Paint a Snowman in Procreate, free brushes included.

1. Introduction: Hello, everyone. Paul here. I have been a skill share teacher for many years now and a visual artist even longer. Today, I'm going to teach you how to paint this snowman in Procreate. You're going to use my digital oil painting brushes that I made myself. I've included them for free. Along with the brushes, I've included a sketch for you to paint on and a reference picture to paint from. This class is perfect for all levels. We will start off by importing the artwork into Procreate. We will then paint the hat, move on to the face and the body, the eyes, the little buttons, the nose, the hands, finally, the background, and we are done. When you're finished your painting, please make sure you posted in the projects and resources section for others to be inspired and so that I may critique your artwork. I hope you enjoy this class as much as I enjoyed making it. Thank you very much for watching. 2. Painting the hat: So we've got our snowman painting all set up here on my iPad, but let's get it set up on yours. The first thing you're gonna want to do is import the sketch that I provided for you, and you're going to want to import the reference photo. Import the sketch. You can just go over here to your little uh, wrench button there. You click on AD, which I've already got selected there, and you can click on Insert a Photo. You're going to need to put these into the photos on your iPad because that's where it's going to want to pick them up from. So you're going to click on Insert Photo. You could also use a file, you have a file. But as long as you put the two images that I have, just add them into your Photos folder on your iPad, then you can pick that up from right there. You're going to do the same thing here. Your reference picture. So to do that, we come over here to Canvas. We click on Canvas. And if you don't have this button here selected, you will not see the reference picture. Okay? So we're going to come over here back to Canvas and reference. We're going to click on that and Walla. Now, mine, just remember that I had this here from before, but for yours, you're going to have your you're going to pick this file here. So you're going to click on the image, and you're going to click on Image. Oh, I guess wr. I'd have to clear it. So anyway, you click on Image, and then you select the image from your photos and Valla then you've got your reference photo. Now you can select and choose the colors from this if you like. Or you can use your own colors just by coming over here to the color palette. For example, for this black hat, I want it to be a bluey color black, so I'm going to move my slider over here to the blue color, and I'm in the bluish black colors there. And I can just start painting. But we want to know what brush we're going to use. And for this brush, we're using my oil painting brushes here. These are the Paul Cheney oil painting brushes that I provided you with a link on where you can download those from on my website. Uh, for the most part, we're gonna use this here PC base oil Oops. We're base oil soft blend. Ignore the names. I just make them up as I'm making the brushes, and a lot of times these brushes have been copied, like, from my library because I keep changing them, so I'll make a duplicate of it and then just change the name so that it can be something, whatever, and then I end up leaving the name. And I don't remember why I called it that, but it is what it is. Here we are. So we're gonna go with the PC base oil soft blend on our brush. You want to have an appropriate size. Obviously, if it's that big, it's too big, and you can leave the opacity at 100%. For now. Whoops. I hit the eraser button by accident. Um, now we're going to make our brush a decent size. We want to basically with oil painting, you want to have the brush as large as possible while still being able to control it. So let's go here. We've got our layer here with our sketch on it. I'm gonna lock this layer because I don't want to paint on that layer. You can. There's no reason why you can't. And in fact, if you choose to, that's fine. The only thing is then you've got to clean up the lines after versus just turn the layer off and they're gone. So we're going to make another layer. I'm gonna make another layer over top. If you prefer, you can take that layer and move it. Down underneath here. That way, you've got the sketch layer over top, and you can still see all the lines. It doesn't matter because once it's gone, it's gone. You know, just for fun, I've got my painting here layer right there as well. You can put that in to check to see if you like, or you can just leave it off and use the reference photo. So the first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna start with oil painting. We always start with our darkest color first. So in this case, here, we're going to choose this black color here. We're gonna come over, and we're just basically going to start putting that on. Now, making sure that we're on our layer there, the correct layer, we can't paint on that one because it's locked, and I can't paint on that one now because it's locked. I've got the correct layer, I can zoom in to make more