Digital Painting in Krita: A Simple Still Life with a Focus on Texture

1. Intro: Welcome to another digital painting class and credit, where in this class we will focus on using texture to elevate our paintings. My name is Erin Porter. I've been a professional graphic artists for many years. And I've been teaching at a junior college for more than ten years. I'm also a traditional painting. In this class. I'm going to bring some of those techniques together to show you how to create a very simple digital painting, a simple digital still-life in the free, open-source software called credit. So this is the project that we're gonna be working on. We're going to first create this very simple image. And then we're going to add a texture overlay, which will elevate it and make it much more impactful in organic in a very simple way. So grab your drawing tablet and stylists or mouse if you prefer. And I'll see you in class. 2. The Project: This is a class project. We're going to do a very simple digital painting where you will follow along with me and create an image that looks like this. We're going to start from the sketch. We're going to move on to blocking in the color and adding a bit of detail. And then we're going to apply the texture. If you don't have Krita again for credit as a free open-source software. But if you want to use something different, the techniques that I'm showing you how to use in this course are not specific to critter. So feel free to use something else like Procreate or Photoshop. And if you want to be more creative and use a different subject, feel free to try out the techniques and please do share it in the project area. 3. Why texture is important: One of the goals of this course is to explore texture in our art. Textures, one of the key elements of art, along with line shape, form, color, value in space. Texture refers to the surface quality or the feel of an object or an artwork. Texture can also be used to create a sense of realism or three-dimensionality as well as suggests different materials or surfaces such as wood, stone, or fabric. And that is what we are after here. And here we're going to explore various textures, as well as applying a Canvas texture, which is going to give our digital painting that feeling of being, or the look of being a painting on canvas. So you can see, I have this very simple image of a watermelon right here. But by adding texture to it, it can add a little bit more depth. I don't know if you saw on the Toggle, I'm toggling this on and off that little bit of texture here. It just makes it a little bit richer. And then we add a little bit more texture. And now it's paint, a painting on canvas. And you can find those textures and photographs online. Or perhaps you can find textures in real life. You're walking down the street and you see a concrete wall or something that has a nice texture that might apply itself nicely to your digital painting. So in the next video, I'm going to discuss the project that we'll be working on it a little bit more detail. Then we're gonna get into a sketch. 4. Setting up the document: Alright, so I've opened up credit and we're gonna make a new document. And I'm going to choose new document, a new file. And I'm gonna make this a US letter size horizontal. So I'm going to click right here where it says image size predefined. You free to make it whatever dimensions you prefer. And right here this little icon is, is horizontal orientation portrait right now the default here is on portrait. I'm going to click horizontal. And you can see here the width is 330 pixels per inch and the height is 25, 50 pixels per inch. And what that ends up being with us on the size is 300 is the resolution. And I'm just going to hit Create. Alright, so I'm going to zoom out a little bit. And here is my image. Okay, so right here, I'm just going to get started. I am going to, I'm going to choose a brush or pencil. I'm just going to right-click here. One thing I do want to show you, you see like I have a lot of brushes in here. The default, I can't remember. I believe it's somewhere around ten, but you can change that here in the preset. So I'm gonna go to the preferences, I'm going to go crazy preferences. So here we are in the preferences and you see general go all the way down here and you can see pop-up palette. And right now I have the maximum number of brushes set at 20. Okay, so you can change that right there. So I'm just going to hit okay. I'm just gonna go with any thin brush just I'm going to click on that. Actually may grab my drawing tablet and my stylus. And let's get started. 