Painting with GOLD in Procreate

1. Class Introduction: I love painting with gold. Have you ever tried? Hi. Hello, and thank you for being here. My name is Irina. I'm an artist and designer behind the brand Binsym Studio. In this class, I'm inviting you to join me in one of my most favorite illustration activities painting with gold. I'll show you the techniques I use to create gold foil texture, glitter texture, and as always we guide you step by step through the process of adding gold elements to an illustration. The project of this class will be to create this cracked vase mended with gold to celebrate the Japanese art of Kinsugi. I'll show you some other ways you can apply gold painting to your illustrations. And, of course, all the necessary resources for this class are provided for you. Are you ready to shine? Then grab your iPad, your pencil, and let's begin. 2. Tools and Materials: The tools and materials you'll need. You will obviously need an iPad. I use an iPad Pro with 12.9 " diagonal, sixth generation. You will need an Apple pencil. I use Apple Pencil too, and of course, you'll need Procreate updated procreate of the latest version installed on your iPad. As for additional resources, we'll be using a sketching brush. I suggest that you pick any brush from the sketching group default brushes. I personally prefer either peppermint or HB pencil, but you can choose any sketching brush of your choice. And you will need resources that I provide especially for this class. You can download them from down below this video in the resources section, which contain paper texture. This is an optional thing, an optional resource to use. I will obviously show you how I use the paper texture for my artwork. You will need procreate brushes installed that I provide together with this class. They are called um KinzugiGld. I will talk about these brushes now. There are a few thicker brushes. One is called liquid gold, the other thicker sketcher. We will need them when we create details in our illustration, gold details. There is also brush called shimmer. We will need it for creating litter texture, sparkle which is also a brush from brush for creating glitter texture. There is also some brushes from my sets of brushes that I create myself and sell. It's the semi semi wet filler. That's our main brush that we'll be coloring our vase, our vessel, our main illustration that we're going to work on today. There is a color blender. It's the brush I specially created to use in the combination with the semi wet filler to blend colors nicely together. Thick sketcher, by the way, is also the brush from Winter Imaginarium collection, same as semiwt filler. And also b living beings, it's a pattern brush that is part of my Japanese pattern brushes collection, and I will also obviously show you how to use them. You will need these brushes downloaded and installed in your procreate. You can also find the guy how to download and install procreate brushes in the resources section, you will need also a couple of color palettes, which I provide with this class. But again, you don't have to use those. You can use sorry, you can use the colors of your choice. These are the two color palettes that come together with this class. One is called gold kinsugi. The most of them will be using to create our vase and this one is Kinsugi metallics. These ones I've created to use for our metallic textures and details. So if you want to follow my class step by step, I suggest that you need both of them. How to install color palettes, color satches and you procreate is in the same PDF document as the guide for brushes installation in the resource section of this class. So that's all you'll need for this class. 3. Creating Gold Foil: In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to create a gold foil in Procrey which you can save and use later for your gold work and your illustrations later. We're going to start with clicking this plus icon, and we're going to choose screen size. What's important to note here that if you want your texture to be larger and of high resolution, you need to make sure that you either create a custom canvas with at least 300 DPI or amend the settings in the existing canvas. If you go here, Canvas, crop and resize settings, you can change DPI from 132 to at least 300 DPI. However, I prefer to create my textures like normal screen size resolution because you can always dial if you need for bigger canvases and mask the seams between the textures, I explain and show that technique in details in my texture magic to class where we create the still life. So if you've not seen that go and make sure. But we'll not need this technique in this class. We've created our canvas. We're on the new layer and what we're going to do, we're going to go to adjustments you can see the drop down menu here with different adjustments types, and we're going to select noise. You can see that it opens the panel with different noise options and what we're going to do, I'm just going to track my pencil along the screen, and you can see it showing me percentage of the noise. And I'm going to make sure that I've got 300% of noise so it's on maximum. But don't switch it off yet. We're going to go to scale option and I'm going to increase the scale of my noise to approximately 65%. That was the first step. Next, we're going to go again to adjustments, and this time, we're going to choose Gaussian blur and with the same