Procreate Inking: Fun & Easy Techniques

1. Intro: Ready to turn simple sketches into stunning ink designs right from your iPad. Join me for a fun and easy inking class in Procreate, and let's turn your sketches into something special. Whether you've been using Procreate for a while, or you're just starting out. This class is aimed to make inking easy and fun. Ola and Sandra Mahia, I'm a Columbian Canadian Illustrator and surface pattern designer, and I create art for companies around the world to put on their products, and I teach others how to do the same. In this class, I'll walk you through my favorite inking techniques in Procreate, and we'll be using Procreate's native brushes, so there's no need to download any other brushes, and you'll learn very easy techniques and strokes that you can apply to your projects in no time. We're going to be creating a little goldfish, but you can choose any animal that you prefer. The aim of this class is to keep things light and enjoyable while learning a simple yet powerful technique, inking. We're here to have fun and create something beautiful together. We'll start by creating a simple sketch using very basic shapes, and then we'll start building upon it to create our final sketch. This approach makes it very easy to create your own sketches. But I'll also provide my sketch so you can work with it if you prefer. Then we'll learn different inking strokes that you can use, and I'll show you how the brushes work so you can choose your favorite ones. With these cute little goldfish that we create today or the animal that you chose, you can create card texts, stickers, coloring books, or even tattoos. And as a special bonus, I'm going to show you how to add a gold e factor linework using my Shine brush, which is also included in the class. So you'll get the basic sketch, the shine brush, and a practice procreate file where you can practice all the strokes that we learned today. Putting all these strokes into an illustration is a playful but lighthearted way to practice your skills. And you'll have a masterpiece to show off at the end. For this class, you'll only need an iPad with Procreate and as stylus. I use the Apple pencil. If you're ready to have some fun and explore the world of inking, then join me and let's start inking this cute little gold fish. 2. Class Project + Supplies: Oh. For this project, you'll be designing a card with your favorite animal. This is a great way to apply the inking techniques that you learn in class. Remember that the goal here is to have fun and let your creativity shine and let your imagination run wild with the inking. Before we get started, let's go over the supplies that you'll need for the class. You need an iPad with the Procreate app installed, and you need a sil so that you can have variation in the pressure of the strokes. I'm using an apple pencil, and it's optional to have a reference image of your favorite animal if you're going to draw something specific. And remember to download the included assets. The brushes I'll be using are all native to Procreate, so no need to download anything for that. But you can download my shine brush if you want to add foil effect to your illustration. I'll also provide my very basic color palette for these. If you want to download that, that's included in the class two. Finally, if you want to work from my sketch, download that two, and I have included a Procreate file with the practice sheet where you can practice all the strokes that we learned in class today. You can just download that, open it up in Procreate and start practicing each stroke. I have created one sample of each stroke, so you can replicate it on the side, so you practice some more. Gather everything and let's go to the next lesson and let's start with the file setup. 3. File Setup: We're going to be using all brushes that come included with procreate, and the color palette is super simple. But still, I have included a color palette for you in case you want to use it, so I'm going to show you how to install that. I have included a brush that is called Shine, and we're going to use it for the bonus lesson on how to add gold or metallic accents to our illustration. So in order to install the brushes and the color palette, and this is for any brush or color palette that you want to install in Procreate. What you have to do is just exit Procreate, and then go to wherever you have your file save. I have mine in my files on my iPad. So I have here ink swatches. That's my color palette. So I just double tap on it. And it will be automatically imported into appropriate. So if I go to my color swatches here, I will see that it's either on the top or on the bottom. Usually, it's in the bottom of your stack. So what you can do now is app here and set this as default, and this is what we're going to be working with in this class. You can obviously choose any color you want, but I'm going to be working with just basic black and white. And then I have here some tan colors in case you don't want to work on a solid white background. And then these colors are to add the golden accents at the end of the class. So I like to drag my color palette out. So I have easy access to it. And this way, I like putting it here, for example, and it's easier to choose the colors. So now we're going to exit procreate again and go to the files, and I have the