Procreate for Picture Book Illustration

1. Intro: In today's class, we're going to learn how to create professional illustrations on, in Procreate on your iPad. I love working with Procreate on the iPad because I have three children and it just offers me the flexibility to work wherever I need to. I don't have to be in my studio. I can grab my iPad on my pen in the living room or on the go If we're at the library and get work done. Whenever I have a short moment. In this class, I'm going to show you the basics of Procreate. If you're just a beginner, we'll go over all the tools in the menus really quick and I'll give you a tour, and then I'll show you some of my favorite commands that I used that makes Procreate so fun and easy to use. And then we'll create a practice illustration together step-by-step. And you can see what I think when I illustrate and how I organize my layers and how I add depth and interests with texture and colors. Hi, I'm Erica, and I have a picture book author and an illustrator, and I've worked with publishers big and small for the last five years. And I created books for kids, ranging from picture books, graphic novels to nonfiction. I've been using Procreate for about seven years and it's the program that I use most for my work. That's why I'm really excited for this class to show you and share the things that I've learned along the years. What are you waiting for? Let's go. 2. Overview: I'm so glad you're joining me. In this class. I'll be showing you around procreate and teaching you the basics of how I use the program. After we have the basic tools and commands covered, we're going to drive into a step-by-step tutorial where I show you how to create this chicken illustration from scratch and the thought process that I go through when I'm working on it. So I'm going to be using an iPad and Apple Pencil. And if you don't have an Apple pencil, you can use another stylist That's Use that works for the iPad. Or you could even use your finger, but it's more helpful if you do have some sort of a stylist to work with. If you don't have the brushes that I do, then you can use brushes from other creators or even the basic brushes that came with Procreate. And even if you don't have the latest version of Procreate or the newest iPad or the biggest iPad, you can still participate in this class. We're going to be using very basic functions and basic brushes. And those are available in all the versions of Procreate. If you want to check if your iPad supports Procreate, then you can go to the website below over here. And the website will show you all the iPad versions that are compatible with procreate. If you're using a different program like Procreate or again, for affinity, you can still take this class and learn from, learn from it the way that I illustrate and create my my picture book illustrations. All the functions that I am using. Masks, earlier, masks and different layers and just basic brushes. All those are available in the different programs as well. And you can just skip the part where I'm going through the procreate tutorials and go straight to the step-by-step illustration. And then just be aware of when I am working in Procreate that some of the tools are going to be same in the, all the programs about some of the programs might have different names for them or they might be located. Those commands might be located slightly different in different places, in different programs compared to procreate. But all the basic things that I'm doing in this illustration can also be achieved in other illustration programs. Alright, Enough with the JibJab, let's get into Procreate basics. 3. Introduction to Procreate: When you open the Procreate app, you get this gallery view and you can see I have a bunch of images over here and I organize my images in stacks. And so to. Usually those are the images that have to do with the same project that I'm working on. So if I have a book, then a lot of my book illustrations will then be in the same stack. For this project. I just wanted to show you just how to create a stack so you can either hold an image and drag it over another image, and then it'll bring it in here. Or you can hit Select on the top, click the items that you want to stack. I guess there's not enough for me to stack anymore. But then you can stack multiple. If you had multiple things over here, you could stack them all together. You could also use this menu to select. And then you could also share, if I have multiple things to share, I can hit share and that'll give me options of how I want to share. And then this will also give you, you can duplicate your canvas or then delete it. Just be aware if you delete something, you will not be able to get it back. It doesn't go into a folder. So for right now, I'm going to just drag. So I made it up just a few canvases to show again. So another way to do the same thing as you can also swipe over to the left on your image. And that will give you the option to share that image or duplicate it or delete it. If I hit Duplicate right now, it'll just make two of that same image, then you can also rename your image over here. So this could be chick, chicken, sketch and hit Done. And then you could name all the images that you have. If you wanted to create a new canvas, you would go to the little plus sign over here. It'll give you a new canvas. So here are some that I've already done. Some different sizes. Some are for web. If you do the screen size, that is the size of your screen, but that's a pretty low resolution image. And so to start a brand new canvas, if you're doing picture books, you could do like an eight by ten. And so you can choose if you want it to do inches or if you have a specific pixel, a mountain, you could do that. But a lot of times I could do e.g. the width could be eight and the height could be ten. Your DPI? Usually I try to have it a little bit higher. If it's for a picture book project, I usually do about maybe 350. And then for our Canvas That's eight by 10.350. It also tells you how many layers you can have. Daniel, I don't think I can bring it bigger. So my Canvas That's eight by 10,300.50 dpi would have maximum layers of 50 in it. And the DPI is just how many, how many pixels per inch are in there. And so the bigger the DPI, the sharper your image is going to be. But a normal DPI is usually about 300. But because sometimes with procreate there, if you move things around a little bit fuzzy. So I like to have a little bit of a bigger DPI just to kind of combat that. Then there's time-lapse settings. It's nice that procreate automatically does time-lapse settings. I just have these are the automatic settings that it came on. Good-quality. And then I have Canvas properties and I usually don't touch these either. So usually the only thing that I work with is just the dimensions. And then you hit Create. And then you have your new canvas. Okay, So for the sharing settings, you can come up over here and then you can share it with however you want to share it. So if I wanted to share it as a JPEG, I could share it as a JPEG. And then I would choose where I want to say save it. I usually save up to Drive and then I can work on my computer if I need to resize it. But we can save the computer or save the file right now onto my iPad and I'll show you how to pull it up on Canvas next. And then if I wanted to save without a background, my image would just be the line artwork. I could save it as a PNG. And then that would save it as just the, just the line work without the bad on it. So I can save it as a PFK-2. So when you come into procreate and you have opened up your canvas to start with, are. To start with our illustration process. I want you to go to Add. And then over here you can either add vowels or photos. So I'm going to go to Insert a photo. And then here would be your I have a PNG will add that over here. And I'm just going to drag it to make sure it's the same size as my canvas here. And then I'm going to insert my color palette. I like having my color palette directly on the canvas that I'm working on because it just makes it fast. But if you wanted to, you could also call it copy all these colors into a separate palette down on the bottom over here. And so you could go to Palettes and create a new one. Create a new palette. There we go. So now what you would do is you would go, you can go and hold and see how that it changed the color up here. And then I just hit it over there so I can copy all my colors from over here onto a palette that I can then use with wildlife. If you wanted to delete one, you just hold it and delete it. Then from here I like to I like to be in here just because sometimes I, I changed things and so now my color palette is over here. And if I didn't want this here, I could then hide it. E.g. or if you wanted to use a reference image when you're working, you can go to Canvas and reference, and right now it's the image that I'm using. But I can go Import and then pick. I can pick colors from here in the same way as I could pick colors if I had my or I can pick colors from over here. So whichever seems like the most natural way to work is the best way for you. What I usually do if I'm working on just a one-off illustration, I usually just do this because I'm too lazy to export my color palette and then import it back as a reference. And I don't want to make a whole palette of just something I'm doing once. But if I'm working on a full book project, then I will usually make a palette that then I use that same palette for every single page in that book just to make sure that I get a consistent look. Now that we know how to set up our canvas, Let's look at our Layers menu in our next video. 