5. The Sketch: Alright, so I usually just test it out, whatever, right-click to get the pop-up palette. And again, I think I chose this brush here, and I actually chose that one. There we go. That looks good to me and I'm gonna get rid of this. So to delete this all, I'm just going to hit the trash can here over my layers panel, bang. And then I'm going to click the plus symbol to get a new one. Alright, so now that I have that, I need to bring in my reference material. And you can bring in the reference material or download that. And I'm just going to bring that over here. And I'm going to open this up right here. So I'm going to right-click Open With, and I'm going to open this as a preview document. Scale it down. And this is what we're going to be working from. Feel free to choose something different if you like. In this drawing as you can see, or this digital painting, we're just going to be using this, doing this main image here. We're not going to worry about the second piece, but feel free to do that if you like. Alright, so now we have the image here and let me center this a little bit. Maybe zoom out just a little so I can see the whole thing. Okay, and I have this first layer here. There's the background layer. So this layer, I'm gonna do my sketch, and this is going to be a real simple sketch. Doesn't really matter the color, but maybe I'll switch the colors. Okay, so here I'm just drawing in the shape of the watermelon. I'm not really too concerned about making sure that this is perfect. Okay. I mean, it's triangular shaped and it's a watermelon. As far as believability, that's all you really need. I'm not going to spend a whole ton of time, again making it perfect because it's not like it's about this bean are very particular piece of watermelon. So we'll just keep it nice and light and nice and loose and relaxed, right? That should do it there, but let me right-click and I am going to choose a larger brush that I want to use for an eraser. Let's see, actually an easy way to do it. You see right here this tool right there. If I hover my cursor, it says freehand selection tool. Very quick way to do that is I'm just going to click on it. Press down again, I'm using a drawing tablet and a stylus pen, but if you're dealing with the mouse, just click hold your finger on the button and you see it selects that area. And I can just hit the Delete key to remove all this extraneous stuff. When I go to click and drag, it just makes a new selection and delete key. Now if I want to, I gotta get rid of that. So I'm going to go Select, de-select, or I can just sit here, right? Hang on, right-click. I need to be on the brush tool. And I can just right-click and choose another brush. This brush here. And I can just come up here and choose ie, hit that eraser right there, or hit the E key to get the eraser and I can just erase it, erase it nice and normal. Just like a regular eraser tool. There we go. I'm going to right-click, choose that again. Right-clicking brings up the pop-up palette. And there we go, That just going to add this in there. Other, other images of watermelon that I saw, but I really liked this one because of that little divot right here in the, in the slice. It just adds a bit of depth. And then there's this dark right here and the light right here just, I thought it made it a little interesting. I'm just going to shoot a imaginary line right down the middle and you can see where it intersects. So there we go. Just kinda comes over that way. And again, I'm not going to be too precise, but I don't want to change it too much. Because if I if I don't see, I don't want to use the eraser here because this line is so thin. So I'm going to switch to this one and then make sure that's on the eraser. And right-click and go right back here, turn off the eraser. I just think compositionally the seeds being where they are actually matters. So if I change it up too much, it's going to affect my affect my dry. There we go. There is my sketch. I'm moving on to the next star. The next video where we will start to block in the colors and with a big focus on the lights and darks. When you punch in those, those darks is where it really gives you that dimension. Okay, I'll see you in the next video. 6. Mixing Colors: Okay, so here we are. I'm going to right-click and I like this brush right here, and I'm using a stylus. So let me see the way I can enlarge this brush by right-clicking. And you can see right here in the pop-up palette, I can make this larger by scaling that up. And that looks good. I liked this one because of the way it rotates with my brush. So if I show you this here, I can, it will rotate as I turn the stylus around, whereas something like this one. You can see it's not rotating. Here we go. This is actually right here, one of my favorites, but you can see it doesn't rotate at all. Okay. With this woman. If I want to rotate it and tilt it, I have to change the angle right here and that kind of slows me down. But but I do like the look of this brush. You can see. So yeah, I like the look of that brush. The one thing that I will say about this, again, let me repeat that. If I need to rotate that angle, just come right here and adjust it. I can scale the size, but the way I usually scale it is by holding the Shift key. So you see right here on my keyboard, I hold the Shift key right here. And so I'm