shine brush here. So if I double tap on it, it will import automatically into procreate. And then if I go to my brushes, it will be here at the bottom, where it says imported. And here is my shine brush. So now that you know how to import those things, let's set up our file. Let's go to the gallery. So here you can create a new camas, and you will have some premde sizes here, and you can make your own premde sizes. So I almost always work with 3,600 by 3,600 square file that's 12 ", or with a vertical 11 by 15 file, if I'm going to create a vertical illustration or horizontal, like something that's not square. Now that I have the preset made, I can just tap it and I will create my file. But if you don't have that preset made, let's go back to the gallery, tap here. And go to this and create a new custom canvas. So I'd like to give it a name. For example, this will be 11 by 15. And then here I can choose the width and height. In millimeters, centimeters, inches or pixels. So let's say inches, so it'll be 11 by 15. And then the DPI make sure it's always at 300 so that you have a good resolution, and here it will show you the maximum layers that you have available, and this depends on your iPad. Then for color profile, I always work in RGB in this color profile in Procreate. CMYK in Procreate for some reason, is very, very muted, so I prefer working in RGB. And then I don't touch any of these, and I just click Create, and it has created that new file. But also, if you go to the gallery and you go here, you will see that your preset has been created here. So anytime you want to create that size again, you just have to tap it, and it will create a new canvas. And if you want to rearrange this, and for example, you don't need this anymore. You can delete it, so you keep this organized. Anyway, this speeds up your process, so just create the sizes that you regularly use, and that'll be great. So we already have our file here, so let's go there. If you want to name it, you can just tap here and then name it fish, for example, and then open it. And now we're ready to work on our file. 4. Sketches: You can either create your own sketch or you can use my sketch. My sketch is very basic because I want you to be the one that creates all the details. So if you go here to the actions, you can add and you can insert a photo. I have it in my photos already, and you just tap here, and it will import that picture and you tap here to D selected. And then we have our sketch. And when I import the sketch, I like to reduce the opacity. So when you go here to the layer and you tap the letter n, you can change the opacity and making it more transparent. So the lines are not so intrusive, and I can see what I'm drawing and not the sketch. If you don't want to import my sketch or you don't have a sketch, and this is you drawing your own animals, then I'm going to create a new layer, and I'm going to grab any brush. I usually like in sketching the six B pencil and then choose whatever color you want. And what I do is create basic shapes. So first of all, I am doing this very fast because it's the sketch. So I want to have a little outline like that, and then I want to have an inner one that goes like this. And here I will have the name of my animal old fish. And then I want to create him like here in the middle and then have, like a little fin flowing out here. And then the tail, I wanted to span, like, really big all these area and flow out. And then here, they have, kind of like a bubbly head. And then here we'll have one fin and then here the other one. And I'm just doing very basic shapes and not worrying about it too much. And then I'll start refining the details. If you don't know how to draw, this takes practice, don't worry about it, look at references. Don't copy the references unless you own the copyright, don't copy a picture unless you're the owner of the copyright. If you want to trace, you can. I had a really good friend that's an amazing artist tell me that I shouldn't trace anything because my brain will just start relying on that. So if I didn't have something to trace, I wouldn't know how to draw it. But if you want to trace something that you own the copyright to, go ahead, it's not cheating in my opinion. It's just there's many ways to get to the final destination. This art should be fun. And however it's fun for you, then just do it. So now I'm going to start like refining the shapes. And I never draw super realistic, so I like to use my imagination here. I'm not even looking at references. I already looked at a bunch of goldfish to figure out how they look like. And I know they have a bubbly head here and that the fins are positioned in these places. So I have that information already in my brain, but I am not relying on it anymore. Again, because this is a very stylized style that I like. But if you are making a scientific illustration or you want something that's like very realistic, then you should have a reference that you own a copyright to that you can use to guide you. So here I would make the eye, and again, very, very basic shapes. And here, let's say it has like a bulge. And this is how I start refining my sketch. Here, maybe I do like this. Again, this is practice. That's why I include my sketch in case you want to use it, you're free to use it for non commercial purposes. Because the drawing part is a lot of practice. I'm not going to teach you how to draw anatomy here because that will be a super long class. But basically, I just play around like this and make really, really ugly sketches. Here I'm going to draw some scales, for example, and then draw bigger ones. And basically, that's how I created my sketch. So in the next lesson, I'm going to start teaching you some basic techniques for inking. And then when we have mastered that, we will go on to create our little fissure. 