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Procreate & Chill 2: Abstract iPad Illustration with Simple Silhouettes

teacher avatar Adam Palmeter, Artist / Comedian / Teacher / Author

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Intro

      1:54

    • 2.

      Class Project

      0:32

    • 3.

      Supplies

      1:37

    • 4.

      Starting Your Canvas

      1:18

    • 5.

      Brushes

      2:58

    • 6.

      Warm Up

      3:29

    • 7.

      First Layer: Palms

      7:26

    • 8.

      Second Layer: Silhouette

      4:21

    • 9.

      Third Layer: Petals

      4:57

    • 10.

      Colors

      8:29

    • 11.

      Glow Effects

      2:29

    • 12.

      Save & Share

      3:34

    • 13.

      Final Thoughts

      1:06

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Do you need to chill? This art class will help you unwind and create some relaxing (and stunning) artwork using your iPad usin the drawing app, Procreate. By approaching art with a laid-back and meditative mindset, you'll learn how to use simple illustration techniques to bring a little more self-care and tranquility into your creative life. 

This Procreate class is for everyone, whether you're brand new to Procreate or already an experienced artist. The purpose of this class is to infuse a mindful and calm approach into your creativity. We'll get there by embracing repetitive brushstrokes and abstract linework. 

The best part? You're invited into my cozy cabin! You'll draw funky, on-trend digital abstract art while the fire crackles and the snow glistens. 

Procreate & Chill is where art meets meditation in a fun and trendy digital experience! Dive into the world of Procreate on your iPad as we embark on a journey of meditative brushstrokes and creative exploration.

Discover the ease of creating stunning artwork using basic silhouettes and simple techniques. With my relaxed approach, you'll find yourself effortlessly filling in your digital canvas with brushstokes. Whether you're looking to unwind after a long day or simply explore your artistic side, Procreate & Chill provides the perfect space to do so.

Join me as we tap into the calming rhythm of brushstrokes, finding tranquility in each stroke. Let go of stress and embrace the joy of creation as we guide you through this immersive experience. Don't miss out on the opportunity to combine mindfulness with creativity in this unique and uplifting class.

The purpose of this class is for students to have a place to enjoy art for art's sake, being in the moment and in touch with our creative process.

I invite you to Procreate & Chill... again.

P.S. Did you miss my first top-performing Procreate & Chill class? ⬇ Check it out here! ⬇

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Adam Palmeter

Artist / Comedian / Teacher / Author

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Hello, I'm Adam. I am a visual artist, stand up comedian, author and Skillshare Top Teacher teacher living a little here, a little there, telling jokes and painting walls in as many places as possible. My professional background is in early childhood education and have over a decade of classroom experience in Brooklyn, Seoul, Ho Chi Minh City, Buffalo, and most recently, I have been teaching remote art lessons to high school students from wherever I am in the world. Education has always been my passion.

This is why I wrote and illustrateed the OPPORTUNI-TREE children's books, a series of educational books, lesson plans and activities that introduce young children to the wo... See full profile

