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Fauxsaics in Procreate - Create a False Mosaic Tile Effect From Your Hand Lettering on Your iPad

teacher avatar The Artmother, Professional Art Teacher and Artist

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      3:09

    • 2.

      What is a Fauxsaic?

      3:15

    • 3.

      Creating the Lettering

      4:34

    • 4.

      Create Your Custom Tile Brush

      3:53

    • 5.

      Tile Your Lettering

      5:54

    • 6.

      Outlines

      6:30

    • 7.

      Background

      5:19

    • 8.

      Connect the Lettering with the Background

      1:42

    • 9.

      Color Variation

      2:51

    • 10.

      Shading

      1:52

    • 11.

      Texture

      1:54

    • 12.

      Adding the Shoes

      3:06

    • 13.

      Final Thoughts

      1:17

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About This Class

Are you a beginner eagerly looking for a new great project in Procreate but you only see the very beginner stuff?

This class is perfect for you! It is designed for the next step after you learn how the interface and the gesture controls work. Now it is the time to get your hands dirty!

Nick Misani is the original creator of the FAUXSAIC style, which is actually a false mosaic floor tile effect created in a digital program. It is such a cool style that it even has a hashtag on Instagram (#fauxsaics), made the creator famous and loads of artists try it out. These artworks are usually created in Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop, but in this class I will show you how to reach this effect in Procreate on your iPad.

In this class we will create a fauxsaic from your hand lettering...even if you don't know how to hand letter.

The class is ideal for beginners in Procreate who have some idea how the program works, but actually any creative can get something out of it! It is a great class for those who have a big Photoshop background and are just adjusting to the interface of Procreate and also for those who are just entering the world of digital art, because the class brings a greater understanding to how layers work.

In this class you will pick up some useful stuff like:

- easy hand lettering

- creating a custom tile brush

- tracing

- creating highlights and shadows (make a cool 3D effect) from flattened layers

- add textures and shadows

- "photoshop" shoes.

By the end of this class you will have a finished piece of artwork including your own hand lettering in the fauxsaic "style"! You will have your own custom tile brush, a geometric tile pattern and a great understanding of layers (very important for digital work).

So, if you are ready, let's go and create together!

