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1. Class Intro : Hey, I'm Annie or lucid. And the meaning behind
the lucid is twofold. One is clarity
through connections, and the second is keep shining. Your sparks, sparks others. And this is the mission statement
that I have in my mind. And in this course, let's shine by learning how
to draw some aquatic animals. So if you're a beginner or looking to get
started right away, this is the perfect
course for you. And a reminder that you can
pause and rewind at any time, making it the perfect class
to go at your own pace?
2. Procreate Basics : Okay, let's do a quick
Intro to Procreate. And of course we'll
learn more as we go. But for now, let's
cover the basic. To start. Let's actually learn
how to open and what the size of our Procreate
Drawing Canvas will be. In order to do that, we'll first go into
the plus sign. And with that opened next, let's go to our square size. So with our square
size selected, it'll automatically pop up. And this is the
signs that we'll be using for our drawings. So you saw that I could move it by pinching in and I zoom in, pinch and zoom out. And I can even twisted around. So that's pretty neat. So with that opened, this is actually our
right-handed interface. So if you're left-handed, this isn't actually the
interface that you want. Instead, if you're left-handed, let's go ahead and click
onto the wrench tool. And let's click on
our preferences. Let's click on
Right-hand Interface. Now, this is the
left-handed interface. And what is changed is
that this bar right here. Well, this bar used to be right here on the
left-hand side, but if you're left-handed, this bar will be on
your right hand side. So let's go ahead
and let's actually start exploring this interface
slash all of the controls. But first I'm gonna go
ahead and I'm going to switch back because
I'm right-handed. And so the first thing
we can do is we can go ahead and select our
color. With this open. This is a color palette. And what we can do is
we can move around in the middle and we can move around on
the outside as well. If you push it up. This is actually
the color that will come out of your
brush right here. So you can see the
color change as we move our brush around. So let's say, I want maybe a yellow color,
and that's right here. And let's test out the color
that comes out of our brush. So if we click on our brush, we can actually select a ton of different types of brushes. So maybe I want to use sketching pencil and I can go ahead
and just go into my Canvas. This color right here is the same color as
this one right here. So that looks really cool. And next, let's go ahead and
explore what these bars do. So if you push this one down, this is the brush size. So if I haven't low, again, thin brush, if a push in high, you can see the difference. So push it down small, push it up. Big brush size. So pay attention to the bar on this side
when I'm drawing. So you know how big my brushes. And on the bottom, this is the opacity, which just means how
transparent is it. For example, if you're 100%, that means it's not very
see-through at all. But if you bring it down, then it becomes wider
and more see-through. So this just means how dark
is it and how light is it. If you're bumping the
opacity very high, that means it's darker
and less see-through. If you bump it down, that means it's more
see-through and lighter. So what this middle
button right here and what's this
square right here? If you click on it and hold it, you actually get this
wheel that appears. So what that means is that this is actually a color
dropping tool. So let's say I want
a white color. So I want this
white canvas color. I can just let it go and
you can see that my color has changed to the
same color as this. So now I'm on my brush. If I color something in, It's not white color. So if I want it to be yellow, I can go ahead and
click and hold. And I can get that yellow color. So if I let go, it's
that yellow color. And you can see the
color right there. So let's say, I don't want this. I can quickly undo that by clicking this
button right here. So undo. But let's say I changed my
mind and I want it back again. I can redo, undo and redo. Another trick to, For a shortcut I want to undo something, two fingers and tap once. So there's actually
another way to undo, which is the eraser. And the eraser is
right over here. So if I click onto it, this is my eraser. But if I click onto it again, I can select a
variety of eraser. So I can go ahead and scroll. I can go ahead and choose
whatever eraser I want. And I'll just pick
a random eraser. But you can see now I'm
just erasing everything. Next. Let's go ahead and let's
actually go back to your brush. And let's draw some things. So let's say I have circle. If I hold it, I get
a nice smooth shape. For a circle. If you want this to
be a perfect circle, you can go ahead and use
