Procreate Illustration: Let's Draw and Streamline Your Workflow

1. What This Class Is About: Drawing in procreate is a lot of fun. But do you sometimes wish you had a better workflow? Especially when you have to deliver on time? Join the PNG pizza party in procreate to get a fresh perspective on your illustration workflow on the ipad. In this class, you will learn an easy and effective way to draw a cohesive set of illustrations in procreate on one single canvas. The stars are mushrooms, tomatoes, and your favorite veggies. You will also learn how to export and save your hand drawn illustrations so you can use them in any design project without having to worry about the expiry date. By the end of the class, you will know how to streamline your workflow with a fundamental tool Im procreate pages. You will also have your first library of PNG's that you can use on as many pizza slices as you want or in a fancy pattern or on a greeting card. My name is Eureka and I'm a digital artist from Germany. I love using procreate, especially the page assist to create sets of hand drawn images that I can use easily and flexible in multiple designs. Whether it's for personal projects or for client work. I also use this workflow to create my illustration elements for Canva, like the ones you see in the video slides for this class. Now in this class, I will guide you through my entire workflow. You will learn how to set up your canvas and enable pagesyst. You will practice your drawing skills with simple veggie illustrations. Although this seems super easy, it will help you focus on the craft side of the class such as smooth lines and very clean shapes. We will then export our illustrations on transparent background. In one go to create your pizza PNG library. In no time to make this set truly yours, you will have time to create your favorite vegetable too. In the grand finale, we will all come together to make a pizza with our illustrated vegetables. Grab your digital pizza dough and all the resources I provide for you on the project and resources page on Skillshare. As soon as your slice is hot and ready, shared with your classmates and deliver it to the world on Instagram. With hashtag pizza pens, we can create a never ending Ina pizza. And this is just one of many ways, maybe you're just getting started with procreate dreams and feeling more confident drawing with procreate a library of hand drawn elements like this is a true treasure. Just drag and drop them into procreate dreams and have more room explore all the great animation features. If you are an intermediate student with a basic understanding of Procreate is for you to bring your ipad and Procreate app. This is going to be full of fun knowledge and veggies. Let's turn this dough into a pizza and streamline your workflow in Procreate. I can't wait to see you in class. 2. Your Tools: Hi there. It's so great to have you in class. Don't worry, you won't need to order a pizza to get started. You will need your ipad and the Stylus. I use the ipad Pro and the Apple Pen. Second generation. Of course, we need the Procreate app. Procreate is available on the app store To make the most out of this class, you will find resources on skill share while I keep on staging to have the studio nice for the class. Head over to projects and resources. Under download resources, you will find four files download on each of them. Firstly, your worksheet. This will help you with your sketching, and you can also see the colors and stamps we will use in class. Next, the color swatch. It opens automatically in procreate after you download it and you will find it at the very bottom of your palette gallery. My tip for keeping it handy is to tap the three dots and set it to default. From now on, it's always available no matter if you are in value harmony, classic, or disc. Your third resource is a stem set for a Z, extra topping on your final pizza. Once downloaded, these also open directly in procreate, a new brush set is always placed at the top of your brush library. Feel free to use parsley and corn kernel in any of your projects Now do we get everything? No, we have one more goody. The digital pizza dough comes as a J peck. When you open it in procreate, you will be delighted to see that it is designed as a repeating pattern that works fabulously for as many pizza slices as you want. This will be the starting point for our pizza PNG class project, or better set the PNG pizza party. Let's have a final check to make sure we have all the tools we need for the class, everything in place. Then hop to the next lesson where I will tell you all the details about your very yummy class project. 3. Your Project: In our project, we will put your hard work in pages, this to the test. We will use your hand drawn PNG's for the very first time in our fantastic pizza party. All you have to do then is to post your unique pizza slice. In the project section like this, Feel free to deliver your signature pizza also to the world of Instagram. So we can have an amazing collection of unique pizza slices from all the different places in the world where you watch my class. I know that your students are watching all over the world. Why not pause the video for a quick second and say hi? In the discussions, tell us where you're from and what your favorite veggie is. Of course, you can add a photo to, maybe you love tomatoes or tomatoes. I can't wait to read what your favorite veggie is now. Everyone back amazing. Well, this was an excellent warm up time to get started and set up your canvas with pagesist. 4. Set Up Your Canvas With Page Assist: All right, let's set up our canvas. Tap on the plus in the top right hand corner. And now tap this black rectangle to open custom canvas menu. We want to turn this tomato into a simple illustration with only a few details. 2000 by 2000 pixel is fine. Our drawings will be just elements, they can still be part of a much larger composition later. 