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1. Intro: He, hey. Welcome to the cabin. Hey, there. I'm Adam Palmer, and I'd like to invite you to the coziest spot tucked away here in the Colorado Rockies, one of my favorite places to chill. One of my best performing classes, Procreate and chill was enjoyed so much that I had to bring it back. This time with a few fun new things to try with you as we chill together. I've been incorporating the same style. But this new project incorporates reference photos to help me form a more structured and engaging composition. By using different combinations of colors and shapes, you can create really fun pieces of funky floral digital artwork. I've even updated a few techniques from my first class. And today here at the cabin, you're going to make a fresh and trendy piece of artwork that can easily be added to your artists portfolio or your print on demand shop. Ask any surface designer, funky floral patterns are very trendy right now. I'm also going to show you some effects I play with to really make it pop. I've been busy making a few examples, and I think you're going to get the hang of it really quick. We're going to take our time and set our intentions because this class is for relaxing and finding a little time for ourselves and enjoy art for the sake of making art. But first, make sure you click that follow button up top. That way, you'll be the first to know when I drop a new class, record a comedy album, or just have something fun to share with you all. You can also follow me on Instagram at Adam Palmer. Do you have procreate? Then you're invited to chill. So the fire is crackling, and the coffee is hot. So let's try to unwind a bit with a little bit of procreate and chill. 2. Class Project: For this class project, you're going to be making a piece of digital abstract artwork, and you'll be using a reference photo of a silhouette of your choosing. Today, I'm going to be using a buffalo. But you can follow along using any animal shape or abstraction you choose. No matter what your motif is, you're going to be able to follow along just fine. Once you're finished, you can upload your artwork to the class projects gallery. That way, we can all see, have a look, and comment on your artwork. And I'm super excited to see what you make. 3. Supplies: Let's talk supplies. Today, you're going to need an iPad, a stylist, and the appropriate. I'm going to be using an Apple pencil for my stylist. But if you don't have one, you could always just use your finger. We're also going to be using a photo to help guide our composition. I'm going to be using this Buffalo silhouette for today's project. You can use your own photo. Or if you just want to get started, have a quick look at the assets folder and take one from there. For free, Yeah, for free. Alright. Let's talk about what I look for in a photo to use for this project. I like to keep things simple. So no need to get complicated, right? Usually, something with clear lines works best for me, like this Ying yang or this Buffalo outline I'll be doing. You can always find something a bit more complex or a bit more simple, if you like. But in my experience, the more clearly defined the silhouette and sections of the photo are, the better. So let's start with an easy shape or guiding image. Feel free to think of your own. Or go ahead and help yourself to my personal stash of reference photos that you can find in the class assets folder. Here's a few examples of my recent projects that I've done to get those creative juices flowing. This can be helpful if you need a reference or a jumping off point. What you draw today is your own personal choice. The important thing is that it's recognizable as a silhouette. So if you're doing an animal, let's say, maybe a side view is going to be much more recognizable than a front view. Now that we have our image, let's go ahead and upload that to our iPad. Then we're going to bring that onto a canvas in procreate and get started. 4. Starting Your Canvas: Let's make a canvas. I usually make a pretty big canvas, depending on the number of layers I'm going to be needing. Remember, the larger your canvases, the fewer layers you're going to get. If you're going to be using this for printing, you're going to make sure that your canvas is large enough, so it will print in high quality. If you work on a really tiny canvas but want to print big, it's going to come out blurry and pixelated. But if you're working on a larger canvas, it won't be an issue. I know that I'm not going to be printing anything larger than 20 20 ". So that's the size canvas I'm going to be using today. And it's going to give me plenty of layers. So this is my gallery when I open Procreate, and now I'm going to make a new canvas. I'm going to go to the plus sign. And right here in the top right, we're going to click that for a new canvas. It shows our dimensions here, but we're going to be working in inches. So let's click inches our width 20. And now our height. 20. This gives us a DPI of 300 and a maximum layers of 14, more than enough. Now, let's create. Boom, hard parts over. We got our canvas. Now, let's get this some fun stuff and go find some brushes. 