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Draw a Colourful Chameleon! Fundamentals of Procreate Illustration

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Hello and Welcome!

      1:57

    • 2.

      Introduction and Background Color

      4:23

    • 3.

      Forest Trees - Shape and Texture

      10:33

    • 4.

      Foreground Foliage - Shaping the Leaves

      3:18

    • 5.

      Forgeound Foliage - Light and Texture

      4:39

    • 6.

      Tree Trunk - Shaping the Tree

      4:25

    • 7.

      Tree Trunk - Tree Textures

      4:38

    • 8.

      The Chameleon - Shaping the Body and the Tail

      7:18

    • 9.

      The Chameleon - Shaping the Head

      2:46

    • 10.

      The Chameleon - Yellow Stripes

      5:16

    • 11.

      The Chameleon - the Legs and the Eye

      3:46

    • 12.

      The Chameleon - Shadow and Blue Color

      5:46

    • 13.

      The Chameleon - Textures for the Stripes

      4:35

    • 14.

      The Chameleon - Blue Textures for the Legs

      3:22

    • 15.

      The Chameleon - the Eye and the Head

      4:08

    • 16.

      The Chameleon - Rainbow Spikes

      3:06

    • 17.

      The Chameleon - Reposition

      1:22

    • 18.

      Fireflies and Sticky Tongue

      5:35

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About This Class

Welcome to a new wonderful adventure in the Procreate Universe, where you will learn how to use vibrant colors and striking patterns and texturesvto transform your artwork into a wild looking one! If you are a digital artist looking for a new and exciting challenge, this class is for you!

This Illustration Class is structured into multiple steps that help you develop great habits like layering your artwork and using the Procreate tools. You will get step by step guidance in order to complete each step and extra useful tips and tricks in order to make your creative process more fluent and fun.

By using real life photos as reference, you will identify the main shapes that compose the main character and learn to analyze and understand complex shapes, sorting them as different main shapes. 

This Procreate Illustration Class focuses on multiple subjects like creating a compelling environment for your character and playing with a couple of vibrant colors in order to attract the attention to the most interesting parts of the illustration.

You will get more familiarized with brush handling and ways to use different tools in order to give life to your imagination and creativity!

Because this class focuses on actionable steps and core artistic principles, it is very easy to follow and understand, so do not worry about not being prepared for it!

By taking this Procreate Illustration Class, you will not only create a fun and very cute to look at illustration, but you will build on your skills that will guide you to your next successful artwork! 

This class is designed for any kind of digital artist that wants to improove its drawing skills in Procreate and have a fun time illustrating a colorful chameleon .

For this Illustration Class, you will need your Ipad, the Apple Pencil and the Procreate app installed. On the resource page of this class, you can find the color palette used for this class, as well as the two brushes and the illustration to have it as reference.

If you want, you can use your own reference photos and brushes.

Regarding the brushes, you will only need two of them, an inking one and a textured one. You can use your own favorite brushes if you want to create a more personal look to the final result.


If you are interested in learning more about the wonderful world of Procreate illustrations and expand your knowledge, you can find more in the classes:

