Procreate For The Absolute Beginner: An Introduction To Digital Painting

1. Introduction: A couple of years ago, I was so tired of drawing traditionally, and I used to admire artists that I could see on Instagram. I could see the hyper-realistic types of portraits that they used to make using the app, Procreate an app on their tablet. I wanted to start doing that but for the life of me, I couldn't figure out where to start. This class is for all of you who want to start using Procreate once that drawing digitally, but you do not know where to start. Hi, my name is Jenna an artist from Nairobi, Kenya I've been drawing for the past five or so years, and my passion is making art accessible to everyone no matter your age, no matter your background, because I remember how it was. First at drawing as a beginner artist after taking a really long break from art. In this class, I shall take you through the absolute basics of Procreate. If you've ever wanted to know how to use Procreate, this is a class for you because I shall take you through every single tiny little thing that has to do with Procreate. We shall start with how to setup your Canvas and go through all the different tools that Procreate has to offer. I shall explain to you all the tools that are in the app and by the end of this class, trust me, you will know how to use the app and how to even create your own beautiful artwork with it. Along the way, I shall also show you my little tips and tricks of things that I do to make my workflow easier and of other things that you can do to include in your work to make it to outstanding and different from all the others that are out there. How to bring in your own little flair to your artwork. If you're ready for that, join me in this class and let's move on to the first lesson. [MUSIC] 2. Materials: [MUSIC] Let's go through all the things that you'll need for this class and the things that you'll need are really few. First of all, you'll need your iPad, and Unfortunately, or fortunately, you can only access Procreate through the App Store, the through iOS devices. So whichever iPad you have, as long as it can support Procreate, that's all you need. Then other than that, you also need a pencil. I really use the Apple pencil, the faster nutrition because that's what's compatible with my iPad. There are also other styluses out there. That can get on Amazon that are configured to work together with the iPad. I've never tried any of them. But if you find one that works and has good pressure sensitivity, it's a good idea to try it because I'm sure most of them are more affordable than the apple pen. The other thing that you'll need, though, it is not a must, if you can get a drawing, glove it normally look like this. The two fingers of yours will be covered, and that is because when you wear it like this and you're drawing on your surface, it just protect your palm from the screen so that you don't leave any smudges, and also in case, your palm ends up drawing or putting strokes where it's not supposed to be that is avoided. But that rarely happens because I've drawn without. I always tend to lose it so I draw without it quite a bit, and I never really draw on the wrong place because of my pump. So this is not a must. Good to have, but not a must. The last thing that you will need for this class is access to the Internet. Which of course, if you're accessing this class, I'm sure you have, and now, after going through all of that, let's talk about this class's class project. [MUSIC] 3. Class Project: [MUSIC] For this class, the class project shall be continuous, let me say it like that. What I'll want you to do is to open up your app and just do the actions as I do them, so that you can also learn by looking at what I'm doing and by doing it yourself. That's the first thing that I'd like you to do. The second part of this class project will be, there are some parts in some lessons where I'm going to be editing certain photos and adding certain textures and different backgrounds. I'd like you to do the same thing as I'm doing, or also just look for your own photo and do the same thing that I'm doing. In the class project section, you shall find different examples of photos that you can edit and try to transform them into different reference images for your own personal use. Feel free to do that. That is part of the class project. Then lastly, at the end of this class, I shall take you through an entire demonstration of a sample artwork that you can make for yourself using the different tools, tips, and tricks that I'll have taught you in this class. Please feel free to follow along to that lesson and make your own artwork the same way that I have made it. Also you can transform it and add different effects, use different brushes to your own style to suit yourself. That will be the third part of this class's project. In the next class, I shall lead you through the introduction to Procreate. [MUSIC] 4. Introduction To Procreate: [MUSIC] Let's go through all the different aspects of the app Procreate. I'm sure if you're taking this class, you're already familiar with what Procreate is. It's an app that is available for iOS devices and you can download it from the App Store. You can use it to draw, make finished pieces of work that can both be given out professionally, or even just for your own use for clients, commissions, stuff like that. When you open up Procreate, what comes up is usually your gallery of all the different art works that you've ever done. At the top here, you can see that we have the plus icon, which is for starting new projects. We have the photo part, which you can click on then you input a new project, a new photo if you want to edit it. You can also click on Import, this helps you to import files, and you can also select. When you select it, that means you can duplicate it. For example, this one, we have duplicated it. Also when you select it, you can share it or you can click on Preview and it will open up the file so that you can preview the file by itself. Whenever I come into Procreate, my first step is always to click on the plus icon and I don't normally select any of these canvases that are already pre-sized. I just come straight away to the screen size section because I prefer to modify my canvas from inside Procreate. That's a preference for me. In the next couple of lessons, we shall be going through all the different tools that are available in the app and we shall start with the tools available under the Action tab. [MUSIC] 5. The Action Tab: Add: [MUSIC] First up, let's talk about the add section. The first one is when you want to insert a file, just select Insert a file and then you can select whichever file that you have on your iPad. These files, you can use them as reference images or as your basis as you're starting off drawing. Next up is inserting a photo, which takes you directly to your gallery. Select whichever photo that you want as you start your artwork. Next one is taking a photo, which I don't personally prefer using because my iPad camera isn't so good. Maybe yours is, so you can use that if you want to take a photo and then import it directly into Procreate. The next option is when you want to add a text, you just add a text type whatever you want. Then you can select that text and edit it however you want, and you click at this point over here, you can change the font, the style, the design, any attributes of how you want it to be aligned or any kind of way. Then after you are done with it, just click "Done". If you want to come and re-edit it again, just double-tap or you can just single tap and it'll come up like this. You can clear, cut, copy, paste, still align it from this point, whatever you want to do. Whenever you write a new text, it'll come up as a new layer by itself and when you double-tap that layer, you can rasterize it, which means that it's like it compresses the texts and makes it into an image, and that means that you will not be able to edit that text again once it is already rasterized. But then if you rasterize it immediately, then you remember, I've made a mistake. You can always click on "Undo" and it'll you go back to being a text layer. Let's just delete that because we don't need it for now and go back to this action section. The other options here are cut, copy, and copy canvas, which you can use if you want to cut something from your canvas, if you want to cut a section that is selected on your canvas. For example, let us just insert a photo. Let's import this one and select it, we place it on our Procreate canvas. If you can come here, we're going to select Cut and it's good to cut the entire layer like that. Then you can just click on "Paste" and it'll paste it back on. You see, it is back there. We're still going to come to this section, which is the selecting bar. But just as a quick preview, for example, if we have selected a section over here, like that. If we click on this toolbar right here, we can click on "Cut" and it'll cut that section that we'd selected, and then we can click on "Paste" again and it'll paste it, but paste it as a new layer. As you can see it has been pasted right over here. That's what those actions do, and if you want to copy, you just click on "Copy" right over here, Copy canvas. Let's again, delete these because we don't need them anymore. Now, this first layer can never be deleted, all you can do is just clear it. Then since I've opened up this area, let me explain about this background color. It can always be changed to whichever color you want it to be, like default only comes as white. But if you tap on it, that layer, you can now change it to whichever color. Let's change it to this but you can change our background to whichever color we want it to be. That's a good way to start if you want to really have a black color at your background whenever you're starting your artwork. Background, let's just set it as white. Then here for the color picker, if you double-tap at the top, it'll automatically click to pure white, and if you double-tap here at the bottom, it automatically defaults to pure black. So just double-tap somewhere there. Pure white, double-tap, pure black, double-tap, pure blue. Now let's move on to the canvas section. [MUSIC] 6. The Action Tab: Canvas: [MUSIC] The Canvas section is pretty long, so I have divided it into two.The first part, we shall talk about all the different actions that you can find under the Canvas section and in the second part, I shall show you how to set up your Canvas using all those different tools. The Canvas section is the most interesting part. Well, the part that I use the most, let's say that. We first of all have crop and resize where you can change all the settings for your Canvas and this is where normally change the settings when I start my artwork. The next one is, now these three over here, we have animation assist, which is important if you are animating something. We'll not be doing any animation anytime soon in this class, so I'll leave it at that at this point. We also have page assist, which is important if you're making a comic because comics have multiple pages. This page assist helps you when you're making a comic to keep you organized and to keep track of your work. Drawing guide is what we use in most of our 2D work, our two-dimensional work. Because when you click on the drawing guide, automatically this grid comes up on the screen and this grid can be edited here under edit drawing guide. You can see that first of all, we have the first option which is 2D grid, the two-dimensional grid. We can change the opacity, make the lines thicker or even they disappear. You can change the thickness of the line, you can change the grid size, make the grid bigger, smaller, however we want it, and we can also change the color using this slider at the top. I don't know if you can see that color. Let me add the opacity and the thickness so that maybe we can see the color change at the top. All these are very useful whenever you are drawing if you want to keep your work exactly aligned as the reference image that you're looking at, you can use these guides to draw. You can always move your grid using this blue dot at the center, and you can rotate your grid using this green dot at the bottom to whichever side you want. This assisted drawing helps you out when you are drawing in that whichever lines you place will be locked exactly according to the orientation of this drawing grid over here. Let me give an example. Let us leave it as done. Now, let's make sure we've selected our brush and opacity is at 100 percent. Let's try to draw a line. You see, no matter even if I want to draw a diagonal line, it will automatically snap to either horizontal or vertical because that is how our grid is. That's where drawing guide comes in. Sometimes it's really handy if you want to draw a completely straight line, or if you want to maybe measure measurements proportions from a different reference image that is here on the side, it's really useful. There are so many good uses for it. Let's just clear this layer and go back to our edit drawing guide so that we can check out the other types of grid. We have isometric, which again, the same things apply, the same rules and colors, everything, but just that for isometric, the lines does help you maybe if you are drawing a machine, let's say, or a building, something with lots of angles, this will come in really handy. Again, you can move it, you can rotate it however way you want. It's an isometric view. The next is perspective, which is important if you are drawing a landscape cityscape, something where there is a vanishing point at the horizon. Because as soon as you tap right there, one vanishing point is created. If you want two vanishing points, you can just tap at another point. Now, you can see we have two different vanishing points. We live in a three-dimensional world, so the maximum number of vanishing points you can have is three. You can tap the last one wherever you want and just leave it like that. You can also move those vanishing points to whichever spot you want it to be. That's where that comes in. Remember for all these other options still isometric perspective, we still have assisted drawing here to help us if we need it. [MUSIC] The last one is symmetry which places for you a mirror line such that, to give an example, whatever you draw on this side shall be mirrored onto the other side. That's the goodness of a mirror line. If ever you need to draw something that is very symmetrical, maybe a vase or, I don't know, whatever you'd like to draw, that's where that comes in. We can clear now that layer and go back here. Once you are done with whatever you're drawing, if at all we were on the 2D section and you are done with needing that assisted drawing and now you need to make your own pure authentic lines, make sure that you've tapped away from assisted