Master Procreate Drawing and Calligraphy

1. Week 1: Schedule: Everybody, and welcome to the first week of the course. I'm so excited to have you here. I'm so excited for you for your journey, for where this is going to take you, I can obey, to be your cheerleader, to cheer you on and guide you through every step. It's going to be exciting guys. I hope you are ready. I feel like this is going to take your creativity to the next level. You'll be able to design with ease. You'll create beautiful files that can be printed, listed online, used for licensing work, for logo creation, for so many things. I just love this possibility that Procreate opened up. It's like a new door. This so many things that you can be trying out and I truly hope you enjoy it all. Now before we begin, just make sure that you have the app, the appropriate app installed, and that you have an Apple pencil, obviously, have it all ready to go. I will start from the very beginning. I'll cover some basics as well. I know some of you are newbies here. Welcome, and that's absolutely fine. You'll be fine. I will explain everything, reassure you, encourage you, it's going to be great. There's one thing I want to say as you know when you're learning something new and you're trying it out for the first time, don't give up if it doesn't work the first time you try, especially with technical stuff like this. Sometimes you'll need to do it once or twice before it clicks, but it will click, I promise. If I go learn it all, you can do it 100% as well. I'm really excited to pass everything along to teach it all to you, so you can start creating beautiful work confidently. If you're ready, let's dive into the first week. It's going to be a fun one. We'll be drawing some florals, creating beautiful color palettes.ploor different types of brushes. It's going to be fun. Let's dive in. 2. Lesson 2: Essential tools (layers & blend modes): In this lesson, we're going to talk about layers which are really important and they don't have to be complicated. Okay, so if you click these two little squares in a corner at the top, you'll be able to see all of your layers. Okay? This is your layers panel. You can add new layers by clicking here at the top, click Plus, see how many layers there are. And you can also delete layers by just sliding, so swiping each layer to the left and just clicking the lead. Okay? You can also duplicate a layer which is super useful. You can draw something once and you can just duplicate it. It's really great. Okay, so if you tap just on the left with one finger, if you just tap, you'll open up this little menu, and you can do a lot of things from here. You can rename your layup. You can just click rename. And then at the bottom, there'll be a keyboard that you can select and just type and name your layer. And you can also clear your layer from here. So you can just click clay and everything that's in that layer will disappear, which can be quite useful as well. Okay, just explore these a little bit, so that you're familiar with everything with all the options. You can also fill layer. So whatever color you have selected here at the top, there's a little circle. Then fill your layer with that color. You can see at the top, I got this beige color selected. We're going to talk about colors more. But if you click Fill layer, maybe your color is white at the moment. But if you click fill layer, it'll fill your layer with that color. You can then leave it there or clear it. Now, lastly, I just want to show you how to merge the layers. Let's say you've drawn a flower, but you've done the leaves and the stork and the petals separately. So maybe you have six or five layers. You can then pinch all of those layers together like this. So just pinch together. You can practice it, and this will be useful again. So we can combine everything we've drawn separately into one layer. Okay, and we're going to just explore the color a little bit. So we're going to talk about color palettes and all that a little bit later. For now, if you just click that little circle at the top, which might be white for you right now, you'll see that it opens up your color panel, and there's a little disk. So this works in a really fun way. So on the outside of this disc, let's say you se like blue, you can select the hue and on the inside is going to show all the tints and shadows of that hue. On the outside, you can select the hue, let's say purple, and then you can select a particular shadow or tint hue of that color on the inside. This is really, really fun. Maybe select one color. And let's say it's purple. Now this is how I'm dragging that color that will circle into my document. I love this. You can just drag this into your artwork into your art space. It is really useful. I've selected another color and I get maybe another one and just try to practice it. See how that's just doable it's a really, really good trick. You can do this to certain element as well. So let's say you have a petal, then you can drag the color into that petal. Okay, so let's create two layers that are in different colors. So let's say I'm making a new one here, and this one's going to be in, let's say, this lovely pink. So I'm just dragging this pink in here. Okay, so I just want to cover this. On each layer, there's an option to reduce its opacity. Now we're going to take these two fingers and we're going to tap, tap your two fingers, and then you find this little slide or that you can move up and down and you can see that it'll say opacity. At the moment, it's just reducing the opacity of the pink layer, so the blue one shows through. There's another fun way to blend two layers together. On the layer, you'll notice this little letter N on the right. If you click it, it will open up all of the blending mode. This is something we call a blending mode. You can select screen, color bun, all these different ones because our pink layer is at the top and our blue ones at the bottom, and so the yeah, so it's just going to blend them together, depending on the option you select. And you can just experiment. You can have a look. Because both of these colors are quite light. You know, the results are not dramatic. But if you had, like, a really dark color and you try to blend it with, like, a lighter one, you know, it'll just be more visible. But just playing around with it. It's quite fun. And this can be really useful if you want to add, like, shadows or highlights in your flowers, let's say, we'll definitely cover that a little bit more. You can also show and hide your layers, so you can select it or de select it like ticket or on ticket, and it will either show or not. We'll use this technique when we're drawing from a picture. So we'll place the picture in one layer and then reduce the opacity and then hide it from time to time so we can see where we at with our painting. Okay, I hope that makes sense. And lastly, you can also move your layers. So notice how I'm just tapping it, holding it, and moving it up or down. There we go. If you have big fingers, sometimes it can be a bit hard. So let's say you have a lot of layers and you want to arrange them in a specific order, this can be really, really useful. 3. Lesson 3: Brushes: In this lesson, we are going to explore brushes. So to open up your brush menu, look for this little brush sign at the top and just click on it. And you'll see this beautiful brush library that's got so many lovely inbuilt brushes already. Okay? So we're going to take our time and just explore. I'll share some of my favorites. So let's see the drawing one, artistic one, calligraphy ones. I am not a fan of, like, in built calligraphy brushes, and I'll definitely show you how to create your own brush next week. We're not going to focus on calligraphy much this week. But just explore the artistic ones, catching ones. You can find so many different ones. If you ever want to import your own brushes, click on that little plus icon and you'll see that there's a little import section at the top that you can click. Let's say you buy some brushes and let's say, and you want to import them. So that's how you would do it. I've also added some written instructions below so you can have a look and also, if you ever want to change the brush settings, you can play around a little bit. You can just click on the brush and it'll open up more settings about it. Okay, so let's begin and just explore. Maybe let's start with the drawing section. So in the drawing section, there are definitely some really good ones that we can try. Maybe you can begin with the Blackburn, the one that's called Blackburn. You just select it and then go to the little circle at the top. We're going to change the color. So let's select something nice. You can select any color you like. I'm going to offer this green. Now, what's really important here on the left is that you're going to find two slides. So one is for the brushes size and the one at the bottom is for the brushes opacity. We are going to use these quite a lot. So get used to having them there and just being able to change from time to time. And let's just try drawing a simple heart and maybe coloring it in. Maybe I'll change my brush to 2%. So the size of the brush to 2% and maybe draw a little heart and I just want to show you this trick. You can drag the paint directly into your shape. Sometimes this is not going to work if your brush is quite translucent because it won't detect the outline. But normally, if you're using a brush like this, you can definitely do this. This is a good example. I've reduced the opacity and you see there's no clear outline. I can't drag the paint inside of it, that's fine. You can just color as it is. So this is quite low opacity. So you can see that my bottom slider is towards the middle. And maybe select a different color. I'm getting off with this lovely pink, and just maybe make your brush a bit bigger. I've made it quite opaque again, so the opacity is at 100%, there you go. Just experiment a little bit. So that's one of the brushes I like for drawing. Now, let's go back into that brush section at the top and then click on calligraphy and then have a look at the script. Brush, you'll open it up. So, this one's great. You can try it out. As I said, I'm not a fan of using this for calligraphy. It's just a little bit too translucent. I don't know. I feel like the downstrokes are really dark and the upstrokes are really faint. So I'm definitely not a fan of this, but I do love drawing with it sometimes. My layer is getting a bit full up. So maybe let's click on those little squares at the top again and just clear this layer so we can draw a little bit more. So two squares at the top and just slide and click Clear. And everything will disappear, Navier. And we can just try maybe drawing something with this brush. And I quite like this brush for drawing. So I'm just drawing a really simple flower head and just dragging in the paint again. I love the clean outline. I love that it's got a pressure change, like a really slight pressure change. When you press down harder, it can be very, very useful for sure. Okay, let's have a look at something else on the calligraphy. I very often use the fine liner, the monoline, the monoline brush. It's called monoline. So let's select this one. And again, I just love this one. It's a bit small, so you probably want to increase the size. I've just picked up this lovely green color and I'm just doing a few doodles. My opacity actually was low, so I've just increased it. The second slide at the bottom, slide all the way up. It's just try doing some of these really simplistic leaf shapes and maybe dragging the color into them. Just make sure that they connect, that all the lines connect. If you don't join up the lines at the top and at the bottom of the leaf, you be able to drag the color into it because there's going to be a hole. That's a bit tricky sometimes. Yeah, this one's good for detail. So if you ever want to maybe show some more detail, let's say you use a really kind of, like, natural looking brush like watercolor or gouache, and you want to show some more detail that's a bit more contrasting. This brush is really, really good for that. I highly, highly recommend. Okay, so let's clear this layer and go back to our brush library, and let's just explore the brushes under painting. So select painting on the left. I really love this wet acrylic brush. The one above that's called acrylic is also good. But let's select the wet acrylic one and maybe choose a nice color from the color panel. I've just selected this lovely red, reddish pink. I'm just doing this quick up and down movements. My opacity is slightly down and my brush size is quite normal. It's quite low. It's quite small. You can tweak those as well, let's just do these up and down movements connecting in the same base. You can also layer them. Notice if you go over them again, they become darker. Let's maybe reduce the size of the brush. And maybe do some of these little stalks, just like in a straight line, you probably want to press down quite hard. This brush can be a little bit translucent, which is sometimes annoying. But it is overall, a really lovely lovely brush. I use it quite a lot for flower drawing, and we're actually going to use this as well this week. So it's a really lovely one. I might do a little base. For each flower head and yeah, just a really quick doodle. We're just trying it out to maybe do a few scribbles, maybe troy leave for t little flower head, change in between the colors, try to get used to changing your brushes, size, and opacity, using those two slides on the left. We're just experimenting. It doesn't have to look professional or good at this point. We're just trying out different styles. Let's clear this layer again and then go back to painting. What else can we find here? Oil paint is a good one. I quite like it. It's a little bit different. You'll see how when you press down harder, you get a darker, more contrasting look, which is quite fun. Maybe try doing some shape so just do a little wavy line just to try it out. I also really like gouache. So it's a bit more fluffy, so it's quite big. Might want to use, you might want to reduce your brush size when you use it. And again, it's a little bit translucent. So this one, again, is really good for coloring, I would say. Okay. Let's see what else we can see on the painting. Watercolor one is really nice. So this one is really good for watercolor washes. So if you want to do a wash in the background, maybe make it really big and just do these side to side movements, and you can also overlay them. Notice that if you press down harder, you get a darker look. And my opacity is actually slightly down as well, so you can have to experiment with the look, but it's a really good one. And a really similar one under painting is called fresco, and this one is also fun. I love this kind of wash. It's a bit more kind of natural looking and yeah, definitely beautiful. You can try some lovely, light colors and layer it if you like. I can definitely see how this could be used for, like, a quilt or wedding stationery. You can always do, like a nice pink wash in the background of the save the date, you know, that could look really, really beautiful. And it's so simple to do, you know, to draw this, to paint this would take so long and let it dry. And it's amazing that we can just do that by using a brush. Okay, so just explore all of these brushes. I've got to mention some of my favorite ones. But I also want to give you room for experimentation. There are some lovely ones under um inking and drawing as well. You can definitely try them out. We will be trying some soon anyway, so we'll get to those. But just experiment because I think this is where you'll start developing your style. That was the case for me, just kind of exploring different brushes. And that's why I'm able to share in this course all of my favorite brushes because I think everybody every artist will use different brushes. They'll have their favorite. So I just really don't want to take that away from you. I want you to just spend time exploring and maybe finding something what you like. So I'm just using this Larapuna. It's called Larapuna brush. We'll use this one specifically for some drawing soon. Yeah, we'll get into all of that very soon. 4. Lesson 4: Quick gestures & shortcuts: So there are a lot of shortcuts and gestures and Procreate that you can use to just speed up your flow, you know, as you're creating and I've written them all down. So all the important ones. I've written them down just so you can always have a look if you need to. And, of course, I'll also demonstrate as we start drawing. But I just want to mention these two. So undo and redo. I think these are so important. So to undo something, if you just want to go step back, just tap two fingers on the screen, and if you want to redo, um, just tap three fingers. So I'm just drawing two hearts here and you can just scribble something using any brush. Now that I'm tapping two fingers, they just go back. So undo whatever I've done. And if you tap three fingers, you redo. 5. Lesson 5: Exploring Colour Palettes - Getting started with florals: In this lesson, we're going to talk about colors and creating your own color palette. So remember, we talked about the disc view, which is this where, you know, you can select the colors. There's also a classic view. So if you switch between the B, you'll see the different. You can select the colors in a different way. And you can also use the slides you know, to create different ones. So, yeah, it's really up to you what you use. But there's also something interesting here, and you can enter like custom colors. Sometimes you might know the color code, and you can enter in there, which can be really helpful. So we're going to jump right in and start creating. Let's begin by creating a new document. So we're clicking this plus icon, and this time, we're going to select the square option. Okay? So I love using square. It's just quite a nice size. You can always turn this into a pattern later on. We're going to talk about it later. Okay, so let's start by building a new color palette, and I'll show you the process I like to use. If you open your browser and then go to unsplash.com, maybe you've heard of this website before, it's just a really nice library of photos that you can use for your creations like royalty free. Some of them, I think, still paid, but you'll see which ones are free. I just typed flowers. We're going to just look at some photos. We've got some lovely ones here and I'll actually upload the photo that I found so you can use the same one. That's a pretty one. I'm just looking at all the different colors and seeing what I could use and I think that's a good one. I'm not sure this isn't free, so I'm going to focus on the free ones. So this is really pretty. You can see how we can definitely get lots of green beautiful greens from this photo. I'll save this. Maybe I'll use this later. But I really love this one. This one's got really nice moody colors. They're quite bright as well, quite striking. So how about we use this one? I've attached this photo just below the video so you just saving your device. And then if you just go into color and then palette, and you're going to add a new Color palette just click in plus. And this time we're going to do it from file. Okay? Because I've saved this as a file. So just find that photo, load it in and it'll automatically create this beautiful palette. And look at these colors. These are gorgeous. These are very beautiful. Okay? So we can use this to now maybe draw a couple of flowers, and I'll show you maybe the fast one we can try together. So I'm just thinking about a brush. How about it going to painting and select wet acrylics? I've really loved this brush. It's quite a nice one and gentle one. So I've selected it, and let's just change its size to something smaller, maybe six or even five or four, to be honest. I'm just trying, this is a bit thick. So let's go down to four. So changing the brushes size. And I'm just going to