Procreate Masterclass: From Beginner to Pro

1. Hi,Artists!: For me, Procreate is where you create your own magic. Whether the magic stays on the screen or becomes a product you can sell in the real world? Hi, I'm Sarah. I'm an illustrator and a graphic designer. And I'm here to introduce you to the wonders of Procreate, and how to use it from start to finish. Learning Procreate means you will be able to create professional artwork on your iPad whenever you go. In this course, I'll walk you through the main interface and show you how to get the most out of Procreate. You will learn how to navigate the gallery, organize your projects, create and customize your own canvas, and understand the difference between RGB and CMYT as well as how to choose the right dimensions for your artwork. And we will explore all the essential tools. Brushes, effects layers and color features. You will learn how to create your own brushes, build your own color palettes, discover useful tips and tricks, and unlock procreates hidden features. We will learn how to animate and procreate. And after learning all the fundamentals, secrets and techniques, we will put everything into practice by creating three different artworks together from start to finish. By the end of this course, you will have the confidence and skills to create your own professional artwork and bring your ideas to life. So let's diamond and start creating. 2. Procreate interface: Once you open Procreate, you will be taken directly to your gallery. This is where all the artworks you have worked on are stored. But if this your first time using Procreate, you will find that Procreate already gives you some ready made examples. These are sample artworks to show you what you can do on the app. When you tap on Procreate, three options appear. The first one is the Virgin. This shows the version of the app you're currently using. In my case here, I'm using Virgin five. Then you have two more options. The first one is restore example artworks. These are the example artworks I showed you earlier. So if I select them, delete them, and want to bring them back again, I can simply go to Procreate and choose Restore Example artworks and they will appear again. Let's go to the third option, and the third option is start Gallery recovery. This is useful in case something goes wrong in the app while you're working. If Procreate suddenly crashes or something unexpected happens, you can choose this option, and Procreate will try to recover as many files as possible and restore them inside the app so you can continue your work and not lose everything. And honestly, I don't think many people will use the start to get the recovery because the app works very well, but it's still a nice option to have. Now, let's talk about the options we have here. Select import, Photo, and the plus icon, and we'll start with Select. A let's start with stack. So what does stack mean? Stack means a group, a bundle, or a file. It simply means I'm collecting my artwork together inside one file. This is a very useful feature because it helps you organize your galeery. So if you have artworks that are similar to each other, it's better to keep them inside one file. That way, your gallery stays clean and organized and you don't feel like everything is messy. So let me show you here an example of a stack I already have. This is a manga that I drew. It has many canvases and each canvas contains a lot of layers. So instead of keeping them all separately in the gallery, I group them together into one stack. Now, let's try to create a stack ourselves and group some artworks together. So I tap on select. Then I choose artworks that are similar to each other. For example, I select these artworks, and what connects them is that I turn people into cartoon characters. After that, I'll tap on stack, then done. Now, these four artworks are grouped together inside one file. Now, I can arrange them easily by pressing and holding on any image. Then dragging it, I can move this one here and place another one here, however you like. And if you want to take one artwork out of the stack, you just press and hold on it. Then drag it over the word stack, and it will take you back out to the you have two options. The first option is to place the drawing anywhere inside the gallery. The second option, which is another way to create a stack is by pressing and holding the artwork, then dragging it over another stack or even over another artwork. You will notice the color turns blue, which means that if I release it, it will be added to the stack. Now let's name this stack, let me tell you that it's always better to not leave anything as untitled artwork. If you want to rename anything, whenever it's a stag or a single artwork, just tap on the name itself like stag or untitled artwork, and you can type a new name. Like, I name this one cartoon, and if you don't want to write using the pencil, you can simply use the keyboard from here, and let's write cartoon. Then now the name is saved. The next option we have here is preview. Preview is just like any preview you have on your phone, tablet or iPad. It simply shows you image in full screen. So once I tap on Preview, the image becomes larger like this. I can also open the previewed image inside the canvas and start working on it by quickly double tapping on the image. This will open my artwork inside the canvas. Now I can draw on it, erase from it, or do anything I want. I have full control to edit the image freely after opening it from preview. Also from preview, if you want to go back to the gallery, what do I do? I used to fingers and do a quick pinch in like this, and I'm back to the gallery. Another option to preview my artworks, all my artworks, not just one is I just pinch out very quickly, just like this, and it opens. Then I can swipe left or right to see all the artworks I have worked on. And if you finished and want to go back to the gallery, just pinch in and you are out. Now let's move to the third option inside Select, and it is share. When I choose Share, it asks me which file format or image format I want to use, whether I want to save it on my iPad, send it by email, or even send it to a printer if I'm planning to print my artwork. I also have the option to save it as appropriate file. This format is very similar to the Photoshop format if you are familiar with Photoshop. So when you save it as appropriate format, you can reopen the file as if you never close. You will find all the layers are still there, all the colors are still there. Everything stays exactly the same, and it's a great option if you still want to continue working on your project later. Also, you can save it as PDF, GPG, or PNG. And if you have a simple animation and want to export it, you can save it as animation job. And don't worry, I'd exploring export formats in more detail at the end of the course. But for now, I'm going to save it as a GPG. After exporting, you will see several options. You can send your image through different apps. Use AirDrop, if you want to send it to your Macbook and continue working on it on Photoshop, print it directly or save it to your files. For me, I'll choose save image, and that's it. The image is now saved in my gallery. The fourth option is Duplicate. When I select an image and choose duplicate, it creates another copy of the same artwork. And this is so important in Procreate. And here is an important tap. If you delete any artwork by mistake or even on purpose, you won't be able to recover it again. So it's always better to duplicate your