4. Layers and Brushes: And so kind of showing you a little bit more around over here. So this is your Layers panel. And in here you can create layers. And when we were creating the eight by 10,300.50 dpi, it told us that we can have 50 layers altogether. So that's, that's quite a lot. And so to work with your layers, one thing is swiping over to the left. And you can lock a layer, which means you can't mess with it anymore. You can duplicate a layer or you can delete a layer. And so e.g. this later, I can delete that. I could, if I didn't want to mess with this layer, wanted to make sure it doesn't get deleted, then sometimes you end up drawing on the wrong layer. So it's nice to, you know, to keep your layer locked in that way you're not going to mess with the wrong layer. You can still make it or hide it if you need to. And then to unlock it, you would just do that. Then here, when you click it again or you click on, you can also click on it with your finger. You can name your layers, which is especially helpful if, if I'm working on a picture book illustrations, you can select all the pixels in that layer. And then e.g. if I wanted to go to a different layer, while I have all those pixels selected, I could then e.g. color only on those pixels, but now it would be on a new layer. So that can come in useful sometimes. Then I can copy and then paste the layer, fill the layer clear if I want to, if I want to just delete everything that's on this layer, the Alpha Lock is blocking all the pixels that are in this layer. Another way to turn on the, on and off the alpha layers using two fingers and swiping over to the right. So swiping once we'll turn it locked and swiping a second time and will be unlocked. And so let me demonstrate on a different layer. So let's say I drew something on this layer and then I draw on Alpha Lock. And to demonstrate I can change a different color. Whatever I do on that layer will only be locked to the pixels that I already drew. That comes in really handy if you're trying to fill in areas or recolored things for just add texture. And so that's the Alpha Lock. Then you can do mask. So we'll talk about clipping masks. And then you can invert that, just changed it to the opposite color on the color wheel. You can merge it down and that merges it down to the layer beneath. But if the layer is not showing, then it's going to delete the layer underneath. So if I merge this down right now, then my color palette layer just disappeared because it was not visible. But if you make a mistake like that, you use two-finger tap and that goes that that makes it go back. If I do many times two finger tap, see how it's changing. It's changing all the things I've done. And then if I do three finger tap, then that goes forward. So it's like the back and the cohorts button. And then combine down is just all of them also to merge layers. So let's say I have this layer and I have a differently or a quick way to merge layers is you can either merge them like that or I can grab the layers that I want to merge. So if it's two layers, I can grab two layers and merge two. Or if it's three layers or however many I just grabbed and pinch all those together and that merges all my layers. And so those are just kinda helpful things. No, when you're working on on on your canvas. And then just one more thing. I talked about the masks. And so one that we're going to be using a lot in this class is going to be a clipping mask. And so if you need to create a second layer on top, and then you can click clipping mask. And you'll see this little arrow pointing down, shows up. And what happens then is anything you do on that top layer is going to only is going to show up on the image on the layer below. So I can do the same thing and just draw on the top layer. And it will only show up on the, the, the layer below. And so e.g. if I release the clipping mask now you can see what a big miss, miss I made. And then when I clip it back, it will only show it. I use this technique a lot to create texture in my artwork. That's just really useful. And then if I wanted to, I could also click these two, merge those two together. And then whatever I did on the previous layer now they're altogether. And so that's some of the commands that we're going to be using over here. And then if we go to the Smudge tool, you can use any brush in your library with the smudge tool. And so this one just kinda smudges everything together and the effect will be a little bit different depending what brush you're using. Same thing goes for your eraser. You can use any tool in your gallery as your eraser. And the fun thing is doing really big. So you can see you can create really fun edges. And you can go really lightly or hard. Or if I choose a spatter brush, then it would erase. I really like this about Procreate. And it just makes it really fun to illustrate. So I'm just going to erase that double tapping. And then we got your color. Usually I like to use the disk. And so I can move this thing around to get to the color that I want. And then I can get the value within that color. So I can move it all the way up here and get a very kind of a tan color and move it down here and get a very dark brown. And so this desk and the circle works best for me. There's other ways of sliding things around on. You can do harmonies, values, but then your palettes. But this seems to work for me. Within my palette, underneath the history will show you just the different colors that you've used, but it'll only show you the different colors that you've used if you've come up to your color palette before. And so as you can see, I've got, so we'll do the green and then we'll switch over here. We'll do the yellow. And I can see all these are showing up a little orange. As you can see now, all these colors are in my history. But if I pick colors from elsewhere in the painting and don't go to my color palette in-between. Then those, those colors that I did in-between will not show up. It's only when you come to the color palette that that color disrupt. So that's just a tip. Just so you know. Okay, now that we've explored our tools that we can find on our top right menu. Let's look at what we can find on the top-left in the next video. 