do some petals. So just imagine that you're drawing on paper. With this brush, you do want to kind of press down a bit hard because you'll see them, um it kind of disappears sometimes, the straw disappears. We've done the outline, so you can do three petals. You might need to go back sometimes to correct something, so just tap two fingers. Now we're going to color it in. I've just increased the brush's size slightly and I've reduced the opacity a little bit. It really doesn't matter, you don't have to be precise. Find what works for you here and I'm just gently starting to color this in and you do want to be quite gentle as you're coloring. That would be the first thing we do. We're just going to repeat this. We're going to try this again maybe with another color. I'm thinking of selecting this lovely dark purple. Again, I just need to reduce my brush to four again and you can leave your opacity where it is, or you can slide it all the way back. I'm just going to do it this way. Again, see how sometimes I'm drawing and then I'm just going back because maybe I didn't start in the right way or I don't like maybe my first petals, so you can definitely just go back and start again. This one's a little bit different, so I'm not overlapping them. I'm just kind of connecting the more to the same base and I'm just doing this really jagged movement. I'm trying to do the front petal, a bit shorter, got a wider looking. You can try this a few times, of course, you can always go back by tapping two fingers. Again, I'm going to increase my brushes size to let's say 12 and reduce my opacity to somewhere around 70 and we can gently start coloring in. I really love this brush. It lays in a really beautiful way. But sometimes you'll need to again, just go back and start again. If you notice that maybe you're starting to color in unevenly or you don't like something. And we still want to leave it fairly airy, so I'm not over cooloring, so we definitely still want to see those outlines. Okay, so we do another one. Let's do the pink one. Let's do. You know, you can choose any colors you like, of course. So have a, we do one above. And notice that I'm doing them more in one layer right now. In the future, you can also work with, you know, quite a few layers. For now, we're not going to complicate it. Let's just keep everything here. Again, I'm just doing three petals and then the front one is a little bit more flat, if that makes sense. Again, reducing the opacity of the brush and increasing its size and just gently and slowly starting to color in. If you want to add some natural shadows, you can just go over those areas again, maybe towards the center of the flower, maybe some parts of the petal can be a little bit darker. It's really up to you. Okay, now that we've done all the coloring, we're going to go into the calligraphy section in brushes and select the monoline brush. I'm just changing the color to a nice green. You can choose any green you like. I really love this muted one. I'm just starting to add these little stem. I'm really changing the size of my brush, I'm just keeping it where it is. I'm just doing these really natural looking curve lines. Now I'm thinking of selecting a nice orange or yellow and still with the same brush, I'm just starting to add the center of the flower. I'm just doing lots of lines that come together and then form a little like a circle. So you can definitely get creative here, you can do them as big as you like, as thick looking as you like. Try to think about where the center of the flower would be. And then just go from there. This can be a little bit of rough looking. It doesn't need to be super neat. Okay. Now, this is really important. If you ever need an eraser, you might have seen this in the gestures, document that I've added. But if you ever need an eraser, you can always select it here and just use it as a brush. It works in the same way, just like a brush. You can change its size if you need to Okay, so now I'm just thinking about those flower scents and I'm thinking of maybe adding some black dots. I'm just testing out. Sometimes you might want to test something out. Instead of dot, I might actually do some lines, but I want my brush to be really, really small so maybe 1%. And I'm just doing these little lines just to define it a little bit more, give it a bit more contrast. And then adding lots of little dots. Okay? So this is something you can try with me. You can think of poppies as examples, you know, how they have that really dark center of the flower. It does look really good. And maybe a lot of dots to kind of fluff it up a little bit more. Okay, so now I'm just thinking about this, like, beige looking color. And again, I'm keeping my brush at one, but I might reduce the opacity to some like 85 or 80 I'm just testing out. I wanted to use this color, but I think we'll be better off using a nice white. So if you go into disc in your color in your color panel, and you select white. And this is another trick. So to get the purest white, you can just select the color and then tap twice, and it kind of jumps to the pest purest version of that color. So you can do that with any color If you select, let's say, gray or white or black. It is really useful for black. So if you want to get a pure black and you just select somewhere in the black section and then double tap and it'll give you the purest black. Now I just wanted a really nice bright white. I selected white and I double tapped and gave me this lovely white color. Okay, so the brush size is really small and the opacity is quite low. And we're just adding these little kind of highlights in each petal. We're just drawing these really thin lines. And take your time with this. Obviously, we're not, you know, spending a lot of time on this, it's still like a little experiment. Maybe this is the fastest thinging you've ever drawn. In Procreate so congratulations. You know, you're doing great. We're just trying things out. And you might also find that it takes you longer. You might need to pause the video, and that's very normal. Okay, now that we've done some highlights, I'm just thinking about the leaves. Maybe you can select a nice, maybe dark green from here from this palette. Again, select the color, and I'm just still using the monoline brush. And again, you probably want to be quite precise here. You might want to actually zoom in, that might help. So we're just doing this really simplistic leaf shape. So just going up and down, trying to keep the sides a bit wider and then going back to the stalk. Again, I just made a bit of a mess. In the background. So I just deleted that so that can happen when you move your hand. So try to make them quite flowy. I do find that if you move your hand kind of fairly quickly, it looks a bit more in flow. So remember, you can always tidy up a little bit. You can always go around your stalks or where, you know, your leaves join up the stalk. You can tidy up with an eraser, which is something we'll do at the end. So I'm not too worried if some of the lines overlap right now or, you know, if something isn't too precise. And again, it's just an experiment. We're just practicing. And let maybe do just like an individual little branch of leaves. We can keep it quite big. Okay, so what I also like doing is adding a little line in each leaf. So let's try this to get that just a bit more detail. It doesn't have to be straight. It can definitely be a little bit carved. That can look really nice, so just still using the same brush, same color, and just adding in some detail into each leaf. Try your best. You're doing great. I can't wait to see your first effort of droping. You're doing amazing. If you've gotten this far, well done. Okay, so now we're going to go back. We're going to go back to this wet acrylic brush, which is underpainting. And I'm just reducing the opacity to some like 67 and maybe making my brush a little bit bigger. And I'm just starting to color in. You can definitely kind of color in one direction, or you can go up and down. It's really up to you. With this brush, you probably want to be quite gentle to begin with, and then build on but I do love. I hope you see the beautiful effect it creates. I think this was my first ever brush I tried, and I remember I was drawing something and I was learning and I just really enjoyed it. That's why I always say it's really nice to explore the library of brushes, and you might want to buy some brushes later on. If you search for procreate brushes on Etsy, you'll find so many. To be honest, I've only ever bought one brush, which is a fine liner brush, which I actually didn't really like at the end. So I do believe that you can actually create a lot with what you have already. So I'm still coloring in, but I thought I'd mix it up with different greens. So I always say, try to make your greens, your leaves, you know, quite natural. And you can do that by mixing different kind of shades of green in the same composition. So I've just picked up like a slightly different color of green from the same color palette, and you can see how it looks slightly different. And it just creates like a nice more natural look, and I really love it. I think it looks great. You can even blend in another green, or you can even blend them together, or you can just go over your initial leaves with another color, like another shade of green, and that can create a beautiful effect. So that's a nice little trick. But yeah, try all the greens if you like. You can do each leaf like in a similar green, it doesn't want to be a dramatic change, but when it goes from light into darker, it can look beautiful. Okay, so now I've selected that eraser so you can see my asors blue at the top because I clicked on it, and I made it really small like 1%. I'm just starting to tidy up. So sometimes as you're coloring, you might have had this happen as well. Maybe you were a bit messy and it went out of your outlines, which, to be honest, is fine for this style of drawing. I wouldn't say it has to be super neat, but we can definitely tidy up a little bit. So that's what I'm doing. I'm just going around and seeing what I can do to maybe get rid of some of that fluffiness around the leaves. If something goes wrong, just go back, tap two fingers again. And there we go, you're fast hand drawn or procreate drawn, digitally drawn flowers. I hope you're enjoying this and I hope you're finding it quite nice to learn and try. Maybe you've done something similar before, but I hope you're enjoying playing with brushes and I hope you've picked up a few tips here. Okay, so I'm going to show you something really useful. You'll see this little letter S at the top and we're going to click on it. Now, this is a selection tool so you can select something. If you draw around your flower, it'll be selected. Now we're going to slide down three fingers and click Copy and we're going to slide down three fingers again and click Paste. You can see how you just pasted another flower. Now we can grab its corner and we can move it up and down. We can make it bigger, we can make it smaller, we can drag it, we can reposition it, we can rotate it. It's very useful. Something to bear in mind is that it's created in another layer, so it's not the same layer anymore. You'll see that in your layers panel. If you select the arrow, and maybe open up your layers, you'll see that it's at the top, so we can pinch them together. We can merge them, so it becomes one layer again. We just try to fill in the square with maybe some copied flowers. I'm going to select this one, so just be careful if yours are quite close. We don't want to chop off part of another flower. So again, copies sliding tree fingers down, pasting. Again, we can drag it around a little bit. We can make it smaller, we can make it bigger, rotate it, position it somewhere nice. Creating a nice little composition filled with flowers. This actually will be how we create patterns if you wanted to make lots of little squares click together like tiles. This is actually really similar. This is something we'll be doing and the process is really similar to this. We're just filling in this fast square. I'm just thinking what else I could copy just to make it quite nice. Maybe the actual little branch. We can select that copy, paste. Oh, see, I forgot that it was on another layer, so that could happen. Let's just remember that we need to merge those two together. Okay, there we go. Now it's one layer and I can select it again. So copy, slight ref ring is down, paste, let's move this little branch somewhere else. You can rotate it. This is just practicing. It doesn't need to look amazing. So play around, see if you want to copy a few more elements. If you want to select something else and copy it over, just to fill in this little square, a little bit more. I really love the way these little branches look, so I'm just filling in the space really. I think it looks quite lovely, especially if you position them in a nice flowy, natural looking way. I'm just going to pinch everything together so it becomes one layer, and there we go, guys. Your fast little composition, and you can also select something and move it around. Maybe you don't like where you position your first initial flowers or your branch. You can definitely move it around and reposition, which is really useful. And lastly, I just want to show you one more trick. If you select something, let's say we select this little branch. We are then going to click on this arrow and you can see how we can move it around. Now, if you have a look at the bottom, you'll see there are two little sections that say free form and uniform. So I just want to show you the difference. So when you select the uniform one, you can drag and scale without losing its shape. And if you select freeform, when you drag, it's going to be stretched. So that's the main difference, really. So I always try to select uniform. And if you ever notice that it's dragging and changing its shape, just check your settings here. So that's just something to remember. So I just want to say, well done for getting this far. If you found it difficult, it's worth rewatching and just trying it again. And trust me, it'll get easier. 6. Lesson 6: Exploring Flower Styles and Brushes: In this lesson, we'll continue exploring. So let's try some different brushes, and we'll begin by creating another document, and let's keep it square. So just click on Plus and then create a square document, and let's go straight into brushes. Let's see if we can find a nice brush. Let's go into sketching this time and see if we can find the one that says soft pastel. And we're going to select a nice color, just go for something nice and warm. I'll just go for this red one. Okay, so I'm just testing the brush out, and I quickly realized that I need to change its size to maybe 2%. And this time, we're just going to do like a nice flower that's got more outlines rather than jagged lines. So we're just going to do a classic looking flower that looks a bit like this. So actually very similar to leaf drawing. We're just drawing these leafy shapes, some sea curves that come together. Okay, so you probably want to press down quite hard when you do the outline. And as you're coloring, I'm not actually changing anything within the brush, but I'm just going super lightly. You can reduce the opacity slightly, so just reduce it a little bit. So just color really lightly. We are going for this lovely airy effect. And once you've coloured in all the petals, see if you can find a nice yellow color. I don't think we have a nice yellow in our palette. So you can also select it from the disc panel. So select a nice yellow and just start kind of adding lots of dots. I've just returned brushes opacity to 100, so it looks a bit more opaque. You can also maybe blend in a bit of brown in there. I do love layering colours and kind of mixing them this way. I do find it a little bit boring if you just use just one colo for the center of the flower. It depends on the style, but I think for this style, it's nice to just make it a bit more natural. So see if you need to change your brushes size, like a very small size, even like 1% will work really, really good here. I'm just looking at some other natural looking colors. And there is this lovely orange. So I just selected it. I'm thinking that maybe if we reduce the brushes opacity to somewhere around 50, and then we start kind of coloring in the petals again. I had a feeling that it might mix nicely, and it really does. Notice how it kind of blends together. And it definitely just looks so much more professional already because we have a nice layer defect that rather than just one color. And you can experiment, you can blend in different colors. You can do this with your leaves as well. Now I'm going to return the opacity to 100, so let's do it together and we're going to draw a little stalk. I'm going to do it again. You do want to press down really hard as you do it. I've just noticed that this brush definitely likes definitely definitely likes when you press down hard. And I'm just experimenting here with some leaves. You know, you can make it fun and just do these really kind of quick, rubbly looking leaves. They do look really fun. So rather than have a perfect leaf shape, we could try something like this. And again, just coloring. If you need to pause the video, please, please do. You can always cut you up. And restart it. You know, that's why it's a course that you can actually pause and do again. So I've just deleted the coloring. So again, I'm showing you the process. So sometimes I would try something, and I'll just get rid of it because I didn't like it. So I did realize that maybe less opacity for the leaves would work a bit better. So I just reduce it even more. So I just use the slider. I went kind of all the way down almost, and I do think that it'll be better. You can layer it still, and I might go over the stalk again because it's a little bit invisible. And again, I'm just looking at some other greens, and this is something you can do as well. Just like we layered the petals, we can definitely layer the leaves as well. And it's nice to have that lighter and darker area. So that contrast just makes it look more natural and I do like it. So there we go. We're going to select this flower and just make it a bit smaller. Okay. Let's select this flower with the arrow because it's just one layer, we can just select it as it is. We don't have to use the selection tool because there's nothing else in here. We can make it a bit smaller and maybe just drag it to the corner of the square. I'm just going to copy and paste. Remember, three fingers sliding down, and then sliding three fingers and pasting. And I might just paste another one and rotate it slightly, and the cool thing is, I'm going to share this really, really nice thing that you can do. You can now select a different color and you can drag. That color into your flower, let's say, flower head. So see how I've selected pink, now I'm selecting purple, and I'm just dragging it into this flower and notice how we've just drawn one element or one flower, and now we're copying it over so many times and we're changing its color. By just dragging in super simple. You can get creative here. You can do different colors. It's a lovely color palette, so I do love the way all these colors work together. And notice I'm just copying over, resizing, arranging, dragging, and it's just beautiful. Just remember that they all become separate layers. So we need to join them all up, merge them all in a minute. I'm still copying over that original fast layer. And as you copy on, you just need to do paste, paste, paste, obviously, because you already copied it. So I'm just sliding three fingers down and selecting paste and just notice how many we can do, you know, relatively short amount of time. I think it's just incredible. The opportunities procreate office is just I love it. I love how everything just becomes so much quicker. Now it is that I'm just merging, pinching together all the layers, so everything