Nativity Contrast Painting in Procreate + Free Brushes

1. Introduction: With Christmas around the corner, this is a great time to paint a nativity scene in Procreate. A winner just going to paint. It is seen. What we're gonna do, something special with it. We're gonna do some contrast painting in procreate. Now that sounds interesting, doesn't it? Now contrast painting is a great way to do something special with your painting. And we're going to take you step-by-step through his whole protests and show you how to accomplish this in Procreate. Now this will not only be applicable to the painting we're doing, but you can use this for many other paintings or illustrations and drawings. Once you gain this skill, you can apply it to so many subjects. By using contrast painting, you don't have to worry about complicated ways to accomplish depth to your scene. No, it's a way to quickly add some depth to your scene. Now this class not only helps you to gain these skills, I've also supplied some materials to get you going right away. There's a sketch as a canvas because some colors, and of course, some brushes to get oil painting. While we're gonna do this with oil paint brushes in Procreate, you can apply this technique to your own style and the favorite brushes you have in Procreate. But I'm just going to demonstrate it with the oil paint brushes, supplies. And to be honest, oil painting in procreate is really fun. And it's not a widely spread technique yet. So on top of learning how to contrast paint, you might gain some oil painting skills in Procreate to. Now contrast painting is already something special, but we're gonna do something even more special with it in this class. But I'm not going to refill that secret in this introduction to discover that you have to go to the next lesson and start contrast painting in procreate with me. 2. Using the Supplies: Let's first of all start with what you're going to need for this class. Now, obviously, you're going to need an iPad with Procreate on it, the Apple pencil. And on top of that, I've supply some brushes, a canvas with a sketch in it, color palette, and also the finished picture as a reference. Now let me show you how to get all of this into Procreate. Now if you know how to download from Skillshare and install of this and how to do reference picture. Then I would say just move right away to the next lesson. If not, then stick with me and I'll show you to get all of the supplies you're going to need to go to this class. And I am in Safari, and that's the best way to work to go to the browser and Safari and go to the class. Now here you see the class. Here you see these taps about refused discussion and you need to have this one, select this one, the project and resources. And if you scroll a little bit down here, this thing pops up. I gotta get rid of that. You see some resources for resources, contrast, nifty painting, procreate that the canvas and sketch. The oil brush set, the Nativity painting palette, and then the painting itself. That's what you see here. All right. I'm going to start with the sketch. I'm going to bring that into Procreate if you press on it, it asks you to download that. Yes. I'm going to say yes, please download it. Now it's downloading and you see it here, this arrow. And when it just blinks a little bit, it's done. You press on it and I see the first download here. Now if I click on the Download, It's going to import this right way into Procreate. Now you see a different painting. This is from another class. Go back to the gallery and the first painting you see in the gallery is the contrast nativity painting. That is this one, and that's the one we need. And we're going to ignore this now for now, and I'm going back to Safari to the class. And the next thing I'm going to bring in is the AB oil sets on a press on it. And this asks me to download it. Yes, I do want to download it. I'm letting it downloads and now it blinked. It's ready. And I'm seeing this at the first the oil brush set and I'm going to tap on it and it brings me to the File Explorer. Now somewhere here is that file and the easiest thing to do is to click on reasons. And it brings up the ones you've downloaded last. And here I see that sets, I'm going to click on it and it's just automatically importing into procreate and how to find it. You just press on it. And the top one is that new set with brushes. Okay, so we've got the brushes too. Next thing is the palette. Let's go back to Safari, to the Skillshare class and just click on the AV contrast native painting this file here. Click on it. Then it's asked me if I want to download it. Yes, Sure, I do want to download it and it tells me it's ready. As with the other one, tap on it, it brings me to the File Explorer just somewhere. Click on reasons. And there is my ABB contrast nativity at your swatches. It is clicking on it and it just opens this automatically in Procreate. And click on the color and how to find it. You have to go to the swatches. So if you're in your disk, you need to go to the pellets. And right at the bottom, there should be a new one called ABB contrast nativity painting. Click on the three dots and say Set as Default. There we go. And if I go back to my disk, there is the new one. All right, We're almost there. So we're going back to Safari and going back to the class. And the last one we're going to do is the contrast nativity painting. We're going to click on it. And then it's asked me what I want to do. Do I want to download it or do I want a few? It's now in this case, let me FUD. So we've cut this one and now the easiest thing to do is to take your finger, press on it, hold it for a while and you get some options. And I want to add it to photos, add to photos. And you can close this window if you want to. Now, I'm going back to Procreate and I want this as a reference. And what you're gonna do for that, you click on this wrench, you go to Canvas. And there you see reference. I'm going to click on the reference. And what it does now is it takes this whole picture we're making this painting. But I don't want that. I want an image. So I'm clicking on an image. I'm going to say import image brings me to the library. And the first one should be this painting, the painting finished. And you can use this as a reference. Now this is way too large of course. So what you can do, you can create it's a smallest Xuan the same as in Procreate on the reference. You can just make it a small reference and then do it like that. Move it a little bit and there you got a nice reference. And now we can start painting. If you don't want the reference, of course, ignore this part and if it is in the way, you can just switch it off. And if you need it again, you can just bring it back. It remembers the last thing you've done. All right. Okay. Now, that's it. We've got everything set up now and we're ready to go. So in the next lesson, we're going to start to paint beautiful activity, contrast, painting. 3. The Background & Foreground: We've got everything we need setup now. So now we can start painting. We're gonna do some contrast painting in procreate. And it sounds interesting, doesn't it will get clear when we go through these lessons. Actually, we're gonna do a little bit more than conscious painting. We're going to go contrasts painting, monochromatic colors. Now, that's a mouthful, isn't it? Now a lot of us use contrast in real-life clothing. For example, when you decorate your house or when you have flowers, you're going to add some contrast. You're going to offset one color with another color or various colors. But in this class, we're going to use monochromatic colors. And that means we're actually only going to use one color with a lot of shades and tints. Now chroma is just a Greek word that just means color. Mono means one color. Now, I'm not going to do a lot of theory on this. I'm just going to show you how we're going to do that and how this all works. All right, Let's go to Procreate. So we've got our documents and let's open the document. And now right away you see a huge noticed there time-lapse recordings of. If you wanna go time-lapse recording, we need to switch it or not. It's very simple. You hit that wrench, you go to video and you just slide this two on. Now it will be time-lapse recording. Now the file is going to get a lot larger now, but it will record everything we're doing. If you don't want it, simply leave it off. So that out of the way, I can hide that layer. So I've got the sketch to nativity scene is set up. I got some shepherd, some sheep. I got a little housing on here. And I got later on, we're going to create a ray of light that's coming, that catch the attention of the shepherds. And not only of the shepherds, but also offer fewer of this painting. We got a color palette and that is ABB contrast nativity painting. Now, as you can see in this color pellet, there's only blues and tints and shades of blue. This is