Halloween is coming: get ready with papers and/or Procreate

1. Intro: Ciao, Amanda, mom. And they want to help people to connect with art and creativity inputs in a playful and easy way with no judgment and just good vibes. I love my students to experiment the wow into the asthma, approaching art and creativity with kids eyes it experimenting with different tools and different solutions. Ideally, I like this idea to to stick, to stick with you, but in a good way and come out with even more ideas. This time, I provide you a cooling easy project for Halloween that you can do in a traditional way or on your iPad. I'll add a bonus. I'll add as a bonus of personalization that wants to celebrate one of my favorite artists, Yayoi Kusama. And following along, you might discover a lot of shortcuts and tips and also a list of tool to implement this project, but also to personalize it in your own way. The idea is to color your life with project, you can use the Uriel life in your daily life, like for alanine right now. And I'm pretty sure this will make you able to impress very important people, kids and with easy projects actually. Because let's be honest, sometimes they don't expect us to do something like this. These kids that you're going to impress, that can be your kids or your sister, create your neighbors. It gets in your community. But most important should be your inner kit. From the iPad, the two arts and crafts, or vice versa. With everyday tools around you. I want you to make art accessible and reachable and usable for you. Well, parents may have a slight advantage on the starting point. If you are talking and thinking about the mess the items around. But really the tools don't matter. The point is just to put yourself there with a positive, positive attitude. Even the iPad doesn't matter. You can just have a look and see the potential. But you can follow along this class. I'm here to help you to discover, get inspired, and create to my cart part of your everyday life and bring smiles and pride to your faces. So I cannot wait to follow your journey with this project and the next one, see you in the next video. 2. Project : Hello In his coming. And you want to make a quick project to decorate your house or surprise friends. Here is something easy, quicker, and with your materials, you can find at home, you just need five sheets of paper, scissors and glue. If you want them, and also a pencil and a ruler. Well, then we will create the digital version with the iPad and the app Procreate. And you'll be able to share your creation with as many friends as you like everywhere in the world. This class is beginner friendly and it's perfect to understand the basic of Procreate in the concept of layers. In particular, if you follow all the videos at the end, you will have a nice project to hang in the picture to share on social or to, or to e-mail or by phone, to hold your loved ones, to wish them happy Halloween. You can follow along. But what is more important? You'll have the tools to come out with more ideas. Please share your project here in the gallery or tag me. I love to see your creation. And don't forget to check the resources section to access the freebies, including my free procreate brushes and some Halloween coloring pages. 3. Start with papers: Okay, let's start with a new project. The first paper we need is the yellow one that I'm going to use that to do the wall, basically the page and to do the window. So to do so, I suggest that even if it's used, I use paper form. It's okay. Actually, it's even better. It's more scary for Halloween. So I would do like this one and myself with the ruler. And just take some lipids. Or obviously you can also see then you have the window here. Okay. I would then go to do the profile, the frame of the window to do so and to optimize the black paper. What I'm going to do is to start them from this burden. Like I'm going to take around 1 cm. Anyway. This one doesn't matter how it is up to you. Let's say that we do. Yes, we're still perfect, I'm fine. So we do like the three short one. Now. We do the three long one on the side. So we still have a big chunk in the middle to use a for the cat. And despite there. So basically we need six of them. Okay? So again, here you can use the Caesar visually if you use bigger Cesar, I use my son caesar here. To show you that it's very possible that this one long one. Now we can check how long it should be. So I will just go a little bit more on the margin side. So basically this one is okay, but if you want, you can just take away despite the awake. Seeing here. What I do usually is just to, to fold it and then cut it away. Same here. Obviously, you can also do the three of them together. So in general, is this one the language or cutting from the short one? I can just take the water to get it away. So we have this one. This one. And this one for the friends. Yes, sir. Good. Now, it's time to do the oh, this one might be a little bit too long. So you can just shorter. I mean, we can still fix it when we are doing yes. Okay. Then this but the curtain the curtain basically, I'm pulling it up to this one like this up. And I'm pretending to do the current time like in this side. Say they will be like this. Yes. So I think it will be like this. Even when it's a bit longer maybe. So let's go down