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1. Introduction: [MUSIC] You love to illustrate. This class is a
solution for those who usually get too excited
about creating. I'm sure you know the
situation when you have your head full of ideas and visuals and you just stay down to create and
illustrate and paint, but you expect to have a
masterpiece after five minutes. At the end, you want to just throw your iPad out
of the window and you procrastinate over your
ideas for another week. [LAUGHTER] Don't do that. Throughout this class
I will teach you four hacks that will help
you to stay on track. Will be stable points
in your workflow, and you'll make your ideas a reality without any
technical damage. [LAUGHTER] Hello and welcome to the digital illustration
workflow hacks. My name is Alexandra
Gabor and I'm a professional art teacher with a Master's Degree
in Art Education. I'm an artist and an
illustrator as well, and I'm on my own journey of perfecting my illustration
style and workflow. I'm constantly
analyzing the art works of my favorite illustrators, the processes and the
speed painting videos I'm watching instead of Netflix, and I read a ton of books
on art and art workflows. I selected four hacks
that I implemented into my own
illustration workflow. That helped me to get from an initial idea to a
full illustration, and give me confidence, then my designs will be
harmonious and a static. Throughout this class
we are going to illustrate this cute
birdie together. I will guide you through
the whole process from start to finish. Then will show you the four
hacks in action so that you can see them already
implemented into a workflow. I will provide you the
brushes, the sketches, the color palette, and the
original file for reference. But of course, you will have your artistic freedom as well. These are the four hacks, the color and composition,
thumbnailing, the horizontal flip, the painter's palette
and the value check. If you don't know these
tricks, keep watching, but if you know them already, keep watching as well and
illustrate this cutie with me. In this class we're going to
use an iPad and Procreate. But the hacks apply to any digital painting and
illustrating process, so if you will use a
different program, for example Photoshop, you are free to do it. You will just need to adjust the technical steps
for yourself. Obviously, this class
is for beginners who just started their
illustration journey. It is recommended to be familiar with the program
you are working in because the class
itself focuses on the hacks not the
technicalities. But if you have been with me in my previous digital
illustration classes, you already know that I comment on everything and every step in detail and I leave
notes here and there so that you can
easily follow along. The skills in this class will help creatives,
illustrators, even hobbies to create better illustrations with
better compositions, color combination with
harmonious designs and values. By the end of this class, you will have a full illustration
of this cute birdie. But so much more than that, you will already experienced the magic of this
hacks and you will be packed with skills that will skyrocket your confidence
while illustrating. If you have any questions
for the class don't hesitate to contact me or ask them in the
discussion tab below. Follow me on
Skillshare so that you get notified when the
other classes will be up there and follow
me on social media as well on Instagram and Facebook
to see what I'm up to, my latest works and projects, my philosophical thoughts on
some music recommendation. Are you ready? Let's dive in it.