5. Inking Brushes: So now we're going to see some of the inking brushes that Procreate has. Let's create another canvas and let's just use the same size. And it doesn't matter what size you're using. I'm going to drag my color palette out. So just drag it out here. And this is a personal preference, but I don't like working on solid white background. So if you tap here in your layers panel, and you tap on your background color, you can change the background. So in my color palette, I have included this color, and then a darker tan color. But you can definitely choose whichever color you prefer to be working on and whatever suits your style the best. So just press done. And I'm going to choose the black color now. And now we're going to see some of the inking brushes that Procreate has. My personal favorites are here in the calligraphy set. I like the monoline. This is a very simple brush. If you press hard or light, it doesn't matter, it always creates the same consistent lines. This is a monoline brush, and then here in the inking set, I like the technical pen. And the technical pen is very similar to the monoline brush, but when I press lighter, it becomes smaller. I really like that variation in the line because it looks more like a traditional pen and ink. Then we have the studio pen, which also varies in size when you press hard or small, and it's solid, very smooth outlines. All of these have smooth outlines. Then one of my favorite brushes, I hope I'm pronouncing it how it is. It's called the Jasinski inc. And this one. If you press lightly, it's, if you press hard, it gets bigger. But the very cool thing about this one, is that it has rough edges and it has some sort of texture. So to me, it looks more realistic. But you can choose whichever brush you want. This is all a matter of preference. I invite you to explore different brushes that come with Procreate or that you buy or download somewhere else and see you what feels natural to you and what you like and what suits your style the best. In the next lesson, we're going to start practicing some inking techniques. 6. Inking Techniques: In this lesson, we're going to practice some strokes and different techniques. Choose whichever brush you prefer. I am going to do everything here with my Gesinski Inc. Let's start practicing some strokes. Here, you change the size of the brush, so you can make it very thin. Or you can make it very thick. When I move this around, you'll see that a plus signs appear here. For example, if I'm working at 25% in this illustration a lot, I can press plus here and you'll see that this little line appears. That means that if I make it smaller here, I don't have to go and remember that it was 25% and go very slowly to get to 25%, I can just tap there and the 25% size will be set. And you can create as many markers as you want. So let's say this one and this one. That way, if you're creating an illustration with different sizes, let's say you're making these very, very thin ones, and then you want to go to this ones, and then the super thick ones. If you want to go back to this ones, you don't have to remember what size they were, you just press here, and then there you go. That is super useful. If you don't want this one anymore, for example, you can just tap on it and press minus and it will be deleted. Let's undo this. I'm going to choose a size ten maybe. I'm going to actually add it as a preset, and I'm going to make my canvas very big and use the rotation of your canvas as your friend. I'm going to show you the difference of making lines if I'm doing it this way, that if I rotate it and I have my hand in a more natural position. It's so much easier for me. You'll see that I have very squiggly lines. My hand shakes. So if your hand shakes, don't be worried about it. This is just how you make art. If you need to make a perfectly straight line, you can just drag it and then don't lift it up and you'll see that your line is perfectly straight. So don't worry about it. I just think those little wigly things give your art personality. It's not a computer that's making the art. It's a person, so don't worry about it. Also with practice, and by doing these exercises, You'll see that your hand starts feeling better and that you will make more precise lines every time. You just need your hand to warm up. So here, I just made some little straight lines. You can practice doing that, practice trying to make them the same distance, just so that your brain starts getting used to the pencil and the brush that you're using. You can be using any brush that you want, and your hand starts warming up. So these are just little warm up exercises that I do before I start drawing in. And you can do that as much as you want. Until you feel confident and you know how your brush behaves. For example, this brush that I'm using changes the size, depending on how much I push