becomes as one document. Then you can Zoom that document in a bit more. So once we get this one image, we can zoom it in, zoom it out. We can make it bigger, smaller, well done. So we have another little creation. Well done. I can't wait to see yours. Okay, so so far, we've done these really kind of natural looking, real looking, hand drawn looking flowers. Now, let's try and hide this layer and create a new layer. So you can see how I've hid the previous one, and I've just created a new layer. So just untick that little square next to the layer. Let's go into brushes and go into calligraphy and select the monoline brush. So, this time, we're going to create something a bit more artificial looking, but it still works really nicely. It's more like a pattern, a bit more digital looking. I've selected this pink color, and I've just drawn these five petals. So everything looks really clean. We're not coloring in. We're just dragging. We're just dragging the paint. In two. Just try a few times if it doesn't work out. So just dragging the paint into the flower head. So we can do maybe one that's shaped like this. Now maybe select a different color. Maybe you can do another one. So lots and lots of these little shapes that kind of look like flower heads. Maybe a red one. You can just position them close together. If you're not happy with the way you do it once, just do it again. I do it all the time. There we go. Just another little experiment. This will be really good. Lovely. So we've got some flower heads, which is great. Now, I've just selected some white, and I'm just drawing a little white circle inside of these flower heads, so we can leave the ones that look a bit more like buds. We can do something else there. But like the ones that have a lot of petals, we can definitely do a little circle in the middle. I'm going to select a nice green color. I'm just thinking, maybe I'll do this lighter green. I love, like, really kind of subtle looking color palettes. And I'm just starting to draw these really kind of thin, natural looking carved stems. So for every flower, I'm just doing like a little stork. And we're going to keep the leaves, again, not necessarily very natural looking, but more like digitally drawn. So just like really nice, lovely round leaves. So you know what I mean? So this is something that would be printed on a pillowcase. You know, you see this all the time on notebooks on calendars. So it's just something that's kind of like digitally drawn. I do definitely prefer more of a natural look like we did before, but I think it's nice to try, definitely. So I'm just dragging in, like, different colors. You can try different greens. And we can actually add a bit more to it. We can embellish it a little bit. So maybe we could draw a little detail inside each leaf. I'm just making sure that these white sackles are white looking. They were a bit yellowish. So yeah, I'm just thinking of doing, like, a little line inside the leaf and maybe doing a couple of, like, veins inside of the leaf. So you might want to zoom in when you do this, just to make sure that it's nice and neat. Especially for a design like this. Everything wants to be quite clean and look like a nice clean line. There we go. So I think this style definitely has its place. It's not something I would go for. But I think a lot of people will really enjoy this. It's quite simplistic. It kind of consists of shapes and, you know, just kind of coloring in those shapes in a clean way. I definitely prefer a txtured brush, but it's nice to try. Again, you can achieve a lot with a monoline brush, for sure. And I'm just selecting maybe a darker color like black, and we can do some lines here kind of coming out with these little buds and maybe adding little yellow circles at the top. And it some pollen kind of showing through. So, I think it's lovely. It's definitely different, but I hope you enjoyed trying these two different styles, and I hope it felt like a nice way to experiment and maybe discover something new about your own style. So maybe you're starting to actually think what it is that you prefer. I think that's quite important to notice early on. So I hope you enjoyed it. Well done, everybody. I would love to see some of these snippets, some of these things you've created. Please share a photo of your work. You can message me, email me, upload it in a Facebook group. I would really, really love to see. Well done, everybody, and I'll see you in the next lesson. 7. Lesson 7: Drawing Roses: Let's go ahead and try drawing some roses. So let's make a new layer and maybe select a lovely purple color. I'm going to use this lovely kind of like a lilac, light purple. I can't decide between red and purple, but I think purple is going to look really lovely. There you go. So just select the color you like to use. And we're going to head to brushes and we're going to try this really fun brush that I really like. It's on the artistic section, and it's called Larapuna. Larapuna? Is that how you pronounce it? It's really lovely. I do use it actually quite a lot. It's quite realistic looking. So you can try it out a couple of times before we begin. And to draw a rose, you're going to start from the center of the flower and just do these little kind of sea curved shapes that all connect eventually and get bigger and bigger towards the outside of the flower. So now I'm building up a rose out of these shapes. They don't have to be very precise or neat. You can always go back and delete if you don't like something. But what we're looking for is just like a round looking flower head consisting of these shapes. So that would be the first step. And then we're going to reduce the opacity of the brush and maybe decrease the size of it, as well. It's really up to you. Just find a nice comfortable size that you can color in with. And we're starting to color in gently. So let's try and be really gentle here. So the opacity is down, so it shouldn't look too too colored in. It will still be really kind of light looking, and just really carefully kind of going in to those white areas going over them, coloring in. Very kind of airy and floffy looking at this point. Okay. So now we're going to select like a darker purple. And again, I'm just reducing the brush size. This one's to be quite small. And we're going to do these kind of like little shadows, so we're just going to define the outlines of those sea curves. So now that is how they're starting to kind of form a petal shape. So we're just defining them a little bit more, kind of go up with them, show a bit more kind of like a darker effect here and there. And this will just make it look a bit more. Shaped. So definitely a really nice little trick. Just going over those s curves again. Okay, so it starts to come together though. Take your time here. You can definitely, experiment and go back if you need to pause the video as well. Okay. Maybe let's select some green, any green. I'm going to go for this darker green. We're just going to draw these two leaves coming out of the same base. You can do them in one go. You can stop in between. I'm just adding these really simplistic little veins. They're not really contrasting, so my opacity is not at 100% still. But again, it's up to you, just make it yours, but these are the settings I'm using. I might increase the size now and just gently color in trying to not go outside the outlines, just keeping it all in. Lovely. So what we can do now is click on this little arrow at the top and select it and we can resize it. Let's make it a bit smaller. And we can copy. So sliding tree fingers down, clicking copy, sliding tree fingers down, clicking paste, selecting paste. I just rearrange a little bit. We can drag them, we can rotate them. What I really love about this again is that we're going to drag another color into the flower head. How amazing is that? So done I've made one orange and now I'm selecting some pink and I'm going to drag some pink into the flower head, and we just get this beautiful collection of roses. And this is amazing because we actually only drew it once, which is just lovely. I'll never get over how exciting it is. So yeah, just select any colors you like, do as many as you like. And although we copied them, we can still make them slightly different. We can go in with a bit more detail and just make them a bit more original so they don't all look the same. And to do that, we can select a different brush. So maybe we can go back to the calligraphy section and select the monoline brush. I'll using Mnolin for something really clean, something that needs a lot of contrast. So select the nice green could be a bit dark if you like. And I'll keep my brush really small, so it's at 1%, and you can do full opacity here if you like. And we are just drawing these little veins, and we can make each flower slightly different. Obviously, they won't be the same if you just do each flower. So I think that's a really nice little trick. Although we did copy them and although they are all similarly shaped, but now they have different colors, and now we're going to add a separate element to each. There we go. You can also define the actual rows a little bit more if you like. I quite like the fluffy effect, but if you wanted to add more highlights, you can just select white and do some lines in the actual rows as well, and there we go. We just need to merge all of our layers together because we've copied them over, so we have quite a few layers there. Ping them together and it's all finished. 8. Lesson 8: Drawing from a reference: In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to draw from a reference. So I've linked this photo below this video so you can download it. Now, the first step you're going to do is make two new layers and then select the bottom layer and click on this little kind of like a tool icon at the top, and then click on Inset file and just find this file. So for me, it'll be in my recent file, so hopefully for you as well. And you'll see that it kind of imported into your canvas, which is great. You might need to zoom in, so just adjust. You can drag. From the corner and we do want it to be quite zoomed in, so this is going to be perfect. Oh, they look so beautiful. They will look really lovely once they're drawn. Okay, so now we're going to make this bottom layer a little bit more invisible. So again, remember, tap the two fingers and they're going to slide the opacity to let's say 50 50 is good or just below. Then we're going to select the top layer because that'll be the layer where we actually draw. We're drawing on top of the photos layer. In terms of brushes, we are just going to select this script brush from the calligraphy section. We haven't used this one before. I'm going to talk about calligraphy brushes more as we start doing a bit of calligraphy. We're actually going to build our own brush. So I am just drawing. So we're going to start with this where we just draw around slowly each petal. So we really want to get that lovely perspective of the flower. So we're just taking our time, drawing carefully. This is such a good technique. You can use this for anything. You can even do this from photos for maybe couples or if you want to, like, line draw, like a specific photo of somebody, this can work really beautifully or like pet portraits. It's really, really fun. Okay, so I'm just doing another flower. This brush is a bit sensitive. So if you press down hard, it'll get a bit thicker, just like a calligraphy brush. The reason I said we'll make our own brush because I don't really love lettering with the pre built brushes. We'll chat about it all later, I guess you've been wondering. I'll definitely teach you how to create your own brush. There we go. Maybe let's do another one. You don't have to do them all. I normally just love to select maybe three or just make my own composition out of it really. You don't have to do them all. And this is what I love to do. I love to do the outlines and maybe take a bit of inspiration, just take a few element out of it, but then also get very creative with it and just turn this into my own style. Okay, so I think this will be quite nice these three flowers. Now we're going to deselect the photo layer so we can actually see what we've drawn. Okay. And it might look quite basic right now, that's fine. And to make it look nicer, we are going to start coloring in. So let's go into our brush panel. And we're going to go into the painting section. And let's go back to the wet acrylic brush. Remember, we've used this one before. It's just really lovely for coloring. I really love doing outlines and then coloring with this brush. It's just really lovely. So now, you can always combine your brushes. Okay, so I'm just reducing its size. You can also play with the opacity. And just notice how I'm coloring in the direction of the petals, and that's just going to give them like a nicer, smoother finish. So you might need to move your hand or you can always you can always rotate. The canvas by twisting. And, this brush, it kind of layers. So sometimes you might need to kind of restart if you don't like a harsher look here and there. So you can definitely go back and just play with that. So we're just building it up slowly. We'll add some detail, but for now, this will be a really nice kind of like a base layer. And this will take a bit of time. So definitely just take your time. It's quite relaxing, to be honest. And this color is beautiful. So just keep going, doing each petal, maybe thinking where you can press down to be harder to add a bit of a natural shadow. You can always refer to the photo as well and just check where there are darker elements. You can always just take in and tack the photo so you know where you're at. Sometimes I just love to kind of check in as well to see what it looks like. But as I said, I think it's nice to take the outline and then just turn this into something that's yours rather than just coping every single element from the photo. So that's how I work with references, and I think it's really effective. So there we go. So some of my petals here got a bit dark, so I'm just trying to even everything out. I feel like the smaller the brush size, the easier it is to control it. You might find that, too. So there we go. That looks quite nice. See how you're doing. You can keep. Some of the flowers quite light. Maybe this one. I'll actually make this one quite gentle and translucent looking. I think it's a nice effect. Maybe a bit more darkness here and there. Okay, so that's like a nice base layer and just blend it out even more, see what you can do. See if you want to go over some of the petals again, just to really show that variety of shades and just make it look natural. I'm definitely taking my time here, so you might want to take a bit of time coloring, just to make it look. Visually nice. Okay, so I'm just looking at the photo again. Just observing and seeing if there's anything else I can kind of take away from here, and I really love the center of the flour. I love that yellow detail. So I'm just trying to maybe select, like a nice orange color. You can also use yellow for this, actually. And I'm just trying to go kind of really roughly over those areas. And once I have a bit of a reference again, I will just kind of turn this into my own. So I'll add more detail, but I just really love the positioning. So I just want to make it look more natural. And if I go over here and kind of copy it, I know that it will be natural because it is a real flower. So now I'm going to hide a photo, and now I'm just looking. So yeah, that's a good start. And now we can definitely start making those scenters of the flowers, maybe a bit more contrasting. So it looks. Obviously, it's a drawing, so we kind of have to sometimes change things and make them stand out a bit more. So that's what I'm doing here. Maybe I'm adding, like, little circles or, like, thinner lines or thicker lines just to really show that orange kind of pollen detail in the middle. It does look really lovely. And it starts to come together slowly. I think it's when we add leaves, it kind of fluffs up nicely, and that's always the case. See, I'm just playing with the center of the flower, so I'm just adding in more more of these little circles. You can always zoom in and just work with it in a bit more detail if you find that helpful. I'm just trying to go back and redo a couple of bits as well. It does look beautiful. Just two colors here. We haven't done much at all, but it already looks really lovely. So it's definitely a really nice technique. Sometimes when I kind of lack inspiration and I want to do like flowers from different perspectives. I I'm a bit bored of my usual drawing, I will definitely find a nice photo and try to do something like this. And it always gives me new ideas as well. So I think it's a really nice kind of like a training process in a way, as well. Okay, so now I'm just going to select like a darker purple from the same palette, and I'm just going to do these like,thin lines. And these can be quite darker looking. They don't have to be you can definitely press down and be harder. And even this. So kind of it kind of brings it to life a bit more gives it a bit more detail, makes it look a bit more realistic when it's flat like this on the screen. We do kind of have to make it look real. And copying over won't always achieve those results. So we have to think about the techniques we know and the techniques we can implement. I've just selected some green and I'm just doing these really rough little stems. These really kind of natural looking leaves. I'm going quite quickly here because I want them to look quite natural, so I'm not overthinking. So see, I just wanted to show you. You can't really drag the color. You know how we sometimes do. Sometimes we drag that sackle into a shape. We can't do it here because this brush is quite translucent, so it's not going to wag. But yeah, we just color with a brush like this and then layer, which is still nice and I think it's quite special because we can definitely layer it and we can control the light in a way. We can make darker areas and lighter areas. I do like this technique. I hope you're enjoying it too. Also, if you're finding it all really difficult, trust me, if you try doing it all again, it will feel natural. It just takes a bit of time. I'll definitely take a bit of time to maybe click. But once it does, it does click and it just becomes so much more natural. You pick up all the things, you remember them. Next time you do something, it becomes a bit more automatic in a way. But if you're feeling like this is a real struggle to just keep up and try to talk just know that it's very normal. I felt like this when I started out. Trust me. But then once it kind of click, the progress was really, really fast in a way because it all comes with, you know, just learning the basics and then practicing and then obviously, you build the skill and you experiment and it's just fun. It becomes a bit more fun. See, I spent some time coloring the leaves. So I'm just using, like, a smaller brush size here just to be a bit more detailed. It is a bit hard to do the leaves and to make them look quite even, so it does take a bit of time, to see how I'm definitely going over them quite a few times. Which is fine. Again, we spent a bit of time doing the petals in a similar way. So this is probably the longest part of it all. You can always take it as far as you like. You know, you can also blend in, like, a different green if you like. Remember how I said before, that it's nice to vary your greens, combine a few shades together. But I feel like I don't want to blend in too many colors here because it just looks really nice being quite simplistic. So I'm trying to go with that be, but you could definitely experiment, even a bit of yellow here and there in a leaf or a bit of brown. You know, that could look really, really good. Okay, and I'm just going to add some highlights now. So I'm just picking up some white from the color palette. You can also select it from the disc