5. Actions and Adjustments Menu: Alright, then going up to the top of the year, hitting Gallery will take you back to the previous menu where everything was. And if you go out of your image and you come back in, then your back button will not. So you can double-tap all you want, but it's going to erase all your history up until that point. So that's also something get to know. Your your history will only show it as far as that session that you've done. So if we go over here that for the Actions menu. So you can insert either a file. If you have something saved in your files, you can insert a photo. Sometimes when you download something from the Internet. I'm not sure. Sometimes it saves in my photo depending where I'm saving from, sometimes it's saved in files. So if you can't find something you downloaded in your photos, you can go into your downloads folder in your files. You can also take a photo and then insert it over here. The text option is really great. The text will be whatever color you have over here, so we can make it. So I'm going to double-tap it by double-clicking it, and then I'm going to change so we can do how about a brown? And so now my text is also highlighted. And I can come up over here and I can show my keyboard. I can type whatever I want to type. And then we can type hello. And then I can double-tap it to select it. And then when I hit my A's, that'll give wherever you wrote, it's underneath over here and you can't see it. You can, you can make your canvas smaller if it's, if you want to keep this underneath over here, e.g. or you make it a little bit bigger, you can see it. So I can still move it. Then from here you can change it into a different font. You can change the size of your font. You can change the kerning. So these are all things you can kind of play around with over here. You can also make it just into an outline which in my opinion isn't the greatest time. And then your paragraph styles over here. Then we have your canvas options so you can crop and resize. So you can change your canvas size, you can make it bigger or smaller. I'm going to cancel here. We don t need to crop and resize right now. All right, so show the drawing grade really quick. So I chose the symmetry option. And so whatever I'm drawing on one side, it'll draw on the other side. And so that's great if you're trying to do flowers or if you're trying to do butterflies are other things that you want to be symmetrical. But usually for my illustration purposes, I don't use the dying, right? The only thing I might use as the Great, So I'm going to turn it off for now. Then I already showed you the reference. And then I can also flip my canvas. A lot of times if, especially if you're drawing people as nice to see what you're, what you're drawing and then you just have this information. So you know what you're doing. Then we have our share share options. You can share it as a PSD, which is a Photoshop file. So a lot of times I'll do my final editing and photoshop. And so I did it, export it as a PSD. You can export as a PDF, which is great if you're trying to do a picture book dummies, JPEG, PNG, and tiff. And then sometimes if you want to share some sort of animated things, you can do that too. There's a video on a timer app left replay, which is really fun. And then I usually don't mess with my preferences a whole lot. I'm right-handed, so right and I have it set for right-handed. This will change. If I change it to the other way. Let me see. The only thing that I sometimes that I think the only thing that I missed with a little bit in the beginning was just the, the, these controls, gesture controls. In the gesture controls, you can fine tune some of the commands. And right now, I don't have a lot of them selected, which is just the factory setting. Some things annoy you. And so you might look for, you might look for solutions for them, but I kinda have him at the factory setting and that seems to be working for me. And so while you're working, let's see. So that's everything from there. While you're working, obviously with two fingers, you can pinch and zoom. You can also rotate it. You usually have to. For me, it works easier if I'm also pinching and zooming as I'm rotating to rotate something. And then we get to our adjustments. And which are really great. Sometimes I will use the Liquify. So let's say we put this away for just a minute. Let's see, I drew something, but I really want it to be more in shape of the beam or something I could move that the only caveat with that is it does make it a little bit blurrier whatever line you've been moving. And so just be careful when using the blur tool. So there's all these different effects that you can play with as you're moving things around. And they will do different things. And I usually don't mess with it too much. The one I usually use is just the push, but you could play with them and see if you're doing water ripples or fire or something like that when these things come in handy for that. Another one that I use a lot is my saturation and brightness. And so I'll use the saturation and the brightness a lot of times to play with colors if I'm not quite happy with what they are. And so that's kind of a nice Then there's a color balance which is kind of the same thing as above. You can play with your colors. Then we have curves, which is also useful, more useful if you're working with, if you're working with photos. Little bit less useful for illustrations, but sometimes you might want to bump some things that I usually don't use the Gradient Map. And let's see. And I usually don't use the blurs because I want my images to be sharp. And then we have noise sharpen. I'm not going to get into any of these because they're not usually things that I use. Alright, we've looked at our actions and adjustment venues. And in the next video, let's look at the selection tools which I really liked the way they work in Procreate. 6. Selection Tools: Then we have the selection tools. So the Selection tools are super helpful. And I usually use the free hand tool so I can get, so it's kinda like lasso tool. So I can grab that tool, I can grab the paintbrush. And I can, it will only paint inside of that thing, but I can also take that selection and hit the, the kind of direct Move button and then it will let me move, move that selection over. Then it has the automatic, which is just the tap. And then it'll select whatever I drew. But as you can see, it's not 100% perfect. But if I wanted to select, I could then move my cursor over and you can see what it's. If I move it all the way here, it's barely grabbing anything. I can move over and now it's grabbing everything or most of it left a little bit of the outline over there. Then just tapping to go backwards. You can also do rectangle select or an ellipse select, and then these are, these are additive. So I can select many shapes. I can also pick up my pen in the middle of drawing a shape. So it's a little bit different than Photoshop if you've worked with that before. And then I can also do straight lines by just tapping and selecting. And then if I wanted to remove a part of my selection while I'm still in here. I can also then go and move, remove an area that's been selected and I sorry, it's a little bit dark. And then I can also invert my selection. So now the outside is selected. Then read it back. I can see hey here. Or I could also click and drag. And that will also fill those in. And now, if I, if I wanted to change my selection, and right now I don't see my menu. If you just hold over here, it'll bring your everything back. And so I can now copy and paste everything that I've done that already made a new one. And so now I have my my copy and pasted items that I just did. I can feather items. So if I have a selection, see right here, I could then feather it and see how those were. There's barely a line that you can see but the line moves. And so remember how when I fill these in, they were really crisp and clear. But now when I fill this in, see how blurry that was, the feathering just makes the edge blurrier. And then there's also a color fill, which is really helpful. So let's say, let me delete these. So let's say a bunch of little, little shapes. And then making sure I have a color that I wanted. I could do color fill and then it just fills in everything that I just did. Or I can also do clear, which then clears everything that I had just selected. The selection tool, in my opinion, is really amazing. Alright, so lastly, we have the selection. And so whatever you have on that layer, it will select it. And click that on. Alright. So then we can just click a partial thing. Click the Move button, and now we just move. And we can also resize things. And then lastly, a copy and paste options. So if i, I can either copy the whole layer. So right now I have my flower layer selected. I can three finger swipe and that will give me Cut Copy, Copy, I'll duplicate, copy and paste and paste it in. So a lot of times I will do copy or I can do, or I'll do duplicate. If I want to duplicate the layer. I can also, if I, let's say I have a I have like an eyeball or something. And then I realized, oh no, I put these in the same layer, but I really need these things on a different layer. And then I could, even now I could cut and paste, and now these guys would be on their own layer. And then I could go back in and fill. So sometimes I make mistakes and that's how I fix those mistakes. And then the other function, a lot of times that I'll use, let me show you is the copy off and that's when you're working on an illustration. See how everything is on a different layer over here. If I just copy one layer, it's only going to copy this one layer. But if I hit Copy all, it's going to copy this whole canvas instead of just that one layer. If I wanted to bring that image over here, then I go paste. And now it just pasted my whole image. But it will not copy and paste all those individual layers. It will copy and pasted just as 11j. Okay? And so hopefully that makes sense and that gets you used to all your tools. Procreate actually comes with a lot of tools already. These are just some of the sketching tools that are really great to use. So let's just look at a few that we can use for this class. 