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Drawing People in Pattern Outfits: Stylized Character Illustration in Procreate

teacher avatar Iva Mikles, Illustrator | Top Teacher | Art Side of Life

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Class Trailer

      2:12

    • 2.

      Canvas and Setup

      0:44

    • 3.

      Sketching the Character

      9:43

    • 4.

      Redefine the Sketch

      8:29

    • 5.

      Designing the Pattern

      23:04

    • 6.

      Adding colours to the Character

      18:24

    • 7.

      Designing the Face

      7:43

    • 8.

      Adding the Pattern

      8:35

    • 9.

      Final Thoughts

      0:55

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About This Class

Drawing characters is so much fun, and combining drawing people with cute outfits and colorful patterns is even better :)

Beginner friendly:

  • Even if you are a beginner and new to Procreate, we will draw everything together step by step.

Freebies:

  • I also prepared free Procreate brushes, which you can download and use in this tutorial.
  • And I am also sharing the color palette with you if you want to use the same color palette I use during this tutorial.

You can get these awesome bonus freebies here:

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What you will learn:

  • In this class, we will start constructing the character using stylized shapes and proportions
  • Then we will redefine the drawing and design the outfit
  • Afterward, we will design a colorful pattern for our character's outfit using the cool painterly brush that I am sharing with you in the resources
  • The next step is to add basic colors for the character and design the face with stylized facial features and proportions in mind
  • And then, we will put it all together with our cool floral pattern in one colorful character illustration


So I hope 
you will feel super happy about your creation when you watch and follow this class!

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Iva Mikles

Illustrator | Top Teacher | Art Side of Life

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I am super happy that you are here! :)

I am Iva (rhymes with "viva"), and I'm a full-time illustrator, teacher, and nature enthusiast.

I love illustration in all its forms and my goal is to bring you to a world full of happiness, color, and wonder in the form of fun and helpful classes.

I'd love for you to have fun while learning, so I always aim for a fun, positive, actionable, and inspiring creative experience with all my classes.

I love when you share you had many "AHA" moments, learned valuable time-saving tips, gained confidence in your skills, and that it is much easier for you to illustrate what you imagine and you are very proud of your finished work.

I want to help you on your art journey with what I learned along the way by ... See full profile