on it. Here I'm trying to learn how much I need to push to make the line thin or thicker. L et's say we have a leaf here. With Inc, there's different ways to create volume with this. In this class, we're not going to be very scientific about it. We're not going to create the perfect ball with volume. We're going to create very expressive lines because what I want you here is to have fun and to find the way that you ink. That will be your style. Don't think about it too much. Just try a bunch of different things and find something that you feel happy doing and you're not super contrived and worried and just experiment and have fun with it, and that is the purpose of this class. So You can create little lines to create shadows, for example, or you can create them this way. And see it's not perfect here, but don't worry about that. If you go out, you can always use the eraser, make it small, and fix that because that's what digital is for. Practice creating some shadows with these lines. To make some areas of your illustration, you can use lines that are closer together. See that the lines are closer together. If you start spacing them out, they give the illusion of darkness or shadow, or you can make all the lines the same distance from each other. But if you start making thicker lines, that will also give the illusion of shadow. You can also feel shapes with wiggly lines, and change the width if you want by pressing harder. Or use lat those circles. You can change the size of the circles also to give different illusions of see that it's much fuller here than here. You can also make lines that are not wavy like these ones, but that are more straight, but that are following the cont of the shape, and you can combine that with different textures. For example, if I have those lines like these. And I add dots that creates a different effect. I. There's many different types of patterns that you can create. So just have fun, make some squigly lines and see which ones you like best. If here, you make them very, very on top of each other, you'll make a very dark area, and here if you make them like this, you'll make more ay areas. There's also dot making. So if you make them very far away and sparse, it will look like light. But if you start making them bigger and thicker and closer together, then that will look like shadow. These are techniques to add volume. To your illustration. There's also cross hatching, which means that you go and make diagonal lines and the closer you make them, the darker that area will be. And then you go and you do the opposite here. You basically crease cross the lines and where you want it to be darker, you do it more closely. Here this area looks darker than this one. You can also create negative shapes. Let's make a dark area here, let's fill it in. And use the eraser to create the markings. If you go to the eraser and you go to recent brushes here in the top, and we're going to choose that Jasinski Inc or the same brush that you're using. Let's move the sides here. You can also use it to create markings. So these are some incomplete lines, and see that I'm pressing harder. I'm using that from this brush that I love to create different markings. Now if I go back to my brush, I can draw something else again. And use the eraser to create other marks. I just want you to experiment here, have fun, try different things, try these negative space techniques, try these ones. Again, don't be too precious. I'm keeping these very raw and original and how I draw so that you feel like it's okay to make mistakes and they're not even mistakes. It's okay to have lines that don't go to the corner. This is your art. You don't have to be perfect, and some people are capable of being perfect and drawing these things that are perfectly technically correct. But if that's not you, I want you to embrace that. The reason I wanted to make this class is because when I see inking techniques, they are very precise and my hand shakes a lot. And I also like the hand drawn part of the ink. So I wanted to make this class very playful in hopes that you can achieve something that you're happy with and that you enjoy making and not that you're stressed while you're making it. So I'm going to provide a worksheet where I have created many more patterns so that you can be inspired by them and make sure that you practice them until you feel confident, and when you do, we can move on to make our illustration. So in the next lesson, we're going to start inking our fish or whatever animal you chose. 7. Inking the Basic Shapes: Now, you know how to use the brushes, which brushes you like, and what markings you want to create. Let's go back to this file and create our fish illustration. So I'm going to drag the palette out. And I'm going to go here to my background and make it this color again so it's not white, and I'm going to press done. And I am going to delete this layer because that's where I made my sketch. If that's where you made your sketch, you can make it more transparent and work from it. But I'm going to delete it and I'm going to use a imported sketch that comes with the class. Here it is, and I'm going to create a new layer and I'm going to drag it underneath just so that my sketch is always on the top. I'm going to name it. I know that that is the sketch. Here, I'm just going to create my basic outline. Let's