here. Then. Again, remember, it isn't true. And then we just suck you for they're like we want. Yes. Pretty okay. It's okay. I'm going to pick this. Then we have to do the moon. The moon, any scrap of paper is from also the printer. We will just do the moon. As you like. Stick it here. Yes. 4. The characters: To do the cat will do first step a novel like this. And then we'll do like a drop without it, the top part. And we emphasize this part here. Then we will add here. And we should do the tail. So the tail, we can do it in any direction. But let's say that we draw the opposite. So like if I wanted to go on the left, I do it here that goes on the right. In this case, e.g. I think I wanted to try to do it in the right. So I will do it like I would start like this. We'll do this part. They needed to connect to the catheter. And then I will just finish it like this. Then the queue despite there, we can do it even longer. Is Partha. We do again like an oval. Oh, maybe we can do it here, actually a spider because we, there is more space over. We do the eighth lag and the next and then they start to look at them. Check. Because they told her this time I would like to put it in InDesign. Hi there. If I'm cutting this brighter, faster sometime I do like this first I do the biggest bar, so I just remember to do eight. Like a crab. That's why they're okay. Maybe next time I will do like latency nerves spike there. Anyway. I lewin despite as I cross them over crop. Well, it actually is pretty long, but it will be fine. E.g. actually, if you stick it on the door, I think it's fine to leave it like this. So this one actually, I'm going to leave it like this. Yes, I will leave it like this, I suppose. And we just need the bat. So to do them, I think I'm going to do basically just the sea, even smaller, something like this. I'm going to have the file where you can dilute it a shaper and print them out and color it. If you don't have the bursa colored paper like this one, be 1 bar to too bad. Let's look. You know, they're far away. So sometimes it can just be a shade. It's okay. Here we are. So now we clean the desk. Somehow. The next step will be assemble it. 5. Glue: Okay, Let's combine together where pieces. We have to take the glass window. Then we'll put the frame. Ms. Sandberg. I would put the first time I will hide it prior to the day, pencil the backside. Now we'll decide where to put the cat. Again. We can compose the first image and deciding which I didn't wanted to put this one. But I think in this case, I will just put it in this side. Because even if the spider is coming out, It's kinda funny. I think. Let me see. Yes, I liked the spider to be in this side. And then the moon 0, you see the moon was supposed to be here. Maybe. Let's put the moon first. In this case, I would just put this part. I will leave the tail able to move somehow. Like this thing is still flopping around. This one. I mean, you can turn it this way so it will even stay further. So it will even look more three-dimensional. And actually, I didn't mistake, yes, it was better in this part. When it's done. 6. Ipad Time: So after doing our first project in a collage way, now we can jump on, on our iPad. If you have it or if you don't have it, maybe you can have a look where you will use the app Procreate. I would like to show you in particular the use of level today. So let's start by open up Canvas by pushing this plaza. And then here you will see many option. What I wanted to do is screen size. So basically it's like here we have our picture, our paper. So what we did in delta project was to give a color. So we will go with the yellow color. Maybe I would like a little bit lighter yellow. So I will just move this one and go here. If you are not in the same app to change a color is this icon. And you have different way to get it. So you can use this classical way, this disk way, where first you choose the main color around here, and then you go through the saturation and lightness and so on. The classic one. Or there are other options, but for now, I guess we supposed to stay here. If you are playing around and then you'll say, Oh, no, I still need that color. There is an easy way to do it is basically just pushing here. You will just push here and the color will go back to the one that you select, no matter in which level. But talking about the level, what are the levels? You should push this icon here, select this icon. And you will see here there is a background color that in this case actually we are not using. And there is the level one. Level one that in our case is we can rename it and call it directly wall. Then instead of, we could paint on this level anything. But it's much better. And by the way, if you do a mistake, you can just stop back with two-finger. To do a new layer. Basically is lighting the collage. It's like you are having different paper that you can just stick on it. So we will add the new layer that we are going to call a night. We will select the blue. Maybe like this one. I will provide you the color palette. And we're going to, there are many ways we can do it. One is the buy. Okay, I will first select them like this one. How we use this brush? Oh yeah. Of course also you have to select a brush. And I will provide you also for free my brushes. This one, I really like it because they are very similar