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1. Introduction - Let's Paint!: You want to paint this
super cool floating island on your iPad with me right now? Yeah, let's do it. You know how sometimes you're in the mood to create something, you just want to get
crafty or artistic, but you just don't
know what to make. A class like this
takes the pressure off because you just
follow my lead. And at the end, you're gonna
get this huge sense of accomplishment because you
will have fulfilled that. Want to create
something as we paint, an entire painting, start
to finish, to gather. And you'll made something super beautiful by
the time you're done. You can follow along exactly today and do exactly what
I do in this painting. Or feel free to throw
in a little bit of your own flair
into the painting. Hey, I'm Melanie, I am a
professional artist and an educator that really just wants to be your creative
cheerleader today. I love to create
happy whimsical Art, and it's usually
for picture books, coloring books these days. I'd love to see
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pages right away. Okay, so grab your iPad and your Apple pencil and
let's start painting
2. Your Project: By the end of this
paint-with-me style class, you will have completed an
entire painting on your iPad. We'll be using an assortment
of Native Procreate brushes and one freebie brush to paint
an acrylic-style painting, Much like a painting you might make at a
paint night event. But the funny part is
that you can do this at your own pace in the
comfort of your own home. In fact, I highly encourage
pajamas and hot drinks. And seriously, feel free
to pause or slow this down or replay it and just
take your time and have FUN. Another thing I always told
my in-person study is to feel free to make any changes you want throughout
this process. Make this painting
your own and as different from mine as you wish. For instance, you could
change the orientation of your canvas and paint this
in a landscape orientation. Or you could use completely
different colors or brushes. I often had students change the orientation of
their painting and then paint their backgrounds a completely different
color than mine. And this small change
immediately made everyone's painting different
and unique to them. Now One quick note
before we get started. Please remember that
this painting we're about to make is for
Fun only and you cannot sell or monetize your completed
painting since it's based on my original artwork
we're working around. However, you can use the
painting skills you are about to gain to make your own
original Art piece that can be sold. And of course, you are welcome
to share your painting on Social Media or even gift it
to a friend or loved one, I'd highly recommend
you print it out and hang it up
for yourself too. Okay, let's really quickly
talk about supplies next.
3. Supplies + Downloads: For this class, you
will of course, need your iPad,
the Procreate app, and your Apple pencil. You will also need to download a few things from the
resources tab below. I have provided a
canvas for you to get started and it's already
set to the right size, the right DPI, and has the
paper textures already in it. So you're ready to start
painting immediately. If you have trouble opening that procreate canvas file
for any reason though, you can still set up
your own Canvas page and add the paper
texture is yourself. I've also included
a color palette, a brush set file that has
all of the brushes I'll be using today in a neat
and tidy little folder. And it includes one brush that I have made specifically for us. You will need to download
all of these files from an Internet browser and
not the Skillshare app. Then I recommend
saving your files to a storage system
like Dropbox. Then you will also want to
save the paper textures as images on your iPad to make them easier to access
in the future. Once you have
everything downloaded, we will be ready to set
up our canvas and paint
4. Canvas Set Up: Okay, So like I said
in the supplies video, I have included a ready
to go canvas for you. All you'll need to do is
import that procreate file. So inside your
Procreate library, you'll come to import
and you'll locate wherever you've saved that
Procreate file from me. Like if you're me, you put it in Dropbox, you'll tap it and it will
immediately pull into Procreate as an
eight by ten canvas and you will be ready to paint. However, if you have
trouble doing that, you're just going to
set up a new canvas. Go to the little plus, hit the plus up here. And you're going to make
this an eight by 10 " eight, not 8088 by 10300 DPI. Your layers might be
different depending on what kind of IPad you
have. And that's okay. For color profile, I've
been using Display P3 just because it shows up really beautifully when you
share it to Social Media. Then you might want to
go ahead and name this something like acrylic
canvas or canvas, and then hit Create. Now that you have this open, you're going to want to add
your paper texture layers. You're going to
set one of them to a color burn mode
and one to multiply. So come to the
wrench and hit Add, Insert a photo or file. It depends on where
you've saved it. I kept mine in a
folder called paper textures here in
my actual gallery. And then I tap it, it pulls in. I'm going to resize it so
that it fills the canvas. I'll set this one to multiply. Then I'm just going
to swipe duplicate. I'm going to change
this one to Color Burn. And I'm also going to do
one more little trick. So I'm on this top layer. I'm gonna come over
here to the arrow. And I'm going to flip and flip, hit both of those Flip buttons. So that way it's not in the same exact orientation
as the first one, so it doubles up on the amount of texture that's
going to show through. After you've flipped those around and you've got
them all set up here. I want you to go ahead and put
them into a group as well. So you're going to highlight layer one and layer one again. So both layers are now
highlighted by swiping. And I'm gonna hit Group. Then I'm in a name, this group tap right here where it
says new group hit Rename. We're going to
rename this Paper. I don't know what
it's typing is. I can't see let's see. Okay, paper texture. And then lastly, then I can
kinda consolidate that down. Now we can't see those are
like out of our visual way. And then I'm going to
swipe again and lock. That. One little trick is when
to make sure we don't ever accidentally paint
on those paper layers. We want to be starting on our Background
layer, not on these. Now, if you are setting
up your own Canvas, you're going to need to make that Background layer yourself. So tap the paper texture layer, tap the plus sign to
make a new layer and drag it beneath the
paper textures. So that way your painting
below those papers. And then go ahead and
rename it to background. If you'd like that way you'll be all set up just like I am. Okay, your canvas is now
all setup and ready to go. Okay, so now let's quickly
talk about reference photos. At any point in this
painting process, you can have a reference
and agenda screen and a few different ways to
set one up in Procreate, you need to save an image to your camera roll
or your gallery. And then you'll
come to the wrench, go to Canvas, tap
on the reference. First. It's just going to show you your actual canvas
as your reference, which is not really
helpful for us today. So I'm going to tap here until this little menu comes
up and hit image. Then I can actually important
image for my camera roll. I'm going to go ahead and import the picture that we're actually
going to be making today. So at any point, I
can open this up and see placement,
composition, color, etc. you can actually pull
colors from this, which is really cool. So I did provide this image for you inside your references. So you're just going to
download that and then you can open it in as a reference
while you're painting to. Now if you were making
another painting of your own and you had
another reference image, you could pull anything
in right here. Now if this starts
to get in your way, you can re-size this by kinda pinching and
zooming in and out. And then you can also hold
down on that little gray bar and move this around on different spots on
your working area. If it's entirely in the way, tap it and then just
hit the little X. The second way you can use a reference image is to use