important artworks. And in that way, if one copy gets deleted, you still have another copy. Another way to protect your work from being lost is to save it on a flash drive. This is something I personally do most of the time. I use a flash drive has two sides. One USB, regular one, and the other one is USB C side. I always save copies of my work on the USBC side, and then I keep them later on my laptop or computer. The fifth option inside Select is delete. So when I tap on delete, it asks me if I'm sure that I want to delete the artwork because once you delete it, you can get it back again. So I delete it, especially since we already have a duplicated now, let me tell you a little tap. We can actually do three actions without even going into Select. We can share, duplicate or delete directly from the artwork itself by swiping it to the left. This will show the options share, duplicate, and delete. So now we're done with all the select options, and let's move on to the Brest of the tools. Now we'll talk about import and photo. Import means bringing any files from your iPad into Procreate, so you can work on it. So as you see, when I tap on Import, it opens my files, whether they are on ICloudrive or in my recent files on the iPad. For me, I choose an image from here. Let's say this one. Now, it's Inside Procreate and I can erase from it or edit however I like. Photo is very similar to import. The difference is that Import opens the file while Photo opens your photo gallery on the iPad. So when I tap on Photo and choose any image, I'll pick the same one. It opens directly inside a canvas, and I can edit it freely. Now we're done with these options, and we move to a very important one, the plus icon. And this is where we learn how to create a new canvas with our own custom size. See you in the next lesson. Bye. 3. Create your own Canvas: Create a canvas with our own custom size. We app on the plus icon on and this will open a list of different canvas sizes that Procreate already prepared for you. For example, here is the screen size, which matches your iPad screen. You have a four paper size, square size, 46 photo, and also custom size that I created before for my work. These are the ready made sizes, but how do I create a new canvas? At the top, you will find an icon that looks like a file with a plus tap on it. Now, you're inside the canvas sittings. The first thing we start with is the dimensions. Here you can choose the size of your canvas in millimeters, centimeters, inches or pixels. Now we will create a canvas table for a social media post, and a social media post is usually 1080 and the height 1080. And I'm using pixels. Let's talk about the DPI. Here is set to 72. This number is very good if you will display your work on a screen. But if you want to print your work, DPI should be 300 at least or higher. If it's less than 300, the print quality will not be good. The color may look off or the image may look pixelated and not clean. So to make sure your printed work looks good, the DPI should be at least 300. But since your work is for screen, 72 is perfect. Let's move to layers. Here you have number of layers. The Procreate shows you that the maximum number of layers available is 894 layers. The number of layers depends on two things. First, the canvas size. The smaller the canvas size, the more layers you can have the bigger the canvas size, the fewer layers you get. For example, if I make it 800 pixels by 800 pixels. You can see here that my layers increase to 1,000 layer. Now, I return it to 1080 by 1080, and the layers go back to 894. The second thing that affects layers is your iPad performance. The software. So the better software you have, the more layers you can use. So to summarize this dimensions part, you choose first the dimensions. Do you want your unit to be millimeters, centimeters, inches or pixels? Then set the width and height and choose the DPI. For screen 72 is perfect for print 300. Or higher. Let's move to the second thing, which is color profile. Here in color profile, you have two options RGB and CMYK. Let's explain them simply. An work that will be shown on a screen, no matter what screen it is, choose RGB. RGB has more color range. It looks brighter and very clean on screens. But if you want to print your work, then just go with CMYK. CMYK, Colors, yes, they look a bit dull compared to RGB, but these are the actual colors used in printing. Printers recognize CMYK colors. So if you work in CMYK mode, all the colors you use in your artwork will print apparently. They will not look dull or wrong in print. But if you draw using RGB and then print, the colors will not come out with the best quality. So remember, if your work is for screen, choose RGB. If your work is for print, choose CMYK. Now, since we are making a social media post, we choose RGB. The third thing is time lapse sittings. So Hiper Create automatically records your work as a time laps. This is very nice. If you want to show your drawing process on Instagram or any platform, it creates a video of your fold process, but be careful. The higher the quality, the larger the file size. It can take a lot of storage space on your iPad. So it's better to keep it as it is. 1080 and good quality. Now let's move to the last thing in canvas sittings, which is canvas properties. Here it shows you two things. First is background color. You can choose any color you want for your canvas background, but I recommend keeping it white as it is because inside the canvas while you are working, you can change the background color anytime. And the second thing is background hidden. If you turn it on, there will be no background for your canvas. If you turn it off, the background will be visible. I recommend not changing anything here, leave it as white and keep the background not hidden. And anyway, inside the canvas, you can easily hide or change the background anytime. The last step is to name your canvas. So tap on untitled canvas and write social media post. Once I press done, my canvas opens with the size I set. So why did I name the canvas? Because when I go back to the gallery and I finish working on this canvas, and later, I want to create another artwork with the same size, I don't need to repeat the steps, again, the same process. I just tap on the plus icon, scroll down. And you will find your saved canvas present with the same size you created for the social media post. When you tap on that, a new canvas opens with the same settings. Now I want you to go back to the gallery, tap the plus icon and choose a screen size canvas. And let's start talking about the tools inside the canvas. 