From Sketch to Cut File | Procreate for Paper Crafters and SVG Designers

1. Class Introduction: Hello, everyone. I am Asia Fillmore, and I have been a Illustrator and graphic designer for the last ten years. I have primarily been working in the home decor area and the crafting industry. So I have really fallen in love with a few types of illustration styles, and Procreate is one of those places that I absolutely love to draw. So one of the things that I have noticed about the crafting industry and SVGs in general, there are a lot of stiff, very graphic or, you know, boxy looking SVGs out there. And I really love things that feel a little more hand drawn, a little more imperfect. They're not perfect all the time. And so in order to achieve this, we're going to want to use something that is a little more. You have the ability to draw and move and make those imperfections and make your artwork your own and creative. So we're going to go ahead and use Procreate today. And the nice thing that I love about Procreate is it does have the ability to make things have a lot more. What would be the word hand drawn, imperfect feel? So I absolutely love working with Procreate, and I find that it's easy for people to use. It feels more natural like you're drawing on paper. And so it's perfect to solve those problems. Um there is no prior experience for this class. So I'm going to be very beginner friendly for you. So if you've never used Procreate before, it's okay. But I will preface this. You do kind of need to have a knowledge for what SVGs are and how to use them. This is not a class for a brand new person coming into the SVG world. You are wanting to be able to create your own SVGs, to have them be more unique to yourself, or you are a SVG or want to become an SVG designer, and you just want something that is a little more intuitive or feels like you can be a lot more creative and have a personality or style to your SVG. So if you haven't ever, you don't know anything about SVGs in the crafting world, paper crafting world, you might want to learn a little bit more about that first before jumping into this class. Do have a free Procreate for beginners class over on my website at asiafilmor.com. If you want to check that out, if you want to get a little bit more familiar with Procreate, but I do walk through these things very slowly and explain. So you don't necessarily have to have that, but if you want to, you can go ahead and check out those beginner lessons as well. Alright. So by that time we are done with this class, we are going to have a finished card. So we're going to walk you through creating all of the artwork, vectorizing it, and getting it out and ready. And I'm going to show you some fun little tips and tricks along the way to help out speed up these processes, as well as make SVGs that are easy for your customers to use and put together. So I hope you join me in this class. It's going to be a lot of fun, and we're going to learn a lot. So hopefully we'll see you in class. 2. Class Project Screen: Okay, so for the class project, we are actually going to be making this little card right here. We're going to learn how to do all of these layers, how to draw, use the write brushes, but this is going to be our final project. Now, you are more than welcome to do something completely different and use the techniques that I am showing. Does not have to be an exact replica of what I'm creating. In fact, more than likely, just because this is hand drawn, which is the whole point, yours won't even look exactly like mine. Will it look close? I can it look close? Yes, but there's going to be some subtle differences between yours and mine just because of how we draw. So that is the beauty of creating hand drawn products on Inpro create is everything is going to feel uniquely your own. So for this project, you are actually going to need an iPad, you are going to need a pencil of some sort. I prefer the Apple Pencil, but if you're using another one, they're okay. But you are going to need some sort of stylist drawing utensil for your iPad. It does have to be iPad because you have to have the Procreate app, and the Procreate app is only available for the iPad. You're going to need a cutting machine and the software of some sort. So more than likely, if you've been cutting SVGs before, then you will have one of those or access to one of those machines. You're going to need some sort of vector program, whether it's Illustrator, Vectornator Affinity Designer, you know, any of those will work just fine. There might be some differences, but they will work just the same to be able to create or upload the SVG in the end and make those edits that we talk about in the class. As far as the materials go, you will need some cardstock. In this example, we use two pinks, two greens, brown for the centers, and then of course, a white card base. And you can change up these colors as well to be colors that you love to work with, so you do not have to stick with my colors. But that's going to be generally, you know, with what we create, those are the colors you're going to need. Going to need some sort of glue pop dots. And I think that's just about it. It's pretty simple a card. We do have some class resources for you as well that are available in the resources section of this class. So you do need to navigate to a browser for this. You cannot download the resources. It will not show up. The app, so you do need to go to a browser. So whether you're on your iPad or on your desktop, just make sure that you navigate to a browser window, not the app to find the resources. Once you select underneath the video, there are some tabs, and one of them is going to save resources, and you will see the link to the resources that are provided in this class. Now, the resources that we have provided for you is we are giving you the brush set that we are using today in today's class. So you will have a see all of these options in your brush set. We are also giving you a reference guide. So this little reference guide kind of walks you through the process. So if you forget anything, instead of having to refer back to the video, you can refer back to this little cheat sheet, basically. I'm also giving you the swatches that we are providing in this class. So the ones that I use in this class, that swatch file is in here as well. I am also giving you the SVG card that I for this particular design, just so you can kind of see you can kind of get a fill for how I built my layers out and how everything is working. Okay. And then also the skill that we are going to be using in this class to quickly get your illustrations vectorized very fast. So if you want to use this, you can you do not have to use this part of the class. You can do it the old fashioned way. I highly recommend this is something that will speed up your process and make things go so much faster when drawing with raster art and getting it over to a vector art form. So those are the class resources, and I would love to see your final project over in the project gallery. Once you're done, it's so fun to see what students create. So when you're done, please post something over in the project gallery, and we'll go see you inside of class. 3. Lesson 1 Canvas Setup: Okay, so the first thing that we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and open up Procreate, and we are going to create a new canvas. Now, this is the home screen. This is a bunch of my artwork. You will have your artwork or you will see sample artwork if you've never opened up Procreate before. The main thing that we need to do to create a new canvas is we're going to come up over here to the right hand side. And we're going to click the plus sign. And you will see some default page sizes. And if you've never created a canvas size, we're going to go ahead and show you that today. Today, we're going to be working in a five by seven because that is our finished card size. So that's the size of card we're going to work on today is a five by seven. And so we're gonna open up a five by seven inch canvas. So why does it matter what my canvas size is? We're gonna vectorize these things, so it doesn't matter because I can make these bigger or smaller or whatever it is, in the end, because we vectors are so forgiving. Well, here's the problem with being able to vectorize and resize anything we want. Um if we scale something up, it gets bigger, and if we scale something down, it gets smaller. And that makes a huge difference in SVGs, because SVGs can't have really, really fine detail. There is some limitations with cutting things with vinyl and paper, and we don't want um, our customers to have issues with our files. So the main thing is we need to make sure that our canvas size is going to be exactly what it is that we're gonna be drawing with. We don't want it to be bigger. If it's a little bit smaller and then we have to make it a little bit bigger, that is going to be less forgiving or more forgiving, I should say, not less. Um, but we definitely never, never, never, when drawing for SVGs want to draw larger than our intended design to be, okay? Now, I have provided a bunch of class resources for this project. And so let's go ahead and open up a new canvas. We're going to do the five by seven so that when we're drawing this, we know how it's going to look on