menu. And I'm just doing this really quick. I'm being very quick here because I want them to be quite, lighting, effortless looking. I'm just doing these really quick lines in each bad maybe three or four lines. Just imagine that you're starting from the base and maybe following the direction of the actual leaf. So that kind of helps me. And even these highlights, it kind of transforms the whole look. It definitely looks quite pretty. Maybe a bit of darkness in the middle. I'm thinking maybe adding a bit of black just to again, add a bigger contrast there so it doesn't blend kind of blur together. I do find it kind of disappears a little bit. So adding a bit of darker touch in the middle can look quite nice to see if you want to maybe add a bit of brown or black, and I'm just doing some lines and trying to connect it and kind of join it up with orange. There we go. I think that looks quite nice. So obviously, now I'm just showing it's two layers here, so I kind of created a new layer at one point. So a lot of people prefer drawing each element on a new layer. That's definitely something you can do. I'm not a big kind of fan of that. I always find that I love for something simplistic like this, I just prefer kind of doing one layer. But you can definitely definitely do more than once, so you could do flower heads on one layer, then leaves on the other. Okay, so now I've just copied that first section over, just like you did before. So glide three fingers down, swipe down, copy, swipe down again, paste. And these will become separate layers again. You can march together, but I'm just doing four, and I'm trying to position them in a nice, interesting way. But this looks lovely. I could see this being a wallpaper or, you know, something really fun like that or Um, I don't know. A cushion. This looks really, really kind of interesting, I think, and we didn't spend a long time doing it at all. So I think coloring was the longest part, wasn't it? But it just looks quite simplistic and so effective. This will on wedding stationery, as well. So many possibilities. So I hope you enjoyed this. And again, if it didn't work out the first time you tried it, just try again. Watch slowly, pause if you need to. And remember, I'm here. We have a lovely supportive Facebook group. If you're feeling stuck, just reach out. And I'll do my best to help. But I'm sure you're doing well. I'm sure you're getting there. Well done for being here, for trying, for watching. I'm really excited for you and I can't wait to see your progress. I would love to see a snippet of this. If you don't mind sharing in the Facebook group, please, please do. I would love that. And I'm sure you would inspire others as well. Well done. 9. Week 2: Schedule: Hello, love these students, and welcome to the second week of the course. I am so impressed by all of your work. I'm so proud of you. If you're watching this, well done. You got through the first week. You're here, you're ready to learn more. Now, this is a week where things get a little bit more interesting because now we've covered all the basics, and we can start being a bit more creative. This week, I'll be sharing so many tips and tricks. It's going to be so much fun. I'll show you how to create really beautiful overlay designs, how to do really nice ombre effect, background washes. I'll show you how to create your own stamp so you can just stamp the same thing you've drawn over and over again. It's so much fun. We'll also introduce a bit more calligraphy. Now, I know that some of you have done my beginners procreate course, and if you have, you can skip the first lesson because that's going to be the lesson where I teach you how to create your own calligraphy brush because I don't like to use the inbuilt ones. But if you've done this lesson already, you know how to do it again, if you've never done calligraphy on procreate, you will love that lesson. So yeah, just putting it out there. So we'll definitely introduce a bit more calligraphy. We'll do some wa drawing, so it's going to be a lot of fun. And most importantly, I'll show you how to create a seamless pattern. We can use something you've drawn already maybe in week one. So just save everything. Don't get rid of anything in your canvas. Always start a new document or always start a new layer. We can take something from there and we can just create a beautiful tlable pattern that repeats itself. So you're going to love it. It's such a satisfying process. I'm so excited. I can't wait to see your progress this week, so let's get started. 10. Lesson 9: Custom Calligraphy Brush: Thing we're going to talk about today is brushes because obviously we want to do some lovely calligraphy and we need to make sure that we're using a good brush. You'll find your brush settings here. So if you just click on brush, all right there, you'll find this little window pop up that's called Brush Library. Now, in this brush library, you obviously already have lots and lots of building brushes and they're so much fun. There's so many. There are also some calligraphy brushes. If you click here and let's say you just select script from here at the bottom, select this and give it a go. Just try. Lettering something and see what happens. I'm just using this and I wonder if I've tweaked some settings in there already. I don't remember. I'm not 100% happy with this because I can see some like it doesn't feel smooth to begin with, and my lettering just looks a bit odd. I don't know, maybe you feel the same. If yours is really big or really small, you can always refer to this side slide up and you can change the size of your brush. This is where we would change the size really important. You can do this for any type of brush. So this is really small. While this is really big, you can definitely choose the size you like. I'm just going to keep mine so we're here for now. The second slide here is for opacity of your brush. At 100 obviously is going to be nice and opaque whilst at zero, it's going to be Wadia, it looks a bit fuzzy almost. It's really strange. You can always play around with these settings. Of course, I'm just going to keep mine at 100 here. Again, give it a go. Notice how you can control the pressure on your thin strokes, look thin and your thick strokes look thick, but there's just something not right about it, let me know if you agree. Now, let's say that's one of the brushes. What else have we got here? We've got a brush pen as well, so I'm going to click onto here. Again, I'm going to give it a go Again, I have a feeling that I've tweaked some of the settings already. Yours might look a little bit different. But I remember seeing that there was a lot of low opacity on my connection strokes. Again, this feels fine, but there's just something about it that I don't like. It doesn't flow properly. Remember the first time I tried it, I was like, I'm giving up, I'm not going to do this. I don't like it. But then I discovered that you can customize brushes and you can make your own brushes. I'm just going to get rid of this layer. Are we going to talk about the layers too, please, I'm worry. I'm going to do everything step by step. The good news is, as I said, you can customize your brushes, and this is the first thing we're going to talk about. Again, if you just click on your brush and open up a brush library, you can then click this plus icon here at the top. And there'll be some options here. Let's say you've purchased a brush. That's something you can do. If you go on Etsy or if you just Google Procreate brushes, there'll be lots and lots of calligraphy brushes, watercolor brushes, all sorts of brushes you can buy. In that case, if you do buy one, you'll get a file. Make sure that it's not a ZIP file that you unzip it and you'll be able to import it. If you just click on Import here, you'll then be able to find it wherever it is on your device. I don't have any board brushes because I prefer to customize them myself and I'm going to show you how. Instead of buying a cligrapy brush, we can make our own and I'm going to show you what settings are used. Now, you'll see that there's this little drawing pad, and you can you can letter on this and you can try your brush out as you go. If you want to clear your drawing pad, you can take three fingers and just scrub, just scrub it with three fingers. I love the shortcuts. There'll be a lot of them. This is the first one, so you can letter something here, and then you can just scrub it. We're going to go through all these settings and we're going to just toggle a few things. We're going to change some things around. Going to go ahead and reduce spacing to zero. I'm just going to do a little doodle here so you can see what's happening. I'm going to reduce the spacing to zero. You can see how if you increase spacing, it just creates a stroke into these individual stamps. We want it to look solid like this, we're going to move this all the way to zero. That's the first setting. We're going to go into stabilization and we're going to change the streamline amount to 100. You can see how your stroke just becomes a bit more smooth, I would say. Again, I'm going to scrub it out. We're going to keep the taper settings as they are, change anything here at all. But we're going to go into shape and we're going to go into shape source. If you click on this it circle, you will open this up. Now, if you click on Import and if you go to source library, you will open up all of these shapes and blotches and marks and we want to scroll down. I'm using my pencil to scroll down and we want to open the oval one. It's somewhere here. You need to scroll a little bit. We get this oval and we're clicking done. Now because you know the calligraphy is all about ovals, isn't it? Now when we do a bit of flourishing maybe, it'll be just so much easier to create those lovely curves that look a bit more oval naturally. That's a really good setting to use. Head to Apple pencil settings and here again, you'll be able to change pressure or opacity and all of these. We want to change pressure. Let's increase pressure to somewhere about 50%. You can see how my stroke changes at zero, all the strokes are quite similar. As we start increasing pressure, the strokes start to look a bit different. We're going to keep it somewhere at, I'd say, 50% and we're going to reduce the opacity, so we're going to keep it at 1%, I would say, just keep the color consistent, I think, and it's just quite nice. That's what we want. There we go, really. That's our brush, and I'm quite happy with it. You can test it here again. Always test it here before you click done. But yes, I'm quite happy with this and if you just click about this brush, you'll be able to name it. Shall we just call it my brush. I would say my calligraphy brush because I'm using it every day. That'll be the brush I use. That's the one we created ourselves. There we go, and there it is. Now. So now, should we test it out? I'm going to change my brushes size to let's say 20 somewhere around 20. Let's just give it a go. We just applying pressure as we would when we're using a brush pen or even a dip pen. So you want to go slowly, pick up your pen as you would normally, when you're doing lettering on paper, just do it as you do it. Remember to go slowly though. There we go. I'm really happy with this brush. It feels so different, comparing to the built in one, and it's just nice that it gives you a bit more flexibility. Now, I just want to show you, again, a few little shortcuts that you can use if you've done something wrong. I think that's a good one to start with. So so let's say I've done this stroke now and I've made a little mistake there. You can tap your iPad, so with two fingers. Every time you tap with two fingers, you go back a step. I'm back at the beginning now. Again, let's just try it out. I'm writing something, so I'm lettering something here, and now I want to go back. I'm just going to tap two fingers at a time to go back. Let's say I if you want to go forwards, you tap with three fingers, something to remember. I go back with two and I go forward with three fingers. It's fun, isn't it? Now, if we want to just get rid of all of this, you can click on layers. Your layers are here hidden behind these two squares and you can click on layer you have layer one here, we're going to talk about layers separately. I'm just swiping this to the left and you can clear your layer. Now the layer is gone. I remember when we use the scrub gesture. You can also if you've done something wrong or you just want to erase the whole thing, again, with three fingers, you want to scrub. Okay. This will erase everything on your board, no matter where it is, you can literally scrub anywhere. So yes, I love those options. So there we go. That's the first lesson. This is how we create a costume brush. Super useful. I love this brush so much, definitely, very different from using a built in calligraphy brush. It feels so much more natural. Again, just comparing it to the brush pen I have here. I just does not feel and look the same. Um so this is definitely more natural for me. I hope you enjoy this brush as well, and it's definitely a good starting point. As I said, you can always change some settings in it. You can just play around, use your drawing board, and explore a little bit more. It's a wonderful way to create your arm brushes. But this could be your starting point. 11. Lesson 10: Calligraphy Gradient: In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to create beautiful overlays over your calligraphy. So let's start by creating a new custom document. I always love creating my own custom documents because I just want to make sure that the resolution is set to high. You can choose any size here. You can follow me. I'm just choosing millimeters. And I want this to be like an A five size. So I've added all the measurements, and I've just made sure that the DPI is set to 300 and I'm also selecting CMYK color mode, so I'm definitely designing this as a greeting card. So that would be the process you follow. If you're designing for print, you can choose any size, of course. And we're going to go ahead and select our calligraphy brush now that we've created it. Let's take it out for a spin. So I'm just choosing black color. So I'm selecting black color from the color disc. And remember, if you ever want to get like the purest black, just tap twice wherever black is. So on the color disc, if you just tap twice, when you're selecting black or any other color, it will give you the purest form of that color. Okay, so when you're ready, I'm just going to tweaking the brush size. I'm going to go for something quite chunky looking. So we definitely want this to be quite thick. So the overlay shows in a really beautiful way. So I am just lettering the fast word, which is best. So I'm going to do best day ever, and I'm going to do this in three lines. So once you do your fast line, see if you're going to line it. So at the top, there's a little arrow that we can select and we'll select the whole word. Now, we can drag the word to the side, either right or the left to make it perfectly scented. Let's have a look here at the bottom. Select, if you go into this uniform section and then we click settings on the left, you'll see that there's an option to deselect or select magnetics and snapping. If we don't have them selected, I've just deselected them. You'll see that when you drag your word, there are no lines to follow. Nothing shows up. And if you have them selected, you'll see that when you move your word around, it kind of follows some sort of a path and aligns. So if you only have snapping selected, it will align your object to the nearby guide. So it's really good for, like, very precise movement. And if you want to center something, this is just ideal. So it's really easy to do. I love this feature. If you only have magnetic selected, you'll notice the movement of your object is a little bit smoother. So I love having both of them selected, and it works really, really well. Now, let's just remember this section because when we do pattern designs and whenever we need to move something in a very particular way, these guides can get in a way, so we will want to deselect them. Okay. But for now, let's just keep them on so we can align these words perfectly to the middle. Okay, so I'm going to do the second word. I'm keeping these on the same layer. You can also do a couple of layers. I just love because it's a short quote. I'm just going to keep everything in here. I'm just doing the word today, and you can always you know, sometimes I do one letter and I decide to go back. So take your time with this. If you ever want to refine anything, you can because it's not on paper. We can always go a step back. Okay, so now I'm just selecting this with the selection tool. Remember, we've done this before with flowers, and then I'm just again aligning it to the center. So you can do this for every single word. And then you can do this to the whole phrase to the whole phrase at the end. Okay, and I'm going to do the last word, which is the one ever. Maybe a bit bigger. I'm not quite happy with the ending here, so I'm just going to experiment a bit, find a perfect exit stroke. So I really love see how you can definitely experiment. And I really love digital lettering because you don't have to worry about small things like smudging something or misaliging anything. So it's really fun. Okay. So now let's just make it perfectly scented, so you can see how kind of dragging it up and down when I select it with an arrow to make sure it snaps to the middle. Okay. Now we're going to create a new layer. We're going to start working with the overlay. Okay. So we're going to work in the new layer. Let's click on brushes and find the airbrushing section. And in that, we are going to select the medium brush. So the one for me, it's the second one from the top. And we want to have its size somewhere in the middle and the opacity is all the way up, so 100%. Now notice what I'm doing. I'm just selecting red to begin with, and I'm painting this little kind of like a oval on the lattice. It doesn't matter where your position this. You can definitely just go over one section of the word, and then I'm just using the outside of the disc, and I'm starting to move. I'm starting to move towards yellow on the color wheel, and this is going to create a really beautiful ombre effect because we are using the cubs are next to each other. And this will just look really kind of balanced and harmonious. So keep going. You can start with red as well. Then going into orange, going to light orange, into yellow, and then you can go back. You can go back into orange and then back into red and maybe try like a dark or red. So the idea is that we don't make any sudden huge contrasts, but everything kind of looks fairly fairly together, fairly harmonious. Lovely. So now at the top, we are going to select adjustments. So here right at the top, you'll see this little sign, and you'll say adjustments. And we're going to select gagianblur and we're going to move our pencil to the right to apply the blur and you'll see how obviously everything you've painted here starts to blur. And this is good. So we want to kind of move it to the side until it looks kind of nice and blurry. And then we're just going to click on the layer and select clipping mask. And this is it, really. And it, it creates this beautiful, beautiful overlay. Okay? So I feel like this is super simplistic in a way. You can always experiment with colors. Don't forget to merge your layers once you do this. And as a last step, I really hope you love the results. Well done. 12. Lesson 11: Background Washes: In this lesson, we're going to do something quite similar, but to the background. So it's going to be like a nice background wash. Okay, so let's begin by creating a new layer. I'm using the same document. I just hit the previous layer. Now, see if you can find, like, a nice color, something beautiful, something you like. I'm just going to go for this, like, light pink, and we're going to fill in the