From Doodle to Dress: Digitalise Your Drawing into Professional Prints

1. From Doodle to Dress: Digitalise Your Drawing into Professional Prints: Hi and welcome to my course from doodle to dress. This is how to digitalize your DRI into professional print. The London-based print designer from Beijing, China. I have over five years of experience working across fashion, textile, print, and graphic. I'm currently working on Special Adviser and international textile company. I'm working with some of the biggest names in the industry, including Christian Dior, parrots, Pop shop, I'm paying back. During this course, you will learn to predict production 3D prints from your own drawing. I'll show you how we can take away the pressure of making everything perfect in one go by digitalizing your drawing into Photoshop. Once we have the sparkling production ready prints, I'll share with you who to go to to get them printed on products, if you will like to stand out from the crowd and personalize your wardrobe. This course is made for you. Furthermore, learning print design could open passes to creative industry. Like many others, my career was deeply affected by the pandemic. During pass here of confusion, I've taught myself print designing skills. I have managed to gain my career back again. I would say as cliche as it sounds, learning to do print design was demoed for me. And I will highly recommend it to anyone looking to transfer into the creative industry or to start a side business. This course is aimed for all level of art and designing skills. However, it would help if you already have some knowledge engineering and Photoshop. I'll go servicing as we go along. So don't worry if you're completely new. Since the lessons are pre-recorded, feel free to fast forward, backtrack and pulse as past the term of learning online. Or you need to join this course is your lovely self. Some pen and paper to draw with tracing paper. And of course, Adobe Photoshop. I'll also be great if you have any form of coloring media, procreate on an iPad and a scanner. As a self-taught artists, I know it can be so frustrating when you have amazing ideas in your head, but don't know how to turn them into reality. With this course, I want to open a window for you to the world of design and show you that you can design from 0. And now you can tell your design into profiting products. So whether you're looking to kick-start your print designing career, improve on your current skill set, or just make a little something for yourself. This course will get you there. 2. From Doodle to Dress: Mini Project : Hi there and welcome back to my course from doodle to dress. Today we're going to have some fun doing some flowers together, scan it into Photoshop. And by the end of this course, we're aiming to get you from this to this need for this project and some pen and paper. I want you to pick something we cannot prevent us from Keith and change our design. You just go and pick whatever is on the paper. It's a great way to get them up because it doesn't matter whether or not you do what you're comfortable with. And I was back out with some random squiggly lines. Writing is a great way to build up a flower. I'm just going to draw some super simple balance. Now we're definitely not going to get a 3D comfortable. And the charm of this project, no matter what you come up with, we're going to make it look really good in Photoshop. We're going to spend a scanner that you can use getting it on your phone as well. I'm going to open image CapEx, find my scanner and take on it. My scanner I set to default safety desktop. You can select to save anywhere you can find easily later. So now I'm gonna make sure auto selection is off and change the resolution to 300 DPI. Also rename the file. Then I'll select. Now I'm going to open Photoshop and find the file I just gave. I'll explain a process quickly now include old handy commands with older children might also go to Image letter. I'm just going to clean my brush. I'm going to copy all this information to pick up grand mean squared. This will be the key is to always set the resolution of 300 DPI. I'm going to think about it and select it. I'm going to copy. I'm just going to take a good look. So I'm going to the eraser tool. And there we go. That's our first flower. I'm going to quickly drag some guidelines Move tool to set the center of this canvas. Now going back again, I'm going to select the leaf and then copy it to my flower. I'm just going to change the scale and then play around with duplicate and sizes until it looks good. I sent a flower, looks a little bit basic. So I'm gonna go back and find this black box right over here, and then copy it back into the flower. I'm then going to alpha lock the layer, select a nicer color, and then I'm going to re-color it. You can do this with either bucket brush tool. Either way will work fine. Now, I'm just going to duplicate three sides until I had felt the full flower with petals. Here that I have everything, merge all the layers together to clean up your canvas. Now, you need to de-select alpha lock so that you can make changes. I'm just gonna go over with the brush tool to get rid of all of the little white dots. I'm also going to re-color the outline with a pink. Also using Alpha Lock. Alpha lock is probably my favorite tool in Photoshop just because it's so handy. And now, same thing for the leaf. Grab a little blob over here. Copia interior catalysts, enlarge it and change the size. Alpha lock, pick a nice color, then brush. Now the same thing with the ethylene. Managed a line to match your color. Alpha lock the line, pick another color. A few more copy and paste later. I'm going to now build our card pamphlet, still 300 DPI, this packing landscape, and then going to move everything and copy it term, you can resize it and drag it to the right side of the card. This is so that wants to print it out. You can fold it in half and it will become the front side of our head. So once you're happy, you're gonna say Rename and then Save As PSD so you can change it later. And I'm going to save again as a copy into a J peg. So now my design has already to be printed. You so much for joining me on this little project. I hope you've had so much fun and it builds a little confidence towards designing. Please post your creations in the comments below, I can't wait to see your own flower cards. This project is just a small window to my course from doodle to dress, where we're talking about more types of designing and Photoshop. How to build up confidence and what we can do to elevate our designs will be creating seamless repeat and motif graphic prints were also talk about who to go to to get this design printed on products for ourselves and also to start a side business. So if this all sounds good to you, I'll see you in my next lesson. 3. From Doodle to Dress Lesson 01: Non Print: Hello everyone. This is Amy Alice. I'm so happy to see you here for my lesson from doodle to drive far first-class. We're going to get ourselves set up to do some wonderful doodles to warm up and also build up confidence to our design. We will go through all the tools we need to get started. And by the end of this class, you'll end up with a handful of doodle ready for Photoshop and hopefully a belly full of excitement for the coming up lessons. The only essential tools, a pen and paper, we'll be focusing solely on traditional drawing methods for this course. So don't worry if you don't have any fancy digital programs. The great. If you have any form of calorie media, colored pencils, markers, paint, watercolor, selling, retail drawing, but it's not the central. We'll also talk about using tracing paper to help our design process. But again, not essential. Now firewall now, we're just going to grab a piece of paper and doodle away. Seemed like what we've done in the intro project. I want you to use a pen. You cannot rub out. I'm just going to let my hand do the work and go with the flow. I have another people around me who would love to start drawing. But the one thing I keep hearing from them is that they don't know where to start. I'm scared to make mistakes or they're afraid to join won't be good for them. My suggestion is always just start doodling. Is still free, relaxing and you don't have to worry about how things turn out. I do this all the time when I have an art blog or just don't know how to carry on with the project. Yes, it happens to professionals to and it happens a lot. The best thing about this, there's a whole drone of print design dedicated to doodling is called non print or mark making is one of the most popular categories. And it comes back and try and season after season. Now we have our fabulous doodles. We're ready for our next step. We're going to take a slight lead and draw some flowers and fruit. I show you how to correctly use the reference of how to take on a complex subject from scratch. I really hope you have fun today. And staying true to see how our doodles turns into this. 4. From Doodle to Dress Lesson 02: Floral and Fruit Part 01: Hi everyone. This is Amy Ellis. Welcome back to my chords from doodle to dress. In the last lesson, we freed our hands and imagination with some doodling. I hope it was really fun and relaxing to do. And that would build some confidence and are excited for the coming lessons. So for this lesson, we're going to tackle the most popular genre of Prints, floral. We're also going to cover some footprints and designs because they're coming more and