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1. Learn How to Draw with the Selelction Tool: Hi there and welcome to
this Skillshare course. My name is Avraham and I'm
a professional illustrator. In Procreate, there are
so many amazing brushes you can use to create your
beautiful pieces of artwork. I'm sure you've tried to
quit a few in this course. I wanted to tell you about a different tool you can
use to also make your art. And that's called
the Selection Tool. You heard me. The selection tool. It's actually a very
powerful tool to create art. I didn't this course together, we're going to create
this cute hummingbird using the silicon tool
as our only brush. That's right. So it's actually a
very simple technique. And going through the
steps by steps with me. In this course, we'll
see that we can create a beautiful puff and
bird with only one tool. We get started. Let's get going.
2. Intro to selection tool - Part 1: As an introduction to how
to use the selection tool, Let's start off with
a simple Canvas. It doesn't matter the size. I'm gonna use 2048 by 2048
and pick any color you want. Here we'll pick a nice red. Now we're going to
do selection tool. Now in the bottom you'll notice
a few different options. Automatic freehand,
rectangle, ellipse. But we're gonna do
is use freehand. But let me first
show you how to, what happens with our rectangle, which means we will
be selecting in a rectangular shape
and add color film. So what happens now is as I draw and I felt like over shape, it's going to fill
with that color. Okay. As long as it's
highlighted like it isn't a cat now and I decided
to change the color. I can change the
color to whatever. Clicking on the
selection tool again, we'll finalize that and now
we can draw another one. Over here. It looks the same, but since
it's the highlight area, I can now go and click
here and change the color. Just like that. That's a really easy
way to build up shapes. Instead of the rectangular one. We go with ellipse. The same thing. I notice that the ellipse, it
doesn't, one thing, it doesn't give you the
opportunity to do perfect shapes, unlike the assisted drawing. But if I fill in here, it'll make ellipse shapes. We're going to do though is
use freehand. Do free-hand. We can do similar idea. This. If I let go though, it's still waiting for me to
continue to shape. If I click where the gray circle is, build complete the shape. Another thing I can do is I can actually just hit points and I'll make straight
lines between them. I can do curvy shapes and then straight and then finish
it off like that. Alright, so that's the basic
idea of selection tool. Now, let's go and make
our first picture.
3. Intro to selection tool - Part 2: For our first drawing, Let's do something simple. We can do an ice cream
cone. Let's do that by, let's clear this layer. And let's take a darker color. Start off with,
let's take a color. It's more like an
ice cream cone base. We're gonna do freehand. We're going to start
with our cone. So I'm making it here
a little bit wobbly. If you wanted, like
I showed before, you can actually just
do straight lines. If you want a very triangular,
very straight shape. This would be a very
steep ice cream cone. I'm going to do one that is
more, a little bit wobbly. Just hand-drawn. He is super wildly. And then
finish off here like that. That's gonna be our
cone new layer. Let's make our first
ice cream scoop. What cloud will make it? Let's go with cherry
colored, that new layer. And now here I'm going to
draw, let's make this blue. Let's bring down the opacity
so I can see a little more. What I'm doing is
I'm drawing the selection tool, selection tool. I'm going to first word
sort of dripping down, then the circle top on
top and connect it. And here we are. That's
our first ice cream scoop. If I want to add in
a little bit here, like I see this area here, it needs a little more so I can just go in and edit like this. Next scoop. Let's go with a in
color about that. I want this on a new layer. I'm gonna reduce this opacity so I can see it a little
bit with tetany here. We're going to do selection tool here. Like that. Little area, so it's
a little straighter. Now since on different
layers I could really move it around if
I wanted to, whatever. Okay, let's bring all
the capacities back up. Capacity. Now I want to show you
something really cool. We turn the color fill off, we can still use
the selection tool, do another type of drawing. What we're going to
do for that is we're going to merge all
these layers together. We're going to Selection Tool. And now we're going
to draw it in. We're going to do shading, okay, so we're going to take our
selection tool and draw in where we think the shadows
are going to be like this. I've selected this area. It's all selected. You
can see how the air is selected is not shaped. While it's still selected, I go to the adjustments
and curves. And here I can make sure
I'm on adjust everything. And then where the curves, and you'll see they'll add in nicely a shadow
effect on everything. This way you can add shadows. Now what actually,
since I like to do now is I can actually
take this darker, darker brown color, select it, and we come to Newton color and go back to selection tool, freehand and color fill. And now we fling with the
same color I just use as my shadow I created. I can outline here
that a little bit more shadows to the
underside of this ice cream. This one isn't so smooth here. Listen here. Here we are. We haven't realized.