canvas with it. Okay, so this time, we're going to select a slightly different brush so it's from airbrushing. You're going to select a hard brush this time. So you'll see it is quite big. You'll probably want to reduce its size kind of right away. So I'm just going to reduce it to somewhere there. So it's still quite big, but it's fine, maybe 70 or 80. See what works for you. I'm just starting with this red color and I've painted one side. Of the canvas with it. The idea is that we do four circle shapes, covering the whole page, but in different colors, slightly different colors. I'm trying to keep within the same color. They're all warm colors. They just slightly vary, some of them are pink, some of them are red. But don't worry if they overlap, that's a good thing. We want them to overlap. And I might just select the fourth color, and I'm just going to go off for this, like, pink again. It's actually quite similar to the previous one. Let's do those are the background one. I'm going to do maybe sometimes hard design, but just experiment. I'm just going to do a darker red. I'll look nice. See how filed in the whole page. Lovely. We're going to go into adjustment again, just like we did last time. They're going to select Gaussian again and we're going to drag dragging to the side, making it quite blurry. See where you want to leave it, it can definitely look quite blurry. Maybe some of that. Okay. And now there's one more step. So now we're going to make a new layer above this layer, okay? Just a new layer. Now we're going to go into adjustment again. And we're going to select the noise. And we're going to drag the pen to the right again to add quite a lot of noise, and it can be quite a lot. I'll just look like a really grainy texture. That's normal. Okay. Now we're going to select the blending mode. Remember we talked about this and we're going to do the overlay one to see if you can find the overlay. So now it still looks really grainy. So what we've got to do is reduce the opacity of that grainy layer. So remember, we're going to tap two fingeres. We're going to tap the layer with two fingers, and then we're going to slide the opacity somewhere to the middle or even a bit lower down, it's really up to you. So just have a look at the texture, have a look at the wash and see if this is something you like. I'm quite happy with this. It looks really good. It doesn't actually show properly because it's a video, but it looks really good in real life. I'm actually really, really happy with it. And it just makes such a perfect background for your calligraphy, for any text, to be honest. So this is something we can try doing. So I'm going to merge these two together so they become one. So just pinch those layers together, and let's create another layer and maybe do some lovely white calligraphy. So again, I double tapped in the disc on white, so it gives me the purest form of white. I'm going to select my lovely calligraphy brush that I love very much. And we could let to something, something simple. Let's just maybe do happy birthday. So I've reduced the size of my brush a little bit, so it's not looking very thick, but it's still quite bold, and I think it shows really beautifully on that background. So I'm just do happy I do a little flourish there, just extend the stroke, actually. And I'm going to do bath day. So bath days long water. When you drink something long, you can always zoom in on your canvas, by the way. So remember that. You can always zoom in, if that helps you, if that helps you kind of focus a bit more. But take your time, do, do this in your own style. I'm sure it's going to look good. Go back if you need to correct anything. Then my flourish down. Okay? So I'm just going to I'm not quite happy with the alignment of the word birthday. I'm carefully selecting. Listen again, you could have done this on another layo. You can do every line on a separate layer. And it just makes it a bit easier to move around. But I've just kept it here for now. And there we go. I really love this little trick. I'm sure you're going to find this useful for so many more designs. It just makes such a beautiful background. You can experiment with colors. You can use it for wedding stationery or greeting cards or post. It's incredible, and it looks really realistic, as well. Well, then, everybody. 13. Lesson 12: Textured Brushes: And let's just remember that there are so many lovely textured brushes that are inbuilt already that we can use to create beautiful beautiful textured background effects. So let's make a new layout in the same document, and we can just experiment a little bit. Let's go into the textured section in our library. And let's see where you can find here. Just try them all, really. So there's this one that's called Dove lake. It's really pretty. So I've just selected it nice pink colour. And you can do, like, big strokes that are horizontal, or you can try vertical strokes. You can make your brush really big. And just to kind of quickly show you, so I'm just making my happy birthday layer visible again. You can see how well it works even like this. And this took like 2 seconds to do. It's really, really pretty and effective. So there are lots, lots of different textures. So just experiment, maybe spend a bit of time trying those brushes out. This one's called Grit Roll. I'm just selecting this one, and it's quite it's with a friend dev. I can also see how this could be used. So just experiment a little bit. It's a lot of fun kind of exploring the mole. Now I'm just going into here and looking for, like, a wash one. This is quite blurry looking. I don't think this will print nicely, although, you know, it's worth a try. This one's very light, but also it kind of looks quite dreamy in a way, can look quite nice. Every time I see a pink wash, I think of wedding stationery. So yeah, I think that would definitely work quite well. This was called rectango and we can also find some fun ones, maybe under the spray paint section. So this one's burst. It's quite fun. Anyway, just try to experiment a bit, see if you can find something that you like, but I want to show you something specific. Let's go into painting and select the gouache brush. So we used this one before. But if you make it quite big and if you select a nice light color, so I'm just going for this pale pink, and you also can make it a bit less opaque. You can do this, but you just move your pencil up and down and just do these big strokes. I actually used this for print recently. I used this technique to make a really nice light background layout, and I love doing this in real life. I love painting, a little wash in the background. Using gosh, actually. I thought I must try this in procreate, and it does create a beautiful look. And we can then maybe create a new layer and just select our calligraphy brush and letter something on top so you can see, you know, the beautiful combination of both, and I hope this inspires you to use this in the future. So I'm just going to lettering something short. I'm just going to write. You are brave. And I'm just doing, again, three lines. I really love positioning calligraphy on as many lines as possible rather than doing like one long line because this way, the letters look bigger, more effective, especially if you're doing them for print and such. So yeah, that's a really lovely technique. So you are brave, super short, and then because it's a separate layer, you can scale it, reposition it. I do love having calligraphy on a separate layer. Now we go, I'm just aligning it, selecting the arrow, and there we go, super simplistic in a way. But I really love this look. You can always change the color. You can drag a different color into your calligraphy as well, and I really love pink and red. It's such a beautiful color combination. So give it a go. I hope you enjoyed this. 14. Lesson 13: Create Your Own Stamp Brush: In this lesson, I'll show you how to create your own stamp so you can repeat something over and over again. Creating new square document and then just select a black color with your eyedropper. So remember, if you click on Black twice, it's going to jump to the purest black color. Okay? Now, we want to select the syrup brush, see if you're going to inking and set the syrup brush. You can use any brush, but he wants to be quite opaque brush. And we're going to draw something. So it has to be in black color and in a brush that's quite like monoline or, you know, fairly opaque. And I'm just drawing this really simplistic branch. So I will do some leaves and I might actually add in some berries. Draw something, any element. I think this is quite simplistic and it looks really good. So this can be used on so many things. You can stamp this. It will always look really pretty. I'm just doing some quick quick berries there. So take your time. You might need to pause video to finish this. So do so if you're not finished yet. Once you're done, just go into your snapping, just make sure magnetics and snapping are on and we're going to align this. Aligning this to the page, just like the arrow at the top and then align. Align this to Santa so it's nicely scented. Okay. Now we're going to glide three fingers down and we're going to click Copy A, not just copy, but we're going to select Copy A. Now this is copied. Now to create a stamp, we go into Brush Library, and we select plus. We click on this little plus icon at the top. Okay. Now we are here, so we're going to click on shape on the left. We'll click on shape, selecting the shape. Now we're going to go into the shape source, which is here and you'll see there's nothing there. That's like a white circle, click on there. And now's the time for us to paste, but you copied earlier. So you can click Import at the top, so click Import. And we are going to there are lots of different ways import. You can also save it as a JPA, whatever you've painted or drawn, you can save it. But we've copied it, so we just have to click Paste and you'll see that it paste. Now, let's click out of that. You just want tap. And I want you to try this. So if you tap with two fingers, you'll see that it inverts it. So it either becomes like this or it stays the way it was. And we want the background to be black. Okay? So we tap two fingers to get this look, and then we click Done. So we're almost done. We're just going to change a few settings. So let's go into the stroke path section and adjust the spacing to 100. Okay. Then we're going to go into the Apple pentyl settings, and we're going to reduce the opacity to zero all the way down. Now you can also go into properties, and this is where you can change the brush's size. So at the moment, it's really small, I do want it to be a bit bigger. Again, this will depend on what it is you want to use it for. But I'm just going to go around 200 or even 300. Okay, you can also rename it. So at the bottom, you'll say about this brush so we can select that and just name it. I'm just naming the leaves. There we go. Let's try it out. So let's hide this layer or clear it, and then just tap. I'll look at that. You've created your own brush, your own stamp, and it's so much fun. You can change its color. So I've just selected green, and it looks really really fun. So you can also click on the arrow at the top and you can rotate it. You can resize it as usual as any other element. Okay, I just want to show you some things. So let's clear this layer and select the monoline brush. It's under calligraphy. And you can try drawing some shapes. Now it is how I'm trying to draw a circle. And obviously, if you do it freehand, it's really hard to do. But if you hold your brush at the end, it clicks into place. Then if you tap your finger, it clicks into a perfect, perfect shape. You can do that with any shapes. As you draw, it might be robbly. Now, if you hold at the end, it'll click into some shape. Then if you tap one finger down, if you touch the screen with one finger, it thinks a triangle is a square. If you tap with one finger, oh, it should jump into a perfect shape that you can resize as well at the same time. Let's just try this again. Again, I'm doing a triangle and then tapping my finger. I keep thinking that it's a square. I'm going to do a circle, holding at the end, and then tapping my finger and it becomes a perfect circle. Again, doing a circle, holding at the end. As I tap the finger, it just snaps into this perfect perfect circle, it's such a useful feature. You can also do that with a line, so I did at the beginning, just draw a line. I'm just testing hard. Oh, no, it's not doing a hard. As you draw a line, it's going to be quite uneven. But if you hold at the end, it will become straight, and if you tap one finger, you can then rotate it in kind of perfect angles. The reason I'm doing that is because I want to show you how you can use this stamp, let's say, to draw a really quick quick wreath. Okay? So here, everything's a bit more spaced out, so we might need to change some of the settings for this to look good. So we can always go into the brushes, into the stamps settings. And we can just reduce the spacing, so the leaves are closer together. But you can apply the same technique, really. So I'm just going into this stroke properties section. And this way, you can see how now, change the spacing. I just reduce it a little bit, and and it looks really lovely. So I'm just applying the same technique. I'm just doing like a rough circle. And then I'm holding at the end, and then I'm tapping my finger. So this, again, is too big, so just change your brushes size. This is a good size. And again, I'm just holding it at the end, and it falls into a nice, perfect circle. And this is great. You know, you can definitely use this for quick designs if you ever need to make a nice border around your calligraphy, for example. This can be, so useful. I love it. You don't have to draw the same thing, you don't have to copy your layers. It's super helpful. Let's see if we can create a new layer. In this new layer, we can select our calligraphy brush and just do some quick scribbles so we can see what it looks like together though. I'm just doing a quick hello. And even this. You know, you can use it for logo designs that could look really, really good, just to embellish some background in quite a nice, simplistic way. So, Yeah, I hope you enjoyed it. It's definitely a really fun thing to do. And you can get creative here. This can be super useful for, like, pattern making. And I really love that. You know, you can definitely experiment with the size of this. So you can make really really big stamps as well. And this, again, could be really pretty if you want to, I don't know, create some gift wrap, right, and you just want to do the same element over and over again. And then you can print your gift wrap from this file. So I'm just clearing this and again, I'm imagining how, you know, some bolder designs like this could look really, really good as well, especially if maybe you change the background color or maybe something a bit lighter. You can drag some paint into the background. See, that stars look really good and really effective. 15. Lesson 14: Different Styles of Leaves: In this lesson, we are just going to have a nice relaxing time drawing some leaves and just exploring different leaf types. So let's begin by selecting some greens. So maybe you have some colors in a color palette already. If you don't just use the disc. And we're going to use the script brush for this. It's on the calligraphy section. I quite like this one for drawing, actually. Or you can also use your calligraphy brush, to be honest. I love that it's got a bit of a thick and thin effect here, so it works quite nice for drawing. And it's also it's got a really nice clean outline, which I really like, especially for leaves. Okay, so I am just drawing this really simplistic kind of looking branch. I've started with a little stork and now I'm just adding on more leaves. I'm doing the outline first. I'm trying to keep the leaves quite natural looking. Then I'm just using the eye drop pot to drop the color into each leaf like we've been doing before. Now, let's just expose some slightly different leaves. I've selected a slightly different green color, which is a bit more like eucalyptus, green, so a bit more like bluish and this time, the leaves are a bit whiter. They're a little bit more wobbly. You're trying to think of eucalyptus as you do it, so that's definitely a really nice way of drawing leaves. Let's see what else we can try. I've selected a lighter green. So I really love using different greens. I might actually change the color of the first one. You can always change the color, of course, by dragging different color into your branch. Now, we're going to try this round looking one. So we're just getting ready to draw a wreath and I just want to cover some different leaf types. You can get creative here, of course, as well. So here I've done a little stalk, and then I just kind of mirrored each leaf. I can actually see how you could use the symmetry tool for this as well if you really wanted to. But I really love when the leaves look quite natural and have a bit of curve in them. I think it always looks really good. So see if you want to change some colors, find some perfect greens for each of these. Okay. So what else can we try? We can also do one that's really kind of natural looking. So now, if we think of some summer flowers or even like wildflowers, or even if you think of peony leaves, if you can imagine peonies, they have this, like, really rough edge leaf. And we can show some of that. We can definitely keep some of the leaves really natural looking, and our composition is going to thank us for that because sometimes the movement and the curved lines and that natural kind of flow in your drawing style can really impact the way your composition kind of looks, especially wreaths. As we always want to try and show a bit of movement in them. Okay, so now we can maybe select a different brush. I've just selected this syrup brush again. We use this one quite a lot. So it's under inking. And now I'm just doing this slightly different one. This one's a bit darker. I really love using blue color as well when I do leaves and blue leaves look especially good in pattern designs. I don't know what it is, but it always looks really pretty. And this time, I'm just focusing on extending my stems so you can see how I'm just adding more lines on the initial line that I've drawn, and I'm just doing more leaves, and at the end of each line, I'm attaching a little leaf. Now, this just helps to make your little branch a little bit more full. It definitely kind of flops it up a little bit more. It's quite nice. I do love sometimes drawing my leaves this way, especially if I want to fill in more space. So it's really good leaves in general are really good fillers. Especially when you do compositions like bouquets or wreaths. So yeah, you'll definitely come across that. I really helps to fluff up your design. Okay, I'm just correcting the tops of the leaves. Now we go so they look a bit more sharp. And here we are. So remember, you could always add some extra detail. And normally I would just select some white, and I would just go over some of the areas. And I'm just doing this, natural looking one. Again, maybe trying a different brush. So it's definitely a bit easier with the syrup brush, I find. This just looks a little bit more natural. As we do all of these different branches, just notice how it all comes together because we've used quite a few greens here, even a bit of blue. It does look really beautiful together. There's something about different shades of green altogether. Love laser. Now, I've just selected white, and I'm just using white with a really small brush size to add a bit more detail in each leaf. And you can take this as far as you like. You don't necessarily have to do it, but I do find that it makes your designs just pop a little bit more. It kind of gives them another layer of detail. It just kind of gives them another layer. It does look a bit more professional, I think, even if it is just a quick little line in the middle of each leaf. You can get creative here. You can always do something a bit more interesting. Sometimes I like doing this. I just do a little white outline inside of each leaf. Copying the outline is not really an outline. Even here, we can add a bit more movement by adding these inner lines, and I think this eucalyptus one actually looks really good in particular in this style. There we go. I hope you can take something away from this and you can always make it as detailed as you like. You can also use a slightly off white color to do this inside the leaves. That could also look really good. But there we go. So in the next lesson, we are going to use some of these so maybe make a note of your favorite ones so we can decorate our wreath with some really, really beautiful branches and like different shaped leaves. It's going to be really lovely. 