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Transcripts

1. Class Trailer : Hello and welcome to a new class. Drawing characters is so much fun. Combining drawing people with cute outfit and colorful patterns is even better. Hi, I'm Eva, and I'm full-time illustrator based in Central Europe. I will guide you through every step of the process. Even if you don't have any experience with Procreate or drawing, try to have fun during the process so you can end up with this lovely colorful illustration with floral pattern design. During this class, we will start off with constructing the character using stylized shapes and proportions. Then we will redefine the drawing, designing the outfit. Then we will design a colorful pattern full of florals. Afterward, we'll add basic colors to the character. Then we will also design a face with proportions of the facial features in mind. Then we'll put it all together with our cool floral pattern in one final illustration. I hope when you watch this class, you will feel super happy about what you created and you will feel like, oh, I can't wait to share my character illustration with others. When you are sharing it on Instagram, please make sure that you tag me in the image, not only in the description because that way I can see your illustration and maybe you will see it in one of the next videos. Like these amazing illustrations made by wonderful creative people who watch my classes. If you don't know yet, you can find even more drawing tutorials and classes. They are Procreate and other tutorials. I have more than 30 classes there. There is a variety from beginner level to more advanced levels. You can also find different topics. Without further ado, let's start and see you in the class. 2. Canvas and Setup: The canvas size is 3,000 by 3,000 pixels and the color profile is sRGB. I'll link the color palette in the description, if you want to use the same color palette as I am using during this class. We will hang out together for awhile. If you want bring some water, make some tea, maybe a different drink or prepare a snack. I usually have a coffee or water nearby. I find it important to stay hydrated so at least get some water. When you are ready, let's get started. 3. Sketching the Character: As you can see for this class, we will have two canvases set up, one for the pattern that we will apply on the character outfit and one for the character itself. Let's first open the character canvas. Here we have empty canvas [LAUGHTER] as you can see. If you go here to the Layers menu, you can see we have one layer predefined as when you open a new canvas, there is one layer. Now, I created this fun brush pack for you which you can download for free and this way we will be using the same brushes. Go ahead and download these brushes or you can use any of the other brushes that you prefer that you already have. First, I will go for this pencil, round opaque brush which has some texture to it, but it also has quite good opacity so we can see our sketches. Great. For the first part of the sketching, I will go to this color palette, which I also created for you, which you can download for this class. For this first part, I will select the yellow so we can see what we're drawing quite visibly and first, we will create action line for our character. To do that, let's make sure we are on the correct layer. I have the correct brush which I want to use for this part. Its on full opacity and I will maybe set it to 76 percent. It doesn't have to be precise, but something around that value. I want the character to be standing. It will be a front view. But I want the pose to be a little bit more actionable and active. I will create a line which is maybe something like this. I can try again, with the double-tap, you can always go back as you might already know that. Let's try again. Maybe a little bit more curved at the bottom. I think this works. It's little bit more straight. Our character will not be falling to the side, but the action is still there. Perfect. Now go to the layers panel. But click on these two icons obviously. Now on the layer, click on the N and we can reduce the opacity by sliding the slider to the left. Maybe 43 percent should be good because we want to sketch on a new layer that we don't want this part or this line to obstruct our view of our sketch, but we still want to see it. Maybe I can reduce it even more, 30 percent I think seems about right. Now click on the layer to close the panel. Now click on the plus sign to create a new layer and we will be sketching the character on this layer. Now, go to the color palette. I will take this light blue which is here on the right second row. You can take also the darker one, if you prefer darker, more visible sketches. But I think these light blue can work nicely when we have this light background, so it's not too harsh, but this is just my preference and you can choose whatever color you want. I will make sure I'm still in the brush which we were sketching that line with which is this pencil brush. Perfect, and we are on the correct layer. Now, I will start with the head. I will place the head not on the top of the curve, but maybe somewhere around here. Let's sketch a circle just for the placement. Perfect. I want the character to have one foot here and one foot here, so it will be standing in a frontal view. But because we will put this one leg more to the side, the pose will be little bit more actionable and basically more active as we talked about in the other class, the dynamic poses people class. There you can see all other variety of different poses. But for this one, let's establish where we will put the shoulders and the hips. To make also the pose little bit more active, I will angle the shoulders. Let me do this like this so I can draw easier, and then the hips will go the other way. Perfect. We are creating this more active pose by angling the hips. Now, I like to do smaller torso, so I will create this half oval shape, little bit smaller. Then I will attach the spine. Perfect. Now I will add legs. One will be straight. Oh, well, let's add