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Monochromatic City in Procreate: Embrace Imperfection While Creating an Imaginary Cityscape

teacher avatar Kelley Bren Burke, Artist & Educator

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Hello & Welcome!

      1:51

    • 2.

      Class Project & Resources

      1:42

    • 3.

      Canvas Setup & Layer Management

      5:03

    • 4.

      Monochromatic Color Palettes

      5:32

    • 5.

      Let’s Draw a Single Building

      7:46

    • 6.

      Let’s Finish Our Single Building

      7:25

    • 7.

      Let’s Build Our City!

      12:07

    • 8.

      Let’s Organize Our Layers

      3:26

    • 9.

      Let’s Add Toppers to Our Buildings

      6:09

    • 10.

      Let’s Use Our Free Shape Brushes

      9:38

    • 11.

      Let’s Draw Windows & Doors

      8:21

    • 12.

      Let’s Draw Ovals & Triangles

      5:54

    • 13.

      Let’s Draw Circles and Arches

      6:29

    • 14.

      Let’s Decorate the Last 3 Buildings

      7:45

    • 15.

      Let’s Assess & Edit Windows & Doors

      2:59

    • 16.

      Easy Highlights & Shadows

      9:13

    • 17.

      Bonus! Quick & Easy Recoloring

      5:38

    • 18.

      Bonus! Easy Resizing for Instagram Reels

      2:47

    • 19.

      Congratulations! Next Steps

      0:36

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About This Class

Do you love creating art in the Procreate app, but you want to add some quirky charm to your work? Digital art can help us make perfect lines, circles, and squares. That’s awesome, but too much perfection can make your art look less human and more digital. In this class, you’ll silence your inner critic for a bit and embrace imperfection while we create our cut-paper effect monochromatic city

So if you can draw a wonky circle, an off-kilter rectangle, and a not-so-straight line, then this is the class for you!

All you need for class is

  • An iPad
  • The Procreate app 
  • A compatible stylus

I’ll supply color palette ideas and lots of fun Procreate brushes and stamps.  

During class, you will: 

  • Explore monochromatic color palettes
  • Create a single building as a warmup
  • Create your imaginary city in your favorite color
  • Master layer management while adding windows and doors to our buildings
  • Apply easy highlights and shadows to give a cut-paper effect

By the end of this class, you’ll have a perfectly imperfect city in your favorite color. And new Procreate tips and tricks for your next creative adventure. 

This class is best for those who have intermediate to advanced Procreate knowledge. But if you’re an ambitious beginner, you're welcome, too! As always, I’ll walk you through every step I take. 

Ready to embrace imperfection? I’ll see you in class. 

