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Graphic Glass: Creating Digital Stained Glass Art in Procreate

teacher avatar Laurie Russell, Digital Artist | Illustrator | Educator

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      2:17

    • 2.

      Resources

      5:12

    • 3.

      Project

      0:52

    • 4.

      Setup

      3:45

    • 5.

      Digital Glass Technique

      10:47

    • 6.

      Sketching

      6:47

    • 7.

      Leading

      6:54

    • 8.

      Adding Color

      4:30

    • 9.

      GlassTexture

      4:10

    • 10.

      Final Details

      3:18

    • 11.

      Sharing Your Art

      1:51

    • 12.

      Thank You

      0:39

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About This Class

Dive into the world of digital stained glass art in Procreate. In this class, we'll harness the power of digital tools to mimic the beautiful effects of traditional stained glass, transforming your iPad into a canvas of light and color. Whether you're a budding artist or an experienced digital creator, this class will guide you through the process of designing your own stained glass masterpiece from scratch!

What you’ll learn:

  • How to choose the right subjects for your digital stained glass art and translate them into this unique art style
  • Tips and tricks to sketch out your designs to look like real stained glass layouts
  • How to effectively use Layers, Blend Modes, Selection/Transform, and other tools to achieve amazing realistic effects
  • How to add those final details that will make your stained glass art come alive  

Is this class for me?

Newbies and seasoned artists will enjoy this class and the project can be adapted to any skill level.  To succeed in this class, you should have a basic working knowledge of your iPad and Procreate, but we’ll be walking through each step of the process along the way.  You’ll learn some tips and shortcuts as you watch my workflow.

Materials & Resources:

For this class, you’ll need an iPad with Procreate, and I recommend using an Apple Pencil or other stylus, although it’s not absolutely necessary.  You’ll receive one digital Glass texture (as an image and a brush), as well as the color palette I'm using in the sample piece, and access to a curated Pinterest inspo board that I've set up, plus 2 design templates.  I've also included an optional Procreate brush kit that includes special brushes designed to speed up your glass art workflow - NOTE: you can complete the class with built-in Procreate brushes as well, and I’ll be discussing both options as we go.  You can access all the resources HERE.

Let’s get started!

These designs are so unique and fun!  I can’t wait to see your digital stained glass creations and the unique touch YOU bring to this age-old art form, so make sure that you share your designs in the Projects area of the class.

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Laurie Russell

Digital Artist | Illustrator | Educator

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I'm Laurie Russell, the illustrator and designer behind Pawsitively Creative. Based in the Pacific Northwest, I've spent over 15 years as a professional Graphic Designer and Illustrator, collaborating with diverse clients across various industries. I've been teaching digital art online for the last 5 years, with my main focus area being Procreate on the iPad.

But here's the real story: for me, creativity isn't just a job - it's personal. I founded Pawsitively Creative to blend my passion for art with a mission to inspire joy and make a meaningful impact in my community. I proudly donate 10% of my profits to animal advocacy org... See full profile