the joints before so you know what I'm thinking. The hips will be somewhere around here, shoulders here, perfect. Now I can add that to the legs. One leg will be straight here. Here will be the foot. Halfway I will add the knee and now I can add the other leg somewhere here. There are a little bit wider hips and other foot is here. I will place the knee approximately in the same height as on the other leg. We want to have the character quite symmetrical. Perfect. Now, to understand better where the hips are, I can create another oval and now we can add arms. I will put the arms probably to the pockets so we don't have to draw the hands. But if you want to challenge yourself, you can, of course draw the hands and everything. But for this class, we will just keep the hands hidden so it's easier for us to draw that. As you can see, you can also add that to the joints a little bit considering the halfway of the line. Of course, there would be foreshortening in the real-world. But here we are trying to keep it simple. But as you can see, I added the joint quiet low, so maybe I'll redraw it a little bit higher here. Let's take the eraser. By holding the eraser, you should be able to have the same brush. It selected the same brush, that's good. I'm erasing with the same brush as we are drawing. This is little bit better, perfect. We have the basic structure for the character and you can also add edge the neck. As you can see, the head is little bit maybe too much to the left because we want to have it in the middle of the shoulders. To fix this, go to the selection tool here on the left top, select the free hand selection tool and draw around the head. Then go to the arrow, which is transform tool. Make sure you have uniform transform selected. We can move the head slightly to the left, so it's in the middle of the shoulders. Perfect. Now, obviously you need to fix the neck so it's attached to the spine and then you can draw the neck. You can see that would work perfect. Now we have the basic structure. Let's create another layer. Go to the Layers menu. Click on the plus sign and we will redefine our sketch on this layer. We can reduce the opacity of these basic sketch layer as well. We can see better what we're redefining on the next layer. Make sure you are on the correct layer now. I will take another color and this time I can sketch with this darker purple blue, so we have a different color. This technique is used in animation also when you are redefining the sketches building up your drawing or you're drawing in-between. Anyway. Let's go back to our layers. We're on the correct layer. Perfect. Now I can already start drawing the outfit because we just want to have a basic outfit for this class. 4. Redefine the Sketch: To draw the outfit, make sure you are on a separate layer on top of the basic structure and the action line layer. Now we are still using the pencil brush set because we are still sketching and I prefer something simple for sketching. Perfect. You can also explore my sketch brush set, where you have a variety of pencils to choose from for sketching and I can show you in some other class how I use different type of sketching brushes for what purposes. But let's go back to this brush set where we have this pencil which is round, and let's sketch the outfit. For this character, I was thinking to create a jumpsuit and you can go ahead and find the variety of references on Pinterest or your own photos, or basically wherever you want to find the reference but for this one, I don't want to go too much into details of finding references, so let just sketch like basic jumpsuit. I will add sleeves, so I will add shorter sleeves. I'm drawing these half circles. Maybe let's zoom in so you can see a little bit better. Perfect. We have these half circles for the sleeves. Here on top, I will follow the shape of the shoulders ending the line on top of the shoulder. Let's zoom in more so it easier. [LAUGHTER] Here we can add the neck. We're not obviously sketching only the outfit, but also the rest of the character. Here we don't have such a long neck and I'm following this line for the shoulders, but I am making it a little bit more curved so we can imagine there is basically some flesh on the character. Here we can add the face. Here I will change the shape of the head to more oval so we can have some chin, and the bottom there of course, different shapes for the faces, but this is just one way to draw the face. Then here, the neck line, I will do this oval shape. I think it's called both neckline or well, not sure. Anyway, this shape, [LAUGHTER] and then we can follow the shape of the spine depending on the waist of the character, but the waist can be narrow or wide, but we are not drawing different body shapes right now so just to simplify it, following the structure, what we did, this line is little bit more straight and this line is little bit more curved following the spine here on one side, but not to have the waist too thin. Here we can just add edge. Perfect. Here we can add little bit of chest because it's female, but not too much so it's just like a little bit of bump. You can design it however you want. Now, if we move down the legs, we can create these white pants. To do that, I will add a hip. Following the structure as we did before. Now I have a hip, so there is a little bit of curve, and then I will create a straight line more or less. Obviously, as you can see, it's not super straight. In the middle of the pelvis, there will be the middle part of the pants, like the crotch obviously and on the bottom, I will create this curved line and add a simple foot. We are not designing shoes for this one that much, and here, let's add another leg and make sure they are approximately the same width, so it will look more natural. I can erase these squiggly lines and make sure that the legs are in the similar width. Again here I can add curved line for the pants. This foot, because it's turned sideways, needs to be little bit longer. Obviously because this one is in the front view. We can make this even more narrow. I think this can