this split screen mode. To do this, you're going to tap the three little dots at
the top of the screen, which when you're in light mode, they look almost invisible, but they are up
here in the middle. Somewhere. There they go. Irina, go
ahead and hit Split View. And then you can open up your gallery and open up
your image like that. Or you could open
up Pinterest or whatever reference you
might need to use. And then you can move
this by holding on those three little bar,
little bubbles there. And you can switch sides. You can change the
size of it down to about a third of
the screen instead. And to close it, you
can either hold on that gray bar and swipe or you can see the little
three gray dots now I can tap those again
and hit Close. Lastly, another cool feature
is adding a private photo. This feature allows you to have an image on
your canvas that will not show up in your
timeline, which is pretty nifty. So go to the wrench here
and go to Add again. And then where it
says Insert a Photo. Instead of tapping
that right away, you're going to swipe and hit, Insert a private photo. Then you can tap that image. And now, when you
export your Timelapse, this image will not show up
at all in the Timelapse. Now of your screen recording
it's going to show up. Or if you're filming on a phone, it's going to show up,
but your Timelapse, it will be invisible. I'm gonna go ahead
and get rid of that though because
I don't need it. So I'm just going to
swipe and delete. Alright, so that's why you
can have a reference image. Next, let's quickly
talk about brushes
5. Brushes: Okay, So if you
have not already, you're going to want to go
and download the brush set file that I have included
in the Resources tab. It's going to be called
paint night set. And most of these are native
brushes that I just put into one folder so that they are easily accessible for us, except the loaded
with paintbrush, which is one that
I've made for us. Now throughout
this class though, I highly encourage you to try different brushes and don't
feel like you have to use my recommended
brushes because there are so many awesome, great Native brushes in Procreate that you are more than welcome
to experiment with. But here are the brushes
that I will be using today. Now the brush that
I made for us, this loaded with paintbrush, is actually a modified version
of the wet acrylic brush. But this has some color
variation and tapered ends. I call it the loaded with paint brush because
it acts a lot like a brush that a you have fully loaded with paint that
you mixed yourself. You'll get some
variation in color and a nice bold stroke of color. Before we jump in, I highly
encourage you to also make some practice marks and explore some brushes for a few moments. So just grab one and
see what it does. Check out what the texture does, what the pressure of if you press harder
or press lighter, does it change the
size of the brush? Does it change the texture? Does it change the opacity? What does it look like at different opacities
in different sizes? Sometimes you're going
to want a brush with more control,
sometimes you won't. So it's gonna be helpful to know which brushes are going to give you control
than you need it. I did make this little
brush reference sheet to remind you of the
textures and Brush behavior. This sheets included in
the downloads for you, but also feel free to make
your own exploration sheets. Okay, Let's dive in and get started on painting
our Background
6. Paint The Background: Okay guys, so a little bit of real talk for you
here for a second. I had an entire video
disappear on me. And of course it was the very first one about painting
the background. But that's good because
that's easy to replicate. So we're going to
try this again. So we're finally ready
to start painting in the first thing we're going
to do is paint in our best. I want you to know that
I'll be showing you my process in real time today. Meaning I'm not really going
to speed through anything. Because I want you to see and hear me talk through
my choices and hopes that it will also help you
develop that indistinct for painting and making choices throughout the process
and how that all works. The beautiful thing
about Digital Painting is how flexible this processes. We can try out
textures and colors and then delete and
redo if needed. It makes creating a painting like this super low pressure. You're going to see
throughout this painting process that we're going to follow a simple
formula for each element. We will put down a fairly
flat base of color and then build up the
texture and color on top of that base will often start with a very
large painterly brush and then add several
other brushes and some smudging or
blending over the top. So we're going to start by
putting down a lot of paint onto our background with
the oil paint brush. Because I want you to
double-check your layers, make sure you are not on your paper texture
layers that you are on a brand new layer
in-between where it says Background Color
and paper layers. So this one says background. If you don't have one here, you'll be on your paper layers. Hit plus and drag it beneath your paper layers
to start painting on. So I'm going to tap back
onto my background layer. I'm gonna come to my paint
night set and select the oil paint,
large areas brush. Now I'm going to
up my opacity on this and I do want it
really pretty big. So right now I'm somewhere
in this 60-ish range. I'm going to come to
my color palette here. I'm going to start with this
top blue color and just build color on top
of this medium blue. And I always kinda make
these big sweeping textures because I really liked this smudgy textured background that this oil paint
brush gives us. I'm going to fill up this canvas with color
just to start with. You'll notice with this brush
that if you press harder, it puts down a lot more paint. If you press very lightly, you get more of that
texture and more of some white showing through. I also like to keep
my canvas is zoomed way out when I'm working
on the background. The reason I'm going in
this circular motion two is because if you look
at our reference here, what we're trying to create, we have this glowing moon
in the center and I'm creating this swirl
behind the Moon. What we wanna do with
color is we want a glowing area here where
the Moon is gonna be. And then I like it to
get gradually darker and be super dark at the
edges and corners here. So what I'm gonna
go ahead and do now is start changing
up my color. So now I'm gonna put in a little bit of this
slightly darker, more teal color here. And I'll start by sweeping
it around this area. And then I'll come in
and grab another color, maybe some of this purple. Sweep that in. And then even darker. Again, play with how hard
you press on your pen. See what that does. Now I'm
kinda covering up my teal. I'm going to come
back to this and just brush a little
bit more of that. And then this super
dark blue down here, I'm going to brush in at the Fed is don't worry about making this perfectly smooth right now
because I'm going to show you the blending or smudging
tool and just a second. Okay, so that's kinda
what we're starting with. You can see all that
texture in there. It looks really cool. Now I'm going to
select the same tool, the same oil paint brush
as a smudging brush. To do that, I'm gonna hold down on the smudge tool and you'll see a little pop-up that said
smudge with current brush. So what it did was selected the oil paint brush
as a smuggler. And if smudge makes
no sense to you, really were blending, That's what we're doing
with this brush. And I'm going to follow
the same circular motion. And I'm looking at this. This is the opacity needs
to come up a bit and I need to up the size on
this smudge tool. And then I'll come
back. There we go. Same circular motion. I'm pressing very lightly. I'm going to blend this in some I don't wanna get rid of that texture completely because I love seeing those brush
strokes in there. That's what's going to
make it feel and look more like an acrylic painting. That's looking pretty good. I need to brighten
this up though, so I'm gonna come
back to my brush. I'm gonna choose this nice bright blue here in the center. And put that where my Moon
is gonna be approximately. Okay, and I'm going
to smudge again. That's looking really nice. And I think I just want a
little more of the purple. A couple of these spots. You can also change
