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1. Illustrating A TBR Bookmark: Hey, there creative friend. Welcome to a super fun
and laid back class on Illustrating A to B Red or
TV R bookmark and Procreate. I am so excited to dive into this really fun
project with you. In this class, we're
going to create something both practical and adorable, a bookmark that not only
showcases your love for reading, but also your artistic flair. Don't worry if you're new to Procreate or digital
illustration. We're going to take this
project step by step. We're going to start
with the basics like setting up a canvas and using some
really nifty tools that Procreate has to offer. Then we're going to move on
to designing our books stack, adding some cute details, and then finishing it off
with some fun embellishments. By the end of this class,
you are going to have a super unique bookmark that
is ready to print and use. Before we dive in, let me introduce myself if you're
new to my teaching channel. I'm Melanie Bess. I'm a
professional illustrator, specializing in whimsical
and nature inspired designs. When I'm not creating bookmarks
and teaching fun classes, I'm busy running my
illustration business where I create coloring books, picture books, and other
whimsical products. If you'd like to
learn more about my work or stay
connected with me, feel free to go visit my
website, the swimming owl.com. I also have an Owl
post club where I send out an occasional
newsletter with fun updates, class announcements,
product announcements, exclusive coupons, and more. And as a special treat, club members get free coloring pages when
they first sign up. Now that we've
gotten acquainted, let's get back to our
bookmark project. Remember, this is all about having fun and exploring
your creativity. There's no pressure
to make this perfect. Let's just enjoy the process and see where our
imagination takes us. So grab your iPad, fire up Procreate, and let's create something
super fun together.
2. Your Project : All right, for this class, your project will be to create a cute and functional TBR or to be red bookmark
using Procreate. We'll go through the entire
process from start to finish designing a stack of books with adorable details and
fun embellishments. And by the end of this class, you're going to have a charming, personalized bookmark
that's ready to print and use with
your favorite books. So here's a quick overview
of what we'll cover. We're going to go over
setting up your canvas, utilizing a drawing grid in Procreate, working with layers, sketching your design,
inking your artwork, saving your bookmark
for printing, printing tips and suggestions, and then lastly, a bonus
lesson on coloring digitally. After you complete
your bookmark, please don't forget to
share your artwork with all of us in the project
section of this class. I always check out your work
and leave you comments. And if you would
ever like specific feedback or have questions, you can ask in your
project upload or in the discussion
section of this class. Okay, let's go discuss
supplies real quick.
3. Supplies: Alright, for this class, we simply need our iPads and Apple pencil and
the app Procreate. All of the brushes and
drawing grids we will be using are already within
the app Procreate. This project is super
light on layers, too, so your iPad should
definitely be able to handle this
project very easily. Lastly, this is optional, but you may want to
print out your bookmark. So if you have a printer
at home, that will work, or you can opt to have your bookmark printed
professionally. Okay, let's go talk about
setting up our canvas.
4. Canvas Set Up: Alright, so if you
haven't already, go ahead and open up Procreate. And then I want you to come
up here to the top corner and hit that plus button
to set up a new canvas. Here's where you're
going to want to decide what size bookmark you
would like to create. Two common sizes, at
least here in the US, are either a two by six inch
bookmark or two by 7 ". I always create two by
six inch bookmarks, so that's what I'm
going to do today. But if you would like more room for extra books in the booksck, you could definitely
go for a two by seven. And since I print
my bookmarks with a printing company, a
professional company, I also add a little bit extra to account for
trimming and bleed, which is what's recommended by my favorite printing company. So now I'm going to hit
once you hit this plus, hit this little plus sign here again to create
a new Canvas. I'm going to go to inches. And to add in that
little bit extra, I'm going to add a 0.25 to
the end of my dimensions. So 2.25 by 6.25 ". I'm going to have
this at 300 DPI, and I have a newer iPad, so it says I have 1,000
layers, which is crazy. But we don't need that many. We're literally
only going to need about three or
four layers today. Next for the color profile, this is just going to be
in black and white for me, so it's not really a big deal, but I'm going to have
it in the SRGB mode since typically I do get
my bookmarks printed, and display P three is best
for digital sharing only. So SRGB, lastly, I'm going
to title this Bookmark, so that way, I can use
this again in the future. You could even add more details
to that if you wanted to, like bookmark two by seven, et cetera, or two by six. Now, we are ready to hit Create to open up this
brand new Canvas. Now we are ready to
begin sketching, so I'll see in the next video.