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1. Introduction: I always like tile, mosaics and Mondelez. Our favorite art project with my daughter is actually creating mosaics out of paper. I also love to implement sterilization into my art in terms of breaking down a complex shape into smaller ones, with implementing a little whitespace in-between. Once I was researching Moroccan floor tiles and I came across the artic of the Nick Misani, who creates false floor mosaic tile designs in Illustrator. The styles he created made him famous and he mostly creates topography of city names. It that an amazinig style that it has even a hashtag on Instagram. A lots of artists around the world try to implement this technique into their art. I also thought, how can I make this happen in Procreate? For those who are seeing me for the first time, my name is Alexandra Gabor and I'm a professional art teacher and artists. I have more than 10 years of experience in graphic design as well and I just love love trying out new techniques. If I see some beautiful or interesting art piece, I start to thinking about how to create it in the easiest way, a simplest process, mainly because of my teacher brain, so that I can explain it to a beginner. I will apply this in this class as well. We will create a simple hand lettering and turn it into Fauxsaic. I'm I pronouncing it right? This class is ideal for beginners, but to the type of beginners who already knows how Procreate works because even though I will comment on each step, it can be quick and demanding. Make sure to watch an Intro to Procreate class here on Skillshare and then watch this class and you will rail it. You don't need to know how to hand letter. You will pick up some useful techniques throughout the process like tracing is a hand lettering, creating a custom tile brush, creating highlights and shadows with flatter layers, Photoshopping shoes, and adding texture and shadows. This's just a great way to make your hand lettering more interesting. This class is great for those as well who are just entering the world of digital arts mainly because I think that it brings a greater understanding how layers work. If you are a person with a big financial background, this class will be great to help you to adjust to that interface and workflow of Procreate as well. This class comes with a custom brush and a template as a bonus to make sure you succeed. I hope to see you in this class. I can't wait to see what you create. [MUSIC] 2. What is a Fauxsaic?: Welcome, in this video we're going to talk about what's a fauxsaic? If I'm pronouncing it right. What is it, who created it and what characteristics does it have? Well, as you can see, this is what I have created, it is basically exactly what its name says. It is a false floor tile mosaic effect created in a digital program. Usually it is created in Photoshop or Illustrator and in this class, I'm going to focus on how to create it in Procreate. What I'm using is the newest iPad Pro, the second-generation Apple Pencil and Procreate. I'm sure there are several ways how you can create this effect but the one I'm going to share with you was the one that worked for me. Let's see what the fauxsaic is. These are the artworks and this is typographic mosaic. It's a different name for them. These are letterings, mainly names of the cities. This tile is created by the artist Nick Misani. He became famous with it. This is his website. I'm just going to show you. This is his website. He creates all different kinds of words and letterings. Mainly typographic, not hand-lettering. What are the characteristics of these artworks? Let's just take a look on this one. There is a lettering. This is the first one. These letterings are outlined. If you can see that each letter is followed by a row of tiles and then behind that, actually there are different patterns created with tiles. Then there are imperfections. As you can see, these tiles are not really regular or precise. They follow different strokes but there are some interesting solutions, for example like here. If I read well in Nick Misani's website, he creates these artworks in Illustrator and he hand draws each and every tile and also colors them. Lettering, outlines, imperfections, yes, and the legs of course. These is the last characteristics so these artworks have these legs photoshopped Into them to create the more realistic look, I'm going to do the same. Let's just take a look in Procreate how to get started. 3. Creating the Lettering: We are in Procreate, so if you open the program, you end up in the gallery. We're going to create a new custom sized canvas. Click on the plus button. Click "Create Custom Size." What I love to work with is the 3,000 and 30,000 pixels square and I'm just going to call it Foursaic. Done. Now we have a clear canvas. We are going to create our lettering. There are several ways to do that. The first one is that you create your lettering on paper and you import it into your iPad by clicking here at an insert a photo or take a photo with your iPad about your design and you insert it into the program. But if you can't hand letter, I have a solution for you. Find the 1001fonts.com and choose a word. Yes, this is the most important. Choose a short word you want to create this project with. I've chosen love. I just need to write it here. Go. Choose a handwriting up here and you have all different letterings. These are free fonts you can use for your personal use. You don't need to download it or anything just create a close up, and by