work. Now, let's add arms. Following the structure and basically what we drew before, and going from thicker to thin. The pockets will be probably more in the front, so not behind the character so I can add these lines for pockets, and the arms will go into the pockets with the hands. Now I can erase this line. There are many different ways how you can sketch, but this is just one of the ways, of course. I did some stroke there. Now we can add some hair and of course you can design the hair how you want and I show you different ways how to draw hair in different classes. Here I can go for maybe a fringe for the character. Add little bit of volume on top of the head and maybe she has like long hair. Let's see. Maybe I can go back and add little bit more volume to this left side. I think this is a little bit better and you erase this part which I don't want. Maybe this crotch can be a little bit lower, so let's adjust that. But other than that, I think we are set and now, let's go create our pattern. 5. Designing the Pattern: Now we can go to the other canvas to create our pattern. We have more flexibility when we want to use it. We are on the new Canvas and here obviously we don't have any other layers. Let's start creating and for this pattern I want to use a different brush. Hopefully we will create something quite fun. From this brush pack I will take this brush watery flow which has little bit of texture but is watery [LAUGHTER] obviously as you can see from the name. But it looks a little bit more like a watercolor. You can of course use any other brush that you like to design the pattern or maybe you have another pattern you want to use or recreate. But for this one I want to create floral design or pattern using this brush. Let's take this brush and I will draw variety of flowers in different colors. I will do that by using variety of these colors from the palette and I will create more layers for these flowers. So if we need to we can move them around. First, let's start with pink flowers. I will take this pink which is the second in this color palette from the left. Make sure that we are in the brush folder that we want and using the brush that I just mentioned and if we are on the correct layer. Perfect. To do that I will create few flowers which is quite simple shapes. Now, as you can see, the brush is quite small so I want to make it a little bit bigger. So I will make the brush maybe nine percent. Let's try. I think this works. As you can see, it's nice watery brush. Let's go back and I will create few flowers with simple petals using this brush. When I'm looking at this flower I think it's pretty huge for the design that we want to create so let me zoom out. If I want to make more flowers I need to make this a little bit smaller. Let's go back and I will adjust the brush to maybe four percent. I think this is better because I want to create maybe six flowers in this pink color. Let's create these flowers and you can use this around hand movement. You can also vary the amount of petals. I think this is nice. Let's create another one. In here you can get quite creative with the shape of the flowers and just play with it and make the pattern your own and basically express your inner artist when designing these flowers of course. Of course you are doing it also with the character but here you can differentiate as well and just play with the shape of the petals or you can design more patterns and choose the one you like at the end. You have so many options you can go online and look at some patterns on Pinterest or wherever, just make sure you are not copying just one design when you are recreating some pattern but just get inspiration from variety of patterns. Now we can add the middle part for the flower, go to the color palette and take the yellow for the middle of the flower and here we can add this middle circle for the flower. They look quite nice. I like it. They're cute. [LAUGHTER] Let's create another layer for more flowers by clicking on the plus sign as we did before. Now, go to the color palette again and select the darker blue which is the second from the right in this color palette and we can add few flowers in that color as well. It's nice, maybe less of them so we don't have to have the same amount of flowers. I can create also a little bit of overlap in these flowers. I think it can be nice. But now looking at it maybe I can add these or move these darker flowers below these pink ones. So go to the Layers menu and take the layer, hold, and drag it below the pink layer. I think this is nice. Now go to the color palette, select the yellow again, and we can add the middle part for the flowers. Nice. Let's add more flowers and by clicking on this layer with pink flowers, now click again on the plus sign to create a new layer and we can add some orange flowers. I will take this fourth color in the color palette. This is nice, bright, orangey, red color and now I can create flowers which are a little bit bigger. As I'm not getting things perfect pattern, I can also just draw on the sides because we are not going to do a repeat pattern here. Let me start maybe here. I will create like bigger petals. Maybe I can make the brush bigger for this one, bigger flower, bigger brush. Maybe five. The five should work. So for this one I will create more angled petals. Maybe I can make the flower a little bit bigger. I think this is nicer just to have some variety. The petal works here. I think the pink flowers are nicer on the top, so let me also move this one lower below the pinkish flowers. Now on the same layer I can add more petals in approximately same size and I can do it also here just to fill the canvas. Now going back to the color palette and choosing the yellow again, I can add the middle part for this flower. Nice. Now let's add more color to this pattern. Maybe we are missing another blue so we can create another layer. Let's create another layer above this darker blue flowers by clicking on the plus sign, going to the color palette, and taking this light blue which is here in the bottom right corner. Click on the canvas just to