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1. Introduction: [MUSIC] By going outside
into nature as a creative, you can find the most
amazing color palettes to use in your
next illustration. Along we've given you
the benefits of using nature to boost your
mood as a creative. In this class I will
show you how to capture your own
color palettes and use them in your illustrations
in a fun and creative way. Hey, I'm Chris also known
as Chris Hall Draws and I'm an illustrator
and designer from the UK. Welcome to my third
Skillshare class. I've worked as a
freelance illustrator for a wide range of different clients here
in the UK and worldwide. Color has always been a really important part
of my illustration style. I've always found
that by going outside into nature and using
it as inspiration, you can find the
most amazing colors. I'll be showing you a really
quick fun way to capture your color palettes using just a smartphone or
iPad with Procreate. I'll also go through one way that you could use
your color palettes to create a complete illustration
from start to finish. This is a fun quick class
aimed at beginners that are just getting into digital
illustration on the iPad. By the end of this class, I hope you will have a fun
new way to capture and create color palettes
that you can use in your next illustration. I'm really excited for you
to take this class and I can't wait to see the colors
that you will capture. Let's get going.
2. Class project: [MUSIC] The project for today's class is to
capture and create your very own color
palette using the outside world
as inspiration. I would like you to create a color palette from
the colors you find outside in nature using
your iPhone or iPad. Then create an illustration of any subject using
that color palette. To complete this class, you will need a camera
on your smartphone, an iPad with Apple
Pencil support, the latest version of the app Procreate downloaded
installed on your iPad. If you complete the class, please share your
finished illustration or color palette in
the project gallery, so other students can see them
and get inspired by them. I really can't wait
to see the colors you managed to find
and capture outside. Join me in the next
class for I show you the steps for capturing
those colors. [MUSIC]
3. Capturing your colours outside: This is the fun
part of the class. Put on your boots, grab the
tools that you will need, which is your
smartphone camera or your iPad with procreate
installed on it. Let's get outside
to learn how to capture those fantastic
colors in nature. The first way we're
going to look at is with the iPad and procreate. Look around outside and find some colors that you really
like and once you do, let's get the iPad out. Open up the procreate app, and to start capturing the
colors you have found, tap on the Plus icon in the top right-hand corner
and create a new canvas. Once we are in the canvas, tap on the Color icon to
bring up the color panel. Then we want to press
the Plus icon and choose the New from
camera, from the menu. Shift your iPad around
to find the colors that you like most from what
you are capturing. For the best results, try to get a mixture of
dark and light colors. When you are happy with them, tap the Capture button
on the right-hand side. You will now have a
new color palette in the color panel ready to use. As you can see, this is a great and form
way to find colors and a really fantastic feature in procreate that's hidden away. Let's now look at the second
way to capture our colors, but this time using
our smartphone camera. Find some more colors
that you like. I have found this lovely plant with some great colors in it. Take out your phone and
snap a picture of it. Now to use this photo, I usually do this
when I'm back home. Transfer the photo to your
iPad and once you have it, let's open up procreate. On a new Canvas, tap on the color icon to bring
the color panel up. Select the Plus icon, and then from that menu, choose New from photos. Now, you need to
find where you have saved your photo
to on your iPad. Then once you have found it, select it, and that's it. Procreate automatically
scans the image and produces a palette for you to use in your next illustration. Those are the two ways
to capture your colors. It's really all about
getting outside and finding those colors
that inspire you. There are endless amounts
of colors to find. For instance, try different
weathers to vary the colors, like sunny days, snowy
days, and frosty days. Try close-up shots on flowers, sunsets, even cloudy days
to create a different mood. There are so many different
options out there. So get outside and
find those colors. In the next class, I will show you one way
you can use your colors to create an illustration
from start to finish. [MUSIC]
4. Setting up your canvas: [MUSIC] Now I'm going to go through setting up the Canvas and
tools in Procreate, before I show you one way to use your color palettes in an
illustration in the next class. Let's get started by going to the plus icon in the top right-hand
corner and tapping it, and then tap the
icon underneath, and this will bring up
the Canvas creation menu. We're going to get
started by typing 1,080 in the width and the same
1,080 in the height. Now, this is the size of
a square for Instagram. It's ready to share
on social media once you have finished
your illustration. For the DPI, we're going
to make sure it is 300, which is then high enough to re-size or print if
we ever wanted to. We're also going to
name the Canvas. So on the words Untitled Canvas, tap inside, and then we're going to call it Insta square. We're also going to put
in the size 1080 pixels. Then it's easy to find it again if we ever need to use it. Then once we've named it, just tap Create to confirm it. We now have a brand new
Canvas inside Procreate. We're going to do a few
more things to set up. Let's start with the
first one by tapping on the color icon to the
top right-hand corner. This brings up the color panel, and we are going to name the
color palette we captured outside by tapping on the
words Untitled Palette. If you don't see
your color palette, make sure you have