more infection as I noticed, especially for high summer. This lesson, I've separated it into three parts. The first part, we're going to continue with a free and relaxing doodling style. I'm going to show you a few tricks and how we can elevate a doodle to a professional product ready design. And part two, we're going to go a little bit ahead and analyze how we can observe something from a photo or in real life. So don't worry if this sounds really difficult, we're gonna go through it step-by-step. So we make sure we will definitely get it by the end of the lesson. And lastly, step three, I'm going to show you a few easy ways how we can elevate our designs further with cautery. Feel free to pause fast-forward or backtrack as we go along. This lesson is a little bit longer than usual, and a packet in a lot of top pointing this. So if you're not so sure, just go over and watch it again. I'm sure you'll be able to get it by the end of this class. If it all sounds good to you, let's grab a pen and paper and get started. Fluoro is easily the most popular journals. Print is use largely across fashion, furnishing and stationery. And because it's so popular, is a huge umbrella that shadows a lot of different styles, including our doodles. So here I'm really just playing along and warming up my hand. I'm gonna use a tracing paper to color in this line art so that I don't disrupt it. And that I can get more styles with the same technique. Simple techniques cook a little bit repetitive. I want to show you this brush and show you how we can instantly elevate our designs. This is a hawk brush, which is usually used for oil painting, but it's fantastic for texture. Attached a pallet to metro fluorescing. I'm not going to be working with acrylic. Acrylic is a fantastic media to draw our width is super beginner friendly and quite cheap to get onwards. You don't really need anything fancy, just the basic range while do. I'm going to keep my brush quite dry to maximize the texture of it. I'm just going to dot on my paper freely in the shape of a five petaled flower. Now, one of the brushes even drier, I'm just going to go along with it and let the brush do is own magic. Really all I'm doing here is let my hand guide me and just relax into it. There really isn't a right or wrong way to this is all about getting the texture which is happening all along the song. So we can just sit back and relax our drawing process. I just love how organic this all turns out. There's really nothing you can mimic asterisk on digital. Now, I'm going to use a little bit of green and mix my brush again. This time, I'm gonna do it a little bit looser with a bit more water. Now turnout brush to decide I'm dabbing and heavy first and then lifting it as I go from the tip of our leaves. The leaves are really just elongated petals. I'm using this tab and lift method, which is so good for getting the shape as I want. I'm already super excited about putting the story into repeat. I can't wait to see it as a perimeter. But to be honest, I'm really liking how it is right now, is so cute. Now for our final practice of part one, going to part two, I'm gonna be showing you with some references of photos I've taken and how we can use them correctly, but simplify it. To also keep to a duty style, I'm going to start with Cicero's because it's probably the most complex. And who doesn't like Croesus? I'm gonna be using a tracing paper to show you how we can tackle these complex objects into simple shapes for our drawings. As much as I loved drawing roses, they can be really scary at first. I, just because there are many layers of petals, they look really complicated. But listen, tracing paper, we can really reduce the girls just down to simple color blocks of light and dark. Here. I'm outlining all of the shaded bit. And this is going to become the silhouette of our simple doodle rose. I know with the tracing paper, there's a huge urge to just copy the same as it is because it will come out pretty and it's extremely understandable. And I'm in, of course, go for it if that's what you want. This is something we do a lot in the industry when the customer at breathing down your neck because they wanted something yesterday and didn't tell us until two days later. But the main problem about this is that you will never learn and improve from it, then you can't really get rid of the tracing paper. And that's not really what we want. I would really encourage you, even if we're just doing these simple dissections right now, this will become the foundation of making amazing designs in the future. And here we go, That's our rows. And now I'm going to move on to this yellow daisy like flower. Daisy and roses are the big two when it comes to printing florals. Not very good was my flower names. So please tell me if you note the real name of it. And we're going to mark the center with a circle right here. And now I'm going to trace the pentose. So notice that the petal is not a perfect oval. It's more like a little water drop shape that goes center in the middle. I'm just going to trace around it, but I'm not going to make these petal touch because that will make my life a bit difficult. So I have to think of shading and that Another want to do that. Here is our daisy. For our fruit, I have to draw this apple. This is a photo of an apple I picked from my mother's garden. She lives in Devon, UK. And let me tell you, they have the best apples. So jealous. Anyway, I put her into super easy. Just put an over here at the Twinkie bit at dental here. And I'm going to trace around this leaf with the sharp pointy bit at both end and maybe add another one here in young adult. And that's it, an apple. Now the fun part, I'm gonna be using these finer brush to get a nicer, smoother stroke. So I'm going to use the same acrylic color because waste not want not. And I will be using a thicker watercolor paper because it's more durable and they can take a lot more. I'm going to start with the rose. I'm not tracing a 100 per cent been copying the shape and the direction and roughly how everything's goals. I'm not going to pay too much mind to keeping it exactly the same as my tracing paper because I can never do that and there's no point of doing it since every single rose is different. But anyhow, here we go. I will say just enjoy. Let the brush guide. You don't worry if you make mistakes. This is what this lesson is about. We're all learning here. So I will keep a certain whitespace in-between each petal just to keep that due to the field. And I think in itself is a really, really nice style. So adding the layers, building it. And notice how the petal gets smaller like little miniature triangles on the outside. Double layer some petals if they're getting a bit thin because photoshop can always pick them up. And here we go. Now I'm going to use the green color again and add some leaves. I'm just drawing these half-moon shapes and then filling them in, in the center and pushing majority of the pen to the tip because there are always a bit darker down. Double layering. Some Photoshop can get all of this. Goodness. That's pretty much about it. Now for our daisy, I'm going to take this beautiful yellow. Just once again, let the brush do the work for me with this beautiful texture. Quite getting this one. So if you have problem with drawing a perfect circle, which I do, Here's a trick. I will mark around a center point was top, bottom, right, and left. And that should give you a little cross like so. And that's the frame of your circle. So now all we have to do is fill in the extra petals, and that's our little doodle Daisy. So lastly, I'm going to be mixing a little bit of red to my yellow for lovely orange and dab my brush for our center. And that's it. And lastly, for our special apple, I'm gonna be doing something a little bit different. I'm deliberately making my pain more wet and fluid so I can push it around on my paper. I've mixed a little bit of green to the yellow for this light line color. And now I'm going to adapt it really, really watery green and start from the top. I'm basically doing an umbrella. And you should always start with the lighter color. Notice I've failed ones on top because I start with a red and that was not smart. Anyhow. Now continuing with it, I'm mixing unless the lighter orange here. And I'm going to dab it around the bottom. Don't worry about it. If it looks really, really sick, I'm clumsy. We can always send it down with more water. That's pretty much the charm of using any media with water. So beginner friendly and it's so much fun. Here with more water, we can push a mix. And now you can start seeing some shading and natural shadows just because we use these colors. And now lastly with the pure red at the bottom. Once again, mixing, I'm dabbing. This marks the end of our first part of this lesson. I hope was really fun and we got some beautiful designs ready for Photoshop. For the next part, we're going to take a step further into observing real life flowers and fruits and putting them onto paper. I knew in my sounds like we're taking a big leap, but I'll go through how we can correctly do this step-by-step. Handwriting will change a bit to become something more fun and solid. So if you're only interested in the free doodling style, feel free to skip. But if you want to expand your horizon, I'll see you next time. 5. From Doodle to Dress Lesson 02: Floral and Fruit Part 02: Hi again, is Amy Ellis. Welcome back to my course from doodle to dress. This is part two of