accurate and just get that paint in there. Like so. Don't worry about how it's on or how it's not on. Just get it on, fill it in. Easy peasy. Now, if that's not dark enough, I'm gonna slide this over to the blue, so you can always come down here and darken it quite often. I find the color picker. You know, when we're seeing this on the screen, I don't know exactly how it works, but it always seems like the colors, then I pick the colors are either a little bit darker or a little bit lighter than what I wanted. So I don't feel like you have to be a slave to whatever you pick there. I feel like you can take that out. Now, I'm just basically choosing another color here at this point, we're going to start and blend it. And all we want to do with the blending is we want to have this specular highlight down the middle and we want to have some um, you know, a light to dark kind of thing, right? I move that over to the blue area a bit more. Come on, blue. There we go. It's just a cooler, black, cooler color you can put in there if you want. Um, you can see in there. I've got some blues and different things. We're gonna blend all this, so it doesn't really matter, right? We're doing right now is we're just grabbing our colors and we're putting them on. I want my darkest darks around the edges there. Okay. Okay, now let's grab our blending brush. And again, with the blending brush here, we're using the same brush library, the Paul Cheney oil paints, and we're using our linseed oil brush. In traditional oil painting, you can use linseed oil as a medium to help, you know, dilute your paints, but you can also use it to blend things with your brush, or you can use a dry brush or a wet brush. Using a wet brush, that would be a linseed oil brush. So what you can see I'm doing here is I'm basically moving these paints around. I'm not actually painting. I'm just mudging what is already there. If it's too hard, you can lower the opacity to get a more even um, look or a softer look because, you know, sometimes it will grab um, paints from all over. Alright. I'm I get down all the way up to the top there. I'm just kind of smearing this around like I would in a traditional oil painting. Now, keep in mind, if you come over here where this is white, it will see that canvas white, and it will blend that it still considers that to be a color for some reason. I'm not exactly sure why. Speaking of which, I'm now going to grab my canvas white. I'm gonna grab back to my painting brush, make it nice and small, and I can now put on my kind of highlight here. Now, you'll see this line here on the sketch shows that white kind of line on there. You can put that in or you can leave it out. It doesn't really matter. I'll put it in 'cause it's in the painting. I've got my rim up there. Shrink down my blending brush, just basically soften that down a little bit. And now I'm going to come back here. I'm going to grab my solid black, and I'm going to shrink my brush down even smaller. Here we go. Small brush and just make my little hard edge up here at the top a little bit harder. If these lines like sketch lines are too distracting, you can either turn them off, which makes it harder to see what you're painting, or you can come over here. We're going to unlock it for a second, and click on that little N, and this shows our opacity there. Now we can see they're very light. So now they're just a little bit less distracting. I'll lock that again so I don't paint on it. You'd be surprised how often you will paint on the wrong layer if you don't make a habit of locking it, so I always suggest you lock whatever layers you want to leave untouched. Okay, we'll grab our blending brush again to smear that out. How here in this for gonna. Smudge this out a little bit, 'cause we want that hard line there. You know, it's Okay, I'm starting to get there, looking good, looking good. Okay, small brush. Okay, so basically we've got our top hat done there. You know, you can play around with it as much as you like. I'm gonna come along now. I'm gonna work on the rim of my hat here. Gonna put some dark paint underneath, make my brush a little bit bigger. Okay. You can do this whole thing if you want, but I'm gonna leave a little space just so I know where I want to put the white ish area on there. What I'll do right now come over here. Come down here, you'll see previous colors that you've selected. You can click on one of those. And I'm just gonna put some lighter color on there so that I know which is which. So I can tell where it is from the background. And this is underneath, so it should be pretty dark underneath here. You know, this is going to be a shadow area. Okay. We can grab some lighter color there, which we had a white before, smaller brush. Just get a little bit highlight in there. Alright. Look at that. We've got a hat. Okay. We come in here now, let's just fix this up a little bit before we go any further. Let's tidy this up a bit. You can always come in here and just click this on and off just to see, like, where you know, do you have enough? Like, are your edges hard enough? Are they defined enough? Are they too defined? I'm just gonna tidy this up a little bit. This area up here left out. I got my rim under there, got