the palette icon pressed at the bottom
right-hand corner. Now, I'm going to name my
palette Plant Pot bliss. I'm also going to add an
emoji which should do like doing because it gives
a nice visual key. You can name yours
whatever you want. Let's now tap the disk icon on the bottom left-hand corner, which gives us the
color wheel and the color palette
underneath, and that's it. We have our color palette named. One final thing we're
going to do is, if you intend to use
the custom brushes I have provided in
the class resources. I'm going to now show you how to import them quickly
into Procreate. First step is to make sure
you have your brushes, downloaded somewhere
on your iPad. Now I'm going to
bring up my dock by sweeping up at the
bottom of the iPad. These can be a bit tricky. Then with iCloud Drive, which is where I have
my brushes stored. I'm going to drag this
across to the left-hand side Procreate to give me a
side-by-side view of both apps. Now in iCloud Drive or wherever you have
stored your brushes, locate the brushes file, which is here in my case. Now in Procreate, tap on the brush icon to bring
the brush panel up. Now, we're going to drag
across the brush file and drop it into the brush
panel, which imports them. Now you will be able
to see your brushes under the name
Skillshare brushes. There are five brushes in total which we will
be using a few from, and the others are for one
of my other classes I teach. Now we have our Canvas setup. Let's go to the next class
where we create a sketch. [MUSIC]
5. Creating your sketch: [MUSIC] In the previous class, we set up our canvas and tools. Now we're going to create
a very simple sketch for our illustration before
moving onto the color stage. We're going to start
off by going to the Layer menu by tapping the layer icon and then pressing the plus icon to
create a new layer, tap on layer one and
then slight rename. We're going to call
this background. Now let's select Color
panel in the top menu and then drag it across holding down the line as we keep it held. If you tap on the color icon
in the bottom hand corner, we get the color palette
we created in the course. Let's quickly go back to
our layers and the layer above the background we're
going to name this sketch. I am going to add a
little sketch in emoji to make sure now that we have the background
layer selected. From our color palette, we
are going to pick one that is more lighter and paler
in color like this one. Then let's go to the color tool at the top right-hand corner and then tap and hold on
while still holding down, drag it across to your canvas
and then let go to fill. If we now go to sketch layer and make sure
that this is selected. Now this is the only
time I am not going to use the color
palette we captured. If you go to the classic view by tapping the square
icon in the menu, then I'm going to
choose a dark block. Double check here on the sketch layer and then
go to the brushes menu. I'm going to select the
HB pencil CHD 1 brush, which is out of the brushes I provided in the class resources, but you can use your own
sketching brush if you want. I'm just going to play around
with the brush size and opacity to see what I like. Now everything is setup. Let's start creating
the sketch itself. For the sketch, I'm
going to be creating a very simple household
plant with a nice pots. The process I will be showing you on using your color palette. It's best to keep this sketch as simple as possible rather
than over-complicate it. I've just created
this very simple pot, which as you can see, it's not very
complicated at all. Now, I'm going to go and
add some plant stems and on top of each one
I'm going to add a leaf, but just adding a tiny
little detail to each one, but not over-complicating it. I'm going to keep
on going adding a few more of these stems
with the bigger leaves. I'm going to keep it to
around about three in total. [MUSIC] Now I finished that, I've going to add two smaller
leaves down at the bottom. There again, I'm
going to keep it simple in the way
that I draw them. Finally, I'm going to add a little bit of decoration to the plant
pot just to give it a tiny bit more
interest and I think a few stylized simple leaves
will look nice on it. At the bottom of the plant pot, I'm just going to
add a quick shadow to finish off and that's it. We have simple sketch done
ready for the next class where we will be adding the base colors from
our color palette. [MUSIC]
6. Adding your base colours in Procreate: [MUSIC] In this class we're going to add
our base colors to each aspect of the illustration, like the plant pot, the stems, and the leaves. Let's start off by going to our Layers menu and then tapping the plus icon to
create a new layer and then move that layer
below the sketch one. We are going to rename this
layer to be plant pot. After this, select the sketch
layer and on the letter N, tap it to bring up
the blending menu, and from this menu,
select overlay. With the opacity slider, reduce this to 50 percent. We do this because
we're going to use the sketch as a guide to trace around when adding
the base colors and this way makes it easier to see. Let's now pick a color
for the plant pot. I'm going to pick
this terracotta one, which should suit it
quite well and should have enough contrast from
the background color. Now let's go to the brush menu. From the brushes I provided, pick the studio pen
fill CHD 1 brush. This is a custom inking
brush that I created, but feel free to use
your own inking brush. Now make sure we have the
plant pot layer selected. Now let's trace
around the outline of the plant pot with the
terracotta color we selected. We are going to be
filling this in, so it's important to
make sure that there are no gaps when you close
it off at the end. Let's now fill this
in by going up to the color tool in the
top right-hand corner, tapping on it, keep
it held down and drag and drop it
inside the plant pot. With a plant pot now done, let's move on to
the plant stems. If we go to the Layer menu, hit the plus icon to create a new layer and call
this plant stems. Also make sure that
it's underneath the sketch layer.