hitting these two buttons, create a screenshot. Now return to Procreate. Click here, insert a photo, find the photo. It is here. Make it a little bit bigger. Now, in layers, add a new layer. Choose a brush. I like to use monoline in calligraphy, and now just outline the letters. This is really just a trick for those who don't know how to hand letter but would still like to do this project. You can do this as well with a real typography. You don't need to hand letter but we are going to do this in this class. I'm going to turn off this layer. I'm actually deleting it. Now I ended up with a shape of the letter and this is what we need. Even when you are going to create your own hand lettering or typography, make sure you only need the shape of it. What I wanted to say as you can see I covered these things. If you don't have a seamless line, you will not be able to fill the shape in with color. Now I have a shape of my lettering. You can do it nicer. But that's all. I'm going to create my own hand lettering and how I'm going to do that is, I'm going to delete these layers. Clear. To the calligraphy brush and what I love to use is script. Now I'm going to create a hand lettering. Now I'm going to just summarize brush lettering for you. It is that when you have a stroke up, you want it to be thin, then when you have a stroke down, you want it to be thick, so like this. I'm not going to use hello, but I wanted to do love. Something like this. I want to have nice spacing between the letters, and actually has turned out pretty well. I'm just going to use this one. I'm going to resize it a little bit to make it bigger and into the center. You can spend time, like more time creating a nicer lettering, but let just move on to the next video to show you how to create your custom tile brush. 4. Create Your Custom Tile Brush: What we need is to feel the shape of this lettering with tiles. You could draw all of the tiles by herself, but I think that's time-consuming and we have an easier method here. We are going to create a custom brush. What is amazing about Procreate brushes, you can find this picture in the artist handbook of Procreate, is that they have two sources. There's a shape source and a grain source. If you have ever used a Photoshop brush, Photoshop brushes were one layered, meaning that within that one layer you had different shapes and opacities to create the brush. But now, you have a shape source and a grain source which can work differently, but create a wonderful result for the brush. In the Procreate, we're going to create a custom brush. I'll hit the Plus button here, and we're going to choose the shape source. Here you have the option to swap from pro library, here you have the library and just find this one, blank and choose the exact same one for the grain. What we want is a simple square tile without any opacity. Now you have some options you can choose from. We're going to set at first spacing as separating these shapes and creating a stroke with them. If I have low spacing, I have a seamless brush stroke, but I don't want that. I'm going to set this to 66. Yes, that's just fine. If I'm creating, painting, I have this stroke. Now what I want also is streamlined. If I don't have any streamline, the stroke I'm making reacts to every moment I'm making with my hand. But if I'm putting it to the maximum, it is stabilizing the movement. I don't want any jitter, it randomizes it, any fall off it means that it makes it like a fate. I don't want any of that, any jitter. Let's go to the shape and set the shape behavior. I want the rotation to be 100 percent. That means that these tiles are going to react to the curves I'm making. General. Yes, I want to orient to screen to turn off. Now the shapes are not orienting to screen. I think that's just all I wanted to set. Let's just name it Title brush. Done. Now when I'm painting, you see I have these nice tiles. In the next video, we are going to apply these tiles to the lettering. I'm including the brush in the resources which you can find in the Your Project tab. 5. Tile Your Lettering: Now that we have our lettering, we have our custom brush, what we are going to do is to create a second layer, empty layer from this lettering and fill that with tiles. What I'm going to do is to hit the layers, create a new layer. Let's call this Tiled Letters. Click the first layer and click "Select," and now just simply select the tiled letter layer. What it does that we are going to actually draw into an empty layer and fill that with our tiles. Now select your tiled brush and choose its size to be approximately 30 percent. You can say that. Choose a different color. I'm going for white. What I'm going to do is to fill the shape like this. Nicer. When I'm going to do is to follow one of the outlines. When I have spaces like this I'm going to simply just fill it with a second stroke. This is not a mistake, we are going to erase around these tiles to make them look better. But if you want try to keep an even distance between the two lines. What I'm going to do is to go around all lettering and fill it with tiles like this. I'm going to speed up this process. Great, it took me just like three minutes to fill this. If you can see, I have some places like this where I missing tiles, so I just hit there and there, and let's say here. Now choose an eraser. Try to make it the round brush. Hard airbrush I'm choosing for my eraser brush because it has hard edges. I want my brush to be approximately 10 percent. What I'm going to do is to erase, 10 percent is too much. I'm going to lower that to 7. I'm just going to erase around my tiles to make them look more natural, or irregular to make these imperfections, and to have an even spacing between them. I was lectured by my husband that nobody would put tiles on the floor that too close to each other. Just erase around them. I'm just going to speed up this process again. If you arrive to places like disparate, so many overlapping, just follow the outlines and just erase by them, and then you will know what to put where. If you have irregular shapes like this, try to make them smaller as if it was really a mosaic. 