close the color palette and now we can create more flowers. This time I can create maybe different shape of the flower. Maybe something like this. Let's try that again. [LAUGHTER] I think this works quite nicely. I can recreate this shape also here and I'm redrawing them to have more organic shapes because otherwise you can also maybe copy this shape. But in this case I want to redraw the shapes just to have this nice organic feel. We can add maybe some leave here and to this side as well. I think we are getting there with the flowers. Now I'm thinking this orange flower is maybe too much in the middle, so taking a lot of attention in space so I'll go to the selection tool, go to the freehand selection, select the flower, and move it a little bit to the side. Exit the selection. I can also move the pink flower a little bit higher. Selection tool, freehand selection tool, draw around the flower and move the flower somewhere here. Lovely. Now let's add some red flowers as well. To do that I will create another layer. I want to keep the pink flowers on the top, click on the plus sign and let's take the red flower. I mean, red color. [LAUGHTER] The red color it is, we are still using the same brush and now I will draw more like round flowers. They have this rounded petals around the middle part of the flower. Then again, I can draw more of them and you can play with the shapes of these flowers. I can add maybe one here, add one here. As you can see, I'm adding more of these red flowers just to fill the Canvas a little bit more and this brush is quite fun to use. [LAUGHTER] As the other painterly brushes. If you like painterly brushes, you can also check out my gouache brush set, where I had so many painterly brushes. This set is quiet fun to use as well. Anyway, going back to this one, let's keep the same brush. I will go to the color palette again, selecting the yellow as we did before, and we can add the middle part of the red flower. Just using the circular movement rotating the brush in the middle. As you can see, as I didn't use the color everywhere in the middle, it's taking a little bit of the paint on the side, which is quite fun, I think. Did we fill all of them? Maybe here a little bit. I think this is nice. Now, let's add some greenery. To do that, let's create another layer. But this time we'll go to the back because I want to have the leaves and behind the flowers. Clicking on the plus sign, I need to drag and drop this layer below all the flowers. First, let's start with this lighter green, which is the third in the first row from the right, and I will just draw simple leaf shapes. Leaf shapes, I mean these oval with more pointy ends. But now maybe for these leaves, I can make the brush a little bit smaller. Let's make it four percent. Now I can add random leaves around the flowers. Maybe two leaves per flower, and maybe some are just floating around here. Again here you can just be creative and play around with the placement and sizes of these leaves. You can just fill in the areas that you feel like you can just balance out if there is too much white space or you just want to add more color. I think this is quiet fun exercise to do. Maybe these two I don't like there, let's maybe add them here. I think this is better. Now I can add maybe one here. Maybe this is too much. Smaller one, one here. Basically fill in the space as much as you want. You are balancing the colors with all these leaves and flowers. Maybe you like the pink more or the orange, so you would just have more orange flowers or more green leaves. Or maybe you are using different color palette, maybe purple. Let me know which are your favorite colors [LAUGHTER] I am very much looking forward to see your projects and basically seeing what you create with these patterns and the colors may be that you like or the amount of leaves that you will create, or making some of these flowers more prominent or more visible. I think it's always fun to see how everyone else sees the world and just making the designs also their own little bit. It's super nice. Let's create more leaves so we have more variety. To do that, let's go to the layers panel and let's create another layer with the plus sign as usual, and drag this layer below. It doesn't want to work. [LAUGHTER] Just click and hold and let's go. Now, perfect. Now you can drag it under the other layer. Let's go to the color palette. Now you can take the darker green and we can add a little bit more leaves in the darker color. You can randomly add them to certain areas where you feel like that it will be nice. Maybe here. Let me make the Canvas a little bit smaller so we can fill the shapes easier. We will see how everything will work on the character. You can drag the paint around the Canvas. Maybe there is too much green here, so I'll reduce the amount of green. Add one more here. I think we are almost done. I think I can add some yellow to these blue flowers. Let's find the right layer, which is this one. Take the yellow color and I can draw the circle as we did before on these blue flowers as well. Now look at your pattern and see if you like it. Now, I'm thinking that this flower can be still a little bit smaller, so I will find the right layer, which is this one, take the selection tool, draw around the flower. Go to the arrow for the transform. Make sure I have the uniform transform tool. I can make the flower little bit smaller and move it slightly higher. Maybe somewhere here, maybe I can rotate it a little bit. Let's see how that will look. Maybe this way. No, I think this way, it's a little bit better. I think this works. But now I don't like this dark green leaves, so let's go back to those. Touch and hold the eraser to erase with the same brush. I will erase this, making them a little bit smaller brush for the eraser. Now, going back to the brush, and now I can draw. Now I have a brown color, let's select the right color so we can create the same leaves as we have on the layer. Now I can add the leaf here and fix this one which is now visible and maybe add one leaf here. I think this works nicely. Now, go to the layers panel and select all the layers by sliding to the right. Now, group the layers. Now we created a group, slide to the left, duplicate the group. Let's hide this one. We don't need it anymore now. Now on this top group, click on the layer and select flatten. Now we have one pattern on one layer, which is awesome. Now the next step is to bring it to our other Canvas with the character. 