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Explore Collage Art in Procreate: 7 Prompts to Spark Your Creativity

teacher avatar Kelley Bren Burke, Artist & Educator

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      2:58

    • 2.

      Class Project and Resources

      4:34

    • 3.

      Find Free Images for Collage

      7:08

    • 4.

      Isolate Elements in Procreate

      4:42

    • 5.

      Isolate Images in Canva

      7:11

    • 6.

      Play With Size

      8:21

    • 7.

      Float and Fly

      7:01

    • 8.

      Explore Ephemera

      7:51

    • 9.

      Limited Color Palette

      5:53

    • 10.

      Add Graphic Shapes

      6:58

    • 11.

      Add Colorful Rays

      5:12

    • 12.

      Flowers and Leaves

      6:54

    • 13.

      Final Thoughts

      0:44

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About This Class

Ready for some creative play that sparks your creativity? You’re in the right place! In this seven-day challenge, I’ll walk you through seven different prompts for creating collage art. 

We'll explore these collage prompts together: 

  1. Play With Size
  2. Float and Fly
  3. Explore Ephemera 
  4. Limited Color Palette
  5. Add Graphic Shapes
  6. Add Colorful Rays
  7. Flowers and Leaves

For every collage art prompt:

  • We'll explore inspiration together.
  • I'll create a quick collage.
  • Then it's your turn! 

The prompt lessons are intentionally bite-sized - about 6 to 8 minutes long - so you have time to create your collage. 

After completing this class:

  • You'll have 7 perfectly imperfect collages based on the prompts.
  • Please share your work in the class project gallery to inspire and connect with other participants. Review the Class Project and Resources lesson for more information. 
  • If you share your collages on Instagram, please tag me! I love to see your work! @kelleybrenburke 

This class is for:

The collage prompts and inspiration are applicable for both paper and digital collages. I'll be using my iPad, Apple Pencil and the Procreate app. If you're following along in Procreate, some Procreate knowledge is helpful. 

To support you, here are the class resources:

During this class, we'll explore:

  • Sourcing beautiful free vintage and modern images for collage
  • Isolating images from their backgrounds in Procreate and Canva
  • Color harmony tools in Procreate 
  • Lots of Procreate tips and tricks! 