to the colors that kids can use on this project. Anyway, what I'm going to do yes, sorry. I'm going to do first is do the sketch. I will select the black and then the six B pencil. And I will roughly do this cat because also with the, the, the paper we did and the Caesar would not precise with one to be precise, we can be precise, but it's not the topic of this aluminum project. So let's start like this. Just sketch it and we can sketch this one. And maybe we weren't actually the window to be bigger. So what we can do is that selected because it's the new level layer. And so we can just make it bigger. Then in another layer, I will do the current time. In this case, I don't do symmetry or, but if you want to do exactly what we could do it. And then in another layer, I will do our character, the cat. The cat. Okay, let's do it in this way. You can just do like an oval here and then add the years. Then you will do like a drop of a drop, but not I mean, you could do a drop, but you can also don't finish it that part. Then yes, you make a little bit larger this one because they are the leg. And then you can have the actual, in this case, e.g. the detail could be either in this side, will, in the water side. So this one is something that we can make and change easily. You can do the spider. Just remember, spider has eight legs. And this mono. And some bad that in this case can be even more abstract. So we did our sketch. We can collapse it if you'd like to sketch together. But what I wanted to show you is that e.g. if I want to modify just the curtain because I see I'd like you to do more precise. I can just cancel this level without any issue because it's just here. So I can do like this and modify this one like this. Okay, here we are. And then after I do this one, a lot of things that I would like you to start to practice is to put it together. Things that are that belongs together. In this case, you will select the first one Scatter, then do this one and this one on the right and group ID. And then we can rename it and call it the sketch. Now what I do usually is like, I still keep a copy of this one because I don't have any issue with the capability of my iPad. If you have an older iPad, maybe you will just collapse directly, but okay, let's leave this, I will duplicate it. I will flatten this level. So now they are altogether because I'm unsatisfied with the sketch and I will disable the previous one, so it's not visible anymore. By doing this one you're able and disabled fix. Okay, Then I will go in, select this n, and I will see all this option and select Multiply. And I will take down this one like this, because I wanted to sketch up to be just they're basically the sketch is like what we did here. You remember with the pencil that you could cancel, even just leave it. 7. Fill with colors: I will select them all and above the wall, I will do my new level that now I can go the night, sorry. This one is actually the real night. This one was the sketch. Okay. So for the night, I will select a blue, dark blue. I will check. I think I will take a dumb but to toughen up. Or you can also select the dry ink. And then I will do this. I will just go through my sketch. Do this one. E.g. I don't like this part is too much, so I would just double-tap like this, changed again. Do this. 11 is close and important is that it's very closer. You can either color it and you can make your pencil even bigger like this. But here we want to do something a little bit faster. So I would just put the band on the blew up. Then you will bring it here and it will fill it. One thing that you should pay attention is that if you use a brush, like in this case, with a texture that I do like it. You see there is a texture on this brush is that this one may happen. So in this case, you could either go through and fix it by NDA or to minimize this effect. When you drop it. There is a threshold. So you still keep the pencil there and you can keep it up and up, up, up, up, up. So I can just do it like this, 0 e.g. this one is too much, definitely too much. So I will go here and go down. And I see that 83% is the best I can do up to now. But there might be something. So in this case, if there is, you just fix it if you wish. So okay. 8. Background elements: If you are a precise person and you would like to have straight lines and straight figure. I will show you how to do it. I will go ahead with this one later, but I just wanted to show you that you could do it also. So let's pretend this one is the level of the night and by keeping the pen there and as you can see, sooner, the line created will be straightforward. That is also not that option that is even more powerful. That is like if I do a line and keep it there and I put my finger there, this line will just be positioned at the certain angles. In this case a straight. If I want to be sure that it's really horizontal, I just do this. And as you can see, and then you can just cancel away the part that is not supposed to be there. And of course, you can just do this one. But as I told you, I prefer to keep it like in a light full style. So I will go, I will disable this one in renewable and actually I will also consult, cancel this one. And I will keep this one that is more. Let's say peculiar. Then let's do a neutral level. Let's see. The next level should