going to hold the Shift key and then I just drag right or left, okay, right to make it larger, left to make it smaller. Again, that's just a little bit quicker than changing the size right here. Okay, So I'm going to block in this background color. Although maybe I'll do the background color and a different layer. I'll block in the watermelon color. Actually, I'm gonna go with the black first, I'm going to click here, choose the dark colors. One thing to get this palette here, let me see if I go to Window workspace. Let me put it on. So I want to open up a new Docker. So I'm gonna go Window settings Dockers, and come down to palette. Okay? And I get this palette right here. And I'm going to hover my cursor right in the middle, right. You see those little dotted lines. I can hover my cursor right there, and then I can drag that down and then I get the palate. So if I click and hold right here, I can choose different palettes. Like here's these, there's markers. What do we have here? A number of different palettes right here. I created this one here, these prismacolor prisma colors. And I show you how to show, I demonstrate how I put these colors in here in a different video. But actually maybe I should be using. Let's try this at the default. And we go and we'll just go with that. That's probably going to throw me off because I always use those other colors. And let me put that advanced color selector back on. Yes, these colors, they're kind of garish. Okay, but we're gonna go with them. We're just going to mix some colors here. So here we go. For my watermelon. I'm going to click here, and I'm just going to mix some colors. So I can get some nice colors that I like. I'm just gonna kinda brush into them. Get a little bit of an overlap and you see where overlap, I can sample those. So I can sample, hold my Command key to get the eyedropper. Or I could click here and get the eyedropper, but I'm going to sample there. And then I can make a nice solid color their brush over where it blends a little. And now I have a little bit of variation and my colors. Again, this is just like the way, this is just the way I would paint in real life. Although I think these are little bit pink. Just get a little pink in there. Don't want too much. But yeah, in real life, this is the way I would paint. Mix the colors sometimes while I use, usually mix them on a pallet or I will mix them on my canvas. 7. Blocking in Colors: Alright, so I'm gonna go back to this brush where I get a little bit of rotation here. Although, which brush? That one? Let's try this one. That's got a little bit of texture. Fills water, Melanie, and I'm just going to block this in. Actually it's a little too much texture for me right now. Let's try this. I'll go back here. Alright, nice and soft. I don't want to go into heavy with this. I'm right-clicking to get that rotates so I can get that angle. And if you're using a mouse, you might have to adjust the flow here where to get that sensitivity. And I just like to vary up that angle quite a bit when I'm working because actually I'm going to switch over. No, not that one. That one. There we go. I just liked it the way it switches this, a little rougher brush, but it gives me that ability to to get that angle and it doesn't, it's not the same. Working with a mouse does slow me down a bit. I'm going to hold the command key sample. And I can add in that dark area. Just sort of hit that area up right there. I'm going to sample this pink here and then just trim back on that. So you can see very quickly, I can add that color and I'm going to sample in a white here, hit across that very lightly. Again, that by using the drawing tablet, I can adjust the sensitivity. Otherwise it with a mouse, I'd have to really slow down and go up here and adjust either the opacity or right-click and adjust the flow. So opacity and flow, or the flow, or the opacity is up here as well. I'm just going to click there, and I'm just going to sample holding the Command key or Control on a PC and then I can trim in on that. I like to keep things nice and loose. So you can see that had added some dimension with just a couple of strokes right there. I'm going to sample, block this in. That looks good to me. This isn't going to look exactly like what I've posted already because it's it's a different painting and it never comes out the same the second time. Alright. Okay, so I'm going to sample the white extra. I'm going to sample that little gray here and bring that in. I can sample this color here. And if it's a color that I like, I'll just smoosh it up up here so I can re-sample. And we go again. I'm not trying to be very precise. Actually, I forgot I did this on my sketch level. I wanted to create this on a separate layer than my sketch so I could bring the sketch back. That was a mistake, but I'm just gonna go ahead and add a new layer right here. And let me shorten this up so I can get in there little. Alright, so the way I like to work is I like to use