6. Outlines: What we have now is a tiled lettering. If I'm turning off this layer, you cannot see it right now. Let's just put the background coloring to a little bit grayish. I'm going to deselect and turn this layer off. Now you can see we have nice tiles. This will look better. I know this is not yet there, but you can see it is nice. The second characteristic was outlining, and this is what we are going to do. We are going to do the exact same thing we did previously. So I'm going to create a new layer, rename it and name it Outlines, and put this layer below the origin lettering layer. Now select the lettering layer. Click here to invert and now select the outline layer. What it did is that now when we are painting our tiles, I need to select my tile of brush. We are going to add these tiles around the lettering. If you erased a little bit part of the outlines of the lettering, you will have easier work right now. It doesn't matter if you didn't, we're either way going to go around the eraser again. I'm going to choose now a different color. I'm going to go for darker magenta and simply create one row of tiles around. It is not really perfect, but I can just add some titles here and there where I need it, for example here. What else do I need to do? Is to fill these parts of the lettering with their styles. I'm just going to go around down, also in the middle, and like this and also here. I think I'm done. I might need bigger tiles down here, here as well. Actually, I'm going to erase this part. I don't like that. Too small tiles. Great. Now I choose my eraser again. I [inaudible] just simply go over these outlines again. I need six and just simply erase around them. If there is a place where these white tiles are touching the second color, erase that too so that they don't touch each other. When you arrive to a place like this, for example, try to make a row from these tiles so that they have some direction for example here. As you can see, this is the line we want to follow, so erase it, with that in mind. All right. I think we are finished with the outlines. Obviously you can spend more time with this if you choose like for example smaller size tiles to create the lettering, to create the outline. It will look even better. But I just want to share this with you so that it is a doable project and not too demanding. Now I'm going to deselect the layer. What I have now in my layers is the outlines and the tile letters. In the next video we are going to create the background with a different technique. 7. Background: In this video, we are going to deal with the background. It is going to be a bit different technique that we did. What we need now is geometric pattern of tiles we need to draw. But we're not going to do this freehand, but we are going to open Google and just type tile pattern vector free, hit images and just Find some royalty-free tiles that you like. This is the type of the tile pattern I like. It's called Cairo tiles. When I write that here, Cairo tile pattern, it opens me up several perfect possibilities. Here is a craftmanspace.com where I can download this particular pattern for free. But I have only five formats like SVG, EPS, DWG and I don't want that. What I'm going to do again is I'm going to screenshot this image and go to Procreate. I'm going to hide my layers, I'm sorry. Create a new layer and I'm going to Insert photo and I'm going to insert this file. Yes, I'm going to make it as big as I need it to be. Now I'm going to create a new layer above it. Choose a white color, choose the mono line brush and I'm going to trace over one row of de-creating pattern and then I'm going to duplicate it to create the pattern. So let's just do that. I'm going to speed things up. If you keep holding the line, it will straighten up. So it really makes it easier to draw lines in geometric patterns. If you can see, I have a row that I traced. I have these lines that will match. I will turn this layer off below and actually I can delete it. What I'm going to do is to select this layer and duplicate. Now I can hit the Move tool and make this happen. To do this again, I'm going to click the frame selection and merge down and now I have them combined. I'm going to do this several times to have the whole canvas filled with the pattern. The next thing I'm going to do, I want to have the tiles selected. I don't want this white lines. I want them to be transparent. What I'm going to do is I'm going to merge these two layers. I'm going to create a new layer. Click the tiled layer, hit "Select", and hit "Invert selection." Now go to this layer above. Choose a color, let's say orange. Click that layer and click "Fill layer." Now you have does the tiles in the pattern. Now I can hide this layer below. So when I'm changing the background color, I have this nice patterns. In the next video, let's see how to combine this with our other link. I included a transparent PNG of the Cairo type