choose a brush. It's still in the Jasinski Inc. With the black, I want to make this outside square. I'm going to create the outside squares, and what you can do is if you draw a line and you leave it pressed, it will create a straight line. That's very useful. This is great if you want to make it straight, or you can just draw it free hand. I'm going to undo that. For that, you can go into your brush and in the cibzation, make it really high, both of these, the streamline and the civilization press done. You can go here and cavas turn on drawing guide, and here you can edit your drawing guide, so it changes the grad size. Press done. You can use that guide to guide you. So The one they still look very hand drawn. And I'm going to go do the inside one. And I like that. I am going to create this in different layers just so that I can play around with the elements later. For example, if later I don't like this very hand drawn look and I want to make it straighter, I want this to be in a separate layer. I'm going to name this layer frame. I'm going to create a new layer and I'm going to name this layer font. And there I'm going to write my word. This is my handwriting. You can either draw your own name or you can go here, add add text, and then type goldfish. Then if you double tap that, you'll be able to choose the font, the style, and here move around the design and everything. So just press on. That adds the text in a different layer. But I'm not going to go into daft into this tool, so I'm going to delete this and I'm going to draw everything. So I'm going to add some decorations to it. Just a little bit of decorations here to make it look better. This little dot, and it's not centered. I'm going to grab this tool here and move it here to the middle. If you don't know where the middle is, you can turn on snap on magnetics and snapping. Then when you move it, it's going to show you this guide. S that's the middle. If it's very hard to move ad, There, that's a middle. If it's very hard to move around, just reduce the distance and the velocity, and then you'll be able to move it around a bit more precisely. T just set it there and now it's in the middle. Now in another layer, I'm going to create the fish. Create another layer, rename it, fish. And then we're going to start drawing our little friend. Remember, you can choose any animal you want or a plant or a flower. So what I'm going to go and do now is go around my sketch, but I'm not going to be too attached to it because then it'll be super contrived. I'm just going to use it as a loose guide. So I'm pressing softer and harder where I want this to be thicker. And I'm just going to follow the shapes around. For example, for the eye, if you want it to look like more hand drawn, you can do it like this. But if you want it to be perfect circle, you can just not release when you get here to the end and tap here and choose circle and it will make a perfect circle. Because this brush changes sizes, when you press on it, it changes the thickness, this might happen, so you can manually fix it this way. And then I'm going to make another circle inside. I'm going to fill this in. I'm going to leave a wide gap here for the light of the eye. You'll see that the brush is not coloring well. It's because remember we change the stream line. When you tap on it, if you reduce the stream line and the sibilzation, then it will actually paint where you wanted to. I'm being very disorganized in this coloring so you can see what happens because the brush is transparent. Remember that I showed you that at the beginning. You're going to have to go over it more than once if you want it to be more solid. So I can create this shape. You'll see that now my lines are way more weakly than they were here. It's because we don't have that stream line anymore. If you don't like that and you want some help, then go at some streamline and some civilization to it, and then they should be a middle point. I like that. Because now they look more hand run than this ones. This looks more vectorized than computer generated. Again, I'm following my sketch loosely. I feel like that once you create the outline, then the next part is super fun because it's just filling in the shapes with the textures that we learned and having fun with them. Again, remember to turn your canvas to make your hand flow easier. On the tail here. If you're using a brush that has varied pressure, then take advantage of that, and vary the pressure a lot, so you get more expressive lines. Let's make this fin here and our fish is inked. The outside is inked. Now, I am going to create some decorations to the outside and do that in another layer. I'm going to create another layer and rename that and decorations. I want to create some corals here. A I'm just free handing these. Destroy different shapes. Again, have fun, this doesn't have to be perfect. Now I'm going to create some wavy lines here. I just want those to be dark areas of color in the background. So maybe like that. So I have colored all the black parts in, what I'm going to do now is because the parts that overlap look very ugly. I'm just going to go here and duplicate this layer and merge them together and see that is gone. There's still some areas that are overlapped, but I like that. I am going to go here to actions and in Cvas turn off the drawing guide, and I'm going