my rim under here. It's looking good. Never mind, this is an impression of stop painting, so it doesn't have to be perfect, right? We're not trying to make a photo realistic snowman. I don't know that that is a thing, even because snowmen are not real, but well, maybe they are. Who knows? Okay. Alright, so we got our hat there, pretty happy with that hat. Gonna come back here. I'm gonna turn on the rest of my snowman there. Now, what I would suggest you do here is, let's use different layers for the different parts of the snowman. And the reason being is, if I it just makes it a lot easier, you know, by putting this underneath here than it is to try and separate this out. Now, my painting is all done on one layer, but, you know, for the sake of these, I'm trying to show you the easiest way to do it, really, it doesn't matter if you do one or two unless you want those colors to blend. And under here, these are going to be different, right? It's a separate layer. It's a white snowman and a black hat. It's harder, like, to, you know, you just end up smudging it together if you're not careful. We're going to come back, and we're going to paint the snowman body in the next chapter, and then we'll work on the scarf and then the hands and the background and next chapters of the after those. 3. Painting the face and the body: Alright, let's take a look here at our next layer, which is just gonna be our base snowman. Now, again, our sketch is on the top. We've made a new layer that we're gonna paint with. I'm going to lock my hat layer, so I can't paint on top of that. We've got our new layer underneath the hat, so we don't need to worry about that. We don't need to worry about covering up the eyes or anything else like that. We can just come right in here and grab one of these darker colors there, grab our brush, you know, get a decent size on. And again, we're doing the same thing with our hat. But now, because our hat is overtop, we don't have to worry about that smudging underneath, which just makes it a life a lot easier. Um, Again, if we do the scarf on a separate layer and the nose and the eyes and the mouth and everything on a separate layer, same thing. We don't have to worry about that. I'm just going to basically brushing these in. I'm basically brushing these in very loosely, and I've got a darker color just to put right underneath the rim of that hat there. Okay, now we can come along here. We can grab a lighter color there, make our brush a little bit bigger, n some of that in together. When you're making a traditional oil painting, you generally will have what is called an underpainting, and it helps you with your values and everything else. And you're starting from, like I mentioned before, dark to light. So now we've got a darker color under anything, and that's not the right color, but trust me, it will be. Now I'm using a little bit lighter color there. Okay. Mm, I think my original one I had more of a shadow over here, so we'll put that back in. And I think we got some darker areas over here. But the car brush a little bit smaller from that. Whoops. There we go. Okay, now let's get in some even lighter areas here and just gonna move this over a bit closer to the white. We're gonna make our brush nice and big. We can lower our opacity here if we want to just so we don't make it too crazy. Okay. Alright. So now let's grab our blending brush. We're gonna blend some of this together. Why are we? We too small, I think. Yeah. Six. I need to remember to put some music in so that I don't have I had more of a underlay here, I think. Yeah, I did. That's better. Just a little bit more depth. I was saying I need to add some music in because of the tap, tap tap. I must drive some people batty. I know it does to me sometimes. Okay. Now you'll notice our snowman here. This is a white background here, and our snowman's face is not actually totally white, but that's okay. We can always make it brighter or whiter, but in reality, you know, we don't want paper white everywhere. Okay. Basically, now, we're gonna do the same thing. I'll speed this up, but we're gonna do the same basic thing down here. We're gonna put an underpainting on the whole body. Then we will come back in and we will paint the lighter colors over top. So I'll speed this part up now. Okay. So I've gone around and I've painted in the body there. We've got some nice brush strokes. We are starting to look pretty good, I think. We got some darker areas there. We'll probably put more shadow in on this layer after we do the scarf, but for now, we're gonna leave it like that. We're gonna come back and we're going to paint the scarf. 