be, I suppose the frame of the window. So I will add another level, take the black in this case, and call it frame. And we can work on it like this. If you like. You can even do directly a bigger line by increasing the size of the brush. And then you can know the outer bars. I'm keeping it very loose because I actually hope that you're going to do this one with your kids. And I hope your kids are having a lot of fun in experimenting with digital art. And the good point is that there are no mess around the house. Wow. But again, if you want to be a little more precise, remember, you can just make it straight and then fix it. But again, it's not my purpose in this 11 finger is that I see that I would like to have a black that is not so black is too black this one. So what I can do is go into frame window, select the level, then go a little bit lighter on the color of the black. Maybe I will go here. And then I will say, feel the layer. And as you can see, the black is not so in denser and feels better to me. Now, let's add a new layer. And we do the curtain is Halloween. So let's go with some orange. Again, I will prepare the color palette, but let's see. So I'm going to do the Kirsten here. I already have barely lose again. Okay? Now I can put the cat. Now, let's start with the moon. I will rename the level moon. I will choose, in this case, a light color, like kind of you can choose a supervisor and to get the super white, you just have to tap. Okay, it's not working. You just have to go here in this side. And then you will do the circle again. The circle, you can do it like this and fill it as I will do. Or if you want a precise circle, you just keep it at the end and you will have this notification ellipse created. And it's fine. But if you want a circle, you just push Edit Shape. And actually I want the circle to know why you didn't do, but it is a circle so you can modify. Then. You can say, I want a very big moon like this. Then this. But as you can see, there is an issue here. The moon is not supposed to be in front of our frame because we are inside the house. So the super cool things in Procreate is that actually you can draw the layer that you like no matter where they go, then you can just put them in the right position in this case, for sure. Is behind the curtain. But the Moon has to be also behind the window. So I will just keep it down, but is not behind the night. The moon is gone. I mean, unless you want it, of course. So I'll put it back here and this one should be the position. So up to now we have all night moon frame and curtains. 9. Characters and layers: Time to go ahead with our character. So it's time for our cat. So the cat, we could use the same black used for the frame by going on the frame itself and selecting the color. This one could be an option. And it is an option that I like it because it even I like to keep the color that we use in a limited number because it's much cooler actually. But if you want, you can of course, make it also a little bit darker, a little bit lighter. Let's try with the same column. So I selected, you already have the level of the cat. Always check where you are and if you do mistake, double-tap, use this arrow to go, to go back or forward modification. And then I will just do again first ANOVA. I will fill it. Then I will do I will keep the body in the same level, this layer this time because I wanted to keep it very easy. As you can see. I can still see that it's a cat, but maybe less try to see if I can make it. So I will select it and maybe make it a little bit darker just to see if it's better. Oh yeah, it is. But using it wasn't the wrong position. The cat is supposed to be inside, not outside. I mean, it could be an AVL also, but we want him to be between the curtain and the frame. Okay. I wanted to do the tail in an altered level because maybe you would like to put the tail on the left and not in the right in this case, I will put it in the right, I suppose. But as you can see in the drawing, I put it in the left in the paper project. So we'll do the tail. You can color it or drop the color. I didn't mistake. Is it is the noise the same colonize? Correct. And then I will do it the same color because I want it to be the same idea of a shadow on the back light for an animal, I will just add the level for the spider. Name it. Oh, I did a mistake. So go back, rename it them. Despite their, in this case, for the spider, maybe I want something a little bit smaller now, So tika, So I will just change this part, do this, and then go back to my big spider actually, I will drop it. And then remember, sometime you can, especially if you have the pencil of second-generation, by tapping here, you might switch to the, the liter. So in this case is just remember when you wanted to paint is always this one. You can do it legs as you like, position as like. And so in this case, both the cat and despite that are looking at the moon. And I will add the last layer that we call the beds. And you can do like more detail thing like this. Or you can just do something like this. Or you can just duplicate this one. Will flip it horizontal. Turn it a little bit. Then maybe again, slide here, duplicate selected. Put it like this. It's very Halloween. Yes, again, I will flip it a little bit. Okay. Then I will group them. Or even better, you can