to turn off the sketch because we don't need that anymore. Then in the next lesson, we're going to add all the details sewer fish. 8. Inking the Fish Details: Great. In this lesson, we're going to add all our details to our fish and finish our illustration. I'm going to drive the color palette here. Now we're going to start adding the details, and I'm going to put those in a different layer. On top of the fish, I'm just going to create a new layer and color details. I'm just going to start playing around with this turning my cavas a lot to fill in all the areas with different techniques. Let's start with this fin, for example, and I'm just going to start drawing wavy lines. I really like how these lines look for the fins because the fins of the fish are usually like that with little lines. You can create some lines that are not complete also. Just play around and have fun and see what you like and experiment. So if you overlap this here, for example, you can just go to the eraser and actually, I'm going to go to the calligraphy brushes and select the monoline brush because that one is better to erase things because it's actually solid. If I want to erase, I won't be able to because that is in another layer that's part of the, so you can go to that layer and erase that if you want. I'm going to go back to the details layer and with my brush, I'm going to continue adding more details. For example, here, I'm going to add some lines like this. If you want to add thinner lines, you can also reduce the size and do that. If you think that's going to look better. I'm just adding some incomplete lines here and I'm going to try this out like this and see what I like better. I think I liked the thicker ones better, I'm going to that and go back here and continue. I'm going to split this up because it's doing exactly the same thing over and over. I love this mindless part of the illustration. It's so relaxing. Great. I think that's looking cute. I'm going to add some dots here. You see that this brush doesn't create actual dots. It's like oval. For that, I'm going to choose the monoline brush and make it a bit bigger. And see this one actually creates big dots. I'm going to make it smaller, not bigger and just add some dots here. And you can make them closer together in the areas that you want to be d, and then more spaced out in the areas that you want to be lighter. Let's write some here and then very spaced around here. See that I made it way way darker here. It's because I want this part to be in a shadow and I want it to be very different, like mark a difference between this area and this area. You do that by adding more detail. Whatever detail you're using, you do that darkening by adding way more detail. I think that's cute. Just a bit more here. You can also try to give it a mouth. I don't know. Fish mouths are so weird. Yeah, I like him better when he's smiling. I'm going to go back to my brush Jasinski Inc, and I really like that. But let's try something different here. Because my lines are so thin, I'm going to go here and increase the amount of streamlined civilization a bit. Just so that they're a bit easier to make, like straighter. They're still not perfect. They still have some shake to them. Here you can try different things like have fun. I'm just playing around with some of the different feelings that we practiced in the techniques lesson. You don't have to follow the same ones. You can create your own. Now here, I'm going to do some arches. Great. Now, let's continue here with the fins. And I'm going to create even wavier lines. This one, maybe start from the same point here and end in the same point there following the shape. These illustrations could work really well also for coloring books. Great. I'm going to make it a bigger and I'm going to create very thick black lines here. And then make some cebra lines, basically, the ones that are not connected. Don't be scared to experiment. It's digital, so if you are not liking something, just ere it you just era or do. Great, that's the first part of the fin, then I want to make another one like this. But for this one, I'm going to add little dots. Now, this one, because I wanted to be different than these two, but I'm going to make very thin lines. Same for this one. And here we can add some little unfinished lines. Great. I think I want to add some here too, and that's it. In the next lesson, we're just going to finish the background. 9. Inking the Background Details: In this lesson, we're going to create the background and finish this up. First of all, I'm going to choose the layer where I have the decorations. I'm going to choose a eraser and again I'm going to go to the recent ones and make it the Jasinski Inc. So it matches my brush that I used, and I'm going to create some white decorations. I'm going to make it look like foliage and I'm just erasing parts of that black areas that we have. I'm just making these little sort of leaf shapes. Same here. I really like how these negative areas look. And you can add little areas with thoughts. If you follow me, you know that I like my illustrations very packed with details. This might not be your style. You don't have to add all these to your illustration. You can leave it very simple. Now I'm just going to add some light detail to these areas. Again, using my brush. I'm just creating some shapes like some leaves. As you can see, I love leaf shapes. I think they look really nice algae under the ocean. I don't want to add so much that it covers all the area because then it'll be way too busy. Then some. And we're done, I really love my little fish, but in the next lesson, I'm going to show you how to add some golden details to it if that is your style. 