16. Lesson 15: Symmetry Guide: So we're going to start focusing on our final project of the week, which is the wreath design. And let's create a new document. We want this document to be quite high quality, quite high resolution. So let's click on this plus icon and then select Custom Canvas size, and let's enter something high, something around 4,000 pixels, or even higher, maybe 4,500. So notice the higher your pixels, the less layers it will allow you to create, which is something to remember. Also make sure that the resolution is set to 300 DPI, so everything looks nice and clear. Okay. And we're going to go straight into the actions menu. So this little tool icon at the top. And then within that, click on Canvas and you'll see this little drawing guide section, which you can toggle on. So let's toggle it on. And then right underneath, you'll see that it says Edit Drawing Guide, and we're going to click on there. Okay, so now it just brings up these guides. So now if we have a look at the bottom, we can select symmetry from this menu so it's on the right. So click on symmetry and then at the bottom, it will give us some options, click on options and we can select different options. So there are a lot of different options that you can always experiment with. But for today, we are going to select the horizontal symmetry guide. You could do the vertical one, but I think for reads, especially, it'll be better to have the horizontal one. So click horizontal. Lovely, just click D on the top, and it'll give you this canvas, which has a drawing guide just like we set up right in the middle horizontally. Okay, so now we're going to go ahead and create a new layer, and we're going to select a nice green color. A green color, actually any color for this purpose. And in terms of brushes, maybe you can select the monoline brush. So let's go into coll it af and click on Monaline. There we go. And we're just going to draw a circle. So we have something to follow. So when we draw a wreath, so we have a nice circle shape to follow. And remember, to draw a shape, just draw a rough circle and then hold the pen at the end, and then tap one finger, so it clicks into a nice, perfect, perfect circle. You can zoom it out, zoom it in, make it as big as you want. So I'm going to try again. So making a circle, holding our pen at the end, then tapping one finger, so it creates a perfect shape, we're zooming in or zooming out. So think about how big you want your wreath to be. I think I'm going to leave mine some of that. Now, it's really important that we align it. This one's to be right in the center. So again, click on the arrow, select it and make sure your snapping and magnetics are on. So it clicks right into the middle, so it's perfectly scented. That's what we're looking for. Well done. We're going to continue with the wreath in the next lesson. 17. Lesson 16: Floral Wreath Project: Okay, so we can now start drawing and adding on all the elements. So to begin with, let's just create another layer so we don't draw on top of the circle. And maybe let's prepare our color palette. I've actually attached a photo. Below the video, you can download the photo to get this color palette. So you can just load it in just like we did before, import and import from a photo and then it'll appear at the top of your color palette. So I love this little palette. It's got a lot of different greens, which is really nice. It's a lot of pink. So, yeah, I think it's just really kind of seasonal, spring looking, spring themed, beautiful, beautiful palette. Okay, so I might just select one of the greens for now and we're going to go into brushes, and we are going to go into painting section and use a brush called salamanca. I quite like this brush. We haven't actually used this. You might have tried this, but I quite like it. It's nice brush. Okay, so there's one thing we need to do to this layer because if we draw now, the symmetry guide is not active. So to activate it, we're going to click on the layer and select drawing assist. Okay? So now, when we draw, we can see that everything duplicates. So whenever we draw at the top, happens at the bottom. Well, I just realized my circle wasn't perfectly scented, so it wasn't duplicating perfectly. So yeah, just make sure your circle is scented 100%. Okay, so back to drawing. Just going to get rid of these lines. So, we're starting in this new layer and we can start drawing some leaves. So we're just starting with a couple of leaves here and there, starting to fill in this circle slowly. I've done the outline, and now I'm just coloring in. It's very similar to the wet acrylics brush, I think. So you'll see that they are quite similar, although this one is a little bit less translucent, I think. So the wet acrylic one's a bit more transparent, in my opinion. They are slightly different, but I do love this one quite a lot, actually. Again, you can layer it if you like, but I'm just going to keep these quiet area looking for now. Let's maybe do a few more leaves on the left, so we down the right side. So we are just setting up the composition, but I do find that having some leaves done already kind of helps you imagine where to put flowers in a more of a natural way. Well, it helps me. So I always do a few leaves to begin with. And you can see how it's all symmetrical. It kind of copied everything. And we are not going to rely on the symmetry guide too much. I do find that it can make it look unnatural, so we are going to turn it off at some point. But for now, we can definitely use it for a bit so that it does kind of fill up. I was circle with these lovely leaves. And I'm just coloring, maybe layering some of the leaves. These will be a bit darker. So take your time. I am trying to be nice and neat. You know, I want this to look quite nice at the end, so you might want to spend a bit more time on coloring just to make sure everything looks good right from the beginning. Okay. All right. Then we can start thinking about some flowers in a minute. I think that we can definitely use some of those beautiful pinks in the palette. I might just go for this darker, not the lightest version of pink, but a little bit darker. So this one looks really good. To make our flowers look nicely balanced and round, we can copy this initial circle that we've created. So just copy the layer and then I just scale it down and just make sure to toggle off the magnetics and snapping so you can move this um, a little bit easier, and you can scale it, position it somewhere nicely on the circle. This circle is now a new layer. Let's go back to our other layer where we were drawing before. You can keep your flowers in your leafy layer or you can create a new one. If you do create a new layer, just make sure that the drawing assist is on so that Everything is still symmetrical as we draw. Okay. I'm just trying to make a nice round looking flower so you can draw the center in the middle of the circle and then start drawing leaves around it in a nice and kind of balanced way. Come be hard. You can try a few times to just see what it looks like. And when you're happy, color in the petals. You can always zoom in to kind of help you seed properly, especially if your flowers are quite small. So take your time you might want to rotate it. Sometimes, it's really up to you get creative. Remember, you can move your canvas. Lovely, so you can see how it copied really nicely at the bottom as well. It's really helpful. Okay, so now I'm just selecting that cackle again. So let's go to the circle layer and I'm going to move it somewhere else because we are going to draw another flower and you can select a different colour. I might just go for a different pink, maybe just like darker version of pink. You can make your circle a bit bigger here if you like. I'm just going back to that new layer that I used to draw flowers. I'm just doing another flower and this one looks okay. Again, you can try a few times. It can be hard to do just once and be happy with it. I've decided I'm going to split and do three petals on one side and three petals at the bottom. That thinking really helps to make it look balanced, I find. I'm just coloring in again, being really light. We are going to add something really nice, like a nice overlay on the flowers to help us create a nice shadow. I'm not actually coloring in too much. We are going to work on that. You can definitely keep this as your fast kind of initial translucent layer. Lovely. Okay. So again, I am going to select the circle and drag it somewhere else. So think about your composition, see where another flower would fit in nicely and then maybe slightly different color. I'm going to go for this brighter pink. Okay. So I'm going back to my flower layer now, and I am starting to draw. That's quite a big, so I'm just going to reduce my brush size. I'm thinking of doing this kind of like a half flower. I think that looks nice. Coloring it in gently again. That's lovely. At this point, the drawing guide is starting to look a little bit unbalanced, I think. So there's something we can do in a minute. So I'm just looking at this, and we can always remember that you can always, always move the flowers around. So I'm going to do this other one, this kind of a beige looking one. So again, move the circle. If the circle helps you, that's great. You might want to not use it, which is also fine. So again, I've created another little flower here, just like a really simplistic, small one. And it does look quite unnatural right now because it kind of copied it, and, you know, there are like two flowers together there. So we're going to move them around. So we're going to make sure that this layer is selected. And we can use the selection tool to we've done this before, to kind of select and move around within the same layer. So I might just position this kind of Biji one somewhere here. I think that'll look nice. And I'm just looking at the colors, and maybe I'll just fill this little gap. With another flower. What we can actually do is turn off the drawing assist, so it doesn't the symmetry doesn't work anymore. You can go into our layer, click on it and just se drawing assist and it will turn it off. Shouldn't be ticked. If it's ticked, it's on, just click on it and we can just do a couple more flowers here. I'm just experimenting really. I'm thinking of doing this a fluffy looking one, although my brush is a bit too big. Yeah, that's a little bit too big, see how sometimes experimenting really really helps. It is necessary, I think, to experiment. So I'm not editing this out. So this is my thought process and sometimes I do something that I change my mind on, and that's fine. Everybody does it, and I just want you to know that it's normal. Okay, so I might do this little upside down one here. I think that'll look quite nice. Okay. Lovely. Now we're going to create another layer, and then we're going to select something a bit darker, like a darker color, like dark red. A were going to go into the airbrushing section. And we're going to select soft brush from there. Okay. So now we're going to make sure our brush is not too big and we're going to start kind of coloring in those shadow areas. Normally, it's near the center of the flower where we want to add a bit of shadow. You can change the colors. You can do a dark red one, you can do a super dark red one here and there. Again, I'm focusing towards the base of this little flower and I might just do a bit more coloring there. Obviously, this is going to be an overlay. This is not the end result. You probably want to exaggerate here, but this is not what it will look like don't Bret. I'm just selecting some red again and just coloring in the center, the flower here. For the Biji one, I'm just going to do maybe a light pink color that might look nice. Again, just a bit more color in the middle. Lovely. Even leaves. If you want it, you could add a bit of overlay here and there, although I think it's definitely the flowers that need it the most. You can always do it with leaves manually. Okay, so now we are going to go into adjustment and remember the gaussian blur that we can select and drag. So we are dragging experiment with this a little bit. Don't drag it too much. I find that it kind of blurs out too much. But I'm just thinking I might keep mine kind of summer here. You can see how it changes, intensity changes. You can definitely see. Yeah, drag it up and down until you're happy. Now in this layer, we're going to select blending modes, that little N, letter N, and we're going to find the overlay one. There we go. You instantly create a nice little shadow. Now, if this is looking too intense, you can always make this overlay layer less opaque by tapping the layer and then and then sliding down the slider. I might do that later, but now I'm going to leave it there. Okay, so now I am just going back to my normal brush, the same one we used before on the painting. And I'm just starting to add little center to the flower just so that they start to look a little bit more like flowers. You can use different colors. You can use yellow or you can use brown or you can use black. I'm not quite sure yet. I think I might actually go for, like, dark, maybe like black. Okay. You can always go back to your flower layer or your leafy layer or create a new layer so that this is a separate thing. It's not an overlay anymore. Okay, just experiment here, make it look pretty. Now that we've done our main flowers, we can start drawing some leaves around them. Make sure you create a new layer and click on drawing assist again, it starts to mirror everything, so the symmetry guard is activated. We're just drawing some leaves. I chose this really light green color. I do think it looks quite nice. It's a bit bluish. It does look quite pretty. I'm just drawing a lot of leaves, filling in the space. I don't mind that it is mirroring right now, but again, we will turn it off soon just so it doesn't get to the point where you just starts to look. Too unnatural because we do want to make it look pretty and balanced and sometimes, especially at those meeting points where the horizontal line is, I'm trying to avoid that area right now, and I'm just working with the tops and side because that area is particularly difficult, I think, because it just copies everything very close. So now I've actually turned off the drawing assist and I'm just continuing with the leaves, and it's not copying it over anymore. And you can see how I can just manually balance it out and make sure that it looks flowy and in movement so that it's not just heaver in some places and then and too empty in other places. Doing it manually, we can correct a lot of things. I think a balance between both symmetry guide and doing it manually really works. Keep filling it up with the leaves, fluff it all up, so it starts to look quite busy. This will take a bit of time, just, you know, same as when you're painting. This bad always takes a while, but this is also the step that will kind of make it look as if it all comes together though. Okay, so just selected like a lighter green. And I'm thinking of doing some of these, like, round looking leaves. Remember, we've practiced these. So especially kind of coming out of those flowers, I think this is going to look really good. This lighter green with pink looks incredible. I really love this combination. And again, see how because we're using different shades of green, it does look really lovely. It looks as if we've put so much thought into it, not that we have the, but you know what I mean? It does look much more professional than if we just use one green It's quite nice. And remember, you can always blend in, like, another layer into your leaves, maybe using a different green. That's a good idea, as well. Okay. I might just add a few more here. I could never stop. If you know me, if you've done my classes before, you will know that my reads are always quite full on. You know, your style might be different, and that's fine. Okay, so I'm just looking at that overlay layer, and I've double tapped on it, and you can see how that slider appears where you can reduce its opacity. And again, we've done this before, so I'm just reducing the opacity of that overlay so it doesn't look too harsh. So just reduce it a little bit. Okay. And I'm just going back to my leaves and just drawing a little bit more. I really love these, like, beige looking leaves. So I selected this beige color. It's quite simplistic looking. I quite like this style where we use, like, really light and pasta looking colours and all the greens are like sagi and light. Okay. So now we can do a few either berries or little fillies. I love calling these filler elements. So I just selected some brown, reduced my brushes size, and I'm just doing these little kind of branches here and there, stemming out, stretching into the inside of the wreath or coming out on the outside. And then you can select a different color, maybe yellow. We don't have yellow in this palett, but you can definitely select some yellow, like a nice bright yellow. And I'm just drawing these berries or they can be little flowers. You know, it could be anything, but they do act as a filler, and they look quite nice. Just little cackles at the top of each of those little lines that we did in brown. That was quite nice, lovely. And we might actually want to add, like, a little dot inside each of these yellow circles just to give them a little bit more detail, just a tiny detail, but it does make a difference, knowing, little dot. Lovely. At this point, just have a look at your wreath and think what it is that you'd like to add. I'm just thinking maybe I can do some of those lines inside. Inside of the leaves, you can select a different brush if you're finding it hard to do detail with this one. You can do the monoline brush. You can do the script brush on the calligraphy. I'm just sticking with this one and I'm just doing these really quick movements to show a few highlights here and there. Maybe even in the flowers. I haven't decided yet. I might do the flowers as well. It's really up to you how far you want to take it with detail. And just keep going until you're happy. Then in the next lesson, I'll show you how we're going to prepare this design for calligraphy. We don't need to merge all the layers, you can keep them as they are. But I hope you're enjoying this. It is quite a nice process. I do love seeing how we start with nothing, and then we build up and we use the tools this platform allows. So I really love the symmetry guide. Again, it can be so helpful. And then we kind of combine it with manual drawing as well. It's definitely a lot of fun. I can't wait to see yours. 