drawing flowers and fruits. Today we're going to tackle drawing from real life. We're going to trace everything down to simple shapes of circles, triangles, and squares. Forward these items from my house because I think their shapes are a great starting point for us. Let's just jump onto this lemon, even though we say circle, but it's more of an oval. Let's trace that down right here. It's looking really playing as almost like an egg. So to make it limiting CDs low points here, Let's draw a lion cross and you realize the perfectly in the middle. So I measure with my finger for the ratio of them according to the body and how big they are. This is really good to help me keep everything in frame so that nothing looks too wonky. I now have my draft. I'm just going to trace over the outside of it to define it. Learning to dissect an observed something too simple shape is a key skill when it comes to drawing complex object. So as we go along in the next session during character as little animals, they swap also be the method as we used. And now it's definitely a lemon rather than an egg. Let's put down the lemon and pick up the strawberry right here. Strawberries are getting more and more popular as a print. It's probably because it's so cute and it's really nice color. And also it's very tasty. Strawberry is very, very easy to George. So that's perfect for us, is practically a circle with a triangle on the bottom. So once again, do our doodle with the shapes and outline it and making the point a bit more round here because no strawberry have a perfect triangle points. And for the leaf, I'm just drawing these little half diamond shape, which are making the top bit a bit longer. I'm making the middle bit fatter and more oval. And that's pretty much it for our strawberry. Now that we have the base less adding the details to elevate them. So I'm going to add this darker points on each end for lemon and taught some little dots as to pour around it with my pencil. And I'm going to rub out some guidelines to clear out a bit. This will help Photoshop define the shape a bit better and focus on what we want it to. Now the same was destroyed rate, but I'm going to rub out first because it's a bit smaller if I drove us, they get difficult. You see, they always have seeds on them and it's the same thing. Really, circle and triangle just upside down. I'm gonna do this all over it for the CDs. I got an idea that I can make my lemon even better in Photoshop, I'm going to take this leaf from this flower right here and trace the shape of it. So I start off with novel and attach two triangles. But I'd make the point of it pointing downwards to copy the actual shape of the leaf. And now I'm just going to connect the silhouette once again. And I make it a little bit curvy at a point and make the point go down a bit more to give it more of a natural look. And once again, rub it out, and that's it. Last practice of part two. Let's tackle this flower right here. We're going to do it on a circle, which marks are lots of space it takes. Then you see it's almost a square. So I'm gonna put down four points of all of the petals, top, bottom, left and right, then connect them and do two line across the center. So I'm going to start slowly with the bottom layer of the Pacto. Think about me during the leaf shape of a circle and then connect it to triangle at the tip. And making the shape very simple because I'm going to layer more on top. And here's the second layer. Make the petal a bit thinner as the natural flower goes. So now that's the base shape. I'm going to go along and outline it to make it darker so it's clear for me to follow later. Okay, So now you see just a funny little petal here that kind of goes upwards. I'm going to trace it down right here to show you what I'm doing. So once again an oval and it was a triangle. But it's all about twisting the line and making the fact that more rounded and the pointy bit following the natural curve of it. 1 second, rub out the outline on time for details. I'm going to draw these tiny little circles in the middle of it as the center of the flower. Now to refine my flower, I'm going to add these pencil lines as shadings. So I'm gonna do it straight on my flower. But if you're not so confident, I don't want to ruin your beautiful liner do on a tracing paper. And starting heaviest from the middle, and then almost jetting out my pencil. And now because our natural petal is on a curve, I wouldn't do a straight line. I will do a car flying from both end to connect it. And this will almost gave us a 3D shape on a Tuesday, joy. That's it for part two. Thank you so much for joining me. I hope it was fun and not too much of a head burn. Practice certainly makes perfect when it comes to drawing. So it's very important to draw whenever you can. For the next part, I'm going to show you how we can elevate our designs with coloring. See you soon. 6. From Doodle to Dress Lesson 02: Floral and Fruit Part 03: Hi again. This is Amy. Welcome back to my chords from doodle to dress. I'm still excited to be starting coloring with you in part three of flowers and fruits. Here I've got this row, so I drew using exactly the same method as we did in part two. We're going to color it with acrylic. This is quite similar to what we've done in part one was our amazing Apple. So probably an expert with this already. I've added a little bit of red to my pink to mix this beautiful rose color. And we're going to tackle arose with it for our first row and then be using the same method as we did with our apple. I'm just dabbing the entire rows with a really wet brush that has a little bit of paint on it. This is going to be the base of our own break. Now to our paint. I'm going to start from the top. And you see how it just blends in so wonderfully. And I'm just going to let it trickled down by adding a little bit of paint at a time. Once I'm happy with the pink, I'm going to take my red and add it right on the tip. You points. For any of you who are not so confident working with colors, I would really recommend this own breed method there. So nice to do relaxing and they always come out very beautiful. This is also a great first step for any calorie media using water, like watercolor and acrylic. Because this is so simple, we can really focus on a handful of the brush and the watercolors. This will really help us to build confidence and get better. For the second row, I'm going to show you a different method. I'm dabbing my brush heaviest at the edge of the petals. And then I'm going to flick it towards the center. Describes a really, really lovely brushstroke and add the natural gradients to it as sort of similar of that floor drawing we did with the pencil lines in part two. Now I'm going to wet my brush with just water and blending tyrosine to make the data more natural. This covers all of the whitespace inside this rows, which will become very important once we put it into Photoshop. A few more dots on the umbra one, and that's it for the flower. Now for the leaf, I'm just going to take my green and fill it in the silhouette. Not really going to bother about color blending. I quite like the gradient that's happening naturally, so I'm just going to dab it and help it blend. Following how the embryo on the floor as with this one, and using less paint, more water as the leaf comes to the bottom of it. And also bring some green into the bottom of the flower and blend it with a bit more water for the ombre effect. Now, more green at the top of the leaf to darken it. And that's pretty much the thought process of all of our lives. That's it for our rows. For our next part, I've printed off our drawing from part two and made a line arts lighter in Photoshop. I'm going to show you how we can color them with colored pencils using our limit as example, really all we're doing here is putting down some lines with this color pencil along the shape of the actual lemon. So as dilemma is on a normal curve, none of our line is going to be on a straight line. It follows the shape alone to create a 3D illusion. Now my lemon, so I'm going to use the same pencil, but this time precedent harder onto my paper. As you can see, even with the same color, just the difference of the pressure make the colors so much darker. Using the same pencil in the same color helps us to keep our drain nice and fresh with a mucking up the color too much. So I really like using this because I find it creates a softer blend as well within the shadow, I'm putting majority of my heavy stroke on the two types of my lemon because that's where the shadowed steepens and really defines the curve. Now I'm going to take a lime yellow and fill it in and highlight the bet. I'm gonna go gradually towards green. So I'm going to base it with this line color as a transition. That before that, I'm going to take a lighter orange and shade it a little bit more to define it even further. I'm just going to go alone right at the outside with a slightly lighter stroke. This is so that even if you make mistake is not going to be so noticeable. Now with migraine, I'm going to gently highlight the lemon. I really like adding green to my fruit drawings because somehow that gave it a much more natural pills is no fruit is perfectly warm color. I'm also going to take my going further into the entire element. So that is not a sudden pop of color being said, it blends well into the whole fruit. Lastly, I'm going to take this one earthy color for the tippy tops. I'm also going to outline the lemon soda to define the shape. Finally, some dots for the poles, and now we have a linen. So that's it for flowers and fruits. Thank you so much for joining me. Hope was really fun. And now we're all starting to see things with circles and triangles. I've included all of the reference I've used from my photos and also some thinking processes to help you practice. They are all at the end of this video, so stay in tune and feel free to screenshot. For the next lesson, we're going to talk about character drawings with small animals and those sustained June to see how we turn all of these practices today. 