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1. Hello & Welcome!: Can you draw a wonky circle? An off-kilter rectangle? A not-so-straight line? Then this is the class for you. My name is Kelley Bren Burke and I am a recovering perfectionist. When I began creating art in the Procreate app back in 2017, I loved how digital art can help us make perfect circles, squares, and lines. I still love that, but too much perfection can make your art look less human and more digital. So let's silence our inner critics for a bit and embrace imperfection while we create our monochromatic cut-paper cities. All you need for class is an iPad, the Procreate app, and a compatible stylus. I'll supply color palette ideas and lots of fun Procreate brushes and stamps. During class, we'll explore monochromatic color palettes. Then we'll create a single building as a warmup. Master layer management. As we add windows and doors to our buildings, we'll apply easy highlights and shadows to give our buildings a cut-paper effect. By the end of this class, you'll have a perfectly imperfect city in your favorite color. and new Procreate tips and tricks for your next creative adventure. This class is best for those who have intermediate to advanced Procreate knowledge. But if you are an ambitious beginner, you are certainly welcome to join us as well. As always. I will walk you through every step I take. Ready to embrace imperfection? I will see you in class! 2. Class Project & Resources: For the class project, you will create your own monochromatic city. I'll walk you through every step. And I'm sharing Procreate color palettes, brushes, and stamps to support you. You'll also have a worksheet of shape ideas to inspire you. Here's a quick peek inside the class. First, we'll explore monochromatic color palettes. Then we'll draw a single building to help get us warmed up. Next, it's time to create our city. We'll use layer management to keep our buildings organized. Then we'll decorate our buildings with charmingly imperfect windows and doors. Finally, it's time for easy highlights and shadows to give a cut-paper effect. But wait, there's more! You'll have access to two quick bonus lessons. First, an easy way to completely change the color of your city. And then a lesson on how to resize your completed canvas so you can share it as a reel on Instagram. If you have any questions now or during class, I've got you. Click on the Discussions tab. I’ll respond to every message. I can't wait to see what you create! Upload your illustration by clicking on the class Project and Resources tab. Your work will inspire me and others and I will leave a comment on every class project. Ready to take the first step? Download the class resources. To access these goodies, click on the class Project and Resources tab. I'll see you in the next lesson. 3. Canvas Setup & Layer Management: Welcome back. In the last lesson, we explored monochromatic color palettes. In this lesson, we are going to set up our canvas and we're also going to talk about getting around limited layers. The layers in Procreate are determined by the size of your iPad. And let me just show you what I mean. So I'm going to hit plus here and I'm going to create an eight by ten canvas to use for this project. I'm going to hit plus tap that little folder. Tap inches, tap eight, then ten. Procreate will always default to a DPI of 300, which is an excellent print quality. And then it'll tell you the maximum amount of layers to use. This one has eighty nine. And you may have more or less layers available to you depending on your iPad. For this class, we want about 90 Layers. The class isn't really difficult, but it is layer intensive because each building is on its own layer. And then we're going to have highlights and shadows and so on. If you wanted to see what a smaller canvas would give you, change it here to 5X7. And in this case that would give me 209 Layers, which would be more than enough. I would recommend you creating a canvas that can accommodate about 90 Layers. If you would really like to work on a larger canvas like this one, we’ll go back to eight by ten, which is what I'm doing. I'm going to hit “Create”. And this is my new canvas. I'm going to name it. I'm going to name it “Green Cut-Paper City 1.” because we might be duplicating the canvas. Here's one of the cities that I have already created. I did have enough layers for the city, but if I didn't, I will show you the workaround here. And I also named these buildings like “The Darkest”, “The Gold-est” and that kind of thing. And I found out an easier way to do that and that's just to number them. And I'll show you how to do that later. So no need to label your buildings like this. So let's just look at the first building, which is on this layer group. And so this is the building that I called “Squat Right”. And here are the windows. Those are on two layers. And here is the building. And here is the highlights. Here is the shadows. These are all unflattened. They're not merged together, and I like that because we have a lot of flexibility to go back and change it if it's not flattened. However, if we did need more layers, then we could just duplicate this canvas by swiping to the left, hit Duplicate. I'm going to call this one “Flattened”. You only have to do this if you're layer challenged. And this is a good way to get around limited layers in any situation, not just for this class. So we have our unflattened one, it's not yet flattened. I will show you how we're gonna do that. Going back to the “Squat Right Building”, I can pinch together the first three layers, and then I have gained two new layers. I could also pinch together the highlight in there. I don't want to pinch the shadow because that's on a blend mode. I'll show you what happens there. The blend mode effects the whole building. And that looks kind of interesting in its own way, but you can see the other layers behind there. So I'm going do a two-finger tap to undo that. And I am going to leave the shadow on its own layer. But we did gain three layers that way. Going back to another building, “Middle Front”, I can squish together the windows, the color, the highlights, and gain two layers that way. Look at the “Shortest Left” and pinch together the windows, the color and the highlight. Boom. I call this one “The Gold-est”. And I can free up three layers by pinching these together and so on. You would just keep going in that fashion. And then you would have more layers freed up. And you would still be able to go back to the original unflattened one and have that flexibility to change if you wanted to. So that is my layer trick. We've set up our Canvas. Hopefully that will accommodate about 90 layers or so. I'm going to be using this 8 by 10 inch canvas. In the next lesson, we will start drawing our buildings. I will see you in the next lesson! 4. Monochromatic Color Palettes: Welcome back. In this lesson, we are going to create a monochromatic color palette. And a monochromatic color palette is the easiest of all, because the colors will range between lighter or darker versions of the base color or hue. This is an example of a monochromatic color palette. And so is this, and this. So we are going to create one together. And for this class, you can create your own color palette, or you can use a color palette that I have provided in the Project and Resources. Let's get started. I'm going to hit + here and I'm going to create a new canvas. The size doesn't matter a whole lot, because we're just going to be experimenting with colors. But I'm just going to tap right here. And I'm going to tap inches, 8. And height, 10. And then I'm going to tap Create. This gives me a DPI of 300 and an excellent print quality and 89 layers. So we are going to start by choosing any color at all. I'm going to start with this color right here, this green color. I'm going to explain how to create a palette using the classic view of the color wheel. And I'm also going to set up a new color palette by tapping + at the top of this screen and “Create new palette”. So I'm going to scroll to the very top, that's where it'll be - my new palette. And I'm going to call this “Monochromatic Green”. And once again, I'm going to tap on the classic view. I'm starting with this color. The color you can change right here with this top slider, you can see it changing from yellow to green to blue, and so on. I'm gonna go back to this one. In a monochromatic color palette, this little dot right here is going to stay in roughly the same place. While these sliders at the very bottom and in the middle change. And that's how we'll be choosing our color palette. But rather than doing it that way, I'm going to move around this screen like this. I'm actually going to delete this one because I'm going to start with a lighter color rather than using a pure white and a pure black. In this, we're going to use tints. This is a tint. It's a lighter version of this color. Like I said, we're just going to keep going around and adding varied colors to our color palette just like this. So you don't have to do it the way I'm doing it, but I find this is a nice way to go. It's a nice way to start just kinda going in a square around here. Those two are too similar, so I'm actually going to delete this one. So let's go all the way over there. It's close, but not exactly the same. Let's just keep cruising around here. Then I'm going to keep going in another kind of square way, just keeping it closer to the center. And we're going to have some colors that are probably close and overlapping. We're going to try not to do that, but it's not the worst thing in the world if it happens. Because we are going to have a lot of different colors to work with here. We won't be restricted by this palette right here. Because while we're creating, we can come up with new tints and tones of that specific green hue. I just want to fill this up. So that is how you create a monochromatic color palette. Easy peasy. So once again, you can create your own just like this. Or you can use one of the palettes that I created. If you start going on this color palette and you find that you don't love it after all, but you're in deep with the project - no worries, because it is very, very easy for us to transform the colors after we’re done. And that's gonna be a bonus lesson towards the end. So just choose one. Go with it. And we can always change it in the end. I will see you in the next lesson. We will create a canvas and start drawing our buildings. 