drawing, then go back to your Canvas, then you'll be able to draw the lines as you can want. You can still see we can see our drawing guide over here. If at all we were to remove the drawing guide, these lines will disappear. Let's come here. If we remove our drawing guide, the lines disappear. If you do need the drawing guide there, you can just still leave it to guide you and make sure just you put a color that you can see, whichever color that you've chosen. If you need a drawing guide somewhere with assisted drawing but you don't want to see it, you can just put the opacity as zero, then come back and draw our lines. You can see the drawing guide has automatically kicked into place. [MUSIC] Now, let's just clear that layer because now we're done with that part. Next up, let's make sure first of all we've removed our assisted drawing and we've clicked away from drawing guide. The next part is reference, which is important when you are referencing to an image, your reference image. You just click on it then the reference can either be your Canvas. Right now our Canvas is blank, so can't reference that, or an image, where that means now you import an image from your gallery. Maybe let's import this one. Then once it's imported, you can always adjust the viewing window by dragging from the bottom-right corner. Then you can move it by touching at the top and moving it to whichever section of your screen you want. If you want to remove these writings at the top and at the bottom, just tap in the middle like that and it will disappear. Then you can, of course, arrange it wherever you want it to be. Once you're done with the reference image, you can just tap here and it will disappear. It's gone. The disadvantage of the reference box, the reference window, is that you cannot use your color picking tool to color pick that reference. Let me show you. If my reference is right here and I want to pick maybe this black that is right here, I cannot bring my slider to pick over here. You can see. That now that disadvantage, so if you want to color pick from your reference, make sure that your reference has been put onto your Canvas, and in projects in the future, I'm going to show you how that is going to be done where you just have your reference right here and what you are drawing, your piece of work right here, so that it's easy for you to reference from one to the other and pick the colors. [MUSIC] Now, next, we have flip horizontal and vertical. This flips your Canvas so that it gives you a different perspective. It's very important when you want to see any kind of mistake that you've done in your work because we aren't always accurate and when you look at something for an extended period of time, sometimes you get so jaded and you stop seeing any mistakes that you've made. Using the flip horizontal, maybe let's add a photo so that I show an example. Let's add that one. Now, when you use flip horizontal, it'll rotate this image back to the Canvas section. It will flip it horizontally, so now you have a new viewpoint to look at. From this viewpoint you can maybe see mistakes that you had made before. You can also flip vertical where it takes it upside down according to the middle center line, so it's flipped it vertically. Whenever you're drawing, use it as many times as you want. It's really helpful to open up your mind, open up your eyes, see new things. Next up is Canvas information. Here you can put your name, your signature, you can see the date that you created it. If you're sending out the file to someone, now, you're secure. You know that that file has been embedded with your details. You can also see the dimensions of your work in pixels and in inches if you've chosen inches and in dots per inch, which is the pixels, the resolution of your work. You can see the number of layers that you have and the number of layers that you've used. How many of them are assisted, like the assisted section you remember I showed you, how many are clipping layers, which I shall show you as well, how many are layer masks, which I shall show you as well, and how many are layer groups, which I shall show you as well. You can see the color profile of your work. We shall not mess with anything over here but for advanced users, you can change to whichever color profile that you want according to the work that you're trying to make. You can see your video settings. Procreate automatically records speed paints of you whenever you're painting so that's really good, unless you check it off, you opt out of it. You can see now the settings that your video has and these settings can be changed in preferences, I shall show you, and you can see the statistics. [LAUGHTER] How long you've been painting, how many strokes, how you've made the file size and everything. [MUSIC] 7. Setting Up Your Canvas: [MUSIC] Now, let's take the time to talk about how you set up your Canvas. You remember I said that when I start a new project, a new piece of work, my first step is always just to select the plus icon and select screen size. I do that because I like to define my Canvas size according to the art work that I'm making, whether it is a landscape or in portrait mode, and also according to the final output size that I want it to be. For example, if I want to print out the work on an A1 sheet of paper and A2, A0, A4, it doesn't matter. You can also always see the dimensions of paper, pick the paper sizes. When you go to the Internet and just search for like A0 paper size, A1 paper size, it has up to A10 or whichever specific dimensions that you want for your paper. I just look at the size of paper that I want on this section, and that helps me to make my decision. Let me give you an example. I just go here to the tools section, then I select on crop and resize. My first step, the first thing I always do is to change the DPI to 300. That depends stands for dots per inch. It's a good resolution for if you're going to end up printing a work or print work, don't leave it at the 132 that was there before. If you have, let's say, a bigger capacity iPad, the iPad Pros, you can be able to even select 600 or something even higher. The thing is that every time you select a higher DPI, it lower the number of layers that you have according to the model and storage that your iPad has. Let's see here, I've selected 300 then let me tap over here. Let me just tap on done. You see, it's saying that I have 72 layers available. But now when I come here to the Canvas size, actual canvas size, let us change it to inches. You can see it's quite small for me. It's 7.2 by 5.4 inches. Here you can change to whichever dimensions you want. As I said, I prefer it in inches. Most of my artwork, I prefer to draw on it as big of a canvas as I can afford, though that normally ends up sacrificing the number of layers that I can get. In a way it also taught me how to draw on less layers, which is a good thing and also can be a bad thing. It can be limiting. It depends on how you look at it, but it's enabled me to learn how to walk around my limitations, which is how to draw on less layers. First thing, if you select this dot in the middle, when you click on it, it means that whichever figure you put it on this side, this is your length, it will automatically relate it to the size of the width if I select it to be linked. For example, if I change to 16, it automatically change the width to 11.98 or rather the height of it width to 11.98, and I don't even notice over here, my number of layers also changed. Let me change maybe again to 17. You see now I have nine layers available to draw, but I change it to maybe 25 layers. The higher my Canvas, the lower the number of layers I'll have available. Most of the times I try to at least have six layers to work with when I'm painting. If again, as I said, if you have a larger capacity iPad, more recent model, you'll probably have more layers than me, good for you. It'll be easier for you to draw and work around it. But still, no matter how small your canvas is, there are still workaround onto how you can end up resizing your work later on once you are done with it, and you have to resize it in the right way so that you don't end up losing the quality of your work because when you draw something quite small. Now you see my Canvas has grown quite big. When you draw something that is quite small, maybe like here, then you want to expand it to a bigger size. Sometimes you can end up losing the resolution of the artwork. All the details that you put in could end up being large or distorted. When you end up resizing your work, let me give you an example on how you would resize your work. If I want to resize this piece of work, first step that I would do. Come here to the canvas, "Crop and Resize". You can see it showed me that I had 13 layers available. Come to settings. The DPI I can leave it as that for now, and then I select this, so that it links the length and the width, it does not distort the size of my image once I'm changing it. Then also click on resample canvas. If I do not click on resample canvas, then I changed maybe to 20 by something. You can see what happens, it's just that my canvas at the bottom is what becomes bigger, but my image is resized. What I need to do is that first thing, this link is selected and resample canvas is also selected. Then after that I can change the size of my canvas. Now you can see it's gone to six layers available. My canvas is still fine. If I want to change it, maybe let's see what the highest for my iPad can take. Maybe 25, I have two less available. Let's see any higher maybe 28, one layer available. Let's see if we can get at 29 by something, 29 maximum layers exceeded. The highest for me is probably 28 or 28.5 by 26.19 at a DPI of 264. That would be now the biggest size that I can get. That is how you resize your canvas. Then you see if I touch it with two fingers and try to move it aside, it's going to end up, when I click on Done, it would cut off part of my image. Let's just have a look. You see it's cut off part of it. What I need to do when I'm resizing is again, let's do just the same process, and then if you do end up moving aside your canvas, just remember you can always select on snapping so that your canvas snaps right into place where you want it to be. Then just click on "Done". You can see we have resized our image with minimal loss of quality. That's how you edit your Canvas. That's how I usually do with mine. Just come here to the settings and editing whatever I need to edit them about. In the next video we shall talk about sharing and video. [MUSIC] 8. The Action Tab: Share & Video: [MUSIC] Next up is sharing. This is very straightforward. This is where, after you're done with your work, you can share your work to other devices or to other people. It can be shared as a Procreate file, Photoshop file, PDF file, JPEG, PNG, and TIFF. You choose whichever one that you want. For printing artwork, the best one that I usually go for is PDF, and then I export it as the best quality. It's better than exporting it as a JPEG or PNG personally for me. Then you can also share individual layers as a PDF or PNG files for all your separate layers that you have drawn. As an animated GIF, these are all if you're making animations. You can share it as a GIF, as a PNG, as an MP4, or as an HEVC file. Those are the different sharing options. Next up is video. Remember I told you that Procreate would automatically record for you a time-lapse of you painting the speed paint of your painting. If you have any interest of posting it on Instagram or showing your client to show all the steps that you've made, this is when you get it. You can see a replay of all the steps that you've done. It's showing us what we've done today in our work. You can also see, when you check this off, that's when it will not record the time up, and then you can export it once you are done. Export it as our full length or as a 30-second video. [MUSIC] 9. The Action Tab: Prefs & Help: [MUSIC] Then after that, the next one is preferences. You can either choose it to be a light or a dark preference. I prefer dark because the light, it messes up with the values. If you watched my previous class on values when you're drawing a striking portraits, you'll remember me talking about how important having appropriate and accurate values are whenever you're drawing. This light highlights that I already know the background from our light interface usually interrupt with my deduction deducing of the value that I have in my drawings. I prefer having a dark interface. But go again with what you prefer. The right-hand interface just means that my color picker and my brush tool are on the right instead of on the left. I prefer that because I'm right-handed. But either work, whichever is more comfortable for you, that's what it does. The brush cursor, what it means, let's first of all clear this layer. The brush cursor when it's off, it means that when we're drawing, we will not be able to see. I need to select a color. Let's select this one. When we're not drawing, we'll not be able to see the icon for the brush at the bottom versus when it's on, raise it here. Let's raise this so that you can see that brush icon. You are able to see that brush icon whenever I tap on the screen, so that's the difference. You can choose whichever setting you want. I always leave mine as a brush with a brush cursor being on, for me that's what I prefer. Every single brush has a different icon. Let's see the dry brush. That's how the icon looks like. Gouache, the icon looks like that. Each and every brush has a different icon. The next thing is dynamic brush scaling. Let's, first of all, clear again our layer and go back to select the brush. We're using the portraits in the Nikko Rull brush. Now, let's, first of all, take it off and raise this brush, maybe somewhere here at 11 percent. When I draw a line like this, then a zoom, another line, another line, another line, another line. What happens when the dynamic brush scaling is ticked off? It means that whenever you zoom in or zoom out, the size of your brush changes automatically like that. You see when we zoomed in, our brush size became very small, versus, let's first of all check it. Now we'll draw our first line, second line, third line, fourth line. It's ticked on our brush size. Let's redo, the brush size always remains the same. That's just what the dynamic brush scaling means. The image to whichever setting that you prefer but just remember, that it does affect your work and your brushstrokes so don't get confused when you're painting, and you're wondering what is not happening. [LAUGHTER] Now, the next one is project Canvas. You can project your Canvas to another screen if you want to so that's what that does. Now, these things, we're not going to play or mess around with them at all. You can connect legacy stylus like if you want to connect another stylus. The