7. From Doodle to Dress Lesson 03: Simple Animal Part 01: Hi there. Welcome back to my course from doodle to dress, less than three. This is the lesson I've been waiting for because today we're going to draw some animals. Usually when we say animal prints in the industry we may animal skin like leopard prints. There are once again, one of the top drone of prints. I'm trying to cover all of the most popular varieties of print design. So we can have a little bit of insight of the industry while creating our lovely works. This lesson is in two parts. Part one, we're going to talk about all of the elite for when it comes to animal skin. We're also going to cover this one new comer does the increasingly popular in recent season and part two. And then the cat is quite a gateway. We're going to talk about actual animal drinks. Even though actual animal figure drawing is not so popular when it comes to fashion on furnishing. It's always holding a space for a motif design when it comes to calico bags, stationary card, I'm sure we've all seen acute car or note book was a kitten or puppy on it. And to be honest, it's always nice doing something fluffy and cute. And I'm sure some of you would love to be able to draw their own pet, will continue to use our method of observing things into simple shapes. Of course, there will always be a handy trick here and there to help us elevate our drawing. So let's get our pencil ready and let's get started. Quick introduction. First we have leopard is so popular, is easily the biggest than Zebra and tiger. They're quite similar with each other, but once again, very popular. Didn't we have snake is built and everyone comes and goes jumping into it. I'm going to show you how to do an easy lipid. First getting my tracing paper again, I'm just going to sketch out as those little dark spots goes. I'm not really following any guidebook going along with the hair direction. And so we'll get a second sheet and layer on top. I'm just going and adding those dark details. I'm drawing my line sort of after shooting out from the center of this box. I think these little dark circle patterns are what really makes the leopard print. And that's where the sketchy one, because lipids are so popular. Let's paint another one. I'm just going to outline the shape with my tracing paper to get an idea than acrylic and my lovely hot Bradford texture. Again, not really planning anything, just doodling as I go along. Now with my darker brown, I'm going to use a smooth brush mix and then press down on my lipids and creating these half round shapes to cut all my spots. And that's pretty much it for my painted leopard. I'm only going to do one drawing for both separate and Tiger because they're so similar. The very easy to do. I'm just getting these dashed lines along with my brush. And I like to do this little pointy, almost like a elegant hook shape. They gave a good idea of natural animal skin. And that's pretty much it. Just going to keep adding and building until I'm satisfied with it. And that's all we need. Now to turn my separate into my tiger. Or I'm gonna do is add these really watery leaves. The magical result is at the end of this video. Let's talk about the popular newbie. If there is one animal figure we love for fashion prints, that's butterfly. Especially with the Y2K transfer assets 23, becoming strong. Butterflies are pretty straightforward to have quite an easy shape. It's really just the pattern, their wings, that's really complex. So for this lesson to simplify everything and make all of our lives easier, I'm going to turn once again to my ombre method. I'm going to show you a few way to color a butterfly so that they are perfectly ready for print. So now I have my butterfly outline. I just rub out the extra guideline. I'm going to take a really watery brush and outlined entire butterfly and fill it in with water. I'm using watercolor today because they are perfect for ombre. I'm taking a blue and I'm just dabbing it right in the center. See how wonderfully as merging already. So pretty. There's not really a technique to this method. And pretty much just dabbing on guiding the color and let it do what it wants. I find that creates the most natural result and it's always pretty Okay. Moving on to the second butterfly, once again, lining and filling with water. You want to make it quite wet. So I would really use watercolor paper for this. Now, I'm going to use the same method, but this time starting from the edge, let the color go into the center. Pretty much the opposite of what we've just done. Now for the third butterfly. Remember what we did with our beautiful rose in the last lesson? I'm going to use the same umbrella method in this one, I'm just going to use three different shapes. First deal with the blue, very, very watery. And I'm just going to add on and build gradually. Now I'm going to take a purple and add on top of it. Now, take a yellow and add to the bottom. Contrasting colors always turn out so well in Photoshop. Last but not least, field is butterfly with water once again. So for this one, I'm just going to use all of the color and play with it. Just adding the color I have on my palette, dabbing it as I want, adding a bit of pink here and there and just see how it turns out. That's pretty much it. That's everything for part one, we covered a lot of contexts in this tiny little video. Thank you so much for joining me. You did super well. I'll see you in part two for cuteness overload as we move on to animal figures. 8. From Doodle to Dress Lesson 03: Simple Animal Part 02: Hey guys, This Amy at part two of drawing animals. Let's start with this cute little puppy right here. So for beginners, I would really recommend during baby animals, their body shape is lot more round here and the proportion a lot more obvious to understand compared to adults. So take this puppy, for instance. The ratio of height to body is usually one-to-one. I'm just once again doing our simple shapes and adding it as I go along. I'm always measuring from my reference as I go along with my pencil, just to see where everything belongs. I know so the ratio between everything to make sure nothing goes wonky. Now have my rough guide. I'm just going to outline it. Now we have the base of our puppy, but it's nowhere near as cute yet. So take a tracing paper. You see here. All I'm doing is adding some fun texture was tiny little dashed lines. Remember the key of this is to be patient and really just follow your line of the body shape. Adding even more details here at the corner of the year, you see where the head kind of turns against it. I'm going to flip my lineup to give it even more fluffy uphill. Here's our little taco cat lovers out there. This is demo, my friends beautiful rectal. I had to bribe him was a lot of stack is expensive but totally worth it. For demo, I'm actually going to take more of a due to the appeal rather than flowing everything. I'm kind of exaggerating his body shape. He's not chubby, he's just very, very fluffy. And here as you can see, I'm drawing longer curved lines instead of tiny little dash to exaggerate his fluffiness. And I'm pretty much basing his entire body and a novel and adding those little triangles as his ears. For the face. I'm just marking out the black bit on his natural coloring. And later on with food is entire picture in with watercolor. Now for the eyes down, we've got this very aloof look going on here. So I'm going to try to trace that with this slightly narrower oval and adding the typical cat eye pupil. Looking for the whiskers again. And that's it. For my coloring. I'm going to try to match the color of his natural for as best as I can. But I'm not quite sure if I got enough color in my palette for that, so I might just adjust it later in Photoshop. Once again, I'm dabbing thing ties silhouette with water so that my color can blend easily. I include all of my reference photo and my thought processes when I draw at the end of this video. So please feel free to screenshot and use them for your practices. If you don't have any good photo I had to use feel free to go for stock images. They always royalty-free, um, they're great way to expand your horizon. The keywords to typing is your subject, followed by p and g, royalty-free stock images. Anyway, back to Dharma. While my base color is still damp, I'm taking my brush and blending it in for his face pattern. I love the recto was this sort of pattern there so well-defined and it's just so cute. I'm just going to take my time now with this step, watercolor works best when you apply a layer on top of layers. And to do that, you have to wait for the first layer to dry. So I'm basically going to dry it color and repeat until I get it to my satisfaction. Quick tip for watercolor. One, the color is not really doing what you want it to. I would just dry off my brush tip and then use the dry brush to guide the water back in place. I think