I screen that we did. Now we've got that down.
Let's go to our picture is a little bit more involved
during a puffing.
4. African Daisies: For something a little
bit more complicated, using the selection
tools are drawing tool. We're going to create
these African daisies. To do that, we're gonna
create a new canvas. I'm going to go
with a canvas that is 3 thousand by 3
thousand pixels. To do that, I'm going
to go and change the camera size to 3 thousand
by 3 thousand pixels. And the first thing
we're going to do is create a rough sketch. So to do that we're going to
pick black color and then under the sketching brushes
will take the six B pencil, but it really doesn't
matter so much. Just send me you can draw with that you feel
comfortable doing. Here. I'm going to first
create the petals. Then the little leaves that
are beneath the petals. Some stems. And let's add
in another daisy as well. But this time it will be a bud, will be of course,
a lot smaller. And we'll add in the leaves
and petals and some stems. A little bit bigger. Because I want to add
in some leaves on the stems. Few of those. Now that we have our
basic sketch tone, I'm going to reduce
the opacity of it somewhere around 50%
and create a new layer. And on this new layer, we're going to do
our actual drug. We're going to make sure
that the selection tool, which is a freehand option
and color fill is on. And we'll go for
our first color for the African daisy petals. And we're going to
choose something in the purplish range. Now we're just going to go over the sketch lines we drew with our selection tool as
our drawing implement. When we've finished, includes up the shape by clicking
on the circle. I will just zoom in and
fill in some spots. Now we're going to go and
create another layer, and that layer is going
to be brighter pedals, the sun is going to
be hitting them more. And again, using
our selection tool, we're going to draw more petals. These will be
slightly smaller in size because there'll be a
little bit further away. Connect them and
connect the shape. And we'll see that we
have this beautiful two layers of flowers. Now, going back to
the first layer, I want to add in a
little bit of shading. So using that technique
I showed before, we're going to turn
off color shelf because we're not filling
with in color at this point. I'm just going to make
thin those strips representing where the
shadows are going to be. After that equity adjustments. And the curves will
bring the curve down, which will darken all the
areas that are selected. Now let's go back
to the lower layer, the brighter ones,
brighter petals. And using Selection tool, we're going to go and
mark off where are those going to have some
extra shadows this time, but little strips of
light mark those off. Go again to the curves. In this time raised the curve. So it'll be brighter. But also the back to
adjustments and go to hue saturation and brightness
to make them brighter. Also take the
saturation down to make them a little bit more
on the white side. Now that we have the flower will merge those
layers together. Now we can go and add in petals. I'll make a layer for the petals and choose
a green color, dark green on the color fill and start drawing in
the petals based on, based on our sketch. You are sharper edges. Fill the shape. Here it looks like this time it closed nicely, but I realize it has to
be above the flat panels. You can see them. Just adding the base of
the leaves over there. Again, we're going to add in
some more shadowy shapes. These will be yellow,
mustard, yellow color. That looks really good. Let's merge those together. Now. We can repeat
the same with the, with the flower bud. So we can use the same
colors as before. And draw in based on
our sketch, the button. We'll start with
the flower petals. I'm not following the
sketch as exactly here, but I think this works out well. Now we're going to go and
create another layer. And that layer is going
to be brighter petals. Now that we've
finished the flower, Let's go and do the leaves. They're just below the flower. Green color again.