your other finger and just click onto it and hold and
you get a perfect circle. And if you let go, this
is your perfect circle. And next, what you can do to fill this in really
quick is you can go ahead and click onto your color and drag
it and drop it. And you just filled in
your color really quick. And of course, the next thing that we can do is we
can play with layers. So this is our layers. What that does is
it provides you with options to put things
on top of other things. So for example, where one, this circle is on
that and you can also click on this checkmark, which just means that it's
invisible and visible. And the blue highlight means that this is the
layer that you're on. So if I want a new layer, now I have layer two. And layer two is on
top of layer one. So whatever I draw. So I'm going to switch
this color to black. But let's say just
want a Smiley face. So if I go back to my layers, you can see that layer
two is on top of one. And if I hold it and I put
it underneath layer one, you can see that layer two
is now underneath layer one. And if I click onto layer one, layer two is still there, but it's just hidden
underneath layer one. So if you want
something to be shown, you just put it over. And that's how we can
play with our layers. Alright, so those are the basic knowledge that comes along with
using Procreate. So let's go ahead and let's
learn how to save this out. So we can go into
our wrench tool. And with a wrench tool, we can click Share. Next. Let's go ahead and click JPEG. So now we're saving our
file and we can save the image to our iPad or whatever drawing
device that we're using. And now that it says that
it's been saved successfully, that means it will be
in your photo roll. And with some of that, I think it's time to start
with our drawing lessons.
3. Color Palette: A quick note regarding
the color palette. So every Drawing comes
with a color palette. And in order to access that, you have to download it and then open it up in your
drawing device. And it should
automatically open it and save it into
our color palette. If you go into your
color palette, it should be under
the palette section. And if you scroll up, you can set it as
your default palette. So if you set it as
your default palette and you go back to your disk, you should see that
the palette has uploaded to your main palette. So there you go.
4. Drawing Crabs: We're going to be drawing Crabs. And the first thing
that we'll do is we're gonna go into
our color palette. And let's select our black. From there. Let's go into our brushes panel. And let's go ahead and
select the calligraphy. And let's select the mono line. So with that selected, let's start by drawing
our three little crabs. And let's go ahead and, let's start by drawing an oval. So let's have one oval. If you hold it. You can get a small
oval or you can get a big oval by dragging it along. And let's do a
medium shape, oval. So that's one crabs. And next, let's draw
another Crabs body. So let's do same thing we did, which is draw an oval
and just hold it. And let's have smaller size. Then let's draw another crabs. And for this crabs, let's
have a baby size one. So let's have that in. Hold it. And there you have
your three ovals. From there. Let's start and let's make sure our crabs can walk around. So in order to do that, we got to add in
some of those legs. And let's do that by
adding in three legs. So let's start with
this motion right here. And then let's connect. Same thing. We have three legs on
one side and let's add another three legs
on the other side. So that's three legs right here. And let's go ahead and do
the same for the baby crabs. And for the baby Crabs, we can just put two legs. So 12 and then 12. Then for our medium crab, let's do the same thing as
the scrap, the big one. So we'll put 12.3. So that's three legs
on one of the sides. And let's add in
our other three, making a total of six. There we have our three legs on each side making
a total of six. So we have six legs, six legs, and four legs. Now are crabs can walk, but let's make sure our
crabs can also see. So in order to do that, Let's draw in some
of those eyeballs, and let's Draw you 11111111. We'll do the same on
this side, 11111111. And then for the baby one, Let's just do 11. And from here, let's go ahead
and add in our eyeballs, similar to add in our eyeballs. Let's just draw a circle. If you just click and hold, you get your perfect circle. So again, let's try that. Let's draw our circle, hold it, and then click onto it. So again, we'll draw a circle, hold it, and then click onto it. So let's try that again. Hold and click. There you have some of
the eyeballs and oops, don't forget the baby ones. We can do the same thing with the eyeballs inside the pupils. And sometimes you
might get a little bit of the black lines so
you can just go ahead and just erase it and makes sure your urate service at a
calligraphy monoline. Then we can go back and