Illustrate a Bedtime Story - Dreamy Cats in Procreate TWO FREE BRUSHES

Procreate Jungle Vibes - Beautiful Giraffe in The Wild TWO FREE BRUSHES

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1. Hello and Welcome!: Nature is the most fantastic art subject, the place where your mind can wander freely and find curiosities and fascination. Wherever you look, you can only see beauty and things to elevate your magic. Hello, my name is Christine and welcome to a new world and colorful Procreate illustration class. After finishing your bachelor's and master's degree in fine arts, I've developed a great desire to explore many different art fields and subjects. This sparked my interest in teaching art and sharing the knowledge while having a joyful and relaxing time. In this class, you will create this wild looking digital illustration by using nature-inspired elements and palate, using vibrant colors as language, you will attract the attention to the lovely looking Camila. You will understand the process of creating a digital illustration using layers by going through easy to follow steps. By the end, you will create a whimsical chameleon climbing on the tree using clear shapes and lines. Even though it might look like a complicated artwork, you will quickly acknowledge the pleasure of getting into details by following the steps and a couple of core principles, you will become more familiar with the concepts, more confident in your creative process, you will be very satisfied to see how far you can take your skills, blending and harmonizing textures to create colorful pattern and all of that with only two brushes, an inking brush for drawing, and the textured one for light, shadow and marvelous pattern. For this illustration class, you will only need your iPad, the Procreate app, and the Apple pencil if you are ready for some fun times creating this cute chameleons, let's jump into the class. 2. Introduction and Background Color: To begin this colorful and jangly illustration, you will firstly need to create a new canvas in your procreate app. So you will have to go to the plus button from the corner and create a new canvas that has 4 thousand by 4 thousand pixels. This will offer you 12 layers on which you can develop and structure your illustration. Less press the Create button. And now that the canvas is ready, it is time to introduce the color palette and the two brushes that can be found on the resource pages. So make sure you download them. Let's now take a look at the color palette for this colorful illustration, you will use multiple tones and shades of green for the vegetation and a couple of blues and pinks in order to spice up the composition and make it look very alive and entertaining. Of course, you will need some brushes to apply this wonderful colors. So you will use the textured brush to bring the vibrating colors into the play and the inking brush to create the counter of the shapes. Of course, you can use your own favorite brushes, but make sure that you use at least one brush for the drawing and one for creating textures, or light and shadow for the shapes. Now that your colors and the brushes are set, It is time to conquer the white of the canvas. You will start by changing the color of the background. For that, you will go to the layers and selecting the background color layer, you will pick from the colors, this beautiful nuance of clays green. Now because we will want to create an interesting and digital atmosphere for this illustration. You will create on the first layer of the illustration, a beautiful gradient. So let's start with a darker shade of blue to bring a cool shade for the bottom of the canvas before creating the gradient, Let's make sure you use the proper brush for this. And also make sure to check the opacity of your brush and size of it. They fit your requirements. In this case, let's raise the opacity above 60 per cent and the size maximum. Now, lightly starting from the bottom of the canvas and using horizontal motions, slowly move upward until you reach the middle of the canvas. As you can see, the lighter you press, the more faded and settle the gradient is. So make sure you apply it patiently, making the gradient visibly saturated on the bottom side. Now it's time for some more forest three colors. So let's introduce some of this dark green from the bottom left side. As you will see, as you introduce new colors, you will need to progressively reintroduce the color from before to create a smooth gradient. So don't be afraid to jump back to the previous colors. Let's use a lower opacity to help this dark green mixed with the background shade of green and with a dark blue from the bottom. When using this dark green, tried to keep it in the middle of the canvas and not covered too much of the bottom or the top with it. Now as you can see, the gradient can seem a little bit muddy, and this can be solved by reintroducing the cold you answers from the bottom, starting with this electric and cold blue, the second darkest, Let's add some of this blue to make the color slightly more vibrant. And now you can reintroduce the dark blue and bring it back to the lower side of the canvas. Now the dark blue looks much better and vibrant. Let's pick once more the color of the background and add it over the top side of the Canvas. Learning to blend this textured layers of different colors will be very helpful. In the next steps. Let's bring a little bit of life to the top side with this light yellow from the top right side of the palette. And now you will add it only to the top side. The dark color of the tree trunks from the next step will look wonderful against the warm yellow sky from the top. Let's dissipate a little more of the dark green with a green clay color from before. Apply this green and right in-between the yellow and the dark green. And now the background gradient is ready to welcome some beautiful trees with which it will blend and set the salary for our composition. 3. Forest Trees - Shape and Texture: Let's now take a quick break to see how you can use the selection tool in order to isolate the shapes from the rest of the illustration to create textures or patterns, or bring any kind of changes inside the shape. Let's say you want to detach the tongue element from the illustration in order to create some color variations. The first thing you will want to do is to make sure the layer of the element you want to separate is selected. After this, you will press on the Selection Tool button from the top. After the panel from the bottom has been revealed, you will need to make sure the automatic option is selected. This is the only option you will need to use for this course. And after this, you will use the pen or the finger to click on the element that needs to be isolated. If the color of the element changes, it means that the selection has been done properly and you can grab the brush and do your thing. But there is also a way to control the level of selection you make. So if you press on the element and you drag it horizontally to the left, you will decrease the size of your selection. If you drag it to the right, the selection will increase until the entire element is selected. Let's now make a whole selection of the element. And after this, you can freely use any kind of brush, eraser and color to bring changes inside the shape you selected. At the end. After you are done creating inside the shape, don't forget to unselect the Move tool. Now let's get back to our illustration and see how we can use the selection tool. This step is very important and interesting one, you will create some organic looking tree trunks that will help the atmosphere feel very gently and wild. In order to create this tree trunks, you will firstly need to go to the Layers and create a new one on top of the background gradient layer. Keep in mind when introducing a new set of elements to place them on a new layer in order to have more freedom and control over the end result. And now because we are going to create the culture of the trees that you will need to select the inking brush or the brush you've chosen for your illustration. Now the color you can use for the trees is this beautiful, darker green. Before starting to draw, make sure the opacity and the size of the brush are at a level that is suitable. In this case, they should be at maximum. And now you are ready to create the contour of the trees. Starting from the left edge, you will close the edge of the composition with a tree trunk that will work as a frame. Begin the line from the top and ended on the bottom of the canvas, making sure the line closest on the edge. Don't make it too thick. And make sure that at the pace, you curve the line to the outside so the tree shape can have more stability. And now let's shave the second one. Don't worry too much about how the contour of the shape is looking, but makes sure that the lines are not straight. So you can give the illustration. It's jangly vibe. Let's create one more thin tree in the middle, this time making it a little bit more inclined to the right side. The weekly calendar of the trees will enhance the look of this forest, making it look very organic and free-flowing. Let's create one more tree trunk now, getting closer to the right side edge of the canvas, this time even thinner than the others. As you can see, none of the trees is oriented straight to the top. This forest needs to look more tropical and wild. Then how straight and organize a pine tree for us, we'll look. Now at the end. Let's close the composition on the right side by adding a thicker tree trunk inclined to the bottom middle and feel its shape. And with this, the shape of the trees is finished and the layer is ready for some colors and light. As you may notice, these trees have no branches. And that is because they are viewed from