Painting In Procreate: Create a Dreamy Watercolor Ballerina

1. Class Intro : Who doesn't love beautiful colors. Bloom, water bleeds, and splatters. You get to try it. I am talking about watercolor painting, but sometimes you don't have the time or space to paint. This time it's digital. Or what you need is your iPad and Apple Pencil plus the free brushes I prepared for you. Hello everyone. My name is Ola. I am an illustrator and watercolor artists. In this class we're going to learn how to paint a dreamy watercolor ballerina using Procreate on your iPad. By the end of the class, you will learn more about Procreate composition, layers, blending modes, plus some very useful techniques. Everything is a step-by-step and beginner's friendly. I promise I'll try to make it as easy as possible to finish your painting and to have fun joining this class. If you're ready, grab your iPad, Apple pencil, and let's pin to give it. 2. Class Project : The final project in today's class is to create this dreamy watercolor ballerina using the skills and techniques you're going to learn in this class. Remember to upload your final project to the project gallery. I'd be more than happy to give you my feedback. I can't wait to see what you're going to create. 3. Materials And Resources : Thank you so much for joining me. The supplies that you'll need for today's class are actually pretty simple. You only need an iPad. I recommend any iPad that supports pressure sensitivity, Apple pencil or stylus you have, and the drawing app Procreate. The other supplies that you can use today are the free assets that I'm providing for today's class, which I'm going to walk you through how to download and use them. First of all, you need to open the project and resources section. But you need to be on Skillshare website, not on the app. You can find all the free downloads here at the right tab on the first one to download your canvas File. Tab, Download tab here and choose your file. It will take you directly to the Procreate. In this file you will find two layers. One is for this kid and the other one is for the watercolor paper. On the Class Resources tab on the second one, to download your free brush set tab, download tab here and choose it. It will take you to your downloads. When you tap on your file, you'll brush that will be important to procreate. Open your brush library. You will find it here at the top. Watercolor ballerina set. It contains seven brushes to use in your project. On the Class Resources tab on the last one. To import your colors palette. Download that to open it in your downloads. Tap on your file to import it to procreate. Deb here to open your colors pallets. Scroll down to the bottom to find your watercolor Magdalena palette. Now we're ready to start our project. 4. Painting The Skirt : In this lesson, we're going to start painting. First section will be the ballerinas skirt. When you open your Canvas, you'll find two layers. One is for the watercolor paper, and the other one is for the sketch to as multiply option as a blending mode and reduce the layer opacity. Drag your sketch layer under the paper layer and make sure it's on multiply mode as well. Tap the plus sign to create a new layer, drag it under the sketch layer. I choose this color from our class palette. You can download it in the class resources section. I'm going to use the watercolor wash brush. In the watercolor ballerina brushes. Start painting the skirt. It's good to leave some white areas. It's okay to go outside the lines. Actually, I like it to be a little bit messy. After you finish painting the whole area, select the eraser tool and choose watercolor stamp to use it as an eraser. At maximum size. Start to early some areas to create variety and make your painting more interesting. Now we're going to create a new layer. Choose the watercolor stem brush and the same color to create some watercolor bleeds here and there. Then lower the opacity. Create a new layer. Choose the watercolor wash brush with the same color. Paint the whole area again. And don't forget to leave some white areas and make it a little bit messy. Repeat the same process and erase some random areas. Change the blending mode to multiply. Now we're going to create a new layer. Choose screen in the Blending Mode. Change your brush to the watercolor stamp, press and hold to add a few interesting watercolor blooms. Take your time until you're happy with the results. Create a new layer and choose the darkest green in your palette. We're going back to the watercolor wash brush. Now. We're going to add some fine details to the skirt. Change it to multiply and start to erase some areas to make your lines softer. I am going to lower the opacity as I prefer it to be a little lighter. So I tried to select all the skirt layers, tab group, and rename it to be organized. Thank you. See you in the next lesson. 5. Top And Shoes: In this lesson, are going to paint our ballerinas top and choose. I choose the black color. Create a new layer and select the watercolor wash brush. Try not to raise your hand until you finish the whole area you need to paint. Now select the watercolor stamp as an eraser. We're going to use it as we did before. Feel free to try areas until you feel happy. Swipe left to duplicate the layer. Two is overlay as a blending mode and reduce the opacity. Create a new group and rename it. Now, I am going to repeat these steps and finish this shoot. 6. Skin And Body: Alright, in this lesson, let's paint this can create a new layer and choose this peachy color from your palette. Try not to raise your hand until you finish the whole area you need to paint. We need the color in this layer to be so light. After you finish the whole area, start to add shading by painting again with the same color and on the same layer. Hide the sketch layer to check your painting. I think I'm going to add a darker shade. Feel free to rotate your canvas if it will, be easier for you to paint. I think this is enough for now. Don't forget to rename the layer and see you in the next lesson. 7. Hair: Alright, we're almost there. I'm going to paint the here. Create a new layer and choose black as your color. I'm going to use the watercolor wash brush. Try not to raise your hand until you finished the whole area you need to paint. Select the watercolor stamp as an eraser. Erase some different areas as you like. Now we're going to use the watercolor wash brush to draw a light lines in the hair. Use your hand pressure to vary the line thickness. Create a new layer, and choose the water wash brush to draw darker lines. Use the watercolor stem too soft and new lines. Choose multiply as a blending mode and reduce the opacity. Swipe right to select your layers, create a new group and rename it. 8. Fine Details : In this lesson, we're going to add some fine details to finish our dreamy watercolor ballerina. First, we're going to add a belt to the skirt, open the skirt group, and create a new layer on top of all the existing layers. Choose the darkest green in the palette and the watercolor wash brush. Start painting. Now we're going to add a color splatters. To add a nice watercolor effect, create a new layer. Choose white color, and select the watercolor splatters, brush. Add some splatters here and there as you like. Create a new layer, and this time choose the magenta color, green color as well. I think I want the magenta splatters to be a little bit lighter. This is better. Feel free to play around with your brushes until you feel happy with the results. Don't forget to put your layers in a group to stay organized. 9. Adding Background : We're almost done. In this lesson. We're going to add a nice background to our ballerina. A new layer. Choose this dark green color and watercolor stamp as your brush. Person hold for several times. Most of the layer to the bottom of your Layers. Select the Move Tool. Play around until you find a nice place. Reduce the opacity. Duplicate the layer. Change the blending mode to darken, then adjust the opacity. Soft and any sharp lines with your eraser. Repeat this process to finish your background. You can use wrap option to adjust it. Some of the shapes. I think I'm going to make the background lighter. You can stop here. Or you can make some final adjustments until you're happy with the final word. Thank you so much. See you in the next lesson. 10. Final Thoughts : Thank you so much for taking my class and learning alongside me today. If you have any questions or comments about the class, feel free to post in the class discussion. If you enjoyed this class, please leave me a review. It means a lot to me. Follow me on Skillshare to be the first to know as soon as I launched my next class. You can also follow me on Instagram at Ola designs. See my patterns and designs. Don't forget to upload your final project to the project gallery. And if you share it on social media, don't forget to tag me. Thanks again for taking the time to join this class and see you in my next classes.