Magic of Masking in Procreate

1. Class introduction : Hi, Welcome to my class. I'm Amir, a character artist and illustrator. And this short class, I chose a fun sample projects to help you better understand the masking in Procreate, you can create a simple design of any landscape or senior you like. For my project, I made this night scene. I've helped you create yours step-by-step, starting with a rough sketch all the way through color blocking, texturing, and adding the final touches. You can use this final design later as a print on any medium. There you can celebrate the new skills you've just added to your skill set. It's a fun class for anyone interested in trying something new today. So grab your iPad and pencil and let's jump into the glass. 2. Class Project : Welcome to the class. So at first I'll tell you what I will use here. I'm using my iPad stylus and of course Procreate, but you can still follow along with me on any software of your choice. We will go through all those steps later in the class. And once you've finished your theme, all they need to do is just to hit to the Projects and Resources section and upload your project. You can add as many images as you can and of course, write whatever you want or ask about anything. And I'll be more than happy to answer you. Once you do this, just publish and I can't wait to see what you'll come up with. So let's head to the first lesson. 3. Rough Sketching : So for the first lesson in the class, we will work on our rough sketch. So I open Procreate and I choose the six B pencil brush in the default brushes and just start sketching my scene. If you still have to decide what you're going to draw, It's very simple. You can just head to the project and resources section below this class and you can simply download my sketch. You can also head to Pinterest and get some inspiration from there and watch as many references as you can. I believe it will help you a lot to create your scene. Keep it very simple and enjoy the process as they always say, my classes. As you can see here, I'm working on my scene. I created the main shape, mark in the circle or rectangle, a pendant or anything. Or you just start to mask older layers inside of it. You start to draw inside your main shape. Try to keep it simple and try to work more on the foreground and the background of your scene. So as you can see here, drawing some trees, some hanging branches. And so you can draw mountains, seas, or anything. Just keep it very simple. You can decide whether it's a night scene, whether it's the sunset or anything that you like. And you just keep going with this sketching brush very roughly, very easily. No polished layers or anything. And we will keep going. And you can delete anything from this sketch. Now that I finished my rough sketch, Let's head to the next lesson to start color blocking. 4. Color block: Now that we've finished our rough sketch, we will start color blocking. You can use a color palette, whether it's the default palette or you can do the load any palette online. Alright, let's start. I will first set the background layer as something dark. And I will head to the hue saturation and brightness and change the color for my sketch to be a little bit brighter on this background. To be clear for me to work later on this. Alright. And now I'll just start working on blocking the colors in the shapes that have just finished the sketch. Alright, let's choose this mono line brush. As you can see, I'm drawing my circle and you can just tap with one finger to be a sharp circle and accurate one, and you will just drag the color. Now I'm duplicating this circle like this. And I hated the settings for the move tool and turn on the snapping. Once I duplicated my circle like this, I will just choose the selection tool and choose the rectangle selection like this. And in the new layer I just drag and drop the color like this. Alright, let's keep going. And now I just added my shape so that it gets more tangent to the circles. And now I'll just pinch them together, the three layers to make the shape as one shape. Now let's just change the colors a little bit. And I'll start working on my design. Let me first work more on the colors. Just like that and maybe make this a little bit darker. Color blocking is really amazing step, you can choose any color you want. Now let's create our first masking layer. You will create a layer and just hit the icon and choose clipping mask so that this layer is masked inside the main shape of your design. Makes sure that each layer is closed when you're working on the lines so that when you drag the color, it just doesn't go over all. The canvas, just goes inside the layer or the lines as you've just closed. All right. I'll go a bit faster now. As it's just a repetitive step. You're just creating new layer for each part of your design. And you simply draw a simple line with the monoline brush. For the final lines to be clean. Not sketchy or anything. I just drove onto the sketch and create a layer for each part of your design. Just like this. I really like how the design is just coming