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1. Introduction: [MUSIC] Have you ever stared at a blank page wanting to create something but you lacked inspiration and maybe even felt really stuck? You are not alone. In fact, studies on creativity have proven that when you give somebody unlimited freedom to create something, that the result is actually stifling rather than inspiring. Imagine this. Imagine I tell you to create something, anything, and for the materials you can use anything. For most people, that would be very intimidating. Now imagine that I invite you to create a collage where people floats and fly. To me that's a lot more inspiring, and I even start to get an image in my head. And that is the power of creative constraints or creative limitations. A great way to impose a creative constraint is to follow a prompt. And that's exactly what we're going to be doing in this class. We are going to be following seven fun collage prompts that will inspire you to create seven unique, perfectly imperfect pieces of art. I'm Kelley Bren Burke. I'm a digital artist and illustrator living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I fell in love with digital art in 2017 when I got my first Apple pencil and the Procreate app. Just instantly in love. Then a few years later, I felt deeply in love - even obsessed - with collage. I think you could be obsessed with collage too. This class is for people who want to explore and spark their creativity. When creating the collages, I'll be using the Procreate app, my iPad, and an Apple pencil. But these prompts will apply equally to analog collage, if that's what you prefer. To support you with this, I have given you lots and lots of great digital freebies. They include Procreate brushes, Procreate color palettes, and lots and lots of isolated elements ready for you to collage. The elements include vintage people, modern people, animals, backgrounds, and lots more. If you want even more freebies, go to my website kellybrenburke.com, and there's more digital collage freebies for you there. I can't wait to see what you create. I love collage, you'll see that all throughout the class. I love looking at collages. So please post your collages in the class project area. Are you ready for a new creative adventure? Let's get started. [MUSIC] 2. Class Project and Resources: [MUSIC] I hope this class helps you spark some creativity and maybe even get out of a creative rut. Together, we will be exploring seven different prompts for collages. The prompts are Play With Size, Float and Fly, Explore Ephemera, Limited Color Palettes, Add Graphic Shapes, Add Colorful Rays, and finally, Flowers and Leaves. For each prompt, we'll go through this process together. We'll explore inspiration for that particular prompt. I'll create a quick collage inspired by that prompt. And then it's your turn to create your collage. Let me show you the resources that I've provided for you and how to download those. I want you to have lots of fun creating your collages. So I have some great free resources for you. I am on Safari and I am looking at the About section of this class. Here you'll find the prompts listed. At the bottom, there are class resources and these are all clickable links. So if you click any of these, it will take you directly to where you want to go. For example, my Pinterest Collage Board is right here. I have a lot of really fun collage freebies for you. Here we have 50 plus collage freebies which are isolated images. You can save these by tapping Download. And you can download all of them or just the ones that strike your fancy. There are lots of fun elements here for you. When I'm pulling together collage elements, I'm always asking myself the question “Would I want to use this for a collage?” So they're really curated to be inspiring and perfect for collage. I hope you have lots of fun. This also has a link to my first collage class in Skillshare. it's called Collage Animation in Procreate. You might want to check that one out as well. This is what the cover looks like. Let's go over the Project and Resources section. It has the links again for your convenience. Also for your convenience, I pulled together the resources in a PDF. This PDF is clickable as well, as long as you save it as a PDF. You're welcome to use your own photos, of course, and use your own images, whatever you'd like. Whether they’re personal or images you source elsewhere. But I did want to make it easy for you to access some fun, curated images. There's also a section here for Discussions. Please ask me if you have any questions. And for Reviews. If you like the class, I would certainly appreciate it if you left me a review. It would help other students find the class. Next, I'll walk through posting your projects in the Class Project gallery. Now let's review how to create a project in Skillshare. This is what it looks like when it's time to upload projects. So right here, you could upload the main image. You can see here that this is a horizontal file. I don't believe there's a way to edit it, so this woman is centered, unfortunately. This is just the cover. You could also replace the image if you didn't like that, and you wanted to see an image that looked better in that place. So let's try, for example, these women. They look good. So I'm going to hit "Submit" there. For your project title, you can call it whatever you want. You are welcome to share all seven collages that you create or just one. It's totally up to you, whatever you're comfortable with. But if you were doing all of them and starting with the first one, Playing With Size - you could put #1 and find an image where we are playing with size. This one works, so I'm going to tap - pull that one in there. There it is, and then I can navigate down here and add a second one. I've already created a file here with my seven class projects and this one I want to delete. So let's just show you how to do that. I would tap "Edit Project", and this is one that I don't want it. So I'm going to tap delete, and then I can scroll down and the rest of my prompts are here. I hope you have so much fun exploring these resources. [MUSIC] 3. Find Free Images for Collage : [MUSIC] Welcome back. In this lesson, we are going to explore my two favorite sources for images. The first one is flickr.com that's F-L-I-C-K-R.com. I love Flickr for vintage images. And you find those vintage images in a place on Flickr called The Commons. You go to explore and then you tap on "The Commons" and you get to this page that I was already at. The important part for Flickr is not to search in this top box. Because if you search in the top box, you'll find all images, but a lot of them are all rights reserved or not freely usable. That's why you scroll down here and you search in The Commons. I search all things in The Commons. With my collage, I tend to like happy people. I will search things like smile and this is what comes up. There are 21,000 freely usable images in The Commons that respond to smile. What I'm looking for here are just things that catch my eye, things that evoke emotion. Let's see this woman. This is a good example because I like her. I like her vibe. I like her smile, but the picture just is not super good. It's pretty grainy. Some of that is good for a collage, but I would not personally use her for an image just because it's a little too grainy. Let me back up and see what else we have here under “smile”. This is cute, she's adorable and it's a good image to use for collage because there's nothing overlapping her. She can easily be isolated or separated from her background. If you like images in Flickr, you can create galleries to save them. I have a number of different galleries and I've already saved her to my kids gallery. And other galleries I have are groups, animals, Ladies Home Journal and then I also have some for other tutorials that I've done. What I'm going to do is I'm going to save this image. I am going to download it. And here it offers me different sizes, which is helpful for collage. It's better to have a large image and shrink it down than to start with a small image and enlarge it. I'm going to go ahead and download the original, which is 4,208 pixels by 5,056 pixels. I'm going to tap "Download" and then it will go to my download file right here. Later on I'll show you how to isolate this photo from the background. But let's just keep looking through here. This is sweet too, it's cute. This is a great one. I'm pretty sure I've already saved it and this would go in my group gallery. Let's go ahead and look at my own galleries and I'll show you a little