7. Modifying Brushes: Okay, So if this reference photo that you have over here, you can always change this to. And so let me put this back over here. And so you can change this to this. And it's really nice to have. So e.g. this is great to have over here. Let's say you're working on something over here. And you want to see how it looks like in relation to the whole image. It's really nice to then have it you can go under here and it won't go on your reference image either. And so sometimes it might be useful to see the whole image while you're working on a detail. So that's one great thing that the reference can do. You can also pick an image. So right now I imported, you can clear, you can import a new image. So when I was originally coming up with the idea for this, I had, I've got some images of chickens so I know what colors I wanted to have a little red chicken. So you can have that. Or you could use face, which is actually, you know, if you're trying to tie, you can see my camera over here. If you're trying to draw yourself, do a self portrait, then when you're done using your reference. So like I said, you can make reference image bigger or smaller. You could zoom in really, really close by over here. And then when you're done using the reference image, you can just put away. You can also move your reference. Let me bring it up one more time since I really like using the reference. Once you have your reference here, you can also, if you're left-handed, you can move it out of your way. You move it wherever it needs to be. Then lastly, I'm mostly using Retro Supply brushes for this, for this class. But I did make a special little set. And these are just, these are from mom brushes that already come with procreate. So I have the mono line, which just makes a nice, nice crisp line. Then I liked using the pestle. And then there's the square pencil, which just doesn't have a taper on it. Then there's a streaky, which is great for those wood textures. And then I made a splatter, which makes just that spatter texture. And then this is copper head, which is also a streaky. You can choose which one you like better. And I use the name of the original brush. So there's copper head, copper head. These were all, these were the same brush but just changing the brush settings. Also the pencil is the same brush. I just changed the settings and this is a different one. And so these brushes were originally in the sketching. I have the 66b pencil, those over here and then the drawing, you have the sticks in the copper ahead here, which I just altered a little bit. And so procreate already comes with a ton of brushes in it. And you can take some of these brushes on late and then make a copy of it. Then you can just go in here and play with it and see if this one has kind of a fun grading texture too. You can play with the shape. So this is what your shape source looks like. This one obviously wouldn't make a little scatter brush. And this is the grain source. So it's using this as kind of the shape and then this as the inside. So when you're moving around, it'll have this texture inside of this shape. So that's kinda how it works. And so just by changing some of these things, you can really changed the way. You can already see how it's changing some of these things. So this is the actual footage of me changing some of these brushes in the settings so that I can include them in class for you. And mostly I am just changing the pressure settings for the pen so I can get a blunt instead of a tapered ending. And then I'm changing some other scattered settings for this brush so that I can get more of a splatter brush instead of out liner brush. And then the next thing I wanted to change was the vessel brush. And for this one, I also went for the pressure settings and changed the taper over there down to zero. So that way instead of tapered ending, I can get a flat ending, a square, square brush. I've taken a few brushes and you can download these in the resources section for free and then install them in your procreate. And let me show you really quick how that's done to you. Okay, so I'm going to tap over here, import. So I have it right here. Me drawing when you click on it. And then imports it, and then you will find it right here on the top. If you want to move any of your bushes around, you can always go to, let's say I'm over here. And I really going to duplicate this because I don't really want to move it over there. But I could take my brush, tap and hold. And then I'm going to move it right here. And now I have my brush in my drawing set. But if you really don't want it there, then you can also just delete it. So that's how you can add a new brush set. And you can use these brushes for this tutorial. That's all I wanted to show, just my two favorite ways of changing the brushes. I like to, oftentimes change the brush size. And then I like to streamline them to have kind of two different liners available for me when I'm working. And so let me show you that really quick. And then we'll get to our final project. Like right now the pencil is set all the way up and I can't get it any bigger, but sometimes I really want it to be bigger. And so what you can do is you can tap on your tool and it will actually give you this whole option. In this menu, I can come up to Properties, and then I can do my maximum size and see how that changes the maximum size of my pencil. So I can come up over here. And it'll give you the minimum size over here to maximum capacity and so on. So usually I will change this and now see how I got a bigger line. So that's one tip for you. And then a lot of times what I'll do is I will make a coffee. So I will duplicate this, this pencil and now it has pencil one. And then go in here. And I usually do the streamline. You can actually test your pencil over here. So I'll move, change my streamline. And you can even change the name of your pencil. So you can go about this brush and then hit on the top, no streamline as long word. So it'll just so now I know that this one is streamlined. This one's irregular so to compare. So sometimes I'll like my lines are just a little bit wiggly. But then with the streamline, it just makes a smoother line. But it will also, the streamline will also, because it does smooth your line, it doesn't always want to do squiggly things very well what I want to do. So I usually have two versions of my favorite liner brushes. And in the next video, let me just delve a little bit into, let me delve a little bit into how I research and come up with my color palette and reference photos when I start a new illustration. 8. RGB vs CMYK: In this video, I just wanted to briefly go over the difference between RGB and CMYK. And you've probably heard these abbreviations before. And I wanted to clear up any confusion that you might have between the spaces and what they're used for. Especially because with picture books, we are hoping at least at some point to be creating illustrations for it to be printed in books, not just to be shown online. So when we're talking about the differences between CMYK and RGB, the difference really is between the end product where that image is going to be. And so when we talk about the CMYK color space and those images are going to be printed on something. And when we talked about the RGB color space, those images are going to be viewed, viewed on screens, are on computers and phones. Knowing that if you think about a printer, a color process where you are physically taking, where you are physically taking color particles and layering them on top of each other to create colors just like if you had a set of watercolors and then you mix the colors together, yellow and blue would make green. And so in the CMYK color space, you are working with four colors, cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. And you are only able to create colors that are, you know, that you can mix with those four different colors. And so it's a limited color palette. In general, you can't get really bright saturated