2. Downloads and Setup: [MUSIC] Hello, and
welcome to the Digital Illustration
Workflow Hacks. In this video, we
are going to talk about the downloads and set up, but let me just first, thank you for taking this class. I'm really happy
to have you here. Let's talk about the resources, open Skillshare and find
the area below the videos. You have the about
reviews community under project and resources
section down here. This is the place where you
can create your project, and here are the resources. I would love to tell
you that there are two ways to do this class. The first is that you
download all the resources and you follow the tutorial
step-by-step with me. The second way is you can
download their resources, but you create your
own illustration, and you just take my
advices and staffs and you build your own artwork. I encourage you to do
your own illustration, but if you don't feel that safe, you can just download
this and follow me. Let's take a look on
this one individually. The first one is the
birdie's catch png, that is my sketch and
that you can use freely. To have this sketch
in your procreate, you just tap on, holds down, hit save image, and it will just save the
image to your camera roll. If you open procreate, go to gallery, create a new canvas because
we are going to use a screen sized canvas. Choose that, hit
orange button, add, insert a photo,
choose this catch, and you will have it right
here on a new layer. You can continue from there. Let's go back and let's
see the second one, which is the birdie
color palette. I'm providing you the
exact color palette, I'm going to use for
the illustration. We are going to
build a new one in the next video for those
who want their own colors. But you will have this as well. Just hit on it, opening files and it will automatically import
to procreate. If you go to the colors
and to the palette, you will have the
birdie color palette at the bottom of your palettes. Don't be afraid when
you open your palettes, go to the button and
you will have it there. If you want to use it, you need to hit start default. When you go to for e.g. classic, you will have this birdie color
palette for yourself. Let's go back, and now we have the birdie
procreate file, which is the original
file of my illustration. It is really good for reference, so just hit it, it will take a little time to load because it is a big file. Yeah, and it is
opening, and it's here. Hit open in procreate, it is importing, and if you go to gallery, you will have it here. Open it up and in
the layers you will see every layer that
we're going to create. We have the value check layer, the sketch layer,
the flattened image, the layered illustration, painter's palette and
a thumbnail as well. Let's go back again. We have two brushes here, these are the exact
same brushes that I'm providing you in the other
digital illustration classes. These are my personal
illustration brushes. To import them, just hit opening files and it is
important to your brushes. You will find it down here
at the imported brushes. If you have done any
other my classes, you already have this. But if you didn't,
I just want to show you how to download them. Hit this shader brush again, opening files and it'll
show up right here. These are the resources you
can find in Skillshare. I would love to show you some recommendations for
brush packs that I'm using. Let's go to my website,
which is theartmother.com. Yes, you can sign up
for my newsletter, and here you have the
procreate brushes. You can find a liner
and a shader as well, so you can download
them from here as well. Down here, they're
my favorite brushes on Creative Market. I will use some brushes from the forest tales and I guess something from
the gouache brushes. These are some
amazing brush packs, so they don't cost a lot. You can see like $8, $14, etc, but they include like 60 brushes and all of them are amazing. I really recommend you
to get them if you want. I will just show
you how to download the brushes from my website. You need to hold down
these download buttons, and hit open a new tab
and go to that tab. It will open a Google Drive page and you'll have to
download button here. If you hit that and then you will have the opening
procreate option, and it will just import
that shader brush as well. Let's go back to Skillshare, I want to invite you
to create a project. You can post work in progress photos to
your project as well. I really love to see how you
build your illustration. There is another place
on Facebook that is called the arbiters
online art room. I would love to
invite you there. It is an exclusive Facebook
group for my students. You need to answer the
questions to get in, and you can just
share your work in progress photos or
any other R2 create. I just love to see them
and to give feedback, Just come and join us. I think that was all that I wanted to say to
you in this video. See you in the next one
where we are going to get some inspiration and do a
one-minute character design.
3. Find Inspiration + One Minute Character Design: [MUSIC] Welcome. In this video, we are going to talk
about what we are going to do in this class. Our topic is a cute birdie. What I want you
to do is to go to Google and write colorful bird, hit "Images" and you will
find some amazing creatures. I will love you to go through these images and
find birds that you really love and in a minute I will just show you how to build a color palette
from these images. What I have chosen