6. Adding colours to the Character: Now let's take this pattern through our Canvas with the character. To do that, you can just tap and hold on the layer and drag it to the gallery. You can hover over or use your other hand, so I can still holding. Click on the gallery, click on the Canvas you want to go in, and open the layers panel, and you can release the layer with your pattern on top of the layers. Perfect. We have it here. For now, I can hide the layer because we don't need it at this second. First, we need to create base colors for the character and basically color the character so we can add our pattern. To do that, I will create another layer, so we will be coloring on a separate layer. Click on the plus sign, this will be our color layer. I don't need these two layers with the rough sketch and the action line anymore so I can hide them. I will drag this layer with the sketch of the character above the color layer, which doesn't say color, but we can of course rename it. Let me zoom in on the character. Now on this layer, I will create basic shapes for the character. I will make sure I will have one layer for the outfit, then for the skin of the character and for the hair. We can build up the character in layers. Here on this layer we'll create the colors for the outfit of the character, and I'm thinking the outfit can be white. But in that case, we need to change the background for this character. Let's go to the background color. Click on the layer, and you can select the round view, or you can also play with values if you prefer this view, but they prefer this view for the color. I will select the light blue for the background. This is nice. Now I will go to the layers again. To make sure that we see the sketch well also when we are coloring, let's set the layer to multiply, which makes everything darker on this layer. We can close the layer, make sure that you are on the correct layer where you want to color. Go to the brushes. From our brush bag, which we are using here, I will select this first brush, which is quite opaque and doesn't have that much texture, but you can use different brush to block in the colors if you prefer, of course. Now, I will go to this white in the color palette, which is little bit of white, so it's not pure white, but in the color tones, and now I will block in the shapes. Still making sure that I'm on the correct layer. Following the sketch that we have here, I will block in the shapes. Let's see about the size. I think maybe 10% is quite good. I can also zoom in to make sure that I'm filling in the shapes in the correct areas that I want. I can also reduce the opacity of this layer to see the colors underneath a little bit better. We are on the correct layer, and now I can draw and basically create the shape for this outfit. Just following the lines that we created and following the shapes as we did before. This is nice. Then I'm just following the shapes from the sketch as we created them before. Here I don't want to have perfectly straight lines, so I'm not using the tool where you can straighten the shapes. Because I think it's a little bit more organic and nicer when you have slightly wobbly lines. This takes a little bit of trial and error. You can of course, also rotate the Canvas, so it's easier for you to create the perfect shape. But for sake of this video, I'm not rotating the Canvas that much so you guys don't get dizzy. But otherwise I will be rotating the Canvas a lot to get better lives and basically easier flow when drawing. Now, I need to make sure everything is closed and then I can drag and drop the color into the shape. Everything was closed apparently, that's good. Now let's go to the layers panel, click on the plus sign again, and now we will add a skin color to the character, and of course, as we all know, there is variety of skin tones, so choose the one that you prefer to add to this character. I will go for these lighter brown color, so it will stand out nicely also against the background and next to the outfit. We are on the layer under the outfit. I can zoom in and I can start with the head shape like this and you can always adjust the lines if you think they don't work. Make sure that you close the shape behind the outfit as well. Maybe I can add the ear on this side, which we didn't have before and we can try drag and drop if we closed everything. Look, here we did. Perfect. Here I need to adjust the shape may be either of the outfit or for the hands because this layer is behind, so maybe we can try adjusting the hands. Let's select the correct or the same brush. I can zoom in. Making the eraser a little bit smaller, maybe 20% and fit into the shape of the outfit as we designed it. The same on this side. Then we can adjust the outfit as well. Go to the Layers, click on the outfit, take the correct brush, take the white color not sampling from the canvas because we have also the blue here. We can zoom in. Make the brush a little bit smaller, 6% should work. Then I can fill these gaps. I think this works nice. Same goes here. It's not rounded here in the corners and it will look a little bit more natural. Maybe we can round this corner and erase a little bit from this angular hip, it might have been a little bit too much. I think this works nice. Maybe we can add a little bit of volume here on the shoulder to balance out this line because it's going more straight, compared to the outfit. Let's see, we are on the correct layer. Let's take the brush. Now I can add a little bit of volume here. I think that works. On the skin tone layer, I can erase this part as well. We have the line following and here we have the shoulder, so that should work. Let's see. I need to have the skin tone selected