up the size if you just want a few small
streaks in here. Maybe some of this
color right here. One more time with my smudge. You'll see that this
is kinda like a dance, Almost your dancing
in different colors. And just getting it to
a happy place here. I really like that. Looking at my reference, I can see that I
think I actually need to make my bright spot
a little larger though. So now grab that
bright blue again. I might even increase saturation
and brightness on that. And to small, bigger brush, maybe even a little
less opacity. I love that this oil paint brush interacts with the color that you've already put
down and it keeps pulling it and
twisting the colors. That's looking pretty good. Now my last little
trick for us here is this is actually
a little dull to me. So what I'm gonna do is use our tools that are available to us as digital painters in yes, you are a Digital painter. We're gonna come over
here to the wand tool and select Hue, Saturation and Brightness
for this entire layer. And I'm going to up the
saturation to like 60, and up the brightness to
like 53. Let's try 65. That looks much
better in my opinion. So I do want to say though, okay, so I ended
that transformation. Just now, let me show you again. Come to the Wand, Hue,
Saturation and Brightness. I'm going to come up again
to 65 ish and up to 53. And now before you actually
like commit to this, there's this cool
little menu that if you tap out here outside
your canvas, you can actually preview, apply, Cancel, Reset, undo, etcetera. So to preview, just hold down on that button
and then let go. And it lets you toggle on and
off to see what the change actually it looks like if you don't wanna do
it, just hit Cancel. But I like this,
so I'm gonna hit Apply and then tap out of here to make that a
permanent change. And that's just a
nifty little trick that I tend to use on all of my layers after
I'm done painting because I love bright color. But maybe you want to mute
something down because it got too crazy or you need to
change the hue of something. It's just such a cool
tool for Digital Art. Okay, So our background is done. We are ready to
move on to our Moon
7. The Moon: All right, so we are
ready to make our big beautiful in the
first and foremost, we need to be on a new layer. So you will have had your background layer from the canvas that I built for you, but now we want a new one. So tap the plus and we
can rename this to Moon. And it's gonna be
above or Background, so we're in good shape now. Then I want you to
come and select the dry ink details
brush, Good, and color. You're either going
to choose the white or light gray here. I'm going to start
with the light gray. Now we just want to
make a big circle. So you can start by free
handing the circle and then keeping your pen on your
iPad, don't lift up. And then that's going to enable quick shape modes that we
can make a perfect circle. So start by drawing a circle, close it and keep your pen down. It will bring up
this ellipse tool, tap where it says
ellipse so that we can edit and hit circle. Now it turned it into a
perfect circle for us. Now we can further edit this. If you tap on the blue
circles or pull on those, it will actually change
the shape of the circle. It will lose our perfect circle. So those aren't
the ones we want. I'm going to tap circle
again to correct it. Then if I want to make
it larger or smaller, I'm going to pull on the
edges of the circle, not the blue little circles. So if I tap right here
and pull in and out, I can change the size. So I'm gonna look at
placement in size according to this reference over here and try to get it pretty close. So I know that I need
some space at the top. I need space on the edges. And it definitely
goes down past the like 50 per cent are
halfway mark on the canvas. So this is about halfway. That's going pretty far. It might be a little bit
or a little too low, so I'm just going to move it up. And I might make it
just a tad smaller. That looks pretty good. Now, to get out of this
editing circle tool, I'm just going to tap over
here off of my canvas. I now want to fill this with color with a
drop color tool. So the color drop, I grabbed this circle of color and I dragged it
over to fill that. Now, if you zoom in and you're seeing a
lot of whitespace, or maybe it filled your canvas. If you dropped this
in and it looks like the edges aren't
full all the way. Then you have a color
threshold problem. Or if you dropped it
in and it did that, again, your color
thresholds too high. Two fingers tap to undo. Try again, but before
lifting your brush, you're just going to
drag back and forth. And you'll see this number
up here at the top change. You want to just get
it to the max without overflowing that way it
fills in the edges. Okay? Because this dry ink brush
has some texture to it in so the edge is not gonna be perfectly clean when
you drop feel color, there might be
some little pixels in here that are
not perfectly full. Now that's okay because that's how a real painting the book and it doesn't need to
be perfectly full. But if you want to fix it, just you've got your
dry ink brush selected. You just come in here and
paint that away. Anywhere. You might see some
little empty pixels. But I'm gonna leave it
because it's totally fine. I want some texture and some Canvas look to be
popping through. So next what we're gonna
do is we're going to set our moon to alpha lock both. We're going to begin building up color and texture on this moon. Okay, so come to your layers
and you can either do like a two fingers
swipe this direction. To turn on Alpha Lock, you'll see little checkboxes
turn On behind it or you can tap it and see this menu that
pops up and hit alpha lock. So I just turned it back off. I want to actually turn it on. So you can see
that it's on here, or you can see that
it's on behind the actual image of
what's on that layer. This is going to allow us
to paint within the Moon without spilling over
onto our Background. I really like using the
old leech brush for this if fresco brush. So I'm going to start with
the old bleach brush. I'm going to have it
really large and I'm going to lower the opacity. And I'm going to change
my color a little bit to probably this
middle gray here. And let's just kinda start
painting in some texture. Remember moons, the
Moon should have this kind of
craters. Look to it. In a lot of times when
I'm painting a moon, I like to make kinda like
two different dark areas. So maybe like one over here
and then one over here. I'm just tapping in some of
those blotchy brush texture. That's looking kinda cool. Again, feel free to play
with size and opacity. And then I think I'm gonna
come back to my white color. And let's try our fresco brushes
down here at the bottom. This makes really
cool stamp textures that look like this. Okay, I want to larger
and less opacity. Yeah, that's what I want. Let's do more opacity
now, smaller. This is just kinda
like a trial and error until you get
something you like. Remember you can
undo anything that looks bad. Two fingers tap. Okay. Now I'm gonna come back to
that dark color and tap in some more dark craters spots. I think that's
looking pretty cool. Maybe a couple of small ones. If you continue to
press with this brush, it will just continue spraying out more and more
of that texture. You can either take a tap
approach or drag around. Okay? Then lastly, the flicks
brush up here at the top, also make some really
cool little craters. So I'm going to bring the
opacity down and make it nice enlarge and just tap
in some of these. That looks pretty good. I think I need a little
more drama though. So I'm gonna make my color
just a little darker. In tap some of those in. I want you guys to
know that oxygen with acrylic paintings, things will look
boring at first, but the more layers and textures
and colors we build up, the more FUN and interesting
things are going yet. Okay? So right now, I'm actually not perfectly happy with this Moon, but it's gonna get
so much better. Right now. It looks very
clipped and we don't want that. So we're gonna get rid
of that in a little bit. Okay? And like I showed
you what The Background, I'm going to brighten the
Moon up just a tiny bit. So I'm on my moon layer. I'm going to come to
my Magic Wand Hue, Saturation and Brightness. And I'm just going
to brighten it. 52. That looks good. Preview. Yep. Apply. Okay. Tap