5. Let’s Draw a Single Building : Welcome back. In the last lesson, we created a monochromatic color palette. In this lesson, we are going to dip our toes into this project by creating just one building. And that way you'll have an idea of where we're going when we are building our entire imaginary paper cut city. Let's get started. I created a worksheet for you with some shape ideas for your city. And you can find that in the class Project and Resources section. And I also created some brushes for you to use. I would encourage you to do your own drawing throughout the city. But since it is a large project, I thought it might be nice to give you some brushes to automate your process in some of the buildings. So let's get started building our first city. I am going to just do a Screen Size canvas. And I'm going to rotate my canvas this way. I will use this orange color palette. So we have it right here. I am going to set that as default. We are going to fill in the sky to start just so we have something to look at in the background. So now that we have our sky, I'm going to grab a different color and draw the building using Procreate's selection tool. I want to tap “Rectangle” and “Add”. And I can just draw a rectangle of any size. And what I wanted to do is Color Fill it. My building is not exactly where I want it to be. So I can un-Select it and bring it to the center here. That looks good. And on some of our buildings we want to have little decorative tops. So I'm gonna do that on a new layer using the same color. So what I'll do here is grab my Monoline. This is the brush set that you'll have as well in the class Project and Resources. And I'm going to use my Monoline. I'm on a new layer. I'm just going to - that my lines a little thick for me. So I'm going to bring down the size, make sure my Opacity is up and just draw a little topper to the building. And I'm gonna do this for about half of the buildings. Give them some kind of a topper in the interest of having the buildings being a little bit varied. I'm going to pinch these two layers together. And then I am going to add a new layer above that. And I'm going to grab a different color for the windows. I'm going to grab this orange and go to the classic color palette and see what color I might want for the windows, That's nice. I’m going to use my brushes that I gave you. I'll show you those real quick. And I also use the Drawing Guide to help me out in these buildings. So to access the drawing guide, you'd go Wrench > Canvas > Drawing Guide. And you can also edit the Drawing Guide. Right now I have a dark color, but you can change the color with the slider back and forth here. You can change the Grid size. And we’ll be changing the Grid size throughout this class because it'll help us kinda stay on track with our windows and such. So you'll see what I mean. But right now, my settings here, a 2D grid, Opacity 36, Thickness 64, and Grid size size 139. I'm on a new layer above the building, and I'll just show you my different brushes that I've created here. So this is Wonky Arches, or what do I call it? “Kinda Wonky Arches”. Then I also have “Wonky Circles”. I'll bring those down and do them at the top. I think. I think that looks nice. So there's a little bit of variety within these circles and squares. And now I have my squares. So we can go like this. The name of the game for this is imperfection. I think it looks a lot more charming when there's some imperfection here with our squares and arches and that kind of thing. Otherwise it would look really kinda cookie-cutter, and we don't want that. So another thing that we could do is grab our Monoline and draw just a line here with the Monoline at the top. I can apply a clipping mask. So that way the line only applies to the pixels on this page. So this clipping mask is attached to this building. And if I turn off the Clipping Mask, then you can see that line goes off the building. If I turn on the Clipping Mask, then it's only on this building right here. And I'm just going to grab my Monoline eraser and just clean this up a little bit right here. We could leave it like this. But I'm also going to show you just some ways to add variations to this. We could have different colored windows by ColorDropping. So we have that color. And let's just pretend we want different colored windows. I'm going to tap, continue filling. And that way - Whoop! Oh, I drew some of the squares directly on the building, which I don't want. But it's fine for now. That's why I can't change the color. Because it's changing the color of the whole building. Because the arches are on another layer, we can change those colors. So the most colors I will have an a building would be four. So maybe three different window colors, and then the base color of the building. So let me see if I can grab another color here. Yeah, that looks good. And again, I like it to be varied. So like right here - there's no real pattern going on to the colors. We could also do some things with our eraser for the Monoline. I'm going to bring this size down. And we could do things like this, kind of go fast because we don't want it to be super perfect. We could also add another layer and draw hand-drawn arches on top. And let me show you what I mean. I'm going to grab this light color and my Monoline. And I'm on a new layer and just drawing messy arches on top of here to give it sort of a more abstract look. I think I would like those in a different color to change the color up. I drew my arches on the same layer. I'm going to undo those and draw a new layer. I have my Monoline and a different color, and I'm just going to draw a kind of like “ghosts” of arches on top of there. I'm gonna grab my eraser and just erase these little tails. You could leave the tails if you wanted. That is good enough. I think since we do want it to be kind of playful and imperfect. And again, I don't really love the color of my outline, so I'm going to grab this dark color again. Alpha Lock this layer and then I’ll change it. I think that looks better. I could also play with the position of the arches. So anyway, that's an effect I do. I don't love it right here, but this is just giving you ideas of what you can do. It seems like a good time for a quick break. So I will see you in the next lesson! 6. Let’s Finish Our Single Building : Just gonna go back here. I'm gonna grab this color. I'm going to Alpha Lock the building. And I'm going to fill it with that orange so we lose our details. And I'm gonna do a new layer on top, which is what I should have done before. And just start drawing other things so you get the idea. This is another FUN one. I have the Monoline and I can use these grids as an outline. And I'm just going to do these wonky rectangles. It helps to start from different places. Like I start from the left and the right. Otherwise, it's going to look too much the same. And I'm using Procreate’s QuickShape tool to draw a rough quadrilateral here. So this one looks pretty imperfect. That is good. I'm going to add another layer on top. And I'm going to grab a slightly different color and do the same wonky rectangles going this way. I don't want like a perfect rectangle from Procreate. What I want is a quadrilateral. And this does take a little bit of practice to get the Quadrilateral to kick in. I like that. I'm going to erase this little tail here. I think what I will do with these shapes is group them together. I'm going to delete these old arches because we don't need them. So I'm going to group these together. And I am going to put them on Uniform and center them. I think that looks good. And then we'll draw a different design on top of the building. I'm just going to use this color right here. I have my Monoline. I'm going to bring down the size of it. And I'm going to roughly fill a shape inside of here. Easier said than done. Maybe I'll just draw it like this. Doop. Doop. Doop. And then I'm going to Color Fill it with that color. So now we have the top of our building here. And we could add another layer. And we could, if we wanted to, grab the squares and do some small squares up here for decor. There we have a funky building. I like that. I think that looks good. Now that we have created a building, I will show you how to make easy highlights and shadows. And that's what gives this the paper-cut effect. Since the building is the way I want it right now, I am just going to condense these layers with a pinch. So now we have all of the decorative elements on one layer and the building on another. And this is the background. And I'm gonna put these in a Group by swiping to the left and hitting “Group”. And I don't really need to do that right now, but it's something we'll be doing during the class. So I will just show you that. The building - I am going to duplicate it by swiping left, going to the layer below, and I'm going to hit Alpha Lock so I can change the color. Once I hit Alpha Lock, I get these little checkerboards here. Then I'm going to add a pure white and a pure black to my color palette. So you can get a pure white by tapping up here and on the Disc. And a pure white has a hex code of six Fs. So I'm gonna put it right down here. Actually I like my white above my black. So I'm gonna delete that one. Then I go back to the Disk, tap on the bottom like that twice. And to check if that's a pure black, I go up here. And a pure black has a hex code of six zeros. So we have a pure white and a pure black. And that is for our shadow effect. This is going to be our highlights. And then we're going to duplicate the highlights and we're going to call this “Shadows”. So we want our highlights to be white. So it's on Alpha Lock and I have this white color, so I'm going to fill that. And you can't see it on here, because we haven't moved it yet. It's behind the orange building. But I'm also going to grab the shadow layer, and I'm going to fill that with black. The shadow layer I always put on Multiply. That's a Blend Mode. Your Blend Modes always start in Normal. The only two Blend Modes we’ll be using for this class are Multiply and Normal. And everything will be on normal except for our shadows, which will be on a Multiply Blend Mode. I'm still an Alpha Lock here and I want to un-Alpha Lock the shadows because I'm going to give them a Guassian Blur in a second. With our highlights, we want to consider where the light source is. And our light source here is going to be a moon. I gave you a crescent moon stamp. So that's our moon, just so we know what the light source is. So we're bringing our highlights up to the moon, just one pixel. So I'm on the highlight layer, and I'm going to go to the Selection arrow and just tap the highlights towards the moon, just one tap. So it's moving just one pixel and it's not super obvious until you zoom in. You can see here that the highlights are on this side of the building. And now we're going to move on to the shadows. And we'll be doing this treatment to every single building at the end. So we have our shadows. It is no longer an Alpha Lock. We don't have the little checkerboard we have here. We go to Gaussian Blur. And I have found that a Gaussian Blur of about six to seven percent works well. Once you tap Guassian Blur, you get that menu at the top. And I'm just going to slide that to about . . . let’s do 6%. So you can see the shadow now behind here. And we want to tap the shadows in the opposite direction from the light source, which is the moon. I'm going to tap down this way - one, two - and I'm going to tap this way - three, four. I'm just tapping it away from the moon. So we have our highlights on this side. And our shadows are more profound on this side. And I like to change the opacity of my shadows. If we go back to the shadows here, the Opacity starts at Max. And I have found that I like a shadow of about 55% opacity. And let me just show the difference. Sometimes a shadow can look okay. Then you turn it off and you can see that it's kind of harsh. So if we bring it down - now it's 55, then we can see that it’s a more subtle effect. I think it's a little bit too far to this side, so I'm going to just tap it down this way. And I think that looks good. I'm going to also turn off the Drawing Guide. So I'm going to go to Wrench > Drawing Guide and turn that off. So it looks a lot better. So this is how we would draw just one building of our city. And next we're going to go on and build an entire city. I will see you in the next lesson! 