5. Brushes: Good news. I have a free gift for you from me and my friends at True Grit Texture Supply. True Grit creates Awesome Procreate brushes, and they're kind enough to give you for free, my favorite procreate brush, the Little smoothie Comics Inchor. In my opinion, this is one of Tru grit's best brushes, and you can get it for free right there in the class assets folder. Thanks, True Grit. But if you don't want to download that, there is a very similar brush in your default brushes, and it's called syrup, and you can find syrup right in your default brushes under inking. But for now, I'm going to use a little smoothie comics inker. I prefer to use the comic inker because the points are very sharp, and I've been using it for many years now with a lot of my projects. So here's what that brush looks like. Mine's in the rusty nib folder, but yours will probably show up in your imported folder. Here's what the brush looks like. Okay. Pretty cool, huh? Very smooth. When I draw with this brush, like I said, I love the pointy lines that it makes right here at the end. It's pressure sensitive. So the harder you push down on the screen, the thicker the line will be. When you release pressure, the line is quite thin. And when you start heavy and end very light, you get a nice tapered finish. In my opinion, this brush is as close as it gets to a real inkor. I just love how easy it is to use the consistency of the stroke, and it makes a fun little mess. As always with procreate, there are no mistakes. So two fingers will undo. And remember, three fingers will redo the action. But let's start with a clean slate. As I mentioned, we're going to be using a reference photo to trace over and help guide our composition. To import a reference photo, go ahead and tap your wrench. Click. Insert a photo. And now, touch your photo. Okay. And that'll upload to the canvas. I want to make this photo fit my canvas a lot better than it does now. So simply dragging these corners will help you fit your photo just how you want it. Be careful not to drag the photo off the canvas. If you do and you set the transformation, that part of your photo will be cut off the canvas. But mine is not set yet, so I'm going to make sure it's nice and centered. That looks good for me. Now it's press the arrow to set the transformation. If you want to readjust it, just click that arrow again, and now you can move it around. Remember, selecting that arrow will set the transformation. Now that we got our brush and our photo ready to go, it's time to chill. 6. Warm Up: It's always a good idea to stretch out before any activity. So let's get our hands ready with a few easy strokes to warm up. Let's open up a new layer. Tap the layers icon on the top right. Click the plus sign to add a layer. And now let's hide our background photo for the time being. You can turn the visibility on and off just by clicking this little box. The most important thing is that our new layer is selected, not our background photo, our new layer. You can select the layer just by tapping the name. Now on the new layer, let's go into our brushes. Make sure we have our little smoothie comics inker or syrup, if you prefer. And now we're ready to warm up. If you've taken my first procreate and chill class, then you might already be familiar with my style. But if you'd like a quick refresher, great. But for now, I'm going to start with some practice brushstrokes. Now, my artwork comes from a lot of the same brush strokes from different directions. Let me show you. Up. Down. Left right. And the newest addition for procreate and chill two diagonal. Oh. Essentially, it's all in the smoothness and the speed of the brusttrokes aiming in the same direction. One, two, three, four, five, six. You see how these strokes all seem to glide together at the end here. You get these pointy needles of color. Again, they're all aiming in one direction. Now, let's try to batch these lines together the same way just from different angles. We've done up. Let's do down, one, two, three, four, five, six. Now from side to side, starting with left, one, two, three, four, five and six. Now, this class is called procreate and chill, so don't forget the most important part and to chill while you do this. Counting and breathing out with each series of breastrokes. Two, three, four, five, six. You can try to align and measure your breath with each series of these breastrokes. Let's try the diagonal. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. The point is, you want to get comfortable batching all these brush strokes together. Try to get a feel of the pressure you're using and see what the difference is. Shorter strokes, longer strokes, even these teeny, tiny little petals right here. Once you find a comfortable place, try to do a few groupings in different directions. Let the pen just glide off the page. Lifting it as you go. And let the length decrease as you continue down the line. Then come back to the first side and do the same thing as the strokes slowly lose momentum. I call these groupings palms, like a palm tree. Well, I'm finished with my warm up. If you want to continue and get more comfortable, take all the time you need. But right now, I'm going to get started with that first layer of our silhouette. 