Transcripts
1. Introduction: Hi, I'm Priscilla, and welcome to my
Skillshare class. In this class, I will
be showing you how to create a digital lineup cut style print that can be used as an art print or as a motif for surface pattern design
on accessories or on clothing at print-on-demand
sites like Redbubble, Spoonflower, or Society6. I will also be giving you
insight into my process, free brushes, and
resources along the way. Just a little bit about me. I am a trained teacher, I am a freelance illustrator, I'm a surface pattern designer,
and fashion enthusiast. I am the owner of
Cardwell and Ink, which is a boutique
design studio located in Australia that specializes
in costume design, from custom
illustration, portraits, and invitations to
creating custom textiles. You can see samples of my
work at Cardwell and ink.com, ink with a K. I've
recently fallen in love with the flexibility of creating art
digitally in the app, Procreate on my iPad Pro, which is the app I
will be using in this class with
the Apple Pencil. But feel free to use any
digital drawing app that you feel comfortable with or any stylists that you
feel comfortable using. This class is beginner
friendly and all you need is an iPad and a stylus and the digital
drawing app Procreate. Whether you are a digital
novice or whether you are a seasoned illustrator
wanting to learn a new skill, you are very welcome, and let's get started.
2. Procreate Overview: I wanted to begin with an
overview of the Procreate app. In the gallery view,
when you open up, there are some options at the top right-hand side
where you can select a file, import a file or photo, or pick a custom Canvas
size using the plus icon. Aside from the Canvas sizes, there's a little folder at
the top which allows you to create your own custom canvas. For this tutorial, we will be creating a Canvas which is 3,000 pixels by 3,000
pixels and 350 DPI. Once you are done clicking
the "Create button", will then open up
your new Canvas. In the Canvas view, there are a few buttons on the
left-hand side that we will be using mainly
the wrench icon, which will open up a
number of categories. The first one or the first icon allows you to import files, photos, copy and paste. The Canvas icon allows you to adjust your Canvas
settings and animate. The share icon
allows you to select the file types that you
would like for export. The play icon is the
time-lapse replay settings. The preferences allows pen pressure and
brush preferences, and the "Help
button" on the end. We will use the other ones as we progress
through the tutorial. On the left-hand side though, we have these great
little sliders, which allow you to adjust
size and at the bottom, adjust the opacity of
your brush stroke. The size of any brush can be increased or decreased
to the slider, and the transparency of the stroke can be
increased or decreased, and you'll see that
in the Opacity. A two-finger tap is
an undo function and a three-finger tap
is a redo function. On the right-hand side,
we have our brush studio, and that will open up your
brush library for you. On the left, you will see
the brush categories, and the category
that you will be using will be
highlighted in blue, and yes, I am a brush border. [LAUGHTER] On the
right-hand side, you have the particular
brushes that you are using, highlighted in blue as well. Next to the brush
icon at the top are the smudge and the erase tool, and both of these are going to do in essence the same thing. When you are using a brush when making some
markings on the Canvas, if you want to maintain that
same brush size and texture, you press and hold the eraser brush or press
and hold the smudge brush, and it will maintain
that consistency and maintain that same brush
for their settings. If you get frustrated
with erasing that way, a three-finger circle will then clear that whole
layer in your Canvas. At the bottom in
your layers panel, you will see a background
section or background color, which is a default layer, and you can always adjust
the color of that layer by tapping on it and
then opening up this color disk and palates. The palate view on
the right side at the bottom opens up your
whole palate library. But I tend to stick
to the disk view. The outside of the disk works to show you what hue
you are working with, and then you move the circle in the inner disk to then pick the saturation that you
want for your brush. In the blue hue, a double-tap in the white section will then
give you a true white, and a double-tap in the black selection will
give you a true black. The color of your brushes is the little circle
at the top right, and that works the same way
as the background color disk, except it is your brush
colors that determines. The plus icon at the top in the layers panel
will allow you to add a layer and we will be using that function a lot
in this tutorial. Well, looking forward to getting started in the next video.
3. Brush Resources : I wanted to show you how to access the downloads
for the class. I've created a set of Procreate brushes
for this tutorial that are free for download. You will need to be in the browser view of
Skillshare to access them. You do that through the
link in the project in resources tab just
under this video. The link takes you
to my website with a green button to
download the brushes. You will need a password which I will display on the screen. If you are in Chrome using
iOS select download, and then the open-in option, scroll to the three
dots that say more, and then scroll down to find the Procreate icon
and click on it. This will automatically import the whole brush
set into your app. When you open Procreate, there will be a blue tick sign to show you that
it has imported. Then in the brush library, the new brush that should be highlighted at the top in blue. See you in the next video.