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1. Introduction: Welcome to Graphic glass. I'm Laurie Russell, a graphic designer and illustrator, and I am thrilled to be your guide through this beautiful world of digital stained glass art. Whether you're here to learn a new hobby or add a unique skill to your artistic tool kit, this class is designed to spark your creativity and help you create truly stunning pieces. Stained glass has a rich history dating back to ancient times. It has been used to tell stories, celebrate beauty, and inspire awe through the interplay of light and color. Today we're bringing this art form into the digital age using procreate, allowing us to experiment and create without limits. My journey into digital stain glass comes from a very personal connection. My dad is a talented stained glass artist and I have always been captivated by the pieces he creates. The way light dances through the colored glass, bringing each piece to life always seemed like a bit of magic to me. I wanted to find a way to blend this traditional art form with modern technology. Not only so that I could create digital stain glass art myself, but also to provide a method for my dad and others like him to sketch and plan out their projects digitally. In this class, you'll learn the techniques that will enable you to design your own digital stain glass art. Including advanced techniques to help you mimic the texture, lead lines, vibrant color and light of real stained glass. After learning the technique, we'll walk through a full design together step by step and then you'll create your own project to share. I cannot wait to see the beautiful stained glass artwork that you're going to make. Whether you're looking to connect with a cherished hobby as I am with my dad's passion for stained glass, or you simply want to explore the possibilities of digital art. I invite you to join me on this exciting journey together. We'll turn pixels into luminous art, one vibrant piece at a time. Let's get started. 2. Resources: In this video, I'm going to walk you through how to access all of the class resources. When you go to the resources page, this is what you will see up here. At the top, we have a couple of buttons for you to download some of the resources. This one will give you the free glass texture brush. This one will give you all of the other resources. The color palette, the image of a glass texture, and a couple of templates. Both of these take you to Dropbox, but you do not have to have a Dropbox account to use them. You can download these files without signing into anything. Below this, we have some information and the link to the Pinterest inspiration board that I've set up for you guys. Tapping that button will take you right to the board on Pinterest. You can see I have a whole bunch of inspiration images set up here for you. Some of them are a little more basic, some of them are more detailed or complex. You don't want to copy any of these directly, of course. But you can take inspiration from some of the subject matter, from the colors, from some of the framing of the layouts, all kinds of different things. Just to give you an idea of the type of things that you can do with this art style. These are almost all actual stained glass pieces. It's hard to find a lot of digital ones, but the same idea can be used for your digital art. The last thing I have for you on the resources page is a digital stained glass kit. This comes as a procreate brush set. It has a pencil brush, a few different lead brushes, and some textures as well. This glass brush kit that I've put together for you for procreate is optional. But I do think it's really helpful to speed up your workflow. However, as we go through the project and I'm going to teach you the technique, I'll walk through and show you which built in procreate brushes you can use for these different steps as well. Here's the brush set in procreate. I have a couple of set dividers here that just basically show you the different sections of the brushes under tools. We have the sketching pencil, you can use any procreate pencil, of course. I'd just like to include one in my kits just so it's handy. I have two different letting brushes here for you. One of them has a bumpy base. You bump that up in size, you can see the difference here. One of them is a pretty smooth base. You're not going to have nearly the bumpy edges that you do on the other one. The next brush is the letting texture brush. This is something that's really nice to use with a clipping mask on top of your lead and a lighter color and you'll want to match this to the size of the lead that you have. The next two brushes we're going to get into when we work through the C, but we have a highlight brush and a highlight smudger. The highlight brush you'll use in the actual brush pane, the smudger you'll use on the smudging tool. All the rest of these under glass are all overlay brushes. You would use one of these on top of a color. You would add a new layer, grab a medium to dark gray. Use any one of these. Generally, you would be using it with a clipping mask because your color is only going to be in part of your image. But this is how it works. You're painting on your texture. When you change this blend mode to overlay, you get that nice glass texture in that color. There's a whole bunch of different glass textures included in this kit. That is everything that comes in this kit. Normally, I sell this in my shop, but I'm including it for free. For students of this course, all you need to do is just fill out this form and that will get sent to you automatically. In the next lesson, we are going to go over the class project. 