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Procreate Masking: Create Stunning Typography with Intertwined Florals

teacher avatar Kelley Bren Burke, Artist & Educator

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Hello & Welcome!

      2:22

    • 2.

      Class Project & Resources

      1:37

    • 3.

      Fonts in Procreate

      6:39

    • 4.

      Clipping Masks in Procreate

      5:30

    • 5.

      Layer Masks in Procreate

      6:27

    • 6.

      More Layer Mask Practice

      4:15

    • 7.

      Intertwine Florals With a Letter

      10:42

    • 8.

      Intertwine Florals With a Number

      10:45

    • 9.

      Bonus! Social Media Masking Tricks

      4:03

    • 10.

      Congratulations!

      0:52

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About This Class

This class focuses on just one thing: masking in Procreate. By the end of this 53-minute class, you’ll understand Clipping Masks and Layer Masks in Procreate. 

For the class project, we’ll create beautiful floral typography using text in Procreate. We’ll intertwine gorgeous digital flowers and leaves with a single letter or a single number. The project is intentionally simple, so you can focus on the basics of layer masking.

Since we’re using digital florals and text in Procreate, creatives of all levels will be able to participate. No drawing skills are necessary!

In this class, we’ll:

  • Browse free fonts on Google Fonts
  • Briefly review Alpha Lock in Procreate
  • Quickly explore Clipping Masks in Procreate
  • Intertwine flowers and leaves with a single letter using Layer Masks
  • Intertwine flowers and leaves with a single number using Layer Masks

For this class, you’ll need:

  • An iPad 
  • The Procreate app
  • An Apple Pencil or any compatible stylus

But wait, there's more! You'll receive free assets, including

  • A selection of digital flowers and leaves
  • Seven background textures in a variety of colors
  • A list of suggested free fonts
  • A Procreate Masking cheat sheet

My class assets are here. The digital flowers and leaves from Avalon Rose are here

READY To explore masking in Procreate? LET’S GET STARTED!