The color palette. I'm going to pick
the rustic red, which will be nice
for the stems. We're still on the inking brush and then if we start
adding these in, take your time to
follow the sketch underneath and try to keep
to it as much as possible. Now because the
stems are so thin, the color drop filled
doesn't work as well. I'm just going to
fill the middle bits in using the brush itself. If we then add the
last few stems and making sure
that the no gaps we fill it in [MUSIC]. Let's now do the leaves, go to the Layer
menu and then press the plus icon to
create a new layer, and then let's call this leaves. In our color palette. Let's
pick a nice leaf color, I will highlight this green one. Let us quickly go to
our Layer menu and make sure that leaves one
is below the stems. Then like before, let's
start inking that in making sure we close the
gaps off when we do. Because the leaves layer
is below the stems, it's tricky to see if the
outline is closed off. Let's go to the Layer menu. On the leaves layer, tap and hold the tick mark. This will then only make
this layer visible. Now we can check to
see if the outline is closed off easily, which it is, so go back to your Layers
menu and then tap and hold the tick mark again to make
all the layers visible again. If we now go through
adding the leaves and then drop filling in like
we did with the plant plot. [MUSIC] Let's now go to the Layer menu
and press the plus icon to create a layer and name
it, plant pot shadow. Go to the color palette
and I'm going to pick a really dark color, and then outline the shadow
and drop and fill it in. We're ready for the
next class where we are going to be adding some light and depth to these base colors. [MUSIC]
7. Adding Depth - Part 1 in Procreate: [MUSIC] In the last class, we added our base colors
to the illustration. In this class, we're
going to add some depth to make these look less flat. Let's then go to
our Layers menu and click the plus icon to
create a new layer. We're going to name this dark. Then once this is named, tap on the layer and
select clipping mask. Now anything you draw
in that layer will remain within the pixels
on the layer below. Let's go to the brush menu
and we want to select the soft brush CHD1. This is a very soft,
round feathered brush. Again, feel free to use
your own brush if you want. Pick this dark amber
color as it is darker than the base color
we have on the plant parts. Then I'm going to paint in on the right-hand side
of the plant part, which adds some
depth and it gives the plant part just a
bit more of a 3D look. Also, the good thing about digital artwork is that
you can experiment with the brush sizes and opacity until you find
something that works for you. Let's now create another layer
and call this one light. We want to set this to
clipping mask again. Make sure we're
still on our brush. Then let's select
a lighter color from that plant pot base
color like this one. I'm painting on
the opposite side to the dark one,
which is the left. We've now created
a bit more depth on the 3D look to the plant pot, which makes it look less flat. Let's now move on to
the leaves and we're going to use the
same techniques. Let's create a new layer again, making sure it's
above the leaves one. We're going to
rename this to say dark and set it as a
clipping mask to the leaves. Let's now go to our color
palette and we're going to pick a darker color from the
leaf green base color. Let's start painting this in
on one side of each leaf. Let's now add a lighter edge
by going to our Layers menu, adding another layer
and calling this light, and again, setting this
as a clipping mask. Then let's pick a
lighter green to the base color and
start painting this on the opposite side
to that darker color. If you need to undo any stage, just tap with two fingers on the screen and alter the
brush size if you need to, but carry on until
you've finished those lighter edges
on the leaves. Now let's move on
to the plant stems and go to create a
new layer again, and making sure
that it's above the stems one and we're
going to call it dark, and there again, set
it as a clipping mask. If now we go and pick a darker color to
that base stem color, and then we're just
going to start painting it in the bottom. Now you have the hang
of this technique. Go ahead and create
another layer yourself, calling it light and
making it a clipping mask. Then just add that lighter color the top of the plant stems. The final thing
we're going to do is just add a lighter layer to the plant part shadow
just to finish it off, and using the same
technique as before. In the next class we're
going to add some more depth and really make this
plant pot stand out. [MUSIC]
8. Adding Depth - Part 2 in Procreate: [MUSIC] We added some depth
in the last class. In this class we're going
to be adding some more to really built this up
in the illustration. We're going to be using the same technique that we
used in the last class. If we start off by creating a new layer above
the plump Part 1, make sure it's a clipping mask and rename this to be Shadow. Let's now go to
our Brushes menu, and from the brushes I provided
in the class resources, we're going to select
Studio Pen Fill CHD 1. There again, feel free to use
your own brush if you want. In the color palette,
I'm going to pick the dark red amber
color and then add a hard shadow just under the top lip