switch back to the brush. And let's go ahead and just
color in our eyeballs. So just go ahead and
color your eyeballs in. We'll do the same on
all of our crabs. So let's just cover
that all up so our Crabs could see a lot better And then our baby one of
course, don't forget that. And from there, Let's go
ahead and add in the arms. And for the arms, what we can do is we can
start with half a circle, so one, and let's stack
another half a circle on top. So let's do that
on the other side. Let's do that here as well. Then here. For the baby one, we can just skip
the arms and let's just go straight to
the clause and let's just start with a you
and then a V. So again, it's a U and V. So that's our baby crabs. And then for our bigger crabs, let's do the same thing
except let's do it bigger. So let's draw our U. Then we can draw a V. So again, let's see that here, a big U and V. And let's do that on
the other side as well. Let's do a you then a V. So same thing. Let's do our big U and V. From there. What we
can do to is we can add in some of those
teeth on the class. So you can do that
by just adding in more of the half circle. So just do some
half circles there. And however much of the teeth
that you can fit in there, go ahead and do that
for the baby one. I'm just going to skip that because it might be too
small to try to do so. And next thing we'll do is let's make sure we have
some happy crabs. So let's draw in a Smiley face. This could be a big Smiley face. Then we can have another
Smiley face here. Let's draw another Smiley
face right over here. We have our three
smelling Crabs. The next thing that we can do is let's go ahead and make a curve. We can hold it and just
kind of curve it out. Then we can draw
a straight line. This will just be the water. So next, let's draw
in a bit of a cloud. So let's just do that. And from there,
Let's go ahead and let's start adding in
some of those dots. We can just dot around. And this just shows that the
Crabs are on a sandy beach. So you can go ahead and just make those quick little dots. So now far we have that. We can add in some
rocks and you can do that just by
making oval shapes. So if you hold it,
you can just add in a bit of that on the beach. So be sure to fill
in some of the areas that are a little bit empty. So that's what I'm
doing right here.
5. Coloring Crabs: Next, what we'll do is
let's color in the picture. So in order to do that, we're gonna go into our layers. We're going to add
in a new layer. Let's go and put this layer. So hold it and
drag it underneath where one, and let it go. From there. You're gonna go into
your color palette. So let's select this
color right here. And let's go into our brush. And let's go into
our sketching brush. And let's go ahead and
select an oil pastel. With our oil per cell selected, we're just going to quickly
color in the sand area. So now that your sand
area is all covered, what we can do next is we can go in our color
palette again, and we can select the
darker shade of the brown. And then we can color
in our rocks as well. And on top of coloring
in the rocks, we can also do the
little sand texture, so we can just put four little
dots in a different color. So go ahead and make
those little dots. And of course, color in
all of your rocks as well. Next, we'll go into a
color palette again. And let's select
the orange color. Now with our orange color, what we're going to want
to do is we're just going to cover up some of the area to create a
shadow for the Crabs. It's okay that you're going
inside the crab as well because later on we're
going to color over that. And we can use the
same color and we can make more little dots as well, just to show that sand has
different colors to it. So next we're going to start
to color in the crabs. And to do that, we're
going to click our layers. We're going to add in a
new layer with the plus. We're gonna go into our colors. And let's select this
color right here. That's Art orange. And from there we're
gonna go into our brush. And we have our oil
pastel selected. So let's just use that. And let's just color
inside of the Crabs. So be sure to lower down reward brush size if you
haven't done so already. That way you have more
control on your brush. So just color it all in. And we can leave the legs
for now because we're going to use a darker
shade for the legs. So first let's just cover all of the body and let's get
some of the arms as well. So I've colored in the
body and the arms. And the next thing that we
can do is we can actually go into our color palette
and select the darker shade. So let's select the darker
shade of that orange. And let's fill in the legs. Again. Let's bring our
brush size smaller. That way we're
covering the inside of the legs a little bit better. And let's get the
baby one as well. So the baby legs are colored with that darker
shade of orange. And we'll just cover all