4. all about Colors: And this is how the canvas looks like the canvas in the center, and you have the tool bar at the top right here and the menu bar on the left. The first thing we're going to talk about in the tool bar is colors. So when you tap on this little circle here, the color panel opens. There are several different ways to choose colors and procreate. The first one is the desk view, and we also have classic and harmony. But personally, the one I use the most and the one I find the most comfortable is the desk. The disk is divided into two parts, the outer ring, which controls the hue, meaning the main color itself, like orange, yellow, green, Cyan, blue, purple, and so on. Then inside, we have the inner and this controls the saturation and brightness. So from here, I can decide if I want the color to be darker and closer to black or lighter and closer to white. You can also switch to classic view. In Classic, you first choose the color family from here, whether you want red, pink purple, blue, green, and so on. And from here, you adjust the saturation and brightness. You can also control them using these sliders down here. You want the color to be lighter or darker, you can adjust it just from here. Now, let's talk about harmony. I personally think harmony is really helpful when you're trying to figure out which colors work well together. For example, if I'm using a baby blue color, harmony helps me find the shades that matches nicely with it for coloring. As I move the ring or drag the circle around, Procreate automatically suggests the complimentary colors that go well with my main color. I think it's especially useful for anyone who wants to color but isn't sure which colors fit together. The next thing I want to show you is history. So inside history, you will find all the colors you've used before. So if you want to go back to a specific shade, you can quickly find it here without trying to remake it again. And down here, we have the palette section. You can create your own custom palette. So let me make a one from here and go back to the disk view. Now, whenever I choose a color and want to save it to my palette, I simply tap here and the color gets added. Let's pick another color and add it here and another one here. You can also rearrange the colors, however you like, for example, you can move the blue here, place the purple down here, and move the red over here. Now, let's talk about the last option, which is palette. Procreate already gives you ready made palettes that you can use for drawing and coloring. But, of course, you can also create a roll in costume color palettes. The first method, which we already did is adding colors manually into the palette one by one. The second method is by tapping the plus icon and choosing new from photos. This is useful if you like the colors in a certain image from your iPad gallery. You can also choose new from files if you have a file saved on your iPad with colors you like. So now let's choose new From photos, and I'll select this image. And just like that, Procreate automatically extracts all the color shades from the image and creates a palette for me. There is another method, too. If I tap the plus icon again and choose new from camera, let me show you what that looks like. This is another way to create your own custom color palette is by capturing colors dire create from the environment around you. Inside Procreate. To do that, I tap the plus icon, then choose new from camera. Now, as I move my iPad around, Procreate starts picking up the colors from whatever I'm pointing the camera at and automatically turns them into a palette inside the app. Once I find a combination of colors I like, I simply take the photo and the palette is instantly created from me inside per other really nice thing about colors and Procreate is that if I have any image and I want to match a specific color from it, I can easily pick that exact shade. All I need to do is press and hold my finger on the artwork. This activates the color picker, which is the circle right here. As I move my finger around the image, the picker keeps updating and shows me the exact color I'm hovering over. For example, let's say I pick this yellow shade like this. Now my current color changes to yellow. But what if I want to go back to the previous color I was using before the yellow? I don't have to reopen the color panel. All you need to do is press and hold on the color circle, and it instantly switches back to the last color you used. 5. All about Brushes: The first icon we have here is the Brush icon. Once you tap on it, you're taken to the brush library. You have the classic library which contains the brushes that originally came with Procreate when it was first released. And you also have another library called the Procreate Library. How do we get there? You simply tap the down drop arrow, choose back to libraries, and then select Procreate Library. These are the brushes that Procreate released in 2025. You can also switch between libraries without tapping the back arrow. Just use your fingers, so pinch in, then choose the library you want to work with. Procreate gives you an incredible variety of brushes. You'll find brushes for inking, brushes for sketching, and brushes that feel like traditional drawing tools. For example, if you want the look of a six B pencil or an HB pencil, you will find brushes that create that experience. In the inking section, brushes like dry ink create a completely different look similar to working with ink, and it's like that. And there are so many brushes sets to explore. Brushes are designed for textures. So create special effects, and others mimic traditional media. For example, in the water section, there are brushes that feel like watercolor. One of my personal favorites is what sponge. And this is how it looks. There are also brushes in sections like organic that can create natural looking effects such as leaves, grass, clouds, and other organic textures, as you see. Now, the Procreate library is even more focused on textures and brush variety. You'll find brushes that can create effects similar to guash, textured paint, and many other artistic styles. The best approach is to explore and experiment. A lot of beginners open Procreate and immediately wonder, how am I supposed to use all these brushes, and when do I use each one? The way you think about it is very simple. You try every brush, you test them, play with them, and gradually discover which one feels right for you. Which brushes do you enjoy sketching with? Which brushes do you prefer for coloring? What brushes work best for adding texture and details? For example, out of all these brushes, I probably use only three main brushes for drawing, and the rest are mostly for finishing touches, pictures. So I don't feel like you need to learn every brush from day one. Just explore, experiment, and discover which brush do you love drawing with? Wh brush you enjoy coloring with? And what you brush helps you add texture and personality to your artwork. Before we continue, let me show you a few really useful Percreate features that make you work much faster and easier. One of the things I love about Procreate is that you don't have to do everything with the Apple pencil. A lot of shortcuts can be done using simple gestures. For example, if you want to undo and go back one step, simply tap the screen once with two fingers. And if you want to undo multiple steps, keep two fingers pressed on the screen for a little longer, and Procreate will continue stepping backward. Now, if you want to redo and move forward again, tap once with three fingers. And if you want to redo multiple steps, keep three fingers pressed on the screen for a little longer. Also hide all of the interface elements and tools if you want a clean view of your artwork, just tap the screen with four fingers and all the toolbars will disappear. To bring them back, tap again with four fingers. Another useful shortcut is copy and paste with three fingers swipe down on the screen, and a menu will appear. There from there, you can choose cut, copy, paste, cut and paste, and another related options. For example, I choose Copy, then I swipe down again with three fingers, I choose paste. And just like that, now you have another copy of your artwork. You can also quickly clear everything on a layer by placing three fingers on the screen and swiping left and right. This will erase all the content on the current layer. Now, let's go back to brushes