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1. Introduction: Hi guys. Hello everyone. Welcome back to my class. I am glad that you joined me. And during our today's class, I will teach you how to create a character in a pretty simple way. And our character will be in a watercourse style. And you're going to create a composition as a whole story behind our picture. So let's get started. Hi guys, I'm Inger, freelance illustrator. Welcome back to my class and let's paint altogether fantastic character in words occurred style. We will also learn basic how to create character. What is the main shapes and where to get ideas? You can choose my sketch or create from your imagination picture that you like. You can even created later and put it in a frame. Today I want to show you that watercolour. It's simple and colorful and there's a real fun. And in the end of my class, you can create your own fantastic creature. Today I will teach you how to create a textured paper. How to pay in picture frames, a sketch without references. You can draw your own sketch or use mine. How to use my new enter forward procreate brushes for watercolor painting. What is the process of creating an acute Fantastic characters? I will also show you Tony techniques of aid and shakes. I will show you my whole process from start to finish. And as a bonus, I will share with you my new watercolour brush, texture, paper, color palette, sketches alone with my pictures that I drew. Feel free to use them for your own art projects. In this class is fine for beginners and for intermediate level. Even some experience artists can find here some useful tips how to pay in QED fantastic creatures and of course, inspiration. Your class project will be next. Create your own fantastic creature using the teams and brushes is, if I give you today, I will use procreate for this class with iPad and Apple pencil. So it, you have it or some other drawing beds or just regular paper with Spain's, please join our class and good luck.
2. Theory: a base of the fantastic creatures : Well guys, I think you can start. And as I mentioned in my introduction part, today, we're going to pay and an amazing, cute illustration of a character, some fantastic creature. And first of all, I want to tell you, how can we create different types of creatures? How actually probe which parts it consists of an, I think we can cert. And first of all, that will be our theory part where I explain you how to paint some particular creatures, how to connect to our real life. And after that, they will pay into surroundings is it's very important. First of all, I already prepared. I went to Pinterest. Well, lots of amazing artists already created different kinds of creatures. And first of all, we have three different kinds of Zoe's fantastic creatures dependent on a base, is it you are going to take? So first of all, we have, if you can say plant-based creatures, you can see as the swan. I took this picture from Pinterest. Or you can go check. Inspire by Sam. You, you need to be inspired by them. And after goal and create something of your own. So first of all, as you might see, this as planned. So once again, first type for us, kind of fantastic creatures. Iv is plant-based creature. Wherever you go and grab some plant or maybe flower, whatever, like, we add some human features. You see eyes, hands, some face expression. And voila, we have our new amazing untested Rick. I can't tell because I like to move so fantastic creature. So second one is when we grabbed some object. For example, is this author. She added, she took candle and edit some human features. You see face, I smile. She added some character. She created a character of her own creature and it's very cute. So character design is a main part, is to add some unique features to your painting. To add eyes snows, to create some wipes, proper mood. So next one, V grip nature. As you see it's fire and the author, she or he added a face and created some particular mode. It's, it's amazing. After that, v have an animal-based creatures. So as you might see, v grew up in animal and we added sound, human features, and we have eyes, we edit some clothes, and we created an amazing picture. So next artist, I like this artists because of phase expression or as a creature. And as you might see, if you have a mouse and we added close, once again some proper phase expression, and it looks amazing. So next, artist and color combination is 4z is also very, very important. Later when V decide to paint our own character, I will tell you more about it. And the last one is when v actually create regret some fantastic creatures, it does not exist and widgets pains it from our own imagination. And once again, this amazing. So you don't probably you can take crocodile, crocodile into a dinosaur or Dragon. Once again, guys, you can go to Pinterest, grab your favorite artists, look at painting and you can be inspired by Sam. And after that, you can create something that comes to your mind.