for my project, where is my cute birdie, is a dissolute a cutie and
the way I'm going to build a color palette from
her is that I hit these two buttons and
create a screenshot. Now, I will go to procreate
and create a new canvas. Hit the pause button and
create a screen-size canvas. This is what we are
going to work on. The reason is because it is big enough to be a
quality illustration, but not too big to have a
limited number of layers. Hit the Range button, insert the photo, and do the same process. Insert this birdie here and now you now have this birdie color palette
I have created here. You can create a new one from the image you just imported. I will create a new color
palette in the color palette. Hit the Plus sign here. You can name it new birdie. Just so that I can differentiate
and set it as a default. Every time you create
a new palette, it is going to be
the default palette. You can put colors into it. Go back to the classic, and just hit the Color
Picker and go through the birdie and just add
those that you like. This is a quick way to
build a color palette that you like and you
see that is harmonious. I'm not going to do this again. I just wanted to show
you the process of it. This is the inspiration
of colors but now let's do a one-minute
character design, and I will just show
you an exercise that will help you to create some fun and
goofy characters. Character design is
a really deep topic. I could talk about it
for hours and I will in Skillshare class in
the future but right now, let's just create a new layer. Choose black color and the 6B pencil in the
sketching brushes, and do some exercises. Scribbling always frees up
the tension in your hands. Let's just first do some really scribbles around
the whole canvas. To free the tension in our
hands you can just clean it. Let's just do some small ones. Just these ones. Let's do six of them. This looks like nothing to you, but they can be actually
animals or birds, even so, let us place some eyes. Mirrors the beak. Let's say here is
one leg two leg. You can have these wings here. Can you see the bird in it? I will just erase from it. You can play with
these shapes and just create some fun things
from these scribbles. I can see a bird here. I will erase this part. You can erase from it. You can add lines
to it as you wish. Here's the wing
here's some tummy. I love to do these googly eyes. I love this one. This is fun. Let's move on. This will be a big birdie. I don't like this line here, so I will delete it. I will make some
big eyes like this. Again, your task is to do these scribbles and do
some fun with them, and choose one birdie
to be your character. We will play with that
in the next video, which is going to be the
first hack but okay. This is an interesting shape. Let's make him longer legs. This is going to be the wing. This is going to be
a very serious bird. I will put in some. Let's do another one here. This is going to be a mama birdie with a small cute birdie. These scribbles can really
turn your creativity on. This doesn't look good. Why not? I have some scribbles here. I choose something like this, but with a different shape. I already have it sketched, so I will keep with that
one and do this exercise to have some idea of your birdie or you can
just use my sketch. In the next video, I'm
going to do thumb-nailing. This is again optional if you
are going with my sketch, but just keep watching
because it will be good to see what I'm
doing and why I'm doing it. Your task now, if you do
your own illustration, is to first build a color palette from a
colorful bird image. Then warm up with
some scribbling, then create six small scribbles and use your creativity
to make birds from them. After that, choose one
to be your character. If you are not going to
do your own illustration, you can still do these
exercises for practice. Now see you in the next video. Let's start with the first hack.
4. The First Hack - Composition Thumbnailing: Hello and welcome
to the first hack which is thumb-nailing. Actually it is composition
and color thumb-nailing, which are two
different processes. But they're so closely
related that I wanted to include them
in the same hack, but we're going to deal with
them in different videos. What is thumb-nailing? Thumb-nailing is the
stage before sketching. It is basically laying down rough ideas on a
very basic level. This will prevent you
from jumping right into the sketching and just
messing up your design idea. In this stage, we are going
to do two different things; composition and
color thumb-nailing. These two answer
different questions. The composition
thumb-nailing answers that what are we going to draw and where are
we going to draw it? Obviously the color
thumb-nailing answers what color the elements will be. Now, what do we know? We know that we want
to draw a cute birdie, and we already have this
wonderful character design. But we don't really want
this birdie to be alone. But also, I don't really
want to over-complicate the whole illustration as our class is focusing
on the hacks, so I decided to add a
decorational element, which is this floral that I include in most of
my illustrations. What I'm going to
do is to combine these two together
in an illustration. Now your task is to decide what do you want to
add to your bird. It can be a floral, it can be an object or a
different decorative element. Don't over-complicate it. Just make sure that
the two fit together. We already know the colors, what colors we will use. We already have the