3. Project: In this video, I'm going to talk about the project For this class, I'm giving you two different options based on your comfort level and how much detail you want to put into it. For our class project, I'm going to use the Rows template from our resources. This can be adapted to different skill levels. If you want something a little bit more simple, you can either do the rows without the extra bits of the frame, or you can choose to do the hot air balloon sample. This is the one that we're going to build together. We're going to create all of these layers and all of these textures and effects. In the next lesson, we're going to talk about how to set up your canvas and some best practices for digital stained glass. 4. Setup: In this video, I'm going to talk about how to set up your canvas and some tips for your project. There is no one canvas size that works best for stained glass. You really want to think about the design that you want to make and what dimensions work best. Are you going to make something that's going to look nice on a square, a rectangle, horizontal, vertical, basically. You just want to be thinking about your resolution and whether it's going to be shown digitally or you might want to try and print it some date. My first project tip is just make sure you have fun with it. Choose a subject that you enjoy and you're going to have a good time working on. Because this is a little bit of an intensive process. You're going to be going over the same artwork multiple times. You want to be choosing something that you are going to enjoy drawing. When thinking about the subject of your stained glass art, you also need to consider, is it something that I can simplify? Really fine detailed lines don't work very well for this style of art. The other thing we want to think about is using medium shades of colors. These are going to show your textures best if you have white or really light, or really dark colors. It's not going to show your textures as well. Let me show you what I mean. I'm just going to put a full layer of overlay on this. It doesn't look like anything's happening, but when you look at this layer, you can see that there is actually texture there. When you use overlay over a pure white, it's trying to mix and there's nothing there. We have to have some color on here for it to mix with. In order to get clear or white glass, we actually need to use these really light shades of gray. That's why I've included these in the color palette for you. Let's take a look at another color. This looks pretty dark in the color palette, but it's actually a medium purple. If it's not going to show as much of a texture or be as vibrant of color as you normally see on glass. We really want to stay more in this quadrant of our color. Will you can see that already looks better just adding a little more saturation to it. Same thing if we use really light colors. If we go too much in the desaturated area, it's not going to show the texture very well. We want to stay a little bit more saturated. Then we're going to pick up more of that texture. Try to stay in the medium range of colors, if you can. I've included almost every color in the rainbow, and it works pretty well. It also does depend a little bit on the actual texture that you're using. I'm going to hide this one and we'll try another texture and see the difference. You can see this shows up quite a bit differently than this. Every texture that you try, you just have to play around with how it interacts with the color below it. 5. Digital Glass Technique: In this video, I'm going to show you the technique that we use for digital stain glass art in procreate. I'm going to use just a basic rainbow as an example to show you the technique you can follow along. You can just watch and feel free to pause, rewind, rewatch it if there's something that you didn't get, if there's something you don't understand. You can also ask questions in the discussion area down below to show you the technique for creating digital stained glass. We're going to recreate this rainbow. This is going to go pretty fast. I'm just going to show you the overview, and then when we actually do our sample, we're going to walk through every step slowly. For this, I'm just going to use the screen size because that's what's easy. The first thing I would do is grab my sketching pencil, or any pencil that you'd like, and just do a rough sketch of where I want this to be. I'm using quick shape to get my lips pretty close. Now I have my basic sketch. I would rename this to sketch layer above it. Name that lead. We need to reduce the opacity of our sketch. We can either tap on the N and drag that down. Or we can take two fingers and tap on the layer, and then just drag on the screen on our lead layer, I'm going to grab this dark color here in the palette. Choose which lead brush you'd like. I tend to like the bumpy one, but you could use a smooth one if you want. Let's see what side we have here. That's pretty good. This one is at 6% but again, it's going to depend on the size of your canvas as well. And let's just go ahead and start tracing over our sketch. I would normally take a lot more time with this, but I'm just going pretty quickly just to show you the technique. Now if I have lines that are going to cross, I'm going to actually do those on a new layer. It'll make it really easy to race underneath this. I'm going to use quick shape, put one finger down to get a perfectly perpendicular line. Push and hold my racer. So I'm racing with that same brush. Then I can come back to the layer that has all my arcs on it and just clean up these bottom edges. Switch to the line layer, grab this edge. Then we can combine them by pinching them together. Now we no longer need our sketch, so we can just turn that off by using this little check mark, and our first layer of lead is done. I'm going to make two copies of this