3. Theory: 3 main shapes for your characters: I will create a new layer because I need to explain you how to, what does the basics of creating character. So once again, we have main shapes. And the first shape is circle or a ball. Next one we have rectangle. So we have rectangle or square. And I wanted to pay square. Shape is triangle. And depending on the size or if you want to make more complicated creature, more complicated character, you can combine a circle and squares, circle and pyramid up to you. So once again, let's start with a triangle. And I want to turn it upside down. So fuzzies, I go to the selection tool. I grew up free hand and selects the areas that I want to change. And after grab an breast, an arrow, and press flip vertical like that. So my idea was to create some ice cream man, pretty serious one. So we just need to add an ice cream to our column. As this ice cream is a top of the ice can go behavior of our character. And once again, guys, you didn't need, you can think in advance what you want to paint, or you can just play rounds, catch, and after some fans at the probably you might like, like we'll come to your mind. Add some shades. Fish mesocolon. Now let's add a hand. On the same level. And and as you might see, my second hand is slightly bigger. So one to change the size, like say, grab an eraser. By survey. Speaking about pencil, I'm using 6B pencil from procreate set. Sketch inset, triangle shaped, men, triangles shape and we created creature thanks to this shape. So as a, as a shape is, as I think I want to move to so-called to fall. And this creature as it will be kept ofs. Once again, this is all based creature that is planned based creature because we're gonna grab cactus as a base. And on top of his head, I went to pain flour. Because once again, V grab cactus jazz is a base and we can add different features that we just want to have in our character. This bar doesn't shut off. Val says it's our characters based creature is planned based, planned base. This is object based. And the last one. Let's just move it slightly here. Yes, last one, real animal-based creature. So I want to add, let me think. Lacks pulse as it will be pretty simple. If you have a problem with painting same rain from's at his side, I'm going to show you a magic trick. So you press an a go to the selection tool and after you just need to emphasize. So being an after press copy. And next three fingers down and press Paste. And after press fleet horizontal. And just move with hair. Like this. Now's a on the same level. And after that, just marched together. These previous layer. Let's play around these shapes, creates characters that you like because it's used to your personality. And I think now we can move to next part where we gonna paint that big, big illustration in a water Castile and will create, will appeal to our character authenticity, creature froms or beginning deals at, let's go.
4. Practice: creating textured paper: So I think we can start and festival. We need to create a text to paper as he did to in our previous classes. Because our paint and we'll be in a water color style and we need to keep so swatter color, texture. And said, we need to create a new layer. And after you to go and insert the file and such, what color paper as we did before during our previous classes. So once again, how to use it in that folder over projects and sources section. You can download my texture paper. And after that you need to add users to file in a folder of downloads. You have paper. So it just bread and insert our press and index our file from Zip Download folder. So they have it. Great. Now let's just press rotate. And after fit, just screen. Great. Denounced this as a perfect size. By the way, guys, the size of our canvas, 911 inches, 300 DPI resolution. So once again, we will dedicate our paper, texture paper. We will turn to Linear Burn mode and Color Burn. And after that we will duplicate it two times. Leaner burn, 2times Color Burn, merge together, Color Burn, march to get leaner burn and act as it will lower self paucity of Linear Burn mode cause I want to keep free to live texture. And you can do sames, Color Burn bought, I think for me it's fine. So perfect. Take extra paper guys. Now let's GRG set and after rename, press rename and right, textured paper. Perfect. And underneath of our textured paper naught inner folder, we need to create a few new layers where we're going to paint color. I'll creature, I'll fantastic creature. But first of all, I want to tell you about as a decoration and the reference picture for our background to Zed, I took recently this one.
5. Practice: drawing background: So I will add this picture to the description of our class as well so you can find it in a sources and projects section. Just go ahead, download and use it for your own art projects. Or if you like, you can go to the website and squash.com, go and finds the pictures that you like. So let's go. First of all, we need to lower set_post city. We need to create a new layer that is at bow prince picture. We still keep our 6-bit pencil in his kitchen set. And now let's emphasize some main features I want to add mountains and conversely, I wanted to add, says preach, this is very important and it feel add some charm or wives drought the fainted. So let's start tracing. So my next trick is I wanted to replicate this paint and enough to press, copy and paste the one to paint on 22, which takes and lots of time. T, I'll copy and paste code. Now I went ahead here. Okay, perfect. The portico. Perfect. Now let's merge all of it together. Great. So marched together. Again, we need to create a new layer. Then guys, now i actually already created some small sketch of our creature. Penn State, step-by-step. I'll tell you what we would do now. And I decided to paint as a creature in Japanese style sois, kinda something like ghosts. So once again, reveal, grab an animal. And after we add some humans features.