larger, larger brush sizes as opposed to smaller. Like you can see here, there's just a little bit of green here. A lot of people might be tempted to come in here and now we get a very precise line right here. But what I like to do, make a larger brush sweep across there. It real sloppy. And again, this, remember this is a new layer. So since this is a new layer, I can erase this and bring it back into control, rate control it. So I'm going to hit that eraser tool and see I can just trim this back down and have that very thin. Whoops, I went too far, hit Command Z or Control Z on a PC. Bring that down. I'm going to turn the eraser off because I don't like the shape. There we go. Get that shape right. Eraser. Just go back to trimming it down. I don't want to scrub because if I scrub, then if I make a mistake, I lose everything. So if I swipe across release, that way, if I need to undo it because I went too far, I can undo it just saves me a little bit extra steps on a sample that white, I'm going to reduce my brush size. And now I'm going to be a little more controlled and come across this right here. Okay? I'm liking this now. I need to add in that black, so I'm going to sample a nice little dark color. And I'm just going to power in actually, I'm going to hit Undo a couple of times Command Z, Command Z. I'm going to make a new layer case. I make a mistake, and I'm just going to blast in some dark colors. Alright? I kinda like that now this time rather than I could just erase this, but I want to get rid of some of that sketchiness. I can sample the white and then come right back on top of that and remove paint on top with a white as opposed to erasing. I kinda like that. Alright, now I'm going to add in, I'm going to sample that black. Although technically I think I want that to be a little bit just a touch lighter. Alright, I'm gonna get them on a separate layer here. Hang on. Let me change that up a little bit. I'm on a separate layer, at least away from this watermelon. So if I punch that and right there, actually I do want that a little darker. But I don't want to go 100% black. There we go. Now I can go to my eraser and I can trim that down to size and get the shape of that just right. I'm going to sample that again. Come over here and add that in there. Okay? I'm going to sample this color here. Add that color in, sample that white, and add that in here. So I'm happy with this. Now, I am going to fill in this background. So I'm going to make a new layer. And that turquoise color. I'm just going to blast it on. And again, this is a new layer. So if I make a mistake, I can, I can bring it back. Because you can see here's a new layout. Turn the visibility off. There we go. Everything is nice and safe. Underneath. Alright. Again, yes. I know I don't I didn't use this in the promo picture. I use one with a with a white background. I mean, it shows the Canvas pretty clearly there. And just a little variation. I hope that doesn't upset anyone. All right, Here we go. That looks good to me. I kinda like the scribbly aspect. I'm not going to fill in everything, but say you do want to fill it in. One way that you can fill it in and still add a little variety is this little Q-tip swab thing with a water drop That's a blending brush. And I'm going to do this and undo it. You can see you can blend over some of these things if you don't like all that. The strokes, it just kinda blends. If you'll likely it won't completely bland. Maybe even in here, maybe you have too many strokes or it bothers you too much. Actually, you can see it's not blending. There's nothing here. I'm on the wrong layer. So what I'm gonna do now is merge things down here. So I'm going to right-click and I'm going to go merge down, merge with the layer below. And I'm over the layer right here. I'm going to do that again, merge with layer below. One more, merge with the layer below. I don't want to just flatten it because I don't want to go all the way down. So here we go. So now things have changed. Actually, I should make sure to save. I'm gonna go file and save this. I haven't yet, I haven't saved it yet. And there we go. 8. Refining the Painting: Make sure you save because if your computer crashes, you'll be in trouble. Alright, so like I want to soften this edge here that's a little bit too hard. So again, I can scale this up and down by holding the Shift key drag to the left, make that a little smaller. I'm just going to brush over that edge just a little bit. And maybe over here. Because here I really want to soften this area up in here. Get a little less brushy. Okay. I don't wanna go too much just because I like, I like having a lot of texture. And you might even want to come back and grab some of these other brushes, like actually right-click, you see that brush right there. If you can find it. Hang on. What's the name of that? Let's see. It says G, Dry texture creases. If I click on that, that is a canvas brush. So I'm going to make a new layer because I don't want