out of this or not. There we go. Now once we're happy
with this moon, we're going to come in and
add a glowy layer beneath it. So tap on the Background
layer and hit the plus. So that way the layer
goes underneath the Moon, change the blend mode, tap the N, and come to overlay. I painting on an overlay layer. It's going to allow
the color and textures beneath to still show through
and create a light glow. We're going to choose a
nice painterly brush and a light blue color
and then paint a large circle behind our moon. So I'm gonna go with probably
my oil paint brush again. And then I'm going to
come to this light blue here in the center and
see how this looks. I'm going to paint a
big, large circle. So right now That's
super, super intense. And if I want to change that, I will just lower the opacity. So I'm gonna come over here to my layer that I just added. I'm going to lower the
opacity a bit like that. And then I'm going
to choose an even brighter color to come around, just the edge here. And maybe of different brush. See what does old bleach do
here? That looks pretty cool. That Let's do that. Lower the opacity a little
bit smaller size. And I'm going to come just
around the outside of my moon in paint in a more intense glow
right around the edge. And then soften it
by having very, very light pressure and doing a very soft one around that. And then let's just check
how does this look. You can tap it on and off. That definitely
added some drama. I like it. Lower the
opacity just a little more. Looks good. The next thing I'm noticing is the edge of my Moon does
look a little too perfect. So I'm gonna come
back to my moon. I'm going to turn
Alpha Lock off. And now I'm going to
come to my dry ink brush I'm going to sample a
color from the Moon here. I'm gonna get a
nice large brush. Let's go to 40 and see
what that looks like. I'm going to lower the
opacity just a bit. I'm just gonna kinda
come around the edge of this stuff in it. So I have like a Let's see, not a middle gray
but just above that. And I'm coming around
the outside just a bit. It is don't like
when things look clipped because then
it looks to Digital. I want my painting to have a traditional
textured feel to it. You can also use the
dry ink brush to put in some hand painted details onto your moon if you wanted to. There we go. I'm happy with that. That looks much better. It might be a little
bit hard for you to see on the screen, but to my eyes, it looks much better
that it's softened. So if you wanted to,
like I was saying, you could take your
dry ink brush and you could paint in some hand Details on here if you
wanted to or draw in some details, that's up to you. I'm not going to do
that because I like the textures that I've created. Next, we're going to add in some very faint stars
in the background. So we're going to make
another new layer. We're going to put it beneath. Both are glow and our moon. So I'm going to tap my
background and hit plus. I'm going to put this
into overlay again. And we're going to go
to our flicks brush. And we're going to choose
this light blue or white, whichever one you want. And you're going to need
to test out the size here. So that is a pretty decent size, maybe a little smaller up
the opacity to about 90 ish. And I'm going to sprinkle
in some Stars back here. These ones are just to give
the idea and lookup Stars. And at the end of our painting, we will come back in and put in some more defined
hand-drawn Stars. But already, this takes
our painting from black to change up the size and opacity to get some
variation in these Stars, to make like a trail of star does to make it nice and small. And kinda put it one
in like that if you'd like to expand. Cool. Alright, so once you're
happy with this, we're ready to start
working on our island. That again, like always
feel free to pause or replay this as needed before
moving on. There's no rush. Gift your background,
your Moon and your Stars, how you want them for now, before we get into the focal
point of our painting?
8. The Island: Alright, now that we're
happy with that background, let's work on her
floating island. So we're going to start with
our dry ink brush again. Ok, but first things first, let's make a new layer. So find your Moon and hit plus. So that way this layer
is above the Moon and let's rename it to Island. Now find your dry ink brush and find any of
these brown colors. I think I'm going to start with probably this one right
here in the middle. We just want to start
by making a really rough upside down
triangular shape. So if you've got your
reference open here, you can kind of eyeball about
where you want it to be. I want it to be covering
this bottom portion of the Moon here. Oops, I messed up my opacity and make it a little smaller. Wanted to be about here. Ish. Okay? And then I'm gonna make a
little mark for myself. It kinda ended right about here. It goes beyond the edges
of the Moon, comes down. And then I added two
little shapes down here. But you can kinda very up
this shape however you want. But it's roughly an upside down triangle or mountain shape. That looks, that's going
to have some interest, I think makes sure your shape is closed because we're going
to drop fill color again. This shape should
be closed enough. I'm going to drag my
little brown circle and it changed to blue. I'm on my brown color, please. I'm going to drag that in and I'm going to up my
threshold a little bit. So I'm going to drag, hold down and pull up
too far, just right. There we go. Now I'm going to zoom out and look at my placement inside. I think it's actually
looking pretty decent, but if it's not and you need
to make some adjustments, grab your little arrow tool, and feel free to move it around. You can even re-size
it at this stage. I know normally that's a big no-no because things
will get pixelated and blurry, but we're not worried
about it like this because it's not staying
like this at all. We're gonna be adding
a lot more color and texture over
the top of this. I might make it just a
little smaller because I know that I'm going
to smudge it to be a little bigger soon. I think that's probably good. Okay, So we're going to start by turning on alpha lock on this. Because first, we're going
to paint in a lot of crazy texture over the top
of this to get us started. Let's choose are loaded with paintbrush because
that's going to vary color as we change up
the pressure on our pen. And it's going to help us immediately get some
interests going on. I'm going to choose the color
beneath that middle one. It's a little bit lighter. I'm just going to start painting in and dragging paint around. It doesn't need to be perfect. Like literally I'm
just trying to get some interesting
color and shape, texture going on in here. And I'll change the color again, maybe this more
intense brown here. Again. I know this looks insane. Just bear with me. Some of this gray color. I'll change up the
size and opacity here. So we have something
started here, That's good. Okay, so now we're
going to turn Alpha lock back off and
we're going to start painting in with our
dry brush to get a more root like Texture
beyond those edges. So turn off a Lakoff, find your Island, tap it. Turn alpha lock off. Come up here to your brushes. Scroll down, binder,
dry brush. There we go. Now what we're gonna
do is we don't want this to be
super-large this time. Let's see what the size is like. That's pretty good. So I'm at about nine to 10%. I'm going to choose maybe that
middle brown color again. And what we're going to do
is make this less perfect. We don't want this to
look like a piece of clip Art late in on
top of our painting. We're going to drag
the paint down past the smooth bottom edges
and make it look like it's got some route
like texture going on. Okay, so I'm dragging, I'm pulling up here and dry it because it's going
to actually drag these other colors that
we've got going on. So right now I'm
actually painting. And then we can also smudge
though with this same idea. So I've got my dry
brush selected. I'm brushes, if I
hold down on smudge, it changes that to the dry brush instead of the oil paint
brush we had earlier. And it will start smudging and smearing or colors together. Sorry, this is a
little noisy with the tap and pull I
got going on here. But start making
this less perfect I'm going to lower the
size again and pull down even further in