together. After adding the colors, especially when the palate is good. You can choose any color palette you want. Usually I choose Adobe Cooler for choosing a perfect color palette. Or sometimes when I'm just surfing on Pinterest and find a nice color palette I just saved this are painted in a board for color palettes. You can also search on Pinterest with limited color palettes and you'll find amazing palettes with limited colors, maybe three or four maximum. Alright, let's keep going. You just repeat the same steps. Every time. Create New Layer with a monoline brush. You draw the lawyers sketch just like this and drag the color inside of the layer, and so on. Now this plant, I relay the colors so far. And this mushroom. Alright. And now let's work on this moon. Okay? And now I will work on the branches. Just keeps more than simple. Don't go so far with the details here. We have a specific lesson later for this O. Right? Now Let's create more final layer for these two branches. Just like that. That's it for this step. Now the color blocking is done. Let's just head to the next layer to add textures to our design. 5. Texturing: After we finish the color blocking, Let's now head to a more interesting step which is adding textures. And how are we gonna do this? It's very simple. We'll just turn off the layer of the sketch. And we will now head to each layer we have in the design. Ellie will just make alpha lock. Start adding some textures inside of it. I'm using an interesting brush which is called bonobo chalk. You can also use any texture brush that you like. It's also are repetitive step and you will keep doing the same steps for all the layers, but it's really rewarding. I really like this topic because it just adds that kind of depth and that kind of taste for your design. These textures act as the shadow and the light. Alright? So simply you just hit alpha lock for each layer, for the pixels to be just looked inside the layer. And you simply choose any texture brush. And with a darker color than the layer, you simply draw the shadows and with a lighter color. You can work on the light. And so on. Right? Let's work with this color. It looks interesting. I hope you're following along with me now. I'm really excited to see what you guys are going to come up with in the project section. And it's also a nice opportunity for you to share this with your fellow students. All right, let's keep going. You simply choose the layer hat on the Layer icon and choose alpha lock. Just like this, and with a darker color, you make the shadows and we'll end with a lighter color. You make the lights. So you can consider this step as texturing, slash shading and lighting. Right? Let's keep going. Feel free to mix more than one color inside of each shapes. Sometimes I just like to do this. All right, Let's keep going. Now for this tree up there, you just add some shadows, and also for this leaf, right? And some lights. And let's keep going. Now let's choose this light color, right? And put them on. Let's add some yellowish color to it. And now for this branch, Let's just add some shadows and some lighting. Maybe this bright magenta color for lighting these trees up there. It does add something. So it's all about masking layers inside of layers to make nice effects and colors. Now let's just select some parts of this. See back there to make it lighter. Alright? And maybe with the selection tool, let's create some clouds here. Just so random and nice. And to give it a lighter color than the sky color, just like this. Alright. Now let's work on this layer. Also alpha lock. Let's just change the color for this one and also hit alpha lock together some shadows. Let's keep moving right. Now for this part of the drawing, I just give it some shading. And also for this mushroom, just like this, and for the stem, Let's give us some shading here below this. And for these small bushes, I just wanted to make it like blended with the purple land below them. And let's just give them this yellow color. All right, let's now work more on this mushroom, just like this. And now with the mono line, brush again, let's make some dots of white dots here. For the mushroom. Just like this. It's really special. Alright, back to the texture brush. Let's add some shading to these dots. And also below them. Just some dark red color here. It also adds more depth or right. I think that's it. Now we just finished shading and lighting and texturing this design. Let's now head to the next lesson, which is adding more details. 