5. Sketching Your Bookmark: Okay, let's start our bookmark. First things first, let's
turn on a helpful grid. So come up to the wrench and hit Canvas and hit the toggle
where it says drawing guide. You will see this kind
of checkmark pattern now show up on your bookmark. Now we actually want
to edit it, though. So right underneath hit
Edit Drawing Guide. What we want to do is tap
on the grid size setting. So right here where
it says grid size, you'll see you can either change this by just
using this slider, or we can do it even
more accurately by checking or tapping on
this box right here. Currently, mine says 81 pixels, but I actually
want to do inches. So I'm going to tap inches, and I'm going to make this
0.125 or an eighth of an inch. This makes the squares
like a measuring tool now, and we can be very
intelligent about avoiding any potential
cutting or trim areas. So when getting your bookmarks
printed professionally, you want to avoid illustrating
near the edges or things can be accidentally cut
off. I'm going to hit Done. Then I'm going to lower
the opacity on this so that it's not so easy to see. It doesn't ruin my
sketching process. And I might even change the color of it, which
you can do up here. So I might make it kind
of like a pink color. Since I'm gonna be sketching
probably in just, like, a black or a purple so
that's kind of fun. You can change the color of
that, change the opacity. You can even change the
thickness of the lines. But I think I'm
pretty good with this now. So I'm going to hit Done. And if I zoom in here, I might have made it a
little bit too faint. So I'm just going to
come back, edit drawing guide and raise up the
opacity just a little bit, maybe closer to
15% and hit Done. Now I can see those lines
a little bit better. I don't know if
you're going to be able to see them on screen. Okay, I actually went ahead
and bumped my opacity back up a little bit
higher so you guys will be able to see it
better on your end. The next part that we need to do is also really important, and that's to turn
on drawing assist. This is going to help
us make straight lines, and we will only be able to make vertical or horizontal
lines with this on. So we're only going
to leave this on while drawing our
actual booksck. Then we'll toggle it off to
add our fun embellishments. Okay, so to do that, find
your first layer here, tap on the empty space
and hit drawing assist. You'll know that it's on because right
underneath your layer, it will say assisted. So now you're going
to see on this layer, I'm going to choose a
sketching brush here, just a six B pencil. Now I can only draw vertical
and horizontal lines. I can't go diagonal. It's just going to draw on
this assisted drawing grid, which makes making
straight lines very easy and fast
for a quick sketch. Okay, so let's start sketching. I'm going to use
this six B pencil from the sketching section, but you can use whatever your favorite sketching brush
might be within Procreate. So to find that brush, just go down to sketching, and there's the six B pencil right there that you could use. All of these are also
great sketching pencils. I just happen to
really like the six B. Okay, so I have my six B chosen, and now I'm going to look for
a good size for my brush. This actually looks
pretty decent at about let's go to 15%. I'm going to start
at the bottom and sketch my books stack
as I work my way up. And I always make the
bottom book a little bit larger for the previous
mentioned reason of trimming and printer margins, and I like to keep the sides of my books away from
the edges, as well. If you have the extra printer
margins on, like I do, that extra 0.25 in
your dimensions, you can just avoid
the first outside box usually and be okay. But if you did not include
that extra 0.25 ", then you need to be even
more mindful of the edges and stay in at least two
boxes away from the edge, maybe even three, if you
want to be extra careful or 2.5 until you get a feel for how close those trim lines
can occasionally get. Okay, so let's go ahead
and start this first book. Again, like I said, I make
the first book pretty big. Especially since
I'll probably also add some details around
the bottom here. Okay, so once I start making my next books in
the books stack, I also need to be
mindful that there's enough space inside the book to actually write a book title. So I don't want the
spines to be too narrow. So to keep them from
being too narrow, I'm gonna make sure
I never make a book that's like less
than two boxes tall. It takes a little bit of getting used to the
fact that you can only make these vertical
or horizontal lines, but it's definitely
helpful in making this first initial
sketch really quick. So as you are going in and
drawing your book stack, remember to vary the size of your books and the placement. So they can be kind of offset to make it a little
bit more fun. And then you should make
some of your books thicker, some of them a
little more narrow, add and putting in variance. And then that's also
going to give you more options when it comes to embellishing your spines later so they're not all