are attending is getting there. I'm just going to take my brush tip here and gently flick out the color to create these fluffy hairs. Just the face left hanging there. We're getting very close now. Lastly, I deliberately left out the AI space when I was masking the entire thing with water so that I can add in the recto signature blue eyes. To finish off my illustration, I'm gonna get the help of color pencil. The color pencil is a lot easier to control so I can get a more detailed specialty of the eyes. The nose tip of year, adding back in those little hairs and the whiskers. Use the night to kinda for the lighter. That's it for this lesson. Thank you so much for joining me. I hope you had a lot of fun. I've cleaned it. Were just one more or less than away from putting all of our lovely words into Photoshop. For our next lesson, we're gonna be talking about character drawing. This is once again more from motif designs. So please stay in June if that's something you're up for. And also keep watching as I turn these NTDs. 9. From Doodle to Dress Lesson 04: Character Drawing Part 01: Hi everyone. This is Amy Ellis and welcome back to my course from doodle to dress. This is our final practice session before digitalizing all of our drawings into Photoshop. I just wanted to say a huge well done for all of your amazing works. We've covered a lot of content in these short videos. And you've all done a fantastic job for our final practice session, we're gonna be covering character jewelry. This is probably the hardest lessons so far, but we will continue using our observation method of pen and down character poses and expression. Character drawing is quite complex by nature on a lot of professional artists can we struggle with? So don't worry, just take it slow. I enjoy it back to joy is always popular when it comes to graphic motif prints, especially for casual wear like t-shirts and hoodies. Currently, I've been noticing a huge trend with Japanese anime style. This is probably due to fashion globalization and also the rise of Gen Z. And they're spending power so that they're almost handing their childhood favorite into a fashion trend. So I've tackled myself were for tackling some symbol and make characters bar graphic prints. And when it comes to fashion, I would say there's pretty much only one kind of print as papilla to digital, to digital as a two toned print, usually printed on cotton or linen. If features characters in elegant gowns or pulses. Rococo style, idolized nature landscape with trees and florals. To digital is very, very beautiful to look at, is very complex because it follows the Rococo style of more is more. This lesson is again in two parts. Part one, we're talking about are simple animated character join. While part two were tackled a complex but beautiful to digital, the reason why character drawing is not as big as other drones of print. It's probably because it's heavily based on whether or not the customers like your style. Because it's quite complex, it can become very personal for the viewers. Since this is quite a nice drum, I'm basing our lesson more as an extra challenge for us to do. So. If you're not quite feeling it, don't worry, we already have a lot of materials to work with. But if you're up for a challenge, Let's get started for the irony majoring, I have this little ballerina here, which I got as a stock image from line of action to make our lives easier. And once again, tending to my tracing paper, I'm just first marking out all of the key points like top of head, bottom of fit, waist and hip. Now our drawing dots and connect them with guidelines. These will serve as my guide for the body and is exactly the same for the face. Now let's add our circle and triangle. I also put a circle down as joints, then connect them for the arms and also the thing for the legs. Now as we can see, the body is coming along nicely. So I just draw these fluffy shape as the skirt to gave me an idea, and that's it. Now let's take another sheet of tracing paper and place them together. Time to add in details and finish our buttery and enjoying. Quick tip. When we come back to it, our joints we just did to live for guideline. Let's elevate. This was the natural curve of body. The bigger joined, we're kind of gradually goes into the little one with a gentle curve. This works for adults and children. And pretty much anything if you smooth this out was a tough line. It just looks a lot nicer than you do a harsh straight line. I'm going to follow this all along and trace my lines. Same idea as our animal during children are lot easier to draw it as an MA, especially when it comes to updating them as shapes. The body is not fully developed yet, so all of their shapes around here, therefore, easier and smoother when we draw. I'm going to add in her costume, as I sure. Remember, because human body is a 3D shape, that means nothing will be flat. Therefore, all of our lines will be on a curve, especially with the bouts of these shoots. They'll go a slight curve around her foot like this. Now let's refer to our reference picture again and adding her beautiful eyes. The huge sparkling eyes is pretty much an animated feature today we're going to do an easy version of it. So natural human eyes is usually more like an arm and shape. But to get it looking good, we will need a lot of details and as quite complicated. So instead, what we're gonna do is we're going to take the tablet and the bottom and then fill it in with our circle as our pupil. And that's literally it. To make it even easier, we can just take it to tablet and connect it to our circle. That kind of gave her an expression of looking sideways as she is. I think this is quite cute. So let's go with this to make sure we pin down exactly where our eyes should be less ten back to our reference photo, you see the ratio between the I and the year is roughly two to one. That's transferred as straight to our drawing. Now we can mark the position of our eyes and add remain the same for our nose and also mouse. I'm going to keep the nose and mouths. Quite simple to keep to that childish, animated look. Then eyebrows and the hair. Adding overlay dress, once again following the curve of body. Now for the fluffy skirt. And once again jetting out my life and then connecting them with the half scholar Shaffer acute uphill. And that's pretty much it for our little ballerina. Or the reference for this lesson is at the end of this video. I'll see you for part two. 10. From Doodle to Dress Lesson 04: Character Drawing Part 02: Hi again. This is Amy Alice. Welcome back to part two. Less tourism told you joy, I got these lovely palaces. Again from line of action. I think there's so elegant and perfect for our total joy, joy. I'm just going to use the same method like we did with our animate figure and market now my guidelines and then filling them in with the simple shapes. One thing I'm doing differently is that I'm considering the natural figure. Because the model is an adult woman. The body is a lot more curved than our chosen model. I'm just following the shape of the body where as the bus, epoxide and other waste essentially solo. Now instead of drawing the full leg, I'm just going to be lazy. And GD is half triangle shape. Because I know Indiana, this figure is going to end up in a dress. So no point doing odor effort if we're not going to see it. And here we go. Now I'm just going to do this as a lady really quick. Once we have our base bigger, I'm going to refer to my favorite book right here. I'll type the title our screen. Here. I'm going to use this rope alone francais, which has typical Rococo style gown. And once again, I'm going to take a tracing paper layer on top and use my finger as base. First thing I'm gonna do is to reduce my job by drawing a hat. This way I don't need to join all of the complicated hairstyle. I'm following along the eye line. And then I'm due to drain this really elongated oval. Then I'm going to add in this little flat top as the top of my hat. And that's my head down. I'm just going to trace the outline of my figure from my face line and year. And now I'm just adding some really random Carl's as hair. One good thing about total joy is a really fancy, those sketchy, hand-drawn look. So all of these little dude li lights were really worked well. Now I'm adding the detail of my gun once again following my body curve. Now I'm going during easy puffy sleeves where I have a little circle puff on top, and then a dash line jetting out, then another curved path at the bottom. I'm just going to add these reshaped gathers to connect them and gave it more of a real luck. This method is really great if you want to draw any Garmin or complicated figures using tracing paper were really help us breaking things down into simple layers. And then we can tackle them one by one. There's no tricks to it. Just take your time and observe your object. Break it down into lines and shapes that things we can understand a handle. Now, I'm going to add in a bit more detail to my gown and following a slanted line and adding in these imaginary leaf. And just doing once again jetted out light and connecting them at the bottom. Now with our hand, Panther, quite complex to draw, especially when you're more realistic. So I'm just going to hide it behind our skirt. For my scared. I wanted to have the full Bogan look. That's really elegant. Think of it as upside down bowl and just adding the more puff. And I'm going to connect the end with color shape. Curved lines have