4. Reference Images: For the purposes of this video, I'm going to take you to a great little resource
for our reference images, which is the Biodiversity
Heritage Library found on Flickr comments. I'm aware that not everybody
is a seasoned illustrator. For beginners, it's
great to be able to use reference images. This library has
a great source of vintage reference images which are mostly royalty and
copyright-free for you to use. If you select a category, and then in the category,
select an image. For example, these cherries, I'll just click on that again. At the bottom right-hand side, it will give you some
information about the copyright. You can see that
there's no copyright. By clicking on it
will open it up, and you'll be able
to see in detail that you are able to copy, modify, distribute this artwork for commercial use and it's just really important to check those images before you
use them or re-mix them. Going back to our image, at the bottom right
hand side you have the different file
sizes that you can download. The little arrow with
the downloads small, medium, large, or original size. I generally will use the original size and for the purposes of
this lineup cut, we are only using the outline
anyway so any size will do. Once you click on it, it will download to your images. As I opened my images, this is a pair that
I had selected previously to use
in this tutorial. In the next video,
I'll show you how to extract the image with
a great little app.
5. Extracting the image: On to extracting the image, there's a great little
app called Magic Eraser, which is a free app. Although you do have
to wait for the ads to start and then click
to get out of them. It will allow you to access your photo library on your iPad. If you have your image, I would select your image. There is an eraser icon
at the bottom if there's any excess black marks on the outside of the image
that you want to remove. But on the bottom left, you have your magic eraser tool. Everywhere you click
with the magic eraser, it will take that color
and it will erase any pixels that have that
particular color in it. In this case, I'm
tapping the white and it will make transparent. You'll see that it's transparent because of the
checkerboard texture, anywhere on the
image that is white. Then when you are done, you will notice there's a PNG with a transparent
background on the left-hand side and a JPEG
with a white background. We are going to
be using the PNG. If we tap on that one, it will allow us to export
it to our photo library. Then when we go back
into Procreate, I'll just delete that
image in Procreate. You can then use the add on the top-left to insert a photo. Select the photo. Although it looks like it
has a white background, if you go to your Layers panel and turn off your
background color, you'll notice that it
is now transparent.
6. Creating the linocut: We can now start on creating
our linocut by going to the wrench and importing
the image we created. Which will come into
Procreate as a PNG, which we can then
resize by adjusting. Make sure that it is on uniform so it doesn't
actually change the proportions and then
in the layers panel, if you tap on the blue layer, you can rename it from
the menu as image, so it doesn't get confusing. Once that's done, if you tap that same menu
and choose selection, we are going to create a new layer by pressing
the plus symbol. Grabbing black as our color and pulling that color into
the new layer to fill it. You'll notice that it fills the entire area of the
PNG image from below. We're then going to
tap on that image and pull it above that
black layer and reduce the opacity in
that layer so that you can see the black coming
through the image. This is really important
because we're going to be using the eraser tool
on the black layer, so I'm just going to label that layer as well so that
it can be distinguished, unselect and then I'm
going to duplicate that layer so that
we have a backup. If you slide across
from the right, it will have duplicates
and then if you tap on the layer you can then rename
that layer as a backup. I'm going to unselect
that layer because we don't want to actually
see it while we are doing our
linocut and go back to the black layer that we
are going to be working with. In the linocut brush set. I'm going to be using
the studio tapered brush that you get in the brush set, the free brush set
with this class, I'm going to resize my brush
to whatever size suits, so you can slide
this slide is to decide what size
you would like and then I'm starting to make
markings on the black layer. The reason why we had the black layer underneath
with the image above it, is so that we can
make those linocuts using that image on
top as a reference. I'm now going in
and just slightly making indentations on the
main portions of the leaf, so the mid-line of the leaf and along the
veins of the leaf. Now, the reason why
we are sticking to those main portions is because when you are creating
a traditional linocut, you're using a carving
tool in the lino and so you are only cutting
out the major portions. In this case, I'm also going to be
making demarcations between the leaves
so that you can see where the leaves overlap in the linocut and the leaves
don't all blend together. Just go through carefully, the beautiful thing about Procreate is that
when you are drawing, you can use two fingers
at the same time to resize and rotate
your canvas as well, so as you're drawing, instead of getting into awkward angles, or if you can't see your image very carefully getting in close. You can resize your
Canvas by just having two fingers and
then moving them apart to zoom in or moving
them together to zoom out and it also allows you to have a lot of
flexibility as you draw. Continue around your image, I'm using a pair but your image may be
slightly different. Just take a look at your
image and see what are the major areas that you would like to have in your linocut. If you're using a plant
and it has leaves, do pay attention to where the
folds are in the leaf and where the leaves maybe fold over other leaves so that
you can see that clearly. Now the studio tapered brush is a variation of a
Procreate brush, I've just taped it and played