6. Adding Details: Now that you've finished adding textures and shading lighting for the design, it's now a really interesting step, which is adding more details. So simply we will just keep going with the masking. We'll create a new layer m and mascot here. Just like this, we will create some shadow inside the whole design. We will make the blending mode as multiply. It simply gave the paper cut effect. Alright, Now this very thin brush, but let's add more details to the design here. We will start with this. Very simply. You can create these simple lines just like that. Now, let's head to this layer. Alright. Let's now head to this leaf above n with a dark color, you will just start working on some detailing like this, simple lines, just like that. Now for this layer, Let's create some simple spots, just like this. Does give the design this cartoony look, right? Feels as if it's like the background of a game or something. I really like how it looks right now. Alright, let's keep moving. In this step of the process, you can simply add any kind of details that you can ever imagine. It's just based on your preference. And you can keep adding details to each layer. Alright, let's keep going. All right, and now for this huge rock or mountain here, that's making some lines just like that. And also here, this layer, I just noticed that I totally forgot to texture this layer. So let's start doing this now. Let's make the alpha lock and also the bonobo chalk or any texture brush. Let's give it some lighting and shading, just like this. And also this layer. That's much better. Alright. Now let's make some simple details here and there. Just like this. I'm now adding some light around the moon. Like a yellow halo around it. Looks nice. Now, let's make the blending mode as overlay to make it more bright. And also in the same overlay layer, let's make some lights here and there. Now I'm drawing some stars in the sky to make up, to make it more night. It looks interesting. Alright, let's keep moving. Now. I feel it looks really nice. I really like the design so far. All right, let's keep moving. With a magenta color. I will simply give this mushroom sunlight, just like this. And that's it. I think we finished this step. So let's head to the final lesson in the class, which is adding the final touches before we finish this design. 7. Final Touches: For the final lesson here we will work on the final touches for this design. I work more on the use iteration of the background. Let's change the colors a little bit. Maybe try something dark and something light. You just keep playing around until you find something that's you're satisfied with. I believe we're close. Alright. Maybe you change the hue a little bit. That looks nice. Let's now create a new layer above that. And let's create some glow around the shape. As if the outer glow around this. And as you can see, it just adds more to the effect of the paper cut. That's nice. So let's keep going. You can of course replace this with a drop shadow effect. The darker color around it. It will be also nice. And you can play with the blending modes that you find something that's cool. Just like this. Let's make it smaller. That's nice. Alright. I made the blending mode for this halo as Ed and I put the opacity a little bit down. Alright? Alright, now as you can see, I'm just selecting all the layers for my design after of course, duplicating this whole file for not to lose anything. And that'll be just selecting oldest. Just say that. And I will just group this. I'll make it all as a group. Just like this and hit flatten. And now it's just one layer. Let's now head to the adjustments and let's dry some effects here and there. Alright, let's start with the gradient map. As you can see, your design is changing based on the color modes here in the gradient library. And you can come up with different varieties from your, from one sample design. I really liked those effects. It's amazing. And this one is awesome. Yeah, this great. Alright. This one looks really amazing. And it's just serve the night effect for the design. But let's just get back to that original one and try some more adjustments. Alright, let's head to the chromatic aberration. And as you can see, it just adds some effects here and there. And you can simply drag the circle around your design, choose the effect. What else? We also have this nice effect once you swipe to the right and to the left to take this effect up and down. Once you finish your design, you can play with the adjustments as you want, and it's simply add something to your design. It changed something. Now I'm playing with the color balance. Alright, Let's try something very light for the background. Maybe a little bit pinkish or salmon color. Just like this. Let's duplicate the design and put the two different backgrounds, light and dark together. I think it's a very nice and that's it. And now we've finished our class. I'm really happy with the final result. I hope that you enjoyed the class and I really hope that you just finished design right now with me. Don't hesitate to ask me anything about the class or about anything related to procreate or drawing in general and the discussion board below the class. And also I just can't wait to see your projects in the project section. Then of course, feel free to check my channel for more classes. And of course, if you'd like to share your design on Instagram, don't forget to tag me with this handle so that I can find it anterior MI stories. Also, you can find my YouTube channel here. And that's it for the class. Hope you learned something today and you added skill to your skill set that was on mute. You see you in next classes. And bye.