color palette built. You already built your
own color palette in the previous video. Now, let's just talk
about the where. The composition of
thumb-nailing actually answers more this where question. Where we are going to
place our elements, what is going to be dominant? What is going to
be in proportion, bigger or smaller, etc. What I love to do is to place
my elements into a shape. I'm going to use a circular
shape to guide my design. Let's just go back
where we left off and create our
composition thumbnails. Create a new layer
above everything. I will keep my black color
and a sketching 6B pencil. The point of having
thumbnails is to see the canvas with my
illustration and character. It is a kind of visualization
of the whole idea. I will just lay down free of this landscape
oriented canvases. This is one canvas. You can use the quick shape
function in Procreate to have like straight lines. You can lay down more
to see what works. In the composition thumb-nailing
which is the first one, you place your birdie into the canvas you
have in front of you. My idea for this
illustration was, and what I love to do in my
illustrations is to place my characters and
elements into a shape. I love circles. I will just draw a circle into the middle of every canvas. You can edit the shape
to make it a circle. If you cannot draw
proper circle, or if you are
actually doing that, you don't need to do this. You can do something
else which you like. You really have the
artistic freedom because this class
is about the hacks, not actually the
illustrating part. So let's see the first one. My question is,
where I'm going to place my character
in this setting. It is also about dominance. I don't want to do a too
complicated illustration. I want to have my birdie. I will just catch him here. I want my birdie, and I want some florals
because I really love my florals if you know my style. This composition
thumb-nailing is about dominance as well. Should I place my birdie into
the middle of this circle? This is a really rough sketch. The florals should be around
him like this for example. Or my birdie should be small. The florals should be dominant around him
and I can add more. Or should I make it
more actionable? The birdie should do something, or should I draw
him somewhere here? I love spirals as well. I will do something like this. Now, your task is to do
thumbnails like this and try out some placements
and compositions. Will the birdie be big or
small in a center, inside? wood elements will you
have in a really rough, on a really basic level? You can do more of these. I'm doing just three
because I already noted, I will choose this setting. When I decide on that, I will select my thumbnail. Put my three fingers
on the screen, slide up and hit
"Cut and Paste." What this does is that it will place my thumbnail
on a new layer. I will just delete
the layer below, and I have this layer. Now I can continue to
the color thumb-nailing, which is the second
part of the first hack, and we're going to do it in the next video. See you there.
5. The First Hack - Color Thumbnailing: [MUSIC] Welcome to
the second part of the first hack, the
Color Thumbnailing. Color thumbnailing is basically laying down rough colors in more versions from the color
palette we have built in order to choose the best
possible combination. The color thumbnailing
answers the question, what color the elements will be. So now we have our little beautiful thumbnail and the color palette that
we have already built, so what we're going to do
now is we're going to create more colored versions
of this thumbnail. So let's go back to procreate, duplicate this thumbnail
several times on our Canvas, and we are going to place
it around the Canvas. Then create a new layer below
all of the layers you have, and start trying out
color combinations, so paint on this layer
below the thumbnails. Choose the liner brush or any opaque brush to
lay down the colors. You really don't need
to go into details, values are shadows, the point is to know what color the main
elements will be. In this case, the background, the birdie, and fluoro. You don't need to restrict yourself to the color
palette you have built, you can add and remove
colors as you wish. So at the end of this process, you need to select the version
that you like the most. For some reason,
I love this one. What I'm going to do
before I start catching, is that I will select all
these layers, group them. When you have the
group hit "Flatten", and it will make one layer
from all of the layers. Now, hit "Select", select all those that
you didn't like. Free fingers slide
up and hit, "Cut", and you will remain with the little thumbnail
with the composition, and then with the colors, and now you can start working. [MUSIC] In the next video, I'm going to sketch and
show you the second hack, which is the horizonal flip. [MUSIC] Don't forget
to give yourself time for this process, and also share your
colored thumbnails in your Skillshare project and/or in the Facebook group. [MUSIC]
6. The Second Hack - The Horizontal Flip: Welcome. In this video, we're going to sketch
the whole illustration. I have the thumbnail
layer and I will create a new layer
for the sketch. I can rename these layers. I will just Thumbnail
and Rename. What do I need for my sketch? I need black color, I need sketching 6-bit pencil, and I need a circle. Thank God, Procreate
has the quick shape, so I will draw the circle, hold down, hit "Edit
Shape" and "Circle", and I have circle. Now I can go deeper