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1. Hello & Welcome! : Hi, I'm Kelley Bren Burke. I've been self-employed as an artist since 2013. I love creating digital art with the Procreate app. And I'm going to tell you a little story about when I began creating digital art in Procreate. It was 2015. I kept seeing these gorgeous images intertwined with words. And I really wanted to learn how to do that. So I did what I always do. I googled. My dear Google told me that Layer Masks were the answer. I found some YouTube tutorials on masking in Procreate. Awesome, right? Except my experience was not so awesome this time. I love learning from YouTube tutorials. I've even created Procreate tutorials on YouTube. But for this topic, teachers breezed through Layer Masks like it was the simplest thing in the world. I'm a self-taught artist, but I could not wrap my mind around Layer Masks. Clipping Masks were pretty straightforward, but Layer Masks? I could not get it. Eventually, I figured it out. And then after some time, I forgot. Rinse and repeat the whole process over years. I created this class so you'll be able to understand masking in Procreate. This class focuses on just one thing, masking in Procreate. For the class project, I'll walk you through intertwining gorgeous flowers and leaves with a single letter and then a single number. By the end of this class, you'll understand masking and how to intertwine images with texts. Since we're using digital florals and text in Procreate, creatives of all levels will be able to participate. No drawing skills are needed for this class. I'll use my iPad, the Procreate app in my Apple Pencil, but any compatible stylus will do. But wait, there's more! You'll receive the best digital flowers and leaves I could find, a list of suggested free fonts, and some beautiful background textures. Ready to explore masking in Procreate? Let's get started! 2. Class Project & Resources: For the class project we'll intertwine beautiful flowers and leaves with a single letter, a single number or both. The class project is intentionally simple so you can focus on the basics of Layer Masking. But first, we'll browse free fonts on Google and choose a font for your project. Then we'll explore Clipping Masks in Procreate. That's a quick lesson. It's about five minutes. We'll spend the rest of the class on Layer Masks. I'll walk you through every step I take while we intertwine florals with first a letter, and then a number, I have class assets to support you, including a variety of background textures, a list of suggested free fonts, and the best digital florals I've found there from Catherine at Avalon Rose Designs. She's generously providing some gorgeous flowers and leaves for us. I also created a step-by-step guide to Layer Masks. There's just three steps for using Layer Masks. The trick is that you have to use the three steps in the right order every time. To access these goodies, tap the Project and Resources tab from your browser. I can't wait to see what you create. Please share your project on Skillshare. Upload your project by clicking on the Project and Resources tab. If you have any questions, I've got you! Click on the Discussions tab on Skillshare. I'll respond to every question. So download the class resources, and I will see you in the next lesson. 3. Fonts in Procreate: Welcome back. In the last lesson, we covered our class project and our class resources. In this lesson, we're going to talk about using fonts in Procreate. Procreate comes with a variety of fonts. And I'm going to show you a great resource for some free fonts, that is Google Fonts. So let's go to our web browser and we can type in Google Fonts. I'm going to bring it up. And you can see there are lots and lots of different fonts here. I don't know how many, but there seems to be like an endless font of fonts here. Sorry/not sorry for the pun. For this project we're gonna be dealing with individual capital letters. So I am just going to type that here so we can see what it looks like. And we're also going to be using some numbers. So here is our a, b, c, and 1,2,3. And we have a lot of fonts. What we can do is we can narrow this search. We can do that by going to different categories, serif, sans serif, handwriting, etc. But for our purposes we just want kind of a chunky font because we're doing the intertwining. And if you're intertwining something with a thin font, it won't be as obvious. So we're gonna go to font properties. We're going to tap thickness, move that all the way to the right. We're going to see only the thickest fonts here. For this project, I'm gonna do a more classic looking chunky font. So these aren't really doing it for me. I do really like this Erica one font. It has a retro feel and I've downloaded it before by tapping Download Family. I like it a lot. It just doesn't have a lot of space for the intertwining part here. So I don't like it for this application, but it is a cool font. And we want to see more fonts that are chunky. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna go back to this thickness and just bring this arrow a little bit towards the left. So we can see more chunky fonts. There's a font right here called Railway. I liked that a lot. I like Montserrat. Either of those would work. I actually have a list of some suggested fonts that is within the Class Project area. So here are some suggested free Google Fonts. And then there are Procreate default fonts that depend on what your iOS is. So let's just bring up Yeseva One here. I'm going to search it. And it's not popping up because it is on this thickness. Here is, you see Yeseva One. It's a really cool font. I like it a lot. But some fonts have what they would call a larger family here. So there'd be options, perhaps for a bolder one or an italic one, but this one just has that one kind. So we're going to tap Download Family. And we are going to say yes, we do want to download it. It's a zip file. It goes right up here into our Downloads. And if we tap it, we can look in our downloads for it. And it'll be a zip file. And to unzip it, you'll want an unzipping App. I use iZip Pro. It'll ask me if I want to unzip the files. I say yes, I tap on this again and it will tell me