the card and we are going to draw accordingly. So we're going to have this plus sign. Just kidding this plus sign right here. We hit the plus sign to get the drop down. Then we want this one right here. Unless you have a five by seven canvas already set up, then you can click on that. I personally have one down here at the bottom. But to do it yourself, if you've never done that size before, we're going to use that little button right there. It kind of looks like pages with a plus sign. And then this menu automatically defaults to pixels. You can work in whatever you want. I tend to work in inches because of working that way for my SVGs. And so I'm going to go click on Iches. Now it's going to default to my width, which is five. And then I'm going to tap on my length, and then I'm going to hit seven. I always make sure that I'm using 300 DPI, and then I'm going to hit the check mark. So there you have it. We have our five by seven Canvas all 4. Lesson 2 Brushes: Okay, we're ready to start playing around with the different brushes that I have provided. So in order to do that, you are going to need to come over here to your brushes panel. This It looks like a little paint brush. It's up here on the top right. And you're gonna want to import these brushes, okay? So I've already got them imported. This is what it's going to look like right here. But you can always come over here and hit this plus sign, and we're going to import from files. So you're going to select that, and then you're going to navigate to where you've saved your brushes. So if you save them in your downloads, on your iPad or on a folder in your Dropbox or in your iCloud, Go ahead and navigate that. Once you click on the brush set, it will automatically import into the lessons. So, for example, I will go ahead and do this, and I'm going to go into this class. And you'll see right here Basics brush set. You can hit or select. No, yours is gonna actually gonna be called SVGs, so that's not gonna be it, but it'll come in at the very top of the iPad, okay? So this is a different brush set that I have. This is not one we're gonna working with, but I'm just demoing it for you. So you can see how adding a brush set works, so it's gonna go to the very top. Just to make it easier, I think I'm just gonna grab it and I'm gonna drag it. So you can rearrange this workspace. We're gonna put it up at the top. Okay. Alright, just to make it easy so you guys can see where things are at. Alright, as you can see, I have provided this brush set here, and it contains quite a few different brushes, actually. And, um, okay, well, I have two sets of them, but I do. Yours will not. Yours will only have one set of these. Um, and so the main things that you're gonna want to see is we're gonna start here, you'll see a one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight point. And you will see one shaper. I only have one in there. For you guys, I've been playing around with this set. So my version has copies and things like that. You will have my pen, and you will have my pencil in here, okay? Um, and so we're going to use the pencil for sketching. You can use the pen for things like details. That would be one thing we would use the pen for. And then, of course, we have all of our monolines. Now, our mod lines are going to be the ones we draw and block things out the most. With? Okay. So those are gonna be ones we use a lot, and then the rest of these are gonna be either for sketching or details. The model line, if you notice, I'm just gonna grab one of these do a black color or dark color. Is if I zoom in, you can see I have a very smooth edge, okay? This does not have, for example, I'll open up my pencil. It doesn't have rough edges. It is smooth and it's solid, like that. So it's very important when you're doing SVGs to use a very smooth edge brush because the cutting machines when we vectorize these things, it will pick up every little um imperfection, and it'll be part of the cut. And most of the times we don't want that. We want smooth, clean edges for our vectors, okay? So majority, we're gonna want something very, very smooth. Some rules of thumb when we play around with these brushes. Okay? Um, for paper, we don't want anything smaller than a five point brush. For vinyl, we can go as far as a three point. I have included a one and a two point line for you in here just in case you're wanting to draw in a finer. You know, you want more definition in a petal, as opposed to something thicker. Like, see how I can't get that. The edge of that is not gonna be as clean. And so I have provided smaller brushes for that case. But as far as when we're drawing things in, especially for things like stems. So, for example, here is an example of something I've drawn here in Illustrate or Impropriate. And these stems right here are about a five point stem. And on our screen, it looks really thick, but in reality, it's not. It's actually pretty thin, and we don't want people to tear or be frustrated with the cuts because they're too thin or they've torn or, you know, the blade ate it up. And so we got to be very conscious about that. So this is about a five points line weight. So that's just a rule of thumb. Don't ever go below five points for paper or three points for vinyl, okay? Um, it can be we don't want. The other thing that can be frustrating is if it gets too thin, it's harder to glue down. There's not a whole lot to hold on to or put glue on. And so glue kind of goes everywhere. So it's just some things to think about. Those are the reasons why customers get frustrated. It's too delicate. It's too hard to put together. Too thin, it ripped. And when designing SVGs, we want to avoid that for our customers. We want our customers to love putting together our SVGs. We also have the I talked a little bit already about the detail work. So this right here is an example of using detail to cut away. So this detail right here or in this example here, the little details in the flowers have been removed. And these can be a little bit smart smaller when we remove or cut it away, it can be smaller. But if we have something that is thinner, that's going to be the main supporting feature of the arts like these two stems, then that thickness, it matters a whole lot, okay? So just keep that in mind. We can go a little bit thinner, a little bit smaller. We can't go too small because then we it doesn't cut out very well, but we can still put in nice finer details with smaller brushes if we're removing that away from the artwork and not keeping it as part of the framework. We're gonna go ahead. I kind of showed you how these model line works. They they stay the same the whole way. It doesn't matter. I can push really hard. I can, you know, do whatever, but this model line will never change the thickness. It's going to have a nice smooth, thick or thickness, I guess, the entire time. It's not going to change. Now, my shapers and my pen brushes are different. As you can see, they kind of have a thinner and then thick and then thin. So what happens when I use one of these is it will go thin and thick depending on how much pressure I put in. So try this with me, grab your pen, and do light pressure, then push really hard pressure, and then lift it up and remove the pressure. And you will see that you get these nice thicks and thins for details. That's where you're going to see stuff like this. Like I showed you in this little flower, you can see I have thinner edges and then thicker in the middle. Thinner edges, and then thicker, okay? So if you want some details like that, then you're gonna want to use your pen. Now, could you do this with the thinner monoline? Yes. You just won't have thinner edges. It'll just be more of a round capped edge. And so if that's the look you want to go for, you can totally use the monoline for the details. I like the idea of this looking like brush strokes or pen strokes. And so that's the kind of detail I use. So that's going to be the brush that I use. The shaper pen is one I like for. It's really similar, but it makes nice leaves in a hurry. So if I um, it's a little bit of a thicker one. So it gives me a fatter. See how when I pushed really hard, it only went that much. But on this one, I can push really hard, and I can get something that's a little bit thicker. So I like that one before if I'm gonna be doing leaves of any kind, because I can get it to go from really thin to really thick. And the pen is more it's it doesn't quite go as wide. Okay, so that's kind of the difference between the two. 5. Lesson 3 Composition: Okay. So the next thing that we're going to do is we're going to sketch out our composition. This is going to be very important. The reason why I sketch everything out before I even start inking everything, anything is like I had talked about earlier, is size matters when we do this. If we get these stems, too thin, then we're going to have customer service issues. And so we want to map everything out first. We want to make sure that we're gonna be drawing. When we go to draw this five point stem here, then it's gonna stay and remain five points. We're not going to be, like, zooming in, zooming out, making it a little bit bigger, making it a little bit smaller. We're gonna be drawing what we want. And so that's why I always sketch something out first. So that's going