of the legs and swell. And we can use this darker shade to cover up some of the arms. So we could just add
in C. You can see Can just cover up a little
bit of the arms. From here. What we're going to
do is we're gonna go back into a color palette and let's use the red this
time. With our red. What we're gonna do is
we're just going to use it for the AI part. So underneath the eyeballs were going to use
some of that red. And we're going to use it
for the clause as well. So for the class,
what you can do to is you can cover up
half of the clause. So let's do that for
all of our clause. So just cover that up halfway. Let's do that here. Covered up halfway. And for the baby,
one same thing. We're covering it halfway. And we're gonna go back
into her color palette. And let's select that
darker shade of orange. And let's go back in and just
cover up the bottom part. That way, we have two
colors on the Crabs clot. We have our red and we have
our darker shade of orange. And you can see that it
adds a nice touch to it. Next, let's go ahead and do the same thing for
this side as well. So now we're almost done. And the next thing
we can think about is we can think about
using the color white. For our color white. What we can do is we can go in to her color palette and
let's select that white. Because what we're
going to use it for is we're going to use
it for our eyeballs. So let's go ahead and just cover up at the eyeballs
with that white color. So just make that
circle emotion. Circle a circle, a
circle, circular motion. So just spin your pencil around the eyes to
get that nice color. And we'll do the same
thing right here. Just spin your brush around. And we'll do the
same thing here. Just spin war pencil
in a circular motion. And next we're just going to
cover up some of that teeth. Let's do that with this as well. And then make sure you
get all the teeth. So the next thing that
we'll do is naphtha. We have the basic shapes
and shades of the Crabs. Let's actually go ahead and add in a little bit more of
that shading on the crabs. So let's select
our darker orange. And let's bring that up
a bit and we'll just go in slightly for
that shade, right? So you have a shade
for the crabs. And let's do the same thing
for this side as well. And of course we're gonna do
the same for our baby Crabs. We have a nice shadow going on. And the next thing we can
do after we have this all done is we can go ahead and start adding
color for our water. So that's this part right here. So in order to do that, Let's make a new layer. So let's click the plus sign and let's go into our
color palette again. And let's select
this blue shade. So with that blue shade, we're just going to go right
in there and we're going to fill this part all with blue. So what I'm doing is making
sure that the line stays within the black lines. And it's okay if it does go a little bit over the
black line because what you can always sue as a reminder is you can
always use the eraser. And when you click in, make sure it's a calligraphy monoline. And you can just clean up
the lines a little bit so you can do that
if you'd like. The next thing we'll do, Let's go ahead and
add in some of those waves sonar to do that, I'm going to use the
same layer and I'm just going to use a darker blue. I'm going to hit
the brush again. And then I'm just going
to make it a little bit smaller and just add
in some of that wave. You can't really
see it that, well. That's okay. Because we can also go back into the color palette
and let's select white. With white, we can just add in a more visible layer
so we can see it Better. Of the waves. We have some of the
waves going on. Those are just squiggly lines. So draw some squiggly
lines for the waves. And the next thing we
can do is we can go ahead and let's add
in another layer. So hit the layer and
hit the plus sign. And then let's go enteric color. And from our color, let's
use that glue on the bottom. And let's click back in. And then let's
cover it all up and cover the sky up with
that blue color. So you can make your
brush a little bit smaller for this side. Once you get near to the bottom, because when you get
near to the bottom, it becomes easier to control. If you have a
smaller size brush. So we can get to the bottom. Let's just make our brush small. And when we get to the top, we can make it a
little bit bigger. So top is a bigger brush. But once we near the bottom, Let's make our brush maybe size. So that's a biggie size brush. And we can go back in and
let's add in our purple. And we're almost done
with this picture. So if you just put it
in a little bit of that purple and can make your
brush a little bigger too. So just lightly put on a
little bit of purple on top. And remember it's okay if you touch the clouds
inside a little bit, you can always use
your eraser and then just erase it
and clean it up. From there. That's our picture of our Crabs. We finished drawing a Crabs
Annie Liu, Digital Designer ✨