300 DPI is fine and our color mode is RGB. Are you ready then? Tap done. Right at the start, we will set up our canvas in a way that can structure our entire workflow with pagesyst. Go to the Action menu, Tap on Canvas. The third option is pages cyst. Let's toggle this on. You will see that there's automatically a timeline at the bottom that shows your active pages. You can add another page here and it will appear as a thumbnail in your timeline, in your layers menu. Each page is a layer or a layer group. Now let's bring our first star to the party, our digital dome tap, add and select ad photo or Add file, depending on where you have saved your resources. In our layers menu, it shows up in the second layer we created. Procreate also organizes new layers. On top, your first layer is the one on the far left of your time line. To work on our vegetables, we want to separate the tomatoes from the onions, each of them will get a page with a few layers. All we have to do is select the layers and tap group. When you move your layers, make sure they stay inside your group. See how mine just slipped out and became a new page. This group in total will build our standard page. One of the standard elements will be our pizza dough. So we call it that. The above will be our first sketch layer. We will need more layers for each step of our workflow. Tap the plus in the layers menu. To create a new layer, you should not see any changes in the timeline. We still have one page. But when you tap on the bar of the layer group and create a new layer, you create a new page. Are we good? Are you still doing okay? Great. You can delete this one and go back to our standard page. The next part of our workflow is the refined sketch. We are going to create one last layer for our illustrations. Got lost at any point. Just go back a few seconds in the video. The wonderful thing is now, once we have created a standard page, we can create a copy to have as many pages as we like. With the same structure, we can collapse the layers menu and just hit Duplicate. This way, each delicious veggie element of our pizza will have its own page with its own layers. Let's put this to the test in the next lesson, where we will go through all the steps together and illustrate this beautiful mushroom. 5. Let’s Draw: Mushrooms: Let's start with our first pizza veggie. Our first step is to sketch. I take the darkest color from our color swatch. The brush I'm using is the six pen from the procreate sketching set. There is a Pinterest board I created for you and you can find the link on the projects and resources page. The board is filled with beautiful images that you can use for inspiration or reference. If you want to keep it open while using procreate, just tap the three dots and then tap, slide over. Now, open procreate and move it to where you like it best. Let's see if we can find a great picture of a mushroom. Oh, this is great. Do you got one you like? Okay, now open the layers menu and go to the first group to sketch. When you start your sketches begin with simple geometric shapes. The cap of a mushroom is usually a umbrella like shape, which is essentially just half a circle. The shape of the stem, no matter how long or short, can be broken down into a rectangle. The parts of the gills are more like a quarter of a circle. There are stripes inside the stem. Do you see that? If you know the perfect expression for this, please leave a comment. Now let's move on to the refined sketch, and I will use some of the decoration for a little live demonstration. Look again at the structure and the funny parts where the gills of the mushroom are almost hidden. I'm going to keep all that in mind, but I'm not going to turn it into an overly rich sketch. Quite the opposite. Let me show you what I mean. I keep the six pencil, but this time I work with much more pressure, trying to capture the shape in almost one stroke. Now it's more about eliminating redundant lines. Yes, again, I'm capturing the folds in the mushroom stamp, but this time with very quick lines. In the first sketch, I define the shapes with small strokes. Now I try not to overthink my lines too much and just leave room for small adjustments. Okay, how far are you? I want you to work at your own pace. Now press pause and take as much time as you need to refine your sketch. This slide will remain for a couple of seconds. When you're ready, press play or back. Fantastic. Now let's start drawing. I like to have the refined sketch layer on top of my illustration layer, and we use the opacity to make it less visible. It's also a good idea to hide this sketch layer. Now let's start with the general shape of the mushroom. You can work with any color you like. I'm using this washed out wipe and if you tap twice in the area you see pure white from procreate. Now it's time for another brush and I switch to the monoline brush from procreates calligraphy set. Now this is my favorite exercise. Draw the shape in a single line. Okay, done. You can easily fill it with color drop. There is usually an annoying dip at the start and end points. Take your time to touch up things like that. The lines you draw now should be so neat that you will want to use your shape over and over again. Okay, Feel free to rotate your canvas or zoom in and out when you draw the line. You can work free hand. However, you can also use procreate to help you draw with quick shape, draw your curve and leave the apple pencil on the screen for a brief moment. Quick shape reacts automatically and creates a balanced arc. You can drag the arc even further if you have not lifted the pen yet. Okay, great. Now let's take a closer look at everything beautiful. Create a new separate layer for the dark areas of the mushroom. Pick your color. We are ready to go to avoid the messy transitions where the beginning and the end of the line meet. I gently draw the line back into the shape, Otherwise it would look like this. Again, it's the same with erasing. I rarely erase point by point stats topic. I tend to make broad and soft strokes even with the eraser brush. Now back to drawing here you can see again how I let the lines flow into each other. Like this. Here you can see once again, the trouble it would cause if you didn't pay attention to it like this. Okay, we don't want that. Of course, you can erase such areas, but you can also touch them up by drawing over them. One more, let's move on to this stem of our mushroom. You will notice the more lines you draw neatly, the easier it becomes. Give your hand some time to warm up. Of course, you can always adjust the size of your brush to find the size that works best for you. And one last part of our stem. One final color drop. Maybe a few touch ups here and there. Okay, and we are good. The only thing we are still missing