to be our next steps. So you can either delete this layer or hide it. So if you want to hide it, you can just hit the check mark and then hit a plus sign that'll give you a new layer. Or you can keep that layer and you can just clear it. So if I tap on the artwork in that layer, there's a little buttons that's clear. So it just gets rid of everything on that layer. Okay, so either way works. Um so then I have a clean slate here. I am going to come over here. This is where our color is. I have provided you a color palette. You will need to navigate outside. So, to your files, and you will go ahead and find your, your swatch. So for example, it is right here. I have another program on my computer or on my iPad that is, it's called pattern, and it defaults to that, and I can't change it. I don't know why it won't let me. I've tried several times, but it won't you have that, usually, if you just tap it, it'll open it up and Procreate. But because mine is defaulting to this other one, if I tap this, then it's gonna go to this other program, and I don't want that. So that is why I'm I tapped and held, and then I will get this open with S, it's this pattern draw. And so I'm going to go with Procreate. Okay? So you can go ahead and use this color palette. These ones actually default to the bottom. So if you open up a color palette, you'll see that it's here at the bottom. Okay? So I'm going to grab this gray charcoal color. You can also rearrange this. I'm just touching it, holding it, and then you want it to ga come on. At the bottom, then we can hold it and drag it all the way. Alright, drop it there. You can see I now have two of those because I've already got that color palette on mine. If you want to delete a color palette, you can just hit Delete. Alright. But we're going to select this gray, and we're going to start sketching. So I'm going to grab my pencil. The biggest thing when doing compositions is we want balance on our composition. We don't want things to feel really heavy or really light. We want a nice balance. So one of the things that I have found in my compositions, especially for florals, and you guys can do this with anything. You do not have to draw flowers like I'm doing. You can draw anything you want on this card. But in anything, a nice composition of three odd numbers are always more ideal than even numbers, and triangles are also very appealing. So I'm going to first draw a circle. Now, this is a fun little trick that I do for shapes is I'm just going to draw this circle and then I'm going to stop and hold, and then it'll kind of snap, but this isn't perfect circle. So when I let go, I'm going to get this little ellipse thing up here or editing. And right now it's on ellipse, and if I turn it to circle, it's going to give me a perfect circle. So depending on how you want your flowers to be, you want them more open, you want them not so open, then maybe you want an oval. But for now, we're just going to do circles because right now, I'm just trying to get an idea of what I want this to look like. So this circle is gonna represent my flower, okay? So I'm going to kind of put this. Remember, we're gonna do triangles. Um, And I want one main larger focal. Because I'm sketching, I'm scaling things, it doesn't really matter. Which is why we want to get this all nailed down before we actually use the inking because we don't want to scale anything after we figure it out. Alright, so now I'm going to duplicate this, and all I'm going to do is with that layer selected, so I hit my layers panel. I'm going to swipe left. And hit duplicate. Now it's just gonna make a copy of that circle. And I'm gonna come over here to my selection tool. Is this a little arrow right up here. And I can grab onto one of these corners, and I can slide it down and make it smaller. I'm going to make a complimentary flower on here, but I don't want it as large. I I don't want it to be the focal point. I want it to be an accent flower, okay? So I'm gonna probably put it right there for now. Okay, I think I'm going to do something like this. So I've got two flowers together. We're gonna I think we're gonna flip this and make this a horizontal card, so it's more horizontal. But I'm just gonna kind of put this down just off to the right down a little bit. This is going to make a nice little small vocat. It's not going to be a huge one. It's just a two flower one. But it's going to be really cute once we're done. So I'm gonna flip my canvas like this. And then I can select both of these. So I just swipe left or right, I should say, swiping. I'm swiping right. And then I'm going to use my arrow, my transform tool and I'm going to grab the green, and I'm just going to rotate it. Okay? And then I'm going to make it a little bit larger because this is for my be. I want it to fill my my canvas really nicely. Okay. Alright. I'm gonna do a new layer. So I'm going to hit the plus. Or you can use the layer if you created one like I did. And I want some my sprigs. I'm going to do some, you know, little fun sprigs coming off, and then we'll have some greenery coming off the edges, okay? So we're gonna put some leaves on. And basically, it's going to be you can make your leaves however you can make your leaves round, depends on your style. You can make them eye shaped, kind of like that. So it just depends on what you like. Um, I'm going to make these ones a little bit bigger on this side, 'cause this flower is a little bit bigger. And then I think I want another one coming up right there, and then we're going to have our sprigs come on here. I'm just drawing a line. And then I think I want another stem here. And these ones are going to be round. These ones I'm doing a little bit different. And you could fill that up if you want, below or just keep it drawn to where it's at. Okay? So I kind of like that, but I think I'm actually going to add a third here. Okay. And that will tap behind. Alright. This composition right here is really nice because we have a main focal flower. We have an accented flower, and then we have some supporting elements that go all around. It does kind of form a nice little bit of a triangle, so we kind of come up and then down. So that's really pleasing to our eye. We're working in odds with the leaves. I've got five leaves here, and then I have three little branches. So that is also another thing when working with these types of things a odds is a good thing. Okay. So now we have kind of a rough sketch of what we want. These are gonna be our two flowers, and then we have some supporting things. If you're seeing something that's a little bit off, you can come in here and make sure I'm on my leaf layer and be like, Okay, oh. Selection tools, this little S looking thing. And you're like, Okay, I don't like how that is. Then you can draw around it. I'm on free hand. That's going to select whatever I draw around inside of it, and then I can hit the transform and it'll grab just that instead of grabbing everything on that layer. So let's say I want this to be a little bit bigger and a little bit more at an angle, then I can fix that. I could also come up here and select in and around that leave, hit my and then move that one a little bit. I don't want them that close together. And because these are sketches, I don't really care that that's messed up because this is a rough sketch. Okay. So we're gonna get into a little bit more detail here in the next lesson. But this is giving us a good starting point on composition. I feel like this has a nice little balance. We got some large focal leaves and florals here, and then some smaller supporting things on here. So it has that nice little balance of fullness on here. 6. Lesson 4 Drawing Flowers: Now that we kind of have this rough idea, we can actually get more detailed, give ourselves a more detailed sketch. So for that, I'm just going to hit my layers. So these little two right here. And I'm actually just going to take my two fingers, and I'm going to pinch from the top layer to the bottom layer, and that makes a one layer. Okay? And the reason why I'm doing this is because this is just my guide, and I'm going to get a little more detail here in a second. And I'm going to turn down the opacity. So to do that, when you're on your layer, you see this little N here. And I'm just gonna use this slider right here. I says opacity, and I'm gonna slide it down. Now, some people like to have this, use this and change the blending mode and multiply and have it on top of what they're drawing. I feel like it's distracting when I'm trying to draw. And so I like mine below. So I'm gonna keep mine on normal. But if you like to sketch that way, then that is totally option for you. I'm gonna hit the plus sign. And with my opacity down, then it's there, but it's not like, overwhelmingly in my face. And so now I'm going to come back, make sure I'm still on my pencil. And we're gonna go ahead and create our actual flower drawings now. When I do my flower drawings, I will use the outer circle as my guide for how far out my petals are going to go, then I always put another circle. This is going to be another circle, another, um, sketching layer that's not the detailed layer. I'm going to put it in here because I want it to show where how my flower is. And if I have Okay, so this is going to be the center of my flower. And