bit more. If I go to "You" in galleries, I am on here under my name Kelley Burke. And I'm just going to show you one specific gallery and that's Library of Congress. Here it is. Now, one of the reasons I like Library of Congress, they're all freely usable. And the image quality is pretty good for all of them and you can also get large size images here. Let me show you how to do that. Let's go with her. I like her curls and her dress and her shoes. What you're looking for here is just again, no known copyright restrictions. That tells you that it's free to use. And then also with the Library of Congress - this is pretty unique to the Library of Congress in what I've seen. It will say, "Higher resolution is available." There'll be a link. I'm going to tap on that link and here you'll see different sizes available. There's a small JPEG, a larger JPEG, and then a tiff, which is very large at 39 megabytes. Sometimes I'll go for the biggest image, the tiff, and sometimes I'll go for the medium-sized JPEG, which is 92 kilobytes. I'm going to tap on that and then I'm going to press on that image and then I'm going to add it to photos. Let's move on to my other favorite resource for more modern photos, unsplash.com, U-N-S-P-L-A-S-H.com. This is the homepage and if you scroll down, you can see what images are available here. This is just the first page. What's trending right now or new. You can also search. And let me just search movement. Because if there's movement, that's often a dynamic image. Well, these are cool images. It would not be great for a collage because I can't separate it from the background. I don't know where the background begins and the image ends. Same for this one, although this one might be a cool background image. I can imagine blurring this out. This has possibilities. I'm going to save it to one of my galleries here. It's called collections instead of galleries in Flickr. I'm going to save this to background textures. I like her. I'm going to save her. Again by tapping "Plus" I'm going to save her to people. The other thing with Unsplash is if you scroll down, you'll see other images like that. First we have advertised images that are for sale on i.Stock and I usually skip over those and keep looking for Unsplash images. There's some really great images here. That's interesting. I'm going to save that one to people. And let's see what else is like her underneath. I like this one and I will save her to people. Again, if you wanted to browse my images, you can find me on Unsplash and look at my collections. I'm going to do this guy. Is it an ostrich? I think so. Let's call it an ostrich. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. I'm going to tap "Download" here and it will ask me if I want to download it. Indeed I do and it will go to my download file. That is how I source images for collages. In the next lesson, I will show you two different ways of isolating your images from their background. I will see you in the next lesson. [MUSIC] 4. Isolate Elements in Procreate: [MUSIC] Welcome back. In the last lesson, we looked at resources for finding great digital images online. In this lesson, I'm going to show you two different ways of isolating the images from their backgrounds. The first way is to use Procreate to isolate the images from their background. Let's just say we want to separate my dog, Murphy, from his background, just for fun. Here's Murphy. I'm importing him. This is him. He just makes me laugh. We're going to isolate him from his background real quick. What I usually do is I make the image smaller. It's more manageable. I go to Wrench > Canvas > Crop and Resize. We just want Murphy. We don't want the chair and the pillows. I'm just bringing it in closer there. I'm going to trace around him real quick to show you isolating. I'm on Freehand > Add again, so I would just be tracing along inside. Go around his collar, and then go back to his fur. Just to show you real quick where we're at, we started there and I'm just going to close this up here, tap that circle, and so we get these jagged lines, three-finger dropdown, Cut and Paste. It all looks the same. But now the area that we've isolated is on its own layer and Murphy is on its own layer. And we don't need this background, so I'm going to delete it. Here you can see that I didn't go in close enough. What I do there is I'll erase it a little bit. You can be as fussy or non-fussy about this as you want. Collage is very forgiving, and that's one of the things I like about it. If we go to Airbrushing - Airbrushing is a set of brushes that comes with Procreate. I like to use the Hard Airbrush as an eraser, so I'm on Eraser > Hard Airbrush. Then I'm going to make it just a little bit bigger over here, my eraser. Then I'm just going to clean up this place where the background got involved. Since he's white and the background layer is white, we could add a color that's very different below him. Let's do this peachy pink and fill the layer. I'm tapping on this Layer > Fill Layer and it fills it with this color that's selected. Now we can see more easily what we've already isolated and what we haven't. Magic wand > Freehand, and then I just keep on tracing right inside Murphy. It's hard to see what's going on here because it's shadowy on his back, but I'm just going to do that. I don't want the blanket in there. Using your own photos is a great way to make collage a little bit more personal. You can also do something like this for a gift. Oops. We are almost done here. I'm coming to that peach area. Now I can bring the circle around to the other part, connect that, and then we do a three-finger drag down, Cut and Paste. Here we have our peach layer, here we have Murphy's background, and here we have Murphy. I'm going to delete the background. We don't need that. This is not necessarily perfectly isolated, but it's fine. It's just an example of what we would do. If we wanted to use him in a collage, we could put something - I don't know - anything - like a flower in front of his leg or a butterfly or whatever we're doing. That would cover up the place where the blanket was. Again, if we wanted to save that, I turn off the background color. I turn off the peach. and I go to Canvas > Share and save as PNG. [MUSIC] 5. Isolate Images in Canva: [MUSIC] The second way of isolating images is through Canva. Canva is an app and a website. C-A-N-V-A. The cool thing about Canva is that you can isolate images from their background really easily. This is part of their paid service, Canva Pro. So if you have a free version of Canva, this isn't option. But if you are isolating a lot of images, it can totally be worth it. I'm going to go to Recent Designs here, and I'm going to tap on Create a Design, and then I'm going to tap Edit a Photo. I never take a photo from here. The ones I look at are Photo Library, which is my Camera Roll, and the Files, which is my Downloads. I'm going to grab a file that we downloaded earlier. I'm going to grab this little girl with the ice cream cone. It shows you the size of the picture. This is roughly 4,000 pixels by 5,000 pixels. Then I'm going to hit Edit Photo. To edit this photo and to remove the background image, I would tap on it, hit Edit Image, and then there's Background Remover. This is really quick. This should go really well because she's pretty distinct from her background. The great thing about this is it will catch the little wisps of hair really nicely in a way that's difficult to do when you're doing the freehand isolation in Procreate. You can see here she has been perfectly removed from her background in seconds. I am going to move her into Procreate by tapping this Arrow and then Save With Transparent Background. Then I'm just going to bring it into Procreate. I'm just going to do one more. I had that ostrich that we saved from Unsplash. I'm going to do Edit Photo > Choose File. I wanted to see how Unsplash would do with all the little ostrich hairs, fur, [LAUGHTER] feathers? I don't know what you call it. Edit Photo, and I'm going to tap Edit Image again and then Background Remover, and then Canva is working on it here, you can see, and we'll see how it does with this. It looks like it captured all those little details. It also captured this little stump. Canva got a little confused here, and I don't blame it. I backed up, so we can look at our original thing. Let me just go forward again and see what that looked like. I'm going to do Share > Save With Transparent Background, and then move it into Procreate. Canva is great for removing background images. It's great for graphics, highly recommend it. But if you don't