is the coloring of the cap of the mushroom. See this part. Now I'm going to show you a very simple way to do this. However, we need a new layer for this. Even we used the same dark color, because this layer is below the white color layer of the mushroom. I draw a generous arc. I wait for a quick shape to balance the shape. And then I connect the start and the end points with a loose line. Now I fill everything with color drop. I use now the transform tool. But first turn off snapping to move the shape in small, gentle steps. Now I work with the eraser tool in the same clean way I drew before. It's up to you to refine your outline now until you're happy with the result. So remember, these illustrations should last you a long time. You decide how accurate you want them to be, okay? Yeah, like this. Okay. Again, work at your very own pace. Now, press pause. When you're done, hit play. I'll be waiting for you here. And then we can take the very last step together. Now, our final step. Clean up. What a cleanup. Yes, we have a very tidy kitchen, but what this is really about is our final result. All of our pizza vegetables are exported as PNG's with a transparent background. This means that every little pixel crump we haven't erased is visible. And that would be very annoying. In order to be able to see every arrow, it's best to choose a high contrast background, and sure enough, there's already a little spec. Let's get rid of it. If you still want to improve some outlines, this might be your last chance to refine some parts. In my opinion, this edge here is not quite right. I want to soften that. Okay, like this. Once again, we check all the lines and transitions. This work simply demands accuracy, which honestly helps me to slow down and recharge my batteries throughout a creative process. Okay, that's good. Switch between the layers so you can re check everything. Yes, it does take time. Actually, this is me behind the scenes, still touching up the outline. Look how dry the Arugula has gotten by now? No. Okay. Once again. Okay, that's it, bravo. We have worked really hard now. Let's name the layer group and call it as it is, it's a mushroom. One last thing before we go, let's set the stage for our next pizza star, our tomato. Just duplicate the standard page with a swipe to the left and we're done. Fantastic. In our pages timeline, we have now already three pages. That's a very good start. Let's move forward and see you in the next lesson. 6. Let’s Draw: Tomatoes: And on to the next vegetable, the tomato. But as much as I like them on my pizza, they simply don't belong sliced anywhere near my ipad. Let's use our worksheet from the resources instead. Here we have a totally tomato saucery sketch to work with. Now open the second group in the Layer menu and click on Sketch. Now we import the image into this layer. To do this, go to the Action menu and select Import Photo. If you have saved it to your photo gallery, you can easily zoom in with two fingers until it only shows this sketch of the tomato. Great, I don't want the pieces of the chili pepper and the onion to be visible. For this, I click on the selection tool. I use the freehand tool and circle loosely around the tomato swipe down with three fingers. Four, copy paste Menu. Tap, copy, paste. Only The selection is now copied to a new layer. Align the sketch in the middle. Now to finish our pizza preparation on time, You can skip the sketching phase for once, and you can also delete refined sketch and start with drawing. First of course, we choose a color. This tomato here has a rather squeaky color. In the studio light, I better stick with the darkest red from our color swatch for the skin of the tomato. For the brush, let's go straight back to the procreate calligraphy set and use the monoline brush. I reduce the visibility of the sketch layer. And I'm ready now we'll start with a very simple circle. If I hold my finger on the canvas, procreate automatically balance it with quick shape. As you can see, I'm using drawing support, but I'm not using a perfect circle or the symmetry tool to keep it a bit more, let's say natural or it's more whimsical. And one more touch up here. Okay, but that's all right. Now the inside of the tomato needs its own layer, of course. But I want to show you another quick trick for easy working. First I choose my color. Now I duplicate the original circle. I set it to alpha lock with a simple swipe to the right. Now tap fill layer and it is in this beautiful color. Now I can use the transformation tool to scale this circle a little smaller and align it in the middle of the original shape, PZ. Now we move the sketch layer back to the top of the group with a sketch underneath. It should be now very easy to draw the shape inside the tomato in one stroke. I'll choose the dark red color Again, our brush is still the monoline brush from the caligraphy set ready. Okay, here we go. I would like to have my drawing layer at the top. Here we go. Let's see how warmed up our drawing hand is. Now try to draw in one go. All right, let's do this. Perfect. This transition has unfortunately got a hard edge. It's best to touch it up right away Again, I work in long, soft strokes. Turn the canvas before you start the next element, and zoom in as far as you feel comfortable drawing. Are you able to draw in one go? Great. Now the last shape. All right, finishing line, Fantastic. Now, and then check how your canvas is aligned. Have a look at the pages. Time line below. And rotate the canvas back until none of your vegetables are upside down. See the little mushroom? Okay, now he's happy on his foot. Perfect. If you still need some time to draw this part of the tomato, now is a good time to hit pause, press, play as soon as you're ready. What is still missing are the small seeds inside the tomato. I will draw them in this light, golden, yellow. And don't forget to create a new layer for each new color. We can't see the sketch right now. Let's go back to the layer menu and reduce the visibility of this layer. Here are the lines of my sketow. Check again that you are on a new layer. Okay, great. We might have enough time to complete tasks, that's great. But sometimes a little time pressure can boost your efficiency and also your productivity. So sometimes a deadline is great. I now have a timer running to show you how long I actually need for the