you can see that if I have this as a center, I'm going to see more of the petals down here and less of the petals up here. So you can see that the flower is tilting a little bit this way. Okay. Same thing here. I'm going to put a little bit of the center that way. Now, I think it's a little too high. So I'm going to bring it down just a little bit and make it a little bit bigger. So we can adjust this after we drew it. These are just rough ideas, so I know where to put my petals and extend them too. Okay? So that's another one. I'm going to go ahead and put that. We'll pass it down and do another layer. If you want, you can pinch those two together, make them all one. But from here, this is where I can plan out. I can even come back to this layer and be like, Okay, I want six petals. I want one of my petals to be coming straight up. I want so I need five more. So I can have one that's coming straight down, and then I've got to have one coming here, one coming there. So you can kind of block out how close these are. This one I want to be five petals. I'm going to do one there, and then I'm going to kind of do that. Okay. So it kind of gives me an idea. I might adjust this one a little bit to dump this way a little more. You can come in there and, you know, erase that and stuff. If you want. This is the eraser tool here. So you can adjust that as needed. That kind of gives you an idea of where you're breaking down your petals. And then we can come in here because we can turn that down. A little bit higher. Maybe a little bit lower there. Make sure I'm on my layer three, not my other sketch layers. And then that's when I can come in here and make sure I'm on my brush. Draw kind of a petal like this. Okay? I'm making that line go down the center of the petal, and I'm coming from inside of the center of my flower here. So I'm gonna come in. And this doesn't have to be perfect. It can be a little off and it's not going to be a huge deal. Okay. So now I have this flower here. And you can tell that it's kind of leaning this way. Now, I also I should have done this first is draw in my center. Did I follow that exactly? No, I did not. But you can kind of see how this kind of helps you get an idea of how the flower is. Now, I'm not really loving that angle. So I'm actually going to come in here and I think I want it to actually be like. Okay. I can come in here and adjust that accordingly. Alright. I like it going this way. Okay, we're gonna do the same thing with a second flower. I'm gonna put it on its own layer. And make sure we're back on our brush again. And you can make these petals. Star center again. A little bit less. You can have them more rounded. You can have them more pointed. You can do whatever you want. Um, this is just an easy way of doing it now because I've got this on a new layer, I'm going to adjust this I think I want to put it like that. I want to put kind of in between those pets there. Okay. Alright, so there we have that. Now, if you want, you can come in here and put in more detail. Like, I want because now that I have flowers in here, I'm going to adjust where these are. These are sitting because I want this stem to come out of here. So I'm gonna come and Put that there. And then we're going to have this leaf be coming out there like that, and I'm going to put in my stem like that. And then, again, I'm going to have this coming I like my stems coming out from in between petals. I mean, this is not so bad, but that's just the way that I am. So I'm going to adjust that just a little bit slightly and then bring that stem there. I put one there. I like that. So I have my two little sprigs there. For some reason, those ones got deleted. And then I'm going to have one of my leaves coming there. And one of my leaves coming there. Another way you could do this is to put the stems in first. And so you have an idea of my stem or my vein, actually, of my leafs coming through there. So kind of like this where I could go. Alright, I want my leaf vein to come there that way. And then I'm just going to draw around it. Okay. So, there we go. Alright. I am liking what I have. The only thing that I am wanting to change is this area. I kind of want to tug that in a little bit more. Move it over. Okay. So things are feeling pretty nice. We might make some adjustments once we get into the vector stage and finalizing. But for now, I at least have an idea of sizes for things, and my composition mostly ready to go. So from here, we can go ahead and start inking everything. 7. Lesson 5 Inking: Okay. Now that we're ready to ink everything, we kind of have an idea, size, shape, and roughly where we want everything to go, then you can either, you know, uh, pinch these layers together and make them one. I'm gonna turn off the original one, actually. I don't want that layer. I don't want that layer. I'm gonna punch these two together. And I can turn those two on and pinch those ones together and turn it off. So you can delete it. So if I slide left, instead of duplicating it, I can delete it, or you can just hide it by turning on the checkmarks, okay? I don't like it there because it's distracting. I like to just see what I'm working with. And so from here, we're going to go ahead and and ink. Now, we've got that our color palette here that we're going to be using today. You can use this. You can do your own colors. You can do whatever you want. But I have provided one just so you can simply get started on this project. And I always ink with my colors. And the reason why I do that is because it helps me get a general idea of my composition of how things are working. And I can change and mix and match as I go. But as a general rule, I like to ink what it is that I'm working with, okay? So our large flower, I want to use this pale pink, the lightest pink. And I'm gonna come to I'm gonna use my mono too. I could use, um, some of the other the pens, if I wanted to. I want finer details on these petals, and so I'm going to use this smaller brush, okay? These are gonna get filled, so I don't need to worry about width or stem length. So I'm just gonna basically we're gonna do the same thing actually gonna Make sure that this layer is the opacity is down, and then I'm gonna do a new layer. And then I'm just gonna kind of trace the leaf. Or the petals, I should say. And I'm just kind of putting in some squiggly details. You can make your petals smooth. Like I mentioned earlier, you can make them have some more detail like this. Just remember, wherever there's a point, that's gonna be where there is paper. So keep that in mind. So if you don't want the pedal to close or get too close, then you're going to want to make sure you stay away from those lines because that's going to be the edge. And then let me use this feature where I drag and drop color in. Now that I have everything, everything is closed. I don't have any open gaps here, I can just grab this and drag and drop it in. Now, the key to this is don't hold this down and then drag it. You just need to touch it and drag inside. If you touch it and drag and it hits on the line, it's not going to do anything because it's not going to recolor that, but it will fill that in. Okay, think of it as a cookie cutter. I'm pouring batter inside of the cookie cutter and nothing spills outside. If my cookie cutter is broken and there's a hole in it, then my whole canvas will fill with color. So if you are doing that and your whole canvas fills with color, that means there is an area in this flour that is enclosed, in your linework. Alright. So now I have my uh, large flour. Yeah, I'm gonna turn this one off just so I can see everything. And I'm gonna do my smaller flowers, some new layer. Uh, things to note, new layers always equal or new colors always equal a new layer. Okay? Always I'm gonna kind of make these ones a little bit different in shape. Um, Always, always, always. New layers mean new Or new colors mean new layers. For me, because then we can get some nice, easy um uh vectorize, okay? We don't want things on the same layer because then they will, um, we don't want the shapes to blend together, okay? Alright, so next, we're gonna put in some centers of the flowers. So I can keep the same brush. But we're going to go ahead and use brown for both of these. You could use yellow. You could use black. You could use, whatever center of color you want, I'm gonna go brown for now. And I'm just going to kind of I could go off of my sketch if I wanted to. I'm just gonna kind of eyeball this one. So if you want to do it off the sketch, just turn off that layer. And I don't think this is gonna wait until we did follow along. It's the other sketch we didn't follow along. Okay. So now I have a center like that. I would drag and drop that one in there. I'm gonna move that a little bit over. Okay, so now I have these two little flowers. And I think I want to change that to blue. So I can change this just the way that I filled this. I can change the color by dragging and dropping over the top of it, okay? It's now I have a pink and blue thing going on. Um, I don't know. I think I like that combination. The medium pink better. Okay. Now we're gonna ink in the leaves, which I'm going to go on top just so that I can see everything. And I'm going to grab this lighter medium green. I'm gonna do all the leaves. Same thing. We're