have Canva Pro, you can easily use the isolating thing in Procreate. Let's head back to Procreate. Here are the two things that we isolated in Canva. I just love her, she's so cute. If I turn the background color off again, we get this checkerboard background. I think I might fill the layer again with this peach so we can see better, what is her, and what's the background. That is really cute. Look at what a good job they did. Look at there, these little tiny wisps of hair. Those are really hard to isolate when you're just tracing around here. That's a really good example of how Canva can do this. The one thing is that Canva will make it a little bit smaller. If I remember correctly, this was a 4 by 5,000 pixel image. It did take some of the background out, but not much. It is now 1,700 pixels by 2,000-some pixels. It's still a decent size, but that is part of the trade-off with Canva. We'll take a larger image and make it a little bit smaller. Now let's look at our ostrich friend, and I'm going to bring that peach background in again for him. I'm going to tap Layer, fill the layer with color, bring him up. I don't know. I assume it's a boy ostrich, I don't know anything about ostriches clearly. I'm going to bring him up. Here we have some of the grass or whatever that was in front of him and also the stumps. What I'm going to do here is I am going to go to Wrench > Canvas > Crop & Resize. I'm just going to bring this in. The other thing with PNGs, with a transparent backgrounds is they take up more space than a JPEG, or something that doesn't have a transparent background. When I'm saving a PNG in Procreate, I often will crop it and close like that. I don't want this stump. An easy way to get rid of that is to tap on the ostrich layer, grab that arrow, and then I would just bring it down. Once things are off the page, and you let go of it, then they're are erased. That's an easy way just to get rid of that stump. You can see here again that Canva did a great job with his feathers or fur or whatever that is. I'm going to be googling afterwards. We do have these lines of the grass. I'm just going to erase a little bit here to clean it up. Again, I have my Hard Airbrush eraser. If you wanted to really clean up those areas where there is the grass or whatever in front of him, you can go to Magic Wand > Freehand like we did with the cut and paste. But here I am just drawing an area that's close to the grasses. Three fingers drag down, and I'm going to hit Copy. Then I'm going to do three-finger drag down > Paste. Now you can't see it, but we have a second layer that I isolated above here. What I'm going to do is I'm just going to move that in front of the grass, and I'm going to make sure the shadows are lined up. You see here we have removed the grass, and I'm going to pinch these layers together. We could do the same right over here. Magic Wand > three-finger drag down > Copy > three-finger drag down > Paste, and then move this little area over here. Pinch it together. It's not perfect. If you really zoomed in, you could see that, but nobody is going to do that. Rather than cleaning up this area down here. I think I'm just going to bring him down a little bit and just get rid of that area. It's off the page, it's going to just be deleted, and there we have our ostrich head. [MUSIC] This is really interesting. Those eyes, aren't they just wild? It's a cool color. What we have here are two different ways to isolate an image from its background, either using Procreate or Canva. Now that you know the basics of starting collage, we will start our daily prompts in the next lesson. I will see you then. Thank you. 6. Play With Size: [MUSIC] Hello and welcome to our first collage prompt. I am so happy that you joined me today. When we are doing these collages, what we'll do is we'll look through Pinterest for inspiration for our collages. I have a Pinterest board full of collage ideas and you will find that in the Class Resource section in Skillshare. This is my general collage board. Then I have collage boards that are broken down into different prompts or themes. Today's theme is Play with Size. As we scroll through here, notice which ones catch your eye. Think about how you might want to play with size. Do you want a really teeny tiny person? Do you want an outsized person compared to their environment? Think about what you would want to do with this. When I scroll through here, there's certain ones that catch my eye every time. I love this collage with the black and white then the limited color palette. I think that's really lovely. This is one I always notice, we have the outsized woman balancing and another limited color palette. Let's just keep scrolling. A lot of these collages are playful and fun. This one always catches my eye. The collage artist is Annette von Stahl. This one is a little bit unusual in that just the legs of the woman are small compared to the size of the man. Let's move into Procreate where I will quickly create a collage that plays with size. I've prepared a canvas for each one of these. This is a 12 by 16 canvas and I added a paper overlay. Then what we're going to do is we're going to bring this city into the new canvas. How I'll do that is a three-finger drag down and then it'll come up with our Copy and Paste menu. If I hit "Copy" and go into the new canvas, do a three-finger drag down and then Paste, there is our city. Our city doesn't quite fit, but that's fine. No worries. I'm going to tap on this Arrow and stretch out the city, so it fits in there just perfectly. That looks really good. The next thing I'm going to add is this woman and I have already isolated her from the background. If you don't know how to isolate an element in Procreate, please make sure and go back and watch the lesson on isolating an image from its background. I have already isolated her from her background. Because she has a balloon hand here and not a hand, hand [LAUGHTER] that sounds really funny, but you know what I mean, I took this hand and I copy and pasted it. Let me just show you real quick. I hit this little Ribbon. I'm on Freehand. I circled around here. I did a three-finger drag down for Copy and then a three-finger drag down for Paste. Then I took this arm, Flipped it Horizontal, and then I just adjusted it over her hand here. This isn't perfect, but you can figure out how I did that there. Here she is. I'm going to do another three-finger drag down > Copy. Here we are in our canvas. I'm going to do another three-finger drag down and hit "Paste" and there is our happy woman. At this point in time, it's looking a little gray, right? We've got this gray city and this gray person. What I'm going to do is I'm going to add a layer above the city. I'm going to tap on the City layer. I'm going to hit "Plus" to add a new layer. I'm going to put a little blue in there. Let me try this one. That covers up the city, but no worries. We can play with the Blend mode here or bring down the Opacity. I'll start by doing that. Then, what I'm going to do is play with the Blend mode of the city to give it a more interesting effect. I'll just show you briefly how I do it. The best way to get to learn blend modes is just to play with them. On the City, I tapped N and it's a normal blend mode. That's almost always how they start. But if you look here and go down, you can go through the different blend modes. As you can see, sometimes nothing is happening. I'm just going to turn off that blue so we can see it better. Here we have something that happens. This blend light is Hard Light and it gives it an entirely different look. We have Vivid Light, Linear Light, that might be the one to go with. Pin Light, they're pretty close. Hard Mix. I think I'm going to go with Pin Light. We have our city blend mode that changes up the appearance a lot, and we have the blue overlay. I think that looks pretty good. I might change the blend mode there to Multiply. When you have a Multiply blend layer, it just means the color is interacting with the layer below it, or the layers below it. I have my opacity down. I'm going to have mine at 80 percent right now. Here we have our woman, we have our city, and now I'm going to make sure my woman is centered. So I'm going to tap on this Arrow up here and get her centered. When you see this gold line, you'll know she's pretty much centered. I like her there, she's leaping up. The next thing we're going to do is create a quick rainbow above her. There's many different ways obviously, that you could create a rainbow, but I'm going to go with these cool multiline panes. I am going to choose a rainbow color palette. That