7. Let’s Build Our City!: Welcome back. In the last lesson, we drew just one building of our city. In this lesson, we're actually going to start drawing our buildings. So I have my canvas here. It's labeled Green Cut-Paper City 1, and mine is an 8 by 10. So I'm going to open that up. And the first thing I'm gonna do is turn on my drawing grid. And I'm gonna go to Wrench > Drawing Guide. And I can hit Edit Drawing Guide if I want. You can change everything about the Drawing Guide. Essentially, you can change the color. This slider up here. I want it to be a dark color, so I'm going to leave it like that. I am going to change the grid size. My grid size is at about 192. It doesn't have to be exact. We're just using that as a visual guide so we can stagger the heights of our building. My opacity is at 36%, my thickness is at 64. You can set it up however you want. The guide is just going to help us get a little bit of variation in the height. I'm going to tap Done. The other thing I'm going to do is use a rule of thirds stamp. And you'll have one of these in the class Project and Resources. I'm not gonna go into a discussion about the rule of thirds. It would be its own lesson, but I almost always start with a rule of thirds grid. And let me show you what I mean. I stamp it. It's a little too big. It's pressure sensitive, so I stamped it a little bit smaller. I'm going to tap on this arrow. It's on Uniform Selection. So I'm just going to move it right there. And this, again doesn't need to be exact. It's just a guide. I am going to label this Thirds. I always have the rule of thirds one of the very top. Without getting into a big discussion on it, I will just roughly show you what I mean. Here's a building. And I want my tallest building to reach about right here. And then I want buildings to be shorter like this. And you can do your buildings however you want. In general, I am going to want buildings that will be shorter than that one and varied in height. So then we'll also have a moon. There will be breathing room in our composition right here, mostly right there. And then the tallest one will be right here. The rule of thirds is a great thing to learn about for photography or arts. Give it a Google if you want to learn more. For our purposes, it just means that our tallest building is going to come to about this point on the thirds. I am going to clear my lovely drawing. I am going to keep adding new layers. I'm gonna do 13 buildings. You can do as many buildings as you want. I tend to recommend odd numbers in design because it looks better. So you could do 13 buildings, 11 buildings, nine buildings, seven buildings. You can do eight if you want. It's totally up to you. But I'm going to set up 13 buildings and I'm just going to do that by adding layers. Now I'm going to rename these layers. Each of these layers will be the base of a building. So I'm just going to call this 12 to 13. Also a background color for the sky. And that will also be monochromatic. And we can change all of these colors later, but I'm just going to fill this in for now. You'll want a medium hue that isn't too dark and isn't too light for the sky. My rule of thirds color is actually too similar to my sky. So I'm going to change that color by hitting Alpha Lock and choosing a darker color for my rule of thirds stamp. Let's start with our buildings. I'm going to choose a dark green, so I'm on layer one. I am going to go to the Selection Ribbon > Add > Rectangle. I'm just going to create building like that. So with the rule of thirds, we know that we want our top building to come to about this point where these lines connect. I'm gonna make this building a little bit shorter. I'm in Freeform and I'm just going to move it like that. And I am going to go on to our next rectangle. I'm going to choose a different color. I think what I'm gonna do is turn off the rule of thirds because the main thing we wanted was that tallest building right there. I'm going to turn off the rule of thirds. We can always bring it back if we want. So I have a different color green. I'm on a different layer. I'm going to go to Selection and Rectangle. And I'm just going to draw another building that is not the same height or the same width as the original one. So that is right here. I think I would want that behind that tall building. So I'm going to move it that way. We can always change this, but this is just to get started. My layers are not in order anymore. That's fine. We're just going to keep going. I'm going to choose a different color, a really dark one. I'm gonna do another rectangle. I'm on the third layer. Maybe I'll do a short one down here. And I'm gonna go on to four. I'm going to choose a light green. I think I'm gonna put the light green to the right for now. So Selection > Rectangle. I want it to be a different size than this one, so I could make it shorter. Building five, Selection > Rectangle, fill the color and keep going. Layer six. Different green. Make this a different height than the other ones. Maybe I'll make it pretty wide and fill the color, drag that behind so we can see our little white building in front. I want another building in front. So I'm gonna skip up to layer 13 because that's always gonna be in front. Let me start with this color here and change it. Let's see how this one does. I do want this building to overlap with that more, so I'm on Freeform so I'm just going to drag it out. I think I want this building right here to be a lighter color. So I think I'm going to switch like the colors of these two buildings. I'm on six and I'm looking at three. So I'm going to grab six’s color. So I'm on three and I'm changing that to a darker color. And then I have six and I want that to be a little bit lighter. And I can do that with the Hue Saturation Brightness. Layer seven, I want another building in front of this dark one here. So we have a dark and a light, maybe a medium gray one. And I want it to be different from all of these other ones around there. So let's just do a tall skinny there. That building is in front of the dark one. Building number eight. I am going to put it around here and we want some variations. I'm going to start with this color here and find a new one. See how this one is. I'm on my new layer Selection > Rectangle. I'm going to Color Fill this. Obviously it's in front of my dark building and I don't want it to be there, so I’m going to bring it below there. It's looking good. It's looking like an imaginary city. I'm gonna go over here and do another building. So once again, Selection > Rectangle. And that is different. I like that. I think I want it to be behind this light colored building here. I'm going to drag it down. Overlap is good with these just because that's natural for a city. I think I'm going to move this building a little bit this way just so there's more overlap. Just a couple more rectangles to do. These are all pretty tall. I'm gonna do one right here. So here is ten. And I want something different from all of these colors. So I think I'll go really light here. So I'm going to start with this color here and bring it up. And once again, Selection > Rectangle. Make this one kinda wide. And then move it around. I don't love this. I'll make it taller and thinner. Okay. Two more buildings to go. 11 & 12. This gray color - I don't like it. So I'm going to sample that color and see how I can change it so I can like it better. I think I might want another tall building back here. So I'm just going to grab this color and do something different. I want to go back to Rectangle. I'm on the layer and I'm going to draw a building. Just a really skinny one right there. This color is too close to the others. So I'm going to tap on this Magic Wand and then go to Hue Saturation and Brightness. And this is the same thing we saw before with the Color Wheel. The Hue is right there, but we can tweak the Saturation and Brightness. That looks kinda like that now, but what if we bring the saturation up? I think that one looks good. So I am going to - if you want to see if it looks better or worse your eyes, you can hit Preview. So this is what it was before and after. I do like that, so I'm gonna hit Apply. And I don't want this building to be in front of that little light one. So I'm going to drag it down. And our last building, building number 12, maybe something over here. So I'm going to start with this dark color and I'll do another dark building to another wide one. This one isn't touching the ground. We've got to bring that down. I feel like these two buildings are too drab next to each other. I think I'll instead do a really light one here. I think that works. I think we have enough variation and I think we can tweak it from there. I'm going to add a layer below the thirds layer, and I am going to label this one Moon. I am going to grab the crescent moon stamp, a very, very light color, not quite white. I am going to bring back our rule of thirds. And I'm gonna - oop! [laughs] I'm gonna adjust the size of my crescent moon. Do my moon right around there. Let's turn off thirds. Let's turn off our grid to see what that looks like, just to give us a different look. So I am going to go to Wrench > Toggle the Drawing Guide off. And here we have our city. And we can see if we want to change anything here. If there's enough color variety, the buildings are distinct. I want this dark in front of this other one. I might make this dark building a little bit skinnier. I think that's good. Now that we have all of our buildings drawn, we are going to set it up in a way that makes it more clear which building is which. And that's what we're going to be doing. In the next lesson. I will see you then! 8. Let’s Organize Our Layers: Welcome back. In the last lesson, we drew our monochromatic buildings for our imaginary city. In this lesson, we are going to set up our layers in a way that will make it much easier to manage as the class goes on. Okay, so we have all our buildings here. and they were numbered. This time, we are going to give them letters and set up layer groups. So each of these buildings is going to ultimately have another layer in front of them that's gonna be their doors and their windows. And then afterwards we're gonna be adding highlights and shadows, which is a couple more layers. So each of these buildings is going to become a layer group by swiping them to the left and hitting Group. And rather than giving them numbers - because we already use numbers - we're going to use letters to make it less confusing. So we're gonna go up here and grab like a very light green. We're going to create a new layer right below our thirds layer. And we're going to call this one Letters. And we're just going to write letters on our buildings. And this is a layer that we're going to turn on and off. It's not going to be in the final one. It doesn't need to be pretty. So just scribble your letters on top of there. I also have a dark green here, so I'm gonna use A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H. I. Go back to my light color by holding here. J. Go back to my dark color, K. L, M. So A, B, C, D E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M. There are our letters. This new group that we created right here is now going to be renamed C. So we tap on it and rename it. See, so this building right here, the building formerly known as three is now A. So we create a layer above there. And we swipe and we group. And then we rename it A. And then we can collapse that, go back to the building formerly known as 12. Now B. Any Prince fans out there? Know what I mean? My husband may cut that. I don't know. We shall see. H building renamed to H. Seven Building is now the G Building. And I'm going to keep going in this fashion. Okay, so now I'm just going to double-check my work real quick. So this is the C building. A building. B. Okay? Now that we have our layers all set up, we can move on to something really fun. Andthat is drawing toppers to our Buildings. I will see you in the next lesson. 