oranges or bright saturated greens are kind of deals. And so it's better to stay a little bit more muted. And just be aware of that when we're talking about RGB. That's red, yellow, red, green, and blue. And that's going to be on a computer screen. And the, and they're additive colors. And where you're adding, there's light coming off the screen behind those colors. And so they're always going to be much brighter than something that's being printed on fabric where you don't have that light shining through. So here's just one example of, and it looks a little bit brighter here, maybe on the screen. But in general, you'll notice that especially with the team feels that the mixed colors, how the CMYK space, you're not able to get the right bright, saturated colors, like you would be in the RGB. So whatever color palette that you're creating, if you think that the end product is going to be something that's going to be printed. Like you're creating something for a t-shirt or print on-demand mug, or even something for Amazon kVp, a book that you're trying to print, it's always a good idea to take whatever color palette you have and then run it through a RGB to CMYK converter and just double-check and make sure all your colors work. And if you are able to, The best thing is to always order one sample of whatever you're doing just so that you can check your colors just to make sure that they match, depending on what your end printed product is going to be. You can also talk to your printer or look online if it's a print on-demand and see what kind of a scarlet color space they work with. There's different kinds of CMYK settings. And knowing what the end result will be is going to help with getting the right colors to begin with. But if you're just beginning and you are just creating pieces for your portfolio and for social media and online purposes, then you don't have to worry about the CMYK and RGB conversions as of now, you can just work comfortably in RGB. 9. My Favorite Features: So I just wanted to cover a few things before we get to our actual final project that are native to procreate and that make your workflow a lot faster and easier. And so one thing is it has really great snapping. So you draw a shape and then you hold it without letting go. And then it will snap to the closest shape. And then you get this menu here and you can actually click on it and it'll give you a few options. So I can do a polyline and it'll actually give me points to grab your rectangle. Or I could even do just do a square. And now I can move things around just the way it is or the end it will do it for. Let me go back. So I could do some sort of a circle shape. And then I can choose if I want an ellipse or a circle. And then grabbing these points, I can change things around. I can also move my item around. And I can do the same for lines or angle lines. Or I can do for curves. And I could always also make it different. I can also change my ending points depending how I want to change those. So those are really helpful and I use those a lot. And then the second thing that I wanted to show is just filling in multiple shapes. And so if you've been working on, I don't know, tree leaves or flowers, just make sure your shapes are closed. Then you want to fill all these in with the same shape. After you've created them, you can either fill them on the same layer. So I can either fill them like this. And then you get your option over here, continue filling. And then I just tapped wherever I want it to fill those in. Or I wanted to just give you the option or show you so I could use this and make it a reference. And so you'll see a little reference popped up over here. And then I could do either the same color, we could do different color. And then whatever I do on the second color, it will now do it on a, on the second layer. And so that can be really, really, and that can be really useful to. Alright, now I shared my best tips with you. Let's start with our chicken illustration. 10. Sketching and Colorpalette: So the first thing when I, when I start to work on a new illustration is I, oftentimes have a color palette and kind of subject matter in mind for the project that we're going to be doing together today. I thought it would be fun to do fairly simple illustration of a little chicken and little baby chick. I just wanted to show a few of the sketches that I did before I got into the final one. And so this was my original idea that I had. I thought it would be fun to do a chicken because I'm already working on a farm book right now. And farm animals and farms are popular topics in an evergreen topics in picture books. And so if you can have a few farm related pieces in your portfolio, then that's always, that's always nice. But the piece that we're creating in this class, please don't use my illustration in your portfolio after you finish it. Create your own. But this is just a good starter, just to learn the techniques and then you can make your own sketches after that and use that in your portfolio. Then the second idea I had was the first one, I was going to have some other chicks and then the one was trying to run away. But it wasn't quite working for me and I wanted to have the chicken really big in the chick, but I really needed more of a horizontal space. And so I decided it wasn't going to work for this class. And then I came up with this one. And this one, I was also thinking about drawing other chicks in there. But I just really wanted to also keep this illustration very simple. And all my ideas were a little bit too complicated. And then this was my third idea. I was thinking the mother hen leading it up in one running off, but this ended up being, I felt like a little bit too complicated for this class again. And so the, the illustration that we actually did, it was the fourth idea that I came up with. And so it's chicken with a sweater and the chicken pulling on it. And we'll talk about that in a minute. And this is the final sketch I did that we're going to be using in this class because we're working in children's illustration. I don't just want a picture of a chicken with a baby chick. I want there to be a story in the picture. So I've added some extra props and elements in here to add to the storytelling of this piece. So It's obviously knitting a little sweater and you can see that the little trick is pulling and there's something happening over here that we don t know. I've added some. I tried to keep the simple because I wanted you to follow me along as we're working on it. And so I'm providing the sketch as part of the class and you can download it in the download section. Let's look at color palette next. For color palette. Once I kinda have an idea of what the picture is going to be, I use a lot of times I will go to Pinterest. If it's a book, I'll take a little bit more seriously. But since it's just a one-off illustration, I oftentimes I have illustrated Pinterest board called the illustration places. And I can come up here and I can look at illustrations. And C. As a person, I'm drawn to specific colors. I like TO a lot. So you'll notice that almost all the illustrations on this wall will have some sort of blue. And I like it when there's a teal and a kind of orangey red and yellow. Those are my favorite colors and illustration. So you'll notice that on my Pinterest wall or board, there's a lot of those colors in here. And so when I was getting ready for this class, I went through and I know I'm working on a chicken and a farm, so I know I want some greens and things. And so I thought this picture was kind of a fun, fun piece to use. And this is by Greg pop rocky. And they are actually, we have some of these books. They're actually these alphabet books that have these fun kind of vintage illustrations. And so usually what I do is I'll either take a screenshot or somehow tried to save this image onto my tablet. And then when I come up to my, my back to my sketch, I can go to Canvas. And then I'm going to go to reference. And then I'm going to pick that image that I just saved onto my computer iPad. Then what I'll do is you can make this bigger or smaller. I'm making a little bit bigger. And then I'll come back and I'll get a new layer going. And I'm going to actually put, I usually have my color palette on the top. So you can, I'll show you how to make a color palette over here, but a lot of times it's faster for me if I just have a color palette right on top of wherever I'm working on. So what I'll do is I'll you just hold I hold with my my fingernail and I'll pick