7. First Layer: Palms: Are you ready to chill? All right. Let's get started. First, let's start by erasing our warm up. Go to your layers. Layer two. Slide to the left. Click the lead. Now, add a brand new layer. Don't forget, we want to make our background photo visible. So we brought the Buffalo back, but we're still on Layer two, the layer just above our background photo. Now we can color on top of the photo without actually coloring on top of the photo. I'll show you what I mean. I'm on the top layer. Okay. Okay. If I do a couple lines right here. But if I go into my layers and turn off the background photo. The marks are still there because they're on a separate layer. The idea here is we're going to be using the silhouette as a reference, but then hiding it when we're finished. So let's keep that open. Once again, let's clear that layer. Add a brand new one. If your reference photo is black or gray, it might be tricky to see all the strokes you put on top of it. So we're going to use a big, bright bold color to really get that contrast. The idea here is to get as much contrast as possible between the colors you're using on top of your guide, and the colors of the guide itself, because you want to be able to see what you're doing. It doesn't matter what color you're using. You can always change it at the end. For this first section, the white section, I'm going to use black because you can't really get a much deeper contrast than that. So I have Black highlighted. My brush is all ready to go. Now I'm going to begin putting all these little brush strokes around the entire white area surrounding the buffalo. Let's go ahead and start. I can choose any side I want and one, two, three, four, five, six, ten. I'm going to go to the other side and finish out the palm. One, two, three, or. Now, for me, it doesn't really matter if the brush strokes go off the page. It just fills out the whole area. I started with all these coming down. Now what I want is a contrasting direction around the palms. Let me show you what I mean. This one started down, right below it, I'll go up. One, two, three, four, B, six, seven, eight, nine, Okay. See how all the little points are aiming at each other. I try not to overlap, but it's okay if you do. See? Sometimes I will. Let's zoom in a little bit. Check out all these nice little points. Now, let's go ahead and fill in the whole rest. Okay. Okay. I'm being careful not to go over the line here of my silhouette because we're going to put another color inside there in the next video. You can even zoom in if it's helpful for these smaller areas. Two. Tree two. Sometimes even a couple single palms will help get in those little spots. 67. Let's take a quick look at this corner. As you can see, all the brush strokes are heading in different directions. But it kind of creates a uniformity across the page. I like to think of this as a puzzle without the picture. You're slowly building all the pieces to help them fit together. Also, notice how rarely any of these brush strokes overlap each other. It gives you a really strong contrast throughout the whole composition, and it's going to help your picture really pop at the end. I'm going to go ahead and fill in all the white area around my buffalo. You take your time. All right. Now that I've gotten my main palms all filled out in the white area of my picture, I want to go through and add some little individual ones, small little petals just to fill in the big white spaces. Just go around and see what fits naturally wear. This is a good opportunity to bring more balance to everything. You can and you can see where there's a too white, a little too, and just try to make it nice and even across the whole canvas. Alright, that looks good enough for me. I think I'm finished with my white section here now, so I'm going to go into the second section where I'm going to be filling in this red part of the buffalo. We'll see you in the next video. 8. Second Layer: Silhouette: Okay. Okay, now that we finish the background, let's go ahead and fill in our silhouette. I'm going to use a different color and a new layer. I'm going to go into my layers. Hit that plus sign. I'd like to keep all the sections of my silhouette separate and different layers. This way, it's easier for me to change the colors individually. This gives me the opportunity to create an endless amount of color combinations. You'll see what I mean at the end. Now in our new layer, let's change the color. Now I have this red background here. I want something that's going to contrast that. So click up here in your color wheel. And I'm going to choose a nice light blue. Let's see how this light blue looks on that red. Pretty nice. By the time we're finished, you're going to be deleting your reference photo silhouette, so it won't even be there. Let's try to stay inside the lines, though, so we can get that really nice contrast when we start playing with colors later on. So same as before, I'm just going to fill in the silhouette using the same technique. I invite you to take a few breaths. Maybe adjust yourself. Be more comfortable, and let's find the tempo in our brush strokes. I'm coming right up to the line of my silhouette. Counting them off and choosing different directions is a great way to start fine here flow. Now, just like our first layer, we're going to go through our whole silhouette and fill in those little spots with individual petals, one, two, maybe three, just to get it nice and even. Let's go ahead and fill in this section with all the tiny and large brush strokes we can and complete this layer. Now that we have our whole silhouette filled out, it's time to add another layer and add some petals. 