some of these spots. Looking good. Now I kinda want a big brush, so I'm gonna go back to
my brushes because now I actually want to put
more color back in. So back to my brush
and I'm using the dry brush and
I'm gonna change my color to more of a
kind of a lighter brown. And I'm gonna pull
in Ubuntu big, pull in some more of this and add in lots of
texture into this area now. And let it go beyond that
bottom boundary down there. Then I'm going to zoom in
here and I'm going to sample some of the colors that I've got going in on this painting. So some of this gray too much. Then I even have some of
the like purpley color from the background that looks
really beautiful in there. Okay, that's looking cool, maybe a little darker. Now, let's choose some of these dark colors in the corner. Even though this is
a fantasy painting, we're going to be following the idea of how light
would work just a little bit in that this tree and Grass or overhanging
right in here. So this would be pretty
dark right in here. Okay, That looks good. I'm just picking colors and
dragging them in there. Okay. There is no perfect
science to this. You are not going to mess it up. If you get an area too dark, just come back with a
lighter color over the top. Now I'm going to
really put in some of these lighter grays. That way we have
this deeper color behind and then the
highlighted spots on top. Maybe a little smaller. Now finally, I'm going to choose my dry ink brush and
I'm gonna put in some more defined
route like strokes. So dry ink, I've got that
gray color chosen. Let's see. I think I'll lower the opacity and I'm at about,
let's go to 20%. And I'm going to
color on the side. I'm using the side of my
pen here and dragging down because it makes
more of a soft line. Whereas if I'm
straight up and down, it makes a very solid line. I don't want that solid line. I want it to be
very textured in, softened in by rotating
or tilting my pen. That's what it does for me. So I'm just going to drop
some of these in here. And I'm in a very
up my color now, just choosing some different
colors and dragging in some more root like lines. Now one looks out of place, so I'm gonna get rid
of that by tapping two fingers until it goes away. Okay, and let's choose
this purple color up here. Because that looks
really beautiful in the one I created before. Now, down to this dark
black, almost black. You might also be
helpful when you're watching classes like this to first watch and then come back
and do while watching it. Again. That's how I tend to absorb the class material best when
I'm taking a new class. Because I know
sometimes it can move fast and you might
miss something. If you've got your head
down painting that I might not be verbalizing
as well as I'm showing. Come back to Brown and then back to this lighter
brown really quickly here. Then what I think we're gonna do is smudge with our
dry brush again. So tap the smudge it dry brush. This is looking a
little too perfect. And I'm going to smudge
this around a bit. The size, a little
bit. There we go. We're also going
to be putting in some more light and dark later with some color blending modes. So this doesn't need to look exactly like the
reference just yet. We're going to be
doing something that I called, turning On The Lights. Towards the end of our painting. Here we go. I think that's
looking pretty good. I might need to put a
little bit more light in over on that side. I'm gonna go back
to my dry brush. And I may come to maybe like this bluish gray
color here and drag some of that in. Here we go. Let's see even the
gray from the Moon. Too crazy. Alright. One more time
on the dark side, just the texture is matching. Dragons and darkness over here. Alright. Okay, so feel free to keep working on that
until you're happy. Next, we're going to
work on the Grass
9. The Grass: Okay, so I'm just kinda
looking at my island here and I think I need to make a small
placement adjustments, so I've got the Island selected. I'm going to tap my little arrow and I'm going to move it
over just a little bit. This direction. I'm gonna make it
just a tad smaller. There we go. Just because I was looking
at like how much of my sky I was starting to lose and how
close it was to the bottom. And I just wanted a little more breathing space around it. So that's why I made
that choice. Okay. On top of the Island, we're going to add some
of this Grass. Okay? So come to your layers,
go to the Island, tap plus rename it
if you feel like it. Now I have a Grass layer. Come to your brushes and choose the loaded
with paint brush. Just because we
want some variation in color here if possible. I'm going to zoom in and
see how I have this. Not like, it's not a
perfect line across. I want some grass or
mossy texture coming down in different areas
and definitely wrapping around the edges here. And it comes up above
my brown line here. Okay, so now I'm
going to choose, I'll probably start with
this middle green here. I'm just going to start
kind of painting in a rough shape and my
opacity is too low, so all the way up to 100%. And I'm at about a
size five or six. And first I'm just going
to roughly paint in. I know that looks
crazy here with me. Painting a rough shape. And again, it's gonna be kinda trailing or falling
over the side here. On this side as well. I'm trying not to
have it be like a perfect straight line. I'm kind of wobbling my brush around here to get
some shape to it. And then now I just wanted
to pick a few spots where I want it to be falling
over the edge. Anywhere you want. There's no right or wrong here. And however many
little falling over trailing spots you want is fine. Maybe I'll do some little
small ones over here. Another small one. Okay. Here we go. That's
looking decent. Now, we need to make
it less boring. Let's choose some other colors. So I'm going to choose the light green and I'm going to vary ridiculously painting a
little bit of this first, just to get some there. Now I'm going to
switch my brush. So again, I had a loaded
with paintbrush and I just kind of very scribbly. Scribbly puts them in. Now I'm gonna change my brush to either dry brush or old brush. You can experiment with these
and see which one you like. Best. I'm going to start with dry. I needed to be pretty small. Let's see what For looks
like, That looks good. And I'm going to do the same
idea as with the roots here. I'm going to drag
this green around. I've got the lighter
green selected. To give this a grassy texture. Wanted to come up above the line I have in
the background. And I don't want this
looking clipped either, so I'm going to drag it down. Scribble, this is a FUN part. This is Grass. It
can be scribbly. Go a little bit
crazy and wild here, go in different directions. Make sure they're not
all like perfectly straight up like this because that's not
going to look natural. So feel free to
scribble like a kid. Now it's time to vary up
the colors some more. So let's come to the
even lighter green, and I'm put some of
that in the top. Actually know what I need some darker
green to start with. So I've got my middle
green selected. Then I'm going to drag
this down just to touch and put some
of that in there. I always find that it works
best to start by putting in the darker color first and then coming back with
the highlight color. Here we go. Okay, and now it's
kinda looking a little bit too flat and perfect. I'm going to make a
little bit more of a hilly spot right here. Maybe new undo. There we go. Maybe a little bit more chunky. And this side, here we go. I just don't want it to look perfectly symmetrical like that. Now I'll come back
in with my lighter green right down here. And you know what,
I'm going to even change the saturation
of this a little bit. I might change my size to
be just a little larger. Again, feel free to sample from overhear from some other
color if you want. Get some of this kind
of chartreuse green. And also if you're wanting a
little bit more variation, you can change up the
brush a little bit. That is way too big. That's too small, lower
that increase that. You see, it's kinda
dislike trial and error here sometimes. Alright, I'm liking this. I'm gonna go a
little bit lighter. Go back to my dry brush and
just brush some of this in. Then like I am done
with my other layers, I am going to adjust the
brightness on this just a bit. I'm still selected