because there is a really powerful feature I want to show you, and it is customizing your brushes. And before editing any brush, I always recommend creating a duplicated brush first. That way, if you don't like the changes you make, you will still have the original brush untouched and ready to use. To do that, simple swipe left on the brush and choose duplicate. Then tap on the delicated brush to open its sittings. And inside the brush studio you have here, you can start experimenting with all the different sittings and see how they affect the brush. Spacing, for example, see how the brush stroke changes. When I increase the spacing, the brush marks become more separated, and when I decrease it, the shapes blend together and create a smoother stroke. Can keep exploring different settings, spacing, taper, size, shape, grain, and many more. Each sitting gives the brush a completely different feel. And as you are testing, use three fingers to clear the canvas and try the brush again until you're happy with the result. And tap done once you like it. You can even create your own custom brushes from scratch. In fact, this is how many artists create their own brush packs and sell them as a digital product. Let's go back to the classic library, and another useful section inside the brush library is recent. At the very top, you will find all the brushes you've used recently, making it easy to jump back to them without searching through all the brush sets. And if there are certain brushes you use all the time, instead of digging through different brush sets every time, you can create your own cast and brush set. Just tap the plus icon and choose Create set. For example, I name mine Beno. Now, whenever I find a brush I love, let's say this oil pastel brush, I can press and hold on it, then drag it directly into my custom brush set. Hold for second. And place it. That way, all my favorite brushes stay organized in one place, and I can access them instantly whenever I need them. And if you've purchased a brush pack or downloaded a brush file from somewhere else, you can easily add it to your brush library. Just tap the plus icon and choose Import from files, then select your brush file, per create automatically add the brush set to your library and ready to use. Also complete new brush from here by choosing to create new brush and then customizing it however you like. For example, you can adjust the spacing to get a look like this, then continue experimenting with all the different settings until you're happy with the result. And once you like the brush you've created, go about this brush. From there, you can rename your brush and add your own information. For example, I can name the brush anything I want under made by right no, and I can even sign it with my name. Now I have my own custom brush saved in my library and ready to use whenever I want. And that set for the brush library. Now let's talk about the sliders over here. The first one controls the brush size. In other words, how large or small your brush will be. The second one controls opacity, which determines how transparent or solid the brush stroke appears. For example, if I draw with this brush size, I can make it larger or smaller. Depending on what you need. You can also lower the opacity so the color becomes more transparent like this. If I reduce it even more, the stroke becomes lighter and softer. Now here is a really useful trick. Let's say I'm drawing with a specific brush size that I like. Later, I increase the size to work on something else. But then I want to quickly return it to my favorite size. So to sit the brush size, tap on the small marker inside the slider, and then tap the plus bottom. Now that brush size is saved. So even if I make my brush much bigger or much smaller, I can instantly return to my sad size by tapping that marker. That exact same thing works with opacity. If there is an opacity level you use often tap the marker and press plus to save it. Then then whenever you change the opacity and want to return to the exact value, simply tap the marker, and it will snap back to your saved setting. And if you ever want to remove a saved brush size or opacity preset, tap the marker again and choose the minus bottom. Let's erase all of this. One of the things I really love about the brushes in Percreate is that they behave very much like real drawing tools. It genuinely feels like you're drawing on paper. You can control them through the way you hold and tilt your Apple pencil. Sometimes you will use the brush like this, and when you tilt your hand slightly, the brush behaves differently. It starts to feel more like you're shading with a real pencil. The more you tell to your pencil, the broader and softer you shading becomes. And just like with traditional drawing, pressure matters. The lighter your hand, the lighter you color appears. The more pressure you apply, the richer and darker more stroke becomes. So when you're using brushes in procreate, try thinking of them as real drawing tools rather than digital tools. That's one of the features that makes the drawing experience feel so natural. Another great feature in Procreate is shape assistant. For example, if you want to draw a straight line but don't get it perfectly right, you can simply hold your pencil at the end of the sproke for a moment, and Procreate will automatically straighten the line for you. You can even control the angle of the line more preciously by placing a finger on the screen while holding the broke. This allows the line to snap into clean angles and directions. Once you remove your finger, you get more freedom to move and adjust it. And this doesn't only work with lines. I also works with shape. For example, if you draw a circle and the shape isn't perfect, you simply hold your pencil for a second and Procreate automatically smoothes it into a cleaner shape. If it becomes an oval and you want a perfect circle instead, you can place your finger on the screen, and Procreate will constrain it into a true circle. You can also edit the shape further if you want. Let's draw a square. For example, if it's not perfectly drawn, you can hold the stroke, place a finger on the screen, a procreate will turn it into a proper square. From there, you can tap edit shape and adjust it even more. You can modify the corners, change the preparation, rotate it, reshape it into a rectangle, or even transform it into a different geometric shape altogether. And of course, you can fill it with color as well. So between pressure, sensitivity, tilt control, quick shape, and shape editing, procreate brushes, gives you a lot of flexibility while still feeling very close to traditional drawing, and that's it for the brushes section. 6. Smudge and Eraser tools: Now let's talk about the smudge tool. This is the tool we use to blend colors together. So let's choose a brush first. I'll use the wet sponge brush and pick a color from the color wheel. I think I'll go with the purple one and paint a stroke like this. Then I'll go and choose another color and add it right next to it like this. Now we want to blend these two colors together. So tap on the smudge tool and start blending between the colors. As you can see, they blend smoothly into each other like this. One thing I highly recommend is using the same brush for blending that you used for painting. So if I colored using the wet sponge brush, I'll go to the smudge tool open recent, select the same wet sponge brush, and then blend the colors. This way, the blending keeps it the same texture and character of the original brush, giving a much more natural result instead of looking like a generic blend. It keeps it the same effect and feel of the brush we painted with. Now let's move on to the eraser tool. This is the tool we use whenever we want to erase part of our artwork. But just like with blending, it's usually best to erase using the same brush you used for coloring. And to quickly switch the eraser to the current brush, simply press and hold on the eraser icon, and you will see that the eraser changes to the current brush. Now, when you erase, it doesn't erase with a basic hard edge. Instead, it erases using the exact same texture and shape as the brush we painted with. Alright, now let's move on to one of the most important parts of procreate, which is layers. 