Selection tool, we're going to draw the leaves. An extra spot over there. Add in a little part where the flower with the leaves
connect with the stem. Now we can go and
padding the yellow color and add a little bit more
variety to the leaves here. Sometimes if you press one dot, then the suction tools
let you continue drawing. So in that case, just turn off my selection and
reset it and turned back on. And then you can start
drawing again. Have all that. Let's put all those
layers together. But I didn't just
a little bit more. Yellow on this side. The larger flower. Now it's time to add some
stems for these flowers. I knew there. And go to a
color that's a little more on the darker purple color. Using our sketch as a reference, we're going to go and
add in the stems. Wasn't, I didn't
really follow that. Well, let's go in,
thinking up a little bit. Now for the bud, give it a stem. A little more careful to
have a good thickness. Here's one thing we could
do also is that you can use the selection tool not
only as a brush, as an eraser. To do that, you would use, you would select what
you want to delete, fill in the shape, and then pull down with three fingers to reveal the a menu
option and select cut. And that will remove the
area that you selected. Now we have our stems
from all that together. We're going to add in now some larger leaves for the stems. I'll pick a green color
back to selection tool and this time color
fill because we're not erasing, be trying. And we're going to
draw a few leaves. These leaves are on
top of the stems. The layer is a layer
above the stems. Now we're going to go and add a few more leaves that are
on the far side of the stem. So we'll make a layer that
is beneath the stems. Now that we have that, I think we can merge all
of these layers together. And the last thing that
we really need to do now is create background. For this. We'll choose a different green for selection tool
this time we're going to go with ellipses because
I want the background to be very organic feeling,
not hard edges. And I could use a free hand, but we'll just make these
little circles here. Remember what I said before? As long as the selection
tool is still active, you can go in and
change the color for all of these selected items. Here, I'm going to
make it just a little bit lighter and yellower, so it doesn't conflict with the green of the flower petals. Now let's pick another color in the Green family for variation. And add those as more circles to fill in the gaps
for our background. This one here actually
is too similar in color to the leaves on the stem. And if I change the
color of that one, Let's change the color
of all these circles. So I'll just undo
that last circle. We'll put that color
more on this side. Now, this could be our background and we want
to do is to blur it out. So go to our adjustments,
gaussian blur, and increase the blur until it looks like a nice
blurred background. In this case, it
looks like I'm going around 38% looks good here. And that's looking really good. Since the rest of flour has so much variation of colors
and we'll say texture. The leaves look a little
bit on the bare side. And so let's go and fix that up. Losing other trigger
mentioned before, Let's first go and select the layer that has
the flower on it. And we're going to make it into a clipping mask by swiping
two fingers to the right. That means that anything we're
going to do now will only affect what's on
existing on the layer. Going back to our selection
tool and freehand option. And we're going to outline just the smallest
sliver of each leaf. The area that we want to make. Add a touch of a shadow to it. I'm going to run each
leaf very carefully. On this side, we'll have the shadow on the other
side of the leaf. Now, go back to the adjustments and curves and we're going to lower
the color a little bit. Not I did a nice shadow
leaves. There you have it. Using the selection tool as the only quote unquote brush to make these African daisies.