on my grass layer, come to the Wand Hue Saturation and Brightness and bump that up to 51 and saturation to 53. Let's see. Yeah. Okay. Back out of that. I think that looks good. We're ready to move
on to our tree trunk
10. The Tree: Alright, let's put in
our beautiful tree. So come to your layers. We want to be above the Grass. Hit plus, as long as you're
on the Grass, then hit plus. And let's rename
it to tree trunk. And let's choose our dry
ink brush so that we can draw in our shape
and our brown color. So I'm going to start
with this ground down here at the bottom. Alright, go ahead and look at the placement on
the reference here. So you know, what
I'm noticing is, once again, I think my moon in my island
aren't quite right. I think I'm going
to move my moon in my glow layer up just a bit. I'm going to tap on the
glow layer and the Moon. And I hit my arrow now
and I'm going to tap, tap, tap to raise that up or
just raise it up like this. Then I'm going to come
to my Grass and Island. I'm going to select both of
them by swiping on them. And then my arrow tool and
make that a tiny bit smaller. There we go. A little bit more. I think that's looking better. I needed more room for my
tree because I don't want the Tree to go over
the top of the Moon. But I don't want it to
look dwarf to either. Let's see. Let's just
start drawing it in. Okay, backup to my
tree trunk layer, to my dry ink details and
my brown is selected. And let's just start
drawing in a tree shape. We want some Moon
showing over here. I don't want it to be above, so I want to stop about. The leaves are going to
come up above the branches. I probably want my tree
to stop about here. It's going to definitely
be into the Grass. So I'm just giving myself
some guidelines here. I want one branch to come out in this direction and definitely one to come out beyond
the Moon over here. Okay, so go ahead and give yourself some little dot guides. And I'm just going to
start drawing this in now. And I'm making some route
shapes down here at the bottom and then
filling this in to see how this looks and my opacity
needs to be backup. There we go. We are going to add some grass
over the top of this. So don't worry about
making this look super perfect down
here at the bottom. We just want it to
be able to show through a tiny bit down here, but there will be Grass
leaning over the top. Okay, So now I want one
branch to come out this way. And then this one
to come up here. This one out this direction. And I'm just going to color this in because it's small enough. I don't need to use
color drop necessarily. So now I'm going to know
that I have a base. I'm just gonna make
some kinda FUN, interesting branch shapes
off of this animal. Make my brush a little smaller. Let's see here. Most of this will
get covered up, but some of it will show
through your leaves. So it's still important
to put it in. Alright, now, you can
either undo if you make a mistake or you can
also erase parts away. I want to erase with
my dry ink brush. So I'll hold down
on the eraser tool so it will select the dry ink. And then I can come in and just make any fine
adjustments if I need to. Wanted this to be a little
bit skinnier, I think. A little bit less smooth In a little bit of bump. Wave to it because trees are not going to meet perfectly
smooth like I had drawn it. Okay. Alright. Now it's going to fill in a couple of these little empty
pixels I have here. So that way when I turn on Alpha Lock to come
in and add texture, it will allow me to add
texture in those pixels. Because if there's
nothing there, we won't be able to do anything
to it in alpha lock mode. Now I'm gonna back out and
look at the overall size. I think it's a little large, so I'm gonna make it smaller. Again. Now's the time to
adjust the size of it. The best time to do it anyway. So I hit my arrow and
I'm under uniform. I'm just going to make
it a little bit smaller. Here we go. Now I'm going to
turn on Alpha lock, so tap your teeth tree
trunk and hit alpha lock. And I'm going to use the dry
brush and add in a lot of texture to this tree trunk. I'm going to change my color. I'm just going to lighten
it actually just like that. Instead of choosing
something over here. And I'm just going to brush in some texture to get started. And then a darker color. So I'll select the brown again, but now come a darker
and more saturated, roughly brushing this in so that way it looks a
little more interesting. Okay, Let's zoom in here and
sample some of these colors. So holding down to
get that light brown. That looks good. Now I'm gonna go back
to my dry ink brush to put in some more defined lines. Okay, Then a
different color here. And then even darker. And I'll just do
these undersides. Maybe right in here. There we go. That's looking pretty decent. Then lastly, like
I promised you, we need to put a little bit
of grass in front of this. Now, we're going to
make a new layer, not on the Grass
layer because it has to be above our tree trunk. So hit plus, and we'll put in a little bit of
grass right here. So sample one of your colors from down
underneath the trunk here. Probably start with a more
medium to dark green. Grab your dry brush, then brush in some grass. With that first Color. Hide the bottom of that a bit. Now grab one of the lighter
greens from in here, or choose it from
your color palette. And just keep doing that idea until it looks like it's
blending in really well. So now I'm going to grab
something even lighter. Like this. Am I brush is at 5% or four per
cent, something like that. Here we go. Now, it's still
showing up quite a bit. So I'm going to go back
to this green here. Some of it almost
completely hidden. Here we go. That's better. And back to the screen because that's
looking a little too muted and boring right there. Here we go. Sometimes it's hard to stop. I keep saying There we
go in. Then I add more. That looks good. Now we're ready to put in the big, beautiful bright leaves. Okay, so my approach
to these leaves is to use the same brushes we've already been using
to make sure we have a consistent feel
and look to our painting. But if you then looking around Procreate
and in the brushes, you'll probably have seen some leafy brushes that you could use to make more perfect. I choose not to use
those simply because it doesn't match the look
of my painting style. But you can absolutely
play around with those leafy brushes
if you would like to. I'm going to use the dry brush and I'm going to tap and brush in some wild strokes as
organically as I can So dry brush. Come over here and
I'm going to work in these kind of orangey colors
right here in the middle. I'll probably start
with the middle one. So it's the middle orange, it's not the darkest or
the lightest right here. And I'm going to start by
putting in some wild strokes. This is probably gonna
get pretty noisy, so I'll mute myself and let
you listen to some music. But I'm going to try
to get this shape and not make it perfect
around the edges. And then I will
switch back-and-forth between the dark orange
and the light orange. So first I'll put
the middle orange, then I'll put in some dark, especially around here
in the center areas. And the lighter colors
around those outsides where the Moon is going to be
glowing onto the leaves. So here we go. Again, you might need to change the size
and opacity of the brush. I'm probably going to start by swirling some of this in first. And then I'll start really
tapping like crazy. And a few minutes here. This gets a little
violent because that's how we get some
of the texture in there. But I really am tapping in, hitting very hard onto
my iPad right now. Can you hear that? So that's what I'm gonna be doing for the next
couple of months. Okay? This is looking to solid now. So the next a little
trick I have for us is to choose the eraser
as the dry brush. So choose a dry brush, use a dry brush eraser. And let's do a larger size, like maybe nine in. You're going to very hard tap in some eraser marks so that we start to see a
little bit more of the Moon and the branches
show through again. Feel free to go for it
and just start tapping in semi eraser marks here. If you don't like it, two fingers to undo. In retry, I'm gonna go a little smaller and
I'm now down to six. That's better. I think. That's looking much better. What Are you using? And now I am going to increase the saturation on
this layer again. Go to the wand. Saturation and brightness. I'm fed up to 52, 54. Yeah, I think that
looks pretty good.