basically the basic color. And from there, by adding white, you get a tint that is just a lighter color. And by adding black, do we agree of black, you're going to add shapes, and that's called shapes. You get a darker color. Now in real oil painting, actually you do that really literally. You just take your blue and you add some white to get the tint you want. And if you want to go darker, you add black to get a dark tint. You can also add white and black at the same time, and then you get another tongue, does what's called a town. Okay, Well, going back to procreate, the first thing we're gonna do here is to create a background. Now we're not going to paint the background. We're going to make it ourselves really easy. And you see here a layer called background. This is the one we're going to use. Now what we might do first is to secure that we're not going to paint on the sketch. And what you're gonna do is tap on the sketch, slide it over and say, look, we're going to keep this sketch on top. And this layer, I'm going to lock 2 and the Canvas for now, I'm gonna lock as well. So I can't accidentally paint on that. The background color. Now I want just a blue color, just one blue color. So to get that color, I'm going to hit that color and I'm going to pick the third color here from the left. So 123, that third color. And I'm gonna select it. So I'm going to select that column, drag it over here, and just let go and you get that whole layer shells. Now up here you see color drop threshold that is now a 97 percent. You can slide it over to the left, to the right. If yours isn't 0, you may want to put it a little bit higher, although we're filling a whole scene. So it doesn't matter, but if we will feel little parts of the scene that we have drawn him than the threshold is going to influence that. So but for this one, it doesn't matter now I've got it on 50 percent and should still work fine. So filling the whole layer background with one column. The next step we're gonna do on top of this layer, we're going to add a new layer and we're going to rename that layer. And renaming is by tapping on the layer. We're going to say Rename. And what we're gonna do. First of all, we're going to paint our foreground. Now that we have a background color, we're going to paint our foreground. So I'm calling this layer foreground. All right, on this layer, I'm going to start just painting, and I'm going to paint these shepherds. And what I'm going to do this is I'm going to pick my round brush. I'm gonna go here. You need to find the ABB old brushes. You're going to find the round brush right there, all round brush. Tap on it. And what I'm gonna do is I'm leaving this to a 100 percent. The size varies a little bit of course, because we're going to get depends on the figures. We're going to paint it with this color and color. These. I'm going to paint the shepherds. And we're going to paint this bush here, this bush here, and the building. All right, now I need to pick a color that is of course different from the background color. And what I want is because the light comes from in front of the shepherds. So it would mean that the light will be on their faces, but we're not seeing the faces. So the back of this, all of this would be pretty dark. So we're going to pick quite a dark color. And we're going to pick this color there. That will be our color. And now the size, I'm just going to check, well go for 4%. Let's see that status. Good enough. Let's start with the shepherds. And we're just going to paint in and pressing relatively hard for this are not hard. I'm not doing this lightly and press, pressing a little bit. And I'm just painting in this first Shepherd. And just roughly, and let's see around there. And if I have painted in the major parts, I'm going to go slightly smaller for its hands. And we're not going to do a lot of accurate painting. We're just going to just paint it. Because this is more or less silhouette of a figure, not his. You won't see many details anyway. Now I've got this now I don't know. I want to smooth this out a little bit. So I'm going to put this brush on 4%. And now lightly, I'm just going to paint over it. And with that, I'm going to smooth this a little bit. All right, That's that one thing I wanna do. I wanna switch off that layer, lay you go Now I can see it better. All right, now I've got this first shepherd. Now I see I went outside of my lines a little bit, so I'm going to correct that. And with that, I'm gonna do the eraser and 40 eraser. I have an airbrushing. Here's a medium heart airbrush. You could do soft airbrush. And I'm just erasing that part. Now if you don't go outside of the lines, then you don't have to erase. Now I do want a little bit of contrast in the shepherd. And we're going to go back to the round brush. I'm gonna go for 2%. And it's, had been here that's too large to 1%. Then I'm going to paint in his head band, again, bit stronger. And what I want to hear, I want this to be darker than the rest. And up here, I'm doing hardly any pressure so that I can get a little bit of contrast. I'm gonna do that here too. His arm, the ego, and with this arm I need to do the same around the edge. There you go. Okay. And at the bottom here, I do want to do the same, so I'm pressing a little bit harder to get that dark color. And then I'm relieving the pressure and get a nice transition into the rest of the color. Okay. That's the first shepherds. Now. A go I need to do his staff. Sorry. Say it again. I need to do his rod. And then I'm painting that into. And here too. And there we are. That will be the first shepherd. Now for the second ship it, I'm going back to 4%. Painting in him, painting human roughly. They are little bit around the edge. And now I'm doing the same, but hardly any pressure, just smoothing it a little bit there too, right? And now I'm going to 2%. And going again, yeah, right? And registers will do that darker color right away. And as you can see by smoothing it, what we did if you smooth the color out lightly. It also gets you a little bit of a lighter tone. Or really, we should say a lighter shade him. The hand there. Let's do still. Nice and dark. All right, Let's see. Needs some color there. Some color there around this edge, a little bit. Around this edge, slightly. Now there I went outside. Little bit too much. All right. Here are a little bit of a color hands here. I obviously missed some here now. And I'm going to darken this edge here. My callback to ground free percent. That goes quicker and then smoothing it out. Now here I've got a contrast already. This is lighter. So what I'm gonna do is instead of darkening this, I'm Madison, well, darken that. And instead of doing his arm, I'm going to go around his clothes and darken those around that edge. And that should give the same effects. Let's move this a little bit nicer. Little bit smaller brush that we go. All right, and it has happened. I want to do again 1%. And that should be our shepherd. Now is rot. And then we go and that we are. Alright, well that's the shepherds that step one. The next thing, doing these bushes and doing the building. Let's do that. I'm going to go back to 4%, around 4% painting in this main building first. And she can see that's going quite rough. I'm doing the push with it too right away. And today. And there we go. My needs, something smaller in a second. But let's do this part 2. Now I'm lowering it to 22 percent. Studios. Had just two. And I'm just basically painting the whole thing. Alright, good. Painting that part. All right, I'm not going to do these now. I'm gonna do this in a minute. One side done these parts. All right. I think I've got the building and now I'm gonna just go back to about 3%. And with a light pressure, I'm going to even this out a little bit. Going a bit over here two. That gives me also a slightly lighter shade, which I want to make use of. Now appear. Let's erase something. All right, Now I'm going to take a look at this. Here. I want to do this here and this bush, I want darker. So I'm going to go with another layer over this bush. By pressing harder, I'm bringing in a bit of a darker shades, Degas. Now, that is nice. Now I'm going to do these poles here. And we're going to go to 2%. And we're gonna make sure that these poles will be darker. Then going to 100 percent here. Then what I've painted on the top there. All right. Same here. So adding a little bit of pressure there. All right, I'm going to 2% back again. That saves some time. There we go. Put up my sleeve a little bit because my thoughts on this, making some noise. All right, and now the last thing I gotta do here, going to the one-percent pay in this painting, in this part, payer painting this part. And there we go. All right, now, that is pretty much dead. The last thing we're doing now, this here is Bush. I'm going back to 4%. And really roughly painting that in de, you go. Alright, now, then that will be our first step. Let's get rid of the sketch and look at what we've got. We definitely have some nice shapes going on. We've got a building, we've cut the bush in front of it, and that's it. Now later on, we're going to add some light to this. We're going to add a little bit of light effects. So that's some of the parts will get, you see them better. They distinguished themselves from other parts. We're going to do that at the end, but for now we'll just keep on painting. But this part is done. We've done the shepherds, we've done the foreground colors and they're getting the most contrast, the darker scholars. And when we move into the back, we're going to play a little bit with lighter colors, alternating some darks and light colors to get some layers going on and get some nice shading effect and get depth in our painting. All right, This first steps in contrast painting in procreate. In the next lesson, we're going to do some trees and mountains, are doing that large tree and do the mountains, okay? If you followed along and you can move right away to the next lesson. If you haven't, you may want to do this at any rate. I'll see you in the next lesson. 