Metallic & Glitter Effects In Procreate

1. Intro: Hi there, creative friend. Welcome. I'm Sarah. I'm an artist and designer. And in this one class, I'll show you my process for creating metallic effects in the Procreate app that can be used for all kinds of projects, such as hand-lettering, patterns and illustrated elements to name a few. You can even sell these as design assets. First, I'll show you how to create some reflective metallic effects. Then we'll create some dazzling glitters. After that, I'll show you how to apply your new digital metallics to text and illustrated elements. And as a bonus, I will show you how to create a multi-colored glitter metallic effect. All you'll need for this class is an iPad. The Procreate app, and your creativity. Are you ready? I sure am. Let's get started. 2. Downloads: I'm going to quickly show you how to download the class resources. And something important to remember is that you will need to be on a web browser and not the Skillshare app to access the download's. I'm using Chrome. Right below this video, you will see some tabs go to the Projects and Resources. And you will see the file available for download. Click on the color swatches file, and the download will open in a new tab. Click on Download, then tap on, Open in and select procreate. And your file will automatically import into the Procreate app. Most of the time, it will place your new color palette at the very bottom of your palettes panel. So we can move that up to the top. I've also included a Pinterest and metallic and glitter inspiration board. So go to the About tab located right below this video. Scroll down and click on the link. That will take you directly to the class Pinterest board. Have a look around at the gorgeous textures and effects for some project inspiration. 3. Class Project: For your class project, create one of the metallic effects demonstrated in the class. And as a bonus, apply your new effect to an existing project. You may have like a hand lettered piece in illustration, or maybe your favorite quote using a cool font. Okay, let's get started. 4. Reflective Metallics: So the first thing we're going to do is create a canvas. And the canvas size really doesn't matter. It will be dependent on your project that you will be using these glitter and metallic, metallic effects for what? For the purpose of this class, I will be making my canvas size 11 inches by eight inches. So I will just create a new canvas. And I will make sure it's at 300 DPI. Now I can click on Create. So if we go under our color palettes, you will see I created for many metallic palettes. There's the classic gold, the rose gold, the green gold, and silver. I'm going to be using the classic gold for this first effect. And you can see we have a dark tone, mid-tone, and a highlights. So I'm going to grab my dark gold color. For our first effect. I'm going to show you just a basic metallic effect. And I'll be using the classic monoline brush that comes with the Procreate app. And you can find that under the calligraphy section. So I'm going to start off by creating two thick stripes on the sides. We will have one highlight color in the middle. And just keep these lines organic and loose. You don't want perfectly straight lines. So now I will just drag and drop the color into the two-sided portions. And now I will get my highlight color. For the middle. I will go and grab the lightest color, our gold palette, and just drag and drop the color in. Now I'll go to my adjustments panel and I will click on Gaussian Blur. And this is where the magic happens. This is where we create our metallic effect. So we will just slide. We're slider all the way up. And as you can see, the higher up you go, the more blends everything together. So for this effect, I'm going to go pretty high and keep it probably add 75. That looks really nice. And there is our first effect. Now let's try a metallic effect that has more depth. So I will go to my layers panel. You're going to turn that effect off and create a new layer. I am going to grab my dark tone. This time. I'm going to make a three thick sections too in the corners and one in the middle. And now I can just drag and drop the color into those spaces. And next I'll be using a mid tone. So we will go to our metallics and get the mid tone color. And I'm going to add some mid tones right next to my dark tones. I will just add on both sides of this center. And on this side. Now I can just drag and drop the color into these spaces. And now we're left with are highlighted portions. So I will grab the lightest color and just drag and drop the color. Now we will create our metallic effect. So I will go to my adjustments panel, click on Gaussian Blur, and just slide it up tail. I am happy with it and you can leave it less or more. It's totally up to you and your preference. I want there to be some depth. So I think I will put that at around 41%. You can see this one has more depth than the previous one we created. Now let's try a diagonal metallic effect. I will turn those layers off. I'm going to create a new layer. And this time, let's try rose gold. I will start with my dark tone and I'm going to do the same thing we did is we did the two sides in the middle, but this time I'm going to do it. Diagonally, you can just play around with this. There is no right or wrong. You can add as much dark and light highlights, make it more subtle, make it have more depth. It's totally up to you. Once you start, this can become really addictive and it's so much fun. I love creating different kind of metallic effects. So I have my two edges, my middle. Now I'm going to add my mid tones. So I will grab my next color. It's the middle one. And I will just add that on, like we did earlier. This time we're doing it at on a diagonal. So I'll just drag and drop the color in. And now I have my two highlighted areas. So I can grab my lightest color. Just drag and drop that. Now I'm ready to create my effect. We will go to our adjustments panel, click on Gaussian blur, and slide it all the way up till we are happy with it. I like to just play around with it and see what I like. I think I will make this one around 40%. That looks really good. Now I'll show you how to make a more subtle effect. So let's create a new layer. This