just flatten them by select like this. And as you can see, basically we did it. You just need to take away the schedule. That is year fixer, the part that maybe are not. So as you like like e.g. the core time, I think I don't like this part, so I will go in the level, select the color, and just fix it a little bit. Doesn't have to be perfect again, especially as following time. So nothing should be perfect. In yeah, I mean, it's a simple thing, but you can personalize, make it more complicated. We could do also animation and stuff like this. Just remember to sign it. So I will select again this color. And you can cite it. E.g. I've put month-to-month or you can write also, this one is a mistake. I should not put it there. I should put it in an order level and put it like sign. So let me put my demo is too big, so maybe I will just put it smaller. And maybe here, since you can use this image to send it to your friend, e.g. maybe you can write Happy Halloween. You can just do another level with your message and say, Halloween is coming. Or any message that you like. 10. Bonus: inspired by Yayoi Kusama: Bonus time with the iPad, we are going to create these Yayoi Kusama pumpkin on our drawing. If you don't know you I equals Zama. You should definitely go and check for her most probably use so many of our amazing creation in different museum location. Absolutely stunning exhibition. Just go and look for her. She's a really amazing and she's also very famous for her pumpkin. Another book I would like to suggest to you is this one about the infinity mirror exhibition, stunning real estate. Mat. Let's go back to business. We will use also this bonus to have a faster view of many things. So let's take aside our canvas a little bit and I'll show you, I'm going to do is activate this group of layer where I put the pumpkin. Let's go just on top of everything. Let's select the color. Will go for orange. As a brush. In my freebies, you will find a site that we check the number, the 03, the jama Panera low fluid and then we would just have started to do like an oval here. We can drop the color. You can just check everything is fine, but with these brushes predefined. Then we'll add a new layer where we are going to change the opacity on multiply. By doing so, you will see that without changing the color, we can just do directly the pumpkin curb to give dimension to our pumpkin. As you can see here, I went out a little bit and it's not what I want. So if everything goes away, you just push this icon and it will go back. So I could cancel it, of course. But one trick is to use them by clicking the clipping mask. As you can see now is already fixed. Let's just redo it faster. So I will cancel, created a new layer. Maybe I will even make the brush slightly smaller. And I will change here and multiply. I will decide what let's turn directly and clipping mask. We'll do the clipping mask on the orange level of the pumpkin. And then I would just work directly on the pumpkin shape that could be like this. This one is actually a little bit too much so I can just cancel it. And do like this. Then I'll add another layer. I will do the upper parts of the pumpkin like this. I would do something similar. Again, I will add the layer. We'll make it as a clipping mask. In this case, we are going to work on this layer. Put it on multiply to show how easy is to give some shadow effect to if we want. And now the final touch is going to be here by opening another layer. Select black, e.g. any dark color. And as you can see, it's already automatically a clipping mask because was between the main layer of reference and a clipping mask. Now I can just go ahead. Andrew. The dots of Yayoi Kusama. First step. I will do the big one in the center of each side of the pumpkin. They are not just so funny to do relaxing my host. So they give really the movement and the volume to the pumpkin. Here we can add the other one. Of course, you can decorate as you like. But really each time I do the polka dots of Yayoi Kusama, I feel so happy. I really loved her so much. She's so inspiring. She had such an incredible life. She's, she's now in Japan, retired. She's about 90 something. You can also decrease the size of the brush and pinch to zoom. Well, it's okay. I mean, I'm not very happy with this one. It's a little bit. It's okay. Now, do you remember how we grew up the layer because it's an ox exactly in the right position, I guess. So. You cannot just fly in front of the curtain. So I will just do this, select the old interested layer. I group it, I can rename it. But what is more important is that I can just put it where I like it to be. So e.g. under the curtain or e.g. also under the spider in the case. And then by selecting this one, I can move it into position. I I prefer. That's all. I hope you like it. 11. Final Thoughts: Thank you for watching my first-class. If you made it till here, following along, you might have already some Halloween takeaway in your hands or in your hybrid, and I cannot wait to see them. Please post it in the project section or tag me a jump solution on Instagram. But what is more important is that you have tools and capability now to come out with more variation, color palettes, personalization, and ideas. So please go ahead and surprise everyone, especially yourself. See you in the next class. Bye.