4. Mountains & Tree: We've got some shepherds now where they're standing in a really empty space there just looking into nothingness, right? We don't want that. We need to add something. We're going to paint the mountains and we're going to paint that large tree. In this lesson, we're continuing with the contrast. We're continuing with the monochromatic colors. Adding our tins, adding our shapes. And just building this scene up until we've got a nice, Great, Well, what was it? Painting? A Christmas card. Something nice. Alright, we're gonna continue. We're going to add a new layer on top of the foreground. And we're going to call that, surprisingly, let's start with D. What should we do? The tree? Let's start with the tree. We're gonna do that large tree, and there you go, a new layer called tree. I gotta get my sketch back. Otherwise, I don't know what I'm doing. And we want to paint this tree here. Now, we're going to start, of course, with the trunk. And what we're gonna do is we're gonna sticking for this one, we stick to the round brush, which Toccata, the round brush. The first one we're gonna do is we're going to add a layer on top of the foreground. So make sure the foreground is like that. Hit the Plus and rename this to tree. We're going to do the 3 first. So there's the tree. For the tree we're going to stick to the same color we have. So that is that dark color down here, not the ducks corridor, but this color there. We're also going to stick to the round brush, but we need a sketch back to make sure that we see the tree was going to start with the trunk. So for that, I'm probably have to go to about 2%. And let's paint in the trunk that would be too large, Calico, bit lower. And that is better. All right. And I'm painting in that tree. And we're starting with that truck. Now this one, I can do messy. I don't need to make smudge this nicely and evenly. Let's do some of these branches to go to 1%. And just add some lines like that for branches. Rights so that we get that tree effect. Here's a nice one. And let's bring them a bit more down than what it is in the drawing. So I'm going to go this way. One we want to go a little bit down here, here too. They go adding some of these branches. And the next step we're gonna do, we're going to switch brushes. We're going to go to the smudge brush. And we're going to put it on, let's say 7%. Let's see if 7% works. And we're going to add the needles and we're gonna do just paint this in like this really quick and rough and just get that impression of a tree. Go down here. I might even go a little bit Docker, docker, going to 10%. And as you can see, I'm not pressing hard, hard for this reasonably, but not that hard. And there you go. Alright, and maybe want to have a little bit here. And that's good enough for the tree, that a tree is. Next step, we're going to do the mountains for that. We're going to add a layer above the background color. So new layer, I'm going to call it mountains, so that I know where everything is. There it goes mountain see typeset for me. What we're going to use these mountains, these mountains are far away in the back. We're gonna give them a light color, and that is what creates depth. Now, you could do this two ways. You could do your foreground really light, and when you move back, it gets really dark. But in real life, if we look far away, things tend to get more hazy and lighter and less have less contrast. So it goes lighter and that's the principal would want to do right here two. And by adding a lighter color, we even creating a contrast between the sky that is dark because the scenes at night and the mountains, and the rest of course to k, Let's do that. The mountains are here. And what we're gonna do for that, we're going to pick a different color. And for that we're going to pick this color here. The second column, the middle row, the second column from the left. That's what I want on my mountains. I also want a different brush, so let's go to the brushes. I want a flat brush for that. I don't want that round brush. I wanna do a flat brush and really create these mountains relatively quick. And let's see, about 11 percent that is on I think I'm sticking to the 11 percent. Make sure I'm on the right layer. Oh, I haven't renamed my layer. Something went wrong. All right, Do that again. Mountains, the idea probably hit Undo per excellence. And let's go paint this mountain in numbers, going right there. And I'm painting actually the whole thing. And she can see I'm doing that really roughly. Now the mountain doesn't stop there, it just goes on a little bit like there. And there you go. And now you can see right away, see we're creating a contrast between the shepherds, the background, and the mountain. And we need some more up here, of course, there you go. Make sure painters in nicely with the big brush. Alright, good. And now I'm going to lower the brush 3%. And I want this. Now, this doesn't need to be really accurate. It's okay if you go a little bit outside the lines. Not too much as I do here. Later on with our lights. We're going to bring in some of the differences between all the mountain parts as a mountain in the back mountain and the front. We'll do that later on. All right, good. And we've got that. Now look at that soup. You get a nice contrast between the back, which is a bit darker, the foreground, which is really dark in the mountains of course, which are far away. And they're a bit light. Alright? And that's it. But does not it. That's it for this lesson. The tree and the mountains are there. The shepherds are there. Next up. Let's do something about the trees. There's more trees there in the back, so we're going to paint them till next lesson. Alright, do this one, and I'll see you in the next lesson. 5. The Tree Line: We're getting a little scene. Yes. We're also making a scene while not in a negative way, in a positive way. But we need more. We need some elements that shows that there is a landscape. Now we've just got a mountain, we've got some shepherds. And now there's more, there's some trees. We're going to add these trees. For these trees, we need again, some contrast. We need to make sure that the trees offset of the mountain, but not get as dark as the shepherds. So we're putting them somewhere in-between in color to create a little bit of contrast. And automatically by doing that, creating some depth. And even in the trees, of course, some trees are in the front, some trees are in the back. So we're even going to play a little bit of shades and tints to make sure you get the idea of even some depth in the trees that you look into a bit of a forest instead of just a row of trees. All right, let's do that. For that, of course we're going to need a new layer and we needed in front of the mountains, so above the mountains. So I'm adding a new layer. I'm calling this one trees. And there is our new layer. Now, what we're gonna do, we're gonna paint in the trunks first. And then we're going to paint in the foliage. Now for the trunks, we're going to go back to the round brush for the column. We're going to look at the column. We're going to use these columns here. So in the middle, in the middle row, these three colors we're going to use on these trees. Now for the trunks, what we're gonna do first, we're going to take the middle color, that color, the third K12 free third color. Let's do that. I want a brush on a 100 percent and 1%. And Let's check. Yeah, go see it's a bit, can't see it that much, but it definitely something is happening. All right, we'll just keep on going with this worth my sketch. There you go. Now. So you will see it a little bit, but not as good. I'm just painting in trucks. And once we're going to hide the sketch, each trunks will definitely appear. All right. There's another