9. Third Layer: Petals: Welcome back. Now, this next layer is an optional layer. So depending on your design, you may or may not want to have it. And it'll be easy to compare because when you're finished, you can just go into the layers and hide it and see the difference. But this is a good exercise for the sake of using your artist eye to try to look for balance in your composition. Now, let's go ahead and get started with this new layer. We're going to go into our layers. And we're going to add a brand new layer. Right on top. Now, let's go ahead and choose another big bold color that's going to contrast really nicely with the rest of the things we have here. Remember, the color you choose now is not going to be your final color. You can always change it later. We're going to make a whole lot of different color combinations. So let's just choose something big and bold right now so we can really see it. And what's better than hot pink? I'm going to choose a nice, bright pink. Yeah. That looks good. Double check and make sure we are on the right layer. Now let's take some breaths. And ever so gently drop these dainty little petals. Across the board. As you can see here. The pink is really good for contrast with the blue and the red. Just like we make our palms, I'm going to be keeping them nice and spaced out and also having a contrast of that direction. One. One, two. Three. You can see here, I'm doing a good job of overlapping on my second layer. This is a good opportunity now to start getting contrast with overlapping layers. One, two, three, two, For these petals, you notice, we're not doing those long lines. We're keeping it nice and short. Almost like you were making an apostrophe or a comma. I like to think of these as blossoms falling from a tree. Isn't that shill? Now, you can see right now is that I'm keeping these petals inside the silhouette. But we're going to go outside the silhouette. So we're going to bring these petals all the way out here as well. For this part of the project, we're not really thinking in sections. We're thinking about the entire composition. So go ahead and get those petals just over these larger brush strokes. Feel free to go off the page if you like. Let's just try to get a nice and even spacing across this entire piece of art. Now, if you want to check and see your progress, all you have to do is go into your layers. Let's go ahead and hide everything except that top layer. Now, look what we have. You can even finish out the spacing without the other layers. But if you go back and put the layers, you'll be able to see where and how your petals are overlapping with the long brush strokes. See, I like to get a nice diversity of direction. So if the brush strokes are going down, I wouldn't put petals going down right on top of it. I'd want to get a little bit of variation of direction. Let's go ahead and finish out the page. At this point, I'll go into my layers. I'm going to hide everything, but the top layer And if you're finished, maybe it should look a little something like this. Not too far apart. Good variation of direction and size and just nice and even across the page. Feel free to make adjustments or attempt an other section again. You take all the time you need. If you're pleased with your work, congratulations. So am I. Now it's time to have a little fun and play around with some colors and cool effects. This might just bring your artwork to the next level. So I'm going to throw a log on the fire and you come and join me in the next video. 10. Colors: Now that we have our work complete, we can use different color combinations to create some fun palettes. But before we get there, let's go ahead and unveil our final artwork. Go into your layers. Let's open everything except for our background. T. We can clearly see different colors, blue, pink, black. Now we can change them all to create really fun new palettes. So to do that, let's go to the layer you want to adjust. I'm going to start with our first layer all the way down here. Remember, just have the layer name to select it. Let's go ahead and say, I want to change all of the black brush strokes to green. Go into our colors. Turn to green. And then, I'm going to click hold and drag onto one of the brush strokes, and it turned the brush stroke green. Now, I'm going to go back because if I want to change all of the black ones, I'm going to do the same thing as click, hold, drag without removing the tip, pull it across the screen. So what I did there was adjust the color threshold. Let me show you again. To fingers. To go back to black. Once again, I'm going to click hold and drag the color on top of the black. And now without lifting my pen, drag it all the way across. Now, all the black is green. Now, let's try and adjust the colors on the second layer, my buffalo. Go back into layers. Click my Buffalo. And now I'm going to find a bit of a darker green, so it stands out. From the color wheel, I'm going to click and drag it down to a nice, dark aspen green. Same thing, get back to your board. Click Holding drag. Now on top of the blue. It changes it to green and pull it across. Bam. Now it's really popping out. Now for my final color adjustment, I'm