time, let's go with the silver. So I'm not going to be using my dark tone. I'm only going to be using my mid tone and my highlights. So I will grab my mid tone. I will add to the sides. I want to make that a little thicker. Drag and drop the color in. I'm going to add a thinner strip in the middle. And now I will feel these two with my highlight color. I'll grab my lightest color and my silver palette. And just drag and drop that color. I will go to the Adjustments, gaussian blur and slide to adjust. This one, I'm going to leave at thirty-seven percent. And as you can see, it's a much softer and subtle effect then these other ones we created earlier. So just play around with the different areas of mid tones, dark tones and highlights and see what you like. Create diagonals, maybe add more of a dark tone and highlights, maybe make it more subtle. It's totally up to you and what you like. So in the next lesson, I will show you how to take these metallics and turn them into some really neat glitter effects. 5. Glitter Metallics: In this next lesson, I'm going to show you how to create some metallic glitter effects. So we're going to start with one of the metallics we created in our previous lesson. And I will show you how to turn that into a glitter effect. So we can choose from any of the ones we did previously. I'm going to create the glitter effect from this gold when we made. I'm going to just duplicate this effect and I will turn off my original one that we did earlier. Now I'm going to go again to my adjustments panel. And this time I am going to go where it says noise and I'm going to click on that. And here we have options. We have clouds below those ridges and we will show you what each one does and we will play with that. So the first thing we're going to do is use our slider again to create some noise. So the more we slide it, the more noise we will have. And the less it will be. A softer, kind of finer glitter will start at about, I'm going to start at around 30%. And now is the part where I will start creating more of a texture. So here are my options. We have clouds, which will give us a finer looking, a glitter. We have pillows and that gives us a bit more texture. Then we have ridges and that gives a darker effect. So my favorite is a below, so I'm going to put it on below. And then right here we can play with the scale of our glitter. The higher up you go, the chunkier and thicker, our glitter will look. And the lower you go, the finer the glitter will look. So I'm just going to see what I like. And I'm liking it around here, which is 45. Now on turbulence, I'm going to go all the way up and this kind of smooths it out a bit. As you can see. That's more of like a line kind of effect and I want it to look like a glitter effects. So I'm going to bring that all the way up. And as you can see, it really makes it look like a glitter texture. Now for here the octaves, you can see the higher we go, the smaller it becomes. And unless we put it, the thicker and chunkier, darker it looks. I like to leave this at around 17%. We can play with our noise and make it a little more textural or less. You just play with these settings and see what you like. If you want a finer glitter, you can go to clouds and then you would just work on the scale and the noise, if you'd like, below, can make the skill up a bit. So just kind of play around with these settings and see what you like. So I'm going to just tap up, I'm going to bring the noise up to about 32%. The scale about 40, 44%. I'm going to keep it on below. And I think I will bring this one to around 20%. And that looks good. So there is my first metallic glitter. So now I'm going to show you how to create a nice kind of Omri, glitter. I'm going to create a new layer. I'm going to turn this glitter effect off. I'm going to grab my monoline brush. And this time I am going to use my green metallics. So I'm going to start with my dark metallic. And I am going to just fill in half of my canvas with the darkest color. Then on this side, I'm going to grab my lightest color. And I will just drag and drop the color in. Now we're going to do the same thing as we did last time. We're first going to create the metallic effect, and then we'll add the glitter effect. So I will go to my adjustments. I'm going to click on Gaussian Blur. And this time I'm going to slide it all the way up to 100% because I really want a nice ombre effect on this glare. So now that I have that, I will go back to my adjustments. I will click on noise and we will do the same thing. We will just play around with the adjustments until we're happy with our glitter effect. So I'm going to start by. Creating some noise, and I'll leave it at around 30%. I'm going to click on below. Now I can play with my scale. Going to bring that up to around 42%. I'm going to bring my turbulence all up. Then I can play with my octaves. I think I'll put that at 20%. Let me see. I'm just going to see if I want more noise or less. I think I'll bring that up to 38%. I like that. So I will just click again on my adjustments and there is my second glitter effect. And as you can see, it's a nice kind of Omri green effect. Now I'm going to show you how you can create a glitter effect with just one color. So I will turn my glitter effect off, my green glitter effect off. I'm going to create a new layer. And this time I'm going to drag and drop and fill the whole canvas with this dark gold color. Will drag and drop. And now I will go to my adjustments and we will click on noise. Again. We'll raise the noise. Gonna go to below. I will play with my scale. And I'm going to bring this high this time since we only have one color. There's not much contrast. This is just a plain gold glitter effect. So I'm going to bring it up to 47%. By turbulent all the way up. I'm going to leave this octaves at none. I really liked that, so I'm going to leave it like that. But play and experiment with the settings and get it exactly to the texture and size you'd like. That's how you can create glitters in you can craig glitters from any of the metallics you make, or create new ones as we did with our green Omri, or just create glitters from one color. Now that we have our glitter, we will just save it so we can import it to our project. I'm going to go to my little wrench icon up here, which is my actions panel. And I will either say, you can either save this in JPEG or PNG. I'm going to save it in j pic. I will just click on Save Image. And that will save it to my camera roll. And I will be ready to import it into my project. When I'm ready. In the next lesson, I will show you how to apply these glitter and metallic effects into some of your projects like text or patterns or illustrations. 