into character design. I'm not sure if the bird is
going to have the same shape. I'm not sure although
it should be a triangle. You know what? I'm going to be like, spontaneous, and
I'm just going to draw this shape like this. This is going to be
my bird and I'm not going to work on it more, this bird will have his
legs around this somehow. It will have three
things up here. One bigger eye, I just love to do that. It will just look
a little goofy. This is beak, and he will have a big tummy, with some textures on, one wing, other wing, and I don't know. But I just want it
to be so simple, I don't want to overdo this. I will have some bubbles around, and that's my thing, and I think that's okay. The second hack is
the horizonal flip. What that means that
you select it and flip horizontal and you see what is wrong with
your illustration. Now I can see that is
absolutely not balanced. Maybe it would look better
if it would be like this. I'm missing something
here, from here. I will add one more
little, this leaf. I will just turn it back
a little bit like this. I can see that these legs
are a little bit imbalanced, makes like we're feeling. I'll play with the legs
and maybe I can just turn these body a little bit. I will just hit the "Select,"
and cut around him, and position this maybe just a little bit. Feels better. Just the
millimeter, but still amazing. Cool. Now I also see that this spiral is not as long so I will just turn this. I don't want this one either. This is really cleaning up this catch and
making it better. Amazing. Now let's flip it back, and it looks great. But I think this is too big, so I will just delete it. Again while I have my sketch and it is balanced and I know my colors and
everything's just fine, and this will add into your illustrating this
experience because you will have everything
a little bit better. I might get smaller, I will add a little
bit here like that. Something then just can't
stop doing stuff like this. [MUSIC] Now, let's move
on to illustrating parts and we are going to talk
about the third hack, which is the painter's palette. Now you'll have seen how
my sketch was boring. But if you are doing
your own sketch, again, give it time, to work on your sketch
flip it back and forth as many times as you need to
reach a balanced design. If you're doing your sketch, your task now is
to finish it off.
7. The Third Hack - The Painter's Palette: [MUSIC] Welcome to
the third hack where we are going to do the
painter's palette. The point of this
hack is to make your illustration
workflow easier. I just hate that when I
have these colors chosen, I always need to click and go back mainly when
I'm really into painting. It is like a flow. You have the flow and you
are actually interrupting the flow with clicking
and stuff like that. What I love to do is to create a painter's palette because I'm a traditional painter
and I just loved to have everything in front
of me in a massive way, and I really miss
that from digital. What I'd love to do is
to hit the plus sign, put this layer
behind the sketch. I will choose brush. Actually, it can be
any opaque brush. I'm going to use my liner again and what I'm
going to do is to go through these colors
and just lay them down. It is a lighter version here. I think I want a lighter
version here as well. Maybe I'm not going to
use all these colors. I would squeeze them out from the tubes if
you know what I mean. I will just rather maybe
manage all this vibrant red. I will just add it back here. I will go with the magenta. I'm squeezing out the paint to my palette so that
I can just grab them. What I love to do is to choose a darker and a lighter
version from same color. Because when it
comes to shading, I just grabbed a darker one
and I'm ready to use those. Actually, I'm missing a little
bit of this mint green. I'm not sure if I'm
going to use that. I know I have the
color thumbnail, but maybe I will need
that for details. I just love these colors. I will just add down here. I don't need a darker
version of it. I love them navy. It is dark navy. So this is my color
palette that I'm going to just add the color picker
and start painting. It will just make
your painting and illustrating workflow
a lot easier. Now, let's continue to
the next video where we're going to
apply the four tag, the value check and then we will start illustrating and finish this illustration
up together. Let's see you in the next video. Your task now is to
squeeze out your colors to a painter's palette
to see how they work together and improve
this palette by adding lighter and darker versions and different colors that
you are missing.
8. The Fourth Hack - The Value Check: [MUSIC] Before I
start illustrating, I love to do the
Value Check layer. Hit the layers and create a
new layer above everything. Now choose gray, hit that layer and hit "Fill Layer" and now you have
a full gray layer. But what we're going to
do now is to hit this N, go to Color and go to Color. Now you will see
everything in gray scale. To have a harmonious design, you cannot have
everything disk dark. Now I see, even in my
color's thumbnail, that the color that I've chosen
here needs to be lighter. I see my color palette, which are the values
of my colors. You will need to turn
this layer on and off while you are illustrating so that you can see that everything's all right. This is what pros do
because your designs need to work in
gray scale as well. See you in the next video and
let's start illustrating.