9. Let’s Add Toppers to Our Buildings : Welcome back. In the last lesson, we created our layer groups. And we labeled each of our buildings with a letter. And that will help us stay organized going forward with our project. In this lesson, we are going to add toppers to our buildings. I want to give some of the buildings a little top. So like we did in our first practice building - we're gonna do the same thing. So I am on building M. I'm gonna grab this color back. And I am going to draw with my Monoline just a little kinda top are here on a new layer. I'm just gonna go like this. And I'm going to draw like this so I can Color Fill it. And if it didn't Color Fill, than it would mean that you had a leak. So right here, I have leaks here. So if I Color Fill it with a leak, then it'll fill up the whole page instead of just that space. I'm seeing a little dot here. I'm just going to erase it so I don't get distracted by it. We are back to the M layer and we have our Monoline. I'm going to bring the size down and we're going to draw this little top again. And I'm drawing a line down here because it's not connected to the buildings, so we do need to do that to fill it. And I see that I have this little thing right here that I want to erase. My tendency is to work towards perfection. And when I'm doing this exercise, I'm fighting against it. But you can see I still have it in me. I also try not to undo as much during this project just because I want some organic wonkiness to this. I liked the way the top to that building looks. So I'm going to push these two layers together. And let's keep going and consider what else we want to give a top. I think this building E would look nice with a top. So we're going to find the E group and we have a layer above it. I'm gonna grab this color. And I'm going to go to the Selection again and just do a rectangle top, as well as a variation of the little angled top. So that angle is up this way, so we'll do an angle down that way. So that's filled. Uh, do I like that? For now I do. I'll just pinch these together and if it bugs me later, I'll fix it. I'm going to give a topper to building B. Navigating back to building B, I have the layer above it. I'm grabbing the color, I like that color. And we will draw another rectangle topper to that. I think that looks good. I'm going to pinch them together, just in the interest of saving layers. So I want about half of my 13 buildings to have a topper. And like I said before, I do want variety in my Toppers. I think what I'm gonna do is bring down building D. So I'm on the bright green building. I'm tapping this arrow here. It's on Freeform, so I'm just going to bring down the size a little bit. I think that looks good. I am going to turn off building H so I can see the whole building that I'm dealing with. I am going to do an upside down version of this on top of building D. So I have a layer above there. I'm grabbing this. I have the Monoline. And whoops! I’m doing it the same way again. I'm just doing it like so. And I will pinch these two together. I will bring that other building back. Building H. So we - for toppers - we want about seven, give or take. I'm going to give a topper to building A. I'm, I'm building A, here in the corner. I'm on a layer above it. I am going to grab this color, just give it a little topper like this. Let's keep going. What should we give a topper to next? We have three in the front, one kind of in the middle, one in the back. Building H. Here is building H right in the middle. I'm on the layer above it. I'm going to grab that color for the topper. And I'm just going to do a rectangle topper for this one. So there it is, I'm going to fill it with this color. And there we go, pinch them together. So we have 1 - 2- 3- 4- 5- 6 - one more topper. What wants a topper? Let's find K. And I'm in the layer above it. I liked that color. Let's do another combo topper. Let's do a rectangle. I want that a little taller. Then I'm going to grab this Monoline and I'm going to draw an upside down version of that on top of it. This little topper guy is not totally centered on the rectangle and we are going to embrace that. Okay, so now we have our little toppers to our buildings. In the next lesson, we are going to start drawing windows and doors on top of our buildings. I will see you in the next lesson. 10. Let’s Use Our Free Shape Brushes: Welcome back. In the last lesson, we drew our a little toppers on about half of our buildings. In this lesson, we are going to add our windows and doors for our buildings. And this whole class we're gonna do in an assembly line fashion. So we're gonna do all the windows and doors, and then we're gonna do all the highlights and shadows. And then we will be done. So here we have our imaginary city and we're going to start adding windows and doors. And when I've done this before, I've made the mistake of giving some kind of elaborate windows and doors to buildings that aren't very visually there. So for example, G is tucked behind other buildings, F is kind of tucked behind. So we're going to start with G. I actually do want to turn off building H. This is building B. I want to also turn off building B so we can just work on G. I also want to turn the Drawing Guide on. It might give us a little assist here. So Wrench > Canvas > Drawing Guide. I'm gonna make the grid size just a little bit smaller. So we have building G. And I'm gonna grab this bright green color, and I'm gonna grab my Wonky Arches. And I'm just going to start drawing some arches on this. That looks good. I'm going to turn H back on and B back on. We don't have to keep going to the bottom. We just have to do the places we can see. I'm going to turn these letters back off for a second so we can kinda get an idea of how that looks. I think it looks good. We could bring these windows up just a little bit more. And I liked the fact that they kinda go behind this building here because that helps show depth. I'm in Freeform. So I also might want to stretch them out a little bit that way. I think that looks good. I'm going to turn my letters back on here and look for another building that doesn't have a lot of area for a lot of fancy stuff. I'm looking at you. building I. So here is building I. And I am going to turn off building D. I'm going to tap on the layer above that and I'm going to grab a different color. Let's grab that color for now. And I'm going to do the Wonky Circles and let's see how many we can fit. That looks good. These are really kinda wonky. Let's see if we want them that wonky. I'm going to turn off the letters, turn the other building back on. As you can see, these are really wonky and I need to go down further. So let's turn off building D. Again. I'm going to start over, see if I can make these a little tiny bit bigger. And let's just see how that goes. So the way these brushes are created - the circles are slightly different sizes - so that builds some variation in there from the start. And this is indeed wonky and I think I like it. Let's bring back building D. I think I'd want these guys to be a little bit over right here. So I'm going to go to the Selection and I want Freehand. And I'm just going to grab these circles, which are a little bit too far to the left. I think I'm going to tap that arrow and I'm going to bring them back like that. I think that looks good. We might want some color variation in these circles. These, I think I'm going to keep them all that green color in this building. I think I'm going to ColorDrop some of the circles into different colors. I'm going to grab this white here. And I'm gonna make some of the circles white. I'm going to tap Continue Filling and I have ColorDrop check right there. And then I can just dot these in a random fashion. I'm done with that. So I want to tap that selection arrow that looks really cute already. I am going to grab a different color and then we'll Color Fill these. So there we go. I'm gonna hit Continue Filling. Okay, Let's go to another building that we don't see that much of. So I'm gonna give this one the squares. So what building is this? Building F, I'm going to turn off building A and B, so we can see the whole building F. I'm going to turn off the letters. I'm going to navigate to building F. And here we have our layer above. And we're gonna do the Wonky Squares on here. And what color do we want? Let's start with this color. Let's just do this. These are kinda small. Do I want them that small? I don't. I think because these are kinda small, these are kinda small. So I'm going to see if I can make these a little bit bigger. Again, odd numbers in design is always pleasing I tend to not go over to the side enough. I don't think towards the end. So I'm gonna grab those. Just center that a little bit. I think that looks nice and wonky. Like perfectly wonky. I'm going to turn those other buildings on around it. We have B and A and then we have the question of whether we want those windows to be buried or not. And I grab this color and I especially like to give a different color to windows that are kinda similar this building and these windows. So I like to color those windows. So there's more of a variety. Where this light window against this dark building, I would definitely keep that. We could grab another color and put it in there. Let's see how this green does. We might want the windows all the same color later, but for now we're just going to leave it like that. Now that we have used our brushes, Let's start drawing on our buildings. Something I like to do with the taller buildings is to draw like just lines down them. So I think I'm going to do this building right here, which is building D. Let's add a layer above it. I'm going to grab a dark color. I'm pulling colors from my design, but you don't have to do that. You can do any color that you want. So I'm going to my Monoline and I'm going to add some little decorative triangles to the top here. Draw one this way. Maybe I want one that way and one this way. And I am going to fill the color, I'm going to ColorDrop and then tap Continue Filling and do that. I'm going to tap that arrow to get out of there. Center it a little bit. I think that looks good. I'm going to use my eraser and just tidy that up. Then I'm going to draw lines. So I have my Monoline. I think that looks good. I'm going to just draw down from there. Then I think I am going to make my Monoline a little thicker. See what it would look like just adding some thicker lines here. I think that looks pretty good. It is indeed wonky. I'm trying not to be bothered. I am bothered by the space right here and right here. So let's bring that in. I'm going to turn my Drawing Guide off to see what we have here. It's just easier to see sometimes with that off. Eh. I don't love that. I don't love it at all. You know what I'm gonna do? I'm going to give it kind of a plaid look. And I'm just going to turn off building H while we do this. We know we’re on building D. I am going to draw a line up here and again, and I'm going to add a Clipping Mask again like we did in our practice buildings. So the Clipping Mask will make those pixels apply strictly to the building below it. Then we got rid of the little extra edges right here. So if it's not a Clipping Mask, we can see the line come off of the building. And if it is a Clipping Mask, then that line is only applying to the building. I'm going to add little x's at the top. I think I'll make my Monoline a little bit thinner. And I'm going to add an X here. That looks good for now. And I am going to change the size of the Monoline. And I'm going to bring back the Drawing Guide. Wrench > Drawing Guide on. I'm going to edit the Drawing Guide to make the grids a little smaller. We are going to try and draw some imperfect lines. I like turning my canvas about. So we're going to start with these thick lines that are just - I'm roughly doing it with like every two squares here but not perfectly. And when I'm trying not to be perfect, sometimes it helps just to go fast. I'm going to bring the size up again and see - yeah, I'm going to draw like that in-between. Turn the Drawing Guide off. And I'm gonna keep adding lines. I'm gonna do a new layer, also an a Clipping Mask. And try to draw lines - well, not not try. I know I can draw lines this way. And I'll make this thinner again, go this way. Okay, that looks good. For now. I'm not loving it, but let's just keep going. I think this is a good time to take a break. I'll see you next lesson. 