tomato sets. I have to admit that just the presence of the stopwatch makes me feel a bit uncomfortable. One author put it so well and said deadlines have a forcing function. I really like that, and I think so does a stopwatch too. Now draw along with me. At the same time, the sketch serves as a guide. You're free to decide the size and shape of your seats. Make sure you work neatly, even if the clock is running fast. To avoid spending extra time on corrections like this, you can do that, right? Okay. You will see that practice is key. So the next round of tomato seeds, okay, we are nearly there. And you will see you're getting better with every set you draw. Like this. Fantastic. Make sure that your lines meet neatly. Fantastic. Whoop exactly 2 minutes and 30 seconds, okay? One little more, okay? Now there are still some seats missing, but no time pressure at all for this part. Press again and draw at your own pace. I will see you again in a moment. You can also leave a note here in the video about how long it took you in total. Now for the fourth step, we turn off the sketch. It's clean up time. I could find some softer lines here. I think this part, but again, we need the background color with strong contrast. Don't forget to look at each layer carefully before moving on to the next lesson. I'll see you there and it will be a breeze, I promise. Hopefully, your eyes won't get watery though, because we are going to chop the onion. 7. Let’s Draw: Onions: Before we move on, we have to copy our standard page. Great. Now we can get started with our third vegetable. This is the simplest of all, The onion. Have a look, it's just rings. In this lesson, I want to show you a few other great procreate kitchen tips. We skip sketching, but we will do all the steps in our last veggie session, no escape then that's the great thing about pages. You keep the general thread in your workflow, but you can adjust the pages to your liking at any time. Now first I draw a circle. I close the line and hold two fingers on the canvas for quick shape, it's so easy to create a perfect circle. Next the lines that are inside the onion, we need a new layer for these. I use this really sick dark purple as a color. This will be now quick shapes, finest hour. Draw circles or ellipses at the start and the end point. Touch and hold your pencil on the canvas for a moment longer. In a snap, your lines will be balanced, but you won't have a rigid perfect circle, which is a very good thing to have, right? You can see that the rings in our original have also such a beautiful, slight drift. Stay focused that your matching points look smoothly. Quick shape doesn't do that for you yet. There it is. You don't have to draw it again. You can touch up those imperfections with a really fine brush tip. I hope your eyes aren't watering yet. Are you all right? Are you good? Great. Then let's draw the last rings. Perfectly great. Or not okay to finger tap, to undo, but now. Okay, great. To give the rings a little more character, I draw a few final lines. Okay. For consistency, you can remember the different brush thicknesses here on the slider. They appear as marker points that you can easily jump to by pressing on them. Now work independently and draw the inner lines as you wish. Look, for example, this has two eyes and sometimes shows thicker and sometimes thinner areas. Press pause and press play again. Once you're ready, you're right on time to draw the skin of the onion with me. Choose a fairly wide brush size. Now draw the final outer circle. Now again. Okay, a bit closer And done. Perfect. You know what's coming? Yes. Now it's time to clean the vegetables. Zoom in closely. Now you can see that the parts of the light color still extend beyond the skin. What does the onion say? It shows me a fine, dark purple. Let's do it. This should be easy now, like this, but with a contrasting color. You can see the light areas that need to be erased much easier. Let's turn the contrasting background on. Great, this is one part to erase those light areas, but also look carefully at the inner lines to make sure there are no half finished lines. Let's see. Yeah, like this one. Okay. You know what to do, I think. All right. So now it's time to find your own pace and clean everything. I will see you for another great kitchen trick in a second. Here is the great kitchen trick, but first we have to name the group. Okay, that is easy. Now let's duplicate this group, and I will tell you why in a second. We do not want to have just big slices of onions on the pizza, right? But also half of it like this and nice little onion rings like these guys. Okay? But we do not touch the ipad with dirty fingers. Clean your hands first, right? Of course, we are not redrawing the rings, We are chopping the onion in half as we do in the kitchen. Tap on the selection and free hand should be selected at the bottom of the selection tool bar. Now draw the dashed line diagonally and on the outside, back to the starting point. Now tap safe and load. Now tap the plus. Now you can apply the exact selection to all your layers. We still have to click Copy Paste, and see half of the purple rings are now copied to a new layer. Now we repeat the same process with the light color part of the onion. Press selection and press save load, press, copy paste. And we have the exact same half of the onion in a new layer. Excellent, We chopped the onion but digitally. Fantastic. Jump back in the video if it went too fast. Lastly, I would like to have a slim half ring. We don't need this part. You can see here in our live model that the inside of the onion always ends in white. That might be good to keep in mind. First, I duplicate the half onion. You can delete the whole onion, now we already have it. And switch to your layers with the lines. Make your work as easy as possible. Turn off any colors that irritate you and adjust the size of your eraser as you go. Fabulous. You know what to do. It's time to work at your own pace Again, press pause and hit Play once you're ready. Okay, the last part, and another life check. Now let's focus on this fine white edge. Take the eraser and simply create a nice curve. And you can also adjust this arc because also the eraser can work with quick shape. Great, now let's erase this big chunk and also the little crumbs. Fantastic. Now let's check again that everything is completely neat and clean. Yes, even our layer menu could do with a little housekeeping. Switch on the background. You can already see the first onion bits. Everything else looks great. Let's get our pizza dough Back on the screen. Housekeeping. Last part, we have to name the layer groups. Half onion, okay, and slim onion. That should be it. Of course, your onion pieces can have any size and can come in any shape. You could also just have drawn a ring. Or only this part here, don't they look like brothers. We, I'll see you again in our last pizza, vegetable session where each of us will draw their favorite vege. I promise we keep the workflow of our standard page this time. No skipping. 