6. Practice: drawing fantastic character: Well, let's start in once again. Our creature fantastic Russia will get on a new layer. And guys, I decided to use two circles in order to create our creature out characters. So once against as a first ball. And I wanted to pay in the pre-fab because I like cute creatures and bends I fed, it's more likely as AIC is killed and once against the second bowl. So, as you might see, are crucial consists of two. And once again, I will create a new layer and I will lowers that paucity of our circles. And after that, I just need to make a shape of that. And after that I will add some details. Prayed, one to raise some lines. Now I can turn off our red circled layer. Thanks us. And as you might see, my lines on not perfect. And I just need to grep and a razor and then remove some parts. And once again, you can paint on a top of our sketch if you like. Browser. Miss Perfect. Now let's turn on our first sketch that roughs kids that die created and now let's keep paint. So next steps that I'm going to do is I will add relax and hence to our creature. And as I mentioned earlier, I want to create a creature looks like ghost. And in this way, like how ghosts look like, like this. And say have hands like set. Say a pretty wavy. And you can bans m links in this way. Is I am going to be in something like that. And I went to create a feelings as this goes to hold in the breach. And in other hand, was a ghost I want to paint lantern is like he's going to some ghost meeting, meeting or he's afraid to cross the bridge because and guys, because our creatures on a breach saw and it it makes tap our first leg, we'll be closer to us since AS1. So it's like we are going to add some motion to our coast, to our creature. To n Next ice. And it's very important to add some face expression to our creature, to our character. And because our character is on a breach, so it might be afraid or height. And keeps it in mind that you also have a background. The seas at crosses out creature saying this value need to return to the background layer and erase some parts that overlapping. B's Allah. Q with q with creature. Once again, you are creators. It's all up to you imagination like that. And I need to return to our pain to layer and keep it in some details. So once again, our character so scared. And also you have belly like because our Creatures based on animal and all animals, they have this fluffy belly. So Southern halves this creature as a skewed ghost. And now I want to add some plans to the head of our queue would character. You see our goals. He's afraid of a hide, and he's in a hurry to some ghost meeting. I think I'll goes to we'll be clumsy and friendly and kind. And I wanted to add some mask. You know, a sick part of Japanese mythology. And if I'm not mistaken, People would say can advise us masks to protect themselves froms a coast or even ghosts can have as a masks because it's like. And I wanted to add summary Vento him and Octa, I need to finish paint and lantern. And so togas and enough to go move to coloring part. A necklace. Of course. Wow, he's very lovely. Now Riba and I want to show is a three by is very tight. And they reopen behind. And here. So the last step is Lantern. I will change that datetime. So that means that he will go in an evening, like in a dusk. So now let's turn off our sketch and the half-hour Kyoto creatures and afraid of height. And now guys, I wanted to add some details. Before we start adding colors, I wanted to add some details to our paint. So guys, our final step is keep it in some details in octave it, you can move to a painting part. And guy speaking about cheats, Psalm, details that I told you about. So if you have some objects that are behind our main objects, exhaust parts will be in a shadow. So you see this part is in the shadow and we have a rebound. It's behind out creature, so subparts that rather we have a creature's body and while we have our Ivan's is part is in the shadow. So we need to add. And here also we have shade because this leg is behind our main body. So once again lived goes from this side. That means that it's like a ball. That means here is the lightest part of all ball. It's not an, a shadow, but it's an AZO ons opposite ones. A bottom part is in a shadow. So we add some strokes.
7. Practice: coloring pt. 1: So there is, I think now they can move to coloring part and I create the new brash as it is poor, perfect color, small and this precious, amazing. I, and I want to tell you, I'm going to tell you why. So for example, if you want to grab some color like say for example, and you see it can give you so some watercolor effect. And it's, this brush is amazing. And if you want to mix it with some Maza shades like orange. So as you might see, this brush is perfect for mixing colors. It looks very natural. Watercolor style. That's why it's like for now, is one of my favorite brush. And I can even show it as a mix, a color mixing is amazing. And it's actual like imitation of a watercolor. So for example, we have yellow colour enough to go and grab blue one. And you see here we have green color. Sometimes it can, yeah, blue color, but if we mix it, we see yellow color because green color, so great. I like it. It's very authentic. And if you're gonna use this brush and along it is his brush, I'm gonna use a second one which is called bool flood watercolour brush. If you watched my previous classes, he'll learn and know about his brush is pretty flat. I like it, it, it can give you, give you those sharp strokes, sharps, edges. And I'm going to use this brush for shade and mainly. So let's start infrastructural once again, to be the goal and grab boo perfect color, small, all of this process, you can go and download a sources section. So now let's think about colors. Once again, we have our picture to have our background. And as you see, if you have MT is blue-sky. So then Tori, my