some colors. Now you usually try to pick adjacent colors are colors that are close in on the color wheel. And I'll kinda put those together. And I'll pick some, some nice colors that I want to work with over here. There's a darker purpley, red over here. Then we have some greens. And my colors might change a little bit. It's not absolute that these ends up being the colors that I end up using. This kid is you kinda have an idea of how I usually, if I'm using another illustration as a reference photo, this is usually done. I go and I pick colors from their skin tone. I'm not sure which ones I'll use in this illustration, but this, this gives me this, this pink over here just seems too much of an outlier. So I'm going to skip using that in my palette. I have some colors picked and we are ready to go. 11. Painting the Background: Let's start drawing. And I brought, I've already practiced this once. And so I've got my color palette that I used for the first time around that I have ready. And this color palette will also be supplied in the class materials in the class notes. So you can download it from there if you wanted to just upload it onto your canvas and use it on your canvas. And a lot of times I'll just kinda start with some of the easy parts that I know what I'm going to be working on. And so for me an easy shape to start off with e.g. is this kind of chicken coop shape over here. And when I start, when I'm working, I usually have my color palette on one layer and then I'll have my sketch on another layer. And I set my sketch to multiply. And then I'll kinda make it a little bit faint. And then I'll work on these layers underneath over here. And so I'm going to start with one layer. So usually when I'm working, this is a kind of a brush palette that I've developed that I, that works for me for illustration and for this class. What we'll end up using is I have a liner tool, and so I usually do two versions of the liner tool. There's a regular drawing tool that just draws normally. And then I have a version of it that's more streamlined. So you can see that it doesn't do though it's harder to do those with Deleuze because it wants to make things smoother. It's especially helpful because a lot of times my handle kinda shake when I'm trying to do lines like so it's easier to do straight lines. If I have a smoother, It's the same brush, but one is just a smoother version. And a lot of times I'll just write streamline on it. And so I have the same thing. So this is my one-liner that I use this as a second liner and this is the streamlined. And then I also have this as a streamlined and then my pencil is a streamline, so it just makes it faster for me to work in. The brushes that I'll be using is just mostly this, drawing, the straight brush. And then we will be using the six B pencil. That is the brush that comes with that comes with Procreate. And then I like to use the Retro Supply brushes, brushes and three other brushes that we're going to be using in this class are from that brush set, the Woodland Wonderland brush set from Retro Supply Company. And so I'm using the grain. And then the, I guess this is called a gouache brush. And then I'll be using the pencil brush from over here. So these are the only brushes that I'll be using for this class. So just to begin with, I'm going to start drawing this shape out. And so I can draw a line and then if I stop and hold, it'll, it'll make that interest rate line. And so draw that line out. And then I will tap and then drag my color to fill out a shape. And then a lot of times to get some extra texture for my paint drawings, I will do a second layer on the top and mark it as a clipping mask. Then I will pick another color. And then I'm going to be using this. So the sag wash brush. Then I'm just going to be drawing back lions kinda back-and-forth just to create kind of like a wood texture. So as you can see, whatever whatever I just drew, the clipping mask will make it only appear on the layer that's underneath. And I think I'd like it just the way it is. You can either keep them as two separate layers or if you want to save space on your canvas and make it easier to scroll from different layers. You can also merge them together if you're not quite sure what you're doing, It's always nice to keep them separate. And then you can always merge them later so we can leave them right, like this right now. And so then I start working either up or down. And so the next one I could work. The next one thing I could work on could be the little these little boards next to the I think I wanted to kinda like a grayish color. And I'm just thinking, would There's just drawing these shapes out over here. You don't have to be perfect lines. And then I'll just drag and drop my colors over there. Maybe they can be maybe slightly darker. And then I was going to draw, switch to my pencil tool. And so a different way to add texture is you could just use your two fingers and swipe, right? And then that will change it so that the pixels are locked. So now even if I tried to draw on the outside over here, it will only draw. So it's a different way of getting the same effect, but with this way, I'm drawing on the same layer. Continuing on the layer on the top. So the next thing I wanna do is just add some wood grain over here. And then I think I wanted to add a little bit of a darker line just for the middle right here. So I'm just going to press and hold. And so now if I remove the layer underneath, you can kinda see what I did. Where we are right now. It goes really fast and it's kind of like magic. So now I've got these two pieces and then I can go on a layer underneath over there and I'll work on that chicken coop. And so I can just draw an area over here that in, and while I'm at it, I think we can also fill in our sky. And so this guy was picked from that other illustration, but I feel like it's a little bit too dark. So what I wanted to do was just go a little bit lighter. Then get Mike wash. I'm going to see maybe I'll do it on the second layer. So I'm going to create another clipping mask. And then just to kinda like a little AIR, think about it, a little clouds, but just fade things up a little bit. And just adding a little bit of texture in there. I'm just going to merge these two together. So to merge, I grabbed, touch both of them and pinch them together so it's harder to do it. So if you wanted to merge layers really quickly, you can merge and they can be any layers. They can be all these layers can be merged at the same time. Alright, so the next, so as you can tell, I'm kinda going in order for the year. And so we can work on this tree trunk over here. And usually things that I want to be pop in to be in the, in the front. I use warmer colors for those and things that I want to recede, I would use cool, cooler colors. So as you can see, there's a lot of several browse over here. These brands are cooler and these brands are warmer. So we're working on a tree trunk that's far away. I wanted to pick one of the darker colors are just making sure my brush, I have this true chunk in and it doesn't really matter the areas that are not going to show how you block those in because nobody's going to see it anyways. And so I'm going to do the same kind of treatment as I did for that other tree bark or the the tree lines over there. And then I'll try to pick a darker color. This one. I've got my my SO you can either do a clipping mask or work on the same one. So maybe we can work on that. And sometimes we have to draw him a few times. You don't want thick lines to be because right now they're evenly distributed. And so the nice thing with the clipping mask is if I would have drawn it directly on top of my brown tree trunk, they would have been with the brown and I could have erased it by just taking the brown color and coloring brown on top. Alright, so now we have that. And then the next one, I'm going to just merge these down because I'm happy with the way it is. Then the next part could be our tree. And I'm going to start with the darker color for the tree and then I'm going to hide that so it's just out of the way so I can draw over here. I don't want the streamline because it's going to be hard to do this because it'll try to layer it on the top. And so I'm going to come in here. Sure. I'm on the right layer, yes. And everybody has a different way of drawing. They're happy trees. And so it's up to you, however, do you want to draw yours? And so there's just my way of drawing those leaves. And then I'll do another clipping mask. So that's up to