just going to. You want to put in a little bit of fun squiggly details you can you can keep these pointy or round. You do whatever you want. And I'm just kind of making sure that's closed. Me. And here. As you can see, I'm not following too closely along with my sketch. I'm doing what feels right for me. And you'll get there. So following along your sketch might be something you do at first, and then you break the rules later as you draw. Okay, so then I inked in those leaves, and now we're going to go ahead and grab this darker green, and we're going to ink in these. Now, because we have stems on these, then we need to go ahead and make sure we switch over to our five point brush. This is gonna be for paper 'cause it's a card. I need to make sure that my stems are going to be using the five point brush. Can step on there. Okay. That is very. Okay? So it does fill a little thick and heavy, but trust me, you're gonna want that. Um, when you're working and your customers are working with your files, okay? So I've put in the stems, now I can go back to my thinner brush, and I can have more detail or get, you know, finer drawing. And you can have these touch. Sometimes that helps with stability if they touch. I'm gonna draw these in just because they're gonna peek out. I could add another one there if I wanted. Just around it off. I'm gonna put one there. Okay, so we're going to do the same thing. We're going to do the fill. I'm gonna drag and drop, but this also brings up a continued fill. So if I click on that, I can just tap inside all of the rest of these leaves and quickly fill those in after I fill the first one. And then I can hit the arrow button to click off. Alright. Then I'm going to drag this layer underneath. So I just grabbed it, and held it and dragged it down. Okay? So now I'm going to do the same thing with these leaves put those at the very bottom. And there I have this. Now, this is a time where you can come in and add in details if you'd like. So let's say we want to add in a detailed vein. Now, some things to think about when doing this is paper colors, how many paper colors we're gonna be using. So sometimes if I'm trying to limit how many paper colors people have to use, I will do the veins in the other green color. Okay. So I'm going to go ahead and do a new layer. On top. And I'm going to hide these just so I can see what I'm working with. And I'm going to come up here and grab my pen, and I'm going to do that. Now, I don't want to get too thin on these because even though it is cutting it away, it still can have some issues with really thin spots. So I don't want it to be too thin. And we can always thicken these up a little bit if we need to in Illustrator. But then that's got some fun little detail. I don't tend to put detail on beds guys because they are small. But if you want, there's a couple of things you can do for this flower these flowers. These flowers, we can actually curl and make three dimensional. So that is something we can do, or you can do something like this where we've put in some vein detail. So it depends. This is going to be more of a flat look, or we can do more of a dimensional look with multiple layers of petals. Okay. So depending on what you want to do, you can do that. I'll just show you some veining techniques just so that you can get an idea. Same thing here. If we can mitigate how many layers or how many pinks they have to have. So if I do, I'm going to make sure I'm on a layer, so I just tapped on this and then hit the plus sign that gave me a layer on top. I'm just gonna delete that one. I'm on this layer and using that same fix to thins, I'm just kind of putting in some in details. Now, you don't have to do this. This is a stylistic choice. And then I'm going to do the same thing, click on the layer, grab that same medium pink, and that's gonna be the details that I'm putting on in this one. And you might have to practice this. I've been doing this thick to thin thing so so long that my hand just naturally knows when to push up and down. But for you, it might take you a minute to kind of get that and practice, and that's okay. I'm gonna come in here and slide this over 'cause I don't want it too close to that. Edge. When things get too close, then they tend to rip and tear. Okay? Alright, there we have it. We've inked everything up, and we're gonna go ahead and export this and get it ready to turn it into an SVG. 8. Lesson 6 Exporting: So the next steps is we've got to get this off of our iPad and onto our computer. You can work with Adobe Illustrator on the iPad if you want, if you don't have a desktop. I highly recommend using the desktop. It is a little more robust than the iPad version. But from here, we want to be able to vectorize this. And so our next steps is getting this off of here. And so what we're gonna do is we're just going to look at our layers because the main key things we want to make sure is that all of these layers are all of these colors are on their own layers. Nothing is grouped together. We don't want groupings because if they are grouped together, then they will get vectorized as a single shape, and we don't want that. So make sure that none of these are grouped. Everything is an individual. It's okay if there's, you know, all the stems together. As long as they're not overlapping each other, then we're good to go, okay? We can turn off this sketching layer at this point, we don't need it. And so with that off, then we are ready to export. So the key to this is going to go. We're gonna go to our wrench icon, and we are going to go up to share. And then I want PSD. And the reason why I want PSD is because I want all of my layers. I need to export this in layers. So this is the thing we're going to be exporting is the PSD file. Okay? Now, I'm going to go ahead and export this. You can export it wherever you're saving this. Whether it's on your computer, your hard drive, dropbox, I'm going to hit save to files. And I'm going to go over to my iCloud, and I am actually going to save it. I'm just going to save it into the main. Well, let's do this. I'm going to go to my SVG folders, and I have a folder specifically cards, and I'm going to actually hit these three dots, and I'm gonna hit new folder. And let's see. What should we call this? Um, I don't know. We're just gonna call it flower card for now, okay? And then I'm gonna hit the checkmark. Now my folder's empty. Now, I can save this if I want. I can, um, just say flower card, Artwork and hit Save. Okay? So now we are ready to go. We are ready to move over to the computer. We're ready to easily vectorize and get this all going really fast. So I'm gonna meet you over at the computer to finalize the rest of this project. 9. Lesson 7 Claude: Okay, so now that we have exported our PSD file and we've gotten it over to our computer desktop, whatever you're gonna be using, I'm using a Mac, so just know that some things might look a little bit differently. You can go to the browser of your choice. We are going to actually, if you have not used Cloud before, then we're going to go ahead and download it. And the reason we're going to do this is because I have created what they call a skill in Cloud that helps us to easily vectorize our artwork from Procreate in a matter of seconds. So this is going to speed up your workflow tremendously. And so that is why we're going to utilize Claude. There might be some other ways of doing this really fast, but this is the way I'm going to teach you because it is my personal favorite way of getting our raster artwork, or pixelated artwork into vectors in a fast and easy way. Okay? Now, you can have a free version of Claude to do this. But we do need to have an account there, okay? So the first thing we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and go to your browser. And let me see, I've got a thing right here that says Cloud. You use type in Cloud, and it will come up right here. So you can just click on that. And you can use your Google account. You can go ahead and use it with an email, and you can even get the desktop app like I have here. Okay. I go to close that. So I've already got Cloud installed, so I'm not going to, but this is what you're going to end up doing. You'll go ahead and we'll just Um, I don't want to do this. Fill it out and get it ready. Sometimes it'll take you and it'll just be on the browser. If you want it on your desktop, then you will need to download the app. I um this does say Mac symbol. So if you're on a PC, I don't know if there is a desktop version, but you can use it on the web. So don't worry about if you're not on a Mac and it doesn't give you the option for downloading the app, you are still able to utilize Claude, okay? Alright. So once you have done that, it'll either open up in your browser. Okay. So now that you've set it up, you're going to see something similar to this. Now, I have a bunch of things that I have been asking it. So yours will be blank. But the main thing that we need to do here is we need to upload the skill that I have created. So this is part of your downloads. And it says psd SVG skill, okay? So just some things that you can see to navigate, we have new chat, old chats, projects, artifacts. We're going to come here to customize, that's what we need to do. We need to add something. And right down here you can