trunk. There. There was a trunk. They are now that one we can see better because it didn't go exactly on the line. There's one. And we need that one too. There you go. Here's another trunk. The trunk there too. I want some more trunks. Let me get some here. Some of their sum in France here, I'm just adding a couple more than that are in the picture. One back there and I want one there too. All right. Well, that's our trunks. Let's do one more than that one there. Alright, good. We've got our trumps now. Now we need our branches and the foliage. But what we're gonna do is for that we're going to go back to that smudge brush. And we've got a pretty large Now I think I might go to 6% and play with that a little bit. So what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna start with this front, once the front trees. And for that, I need a bit of a darker color. So I'm going back to my colors and I've got this one, so now I want that one. So the second color, the darker color, and I'm just going to paint some of these trees that are in the front. And there we go. And what I'm gonna do is I'm going to shape them like spruces, a little bit shaped like that. Right? All right. Some of these trees here, I need that one. The ones in the front so that the ones in the front are the ones that are down. So not the ones that are up. These are in the back, back. This is in the back. This is definitely still in the front. And we may want to extend them a little bit. This one is definitely here in the front, this one to that one. And this one we're going to have in the front too. All right. That would be the first trees in the front, some large ones, small ones. Then we're going to go now to a lighter color. And we're going to pick this color here. And we're going to just do the bag trees. And we're going to get now some interesting contrast. All right. Make sure I'm not over painting these front trees. I want one in the back there. This one here is in the back. And they go and we're going to fill up that tree a little bit here, make it a little bit larger. And there we go. So that is that for this. Or I might want to do a tree in here to care. I've got that. I'll just put some trees behind here too. Let's add a couple of trees here to, there we go. All right, and now we get a little bit of a forest. We're going to hide the sketch. And Stacy, we've got this sink and now we get the impression of trees. That's all we want. We don't want detailed trees, we just want an impression of trees. Now what we can do now, we could do a third color in here. Let's do that. Let's go. We've got these colors. We're going to see if we can find a color that is bit lighter than, different than the, this column might work. Let's pick this color here. That second column down there. Let's see how that works. And fill up some of these parts here. Yes, that would work at a third layer. Just as if there's more trees in the back. And that is just as you can see on some of these parts there, see, now we're adding as if there are some more trees. Now here I want some more trees going on the song Going back to that fourth column from the right. And I definitely want some more going on here, right? All right. And now I'm getting the idea. There is something going on. I'm going back to my darker color. And I just want a tree there. I'm just going to fit up some of these spaces here with a little bit of impression of trees. I do that there too. All right, that's good. And now here too, we've got a forest, right? Okay. And that's not the only step we're gonna do in this lesson. We're going to add some haste to now right away. So now we have our general trees. So we've got a nice tree line in the back looking like a forest. The next thing we're gonna do is add a haze k. Let's do that. We're going to add this haze and that creates even more contrast between these trees, the front and the back. And that creates a nice, we're going to just create a nice line here so that you don't see all this roughness. But it's just like there is a haze on the on the ground which I'm blends in with the trees, right? Let's do that. For that we need, of course, a new layer. And we're gonna do that in front of these trees. So we need a layer above the trees. And we're going to call that layer Hayes. And for that, I'm going to pick a really light color and a different brush. Let's pick the brush first. We're going to do some dabbing with this. So I'm not painting, but we're going to depth and we're going to pick the oil paint, that one for that, and for the column we're going to pick, we're going to of course, pick a light color, but not the lightest color, because later on we want to bring in some light effect. So we're going to pick that third color from the top for a haze. And for our brush. What we're gonna do is we're going to put it to about 40 percent because we don't want it to paint over it, but we want it to be as a hace. Now let's add that. I cut the brush on how large is it? 24 percent. I think that might work. So let me dampen that, Hayes. And as you can see, I'm just dabbing and I need to smudge this in a minute. Behind the tree some. All right, and now let's use very little pressure. And I'm going to specially on here, smooth it out a little bit. See you get that haze effects now I want that little bit stronger. So I'm just going to add another layer on there to rights. Let's add a little bit up here too and back here. Alright, so I like that better. See, now becomes like a nice HACE in front of the trees. I want to extend it a little bit down. What we'll do is go to about 25 percent. And there have been at the bottom here. Some extra Hayes Diigo. Now I'm creating a nice Hayes effects. I want a little bit stronger right there to get rid of that line a little bit. And there we go. Now, there's our haze. Now this is starting to look really nice, isn't it? Quite interesting? Now once we put the sheep in front of it, we're getting, again a lot more contrast. So we're playing with tints and shades now. In the back, we have not a dark, dark, but a reasonably dark color at night. We've got contrast in a lighter mountain. Then we have some shapes here for the trees which are darker than of course, the mountain. We've cut this foreground figures which really stand out now because it really dark. And we're adding a mid range him in the middle, a haze to create really a nice depth effect. And now you get the idea. Look, we're going really deep. All right, well, that concludes this lesson. We're getting along nicely. Now. We just definitely, you need some sheep. Shepherd without sheep, just not shepherds. Alright, let's give a shepherd some sheep in the next lesson. 6. The Sheep: Since we've got some shepherds, we're going to need some sheep, obviously otherwise sterile occupation to hurt the ships. And now they have nothing. All the sheep runaway. Well, if she ran away than the shepherds are going to of course, find them back. But we're gonna make sure they have some sheep. What we do with that is we're gonna make sure we have the sheep in between, all the rest with the colors. Also, if the sheep were going to again create some tones and shades so that you can even see depth in the shape that. So sheep are in front and on the ships are, ships are hot. Amy and other sheep are somewhere in the back. All right, Let's do that. For that we of course need a new layer, obviously him. And where are we going to put these sheep? We got to put the sheep in front of the haze, but not in the foreground. So between the haze and the foreground, we're going to add a new layer. We're going to rename it. I'm going to call it sheep. And there you go. And we've got that layer, or I need my sketch back and see the sketch day ago because now we're going to zoom in. Now. We've got these 1, 2, 3 sheep in the front. But we're going to also add that one to it. So this ship, we're gonna do dark. Then we have some sheep here in the middle, and then we've got some sheep that are further back. All right? Now we need to pick a color for that. We need again a range of colors for this. Which color should I pick? A dark color, of course, but some color close to it. I'm going to pick this color. So that would be the 1234 fifth color there. And we're going to use this for the shape for the sheep. I wanted that round brush back and it's now 11 percent. I'm gonna guess that is too small, I'm going to put it to 2%. Let's give this sheep per trial is I would work well, right? Diego ship. And there's our first shape. Now, as you can notice, since this paint is slightly transparent, say, I make sure I don't want that to happen. So I'm not going to go on the shepherd or making sure I'm staying on the ship, right? Well, even this out a little bit. And that ship is done. I only want this air going to 1%, adding that air. And that's an important detail. You need that air to show that this is really sheep. Let's hide the sketchy. And now this looks like a ship