looks pretty good. I can still edit the shape here on this Arrow. I have a number of different choices here. I think I will go to Warp, Advanced Mesh, and I'm just moving these lines in a little bit. I think that looks good. I'm going to recolor this into rainbow colors. But first, I'm going to group the rainbow and the woman together because I want to move them together. Now if I'm on Group and I hit that Arrow, I'm still on Warp, I don't want that. I want to be on Uniform so everything stays the same. I think I'm going to make just a little bit smaller. Next, I'm going to re-color my rainbow. I have a couple of color palettes that I'm giving you in this class. I'm going to give you a Rainbow color palette as well as a Retro color palette. Look for those in the Class Project area. To re-color my rainbow, I started with the pink. I'm going to move on to the orange, and I'm going to color drop into each layer. Onto the thing, green. This is a unique pasteli rainbow. This is how I did my collage, where I was playing with size. I hope that was helpful. Generally, I'm going into a bit more details when I'm doing tutorials. But since this one is about the inspiration, I am moving quickly through the creation part. You can start creating and think about what you might like to do today. As you could see through me with my Pinterest board, I love looking at collages and I would love to see your collages. Each day, as you finish your prompt, I would love it if you would share your collage in the Class Project gallery. I'll have my collages there for you to look at as well. I'm looking forward to seeing you tomorrow for the next prompt, Float and Fly. [MUSIC] See you then. 7. Float and Fly: [MUSIC] Welcome to Day 2 and a fresh new prompt. Yesterday's prompt was Playing with Size, and today's prompt is Float and Fly. Let's look in the Pinterest board for some inspiration. There are all ways that people float and fly and defy gravity in collages. It's one of the things I really love about collage; that anything is possible. I like this woman. She's floating with these little bubbly balloons. Another type of collage that I added to this section were just people that were just airborne in general; these two retro women are floating from the moon. I like that one a lot. This one always catches my eye. I noticed this collage artist the other day, Mille Rose. I really love her work. This woman is just kind of suspended by the ceiling and there's so much to look at here with the frogs and the butterflies, and everything. I think it's just really beautiful. This one is very sweet. Often in collage, people are very different from their environment like you'll see a vintage person in a modern environment. In this one, these people look very much of this environment which is interesting and they are just suspended on the moon. You'll see a lot of moons in here and suns and all that kind of thing. So, think about whether you want your people to float or fly or jump. Another thing people do is tie people up and I think the effect is interesting. I'm glad they gave her a scissor so she can get off. There's another one here where people are just, I don't know, perpetually stuck I guess. I tend not to do that with my collage people, but you do you and do whatever you want to do. These are different ways to float and fly in collages, let's go into Procreate and create a collage where people float and fly. This is the image I started with. I isolated these women and I probably found them originally on Flickr; the Commons, which I talked about earlier in the section on sourcing your materials. I isolated them from the background and I added the sky background that I probably got from Unsplash. Let's move the sky into the Canvas. Three-finger drag down > Copy. I have my 12 by 16 Canvas with my paper overlay. Another three-finger drag down and Paste. You can see it doesn't fit that well, so we'll just scale it here. That looks good. Here we have our clouds in a 12 by 16 Canvas. I found my isolated women, so let's bring them into the canvas. Let's hit Paste and there they are. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to copy some of these clouds and have them as another layer that are above the women. It gives more of effect that the women are really in the clouds. To do that, I'm going to tap on this Ribbon, I'm on Freehand, and what I am going to do is trace around some clouds here. This is a similar technique to what we used when we are isolating our people. I curve that around, three-finger drag down > Copy, and then three-finger drag down > Paste. So now it looks the same but if we turn off our background layer, you can see that we have the clouds above here. I did that messy. I think that'll work out. What we're going to do is we're going to turn the layer with three women back on. We're going to drag it down under the clouds and that's a cool effect. What I think I wanted to do, maybe to make it look even more different, is to take that cloud layer, tap this Arrow, and hit Flip Horizontal. That way it has even more variation from the first one. What I'm going to do with this blend mode is I'm going to play around and see which blend mode I want. What I didn't tell you about blend modes before is they always start on Normal and these blend modes above give you a darker result. The blend modes below normal generally give you a lighter effect. Because I want a lighter effect, I'm going to scroll through here and see what I like. With luminosity, I can't see through to the women which is the effect that I'm looking for here. Blend mode may not get me where I want to go here. I'm going to go back to Normal and see if I can just lower the Opacity. Here the clouds in front of them are at a 78 percent opacity. You can see their legs. What I'm going to do is grab the airbrushing, Hard Airbrush, that is default with Procreate and just soften these lines here. I'm going to make it big. So that way it looks more soft edged, and organic. I'm just going to continue softening these edges with the hard airbrush. It looks just more organic and cloud-like. What we have is the top cloud layer at 78 percent and we have our women. I think I'm going to add another layer above and just add a few stars. Here is a light pen, one that comes with Procreate. I'm going to grab a white and just dot around and it just will give it a little bit more interest. What I don't want to do here is make a line; I'd prefer it like a a dot. Vary your pressure if you're using this brush and we will just give it a little bit more visual interest. Here we have our finished collage with our stars, our cloud layer, our women, and our paper texture and clouds on the bottom. I would love to see how you create a collage where you have people floating or flying or leaping. I want you guys to have fun with this and experiment and create a collage in your own style. Whether you are doing an analog collage or digital, please post it in the Class Projects section. I will see you tomorrow when we move into our third prompt, which is Ephemera. I'll see you soon. 8. Explore Ephemera: [MUSIC] Welcome back. I'm so glad you're joining me again for our third prompt, which is Ephemera. We've already played with size, we have floated and we have flown and today we are going to play with ephemera. I didn't really understand what ephemera was until maybe the last year when I started collaging. I'm going to start by reading the definition of ephemera. Ephemera are things that exist or are used or enjoyed for only a short time. The sentence that correlates to that is there were papers, letters, old boxes, all sorts of ephemera. Now let's go into Flickr, and I have a gallery of ephemera saved that is available for use in Flickr. Again, I'll have that linked in the Class Project description. This is an example of ephemera in the form of a vintage ad. I think vintage ads are really interesting and pretty brutal actually, but you can get some cool images from them. For your ephemera, think about what you might want to use. You could use an old theater program, an old ad; I really like using handwritten things from the past, whether that's a letter or a postcard. There are all things that you can use here. Ephemera in collage is really fun to use, whether you are creating a digital or analog collage. The images are pretty easy to come by on Flickr and other places. Next, we're going to go into Pinterest to get more inspiration for collages that include ephemera. As we scroll here, think about what catches your eye. I believe this is a collage from Hollie Chastain. She's a collage artists that I really like and I have a book