of the plump pump. Also, let's go back to our Layers menu
and we're going to make sure that that shadow
layer is above the light one. Like in the previous class, we're going to create
another new layer and we're going to add
this one above the shadow, and we're going to
call this Highlights. Also making sure it's
a clipping mask. If you now pick a lighter color to the plant Part 1
from the color palette, and then make sure we're on that Highlight layer
and then start adding this in on the left-hand
side of the plant parts. With the plant part dawn, let's now move on to the leaves. Again, let's create a new
layer above the leaves one, and making sure it's a clipping mask and we're
going to name it shadow. Then move this layer
above the light one and just watch out for this when
we're adding the layers. Now from the color palette, we want to pick a darker green to that green leaf base color. Let's start painting in a hard edge shadow at
the bottom of the leaf. Carry on adding that to one side of the leaf
for all of them. Then let's move on
to the highlights by creating another layer
above the shadow one, naming it Highlights, and then making sure
it's a clipping mask. From our color palette, let's pick a lighter green to that base color on the leaf. Then if we add a
hard edge highlights on the opposite side to
the shadows, we just did. If we do this near
the top of the leaf and then carry on just doing
this to all the leaves. Finally, we're going to do the same technique
for the plant stems. So let's create
that layer again, making sure it's a clipping
mask and naming it shadow. Then let's pick a
darker brown color to the base color on the plant
stem from the color palette. We're going to add
this on the bottom of the stems where they
connect to each other. Then finally, do the same
technique to create a new layer and pick a lighter color
to the stem base color. Then add this in the very top
edge of each of the stems. That's it for the deaf. As you can see,
this really makes the illustration
stand out a lot more. Now we've added
this technique in. In the next class, we're going to go
over just adding some final extra
little details along with how to share
your illustration on social media online or print. [MUSIC]
9. Extra detail and sharing: [MUSIC] With the depth added, let's add some final
little detail. For now, create a
new layer above the plant pot wall and making
sure it's a clipping mask. Let's move it above the highlight layer and
rename it to be Extra. Then select a lighter
different color to the plant part in
the color palette. Then from the brush menu, make sure we're on that
studio pen fill CHD 1. Then let's draw over
the leaf pattern, which just gives the plant
pot that extra little bit of detail to add some
nice interest to it. Then the final bit of extra
detail we're going to add is a bit of shadow on the
inside of the plant part. Let's go back to our
Layer menu and create a new layer above
the plant pot one as a clipping mask and move it above the actual layer
and call it Extra 2. Then let's pick a darker
color to the plant parts. This brown one looks nice. Then let's paint that in. There we have it. Our finished little
simple illustration using our captured colors
ready for sharing. How do we share
our illustration? The first way is
to do it whilst we are in the Canvas of the
illustration itself. If you go to the top
left-hand corner and tap the tool icon next
to the word gallery, and make sure that you have
the share button selected. From that menu, we're
going to choose JPEG, which is a commonly
used format for digital images and makes it really easy for
sharing most places. X menu share the image to
wherever you like,e.g, a camera roll, send
it to a friend. I'm going to save mine
to my camera roll. That's it. Your
image is exported. Now, if we go and select the "Gallery" in the top
left-hand corner, in the gallery view, if you swipe left on
any of your artwork, you'll get a menu and you
want to click "Share". There again, you
want to select JPEG. Then in the next menu, pick where you want
to share it to. There again, I've
selected my camera roll. That is it. Congratulations, you've completed the class. You should now have
a new way to capture color palettes and use
them in an illustration. I really hope that you've
enjoyed learning with me today. [MUSIC]
10. Thank You: [MUSIC] I really hope that you've enjoyed this
class and thank you so much for taking the time
to learn with me today. Hopefully, you will have a
fun new way to create and capture color palettes to
use in your illustrations. Please post your final
project in the class gallery. I would love to see what
colors you managed to capture and the illustrations
you create from them. It also really helps with other students taking the class. If you post it on social media, be sure to tag me
using @chrishalldraws. I have a few other
Skillshare classes I have done for Adobe Fresco
and Procreate. If you want to take
a look at these, you can find them on
my teacher profile here on Skillshare. Also, please follow
me to be the first to know about any new
classes that I create. I'm always looking to
improve as a teacher, so please give me feedback
by direct message on social media or
here on Skillshare. Other than that, thank you
for taking the class again, and stay creative. [MUSIC]
Chris Hall, Artist