to wreck things hit Plus. And you can see if I paint that in there, that gives me some of that nice canvas texture. So here I'm going to sample. I have this color here. I'm not going to sample it. I'm gonna come over here and just apply a little bit of that and I'm going to sample, and I know this color doesn't match up just right. This is a bit more turquoise, that's a bit more green. But I'm just gonna go with it. You can see I can add texture this way. And it just makes it a little bit more interesting. And I like to just sort of power it in there. The good thing is say it again because this is, remember I'm on a new layer. If I move over that line right there, drag that back over it. If I go a little, oops, too far, I can just hit that eraser and take this out. But again, remember my layers. The main painting is down here and this is up here. So that's the advantage of working with, with layers is it gives me a lot more control. Actually, I'm going to hit Undo. I kinda like the little bit of an edge there. Okay, so I think I'm done with this. I can, actually, I do want to add a little more detail. I'm going to reduce the size of this dragging right? Hit some light, a light color. And you can see there's a bit of a highlight on each of these seats. That'll just give that just a little bit more dimension. Actually, I'm going to, okay, I was going to make a new layer, but I think I'm pretty safe here where I can just kinda not that in there. Hit the eraser, ink, come back and trim it back, maybe brush over it lightly, lighten it up a little bit. There we go. That added a bit of dimension. Maybe. Take the eraser off again at a little bit. Add a little bit of color here. And I'm going to trim this back a little. I'm just adding a little bit of punch of color and different little spots here. Because you can see the watermelon has a bit of reflection. And in different little spots just makes it feel a little bit more. I don't know. Liquid. Alright, maybe add a few of these little lines. And again, I know these are really large, but again, I like to hit that with the eraser and come back and just knock them down just a little bit. It just for me, rather than making just a solid line, they tend to have a little bit more. I don't know. They just seem to fit a little better and I'm just brushing over this extremely lightly trying to lighten them up. Sometimes you might take that a little too far and then you have to just erase it and start over. Okay. I think I'm liking what's happening. I'm adding a nice little texture here and we're good. So I'm going to stop working on this right here. And from here. Then I'm going to show you these textures and we're going to bring them in. And I'm going to show you how to add those textures to the painting, which is really going to take this to the next level, but I'm happy with this. And this is a perfectly fine drawing or digital painting. And I could stop right here. But again, by adding those textures is going to level it up just a little bit more. 9. Applying Texture to Your Painting: So now it's time for us to bring this texture into play finally. Alright, so here we are with the painting that we created. And I'm going to, I have this layer, it's in two layers, while there's three layers actually hear the background layer. And then I have this layer, but I'm just going to merge that down by right-clicking right here on that top layer and merge with layer below. And that'll just simplify things not necessary. Alright, So I have several textures. I have eight textures here that I have uploaded. So you have access to these, but I'm going to play with this one. This one that says Image Check texture, this one that says canvas. Then there's this one here. It's sort of a watercolor paper. It starts out with Olga. So I'm gonna go ahead and use that one as well. And so what I need to do is open these up and Christa, and then we're going to copy and paste them into the document. Alright, so I'm going to start things off. Let me minimize that. I'm going to click on that, hold the Shift key. Click on that actually it's going to select, Okay, I clicked selected the three of these or you can do them individually. Again, I was holding the Shift key to select each one. I'm going to right-click Open With and choose credit. And now let me open that up down here. Let's see. And you can see they opened up in tabs. So let me stretch this across. Okay, so here's the watermelon. And I'm going to start out with this one because this is one of my favorite textures. It's a nice marble texture. And it'll be pretty obvious what we're doing. So I'm going to go select, excuse me, select all. And you can see the dotted lines. I'm going to go Edit, Copy. And now I'm going to move over to the watermelon and I'm going to go edit, paste. Alright, it's a little small for this document. I'm going to stretch it up a little bit, expanded a little bit, but you don't want to. I'm typically expand these too much because if the image