5. Puffin: Sketching: So the first thing
we're going to do is create a new canvas. We do that by clicking
on the plus button and select our camera size. I happen to like
a canvas size of four thousand, five
thousand pixels, which just gives
me more resolution for if I want to print it later. On our new canvas,
Let's start by choosing a dark color
from our color picker. And for our brush, we go this sketching brush set and
choose the fixed fee pencil. I'm using about
10% for its size. It really doesn't
matter so much, just something you
feel comfortable using to make some
preliminary sketches. Before I finalize
our actual picture. First thing we can do is draw our head for a Puffin burden, where the small circle
added neck area, then a larger oval
shape for its body. Whereas just roughing
out the shapes here because we want to get an
idea of where everything is. And then once we're
happy with it, will go through
with stronger pen and actually make
final decisions. If you don't want to do
a buffer and you can do any other drawing you like. The technique will be
relatively the same. Looking around now, I want to refine the shape
a little bit. I realized by his
not exactly an oval. Got a little bit
more of an angle to the main part of
the breast area, the ankles down towards legs. I want to also refine the leg shaped a little bit
to give it a little bit more of a feathery
field because the lines around the legs aren't
exactly uniform. Going to go over the webbed feet again to give it a little
bit more definition. Then again, under the
body of the Puffin, it's got more of
a feathery feel. So we'll go and add that in and give a little bit more
definition to some of the feathers in the
back of the Puffin. We don't have to put in
so many details because the style that we're
using here is a little bit more of a minimalist style, so we don't have to
put so many details to make it that realistic. But we want to make sure that it has captured the essence of
what a Puffin looks like. Let's go work on the
legs some more Add-ins, a little more of the feathers. I think that looks
pretty good for the bottom of the puff in notes. Go back up to the head, refine that a little bit more as well. No neck which I
originally drew more of. A rectangle, really
connects with the body. More smooth, gentle curves. So let's put that in and let's give them also our puffer
and I think needs a beak. That's a little bit
like a triangle shape. The top part is a gentle
curve and the bottom, bottom probably is
because a little bit of a waviness world define also where the beak connects into the
head of the Buffett. Next thing. Puffin seemed to have this
very characteristic line going across their head and
going towards the eye area. And so we'll draw that in. And of course the
eye around the eye, that black area seems to
extend on top and bottom. So we'll we'll mark
off that errors. Do we have it for later? Just going around and giving
it a little more definition, looks a little bit
like a triangle around the eye, seemingly. Now, I also realized
that the puffins head is not exactly a circle. It's a little more
flat towards the top. So let me go narrow down the top of the
puffins had a little bit, give it a little
bit more of angles. So it looks a little
more realistic. Coming around again
to the beak where I'm going to give a little
bit more pressure. And I'll finalize little
bit more where the beak connects by giving it
more darker lines. Then I notice here there's
a type of writer's circle, the area at the bottom beak. So let's mark off
where that's gonna be. On the hand or the main
defining area I think is where the black feathers start
to appear on the Puffin. So let's draw that in as well. Just following the contour
shapes of the Puffin head. And as it gets to the
front side of the Puffin, occurs down just a little bit as it gets to the front side. And now let's redefine how
it connects to the beak. Pull it in a few
more lines here. And now that that side of
the beak part is done, let's just refine
it a little bit. How the yellowy patch here
connects to the beak. Few more refinements here. The head is not even
though it was lower. Now I want to add a little more contouring to the
top of the head. Shape. Goes around in a little
more realistic look. Now for the beak to just
define that a little bit more and decide where the
mouth is going to be. The dividing part on the beak. For a final touch, we're just
going to go here and block in the mean colored areas on
the main part of the body. I'm giving it a little bit of a rough back-and-forth look
because the feathers are, of course, a little bit rough. To find the tail feathers
a little bit more. And the feet. I think we're good to go. We have the basic shape now. And the next part is
the exciting part, is to put it in the colors.