a low level from the understory of the forest where we will meet our colorful and playful chameleon. Now let's get back to our trees. In order to get sunlight on the trees. You will have to go to the layers and having the layer of the tree trunks selected, press on it and select the Alpha Lock option shown on the panel. After the option is ticked, the tree shapes are isolated from the background. To create the color textures on the trees, Let's pick from the brushes, the textured brush. Because you will want to create light on the three chunks. You will start slowly with the second green from the bottom-left side. Before starting, made sure to re-size your brush in order to slowly build the textures. And now you will progressively create this gradient starting from the middle of the tree trunks. As you can see, the top of the tree trunks are free of textures because you will want to create a strong contrast with the sky on the top side. On the bottom side of the screen, you will do the opposite. You will build a light textures on the trees to contrast with a cold, dark blue from the bottom, gradually changed the green nuances with a lighter one and applied under the first textured color, the green and yellow nuances from the bottom of the trees will contrast greatly with the blue purplish neurons from between the trees. The last green shade yours is the clays green of the background that will be applied over the green to make it lighter. And at the end, as for the top of the sky, you will use the most bright yellow with a low opacity to light up the bottom half side of the trees. Lightly hovering over the light green nuances and concentrating more yellow right on the bottom. After the gradient is then you can drop some more yellow here and there in order to not make the trees look flat. And with this, the light from the trunks is done. You can see how gorgeously the colors are blending with each other. Now you will need to take one step further in order to give these trees those interesting with the textures. For that, you will use the eraser to sculpt in the shape of the trees. Some thin curved lines. Don't press too hard on the pen and use long vertical lines to describe the direction in which the trees are growing. This is a great way through which you can help the layers combine, communicate, and create unity. Create these lines leaving from the tree counter at a slight angle and then curve the line going upward or downward over the tree trunk shape. These lines are quite simple to make and they give almost a geometrical feeling to the tree trunks, creating an interesting pattern that blends the two layers, the background and the layer of the trees. Surely this technique can be used in many cases in order to improve the qualities of an illustration. The eraser can be as well personalized and use as a brush, giving it your favorite brush texture or look. Now let's make sure the tree from the right side gets some lovely and free-flowing concentric lines. Because this tree trunk is visibly wider, you can create the lines at a slightly more wide angle, extending the lines horizontally as well. As you can see, the artistic language is very diverse and flexible. You don't have to create green tree foliage or color the tree trunks brown in order to signal the presence of the trees. In this case, using vertical organic lines and then suggesting some tree textures. Tracing some horizontal lines is enough to create an interesting and creative background for the illustration. And now the background is almost ready to receive some beautiful green foliage. But first of all, let's break the vertical and linear background. For that, you will need to go to the color palette and grab the most dark green color. And from the brushes, the inking brush or your favorite drawing brush. Before starting to draw, Let's go to the layers and undo the alpha lock so you can freely draw on this layer. And now leaving from the top of the canvas you will create some curved lines directed to the sides of the canvas. These vines help the composition a lot to not feel so high and rated. The Amon brush is very useful when it comes to creating lines in perspective, because you can press lighter or harder in order to create expressive lines. As you can see from one single brushstroke, you can create a beautiful vine that becomes bigger on the bottom side to vines for each side of the canvas. And now the vines are ready to catch a little bit of light. For that, you can use the selection tool on automatic to select only the vines. Drag the pencil to the left side until your selection becomes smaller. In this case, the dark green of the vines combines with the dark green of the trees, but that is no problem. Let's move to the right side and do the same, selecting the vines and in this case that top side of the tree trunk. And now that the winds are selected, you can grab from the brushes, the textured brush, and from the color palette. The second light is green. And now let's cast a little bit of light over the white side of the vines on the bottom where they meet the two edges of the canvas. After this is done, you can undo the selection tool. Look at this beautiful environment created for are interesting and colorful character. Now it is time to improve the bottom floor of this jungle forest with some beautiful vegetation. Now, let's move to the next step to create some lovely leaves for the bottom of the composition. 4. Foreground Foliage - Shaping the Leaves: Now that the jungle forest is done, it is time to create some diversity in shape and size with some pointing lovely leaves on the right side and the left side. Let's start the step by going to the layers and creating a new one on top of the tree trunks. Having the newly created layer selected. Let's make sure the inking brush is selected as well. And from the color palette, you will need once more, the dark green from the bottom left side. Now you are ready to draw on each side of the composition for long and pointy leaves. These leaves are formed by two curved lines that meet in two pointy tips, one on the top and another one on the bottom. After the shape of the leaf is closed with the two lines, you can fill the shape with the same color. At the end linked a pointy bottom of the leaf with the bottom edge of the canvas through a curved line to signal the leafs patio. Let's create the second leaf on the right side of the first, snacking it very nicely between the first one and the right edge of the canvas before shaped the line into two curved lines and then fill the shape. After creating the petiole less give shape to the next two leaves for this side, displaying them as a fan. Let's finish this bundle of leaves with one more on the left side, a bit lower end directed towards the middle. Very simple. These leaf shapes. As you can see, their shapes can vary a little bit. They don't have to look perfect. Now, it's time for the right side of the composition to create some leaves. When creating the contrary, remind yourself to check if the two curved lines are close on the top and the bottom. Before proceeding to fill the shapes, Let's vary their shapes a little, creating a smaller one just below the first. Two more to go, let's create a horizontal one on the bottom so they nicely occupied the corner of the canvas. And one more on the top are long and beautiful one, as for the other leaves, these ones need some beautiful and long petioles. So let's create some lines leaving from the bottom end of each leaf and descending till you reach the bottom of the canvas. With this, the shape of the leaves is done. If you feel like you can pay some extra attention to the edges using the eraser. This way you can adjust the size of your leaves without too much effort. Let's check the leaves from the left corner for any irregularities or weird-looking edges. If your leaves seem too big or her their shape attracts too much attention. You can cut a little bit more of the shapes, making the leaves look a bit more sharp at their ends. And with this, the shape of the leaves is done. Look at how nicely they decorate the frame of the composition. All they need now is a little bit of light over their shape. So let's jump into the next step. 5. Forgeound Foliage - Light and Texture: In this step, you will take further the composition by adding some gorgeously looking light on the leaves. For that, you will firstly need to go to the layers and having the layer of the leaves selected, press on it and select the Alpha Lock option. Just like you did for the beautiful tree trunks. This will allow you to cast sunlight on the leaves. Now, let's gradually create the light, starting with a lighter nuance of green. The second from the left side. And of course less make sure the textured brush is selected. Now, of course, before starting, you will have to make sure the size and the opacity of the brush. So it's your needs so you can lower the size to about 30 per cent and opacity at about half. Using this green textured color, you will add it only on the top side of the leaves as their tapes will be the ones that will catch the light. Let's get closer and make sure the tapes gets saturated with this color. Make sure you check each deep and add these green to it. Let's now go to the right side as well and give a little bit more attention to each of the tips. Now, as you may notice, the leaves are much better integrated into the salary. Now it is the time for the lightest nuance of green used in this illustration. This warm and nice clay color. This will bring the green tones closer to the bright yellow tones used for the sunlight. Apply this light gray color, scarcely adding it only to the tapes. You can see how natural the leaves starts to look once you add more color tones to them after the leaves from the right side catch the little bit of