becomes soft, your texture, then the whole thing begins to look just a little bit soft. But I'm going to see how this works on this large document. So I'm just going to click right here on the transform tool and expand that and hopefully playing and I miss that hit Undo. I'm just going to expand that. That looks good. And I'll hit the Enter key. Alright, so the problem is now you can't really see the image below. So if I turn the visibility off on this layer there it is, I can reduce the opacity and that's something that we'll want to do. But you can see it. It just makes everything look muddy. What you see right here where it says normal, that actually is something you would call a blend mode. Maybe some of you know what blend modes are, maybe some of you don't. Blend modes. It's difficult for me to explain exactly what they are, but a blend mode affects the way one layer will interact with the layer beneath it. Some blend modes will make the white areas disappears, some will make the gray, some will make the black, and some will make the colors interact differently. So you just kinda have to play around with it, but right here. And yours may look different from this butt right here. Like I can see, like multiply is one that I use. Overlay screen. These are some of the ones that I use for this technique a lot. But like say normal is where we're at now, where normal, It's basically not interacting. It's a complete solid layer and that's where it was that already. So I'm gonna change this to multiply. And now you can see how that texture really affects this. And you can see that's before and after. I mean, it's overkill, but I think it makes it look really interesting. So now when you play with this in combination with this opacity bar right here, you can see how you can add a nice bit of texture with and it still looks fairly natural. So now I'm going to try a couple more blend modes. I'm going to try the overlay, which is a bit softer. You see it's a little bit brighter. So now I'm just going to increase that opacity. And you can see this really makes a nice impactful image here. And you can, Let's see, I'm going to try. Screen is a good one. What squeak screen does the exact opposite, it makes the black disappear. So depending on what you want. But again, there's a ton of these here. Soft light, this is one that I like. I'm gonna go with soft light. You see it, it applies that texture in a very soft way. Let me try a couple more. There's a ton of them down here. I'm going to click on this thing here that says mix. I'm going to toggle that open. And there is one here. Let's see, if you check these little, these little check marks, they will appear in your favorites, which are these up here. So you'll always see these because yours will likely look different from mine. Up top. These are my favorites. Feel free to copy these or play around and see what you like. But I'm going to go in here to the mix. There's one here that I want to add. Grain, grain merge. That's the one I want. I want to try that out. Alright, so now I'm going to toggle that close, but again, go through these, play around with them. They don't all behave differently. You could do a Google search and I'm sure you can find something that will give you an idea of how each, each of these blend modes behaves differently. Alright, so I'm gonna go with grain, and this is just so many blend modes. Alright, so I'm going to check out grain merge. Okay, that is quite impactful. And then I can just drag, I'm going to drop the opacity here. And you can see how you can make different, again, achieve different levels of of that texture. Okay, so now I'm just going to show you, I'm going to turn that off. I'm going to leave it there. I'm just going to turn the visibility off, but look at that. It goes from looking rather plain to BAM. A lot more interesting. So I'm just going to try a few of these and I'm going to copy and paste, then I'm going to edit it down so you don't have to sit here and watch me go back and forth, copying and pasting. But actually I'll do this one. I'm going to hit Command a to select all command C to copy. I'm going to close this and save changes. No, and that's the canvas I'm going to click here and Command V to paste it. Alright, now I'm going to change that blend mode and clicking right here where it says normal. And I can change this to, let's try soft light. That we have nice Tech, a nice canvas texture. Okay? Actually, I'm going to try this with the grain marriage. No, I don't like that. I'm going to try multiply. Okay? Overlay is a good one. That's a nice neutral kinda. This, it's nice and bright. But again, you can see how it's affecting the colors a bit. But in vivid light, Let's see what that does. Whew, alright, No. Maybe I'll just go back to the first one. I use the either blend mode or soft light. Soft light blend mode. Multiply, multiplies too much. But actually it's really making that Canvas heavy. It almost looks like it's an image