of hers. I'm not sure what this is that she used. My best guesses that it's something from a library, but I could be wrong. You'll see maps here and diagrams and just scraps of paper with writing on it. A lot of these collages do have people in there, but you can also get some interesting results by using just a variety of ephemera together. I think this one's really visually interesting. I like this, it's a minimalist collage where she's using sheet music. This one is really beautiful and it has a variety of ephemera in the background. Now that we've seen some examples, I'm going to create a collage using ephemera in Procreate. Let's head over to Procreate. Here is my gallery with my pre-selected items for a collage with ephemera. I have my 12 by 16 Canvas here, with the paper texture ready to go. I'm going to bring in this image that I might have gotten from Unsplash. I'm going to bring it with the old three-finger drag down > Copy > open our new Canvas > Three-finger drag down to Paste, and here we have our water. I'm going to stretch it across. I want to keep the fish here at the edge as much as possible. I'm going to be careful about how I'm sizing it. That looks good. I'm going to put this layer on Multiply, so it interacts with the paper texture. Let's just look at the difference real quick. This is Multiply and this is Normal. It gives it just a little bit more texture because it's interacting with the background. This is Normal and this is Multiply. A Multiply blend mode is something that you would use to interact with the layers beneath it. Next, let's bring in this purple galaxy, and I'm going to put it on top of here. This is something that I discovered from playing with collage, putting different images above each other. It's often a galaxy above something else to get an interesting result. I have my galaxy stretched above here, and I'm also going to put my galaxy on the Multiply blend mode. Here it gets really dark, so what I want to do is bring the Opacity down with this slider. I think that looks pretty good. I'm going to bring the Opacity down for the ocean layer a little bit, about 75 percent. I think that looks good. Next, let's add our singer, hold on a second while I grab her from another gallery. Let's bring the singer into the collage, there she is. I'm going to bring her down to the bottom here offset not exactly centered. I think that's a good placement for her. Next we're going to add our sheet music. Pretty sure I got this from Flickr. Let's hit Copy, bring it back. I'm going to experiment with putting my sheet music below my other textures. Let's see how that works. I'm on the paper texture layer and the layer above that three-finger drag down > Paste with my sheet music, and expand that. I think that looks pretty good, and what we're going to do again is play with blend modes. I think I liked the Luminosity blend mode on this. I'm going to stick with Luminosity for my sheet music. I'm going to do one last thing, I'm going to add a shadow to our woman. I'm going to duplicate her. I'm going to tap on the layer below. I'm going to get a true black, which I often have saved with the color palette. I'm going to Alpha Lock the layer below. I'm going to fill the layer > un-Alpha Lock it, so we can Gaussian Blur it. Go to Magic Wand > Gaussian Blur. Here you'll have a percentage here that you can slide to meet. I generally do for a shadow somewhere between three and seven percent. I'll go to five percent here. With shadows you want to see where the light is coming from and the light looks it's coming this way, so we'll move the shadow accordingly by bumping it a little bit. I'm on the shadow layer and I'm going to bring it down and to the left. I'm going to tap 1, 2, 3, 1,2 3,4, 5. I'm just playing around here to see it works. A lot of times with shadows, to see the effect, I'll turn the layer on and off. With shadows, I will also always change the blend mode to Multiply. This shadow effect here is pretty subtle and it's because she has a dark background. But I'm going to bring it over just a little bit more. Sometimes with shadows, I will bring the opacity down, but I won't do that here because the shadow is pretty subtle because of the dark background. To review again, we have our paper texture, we have our ephemera sheet music on the Luminosity blend mode, we have our ocean layer at 76 percent and a Multiply blend mode. We have our lavender galaxy at 35 percent with Multiply blend mode. The shadow is also on the Multiply blend mode and the opacity is not reduced, and then we have our singer. Now it's your turn to play with ephemera. I'm really excited to see what you create. You know what I'm going to say, please share it in the Class Project. I really love to see what you create. Have fun creating your collage with ephemera. The next prompt is Limited Color Palette. I think that's a really good lesson [MUSIC] that you will find useful. I love a limited color palette myself. I will see you tomorrow. 9. Limited Color Palette: [MUSIC] Welcome back. I'm so glad you're joining me for our fourth prompt, which is limited color palette. Let's look at our inspiration in Pinterest. Here is my Limited Color Palette Board. Here's a collage that we looked at earlier. I think it was in the float and fly lesson, but it's also here in the limited color palette section. You can see here that collages often will incorporate a variety of the prompts that we're talking about. There's playing with size here, there's floating and flying, and there is a limited color palette. As you're creating your new collages, think about what types of different effects that you might want to combine. When I say limited color palettes, I'm often referring to one, two, three, or four colors, and I don't count black and white and gray among those colors. The black, white, and gray are kind of freebies. You'll see collages that just have a couple of colors. This one's interesting with the yellow and the blue. We have this with the different shades of pink. I love a limited color palette and I'm almost always using a limited color palette. That is, because I really liked the results, I just find them really eye-catching. Whether you are a beginner or more seasoned artist, playing with a limited color palette will often give you a great result. A lot of these limited color palette collages are kind of muted until we get to the bottom here. We have these bright girls with the outline, this open mouth with a raise. I really like this one with the pink and the blue. A limited color palette does not have to mean muted or dull at all. Next, we will go into Procreate and learn about how Procreate will help you with color palettes. Procreate has some different ways to explore color. We're going to look at the Disk, the Classic, and the Harmony. If you look at the Disk here, you can change the hue by going around this color wheel here. Once you find a color that you like, you can experiment with different colors within that hue by looking at lighter colors or darker colors and go from there. I'm going to find a color that I really like to start with and I'm going to start with this blue. Within this blue, we could create a couple of different color palettes. Let me just pop this blue into the main color here. You can choose your favorite color for this project. We have teal, and we're going to start at the bottom with monochromatic. Monochromatic is keeping the same hue, but experimenting with different tints and tones within there. I'm keeping this parked there, and I'm just seeing all sorts of different colors that I can get. That is what a monochromatic color palette is. Limitations can actually increase your creativity, I have found. You might want to explore a monochromatic color palette. Let's look briefly at the Classic color palette. You can do the same thing here. The hue is parked right there and you're just getting different colors within there. I go back and forth. I used to prefer the Classic, sometimes I like the Disk. Now, let's go to Harmony, which is my favorite way to play with color in Procreate. If you tap up here, you can see that there's different types of color relationships here. I'm going to stick with the first two, which are Complementary and Split Complementary. I find those the most useful. Complementary means opposite. So complementary colors are really poppy together. This is that same teal and orange is its opposite. Again, with the orange, you can play around with different hues within there. A limited color palette, I don't feel like it's very limited actually. I think there's so many different ways you can go within here. There's a Marc Chagall quote that I really like about color and it goes something like this: "All colors are friends of their neighbors and lovers of their opposite." Here we are with opposites, our main color of teal, and opposite of orange, those will really pop together. The one I use probably the most often, though, is a Split Complementary color palette. Sticking with this teal and moving to split complementary, we have colors that are not exactly opposite, but opposite this color. Here we would have our teal again, and we would have a gold color, and then a purple color. Let me drag these here. Again within those hues, you can get infinite varieties of the yellow and fuchsia, again, and still have a limited color palette. I didn't fill in my Monochromatic color palette. I'll just choose some to go with that. I'll choose a light blue, medium, and a dark version of that. So, here we go. Here are three different types of color palettes. Now it's your turn to play with color. Create a collage using a limited color palette. By that, I mean between one and four colors, not including white, black, and gray, which are freebies. Please share your collage. [MUSIC] I'm excited to see what you create. I will see you tomorrow for our next prompt. 