9. Illustration Part 1.: [MUSIC] I'll just check
what we have here. So we have a layer
for the value check. You know what, I'm
going to rename that. Value check. Amazing. Then we
have the sketch. Then we have the
painter's palette and we have this thumbnail. That's what we have.
Now let's create a new layer below the sketch. What I love to do with the
sketch layer is to hit "N", lower the opacity,
and hit "Multiply". By this, I will be able to
see through the sketch. Choose this layer, and let's choose a color for our birdie. I will just choose this one. Another thing else that I
always think in layers. I mean, what's behind, what's in the middle,
what's in the front. In the middle is the
body of this birdie. Just draw and fill
in the shape of his body with a
color we've chosen. Now, what I love to do is to add a little shading to
my illustrations. If you don't know how to shade, I recommend you to take
my digital shading class. What I'm going to do is
to Alpha lock this layer, choose a darker
version of the color. Choose the shader brush again. Make it a little bit bigger. I'm going to choose a
darker one actually. Oh, that's too much. I will lower opacity. Now, I will add a little shadow below
these eyes. It'll look fun. This is all a little bit
shading with color, texture, and transparency, as it is
already a transparent layer. Hit a new layer above, choose white color because
we're going to do the eyes. I choose the liner brush. I will again, Alpha lock it, I will add a little bit of
gray and a shader brush. Actually this is simple
process I'm following. Great. Now choose black and
add the liner and that, and this, cuties
to make it goofy. That looks great.
As you can see, I lowered the size of the brush. I will just add back a
little light to the eyes. Cool. Now, add a new layer, and it is going to be the beak. So now I choose this very
vibrant red and again, choose the liner brush. I'll make it bigger. Looks great. I will turn off the sketch so that I
can see it better. I might add some more shadows. I will Alpha lock the beak
and choose a darker red, add a little bit of shadow here. I will go back to
the eyes and I will adjust that a little
bit with an eraser. I'm sorry I didn't comment on
this process a little bit, but I had to make up my
mistakes so it looks better. I need to repair the shape
of the bird as well. I just repaired it
and I will turn on the sketching layer again. So let's create a new layer and make this thing
about what we said. Let's say, I think it
should be a light blue. I will just take this. I will take the liner brush again and put this layer behind the birdie so that
it's not distracting. Wow, looks great. Oh, it's shaded as well. I have this navy here. Choose the shader brush, Alpha lock it, and put some shadows
here and there to the sides so that
it looks great. Let's put these pinks
and it will be magenta. Again, it can be in the
same layer only you need to un-Alpha lock
it or unlock it. Now choose the liner brush. This is exactly the
same process that I'm doing over and over in my other illustrations classes. So it is not like
anything surprising. Just to have this
little birdie fun. Amazing. Now I will choose
this darker violet maybe and shade with that. I'll Alpha lock the layer again. Amazing. Cool. It looks great. I just love it. Let's
do a value check. It's fine. Maybe the
beak could be darker. Let's just do it. Choose the layer of the beak. Hit the adjustments,
hue saturation, and brightness, darkness, and just put a
little bit darker. Let's do value check. Looks better. Great. Turn off the value
check and let's continue. What about the legs? I will create a new
layer for the legs and I think they could be red. Again, liner brush. It will be something like this. Looks weird. It can stay. What I'm going to do is to paint the background. The reason for that is so that I have something to
put this floral on. Choose the color picker and this dark violet and create a new layer below everything, I mean, of the birdie
and just do the circle. Looks great. Let's do value check. Still okay, but these wings
are a little bit lost. So I need to think
about something. I will turn off this. Yeah, I know why. I will repaint this. I will choose the layer of the wings and
choose the magenta. Again, with the shader brush
I will just repaint it. Everyone does mistakes. I will choose this light pink and I will not shade
but lighten now. Do value check, and
it's fine already. Maybe this still is lost
somewhere and the legs as well. So I will need to
find something. What color is this? Value check. White, yellow. I actually need to do
something with the background. I will just show you a