printed on Canvas. But then if I drop that opacity, it looks very natural. It looks like it was painted. Now, what you can do also is you can use multiple textures. So if I turn this layer on bank, look at that. You have multiple textures and this is actually what I have in that in the main image is I'm using multiple textures. So anyway, this is a very easy way that you can add multiple textures. Okay? And here is that watercolor texture. I don't exactly think, well, this does kinda make it changes it to look more like a watercolor. I was going to say that I didn't like the way it was interacting with the paint, but it does feel like a watercolor painting. So here we have watercolor painting, and here we have a painting on canvas. So you can see how this really, it really opens up a whole new world of possibilities. And I have one more that I'm going to show you. And just for kicks, I'm going at this one here open with Rida. Alright, just because this one's kinda out there, I'm just curious to see what this looks like. So if command a, command C, come over to watermelon Command V, I'm going to zoom out a little so I can wrote this, rotate this command T, again control if you're on a PC. And move that into place. Now I'm going to change the blend mode. Let's see, I'll start off multiply. That's a bit heavy. Let's try not normal overlay. I like overlay. That's interesting. Again, you can always play with the opacity and that is how you can apply texture. I'm going to have one short video that I'm going to add here, just one little short one that I'm going to add after this one. And just show you a very quick way that you can create your own textures and which you could probably figure out on your own. Just use a paintbrush, make your own textures, and use them in exactly the same way. But again, I'll see you in the next video. And that's gonna be very short one. What I'm going to show you that. 10. Making Your Own Texture: Okay, so here we are. This is gonna be the, the last little thing that I showed you in this class here. And I'm just going to create, I'm on this top layer, I'm going to click here, or the paint layer. I mean, I still haven't deleted these other textures because I want to play with the route, play around with them later. But I'm going to click on that. And then I'm going to click here on the plus symbol to add a new blank layer. And this time I'm going to use my drawing, draw my own texture. So here I can. I'm going to pick a nice brush. Actually, I'm going to pick one. That one looks good right here. Any brush will do. There we go. So you can see how I can add some texture. And again, make sure you're not doing this on top of your image. And one thing that I'm doing here is I'm adding this texture, but I am doing it very precisely like here. I'm going to hit E to erase some of this so I'm not applying the texture on the, so much on the watermelon. I am applying this texture very heavily background, maybe just a little bit on the watermelon. And you can see I'm painting with white. So I'm going to end up choosing a different blend mode. Another way around this is when you are doing this, you can change the blend mode. So here I'm gonna go like multiply. The opposite of multiply would be screen. Let's see. Screen. Nothing. Okay, there. Okay, so multiply makes the white just completely disappear. Let's try overlay. Okay, It's doing something I'm not happy with those. Grain merge. Soft light. There we go. Soft light does a soft light does a little something here. There are more things that I wanted to show you, but I don't want to throw too much at you at once, play around with these and see what you come up with. 11. How to Upload Your Project: I hope that you share your completed project and upload it to the project area. Here, I'm going to show you how to do that. The first thing we need to do is reduce the size of the file because there's a two megabyte maximum file size. So if I move this here, I'm on a Mac, and if I click on that image and I go Command I, you can see that's that this is the two megabyte compared to what this original file is, 135 mb. And that's because of the layers and the, you know, it's a fairly large file size. Alright, so the first thing I wanna do is save a copy of this. So I'm going to go File, Save As. And I'm going to give this another name and I'm just going to type small in here and make sure you pay attention to where the location that this is going to land. And I'm going to hit Save. Alright, so from here, I'm going to come over to my layers panel. You can see I have some textures in here and some other layers. So I'm going to right-click on this, and I'm going to choose to flatten the image right there. Alright, so that should eliminate a lot of the excess file size. Now, I'm gonna come over here to Image, and I'm going to choose scale, image to new size. And from here, the maximum size. Here we go. Let's see, I have that here. The official page, and you can see it says how do I post