4. Painting the scarf: Okay, now we're going to do the scarf. To do the scarf, I'm just going to show you a neat little trick. You might know this already if you've been painting in procreate for a while, or maybe you don't. I don't know, but I'm going to show you just in case. In full disclosure, this is how I normally paint when I'm doing something like this and how I painted the original snowman. So what you want to do is I'm going to grab a hard round brush, which is basically it comes included with procreate, straight up. This is the base brush. This is the starter brush of all the brushes. And it's just a round hard brush. Get your brush the right size, and we're just going to outline this scarf sketch here around like, so and one thing that we want to make sure we do is make sure that it connects. If it doesn't connect, this won't work. I'll show you what I mean in a second. Okay? Now, all I did was grab put my pencil on here and grab and drag that color like that. If I make a circle like this and it is closed, that's what I mean by it's connected, okay? That will fill in. If I leave a space, I don't connect the line together, watch what happens. It doesn't recognize. Basically, it just says, Okay, you want to fill the whole layer in with that red, which we don't want to do. Two fingers to undo. Okay. Now, so why did we do that? Well, basically, we didn't have to do all that underpainting. We just kind of fill that in. And don't worry. We're gonna get our brush strokes in because we've got all these shadow areas and highlight areas and everything else there that are really cool and neat, and we're gonna use our regular go back to our regular paint brush there, our oil brushes here. We got to recent because these are the recent brushes that we used. Grab that soft blend again brush. Get it to be the right size, and we can choose our darker color and start painting in the shadows. Now, just like the other brushes, my brushes are made to work like real oil painting brushes, which means that they will drag some of the underlying color that you have there. So we're just basically coming in and painting. Wherever that scarf overlaps or there's a little thing, you know, like, whatever. Wherever the light won't be there, we're going to just paint some shadow area on, okay? And the opposite is where the ripples or whatever come together, you'll see that there is a highlight area there. And what is important to remember Whoops, I accidentally hit the eraser button. What is important to remember is, as long as the colors are the same value or the same hue, right? This is a bit off this orange, but if they were the same hue or value, so let's just I'll show you what I mean. I'm going to grab this red. I'm gonna come over here and I can lighten it this way by moving the slider, or I can move the slider up and down. And what that's basically doing saying, that's the hue, and this is the value of that hue. This one here is the saturation, so less saturation, which is like none, and then more saturation. So if I had maximum, brightness and saturation, it would be way up there at the corner, okay? So let's bring that over here, and we're gonna go up because we're gonna show you what I mean by using the same hue. Okay? So you're gonna get that And we can bring in our saturation there. Now you're getting that highlight there, okay? I just chose to use a warmer one just because I like the warmth of it, but that just explains to you, like, sort of how the colors work and how the highlights work, like what you're seeing when they're reflected. And Procreates a pretty cool tool for learning your colors that way. Let's see what else we got going on. I don't remember what I did. Okay. Got some different colors in there. Basically, all we did. And this is essentially what oil painting is, like, traditional oil painting is we made our shadow area, some dark areas. We had our under painting in this case, which was just like, one of the reds or the base red value of it there, and we put that on. Then we put on some shadows, and then we put on some highlight areas. So we've got our underpainting, our shadow, and our highlight. Now, and again, this is a traditional oil painting technique. We blend them. And them together, so they look how we want them to look. And quite often, one of the mistakes people make when they're learning oil painting is they over blind. Like, you know, you keep pulling this color down, right? And it keeps coming and coming and coming. Where do you stop, right? A lot of times, it's just one simple, little, like, you know, like, a little simple streak. Of course, here in procreative, we've got other factors involved, like our opacity of our brush and whatnot. We can bring this down to make it look like there's little bits of feathery bits or whatever you call it, you know, when the strings hang out at the end kind of thing. There we go. Which I don't have that on my original one, but you get the idea. And you'll see here when we did the when I did my original one, you got more of that undertone showing through because basically I circled the whole snowman and filled it in with that undertone. So feel free to do that. This one here is a little bit less dramatic in the shadow areas, but we can paint those on later. Alright, our scarf came out, fantastic, very happy with that. We'll come back and do some of the other details. We'll do the nose, the mouth, the eyes, and I think we'll add in some more shadows there. Feel free to get your scarf exactly how you like it. You know, move those highlights and shadows around, run them in together, get them just perfect. And when you're happy, move on to the next step. 5. Painting the nose buttons and eyes: Alright, let's look here. Zoomed in on here. We're gonna go to our snow layer. We're gonna click the plus button. Whenever