6. Puffin: Coloring: Now that we have our Puffin sketch roughed out,
we can color it in. First thing we need
to do, of course, is create a new layer. We don't want to be
adding colors on the same layer as a redrew. For our main dark color. We're going to take this
middle black on our palette. I've included the palate and is one of the resources
you can download. I like to start with the most defining areas
where I'm drawing. In this case it's going
to be the dark outlines. Let's go start with that neck. As I said before, is a
very prominent feature of the Puffin bird besides
the beak, of course. And let's draw in that to, again, following the outlines
I've already created. Then align myself a
little bit more freedom to add more refinements, final touches as I'm moving on. I said before the
feathers are not a smooth border on the
shape of the bird. So we want to make
sure we add in a little bit of
roughness for that. Yeah, So I forgot to put
that as a lower layer. So you can actually see the lines of your sketch after you've filled
in with color. Continue with that color. Now let's go to the
top of the head and film a dark
shape on his head. I like to use different
layers for each color. That way, if I need to
make any adjustments to a particular color, I don't have to worry about
it affecting different one. Now let's go to our
lighter gray and adding more volume and
depth to the bird's head. The first error
I'm going to do is just under the
yellowy spines head. You can see how we can
still see the sketch now because it's above
this color in there. Similar gray area
behind the eye. If you want to add more
colors, of course you can. But I'm trying to keep
it clean my palette to a more limited
number of colors. While it's possible
to continue making one shape after the next within
the same selection mode. And as you finish each shape, it will fill them
with the color. After each successful shaped I'm happy with that
has been filled in. I like to de-select itself
can tool that we will lock in the shape
I've just drawn. And then I'll reselect the selection tool to
draw the next shape. What that means is that if I had made a mistake
and want to undo, each new selection fill will be, it will be it's own undo. And that way it won't be undoing multiple fields at one time. Undoing the fill, the
most recent fill, the one that I wanted to change. Now let's go back to our
dark black layer and select that and go back to our
dark black as well. And then we'll start
adding in the line that connects from the back
of the head to the eye. That same black also
goes under the eye. So we'll add that into
our selection as well. So it all gets
added at one time. The eye itself has a
bright orangey tone to it. So we'll select our orangey
color from the palette. And even though the orange is sort of a highlight
around the eye, I'm just going to create
a whole circle to fill in for that's going to
be behind the eye and then we'll add in the
darker part on top of it. There's no real
advantage just drawing a thin rim around here since
the layer on top of it, we'll just cover it up anyway for the next
part, for the i, I do want to make a
very round circle. And that's one thing that the
selection tool cannot do. They cannot draw
perfect circles. There's no drawing assist on it. So what I'm going do is I'm going to pick the monoline tool, will have the color drop
as well to fill it all in. Now that we've done
that, let's go back to our selection tool
and continue drawing. So let's go and add in the
black part above the puffins. For the bright orangey
section on the puffins head, we're going to pick the
brightest orange color from the palette and draw that in carefully tracing along the sketch that
I had done before. Moving along, let's go and
start to work on the beak. So let's go back to
our dark black color and it can new layer for that. And now let's go use your
selection tool and add in some shapes to define
the Puffin beak. Then we're going to add in a yellow part for the Puffin beak. And since that is
a different color, we'll put that on a new layer. I'm going to put
the yellow layer of the beak beneath all the other black layers because
I don't have to worry about covering
them up when I draw the yellow layer or I can go even underneath
the black part and won't worry about erasing
any of the black. Adding more of the stripes on the puffins beak with
the same yellow color. I'm adding angles where it, where it intersects
with the mouth. Enough for the orange as well. I want to I'd like to draw that as a new layer
underneath the yellow layer, so we don't have to worry about overriding the shape
of the yellow. And then we will start
to draw in our shape. And when we fill it in, you'll see all the yellow is still preserved on top of it. I want to add in a little
bit of gray to the beak. So let's add a layer. And I think the gray is gonna be the same gray that
we have currently on the back of the head. Using the selection tool again, we're going to draw and color in those areas on the bird's beak. And with that, I think we've
finished the Puffin beak. I just want to add in one more
color to the Puffin head, which is this
lighter gray color. So it's going to select that. And since we are
done with the beak, Let's merge those layers
together so we can keep our layer countdown
and make a new layer again for the new grade
that would be adding it since the layer is
underneath the other layer. So again, we don't have
to be we have to worry about erasing any of the black or darker
gray when we do it. With that, I think