that format is not supported in iZip. So I want to open it in Procreate. And just like that, it will be in Procreate. Let me grab a white and I will just show you a little bit more about fonts in Procreate. So I go to Wrench > Add Text. And the font I'm on right now is Futura. That's one that I recommended for this and it is a default Procreate font. So I have the Futura font. I am just going to type my name here and I can go to Edit Text. I want to tap on it and Select All. When those blue lines around it, it's selected. And from there I can do a number of different things. I'm on Futura. I think this is Bold. I can do a Condensed, Extra Bold, a Bold and Medium Italic. I'm just going to stick with the Bold here. You can see it better. I'm going to make the size bigger by dragging this - because this textbox is too small. It brought the "y" to the bottom. I'll show you how to fix that. If you're within Edit Text, you can grab these blue lines and just stretch it out there. So once again, if I hit Edit Text and it's all selected, we can do other things with it. We can make it all caps. We can center it. We can have it left justified, we can have it right justified. We can make it bigger or smaller. We can change the font to a specific size by writing in this box. It's currently 93.2 points. Let's say I want it to be 97 points for some reason. You can just write that in there and it'll change. There are some options here. For our purposes, I'm just going to talk about Tracking and Leading because those are the most helpful things. Tracking, if you move it in a positive direction, it will make the letters spread out. If you do it in a negative direction, it will condense the letters. For our purposes, for this class, we probably want the letters a little bit further apart. If we were doing more than one letter - I do recommend that you start out just with a single letter - But if you are doing a word, you might want some space so things could intertwine. Now we're gonna look at Leading, which is the space between the words. So again, if we put it in a positive direction, it increases the size between the words. And if we put it in a negative direction, it condenses the space between the words. I am rarely going in a negative direction for either of them, but they could be handy for different applications. That is fonts in Procreate. I'm using Futura. If I wanted to edit it to a different font, I'm going to hit Select All and go back to AAA. I have a number of different fonts here. Some of them I've downloaded, like the Yeseva One font, and some of them are default with Procreate. So there is a quick overview of fonts in Procreate. In the next lesson we are going to talk about Clipping Masks. I will see you in the next lesson. 4. Clipping Masks in Procreate : Welcome back. In the last lesson, we talked about fonts. In this lesson, we are going to talk about Clipping Masks. So to do that, I'm just going to start by drawing a circle. I am going to use the Monoline, which is a default Procreate brush in the Calligraphy set. So here is the Calligraphy set, here's the Monoline brush. It's a good all-purpose brush. I am going to make a white circle. On top of this blue, I have a new layer. I can just draw a rough circle and I can tap Edit Shape and make it a perfect circle. I can grab the white and make it an all-white circle. To create a Clipping Mask, you add a layer above the white circle. And then you tap Clipping Mask right here. Then you'll see this arrow showing that this layer is clipped to this circle. What that means is that anything we draw on this Clipping Mask layer is only going to apply to the pixels on this layer since it's clipped. So I'll show you what I mean. I'm drawing all over and it's only drawing on the white circle. If I undid the clipping mask, you would be able to see that I drew all over. But if I hit Clipping Mask, it's only applied to that circle. So that is helpful because it is a non-destructive way of editing your work. And what that means is you can still go back and change things. You can turn this layer on and off. You could change the color by Alpha Locking it. You can do a lot of different things. You can tap on this Arrow and move it around. You can make it smaller. You can make it bigger. You get it, You can do all sorts of things here. You can actually have as many Clipping Masks as you would like. You would do that just by going to this layer and hit New Layer. And any new layer that you add in between, the clipped layer and the circle, Procreate's going to assume that you want a Clipping Mask. So you could also - if you wanted to - add yellow polka dots to it as well. So now we have our white circle or yellow polka dots. You can move the masks around so the yellow polka dots could be on top of the blue lines. You can change the colors. Again. I really liked that orange. So I'm going to change this back. And it's all non-destructive. You know, on Procreate probably that you can undo things with a Two-Finger Tap and redo them with the Three-Finger Tap. And you can do that at anytime. But with this, you can back out of the canvas, come back to it later and you can still edit whatever you want. You can get rid of the lines, you can get rid of the polka dots. I think you get it. You can also add an image onto the Clipping Mask. I'm going to grab a recent file here. And here are some more flowers by Avalon Rose, I'm not recommending that you do all this, but you can have all these different layers. So that is Clipping Masks and then if you undo them, then you can see everything and you can redo them. By tapping Clipping Mask. You can get a similar effect through an Alpha Lock, but that is a destructive way to edit. And I will show you what I mean. So I'm going to delete these guys. We have our circle. If we Alpha Lock it, it will do something similar. So we have the orange, we have the polka dots. We can draw right on top of our white circle and have those dots that are only applied to there. And that's with an Alpha Lock. And when you Alpha Lock it you get this little checkerboard thing below there. But the thing with this is, let's say now I want yellow circles. I can't do that as easily. I mean, it could try color drop it. I could pick up this