by swiping to the left and choosing duplicate, the bottom one. I'm going to hide for now. We'll come back to that. This top one, I'm going to hide temporarily because we need to change the color of this one in the middle. First we're going to tap on it and choose reference. Then we're going to come to the magic wand under adjustments to hue, saturation, and brightness, and turn this into a light gray. Go ahead and bring this top one back. We're just going to offset these a little bit. You can zoom in a little bit if you need to see. I'm just going to tap a couple times outside this corner so you can see we're offsetting that light gray. Now we're going to add a little bit of texture to this. Come to your very top layer and add one more. We're going to make this a clipping mask and this is going to be our texture layer. I'm going to change to a pretty light gray. Grab this leading texture brush or you can use another brush and procreate called flick. Then I'm just going to go over all of my lead lines. This is optional, just gives it a little bit more depth. That's a little bit too big for these lead lines. You want to make it match, so it just looks like it's adding a little bit of texture to it. It doesn't have to be perfect. The clipping mask helps because you can go outside of your lines and it'll stay where it needs to. Just wanting to add a little bit of visual interest and texture to this. Then I like to lighten this up just a little bit, about 70% Now we are going to add color to our rainbow by making this lead layer a reference. Any color that we add is going to stay inside these lines, just like a digital coloring book. Let's add some layers for color. Right above our sketch for this rainbow, I'm going to use six colors. I'm going to add six layers. I do recommend keeping your colors on different layers. You don't have to, but it makes adding the glass textures a lot easier. Normally, I would layer these if I had a lot of colors, but I only have these six, I think it'll be pretty easy to tell what I'm doing. Then I'm just going to color drop. There's actually two different ways that we can add our texture to this. Both of them are going to involve using clipping masks above the color. You're going to add a new layer, change it to a clipping mask. You can either use one of the brushes or you can actually insert an image of that texture. Go to your wrench, which is your Actions menu, choose Add, and either insert a file or a photo. Depending on where you have it saved, this will bring that image in. You need to make sure that it's covering all of the color that's on that layer. You can rotate it, stretch it, do whatever you want to make it look nice on the layer. Then you just need to change the blend mode to overlay. I like using the brushes because they're a little bit quicker. You need to change to a dark to medium gray for these, then you can choose any of these that you like. I also have another set that I really like I got from another creator on etc. I will put a link to this in the description as well. They have a bunch more textures in here that I really like. They all work the same way. Basically, you choose the texture on your clipping mask, add it on the same thing. If you use a transform tool, you can adjust these as well. Then when you change the blend mode to overlay, you get that really nice glass look. So I feel like the brushes are just a quicker way to get your textures added on here. You may need to slightly adjust the color if it's not showing up enough. If this is going too fast, remember we're going to go through every step a lot more slowly in the project. Walk through, now we have color and texture on all the layers. There are a few final details that we can add to these. Remember this bottom layer of lead that we didn't do anything with before? We can go ahead and turn that back on. We're going to change the blend mode on this to color burn. Come to the magic wand and gag and blur. And we're just going to slide this over to about three to 5% You'll see that gives it already a nice realistic look there. Let's go ahead and add one layer above this. We're going to change this blend mode to add, and we're going to add a bit of glare onto here. I'm going to use this light orange that I have in our color palette. The glass high, using the glass highlight brush from our tool kit. Or you can also use the soft brush from the procreate airbrush kit and just use it on a low opacity. I'm just going to brush across. Just add a little bit of light coming through here. This brush has a little bit of texture to it, you can play around with that. Next, I'm going to switch to my smudge tool here and use the highlight smudger to smooth this out a little bit. I'm using fairly light pressure just to clean up some of those edges. That is a basic overview of this technique. In the next video, we are going to move on to actually doing this project together, starting with our sketch. 