our head is done. So let's combine all the layers together because their
rights income to be any more overlap between what we're going to draw now to
what we've done before. And now we'll
create a new layer. And we'll move that layer
underneath the layer we have. And I want to draw it in again. I want to start
with a darker gray. So let's go and select
the darker Greg. And from our color
palette, we'll draw in a wavy line to pick the rough Feather shadows
on the back of the bird. And then we'll go
to our lighter gray for the next layer of feathers, new layer, and we'll
move that layer underneath our existing layers. We'll draw another level of color again with the
line being shaky. Blue to the way the
feathers fall on the birds. A body will hint to the feather texture on the front of the bird by adding
in that later gray color. I'm happy with all that. So let's, let's combine
all those layers. Will make another layer. This time we're
going to start with, we pick the orange
color and we're going to work on the feet. We're going to outline
the shape of the feet. So we complete our outline, it will automatically fill
in with that orange color. I could have done
both feet together, but I wanted to make
sure I was happy with one shape before I
went on to the next one. Because when we do complete
both shapes of the feet, so they actually will
connect together. There won't be any differentiation
between the two feet. Now that the feet are
done, let's add in another layer and
we're going to add in the darker feathers
that are on top of the top of the feet. Let's create a very
jaggedy shape. I see somehow I had
much, they've selected the background color so it
didn't show anythings too. While it's still active, you can just click on
your color and I'll fill this suction
whatever color you pick. Now let's draw and draw in the feathers on top
of the second foot. Looking good. I want to add in a
rim light effect onto the bottom of the Puffin. So let's go and do that now. At this point, I really
like how this is looking. So if you're ready to
start with the background, Let's move on to
the next lesson.
7. Puffin: Background: The first thing we're
going to do for crying, our background is to make
sure that the background doesn't show up on
top of our Puffin. To do that, we're gonna go
to our background layer and turn it to some
off-white color. We can see where a Puffin
needs to be filled in. Let's create a new layer for
our backwards to fill in for the Buffon and move
it and make sure it's below all the other
layers of the Puffin. We're going to choose
pure white color and start trillion or Puffin. So we'll start with a
head and filling in, making a big circle
for the head shaped, making sure that any
place where I'm seeing that background color show
through will be removed. Now we're going
to the main body. Large area here. So you can
look quickly at the top, comes to the front edge or it
go a little bit carefully. Following along the
contour of that thin line. Then we get to the
bottom. We can again move a little bit faster. Then close it up. Now
we have our Puffin. Now that all the
puppets is completely filled in, we don't
see the background. We can merge those
layers together. Now we can start
with the background new layer and move that. But in Louisville, the Puffin
start with a sky shape. To fill that in, instead
of the freehand, we'll go with a
rectangle because the large area will choose
the top color blue. Drawing the shape of this guy. Now, we can go with
more of the IC color. This is ice is not
gonna be as straight. To go back to our
free hand tool and make some shape for the ice. Now, we're going to add in
an area for the ground. Since the IC shape, I make this layer
below and just fill it in with the brown and the emergency together
and that way can preserve the shape of the ice. The snow, make a
new layer beneath the ice and fill it with white. And that fills in the
whole area with ice. But since I want the top edge
be a little bit jaggedy. So let's go back to layer
that has the sky on it. And with our free-hand
selection tool and the white being selected
for the color fill, I'm going to add in a
little bit of rocky, icy texture is at the top. Merge them all together. I think the last thing
we want to do here is add a place for the
penguins stand on. So we're gonna take
the ice color from our palette and draw
on a new layer, the ice or the rock that
he'll be standing on. And then choose the next
darker color grade. A little bit of shadows. Put the clipping
mask on that layer by swiping with two
fingers to the right. Since I don't want
to show is to go outside of the original shape. Here we have a shadow. With that shadow, I think
we've now finished our puppet. Thank you again so
much for joining me on this Skillshare course. I hope you've learned
a lot about how to use the selection tool and how powerful it is as
a drawing tool. While we made this puff and bird using only the
Selection Tool. Remember, it's only one of the many quote-unquote brushes available to you in Procreate. So you can use this
in combination with all the other
multi-tool with brushes. And I look forward to seeing what amazing things
you've created using the selection tool
alone or with other brushes. Please share them below
in the project section so that I can comment on them. And you can inspire other people taking this course as well to see how easy it is to create
things using Selection tool. Looking forward to seeing
you in another class.
Avraham Nacher, Artist & Photographer