looking exactly the same. And then I also want
you to remember that you always have
the power to make changes with two fingers tap on the screen to undo anything
that you're not liking. A three finger tap will redo. And then you also
have the option to go up and use the ribbon
or selection tool. It kind of looks like an
S shaped ribbon up above. You can tap on that and use
the free hand tool to draw around certain things and shift your books around or
change the size of them. So you have so many
tools in your pocket to make this booksack
exactly the way you want to. Okay, so I've gone about
three quarters of the way up, making sure I'm leaving room for something fun at the top. Once these books are sketched
about how you want them, you can go ahead and turn
the drawing assist off. That way we can freely
draw our embellishments. I think I'm going to add,
like, a cute little witchy hat and a moon and some
clouds and stars to mine. So I'm going to go on a new
layer that's not assisted. And I'm going to go
ahead and sketch in a cute little witch's hat
and some fun embellishments. So I'm going with this more
witchy Halloween theme and an outdoor celestial
theme as well. But please feel free to go in any direction that you
would like with this. You could go with any other
holiday that you wanted. You could do something
more floral. You could really personalize it to maybe a person you're
going to gift it to. There are endless
possibilities here, so don't feel like you also have to do a witch's
hat and boon and stars. You have a ton of options. Okay, I'm going to come
back to my book layer, and I'm actually going
to erase out this line. And because this layer still
has drawing assist on, it only is gonna let me erase
in a straight line again. And then come back
up to this layer and keep adding my
fun embellishments. In case you are newer to
Procreate and you do not know, the eraser tool is
that third tool in the top right hand corner that I keep tapping between
that and my brush. If you'd like to
use the same brush as your eraser that
you've been drawing with, you simply hold down
on the eraser until it says it's selected the same tool you were
just drawing with. I generally like to erase with something with a
harder line, though, like an airbrush or an
inking pen as my eraser. So to make circles and
moons and things like that, don't forget that Procreate has these nifty little tools where we can draw a line
and then hold down, and it will automatically smooth or correct
that curve for me. And I can also do the same
thing with a full circle. I can hold down and wait until
the little tool pops up. I can resize it by
not ever lifting my pencil or I can tap this
where it says ellipse, and I can edit the
shape that way. I can tell it to make
a perfect circle, and I can move it around. I can warp the shape by grabbing the blue dots
and changing them. I can tap circle
again to correct it. To just resize it, I tap anywhere not
on the blue circle, and then it makes a
larger or smaller circle. So that is a way to make
perfect shapes if you need to. I don't want that
circle, though. I just wanted a moon. I'm not worried about making
everything super perfect. This is just a sketch layer. I'm going to be coming back
and inking things in on a more final layer after I get kind of the
placement of things. Now, because of the
way I'm drawing this, I know that my top book
and my bottom book aren't really going
to be usable, and that's okay with me. I'm okay with sacrificing
those books in the booksck. But it's something to keep
in mind if you want to make sure you have as many
books usable as possible, you might want to make sure
your elements don't overlap the books too much where they take away too
much writing space. Okay, I'm going to come back
to my book stack layer, erase away some of
these parts that are overlapping, just
to kind of help me. And I'm gonna turn off drawing assist so I can
erase more freely. Is going to help me get
a better visual idea of how things are looking. And I'm going to
leave the actual embellishments on the books, like the little spine
details and things for the actual inking time because that I don't need
to be too perfect about it. If you would like to put those in now because it would
make you feel better, to be more prepared, go ahead and do that now in
a sketch phase. But like I said,
I'm going to add those in during
the inking stage. And what I'm doing
now is kind of assessing the placement
and size of things. I think what I'm going to do
is make my moon a little bit bigger and make
this bookstack and hats part a little
bit smaller because I'm getting a little too close to the edge with some
of these things. I'm going to select
both of my layers. So I'm on my layers panel. I'm on layer one,
and I'm going to swipe to also select layer two. Now that both are in blue, I can tell I've selected both, and I'm going to
come over here to my little pointer tool, and I'm just going to size
this down a little bit to avoid the edges where some things are getting