you. What kind of texture you want to create for your tree. You don't want to make it too busy because otherwise it will detract from what's going to be happening here in the front. So so that's that's fine. And then while I'm at it, I'm going to put those together while I'm at it. I will create a shadow for my tree. And to create a shadow for my tree, I'm going to set this at multiply. And then just grabbing, you can grab the blue is a nice color because you can think the light that's coming is blue. So just thinking where those lights would be and then what you can do is you can also make it a little bit less severe. And so now we've got our back country and then we got to work on our on our roof. Okay. So let's see. I'm going to, because I made this one this color. I think I'm going to try to make this one the lighter color. And I'm just looking at my layers. So I can probably sometime a lot of times I'll try to put things on top. So let me see, are on the same layer if I can help it. So this just needs to go in-between now over here. So you have to change my brush. Then just quoting that off so I can drop my color in there and then get grabbing this color or make it bigger. Mark my lock my maps. I locked my pixels and just adding units the same color I used over here. So I figured it's fine. If I use it over there. Then I'm going to use just a little bit of this to create a shadow on there. So I'm just starting from kinda farther away. And then also grabbing my pencil. Maybe it's a little bit too. They're just adding. And then while I'm at it, I'm going to add a little bit of just making some adjustments over here with the same those splatter brush. I'm just adding a little bit of dark. Grabbing this color, picking slightly lighter color, and adding a little bit of highlight over there like that. Alright, then let's do. The next thing we could do is we can add our grass in there. 12. Grass and Background: So grab the selection tool and then I'll just grab some of these areas. So I have this area right here, this area right here, maybe right there, and then two. So I have this little pieces of grass coming through. And so I actually can hit Remove and then go back in here and then remove those areas. And so that way now I only have these couple of areas selected. And then I'm going to go grab my brush and let's grab kind of a grayish color. I am adding some colors here as we're going. I'm just kind of gently going back and forth, just trying to add a little bit of extra interests to this grass. So it's not all just plain, plain Jane. So now we're already starting to look pretty good and we can start working on our main characters. We've got the chicken coop by almost forgot. Alright, so let's get to a chicken coop. So I'm going to do very much what we did right here. And we can actually, Let's see, make sure we're putting it, it can go on the same layer. Okay, and then for my steps, they're just going to be these dark little. So I'm just selecting these areas. Now. Painting goes in. There. It's good. You don't have to be 100% on top of each other. And then I wanted to add a little bit of straw on here too, just because it's coming out of the chicken coop. So I'll add that on its own layer, especially if I'm not 100% sure what I'm doing. So I have this thin pencil That's also from the woodland wonderland pack. I like it because it doesn't, it's not tapered, so it makes this kind of a, just a square mark. So let's pick some yellow maybe a little bit too. Since I'm doing straw. Let's do. So I like to do usually one color and then another color. So we'll do another one, maybe one more of their pinch these two together. And then we're going to add a clipping mask. And so I wanted to add a shadow layer over here again. So I'm going to multiply. Unless you aren't really saturated colors, you can just do kind of grace, shadow in there. Even if you wanted to shave those two. Alright, so now we have some shading, some interests going on and I'll merge them down. Alright, so let's walk to work on our chickens next. 13. Painting Main Character: Okay, so to begin with, I thought it would be fun to have kind of reddish color chicken. And so let's see. We'll go with that color to begin with. It would be good idea to put my chicken and a new layer. Chicken gets its own new layer. And so on. I'm just going to trace my chicken all the way around. There's something coming underneath. It's not a big deal. I person, if I draw my shape and I hold, it's going to give me an option to if I press and hold look at gives me the thing right here. So if you, if it's not quite the way you wanted it to be, can come up here and adjust them and then just hit your drawing button again. Alright, So then I'm going to drag my color over again. And here's my chicken and this is kinda like the bones for my chicken. You like I want my chicken beer. I want her to be a little bit more red. Alright, then we have these lighter colors over here. And then to work all these extra details for my chicken, I actually took some looked up some reference photos for rent chickens. This is just a reference photo that I picked out. And so if you look at the chicken, you'll see that they have darker next, and then they have some dark colors, maybe around over here and some lighter specks on the neck. And so that's kind of what I thought I would do the same for my check. And let's make sure I'm clipping mask. I'm going to grab wanted to make a darker color. That's kinda more around when you're under clipping masks, you are actually drawing in your own. So if I release this clipping mask, then you'll be able to see every do dad that I do over here. But once I make it into the clipping mask, then you can see that anymore. So just know that everything's there that you're drawing, even if it's not showing know what you're doing. Then let's see. We wanted to do the neck. And then sometimes see how there's this line where it didn't quite fill out. That's actually because my bottoms and fell down. So sometimes when you especially if you're drawing with a jaggedy, jaggedy thing and then you try to fill that in. You'll see the, all these little marks over here. And so a way to fix that is by about you hold and then when you move this and see how that all gets filled in, if you move it too far, then it goes past. So that's just a little trick. So obviously I didn't do that over here, so I'll have to go fix that really quick places. But there have been times where I've done a lot of the illustration, illustration already. And then because I like to work with the Clipping Masks all notice that, Oh gosh, you know, something isn't filled in properly. And then I'll have to go fix all these edges. So good thing we caught it here in the beginning. There you go. Alright, so let's try this again. So, yeah. All right, So now we've already got nice working working chicken over here. I'm just trying to clean up. And then to add some texture, I'm going to grab my pencil. And so instead of coloring everything with a smooth ball, grab my pencil coloring tool. Then let's start adding some highlights. Something. Few things over there. Alright, and then some highlights. So I thought this chicken could be things. Little feather. And instead of filling these in with the fill tool, I'm going to be coloring these in with my pencil brush just because it just leaves all these little areas that are uncolored and it just gives the drawing a little bit more texture instead of everything being clinically the building. So it just makes it a little bit more interesting to look at, to change and add some texture here and there. So there's one, there's one over here that we can't quite see it because it's kinda on the bottom side over there. Then I'm going to add some texture. Texture. Looks little feather things over here. And these ones I'm just making a position as I'm going. I just didn't kinda just want them to be random and some of them are figure, some of them are smaller. You don't want it to be too busy. But you want there to be something interesting to look at. Right? Now. We have a beginning. Let me just zoom in so you can see that texture just a little bit. So it's not perfect. They're kinda fun. Little shapes. Yeah, I think that looks nice. Let's work on the top. So I think this would be a good color. Also. There's kind of two different shades I had picked out over here. Doesn't really matter. Hold on. I need to have a new layer. And I'm going to continue working with my my pencil tool. And then let's grab. So it's nice when you have this palette because