10. Add Graphic Shapes: [MUSIC] Welcome back. We are over halfway through our seven prompts. Congrats for sticking with it. Today we're going to do a fun prompt and that is Graphic or Geometric Shapes. Let's look at some inspiration in Pinterest. When I'm talking about this prompt, we have options like triangles, lots of circles, some squares, and rectangles, You get the idea. There's so much fun to be had with these graphic shapes, and there's a lot that you can do with just a little here as you can see. I don't know if you have shapes that you tend to like the most. I use a lot of circles in my work. Here's one with circles. It looks like a paper collage to me, although I could be wrong. Now that we have been exploring these different prompts, you can see here that one collage could meet a lot of prompts criteria. This one has a limited color palette, it has ephemera, and graphic shapes. That's an option too when you are creating a collage, you can stack the different prompts together as you please. You can use graphic shapes, ephemera, and a limited color palette. I like these works right here. This one always catches my eye. It gives the impression that this red circle was cut out of that negative space there with the blue strip, and I think that's a cool effect, and that woman is so glamorous. The artist's name is Cristiana Couceiro. When we get into Procreate, I will show you some tools that will help you make some crisp graphic shapes. Let's go into Procreate. Here we have my ingredients that I'm going to use. I'm going to do circles with different textures. I created a lot of these textures myself in an app called Distressed FX. I'm giving you some of these textures in your freebies with the class, so remember to check those out. Here we have our canvas. It's 12 by 16. It has a subtle paper texture, and then it has another paper texture, and I put it in a blend mode of Multiply. Now we're going to bring Marilyn into it. Here she is. I'm going to do a three-finger drag down to copy her, go back to my canvas and bring Marilyn into my canvas. I think I want her about there. We'll play around with it. So we have Marilyn and the background. Right now I'm just going to group these together and turn those off, and I'm going to show you how I create graphic shapes in Procreate. Procreate's QuickShape will help you a lot. You can draw wobbly circle really bad and it will say Edit Shape up here and you can keep it as an Ellipse or you can make it a Circle. We can also do a super sloppy rectangle or square and you can say Edit Shape. And then you can play with different shapes. <garbled> Easy for me to say. You can play with different shapes such as a quadrilateral, a rectangle, a polyline, or an ellipse. I didn't know that. I did not know you could turn a square into an ellipse. Interesting. A triangle works the same way, just a messy triangle, and I even did a little weird thing up there, and I can make it a triangle. Now that we've explored ways that Procreate can help us create graphic shapes, let's begin our collage. We have our background. I'm going to bring Marilyn up out of the background because that's how I like to arrange my layers. I'm just going to have her sit on a couple of textured circles. Let's draw a circle. I still have my monoline brush and that's the default Procreate brush, and I'm just going to draw a rough circle here and tap, "Edit Shape" and Circle and I am going to color fill that. It's not quite the right size, so I'm going to go to Wrench. I want to be on Uniform. I will just change the size here. I am going to group Marilyn with this ball she's sitting on because I'm generally going to be moving them together. I'm going to move this ball again so she's like she's sitting on a little exercise ball there. I'm also going to create another circle and have her lean her hand on it. To do that, I'm just going to duplicate this original circle by swiping and I'm just going to make this other circle a different color so we can differentiate. I am on Uniform and I'm going to make this circle a little bit smaller and let Marilyn rest her hand on it. I might want this other circle a little bit smaller, just to make it more interesting for me. I am going to add some more texture and shadows to this and I'm going to use these textures that I created. I'm just going to copy this and I'm going to go to the teal ball layer and I am going to three-finger drag down > Paste. That covers the whole area but I'm going to do a Clipping Mask to this ball. I have the teal ball, the purple texture above it and then I'm going to tap Clipping Mask. That is a Clipping Mask and then you get this little arrow, so this is clipped to this circle. I am going to just pinch these two together and now we just have this purple circle. We're going to do the same thing with our pink circle. I'm going to do this one. I'm on the pink circle. I'm doing a three-finger drag down for a Paste and then I'm going to tap "Clipping Mask" again. I'm going to grab this Arrow and experiment with how I want the texture to be on top of the ball. You can see here, there's the texture right there, and I could make it smaller or bigger or whatever. I think I want some kind of shadowy effect there. I am again going to merge these two layers together with a pinch and I'm going to turn on the other layers. Here we have a collage with Marilyn and these circles. So, now it is your turn to create a collage using geometric shapes. You can use circles, squares, triangles, rectangles, teardrops, whatever you want to use. I would love to see what you create. Please share it in the Class Project area. While you're in the Class Project Gallery, please take a look at other student's work and leave them an encouraging note. It will certainly make their day. I will see you tomorrow for our sixth prompt, which is Colorful Rays. I'll see you soon. 11. Add Colorful Rays: [MUSIC] Welcome back to our sixth prompt. For the last prompt, we explored different geometric shapes, and this time we are exploring Colorful Rays. Let's look at some inspiration within Pinterest. There are all sorts of colorful rays here. I think this is, again, a really fun thing to play within collage, all sorts of things you can do. It looks like this is an embroidered collage, which gives a really cool effect. You can use this technique in analog collage as well as digital. This one has a lot of different textures. Here we have more ephemera layered onto the rays. A lot of times you'll see colorful rays coming from a camera or binoculars or horns. I've done it before with a record player. This is an example of not so colorful rays, but I think it's an interesting collage, again, with the ephemera, and the rays coming out of their funky glasses. This one also is an embroidered collage. Ain't that cool? [LAUGHTER] kind of colorful rays? Let's go back to my board. This is a neat effect again. I really like the combination of these different textured strips. I think that's a really cool effect. This one is cool. We have this old mirror, it looks like an old photo. So many fun ideas. Now that we've explored some inspiration, let's go into Procreate where I will create a collage with colorful rays. I created these rays earlier. But just so you can see how they're created, I'm going to go back to the gallery, I'm going to create a new canvas, I'll just stick with 12 by 16, and I