you make a new layer, it puts it on top of whatever layer you're on. So we want this to be on top of the snowman because well, that's where they are. Their buttons go on top of the Snowman. So we're just honestly, I'm just scribbling this in. There's no technique to this. You could use a regular brush, like that hard round brush if you wanted, but you won't get the same streaky oil painting kind of look that I like. But if that's your fancy, feel free. You can make your snowman however you like. Aren't they not. You can make your buttons any color you like, too. They don't have to be black buttons. You can put in the little holes that are in buttons, if you like, or you can just make them black dots like I have. Whatever you prefer. These are gonna be very simple. I could make my brush a little bit bigger, I guess, for this. Speed this up. Um, There we go. If you want, you can grab some white, make your brush a little bit smaller and add in some of the little highlights, make the button shiny. Just try to make them all in the same spot is basically what you're showing light refracting off of them. Spinning a little semicircle over top there. There we go. Now we've got some shine to our buttons. Okay. Same thing with the nose. Grab a darker orange. Make your brush a little bit bigger. You know, it does seem like a tedious, thing when you're having to keep changing the size of your brush. But if you ever painted traditionally an oil paint, it's a lot easier than changing and cleaning your brush, that's for sure. Alright, now we're gonna make it smaller. And just that highlight goes on the top there and a little shadow underneath. Some lines. And you can leave it like that, or you can blend it a bit. For example, if you want to just take in this a little bit on the end there. Feel free to put in a little bit on the top, maybe. There we go. Alright. No buttons, I done. 6. Painting the arms and adding details: Okay, so now we can come over here and we can do the arms. So what should we do with the arms? Well, they need to be above a snowman, but I think we want them to be underneath the scarf. So again, we'll come down here to the snowman, make another layer, and they'll zoom out. Oops. If the layer thing is open, it will not let you zoom out. Okay, and we got basically here, we can do the same thing. So let's do that. Let's go here to our recent brushes. B and brushes hard round and make it nice and small. Come on. Got our brown there, and we're just going to trace over top of our sketch. Feel for you to change the shape. You're a snowman. Okay, grab the color. Oops, so it's not gonna work because Tata, I forgot. I need to close it. Try that again. Tata, there we go. Okay. Let's come over here. We'll do the same thing on this side. N, m. Close it off. Okay. Alright, so now what do we got? We've got our underlayer. But on top, we're going to have some more colors there. So let's grab that brown. Let's go back here, res and brushes, soft blend. Noah daa get up the right size that we want. So essentially with this, we're gonna pick inside where our shadow is. Our shadow's gonna be down here at the bottom. Then we're gonna come up here and it's going to get lighter on the opposite side of that. So it'll always be like a light coming this way. Okay, so we're just going to take our next dark color. Put it on. Like, so I might be hard to see, but it will get better. Grab another lighter color, say that one, and we'll put this one right on the top. That'll make it easier and make my brush a little bit smaller. See how this is happening here. You probably won't need to do any blending. Just feel free to add in some highlight areas elsewhere. On these, you won't need to the brush it does do some blending already. But look at how that gives it. Look at that shape just coming along. All we did was make a dark layer underneath and then put on some lighter colors, really. Simple, super, super, super, super simple. And add in one more layer of, like, a medium in between. S. When you look at a branch, you know, you'll see there's lots of different layers and, you know, things to it. They're not perfectly round. That is a bit dark. This one here is a bit lighter, so, you know, if you prefer the lighter version, make it lighter, make your brush a little bit bigger. Here we go. There we go. See the shape that makes? If you want to add, like, even brighter, you can just come over here and slide this up a little bit, just add some highlight areas there might make it pop a bit more. Highlights always make things pop. Just keep the shadows in the right spot there. Von, look at that beautiful branch. Okay, let's do the same thing over here. One thing you want to make sure, though, make sure the light is kind of, you know, we're gonna say it's coming from the top. It'll make it easier to interpolate here, and we'll just keep that same highlight layer we've got on over here. Uh, it gets tricky sometimes, like, where the light is coming from. But since we're making our snowman up, we can make it however we want. I have another brown there. You can always come over here, too, to the recent colors. I might be easier. Oops. Made a boo boo. Two fingers, undo. Okay, I'm not gonna get too long that. I can tell