7. Layers & moving tool: Learn more about the layers. The icon I have here is the layers icon. When I tap on it, three things appear. First, there is the background color, and from here, I can hide the background by tapping on the chick mark, and then my background disappears. If I want to show it again, I tap on this square. If I want to change the background color, I tap on the word background, and I start changing it to any color and any shade I want. Let me make it light purple. And then I tap done. After that, we have the layers. Layer one is the layer where we will start drawing, and then we have the plus sign, which I can use it to add another layer. Now, let's stay on layer one, and I want you to go into brushes and scroll down until you reach the calligraphy brushes set. From here, choose monoline, either Moline two or the monoline you like. And if you want a different brush, you can use it. I will adjust my brush size, and we said that in Procreate, any shape I draw. If it doesn't look perfect, I wait a little bit, and Procreate will fix it for me or I put my finger on the screen and the shape becomes adjusted. So now I want you to choose a color from here. Let me choose this color, and I'll start drawing a circle. I wait a little on the circle, and then I put my finger on the screen to make it smaller or bigger. After that, I drag the color from the color wheel and drop it inside the circle. And be careful about something. When I draw any shape, I must make sure the shape is closed before I fill it with color. Meaning, when I draw another circle here, I must make sure it is closed. And I drag the color, the whole layer will be colored, and this is something that I don't want. So make sure that your shape is closed first, and then add the color. Now, I want to my canvas to fit the screen again. So I use two fingers and do a quick pinch in and by this, the canvas will adjust the screen size. Now, let's make the canvas smaller and do the same thing with two fingers, pinch in, and now it fits the screen. Now, let me delete the circle I don't want it, and we will go back to the layers and create a new layer by tapping the plus icon and choose a different color, any color you like. And let me draw a square, draw any shape you like, for sure. And I want you to look here. My square is open from the side, so I close it first before I add color. Then I drag the color from the color wheel and drop it inside my square. And let's go back to the layers again and create a new layer. We'll choose another color, maybe this color or let's stay with this color maybe. Drawing a shape, it doesn't have to be the geometric shape. For example, I'll draw a cloud shape here, something like a cloud, and I'll fill it with this color. Now we have three shapes. So I want you to go to layers, and we will find layer one, layer two and layer three. Now you can arrange the layers the way you want. For example, I can make the cloud go under the circle by dragging the layer, I tap on it, hold a little and drag it like this. So part of it goes under the circle and the other part is visible. I can also bring the circle to the top, so I drag it like this, and it will be like this for me. Now, I want you to start playing with the layers a little. Just move one down, bring the other one up, and keep moving the shapes however you like. Now, there's something else I can use to move the shapes, which is my moving tool. With this tool, I can move my shapes anywhere I want inside the canvas using uniform. I can also choose free form. In freeform, I can stretch from one side, changing the width from another side, make it smaller from a certain area and so on. I can also choose distort and play with my shape. I can choose wrap and change the shape more I can make it flip horizontal like this or vertical or rotate it. And in wrap, you can also use Advanced mesh. In this way, you can move more anchor of the shape and have more control to play with the shape even more. And yeah, now I'll go back and reset the shape to normal and leave it in its place as it is. Let's go back to layers, and I want to show you something else inside it, which is the letter N. So letter N refers to blend mood. So when I tap on it, two things appear. The first one is opacity, which is the transparency of the layer. So when I reduce the opacity now, if you notice, the color of the shape starts to become lighter until it disappears completely. And if I increase the opacity, it becomes stronger again. Let me set it to 88%. And after that, we have blend mode. Blend mode is something you will use a lot in your drawings. You can change it to create different effects for your artwork. So you're going to know more about the blend modes when you use it to add effects to your artwork, but let me reset it again to normal and leave the opacity as it does to 88%. Let's play more and change the opacity or the blending board of the square. Let me set it to maybe liner burn. And I set the circle as it does, or maybe I can just move it a little bit up like this here. 8. Alpha lock , mask , clipping mask: Also in layers, you can name each layer with a different name. This will help you a lot when you have many layers. So it keeps things organized and you don't get confused. To rename, tap on the layer once. Choose rename. So I replace layer one with circle. And now it's really named for me. Now we want to add some texture inside the circle, and we want, when we add texture inside the circle to not go out the circle. So go to brushes and choose any brush you want. A brush you prefer to add texture. For me, I'd go to Procreate Library, and I maybe go with comics and choose, for example, this brush. Choose any brush that gives you the perfect picture you like, and then go to colors and choose any color just for practicing. So make sure first that you are on the circle layer. And now, if I draw, do you see what happens? The drawing goes outside the circle completely, and I only want to draw inside the circle. So what do we do? We go to the circle layer, tap on it once and choose alpha lock. In this way, when I draw everything I do will be inside the circle only, and nothing else will be affected except the circle. And you can also active alpha lock in another way by using two fingers and swiping quickly to the right. In this way, alpha lock is activated. Now, when I draw, I will only affect inside the circle. So I'll talk with you about something very similar to alpha lock, and it is clipping mask. So what is clipping mask? So what is clipping mask? Let me first duplicate this layer to show you the difference. So if I want to duplicate a layer, I swap the layer to the left and choose duplicate. Now I have another copy of my layer, and I'll move the circle here. And I will hide the two layers so you can see the