see skills. Okay? So right here, you'll go add and upload. And I'm just going to click on there. You can navigate to where you've downloaded all of your resources, and it's this PSD to SVG skill. So you're going to click on that. I'm not going to click on it because I already have it. I'm just going to text here. And then it'll bring it up, and you can see, these are a bunch of different skills that I have included on my in my clot, okay? So you can see mine's right there. It's called PSD to SVG. And once we've done that, once it's in here, then you're good to go. There's nothing else you have to do, okay? So, next step, super easy. Right here, you'll get this little chat bar. Usually, it's very, you know, helpful and happy. How can we help you today? If for some reason, this isn't showing up, you can just hit New chat right here. Okay? So we're just going to type in here. Please run the or the PSD to SVG skill. It's all I have to do on this file. Okay? That's all I have to type. So it's not a whole lot. Just saying we want to run the skill for the PSD to SVG. And then we're going to come to this little plus sign right here, and I am going to put Ad file, and we're going to go back. No one. We're going to go back to this same folder where we kept our resources. This is where I put my PSD file that we exported from Procreate. So I'm going to select this PSD file right here and I'm going to hit Open. It'll take a minute to upload because it is a PSD file, so it's a larger file, so it will take a second. Now that it's in here, it's ready to go. I can just hit this run, send message button. So it's going to run through the skill, and it's going to do its magic, work its magic. There's not too many layers on this one, so this one actually should go really fast. If you have a lot of layers in your SVG, then it will take a little bit longer. But usually, this is done in less than 1 minute. So otherwise, this is an optional thing, you guys. If you do not want to do Claude, you don't want to worry about this, then you can do this the old fashioned way of bringing the PSD file into Illustrator. And individually vectorizing every single layer. So you can do that. That is totally an option. It just takes a long time to do all of that. And so, see how fast this is, okay? It's kind of given me a preview over here of all of the artwork. You can see that it comes in black. And the reason it does that is because I've set it up because the way the skill runs is if things are black, it vectorizes way more cleanly with black as opposed to color. So that's what this does. We will change the colors back in just a second, and I'll show you that. But from here, you're ready to go. So we're just going to hit this download button here or you can come up here and hit Download as SVG. Either way works, we're going to hit the Download button. And it is now in my downloads area, you can go ahead and move that into your folder, and then we're going to go ahead and jump on over to Illustrator and finish creating our SVG. 10. Lesson 8 Illustrator: Okay, so the next thing that we are done now that we have our SVG exported from Cloud, or if you're gonna do it the old fashioned way, then we are still gonna work with our PSD, and I'll show you how you can do that, as well, just in case you don't want to use the clod skill. But you're gonna want to open up either Illustrator is my personal preference. This does work in other vector programs such as Affinity. What's the other one Vectornator or something like that. There's quite a few options out there. My personal preference is Illustrator. I have been using Adobe products for the last 13, 14 years, and I'm not going to go back. So Alright. So, open up your software. So like I said, this works in any of these softwares, okay? It might be a little bit different, but I'm going to show you how to do it in Illustrator. These are some new features that it has. I'm just going to X out of that. And I'm going to go ahead and hit Open, okay? So, either way, you can navigate to the PSD file if you're going to do it the old fashioned way. So I'm going to open up that one first. And the main thing that you want to make sure that you do is not have that. You do not want to flatten everything. You want to make sure that you have this convert layers to objects selected. This way, it keeps all of your layers and doesn't flatten them into a flat JPEG graphic, basically. That's not what we want. So we want to make sure that we're hitting convert to layer objects and hit Okay. This is an Illustrator specific thing, so I'm not sure what it's like in the other programs. But we want to make sure that when you upload it, you're getting all of the layers. And you can see that I have all of my layers right here, and that's the important thing. Okay? So I'm also going to go over here and go open. I'm going to locate in my downloads this. This is what it's going to look like Flower card artwork vectors, is what it decided to call it. So I'm going to open it. And you can see that I now have shapes for everything. Okay? This way, you can come in here and vectorize the different layers. You just select on one of the layers, and you go to your image trace panel. Mine is over here on the right. If you do not see it, then you can go to Window Image Trace, and it'll pop up this little menu right here. Main thing that I like to use is right here on my presets, I will go to silhouettes because that is what I'm looking for. I'm looking for the shapes. I'm not looking for details. I want the shapes of these types of things. So I've got silhouettes, and I'm just going to hit expand. I'm just going to hit Expand. And then you can see that I now have vector shapes and you can tell that I have them as shapes is because this little red line goes around them. And then I'm just going to show you this layer here with the veins, same thing, preset Silhouette. And it'll give it. Now, if you want things to if you're getting something where it's not going all the way, you might need to push your threshold up to get more. So if you find that it's not picking up, if it's a lighter color and it's not doing a solid shape, then move your threshold up. Okay? You can also turn down noise or up noise, you can, you know, have less corners. So things like round out a little bit more. Paths are just going to put more anchor points. But those would be some things. If you're feeling like it needs some tweaking, then, you know, these are some of the things that I would I would play with, and then I'm going to head expand. Okay? Alright. So then I would go through and do that through every little piece here. So that takes some time. And I'm trying to save you from that, and that is why I ran that. Skill now everything is ready to go here. And I'm just gonna go file place, and we're just going to put that PSD file back in here. It'll just bring it in as a flat image, but the reason why I do this is so that I can recolor this really quickly. Okay, so I'm just gonna put this off to the right. And I am going to change my artboards. For whatever reason it does make the artboard really large. So I'm going to come over here to this little guy right here. This is our artboard panel. And over here in my properties, this will pop up. You can also see it up here at the top bar. I can come up here and make my canvas size 12 by 12. Okay. I'm gonna delete this white layer. It's just a background layer, and I don't need it. And then I can size this. So we're gonna make this smell smaller 'cause it's gonna go on our five by seven cark. Okay? You don't have to do this step, but 'cause we're gonna actually open up the template here in a second. And, um, so we're just going to hurry and recolor. So I'm just gonna select things. This is a little vein, so this is going to be that darker green. So to do this really quickly, I'm just selecting the layer. I'm hitting the eye for this eyedropper, and then I'm just selecting right over the top of these colors. Alright, I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna rasterize it. For whatever reason, it's being kind of weird. I brought in all of the layers. It used to not do that, and it would just come in as a single image. So I'm gonna try and rasterize it, so if you ever come into this issue, then this will help. Otherwise, you can skip this step. I'm gonna rasterized, so it was object rasterized. This is I don't really care what the background is, so I'm just gonna leave it white. But if for some reason you didn't there was not a white background on there, you'd probably want transparent. I'm gonna hit okay. Now I think to move that. I'm gonna select this. I'm gonna have my eyedropper tool, and then we should be getting green now. Alright. Now I'm getting my pink. So I'm just selecting everything and eye droppering everything. So I'm just selecting it, clicking on it, hitting the I for Eyedropper tool, then hitting my V for my selection tool, and then hitting my I for the eyedropper tool, then hitting my V for my selection tool, and then selecting and then hitting my I. So that's the fast way of doing everything. I'm just going back and forth between the eyedropper and the selection tool. Now, you can see that the Eyedropper tools here and the selection tools here. So you can click on these to do the same thing. So that's going to be my selection