it looks like a branch to me. What I want to see now is I want to see more shadow underneath the scarf and whatnot. I don't have enough depth there. So let's come over here and make sure we're on the right layer, which is gonna be our snowman. Grab our brush again. The blend brush, make it a little bit larger, just gonna come in here and grab some of these darker values there. That'll do that one. And just gonna paint under add a bit more roundness there, too, I think. Maybe even darker. Isn't that crazy? Grays eyed. Some under the chin. You want enough contrast to make it interesting. Mmm. Is there some blending now? Lower the opacity of that blending brush. There we go. Nice big brush. Now, because this layer is underneath the scarf, we're not having to worry about it. It's just naturally does what it's supposed to do. Beautiful. I like that. Alright. Now on the mine, we've got a background on there. So, we're not done yet. We're gonna come back and we're gonna paint in that background. What we can do, though, in the meantime is we can get rid of that sketch layer. Okay. You'll see on mine, there is a darkness underneath there and around it, and that, again, is because I filled in this I made the snowman the same way I made the arms by drawing it all in. So if you want to do that, feel free to do that. You'll get this look here, this more liny kind of look. It's up to you. You can also if you wanted to, just grab a dark darker color, small brush. And come along and add in some of those more line edges. It's up to you. Okay, I'm not gonna play around it too much. Now, if you wanted to move your snowman, let's say, you know, 'cause mine, if we look at this here, we've got more on you. The, we got more background, a little bit more, not much more. But if you wanted to say make this more of an environment, you could come over here and you can grab all of these layers now that they're done. Whoops. I don't know why I did that. Oops. Okay, we grab all these layers here now that they're done, like I said, and just squish them together. Oh, something was locked. What was locked? Oh, the hat was locked. We probably should have had them all locked, but okay. The reason I did that now is I can now say I'm gonna come over here to grab my little selection tool, and I can make my snowman smaller, if I want and make it more or the opposite, I can make it larger, I can move them around if I want to. I just want to make a bit more room for my background there. Okay, speaking of background. Let's now do the background. And so I'm going to make a new layer. I got to put that underneath my snowman. I'm gonna come over here and I'm going to grab my linseed oil brush. You could use, say, rough brush if you want. You can use whatever one. I said Linseed oil. Now I've got the rough one, and we're just going to paint in some of that background. Make this nice and big. I'm just scribbling this on. No rhyme or reason to what I'm doing. I'm just getting some color in there and different values that I want to use. Oops. What happened there? Where did I go? Hmm. I somehow erased my half my background. I'll let's put that back on. Okay, so anyways, as I was saying, Come back over here, grab my history brush, and my brush is gone, too. That's weird. Okay, whatever. We'll put it back. And again, because I'm behind snowman, I don't have to worry about what's there or what's not there. Okay, smearing things around, doing whatever. That doesn't really matter. Bit have been shadow down here, if I want from my snowman underneath. Okay. Grab some of this color down here just so that we're not stark whitening. Okay. Now we can come over here and grab our blending brush, make it nice and big again, just smoothing out some of those areas there. Upset. I don't like what that did. I leave my shadow there. I like that shadow. Okay. Now we can take a pure white white as can be there. Use small flat, no, let's go to the uh well, paint brushes. We can use a small flat one. That's a pretty solid brush. Basically for this, we just want to have a small brush that's gonna paint solid as well, and we'll make a new layer over top of our background. And now we can come along and put in our little Oops. We need this layer actually to be on top of everything to see the snowflakes. So I moved my layer up to the top there, and I'm just painting in my little snowflakes there. Use to different brushes when it's not working that well. What have we got here? L scrap. Splin brush again. It's your classic brush. There we go. I think in my original one, my background's a bit darker. So we could take this, for example, come over here to the little adjustments, if you like, if you will, click on the curves button. You can darken all that background. All I did was put my pencil in the middle. Okay, grab this little line here and pull down as you see it gets darker and darker and darker and darker. You can do the opposite and make it brighter and brighter and brighter. You go one side, it's can do the shadows more and the other side, it's can do the highlights more. But Fis're just gonna make a slight little tweak to that. There we go. Click on that again, to escape. And now our snowflakes will show up. Better. No on. Where did you go? You want