6. Sketching: In this video, I'm going to talk about the importance of sketching out your stained glass design. I always recommend doing a sketch before you start a design, so that you can have a basic idea of the layout and where you want your pieces to be. For our sample project, we are going to recreate this rows. If you want to do a little bit more simple project, you can do just the rows without these extra frame pieces. Or you could also choose to do this hot and balloon design. I've provided you templates for both that you'll be able to work off of, and of course, you can always do your own unique design. The templates are provided as a resource, but you do not have to use them. Here's a pro tip. As a general rule, I do not recommend tracing over anyone's template or directly copying any reference photos. We want to make sure that we are doing our own work. However, for this class, you do have permission to trace the templates that are included in the resources. As you're learning the technique, let's start a new canvas and make a square. If you're going to use one of the templates, you'll need to import it into your canvas. Come to the wrench, that's your Actions menu. And insert a file or a photo, depending on where you saved it. Let's go ahead and reduce the opacity of this. I'm going to tap two fingers on that layer and just slide it way down for sketching. I always like to use black with just a basic pencil. You can use the one that's in our kit or any of the pencils that come with procreate. I'm going to start with the rose, that's the central focus of this piece. If you're using the template, you can just trace it. You can still change the flourish a little bit and make it your own. The nice thing about digital art is you can do some things that would be actually really hard to do in real glass. Some of these really thin spots and all these curves. One thing to think about when you are putting your glass sketch together is that generally you don't want pieces to exactly line up. That's why I'm making these stems go just slightly off of this middle piece. Rather than having the meat exactly in the middle, I'm having them offset a little bit. That's more like what you would see in real stained glass. If I do the outline of this leaf. I'm not going to have just one stem come off the middle. I'm going to have it split over the sides a little bit. Then this piece of lead can come up the middle here. Just gives it a little more realistic look when you know what glass can and can't do. Even though technically with digital we can do anything we want. If you want a more basic design, you can just go ahead and stop there. A lot of times in sta gloss you do see the focal point of the design framed in some other shapes, with glass pieces filled in. We're going to go ahead and do that, but if you want to just go with this design, then you can skip on to the next lesson. When I have lines that cross over, I do find it's easier to use multiple layers for this. For example, I'm going to go ahead and just make one big circle here using quick shape, get that exactly where I want it, then I can erase the pieces that are crossing over. With this rows can make a square with quick shape as well. Again, with these rays, I wouldn't go directly into a corner. I would go just offset a little bit. Look a bit more realistic that way. And when I do my letting, I'm going to use quick shape to make perfectly straight lines. But for my sketch, as long as they're in approximately the right place, that's going to be just fine. This one I want to not hit on this break. Right here, I'm moving it over a little bit onto the petal. The same thing right here. I don't want to match up exactly here. So I'm going to offset for the inner circle. There's a few different ways that you can go about this. You can look at the Pintraus inspiration board for some ideas. This can be like I have it here in this sample. Or it can be not quite so much. It's totally up to you what kind of look you want. The thing to think about is making sure that your lines are not meeting up with the edge of another line. So I would continue to fill that in. Since we've got the template, I don't necessarily need to do a full sketch, but I just wanted to show you the process. In the next video, we are going to put our lead lines on. 7. Leading: In this video, we are going to take our sketch and turn it into lead outlines for stained glass. Just like we learned in the technique video. Whether you've got your own sketch or you're going to use one of the templates, the next thing to do is to get our lead lines added on here, add a new layer at the top. We're going to rename this to Lead. Let's go ahead and grab the dark gray color from our palette. You can choose whether you use the bumpy base or the smooth one. I tend to like the bumpy one just because I like the look of it. But that is totally personal preference. Then we're going to fill this in basically the same way that we did our sketch. We're going to start with the focal point, make the outer and inner frames, and then fill in the other pieces. The first thing to look at is the size of the lead. That actually looks pretty good. It's really going to depend on the canvas size that you set. So make sure that you're happy with your lead size before you get going too far because it's really hard to change it later if you have any spots like this that you want to clean up. Pushing hold on your eraser, so you're erasing with the same brush, check the size and make sure that you do that. Now before we move on to some of these other steps, here's a pro tip. If you have lines that cross over each other, try doing them on a separate layer. Initially, it's a lot easier to erase and clean up those edges. And then you can always combine them at the end later on. And remember you have quick shape available to you to get smooth curves and lines. Once you've got all of your lead layers how you want them, go ahead and group them. And then we're going to isolate them. We're only seeing the lead layers, not any of your sketches. And we're going to hide the background. Take three fingers and swipe down. We're going to choose copy All you can bring your background back, hide this group, and add one new layer at the top. Swipe down again with three fingers and choose paste. The reason I like to do it this way and not just combine all my lead layers is in case I want to make changes later If I found some error or some spot I forgot to erase. This is a lot easier by having these separate layers here. I'm going to name this layer lead and then we're going to duplicate it two times, swipe left