tool. This is going to be my eyedropper tool. Okay? So I'm just using shortcuts. The letter I for eyedropper and the letter V for MOV. Okay? My selection. Um, so you can see it right here, as well. And then I for eyedropper. So you can kind of see what the shortcuts are sometimes like that. So I've got this all ready to go, basically. Now, a lot of the SVG programs out there will Uh, I'm gonna delete that. I don't need it anymore. We'll automatically find these vector art edges. So you don't need to do this next step, but I do this next step just because it solidifies the cutting machines registration. So it reads these di elines and knows where the edges are. It does do that with just the shape, so it's not necessarily necessary, but it is something that I like to do, okay? The next thing that we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and open up our Illustrator file that has the card template. Okay, so we're going to go ahead and open up this card base template. So I'm just going to go to file and open. And I'm going to grab this. It's called card base template in your resources. I'm gonna hit open. And the reason why I did this is so that we don't have to worry about spending time creating this base. You can use any card template base that you have if you want it, or you can use this one. Or you can just cut a rectangle and use a bone folder and score to create a base if you want, as well. Um, but we're going to go ahead and do this. I'm rotating it. So all I did was I selected it, and when I hovered right next to it, I get these little, you know, move arrows, and I'm just going to click now and start turning. And if I hold down my shift, it's gonna snap to certain angles. So now that I've got it the way that I want it, I'm just going to let go. So now I have a horizontal card. Then up here, we can come back to our vectors, and I'm just clicking anywhere and dragging, and I'm going to hit Command C for copy and then Command V, as in victor for paste. And we're going to go ahead and resize this for the card. You can make it as big or as small as you would like. So I'm just going to put it in there like that. So you can kind of see how our card is looking. And if you want to make any adjustments, you can. Now, these are grouped together because they are in colors. If you want to move something, then we can just right click on it and hit Ungroup. And apparently, we're going to have to release the compound path as well. So I'm just right clicking to get this little menu to pop up. So you can also come up here to object. And ungroup, or if it's making you do the compound path, it'll be released down here. Okay? I'm just using the shortcut, so that I can easily move these around. So it's still there and then release. Now, this one has a little bit of a hole in it because it had some things. So if you see this happen, it's not a big deal. All we want to do is we're going to open up our layers panel. And we're just gonna select both of those. I'm just select. The reason why I opened up my layers is I wanted to make sure this was on top of this shape, so I can just select both of those. And I'm going to come over here to my Pathfinder tool and I'm going to find this minus front. Okay? So then it took it back out. So don't worry if something like that happens when you're doing this. It is fixable. Just make sure that the piece that you want to cut away is on top of the other layer. So if it would have been underneath it, I would have needed to move that up above, okay? Alright. So now I kind of have that. The reason why I did that was because I'm looking at this, and I kind of want to probably make another one of those. And I think I just want one more little thing of green coming out over here. And this is the nice thing is you can just play around. I am just holding my shift key and selecting each one of these, and so it's grabbing all of that. And I'm just gonna kind of move this just a little bit. So same thing here. I'm going to ungroup. Then I'm going to release that compound path and same thing with these leaves so I can scoot them in just a little bit ungroup and release compound path. Now I need to make sure that I grab both of those middle pieces. And that. Okay, I think I'm going to also kind of just move that a little bit. So you can still refine and fine tune your illustration or your artwork, even after the fact. So it's not like it's set in stone once you create this in Procreate. We mainly wanted to make sure that we were getting sizes correctly so that we didn't want to make anything too small, and so now that I'm kind of happy with this, then we are ready to do some of the final things that I do to make sure that these are easy for our customers to put together. So I'm just gonna come in here and ungroup all of these because it groups them when it vectorizes them. So I'm just heading ungrouped. These there's not anything grouped with it. It's just grouped as a singular image. And so you can see that over here which ones are. Now, these two, I want to keep group because these are the um details in my flowers. If you're not doing details in your flowers, and we're going to do three dimensional flowers, then you won't need to worry about that one. But I just anything that's, like, a singular shape, I just don't like it being grouped. It's kind of weird. And so from here, I am going to to make it easy, we could have them put in these little sprigs randomly. But what I like to do is I like to create kind of like a template for them. And so I will grab everything. So I'm just selecting over everything, and then I'm holding the Shift key to deselect on this background. And I'm going to hit Command C. So I'm gonna copy all of this, and then I'm going to hit Command B as in BOY. And that's going to make a copy of all of this and put it in the back. Okay? And then I'm going to come back up to my Pathfinder. If you don't see your Pathfinder, you can go to Windows. Pathfinder, and it'll pop up. And I'm going to use this one right here. It's gonna be these merge layers. So now that has become one shape. So it's one big blob, really, is what it is. And I want it to be the green. So I'm going to hit my eye for eyedropper, and I'm going to eyedropper, the green. And then I'm going to hit my V button just to get back to my selection tool. Now I can delete away these because I have that built in right there, that green layer. This is really nice because acts like a puzzle, so your customers don't have to worry about trying to figure out where these go. The main thing is to make sure that you have your composition the way that you want it before you go ahead and do this. Because if you have to move things around and make any changes, then you'll have to delete this background and redo it. Okay. All right. So that being said, now to make these easy for these leaves here, I need to do these individually. I can't do them as a group. So I'm just going to come in here and hit minus just selecting both, minus, selecting both, minus selecting both, minus selecting both, so I'm holding my shift and clicking. Alright? So now we have a shape. These are all shaped with that cutout away. So no one has to worry about trying to glue down this little vein on here. And things are ready to go. I'm going to do the same thing with the flowers. Only there's not the veins aren't green, so we're going to make a copy. So I'm going to take this mean. I'm going to do a Command C, a Command B. So we're putting this in the back. I'm also going to eyedrop it before I even do anything, so I'm going to hit with that back layer selected, I'm just going to hit the eyedropper, and I'm going to hit, click on the dark pink. Okay. So now I can take these details and shift and click on the pink and minus the front. So now I have a piece that looks like that. And a solid pink on the back. Okay. Same thing here. We're going to select the flower itself. Command C, Command B. Now I and we're gonna eyedrop the light pink. I'm gonna hit the V button to get back to my selection. I'm going to make sure that I click off and I'm selected on the front dark pink and the veins, and then we're going to use minus front again. Okay. So now we have something where people know where to place all of these. They can go in here and individually make and put these leaves on here without doing, you know, this main background. I just find it easier for customers when they see that it's easy to put together, then you're gonna far exceed customer expectations, and they're gonna keep coming back because your stuff looks beautiful, but it's easy to put together. It's not complicated. They're not having to remember where things go. Um, so something like this is going to be really easy for your customer to put together. So once this is together, we want to put this black line. This is the line I was talking about or the edition I was talking about. The machines read this specific line weight and color. So with all of this selected, again, I just selected over everything, held my shift key, and deselected. So I clicked on the background. So it's just doing everything else. And I'm going to come up here. Over here. And I'm going to select on this. This is going to be my stroke color. This one's my fill color, and this one is my stroke color. So I'm going to select this one right now. There is none. But