to be up here, not down there. Oh, I was painting on the wrong layer. That's why 'cause we had chosen the other layer to adjust it. Alright, put our snowflakes in. And we are done. I hope you enjoyed this class. Just remember, too, if you wanted to do the Snowman body differently, okay? You can I had done it before where I just painted over top of the underneath a sketch. On this one here, I had made it a big solid. That's why you're seeing some different lines there. Either one, I like how they both look. This one's a bit more impressionist. But I think they both look great. I hope you enjoyed the class. Let me know what you think in the comment section. Please make sure that you post your snowman in the projects and resources section for other people 7. Painting the Background: If you wanted to move your snowman, let's say, you know, 'cause mine, if we look at this here, we've got more come on you. Yeah, we got more background, a little bit more, not much more. But if you wanted to say make this more of an environment, you could come over here and you can grab all of these layers now that they're done. Whoops. I don't know why I did that. Oops. Okay, we grab all these layers here now that they're done, like I said, and just squish them together. Ooh, something was locked. What was locked? Oh, the hat was locked. Probably should have had them all locked, but okay. The reason I did that now is I can now say I'm gonna come over here, I'm going to grab my little selection tool, and I can make my snowman smaller, if I want and make it more or the opposite, I can make it larger, and I can move them around if I want to. I just want to make a bit more room for my background there. Okay, speaking of background, let's now do the background. And so I'm going to make a new layer. I got to put that underneath my snowman. I'm gonna come over here and I'm going to grab my Linseed oil brush. You could use, say, rough brush if you want. You can use whatever one. I said Linseed oil. Now I've got the rough one. And we're just going to paint in some of that background. Make this nice and big. I'm just scribbling this on. No rhyme or reason to what I'm doing. I'm just getting some color in there and different values that I want to use. Oops. What happened there? Where did it go? Hmm. Somehow erased my half my background. I'll let's put that back on. Okay, so anyways, as I was saying, M over here, grab my history brush, and my brush is gone, too. That's weird. Okay, whatever. I'll put it back. And again, because I'm behind Snowman, I don't have to worry about what's there or what's not there. Okay, smearing things around, doing whatever. Alright. That doesn't really matter. Bd have been a shadow down here, if I want from my snowman underneath. Okay. Grab some of this color down here just so that we're not stark whitening. Okay. Now I can come over here and grab our blending brush, make it nice and big again, just smoothing out some of those areas there. Opse I don't like what that did. I leave my shadow there. I like that shadow. Okay. Now we can take a pure white white as can be there. Use small flat, no, let's go to the uh um well, paint brushes. We can use a small flat one. That's a pretty solid brush. Basically for this, we just want to have a small brush that's going to paint solid as well, and we'll make a new layer over top of our background. And now we can come along and put in our little Oops. We need this layer actually to be on top of everything to see the snowflakes. So I moved my layer up to the top there, and I'm just painting in my little snowflakes there. Mm, use a different brushes when's not. Working that well. What have we got here? L grab sopping brush again. It's your classic brush. There we go. I think in my original one, my background's a bit darker. So we could take this, for example, come over here to the little adjustments, if you like, if you will, click on the curves button. You can darken all that background. All I did was put my pencil in the middle. Okay, grab this little line here and pull down as you see it gets darker and darker and darker and darker. You can do the opposite and make it brighter and brighter and brighter. You go, one side, it's going do the shadows more, on the other side, it's going to do the highlights more. But is, we're just gonna make a slight little tweak to that. There we go. Click on that again, do escape. And now our snowflakes will show up. Better. No. Where did you go? You want to be up here, not down there. Oh, I was painting on the wrong layer. That's why 'cause we had chosen the other layer to adjust it. Alright, put our snowflakes in. And we are done. I hope you enjoyed this class. Just remember, too, if you wanted to do the Snowman body differently, okay? You can I had done it before where I just painted over top of the underneath a sketch. On this one here, I had made it a big solid. That's why you're seeing some different lines there. Either one, I like how they both look. This one's a bit more impressionist. But I think they both look great. I hope you enjoyed the class. Let me know what you think in the comment section. Please make sure that you post your Snowman in the projects and resources section for other people to see.