6. Metallic Application: Now I'm going to show you how to apply our glitter and metallic effects to some text and a pattern I have. I will create a new canvas. And I'm going to create it the same size as we did our metallic effects. 11 inches by eight inches. I will just create a new canvas. Now I'm going to fill this layer in with a background color. I'm going to make sure I'm on a new layer and just drag and drop a color in to the capitalist. Now I will create a new layer. I'm going to grab a lighter color for my text. And this is the part where you can use your favorite font. Or if you want to hand letter something and apply your metallic anything you'd like, I'm going to be using just one of the fonts that comes with the Procreate app. But feel free to use any kind of lettering or font you want to use. I will go to my wrench icon. I will click on Add text. I will just type in hello. And I want to change this font to a thicker font so we can see it and I will increase the size. That looks good. So I will click on Done. Now I will center my letters to the center of the canvas. Now that I have that, I can insert my metallics and apply the effect over the word. Again, we will go to the wrench icon and make sure you're on Add and then insert a photo. And as you remember in the previous lesson, we saved our metallics to our camera roll. Now we can use them for our project. I can pick from any of the metallics we made in our previous lessons to apply to our text. So I'll just use this gold one we created earlier. And that's good. So now I will go to my Layers panel. And something very important to keep in mind is that our effect must always be on top of the layer you want the effect to be applied to. So I want to apply this effect to my text layer so I will make sure that my metallic Effect is above, my texts layer is underneath. It will not work. You just hold your layer and drag it up above your texts layer. Now I can tap on that layer and click right here on clipping mask. And as you can see, it applied the effect on to our text. We can move that around if we want. You will just make sure you are on that metallic effect layer. Will click on this arrow icon and you can move it down around. You're happy with where you want your different shades and shadows to be. And that looks good. So now I can de-select. That is how you would apply this metallic effect to text. Now I will show you how to apply it to a pattern or a illustrated elements. So I'm going to go back to my gallery. And right here I have a pattern tile I created earlier. And I want to add a gold glitter effect to my dots. So I will go to my wrench icon and I'm going to insert a photo, one of my metallics. And I'm going to use this one. This is all gold glitter effect, so I will tap on that. And if it comes out smaller than your canvas size, you can click right here, Fit to Canvas, and it will fit it into your Canvas. That looks good. Now I will go to my Layers panel and make sure that my effect is above the element. I want to create this effect to. That would be my dots. So I need to make sure that my metallic effect is over my dots layer. And that's correct. So now I will just tap on that layer and click on clipping mask. And as you can see, it has applied my effect to all of my dots. Now I can save my pattern. I will just click on my wrench icon, click on Share, and I'll save it as a JPEG. And that will place it in my camera roll. I can do the same thing to my text. I would do the same thing. Click on my actions, panel, Share, and then save it in any format I want, I will save it as a JPEG to my camera roll. I'm ready to use it on social media, on my Instagram, my blog, maybe apply it to a product like a mug or a pollster and it's ready to use. I will just go to my camera roll. And there they are. 7. Multi-Color Glitter Effect: In this bonus lesson, I'm going to show you how to create a multi-color glitter effect. So the first thing you will do is create one of the reflective metallic effects from our first lesson. I'll be using the classic cold. After you've created your first defect. We will move on to creating a glitter effect. And we'll use the same process from lesson two. Now that we have created our base, it's time to add our colors. You can use as many colors as you'd like for as little as one color. I'll be using a bright pink and greenish blue. Make sure you create a brand new layer above your glitter effect for this to work. Now, I'll grab my monoline brush and start dropping color blobs on the canvas. There's no special method to wear. The colors should be placed. Just play and experiment with it. Once I'm done adding my color blobs, I'll go to my adjustments panel, tap on Gaussian Blur. And again, use the slider and adjust to your liking. I'm going to bring it up to 51%. Now it's the fun part. We will experiment with color molt, so-called to your color layer. And you'll see a little n symbol click on it. And this is where you will change your color mode. I like to go through the different molds and find my favorite one that works best with my glitter. So take your time and test them out. I'm going to pick linear light for this time and I'll lower the opacity of my color layer slightly to 80%. And that my friends is how I create in multi-colored glitter effect needs, right. 8. Final Thoughts: Thank you so much for taking the time and joining me. I hope you enjoyed this class. As much as I enjoyed creating it. I would love senior new dazzling metallic effects. So don't forget to share your work in the project gallery. Remember to have fun. Play with different color tones for your metallics and experiment with the settings. And if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. You can post your question in the discussion tab. You can find that right below this video. Thanks again, and I'll see you next time.