8. Let’s Draw: Your Favourite: Okay. We still have one standard page left. Now, I want you to tap on the layer group. Tap, rename and write your favorite vegetable here. The one that should under no circumstances be missed on your pizza. I'm not showing you mine. Write yours first, Okay? Okay. That won't work. Come on. Let's do it all together at the same time. My favorite vegetable is Roccola or Rocket or Arugula. I don't know how you call it, which one is yours. I give you a moment. In the meantime, I'll arrange some Roccola around my digital kitchen and everything should be nice and neatly. Yes, you know the most beautiful one right next to me. For inspiration. You see, actually I'm not a Pinterest girl about this lesson, we will now paint along with each other, and this time we will follow the steps of our standard page. Exactly. First, the loose sketch, you draw yours. I draw mine. I start first with a small framework, which are those lighter and firmer parts of my Racola leaf. This one, the uneven, funny, curved parts of the leaf are then centered around it. Okay. And also on the other side, completely asymmetrical, please? Yes. That's how I like it. In the refined sketch, or as you know, the minimal version of my sketch, I draw a very confident outline. Again, this also helps me to familiarize myself a little more with the overall shape. Let's do it. 123 in one go, please. Okay, and the other side, great. Okay, well, do they look alike? Just a bit. Also, the middle section of the leaf, this was still missing. Okay. Just straight lines. How far along are you with your vegetables? Okay, I'm doing the color part now. Starting with the darker shade of the green to keep my style consistent, I make sure once again that I have my monoline brush set on. Great. Here we go. At first, the outline, I'm very curious to see which vegetable you are drawing. If you need some more time to finish your coloring, press pause now and press play again when you're done. Oh, this was fast. You're already back. I've now chosen the lighter green. Now I'm adding one branch after the other with a slide curve. Oh, I think I better switch off the sketch layer. This will give me a better idea of the flow of my leaves. Okay? And the last two ones, have a look here at the transition from the center line to the branches. Okay. I let the lines get a little thicker, everything looks a little bit more organic and gets its very own flow. Of course, you can give your vegetables your own touch. Did any of you actually draw garlic? No good pizza should be without it. I'm about to read what you've written in the discussions in which parts of the world you draw and what veggies you like. This is going to be a great party. I need to do a little bit more here. Great. Okay, last step, clean up. Of course, you can see all the lines of the light green very well on the beautiful purple. This makes it easy to do the touch ups. I leave some lines a bit unusual that it doesn't look too even fantastic. Now this looks super finished. Now, very important, if you're working with color drop, check whether all the fillings have been successful or whether small imperfections still need to be repaired. Okay, fantastic. Super. We're finished. Let's switch all the other layers back on. Even our pizza dough. The nice thing about Pagesyst is that you can now go through your entire collection without having to switch to the gallery back and forth. Look again to see if they all fit together. They look gorgeous. The next step is to add some texture. That's when you really appreciate pagesst. 9. Add Texture and Blending Modes: Let's put the finishing touches to our vegetables. But before we make any changes to our pizza jams, let's play it safe and make a copy of the canvas. First, let's name your original layer. And of course you are free to decide how are you ready? Okay, swipe left over the thumbnail of your canvas and select duplicate. We do not want to get confused, let's add texture to the name of the copied canvas. Our gallery still looks lean and nice. Fantastic. Now let's choose our brush. I want my texture to have something bold. And there are some super cool ones in the artistic brush library from Procreate Hearts is exactly what I'm looking for. It's incredibly pressure sensitive. If I apply more pressure to my pen, the texture almost explodes. This is super cool. If you go over the same area twice, it creates an overlay. To get started, we also need to prepare the layer menu a little. Create a new layer above the one you want to add your texture to. Now, switch on clipping mask. Now the texture is only applied to the area of the layer where you have drawn something. You can see it here quite well. Try now how the pressure sensitivity of the pen can work for you. Start with the darkest area with strong pressure and release the pressure slightly as you move the pen upwards. This looks pretty good, but we can go one step further and experiment with blending modes. You can see all blending modes when you tap on the next to the layer name. The blending modes affect your current layer in interaction with the layer below. There are 25 different ones in total. All five above normal have more of a darkening effect. Now the great thing is that you can see the effects immediately in real time in your artwork. If you are familiar with Photoshop, you probably recognize some of the modes. Okay, let's go further down. And now we see the options that tend to lighten, but overlay, for example, both lightens and darkens an image at the same time. To increase the contrast, just browse through the options and decide on your favorite. Let's see, I think it will be hard. Light for