difference between these two circles. So my first layer, I will active alpha lock on tap on at once and choose alpha lock. And the second layer, I create a new empty layer above it. I tap on at once and I choose clipping mask. Now, the layer with alpha lock I will draw on at like this, so my drawing stays inside it. But with the clipping mask layer, I will not draw on the shape itself. I'll draw on the layer above it. If you notice this layer has a small arrow. This arrow means that anything I draw on this layer will only appear inside the layer below it. So now, when I draw, it will appear inside the circle. Now, what is the difference between them? What is the difference between lthloc and clipping mask? Let's say I finished my artwork, and I noticed that I added some extra coloring here, and I want to remove it from my work. So I don't like this picture. What should I do? With Apalac layer, if I try to erase, as you can see, I'm erasing from the actual drawing itself. A part of my drawing disappears, so I will not be able to get the original circle shape back. On the other hand, with clipping mask, I can erase the texture or anything I added that I don't like very easily without affecting the main layer. I can remove it freely without damaging or changing the original layer underneath it. So if you ask me which one to choose between the two, I personally choose clipping mask. Now, how do I delete a layer? I swipe to the left and choose delete. I want to lock a layer, meaning I don't want anything to affect it at all and I want to keep it safe, I swipe the layer to the left and choose lock. In this way, if I try to draw on this layer, it will tell me that this layer is locked, so I need to unlock it first before I can work on it again. Why is useful, and this is something that really important. I want you to keep it in your mind. Always, when you draw, make a duplicate of your artwork in the layers. For example, I draw the circle, but maybe later I want to edit it again, and I'm not sure about that, so I'll duplicate it and keep one as a pair and will not work on it. So I'll just lock it. Now I have a safe copy, and I will work on the other circle normally. For now, I will hide this one and show the rest of my layers, and I move the circle back to its place again. There are also other options in layers, and one of them is something called mask. So what is a mask? A mask means I can hide or show parts of my shape. When I apply a mask, a new layer appears above the layer, I used the mask on. This layer is in white. I work with mask using only two colors, black and white. So black is used to hide parts of my layer. And don't worry. The layer is not deleted, while white is used to show the parts I hide again. And this is the difference between the three siblings, mask, clipping mask and alpha o. Now, let me delete this mask. I don't need it, so I delete it and bring my layers back to normal and increase the opacity back to 100. So what else we can do in layers? We can combine layers into one layer by merging them. So I put my finger on the first layer and my finger on the last layer, and I pinch them together. This way, all the layers in between become one single layer. Or I can put layers into a group. To do that, I select the layers by swiping them to the right until they become blue like this, then tap group. Now I have my own group. I can rename it or I can ungroup it and all the layers will go back to their original place, or I can choose flatten and in this way, all the layers become one single layer. Let's go back and choose ungroup. 9. Adjustments & select tool: There are a lot of effects we can add to our growing by using the adjustment tool. So once I tap on adjustments, I'll have a lot of options. Let's start with the first one, use saturation and brightness. Here I can change the color of the layer. So let me here change the color of this cloud, as you can see. I also can change the saturation if I want it to be a pop up green or pale green. I can go with the brightness, increase it or decrease it, and I'll go with the shade. Let's choose another layer and again, from adjustments, and let's choose Gashanblur. So in Gashanblur, you start blurring your layer. Look at how my square works now. I can increase or decrease the blur by dragging the pencil to the right to increase the blur and dragging it to the left to decrease it. There's also motion blur. Mussion blur makes it look like the shape is moving like it's speeding or running. It looks like this. Another more blur option and it's perspective blur. This one adds blur from a specific direction. You start seeing movement more from one side while the other parts stay less affected. For example, in my circle, the blur is stronger on one side, and the area inside the circle is not affected as much as the other side. We can also add some noise to our drawing, and this is one of the effects that we're going to use in our artworks. So a noise, look, when I drag to the right, the noise in my square starts to look like this. I can also reduce it a little until it becomes around 35. I can make it look like a cloud shape like this or like this. Now, let's go back to layers and choose another layer. So I'll go with the circle layer and bring it to the top of the layers just like this. And from adjustments, we're going with liquefy, and this is another effect that we're going to use in one of our artworks, and we're going to create a fire flame using liquefy. So liquefy there are several options at the bottom. Push, wear right, we left, pinch, expand, crystal, edge, reconstruct. You should try all of them and see what each one does. For example, twirl right looks like this. And let's try push. It makes you push with your pencil in a certain direction. And twirl left, it's the same thing as twirl right, but on the other side, pinch, start changing the shape. And yeah, just to play with the liquefy and explore all the adjustments. And for now, what is clone? Clone is one of the very nice tools you can use. Just place the circle on the color you want to copy it, and then you can start coloring with the same color and empty area. But if I move the clone to the green area, it won't work because I'm not on the correct layer. But if I go to the layer that has the green color and choose clone, I can now paint using the same color anywhere I want. Let's learn more about the menu bar, which is the select tool. But first, I'll go into layers, and all I want now is to merge all these layers together like this. I'll also turn off the alpha lock. I don't need it anymore. Now, all my shapes are in one single layer. I can move them together in one layer. But what if I want one specific shape from the to be in a separate layer, and I want to move it alone. I go to the selection tool and then I set it on free hand. With free hand, I can select the shape I want. I draw around the shape to select it like this. After that, I use three fingers swipe down and choose cut and paste. Now, this shape becomes separated and appears in a new layer. You can also use the selection tool in a rectangular way like this, where you drag over the shape, but the easiest and most commonly used one for you will be freehand. The last thing we have is the wrench icon. In the wrench icon, we will explain all the tools we have in the next video. But before we start talking about the wrench icon and actions, I want you to practice the layers, move them around, add to them, and work with alpha lock mask clipping mask until your hand gets used to wet. So enjoy practicing and see you in the next lesson. 