color palette of the colors that I'm using during this class. He also will get, and you can now lots at Sources section. So let's start and I want to start this guy. What Leslie? Thanks, this is maximum. And there's one more trick. If you want to have like beer size, what you need to do for xat is you go to Properties and you increase maximum size a little bit. You see now it's Prieto. Huge. So as you see, as his brush can be very thin, but if you press harder, it can give you more pigment. Once again, a very theme. And it's very good for colour combinations. You can play around his colors. Go to his tradition, brightness, press layer. And enough three, if you like. Go ahead and choose a color that you like. And I think it's too much of this is yellow color. So I'll just erase it. You also can use this project as an eraser. And if you start painting, you'll have sharp edges. And if you press harder, you'll just remove all the sharp edges so it keeps it in mind seeing the brush. Paint in steel, we have some dark shades and we need to add some shades. Premises side premises site. Okay, perfect. We've done this as part now, guys, I wanted to create a new layer because I wanted to separate breach and our fantastic creature from the background. Two axes, one is fine. So once again, we have shade on our ghost, even though this is a goal is, is to some kind of creatures that just fantastic one. It still has shadow. So on areas where we have legs said, like touch as a breach bottom so we need to add some shades. And from those sites as well. So as you see soy and WaterGuard style. So let's move further and now I want to finish zoster ribbons. And it'll go and grab a red color. Lovers the size of my brush. Now what is cool about this brush? So you and you feel leaved the Apple pencil from this screen. You still can keep mixing colors and I'll show you how to use it. So once again, I'm gonna go and grab darker color. And Steve, I want to make some shade. So as you see, I put it on the top on our previous red color and steel. It's perfectly mixed together. So pretend nice guys. Last step. I want to add some lines to preach to 0. That's cool. As you see you. Yes, Teal mixing colors. And they feel like this perfect. And I think this is a perfect. This part concerning the lighter. I'm going to call make belly. Also pretend light. I had great sorrows options. What we can do it you can go into in making even more saturated I12 lovers have merged together after that he's tradition brightness layer. If you want to change the colors, like making differently exceeds like these. Babies are colors simply. We're going to make him a little bit like lighter because he's coast. So going to shows it implicates a rest can make it more saturated, less saturated after merge together. Same here. March together enough. You can merge her background and keep our ghost separated. You seated here. Now guys, speaking about shades and everything, I wanted to create a new layer. After that, I will move on to both flat watercolour brush. And I'm gonna go and add some shades to our goals.
8. Practice: coloring pt. 2: So next part, I returned to our background layer and I wanted to show clouds. So I wanted to raise some parts. Okay, good. Now I need to get a new layer and let's keep kit in chains. So as is he afraid that you might paint on a top on Zed. What do you can do is just go to delay or create a layer that is above Coast, our fantastic creature and press clipping mask. We need to create a new layer and keep adding some sheets here. How this is imino, should I want to add something? Here means the retail of lovers and petals to yellow color. Now guys, I think our last step, 0s, I want to add some light. Does a necklace. So I've gone and grab light yellow color. I was returned to my employer. Perfect small perfect color, Smallwood color. And I'm gonna go and just, and the last step we will go and we'll return to those background layer of typical Susa trip to go to the selection tool and press free hand. And I want to add some shades. Different color variations, breast feather, maybe 16%, hue saturation and brightness and press layer. Now you can play the situation is a brightness, he's a paucity. Visit colors. But at the same time, don't forget about Lantern. It should be pretty bright. Like seas, more shades. Well, I'd like to add some VC, like some highlights looks in liaising, really amazing. So now we are ready to merge together all layers and guys, two options that you can do. First, we'll kinda implicated, keep it that way. And second one, I want to add a noise option for those people who likes to create, like to create illustrations. So I've got press noise layer. And after set, just go ahead. I want to show you here. Go ahead and move it. Mpeg-2, 30% ops and noise that can help you to turn your painting into the real illustration you see by eight and noise, because this is an actual watercolour paint. But if you add some noise to it will turn your illustration into, I don't know, like book illustrations, something like that. I want to keep it to maybe 20%. And the noise, and this is very, very nice. You see it here. Oh, if you like. You still have our watercolor effect. Keeps the osha auctions, it suits you best and create your own illustration, your own character. But okay, is the final details that I'm going to add to ILP and in 0s, I will go and grab six depends on in a sketch and said, and I went to add more shades, more deep, more details. So I need to create a new layer that sits on top of our noise layer, our paint in one. And I'm gonna go and add more shapes. Why? So I think we've done finally, yep. Now B can cause this piece finished. Guys, I hope you enjoyed my today's class and I look forward to see all your pain deans and see all the stories that you created behind your own illustration. We'll see next week. Bye bye.
Inga Yoon, Digital illustrator and teacher