this really soft and feminine appeal to them. It's great when you want to George things fluffy, soft and, or you just wanted to give seem like a nice, smooth edge. Using different combination of lines including straight, dashed, uncurved. It's a really good way to elevate our drawing even further. I'm just going to draw it in this L-shape as delays of our button. And that's pretty much it for argon. Here. I'm just adding some simple shading. The very light on your hand for this to give a blurry fill, shading is a great technique to elevate your drawing even further. It kind of gives a surface fill to a 2D Jordan. It fills up the blank space and it makes your drawing a lot more interesting to look at. Now for her face, I'm not gonna do anything crazy complicated. I'm just going to use this shutter technique, which I do a lot when I want to cheat and be a bit lazy. But it really gave us a nice, dreamy, elegant field, which I really think what toward adroit is all about. Now the same all over again for the other lady. Another key element due to, due to a print is the nature and taking these trees right here. And I'm just going to cheat by drawing little curve lines along the silhouette of it. I don't want anything too complex. I want to remain this really carefree hand sketch doodle technique and it makes my life easy. So why not? I'm going to add in some shavings here on the darker, but that's basically it for our tree. Technique is really good to follow along and do them too tall. Bushes, trees or grass or pretty much anything does fluffy nature. To finish, I'm just going to draw these little dashed lines, which are the antecedent I do with them. So that takes us to the end of our drawing practices. Thank you so much for joining me on this short journey full of content. So we've covered the three top drone of prints, non print fluoro and animal skin. While also cover some more niche topic like fruits and character during, while having fun doodling. We've also covered some topics that are harder, especially if you're a beginner. I know sometimes it can feel like you're not quite getting it or even feeling a bit down because of it. This is absolutely normal and it's just a step we take to improve and get to where we want to be. As a self-taught artists, I know it can feel really, really frustrating when you're trying so hard and you're doing your best, but you're not quite getting there and you're not really seeing any improvement immediately. Especially nowadays with social media is showering us with content of this four-year-old as there's amazing at drawing like breathing. But one thing I would say, let's always, always focus on ourselves. And everybody learns things at a different pace. Learning a new skill is a very long journey. And I find personally, the hardest step is always the first step of getting us to actually do it. So by taking this course, you've already done the hardest part. One more advice I would give is if you're really not feeling it, just leave it, drop it, put it down, go out, have fun, enjoy life. And whenever you're ready, come back to it. I've designed this lesson to be productive to you, but more than anything else, I want it to be fun because passion is the best motivator. Anyhow, for the next lesson, I'm going to show you how we're going to scan, clean up, and digitalize our drawings. I'll see you then. 11. From Doodle to Dress Lesson 05: Scanning and Digitalising : Hi everyone. This is Amy Ellis. Welcome back to my course from doodle to dress. With now have a lot of material that we build through our drawing practices. We've covered from non print fluoro, fruits, animal skin, and even some character drawings. Today we're finally going to digitalize them into Photoshop, clean them up, and get them ready for our print design, a good setup, unclean, is essential to digitalizing our designs. It opens up a lot more freedom to what we can do. An eye allows us to make multiple copies of the same design. Also, if you're clumsy like me, you can always find your design once it's in your computer, I'll be using a professional scanner for this lesson. There are a lot of good apps on the phone right now. However, in comparison, the quality is still limited. I would recommend the scanner as investment because they're not that expensive. I think I got this one for around 30, quit brand new. And they really do improve our scanning qualities. However, if you're new and you just want to test your hand for now, feel free to make good use of whatever it is free. And then in West later, so now scanners that are ready, let's get started. Once we connect our scanner, Let's place our design face down. Make sure they match and close. If like me, you're using Mac book, you can find your scanner on Image Capture. It will always do a previous. So you can see. Now, let's make sure our setting is correct. The most important thing is to check your resolution is at 300 DPI. This is the key. Then I will check my location and name the file accordingly and scan it. Now we can take our design on, open it in Photoshop. I'm just going to drag and drop here. Then first thing I'm gonna do is rotate my image so I can see better. Then MH level, I'm going to adjust it so it's more defined. Once we have a good design, I'm going to try to take this butterfly away from the background. But because the color is very similar, it will be difficult if I go straight away with the eraser. So I'm going to take my Magnetic Lasso tool, as you can see here at glues itself to the outline of the shape. I'm just going to circle around it. You can click down single click to make sure you learn that spot you want to. Or you can just do it like I am. Drag it along. Once we've reached the end, it will select itself and close it. Now press Control J, and we have our butterfly without background. To the second butterfly. We can see this one. The white bit murders a lot more with the background. So our lasso will get lost. Let's just select what we can for now and I'll show you how we can deal with the rest. I'm going to deliberately miss all of the bed. I'm not going to get. Now, I'm going to switch to a polygon lasso tool. This will allow me to gain more control and guide layer won't because it won't glue itself too weird places. Now Command J and we fill the hole up the same with the other side. To clean up, I'm going to come to my layer and merge down. So now I have my butterfly on one. Then you see this little dot tape our stem to press Option. This copies whatever is good and clean and I'm just going to mask it on top of the dots. Let's clean artery. So if we go to level and adjust it, you see it's got a lot of purple and we don't want. So let's go to image black and white and make it mono tone. This will save our lives. And you can see we got rid of all of the colored dots. This is the best way to clean up any monotone jarring and it just make outcome so much clearer. Once clink, let's use an eraser tool to get rid of the background. It looks good, doesn't it? But to track, Let's build another layer. Fungus I heard in green and create a green screen. Now we can see the white spots. That's not great. Let's do this again. So new layer and make it green. Don't worry, can see. Now I'm going to take my magic wand and select on the darkest bit. Then select similar. I'm going to make it few times so that I get all of the information. Copy paste. See it's already much better, but it's not perfect. Then the same, again, select similar, and now it's gone. Lastly, let's work on this lemon once again level or just eraser to get rid of background, lasso to select and paste a new layer. Then green screen. I'm just going to take a normal eraser and clean my image around. We spent so long to create these beautiful designs. Let's give it the attention it deserves. It's always worth to pay these extra minute and clean your designs further. I think it really elevates our design and makes it look so much more professional. Now, I want to introduce you to my good friend, the hue and saturation tool. I'm going to copy paste this lemon and gets one making from it. When you get to a corner hold down command. This will help us further adjust the shape. That's all for digitalizing our designs. A few key takeaways. Festival for any monotone designs, put it into black and white. This will help us max out the quality and get rid of all the impurities we do not want. Second, use a green screen has helped to get out all of those blurry and sketchy details. The green contrasts really allow us to see all of the things we usually won't see with a gray or white backgrounds than three. Maximize the use of your hue and saturation column to select and stay true to colors. Then lastly, use a combination of lasso and Magnetic Lasso to sketch out and take all those blurry designs into reality. With our designs ready, we are ready for the heart of this course, putting them into print. For the next class, I'll show you how we can re-color things in Photoshop. And we're gonna be making some motif designs. I'll see you soon. 12. From Doodle to Dress Lesson 06: Motif Print: Hi everyone. This is Amy Ellis. Welcome back to my course from Duetto to dress. Today we're going to make some motif prints. We've come a long way from the beginning. Well done, you and I'm so excited to get started. Motif print, I say graphic design does not. Ng-repeat is very popular across fashion and stationary. For any product like T-shirt cards towed back, they are always hot cake that sells season after