create these rays by using the Drawing Guide. Wrench > Drawing Guide > Edit Drawing Guide, and there is a Perspective Drawing Guide. If I tap right here, there we have these rays, and that's what I would use to create it. You can put these rays wherever you want. I often do right about here. Then you have your drawing guide, and then you can choose your color palette and make your rays. If I was going to do three colors, I would go pink. Then every third one, it would be pink, and I would color it in later. Then I would do the same for yellow. I would create a new layer above there and do the yellow after the pink. Then I would come in with the third color on another layer, blue. Then later on I would color it in. I've already done it though. Let's delete that canvas and look at the one I created. This is the flattened version right here. I'm going to hit Copy > Paste, and there are our colorful rays, ready to collage. One more thing you can do with the rays, that's really cool, is you can change the color really easily. If you go to Magic Wand > Hue, Saturation, and Brightness, look at that. Then you can play with the saturation or the brightness. Lots of different effects from just that one colorful ray that I created. We have our colorful rays, and now I'm going to bring my person in. I'm going to do it three-finger drag down > Copy, bring her into our collage, Paste, and make her a little bigger, I think. I'm going to create a circle for her to sit on. Here we have our paper texture, we have our colorful rays that have been flattened. I'm just going to put them in multiply so they can interact with that paper texture. I'm going to grab a yellow, and I'm going to create a circle for her to sit on. I have my monoline there, I'm going to create a messy circle, and let Procreate help me, Edit Shape > Circle, color fill that. I'm going to turn her off to see what we want to do. I think I want to bring my circle to the center of my rays. Now I'm going to bring my woman back, and I'm going to have her sitting within this yellow circle here. Yeah, that looks really good. Here we have our woman with the heart. I call this one Looking For Love. I can't wait to see how you use colorful rays within your collage. Please share it in the Class Project. I will see you tomorrow for our final prompt, which is Flowers and Leaves. I'll see you tomorrow. [MUSIC] 12. Flowers and Leaves: [MUSIC] Welcome back to our last day of prompts and congrats for sticking with this journey. I hope you are having lots of fun exploring collage. Yesterday, we explored Colorful Rays, and today we are exploring Flowers and Leaves. Let's start in Pinterest and get some inspiration. I love playing with flowers and leaves in a collage and I hope you will too. Let's look at some inspiration here. What I see the most in collages with flowers and leaves are a woman with flowers and leaves around her head. You will see that an awful lot in a lot of different ways. This is Twiggy, this is a model from the '60s. Or you can do something else like have flowers come out of a book. I didn't notice that before, the butterfly in front of her eyes, that's cool. [MUSIC] Ope! This one has music, we don't, woooah party! Oh gosh! I do not want this at all. Okay. This one is a little bit different. She has records for her head and then flowers around her. You can have the flowers surround somebody. I really like doing that effect. I've done that a couple of different times. We have a couple here which is a little bit different. Or we have sometimes a trio of friends, I think that's cute, with a circle behind them and then the little scribbles. I provided you with flowers and leaves within your freebies for this class. So you'll find some flowers and leaves there. There's no end to the flowers and leaves that you can find on free sites like Unsplash or even Flickr. Let's go into Procreate and we will look at my collages with flowers and leaves and we will create one. This is a collage, I'm not going to recreate this one for class because it was pretty time-consuming. It took me a couple of hours. But I have flowers and leaves all around her. So if we open up the layers here, there's all these different flowers and leaves on top of her, and here is the woman in the middle-ish. I put black and white flowers on her sunglasses and she also has some shadows there. Then there's a lot of flowers also behind her. But we're going to do something a little bit more simple than that one for this collage that I'm creating. I started with these charming women that I believe I found on Flickr. I think they're from Australia. They look like they're from the '50s. I separated these front flowers and them and I got this right here. Let's bring them into our canvas. These ladies are a little too small, but that's okay. I will stretch them out to fit the canvas and I'm going to bring them down to the bottom, and there are our ladies. We're just going to add some different pictures on the background and see what we like. We have these flowers that I'm going to add to the background. They're above the ladies, but that's fine. We'll move it. First, I'll just stretch them out. For this one, it doesn't cover the entire bottom but that's fine, they're just going to be behind the ladies and I'm not using a blend mode on the women, so that is fine. That's an option. There's another option that I like for them and that's this flower meadow. Pretty sure both of these meadows or from Unsplash. I really like these orange flowers right here, so when I bring it down, I'm actually going to drag it this way. So we have two pretty backgrounds for our women. We have this one or that one, and I cannot frankly decide which one I like better. So let's start with these darker flowers. What I'm going to do is give these women some highlights and shadows. So, Duplicate > Duplicate > Alpha Lock. We have a white here, so we're going to fill the layer. If I hold here, it'll bring up the last color which was a black. I'm going to Alpha Lock that and Fill the Layer. I'm going to un-alpha lock the black because I'm going to give that a Gaussian Blur. I'm going to give that a Multiply blend mode because I like to do that with shadows. Now for the highlights, we want to see where the light is coming from. It seems like it's just mostly coming from the top and maybe a little bit this way. Let's just have it come from straight on. We have our white layer and I'm going to tap it one pixel this way. Really subtle effect. We have our highlights here, and now we have our shadow layer, which we are going to give a Gaussian Blur, Magic Wand > Gaussian Blur. I'll do six percent on this one. We can turn it off and see what the effect is there. Because the background is dark, it's a more subtle effect with the shadow. I'm going to move the shadow just a little bit down and to the left. Fun fact about me, I do not know left from right, and so I have to make an L with my fingers. You guys know this right? [LAUGHTER] This hand makes an L, so it's my left hand and this hand does not make an L, it makes it backwards L, so it's my right hand. There you go. Left and right. My husband is sighing in the background. He's my editor, but we're going to keep this in. So we have our shadow, which is subtle here, and our highlights. I'm going to group our ladies together with the shadow and the highlight. I'm going to turn off the dark flowers and we're going to look at them with the lighter background. Here the shadow is a lot more obvious and too obvious for me, so I'm going to move it over a little bit and then I'm going to bring down the opacity. Yeah, you can see that it's a huge difference between a shadow on a dark background versus a light background. Big difference. Here we have our ladies in the garden, I think that's just really sweet. That was our 7th prompt. A big congrats to you for finishing in this class, but we're not quite done. [MUSIC] There's one more quick video with a few next steps. I will see you then. 13. Final Thoughts: [MUSIC] Thank you so much for joining me in this class. I hope you had fun as we explored seven prompts for creating collage. If there's one thing that you take away from this class, it would be this. At its best, creativity is fun, imperfect play and exploration. It's not about being perfect, it's about exploring and having fun. I can't wait to see what you created and shared in the Class Project Gallery. If you also like to share your art on Instagram, please tag me @kellybrenburke. If you want to explore more collage, check out my other Skillshare classes. Thank you so much for joining me and I hope to see you soon. [MUSIC]