11. Let’s Draw Windows & Doors: What building do we want to do next? This dark building in the corner, I think that's A. Yes, building. A. Add a layer above there. And to get some contrast, I'll do that light color. I have the Monoline. And for this, I'm going to draw some bigger arches. Then maybe I want these to be doors. And here I want to go back to my arches because I'm ColorDropping and I want to make sure there aren't gaps because I'm going to be Color Filling. And let's just grab this color and Color Drop, Continue Filling, so we can boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. And I'm going to tap that arrow to undo it. I'm gonna grab the Monoline eraser and tidy up. Sometimes I use it to tidy up in a way that makes it more wonky. For example, I'll not do them straight on purpose. Like the bottom, like I'll keep this angle like that. Maybe I'll have that one go this way. I would love to hear from you when you do your project - if you find imperfection difficult or not. That looks good. I think what I might do is continue to use my eraser. Let's see the size. I think that looks good. And just draw little window panes here. What do we want to do with the top? We can go back to our little worksheet and see what ideas we have for the top. For this, we could do the interior like this and fill this in. Maybe we grab circles because we don't have any circles near here. And I am going to grab a different color for my circles. Now, these squares are varied colors. These ones are not. These ones are not. Let's leave it like this for now. Let's go to this middle building right here which is building C. Now, building C is kinda just a boring little box, so we want to make it more interesting. I'm gonna do the same building we did in the beginning with the offset quadrilateral. Quadrilaterals. Grab this color. I'm going to grab my calligraphy set. I want to go to building C. I'm on the layer above building C. And we're going to draw these. I think I want this little thicker. Which once again, that's another way you can get variety is by having lines thicker or thinner. And as you can see, I'm starting on different sides to give it more variety because sometimes my hand tends to do the same thing over and over again. If I start on the same side. And now I'm going to grab a darker color. And I'm going to create another layer above that. I'm going to tap + create another layer and then do the same kind of wonky quadrilaterals. I think that looks pretty good. They are obviously not centered. I'm also going to turn off my drawing guide so we can get a better look at this. I am going to move this top layer over a little bit around the bottom. I'm on Freeform. I'm going to stretch these out. I think I like that. I am going to try putting this darker color on a Multiply Blend Mode right here. Without a Multiply Blend Mode it's not interacting. It’s just above the other one. And if we do a Multiply Blend Mode, then you can see here that the color changes where they overlap. So I like that for the darker color. The lighter color could disappear or change a lot in the Multiply Blend Mode. I don't like that. I'm going to two finger tap and undo that. And I like this building. Now, let's go to this little white Building, which is building E. Add a layer on top. And I am going to bring the drawing guide back. Let's grab a color, Let's find a good green. Let's do this. And the Monoline. And I'm going to draw rectangles or rough quadrilaterals. And I'm going to vary again where I start my quadrilateral because that does make a difference in how I draw it. And we do want wonkiness. So you can see here that we don't have space to do another row of rectangles like this. I think what I'm going to do is grab this arrow > Freeform. And just kind of squish them a little bit. And let's keep going with our rectangles. Now, before we Color Fill these, we want to make sure that there aren't any leaks. And we'll also use our eraser to tidy up. Let's fill in our windows. I'm going to hit Continue Filling. Dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot. I'm going to do those offset rectangles on top of that and then some decor on the top of the little guy. The topper, I guess I'm calling it. Let's do the topper first. Let's do a Clipping Mask so it applies to the building. Think what I want to do is just stripe. I think that looks pretty good. This - this window right here. It’s bugging me. One of the reasons I teach things like this, like, “Oh, let's embrace imperfection” is obviously - as you can see now - because I need the lesson more than anyone else. Let's grab this color and we're still on the window layer and change the color of this. Too similar to the building, I think. Let's grab this color and make it different. I'm just randomly filling things. What if I grab this color? So we have our little squares. I am going to do some offset squares. So I'm going to keep that dark color and then just make it a little bit darker. I'm gonna go back to my Monoline. Let me see the size of it. I think that's good. And then I'm going to - I'll do this on another layer. And I'm just going to do some messy quadrilaterals. Kinda offset. That's very offset and I kinda like it. I'm going to start in a different corner. So we get different results. I think that looks fabulous. I love it. I don't love the top of the building as much. So let's find the layer that that’s on. And I'm just going to erase it. Let’s go to our arch brush. You can also use this as a stamp. I'm gonna go to the Freehand Selection. I'm going to circle just the arches and I'm going to make them a little bit smaller there. I think that's cute. And what with the top? And this is still on a Clipping Mask, so it's clipping just to the buildings. So even if I draw off the sides, it's only going on the building. I think that's my favorite so far. It looks like we have come to a good spot to end this lesson. I will see you in the next lesson where we will continue to add doors and windows to our buildings. I will see you then! 12. Let’s Draw Ovals & Triangles: Welcome back. In the last lesson, we finished drawing this cutie pie building in the lower right. I really like it. Let's choose our next building. I think what I'm going to do is this building right here, which is building B. I am going to draw circles on there because the only other place we have circles right now is this one. We have different options for circles here, or I might do ovals. I haven't done ovals. Yes, we will do ovals with a little offset detail like that. So that is building B. We're going to turn off building A and C, so we can see the full picture here. Here is building B. I'm going to add a layer above that. I'm going to turn off my letters. I'm going to turn on my Drawing Guide. I have my Monoline, and I'm going to start drawing ovals. 1, 2, 3, 4. Let's just keep going. QuickShape is kicking in here, but I'm kinda tilting it and making it smaller and larger, so they're different. Those look good. I'm gonna Color Fill. Tap Continue Filling. Those indeed are wonky. Let's bring back our other buildings just to see what that looks like. Let's try a new layer and some circles drawn over that. Let's see how that looks. Bring this up a little bit. So it's just like before with our quadrilaterals, but it's different because it's ovals. I think that looks good. I don't think the circles on top of there are too distracting on top of there? Let me turn off the Drawing Guide again. I'm going to do a new layer and go back to this color and add some circles at the top. Cute, cute, cute. I like it. I am happy with this building. What I continue to not be happy with is this building right here in the corner? I'm going to try - I think that's A, yes - adding a different color to the windows and see if that makes me any happier. So let’s go back to our color palette. Well, I do have this color, so let’s just start there. Okay. Building A. So I'm just going to Color Fill. Continue filling. It just looks kinda like a haunted house to me. It doesn't look joyful. I'm going to wipe out the whole thing. Gone. What shall we do? I don't know, I'm not gonna do that one right now. This building is kind of tucked behind there so we could just draw lines for there. Maybe we could do some kind of triangle line thing. And so that building is building L. We will turn off buildings K, H, and M. We have a layer above there. So here what I'm going to do is turn my Drawing Guide back on and see what it looks like to draw a little triangles like I tried before. But actually I'm going to try starting in the middle-ish. Then I'm going to alternate the triangles like this. Okay, Let's Color Fill these triangles. Hit Continue Filling - bop, bop, bop, bop, bop. We're still on my Monoline. How thick is that? I think that is pretty good. I will draw a line down from this one that comes from the point of the triangle. That is pretty simple, but we do want some simple ones in there, so it's not jam packed with all of these complex details. Okay. but when you cover those up - what I'm gonna do actually is add some more lines, I think, and make it thicker. Maybe we can offset our triangle a little bit and that'll give me the interest that I'm looking for. So I have that color and I'm going to just try different color for my offset triangles. I'm gonna do a new layer above there. That's pretty similar to the other color, but maybe that will work well for this because I don't want this building to call like a lot of attention to itself. Just enough. What if we put this in Multiply Blend Mode? That's kinda cool. I'm going to turn my letters off. Take a look. Let's go back to our worksheet and look for some more inspiration. Oh, this is a FUN thing to do. And then those little dashes are easy to do. These circles filled in with a different color. Okay, we've got some ideas. Here are all of our buildings. These are all rectangular down here. So I think I'm going to do circles here, and maybe I'll do those circles with different colors. It seems like a good time for a quick break. So I will see you in the next lesson. 