light gray green, it is time for some bright yellow. So you can pick this beautiful second yellow from the top right side. Now before applying it, make sure you use a lower size, maybe around ten per cent. So you can gradually build this slide only on the tips. Try to build the light starting slowly from outside the shape. Don't go abruptly into it. Be very gentle when you apply this light. You don't want to get them burned. Let's move higher and bring this gentle and warm line on this tip as well, concentrating the yellow on the tip. Let's now move to the bottom-left corner and do the same. As you can see, these light don't pass over the half of the leafs. It sticks only to the top of the leaves. After the warm light has found its place over the top of each leaf, it is time to create some interesting leaf textures. So you will have to pick from the brushes, the inking Amon brush, and you will reduce the opacity to about 50 per cent. Now, let's get closer to the bottom right side of the canvas and create a short line across each leaf, or short line that ends on the middle of the leaf. Going back to the top, you will create some delicate veins that leave from the middle line go towards the edge of the leaf. These lines will suggest just enough of acute leaf pattern so the shape of them doesn't look flat. Let's get closer to the other two leaves and trace two more of these lovely and transparent lines, not forgetting to add the sidelines as well. Let's zoom out now and see the lovely work done. And now it's time for the leaves from the left side. So let's move the canvas and get closer. And now for each of the leaves, you will do the same, repeating the pattern for each of the leaves. As you may notice, these lines are a lot like the texture lines of the trees there of about the same size. And they bring together the compensation made so far. Don't be afraid of a limited color palette when creating complex and depth full composition, it is very important to have many colors scattered on multiple layers. Let's change the angle of the canvas and finish the last leaf of this bundle. With this, you're gorgeous set of leaves is then ready to start developing the main elements of the artwork. And that is the beautiful middle tree trunk. 6. Tree Trunk - Shaping the Tree: The staff will be very exciting and creative. You will create a beautiful tree trunk in the middle of the composition that will twist and grow to the right side of the composition, becoming more and more thin as it reaches the top right corner. What will be very interesting about this tree trunk is that it will look like no other, whether it's twisty way of growing. Now, let's start this exciting step by grabbing from the brushes, the beautiful inking brush, and from the color palette, the brown color from the middle top side. Yes. This time, you will create a brown colored tree. So it can look totally different from the ones from the background. Let's now go to the Layers and create for this tree trunk one more layer on top of the other ones. After this, you are ready to create the structure of this tree. You will begin on the lower side with the white side of the tree trunk. That will go on the opposite side of its growing direction. And that is to the left side. As you can see, the two lines of the contrary curve until they almost reached the middle of the Canvas. Now it is time for the first turn of the tree trunk, and that will be to the right side. Let's slowly redirect the tree trunk down to the right side, creating a shape like a pipe elbow. After the elbow has been created, you will slowly make the tree trunk thinner and directed slightly downward. It is very important to use different directions when creating the structure of the tree trunk. Now let's create the next segment of the tree, slowly moving upward, getting near to the edge of the canvas, let's create two more short segments, this time making them nice and vertical. Now that the tree trunk has occupied the right side, it is time to change his direction back to the left side, make sure that the tree gets more and more thinner and you use horizontal moves to display the branch. Let's end the tree with another change of direction. As you can see, the tree grows in a zigzag manner towards the top right side of the composition. After the contour of the tree trunk is finished, you can add a little bit more to his thickness on the bottom side so the trunk can have more stability. At the end, follow the lines and make sure the entire contour is closed and there are no gaps left between the contour lines. After that, you can drag the color from the corner and fill the shape of the tree trunk with this brown color. Let's fill the shape from the bottom right side as well. And now let's add a little bit more to the thickness from the bottom-left side so the tree won't feel unstable. And now that the shape of the tree is finished, it is time to pay a little more attention to the counter. So you will use the eraser to play with angles a little bit more. Let's make this line from the right a little bit more curved inside. So the elbows of the trees can appear thicker than the segments. It is optional if you want to make the tree look thinner. Take your time to give it an interesting look. Let's move higher on the tip of the tree and make sure it bends and twists in some interesting ways. The look of this tree reminds a lot of a bonsai tree being very compact and twisty, creating aesthetic looking angles and curves. And now that the structure of this tree is done, it is time to create on this tree trunk some little short branches. These little branches should be considerably thicker at the bottom, just like the tree. Let's create two more branches on the top of the tree trunk. On the right and the left side. You can add two more additional little branches on the site. Splitting the branch into, Let's add one more branch on the top. And the shape of the beautiful tree trunk is finished. Look at how beautifully the three chunks, spirals and clients towards the top right side of the canvas. Let's move to the next step and create some beautiful light and shadow for the tree. 7. Tree Trunk - Tree Textures: Now that the shape of the tree trunk is finished, it is ready for some very interesting anesthetic textures that will represent light and shadow for that less. Firstly, make some preparations, starting with the oman brush. From the brushes. After the Amon brush is selected, you will need to go to the layers and pressing on the tree trunk layer, you will need to set the alpha lock for it. For the light textures of this tree, you will need to use from the color palette, the second Brown from the top middle. This time for the textures, you will need to make sure the opacity of the brush is at around 25 per cent and the size is at maximum. And now you are ready to create these textures following a diagonal and very wavy pattern going from one elbow of the tree to another. Now using a very elongated S shape, you will connect the top-left side of the tree with the bottom right side corner. Repeat the movement, breaking the line from time-to-time and layering the textures in order to create spots in which the light is stronger. Let's move a little bit lower and create a couple more diagonal lines parallel with the first ones. As you can see, this gives the tree a very nice and twisty look. Of course, don't forget to create the same pattern for the branches as well using the same diagonal manner. As you can see, this is not a very difficult technique, but it creates a much more natural look. Now let's make the light side wider at the bottom. Keep in mind when making these lines to keep their direction and not changed very much the point from where they are living and where they're going. Remember as well, to leave some spots free of this slide as you will need some freespace on the dark brown for some shadows as well. Now it is time for the next segment of the tree. Repeat them movement a couple of times until the light part of the tree is revealed. By using a lower opacity, you will ensure the light textures create a subtle gradient and they don't appear too harsh against the dark brown color of the tree trunk. Don't overdo it. Lets some zones free of this light color. Let's continue with some smaller strips of light on the bottom side of the tree. You may notice that the spots from the trees where you've created the light textures appear slightly larger than the one without textures. This will make the tree look even more twisty and interesting looking. Now the bottom of the tree, since a little bit too segmented. So let's create a bridge between the two light strips from across the tree trunk, making it look much more sturdy and solid at the bottom. After the light textures are done, the tree is ready for some cold dark textures as well. So let's go to the color palette and grab the dark green from the bottom-left side. Now following the opposite side of the light and trying to avoid the light side of the tree, apply this shadow using the same style of layering. Make sure that as the light, the shadow is applied progressively and it creates that several gradient. Let's create one more strip of shadow on the bottom right side to accentuate the direction in which the tree is growing. Let's continue with the top side of the tree, creating shadow in-between the spots of light. As you may notice, the dark textures are substantially smaller and more restricted than the ones of the light. This is because you don't want to attract too much attention with the contrast that is too strong between light and the shadow. After all the dark little lines are done. You can use a higher pressure to apply. Some widen the thin stripes of shadow on the bottom side of the tree segments. And after this, the tree trunk is finished. Looking at this interesting looking tree. How beautifully it rises from the depths of the jungle and twist towards the top of it. And now you're beautiful. Tree trunk is ready for the chameleon. So let's jump into the next step and create some beautiful shapes for the body and the tail of the chameleon. 