and just fill in the gaps, which I didn't do so precisely in the previous step. Let's see if we have the ear placed correctly. I think it can be a little bit lower. Go to the selection tool, select the ear. I can move it slightly lower and add a little bit of volume here. Let me draw it again. I think that's easier in this case, so I will add the ear here. As you can see I made the face a little bit longer, which I think works nicely. Now we can add the shadow under the chin. We will be not adding too many shadows, because I want to keep the illustration quiet flat. But under the chin, I think it will help you to define the character. Going to the Layers, click on the layer with the skin or the flesh and select Alpha Lock. Now go to the colors, and on the color wheel, drag the color a little bit more down and to the right. I think this can work, let's see. I think this color is okay. Now draw under the jaw line, making the shadow a little bit wider under the chin and more narrow as you go up. I want to make sure that on this right side, let's zoom obviously, I am following the shape of the face. I think this should work. Making the shadow wider under the chin and more narrow here nice. I can also add the shadow in the ear of the character. I think that works. Now let's create hair. To do that, I will go to the Layers menu again, create another layer and drag it under the skin tone. Go to the colors, select the dark color here, which is on the right and now I can follow the shape of the hair again. Let's test if we closed the shape properly. No, we didn't, so I can draw behind the character one more time to make sure that I close the shape. Maybe I didn't close the shape here. I think this works. Here I can adjust the skin tone layer. I will disable the Alpha Lock, go to the eraser. For this part of the fringe, I want to make sure that it's a little bit more narrow on the top and also straight in this part and everything is more or less aligned. Now, going back to the hair layer, I can also smoothen out this edge, I can have it a little bit more flat maybe on the top or more rounded, however you prefer to have the design. I will angle the illustration, so it's easier for me to create the round shape. Here I will erase from the part and add the volume here again for the fringe. That means I need to erase from this part again just to align it, because we didn't design it in the sketch part. Maybe I can add one more line here for the skin, so the split in the fringe. I think this works nice. I can add a little bit of loose hair flying around. Going to the color palette and taking the dark color again and I will add little strand of hair. Fix the mistake here and maybe add one hair like that also on this side. Let's rotate it, so it's easier. Let's try one more time. Maybe I can straighten this part and erase this, so it's aligned. Let's check the other side. Going to the brush again, making this side also straight. I think this works nicely. Perfect. Now we can add face for the character. You can double check if you aligned everything how you want. Maybe I can align this fringe little bit more, erasing from the skin tone. You can also work on the one layer if that's easier for you. If you don't want to add textures, that's also possible. I think this is a little bit better. Now we can add the face. 7. Designing the Face: Now we can sketch the face of the character. We can zoom in and go to the layers panel as before. Now let's create another layer. First, we can mark the approximate placement for our facial features. I will take a different color, not the same as we used for the skin. Maybe I can take the yellow and see if that's visible. Yeah, I think that's visible. Then I will draw a line going through the middle of the face. Because the face is a little bit angled, I will draw a line more angled. Approximately like this, going to the bottom of the chin. Then for the eyes, nose, and the mouth. Perfect. I will make this a little bit less opaque, reduce the opacity, so it's not so much in the way obstructing the view. Now I will create another layer, clicking on the plus sign. I will take the dark color, which is here in the right corner, go to the brushes. For this part, I will use the details brush or basically the brush I like to use for the details from this brush set. Now I can start with the eyebrows, which will be a little bit higher than this line just under the fringe. I can make the brush a little bit bigger. Let's say 30%. And create these curved eyebrows. And the same on the other side. Now, I will add the eyes and the eyebrows, as you can imagine. But I was thinking that maybe the character can be looking down. To do that, I can just create curved half ovals following the approximate placement as we created in our guide. The same here on this side. I can reduce the thickness with the eraser, making sure I'm using the correct brush as for drawing. I can reduce the size of the eraser to 20%, and making these eyelids little bit thinner on the edges. I think this should work. Then going back to the brush, I can draw these little maybe half oval for the nose. Basically suggestion for the nose, quite simplified. Then for the mouth, I will go to the color palette, and I will take the red color, and I will draw the top lip for the character. Then for the bottom part, I can go again to the dark color and suggest the bottom part of the lip. I can erase part of it. This is just one of the ways how you can draw the faces or to stylize this simplified faces. If you want to see more, you can check out, of course, my other class where I go through different ways, how you can simplify the face. I think this works for this part, and now we can zoom out and we can add our pattern. Well, before that, let's hide the guide because we don't need it anymore. We can check if the placement of the face works. You can also zoom in. If everything is aligned, make sure that the eyes are in the same distance following your guide. I think this works. Now, looking at it, I think maybe the part under the lips, I can make that red as well. Going to the layer and