13. Let’s Draw Circles and Arches: I'm going to make my Monoline thick. So I'm on building A. I’m on a layer above. I'm going to turn my drawing guide on and you can't see it on this dark buildings. So we're going to change the color, edit Drawing Guide. And we're going to bring this color over. That is fine. So I'm gonna hit Done. Okay, Let's try little circles. Or kinda big circles. None of these buildings have the doors on the bottom. Let's try it here. And I'm still starting it in different points. So we get a different look. I like that. I like it better than before. And let's fill it in with a different color. Let's fill it in with this color right here. Let's see how that looks. And then continue filling - dot, dot, dot, dot, dot. I always think that's so much FUN. I like it. And now the next question is whether we add any color variation. Let's give it a try. Maybe I'm going to have the doors all the same color and my variation will be up here. Do I want the different colored windows there? That's what it looked like without. That’s what it looks like with. Yeah, for now we will do that. I want to give another building arches. What I'm going to do, I think, is do arches on this tallest building here. So that is building M. I'm going to add a new layer on top of there. I'm just going to turn off building H. And maybe I just so we don't have the distraction. So we have building M. I'm gonna grab this color that I like. And I have my Monoline. And I think I'm gonna do arches that are offset like these. And these are short arches, so I might do longer, taller arches. I'll turn my Drawing Guide back on. What if I could do five arches here? It's kinda thick. This Monoline, I'm going to make it smaller. Start in the middle. I start drawing in different places. And it kinda angle my bottoms differently right there - the lines across the bottom. Let's start this one like that. That looks good. I'm just going to center it a little bit better. Color Drop just to see what that looks like. I'm going to grab my eraser and tidy it up a little bit. Too big. I like it. I like where we're going. I'm gonna keep going. I don't want to do too much copy/ pasting in this because I do like the variable nature of this, but let me just show you how we could do that. I'm going to duplicate this one. And we have this new layer below. And I'm going to bring this layer below, and then I'm going to flip it horizontal. So it is the same as the top layer, but obviously it's different. I'm going to bring it down a little bit. And let's check the other buildings around there. And what I'm seeing right here is that these windows are very close in color to this building. So I think I do want something different there. What about this color? Alpha Lock, Alpha Lock, Fill Layer, Fill layer. Now it's a little bit like this building. Let's try this white. Now We are going to add our little wonky arches above that. So I'm gonna pinch these two together. I'm going to add a layer above. And maybe I'll grab a neon color and we can always change it if we don't like it. So just kind of offsetting these, I'm doing it all kinda offset to the right. Maybe the reason I'm doing that is because my shadows are gonna be to the right, like falling this way from the moon. I think. Maybe that's what I was thinking. Okay. The next question is, we like the color? I think I do for now, I'm just tidying up a little tiny bit. I think I'm going to give the light windows different colors for some variety here. So I'm going to an Alpha Lock on this, and we have this color for the building. Let's try this for some of the windows. I like it. Again, I'm changing the color mindfully. So there's more of a contrast against say, like this building. Do I want a second color> Let's try a grayer version of this. Sure, I like that. I'm going to turn the Drawing Guide off. I might want the offset green here to be a little darker color. I'm going to Alpha Lock that and just grab this color right here. Fill Layer. Okay. Eh. Darker maybe? No. Okay, let's keep like that for now. Let's bring our little wonky squares back for the top of this building. I'm gonna do another layer. I could try a line. Which again, we would want a clipping mask. So we get rid of the lines that are not - oops, it clipped to the wrong layer. We want a clipping mask to this building right here, so it's right above there clipping mask. Does that add anything? I don't like the line actually, I'm just going to undo it. We have drawn a couple more buildings and I think this is a good place to pause. And I will see you in the next lesson where we will finish our last three buildings. 14. Let’s Decorate the Last 3 Buildings : Welcome back. We have three more buildings to decorate. So let's look at our worksheet here. We haven't done these little dashes. And we have not done this. We haven't done that either. So I'm gonna do this square and I'm going to apply that to that middle-ish building. which is building H. There's nothing really covering it. So I'm going to leave it as is. I'm going to turn off my letters. I don't think I need my Drawing Guide. Here is building H. I'm going to draw a wonky quadrilateral on top of building H. I have my Monoline and I am just drawing a quadrilateral. And there we go. And I'm going to unselect that. And then what I do with this one is I just grab my eraser. Let's see how big it is. That looks pretty good. And I am just going to do this. I think that looks good. And now we're going to change the color of some of the windows. So we're going to hit Continue Filling. Or not. Now I'll hit Continue Filling. Hope that made all of them - oop because I probably didn't erase something. What building is that? We're going to turn on building C and see what I did. Yep. That's what it I did. Not erase right here. So it doesn't know to cut that off. So we're gonna go back to this. Then I think I'll grab a lighter color. There we go. So Continue Filling. I'm going to bring my other building back so we can see. And then we want to decorate the top of our building. So to decorate - we could do circles again. Let me grab this color. Let me grab circles. Let's make them bigger. Do I like it too? I like it. I think I do. I'm also going to try this Monoline again. Oh, you know what I did here? I did all the colors not on a different layer. Which is fine, but it does leave us less flexibility should we decide to change something. I'm going to add a new layer actually above here to draw this line. And I'm gonna do a Clipping Mask. So it will just apply perfectly to what we want it to apply to. This circle is on top of the line, but it's all in the same layer. So do we leave it? Imperfection. We're gonna leave it. Two more buildings to go. So I think we could use some really simple dashes over here. This is building J. So we're going to turn off building I. Turn on the Drawing Guide. There's a layer above building J. And I'm going to grab this color. Try that one. I have my Monoline and I'm just going to make kind of dashes. That looks okay? Let me turn this on and see. It doesn't give me enough here. Like it's, it's it looks weird. So maybe I'll try doing my dashes the other way. Turn off I and maybe make it a little thicker and maybe do my dashes. Let me turn off this building too so we can get the idea of what we're looking at. Building M. Okay. So I don't love it there. I just don't. I know what we are going to do. I can't remember how much we see here. I'm just gonna keep going for now. I am going to turn on the other buildings so we can see what we're dealing with here. I am going to move these rectangles just a little bit this way. Especially these lower ones. That looks good. Then draw lines here to show different windows and we'll add different colors, I think. Now let's fill it with a grayish color. Let's grab this gray. And we're just filling in some of the windows to be different colors. Let's grab a light color. Let's see how that looks. That's too light. I'm going to grab this color and make it darker. It looks good. There. I like that. I'm going to turn that arrow and we're done with that building. Okay, so here is our last building. It is building K. I'm going to add a layer above that. And around K we have arches, squares, and ovals. I am going to do rectangles like this, but erase into that little window panes. So let's try that. I'm going to grab a color that's darker. I have my Monoline. I'm going to start in the middle. This color is really similar to that color. So let's just grab this color instead. Alpha Lock. Ooops! I filled the whole layer. Alpha Lock > Fill layer. Let's just try that for now. Let's see if we can get - Oh, it’s still Alpha Locked. That's why I can't draw on it. Five windows in here. Start our windows in different places so they look suitably wonky. I like it. Since these windows are hidden, I'm gonna do the Copy/ Paste thing again. So we have a row below there. And to make it look different, we are just going to flip it horizontally. In there we have more wonkiness. And let's just fill this in. Oops! What am I doing? Oh. So I have my two rectangles. I'm going to merge them together here and I'm going to start filling and hit Continue Filling and just do this. Maybe I'm gonna make it a darker color. So I haven't done much of this here, but Magic Wand > Hue, Saturation and Brightness - make those windows a little bit darker. So there's more contrast between that building. No. I'm just going to do that. And then let's grab our eraser, see the size. I like it, maybe a little smaller. And then just give these some funky window panes by erasing them to reveal the color below. Let's take a quick break. I will see you in the next lesson. 15. Let’s Assess & Edit Windows & Doors: There's a lot of neon green here and I don't think I mind that. What if we just desaturated these windows right here? Just a little bit. Magic Wand > Hue, Saturation and Brightness and just desaturate them. So that's very saturated. And when you do the saturation a lot, then that can change the colors. So these right here looking like kind of blue-green and it falls outside of our color scheme a little bit. So this was it before and after. So it’s subtle, but I am going to change it. I actually don't love this building, which is building D. Let's just erase the whole thing. Not the whole building. So we have this color. I'm gonna make it darker. I wanna do a Clipping Mask on to building D. Maybe do it a little thinner. I think that's enough variety. Make it a little thicker. Going to draw a line here. I'm gonna make this color a little bit more vibrant. I'm actually going to do another Clipping Mask layer on top of here. I think I like that better. Let's do another thicker line. And do that like in the middle of these. Maybe not have it touch the top all the way. I kinda like that way that looks. l like that better. And now we just have the topper and we want to figure out what to do with that. And do another layer. I'm going to bring my Monoline down and I am going to go like this. I'm going to Color Fill that. I could add some little dots on top of here or arches or squares. Add a new layer, Clipping Mask, grab - go back to that light color. Go back to my arches. Make them smaller. Let's take one more look. Are all of our buildings on? Yes. You know what? I'm done. I'm done with this phase of the drawing. And next comes our final phase, which is adding highlights and shadows. I will see you in the next lesson! 