way, swiping the pencil from left to right, I'm going to increase the blur. See, you can see the percentage here to 15%. I've just blurred the rough edges. Next thing, I'm going to add some noise on top of this. Again, I'm going to go to adjustments. I'm going to select noise. I'm going to swipe the pencil from left to right. But this time, I'm just going to increase the noise level to only 15%, just a touch to give it this shimmering effect. So that's the base for our full texture is prepared. Next thing, we're going to create a new layer, and we're going to fill it with solid color. I'm going to use the color from my metallic palette, which is this one, and here I'm just going to put the value of it, and I'm just going to drag and drop it on top of my base, and I'm going to change the blending mode. To color. You can see already that our texture looks very much like cold foil. But let's add some extra shyness. I'm going to add a new layer between our base and the solid color on this new layer, I'm going to go to adjustments again. I'm going to select noise again and I'm going to increase the noise to approximately 25%. And I'm going to change the blending mode to either screen or add. It creates extra shyness. I think I'm going to choose screen mode and just leave it like this. I'm going to flatten my texture. To save it, to export it, we're going to go to the range icon. We're going to select Share and I'm going to save it as GPEG in my camera roll on my iPad, or you can save it in the files of your library. Instead of gold, you can also create silver or rose gold or copper, metallic texture. For that, you just need to use corresponding color. For example, if I cancel the flattening, you can see that I've got yellow here. If you go to Kensugi metallic palette and choose, for example, this color and drag and drop it, you can see that it created nice rose gold color. Or if you choose one of the silver options, creates nice silver color. You can create as many textures like gold foil or metallic foil texture as many as you want, and save them in your library. By your library, I mean your own specially created folder in your preferable file destination. For example, I save mine on my iCloud usually so I can easily access my texture from all my devices where I create my illustrations. 4. Creating Glitter Texture: Now, let's create glitter texture and procreate. For that, we're going to select this plus sign and create a screen size canvas exactly like we did in the previous lesson with gold foil. The first thing I'm going to do, I'm going to fill the empty layer with this gray color. You can see the value here and it's also in my Kenzugi metallic palette. In the middle row, the very first color swatch from the left. I'm going to drag and drop it. It creates a solid color layer. Next thing is I'm going to go to adjustments and I'm going to choose noise and I'm going to swipe with my pencil from left to right to approximately 110%. You can see the percentage here. Let's scale to approximately 50%. But don't leave this area yet. We're going to increase octaves to max. You can see the octaves option here and I'm going to increase it to MX you can see there are three options here, clouds, Bellows and regs. I'm going to select Bellows and now you can leave this area. Now we're going to create a new layer, again, adjustments, noise. This time, I'm going to add noise of approximately 55%. And I'm going to increase the scale to around 35%. And I'm going to change the blending mode of this layer to linear burn to create a little bit more contrast and give our texture this glitter effect. Now I'm going to duplicate this newly created layer. But this time, instead of linear burn, I'm going to change the blending mode to add. Next thing, I'm going to create a new layer on top and I'm going to fill it with solid color from the palette. I'm going to fill it with the same yellow over used for the cold texture, and I'm just going to drag and drop a solid color on top of all my layers, and I'm going to change the blending mode to color. Our glt texture is almost ready, but I would like to create some extra sparkling. For that, I'm going to create a new layer and I'm going to select the Shemer brush from the brushes, kenzukiGld group that I provide with this class. The color I'm going to use is pure white color. I'm going to increase the size of this brush and I'm just going to gently Go over. And I'm going to change the blending mode to either add, or I think I'm going to change it in my case to linear light. It looks invisible, but if you switch it off, you can see that it's definitely there. It adds this little SHImr. You can duplicate this layer for even extra SHI MR effect if you want. Now let's add some sparkle. On the new layer, I'm going to grab my sparkle brush from the group with the same bright white color, pure white color. I'm just going to maybe reduce the size a little bit to approximately 30%, but again, it depends on how big you want your sparkles to be. I'm just going to add little sparkles here and there. I'm going to change the blending mode to luminosity. There you go, our glitter texture is ready. With the colors, again, you can change the color to whatever you want. You can create as many different options as you want, whether it's shades of silver or champagne gold, or copper, or even purple, blue, green, whichever you like. And to export our texture, which we will use later, we go to Ring icon. We're going to select JPEG and we're going to save our file in our library. 