season. I'll be doing two designs based on our abdominal and ballerina drawing. I'll be building around them using the rest of our libraries. I'll also show you how we can gray color in Photoshop. So let's get started. Let's start with a demo. I have declared our illustration here, and I'm just pasting this watercolor rose we did from the lesson to clear up. And I'm just going to lower the occupancy so we can focus on the main character. And now Command J to duplicate my rose. And I'm going to bring it to foreground. Now, take my Magnetic Lasso Tool. I'm going to trace around just the flower design. I wanted to have them all. Where does row some ECS. I'm going to make a smaller fast and then go to Edit, adjustment Flip Horizontal to have that on the other side. This flipping method is fantastic to get more variety out of the same design. Now adjusted with hue and saturation. I think a little bit of orange shown will look nice. For the background. I'm going to pick this non print out right here. Copy paste, readjust size. I'm going to sharpen it to make the quality better. Create a new layer and fill it with any color. Change the blending so that we can see the colors through. And now hue and saturation and get whatever color you wish. Because of our new background, our rows doesn't look as good. So I'm going to duplicate it. Command J and alpha locket, then take my brush tool, pick a white and just fill it in, then rewarded the layer. And now you can see our roles remained occupancy, but it's visible. To make our background even more interesting. I'm going to clean this out and take this check pattern, just going to enlarge it and adjust it to desire. Then duplicate, merge down. And now we'll change the blending so that it has a check pattern on the background. Then that's it. Moving terrible arena with a green screen right here. You can see that there's still these last two white bits. So I'm going to change the blending to multiple and get rid of it. Time for color, Let's pick a skin color right here, build a new layer and just use my brush tool to filling. Don't worry about coloring out the line down here because we're going to put a new layer on top of it for the close. Basically, every single new color we built is going to be on its own layer. This is to ensure that we can easily recolor and pinpoint whichever layer we want later. This will be easier if you have a pan tab. But as you can see, I'm just using an dragging my mouse on my touch pad. And it's the same effect with the edge of nitrous. I'm going to enlarge my brush and use the natural curve of it to guide the sloppy kylo scholarship, I think is quite important to use different sizes of brushes to get into the nitty-gritty details and also maximize the size different today for your natural edge. By doing this, we're adding to our designs, I'm making a more interesting to look at with different levels. It's a really good way to master when you don't have as many fancy tools. At the beginning. Of course, there are many other tools out there like Procreate on the iPad and they're fantastic for coloring. But for beginners, Photoshop is a nice simple tool to get at the handle. And you only need to learn one thing which is always great. Now, to add a bit more details to our drawing, I'm going to pick my smudge tool and just blending these blushes. This is a very easy way and take your time with it and play about with the coloring blend. It's a great simple message to elevate any design and add more to look at with the eyes. I wanted to show you another simple trick. Fast at a base layer. Then new layer. I'm going to come here with my gradient tool. I'm just going to build a blue gradient here so that I can fill in my eyes in one go. Now, filling and adjust this background. Here we'll do then clipping mask and change the blend. Now new layer, pick a darker color and during the pupil and shade, change the blend again, a lighter color during the reflect, and once again smudge and blend it in. Now, on the top, use a pure white to add in the reflection light. And now we have our sparkling agonize. Gradient tool is my good friend when it comes to simple coloring, It's so easy with the clipping mask and blend changes. You can get a lot of different effects with basically no efforts. I'm just going to use it for the dress and here as well. And now I'm just going around adding light and shade, and that's pretty much it for coloring. Lastly, I want to change the color of my line art. So really the same process with a gradient and blend change. And here's our simple color with Photoshop, I want to make my design more interesting by adding some storylines. The elements I'm using here are from our practices. Please comment below, and I want to see how many you can spot and tell me which lessons there from storyline building as a really good way to angry at shower design. And it basically gave the viewers more to do and more to look at so that they engaged with your designs for longer and they're more likely to buy it. I'm going to keep building on this design with all of our drawing practices and all of the tools we covered so far in Photoshop. You don't need to know all the tricks in the book to build amazing designs. It's more about how you use one trick on to maximize it. The biggest joy of working with Photoshop I feel is it opens up a lot of creative freedom so that you can go and make mistakes. This is so important when we're trying to learn here. And I would say, just have fun with it and see what you can come up with. By practicing and using the same tools over and over again. Your master them in no time. I'm going with say, manga inspired design to match the anime style drawing. But using the same elements or more, there are endless possibilities. And that's pretty much it for our ballerina. That's a wrap our motif prints. I really loved this waste, not want, not mess it up using all of our Doodle, the lines that are literally endless possibilities or what we can do. I want to invite you to think outside the box and really tried to go into the nitty-gritties and think what you can do with the unexpected things. More importantly, have fun with your creation process. In our next lesson, we're told about seamless repeat prints and also who to go to to take our designs into products. See you very soon. 13. From Doodle to Dress Lesson 07: Seamless Repeat Print: Hi everyone. This is Amy Ellis and welcome back to my course from doodle to dress. This is the last lesson of our course. We've come so far through our journey and it's all done an amazing job. For the last lesson, we'll talk about seamless repeat prints. As the name suggests, this is a print designed to be n plus, it goes on and on. It's the most popular method of printing for fabric, whether it's profession of vanishing in the industry when we say print design with default mean it to be seamless repeat. So learning the skill is essential whether you want to broaden your horizon or just start a new career path where it goes through all of the different John's of print we've covered so far to refresh our memories. I also show you a few tricks and how we can get the most out of the same design. I can't wait to see our end result. So let's get started. I'll talk about non print, fruit, butterfly and floor today. Thanks. Let's set up our file. I'll always do a square file. And first of all, let's change our setting to centimeters. This is to ensure we always know what size it is. I do 20 by 20 because it's the easiest size to work with than resolution as 300. This is key. Now with our new file, I want you to click command R. This brings out the ruler tool, and let's set up all around our cameras and across the center. This is the essential tool to printmaking. Let's start off with our non print. I'm going to use my Lasso tool to select this zigzag pattern right here, right layer. Here we go. Adjust it a little bit. Now we saw crop tool. I'm going to enlarge our base Canvas. You have to always unlock the background layer so that you see the PNG file instead of solid color, I'm going to re-size it. I'm placing it slightly outside of the Canvas. I'll show you why in a minute. I'm just going to adjust it until I'm satisfied with the shape. Now we have this shape almost reaching the end of our white background. I'm going to take my select tool, press down Command, and drag this information to the side. Here we go. That's our seamless repeat one. Now I'm just going to duplicate this file, change it up a bit with my change tool. Then I'm making the rest of the print. Reason why I can select and drag my information so easily is because of these guidelines using our ruler tool without it or dragging will go all over the place. But if you have it, uses Select tool and then hold down command or control, then it will always met negatively goes to the side guide. And that's pretty much it. Once we're happy, we're going to merge all of the layer and then click on Crop tool and get rid of all of the extra candidates. Thank you for your service. And here we go. Re-color. Now, Edit, Define Pattern, name this as non print and save it. Now I'm going to build a, A3 canvas and click pattern here, drag it. You see it's a seamless repeat. And that's our first print for our flower, is pretty much the same idea. Using the same canvas. I'm just going to copy, paste and duplicate. I think that looks quite static. So a good trick here. I'm going to take this petal stock image and paste it into my file, resize it, then lower the opacity. I'm