going to show you a slightly different way to change the colors. And I like this method because you can see the colors change in real time. Let me show you how. First, let's make sure we're on the layer. We are. Now I'm going to go up to my magic wand. Click. Find hue saturation and brightness right at the top. Now on the huge spectrum on the bottom left, I can adjust the scrubber and see changes in real time. This is helpful because you can see how the colors are going to look against the other layers. We can also play with the saturation and the brightness. Let's bring the saturation way up. Nice and bright and blue, and now the brightness. That really pops. Now, to make this color combination pop even a little bit more, I'm going to change the color of the background. Let's go into our layers. Background color. I like that nice, dark teal background. It really helps the bright teal pop, and it's really creating a beautiful analogous color palette. It's all blues and greens that feel like they come from a similar family. One thing I'm noticing about this darker background is that the Aspen green of the Buffalo isn't exactly standing out. So I'm going to use that same real time technique and tweak that color just a tad. Let's go back into our layers. Second layer, our buffalo. And now, go to our magic wand, hue saturation and brightness. And I have a feeling I'm going to have to make this a little darker. Yeah. There we go. It's so dark green. It's almost black, but you can see how that really pops off the page. You're getting a lot of gorgeous depth here. You can see how the line between the Buffalo and the background is very clear. We didn't cross those lines as we went. Alright, so I really like this color palette, and now I'm going to show you how to make another color palette. So you can make as many as you want. Let's go to layers. Now we're going to select all the layers by swiping them to the right. And now we're gonna hit group. So, the background layer is actually permanent and procreate. You cannot delete it. So I can't bring that layer into my layer group, but I'm going to show you a workaround. Go into our layers. We're gonna hit our plus sign. We're gonna bring these layers just above it. So, with my new background layer selected, I'm going to go to my color sampler, which is this box right here, Plick it, and you see a little circle arrives here. That's my sampler. I can click and drag it anywhere on the board, and it picks up that color. So I'm going to land it right on that background color. And you can see up here in the top that my color has changed. So now let's go back to our layers. Our background layer is selected, and now we're just going to click drop it and drag it across the layer. It doesn't look like anything's happened, but when I go back to my layers. Boom. We have that beautiful dark teal as a background. Now I can toggle off the visibility of the original background color. And now all of these layers and colors are contained within this one group. But I want to show you how to make a second color palette without erasing the first. So we're going to select our group. Swipe left. Hit duplicate. And now we have a brand new group. Now I can make a whole new color palette in this group while my original group doesn't even get touched. And I'm going to show you now how I quickly whip up a palette. So for this one, I could do the exact same thing and just dragon drop colors. But I'm going to show you a totally new way. And I'm going to pinch the first three layers together, not the background, just like that. So now, all my illustration is right here on the top layer, and we didn't lose our background color. So now, our entire illustration is on one layer. Now, I'm going to click that layer and select it, and then go back over to our favorite little magic wand, and we're going to find gradient map. Whoa. Now we can browse through this entire gradient gallery and get a look at some really good color combinations and effects. You'll notice that the background color isn't changing, only the illustration color. I think neon is probably my favorite. But before all is said and done, now I'm going to go change the background color, so it matches a little bit better. Go back to our layers. And in our group, click on that background color. Now, we go back to our magic wand, hue saturation and brightness, and we can scrub along the hue spectrum. Think I'm like in this navy blue. But I'm going to make it a der in brightness. I love how this is looking. So now, I've shown you some cool ways to create some alternative color palettes. Now, go forth, chill out, and create as many as you like. You can play around with all the colors until you find one that really speaks to you. The colors might say, Hey, good choice. Roll with that. Now, let's go over a few cool effects that'll help you add a bit more chill to your artwork. 