selecting alpha lock, I can paint over that part of the lips. I think I like this one a little bit more and I can erase a little bit from the nose as well just to make it a little bit more subtle. Making sure everything is balanced the way that you like it. Just creating the shapes that you like. Perfect. I think this works. Now we can add the pattern for our outfit. Now, I see that we still didn't add the shoes which we could have done with the basic colors. Let's do that now. We need to turn on the sketch that we had before. Let's create another layer under the hair layer. We can maybe make the shoes in this darker color as well. Let's take that color. Go to the liner brush as we used before, and let's fill in the shapes for the shoes as well. Now let's add the other shoe. Make sure the shape is closed. Perfect. Now we have shoes as well. [LAUGHTER] Cool. 8. Adding the Pattern: Now we can add the pattern. Let's disable the sketch as before. Now we have the pattern here and the outfit layer here, so what we need to do it's to drag this layer on top of the outfit so let's drag it here. Perfect. Now we can enable the layer to see it. It's quite big. If we want to adjust it, we might need to re-scale it. I can make a copy just to make sure that we have the possibility to adjust. Slide to the left, "Duplicate," it'll hide the layer and on this one, I will click on the icon and select "Clipping Mask." Perfect. We have this huge pattern on the outfit, which is quite interesting. What you can do now, you can go to the arrow tool, make sure that you are in the uniform transform tool and you can adjust the pattern how you like it. I can zoom out here to see that the pattern is still within the area. When it's a little bit smaller, I think can work better. Let's make sure that all the colors that we wanted to add are there. You can move around the pattern to see what you prefer more. I think I prefer this left side of the pattern more. Maybe something like this and I can make it still a little bit smaller, just make sure that you are still within the shape of the outfit and maybe move it. Maybe you like the colors which are much bigger and the flowers which are quite huge or you prefer maybe this area of the pattern or this one, depends how you design the pattern. You can also redesign the pattern if you like a different angle or a look of this outfit. Maybe I like this side or this side, I can't decide. I think this works quite nicely. I think the pattern works nicely like it is here. I hope that you like your own pattern and you can also add other details to the outfit. Let me exit this mode and let's add a belt. To do that, I will maybe choose the same brush as we used for this pattern, I will create another layer above the pattern, I will go to the color palette and choose this I think darker blue. Now I can create the clipping mask as well to be able to draw within the shape and I can add the belt. Maybe let's make it a little bit smaller and try if this brush works for this part. Maybe we can use the other brush which we used before, I think that would work better. Let's do that. Make the brush a little bit bigger, maybe 4%. Maybe 7% is better. Now I can add the belt for the character and I can also add some pockets. Let's add the pockets on a separate layer so it's above the skin tone. Now this is easier. I think they work quite nicely. Or you can also hide the hands behind the whole body. Now we can go back to this layer, which is helping us to draw within the shape of the outfit. I will go and take the pink color and we can add some pink color on the sleeves. I think this works nice. If you want, you can add the pink also here on the top part of the outfit and if you have a hard time drawing that, you can also rotate the canvas as before. Trying to keep the same thickness of the sleeves like here and you can add the pink also here at the bottom. Let's add the pink here. If you think you would still like to have the pattern smaller, you can go to the layers, duplicate this layer, select both layers, now I can resize them so I will have the same size for both. I can hide it, I mean the transition. I can hide the transition behind the belt. Again, zoom out to see if this works. I think the pattern is just on the edge of the outfit and now I can go to one of the layers and I can move the pattern here to the top and see which part I like. Actually, this top part doesn't look bad. Maybe with this blue flower here, I think that works quite nicely, or something like this, or you can even flip the pattern and have this pink flower and the red flower here or a little bit of this orange color too so you have some variety. I think this works quite nicely. You can play around with this type of patterns and how we use them and, of course, you can also use these patterns directly drawing on the character, just about the outfit layer. But I like to design the patterns separately because sometimes it's hard to fit the pattern that it doesn't look like how you would actually use it with the character, but you can try both options directly drawing on the layer and designing the pattern on top of the outfit or designing the pattern separately and then you can actually reuse it for some other project or maybe other parts of the illustration where you want to place this character. Thank you so much for being here. I hope that you enjoyed creating this character and I can't wait to see your version. 9. Final Thoughts: How did it go? I can't wait to see all your awesome artwork. Please share your drawings and illustrations. Also, the work in progress if you want, in the project section. If you want to expand on the knowledge you'll learn in this class, you can watch my other classes about characters, and also about colors, called color palette, and color and light masterclass. Visit my teacher profile to find them. If you would like me to share your projects on Instagram, please tag me in the Instagram stories in the post and course description so I can help you and your art to be discovered by more people. Thank you so much for watching and see you in the next class.