pressure and smoothing, you can mess around with this, to play around with the app, the sensitivity of your pen, maybe take it higher take it lower. I'm not going to play around with mine because I love it as it is at the moment. You can just leave it at the default settings once you've already gotten your Procreate app installed. Next one is gesture controls. There are so many different quick gestures that are here that you can program into your iPad. For example, pressing on the box here at the side together with touching could invoke the quick menu or something like that. I don't usually use any of these gestures. All that I have installed setup, which I think is automatic, and you never really have to install it yourself, is when I drag down with three fingers, it comes up with a cut, copy, paste, and quick menu, let's say that, rather than using it from here, the toolbar, I can easily cut, and I can again swipe and easily paste. That's all that I have for now. But you can set up whichever ones you want for yourself. Now, here again, we have the undo delay because we have the undo and redo button. If you want there to be a delay between when you press the undo and when you press a redo, just play around with it over here. Again with a selection mask visibility. Whenever you've selected something, you can also mask whatever is around it for it to not be as visible or vice versa. Next up is now the help section. I think we've gone through all the preferences. The help section, we have the restoring purchasers, which I guess is if you want to restore the purchasers that you made before, which is, I think only purchasing the pro version of Procreate advanced settings here. You can now go into your settings section, and now change in our settings for the Procreate app. Procreate handbook, here you have also, you can learn about Procreate itself just from reading the handbook or going here to procreate. You can also use the Procreate Folio, which is a robust support system for all users who use Procreate, can go there, see other people's artwork, get brushes for free, and others for purchase. It's a really good place and also leave a review if you like. [MUSIC] 10. The Adjustments Tab: [MUSIC] Next up now, we move to the adjustment section. This is the part that you play around with your drawing as much as you want to play around with. Let us clear our layer, and import a photo. Let's play around with this one. We can make it bigger once we've imported it, just by dragging over here at the corners. Like that, and then once you're done with dragging it, just click on that arrow and it is set. So when you come here, we can adjust this. It's going to adjust this layer, that it has been placed on. If will not adjust the other layers. If we had maybe multiple layers, other layers on top or below. It will just mess around with this one alone. So what we can do is we click on "Hue, Saturation and Brightness." Hue, it's the kind of color it is. Red, green, the pure colors. Remember, our skin tone was orangish already. So if I do come to the blue section, it's going to interact between the blue, and the orange-yellow skin tone, to make a green pigment, a tint to it. So just remember that that's how it's going to interact. Background was originally green. If we go to the green section, it just makes it more green, towards the yellow, it makes it more brown, towards the red, it interacts now whichever color that was originally beneath. Next up is saturation. Saturation is just how pure the color is. We can play around with that, make it desaturated, or really saturated. Then brightness, which is how dark or light it is. You can play around with that, with your finished artwork, or an image that you want to edit when you're starting off with the painting. Now we can undo everything, and go back to our original. The Color Balance. Here you can play with the color balance. For example, here we have quite a lot of greenish. If we play around with it, going to the green, everything becomes green or magenta, everything becomes magenta. That's how you play around with it. The Gaussian Blur, is all about blurring your object. You just drag on the screen, to put the degree of the blur that you want. That's what it is. The next one is the Motion Blur. This one, it makes it to be in motion. Can you see that on the camera? So you can put all these fun effects in your drawing. [LAUGHTER] Let's undo. Next up, let's see, Perspective Blur. You can move it around the way you want. It's blurred from a point. Let's move that point. Maybe that. It's like it's dragged from that point. Wherever I have put this dot on. I did skip the Curves, the curves here you also play with them. They're quite advanced. So this requires a lot of fiddling, to make your artwork to look however you want it to look. The Gamma, plays with all of these ones together. The Gamma is like the mother of them all. Just play around with it, when you are done with your work. Next one is noise. This one makes your work noisier. More pixelated, more grainy, and you can also take it down. You can play with all of these ones. All of them. They're all different from each other. The Sharpen, makes your work look more crisp. If we raise it up. I know here it's not really being seen, but if you had a work that was really blurry, you can raise up the sharpening and make it pop a lot more. But don't do it too much until it becomes too sharp. There is a good balance to it. Now that's where you have to use your intuition to make sure that your work is balanced and not to sharp. Next is Bloom. You can also play with Bloom. All these things, you can see it's bringing up like an old timey kind of glow and blur to her skin. All these ones can be messed around with the size, burning. Can also check out the Glitch, which makes your work glitch. Which is already a pretty really nice piece of artwork as it is. Zoom in, zoom out, however you want it to be, it can all be done. Let's undo again. Next is Halftone. Again. Next is Chromatic Aberration. All these are effects that you can just do to your work. Now, Liquify is a good tool, especially if we had something selected, because, you can move and distort images however you want. So let us reset. For example, if I were drawing, and there's a section that I feel like I've not drawn it as it should be. Maybe her chin is too close, I could just move it. I can move her cheek however I want, her chin. That's the goodness of digital painting. You can edit things very quickly. You don't really need to repaint it. There are many tools and workarounds, to make your work perfect without giving you too much work. But then again, it's a lot to learn, and when it's done incorrectly, it could also really frustrate you as you're working. So that's what the Liquify tool does. It just pushes and distorts things into whichever kind of form that you want them to be. You can also just experiment with all of these, because there's so many of them that you can play with and make [LAUGHTER] whichever figure that you want with your final piece of artwork. Now, last one is Cloning. Cloning basically just clones whatever you have over here that you have selected. For example, I can clone it just right here on the side and draw my own new figure. It's pretty easy. That's just the fine tools for you to play around with whenever you are doing whatever you want it to do. [MUSIC] 11. The Selections & Transform Tabs: [MUSIC] Now, let us talk about the selection and the transform tabs. They go hand in hand together, so sometimes you'll hear me say selection instead of transform, or transform instead of selection, just because they are used hand in hand together, so follow along to all the different things that I shall be showing you. The good thing about digital art is whenever you've drawn something at a place it's not supposed to be, you can always select it and move it easily rather than traditional where you'd have to erase or rather repaint over or erase. For example, freehand, mostly we'll use freehand and rectangle. Freehand allows you to draw whichever shape that you want as long as you make sure you connect back to the original dot, then after you've done that, you can swipe down with three fingers. For example, if you want to cut it, you can cut, then again, when you swipe down again and then you do paste, it'll paste it, but on a new layer. See it's now pasted on a new layer, so you can just select, no, we'll come to the "Select" button, but right now I can also show you. Now, select it like this, using the arrow and move it to a wherever section that you want, so that's how that works. Let us undo everything. Again, now when it comes to selecting, you can also select like that with a freehand and then just directly click on the arrow and move it to wherever you want it to be, like that. Again, we can undo everything. Now, the other option is the rectangle, which is the other one that we will use a lot. Now, that one just automatically selects it in a rectangle, square section like that. Oops, I clicked on something different. That's how now you select. Then when you're moving these icons, these dots at the corners help you to scale whatever you want to scale. When you click it like this, it scales it like this. You can scale it to the side. Use this to rotate. If you don't, we want to go back to how it originally was, click on "Reset", like that. Then here on the snapping thing, it helps when you're moving things, the snapping and magnetics. When they're both selected, it means that when now you're moving something, it'll snap into place, for example, if you want it directly at this corner, it'll help it to come directly at the corner. There's the one that we don't need, which is the, I think magnetics, let me see, yeah, the magnetics is normally makes it a little bit glitchy when you're moving it. It can now snap directly to the corner. Again, like this. When you hover around the middle, it will show you the center line of your artwork and it snaps directly there. Snap into the center, move it, it's snapped, so that's where this part comes in, snapping and magnetics. It depends on your preferences. We've talked about the uniform select, which means that whenever you move it, it's going to move uniformly. You can also select on free form where now you can move just one side and it's going to compress or expand whatever you have. We also have distort, which basically changes the orientation and size of whatever that you have. Lastly, we have warp, which again, we'll warp it however you want to have it warped. You can play around with it, if you at all you need it during your artwork to make whatever figure that you want. Again, you can also back maybe at a uniform section, if you want to flip whatever you've selected, you can flip it right here, and you can also flip it vertically, you can rotate it, and you can make sure it fits within the canvas, the bounds, whichever side is shortest rather it will fit towards that side. [MUSIC] The interpolation dot, it's either going to be reading nearest neighbor, bilinear, or bicubic. What happens is when nearest neighbor is the fastest kind of expansion and contraction like distorting the size, but it uses less data points in comparison to bilinear and in comparison to bicubic. In terms of the least amount of data loss, bicubic would be the best. In terms of the most amount of data loss when you are compressing, resizing your image, the nearest neighbor would give you the most amount of data loss, if that makes sense. In terms of order, it is nearest neighbor, then bilinear, then bicubic. When you are resizing your work, your canvas, your image, especially for a complete piece of work, make sure it's either selected to bilinear or bicubic. [MUSIC] 12. Brushes, Smudging & Erasing: [MUSIC] Now let's talk about the three siblings. Brushes, smudging and erasing. Brushes are all on this part right here. For this artwork and most artworks in the future, we shall just be using the default brushes that come in Procreate. They are pretty good as they are, if not absolutely awesome. But you can also always look for brushes that are free or for sale from different artists. You remember when I said Procreate Folio? When you go to Folio, you can search for brushes and see brushes for Procreate which are there and go on to Gumroad and purchase brushes that have been uploaded by brilliant artists and use whichever ones that you want. Whenever you want to upload a new set of brushes, you just come here right at the top, there's the plus button. Now you can save your set. Let us save our set, rename, maybe call it star or whatever. You can upload your new brushes. First of all, you can make your own brushes by playing with all of these settings. Have fun and play with them, or import a new set of brushes that you have downloaded off the Internet and then you import them over there. We don't need to do that. If you don't need it again, long-press like that and click on "Delete". I mostly use the Nikko Rull brush, the old brush, and the dry brush. You can draw a shape by the way, with any kind of brush. But I usually like dry shapes with a monoline brush. If I'm drawing a triangle, I just draw the triangle then I hover right here once I'm done. Then you can click now on "Edit Shape". You can leave it as a triangle and edit the dimensions, distort it however you want or I can change it in a quadrilateral, where that means now I can make it into a four-sided figure or I change it to a polyline, which now just means that I can change the lines to go however I want them to go. That's the goodness of that brush. This smudge tool, it smudges work, which is really fun to use, especially when you're painting skin. But I personally do not like to use it on my artwork unless the client specifically asks for extremely smooth skin and look because I prefer my work to have a bit of a painterly feel to it so I rarely use the smudge tool. Let me show how it's done. Under the smudge tool you have the same exact brushes as under the brush tool. You can choose whichever brush that you want. I have it under the soft pastel, let's leave it there. You can smudge your work and smooth it out. You can even raise the brush size and smooth it out, create smooth transitions just like that. I'd rather you don't depend so much on the smudge tool. Of course, it's digital work and you can do whatever you want. But I'd rather you not depend on it so much when you're painting just also try to blend your artwork without depending on it, just by using the brushes. By using the brushes, I shall show you as we're going to be going on with the class, it means you've to do a lot more of color picking so that you can pick the exact color, that are right at the range. For example, if we're painting this part, if you want to blend these two parts together, I'd color pick this part and paint it. Then again color pick this part and