white and make it white again by filling the layer and then doing yellow dots on top of it. But it's destructive. If I back out of the canvas and bring it back up again, I can't do my two finger tap to undo. It's just the way it is. Whereas before we could easily delete or change the colors of the clipping masks. So Alpha Lock is helpful if you're limited on layers and you know exactly what colors you want, I almost never use it just because the Clipping Mask is a non-destructive way and I prefer to use that. So that is how you would use Alpha Lock. Again. I could make this color, this circle all yellow. And it's Alpha Locked. And I could grab a different color, loving this orange today. And it's Alpha Locked and I can just draw more orange dots on top of it. Or I could add texture or whatever I wanted, but that is destructive. So that was an overview of Clipping Masks and Alpha Lock in Procreate. In the next lesson, we are going to talk about Layer Masks, which is another non-destructive way of editing. I will see you in the next lesson. 5. Layer Masks in Procreate: Welcome back. In the last lesson, we talked about Alpha Lock and Clipping Masks. In this lesson we're going to talk about Layer Masks. What I'm going to do here is add some text as an example. I'm just going to do the letter K. I'm going to make it really big. I will change the font to Abril Fat Face. And I actually want my K to be white. So I'm going to tap on that layer, hit Edit Text, and then grab a white instead. So there we have our letter K. What I'm gonna do here is rasterize it just so it becomes the pixels on the page. I already have the steps for a Layer Mask written. So I'm gonna have them at the top of the page here the whole time as a reminder of what the specific steps are for a Layer Mask. A lot of things with Procreate, you can do them different ways and it can be kinda forgiving. Layer Masks, you have to go in exactly the right order to get the effect you want. And I will show you what I mean. So we have our letter K and we're going to add something else on top of that, I am going to find a flower or leaves, and I'm going to bring them in here. I am going to put the leaves like this. And so right now the leaves are in front of the K and we want to do an intertwined look. So we are going to use a Layer Mask. To do a Layer Mask, we are going to follow these steps up here. We're going to tap on the top layer and hit Mask. And then we get this white layer above it. And then we're going to the K, which we want to interact with the leaves, and we're going to hit Select. And then we're gonna go back to our Layer Mask. And because our Layer Mask is all white, you can see that the leaves are on top of the k and that's it. If we wanted to make it look different, we would grab a pure black, which if you look at the Value part, it says a bunch of zeros. I think it's six zeros. And a pure white is six f's. So I'm gonna go back to my black, I have my Monoline and I am going to go back to my Layer Mask and I'm going to draw on there. When I hit Select, we got all of these diagonal lines, which hopefully you can see if I zoom in. The diagonal lines are everywhere that the K and the leaves are not since that's what we're working with. So let's say I want to make it look like this leaf is going behind the letter K. I'm on the Layer Mask and I'm just drawing in black and it's giving the illusion there that the leaf is underneath the K. And let's say we also wanted to do that with this. The whole stem. We just keep drawing with black right here. Let's say we wanted to bring back one of the leaves. We changed our mind. We can choose white again. Make sure we're still on the Layer Mask and just bring it back by drawing here. We can bring back just this part or all of it. So that is a Layer Mask. I'm going to be a little bit repetitive in this lesson because it took me a while to wrap my head around Layer Masks. So I'm just going to keep going over it in different ways in this lesson, I'm going to go back to this Layer Mask. Let's say I didn't hit Select, I'm on the Layer Mask, I have my black. And what it's doing here is it's concealing everything because I haven't selected the K. So that is a common mistake that K is not selected. I can undo it. And I went back to the selection. So we're going to follow these exact steps again. We tap on the layer and hit Mask, tap on the K, hit Select, Grab a pure black, which I have right here. It's hex code is all zeros, so we're good. And I go back to my Layer Mask. And now I'm going to just make it look like some of these leaves are behind this part of the K. Instead. There it is, we have an intertwined look that's opposite of the way it was before. Let me bring something else up just so we can get another look at how this works. I'm going to grab a different kind of leaf or flowers or whatever. And I am going to arrange that in front of the K. And we're going to follow these steps up here. We're going to tap this layer and hit Mask, tap on this K, and hit Select. We get the diagonal lines that are everywhere except for the leaf and the K. We go back to the Layer Mask layer. We have black and a Monoline. And we start drawing in black where we want the leaves to be behind the letter. So here we go. Let's make this look like it's below, by drawing in black. I don't like that. So I could either two finger tap to undo or because it's a non-destructive way, I can just grab my pure white and just color this back in. Let's Instead grab our black again. If we just press on this color, it brings us to our last color were still on the Monoline. Let's say we want this to go behind, tap on this Arrow and undo the selection. And there we have our mask. So when we drew the black on there, it made the leaves look like they were going behind the letter K. I'm gonna do this one more time so you can get it. If you have this, you can move on to the next lesson. But just like I said, it's, it was hard for me to wrap my mind around it when I learned it. So I am just going to go over it one more time. I will see you in the next lesson. 