a little too close, and then I'm actually
going to distort this by making it
a little taller. So I'm going to tap, distort. Come up to this top thing here, and I'm just going to
stretch this like that. And those detail or those embellishments are getting a little closer to the top. So that should be
okay right there. And because this is
just my sketch layer, it doesn't matter that I'm stretching and distorting this. It's not going to show up
later in my inking layer. Now I'm just gonna come back
and kind of fill things in. See what layer I'm on. Here we go. That way, I know what my plan is when it comes to finishing
off the inking layer. And then I want to make my
moon a little bit bigger. So to make my moon to
change the shape of it, I am using the selection tool. That little ribbon tool
we talked about earlier. I'm drawing around it with
this freehand selection tool. You'll see below the highlighted blue part says free hand. That's the tool that I'm using. I drew all the way
around the moon, and now I'm going to change the shape. I
don't want distort. I want uniform so
that it changes the entire shape
at once for now. And I'm going to
move this around until I get a better space here. And then I think I'm
actually going to end up just making it larger and distorting it now to
make it a little more round and then moving it over. And I'm just going to cover
up that star and erase it out because I like this
placement a lot better. So then I'll tap off of that, erase out the star, and then
that looks a lot better. Alright. So I think my
sketch is good to go. Let's go ahead and move on
over to our inking layer. If you're not
ready, though, take your time to finish your sketch. Remember this part doesn't
need to be perfect. Just get the placement
of how you want things. In our inking layer, we
will be rounding out our books and making things
look a lot more polished.
6. Inking Your Bookmark: We are ready to start
my favorite part. It's the inking of
our TBR bookmark. The first thing we need to do is find an inking
brush that we like, and then we're going
to make a modified version of that brush to help us create really clean and professional lines
for our bookmark. So come up here to the brushes and head down to
where it says inking. It should be right
below sketching. I personally love
the studio pen from the inking section for creating the linework
in my coloring pages. However, you may find that
you like a different pen like the syrup or the technical pen or even the model line pen, which you can find in
the calligraphy section. They have differences like tapered ends versus
not tapered ends. So get a little more thin or thick, depending
on the pressure. So have more texture to
the edges than others. I do like that the studio pen has a thin and thickness to it, depending on the pressure
and the tapered ends. I really love that
about the studio pen. It feels really fun to use. Whichever brush you
choose, though, I want you to swipe left on
the brush and hit Duplicate. So swipe and hit duplicate. Because instead of just giving you my version
of the brush, I want to teach you how to make your favorite brush
work better for you. So you'll notice when
you duplicate it, it's gonna probably
have a one next to it. Mine has a three because I've made so many versions
of this brush. Your should have a one, and that's the duplicated version. This is the original down here. Now we're gonna tap
on this brush to make a few tweaks to it and
make it work better for us. Over here, you can
see an example of what the brush is looking
like as you make changes. And where we're actually
going to go in and make some changes to
the stabilization. So come over here
to where it says Bush Studio and come
down to stabilization. I'm going to turn up the
streamline amount to, like, 75%, maybe even closer to 90 if you want it
even more smooth. And then you can also turn up the stabilization and
motion filtering. Play with these and see
what you like the best. Over here, you can test it out. Take three fingers
and kind of scrub away over here to get a clean slate and then
test out the brush. And you'll notice as you
change things over here, it shows you what's
going to happen. If we add more stabilization, it's not going to
allow you to add quite as much movement
to that line. It's going to really,
really smooth things out. Same with motion filtering. It's not going to
allow you to make a whole lot of fine adjustments. The shakier your hands, which mine do tend to be, the more you may need
to play with some of these settings to find
something that you really like. Typically, I don't mess
with the motion filtering. I add a little bit
of stabilization and a lot of streamline. So continue editing this brush
as many times as you want. It doesn't have to be perfect
the first time around. You can continue coming
back in and tweaking this. Once you think you are
happy with the settings, though, one thing you could do is come down to
about this brush. You could change this and
add in the word stabilized. So you know that this