8. The Chameleon - Shaping the Body and the Tail: Now that you are going to create the interesting body of the chameleon, Let's see how you can play with the useful Move tool. Let's say that you want to modify the size or the shape of the body. In order to do that, you will need to firstly, make sure that the layer of the body is selected. After that, you can click on the Move Tool button from the top in order to have the bottom panel revealed. The two ways you will use the Move tool for this course is on warp to have the freedom to play with the shape however you want. And the uniform option, which will allow you to keep the shape and modify only the size. Going back to the warp option, as you can see, the grid appears to have four main points, one in each corner, and nine squares inside the rectangle. Use your pen or finger to drag the shape in the direction desired. As you can see, these two offers a lot of freedom when it comes to customizing and creating interesting shapes, lines, or directions. Of course, you can do this for any layer. So let's select the layer of the spikes in order to readjust its position now that the body is covering more of them, Let's now see how to use the uniform option by dragging the rectangle outside the shape by the little circles from the corners, you will make the elements contained inside the rectangle appear bigger, keeping their shape at the same time as any other tool. After you are finished bringing any kind of adjustments. Don't forget to unselect the tool from the top. And now let's get back to our illustration. Look at how far you've come in this adventure. The jungle forest is done and you're ready to create the character of this illustration, the colorful chameleon. You will place the chameleon on the branch, on the horizontal segment of it to start creating the body of the chameleon. Let's firstly go to the layers and add one more layer on top of the branch. After this, let's fetch from the brushes, the brush with this brush and the most intense light green color, we'll create a counter of the body shape. Let's look at this colorful chameleon and try to understand the way its body is shaped. The first thing that you need to do when you look at the subject that you want to represent is to break it into smaller and easier to understand shapes. Let's start with the most obvious ones. In this case, you can say that the shape of the chameleon is composed of the body and the head. After these two simple shapes, you can identify smaller and more particular shapes or features like the crust from the top of its head. And it's big and fidgety. I the two visible Twinkie legs from the front side and the tail. That is something like an extension for the body. And just like that, you have already identified a bunch of features that can be represented by easy to understand shapes like ovals, circles, or rectangles. These shapes can be linked by more interesting features like the vibrant colors and intricate textures and patterns. It is very important to pay attention to details as well, like the spine spikes or it's coiling G3P tail. These details give a lot personality and charm to the character. And the whole illustration. Looking closer, you will find more and more details that compose the big picture. So take your time to find the beauty of blending colors and textures. Now, let's get back to our illustration to start creating the chameleon, makes sure the size and the opacity are at maximum. Let's begin shaping the chameleon, starting with a simple oval shape placed on top of the branch. This oval shape will be longer horizontally. So let's start tracing this oval shape. And after you've described the entire Oval, hold a pencil down until the oval becomes uniform after this click the Edit Shape button from the top. Now let's drag the four circles to make the shape a bit more delegated horizontally and drag it a little bit higher to let some free space on the bottom so the chameleon can rest his legs on the branch after the position of the oval shape is established, fill the shape with the same color. And now that the oval shape is done, it is time to model it in the shape of the body. For that, you will use the move tool on warp to make the oval shape look like a bean. With the top side a bit more elongated to the sides where the tail and the neck of the chameleon will be. Drag the right side a bit higher and the left side lower. So you can make the transition between the body and the tail. Now, let's lift the belly higher to make more room for the two beautiful legs that will be later placed in the front of the body. You can see how organic the shape starts looking. Now the shape of the body is finished. Let's unselect the Move tool. And after this, you are ready to create the curly tail of the chameleon. You will start by creating a long curved line that continues the back of the chameleon down. As the curve becomes horizontal, you will continue the line describing a spiral in a circle shape. Don't make the spiral too complicated. Now that the outer edge of the tail is done, let's trace the inner edge at the top side. Make sure you take some distance from the first line, thus making the tail appear wider. Let's now close this line with the outer one and fill its shape. And now you will continue the tail on the bottom side, drawing some straight lines inside the spiral and filling them with color. This way the spiral can be filled and completed much faster, having more control. Now, after you've reached the end of the tail, you can move closer to the corners and trace a semicircle parallel with the outer edge of the tail. At the end, make sure that the end of the tail is not too thin. So the shape of the tail can seem like a continuous shape. Take your time to make any more adjustments over the counter, smoothing out any harsh or bumpy edge. After this, the shape of the body and the tail are finished. Looking at that spiraling tail, how nicely it continuous the shape of the body. Now let's jump into the next step and create the head of your colorful chameleon. 9. The Chameleon - Shaping the Head: Now that the body of the chameleon is done, it is time to create the shape of the head. So let's begin with some preparations. The first thing to do is to create a new layer on top of the other ones. After the layer is created, let's make sure the brush is selected from the color palette. You will use the green from the middle, so you can differentiate the shape of the head from the one of the party. As for the body, Let's begin by creating a simple shape. This time, you will describe a circle that crosses the body so it doesn't seem detached from it. After the circle is closed, you can fill this shape with color. Of course, you can use the Move tool as well to reposition the head, maybe placing it higher and over the body. After this, you are ready to describe the particular details. So let's undo the move tool. You will start by shaping the pretty little cast from the top of its head that goes with a little curve upward. And then from there, let's change the direction of the curve to form the back of the cast. From there, let's descend towards the right side with a line creating the front side of the crest. And then you can fill the shape of the crest with color. Look at that beautiful crest, how beautifully it rises from the top of the head. Now let's move to the lower side of the head. And living from the middle left side of the circle, you will descend with a short line to signal the back of the jaw. And then you can trace the bottom side of the jaw, passing to the bottom right side of the circle. As you can see, it is very easy to start by creating a simple main shape and then from that shape evolve to a complex one. Now let's create the bridge of the nose and give the tip a little bump to signal the place where it's little mouth will be. You can use the eraser as well if you want to carve into the shape and not add more to it. And with this, the main shape of its head is finished. Take your time to bring to the shape anymore adjustments or features. You find interesting. Maybe some tiny spikes under its head or create a special shape for the crest. And with this, the shape of the head is finished as well. And your chameleon is getting more and more interesting looking. Let's move into the next step and create a beautiful and very decorative pattern for his party. 