pattern in the resources that you can freely use. 8. Connect the Lettering with the Background: [MUSIC] So now let's reveal our lettering layers. Put this cairo tiles behind them. I'm actually going to rename this cairo tiles. What I want to do is to erase the lettering from these tiles. Get the eraser. Make it a bigger size, just the layer of the cairo tiles. This is going to be as simple as it sounds. Erase it. This is the easiest way. I'm choosing this because we need to have these uneven edges again around our lettering. If I would just cut things around, it wouldn't be so organic and that's what we want. So I'm just going through all the lettering and erasing the lettering from those tiles. Cool. I love how does looks. Do you like it? [MUSIC] 9. Color Variation: It looks really nice. Now, let's make it look real. There are three things you can do and we need to do. We need to add some texture. We need to add color variation and shading. Let's start with color variation because we need to create a flattened white layer from these tiles to make the other ones. What I'm going to do is to select the tiled letters, the outlines, and the Cairo tiles, and create a new group. Now I'm going to duplicate the group and flatten it then select it, choose white and fill layer. Now I have a flattened filled layer with white. Now, what I'm going to do is to hit Select, click Automatic and randomly select tiles. Now that I have this tiles selected, I click duplicate. Now I have this selected tiles. Now that I have the selection, I can select the layer and choose a color. Let's say darker orange, and fill the layer. Now I'm going to change the opacity. I'm going to hide this one. Now I have some color variation on these tiles. I might want some to be brighter. I can manually color. I can go to this Cairo tiles and simply go around and just add this here and there. 10. Shading: Now that I have the color variation, I'm going to create a shading. What I'm going to do, I already have a white layer of Cairo tiles selected and Duplicate. Now I have two tiles. I'm going to select one of them and fill it with black. Fill layer. I'm just going to show you what I have. I have white. This is going to be the highlight. I have a black, which is going to be the shadow. I put this below my lettering. I'm going to choose this white, hit ''Select" and click three times up here. What it does, it moves the layer with three pixels display. This means that it creates an effect as if the tiles were lit from the side. Now I'm going to choose the black layer, select it, and tap three times here. What it did, it created a shadow. As you can see there's a highlight and there is a shadow. Now it has a realistic effect. 11. Texture: In this video, we are going to create texture. Now create a new layer and put it above the background. This is going to be renamed, let's call it Texture one. Let's choose a brush from the industrial. We have a concrete block. We'll choose a big brush and a dark gray color. What I'm going to do is to go over the whole. You know what? I want this part to be a bit darker, so I'm just going to just vary the values. Now I have a textured thing behind the tiles. Now I'm going to lower the opacity, so in here and just make it as you wish. Now we are going to create a texture above our tiles. What I'm going to do is the same exact thing. I'm going to go over again my tiles just very lightly, and I'm going to lower the opacity. I'm going to go to "Adjustments" and put the motion blur. It creates as if it was a little bit textured. Let's go on to add the shoes. 12. Adding the Shoes: We have the last element, that we want shoes and have on these tiles. What we are going to do is to go to Google again, find stock fall aside or for example, Unsplash or Pexels, Pixabay. Then just write the shoes above. Look for something like this or this. This looks great. I'm just going to use this. Click on "Download for Free". Save Image. Go back to Procreate. Click "Add", "Insert a Photo". Now we have these shoes. What I'm going to do is to hit "Select", choose freehand and just trace around it. I'll just simply hit "Duplicate" and it will just put it here. I'm going to delete this image. Now I have the shoes, which I'm going to make smaller. What I need is shadows. Make sure you have those in black. They are going to create shadows. Create a layer below the shoes. Choose round brush and go below the shoes. Then you can just click to "Adjustments". Click most our slide to adjust to create [inaudible]. Choose the layer below, which gave you the above texture and you can just add a bit more shadow here and there. Just hit "Motion Blur" again so that you have some things. It's finished. 13. Final Thoughts: [MUSIC] Amazing. If you are watching this video, you have gone through the whole process. Congratulations. I hope you liked the class. If you have any questions, please make sure to ask it in the discussion tab below. I would love to ask you to leave me a review because it helps the class to rank higher, and so you'll help other students to find it more easily. As a project, please upload your artwork that you have created following this process and describe your experience in a few sentences. What was the most useful thing you have learned. Make sure to click the follow button up there so that you get notified when the other classes will be out there. You can as well find me on Facebook and Instagram as The Artmother, just to check out what I'm up to. Thank you very much. I wish you a wonderful day and happy creating. [MUSIC]