then you just pick and choose from here. I'm going to make this underneath over here. So to move layers, you just grab it and it sometimes automatically wants to make it into a clipping mask because the layer underneath it as a clipping mask. So I just hit the hit the Clipping Mask button again to release it. And then we had white over here. So I'm going to pick this color. It's not a pure white, but close enough. I always want to have my eyes on their own layer. And then let's see. Then we'll duplicate the mask or the eyeball. Dark. Grab that one. Sure. She looks like she's looking at this. I made mine I'd want to make sure I make it look like she's looking at the chick. Sometimes you just have to draw things a few times just to make sure you get it right. Then I don't want the eyebrows. Dark brown eyebrows. Alright. It looks like I think I still have room on this layer to add. My beak. Could see how light it is. It might need to be slightly different color. Now we have a smiling chicken, will probably have to outline some things here. Let's see, just to make sure they don't get lost. And then I wanted to outline the her hands too. And so let's see, just maybe a darker version of what we have going on here. Streamlining it. That looks nice. Now my eyebrow looks a little bit dark. Try this color for the high ground. We'll see how that goes. And let's see, I think is very hard to get in and printed colors. So we'll see how this looks. Let's see. So I'm getting my pencil, adding some tricky checks over there. Okay? And before we do any highlighting, let's just finish our other characters over here as well. Maybe if the chicken needs just a little bit more than I probably need die like this other thing too. Then I need to do my knitting needles. Let's see, those are going to be going, let's see what layers going to be good. I'm just going to draw them in this part. Alright, and then let's work on our yellow. And so I wanted to make this ball, or I went to the chicken, the chicken, the sweater to be two different colors. And I figure if the chick is kind of the same color as the mom's eye patch, then I was going to make the sweater kind of a bright yellow. 14. Final Touches: Okay, so now we're working first on our yellow sweater. And I've created a little bit of a brighter yellow than what we had on the palette. And I've created the sweater by just drawing the shape and then dragging the color and now the shape for the ball as well. And then I'll create a new layer for the actual string of yarns so that I can draw it several times if I need to clipping mask. Alright, then I wanted to add this little string, but I want to, I want to put it on a different one just in case. So I'm going to merge these down. One, my yellow. Now, if it didn't turn right, then it's just easy. If I wanted to use my streamline tool might be better. Make sure it's likely. That looks pretty good. And now if I wanted to move it a little bit, you can also go up to the top and go to your adjustments and then do liquefy. And then I already have it set how I like it was the size and the pressure from previous projects. And then you could move this around just just the hair just to get it where you need it to go. But I wouldn't use it too much because it does blur it just a little bit. So just be so compared to if I look at my string over here, if I look over here, it's a little bit more blurry, but since it's on a small scale, you can't really see it when you're looking at it this week. Then just to make sure that I can kinda see that over here, I'm going to lock my pixels. Then grab that darker color. And then let's see how if you want to highlight over here. If it's hard for you to see sometimes with your sketch, you can always take your sketch off out of the way, see if it makes it. That looks good enough for me. Let's work on our little tricky dude. Let's see, he's in front of the wing, so I need to make sure I put them on one of the layers. Junkies are kind of fluffy, so that's why I'm going with this outline for it. And then that this wing is behind over here and I wanted to add some shadow for it. So I'm going to add that laying onto a different layer and also the beak. So I'm going to go one layer below. All right, and then on the next layer, again, I can draw it and then hold. And that'll give me an oval. I can edit. Fill it in and say here's my pencil brush for the other one, I'm going to use my pencil brush for this one to align them to match. And I got to make sure I get my wing. Let's see. It looks a little bit doll for me. So sometimes if I want to adjust a color, I want to look at everything as a whole. And then I'll go to adjusting my saturation and brightness. It's kinda feel like maybe he needs to be a little bit yellower and brighter just so we can see him and now he's just more visible. If I wanted to, I could do the same. So I'm going to tag that color and go over here. I'm going to lock my, my pixels and now I can color it in there. And then maybe we can add a highlight. Since Trekkies have some different color on there too. So maybe it will go with something like that there and then repeat that for the other lane. Lock my pixels. So overlapping this up dynein towards this way gives us a little bit more of a illusion of depth over here. Look at them a little few, little fluffy. He's made a little bit of something for the eye to be something darker. Going to get it just right there. Let's see. We'll give them a little bit of an eyebrow to you. Super excited. We'll use the same colors or chicken. Chicken just highlight or give them a little bit more edge here. What do you think? It's good? Now, we can see him off the green grass. Alright, let's see, let's look at some of our grasp or the front that I think that's the last thing that we have to work on over here, some shadows. And so to make shadows, I will go right above my, I have the shadow layer for my grass layer here and then I have the little grip for the grass. So I'm gonna go one above that. And then I'm going to turn this into a multiply. Grant that. And then I usually like to do my shadows with this brush or the pencil brush, and we'll go with this one for now. And then we also need to add some shadows for chicken, I just realized. So let's see. I don't want to go somewhere above everything right here. And I'm going to keep using that same color as I had before. I think I want to make bigger. So I want to make sure I add some shadows. Actually, I probably want to put this underneath my sweater layer. So I'm adding some shadows over here. And I want to add some shadows. Actually I need, since this is, I'm only trying to apply it to our red layer here. So maybe my best bet is to have it right here and have it apply. See it clipped it down to my red mask. Let's add some interest for our tail feathers. Going to grab my eraser and change it to my pencil. Actually, do the streamline. Be a little bit bigger? We can eat an ad. They're not just adds a little bit of interest and maybe we'll do the same thing. Just trying to get them just right. Sorry, sometimes there are these little details they can take the longest, just trying to get them right. And maybe we need to add a little bit more shadow to the neck area over there. It gets too dark. They're having some interests bringing it closer so you can see what I did looking pretty good, just looking at where we need to do our grasses over here. So then our grasses are going on top of things. I like it because it'll give it, give it a little bit more. Three-dimensionality over here. I need to erase this one that's down here. Maybe adding a few more then because they're overlapping and I just wanted to add some of that grass color underneath over here and assistance. These things are kind of getting out of here. Maybe they don't need the shadow as much on them. Now you can just look at it as a whole and take our planning. Yeah, I think everything, it looks good. I think I'm happy with it. So now we're done. Maybe one more. I think just more interested over here. Make sure I'm getting in my right layer. Just adding some interests over here. And then maybe we need to have a little cheeky for this guy to the wrong layer. Maybe it needs to be a little bit lighter. They're cute. All right, Now we're done. Alright, last things I hope you liked it. And I will see you in the next video. 15. Drawing Timelapse: Okay, So I promised this time-lapse of our illustration. And so here it is. Hope you enjoy it. 16. Last Thoughts: That was so much fun. 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