blend it. Again, color pick again right at the middle and blend so that you create smooth transitions from section to section. Not always just depending on abrupt color changes. For example, just this color here and this color here then now just depend on the smudge brush to blend it all together. It's better for you to just learn how to create gradual transitions by using the intermediate colors in that line between those two colors that you are blending together. Again, I shall show you during this class, I shall explain all of that. Method erasing tool, really important. I use it quite a bit when I'm drawing highlights and hair. I shall show you that both in this class and in a future class. [MUSIC] 13. Layers, Part 1: [MUSIC] The layers are a part of Procreate that you will tend to use quite a lot. The goodness of digital art is that you can create so many different layers and a walk step-by-step without having to just do everything on one canvas. If there's one thing that I love about digital art is the layers, they can first of all look confusing when you're starting off, especially when you don't know what they are. But in the next three lessons, I shall teach you everything that I know about layers and I'm sure there are so many other things that I don't know and I've not yet taught to you. Let's get into it our Layers. Now, layers are really fun to use as when you look at this photograph, you can see that the objects in the photograph are at different distances from the camera. We have the window that is where the back with a wall. We have the camera which is right in front of the window on the wall. We have also the flower, which is maybe at the same distance with the camera. Then we have the figure that is at the forefront of the camera. When we are painting this scene, we would arrange our layers in this way. Our first layer would be specifically for the wall, the background wall, and windows. That means I can draw the wall completely here at the back if I wanted to. I can paint this section and I wouldn't mind going down here to where it is covered by the figure because that's our bottom layer. I can also draw this window and come all the way down over here cover this section because I don't mind even down here. Then now once I'm done with that, I would also have another layer on top of that, now that one would be labeled maybe Objects. Now on this layer, that is where I would paint the camera, the flowers, and even this colored Maasai shuka I would even paint it over here. This Maasai shuka since it is behind the flowers I could even put another layer and when a long press this layer like this and move it down, I can move it there because it is behind the flowers I could place it there and label it as Shuka. I know the shuka is right behind the flowers, it is not going to obscure the flowers. Then now lastly, I'd have this layer now needs to be the top-most layer, which would now be the figure because it is at the complete forefront. You can even have an intermediate layer for the table to strike between the figure and the objects, that's the goodness of the layers. It means that whatever you paint the background if you do paint another object on top of that layer, whatever was on that background shall not be seen so it helps you to arrange your work very easily it makes it easier to paint rather than traditional, where you'd have to plead exactly around this area over here, like that with watercolors, that's what you'd have to do exactly around this section. With oil paints, you can always paint on top of those sections because oil is opaque, but now with transparent colors and mediums like watercolors and color pencils, you can't do that you have to be exact as you start off so that's the goodness of layers. Let's move on maybe to this slider this is for the brush size, and this is the color picking tool as I showed you before and then this is for the opacity. Let us select a color. Maybe let's put this orange color. At highest opacity, can see that's how it looks I put it at mid opacity and I'm still pressing with the same pressure, and at very low opacity, still pressing with the same pressure that's the goodness of the opacity. Instead of you may be controlling the pressure with your hand because you see now I'm at 100 percent, let me put it at 100 percent opacity, and I can make it very hard. But the good thing is also when I press really lightly, I can still make it very soft and even softer. The opacity slider makes you not need to do that at all. Next, let's maybe talk about a little bit about the importance of drawing on the right layer. For example, if I were drawing may be the wall and windows, they make the mistake of drawing it on the wrong layer, which is maybe the figure layer, you could end up getting really frustrated later on if you're trying to color correct that layer. You remember when I talked about the color correcting section over here, maybe you're trying to color correct her skin and you have drawn a camera right here yet it does not supposed to be there. Just make sure whenever you're drawing, draw on the correct layer that you have planned to draw on just not to bring any more confusion to yourself later on. But then again, if you do draw on the wrong layer, Let's say for example, that these strokes were supposed to be on the object layer, and I just figured out that, oh no, I've drawn it on the wrong layer, I could always come and select them using the free hand selection tool maybe it's these ones that I need to move, swipe down, cut them, make sure I have come down to the object section then we swipe again paste It's going to paste them exactly on the object layer where I wanted them to be pasted on. That's one thing that you can do if you ever make the mistake of painting on the wrong layer. But just to make it easier for yourself, always try to make sure that you're doing it on the right layer [MUSIC]. 14. Layers, Part 2: [MUSIC] We can also talk about the different things that you can do just on the last section. Let's just use this one. When you tap on a layer twice, you can now have the option to rename it. If you want to rename it from the name objects. We can select it, select everything on that layer easily. We can also copy everything on that layer. You see it said copied layer. That means if we do like this, it's going to paste a new layer. Just have a look, it's pasted it again as an inserted image. We also have the option to fill the layer. We can fill it with whichever color that we want to. We fill it with black. Then another option, let's undo that. We can also clear the layer. It will delete everything. You can see that now that layer is completely empty and has nothing. Now for the Alpha Lock, let's select this one because we already pointed something on this layer. Alpha Lock just means that when we paint on this layer, it will only paint over the sections that already have a paint stroke. For example, let's Alpha Lock this layer. You can see now it has a checker box on the background. That means if we select like a black color. If we decide to paint all over, it will only paint over the sections that originally had a paint stroke. That's the goodness of Alpha Lock. If you just want to paint within a some select bound, you can just Alpha Lock that layer and you will only end up painting within that section. I shall show you examples in the future in my classes on how we can really use this Alpha Lock to our advantage whenever we are painting. When you're done with Alpha Lock, just again, uncheck it and it'll disappear. The other thing is called clipping mask. A clipping mask, it means that we can create a clipping mask on top of a layer. That means whenever we paint on that clipping mask layer that we've created, whatever we are painting will only be seen on the parent layer. Let's do it with this one, the objects one or maybe the figure one, this one at the top. We create a new layer on top like that. Then we tap on it and then we click on clipping mask. Now you can see that there's this icon here of an arrow showing that it's a clipping mask related to the figure layer right below it. That means maybe we've selected this black color and now we are painting. The paint will only go onto wherever there is paint on the parent layer. You remember our parent layer, the figure there was paint right here, so it will only go there, it'll not go anywhere else. That's the goodness of the clipping mask. Then now you can edit that color. The clipping mask option is a non-destructive option in comparison to the Alpha Lock layer because we have not messed at all with this original figure layer. If we're not happy with whichever color we put on the clipping mask, we just of course delete it and the original layer is exactly as it was before. It's a really good option if you do not want to mess around with our original section, but we want to edit the colors a little bit. [MUSIC] The masking option allows us to erase or add something to a layer non-destructively. If we want to create a mask, tap on the layer that you want to mask, and click on "Mask". It'll create a layer mask right on top of it. Now for the layer mask, if we paint with black, it erases something, but it's not really truly erased. It is just concealed using our layer mask with the black color. If you want to bring it back, we just come back and select our white and just paint it back in. This is also another non-destructive option alternative to using the eraser. [MUSIC] I've taught you two different nondestructive methods of editing your layer. The first option was with a clipping mask, and the second option was with a layer mask. The clipping mask is an alternative to using the Alpha Lock option and the masking layer mask option is an alternative to using the eraser option. Feel free to use either of them whenever you want to edit your work non-destructively. Now, we can also merge all the layers that we have into just one layer. That can easily be done by just selecting like this and pinching. That way you pinch them all into one layer. You can also undo it. If you want to match one by one, you can just click like this, and then click on "Merge Down", it will merge with the layer that is below it. That's how you merge layers and make it into one. For example, if you want to also create a group, which means that we've linked all of the layers together maybe into one group. We just select maybe the top one and then all of the rest we swipe them towards the right, like this. Then after you're done, you just click on group and they'll all be grouped together. You can close it and you can see the group. Now, this grouping of layers together makes it easy for you to arrange your walk into different sections. You can also hide them all at once. Edit them, rename them. Flattens means just that they're all going to now be merged into one single layer. We can redo that up to the way it was once before. Now swiping to the left like that means that you can duplicate a layer, gives you the option of duplication. It also gives you the option of locking, which means that now it cannot be edited. For example, now this one can't really do anything to it. You can't paint it, you can't do anything to it. Another option, let's see, deleting is deleting. You have to unlock it so that now we delete that layer. That's what it does. What else haven't we talked about? Merging down, combining down. Reference just means that now that layer is assigned as the reference layer. Inviting means it invites the color. Whichever color is opposite to it on the color wheel, it will invite whichever colors are opposite to it on the color wheel. The other options that maybe we've not talked about, let's use this layer as an example is when you click on this "N" button, you can edit the opacity of your layer. Then there all these other filtering options which you can just scroll through and choose whichever one would brighten up your work however way you want to use it. Those are all really good options to just edit your work to whichever format that you want to use with all the different filters that are available. Those are all the options when it comes to the layers. [MUSIC] 15. How To Use Layer Blending Modes: [MUSIC] We have talked quite a bit about the layers a bit and I've also told you about the different blending modes that are available. But I haven't really given you any kind of concrete examples of the goodness or however they can be used to your advantage. If you ever want to add texture to your work or to add some patterns to your work, that's where the layers and the blending modes could come in really handy. Let me give you just an example. I just found it. This is a piece of work of a Valentine's flower that I did last year. If we zoom in, you can see that I put some watercolor, not really watercolor, but paper texture, yet it is a digital piece of art. What I did was, let's just go to my layers. First of all, I can see I even added and inserted image to bring in some more texture. But let's look for the paper texture that I used. Let's first of all hide most of these guys until we narrow down to which one was the paper texture. Let's see, let me leave this. Let me do something like this so that I can be able to tell this to the side. It wasn't that, it was this layer. Let's remove that and add in everything else that was there. What I did, this is how the painting looked before I added any kind of Canvas paper texture. Then what I did was I just added an image of people normally upload, people are still kind, they upload images of canvas texture. Then what I did was I played around with the blending mode, the filters to get now the look that I wanted such that it was transparent but still being seen for the art work. You can see the layer that I went for was overlay. If you go back to the normal which is how a layer usually is normally when you're just editing, you can see that that's how the canvas looks like, like that's how that paper texture looks like. What I did, I just added it in and I played around with all the different kinds of blending modes. Then I liked overlay the most as it was still there, but not there too much, if that makes sense. Then if you want to reduce this texture a lot more, all that you do is actually just lower the opacity up to a level that you want or you can even just leave it at 100 percent. That's what I did for this painting. Another thing that I noticed that I did was I added an image. Let us just put that image back in, here it is. This is the image that I added. If we play around with the image and go back to normal, let's just see how it was originally right here, and at 100 per cent, this is the image that I added in. Oops, let's just undo that. It is just a normal watercolor texture that I downloaded off the internet and I shall show you where I got it from. Then I just added it into here by coming here and adding an