texture that I really love. It is the forest tales brush set and this water
brush texture. I will maybe choose
this dark navy and just darken where the bird is. Let's do value check, actually it looks fine. I just don't like the legs now. I will choose the legs. Hit "Adjustments",
hue saturation, choose a different
color, darker ones. Maybe this blue, a darker red. I will Alpha lock it, choose the yellow, choose the shader brush and I'll just do something like this. Looks better. Great. I wanted to put some stomach
to this birdie. It was this orange. So I will just
choose the orange, choose the body of the birdie hit "Select"
and hit "New layer". So now I'm on a new layer, but still in the shape
that I had selected and turn on the sketching
layer and choose the liner brush and I
will just paint there. Nice. What I will do to include this shape
within the shading of the birdie is to create a
layer above these two shapes, choose black, and you can
keep the shader brush, just lower the opacity, make it a little bit bigger. This transparent layer of
black about this color will affect the color so that it blends into this shading
that we have here. Now, let's do a value check. It will be fine because I want to add some details
around it's stomach so that it will be a
little bit separative. Let's continue in the
next video. Go for break.
10. Illustration Part 2.: [MUSIC] Welcome back. I hope you took a
little break as I did. I'm back to this illustration. It is always a good thing to
step aside and have a break. Now, we are going to continue
with the illustration. What my problem is that I'm not sure what color I
want this to be. I wanted to have it
like this magenta, but I think it will blend too much into the
background and it will be too purplish, I don't know. I will just see what
I'm layering on. I created a new layer
above everything. What I wanted to do is to
select all the layers my birdie has and group them and
just rename it like Birdy. I have a birdie. I have a
background and these layers, and I have a new layer
13, lucky number. In this layer, I will go back to my thumbnail and just
try to figure out. I don't like this red. Let's try something yellow. It will be too yellow. But you know what? The birdie has this
teal stuff on his head, and I guess it
would look great to have this teal laurel around. You can be flexible with
this thumbnailing as well. But you have a little
thumbnail to try things on, so you don't need to go right
away into the illustration. I have this 13th layer. I have my liner brush. I have the teal
color I have here. Let's start illustrating. I have the liner brush again and I will try to
increase pressure to have this nice gradation from the thin line to
the thicker line. I'll try to follow the line for the outline of this background. If you have problems
with a brush that is not really following the movements
you want to make, just tilt on it
and add streamline and it will just
fix this problem. My hands are a little
bit shaky now, so I need more streamline. You can always adjust
this and adjust back. Don't be afraid to do
what you need to do. Great. It looks quite cute. Let's do Value Check. It really blends
into the background. What I need to do is to lighten up this part of the
background or darken it. Lighten this up and
darken this maybe. You check, turn off. I will Alpha Lock this laurel
and choose the shader brush again and pick this mint color
like white blue or mint. I'm not sure what color it is. I will just try to add a little dimension
again to this laurel. I will add on the top of
these leaves as if it was a highlight. It looks great. It adds a little variation to it and I will add a little
navy to make it darker. Here and there. Make it smaller. Brush. I will add
back this leaf. I love this. Put back the navy. [NOISE] This is when the color picker is really
useful in that we have this painter's color palette here so that we can
just go back and forth. I don't like this
bigger shader brush. Go back to the navy. I am doing simple shading. I didn't go a bit of a
three-dimensional feeling to the whole illustration. Fine, let's do Value Check. It looks great. I will need to darken the
background a little bit. Turn this on. Go back
to the background and choose whatever
brush texture. If you don't have this, you can use maybe the artistic. The gouache brush will
work fine as well. Maybe I will stay with this
gouache brush for a sec. Maybe darken it a little bit. I will choose this light. Blend this well and
go back with it. [NOISE] While you
check, I will add this light purple where
these shadowy things are, and I will darken it with a little navy where [inaudible]
just like this lighter. I will do it like that.