without the air. It's not going to look like a sheep. Bring the sketch back, right? Let's go for the sheep. I'm saying about 2% since his legs rights are under large. And you can see we're definitely not going to go for detailed today, but just some nice rough painting. An internship. I don't mind that there are some contrast going on even between the colors. Hey, go right. I might do a little bit of transition there. Next shape would be this one has this little area there. Let's add his middle ear there. But then we need to add the back of his heads a little bit, right? This shape here, going back to 2%, painting it in. And you go, and now I should see the last bit. I'm just doing a little bit rounded. And let me add a bit more on his head. Hence now going to 1% and this back leg, front lack in this case, I'm going to darken a little bit. All right, and now there's one more sheep left. That is this one here. I'm back home to percent. All right. One lakh, two legs. I'm going too far with that one. All right. Now we're going to 1% paint in his ears, give them the nice shape. Do his little tail. Going back to 2%. Yep. And making that circular motion to blend this in. Just a little bit nicer. All right, too rough for my liking. And we're going to look at this legs to going outside too much. There you go. All right, Good. And we're going to do that eraser. I'm going to erase that middle point there, but making very small eraser. Hey, go check a little bit. I need some there. All right, I think I'm okay with this first row of sheep. Let's check them. Hide the sketch. Let's look at them. And there we go. Yes, definitely nice sheep. So we've got some nice sheep now. They're not as dark as the shepherds, but they're definitely standing out from the background. Next row of sheep. We need a different color for that. We're going to give them, of course, with lighter color. Pick from this middle row, 1, 2, 3, 4, the fifth color, that column we started with this color. We're going just above to that column. And we're sticking to the round brush. Not sure 2% would be good. I'm starting with this sheep right here. And as you can see, that cats definitely a different color. And since this ship is more back, I'm not going to worry too much whether this gets perfectly or not. But I wanna make sure 1% brush that I get those two years in. All right, Now that should be a nice ship. We're going to do the next one to 2% first and during the ship. Alright. Going to 1%, do his leg. But be careful that I'm not going over this shape now. And one that she a bit more like that. All right. Now I need to go back to my color. Oh, there you go. All right. And now he needs an F2. And we've got to ship, and we need this sheep here too. I'm sticking to it and 1% brush to make sure I've got nice control. And I'm not going to paint over the sheep too much during his heirs. All right, good. Now I want that other sheep column back because I want that to be a bit like that better. Right? And I got them sheep. Now, there's one sheep laying there, which you can hardly see. And there's one sheep in the bank. And we need to do dose. We've got two layers of sheep now. Now I want that last sheep in the back, and I'm going to give that a total different color than the rest, a nice blue color to offset that from the other sheep. And by doing that, I'm creating the sense of depth, right? Let's do that. That last shape that is here. I'm going to pick, I've got my colors ready already. Pick this blue collar. Totally different than these colors. So I've got this color more to the gray blue, this lighter gray blue tint. But I'm going for a nice blue on this ship to really give that impression. Oh, he's lighter, He's in the back. I've got that 1% brush and I'm sticking to that. And I'm just painting in this ship. And there we go. Now it needs to contrast from the background, but not too much. And there we go. Now that should be fine. That's the sheep. Let's check. Hide the sketch and look at that. Now that sheep is really in the back is, and it gave it some more color right there. Alright. And the sheep in front of here, we're going to get its color back. And I want that to be slightly stronger. Day you go. Nice. All right, and now you get that sense of depth Theta. We've got this dark shepherds in the front. We've got some darker sheep, but then we get some light sheep and really in the back, a very, very light sheep. And then with the haze there, you get this contrast right away and from it, all right, we're getting a nice depth. Well, that will be the sheep. This painting is coming along really well. But we're gonna do some more to it now we've painted all the major objects except for one thing. We're going to need some foliage. There's grass on the current. We're going to need to give an impression of graphs, and we'll do that in the next lesson. 7. The Foliage: Welcome back. We've got some sheep, but I can hear them. Are hungry, hungry, they're very hungry. We need some kras. Let's give the ship something to eat. All right, let's do that. So we've got all of our main elements and now we just need that grass. We gonna do it on a lot of past. We're going to add the hint of foliage. Let's bring the sketch back. We're gonna do that along all these lines for that we first of all need a new layer. And we're going to do that layer in front of the ship because grasses growing and from the ship. So I'm adding a new layer, I'm going to call that layer foliage. And there you go. We're going to pick a different brush. We're going to pick this brush here, the old app, oh, sorry, all the app for brush, which has some nice fringes, gives us the idea a bit end of grass. We're going to set up our brush, a 100 percent opacity and 4%. And for the color, we pick some color that really stands out nicely from the sheep, different from the sheep, but won't overpower them. And that's what you always take. Need to take into account that these are supplementary elements, but the main elements, these are only need to support the rest. So we're going to pick something from this row, and we're going to pick this color, a nice blue color. We've cut that light sheep like that. We've got the other sheep with this color. This is a nice color that would support that. Alright? And we're just going to paint that in a little bit. There you go. See not overpowering, but still nice sum in front here too. And I'm doing this as you can see, quite roughly. And from the I2 writes on the back there. And erase if I go over the sheep won't have, don't want that. Here. Sum. Let's see this sheep there. All right, Some there on the back there. And there is some here. Let's add a little bit here. Could. All right, that is what will be the first layer. And now I'm going to zoom in and see what I'm doing here. And I'm going to lower this a little bit too large. Right? And that is better. Diigo some in front of that one. Okay. Little bit there, a little bit there. And some there. All right, that's the first step of a foliage. Now we're going to put another layer On top of that. Not a layer of a layer here, but a layer of paint on top of that. But we're gonna do that with a different color and a different brush. We're going to go to that smudge brush. And let's see, we're going to set that to 4% to, let's see if it's on 4, 4% percent. And this stays on a 100 percent, but we're going to pick a different color. And we're going to pick for that slightly darker color. And we're going to go to discover nice dark color. And that should give me some nice contrast here in the Grass 2. And what we're gonna do is we're just going to paint that in a little bit like this. See, and now you get some nice idea. A hint of grass, a bit under it, that too. I want to erase that a little bit over that shape, a little bit of HER2. And now I don't need to cover. So I've painted this whole pot, but I'm just covering the bottom a little bit. Alright? And we've got that hint of grass going on. Nice bit here. A little bit there. And now we need some data for sure. Also some hair. Alright, and a little bit there. And let's see a little bit there too. All right, Let's remove the sketch for now. Let's see what we want. Some, probably some there now I'm not pressing too hot. I'm just pressing really lightly. Adding some hints of grass in-between. You go. It'll be down on the hair to maybe behind there a little bit. Just a hint of grass there. All right. Now we've got a nice hint of grass. All right, good. I might say the grass might be missed the part that slightly too strong. So what I'm gonna do with this layer, I'm going to go to about 70 percent. All right, now it's looking like a nice scene. I'm looking at everything and I'm gonna say, well, I think I will leave this like that. The next step would be painting in some lights. But that is not for this lesson. I'm going to do that in the next lesson. So we've got the whole painting ready now. But now we need to show, hey, there's some light coming from the sky. Later on, we'll paint actually that light in. But we need that a little bit indices into lighting certain areas to make them more obvious. Okay, that's for the next lesson. Let's do that in the next lesson. So create this grass. And then we're going to go to the next lesson. Play with light a little bit. Alright, see you in that lesson. 