image, inserting a photo. Remember when I said you insert a photo, it comes out as a new layer. You see it's written even as inserted image. Then I just came here and I played around with the different kinds of blending modes. I think the one I liked the most was color burn because I wanted the mood to be a lot darker. I liked how this blue interacted with that section. I will then made it darker, raise it to the normal. You see this dark blue, I liked how it interacted with other the corner and made it darker. Color burn just means that you're making something darker, while color dodge, here it makes it brighter. That's what I did, color burn. Then if you can notice, let's go back to normal. I didn't align it exactly at the corners because I wanted to steal to have like a bright white border here at the end. I just put the image to be just a little bit off center. Just feel free to play around with the settings of your own image once you have inserted it. Then once I did that, I played around with the opacity. I can't remember what opacity I had put but we can just leave it somewhere there at around 44 percent. That's how now we do it. Now let me just show you where you can get those canvas textures. The place I always go to is Pexels. It's my go-to all the time, pexels.com. Then when you come here, you just search for canvas texture or paper texture. Let's first of all search for canvas texture. Now here you see that you have so many different types of options for the canvas texture. What you can do is you can even click over here on paper texture. So scrolling here, you can see that we have this really nice paper texture, even here. This is a really nice dark one if you want a dark, grungy look. This paper looks really pulpy and nice. Where is it? I want something that has texture that we will be able to see when I import it into my image. Maybe let's download this one and save it. Another things that you can do is you can just come to the internet generally and then search for paper texture, JPG, JPEGs. Then you can see here so many different kinds of paper textures. Even on Unsplash, there are other options here on free pic, there's so many different ones, just look for one that is free unless you want to be worried but free for commercial use in case you're editing it. Other things that you can also do is, let's just go back to Pexels. You can also search for something like watercolor. Here we go. You can also download like one of, this is an image, but again, you can always overlay or an image as well, so maybe something like this. That texture looks really nice. Even this texture looks really good. Any kind of texture. Let's just download this first one. Let us now go back to Procreate and open up an artwork that maybe I'd done a while back. Let's play around with this one. I had already duplicated it. Let's see. I want to make sure that this is a copy. Remember what I said, you just click on "Select" selects the image you want to duplicate then duplicate it. Never hurts to have so many copies so you can always get around with them. Then once we're here, I want to go to the top most layer, choose Layer 10. I really hope that it's there's still layers to play around with. Then I click on here and then I insert a photo. Clearly it wasn't downloaded another photo, it was maybe downloaded as a file. So click on ''Insert a File'' then under Chrome. Then here are the two images that we downloaded. Let's click on the ''Paper Texture'' first so that I can show you what to do. We import it. Then next thing to do is to resize it such that it covers the whole thing. I want you to cover the whole thing so let me just resize it like that. Then click on the arrow to confirm. Now, next up is I click on the ''N,'' and then I key around. Let's move this to the side. Click on the end. Then play around with the different kinds of blending modes. Color burn, you see how it looks, darken, multiply. It all gives you a different look for your artwork. I don't know why I really like the linear burn for some reason. Even the darker color looks really good, though it's cut out that white part. Lighten, screen, color dodge, add, overlay, soft light, hard light, vivid light, linear light, pin light, hard mix, difference, exclusion, subtract, divide, hue, saturation, color, luminosity. There's one I really liked at the top. Then remember what I like might not be what you like. I really liked the linear burn. Let me see if there's any other one that I really liked more. I really like the linear burn, this one. What I shall do is I shall now just play around with the opacity, maybe take it a little bit lower, somewhere there. You see, I like how it's become even darker. I hope that's a little bit visible. I like how it's become darker. If you zoom in, you can see that there is a little bit of texture from the paper being seen. If I were to even change it, I'll change it to multiply. You can just play around with any one of them that you really like. Just put the texture that you like. I still feel the color burn. Now you can see that your image looks like it was drawn on paper. The texture of that image, the canvas texture, paper texture that you have imported is affecting now how your artwork looks like. For now, let me leave it like that. Let me show you how you can add even a pattern, ignore the watercolor texture that we had added. Select Duplicate, Cancel. Where is it? This one. We can again import. Make sure that you're on the topmost layer. We aren't. Yeah, we are now. We can also, again, insert a photo. Again, it was a file actually. Insert a file, select the watercolor texture that we had taken at that time. We can rotate it and make sure that we have put snapping so that it snaps into place. Actually, no, it should be magnetic so that it snaps into place. We want it to be exactly 90 degrees, then we expand it however we want it to be, like that. Let's make sure we've covered everywhere we have. Click on that. Then again, now just start playing with the different blending modes. I've just painted somewhere. Let's now play around. Let's see. Starting from the top, multiply. That didn't look bad actually. Darken, color burn, linear burn, darken, darker color. You just see how it brings around some interesting textures when it comes to your artwork. There's one that I really liked already. I don't why I'm really liking the linear burn. If I do leave it on the linear burn, then I just play around with this and lower it a little bit. Then I've already come up with something new, a different look to my artwork. I could also still come here and play around with the hue, saturation, and brightness. I could take down the saturation of that image that I have just imported so that I leave it as black and white. Then I could just have these interesting patterns on the background. That's how you can play around with those blending modes that I showed you before to add in some new interesting textures to your artwork. If you learned a little bit about the elements of art, you know that texture is a really important part of artwork. That's something that is really fun for you to do. Maybe one last thing is I can show you how to add texture, maybe even to clothes and stuff like that. Let's go back to Pexels. Let's see. Maybe if you wanted this nice blue pattern. I think let us still play around with the same lady, or let's play around with this girl over here that I had drawn a while back. Actually here, I want to play around with it on the layer below the stars because I'm going to be playing around with her clothes. I'm just going to insert a file again. Now select that pattern that we had added before. I want to move it down somewhere there. Then what I want to do is to make sure, you remember what I talked about when it came to masking, click on Mask. Now we can erase if we do want. I can just erase the sections that I don't need. Let's take this up. Let me choose a more solid. Maybe let's go with a soft brush to be using over here. We make sure that we're removing everything that we don't need. We can, first of all, even play around a little bit with the blending mode. I like that. We can play around with that so that now when I am erasing I can see exactly what I'm doing. The sections that I don't need just all the way around. Remember once in a while to lift up your pencil whenever you're doing such things so that if you do need to undo, you don't also end up undoing the good parts that you had already done. [LAUGHTER] Something like that. Can even soften out this bottom part just that it's a little bit softened out. There. You can even select it and just move it a little bit so that we cover a larger area, somewhere there. You see how you can play around with your layer and add something new to it. You can just use a white to bring it back a little bit to those sections. Again, maybe spread to this side so that we move it a little bit to cover until the end. Then continue coloring this section right there. Select it again and expand it just a little bit right there. Then again, now go to black so that we can erase just a little bit what we don't need, sections that we don't need. You see how it [inaudible] You just used the Layers option. Maybe we take down the opacity a little bit, there. It has added an interesting texture. That's how now you play around with the blending modes to add texture and life to your artwork. I hope at this point, you've understood layers, at least a preliminary understanding about them. They still have so much capability that we're not going to have gone through in this class, such as using them during animations and the making of comic books. But as I said before, that's not part of this class. I hope you're ready. Now, let's move on to the next part, which is color. [MUSIC] 16. Colour: [MUSIC] Now the last step, I think is the color section. The color section, you have all these options. Let me zoom in. For the color sections, you have all these four views. Let's start with the disk. The disk is basically the color wheel, but now it's in a disk format. For example, if we come here to the greens, if you come towards here at the top, you have the desaturated greens and right here you have the saturated greens and here it goes down to the black. You have white, saturated green, and black. Right here in the middle, the values, all of them are right there. Now you can move to whichever color that you want. Classic is a square instead of a circle. Here you have the hue right here. You see the hue. Remember I said the hue is a color. You have the saturation, how pure the color is, and you have the brightness, how dark or light it is right there. Next is harmony. This one is particularly important when maybe you're doing what's it called, the color schemes. If you want a complementary color scheme, which is opposites, you see, it gives you directly over there. If I click on here, the part of complementary, I can also select split complementary, analogous, which I do want to try just right next to each other and tradic, tetrads, all of them. It's up to you and you can also control the brightness right here. Next is the value here, I can directly select the color that I want and I'll note it over here. I select the color that I want, the saturation that I want, how pure it's going to be the brightness that I want. For the palette section, this allows you to import all the colors in a file or in an image so that you can just select them directly from the imported section. For example, we can create a new palette from a photograph. That means we can come to the input a photograph section, select our photo, perhaps that one and it'll import all the colors from that photo, that image. But then again, it's never really that accurate because as you remember, I selected a photo of my face in a blue dress and it hasn't gotten any of the colors from my face. These are all to desaturated and not dark enough for my skin tone. It's more useful when you just want a general color range. Then you can use that to bury it yourself as you're painting. For example, let me just go back to my gallery. I started this sky cloud painting. Let me open up reference so that you can have a look. Is it open? Here it is. I wanted a sky that has these colors. I will not draw any of these things over here on this side. What I did was I imported here in the color section, I had these three different palettes. Let me show you the photos that they came from. They came from these three different photos. This one, this one and this one because I knew I'd be able to get a large range of colors from them. When I'm doing now my drawing, I just pick from whichever of the three that I wanted. That's how you use the importing thing, color picker. Next up, I think the last thing I'd show you is that when you're painting, if you want to make work easier for yourself, for example, as I said I usually use this value part. You can just drag from the top over here and move your color picker wherever you want it to be. I will mostly have mine depending on what I'm doing. Sometimes I'm watching something on Netflix as I'm painting. It just depends on the day, the mood. I can now just arrange my different sections, viewpoints. I'd also have maybe my reference viewpoint right here. Drag from the bottom with your finger just like that, and arrange it. Tap here at the top and move it, arrange it here, then have Netflix here or whatever I want to do as I'm painting. You can always arrange your viewing space like that. This is zooms in, this zoom out. Remember, whenever you get tired, take frequent breaks when you're painting so that you come back with a new perspective. Sometimes you don't notice mistakes until you've walked away from your painting that's when you notice new mistakes. An example is this artwork. But till now, if not yet finished in my eye, because this part doesn't look that good and this petal for doesn't look that good. I will let us come back and see new mistakes that are made and I come back and edit it. When I put my signature here, it's still not yet complete in my mind until the day that I feel like I'm completely done. Same goes to this one which I've been doing for quite awhile. I'm not, yet done with it and it'll take me a bit of a long time. I just take my time slowly as I work to make sure that I have done my work the way I want it to look like. [MUSIC] 17. How To Select Your Reference Image: I think at this point we've gone through all the different tools and sections and hidden icons in Procreate. I think at this point, let us move on to how you would select and edit your reference image when you are beginning a new piece of work. Because I know I've gone through this in my previous classes, but I think this is going to be the be-all and end-all of how to select your reference image and how to edit it within Procreate. I have two preferred places of getting my reference images. First