11. Glow Effects: Alright, I want to share with you some fun effects that really help make my artwork pop these days. Now, I love these two color palettes, so I don't want to erase them. So what I'm going to do is duplicate our original group. Click on Group. Swipe to the left and duplicate. Now I can grab this group and bring it all the way to the top of the layer stack. What we're going to do is click on the outside layer, this bright green, and I want to make that glow. So we have that layer. We're going to go up to our magic wand. Come on down to bloom. And now, just like we did to change the colors, we're going to put our stylus against the board and drag it all the way across. And check that out. Look at how it's glowing now. You can adjust the glow with the transition, size, and burn just by playing around. I like to keep it maybe in the middle. The size of your glow can come up. Same thing with the burn. If you have too much, it basically dominates your entire picture. So we're going to keep that burn down. Maybe around 30%. Size backed down here, transition up a little bit. Feel free to see what works for you. Cool. I love how this glow makes it look pretty funky and really highlights the center. And you can use that for any of the layers. Feel free to play around. One thing to note, it is hard to get dark layers to glow. For instance, the center of the Buffalo probably won't glow that well. But I can apply the glow effect. To these petals, And let that pop as well. I like the gut position of the perfectly crisp lines of the Buffalo against the glowing accents on top of it. It feels like a really interesting illustration effect and could be the extra pop you're looking for. And if you're wondering, yes, the glow prints beautifully. I've had it printed on T shirts and more, and it looks awesome. So you can play around with these effects to your Hutch content. And now it's the most important time for saving and exporting your works, so it's the highest quality available. Let's get started. 12. Save & Share: All right, let's chat real quick about saving and exporting our work now that we're finished. I'll show you how to export at the highest resolution. So your artwork is the highest quality. First, let's go to our layers. First thing I'm going to do is hide the visibility of everything except the first thing we did. Our first group here at the bottom. Now I'll go to my wrench and click Share. And I'm going to export this as a JPEG. I'll usually just airdrop it to my computer. But I can also hit Save image, and it will save to my iPad. Now, when you export a JPEG, you're going to see the exact same settings that you had in your original Canvas. It's going to be 300 DPI, RGB color mode, and 20 " by 20 " because these were all the settings we used when we set up the Canvas in the first place. JPEGs will be high quality, so you can print this if you'd like. Okay, now let's talk about transparent PNGs. PNGs are unique because they'll let you save a transparent version of your file. JPEGs don't do this. They include the background. So if you want to have this printed on, let's say, a T shirt or a kiss cut sticker, You don't want that background color there. So I'm going to show you how to save as a PNG so you get that nice transparency. I'm going to go to my layers, turn off the visibility of the background, and the main background color all the way down here at the bottom. So now you can see this grid in the background. That's procreates way of showing you that that's the transparent area. Now, I could export this as a PNG right now. But let's say I just want the Buffalo and none of the other layers. I'm going to go ahead and toggle off the petals and the outside of the Buffalo. I think this is going to look awesome on a T shirt. So I'm going to go up to my wrench. I'm going to click PNG. And again, just airdrop it to my computer or just save it to my iPad. And the same thing is the JPEG. This is going to retain all those original measurements of the file. 300 DPI, RGB color mode, and a 20 by 20 in square. Cool. So let's go back to our layers. Turn the visibility of all these guys back on, consolidate the layers just to make it easier, and let's turn off the visibility of this layer and turn on the visibility of the next one up. Same thing. Go to my wrench. Save as a JPEG and I can either air drop that or just save it to my iPad. Now, let's go back to layers. Open up this group. Turn off that background layer, and now this can be saved as a PNG. Now remember, the most important thing when you save as a PNG is that transparent background must be indicated. You can just check for the grid that procreates provides for you. If it's an all white background, then that transparency won't be there, and it will show up if printing. So just make sure you see that grid before you save as a PNG. Now, depending on how many color combinations you have, you can go through and save those with JPEGs and PNGs, just the same as these. If you'd like to upload a class project here on Skillshare, please go ahead. I would love to see what you made today. If the files are too big to upload to Skillshare, it's probably easier just take a screenshot and use that to upload. I comment on every class project that gets uploaded, and I can't wait to see what you created. All right, I've got some final wisdom to share in our last video. 13. Final Thoughts: Thank you so much for joining me here in the Cozy Cabin for another session of Procreate and Chill. I hope you learned a lot and enjoyed even more. And please share your artwork. If you enjoyed the class, please leave a review. These reviews mean a lot to me, and I read each and every single one of them. So thank you in advance. You. I really appreciate it. 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