5. Japanese Art of Mending: Kensugi is a traditional Japanese art of repairing broken pottery using lacquer mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. Rather than hiding the damage, Kensugi highlights the cracks and imperfections, turning the piece into something even more beautiful and unique. Rooted in the philosophy of Babisabi which finds beauty and imperfection and impermanence, Kensugi is both a physical and spiritual practice celebrating resilience, transformation, and the history of an object. I've selected this topic not only because it features gold on the surface, but also because I love the concept of not being broken by hardships, but becoming something more special and beautiful. Let's illustrate a kenzugiPiece and procreate. 6. Sketching the Vase: Now, let's create our Kenzugi vase in Procreate. For that, I'm going to choose the plus icon and then I'm going to choose screen size to create a new canvas. Next step is completely optional, but I'm just going to show you the way I like to play with my textures and my illustration. I usually would like to add some subtle texture, and for that, I'm going to go to the range icon. I'm going to choose Add and I'm going to choose insertifle and I'm going to add the subtle paper texture that I provide with this class. See, I just dropped on top of my canvas. It's got a slight shade of grayish cream. What I'm going to do, I'm going to leave this layer as it is. I'm going to duplicate it, and this layer I'm going to change to color burn. What I've just done, our bottom layer, paper texture layer will be our background, and our top layer will be our overlay, which will give our illustration slight texture. You can lock both layers, so you don't accidentally draw them and all our artwork will be happening sandwiched between these two layers. All in between them. Now, let's sketch our vas. I'm going to change my canvas from landscape to portrait, and I'm going to choose a sketching brush which is default and procreate. I will be using HB pencil and the color I'll use is you can choose any color from the palette, some neutral color. Yeah, quite happy with that. How do I usually sketch my vases? First of all, I'm going to create a squished ellipse and that will be the top of my vase. What I'm going to do next? I'm going to duplicate this ellipse and I'm going to reduce the size of it. Maybe 60% of my previous one. I'm going to drag it underneath the top ellipse. That will be the next of our vase, let's duplicate the circle again. And let's drag it directly underneath and the very bottom. That will be the bottom of our vase, and I'm going to duplicate it again and I'm going to drag it somewhere in between the neck ellipse and the bottom one, and I'm going to increase the size approximately twice, twice bigger than our initial circle. That will be the widest part of our vase. I'm going to pinch all the circles together. And I'm going to join all the ellipses with a curved line only on one side and I will show you why in a minute. I'm going to create a curved line here between the top and the neck. The curve here joining with the widest part and one curve with the bottom. See, that's what we've got. Now, to make sure that this line is exactly the same, on the other side, I'm going to duplicate my layer. I'm going to select the arrow two, and I'm going to flip it horizontal and maybe even move it slightly to make my vase slightly. There. There you go. That's my symmetrical vase created. I'm going to pinch it together and on the new layer, I'm going to sketch the handle. It's just a simple curve. It's optional. You obviously don't need to create it at all, or you can put it on the other side or on two sides, up to you, and I'm going to pinch it together, and I'm going to grab the eraser tube, and I'm going to erase all the invisible lines that I don't need. The guidelines ellipsis. And that's how vase sketched. I use these techniques to sketch different types of vessels. Like, for example, you depending on the number of circles and depending on the size of them, you can create different types of vases, jugs, bottles, teapots, teacups, mugs, bowls dishes. It's all about the number of ellipses, their size, and the curves you join them with. All that. 7. Colouring the Vase: You see that I flipped my iPad to the portrait possession just to fill the screen better. What we're going to do now, we're going to reduce the opacity of the sketch just to leave barely visible guidelines. You can rename this layer sketch if you wish. And I recommend that you lock it so you don't accidentally draw on it and later on we'll be getting rid of it, either switching it off or even deleting it. Now I'm going to create a new layer underneath the sketch layer and I'm going to start coloring our vase. I'm not going to super complicate it because that's not the point of this class, but I'm going to show you some techniques that how I color my illustrations in most cases. In KinzukiGld brushes group, I'm going to select the semi wet filler. Again, you can use any brush you want. I'm going to be using semi wet filler from my winter Imaginarium collection. The reason I've chosen it is because it's got the right level of solidity. I like how solid the degree of solidity it has. I also love the texture. Show you. They love the texture of it. But you can choose any brush of your