10. Add text & reference: So the wrench icon takes me into the Actions menu. This menu has several options like add canvas, share, video prefs, and help. And we will talk about the options you will use more in detail. And let's start with AD. In ad, you can add anything to your canvas. You can insert an image or a file that is already on your iPad. Or I can even take a photo from anywhere and bring it into the canvas. For example, if you tap insert a photo, it will take you to your gallery. So let me choose this image. In this way, I brought an image from my iPad into the canvas. I can make it bigger or smaller. It's already placed in a separate layer inside my canvas. I can draw on top of that or edit it however I want. The same thing applies to insert a file or take a photo. It opens the camera. So here I take a picture of anything like this and bring it into the canvas. I choose use photo and it gets added. This is my pad cover, for example, and it will look like this. So one of the very nice things in AD is that I can add text. I choose a text, and let's write maybe hello and make it bigger. I can change the style of the font by choosing edit style from here. This opens the fonts. I can choose any font I want. I can also choose if it's medium, bold or semi bold. I can adjust the size. Alignment, right, left or center and opacity. I can also adjust size and opacity from outside the menu. You don't have to do it here from this menu. You can choose any font you like and not only the built in fonts, you can also download fonts from any website you like. And after downloading the font you like, you choose Import and you bring the font you download it. I choose my font. Let me find it. Yes, this one grow here. And now search for it. And here is it. This is how my font looks. Now, let me move it to the center and make it bigger. Another option you can do with your text that you can convert the text from normal text into an image. And I can color each letter separately in a very simple way. How I just choose any color from the color palette, and I drag the color from the color wheel and drop it into any letter. Then you will see up there a message that says the font has been converted from text into a layer and a normal. No, I can choose more colors and keep dragging and dropping the colors inside each letter. It will be like this. You'll find also options like cut, copy, canvas, and paste. We already said we can do this using three fingers. We don't need to use this menu. As you remember, we just swipe down with three fingers, and from here, we can choose cut, copy, cut and paste or duplicate. Or we can use free hand from a selection tool. Like we said before, and select a specific part or a litter, then we can cut and paste it, and it becomes separated like this. Another option in Action's menu is canvas. In canvas, I have crop and resize. I can change the size of my canvas while drawing. So when I tap on it, I can stretch it from here, for example. And if I want to make my canvas longer, I can make it like this, and my canvas changes from a fixed screen size to a different size like this. Let me go back and make it again with the screen size. From the Kansas Options, we also have animation assessed. With animation assessed, you can make a simple animation inside Procreate, and we will do a simple example today, and you will enjoy it. After that, we have the drawing guide. When I turn it on, I choose edit drawing guide. And a few options appear. So for example, I want my drawing guide to be to the grid like this. And the grid helps you a lot because it shows you where you are drawing and it makes your lines straight. It helps you know which square you are drawing in. And yeah, you can control the grid size. You can also control the thickness of the lines. You can make them very visible or very light. You can also control the opacity of the grid. And one of the most useful things here is symmetry. And this is the last option. Why is it important? Because in symmetry, whatever you draw on the right side is exactly copied on the left side. No matter what you draw, it is mirrored automatically. And this makes drawing much easier, especially if you are drawing something from the front view like a face or any portrait, you can row very easily using symmetry. Now, let me turn symmetry off. Next, we have reference. Reference helps you while drawing. If you want to draw something you want to copy from a specific drawing that you have in your iPad, you can just choose reference, and the tap will appear. By default, the first option is canvas, which means your current canvas is the reference. But if you don't want that and you want a specific image, you can import an image into the reference. So to do that, just tap image, then import image. And you will be taken directly to your gallery. For me here, let me choose this photo, and this is one of the projects that we're going to work on in our course. Now you have the reference image. You can use your finger to pick colors from it and start drawing. For example, I choose a color and start drawing this mountain like this. Oh, I forgot to turn off the symmetry on this layer. Okay, so pick a color, then start drawing a mountain like this. Let me color it quickly. Then I choose the white to draw the snow. Then I pick the red color and draw the sun. So yeah, reference is very important tool that helps you trace and recreate drawing easily. You can also make your drawing, flip horizontal or vertical, and we already said that we can do this from the select tool. Where you can flip it like this. Another thing you have in canvas information. So if you want to know information about your open canvas, you choose canvas information, and it shows you all the details about your canvas like dimensions, layers, color profile, and all the settings we saw at the beginning of the course. After that, we have the share option. 11. Share options & Prefs: Share, you either choose share image, which means you export only one image or share layers if you want to keep all your layers. But if you want to keep only one layer, you choose share image. You have many formats. One of them is Procreate, which means you save your full file as an editable file. So if you save that as a procreate format and open it later on on your iPad, it will open the canvas exactly like this, and you can continue editing it as if you are still working on your can also save it as PSD or PDF. Usually, we use PDF when we want to sell our product as a digital product or when we send it to a client for printing, you also have GPG, which we mostly use. If we want to keep our work, put it on screens or use it as a social media post. In shared layers, it's the same idea. You can save all your layers as a PDF or PNG file. Or if you made an animation, you can save it as an animation, Jeff. And this is what we will do in our course. We will make a simple animation and save it as Jeff. Next, we have a video. And in video, you have a screen cast which shows you the whole process of your project from the beginning, how you create that step by step. So if I choose Time laps replay, you can watch everything I did and how it was done, then I tap done. You can also save it by choosing Export Time labs video, and it asks you if you want it as a full length, which keeps the entire process or if you want it compressed into a 32nd video. Of course, full length takes more storage, and if 30 seconds virgin also takes space, but not as much as full. Next, we have prefs, and I will show you something