with it a little bit more, so you do have it native
in Procreate as well. But I've just put this brush set together so that if you
are a beginner and you are trying to start out in digital art that you have a set that you can work
on for this project. If you make a mistake, remember, you can tap with two fingers
on the screen as well. If you make a carving and you think maybe I shouldn't
have erased that point, you can do a two-finger tap to undo your most recent action. It's a very intuitive program, so just continue around until you're happy
with the markings. Now on the twig
and the branches, I tend to take a look at
the highlighted areas, so where the light is
hitting the image are the areas that I just want to
make a simple line through. You'll notice on the
woody part of the twig, I'm just making a
few demarcations, so you can actually see when
you look at the black only where the twig is that there's another object there instead
of just a mass of black. It is a bit of trial and error but the beautiful thing about digital art is that you can continue to manipulate it
if you make a mistake, you can go back and try again and I'm just going to continue
going around the pair. Once again because
the pair overlaps, I am going to erase a portion between the two pairs as well. Once you're done you
can de-select the image there and take a look
at your linocut. It's great to do
that from time to time because it does
show you any areas that you've missed
or any areas that you want to continue to work on. Once again, I can see
already I just want to make a bit more of an
indentation at the bottom and I missed a leaf or an
undesirable leaf, so I'm going to go back and do the spines of the
underside of the leaf. It's good to just
evaluate see how you feel as you do your linocut, each one will be different
but take your time to evaluate whether
you want more or less. If you want to elongate
one of the spines or veins until you are happy
with the final product. In the next video, we are going to go
ahead and talk about the background and put a bit
of texture into our linocut.
7. Adding texture and background: In this video, we
are going to be creating a bit of texture for our linocut and also creating a circular background
for our print. I'm going to create
a new layer just below the linocut layer
that we have worked with, but above our backup layer. I'm going to pick a color to
make a circle in this layer. Now, Procreate has
a great feature, we're going to use
the monoline brush in the brush set where you
can make a quick shape. I'm going to draw a
generic circle and connect the ends without taking
my pencil off the canvas, and then by placing a
finger on the canvas, it will make a perfect
circle for me. This works with squares
or triangles as well. We then use our color drop
the way we did before, pulling in the color
to fill that circle, and then using the arrow tool to adjust it to the
center of the canvas. Once we've done that, we have a circular background
and we're going to rename by pressing the menu,
that background layer. Then we're going to go ahead
and create two more layers above the linocut layer and also above the background layer. These are going to be
our texture layers. Now, for the texture layers, we're going to create
a clipping mask. In that menu that opened up, there was an option
of clipping mask, so please click that
layer first and then go in and rename it
as your texture layer. Once again, with the background, clipping mask and then rename. Now, you'll notice that
the clipping masks have an arrow that points down
because it's attached to the layer below which means that any
markings that you make on the clipping mask
layers will only be limited to the area
of the layer below. It's a great way of
non-destructively adding texture or adding variations
without affecting or destroying the
layer underneath. Now, I'm going to go
to the spotty brush in the brush set, and I'm going to create a few splatters on
the linocut print. When you're making
a linocut print, once you've curved the linocut, you put ink or paint over it and then you make your
stamps with it. Sometimes you can have a
bit of paint splatter or a couple of scratches
from the wood, which is what we're trying to
imitate in a creative way. Just taking a look at
the highlights as well, that we're on the original
image to see where I wanted to place the splatters of paint. As we're doing
this, you'll notice that the splatters do not go outside the shape of the pear because it
is a clipping mask. It's only the linocut
area that will be affected as you put
the splashes in. You can make them larger or
you can make them smaller, whatever suits your
creative style. Next we're going to be working
on the background layer. Now, with the clipping mask associated with the
background layer, we're going to use
the Terrazzo brush, which is a stamp brush, and just move it around
the canvas and you'll notice that it still is limited to that circle in
the background. I'm then going to create
a new clipping mask. I tend to use a new
clipping mask for each layer just so that you can adjust the
layers independently. You'll notice because
this is a stamp tool, as I've placed the
olive color on top, it's just covered the
white layer underneath. But then if you
take the arrow or the transform tool
and move it around, you can then adjust
where it's placed. It still will not move from the background because
it's in a clipping mask, so you can just adjust that. It means that you can adjust
the opacity of that layer as well and the opacity of the white layer beneath
it as you feel. Now, I want just a bit
of a muted texture, so I've reduced the opacity
on both of those layers. I'm going to go in with
the hairy scratches brush, which is like wood
scratches texture, and put a bit of that on the background layer
as well in white. Remember, as you go, you
can zoom in and out. If you want a closer look
at what you're doing, feel free to use those
two finger panning. If you separate your two
fingers or put them together, it will adjust the zoom
of your image as well. Once you're happy with it, I think I'm going to go
in and reduce the opacity of the linocut clipping mask. I just want a bit of a subtle
texture without taking away from the image.