11. Turn On The Lights: Okay, So we're now ready for my favorite part of the
painting process, to be honest. It's the part that I call
turning On The Lights. We're going to add some
shadows and highlights with some different
color blend modes. That is going to really bring
our painting to Lights. Okay, First things first, we're going to make
a Color Burn layer. I'm going to see
if I can make this a little smaller here. Move it over. Make a new layer above everything else
except the paper texture. So right above your Tree, your tree leaves
there and come to the N and go to Color Burn. It's above, not below. So Color Burn. This layer is going
to be a shadow layer. So we want to choose
a middle gray, so come to your
color wheel or if you're in classic
wherever you are, find a middle gray. So somewhere right
about in here. We're going to add in a
ton of magical light. Okay, and let's choose maybe the old bleach
brush for this. You might have to try
different things here because you're gonna get a
lot of texture with this. And let's see what this size
and opacity it looks like. That's too much. And I lower the opacity
down to three-ish. That's better. In the size, just a
little smaller, maybe 35. When we're gonna do is
put in our shadows now. So I'm gonna put some in on
the edge of the Tree here. I'll put some under this
grass here on the Island. Don't worry if it looks really
intense at first because you can always lower the
opacity of the layer. I'll put a little bit in on
the Moon and a couple of spots is to really intensify
some of that texture. We put in some in on the
Tree leaves and the captain. This is something that
you just bounce around on the painting to look at
the overall look of it, see where it needs a
little more definition in depth to it. Any work intuitively, you
will zoom in and out. You make these
judgment calls and this will get easier
the more you do this. Now, I do want to darken
my edges a little more. So I'm going to make a
nice big brush and very gently painting some dark. So I start really hard right at the corner and then I
lift up on my pen of it. That way I'm not pushing, pushing as hard and making
such a hard line there. That's a little bit funky
looking right there, I can actually blend this. I'll hold down on the
smudge tool. Just do that. Over the top of
this. There we go. Paint in some on that corner. And I'm going to switch
my brush up so I can have a little more control. So let's try let's try wildlife just because it can
get a little smaller. Yeah. Lower the opacity on
that make it a little smaller and just kind of
painting some real dark spots. Make kind of blend
that a little bit. Here we go. You're
gonna have to just play around with your size
and opacity on this. I know that where this Grass is resting against the Island, it should have a
shadow behind it. So I'm just putting that in, then I can make some
darker roots here. And right now this looks super, super intense, don't worry, we're lowering the opacity. Okay, back out. I think this is
pretty good for now. I'm going to lower the opacity. Now. I like to make
it smaller over here when I'm doing
this so I can keep an eye on the opacity
as I'm shifting it. Tap where it says CB
on the layer and then just play with how
intense your shadow is. So to me, I think I'm gonna
put my layer at about 70%. That's our first
magic light layer. Now we're going to add in the
highlights or the bright. Make a new layer
and go to overlay Okay, right there. Now we need to choose
a brighter color. I'm going to choose
either this light gray, this yellow or white,
or even the blue. You can choose any of those. The color will come
through just a bit, so you can get different effects with different colors here, I'm going to try
this light gray. And I still have my
wildlife chosen when a lower the opacity and make
this brush nice and big. And I'm going to brush in
some bright spots now, especially around my Moon. If you press harder
with this brush, it's really, when you press
harder with this brush, It's softens the edge
of it quite a bit. If you press really lightly, it's more of a line
that it puts out. This side of my tree is
going to be nice and bright. Just because I decided it is. Then some lightness over here again just
because I decided that's how I wanted it. Okay. I need a little
bit more glow back here behind my moon
and around it. I'm actually going
to change my brush. Let's try old bleach again. Paint that in. Okay, so again, this is super intense. So you'll do the same idea. You'll lower the opacity on it. Zoom out so we can
see what we're doing. Okay, So without building it up, so again, I think about
70% is gonna be good. Now I want to add in some of the drama of the Pops of
highlight with an added layer. Adding one more layer, come to the N and
go to add mode. This is even more
intense than overlay. This is how I get something
that's a part of my style, which is these Fun little pops of highlight
in my paintings. I do that with an add mode. And also the stars
are in add mode, which will do Just a
couple of minutes. But first, I'm going
to come in with probably old bleach
and just put in nope. I don't like that one. Let's see. Wildlife. Too crazy. That's kinda FUN. So maybe with a dry brush, I'll just kinda brush in a little bit of that and
then a little bit in the trees, very lightly. And then a little
bit in the Grass. I just want some kind of textural highlight before I put in the more hand-drawn
highlights. And you know what, I need to come back looking at this now I need
to come back to my overlay mode and add in more brightness
on my moon up here. I might even be able to
do it on this Add mode. I just need to find
the right brush. I think I gotta do it
on the overlay mode. The add mode is really intense. So I'm gonna come back
to my overlay mode. I'm going to choose
this white color and brush in even more on my moon. So on and take a
second again to remind you not to be afraid to go back to previous layers and make little tweaks and
adjustments as you see fit. Zoom out on your painting, look at it, maybe squint
your eyes a little bit, zoom back in, and then
head back to a layer that might be causing
you a little bit of trouble and just make
that adjustment. There is just so
much flexibility in Digital Painting
and you should take full advantage of that ability to
make those changes. Okay, So back to
the add mode here, we're gonna put in a more
defined glow line here, I've got the wildlife brush. You could also do
the dry ink brush. And I'm gonna put this
in around my moon. This because my moon
was not popping off as well as I would like it
to off of the canvas. Now I'm going to
lower the opacity, make it a little bigger, just kinda soften this a bit. And then again and again, this is a little harsh, so I'm going to grab my
smudge tool and soften that. Let's do it with a
different brush. I'm going to soften it
with the oil paint brush. Okay, so seeing this on screen now I know that it
looks like it is glowing white hot
and you're probably wondering like why
on earth do you think that needs more glow? But it's just the IPad
screen is filling very, very bright and in-person, it's not that bright. Then remember we can lower the opacity on this layer
because right now it's at full opacity and
that's just too much. So we're going to come to, I'm at 50, let's see. Maybe a little less, 25 even. And then I'm actually
going to erase away a little bit of this
off of my tree. I just wanted that on the Moon. Now, my Tree does need
a bit of that though. Let's have our dry brush, light color, and just
tap that in on the Moon. That way it's goes
with the Moon. There you go. Perfect. Now in the next video, we're going to make
one final add layer will put in our Stars. And some of those funny
little streaky lines and things that I like
to put for my style.