of all, the first one is always Pexels. Pexels is for when I am drawing mostly landscapes or birds, animals, sometimes people. This is really nice. [LAUGHTER] This is really, really nice. People, environments. This is where I normally get my images from. You can search for anything. For example, when I wanted to draw the sky, I just came and searched for, I think clouds. Then what I did afterwards, the good thing about it is that you can filter it and select the color scheme that you want. The hex code. Now hex code is usually the color scheme of the colors. For example, hex is usually a range of numbers. For example, pink hex code, and just search for pink hex code, and then they'll get the hex code just right here and select the kind of color pink that you want. You can select here, or sometimes you may just write pink clouds and it'll come up. You can specify to write to the size that you need. This is really pretty. All sizes and orientations depending on the kind of reference image that you want. Even portraits are really good to get from here. For my class on how to draw a striking portraits in charcoal, with black people, I got most of them from right here because I think what I searched for was just portraits, lighting. Let's see, lighting or something of the sort. Lighting, I hope I've selected the right thing, and you get really interesting portrait. The good thing about Pexels, oh this is so pretty, is that you can use it for commercial use. Sometimes you just can draw exactly, copy as it is over here. Of course using your own artistic license and changing whatever you want, or you can just take aspects from different photos and incorporate them into your artwork. That's Pexels for you. Other alternatives are usually Pixabay and Unsplash, but Pexels is the most extensive that I have found and it's all free. The other option that you can use is always Pinterest. Pinterest is awesome for portraits. Absolutely awesome and you can even see that my home feed is filled with portraits. You can just come here and see whichever ones you want. This is really pretty, and also see inspiration from other artists. You always learn something new from other artists like, yeah, I really love how she's put the highlights or he's put the highlights. Get inspiration. Save them and use them in your own artwork. Get inspired by them. Once you've gotten one, for example, if I wanted to draw this one, which I probably will want to paint it later on, just click on download image and it shall be downloaded into your gallery. There it is. You can just use the same process of importing it into Procreate. Import it and paint it. If you want to draw it in black and white, you can come here, edit it and just to decrease the saturation completely. Wait, where is it? Over there. It's not yet striking enough if you've taken my past class, you will know that we like to draw striking portraits. You can see her skin doesn't have a nice range of values. We definitely know that this part under the neck should be much darker. This part here should be much darker, as well as here, there should be more of a shadow. What I normally do is come to black point and then I take it to a much higher. You see now the contrast is getting better. Come up here, the brightness, we can edit it, but I don't think this one needs any brightness editing. Contrast, I always take it a little bit higher always, no matter what. Because now you can see that this highlight over here from the reflected light is popping a lot more even here, this dark section right here is popping more. The highlights are all popping more, even the shadows. Her neck right here at the rib-cage, at the joining part, it's a lot more visible. So just play around with these settings if you're painting in black and white, which are also a really good exercise to do. I'll have make up class in the future and how now to paint portraits in black and white, and later on, on how to color them after you've done that. Because that is also a method of painting where you start with a black and white complete range of values and figures, then later on paint on top over it with colors. It comes from the traditional painting when you're painting with oil paints where you have an under painting. Then later on add glazes on top. I have makeup class on that, in the future. [LAUGHTER] Just come around here, play around with it if you want to paint in black and white. If you do not like also the color scheme right here, you can export into Photoshop, play around with the background here, and then make it into what you want. But also, you can do it on Procreate. [MUSIC] 18. How To Edit Your Reference Image: [MUSIC] Since this is Procreate, we shall be editing our reference image right here. It's much easier to do it on Photoshop, but we are talking about Procreate this time and the Photoshop will be a different class in the future. If you want to edit your reference image, the first step is possible to come here and import your photograph. Here it is. It's imported right into our painting or drawing. You can see they created a layer for it. Maybe if you want to change our background into a different color, we don't like the screen, maybe. [LAUGHTER] We can select the background and take it onto a different layer so that now we can play around with the hue, saturation, brightness, and all that. First step is to select our Selection Tool, remember it's this one, and make sure you come to "Freehand". Now we're going to just trace all around the background, first of all, that's a fast step. So let's do that. [MUSIC] When you're tracing around somewhere, make sure that if you do lift up your brush from the paper when you continue with your tracing, you have to join that spot directly where you lifted it up from. Otherwise, you shall have an incomplete selection, and I shall show you that in a bit. [MUSIC] I'm doing my best to be as exact as I can. But of course, to be human is to error. There are some sections that I can already see I have messed up a little bit. Note, once I've gotten to this point, I shall just come all around the back because I have to close my selection and bring it back to this point. There. Now we've done our selection. Next thing is to use our three fingers to swipe down, like that. Then now we're going to click on Cut, and then swipe down again and click on Paste. If you click on your layers, you'll see that the background is now on its own different layer. From here, we can have fun and play around with the hue and saturation and brightness and everything. Maybe for example, if you want to now make the background, let's see, red, if we wanted to. Though this one, the green one is really nice because it really matches with her eyeshadow, but we can make it red to play around with it. What we'll do is we'll just exactly come right here to the Adjustments section and click on Hue, Saturation, and Brightness. Now when we play with the hue, saturation, and brightness, the only thing that is going to be adjusted is the background because the background is what is on that layer. Remember, we click on it; hue saturation, and brightness. We can play around with the hue. The purple looks so nice. Now you can see the imperfect places where I selected. But this is just for editing purposes when you're playing around with your reference images. I had said that we are going to make it red, for example. Let's come to this part over here. Remember it's still interacting with the original background, which was green. The color that we're getting over here, it's not a pure red because it's interacting a little bit with the original background that was there. If we wanted a pure red, we'd still have to play around with the saturations right there. So we can play it around with that. Even more of magenta and make it brighter or duller. See, we have a whole range of colors. That crimson color looks really nice. You can see the parts that were empathically cut can still be seen right there. That way you can play around with the background and maybe come up with a mockup of how you want to reference image to look like the final image. Even other than that, we can still play around with the hair. We can give her a different hairstyle. Make sure that when you're doing these edits, just do it on a different layer so that if you don't like it in the end, we can always change it back to something else. You can just paint over the hair, that's too big. Give her maybe a different hairstyle. Try see how she'd look with it. You can just paint over that whole place, leave her edges on. That's like a huge bouffant kind of hairstyle. Give her that. Maybe play around with the brightness to give it a little bit of highlights and all that. Maybe give her a braid as well. Give our highlights, whatever you might want. You can just play around with it and see whichever hairstyle would be best for you. Remember now over here, since we have the original hairstyle peeping out, what you can do is, you can just pick out the background color and paint over it so that all that we can see is a new hairstyle that we're giving her, whatever it might be. It can be this that I've made, you can make it flatter. You can give her a huge uproar. Now I want to erase that. Let's see. I actually wasn't erasing. You can now give her huge uproar by erasing what we had drawn before and making sure that this part is selected and colored in. [MUSIC] Erase this, select that, smaller brush size, then an uproar. We need a little bit of this to paint over that section. [MUSIC] There is a little bit smaller. Just like that. [MUSIC] Make sure that the color of the background is the same. [MUSIC] Just to define the uproar. You see, you can just play around with your reference image to get a look that you want. If at all, once you've made this afro, of course now this is just for you to make mockups. You can save them as you go along as PNGs or JPEGs, that you can reference to them. Of course, now you see this afro doesn't have any highlights or anything. You can't really see the highlights on the poof. You can just now come back to Pinterest and search for maybe a lady in a ponytail. Lady in ponytail afro. Let's see the images that we come up with. You can see this one. It doesn't really show us the highlights so well, it she does show the highlights over here on the side, and you can now use it as your reference image as you are painting. Maybe let's search for lady with afro or just afro ponytail. Let's see what we're coming up with. This is a video. I thought it'd be really nice. This one is pretty good because when you click on it and zoom in, you can see how the curls have little tiny highlights. It gives you a reference on how you're going to add the highlights on your poof afro that you have drawn. Or if it was a braid that you had decided to go for, you just come back over here and search for braid ponytail black woman, because it was a black woman that we were painting, otherwise we'd get other kinds of colors of hair. Just seen one, this one. Braided ponytail, but it's in the dark so you can't see it. This is pretty nice. Now you can see the highlights on the braid and now it also guides you on where to put highlights when you're painting your own braid on the hair. That's how you just mix and match references, edit them to make them how you want them to be. Feel free to use all your artistic license to make whatever kind of reference that you wanted to make. Have fun with it. [MUSIC] 19. Lily Of The Valley Part 1: [MUSIC] Now let's put everything together. I decided since it's the month of May for the project, the sample artwork, we're going to draw the lily of the valley. I didn't know even how this flower looked until I look it up for this class [MUSIC]. But it is absolutely pretty and beautiful. I think it's a good example to show you how to use all the different tools that I've taught you about in this class. I'm looking forward to seeing how you are going to apply your own deduction to make your artwork unique. Feel free to do different steps from what I have done. You can also use different techniques that maybe you might intuitively think of just to make your artwork your own. I'm looking forward to see what you come up with and please feel free to post them up on the class project section. Let us just pick out a reference image. They're really nice ones, so many of them over here. Let's see. We want a simple one just for this class [MUSIC]. I like this one, though, all of the images are really nice. Let me download it [MUSIC]. Next is to create a new canvas with the screen size. Then let us see. Let us edit our canvas size. First thing is to change our DPI to 300, second thing, let us change our dimensions to inches. I want to print it out. Let's see. Let's just link it and make it maybe 16 by something, that's 11 layers available. That's good enough to start with. We shall still end up cropping this canvas later on. Click on Done. Next step, let us import our reference image in the canvas. Reference, Image, Import Image. Select that. Now let's move this and resize it. Somewhere right here. Looking at our reference image, we can see that we will need to either crop our canvas to be a little bit smaller like this or we draw it while it is vertically like this, but I prefer having a larger screen to work with, so what I shall opt to do is to crop mine. Let's just crop it using just our eye to something, let's see. According to our settings, this is 8.15 by 12 inches. Let us make it eight inches width, but then let's come back here and link it because I like how this is sized. We make it just a little bit larger. We had too many layers available, so let's make the longer side 16 so that we have 13 layers to work with. Then we click on "Done". Let's move this right here to the side. Great. Perfect. For the first step, let us tone our background. Let's not work with a white paper. Let's come here to our background color. Let me do that. We can preview how the color of our canvas. Let's come back here and select a nice background color. I want something dark but we shall still end up editing it later on. Maybe something like that. [MUSIC] I'm going to go along as I create this palette for you guys. First step, let us select a pen. Let's go with a calligraphy monoline pen to sketch. Make sure that we're on a new layer. Our background color is set. Then for the color, let us select, let's see. Which color do we go with? Let's go with this white that I have right here. I'm going to save it right here in my palette. Make sure we are at a size, let's see, 2 percent. Is this monoline? That size 2 percent is really nice. Looking at our reference image, all that we have to do, the first step, is just to create one of these, guys, then we shall copy it because we're making a simplified flower. We're going to just draw round, you can draw it as big as you want it to be. We shall still end up