8. Painting hints of Light: Now we've got a pretty nice painting already, but it's missing one thing, hint of light. Later on we're going to add a nice bright light from the sky. Angels are bringing the news to the shepherds that the Savior of the world has been born. That's a Christmas scene, of course, nativity scenes. So we need to have that. Now we're not going to paint all these angels in what we're going to just give an impression that there's something going on that catches the attention of these shepherds. Before we do that, we're going to already created the lights that it's casting. Okay, let's do that. So we're going to light certain areas, but not really add a lot of light, but a hint of light. What do we do for that? We're going to take this brush, the pencil. And we're going to add some nice lines with that. Of course, we're going to need a nice light color for that, and we're just going to pick the white for that. Let's do yep, let's pick the white was not really white. It's still a bluish white, but wide, wide. And what we're going to do if we're going to add another layer, we're going to add this layer on top of everything. So we're going to find that tree that's the top one. Add a layer to it. I'm calling it soft light because that's what I'm going to add some soft light effects. I'm going to also set the layer on a different mode. So if you press on this end now it's on normal. What I want to do, I want to bring in a nice, lovely soft light. And for that, we have a layer function called soft light. I'm picking that up. So the layer is now not painting normal, the strong colors, but as adding, lighting up, whatever I'm going to paint. All right, so I've cut this brush, I got the color and what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna do the mountains. I'm going to do the buildings, and I'm going a little bit of the foliage. So we're going to play with that. I do need to bring my sketch back for this. Yes, I need to sell bring the sketch back because I need to see what's going on in the mountains for this, for the mountains. I'm starting at the mountains. Depends. So I'm gonna put up 4%. Yeah, this, I'm leaving at a 100 percent. And what I'm gonna do now, I'm going to add these lines now, first of all, the light is coming from this direction shines on the mountain. So what I'm gonna do like these, this here, that part gets shining, catching some light here too. And it's just a little bit of a hint of light degas here too. And with that, you already bring in the shape of the mountains too. And they're a little bit bigger. Now, not back here. Not back here obviously, but around here? Yes, for sure, a little bit. And of course, around here, this part end really of course, for sure That part two, now, hello, that's my mountain affects maybe behind there a little bit. And if I hide the sketch now, look what happens. See, you suddenly get a hit of mountains in the back. Really subtle, really nice. Yeah. So you have the idea, some lights, some of these edges of the mountains are now really a lot clear. I'm gonna do the same with the building to not everywhere, definitely not, but only on one spot. And that is around here. Around there. And around here. I want that. Let's go to here. I want this to stand out from the rest, so only that not on this side. I don't want it there. Do I want it there? No, I really don't want it. I only wanted here. That's the only thing I'm gonna do. And then what I'm going to do is to foliage. What I'm gonna do is on the top of the foliage, I'm going to add some light color, hints of color like that. Yeah, hence of light to create some interest in it. And I'm just pressing really lightly some hair. And now you're getting really that idea. There is actually some grass here. We're letting the top of the grass catch some of this, even back that some of this light. Let's see. Who read that bit there. Okay. Some that top of the grass or adding this. Here too. Don't like that one. Better on the top, right sum, there we go. Let's see. We've got some up there. All right. It here in there. I think we're fine with this. Good works a little bit there. Let's add some lines here to create sense of light. And there we go. All right, so we've got a hint of light on the mountains, the building, and the grass now, but we want to do that, of course, on the trees too, and on those bushes in the front. So we're gonna do that too. But for that we are going to work on a new layer. Alright, so let's add a new layer on top of this one. Looks good. We're going to rename it. Let's do the trees first, soft light. Uh, trees. That's good. We're going to put that obviously on soft light as well, right? We're not going to use the same brush. We're going to do this with the smudge brush. So we're picking the smudge brush that we are we using the same color? We're going to stay with the same color while making sure the smudge brush is on about 4% to. And what we're gonna do is we're going to do work on these trees a little bit and on the foreground bushes, Let's do that. Not on the victory on these factories and on this one. Let's do a little bit here first, just painting it in smashing in sunlight. And there we go, That is good. And we're doing that here too. You could follow, of course, the sketch for this. But I'm okay with just doing what's picked the sketch for this. And around the edges. So the light comes from here. So these edges would definitely light up a little bit. And then some of the branch is just giving a hint of branches. Were having that here too. Just a hint of branches. All right, good. So we've got these bushes now, a little bit of a hint light. Now we need to do that in the trees too, but we're going to go low for that 2%. And what we're gonna do is so we have the sketch. Check that the light is right there. So I'm going to hide that again. So we're going to light the sites of these trees like that. And then one on the top there, this one. And by doing that, we're definitely creating more of a sense of that there are different trees here. This one too. Let's see the lines around there in the middle. So I will need some light going on there. There are two. And let me bring that sketch back for a moment. This is the middle part. So from up here, you would get from that side. So now I can hide the sketch and now I know where I want to go. These are right from the top. And by adding that, you add sense here two of depth. See it. Now you get the idea that there is quite some trees here. Alright? And from this, we can add a little bit of a hint of two sides, not just one. That's a little bit small, larger eraser. I don't like that. Right? That, and I'm creating a tree right there. I'm not pressing too hard for this. All right. We're getting there. That's the hint of light on the streets. Let's see, come up a little bit here to day go. Yes, faintly a tree, there is definitely a tree there. This tree definitely need some of that. Now let's sue Mr. Tree here. And definitely there's a tree there. That's told three that too. All right. Well, I think we've got that we've got these this one. We need a little bit better. All right, now, and that is now on the trees to light at a little bit. We've got that now too. Now the scene as nicely lighted, what I wanna do next is create some missed the midst gift at some hint of light to brighten that a little bit. Alright, let's give that a try. For that we need a new layer and we're going to put that layer above this. Yeah, definitely. And we're going to rename that layer. We're going to call that missed. And we're going to add a missed, a lighted up Miss defect. Now as a color, what we're gonna do that we're going to use not the white scholar, but a bit the one next to it. So that one, so we've got that. We're going to stick to this smudge brush. We're going to hire it, not say about 7%. We're going to put this layer on soft light too. We want some soft light effect, not strong light effects, but we want to lower the opacity. Let's see. Let's try this. Let's see what happens on 15%. What I wanna do is I want to light up some of these parts of the mist. And that's not enough. Now, let's go all the way up. And we're going to bring the opacity of the layer down. Later on, I'm going to brighten up some of this. Mist homeowner put really big for 28%. That's too weak. Why not? Let's go a little bit here. There you go. Some their brighten up dismissed a little bit on the top, create a little bit of a sense of mystery. Day you go now I'm going over the shepherds. So I need to make sure I'm going to go for a larger