JPEG'' now. Again, simply just save image and you will have it on your camera roll. Now you'll go back to skill share and add your project a title, I will call it the magical jar. Into the project description, you can add an image, photo library, and I will just choose the last one and I have it in my project. You can include some birds in it. I really want you to express your experiences at eureka moments so just write some words. You can again go to ''Image'' and at the GIF so that we can see the JPEG and GIF as well, and as you can see it really nicely imported here. We can see it blinking. An easy trick to create a cover image for your class project is to go to ''Gallery,'' select your artwork, and duplicate it. When you duplicate it, you can do with one find anything you want and you will not miss any information. So I will keep the origin of artwork in one and I will pay with the other. What you will need to do here is to go into the layers and I will actually turn the animation assist on and click this and turn it off as a background. It is not a background. I will turn animation assist off. Now I can hold down this background texture and place it outside this group. I can see that it is outside this group, that it is a little bit to the side as you can see here. I hold down and swipe it a bit so that it goes out from this group. This is important because I don't want to move this background. I only want to move the jar and the stars. What I need to do now is to select this group and select these stars that are turned on, and hit the ''Move'' button. I will just simply make it smaller and make it to the middle, and I will just simply save it as a JPEG and save image. Now when I go to the class project, I can click ''Upload image'' ''Photo Library'' and choose this when it is smaller. It will just fit this image. I've been just submit and I will have it fit into this differently sized image, so then you can hit ''Publish.'' If you have any questions, go to the Discussions Tab below and ask a question. [APPLAUSE] Again congratulations, I am so proud of you as you finish this whole class and I think that you can be super proud of yourself. Let's just do a little recap on what we have learned in this class [MUSIC] 22. Final Thoughts : [MUSIC] In this class, we have gone through so much together. Naming everything we have learned would be a long list. Let's name the key takeaways of each stage. In the first stage, we have learned that shapes are the basis of all illustrations and that the best way to get inspired is to observe nature. In the second stage, we learned that putting a face on the shape will create a cute character, and then by adding human traits to them, we can make them truly unique. In the third stage, we learned that by really simple steps, we can create a nice scene and that we can put together an illustration from separately created elements. In the fourth stage, we learned some basic perspective rules, some cool techniques to create a background, and that we can always adjust colors in our illustrations if they don't fit. In the fifth stage, we learned that adding texture and simple decorative elements can complete our artworks, and that adding simple animation will make it really stand out. That was a lot, but I think it was really fun and it was so cool to have you in this class. Make sure to leave a review to the class so that I know what you think about it. Follow me on social media, Instagram and Facebook where you can find me as The Artmother. Make sure to tag me as [inaudible] when you are sharing your artworks on social media, I usually reshare them. Make sure to follow me here on Skillshare as well so that we can get in contact. I'm so happy that you have chosen me to be your instructor and that you have been with me in this class. I hope to see you in my other classes, and I wish you all the best on your digital illustration journey. Happy creating. [MUSIC]