10. The Chameleon - Yellow Stripes: In this one, you will start introducing a new color into the illustration. You will use yellow to create some intricate and very organic looking lines across the chameleons body, including the tail and the head as well. When creating this pattern, tried to describe the lines as being curved in order to give volume to the chameleon. Now it is time to make some preparations before starting this very fun and creative step. Let's begin by going to the layers to make sure the layer of the chameleons body is selected. After that, you will make sure the inking brush is selected in order to create the interesting pattern for the color, you will use the third beautiful yellow from the top right side, the one next to the orange. Like before, you will need to separate the body from the background. For that, you will use the selection tool on automatic to select the body. After the selection is made less grab once more the brush from the top. And now let's start creating some vertical lines across our little champs body, playing with the pressure applied in order to make the line look very organic and decorative. Don't rush to make the lines to take and be sure to make them appear thicker on the top and the bottom side. In other words, the pattern will be thinner in the middle of the body. To accentuate the wild look of the pattern. Play with the distance from between the lines. You can even link them on top or bottom to create wider stripes. As you can see, two or three lines of different lengths can be enough to continue the sequence of shapes. Let's move further and continue creating these lines leading from the middle of the body and then gradually moving perpendicularly to the edge of the body, pressing harder as you reach the edge. Let's move the canvas in order to have the tail displaced horizontally so you can keep the fashion in which the lines are done. You will see that as you go further on the tail, the lines will become shorter and wider, which is very nice. You will want to slowly shift the look of this pattern into one that looks a little bit different. Tried to keep a balance between the stripes and the green part of the chameleon. You don't want to let the pattern take over its entire body. Let's get closer to the end of the tail, continuing the pattern, tracing the lines perpendicularly on the edge. Let's move slowly to the right side, continuing the sequence. Look at how easy is to create this pattern. These very decorative and wildly looking stripes. A couple more, and the pattern is almost finished. Tried to sprinkle here under smaller lines and details so the pattern don't start to look too repetitive and boring. Let's move to the tip of the tail and make it look extra colorful and yellow. In the end, it will stand out gorgeously in the middle of the spiral. A couple of more patches of yellow in order to close the pattern. Now let's take a step back to make sure everything looks very beautiful and decorative. If you feel like it, you can take your time to add some extra lines here and there. If you feel like accentuating the pattern on the back or on the belly. And now it is time for a couple of same pattern elements for its head as well to accentuate some of its volumes and shape. So let's first of all, under the selection made of the body. After this, you will go to the layers in order to move on the layer of the head. And now once more, make a selection of the head to detach it from the rest of the illustration, grabbing the brush, you will use the same beautiful yellow to trace on the left edge of the crest. A beautiful and white stripe to accentuate is beautiful. Cantor. Now following the first-line, continue lower on the head with some smaller lines, making them more and more smaller as you get lower on the head. And after two or three more short lines on the top of its head, you are ready for the final detail, and that is the mouth, or better said, the contour of the mouth. So let's get closer to the bottom side of the head and following the bottom side of the head, create a little swirl for the corner of the mouth and then climb back up to the mouth entrance, bending the line a little bit on the bottom left side. And with this, the chameleon is now dressed in his party costume. Look at how nicely the yellow of the pattern harmonizes with a subtle warm lights from the leaves. Let's move to the next step to create some beautiful shape for its legs. And it's very curious, I 11. The Chameleon - the Legs and the Eye: Now that you've established the pattern from it's interesting looking body shape. It is time to create the two little legs from the front side of the chameleon. It can hold itself from the top of the branch to start creating the two little legs. You will go to the layers in order to add one more on top of the others. After the layer is created, let's make sure the inking brush is selected. And from the color palette, Let's grab a darker nuance of green so the legs can have a different shade from the body. And now you are ready to create the two legs. You will make them flexed so the chameleon can seem relaxed. Now, let's give shape to an elongated rectangle to shape the upper arm, tilt it to the bottom left side. Let's fill the shape with color. And now you are going to create the forearm living from the bottom side of the shape with a line to grid, a small angle. And now on the outside, you will trace a semicircle, just like you would trace a shape of a lemon slice to give a nice look to the elbow and have a bit of shape variety. After the two shapes are filled with color, Let's continue with the front hand, shaping three fingers with a big thumb climbing upward on the branch. So the chameleon can have a nice grip. Now let's move to the bottom side and like before, create two more fingers, a bit more elongated and parallel, going vertically on the tree trunk. After the two shapes are filled with color, you can take your time for any more refinements in order to get rid of any weird looking angles, you can even use the eraser to sculpt in the shape if you feel like it looks too chunky. And with this, the first leg is done and you are ready for the next one. So let's grab the brush and move to the left side of the body, this time creating the semicircle part of the leg on the top side, angled upward. After filling it with color, Let's create the second segment of the leg, the rectangle shape going almost at a 45-degree angle to the bottom over the branch. See how easy it was to create the two legs. Let's finish the last one by shaping the next three fingers. Let's create two on the bottom side, nice and chunky, and another one on the opposite side. These two hands don't have to look identical. So don't stress about making them the same, but make sure to take your time and give a nice finish. To the contrary, the shapes can look very smooth and clean. And with this, the shape of the two legs are finished. All that is left to do for this time is to create a big eye in the middle of the face, on the same layer as the legs to keep the small elements separated from the big shape layers. For that you will grab the color of the body, the light green, by pressing with one finger on it until the color circle has appeared. After that, you can move closer to the face to create a big M beautiful round shape for the, I, fill it with color. The chameleons, I are emblematic, so make sure it says is remarkable. After this is done, all the big shapes of the chameleons body are finished, and it is time to play with some vibrant colors on its body so it can stand out from the beautiful forest. 12. The Chameleon - Shadow and Blue Color: In this exciting step, you will create some beautiful and colorful textures on the green parts of the body and the tail as well. For that, you will have to go to the layers and make sure the layer of the body is selected. After that, Let's grab from the brushes the texture to keep the brush so you can create some interesting shadows and lights. Let's now grab from the palette, the second darkest green from the left in order to create a beautiful shadow on its belly. Now because you will want to limit the textures only for the green, you will need to separate the green from the rest of the illustration. So let's use the selection tool on automatic deselect. Only the green side of the party. Click on each small green stripe until they are all selected. Let's now move to the chameleons tail and patiently select each of the green stripes. Even though the chameleon looks cute in this pink suit, let's change it back to the green by selecting the brush from the top. And now making sure the size and the opacity of the brush are at a medium level, you will create a subtle shadow on the bottom edge of the chameleon, making sure it has a uniform. And even look. As you can see, this darker green creates a bridge between the color of the head and the body, thus making the shapes look like they belong to one another. Look at how nice the dark green contrasts with a yellow stripes. Let's move lower on the tail and create a little bit of a shadow on the bottom side of the tail as well, following the outside edge. As you can see, the texture is actually applied outside the shape so it doesn't cover the entire surface of the tail. A couple more passes with this beautiful darker green color. And now the shadow part of the body is done. And the chameleon appears to have a much more 3D look. If you feel like paying some extra attention to details, you can lower the size of the brush and getting closer, you can use this small size to make sure that dark color is saturated on the edge. The small size will allow you as well to create shadow and contrast on smaller spaces like in-between these two lobes of the tail. After the shadow side is, then it is time to create some colorful patterns on the back of the chameleon, starting with a beautiful shade of blue. So let's grab it from the top middle side. This blue will beautifully create a transition between the green from underneath and the future nuances of blue and purple. Again, you can see how nicely the intricate yellow pattern is enhanced. Now, let's move lower on the tail and continue adding this light blue on the outside edge using a smaller brush size in order to keep the beautiful gradient created between the colors because these blue will be later covered. Other nuances measure, it's a little bit more dispersed over the green. Let's add it to the middle part of the tail, making the spiral a little bit more colored and contrasting than the rest of the body. Now following the inside part of the tail, you will create a connection with the outside edge of the chameleon, tracing a diagonal line to continue the colored pattern and make it look nice and cursive. Let's accentuate this line and make sure it has a nice curvature and is not interrupted. Take your time to make this pattern look extra vibrant and nice. And now that the light blue has found this place on the back of the