brush. Then I'm not going to do this over that shepherds too much. All right. There you go. Now, that's nice. Now I want some being between the trees to want to lower this down, just a round brush. Let's go about 8% or 11. Do a hint of mist between some of the trees. Day you go and filling up a bit of the gaps that are there. There are two. There we go. And we're going to lower the opacity. And then minutes to get it not that strong as it is here. There you go. All right, Good. Might want to do a little bit around this bottom 21 we're going to do now, I'm going to lower the opacity. So I'm going to my Layer Mask and I'm going to go with this one. So now it's off. Now it's totally on. Let's say in the middle of our 50 percent. I like that. And now you get a little bit of more doubts didn't go right. Data, more of a sense of a missed a haze going on, right? Okay, we're getting there. We only need that tree. That main tree has no light on it yet. So we got to do that. Now. All right, That main tree, the main tree is, needs another layer of soft light too. I'm going to put that above the midst. I'm going to call this soft light tree. Let's do that. Soft light tree. I'm going to put it obviously on soft light to enter. There we go. All right, now, let's see, we're gonna do this tree and we're going to go back to that pencil brush. I want to put that on 4%. That is still on 4%, that is good. The color, of course, needs to be white again. There we go. We're gonna do three, give it some lights, give it a hint of light too. Because now it doesn't have any hint of light, of course, on the top. But remember, the light now comes from this side there. So it is on these topics a little bit there and this branch a little bit. And just we're going to add some on top of these branches to give the idea that we have some branch is going on. There we go. All right, some of these branches there. And let's do add some here. Bit random ish, some there on this to create an extra branch here. Alright. Now let's light up the trunk just a little bit too. Up there you go. And let's adjust a little bit here too. And these trunks, all right, now the tree is not being left out, but it's run W12. Okay? But that's it. For this lesson. We've got all our soft glycine. Now we need that bright shining light from the heavens. We're not doing that in this lesson. We're going to do that in the next lesson. So add your lines. Once you've done that, I'll see you in the next lesson. Or Rihanna pretty much getting close to finishing this nativity painting. See you in the next lesson. 9. Adding rays of Light: We're going to add that bright light for that. We're going to paint a little bit with symmetry. Now. Procreate will nicely help us work that we're going to set up some things for that. So let's do that now. We're going back to the sketch for a minute. And in the sketch, of course, you see that nice shining light from the heavens. So we need that. And to get that, we're going to go to tap on the wrench, go to Kansas. And you see here Drawing Guide, we're switching that are now we need to edit the Drawing Guide. And then as you can see, my drawing guide is pretty much set up nicely already. What I want to do is you wanna make sure you have these options here. A grid, isometric, if you want to get some depth perspective going, really creating depth drawings, we want symmetry. The opacity we set to 41%, the thickness to 60 percent. Who's going to switch on the Options? And we want radio. So you have the vertical symmetry, horizontal in a quadrant. But we want the radio because the light is radiating like that. You want to make sure that you put on rotational symmetry to and assisted drawing, okay? And then this line here, you can set the color to whatever works best. I leave it on black. The next thing you need to do is this blue point here. Now probably yours isn't where it is mine. So what do you need to do? See, if you look at it faintly, you can see here those lines that is where the light was shining from. So we want the light to shine like that. So we need this midpoint to go on there and we want to just straight, you can move it the way you want. We just wanted to straight down like that. Okay, We're seeing done. Now whatever line we draw goes from that point C that I don't want this wiggly stuff, but to demonstrate that. All right, the next thing we need depends on we've still got it set on Panasonic. We just gotta determine how thick we want. The pencil, the color we want is just white. And what we're gonna do, I'm gonna just from the point, draw a light, sorry, draw a line. Draw a line. Now holds my pencil. And I'm going to add that light. See that line there. Nice. Now that is not thick enough. I've definitely want this thicker. Let's go to 10 percent. Let's see if that is not the same. I'm drawing a line now I like that better. I'm holding it. And there you go. That's one line. I'm gonna do the same here. Hold it so that it gets a nice straight line. I'm going to add this line to an R1 some in between. Do it again, draw, hold it and add this light, nice line in-between. And there you go. That's the first step. Probably don't have that white color for this. Well, Let's turn off the sketch. Now. I cut that blue color for this. So that is not going not well, but we'll correct that. Okay. I'll leave it like this. Now we need to switch that off because I don't want that anymore. So I'm going to go back to the drawing guide. I'm not switching it off like here. And we're going to into, edit the guide into the options. And I'm going to switch off here, assisted drawing. I'm seeing done. And now I'm going to switch it off. If you don't switch off that assisted drawing, it will still keep on drawing these symmetry lines. Now it should be okay again. Now the next thing, what we need to add, we're going to add a layer above this. Oh, I'm in the wrong layer. All right. Let me demonstrate it. I'm in the wrong layer and I want a different color. Now what we should have done is added a new layer on top of all of this and call that layer bright light, or shall we call it the race? Let's call it race. These are rays of light. Let's call it race of light. Rays of light. Rays of light. So we've got our soft and recap the new layer light array of lights. But we're gonna go back to the soft light tree because that's where I made the mistake. I'm going to tap this little ribbon. I'm going to put this on a rectangle. I'm just going to draw a rectangle around my error. And it selects this part. I'm going to go to the wrench and I'm going to go to Add, and I'm going to say cut. Now that it's gone. Then I'm going back to my rays of light layer and hit the wrench here and say paste. And now there is my light again. Right, and now it's nice and bright because what happens? This layer is of course, not on soft light. So I, and now it is corrected. This is what we want for now. Alright? But I want a little bit of a halo in here. So what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna add a new layer on top of it. And I want a nice halo here, half a circle. So what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna draw it in, make sure you keep the pressure. And when I'm at the end, I'm just going to hold it. And now it creates a nice shape for me, right? That is what I want, right? I'm not gonna do anything more of that. The only thing and we're gonna do is back to this layer. We're going to tap on it. I'm going to say Merge Down. And it merges with my rays of light. Right? These are my rays of light, but I don't like him this way. That is not, not really nice, way too strong. What I'm gonna do with that is I'm going to duplicate this layer twice. Nice. I'm going to hide the top of the race of life and the bottom rays of light. And what I'm gonna do with this, I'm going to blur this a little bit and just a little bit. So what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna go to this magic one there. I'm gonna say caution blur, hit that. And what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna slide to adjust. It says slide to adjust. And I'm just going to slide my pen now it's gone. I don't want it that much gone, but see, I want it a little bit gone. Like that. About 50 percent is good. All right. Now, that looks already better, but not the way I want it. So what we're gonna do now, I'm going to hide that layer, that middle layer of the reefs of lights. I'm going to select the bottom one. Make sure it's on. Going back to that magic want caution blur. And this one, I'm going to blur even more. I would say around to our 12 percent would work Nice. And tap on the layer again. Now I'm going to add that one. See, now you get a nice blur like that. And now I'm going to add the original one to it. Also put what I'm gonna do if the original one, it's too strong for me. So I'm sliding down the opacity or 40 percent would work. All right. Oh, I'm on the wrong one. I don't know. I'm on the right