resizing it later on. [MUSIC] It's not that clean, so we can use our eraser to erase. You can just leave the reset on the monoline to erase that part right there. Make sure if you do make a mistake, erase it carefully so that we don't have any gaps because we shall be filling this section. After we've done that, we can now just drag this straight color right here and fill it in just like that. Let us minimize this and see how we are going to scale our diagram. Let us just select it using the Select button then making sure that you're on uniform, let us just resize it and let's remove the snapping and magnetics because otherwise it's going to make it look a little bit glitchy and make it small like that. Maybe right there. Then let's move it somewhere there. Just somewhere at the center. Then when you're done, click on that. Next thing, let us now duplicate this layer. Duplicate it, select it, and then move it. Let's offset it maybe somewhere there. Another one; duplicate, select, move it maybe somewhere here. Let's make this one just a little bit larger and we can rotate it a little bit. Come back to this one duplicate, select, move it, maybe somewhere here. Click Done. Duplicate, select, move it. We're going to make these guys overlapping. You can see these two right here are overlapping. We'll make these ones overlapping. This second one that I'm putting right now, I want it to be behind the first one that we've already set. What I'll make sure, once I've set it, I'll come back here to the layers and make sure that it is underneath the top the other one. Let us just hide these other guys to make sure that it is underneath it. Let me move this canvas to the side right here. You can see that the one that is on top right here, when we hide it, it is the one. So this second one is right below it. Good. Let us make that other one visible. Now let's maybe make this one, let us duplicate this. Duplicate, select, and move it right here, rotate it a little bit right there. Let's now make this one right here. You can see it's behind this one, behind also this one, so it should be somewhere here. Let's go to that layer. I think it was this one. Let's hide and see. Yes, it was this one. Whichever one that we're making, it should be now below this layer. Let's first of all make that visible, duplicate and then make sure we put it underneath it. Select and move it right here. I know that it's a little bit difficult to see since they're all the same color but we shall end up playing around with the colors. Whenever you're unsure of which layer you're on, just hide that layer then make it visible again so that you can be able to see which part you're drawing. Now we're done with that. Maybe now let's put this one, this flower right here. It's behind this flower. This one is behind this flower, so we'll make this big flower and then move it right down there. Let's first of all find this big flower. Which one is it? I think it is this one. No, it's actually not that one. Is it this one? Yes, it is. This one right here. Let us duplicate it, then make sure that we moved it below, and then select and move it maybe just right here, then maybe rotate it a little bit. Have fun with yours. It doesn't have to exactly look like mine. Let's make another one right here at the bottom. We can just use any of these other layers. Let's duplicate this one. Select, move right here, rotate to the side, maybe right there, make it a little bit smaller there. Let's make this one now. Which one do we do? Duplicate, select, move right here. Make it just a little bit tinier, there. You can leave these ones, we can just draw them in later on. [MUSIC] For now, that has now started working on these guys that we've duplicated right over here. [MUSIC] 20. Lily Of The Valley Part 2: So what we're going to do is add a little bit of shading to these. So we're going to do them one by one so that you can get in some practice on how to do the shading. Let's start with the top one. Which one is this one? It's this one over here. So we can cluster, will alpha lock that layer, alpha lock it so that now when we are shading on it, nothing is going to the paint is not going to go anywhere else. Then make sure that we have selected the painting brush right there. That is actually the knee corral. We wanted to use any corral brush default one that comes with procreate. So we are going to come right here. I'm going to choose, going to come back to my desk and to just play around the greens. So I'm going to choose maybe add dark green color somewhere there. Then we need to make this a little bit bigger. Then I'm just going to shade, shade, adding some shading, some shadow, or shading all over just on some areas to make it look a little bit three-dimensional. Some parts would mean to leave bright white. And also make sure they have to make sure that I have saved it in my palette. Then come back again to my desk, maybe just a little bit of a darker color, just for some little bit of variation. Then here show that it is calling this a little bit in the shadow. So we shall repeat this process for all the rest of them, making sure that I have saved this in my palette. Let's now come to another one. Maybe the second one is this one. Let's see which one is it right here? This one right here. So again, I'll just come here to my desk. Or I can just use directly something that I've seen here on my palette. Select that green and do some shading. Oh, one thing we forgot to do, make sure that your alpha lock that layer. That has to do some shading, little bit of shading all the way round. Can even just come here to my desk, select a bit of a greenish light green color, make my brush bigger and put it all over everywhere. When my green to be a little bit yellow. So I can just come right there. Selected. Play around with your color wheel. All that I want you to focus on right now is not necessarily choosing, selecting the right colors. It's just learning how to use Procreate and how to use the different layers and all. Let's go to another one. This one last step of the log so that we don't forget it and find it. It's this big one right here. So again, come here to our colors, maybe let's use this dark color. She did think I can use a little bit of blue. Let's come here to maybe lose sections. Maybe something a bit darker, the blue side. Remember to leave some sections white so that it looks like it is highlighted. Great. Again, let me just save this to my palette in case you want to use that same color. Next, let's move on to this one. Which one is it? It's right down here at the bottom. Let alpha lock it. Let's use a little bit of green. There's a green that I didn't see you. I think this one wasn't saved. So let me just come to my palette and make sure I saved it. Let's use that green cluster will be alpha lock the layer. Yes, we did. Let's shade right there a little bit. Then choose a darker color. This dark. Mice maybe just shoot this one inside. Right here at the bottom. At the top. Great. Now, moving on to the next one, we're just repeating the same process all around this one right here. Let's start with alpha locking it. Then let's read this section. Right here. This other section ruined said she did so much because it's like as if it's in the light meat this side, much, much darker. Let's leave it as that because we will make the edges pop by shooting this part that is underneath the second one. I think is going to be the next one we're doing right here. Let me undo that. Next one. Let's make trades the one. Wait, which one is this one? Let's see. This one right here at the corner. So again, that has alpha lock. Select a greenish color. Maybe this one. Again, don't remember. You don't have to use the same exact color that I'm using. I'm just going on my color wheel and selecting effects. It's very green. I'm selecting some greenish color. And just using that. Then we're going to make the rest of it be in shadow. Let me make sure that I've saved this for you. Let's select that color and shade the rest of this guy. Let's put him in shadow completely. Then I think we can afford to make to make that green a lot darker right here and this other edge make it darker. Now, moving on. Next guy, which I neither this one right here. So again, Alpha Lock, come here, Let's select on our palate the dark blue, this guy. Then we're just going to make sure that this part, this section that is overlapping, is weighed up. So that's the top flower. Can seem like it is popping lot more. There we just eat that day. Feed him in sheet to this bottom one, this bottom part to be much darker. Let's let's see if we can bring in another color just for a little bit of variation, maybe the screen just a little bit on top. Great. Now next guy, this baby. Let's see where she is. She's right here, which was in the back. So we're going to shade her. Use, maybe, let's use this guy right here. See shade right here. Maybe leave that part sheet. I like that. Now, who are we left with? We're left with this one. This guy right here, the top. Let's alpha lock. Did we Alpha lock this guy? Let's see. We might not have, we do not alpha lock this. So what I'm going to do, this is a good example now to show that what happens when you don't Alpha lock. So we're going to undo until we redo everything that we did right here and make sure that we have done nothing on that layer. Yes. It's now clean. Let's now alpha lock it. Remember, don't make the same mistake as I did. Like it when at least you can also see the mistakes that I make. I always, always for some reason forget to alpha lock. If I'm supposed to lock. Usually forget to draw on the right layer. Means that I just have to do lots of redoing of my work, which sucks sometimes. Now next layer, again, Let's make sure we have alpha locked her. And I remember this guy right here, the top. Let's take that dark color. Shade one side. We're just observing the light. The light seems to be coming from this direction. Sheet like that. And then on to the last one. Right here. I know it seems repetitive. But you see every single flower has a different, you haven't locked. Every, every different flower has a different kind of lighting scenario. You could duplicate after you put the shadows on just one flower. Thing is you won't have so much variation in terms of lights and shadows. Especially when it comes to this reference image, you can see that it has lots of variation. Every flower is different in the lighting that it has. So that's why I decided to first of all duplicate then add the lighting. Good. 21. Lily Of The Valley Part 3: Let's go now to the adding one layer. Let's move it right to the bottom. Because this layer, we're going to use it to add the stems. We're going to leave these shoots right here at the top. For now, we're not going to draw them. This light green color, yellowish-green. Let's see which color can be used. We can use whichever color because we can always edit it later on. What I normally like to do is to look at the general color all over and draw using that color first. Let's see. Let me see. Let's test out this color. How does that look? Yeah, I like this color. Let's use this one. Let me make sure I've added it to my palette for you guys. Then I'll come back to my calligraphy pen monoline. Make sure I've taken the size up way higher. Still way higher, a little bit higher. I think that's a good size because our Canvas is quite big. So let's move this canvas right here. Then now you're going to see the goodness of the monoline brush. When to start like that. Then we're going to hold it right there. It's created an arc for us. Then let's come down like this, hold it right there. Created another arc. Because I'm trying to go carefully to make sure that I'm creating smooth lines. For right now, I want to create smooth lines then maybe I can add just a little bit of size over here. Then right here I'm going to add another guy like this. See it's created for us an arc, though that's quite a sharp arc. Let's make it a little bit smoother. I don't like it. Let's make it into a line. I was hoping it and give me a polyline. Let me just redo this part, this line. That one, I already drew it smoothly enough. Then let's come down right here. Maybe you come like this. We need to make some parts fatter by just drawing over it. Then let's maybe draw this guy, that was actually quite a smooth act. I'm proud of myself. Let's make this guy fatter. Let's draw this, make it a little bit fatter. You see how with the monoline, you get to draw really smooth lines surprisingly. Draw this guy right there. Let's draw a little bit of green right there. Now, let's come down right here. Since I'm making it quite fat, I don't need to make it into just one line. Then going to make it go down right there. Then maybe draw this shoot right there. I think we'll just have to add maybe one of these so that this guy right up here doesn't seem like she's hanging too much. What I'm going to do now next is maybe, let's see which thing haven't we used. You remember the masking and the clipping mask. What I'm going to do, let me see, I'm going to create a clipping mask. Let's now learn how to use clipping masks in action. We create another layer, then double-tap on it and click on "Clipping Mask". It's clipped to the greens, the shoots. Now we're going to add a little bit of variation, it's a bit too plain. Let's come back and make sure we've selected our painting Nikko Rull brush. Now let's start with some highlights. Let's use this white we already had right here. Let's just add in a little bit of highlights to some other sections. It looks a little bit translucent. Just not all the sections, play around with the size of your brush. To just add a little bit of highlights to some areas. Not everywhere, just to some areas. Let's go that right there. Where else? I think I like that right there. Maybe is a little bit right there. Little bit there. Right there. Good. Next, let us select a much darker green. Let's click on a green then come to our disc. We want a dark deep green. Make sure that I've added it to our palette right there. Let's see if the screen, we're going to add some more variation to our shoots in some sections. You don't want it to just be a plain seam green all over. You want to make your artwork interesting to look at. We need to add some darks. [MUSIC] I'm going to also make it even darker. Let's go there. Save it to our palette to make some sections even darker than others in a little bit of variation to our work. Right there, maybe. Right there, a guide to be in shadow all the way down. What do you think? For now, that's okay according to me. Remember whenever you make a mistake, just feel free to undo, that's how my baby is looking right now. That's a bit too dark right here. Next, you could actually have labeled all these layers just to be sure which layer you are drawing on, I chose not to. I think let's now draw one of