an edit? I'll include this link in the text area on how to upload your project. You can link to this if you want to see this. But here it says down here. When uploading the cover image, the max file size, the ideal size is 69388 pixels. And if you upload something that's a little different, It's going to crop the image. And I haven't figured out a way to get around not uploading the cover image. So you can make it so that it fits in this size. Or you can just upload it twice. And that's what I'm gonna do. I'm just going to upload the original image. And then if it doesn't look right, if it gets cropped wrong, I'm going to upload it a second time. Alright, so you can see here, it says, if you'd like to add an image with the body of your project, click the image button under the ad content and the file size should not exceed 1,000 by 690. Okay? The way that what I usually do is just make the maximum width no more than 1,000. And I'm going to, I'm going to close out of this. Alright, so here it says the width is 330, 3,300 pixels. Alright, so I'm just going to make that a 1,000. I'm going to just click, whoops, re-select that and type 1,000. And this is, it's above that 690, but even if it crops a little off, it should still fit fine. So I'm gonna hit, Okay. And you see it reduced the size. And then if I zoom in a bit, I can see that it still has maintained the image quality. My computer, it's glitching here, so this image looks a little off, but other than that, it should still be fine. Okay, so now that I have this here, I need to save this as a JPEG. So I'm gonna go File Save As. And I'm just going to change this right here where it says accredit document. I'm going to make this either JPEG or PNG. And since the final destination is going to be on the web, I'm gonna go with P and G, and I'm gonna hit, okay? Alright, make sure you paying attention to where it's going to save. And now I'm just going to hit that Save button. I get this thing here and I can large file size, small file size. I'm just going to leave it right here in the middle. This doesn't need to transparency. I believe usually it says store alpha transparency, but this is again, this is completely flat image. So I'm going to make sure that that is unchecked. And I'm just going to hit, Okay? Alright, so it's saving. Finished saving. Alright, so now let's check this out. And I really don't need this image right here, the small credit document, but I didn't want to take a chance on reducing, reducing the file size and if I forgot the Save As I might lose it. So I'm going to throw this in the trash now. Alright, so I have this one, and this one was 135 mb, the original n. Now let's see what this is at. Alright, 1.6 mb, well, within that two megabyte file size. So now we're gonna go back to Skillshare. So I'm here on the Skillshare website on the on the class. And you can see there is the about area, reviews, discussions, and we want to be on the project and resources. So I'm going to click right there. And right here this big green button is create a project. I'm going to click on that. And from here I'm going to choose Upload Image. And from here, I can choose that image here small. Actually this is the wrong one because you can see that say it's 19.6 mb. We want this one here, watermelon project, Aaron at 1.9 mb and I'm going to hit open. You can see here, you can scale this up and down. So if I want to crop in on it, I can, but I'm going to scale that all the way out so that it shows everything and I'm going to hit Submit when problem that I've had. And I haven't been able to figure a way around. It is sometimes when you see this says cover image and it's going to crop it. So I'm going to add a second image to, to, to try to fix that. So I'm going to write here it says add more content because again, the cover image will be cropped. I'm going to click Image and choose the same image once again and hit open. And it should add that and it won't crop this one. Okay, so I'm gonna give it a project title, and I'm just going to call this course demo project. Okay, So from here I can add a bit of a description. Here's a good place if you have any, anything you want to say to me or unit any questions, you can put that right here under your project description. This is my demon, them on stray illustration project and a Smiley face. And I'm just going to hit Publish. And that is how you upload your project. I hope that was helpful. 12. Wrapping it Up!: I hope you enjoyed this, and I hope you enjoyed playing around with texture and maybe learn a little bit more and getting a little bit more practice with digital painting. Thank you so much for taking this class. I look forward to seeing you in other classes that I've created and please do make sure that you post your project in the project areas so that I can see it and others who are taking the class can see it. And I can't wait to see what creative things that you do with texture. And I will see you in my next class. Bye bye.