You can do that. You can adjust the
blend modes in that contextual menu as well, that opens up when you
change the opacity, and test different
blend modes and see how you feel
about your image. It's great to experiment
in a way that you can reverse with Procreate, which I really love
about this program. If I remove the background
at the bottom layer, you can see that
it still is a PNG. We actually want it as a PNG to export it because we will be using this for accessory
and surface pattern design. So if you choose
the Share tool and choose PNG with the
background removed, you can then export it
to your images as a PNG. In the next video, I'll take
you through how to place your images on accessories
or on t-shirts on Redbubble, which is a print on-demand site. See you in the next video.
8. Exporting to print on demand Redbubble store: In this video, we are going
to be looking at how to use your images on a print-on-demand
site like Redbubble. So I'm opening up
my Redbubble store. You do have to log in
or create an account. At the top left-hand side, once you're in your store, there'll be a hamburger
menu that you can click on, and then if you click
on your avatar, it will give you
a red button that says add your work
or add new work. So you can upload new work or create it
from an existing design. I'm going to upload
new from my images, and select the image that we just created and saved as a PNG. In the meantime, you
can put in a title for your artwork and relevant tags that are related to the image, and a description
about your artwork. Now Redbubble is a free
platform for artists. There are quite a few out there Society6 is another one
that I use frequently. You can open up a
store front for free. It allows you to get a
commission for your art and the print-on-demand company gets a commission for their
printing as well. So it's a really great
option for artists. As you scroll down after
your image has uploaded, you will start to see
a bunch of accessories and clothing that you can
then have your print on. I've opened up the t-shirt icon, and you'll notice that I
can move my image around, I can resize my image, I can center it either
horizontally or vertically, and I can even start to choose, using the menus on this side, what type of clothing I want
to have it available on. You have color swatches where
you can choose the color of the t-shirt or the product that you are creating your image for. But just make sure that
when you are done, you do apply the changes. So you'll see that the t-shirt is changed
to a light gray, which I don't really want. I will move that back
to a white color. As you make the changes, you can actually see it
in real-time as well. Scroll down and scroll
through and you can enable and disable any products. So the sticker, for example, because it's a PNG, it has no square background but it's like a
kiss cut sticker. Just be aware of the backgrounds when you
are making your images. You may want that
effect or you may not. But just know that with
PNG it's transparent, but with a JPEG, you will have that white
square from your image. Another great option
is you can tile. As you can see on the cushion, as I move the
slider up and down, it then tiled the single
image into several images. So you can have a regular
tile or you can have a half-drop tile option
available or no tiling at all, where you just have the
one image on the screen, and then adjust the
size as you feel. There are about 40 different
accessories and clothes that you can have your
images on on Redbubble. I think it's the same on a whole host of other
print-on-demand sites. You can go through and
you can edit your image, you can edit the sizes, you can edit the products. So,for example, with
this water bottle, I really do love it centered
on the water bottle, and as I'm adjusting, I can see the changes
in real-time. Not all the accessories are going to be great
for your images, so you'll have to
use your discretion. When you get to the
bottom, you can choose what type of media it is, so design and illustration
or photography. You can pick a collection. You can also select
what accessory you want to have your main image on. So you may want to have it on a tote bag as the main image. Although a whole host of
products are available, you'll have one that is the
main image on your shop. Whether it has adult
content or not, that it is actually
your own work, and then you can save your work. For the purposes of this,
I'm not going to save this because this is an example, but I will go back to my store to another line of cut
that I have created, and show you what this looks like on products
from the front end. So scrolling down the
designs on my page, there's the king fisher liner
cut print that I've made. Then you can see
the products that it is displayed up on for sale. So one thing I do love
about when you see the product shots is
they're great to take a screenshot and use as a
mock-up on your social media, whether it's Instagram
or Facebook, to advertise your
work and it makes that process really
simple as well. I also loved the way the prints look against different colors. So the dark gray was a really beautiful color
that it came up on. Thanks for taking this class. I can't wait to
see your projects. I'll have a little chat to
you about what a project is, and how to create one
in the next video.
9. Class Project: Thanks so much for joining
me for this class. It was so fun to go through creating these prints with you. I hope that if you
have the time, you can upload your illustration to the class project section, which is just underneath
this video so I can see the amazing illustrations
that you come up with. If you are on social media, you can also tag me at Cadwell
ink on Instagram or on Facebook and I hope
to see you maybe in an upcoming Skillshare
class. Have a great day.
CardwellandInk Design, B.Sc, B.A, M.Teach