18. Lesson 17: Adding Calligraphy: So now we're going to prepare this design for Calica fee. So let's hide that little circle that we've created at the beginning. So let's go into layers and just deselect that layer. We can also get rid of the drawing guides, just toggle it off just in the same way when we toggled it on at the beginning. And now we're going to slide three fingers down and click Copy A and then create a new document, it can be a square again. And then we're going to slide three fingers down and paste. Okay? So instead of merging layers, we just copied it all and now we've past it. And sometimes I like to duplicate the layers to help and increase the design's vibrancy, especially if these translucent brushes. Sometimes it's nice to kind of layer that design. You can create lots of layers and just merge them together, and you'll notice that your design just becomes a little bit more like solid looking. So especially, you know, if your brushes are quite translucent, transparent. Okay, so now we can create a new layer and we can select our calligraphy brush, and we can letter something in the middle. We can just do something short. We can do a nice thank you, or it's really up to you what you'd like to hear. So I'm just going to do thank you. There isn't much room for me here. I do recommend having your calligraphy on a new layer. So again, we can align it, we can select it, rotate it if we need to. So it's really, really helpful. I might make this a little bit bigger. I think that'll look better. So there you go, and you can always merge these two layers together if you like. But as the end result, I hope you enjoy this project. I love the look of this. It looks quite natural, and I would love to see yours. Please, please share. 19. Lesson 18: Seamless Patterns: In this lesson, I'm going to teach you how to create a beautiful, seamless pattern. So see if you can find a square document in your portfolio so far. So something you've designed maybe last week or this week that looks a bit like this. So just some flowers and some floral elements all around the square. So this is the actual canvas that I used to design this. And if we click on the arrow at the top, the select, can you see how it creates this little frame around our design because it selects it selects all the flowers, the edge of the flower rather than the whole canvas, it doesn't select the square, but it selects all the elements kind of individually. This is why we want to copy all of this into a new document. Slide three fingers down and click Copy all. Copy all, not just copy. This is very important. And then paste it into a new square, preferably the same size document. Now click on an arrow and see what happens. Now it selects the whole square kind of the whole square around the edge, which is what we need. Okay. So now we're going to duplicate this layer. And before we go ahead, just make sure you're happy with the way your elements are sitting in your squares. If you need to fill any gaps, you can move things around, of course. And when you're ready, just make sure that your snapping and magnetics are on. So these need to be on. And we are going to start moving one of the layers into the center line. Okay? So we're grabbing the top layer, selecting it with an arrow. And we're starting to drag from right to the left and see what happens. Eventually, it clicks into the middle. You see the yellow orange kind of line. We want to see those orange lines. This is really important because if we don't, we can misalign it by one pixel and that will just throw off everything. So make sure that you're doing it slowly thoroughly, and it is snapping right in the middle. Now, let's select the bottom layer and we're going to slide this layer from left to right. So again, selecting it with an arrow and starting to slide it. And again, looking for that center line for that perfect alignment. We really want this align perfectly. Okay, and then just deselect with an arrow. Now we can merge these two layers together and look what's happened. So it kind of created like a little gap here for me, maybe for you is different. So at this stage, we want to correct our design. We want to make sure that everything is looking balanced. So I'm just selecting this little individual branch, and I might rotate it a little bit just to make it look a bit more balanced, and I think this looks good. So just work on yours until you're happy with the way it looks. And just be careful when you move your elements because obviously, they're all on the same layer right now and see what can happen, we can easily overlap. So once we select something, we can then easily overlap accidentally with some white space, something else. So, okay, so once you're happy, we are going to duplicate this layer as well. So now we have two layers of this and we need to do something else. Now we're going to slide our design upwards. From bottom towards the top, and again, snap it into place right in the center. Now we're going to select the second layer, then click on the arrow and we're going to glide it down. Sliding it down from top to bottom. Until it clicks into place. Excellent. Okay, we're nearly done. Snap pinching those two lays together, it becomes one again. Again, this is the last kind of step where you want to tweak your design, just maybe move some elements around. I do find that it's easier to move things. When you deselect magnetics and snapping. I definitely makes it so much easier to move things because all the movements are a bit more kind of flowy because obviously it doesn't snap to anything. So see if you want to deselect magnetics and snapping to correct fill in the gaps, maybe copy some elements over or rotate them or resize them. Again, just be careful that you don't hit any other elements with a little white space around. Once you move things around. Okay, right. And once you're happy, we need to create four sets of this. Actually, you can leave one layer as it is and then create four more. So you just duplicate. So you have four layers to work with. And we're making sure that our snapping and magnetics are on for this. This is really important. They need to be on. And again, we're just going to be really careful. So select your top layer. You can make other layers invisible if you like. Select your top layer and start dragging it from one corner. Into the top corner, top left corner. And it snaps into place. Look for those orange lines. Now I'm going to select the second layer, so another layer. And I'm going to drag from another corner and get it into this kind of top right corner. I'm just zooming in. We want to make sure that we don't see any kind of seams or any lines at this point where the design kind of clicks together. He wants to click together perfectly. If it hasn't must have been a mistake somewhere along the way. So just redo all the steps. Don't give up. It can happen. Okay, now we've done the third layer and we dragged it into this little space, so bottom left corner. There's one more layer to go and we're going to drag select with an arrow, then drag from top corner into this bottom corner. And again, looking for those orange lines, so everything aligns perfectly. And I'm looking for the seams to just making sure I can't see any lines. And it looks good. Now I'm going to merge everything, so it becomes one. And there we go. So there might be another layer there for you because I wanted you to keep the original artwork as well. So merge just four layers. You don't have to merge the actual fifth layer if you copied it over. Okay, so there we go. That's our first pattern. Now, if you wanted to make this pattern even smaller, which is something, you might want to do for certain things, you can repeat the process. So now you have your pattern, you have your square, copy it four times, and then we're just going to it's already repeatable at this point. So we're just kind of making it smaller. So we copied the layer four times, and we just repeated the dragging process into the corners, and you can see how it created like a smaller version. So this could be like wallpaper, for example, it's a little bit smaller. You can make it even smaller, even more dainty, if you wanted to. By coping this layer four times again. So I hope that makes sense. So and I just want you to know that if you ever find that you see this sort of a white line on your pattern, that just makes that somewhere along the way, things got moved. So even by one pixel, it can make such a big difference if you move something by one pixel incorrectly. I, you know, it snaps into place incorrectly, that can really affect it. But now you have your repeatable square that you can fill in other shapes with or you can overlay them like this, you know, depending on what it is you want to use it for. And they're going to chat about it more next week. Well, then, everybody, 20. Week 3: Schedule: Hello, Stevenson. Welcome to the third week of the course. I really hope you've enjoyed learning with me so far and just know that the second week was quite packed. There was quite a lot to kind of learn and go through. If you feel like you need to revisit, just know that it's very normal and the lessons will be there for you. But I'm proud of you. Well done for being here. I've seen some really beautiful work from you guys. Well done. Keep going. This week, we're going to do something fun. We're going to create a Caligram and I'll also teach you really fun monogram design. We're definitely focusing a bit more on calligraphy this week. Also I'll just share from my own experience what you can do with your files, where to print them, how to go about maybe setting up your business if you wanted to sell your patent and your digital prints and such. I'll just share a few tips I know that everyone's journey is very unique. You might be here because you want to be able to print gift and just have your little portfolio of work, which is wonderful. Or you might be here because you want to set up your Etsy shop and sell digital items. Whatever it is, I'm really excited for you and you should feel really proud for learning and progressing with this. I hope you're ready for this week so grab your iPad and let's begin. 21. Lesson 19: Creating a Calligram: In this lesson, I'm going to teach you how to create a beautiful clogram design, which is a composition that consists of text. So in this case, calligraphy, and we're trying to form a shape out of our calligraphy. So it'll make more sense. Let's just dive in. So let's create a new document and head straight into action. So we want to go into Canvas, find drawing guide, and toggle it on. So we've done this many times before. So then we're going to click on Edit Drawing Guide, and we're going to find at the bottom, a little section that says symmetry, and we're just going to make sure that we get the vertical option selected. So if you're going to options, you'll see there are different options. I think vertical is by default, so that's fine. So that's what we need. So make sure that you have one straight vertical line to your canvas and just click Done. Lovely. And here we go. So now we have our symmetry guide set up, and we're going to draw a heart shape out of two circles. It's a really fun technique. Of course, you can always just find a photo of a heart, outline, let's say, and, you know, bring it into your canvas, insert it, import it, and go from there. But this is just a nice way if you don't have that photo. So let's begin drawing. Select a nice red color. Obviously, we want our heart to be red, although it doesn't actually matter because we are not going to be using the shape, it's just going to be for the reference for guidance. And I'm going to use the monoline brush. I'm just looking for monoline brush on the calligraphy, and it's just a nice brush when you need to do something really clean. So we are going to begin by drawing two circles like we've done before. Remember, when you draw a circle, if you hold at the end, it's going to snap into place. And if you tap one finger, if you touch your screen with one finger, it's going to form a perfect perfect circle, okay? So obviously, it's symmetrical right now. So everything we draw on the right happens on the left, gets copied on the left. So just experiment a bit. Obviously, this is going to be the top of the heart. So just notice how you want it to be positioned, whether you want your heart to be, like, quite subtle looking or quite strongly shaped. So just take a bit of time positioning these two circles. You can always make them bigger or smaller by selecting the arrow and then dragging. And once you are ready, we're then going to create a new layer. Okay. And then we're just going to do the bottom part of the heart. Now, because we've created a new layer, we need to make sure that the symmetry is on, so we need to click on the layer and select the drawing assist again. So I think we've done before. So now I'm just drawing the bottom part and I've started from the circle and then just gone down back to the center line, and it's created like a perfect heart shape. Now, you might see that there's a bit of um perfection when you connect to your shapes, you can select the shape with an arrow and then you can find this little menu at the bottom. There's something that's called a wb tool. It helps you to stretch and manipulate your strokes. It's really helpful. You can select your bottom part, this upside down triangle, and you can touch those points that are not intersecting maybe perfectly, and you can stretch them into place you want them to go in and then you can correct the bottom part maybe with with a rubber, you can select the eraser tool and just erase anything that's not very neat. But also, don't worry too much because this is just the outline. We only need the outline. Okay, so now we're going to pinch these two layers together because we've done them in separate layers. We're pinching together. And they go to color it in, so just drop some color into it. It doesn't really matter. Again, it's just for the reference for the shape reference. My warp tool is still on. It's a great tool. It really allows you to kind of stretch your design and manipulate it. But let's just make sure that our uniform section is on rather than the warp section here at the bottom. So you'll see this menu when you click on the arrow at the top. Okay, so with the uniform section selected, let's just make sure that our heart is scented. So just position it where you want it to go. So obviously, we're going to be filling this with calligraphy. So we don't want it to be very big. It's just going to take ages to fill in. So just go for something small, like of medium sized. Okay? And when you're ready, we're going to reduce the opacity of the heart layer. So tap the heart layer with two fingers and then slide that little slide at the top, all the way to the left that adware, but so you can still see it a little bit. Then when you're ready, create a new layer for our calligraphy. This is going to be strictly calligraphy layer. So just make sure it's in a new layer and select your calligraphy brush, the one we've created together. I'm using black color. We are going to do a little color overlay here. So let's just start with black. I'm just warming up here. Maybe I'll select a different size for my brush, maybe seven or 8%. And notice how I'm starting my calligraphy from the edge of the heart. So we are going to let you are my favorite person again and again. Now, if you're a complete beginner, if you are quite new to calligraphy, if this feels hard, you can just do one word like, love, love, love, love, love, like all over again. So, this can be a bit hard in your hand, and it might take a bit of time, as I said, it's definitely not easy. I don't want to say that it's easy. So if you are, you know, a fairly experienced calligrapher, have a go. This will be fun. But if you are kind of like a beginner still at the very very beginning. Just do one word. Otherwise, it might feel a bit overwhelming, but I also encourage you to try if you feel like doing it. So just see what feels good. Okay, so I'm just lettering you are my favorite person. So I've done you on my favorite at the top, and just know how I kind of stuck with the outline so much. I'm trying to hug the shape with my calligraphy, and you can do that by bouncing your lettters by making sure that some of the letters touch the outline, making sure that you are stretching your entry and exit strokes so that they fill in the gaps between the words and they fill in the shape as much as you can. This will mean that sometimes you'll let to something and then you'll have to erase it because, you know, go back because it is quite hard to plan it. You can also kind of plan it. You can spend a bit of time just maybe planning it out, seeing where you will actually fit your design. You can scribble a little bit in just like monoline brush and then maybe hide that layer or just reduce the opacity again and then go over with calligraphy. That's another way of doing it. But I'm just kind of doing it on the go. And again, this will come with experience. But the idea is that we don't want to have any big gaps that we want to really try and stay close to the outline or the shape, and just trying our best, really. So take your time. You can pause the video. You can take as long as you need. We want this to look nice, so definitely take your time. I know this is quite hard. It doesn't feel easy on your hand, especially if your heart's quite big. Okay, so notice how I'm definitely kind of changing the way my lettuce go. So they definitely stretch higher and lower. Then some of them are slanted to the right. Some of them are slanted to the left. So here we are kind of forgetting about a lot of calligraphy rules, I think. We're just definitely stretching the lettuce, and we're trying to fit them in in this really kind of fun stylized way. So there's a lot of stretching going on, and that's fine. The idea is that we can still read what it says and that we can see that it's a heart. And be extra careful at the bottom here. I've done the word R, so you might finish on the U or R, hopefully on those two because the word favorite is quite big. Now this I'm trying to really stretch that letter R into that little pointy part of the heart. Okay. So when you feel like you've done it, you can just toggle your layer off, your shape layer off. You'll see that hopefully it will look really pretty, like a little hot. Here now, we can create a new layer when you're ready and we can go into airbrushing and select one of their airbrushing brushes. I just went for the medium one. And we've done this step before, remember, we colored in. We're just coloring over our colega f in different colors. You can use any colors you like. I want this to be really bright and I want to make it pop. I'm definitely going for really bright colors and just overlaying my design, brushing over with some reds and pinks and yellows and pinks again. So this is going to be quite bold looking and that's the idea. Okay. So now, once you've done this part, we're going to go into this little adjustment section. And we're going to click on Gargan blur. So we've used this many times as well, and then there's sliding. To the point where it kind of blends together. So if you blend your colors, it'll just look nicer. And then click on this layer and click on clipping mask. Again, something we've done before, something we done last week, I notice how it just looks really pretty. It just overlays your lettering with all of those beautiful colors. I'll think about how long would it take to achieve this effect in real life. So I always feel so grateful when I try something like this, and I hope this also blows your mind and opens up many ideas for you. I'm sure it does. So there we go. So this is really pretty. You can do it into many shapes. You can work with different colors. There are so many possibilities. Okay, I'm just merging those two layers together. So the airbrushing and the actual calligraphy layer, and then you'll be able to scale it. So just light it in an arrow and you can align it. You can make it pick up. So there we go. I think it looks really lovely. That would make a really pretty greeting card design. I think. And you can change the background color if you wanted to. Maybe some lovely pink. That looks really pretty. You can experiment really, get creative. Lovely. As I said, remember, you can do this to many, many other shapes. Okay, so the world is your oyster. Literally. I'll add