me, looks great. Now you can soften the effect by changing the degree of opacity. I'm going with 60% You can now add a texture and blend effect to each solid color layer. First, create a new layer, switch on clipping mask and you're ready to go. Don't be shy about trying out lighter and darker areas. This tends to add more visual interest, even it looks now. Maybe sometimes a bit messy, but if you soften the effect with the opacity slider, it will look great, I promise. A bit more. Okay, now let's look through the blending modes again. At this point, I'm completely intuitive. If something catches my eye, I stick for it now. Now I reduce the effect a little. Make it a bit softer. Great. Now get familiar with the blend modes at your own pace, press pause now, continue once you're ready. When you work on your texture, keep in mind that you can always go back and forth within your pages and see if your results still fit together. For the sake of keeping this short, I want to show you just a few tricks when working with texture and blend modes. One tip. Don't be too strict with your texture. Use different brushes to create different effects. For example, here on the tomato seeds, I now use the monoline brush at the top right. In the coloring, you can see that I've chosen ultra, ultra dark purple. Now I'm going to add some framings. My blend mode, again, is hard mix quite a boat result, but I reduce the opacity to 20% The lines I draw now can extend inside and overlap in different ways. This is again something that takes time. Try to work neatly as you go. You can also draw them in a way as if they were forming in high light. Right? Again, here are my choices. I have selected hard mix as a blending mode, and now you can see it at full opacity. In the final design, I have reduced your Pacity to 20% This way it blends in nicely with the tomato without standing out too much. Take a moment to work on your design, and then I'll see you again for one last tip. That will save you some time for the last tip, let's get some help from the onion. I've already applied a texture to this one, to this layer, but for our smaller elements, let's tweak the process a bit. We flatten the layer group in one layer with a pinch. Now, continue as usual, create a new layer, activate clipping mask and start with your texture. I choose color burn and hearts as my brush again. Now we just need to apply our texture with loose strokes. Now jump to the next one. And this is really easy in pages, this slim onion ring, squeeze the layers together, create a new layer, add clipping mask and select the blend mode. I go with color burn and 60% and we are ready to go. You see this now applies to the whole slim ring. Fantastic. There is of course only one element left. Your favorite vegetable. For me, it's the arugula or rocula. I can't wait to see what your textured vegetable looks like. Hit pause and I will see you once again when you're done. Finished. Congratulations to you. You've worked really hard. Let's take a tour through our collection. Again, I see I have the mushroom two times and this is so cool and pagesist that I can immediately see the comparison in one canvas. This one can go and the other one can stay. Now it's time to turn our precious pieces into a special library. In the next lesson, we will turn our vegetables into ever green PNGs. 10. How to Export and Why: This part might be not the most glamorous. But I'll take you behind the scenes of my ipad right into the organization of my files. When I create an acid, the elements of each canvas get one separate folder. These three folders above should serve as examples to show you what you need to pay attention to before you export. The files are named in the same way as your canvas. Mine are all called Insert Image, which is really not very useful. Pay attention to that. Of course you have the option of changing everything here later. So rename the pretty flower Yes. Into Hibiscus. Now in the full image preview, you can see whether an image is saved as in PNG. If so, the background will change from white to black because the background is transparent. The second thing you should pay attention to, I will show you in my feast folder. In hindsight, of course, I could have named the files better, but right now, it's about the alignment of your drawings on the canvas. The orange and the papaya. They all look quite good, but as always, it's about the peanut. This one, it's quite far to the left and has unnecessary amount of negative space. This is very well aligned. Now let's take a quick detour to procreate. You tap on the little arrow and make sure that snapping is switched on. Now you have the guidelines that you can use to center your drawing. Move it a little more. Great, now it's perfectly aligned. Another way is to crop the canvas to fit. However, there's a catch. See this apple in the peanut collection book? And let's remember that one. Now back to the peanut and in the action menu, you can go under canvas to crop and resize. In the Crop Resize editor, I can use the handles to reduce the size of the canvas so that the peanut hardly has any free space around it. Perfect. Except now the apple looks like this. And do the melon and the avocado. The canvas has now been changed equally for all of them. You can undo this by tapping on the canvas with two fingers. Then all the fruits will have the same amount of space. Again, last tip for your preparations for that, let's enter the pizza PNG folder that I used to design the class. In this list, you will see all the vegetable twice. This is because I've saved each one with and without shadow. Shadows and highlights are not a great idea because they restrict your upcoming designs. It's better to add such extras in your final image. Now, you've seen so many PNGs, and I've said it so many times, but why is it our preferred file format you can save your drawings are the action menu and then tap Share and choose from this long list. The most common format is J Pac. You can see above, it has a file size of 173 kilobyte. Back to our canvas. Now we go to PNG. In the safe options, you can already see in the preview that the file is slightly larger. That's because here are the images we have just exported. The J pec immediately stands out because of its white background. Even if you've chosen a transparent background in your canvas, your Jpeg will