on the layer and choose duplicate For now. We're going to hide both the top and bottom layer on this middle layer, we're going to tap it and choose reference. What this does is when we color drop later on, the color is going to stay inside the lines, just like a digital coloring book. The next thing we're going to do is change the color of this lead. Come up to your magic wand, that is your adjustments menu. And choose hue saturation. And brightness on the brightness slider. We are going to move this up until you get a medium gray. I'm at about 63% Now we can bring our top layer back. We're going to just offset this a little bit. We can see both colors. You may want to zoom in a little bit. So you can see with your middle layer selected, come to the arrow, which is your transform tool. And we're just going to tap a couple times outside of this corner just to offset that a little bit. This next step is optional, but I like the realism that it gives to the design. Select your top lead layer and add one layer above it. And we're going to make this a clipping mask. I'm going to rename this to Texture choose a light gray. I'm going to use the leading texture brush from our kit. If you don't have this kit, you can also use a brush called Flick, which is in the procreate spray painting set. All we're going to do here, come on top of the darker lead layer and just add a little bit of texture. I'm going to go ahead and do this and be right back. Now we've got some texture applied to our lead. I usually like to reduce the capacity of this just a little bit to make it blend in more. In the next video, we are going to add some color to our design. 8. Adding Color: In this video, we are going to start adding color to our stain glass art. This is one of my favorite parts. In order to add some color to this, we're going to put some new layers in here. They're going to go right underneath this bottom lead layer that we have hidden. We're going to come back to this later. Let's go ahead and select the layer underneath that and add a new one. I'm going to add a handful of layers in here because I know I'm going to use a few different colors. Here's a pro tip. I like to add each of my colors on its own separate layer. This makes editing the colors and glass textures later so much easier. I like to name the layers as I go so that I can stay organized. Let's start with the rose. Since we have our lead layer here set as a reference, as we color drop, it's going to stay inside these lines. We can color drop once and choose continue fill, and just tap on the other ones that we want to be that same color. Then I'm going to move on to the leaves. I generally like to use three shades of a color in these I find that gives it a really nice dynamic, and then I spread them out a little bit. It gives almost the illusion of a gradient, especially when we mix up the textures later on in this color palette. Here I have the rose, the leaves, some of the white frame, and some of the blue frame. And you can choose to follow along with those or not. It's totally up to you, but I have three shades of each of those colors. I'm going to need a few more layers. Now, a little trick I have for working with white glass, especially if you have multiple shades that you're working on, is I'm going to temporarily change the color of this so that I know that I've already filled in those spaces. I'm going to grab this pink. I'm going to alpha lock this layer by swiping right with two fingers. I'm just going to fill it. I know that I've already done those ones. Then I'll come to my medium gray and start filling in. It just makes it really easy to see the spaces that are left, especially if you're wanting to mix up your colors. I think that looks pretty good. The dark ray, we should be able to see what's left perfect. Now we can come back to our color palette. Select our lightest gray, Come back to this layer that's still alpha locked. And choose fill. We're all set on these rays around the outside. If I have three colors, I generally like to just do them in a round. But again, fill it in however you like. So every third one I'm going to choose this color. And if it doesn't come out perfectly even, that's okay. Now our colors are all filled in and we are ready to add some texture. 9. GlassTexture: In this video, I'm going to show you how to add glass texture to your artwork and really bring it to life. There are two different methods to do this. We can insert an image of the texture or we can use an overlay brush. Let's walk through both of those now. We've got our color added to our piece. It's really starting to come to life, but it looks a little bit flat and probably a little bit dark. We're going to change that once we add the texture. No matter which method you choose, we're going to need a new layer above each color with a clipping mask. This is going to keep that texture just on those spaces with that color. That's why it's really important to keep your colors separated. It just makes this process so much easier. If you're going to use an image, come on over to the wrench, which is your action menu, and insert a file or a photo. Depending on where you have that image saved. This will add it to your canvas and you want to make sure that it's completely covering that area. If it imported smaller, you see it's not covering all of this blue. I would need to stretch it out a little bit. And you can of course, rotate it, change the proportions of it, all that stuff. Once you're happy with the placement, then you're going to change this blend mode to overlay. Now we're starting to see the look of stained glass. Here's a pro tip. If you want to re use the same glass texture image, you can duplicate it, put it on a new layer. And then use the transform tool to flip it, rotate