tail, it is time for the second nuance, this brilliant violet from the top left side. You can adjust the size of the brush to make it bigger in order to have a better coverage. As the light blue apply this violet on the outside edge on the back, making sure you don't cover the blue side entirely. Let's follow the edge to the left side and the sand on the tail, making sure that edge is saturated with this beautiful contrasting violet blue. Getting closer to the tail, you can decrease the size of the brush. So you can create a precise stripe of this textured violet. And now let's move to the end of the tail and go over the light blue side to have this violet beautifully contrasts with the yellow of the pattern and the brown of the branch. Let's follow the blue until you reach the middle, where you will accentuate the violet to make a great contrast with the orange from the top of the tail. Don't forget to follow the diagonal line that crosses to the other side and link once more the two sides of the pattern. After you are done applying the violet, you can end this beautiful step with the darkest nuance of glue from the top-left side. You will use this blue to shadow just a little bit of the back to give even more depth to the blue nuances. Look at how deep and nice the blue shades look. Now, let's undo the selection and the blue shades are finished. Congratulations, look at how gorgeously the patterns looking. Let's get into the next step to play with light and shadow on the beautiful orange stripes of the pattern. 13. The Chameleon - Textures for the Stripes: To begin creating the light and the shadow of the pattern, you will firstly need to make sure the layer of the body selected. After that, as you did before for the green part of the chameleon, you will use the selection tool on automatic to select all the beautiful orange stripes. Start from the top side, from near the neck. Make sure you select them all and there are no hidden stripes in the back of the two legs. If the selection is done properly, the orange stripes will appear blue. Make sure you zoom in to pick the stripes of the pattern. Take your time to admire all the intricate and beautiful stripes created and appreciate the plasticity of the Amon brush. How effortlessly this brush can create such beautiful and organic patterns. After all the stripes are selected, you are ready to create the light and the shadow for the stripes. For this, you will use the textured brush and the warm nuances of yellow and orange from the top right side. For the light, you'll use the lighter tones. So let's pick the yellow from the top right side corner. After that, make sure the size is at a reasonable level at about 12% and the opacity at around 70 per cent. Now, unlike the rest of the pattern, you will apply this yellow very scarcely and dispersed around the pattern. Just to break the flat look of the color. After that, you will use the opacity at maximum and a smaller size to accentuate a couple of edges like the top of the tail that you will want to make very clear and obvious. The top edge of the tail on the right side and on the inside part as well. From the inside part of the tail, you will avoid applying this light on the belly. And you will move to the back of the chameleon, creating a beautiful contrast with a violet from between them. After you've made sure the spots have been touched by light, you can move to the next color, the beautiful and intense orange color that you will use mainly as shadow. So you will apply it on the stripes from the belly and move down the tail until you meet the yellow applied previously. Now, you will avoid the yellow transitioning to the left side of the tail and add this beautiful bright orange following the edge, slowly descending on the top of the tail and making sure you keep the top side of it and touched up this color. After the bottom side is nicely contoured with orange. You can sprinkle some of it here and there, even on the bottom side of the end to make the pattern look much more interesting and organic. Look at how gorgeously this fiery color looks in combination with a green nuances. And now the colorful pattern is almost finished. But let's not forget about the pattern from the hair as well. To create the pattern from the head, you will need to firstly, under the selection made of the body pattern, then going to the layers, you will have to select the layer of the head. And using once more the selection tool on uniform, you will select the yellow stripes from the top of the head and the beautiful smile. And now let's grab the brush and add this textured color on the middle of the strives to create a little depression underneath the crest. And now let's add it to the tip of the mouth to decrease the contrast with the edge of the face. Looking at how easy it is to grid volume using these textured colors on the patterns. After this intense orange, you can pick up the yellow from the palette and add it to the top of the crest to accentuate this volume and on the cheek as well to make it pop out nice and beautiful. And after this, the yellow pattern is ready to go. Let's under the selection tool, after you are satisfied with the result, look at this gorgeous pattern, how the warm nuances are playing and very subtly create volume for our shapes. Let's now move to the next step and create some beautiful blue textures on the legs as well to integrate them into the look. 14. The Chameleon - Blue Textures for the Legs: Let's see how we can play with some textures in order to make the legs look more integrated into the look of the chameleon. For that, you will firstly need to go to the layers and select the layer of the two legs and I. After this S for the stripes and the body, you will use the selection tool on automatic to make a selection of the two legs. After the selection is made, you can pick from the brushes, the textured brush, and from the color palette, the second green from the middle, used for the body. Now, you will use this color to fade the transition from between the body and the geometric shape of the legs. Let's do the same for the leg from the front. And then you are ready to introduce a new color into the shape. So let's pick this beautiful light blue. And with this blue, you will create a new segment of the new color going over the light green applied previously to mask the dark green from underneath. Now, as for the back of the chameleon, you will create a gradient towards a new shade. So let's use this vibrant violet to create a color textures on the rest of the two shapes covering the hands as well. Look at how nice this color is popping on the brown color of the branch. As you create this gradient, make sure the colors are blending well together. You can do this by going again with the previous color over the other one, pressing very lightly to soften out any harsh looking textures and transitions. Let's now get to the last color. The dark purple from the top-left side, and the blight on the bottom side of the legs. To lower the value contrast from between the waitlist shape of the legs and the branch. A few passes will be enough to them a little bit the brightness of the color. At the end, you can bring back the volume of the fingers by using the vibrant violet and the low brush size to bring some light on the top side of each finger, making the patches of light wider on the tip of the fingers and smaller as they reach the top. This will make the fingers look wide and flat after each of the fingers has received a little bit of light, the leg textures are done and all there is left to do is to create with Amon brush and a light orange from the top right side. Beautiful stripe of color on the sole of the feet. The stripes will contrast greatly with the violet color of the legs. And it will create a link with the stripes from the head and the body. And after these two legs are done as well, look at how wonderfully the legs look now, matching the look of the body with the colorful textures and the beautiful gradient. Let's under the selection made of the legs. And now this step is finished. Congratulations for coming so far. Let's now focus on integrating the head as well into the look of the chameleon. 15. The Chameleon - the Eye and the Head: Now, as you can see, the body is done and all that is left to do is to create the beautiful details from the head and the eye. For that, let's make sure that the selected layer is the one of the two legs and the I. And now you can use the selection tool on automatic to make a selection of the eye shape in order to create inside its shape a beautiful gradient. Clicking back on the brush, make sure that the textured give you brush is selected and the lightest nuance of glue from the color palette as well. Now getting closer to the eye, Let's create a circle like texture shape on the top left side of the eye as the pupil will be oriented in this direction, make this circle nicely saturated in the middle, letting some textures only on the edge. Now, as in the previous steps, you will change to the next color, the vibrant violet. And using a smaller size, you will create a new circle, letting some of the blue still visible on the edge. After this, you will create the eye pupil. For this, let's use the inking brush and the darkest nuance of green from the bottom left side. Now you will create a simple circle like shape in the middle to indicate the pupil. It doesn't matter if it's perfectly circular or not. You can shape it as you like. At the end, if you want, you can create one more circle inside the last one using the dark purple from the top-left side at the end to give a beautiful volume to the eye, you will trace some reflections on the eye so it can look shiny and nice. For the reflections, you will use the light blue from the top middle side. Now, zooming out, you will trace this