is a stabilized version of whatever pen or
brush you're using. Once you're ready to save it, you're just going to hit Done. And now you have
this new version of your favorite inking brush. Okay, I'm actually
going to come back up to the one that
I've made in the past, though, and use my
favorite inking brush. Okay, the next thing
you'll want to decide is, do you want your booksck to
be just black and white, or do you want to
choose a fun color? I'm gonna go with
just plain black, so I'm gonna double tap down
here on my color circle, and it's going to
select black for me. You can also do that in the classic by just
coming down here, moving it all the
way to the corner to choose a pure black. But again, you can
make your bookmark whatever color you would like. Next, we need to find a
good size for our brush. And make sure that we're
making nice solid lines. So that actually looks like
a good size for my brush, and that's at about 5%, and I want full opacity. I'm also going to combine my two sketch layers right now
by pinching them together. I'm going to make
two new layers. This one's just like a
separator to make sure I don't ever accidentally
draw on my sketch layer, and I'm going to turn
my sketch layer opacity down so that I can't
see it as much. To do that, tap the N on that layer and pull
this slider way down. Somewhere 20-10 is
probably going to be fine. I'll leave mine a little bit higher so you can see
mine a little better. The other thing you can
do to make sure you never accidentally draw on this
sketch layer is we can lock it. So find that sketch layer, swipe to the left and
you can hit Lock, and now you can't make any
more changes to that layer. I'm going to come back
up here to my top layer, and that's where I'm
going to start the inking of my books. I'm going to start at the bottom again and work my way up. Don't forget if you ever make something that you're
not super happy with, two fingers tap to undo, three tap to redo. So two undo, three, redo. And I'm just going to
take my time inking this in so that it looks
really nice and clean. I'm going to make sure my
shapes are all closed off. And then when it comes to
actually inking my books, I'm going to be rounding
the corners a bit and utilizing another
fun procreate tool that helps me create
straight lines. So for my books again, I'm just kind of rounding these, not having perfectly
straight here on the ends. Where I do want a straight line, though, is right here now. So I'm going to draw my line
and not lift up my pen. I'm holding down still. Procreate automatically straightened that
line out for me, and now I can move it
all around if I want to. Or if I take three fingers
and hold on the screen, it's going to
automatically snap it to a perfectly straight
line across the screen. So that's a really easy way
for us to make our lines, our horizontal lines
straight going up. So again, I need
another straight line. I just held down until
it corrected for me. Such a neat and
nifpy little trick that makes making a
book stack really easy. So I like the speed of the drawing assist
layer for the sketch, but then the flexibility
when I turn that off with my line art by just doing
the hold down feature. Alright, so let's
go ahead and get to work filling this
all the way in. Sometimes I don't actually even use the straight line tool. I allow there to be a little
bit of wobble to my lines. It feels a lot more
hand drawn and playful. Remember, you don't
always have to follow your sketch exactly. In fact, sometimes
if you add things in as you're going on
this inking section, it can make things
feel more natural. Instead of trying to force
a line that just isn't coming out the same exact
way the second time around, it's okay to make
changes to that line. So in this instance, I'm totally changing
this cloud shape. I didn't like where it was
meeting up with the book, and now that feels a lot better. So don't feel locked in to
copying your sketch exactly. The other thing I can do before adding too many more
embellishments, if I'm not sure about them is I can make them
on a new layer. That way, they can
always be turned off in case I change my mind and want to add something
different later. So at this point, before I add too many more clouds
and stars and the moon, I could come up here to my
layers and add a new one, and now anything
else I make can be turned off and changed
really easily. Now that my inking
is mostly done, I think I'm actually going to
turn off my grid, as well. So I'm gonna come over here to the wrench and canvas and then just toggle off
the drawing grid. That makes things a little
more easy to see for me. So again, I'm going to utilize the holding down feature
to smooth out my curve, and I can also edit it a little bit by tapping that
part at the top there, then I just tap off
of it to turn it off. And holding down one more time. Let's edit it one more time. Good. And The last thing I'm going to do is I'm
actually going to put my little book spine
embellishments on their own layer as well. So I'm gonna pop in
a couple more stars, and then we're going