16. Easy Highlights & Shadows : Welcome back. In the last lesson, we finished our doors and windows on our buildings. In this lesson, we're going to add easy highlights and shadows. Let's get started. So what we're going to be doing is making sure that we have a black and white and our color palette. And since I'm practically done with this, I'm just going to delete two colors here. And I'm gonna grab a pure white, pure black. And I'm going to double-check those colors. So this has six zeros, pure black. This has six f's, pure white. So we're going to be moving back and forth between white and black in this lesson. Going back to the moon. That’s gonna get a highlight and shadow too. So we're going to duplicate it. And we're going to hit Alpha Lock because we're gonna be changing the color. And then we're going to duplicate it one more time. Because we'll be changing that color to black. And we're just going to do this in kind of an assembly line way. I'm going to group the moon together. We're not done with the highlights and shadows. We're just starting like this. So we're duplicating the building. Alpha Lock. fill layer with black. And then on top of it, we can go back to white. Fill layer with white. The shadow layer is always below the white layer. So this is the highlights and shadows. So it always goes in that order. So building A, Alpha Lock > fill layer. Duplicate, go back to black. Fill layer. Building B, duplicate, Alpha Lock. We’re on black, so we'll just use that. And then we'll duplicate, go to this top layer, switch back to white just by pressing. Fill Layer. Duplicate, Alpha Lock > fill layer. And go back to black. Duplicate, Alpha Lock > fill layer. Duplicate, go back to white. Alpha Lock > fill layer. There we go. And I'm going to keep going in this fashion. Okay, So we have created highlight and shadow layers for all of the buildings. And it doesn't look any different right now because they’re right behind the buildings. But we will be changing that just like we did in our practice video. The one thing I want to look at right now is the color of the sky. I want more contrast in that sky layer. I'm going to Alpha Lock that and just play with different colors just to see. I think there's going be too bright, but you never know. Then that makes it the same color as this building. I think it was probably this color to start with. What if I made it just a little darker - Hue, Saturation, Brightness. Just a little bit darker. Let's do that. Going back to our shadows and highlights, we're going to continue going in the same kind of way we did before. We're going to start with our highlights. So those are white, so we're going to swipe white (laughs) We're going to swipe RIGHT, so we can move them all together. So we're just choosing our highlight layer by swiping up. And I stopped. I tapped on that so I undid it. So let's go back. Swipe, swipe, swipe. If you are running into a layer issue, we did discuss that earlier in the class. And I did show a trick for working around that. So revisit that lesson if you're having any issues with layers. Now that we've selected all of our highlight layers, we're going to tap this arrow. And we're going to tap the highlights in the direction of the light source, which I'm assuming is the moon. So we're going to tap it just one pixel towards the moon. Just like that, you may be able to see it here. If you zoom in you can really see it, you have this white highlight layer that is more obvious on this side than it is on that side. You can't see it. So that is our highlights. Our highlights are done. And now we're moving into our shadows. And for our shadows, we're going to apply a Gaussian Blur. And a Guassian Blue can't be applied when a layer is Alpha Locked. So we're going to un-Alpha Lock and put the shadows into Multiply Blend Mode, which I always use for shadows. So we're gonna go in the same assembly line fashion. Un-Alpha Lock and Multiply Blend Mode. Un-Alpha Lock, Multiply. Un-Alpha Lock, Multiply. And yay! We have reached the bottom. So all of our shadow layers are now in Multiply Blend Mode and they are an Alpha Locked. So we're gonna do the same thing we did with the highlights, but opposite for the shadows. So the shadows will be coming away from the moon. So like towards this way. So let swipe to the right on all the shadow layers, which is a way of informally grouping them. And then we tap this arrow and then we're going to tap the Shadows away from the moon. I'll tap it this way, just towards the bottom and the right. And so you can see it here it, and we have not Gaussian Blurred it. So it looks a little bit funny. It looks a little bit harsh. So that's what we're gonna do next time we're going to add a Guassian Blur, just like we did in our practice building. And we're gonna do that at about 6%. So starting with the moon, Guassian Blur. I'm still - I still have all those layers selected swipe so I have to un-tap. Go back to the moon. Magic Wand > Gaussian Blur. And I'm gonna do six or 7%. I'll just do six. Magic Wand > Gaussian Blur. Six %. Magic Wand > Gaussian Blur > 6%. And I'm gonna keep going in exactly that fashion. Okay, so now I see I still have the drawing guide on there. I don't need that at all anymore, so I'm gonna turn that off. And so it looks like - just at a glance that the buildings have the highlight layer and the shadow layer. And this is what's giving us the paper-cut effect. And what we're gonna do now is make our shadows a little bit more subtle. So starting with the moon, Here’s the moon layer and the opacity is automatically at the max. And we're going to bring it down. I find an opacity of about 45 to 55% works well for shadow layers. Because the moon is light, I'm gonna do a 44%, because the shadows are more obvious against a really light subject. So we're gonna do this in the same fashion. Every shadow layer will become 55%. Now, you can do it however you would like. If we look at, say, building A and we turn our shadow layer on and off. And then we bring the shadow layer down to 55% and look at it. You can see that - I think it's just nicer to have a more subtle effect. So we're gonna keep going in this fashion. Shadow layer to 55% opacity. I can see that this layer right here is still Alpha Locked, so the Guassian Blur won't work on that. So I un-Alpha Locked it. And this is our last shadow layer, 6%. Okay, now that we have our lovely shadows and highlights, I have some really FUN quick, easy tricks for you. One is a really easy re-color and the other one is a fun way to adjust your canvas to make it perfect for an Instagram Story or Reel. I will see you in the next lesson. 17. Bonus! Quick & Easy Recoloring: Welcome back. In the last lesson, we completed our cut-paper city. The next two lessons are quick and easy bonus lessons. So I can hopefully teach you a few more tricks in Procreate. So the first lesson is going to be a quick and easy re-color of our cut-paper city. Here is my city, and it's an 8 by 10 canvas. So I'm going to create a new canvas to start. I'm going to tap + and then that rectangle. I want to tap inches and then 8, 10. And we will have our new canvas here. Then I want to go back to the original canvas. And it has all of these layers, as I'm sure you remember. We always want to retain the layers as much as possible so we can make changes to specific layers easily. But for this we want a flattened version. So to do that, we are going to do a three-finger drag down and then hit Copy All. Not Copy. Copy All. And then we're gonna go back to our Gallery. And go to our 8 by 10 canvas and do a three-finger drag down again and hit Paste And now we have the whole city on one layer. And that's gonna make it really easy to make color adjustments to it. Rather than changing colors on individual layers, we can change the whole thing. Since it's monochromatic, it makes it really easy to change. I'll show you an example later of what it would look like changing colors on a print that wasn't monochromatic. This looks a little dark to me, so I'm going to brighten it up by hitting Magic Wand > Hue, Saturation and Brightness. And then I'm going to bring my brightness over just a bit. And this is applying to the whole canvas. So it starts at 50. 56 looks pretty good. And if we want to compare it, we would just put our finger down here and preview. That's the city before. And this is a city after. You could argue that they look nice both ways, but I just wanted a little bit lighter, so I'm gonna hit Apply. So here's our city brightened up. I'm going to tap Magic Wand again, go back to Hue Saturation Brightness. And this time we're gonna be looking at the Hue and that slider. And you can see here that we can change it to any color that we want. That's the really cool thing about a monochromatic city. I like that actually. So I'm going to make that change happen. And then what I'm gonna do is duplicate that. And we can do the same thing over and find a different color. I like this purple. It's like “Harold and the Purple Crayon” purple. I like that. I'm going to duplicate it again and find another. The first one is green. I like this. It looks kinda retro, so we'll make that change happen. Let's see how different that is from the other one. Yeah, that is different from the other one. Let's do it one more time. Duplicate and slide this around. We already did purple. That blue is nice, It's a blue-purple, I like that. So here we have four different cities. And you can decide which one you like best. You can post them all on Instagram for a fun story and poll your audience to see what they like best. I'm going to show you what it would look like if we did a color change on a print that wasn't monochromatic. Or rather a canvas. So let me go to just another - so here are my collages. Trying to find one that might make a good example. Let's do this sunflower one. So again, we're going to do a three-finger drag down, Copy All. Go back to the Gallery. And I am going to put it in a new canvas. Canvas was 12 by 16. So I'm just going to tap this saved canvas. I'm gonna do a three-finger drag down and hit Paste. Here it is all on one layer. And because there are different colors - there's blue, yellow, green - it probably won't swap colors so nicely as it did with the monochromatic one where it's just one color. So here we get some pretty funky effects. And you can certainly play with this. But none of these look really natural, except for the colors that are close to the original ones. So that is why you can change colors easily with a monochromatic Canvas, but not so easily with Canvas that has a variety of colors. Or rather you can, you absolutely can, but the results are not necessarily as natural and easy. So that is our quick re-color lesson. In the next lesson, we are going to do a quick resize. And in this lesson, you'll be learning how to resize a print to Instagram Reel or Story size so you can share it easily in your stories. I will see you in the next lesson. 18. Bonus! Easy Resizing for Instagram Reels: Welcome back. In the last lesson, we did quick re-color of our cut-paper city. And in this lesson, we are going to resize it for an Instagram Reel or Story. So we're going to create a new Canvas by hitting + I already have something saved here for an Instagram Story or Reel. It's 1080 by 1920 pixels, but I'll show you how to create one if you don't have one saved. So we want Pixels and we want 1080 and then 1920 and create Canvas. So this project is also more resizable than other ones and I'll show you what I mean. So let's see what color city we want. Let's do the purple one just for fun. Again, I am on the purple layer. Since it's all on one layer, I just want to navigate to that purple layer and then hit Copy. And then I'll go to my new canvas set at 1080 by 1920 pixels. And I'll do a Paste. Three-finger drag down Paste. And here it is, the Selection will default to Uniform. But for our purposes here we're gonna do a Freeform resize. So we're going to bring this up and we're going to bring this down. And so here we have our city resize. It looks a tiny bit more natural the first way, but again, you would hardly know the difference if this was the first one you saw. That was just a quick resize by going to Selection > Freeform and stretching that out. And again, this project is particularly well-suited for this. Because you can't always stretch out a print like that and make it look normal - if there's people in there, other things. But since these are just rectangles - our moon looks a little weird. But again, it's okay. It's an Instagram Story. I would certainly post it in my Instagram Stories. So that is how you can do a quick and easy resize if you do share it in Instagram or in your Stories. please do tag me @kelleybrenburke. You could also tag @skillshare. I know the people at Skillshare on Instagram love to see a student projects. So I hope to see yours there. Meet me in the next lesson and we are just going to do a quick congratulations and wrap up. I'll see you next time. 19. Congratulations! Next Steps: Congratulations, you have completed this class. Thank you so much for joining me. I hope this class has sparked your creativity and expanded your Procreate knowledge. I would love to see what you create. So please share it in the class Project and Resources area. If you'd like more Procreate goodies, check out my website kelleybrenburke.com. Want to be the first to know about new classes and Skillshare membership giveaways? Follow me on Skillshare by clicking here. Thanks again, and I hope to see you soon!