going to use this petal image as a guide. Can I repeat? When I first started as a print designer, I find it very difficult to get things random without trying too hard. So I started loved to mother nature for inspiration. I found anything like petals or leaves a great way as a guideline for our printmaking. And honestly it saves so much time. Once I'm happy, I'm gonna get rid of my guide and just readjust my canvas a little bit to fit. Now take my leaf layer. I'm gonna use the floor IS guide and placed them randomly around. Maturity of printmaking is really just adjusting and see what goes well. There's really nothing difficult about it. Just a little bit of patience. Once we're happy, we can once again click crop and get rid of the extra background. I want to show you this new feature right here, click View and pattern review. This is something Photoshop released just for print designer. So the idea is you can check your repeat as you go along. If you move one thing, every single move in repeat. Now into a three, and that's our second print. Okay, Let's start on the butterfly. If you zoom in, you can see this harsh corner. And I don't really like that. But if I erase it as harsh as well, so come here and select the softer edge brush. And you see how the blending and suits the watercolor idea. So cute. Then after that is the same process all over again. Practicing this again and again will help us get a handle of it faster. And don't worry, you'll get plenty of practice. I'm just making use of the same butterfly but duplicating it, placing it along to make a full butterfly as well. So there's really a lot you can do with just a one design. Once I'm happy with this corner, I'm going to readjust the size. This is to help me make a better repeat with more information. Don't forget to make the repeat whatever was on the corner before. We'll have to go to the new corners. I'm just gonna do this to have a full cameras of butterflies. Quick trick to enhance this design. Go to Filter Lens Blur. I want to add on the three minutes of our watercolor design. I love this soft focus digital look, super popular right now. And also for the coming semester. I'm then going to play along with blending change until I find an effect. Unhappy with. This is a good trick to add on to, uh, make them most of our 100 and design into a three. That's our butterfly. Last but never least, let's come to our citrus fruits. I'm going to do the same process all over again on this one. And as you realize by now, this is pretty much all there is to making seamless repeat prints. I'm just going to make the most of my elements here and use them wisely to create different looking designs. Even though I only Jordan once. A great way to make our lives easy. But our designs interesting, I would say a good 70% of print design is to use your elements wisely. I've also put a few extra designs at the end of this video. Please tell me in the comments of what elements I have used and if you can, from which lesson. Why not? That's our lemon. Nowadays you're a master at making repeat. I'm going to show you how to recolor with the background. I'm just going to use a bucket. And then top layer alpha lock and paint. I'm losing some detail on this one. So clipping mask and blend change. Clipping mask blend change and hue and saturation are the best way to recolor without losing any details. But once in awhile, bucket and brush paint is a great way to cut some corners. Color is a fantastic way to add variety to a design. And it can really change how much you design will look. For example, with the more detail on hunger and the designers, the more difference it will look like this roast one, color. It's the first thing we see when it comes to a print and is what drives a lot of customer to buy. A great color can take a print a long way. That's all for our lesson. A few key takeaways. First of all, set up your file in a square formation, you centimeter as your measurement, and always set your resolution to 300 DPI. Then always, always, always use the ruler tool. This is your new best friend when it comes to print design. And certainly if you're going to be confused with making random repeat and they don't look so good. Go does mother nature for inspiration, anything like petals or leaves, It's fantastic. Then use Hue and Saturation, also clipping mask as a combination for gray color, and also make the most of use of filter effects to enrich your designs. Lastly, check a repeat with either pattern review or put into a 3D CAD. You've done an amazing job on completing this journey. It was short but jam packed, full of knowledge. I'm sure there were some up and downs, but you've all push through with amazing results. I really hope it was fun and you had the freedom to explore your creative journey. For our next lesson, I'll show you a list of fantastic producers to go to to turn your beautiful designs into products. Whether it's for poster, cards, stationery, fabric or garment. I'll see you very soon. 14. From Doodle to Dress: Conclusion: Hi everyone. This is Amy Ellis and welcome back to the final video of this course from doodle to dress. Today we're finally talking about the list of wonderful producers to put our designs onto products. Let's get started. For any of you that wants to print for yourself or start a small business. The keyword to look for is P O D, print on-demand. Here I have gelato. You have to register wisdom that is for free. Once that's done, you get access to all of their free template and then just put your design onto it. Here, Let's take this t-shirt for example. I'm going to use our motif print. Maturity of P O D platform will have a template for you to follow as you go out through your design process. So since you've already done the hard work of doing up your beautiful designs, it's all easy peasy from here. I would recommend gelato because it's pretty much worldwide. You can get access from a lot of different country, and that just makes life so much easier. Here's our first product. The next platform is my personal favorite contractor. They offer a great discount at 40% for students. So take advantage of that if you are one. So they mostly do fabric printing and that's why I use them for the most because they have real silk. But they also have a wide range of template for us to use. Let's do address because of the class title. So my rows doesn't quite fit their set template. Don't worry, because this might happen with some of the POD websites. Let's just open up our file in Photoshop and go to size. As we can see, is quite a big file. So I'm going to size it down to half. Now, Edit, Define Pattern. Let's put it onto our ace or a cat. Not all platform will have the flexibility of fixing print size on the screen. So it's important to use Photoshop to get it perfect. Once I'm happy, back into concerto for our dress. And that's how we get from doodle to dress. For those of you who are looking to set up as print designers. I will first start off with third party web site like Society six. You have to submit a mini portfolio so that you can register with them as an artist. They're essentially also a POD website where you submit your art work, goes through their free template to pick a product to print on. And when a customer makes an order, you got paid through Commission. This is a great starting point where you're new to the industry. And it's very good because they have a wide range of product. You can really test What's more popular. And this is the same for the drama of prints. If you already have an established portfolio, I would recommend you to look out for Print Studios. They also paid by commission. However, they will have a physical shelf space for customers to visit them for your prints. They also have a better clientele since they mostly work with fashion businesses and brands. This is great when you're looking for that career change, but don't quite know how to put yourself out there. They're constantly looking for different handwriting's and styles. So it's always worth a shot to try them. Quiet the hermit and they're difficult to find. They usually don't have very good website either, so you can't really find that e-mail phone number. But with trade shows like primitive version, you can go on to Derek's better list and we can get all of that contact details we're looking for. That's a wrap on our course. This is my first course as a teacher on Skillshare. I want to say a huge thank you to all of you for joining me on my journey. And I've learned so much creating this course for you. It's fantastic to meet all of you for your comment and lovely work. We've covered many journals, prints, route course, and then some easy tricks to digitalize them and take away the pressure off drawing with Photoshop. We've came such a long way from our doodling lines too. Now I want to show you is discourse that you can design from scratch. And there is absolutely nothing holding you down, even if you're a beginner. While drawing skill is just a tool for us to translate our thoughts onto paper. How sharp this tool is, while effect how bored and how good we can get with our designs. That set practice makes perfect. So whenever you have time, even just a minute or two, get some pen and paper and get during even just some do the reliance. I love showing you a little bit of insight of the print designing world. I hope this course can help you to get a little bit further towards your personal goals. This is Amy Ellis, and I'll see you in my next course.