automatically be compressed with white. Jpeg is very universal and can be easily shared with others. But the smaller file size also means that not all the information of your image is preserved. There's a slight loss of quality. A PNG on the other has transparent background and this is great for overlays, logos, and graphics. The file is slightly larger, but the quality of your image is completely preserved. That is exactly what we want for our vegetables. Let's export it as a PNG and put the knowledge we've just gained into practice back to our canvas. Firstly, of course, we check the file name Pizza PNG elements with texture. Great, do you have that too? That will be the name of your exported elements. Next, we need a transparent background to do this. Go to the layer menu and make sure that the check mark for background is switched off. Now we need to switch off the visibility of the pizza dough in each of our elements. You don't have to delete it or give it to your neighbors. Just tick off the visibility in the box. Now a little tip on the side. Pagesyst also offers the option of setting the very first layer as a default background for all pages just to make things a little bit easier for the next time. You want to use the same self drawn background for all elements, the pages, this timeline, all elements must now have a gray, meaning a transparent background. When exporting, you have two options. Firstly, a single element. To do this, go to Share in the Action menu and select PNG. In the first selection Share image, you can see above that one element is now shared. I'm now exporting it to my files. As you can remember, it is best to create a new folder for a set right at the beginning. I now call mine pizza NG class elements. Then I know that these are the ones we've just made together. Tap Safe. Great. Now that would be quite tedious to export every single one. Now here is your shortcut. Go to the Action menu under Share. Here is also Share Layers. This will represent each page in Page Assist. Now select PNG files if you export. Now you will see here above that all six images are shared. I go to save two files. Again, luckily the right folder opens again, tab save. Everything is now saved. Let's have a look at the folder again here and tap on pizza PNG class elements. This is exactly what we're looking for. You see all elements are here with one single save action. The one that was at the top of your layers is your first PNG and the bottom one is the last. We have to tomato twice, but that's okay. Another little preparation for our party to make sure we can get to our elements quickly. I like to save them on my camera role for the time of the project. To do this, I go to save files, again, under shared layers. I now tap on save images. Now they are saved to my camera role. But that is just a personal preference, because if I now have my pizza dough and go to add and add photos in the action menu, I can easily select my PNG's. But all of this is part of our final pizza party. Let's start your project there. And finally, turn this dough into a delicious pizza. It's going to be great after all the hard work. See you there. 11. Party Time - Create Your Pizza: Okay, it's party time. You've mastered all the milestones. Congratulations and hooray. Now pat yourself on the back for all the hard work you've put in. Now it's time to create our final pizza slice for the project. You can see our gallery is nice and sharp and everything is also nicely decorated here in the studio for our pizza party. Let's do it. The first thing we do is to create a new canvas, our pizza to to speak tap the plus. And this time it is twice the size of an Instagram post 2160 by 2160 pixels. We stick to 300 DPI and the color profile is RGB. Next we want to get our digital pizza dough. Wherever you've saved it, you can now import it using a Mine is in my photo gallery. The great thing about this dough is that it is a magic repeat dough. It is infinitely expandable. This means you can also use it as a pattern background. Let me show you how nicely they stick together. I copy the original four times, and then I move each pizza tile diagonally into one of the four corners. Now this means that you could also take a multiple of this tile and create an even larger pizza. If you don't know exactly how to do this, then take a look at my class pattern design in procreate three plus one key settings for print on demand. Now let's briefly check the transitions with a very dark background. Now we could see if there are any gaps, but this looks fantastic. But back to our original tile for our project, it's great if you just stick to this size of the original dough. Then we can put all the projects from all the students, or rather let's say all the pizza slices that are made next to each other. That would be fantastic. Thank you for that. Let's get started. First, let's create an efficient workspace just like in a good kitchen. Let's name our layer dough. Okay, next we need our ingredients. If you have saved them in a folder, then go to Add and add files. Here's our folder from earlier pizza, P and G class elements. Unfortunately, procreate doesn't allow you to import them all at once. You have to add each one individually to the canvas like this. Because of that, I also like to use the photo gallery because I can quickly access it again. I can only select one, but that's okay. But no matter where you have saved your elements, now is the time to add each one to your canvas. Okay, and Mushroom. Right now we can build a group with all elements we have. But don't move the elements on the canvas just yet. I'll tell you why in a moment. What we are missing from our list. Let's see, the whole onion slice. It's like doing the son plus ahead and preparing all the veggie slices in layers. In the next step, we make sure there's enough of everything. But first we create a group. We give this group a great name. I couldn't think of something else than all stars, but you do yours. Now you can copy this group as often as you like or whenever you run out of ingredients important, always copy from this group to keep the original quality. Now let's switch off the visibility of the lower groups. These are the first vegetables we start with. Here's the second request about the project when topping your pizza. Now please make sure that none of your vegetables