choice from your own collection, from the full procreated brushes. My only recommendation would be that it should preferably be on a more solid side because gold, which we'll be decorating our vase with later, will stand out based on darker solid colors. So I grab my semi white fill of brush. I'm going to make sure that opacity is 100%, and I'm going to choose the most comfortable size for me, and I'm going to start filling my vase with different colors. I will be using different shades of blue because it's more traditional Japanese colors, and I think gold works best on them. But also, I will be mixing in some brown, some gray, and a little bit of this plum purple color. I want my vase to be obviously in beautiful different shades. That's why I'm going to add patches of different colors here and there, which I'm going to blend in a short while and I'm going to show you how I blend them. But this technique gives you this nice variety of color, transitioning, how I call it, a little bit of bright blue, but not too much, just a little bit because I want my as to be more on a darker side, a little bit of brown to represent the clay, which I think is quite nice and this plump purple color. I filled my vase roughly with different patches of color and now I'm going to blend it. So looking at it right now, I think it looks quite good already, quite quirky. But I'm going to show you how I normally blend my colors. I blend them with a smudge tool, but it's important what brush you use to create this smooth transitioning. I've created especially color blender brush, which will help you nicely and gently mix the colors, blend the colors together. I'm going to grab this brush, probably keep the opacity to 100%, and the size select the comfortable size for you. And very gently, I'm going to start blending the colors together. I hope you can see that it creates this nice texture between the colors. Even in certain areas, I just use this tap tap tap motion. That's it, I'm just going to blend all these colors together. What's important to remember here about blending colors with the smudge tool is that the color you are currently pushing, sorry. The color you're currently pushing will be blending into the neighboring color. For example, if I'm on this purple, it will be blending, it will be spreading into the blue. However, if I'm on the slide blue, I'm going to spread that color into the neighboring one. A Here is my colors are blended and I also wanted to show you what this overlay of paper does. See if I switch it off. The colors, you can still see the texture, but the colors are a little bit more flat. However, once we add this texture, it brings this more saturation, more depth to our colors, and that will be perfect for our gold crags. Mended cracks. I filled and blended all the colors in my vase and I can see that I probably need to tie it a little bit before I add a little bit more details. I will be operating with two tools to tide it up. It's my semi wet filler, but with reduced size, and the eraser tool, which will be exactly the same as my drawing tool, semiwt filler. I'm going to be adding and erasing the edges. Yeah, quite happy with that. And at this stage, I'm going to get rid of my sketch layer. I don't need it anymore. You couldn't see it anyway. And now I'm going to add a few details to my vase just to make it a little bit more interesting because at the moment, it looks way too flat. I'm going to create a new layer and I'm going to use this clipping mask. I'm going to literally add some details with thicker sketcher brush. I think I'm going to just go for some lighter color. I'm going to choose this creamy beige color and I'm going to maybe reduce the opacity a little bit. I'll just make different details here and there around the neck just a tiny bit of detail and I'm going to create a new layer. And this time, I'm going to add some Japanese pattern to my vast because it's like the tribute to Japanese kinsugi. So the brush I'm going to use is living beings brush from my Japanese pattern brushes collection, and I'm going to use lighter color but try and experiment with different colors and planting modes. What I'm going to do with full opacity, I'm going to draw these Japanese greens on the vase. I could leave them like that because it's quite nice. However, um, I don't want them to interfere with my gold cracks, which is the main point of my illustration. What I'm going to do, I'm going to select this layer with a pattern brush and I'm going to increase the size to make the cranes bigger, and I'm going to grab the eraser too, and I'm going to erase the pattern from the inside part of the vase. You can even erase them from the handle, if you wish. Again, I think at the moment the pattern is a little bit too intense. I don't want to compete with the gold cracks, so I'm going to play with different blending mode and decide how I want to keep it. Look how pretty it is with overlay blending mode. Softly. Hard light light. I think I'm going to keep them soft light, barely visible because I want the mended gold cracks to be the signature feature of this vase. I'm just going to leave it like this, and that's it. Our vase is now ready for mending with gold. 8. Kg mending: I'm going to flatten all the layers of my vase, and now the main part, let's draw gold cracks. This is very important guys because it's important to remember the techniques because at first, if you don't know these