it, resize it, and that will change the look of that texture on that layer. The other method is to use an overlay brush. Again, we're going to add a layer above our color, turn it into a clipping mask. Overlay brushes tend to work well with a medium gray color. You may have to adjust it a little bit depending on the actual texture of the brush you're using and the color that's beneath it. You can fiddle around with it a little bit, but somewhere in the medium gray range usually works pretty well. I've included quite a few of these glass texture brushes in the kit that comes with this class. But I also have another set that I really like that I got from another creator. And I'm going to go ahead and link this in the description as well, because there's quite a few more here that they have created. If you want to use additional textures, you can go ahead and grab this one as well, but they work the same way. Basically, you're going to grab that brush, you're going to paint it on anywhere that that color is on the page, you can do the same thing. You can grab this, rotate it, resize it, then when you're done, change this to overly. Now as you can see, this one isn't showing up as well on this color blue. If you need to adjust it, you can come up here to adjustments. You can either play with the curves or go into hue saturation. And brightness. Just mess with these a little bit until you can see more of the texture that's coming out a bit more. Now if you take the brightness down or up, you can see how that's affecting the visibility of the texture. So I'm going to go ahead and add some texture to all of this and then we'll be right back. 10. Final Details: In this video, we're going to go over a couple things you can do to add some final details to your artwork to make it look like realistic stained glass. Now we have glass textures on top of all of our color layers. It's starting to look really good. The next step is to add just a couple more final details to really make this. We've added some texture to our lead and we've started to make it three D, but we are going to take that up a notch. Remember this layer that we didn't do anything with, we are going to work on it now. Let's go ahead and turn it back on. We're going to rename this to Color Burn and change that blend mode as well to Color Burn. Now we are going to come to the magic wand and go to Gagen blur. And we're just going to slide this over to about three to 5% You can see that starts to add this little shadow glow effect on the inside of our lead. There's nothing, we're starting to add that blur. You go too far, it's not going to look good. But adding just a little bit of this adds that really nice depth. You can see already what a difference that makes to the piece. The next thing we're going to do is add a little bit of light to this. Let's add one layer above this and rename it to glare. We're going to change this blend mode to add on our color palette. We're going to choose this orange right here for our brush. We're going to choose this glass highlight in our resource kit. Or you can also use the soft brush from procreates airbrush kit and just use it on a low opacity. All we're going to do is just add a little bit of light to a few key areas of our design. If you add too much two finger tap to undo, you really need just a very light pressure on this. Then we are going to clean that up with a smudge tool. On your smudge menu, you can use that same brush from the airbrush kit. Or if you have our tool kit switch over to the high light smudger, just gently go over these edges and it'll smooth them out a little bit. If you still feel like the glare is too much, you can adjust the opacity of this layer as well. That's going to give it a really nice finished look. Congratulations, you did it. You have your own digital stained glass art piece. In the next video, I'm going to walk you through how to share this with the world. 11. Sharing Your Art: In this video, we're going to talk about how to share your artwork once you've created it. Whether you were following along with me and you made this rose or you chose to make your own design or the hot air balloon. Now you need to know how to share it, It's really easy. You just need to come over to the wrench, which is your Actions menu. Come to the share, and then you can choose what type of file you'd like to save. I recommend either a Jpeg or a PNG. A PNG is going to be a higher quality file, but it is also going to be a much larger file size. Just something to think about if you're going to be sharing it on social media or trying to e mail it to somebody. For example, on this piece, the Jpeg comes in at only 634 kilobytes, which is pretty small. The same image as a PNG is 2 megabytes. Now that's still pretty small. You can E mail that or shared on Social pretty easily. But with a much more complex piece with more layers, the file sizes are going to increase. On this rose. The Jpeg comes in at one a 2 megabytes, and the PNG is up to six, just for comparison. Once you've exploited your design, make sure you share it with us. In the project area here on skill share, the other students will love to see your work. And I'll be in there as well giving feedback and answering any questions that you have. I can't wait to see your beautiful stained glass artwork. 12. Thank You: I hope you found this helpful. I love showing people how to combine creativity and technology. If you enjoyed the class, I would really appreciate it if you take just a couple of minutes and leave me a review here on skill share. This just helps other students know what to expect from me and this class. Thank you so much. I can't wait to see the beautiful stained glass art that you're going to make. So be sure to share it with us in the project area of this class.