12. Final Details + Stars: Okay, We have just a
few final Details left. Let's make one last Add Layer. New Layer add mode. I'm going to come to
the dry ink brush. I have a light color selected. I'm going to make some
concentrated glowing light to the edges of things. So maybe around my
tree a little bit, my brushes a little. Again, this is kind of just
my preference and my style. If you don't like the
look of this part, you absolutely don't
need to do it. It just is more playful and
whimsical in my opinion. And I just really
liked this effect. It's super playful
and crazy like I, I am not making nice neat lines. And I'll do it to the Moon. And lastly, we also
will need some Stars. So this is how I
also add Stars is with an add mode in
the Dry Ink brush. So you can now come in, but it's more defined Stars. You can make one a nice, FUN wishing star if you want. Just make little dots. You can do the other
classic star shape which is kinda like
this and fill it in. And then have like
some little lines coming off of it if you want. I'm not gonna do it on this one. I'm going to stick to
this shape instead. So again, this is another
one where you'll kinda wanna zoom in and out and make some spots of Stars and then
make sure you're not making any weird intentional
patterns, unintentional. And then you'll want
some little clusters, vary the size of
them a little bit. You could also go back into that original layer we made
with the flicks brush to make those background stars and add more of those if
you're deciding it's not looking quite starry enough. I think that's
looking pretty good. All I'm gonna do though, is I'm going to
lower the opacity on this just a little bit so that it's not quite so stark. Sit down to let's go to 70
and see how that looks. Yeah, I think that
looks really good. Now is when we kinda
look at things and see if we need to make
any final adjustments. I think I want to brighten this side of
my tree a little bit. So I'm going to come
to my Color Burn. First. I'm gonna try to erase away a little bit of what
I put in on that layer. That looks better immediately. And I'll come up to the
overlay mode in brush back in a little bit of
brightness on a dark color. I want a brush back some lightness and the
overlay mode right here, just because it looked
like it was too dark. That's the beauty of
this Digital Painting. We can keep making changes. I think my tree also looks
a little dark down here. Might change this to
more of a warm color. There we go. Like I said, the color
that you're using on your color blend modes will make a difference if there's
any color to it. If it's not just gray, white, or black, it will
affect the color. Here we go. Alright, I'm going to close out my reference image and just
look at my painting here. I think it's looking
really beautiful. Lastly, we need to sign it. Add your signature. So if you'd like to
learn how to make a quick and easy stamp signature
like I'm going to use. I have another Skillshare
class that teaches you how to make one and
literally about 20 min. It's so easy and instantly levels up
your digital artwork. So I'm gonna show you mine. I have it saved in
my brushes here, and it's just a stamp. So I'm gonna make a new layer. I'm going to put it
into Color Burn mode. I'm going to choose
this purply color and I'm going to stamp that in. And then I'm going to move
it around, adjust the size. Let's see here it's
a little large. Put it right about there. If you are just signing by hand, just make a new layer, choose
a color, put it in Color, Burn if you'd like,
or even a overlay mode if you want it to be
lighter and sign your name. Again, if you want to
learn how to make a stamp, go check out my other Skillshare
class. Now this done. Lastly, I have one more
FUN thing that we can do in the next video and
estimate color alternates. For a little bit more magic
13. Bonus Color Alterations: Holy cow, you did it. Your painting is all done. And now that it's done, Let's go make a duplicate of
it and play around a bit. Hit gallery. Swipe on your painting
and hit Duplicate. Now, open up the
duplicated one right here. And let's make some
color variations. We're taking full advantage
of this one tool because we made a Digital Painting and we can do this which is just, it blows my mind every time. Okay, so let's try changing the leaf color and the
Grass and Island Navy. First, thumb down
here to your leaves. Tap on them and then
come up here to the Wand Hue, Saturation
and Brightness. And then let's just play
with the saturate or the hue right here and find some other
variation that you like. I like to go pink. I'm going to up the saturation and up the brightness
just a bit. I like that a lot. Feel free to play with that, make something that's Fun. Then I'm going to
come to my Grass and then try changing that
to more of a warm color. Now I'm going to have to
make sure that I change this on both this graph layer and the one in
front of the Tree. So I'm going to try to
remember the number 37. So I'm going to come to
this grass layer wand. Let's go to 37. Perfect. Okay, That looks cool. Now I wonder what would happen. You can change your background
bluey purple color. You could change your island. Let's try the Island. Were just playing. All right or wrong here. I'm going to go more
towards this side here. Maybe a little, a
little lighter. That looks so phon. Okay. And lastly, do you want to
change your background? It's up to you. Wow, wild. So maybe I'll go towards
the purple is the bit. That's fine, lowering
the saturation. So it's kinda grayed out. And I do that. I might leave it like that. This is really FUN. So just like that we
completely changed the mood of this painting that
was bizarre, right? That you can do this. Next. We're gonna go out and
make one more duplicate. So I'll go back to gallery. Come back to my
original duplicate. Select it. Now we're actually going to
play with some gradients. The first to do that we need
to flatten a few layers. So let's actually
flatten the tree and Island and apply a
gradient, just his app. So select your leaves, grass and tree trunk. It's actually going to be all
of these layers right here. And we're actually going to scoop them together
to flatten them. So layer, it's 12 For me,
I should have titled it. Our leaves all the way
down to the Island. We're going to
squish them together so that they're now one layer. Now the reason we
duplicate it are canvas is because now when I
go in and make changes, this might become permanent and I won't be
able to undo this. So always make sure
you've duplicated your original painting and you don't do this
to your original. Have that selected,
come over here to the wand and go to Gradient Map. Wow, I mean, Hello. This is on Venice gradient. I'm actually going to lower the opacity of this
by dragging my finger down a little bit
to about 68 ish. And then I'm going
to tap through these different gradients and
watch your tree and Island just change completely through
these different gradients. And if you're on one that looks cool, but
it's too intense. Just again, lower the
opacity a bit on it. I may have some gradients, you don't because
I've created some. You can do that by
hitting the plus here and choosing
your own colors. But the ones that
are already built into are really awesome. So choose something that
you love here, That's Fun. And we're also going to do
it on the Background layer. You're going to choose
the same exact choice. For now. Maybe I'll stick
to this neon one. I'm gonna go to
about 50 per cent. And you can preview it again by tapping into the
area off the Canvas. Let's see. I don't know. There's just so many good ones. Maybe I'll do Venice. Okay. I'm going to
apply and then tap off because we don't want it to apply
twice, just one time. Now come to your background. Apply the same gradient
or different one. So that's Venice,
that's the one that I chose for the Island and Tree. I'm going to come back
down to about 50% that you could mix it up. And she's a completely
different one. That's beautiful. Okay. So I'll leave it on that one
just because it looks FUN. Apply. I don't want it doubled
that, Bob. Okay. The man. Oh my goodness. So pretty right. So please, please, please
share your paintings with us in the Projects tab
because I want to see the magic that you just created. And if you can share your variations to that
would be even better. So I hope you didn't
have any plans for the next hour because
now you're going to have the time of your life
simply changing up the colors and gradients of
the painting you just made. Congratulations on
finishing this painting. I hope you had a blast and I hope to see you
in another class. Stick with me through
the next video. I'll show you my Timelapse and leave you with a
few closing notes.
14. Final Timelapse + Thank You: We did at friends. Thank you so much for joining
me for this fund night. And if painting, I
hope you've gained some new skills and some confidence in your
painting abilities. I want you to remember that with each painting you
do this just gets easier and easier
and you continue to develop those instincts
for painting. And you're also going
to keep gathering more and more
information on what tools and colors
work best for you. And you're just gonna
keep getting better. If you liked this class
and you haven't already, please make sure to hit that green Follow button above
or below wherever it is. So that way you know about
my next class when it drops. And if you wouldn't mind, please take a moment to leave
a review for this class. It helps not only me but also other students know that this
class was phon and helpful. Okay, so this is where I'm
going to leave you for today. I hope you had a
great time and I can't wait to see you
in my next class. I hope you enjoy
the Timelapse of my painting and I can lead
to paint with you again. The
Melanie Bess, Painting By The Light Of The Moon