10. Bonus: Adding Gold Foil: A. This bonus lesson, I'm going to show you how to add some golden or you can make them silver or any metallic accents to your illustration. This will show up more in the darker areas. What I'm going to do is create one more layer on pop of everything, and I'm going to call it foil or it litter or whatever you want. I'm going to choose any color that is contrasting. Let's choose this pink, and I'm going to draw the things that I want to be golden. I want to add some accents here, for example, maybe a little speck in the eye. These. I'm just having fun with this don't even overthink it. A as little or as much as you want. Maybe a bit here. A bit here. Maybe some of these lines. Maybe in this spot. Just think about areas that you want to highlight. You don't have to do this. This is totally optional, but I think it looks really cute. You can even draw areas that are not in the ink drawing new accents. And now we're going to go and create another layer on top of that. And when we tap it, we're going to create a clipping mask. That means that whatever we paint on top of here will only show on this layer. Nowhere else, just on this layer. So on that layer, we're going to drag our color palette out, and these are the foil colors, and you're going to choose the she brush and choose the yellow. And we're going to make this layer black. So choose a layer, swipe p two fingers to the right, and the alpha log will be activated. You'll see that checkerboard. That means that we're only going to be able to color on that layer. When you choose black, and you go to the layer and you tap it and you choose fill layer, the layer is going to be filled in black, but only what was already drawn. So let's go back to this top layer. Choose our brush. We have the shine brush selected, let's start with the yellow and make it a bit bigger and just start going around. The areas that you added the foil to. You'll see that it will start to show up. You can make it even bigger. Just don't press too hard because then it will be too full, just press softly. Then choose the next color or this one and press very softly because if you press hard, it will become too lemon yellow. We want some variation in tones here. I'm going around everything but pressing softly. Now I can try with that brown and you'll see that that will make it a bit warmer. See here. It will give some variation in shade. S. Great. Let's say that you think it's too yellow and you want the gold to be a bit warmer. You can go here and go to the hue saturation and brightness and move it around here and see it will become more like copper tones, like even rose gold like this or different colors. Slip it like this and then press here to release that. You can also do the same thing to the letters, for example. If you go to the font and you create a new layer on top, you tap on it and you create a clipping mask, and now you start with this color. To make it a bit smaller. Not so small. And you use this brush on top of it, then you can make the lettering also shimmery. Same thing. If it's too yellow, you can just go here and go to huge stration and brightness and change it and release it. You can do the same thing to the border if you want. That's why I like keeping these things separate because then it's easier to work with the details. For example, here in the frame, I create another layer clipping mask, and I start with that yellow and I want to do it only in the outside one. I'll do it like this. And then maybe this brown, softly, so this orange. Then I go here, e saturation brightness and make it a bit warmer and release it, and it's done. See how cool it looks. Looks like it has glitter. If that's something you like, this is a great way to add interest to your illustration. I hope you really had fun with this. In the next lesson, we're just going to recap everything we learned. 11. Wrap-up: Congratulations on finishing the class. I can't wait to see everything that you create. I hope you had as much fun as I did creating this class and that you learned some simple yet effective techniques for inking in Procreate. To recap, we've learned how to use Procreate's native brushes to ink on our iPad. Build our sketches using very simple shapes, and turn those sketches into finished designs. Plus, we've added some extra sparkle to our illustration using my shin brush. Now it's time to share your work. So remember to upload your projects to the project gallery, and I can't wait to see what you create. And you can also share your work with M T Instagram at art by Sandra Mahia. For more tips, brushes, freebies, and a monthly creative brief, don't forget to sign up to my newsletter. That's the best way to stay updated with everything I'm up to and new classes that I release. Remember to leave a review and share this class with your friends if you liked it and follow me here on Skillshare. Thank you for joining me in this class. I can't wait to see where your inking journey takes you next. Until next time bye.