hang like this over the edge of the pizza to avoid any strange transitions between our various pizza slices Later on, please work nicely on the dough. Can I hear a chef? Chef? Chef? Okay, thank you. Okay, back to our layer group. The next tip before you move your veggies, tap on the transition and change within the transition options. This little blue globe from nearest to bicubic. This helps to keep your veggies nice and sharp. Next tip, if your layer group is active as a unit, it will be blue. And now you can shrink all elements at once to focus on one element, you can switch off the visibility of the others. Okay, now the mushroom is left. Change the position or rotate it as you like. However I recommend. You don't make too many changes to one element so that this mushroom, for example, always remains pretty and doesn't become blurry. It is best to move all elements that you already use to the top of your layers. This will give you a better overview. I can now easily move the mushrooms again. If you now arrange your vegetables on the pizza, the hierarchy of the layer determines the order in which your vegetables are stacked. Have a look at the tomato here. It's now in second place and just below a mushroom. Now I move it down one layer, and it can be under the onion like this. That's a bit easier compared to a real pizza, isn't it? Now I can scale the tomatoes again, but I don't change everything too much so that the quality remains. Or look, I have mini tomatoes, that's so nice. Now, press pause one last time if you like, so that you can prepare your pizza at your own pace. The topping is something we will do together. Yes, this is my little slice of pizza. Finally, our topping, the stem set from the resources, should be at the top of your brush library. Now let's start with the corn. I use the light golden yellow. The brush size is 12. Now you can spread your corn kernels loosely over your pizza. Ah, one crucial thing. Do we have a separate layer? No, we need to create a new layer, but a two finger tap will undo everything. Then we'll create a new layer just for our topping. Zoom in a little on your canvas and start again if you rotate your canvas. While doing this, the corn kernels will point in different directions, which looks really nice. If you also want to have some corn in between, create a new layer further down. Now there, here however you like. I also want to encourage you to be a little bit bolder with the colors. If you sprinkle parsley on your pizza, it doesn't necessarily have to be green. It can also be in a beautiful, dark purple. That might be a bit big. Okay. I prefer 16 then. Just have a little parsley party if you like. Maybe you have also drawn olive rings which should be now on the top of your pizza. Do it as you like. I'm ready. Are you too? Then let's save it as a J pack to our camera role. Fantastic, export. Successful Hooray. Now let's upload it to the project section. 12. Submit Your Project: Finale. We are now on the projects and resources page of Skill Share. Do you see submit project on the right? Tap on it. First, upload your hot and fresh pizza slice as your cover image. It will appear as a thumbnail in the project gallery. Imagine how great the gallery will look when you all upload your pizza slices. I can't wait to see that. Also give your project a title. Your cover image will also be the first image on your project page. No need to edit again, but you can share your single P and G stars. There's also plenty of space to share some procreate kitchen secrets you gained along the way. Enter some text to make the class even easier to find on skill share. When you're ready, scroll all the way up and hit Publish. Congratulations, you made it and you've earned your official certificate for the class. It shows your name and the class you mastered and the party continues. We are all getting together on Instagram for a big pizza party. So upload your super tasty digital pizza slice and use the hashtag pizza, PNGs. Also me at Text and tulip, so I don't miss out at any delicious pieces. This is going to be great. Finally we meet for a little summary and a big round of applause. 13. Wrap-up and Next Steps: Everything delivered on time. Congratulations to you once again, a big round of applause for all your diligence and hard work. Let's wrap it up and have a close look at everything you learned. You've mastered three milestones. First, how to set up your canvas and enable pagesist. You now understand the basic of setting up your canvas correctly from physical size to DPI to color mode. You've also learned how pagesist works and how to set up a clear structure for your illustration workflow within a standard page number two. You've practiced your drawing skills with simple food illustrations. You used your set up to draw four cohesive veggie illustrations. And learned how to pay attention to detail to create smooth, clean lines. We also add a texture and explore procreates, blend modes to add more visual interest. In the last step, you learned how to export your illustrations and create a library or assets. Now you know to avoid the three most common mistakes before exporting. And learn different ways of how and where to export to best suit your workflow. Finally, we put all to the test in our PNG pizza party. I can't wait to see your slices in the project gallery. So why not go there and see what your classmates have done? If you haven't created your project yet, then do it now. If you still have questions, the discussion is always the right place to ask. I'm happy to help. Please one more favor skillshare and especially me as a teacher love to know how you like the class. Please put the pizza aside for a second and leave a review. Your feedback is one of the most important keys to helping new students discover this class. It's really easy to do. I hope to see you in one of my other classes I teach here on skill share. There are two more classes with Page Assist, where we create a set of design stamps. And in the other we create a calendar which always makes a great gift. So let's have fun in procreate. And if you happen to speak German, there are also a whole bunch of beginner classes in Deutsch. Now enjoy your pizza, and don't forget to share slice. I can't wait to see your fabulous work. Everything closed, delivered on time, great. It was such a pleasure with you, choose.