these so that it doesn't just look like it's hanging up there. It's bothering me. You've seen we've reached a maximum number of layers per team. Now we're going to learn how to work around our layers. Let us now find ways to merge these layers. First thing I want to do before I merge, remember this is only the case that you're also limited and you've reached the limit, let me. Let us work as if you have also been limited like me so that we find ways to work around it. Last thing I want to do is I want to blast some of these guys, especially the ones which are in the background so that they bring in some variation in terms of which ones are visible and which ones aren't. Let's start with this one right here at the bottom. Let's find it. You see why it's good to label, so you wouldn't have to do what I'm doing. I'm going to blow this one fast. Here it is. I come to that now, then come the adjustments. Then I come to a Gaussian blur to blur it a little bit. [MUSIC] Oh I just remembered something. First thing is to make sure that you've removed the Alpha lock fast before you come to adjustments. Gaussian blur, it out a little bit. Maybe six per cent. Another one I want to blur is this guy right here. Let's find her. [MUSIC] She was down here somewhere. There she is. Remove Alpha lock, come to Adjustments, Gaussian Blur, let's blur a little bit just to make it seem like it's in the background. That other one was at six percent. Let's make it all to six percent as if it's also quite behind. Maybe let's make it blurred. Another one I want to to blur, is this guy right here. Let's find the guy. You see the iteration process I have to go through all the time because of my laziness in terms of labeling, there, we finally found her. Again, remove Alpha lock, come here to Gaussian blur. Well blurry too much, maybe three percent. That's not bad. I also want to blur this guy right down here. Let's find the guy. Feel free to be annoyed at my iteration process. There, found it. Remove Alpha lock. We need to blur this. Let's see how much we're going to blur it. Just going by eye. Some of them, I'm blurring them a lot, some of them are a little bit, like that, seven percent. Looking at this, I think I'm also going to blur this a little bit. Which one did I say I was going to blur. No, that guy. Otherwise Is fine. That one. This one, I want to blur it. Remove the Alpha lock, Gaussian blur. Just blur it a little bit. [MUSIC] Then maybe this last one. Let's find it. [MUSIC] Now we'll have to merge all of them together so that we can get more layers. Once you do this, you cannot undo it. Click on "Merge Down". Now all these have been merged because some of them are still alpha locked. The layer is still labeled now as Alpha locked, but you can always remove that. 22. Lily Of The Valley Part 4: [MUSIC] Now, let's make one layer for the petal up there. Again, come here, make sure we've selected our calligraphy brush, the mono line, and then let's select a white. This is more yellow in nature, but it's fine. Let's select a white. Then make sure it's small. Remember we made our size a little bit big. Let's zoom in a little bit. We can just draw it as big as we want to, first of all, then we shall resize it. You build it like that. Then I'm going to select it and start resizing it and rotate it a little bit. You'd bring it right there. A little bit smaller. [MUSIC] Let me just make sure that I have added this shoot to be joined to it. Got to a 100%. I join it. Going to erase this section right here. I can see it's a bit obvious that joined, just like that. Can even make it a little bit narrower towards the end by erasing. Now, next thing, let's come back here to our clipping mask. We just make sure that we have selected. Now, this isn't how you select colors. Like maybe that color right there. Make sure we get back to our painting brush. You corral. Make it bigger. I think we need a white to make it look a little bit transparent. Are we on the clipping mask, yes we are, let's make it a little bit transparent right there? Look like a shoot. Then a little bit darker on some edges. Right down here. Great. It's a bit obvious right there. Now, let's come back and finish this guy. By now, I think you know what you're going to do. We're just going to alpha lock the layer or remember you can also use a clipping mask if you wanted to, then we are going to take some yellow, maybe our colors. This guy right here, make sure you're on the right layer. Yes, we are. Then maybe come back to our desk, come to a yellowish color, that one. [MUSIC] This is just an exercise in learning how to use Procreate. Now, if it's a bit too harsh, we can lower the opacity like that. [MUSIC] Now, what else? Maybe I want to make this part a little bit darker. That's why I've come to the disk clipping mask here. Then I'm going to select this dark blue, and then we need to shade this section a bit too bright for me. Now this, we can consider it done. Now we're just going to play around with the background layer, looking at our flowers that bright. Maybe make our background a little bit dark with a lot of texture. We can tear our new brushes. You could use any of these. But we can use any of these guys. But we can play around with the texture than brushes. Let's see, which one do we want to use today? Let's use grunge. Let me see if I can find something else today. Stickman looks nice. I want a dark green color. I'm going to experiment with these guys, but let's see. Let's take that dark green. I don't like this texture. It's a bit boring, don't you think? Let's not use stickman. Sketching nothing. Drawing, no, evolve, let's see. Make sure that you select the color, the size is my actual process whenever I'm drawing. I really experiment quite a bit. I'm not cutting anything out. C, dry brush. No. If you'd like something so far just use it for your own painting. But I thought of something. Let me do what I usually do. I show you, let's come to this layer and fill it with a dark color. By dragging from the top, that's not dark enough. You need to go darker. Let's see. Is that still darker? No, too dark, too dark. Let's pull back. Not bad. That's not a bad one. You can now take this chance to learn how to play around with the hue saturation and brightness. Hue, saturation, brightness. Let's see, you can put whichever one that you like. Because what I want to do is to come here to make Crop and Resize tool. Make sure I've not selected my re-sample Canvas. Make sure you've selected the link. Because what I want to do is now to just resize my Canvas. My camera unfortunately cut out a small pad section over here. What I did was that I made sure that I centered our drawing exactly at the middle of the Canvas that I've just expanded. It doesn't matter how much you will have expanded it, in a few minutes, you'll see just how big I made mine. Now as long as you've selected snapping, just a line, you're drawing the green part right at the center of it, then click on ''Done''. The next thing that I did was I went to my background layer, you know, it, and then I tapped on it and then I changed my background color to a pure white. After that, what I did is that I may try that I went to the layer where we have our dark green background. Then I double tapped on it and made sure that I alpha locked it. Then I selected my soft airbrush, and I selected a light yellowish-green color that is in our palette. I shall show it here on the screen. Then after that, I made sure that the size of my soft airbrush was quite large because we're going to be covering the whole Canvas and you shall see in a few minutes. Then after that, I just moved on. It seems as if the light is coming from this side. What do you think? Color pick a little bit. Maybe here. Just to make the transition a bit more seamless. If you'd like, you can even use the smudge tool, this guy right here to blend the two areas together. [MUSIC] Down here I want it to be much darker. [MUSIC] There we go. You can even make this color, this one that we were using, just a little bit brighter. Now, this is where maybe the value part would come in, you could bump up the brightness but still bump up the saturation, maybe that way and let's make this bright but even brighter, just right at the corner, you could even pick up a little bit of yellow, push it towards the yellows. Just a little bit, and wait, not there, right there. I didn't save this. Let me make sure I've saved it to a pallet. There. Now sure it's been saved. Then back to that yellow lightly at the top. There. You've made a simple piece of artwork just using Procreate. I think we've used most, if not all of the tricks that I showed you. The only one that we haven't used is the masking option. Remember I told you that that one is if you want to erase something non-destructively, that's when you use it. What else, we've not added in any textures. Let us duplicate this. Maybe we add in some textures with blending mode so we go to Gallery, select duplicate. Done there, come back here. Let's see. I don't know if I have any textures saved up. Let me see. Now here 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. I don't know if I have another layer available. Yes, I do. Let us add in image, insert a photo. Do I have any saved right here? I don't have any textures. Let's use the other texture that I had saved the last time from my files. We could use this texture. [MUSIC] Here we go. Make sure we rotated it, make sure snapping and magnetics are on the wall so that we can rotate. There we go right at the center. Now, I don't want it to be at the center, I want it to be for this guy right here so we'll end up cropping it right there. Good. What we can do is first of all, let us contract all these people. We can lower the opacity of this. [MUSIC] Now, we can crop it, come here to rectangle. Then we can just draw the rectangle we want which for this section like that. Then, I need my three fingers, move down, then cut it. Now we've deleted this because we don't need it. Then down, paste it. There we go, right there. Let's now start playing with blending modes. Let's expand just a little bit, right there. Blending modes. Play around with these ones. Let's move this here to the side so we can see what we're doing. There. We can play around with different blending modes. Again, I have a thing for linear burn. I like how it looks. [MUSIC] Like that. I like the linear burn, this one. I even do like the effect that it then put the flowers. But if we don't want that effect around the flowers themselves, we can now select the Eraser tool. Here now we can't use the monoline brush, let's use the soft brush to erase just right here around the flowers if you want so that our flowers doesn't have to be everywhere so that our flowers remain the way we've drawn them before. Some areas of the flowers can be left with the effect that the addition has brought in, that blending has brought in. That way we have done it so you can see that's how it looked before, this how it looks after and it looks even grungy and prettier like that. That is how you can use Procreate to create some beautiful little artworks, whichever one that you want. In future classes I'm going to take you through how you can even create other things. We're going to draw people, we're to draw realistic things. This is something that I drew, that it's pretty realistic. I hope you enjoyed watching and following along with that. If you have any questions, please feel free to list them down below. I shall include every single resource that I have used for this class. All the colors shall be in the palette. Feel free to use whichever color that you'd like from the color disk yourself. For this class, we mostly used these colors right here, which are close to each other. Do you remember what they're called if you've learned about color schemes? They are called the analogous colors because they're right next to each other. Us we have used these colors, the yellows, the greens, and the blues, that is what we have used to make our artwork. Even after everything that we've done, the artwork that like most is this one which has more of the blending modes effect that we've added on the background. For this one, you could also still edit it not even put this background that I have put. You could take one of these brushes in the materials section. Again, where is the one which I normally like the most? The textures. I usually like using the grunge texture quite a bit. Are we on the right layer? No this one I Alpha locked it. Let's add maybe one layer so that you can see, put all those together. You could add some texture on your background instead of just doing what I have done, any of these guys can be used to bring some texture into your artwork. I hope you've enjoyed watching along and I can't wait to see what you've come up with in the class project section. [MUSIC] If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out in the discussion section. [MUSIC] 23. Speedpaint: [MUSIC] I really hope that you enjoyed drawing and painting along with me. I'm really curious to see what you've drawn, so please feel free to post your project in the class project section. Put it at any stage, whether it is at the first stage where we started at or at the last stage. You can also post the different iterations with different kinds of backgrounds, textures, blending modes used, anything that you want, whichever kinds of hues, iterations, doesn't even have to be white and green, you can use whichever colors you want. Please feel free to go wild with everything. In case you have any questions or if something wasn't clear enough, please feel free to post it in the class discussion section, and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. 24. Closing Thoughts: Now we've come to the end of this class. I really hope that you enjoyed following along with it. I tried to make the class as simple as possible, trying to put myself in my own shoes, how I felt when I first started using Procreate a couple of years ago. I hope that there is no confusion in how to use any of the tools, at least when it comes to drawing and painting. When it comes to animation and other things, we shall go into it much later on. I hope that you've enjoyed, really looking forward to seeing what you come up with, and I hope to see you in my future classes where we are going to be painting different subjects. First of all, definitely portrait because I know that is what most people have an interest in but we're also going to animals, landscapes, even later on into animation and comics. If you're also still interested in drawing traditionally, I have other classes up already here on Skillshare so I hope that you'll check them out. If you're going to see the different projects that I'm working on in real-time, you can check out my Instagram where my stories are almost always active. Happy painting, and see you in a future class. [MUSIC]