actually some IDs below. I'll write them out. You can have a look. You can do animals, you can do musical instruments. There are so many lovely things you can try. Because Easter's coming up if you're watching this course in real time, I thought that maybe you can try doing this little Easter bunny. So this photo is from the Adobe Adobe stock website. I actually added a link for you. So if you sign up for a free trial, I think you get like one month's free trial, and you can download photos. So this is where I got it. So I'll just add a link. If you wanted to try this with me, you can just go get the picture, insert it into your canvas, and just follow the steps again. And I'm just going to write happy Easter over and over again. And notice how sometimes if you have separate elements like ease or like bunny legs, in this case, it's nice to position the calligraphy at a different angle. So see how I've done it kind of horizontally there. And it'll just separate your calligraphy. It'll make it look a different shape, which is fun. I don't always do it, but I think it made sense to do it in the east. I think it looks quite good this way. And I'm just writing happy Easter over and over again in this really kind of super bouncy style. I'm doing it quite quickly. Again, guys, I know this is hard. I don't want you to look at this and think, Oh, my goodness, I definitely need more time, and that's good. You probably should take more time and do it slowly and thoroughly plan it out. And as I said, this will come with experience. The more you do it, the easier it'll be to use the brush. The more contrast you'll see between thick and thin. So don't get discouraged. Okay, so I didn't actually separate the legs here. I just I'm doing it as a whole just like one body. But I'm using the cross lines again and the exit strokes to really stretch my lettuce and fill in any gaps. So if you have a look at the cross line of the letter you'll see how I stretch that cross line into the back of the bunny. You can see how it's kind of filling in that gap nicely. And it's really tricky here at the end, where there's a little tail. So I'm just taking my time. You can experiment I try different angles, see where you can squeeze in another word. So you're probably finishing the word Easter. And I'm just really kind of thinking how I could fit it in nicely. Rotate your canvas. That can really help. Okay, so I'm not quite happy with this. Again, see it does take time. So I'm just showing you. I'm just showing this to you that it is a process. You will go back many times. You'll definitely be tapping your screen with two fingers quite a lot to erase the previous step. And that's normal. That's very normal when you do something like this, and it'll take a bit of kind of positioning and planning. And yeah, that's all good. Just keep going. I think I'm quite happy with this. Obviously, there are still some gaps, and you can get creative. You can actually draw something. You can always fill those gaps with little dots or little flowers or something else, wherever you like. So I thought I'd just do these really kind of simplistic flowers to fill in the gaps a bit more. And this will really help to show the shape a little bit more, as well. So yeah, I thought I'd do it cause sometimes it is really hard to stretch your calligraphy into all of those little corners and, like, all of those places. Especially if you're doing something like two words. If you're doing one word, I think it's easier. But if you're doing a quote, it's even harder. So start with something simple like one word, then try two words and three words. And yeah, just keep going that way. Okay, I just want to show you the final result. If you're doing this with B, we can create a we could create another overlay, maybe some lovely yellow colors. So again, go into airbrushing, select one of the brushes there. Make it quite big. Select some lovely Easter themed colors, maybe yellow and orange. So beautiful bright colors. I'm just coloring over on the side. I'm going for yellow mostly here. Again, we're going into adjustments, Gasian blurring it, going into the layer, clicking on clipping mask and seeing the final result. Mine's really yellow. I might actually correct it a little bit. You can actually correct it in real time, so you can go back to your brush and you can just brush over in any other color. See how I'm brushing over and it's still it reacts, because I'm doing it in the overlay layer, so you can edit it that way. But there we go. I think this is really pretty. That will make a really nice greeting card or a little post. You can person Imagine personizing this with family names. That's a good idea, isn't it? So that could look really pretty. So I'm just adding little white dots inside the flowers, and I am going to then merge the layers to get there and that's it, really. So this is a finished look. I hope you love yours. I would really love to see what you've created here. 22. Lesson 20: Floral Monogram Design: In this lesson, I'm going to teach you how to create a beautiful monogram design. This can make a beautiful gift, and it just looks really, really good. Okay, so let's begin by creating a new document and then going into actions, clicking on AD you'll see there's little ad section there. So actions. Add, and then we're going to click on Add Text. So we can click on Add Text, which is something we haven't done yet. But this is something you can definitely do in Procreate. You can also just type and not do calligraphy. So you can always just type. You can do a combination of both calligraphy and typing. So there are a lot of different fonts available, so it's a lot of fun. Okay, so I'm going to select a different color. You can type any letter. I'm going to select black for now. And then I'm just going to type a single letter. I'm just going to do the letter A. By the way, if you don't see the keyboard option to type, it'll be at the bottom and you might need to select it and make it visible. Okay, so now we are going to check the font, see what font we could select. And when we do monograms, we want something quite elegant looking, and I really love this Dido font for monograms, especially, it's really pretty. So while you're in here, you can always adjust your size as well, but this is something you can also do later. You can always scale it. So if you ever struggle to find the text settings or the fond options, go into your text layer and click on Edit Text, and you can get access to it all from there. It can be hard to find sometimes, but just check at the bottom. You'll see all of those options, explore a little bit, get used to it. And if you ever click Oof a just remember you can select the layer, click on Edit Text, and it'll all pop up for you. Okay. So now with the layer selected, you can click on an arrow and maybe scale it up a little bit or scale it down, see how big you want it to be. Now, I'll just tell you what we're going to do. So we're going to draw some really lovely kind of branches and flowers around this letter. And at the bottom, we can letter a name. So this is really nice. For example, as a gift, you could do a monogram. So let's say we're doing this for Alia. That's a nice dame. And so I'm doing the letter A. I'm going to decorate it, but then I'm going to write the actual name at the bottom in Caligapy and you can also add, if you want to make it extra special, we could also add maybe the meaning of the name. We can always look it up like what it is that the name actually means. And it will just make such a beautiful personalized gift. So let's start adding these simplistic drawing elements. So create a new layer so we get a separate layer. Select a nice green and just do some really simplistic branches to begin with. With your calligraphy brush, you can use monoline brush. I'm looking for clean outlines here. I like this I'd like it to be quite neat. So I'm definitely just using a clean looking brush. I'm doing some flowers. Again, nothing new. We've done it all before many, many times, and we are just repeating really and just making this lovely arrangement. So get creative. I might just do three flowers, so I'm positioning them kind of randomly, to be honest here and there. Don't forget about the other side. It's nice to kind of balance the side out. It's more of a color play here rather than filling it up too much. So I'm just trying to find some nice colors. So this green and pink just looks really pretty together. And I'm also thinking of adding some either brighter green or maybe even, like, bluish bluish branches. So let's see. I'm just finishing this flower, and I'll keep it as a little kind of closed up flower. Okay, I'm going to select. I'm just looking for the colors. Some yellow for the scent of the flowers. So we'll just do a little circle. And I'll look lovely. And now I'm just looking for a different green. I want, like, a different shade of green. So I've slighted this lighter one, and actually, we can do like different type, like, a different type of leaf. So maybe, like, a round looking leave. Again, I'm kind of stretching from the letter, and then I'm just doing these petals that are a bit more round, blending together different kind of botanical elements and forming this beautiful simplistic design that kind of makes it look as if the latter is flourishing. You know, the flowers and leaves are coming out of it. I think it's really pretty and meaningful. This would make such a beautiful christening gift or even a birthday, give a new baby gift so many occasions. This can be gifted on. So yeah, really beautiful. It's all about that personalization, isn't it? It's always nice to be able to give a personalized gift. So yes, I'm just keeping up with these branches. I'm just doing a couple here and there, just doing the outline first and then filling them in with color. I might just add some vender lavender looking ones, too. You can always make it a little bit more detail. I actually really love this technique where you do another outline on the inside of the leaf in white. So just selected white. I made my brush a bit smaller, and I'm just doing these simplistic lines inside each individual leaf. I think I want to leave the flowers as they are. But yeah, yes, I'm definitely adding a bit more extra to the actual leaves, and I think it looks really pretty. And I can't resist. I might just do a little detail around the center of the flower. So I selected a darker orange color. And I'm just doing these kind of up and down lines and creating this little embellishment in the middle around the original center, and it just makes it look a bit more floffy if that makes sense. I think it just brings it to life a little bit more. But there we go. I think this is the finish look for me. I'm quite happy with it. I might just add some dots. Dots make everything look really kind of bright. It brightens they brighten everything up. And we can marge those layers. If you're ready to marge them, you can just combine them, pinch them together so you can move this as one. One object, and then let's center it and we can write something underneath. So now I'm going to select black and just do a nice stylized name. I'm going to write Alia. I've looked up its meaning. It means golden, which is really beautiful. So you can always just Google it, I'm sure. A name will come up. With its meaning. So that's pretty much the last step, adding in calligraphy, adding in the meaning of the name if you like. So I'm selecting it. So I didn't do this in a separate layer. I should have so you can always play with the layers, of course. But I'm just selecting this for the selection tool, and then I'm aligning it to the middle, so it's underneath. I think this looks really pretty. It's like a bigger monogram and then maybe like a smaller name underneath. And as I said, if you wanted to, you could add Um, the meaning of the name, you can also change the background color. And I just like this kind of off white looking one. I think this looks quite good. Lovely. I'm just lettering the word golden to the meaning of the name. I just want you to know that I know I kind of make it look really easy doing calligraphy and I know it can be really hard and I don't want you to rush this, so you can definitely take more time. I'm also very often just doing it once and then starting again. So take your time. You probably want to go a little bit slower. Again, if you are quite new to calligraphy or if you haven't been doing it for long, create a new layer or you can just work here and then select it if you want to move it around. I'm just positioning it kind of underneath. But there we go. That's pretty much it. You can always play a little bit with the arrangement. So see where you want to position your text. I might actually make it a bit smaller, turning on snapping and magnetics, making sure this is scented. I want it to be right in the middle. And there. So just finalize by positioning everything wherever you want it to be, and there you go. 23. Lesson 21: Exporting Your Files: In this lesson, we're going to talk about exporting our files. So I did write a little guide about it already, but I just thought I'd show you. So if you go into actions, and if you click on Share, you'll see all of these different file types, okay, PNG, JPEG, PDF. There are a lot of different files here. So I normally would export my designs as JPEGs or P&G, it's really easy to do. Let's say you click on JPAG and it's just going to give you these options. You can airdrop it to somebody, you can message, you can email, you can save it as an image, you can print from here. You can save the files. Normally I would either airdrop to my laptop or I would save the files, so it's saved safely. You can also just save image. I'll save your photos. It's a lot of different options, very easily done. I'm going to talk about each file type a little bit more in written extractions for you. Just you have a text document that you can always refer to if you need to, I will add it all in the next lesson. 24. Lesson 22: Design Usage Inspiration: In this lesson, I want to share how you can use your beautiful files. So this website here is called PrinFOL and it's a print on demand website, which means that you can apply your design onto here and get them printed. You can even get them shipped for you. So you don't actually have to ship anything. So you can connect this particular website to your at T shop. So if you register, you can explore all the options. But you can connect it to your at T shop, and you can list designed on your EtS and this company is just going to kind of ship all the products for you when you get orders. So it's a lot of fun. It's definitely quite popular these days. A lot of creators are using it, and it's worth a try. You never know what will pick up. So if you do plan to set it up, I would say try to niche down and maybe begin with one type of product and just think of a specific style you want to design. All of that really helps. A stronger niche definitely means less competition. So I just want to show you maybe an example of how to actually upload your artwork on here. So under each product, you'll be able to find a guide, like a file guide that you can download. And this will show you all the dimensions. And you can also import this into Procreate. And let's say you want to print your pattern design, you can lay all the squares into here. So it's just nice to know what size document you need. But let's go ahead. I might actually show you how to do it. You can also just upload, there'll be different products. But sometimes you might just be able to uploud your pattern, your square pattern, and it'll automatically kind of make it fit like this. So if you want it to be smaller, obviously, you'll have to make it smaller and reuploud. But just an example. I've just uploaded this and clicked on mockup, so we can see what it would look like when I print on this tumblo. And it looks really fun. Look at this. I really love it. I will try, actually, maybe another design, the one we've created together in our live session. That'll be fun to see. Let's try that floral daisy design. I'll just upload it from my laptop, so you just upload it. And here it is. Found it. So let's have a look at what this would look like. So again, I'm just uploading it and it automatically kind of zooms in on the pattern, and let's just have a look at the mockup. And this is so much fun. I would love actually having something like this or gifting to somebody. I think it's wonderful. So a good thing here is that once you set up your profile, once you register, you're also able to kind of manually create orders, which means, let's say, if you have one customer who would like this, you can just ship it to them. You can enter their details, and you can just ship it to them, which, you know, can be really useful. There is actually another website that I highly recommend, and it's called Ink tredB. I think it's a genius name, by the way. So this is a UK based website, which means the shipping times will be quicker, which is always great. And I think they've also got some really lovely, organic ranges and the quality just seems nice. I haven't tried this website myself. Sometimes with drop shipping, it can be a bit of a hit and miss. Sometimes your product might be printed, I don't know, like a bit off to the side or it won't aligned properly. So I've heard lots of stories and I actually had quite a bit of an experience with this myself. So you would always want to order samples. Okay, so let's just explore some different options. You could be making income using your designs. So this here is just Etsy. And I just thought I'd show you. So if you search for floral patterns, seamless patterns, you'll find lots of sellers selling them. So this is great. You know, This is something digital. You don't have to ship anything. You can also set up your own rules about commercial use of your products, of course. And this could go really well if you get a best seller product. So you never know what you do well. It's really nice experiment and try it out. It can be a slow start. I know you probably want to fill up your shop with a lot of design. But if you're into it, if you want to make it happen, it's definitely doable. I think it's a really nice, again, a passive income stream that can always be useful. Okay, so you could also sell clip art on Etsy. You could create individual flower designs just like we've been drawing or even calligraphy and flower combinations. So people sell a lot of these things, as well, you know, it only means that there's market for it. Obviously, it's competition, but it also means that people are buying these things. And it's so true. A lot of designers, they outsource design elements like this, and Etsy is very often a very useful destination for that. You can also think Depot, you can think about wedding stationery. And these days, a lot of people sell just like templates. You can create templates in Canva and you can add some lovely design elements that you've drawn. There are so many possibilities. Being able to draw digitally and do clove digitally, opened so many doors for you. It really is a wonderful skill. 25. You Did It!: Well done, everybody, I just want to say well done for completing the course. I'm very proud of you all. Look how far you've come. If you're watching this, well done. You've learned a lot. I'm sure you've had fun. It's really wonderful to see your work. So yeah, I'm very proud of you. I'm wishing you the best of luck with your pro cre journey. I'm really excited to see where it takes you. And also, if you don't mind, I would really appreciate a bit of feedback about the course. Underneath, there's a little form another lesson where you can just type a couple of sentences about your experience, and this might be something that inspires someone else to take the course. So I really hope that you don't mind sharing and thank you so much in advance. Thanks so much, guys. I really hope to see you again soon and good luck. You've got this. You did it. Thanks so much, everybody. Bye.