one. That's right. The top 140% blur. Okay, now I've got these free. What I'm gonna do, I'm going to combine this. And the easiest way to do that is select the top one slide. This one, slide that one, say group. Tap on the New Group. And here you see an option flatten, and now we've got it flattened. All right, well, we're almost done with this, but this is a bit too strong. This is not what I want. I want this light to be added to the scene and there is an option in the layers for that too. So I'm gonna pick that one. So go to the layers. Now I have this new layer, rays of light. And I'm gonna just add this to the scene. And there we go, Look at that. Now, dad is what I want now, not that strong, but this is the idea I want. So I'm going to lower the opacity until it gets where I like it. I would say about 50 percent, food percent. It's too much. Let's go 45 percent. And now I've got that nice rays of light here. All right, and now they're looking to something which is catching their attention. I was there, at least with this lesson. We're going to play a little bit. We're going to add some other effect to this. Let's do that. So we'll cut this now. I want to change this a little bit. We're going to hit that magic wand again. And there is an option called bloom. That's a nice option. I'm tapping the blue option. And what I'm gonna do with that, I'm just going to play with this a little bit. Now. This is set to max, that's fine with me. Set set this to 40 percent and my burn is 35 percent. So max size is 30 and the burn is 35 percent. That's what it said on so let's try this a little bit now here are the same again, I'm sliding to adjust and see what you get. Now how that is catching my attention too much. But a little bit more like this. Though. This is pretty cool, isn't it? It's a bit too strong. I want to make sure the halo is still there. Agar. And that's with me around 5%. But play with that a little bit. All right, going back to my layers, what I'm gonna do is now I'm going to duplicate this one. And how are you getting some crazy lights? And we're going to that bottom one. I'm going back to that bloom effect. And I'm leaving this the same as is the max and 30 and 45. I'm going to nicely bloom this one up to here. Another added 5%. All right, hit the layer, Good. Bring back the original one. And now this one, we need to bring back just a little bit 67 percent. I would say that is pretty much good. Now we've cut that interesting effect, might be a bit too strong on the top ones tail. Let's bring that back. Blended in a little bit more. Rights around here. Now, that's not good. Let's go to 40%. I like it like that. All right, I'm going to leave it like this about 40 percent. Now we got a nice halo effect. Now. It's nicely strong. It's catching the attention. And then we'll see the scene. Okay, we've got this step. Now there's one more step we need to do. We do that in the next lesson. We're going to finish this painting off with Canvas effect, with some general light effect. And then we're totally done with this. Alright, let's do that in the next lesson. 10. Finalizing the painting: Welcome to the last lesson. The final step is adding that Canvas and a little bit of a general light effect to bring in some atmosphere. Now, this is a choice. You don't have to do this step by adding the canvas we do anyway, but light effect is a choice. You can do it or you can just leave it without that. Well, let's go to a painting. So we've got our painting, but the background is really flat. There is no texture effect and it is some paint brushes, strokes in it. That is nice, but we want this to be on a canvas. So what I have, I've supplied the Canvas for that. That is this one not but the moment it's locked, so I'm going to slide it from the right and unlock it and open it. Now you see two layers in here. In here is a canvas. And if I put the first one on, this is the most important one, the multiplying. And what you see here, you get a nice canvas effect. Then there's a layer above it, which is actually exactly the same canvas. But I've set this to color burn, to really burn into Canvas and add some atmosphere color. And now you get this. All right, Let's look at that. So this is our original painting and you can add the canvas to it. And I would really makes a dark. It also blends in this color way nicer than it was before. You still get that nice light effect, but not that strong effect as it is without no choice. You have, you could do you could do with our color burn and just do detection. I like it that way. But there is another effect. We can add that as a general light effect. And let's do that too. For that, we're going to just add a layer on top of here. And this layer, I'm going to call what should we call it atmospheric effect. Yeah, we're going to play with the atmosphere, atmosphere effects. And there you go. Right? Now, what we're gonna do, we're gonna leave that to normal for now. We're going to paint on this. We're going to paint our light effect. And what we're gonna do for that, we're going to pick that oil painting. Let's see, let's pick this one oil paint up for that. Good. And we're going to add colors now. I'm got it on really large, wrong going to live in a large, That's okay. The first thing we're gonna do is pick some colors. We're going to pick some of the colors, and we're going to pick these colors here. And we're going to start with the darkest color. And I'm just going to paint that color and that's good enough, right? Then I'm going to that second color. This is a bit of a lighter color. I'm going to paint that in, but I'm not going to touch the edges. Painting it in right there. Now, I want it smaller. Let's go for 40 percent. And around this edge, bring back that darker color. Right? Now. I'm going to add another color that is again, a lighter. I'm going to leave it on 40 percent. And I'm going to add another light effect like that, right? And now the last one, I'm going to add that lightest color, right where that light is and how I get this. And now my painting is gone. So I need to bring back my painting. What I'm gonna do next, I'm going to make a color burn for this one. So I'm pressing on that M again, and I'm choosing another effect, and that is the Color Burn. Now, now I get this. Now, that is pretty dark. So I want to get that, of course, less strong than it is now. And I'm going to set that to about 40 percent. 40 to 40 percent. That would work for me. All right. And now let's take a look at it. Now we have this painting. And if I set it off, I'm getting this. The cooler colors, the cool blue colors. If I set that color burn on, I'm getting a bit still cool colors, but a lot more contrast, dark colors, quite different. Now, this is a choice. You don't have to do this. You can do without if you say, Oh, I like it like this painted. Or I like to add that color effect where it's lighter here and it's going to darker there. So that's up to you. You can do it with or without setting it to, oh, no, that's goes wrong. About 40% is good. And let's see. Yeah, I like that. You could do it a bit less. Let's try 40%. Now that is nice, okay, I'm leaving it at about 30 percent now. That's the wrong one. Yep, 30%. I like this effect. All right, if you don't wanna do this step, then you could live without them. Just want to bring in some atmosphere, a little bit extra in it. All right, good. Well, that's it. That concludes my painting. I got everything. So we've painted from the foreground, going to the background, adding the middle, and making sure that every step there is some nice contrast going on. And now we've got a beautiful nativity scene. All right, that concludes this lesson. We don't have painting. We only have a project lapsed. So let's talk about the project in the next video. That's another lesson. That's video. All right. See you there. 11. The Project: All right, the last video, the projects. Now the projects we're gonna do really easy for that. The project is if all this, while you've created this posted, posted in the project section, that's all I'm gonna do with that. Now, of course, it would be wonderful if you create more paintings in procreate with this contrast. Adding the monochromatic colors. You don't have to pick blue. You could pick other callers, 2k or green, or rats, or with yellows, all kinds of nice colors. And then create a nice range of tens. So going lighter and some shades going darker, never would, of course, be a nice challenge. All right, well, I'm not going to make this a long video. The main project is ptosis so that we can all enjoy it. I can see what you're making because I'm really curious to see what people do with all these techniques I'm showing. And if you want to go on with that and keep on painting, add a totally different scene or keep on playing with that. A keep on going with it. All right. Thank you for being with me in this class and looking forward to the project you create.