techniques, it can be quite confusing. What I'm going to do, I'm going to create a new empty layer, and next thing, I'm going to add our gold foil layer that we created in one of the previous lessons. For that, I'm going to go to the range icon. I'm going to use the add option and I'm going to insert a file or a photo depending where you saved it. I saved mine in camera roll and I'm going to add it. You can play around with a scale. I think I'm going to keep it like this. Next, I'm going to create an empty layer underneath my gold texture. I'm going to clip the gold texture as a clipping mask to my empty layer. This is the type of mini stack you've got in your layers. You've got an empty layer and the gold texture clip to it as a mask. And we're going to make sure that we stay on this empty layer, not on the texture layer, but the empty layer. And the brush I'm going to use is liquid gold and the color doesn't matter because I will be drawing with gold on my vase. I'm going to reduce the size a little bit. The opacity will be 100%, and I'm going to start drawing gold cracks. See? It looks like I'm actually pinting with gold. You can use a Kensugi piece as a reference. Also see like a tip for you. I can immediately see that this texture is slightly darker to my liking, maybe it will work for some artworks, but for this one is a little bit too dark. I'm just going to go to the texture layer to the gold texture. I'm going to go to adjustments and I'm going to choose curves and I'm going to play around with curves and you can immediately see how it changes right away the brightness of it. Again, once you've adjusted the gold, make sure you go back on this empty layer where you were drawing with your liquid brush. If you don't like the liquid brush, use a thicker sketcher, which is quite nice brush as well, but I would make sure that the opacity is at 100%. I'm just going to draw this random cold crack creating the effect of the broken vase that has been mended with gold and this Japanese sug it if you want to take it a little bit further, you can of course use some shimmer brush, for example, just to add a little bit of extra gold. But that's already depends on what you want to create. You can make so many different effects with this, but it's just important to remember these techniques, empty layer, that's how it will look just with color, but that's how it look with the texture clipped on it. Basically, I've talked about clipping mask a lot in my classes and my tutorials, and this is in essence, it's the same techniques. It's a mask, a texture clipped to a layer. The only difference is that you first clip it and then you paint on it, and in essence, you paint with texture. That's our us ready. I showed you the basics and you can take it as far as you want. It will be interesting to see your project in the project section if you upload your artworks. It will be nice to see how creative you're going to get with these techniques. 9. Extras: Other Ways to Paint with Gold: This technique is so versatile. You can use it in so many ways in your designs and illustrations that only your imagination is your limit. Similar to the gold cracks, you can decorate your illustrations with gold. It always adds this magic touch and brings your art to a whole new level. I love folk art, and I believe that gold is a perfect match to this style. It's also a great addition if you work on Christmas and festive illustrations. I also find gold texture working great with pattern brushes. Simply use the same technique of clipping the gold to an empty layer and use a pattern brush on that empty layer. Or perhaps instead of creating subtle details, you'd like to use gold for painting the main object of your illustration or do some nice lettering. So this technique is so versatile. You can use it for so many things, and I'm going to show you different ways to use it. So as we learned in the previous lesson before, you can use a brush to create different details on objects. Like, for example, in this illustration, I used glitter texture to create these details on this rb. There are other nice brushes that you can use literally like texture brushes or object brushes you can use to create different gold effect like adding some gold and shimmer to your artworks. Se different brushes, create different effects. So you like painting with glitter, but in fact, you're painting with some texture brush, and the glitter texture automatically applies because it works as a clipping mask. Also, I find that golden glitter work beautifully with pattern brushes. And they also work create with various border brushes. Or maybe instead of creating details, you would like to create a whole object made of gold or silver or any other metallic texture, for example, I strongly encourage you to try all of the above and find out where gold and your imagination will take you. 10. Final Words: Thank you so much for washing my class. I used to worry if I'm adding too much gold to my illustration. And then I realize that there's no such thing as too much gold. So I encourage you to experiment, to try to add as much gold elements and details as possible. And please make sure you upload your art because I'm dying to see where you can bring your imagination and your creativity with this technique of painting with gold. And there's always follow me on social media. Here's my Instagram, follow me on YouTube one more tutorial. Hope you enjoy. See you later.