6. More Layer Mask Practice : I will do a number this time. I'll do Eight, I'll change the font. Let's do Abril Fat Face. So here we have an Eight. I'm going to actually edit it to be white. And I'm just gonna go ahead and rasterize that because we don't need to edit it anymore. We will add some flowers again. I'm going to insert these pink flowers. And that will give us some good opportunity for intertwining. I'm going to move these words to the bottom, so we can see them. Okay. So we're going to follow these steps. We are going to tap on this layer and hit Mask. When we do that, we get a white Layer Mask above the flowers. The next one, is we go to the layer we want the flowers to interact with, which is the Eight, and we hit Select. And there we get the diagonal lines on everything except for the pink flowers and the Eight. We go back to our Layer m\Mask and we have a pure black now, and we have a Monoline, and let's just start playing on the Layer Mask. So if I draw a black here, we'll make it look like that part is behind the Eight here. It will make it look like another part is behind. I could have this go under, but then we run into troubles with that one. So I don't want to do that. So I'll just grab a white and bring that back. Or I can go to my Layer Mask and hit Clear. So all the flower is back again. Let me flip the flowers around, have it be a different way. So we have our layer mask and then we go to the Eight and hit Select. We navigate back to the Layer Mask layer. We press on the white to turn it to a pure black. I'm on the Layer Mask with my Monoline. Let's say I want to make it look like this part is going under. Let me see if that worked out. Didn't really. I think I'm also going to do it on here. Let me just keep going and see what happens. There is some experimentation with this because you don't know exactly how you want it to look. So you can just play around with this non-destructive way of working. I'm going to tap this arrow to unselect things. So now we have part of it behind and part of it in front. And I'm just going to try one more thing. I'm going to clear this layer mask and go through these steps just one more time. So we have a Layer Mask, we hit Select. We have a Monoline. And I'm just going to put something else under there. I am going to put I'm not, see I'm drawing on the Eight, not the Layer Mask. It's very easy to make these mistakes. It's pretty easy to fix it. I'm going to have that go underneath. I'm going to have this go underneath. Except I'm going to have this part go underneath, but not that up there for more of an overlapping effect. It's hard to see where these beginning to end. So I'm just going to leave it like that. I'm going to tap this arrow and that looks really cool. I like that. There we have our intertwined Eight will be working with Layer Masks through the rest of the class. So you'll have plenty of opportunity to see more Layer Masks in action as we go. Again, I'll also give you a handout with the steps for Layer Masks and then some common mistakes that you could make. The next lesson we are going to choose a letter, and we're going to do multiple intertwined flowers and leaves with that letter. I will see you in the next lesson. 7. Intertwine Florals With a Letter: Welcome back. In the last lesson, we practiced masking in Procreate. Next, we're going to turn that practice in a more practical application. We are going to intertwine flowers and leaves with a single letter. Let's get started. I have already created a 10 by 10 Canvas. That's what I'm going to use. You can use any size that you'd like. But to create a 10 by 10 Canvas, you hit Plus > New Canvas, and Procreate will default to pixels, but we want inches and we can just do 10, and 10. And if we wanted to name this canvas, we could name it 10 by 10 inches, and 300 DPI, which is an excellent print quality. And then we would hit Create. And then we would have a new ten by ten Canvas. But since I've already prepped that, I will just go ahead and delete this by swiping to the left and hitting Delete. So here is my ten by ten canvas that I have already prepped. I'm going to go to Wrench > Add > and Add Text. Edit the text by tapping on Edit Text. And I am just going to delete the word Text and put it in the letter S. You can use any font you'd like. Yeseva One is a free Google Font, and there are some other suggested fonts. In an earlier lesson. I'm on my S, I'm going to hit Edit Text, tap on this S and hit Select All. And to edit that S, I am going to tap on this Aa to get this menu up. And because I'm doing a series of letters, I want the letters all the same size. So for my purpose, I'm gonna do 475 points. And I can just write in this little box. And there we have a 475 point S. And a lot of times if I'm doing a project like this, I will rename this layer, Yeseva One, 475. And that just helps me keep organized. Like when I revisit it later, I'll know exactly what font it wasn't exactly what size. So we have our S and what I'm going to do is center it. I'm going to tap on this Arrow and I have Uniform selected and Snapping, so I can just move this around. So that is a good start. And what I'm gonna do is bring back the directions that we used earlier. I'm going to add those to a new layer above that we can toggle on and off. Now that we have our reminders up at the top, Let's start adding flowers. I have already imported some flowers for this. They are from a bundle by Avalon Rose called Spellbound. And Catherine from Spellbound gifted us with some flowers for you to use, and they are in the Class Project and Resources area. I have my flowers here and I'm just going to Duplicate them and start bringing them to the top here. I like to duplicate things. So then I have the other one still available unedited at the bottom. So now that they're up here, I'm going to turn them off. So I usually start with a leaf or a large element that I'm gonna be wanting to intertwine. If you think of a bouquet, the leaves are usually in the back and the flowers are front and center. So we have this pretty stem and I'm going to make it just a little bit smaller. I tapped on the Selection Arrow and it's on Uniform. And what I'm looking for, there are things that can intertwine and interact with the S. And to help us with that, we can go to Warp and Advanced Mesh. And then we can pull on any of these blue nodes. So there's plenty of