to make a new layer. Don't forget to zoom out every once in a while and look
at what you've done a sometimes you
might accidentally make some weird patterns or, like, a perfect symmetry that
you didn't exactly want. A All right. I think I'm ready to
go ahead and turn off my sketch layer as well. Come over to the layers panel
and just toggle that off. Now I'm going to
add another layer, and this one's gonna be
just for my spine details. You could also just leave your
bookscks plain like this, and it leaves you
a lot more room to write book titles in. But I like adding some
fun little details to add a little bit more
fun and charm to this. So you could look up
some ideas for this or just start doodling
on the spines. So even though I am just
going in and kind of free hand doodling in
these spine details, I'm still trying to remember to be really intentional about closing off my shapes and making sure my lines
look really clean. That way, this prints
really nicely. And if someone wanted to
color this in digitally, closed shapes are going to work best for
digital coloring. Oh, okay, let's zoom out and take a look
at our bookmark and see if there's
anything else that we feel needs a little
more attention. If any of your lines look
a little bit sloppy, now would be the
time to make sure you just kind of go
in and clean them up. For instance, if
you have anything kind of hanging over or, like, a line that's not fully
connected or finished off, just kind of polish
those up a little bit. It'll make a big difference
when it comes time to printing to make things look really nice
and professional. Okay, so I think
mine looks really good to go and it's super cute. It's pretty much done. See how easy that was. So let's go talk about saving our file and how
we can print it.
7. Save Your Bookmark Files : Alright, to save your bookmark, let's go to the
wrench and hit Share. And then you can
decide what file type is going to be best for you. I will typically go a little bit overboard and save
three versions, a PNG file, a JPEG, and lastly, a PDF file
for my printing company. So first, to save a JPEG, hit that and choose the
location of your choice. I usually save
everything to Dropbox. What you may also
need to do to make file naming a little
bit easier is come out, back out and name your file right here by tapping
on untitled artwork. And go ahead and
give that a name. So that way, when
you go to save this, it will automatically
put that name into whatever location or folder
you're putting this into. So after you've saved a JPEG, I want to save a PNG, and that's going to have
a transparent background, which is great for,
like, digital use. If you wanted to sell this
as a digital coloring file, then you'd want to
save a PNG for people. So come up to your layers and turn off the background
white color. Now come to the wrench,
hit Share and choose PNG and save that PNG to
whatever location you prefer. Lastly, I'll just toggle
that background back on, and I will save this as a PDF. When you do that,
share, hit PDF. I will ask you what
quality you want. I always choose best because I want to print this as
nice and clean as I can, and I will again, send
that to my Dropbox folder. So that's it. Your
file is all saved now and it's ready to be
printed or used digitally. In the next video, we'll talk about some printing options.
8. Printing Tips + Suggestions: Okay, so you have
several options for printing your
new TBR bookmark. If you have a printer at home, I would suggest putting
four bookmarks to a page using whatever
software you want, whether that's in
Procreate itself, Microsoft Word,
Photoshop or even Canva. I really like using Canva. And then printing and cutting them right
from the comfort of your home if you plan to use these personally or
with family and friends. That's a perfect option. Keep it simple and affordable. You could even
print them out on, like some simple
card stock to give them a bit of weight
and then glue them back to back to create a thicker double
sided TBR bookmark. Now, if you wanted them
printed professionally, I suggest researching a
stationary printing company that you feel most
comfortable with. I personally use Smart Press due to their speed and
amazing high quality, another top quality
place would be MO. For a more affordable option, you could try got
print or Vistaprint. If you choose to print
these professionally, make sure you research your paper stock choice and check that it's going to be
a writable papers stock. Some paper stocks
like glossy finishes, they're not going
to allow you to write on them very effectively. So I tend to go with a mat or uncoated paperstock when printing something
that I need to write on. And also double check with that printing company what they prefer for the margins
when you print with them. So that's why I always add that 0.25 extra to the
outside of my bookmark, knowing that it's
going to be trimmed off, and I'm okay with that. Alright, now that we've
discussed some printing options, let's go to a quick
bonus video on how to color your
coloring TBR bookmark.