It will be the trick. Fine. It looks great. I will just darken
it a little bit. Just play with this. In the next video, I will add some details.
11. Illustration Part 3.: [MUSIC] Let's add some details. The first detail layer, so create a new layer
above everything. These illustrations is the
birdie and on her stomach, I want to see something
a little bit reddish. I will go to this
darker red and choose, I don't know, soft pastel. I will just make it
smaller and just add a little bit of this soft
pastel to this tummy. I can choose this
vibrant yellow. What I love to do is
to choose the 6B, or is it sketching a 6B pencil? Just add some little things
like that to the stomach. Soft pastel. Let's add to it a
little bit of orange. I will place this layer to the birdie and below the eyes and the beak
so that I can continue. With this dark red, I will go back to the 6B pencil and just some some. I will choose this light
pink and add some lines to the wings and the dark pink as well, this dark magenta. Cool. It looks great to me. Let's add something up here. Let's choose these vibrant blue and we can just
add these lines. I will go to this floral. I will create a new layer above
the floral and I will add maybe some dots here
and there. I love this. I love so much when the
illustration just comes together. When I'm not illustrating
for a long time, I get too excited
about the result and I tend to overdo things. I'm going to just
add these dots. It looks so interesting
and I just love this. Let's do a value check
and it looks fine to me. I think it really looks good
on a grayscale as well. Turn off the value check. What I wanted to add as my personal thing did I love to do are these
little black bubbles. I will just turn on this. As you can see, I added
some here and there. You can all do this as well, or do just your own
decoration of things. What I love to do
is to choose black, choose my liner brush, and do black bubbles
because that's my thing. Signature element. You can add it if you want, but don't use it as your
signature element, please. [LAUGHTER] What I do
is I Alpha lock it, choose the white,
choose the shader to make it small, go inside and just add this feeling, these little black bubbles. Cool. I'm going to
turn off the sketch. Here is my cool illustration. Now that we're done
with the details, I will add one more
layer of shadows. If you have taken the digital
shading class for me, you know what will happen. I will create one more
layer above everything. Below the sketch, choose black as my color and choose from painting
the round brush. I will lower the opacity
and the size of it and I will add these
inclusion shadows. There will be just a
little sharp and I try to make it fit
the illustration. What it does that is, it adjusts the
colors right away. I will add maybe below her eyes, smaller one, maybe on the beak. Just a really small
transparent line to make it a little bit here, just so that it
looks fine to me. I will add a little bit here, add a little bit here. You know that these
are just fine details that you can add. You don't need to, but I just love to. I will add here and here, you know where things touch. Now we're down. What do you say to
this illustration? I just love it. It is so fun and colorful
and it is harmonious in composition and in colors and values and everything
is just amazing. I hope you enjoy this class. I'll see you in the
next video where we're going to summarize
what happened in this class and you will be
able to upload your project. I just can't wait to
see what you create. See you guys in the next video.
12. Final Thoughts: [MUSIC] Congratulations,
you have gone through the whole process. Now you have a
crispy illustration that I bet you're proud of. I hope these hacks will
help you to level up your art and that this class was really
beneficial for you. It would mean so much to
me if you would leave me a review so that I know what
you think about the class. I am super excited to see what you create so
don't miss out on posting your projects into the project gallery and share it with your friends and family and other students
to get feedback. Please join the
art butters online on Facebook graph
where you can post your results and
work-in-progress photos and other artworks. We're really happy to
see what you're up to. I'm so glad that
you have finished this class and that you have chosen me to be your instructor. I'm really, really thankful. Stay tuned for the next class. See you. Let's just summarize what you have
learned in this class. Now you know that to
have a great design, you need to plan ahead to get inspiration for
a color palette from real creatures that you can design a cute character
from scribbles. The thumbnailing will help
you to place your elements. That color
thumbnailing will help you make better color choices, that looking at your design from a different angle will
help you correct mistakes. That a squeezed-out color
palette will help you pay more smoothly and that value check will be your best friend
when illustrating. I hope you're happy
with your drawing. Happy creating everyone.