if I double click on it, then I can come over here. And in the RGB, I want zero, red, zero green, and I want one blue. Okay? And I'm gonna hit Okay. Um then I want to make sure that I am not using a one point stroke. I'm using a quaint one stroke. It's just a tiny stroke, but it's enough for the software. All of the software doesn't matter whether you're using Silhouette, cricket, Caesar brother, it's going to read that cut line. Okay. So once we have that ready, we are ready to export this as SVG. This thing is ready to go. I'm going to go up here and I'm going to hit Save and I'm just going to do, I'm going to call it. Um, pink, hosy card. Okay? I'm going to save it as an AI file first just so that I have the original AI file. And then I'm going to then hit Save As. I'm going to go to SVG right here. And I'm gonna hit use R Boards, and then I'm going to hit Save. The main things that I make sure that are included is this says embedded. I have preserve Illustrator editing capabilities checked, and responsive is not checked. Okay? And then I'm going to hit okay. Now I have my SVG. I'm ready to go. I like to keep this so I'll just save this now recolored. And so we can get rid of that. We can get rid of that one because I didn't really do anything with it, and this SVG is ready to go. Now, from here, all you have to do is go ahead and take it into whatever cutting software you want. Take it to Silhouette, your cricket, Caesar, whatever it is, your preferred cutting, and go ahead and cut out all of these. Then meet me back, and we're just going to put all the pieces together and show you how easy it is to quickly put this card together super fast because of the way we built it, okay? So we'll meet you at assembly. 11. Lesson 9 Assembly: Okay, now that we have everything cut out, we are ready to assemble. So whatever program you decided to cut yours out on, that's fantastic. I ended up doing it on the casar, and I absolutely love my casar cutting machine. But this time, because it only gives bier frames in the cutting process and a made up name, I got the pinks mixed up. So we're gonna have a dark, large flower and a light. Smaller flower. So it's it's opposite of what we had before, but it's not a big deal. It's still gonna work. It's still gonna look great. And your customers are going to use whatever colors they want, anyway. So, let's go ahead and build this out. So I've got my base. I'm just gonna put it off to the side for now 'cause I don't need it to begin with. And the first thing we're gonna do is build out our flowers. Now, if you want more dimensional flowers, then you could do some fun things where you offset these and then curl the edges, and then these flowers could actually lift off the paper if you want. Or what we're going to go ahead and do is we're just going to line them up like that, and we're just going to clue them. So I suggest using some sort of liquid glue. I like this one that I got. One of these little vine things that didn't work out. My hook. Just pop that right out. So, super easy. Once the glue gets down to the bottom. I also like barely art, precision glue. That's one of my favorites. Um, I need to get some more. So, I am not using that today, but look how easy and simple that is. We got beautiful veins in that without your customers having to do a whole lot of work. So I'm gonna also grab the little center and finish out this flour. And it doesn't really matter how that goes in. You can put it wherever you want. Okay? So we got one cute little flower took us just a couple seconds to do. The other thing you could do or you could tell your customers they could do with something like this is they could, you know, cut out two of the solids and not put the veining ones in there, and then just, you know, curl it and it would be more of a solid curled flour. And you can see that I set this up so it's easy. We're only using two pinks. We're only using two greens. So the customer doesn't have to go hunt down, you know, multiple shades of pink and green to get these details in there. And look how fun that is. Those are so pretty together. Okay? So those are done. Now, since we made this so easy, it's going to be like, this is the base of our puzzle, and we're just going to add all of this on here. The first things we're gonna do is we're going to add in the leaves. And when I was pulling them off my mat, I actually put them so I cut this one first. Then I was placing these down as I went. So I know where these go. It shouldn't be too hard for your customers to figure this out because these fit perfectly. They are exactly the same shape and size of where they're supposed to be. So that's just a tip. You can tell your customers is, you know, when you pull them off the mat, just kind of uh, lay them out to where they can kind of, you know, map it, at least. No, Okay, this one was the one on the upper right. And then it makes it easier for them when doing things like this. Or my other suggestion is to have them do what I call a dry fit, which means you put it on here, kind of like how I had it when we first were here, and, uh, it was laying in the spot it's supposed to go. So you sit there and go, Okay, this one, nope, that one doesn't go there. Let's try it here. And then map it out that way. But I kind of did that as I pulled them off the map. So I didn't need to do that. Uh Okay. And we got those. Next, it's going to be the large flower because I want this one to be on top. If you wanted this one on top, then you would do the opposite. So whichever one you want on the bottom is going to be the next flower that you create. And just for fun, I'm actually going to bend up the edges. I'm going to curl them, kind of a little bit, not a ton, so I'm getting a little dimension. And actually, I'm going to use pop dots. Pop dots are another fun way to add a little bit dimension to your cards. So I'm actually just going to do that. And that is that pedal. You can see that it fits right there, so I'm just gonna stick it right on top. Like that. Ooh. And then we're gonna do the same I'm gonna need. Ooh. One of these. And that is that leaf right there. So I'm gonna stick that right there. So, super fun. You could also use pop dots again and have this totally standing out, which I think I might do. I'm going to use these pop dots. They are a little bit thinner. These are pretty thick, and this is a little bit thinner, you can see. So I'm gonna have these pop, but not quite as much as that one. So we're just going to kind of put some of these all around. And you can really do this however you want and suggest, you know, to your customers that they can build this however they want. I highly encourage them. You tell them to be creative. It doesn't have to be exactly like yours. They can have fun with it. That's the whole point of crafting is to just kind of have fun and play around. It doesn't have to be perfect. Like, having the dark pink is the large flower instead of the light pink, and it is unique, so let's make sure we're opening our card the right way. And there you have it. We have just made our own very own, and I didn't cur lease ones. I want to curl these ones. And I'm just using my finger to kind of bend. You don't want to make a crease. You just kind of want it to curl up a little bit. And then that just gives it a little bit more dimension. So the other thing that I love about this system was how easily it was to put together. As you noticed, it took us maybe 5 minutes to put this card together, and it was super easy. It's beautiful, and it's one of those things where it looks gorgeous, but it was so easy to put together, and that is our goal for our customers. Beautiful and easy to put together. There you go. We now have a cute little card that we made hand drawn and very, very unique. 12. Thank You!: I really hope that you have enjoyed this class and you've learned a lot about how you can make your SVGs feel a little more hand drawn, a little more personalized. And a little less rigid. I hope you learn some tips and tricks along the way. This was a long fun journey from completely blank slate to a finished card. We went over canvas sizes and why they matter. Line weights and why those matter composition inking, as well as developing a working process for exporting those files and getting them ready for SVGs. And this process can be used in any or any illustration. It doesn't have to be flowers. It doesn't have to be what we drew. You can use this process over and over and over again for whatever SVG that you are going to be working with. So that's why I love this process. We just happen to draw flowers in this one, but it can be applied anywhere. So it's a great workflow for you guys to be able to use. Um, if you guys went ahead and drew something with me, then I would love to see what you guys created and put it over in the project gallery so that we can all take a look and see what you guys have created. If you enjoyed this class, please leave a review. I would love for your feedback on this class. So I really do hope you enjoyed it. Um, you can also find me over at asfilmore.com. You can also find me at on Instagram at Asifilmort creations. You can see what I'm up to, and, of course, hopefully with more classes here on Skillshare. So thank you so much for joining me today, and I hope you create some amazing designs.