9. Bonus Coloring Your Bookmark Digitally: All right. Let's jump
into a quick bonus. I'm going to show you how
you can color this now, just like a coloring page, but on your iPad in Procreate. First, let's back out by hitting gallery and duplicating
our bookmark. So swipe left and hit Duplicate. That way, we're
going to preserve our original bookmark and
don't accidentally destroy it. Now come over here to the duplicate version
and open it up. The first thing we
want to do is let's just delete out
our sketch layer. It says the layer is locked, and so it's not going to let
us do that. That's okay. Tap it, swipe, unlock, now swipe again and hit Delete. I have this extra layer here
that I had as a buffer. I'm just going to leave it.
It's not hurting anything. And then I'm going
to pinch to combine all of my black linework layers. Now they're all on one layer. This part's very important. We want to put this layer, our drawing linework layer
as a reference layer. Tap the artwork here in the layers and come down to
where it says reference. By doing this, it's going
to allow us to drop fill color into
any closed shape. Now, we want to put our
colors onto each of their own layers that way
they can be edited later. So beneath your reference layer, you'll make your new layers. So you can make as many
as you want down here, and this is where you're
going to fill your colors. Now choose whatever
palette you want, and then you will
take your color and drop fill it into a space. Super fun, super easy. And by keeping our reference
layer on top of everything, it keeps our black linework
layer super clean and crisp. So from here, just continue filling the spaces as you wish. If for some reason you're having trouble and
the color is not fully filling or it's
overflowing over your lines, it just means you have a
color or a threshold problem. So, hold down. Don't
lift up your pencil, and you can drag left or
right to fix that problem. So, the further I
go, the more it starts to overflow and
fill other shapes, I want to come back down
until it's just enough. And I don't actually
want that cloud filled, so I'm going to double
two fingertap to undo, and then I'll drag this into other spaces that I
would like purple. So I've got a really pretty
purple sky background now. Now, if I were coloring this in, I would go onto a new layer
now to do new things. I would leave the
sky on its own, so that way I could edit
it and change it later. So now maybe I'll
come in and I'll make some of my books, some
different colors. And again, could put just these colored
books on one layer. And what this allows me
to do later is turn on Alpha lock and add texture or shading and other
things to those colors. So I'll show you how to do that. I'm not actually going to
color this entire thing in, but you are more
than welcome too. I'm going to come
back to my sky layer, and I'm going to
turn on alpha lock. So I'm going to tap this
and hit Alpha lock. Now I can only color within the bounds of the purple
that I've color dropped in. I'm going to choose
a darker purple and some kind of
big textured brush. And I'm going to kind of,
like, color in on the corners. And you'll notice that
it's only doing it inside the purple and
not into other spaces, like the clouds or
even these blue books. It's not touching them. I can go all around them, but it's only going
inside the purple. And just to choose something a little different to show you. Maybe I'll do just a little
pink for a little difference. Okay, so see how fun that is. So that is digital
coloring in a nutshell. If you would like more of an
in depth tutorial on this, you can actually check out
my digital coloring class as well here on Skill Share, where I spend well over an
hour with you showing you how to color digitally on your
iPad inside Procreate. You
10. Whats Next + Thank you!: Congratulations on
completing this class and creating your very
own TBR bookmark. I really hope you
enjoyed this process and that you are excited about
what you created today. Don't forget that
these TBR bookmarks, not only are they super cute, but they make really
awesome gifts for friends or even
your book club, especially since
you have the power to personalize them
and procreate or just enjoy making them for
yourself every time you finish your TBR list and
need a new bookmark. If you have business
on the mind, you can actually sell
these bookmarks as either a printed
finished product or as a digital download that bookish
people can download and fill out themselves on either an iPad or printed
out themselves at home. Because these are both
functional and cute, it's the perfect combination for a product to
add to your shop. And please remember to share your finished bookmark with us down in the project
section below. We all want to see
your beautiful work, and I will definitely
leave you a comment. I hope you had so much fun creating this bookmark
with me today. And if you'd like
to stay connected, don't forget that you can
find me on Instagram, YouTube, or my own website. Just look for the swimming Owl. I would love to stay
connected with you. So thank you for joining
me in this class. I cannot wait to see what amazing bookmarks
you've created. So again, don't forget to share your creation and tag me
if you posted online. And until then, happy
creating and reading.
Melanie Bess, Painting By The Light Of The Moon