opportunities here for the leaves to go under or over. And just in general, intertwine. I liked the way that looks so I'm going to tap on that Arrow and hit Done. I think I might bring this leaf up actually a little tiny bit. I'm still on warp. I going to go back to Uniform because I liked the size it is right now. I know I don't want this long stalk at the bottom, so I'm just going to grab my Monoline as an Eraser. Just erase away the bits that I don't want. I'm going to start this by intertwining this leaf and then seeing where we're at. Once again, this is a non-destructive way of editing so we can easily undo what we wanted to do. So I'm following these directions up here. I'm tapping on the leaf layer and I'm tapping Mask. And I want it to interact with this S. So I'm going to hit Select. And I'm going to get these diagonal lines right here. And I want to navigate to a pure black. The hex code is six zeros, and I have my Monoline brush. You can use a number of different brushes for this, but the Monoline is a good all-purpose brush. What I need to do now is go back the white layer with my black mono line. And then I can start interacting with the leaves and the letter and see what I like here. When you're doing this, you're only erasing where the leaves and the S are interacting here. Nowhere else. If we didn't like it, we could always navigate back to a pure white and just undo whatever we did. We still have the selection going. We go back to the Layer Mask. And if we wanted to say, bring this leaf back by itself or this one, then we can bring it back easily. And that's what I mean by non-destructive. So, we need to deselect this. So we go back to this arrow and de-select it. And I'm going to add a flower here. So I'm gonna go to the Selection, I'm on Uniform, I'm going to make it a little bit smaller and I'm going to look for opportunities to intertwine here, what I might want to do is tuck it under here. It's easy to forget that we want this to still be a legible S, right? So we want to keep that in mind the whole time. Here I've added a couple of cute little floral branches. Even if they weren't two different branches, we can make them look very different. For example, let me turn off one and we'll only be working with this one. So I'm going to tap on this Arrow and I'm gonna make it a little bit smaller. And we're going to practice putting it over here. And let's say we wanted to reuse that and we wanted it to look different. I can move it over here and we can tap on this Arrow and we Flip Horizontal, that automatically looks different. We can make it look smaller, and then we can also warp it by making it look curved. You just want to be mindful that you're not warping it. So it looks really weird. So it's pretty good at retaining integrity of the object. But it's best if you only do it a little bit. I'm going to two finger tap to undo that, go back to warp and then just curve this subtly. And then we have another one that is different. I'm turning that one on and I'm gonna go to this arrow, make it a little bit smaller again. So what we're gonna be doing is we're going to have all of these below this flower. So I'm gonna bring this up and it's looking pretty busy now, I think I might tuck some of these branches below the S that might look nice. I'm going to start by tucking this one right here under the S. And I'm going to want to erase these stems too at the bottom. But not quite yet, not until I'm done. This one looks good as it is. I think this little branch, I'm gonna make a little bit smaller. If I grab this green nodule, I can rotate it 15 degrees each time. But if I want a more subtle rotation, I can grab this yellow nodule and just kinda put it where I want it. I think that looks pretty good. Actually, it looks a little bit busy right now, but I don't think it will once we do a little bit of intertwining. So let's do that. I might bring this part under the S. Let me show you what I mean. So, I'm on the wrong flower. I'm on this flower. I'm going to follow these steps right here. I'm going to tap on this layer and hit Mask. I'm going to go to the S, that it's interacting with, and I'm going to hit Select. I get my diagonal lines. I have a pure black, which is a hex code of all zeros. I have my Monoline and I'm going to tuck these. What am I doing wrong? I have white, that's my problem. That's the thing about masking is like a lot of things can go wrong. So if I'm on my layer and I'm drawing with white, I'm just adding white to the white, which is just the same thing. So instead I'm gonna grab my black and my Monoline and going to make sure I'm on my Layer Mask. And I'm just going to tuck this under here. I'm going to have this part I think on top because the leaves are on the bottom. I think that looks good right now. So I'm just going to unselect that by hitting the Arrow, these stems are really bugging me, so I'm just going to erase them. I'm not sure which one I'm on, but you can just do trial and error here. Sometimes I like to have a little stem sticking out and sometimes I don't, It's just a matter of preference. I'm going to group these layers together so we can move them down a little bit so they're not interacting with our directions up here. So I'm going to swipe to the right and I'm going to tap Group. And now we have our S and all of our flowers and I'm just going to bring it down a little bit. Next, let's go to this pretty flower. We're going to follow the steps again. Up here. We'll tap on the flower layer and hit Mask and we want it to interact with the S. So we're going to hit Select. We're going to navigate back to the layer mask with our black and our Monoline. And I'm going to experiment with just tucking part of this leaf under here. And I'm going to leave this little leaf up there. Or I could, I definitely want to leave that right here. That part is visually tucked under. I hit the arrow to unselect, I'm going to turn off our directions here. I think that looks good. We have intertwining. It's legible. I think it's pretty clearly an S, and I think that is really pretty. If I wanted to say that I would go to Wrench > Share > JPEG and then I would save it to my camera roll by hitting Save Image. Now that we have intertwined flowers and leaves with a single letter, we're gonna go on to our next lesson, which is intertwining flowers and leaves with a single number. I will see you in the next lesson. 