reflection like a teardrop living from inside the pupil. Going to the right. One more little spot of light on the bottom and the thin line on top to create a more complex reflection. And the eye is ready to go. Let's under the selection made of the eye. And now it is time to create some light on the shape of the head. For that, you will need to go to the layers and select the layer of the head. Then let's use the selection tool once more to make a selection of the green color. Now, as for the body and legs, you will use the texture TV brush to create volume for the head shape in order to create a link between the head and the body, Let's pick up the green color from the body by pressing with one finger on the green, make sure the size of the brush face, the size of the head at around 20 per cent. And now, starting from the top, you will descend on the head until you reach the middle of it, pressing lightly on the pen to create a faded light. After a couple of passes, the head already fits much better the look of the chameleon and the green is much more soft and nice. At the end you will accentuate the light from its head using the light yellow from the top right side. Make sure to decrease the opacity of the brush. So you can create this light gradually. Look at how easy it is to create the light gradient. It really helps to create volume for the head and it is really effortless. Let's pass a couple more times over the top side to diminish the contrast from between the yellow stripes. And with this, the beautiful head of the chameleon is done as well. Look at it's marvelous colors, how nicely they help the chameleons stand out in the jungle forest. Let's now jump into the next step and create some gorgeously colored rainbow spikes on its back. 16. The Chameleon - Rainbow Spikes: In this step you will give shape to some very beautiful spikes that will be placed on the back end, the tail of the chameleon. In order to do that, you will need to go to the Layers and create a new one on top of the others. After this, let's make sure the brush is selected from the brushes and from the colors. Let's select the pretty ping from the bottom right side. Now getting closer to the back of the head, you will create over its contours some short lines making them thinner or wider. Be sure to trace them perpendicular on the body and make the tips thinner. Move the canvas and reposition it in order to trace the lines perpendicularly on the edge of the back. As you can see, it is very easy to make these bikes. They don't need to look like one another. By placing these spikes on the back of the chameleon, you will make it stand out through shape and not only through color and pattern. Let's move lower on a cell and make the spikes smaller as you reach the bottom of the tail. After the shape of the spikes is done, it is time to reposition the spikes and the layers. So let's go to the layers and drag the layer of the spikes underneath the layer of the body. After this, it is time to rearrange the spikes a little bit using the Move tool. So let's pick the move tool from the top and having the warp options selected, you will move the grids in order to hide the spikes more in the back and make them appear smaller. Drag them lower and hide them underneath the tail to make them look smaller as they reach the bottom. This will improve the cursive Luke of the shapes, making the spikes seem like they continue the yellow stripes of the body. Now it is time to give them the rainbow look. For that you will need to go to the layers and select the Alpha Lock option for this layer. Now that the spikes are isolated from the rest of the illustration, you will play with their color. So let's go to the brushes and grab the textured brush and select from the color palette, the bright magenta from the bottom middle. Now you will apply this color on a couple of spikes, changing the color as you move further. Let's create a couple of blue spikes and a couple of orange ones. After two or three spikes change the color into another colorful one. Thus bringing together all the beautiful colors of the chameleon on the gorgeously looking spikes. And with this, our festive chameleon is ready to party. Let's jump into the next step to adjust the position of it into the illustration. 17. The Chameleon - Reposition: And now the chameleon is done and happy to live in its environment. But it's size seems a bit too small in comparison with the rest of the elements. It needs to be a tiny bit bigger. In order to make it bigger, you can go to the layers and having the top layer of the legs selected, drag each of the layers from underneath to the right, select them all. After all the layers of the chameleon and the tree trunk are selected, you will pick up the Move tool from the top. Now make sure the uniform option from the bottom is checked. And now you can increase the size of the whole chameleon and the tree trunk as well by dragging the corner of the rectangle to the outside. Now that the chameleon looks closer to the viewer, make sure it's centered, dragging the rectangle on uniform option from outside its shape till you find the perfect spot. Make sure you leave some free space on the top of the chameleon for some pretty little fireflies at the end and do the move tool. And the illustration is almost finished. Let's get into the last step and create some beautiful fireflies. 18. Fireflies and Sticky Tongue: And now enter this last step. You will create some pretty little fireflies in the air to enhance the magical atmosphere of this beautiful composition. This will be a very easy step, so let's get into it. The first thing you will need to do is to go to the layers, add one more layer on top of the others. Now let's make sure the brush is selected and then pick from the color palette, the beautiful light orange color. Now you will create some circle shapes around the chameleon, starting with a bigger one on the top left side of the composition, where are the chameleon is looking? After filling the shape with color, create a couple more of these circles, placing them wherever you like, around the background. You can make smaller ones as well, so they seem further from the viewer. One more little firefly bulb. And now you can go to the layers in order to alpha lock the layer of the fireflies. Now, using the light yellow from the top right side, you will create a smaller circle into the orange one. So the bulbs can seem like they're glowing. A bit of this light, yellow on each of the fireflies, and their shape will beautifully transform into a one that has volume. Let's move to the last Firefly to create the less light. And now you are ready to draw some very delicate wings for the fireflies. They seem like they're flying around the chameleon. To do that, use the dark green from the bottom left side and make sure you undo the alpha lock of the layers so you can draw on it. Now, let's get closer to create the wings and the little legs. Draw them, as they would describe a couple of tie shoelaces. It doesn't need to be something too complicated. Let's move to the next one and the same describing the two lobes on the top. Two or three little legs. Make sure to adjust the size of your brush so you can feel comfortable when making these wings and have clean and thin lines. One more pair of wings for the last firefly and illustration is almost entirely finished. Look at how beautifully the fireflies float through the air. At the end, you will create the lung and sticky tongue of the chameleon. To create the tongue, you will need to go to the Layers and create a new one for the tongue. Now, using the hormone brush and the beautiful middle ping from the bottom right side, you will create a long and swirly tongue, living from the mouth with a thinner line and reaching the top left corner with a wider one. Try to create the shape of the tongue so it can have a very expressive and beautiful shape. Repeat the movement until your line becomes more suggestive. Don't forget to place at the end of the chunk a beautiful spiral just like you did for the tail and the corner of the mouth. After you are satisfied with the position and the look of its pink tongue, you can use the move tool on warp to distort the shape, making it look like it's sticking out of the mouth. After the two ends of it, sticky tongue are placed, make sure the middle of it that is crossing the chameleons body does not cover any interesting or beautiful details you want to keep visible with this deposition of the tongue and its shape is done. Let's use the eraser to get rid of the part of the tongue that goes over the face. And now that the shape is done, you will want to create some light and shadow on it. So you will use the selection tool on automatic to select the tongue. And now grabbing from the color palette, the light pink from the bottom right side and from the brushes, the texture of the brush. You will create some light around this shape on the bottom and the top side as well. So it doesn't look like a flat shape at the end. To bring some vibrancy back, you will use the bright pink to create some stronger patches of textures on the middle of the tongue. And on the right side as well, right where it comes out of the mouth. Just a tiny bit of this intense pink. We'll make the chameleon look extra colorful and magical. Let's undo the selection made of the stung. And with this you're a whimsical chameleon is done, and you have finished another magically looking illustration. Thank you so much for taking this digital illustration class is being such a wonderful adventure. If you enjoyed it. And you had a great time learning to create this Procreate artwork. Make sure to leave a review and share your beautiful project, as well as any thoughts about your journey. Thank you once more for your interest in art and see you in the next class.