8. Intertwine Florals With a Number: Welcome back. In the last lesson, we intertwined flowers and leaves with a single letter. In this lesson, we're going to continue our masking practice by intertwining flowers and leaves with a number. So let's get started. I'm going to use the same canvas that I used before. I've renamed this group "S", and I'm going to tuck it underneath my teal texture here. For this one, I'm going to do a number, and I'm going to do 6. So I'm going to grab my white again. I'm gonna go to Wench I am going to Add Text. I am going to delete the texts and just type in 6. And now I need to re-select that by selecting all. I'm going to tap on this Aa and go back to the keyboard. And then I'm going to write in 475, again for the font. And that didn't change and that's because I didn't have it selected. I thought I did, but I didn't. So select all > Aa. And then we have 475 here. If I write it in there, There we go. Now we have a number that's the exact same size as our letter S. I'm going to bring back our directions here, and I am going to center our 6. I have some more flowers down here that I've already imported. To import a flower, you would just go Wrench > Insert a File. And you would have already saved these to your files or camera roll, and then you would just hit Insert. And we can't see it because it's underneath this teal, but there it is above it. So I'm just going to tuck this underneath until we decide what we're gonna do. I'm going to start by duplicating these leaves because they're nice and curvy and I think they would interact well with the 6. I'm going to use our warping trick to give us more opportunities for intertwining. So I'm on the leaves, I go to the Selection and it's on Uniform, which is a nice default place for that to stay. But I'm gonna go to Warp and Advanced Mesh. And I'm just going to start moving this around. Being mindful not to distort the appearance of it too much. It's just kind of curving around the 6. I think that looks good. I'm going to grab the Eraser, the Monoline eraser, and just get rid of part of the stem here. I might want a little bit of it sticking out. I'm not sure. So I'll just leave that there. And now that we have that, let's bring up these little yellow flowers. I wish I knew the name of all these flowers, but I don't. Great! Now I'm just going to group these together to be organized. So Swipe to the Right > Group, and I'm going to rename this group Six. So we've labeled our group. I'm going to bring our two stalks up to the top. I think what I'm going to want here is some of these yellow flowers to be totally behind the 6 and some to be on top. So we don't necessarily have to have things intertwined to give it that intertwined look. Simply by tucking, Let's say, this guy underneath. So we have our second yellow flower. I'm going to tap that Arrow and I'm going to start with Uniform by making it smaller. Just going to grab one of those blue nodules and make it a little bit smaller. And then I'm gonna go back to Warp > Advanced Mesh and just play with how it might interact with this set of leaves. And then we have these leaves that are behind here and they're kinda hidden. So I'm going to grab this Arrow. And first I'm gonna go to Uniform. I'm just going to have them tucked behind those leaves there. And on top of that I'm going to bring a pretty orange flower. And that's going to be on the very top. And I'm going to make that smaller. And I'm going to tuck one of these little petals underneath here. I like this flower because, for example, I could tuck this part underneath there and still have the other ones overlapped. I think I might want that a little bit smaller because remember one of the important parts is making sure that this is still legible as a number. It's not totally legible right now, but we haven't begun our intertwining yet. I'm going to start that with our leaves here. I am going to follow our steps right here. So I'm going to tap on the leaves. I'm going to hit Mask. I'm going to tap on the 6 and hit Select. We get our diagonal lines. And instead of white, I want black. And I want my Monoline, it's right there, and I go back to my Layer Mask. And I'm going to start tucking things under. I'm not sure exactly which route I want to take, but let's just start by tucking some of this under because we are going to have more yellow flowers on top of here. I think that looks good to start. So I'm going to tap my Arrow and unselect that. I'm going to tap on this group and just bring it down a little bit. So it's separate from this text up here. That looks pretty good. I'm going to bring back this other yellow flower and this orange flower and see how that looks. I think what I want to do is to warp it a little bit more. So I'm on the Arrow, I'm on the Warp, I'm on Advanced Mesh, and I'm just gonna kinda curve it a little bit more. I think that looks nice. I have my stems down here, which I'll erase later, but I'm not gonna do that quite yet. Now I'm gonna go to this orange flower and I am going to hit Mask, following the steps up here, go back to my 6, hit Select. I'm on black, Monoline, and I go back to my orange layer and I'm going to try to just see what it looks like to just tuck this one single leaf under here. And we'll see if that makes sense visually. I'm not sure it does, but let me unselect that. Eh, no it doesn't. So, no worries because this is non-destructive. I'm going to clear my mask and I'll go back to all white. Let me try flipping this flower around. So I'm gonna go back to Uniform. I'm going to Flip Horizontal, and I'm going to twirl this flower around and this might be what we need. I think that might give us a better opportunity for intertwining. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to first turn off this layer and just erase these stems because they're bugging me. So, I brought back my orange flower and let's tilt that a little bit and see what it would look like with just this one petal tucked under the 6. I'm gonna go back to Warp again and Advanced Mesh and just pull this leaf out a little bit. So there's a little bit more like intertwined action, so you'll be able to see more of it behind the 6. So let's follow our steps. We have a Layer Mask. We're gonna go to this 6, which we're interacting with and we're going to hit Select. And we are going to use our black Monoline and see if we can visually, like, tuck this petal. Clearly, I'm not a botanist here, but I really do love flowers. You don't have to be really precise with this until we start getting close to interacting with another petal that we might want to leave on top. So that's where I'm getting a little bit more precise. And I think that looks pretty good. So I'm going to tap Unselect. I'm going to bring this back to Uniform because that's just how I'm used to seeing it. You know, I think that looks good. What I don't like here is the stem continuing to stick out. So let's do more masking with this layer. It's this, these leaves. So I already have a Layer Mask and then I go to my 6 and hit Select. And I'm just going to visually tuck that stem underneath. I'm going to erase the rest of this stem because they don't, whoops! I'm on, Now I'm drawing in black rather than erasing on this stem. Okay, So that looks done-ish. I think I like it. I might want to go back to this orange flower and select it, and go to Warp again and just pull out the leaves a little bit more. So there's just a little bit more intertwining. So, let's turn off our directions here and see how that looks. You know what I'm when I warped it, I messed up something here. So let's just clear this Layer Mask and go back to Select. We have our black Monoline. And then once again, I'm just tucking this back under here. I'll make my monoline smaller. Once I get closer to this leaf. I think that looks nice. Reminder, I would love to see what you create. So, please remember to share your projects. You're a single letter or a number, or if you were very ambitious, a word, in the class project area. And I love to see them and I comment on everyone. I love to share. Students worked on social media, on Instagram as well. So if you want me to tag you on Instagram, add your Instagram handle, and I will do that. I also have a really quick bonus lesson for you up next. It's a way that you can use masking to show off your work on social media. I will see you in the next lesson. 9. Bonus! Social Media Masking Tricks: Welcome back. You have probably seen these tricks being used by other artists on social media and you wondered how to do it. And I am going to show you these are really quick and easy and they can be used for a variety of pieces of art, not just intertwined one. So let's get started. What I'm going to do is I'm going to use this 6 as an example. And what I'm gonna do first is I'm going to duplicate this by swiping left on the canvas and hitting Duplicate. And I need a flattened piece of art, which means I'm not using all of these different layers. And the reason I made a copy is because I always want to retain the original piece with the layers in case I wanted to go back and tweak them later. But for our purposes, we are just going to be deleting what we don't need here. We don't need those directions. We don't need this six at the bottom. And we don't need these extra flowers here. And I am just going to tap on this group and hit Flatten. And that flattened this whole group. And what I can do to further flatten it is pinch these two together. So now our work is on one layer, which is what we need for this trick. It is a masking trick. So I'm gonna go to mask on this layer. And here we have our white mask. Because the mask is white, it reveals everything below it. But if we took a pure black, six zeros for a hex code and hit Fill Layer, then we have this blank screen here. But as we know, white reveals. If we grab a pure white up here and we could grab a Monoline, make it larger. What we can do is magically bring our piece back in two different ways. The first trick is the easiest, and we're going to take our pure white, drag the white to the middle of the screen. We can hold it here and then it's filling the layer. So then it automatically pops up there. So that's a fun way to reveal your work. And another way to do it would be to fill this Layer Mask with black again to conceal the whole thing. And this is the one you may see more often. You would grab that white again, you would grab a large brush like a monoline, and you would just start revealing what's underneath here. Because our Monoline isn't huge here. It's kind of taking away from the drama of it because I'm scribbling this in here. So let's do something. Let's make our monoline bigger. So I'm going to grab a Monoline. And you can just do this with a regular Procreate Moonline, that we've been using the whole time. I'm gonna duplicate it and I'm gonna go to Properties. And right now the brush maximum size is 44%. I'm going to bring that all the way up and hit Done. So now we have a chunkier mono line. So again, that was just Properties and playing with the size. And as I play with the size here you can see it changes. And so now we have a larger brush and we have our layer mask that's in black. And let's see how that works. See this works a lot better. And you can reveal your work just like that. Once again, you can do that with any canvas in Procreate, all you need is for it to be flattened, which means it's on one layer. So I hope that was helpful. If you like these tricks and you're sharing it on social media, please tag me @kelleybrenburke so I can see it. Big Congratulations to you. You have almost finished this class. All we have left is just our final thoughts and that'll just take a minute or two. I will see you in the next lesson. 10. Congratulations!: Congratulations, you have finished the class! Masking is a really useful tool in Procreate and I hope I demystified it for you. I can't wait to see what you create! Upload your intertwined letter or a number in the class, projects and resources area on Skillshare. I'll give feedback to every project. If you share your class project on Instagram. Tag me @kelleybrenburke, and Catherine from Avalon Rose Design. She created the gorgeous digital florals for your project. 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