very important that I want you to use. This is one of the tips and tricks I like my students to know because it makes drawing much easier. And look, since we are drawing on screen, it's normal that the line is not smooth, you know, and the pen may slip a little, and the line is not very clean. So, yeah, it's normal. And to make my line smoother, I go to pref then I choose pressure and smoothing and stabilization, I increase it to around 50. In this way, when you draw, the pen becomes very smooth. You can draw a circle easily, and you can draw any shape you want very smoothly. And here we go. We are ready to start drawing and apply everything we learned. In the next lesson, we will create three artworks, three projects, each one in a different style, and you will enjoy it a lot. And you will see that drawing on Procreate is very fun and easy. So see you in the next lesson. Bye. 12. Artwork: Fuji mountain part 1: Start with the first artwork we have in our course and it's about Fuji mountain scenes. Go back to the gallery and create a new canvas. Good job, everyone. Tap plus icon, and create a canvas in any size you want. You are free to choose whatever works for you, or you can pick from the red canvas sizes you already have. And here I'm going to choose the screen size. Now go to brushes from the brushes left tap inking brushes set and choose a brush called syrup. Now go to the color wheel and pick a blue color at turquoise shade. I think this color looks really nice and fits well with my idea. And of course, you can choose any color you like and any brush you prefer. And remember, this is an illustration artwork. So you are free here. You choose colors based on the vibe you feel. It doesn't have to look realistic, and the mountain doesn't have to be blue and it doesn't have to be gray either. You can make it pink, yellow, purple, red. Any color you feel matches your style and your. The same goes for brushes, you can pick any brush you like and feel comfortable drawing well. For now, I'll choose the turquoise color and adjust the brush size and also zoom out a little so you can clearly see how the artwork is going to look. The first thing I'll do is find the middle of the canvas. This is the center line. I will go slightly below it and draw a straight line. I'll hold my stroke until it snaps into a perfectly straight line. Then I release it. Now my line is clean and straight. Now you can start drawing your mountain in any shape you like. For example, you can shape it like this or like this or shape it like this. It's totally up to you. So just choose the shape that feels right for you. And once you're happy with the mountain shape, take the color from the color circle and drag it inside the shape to fill it. Just make sure your outline is completely closed so the color doesn't leak outside into the background, like we explained before. And if you want to adjust the shape of your mountain, you can use the selection tool. From here, you can choose free form and resize your mountain, or you can use wrap to change its shape more freely. So you can keep adjusting the mountain until you feel it looks right for you. After that, just turn off the selection tool. Me, I'm going to move my mountain a little bit lower like this. Next tap the layers panel, then tap background. I want my background to be the color of the sky, so I'll choose a light blue color that feels soft and suitable. Maybe this shade is nice. After that, I tap done. Let's add some snow to our mountain, so we need to active alpha lock. I remember the both two ways to active the alpha lock. Yes, great. So the first method swipe two fingers to the RY quickly on the layer, and alpha lock will be turned on. And the second method is tap on the layer and choose alpha lock from the menu. You can use alpha lock if you want, or you can also use clipping mask. Both are totally fine. And to create clipping mask, you tap on the layer, then choose clipping mask from the menu. But for now, I don't need a clipping mask. I'm going to continue working with alpha lock. Next, go to the colors and choose pure white. From the brushes, again, from the inking brushes set, choose a brush called Ica. Let me show you the texture of this brush. You can see it here. And, of course, if you want to use another brush, that's totally fine. For example, you also have mercury, which is nice, too, but its texture is not pure clean white. So you may need to adjust it or layer it more until you reach a clean white on that you like. For me, I use the inca brush. I reduce the brush size, and, of course, I draw freely. Let your hand move comfortably and naturally. Now let's start adding snow like this and color it. We will make small snow details here, too, and smaller ones here. I can also add some snow in this area like this. At this point, I feel like my background color is a bit too light, so I'm going to make it slightly darker. This way, I can see the details of the mountain more clearly and the colors won't feel washed out or faded. So I adjust the background to a slightly deeper tone, just like this. Now let's add shadow inside the mountain. So pick a darker shade than your mountain color. And to reach the exact color of your mountain, just place your finger on it, and the color pecker will active. Select the mountain color first, then choose a slightly darker tone than it using the same brush you used before, the Ica brush or any brush you use. Start adding simple lines like this. You can also increase the brush size or decrease it, add strokes here and there. And there is no strict rule here. You are completely free with your hand. Just look at how I'm adding simple lines like this, and you can draw it in any direction you feel works. Let your hand move freely while coloring and adding the shadows. And yeah, enjoy it, and it will look like this in the end. 13. Artwork: Fuji mountain part 2: No, we're done with the mountain. So here we have the sky, and here we have the water. In the water, we're going to create a shadow coming from the mountain. We're not doing a reflection, just a simple shadow. So I want you to pick the background color. Then go to layers, create a new layer. And move this layer below the mountains layer. And for now, your current color is the sky color, so I want you to make it a bit darker to feel more like water. Then go to brushes, choose your brush. Mine is syrup brush, the same brush I used before. And look any brush you have used would appear in the recent section, so I'll tap on syrup. So all I'm going to do is draw a line. This line won't be visible because I'm placing it behind the mountain, but it's here. So when I continue drawing and feel the Reflection, it becomes clear. Then continue drawing the reflection with simple lines, simple curves like this, one, two, one, two, let's do it again. Again, just line. Then one, two, one, two, drag the color and fill it. Ta da, we created in shadow. We can also create another one here just to be like this and fill it. Now go to layers and turn on the alpha a. Pick a darker shade than the one we used and start drawing the same shape inside it like this. Then fill it with the color. And here as well. Now, go back to colors and pick the white color, with the same brush we're using, which is sea red brush, we start adding sunlight reflection on water. But first, let me turn off the alpha lock so I can draw freely. And all I want from you now is to start adding ovals like this, maybe another one here, and, you know, let me do it above a little here. Another one maybe here and here. Just add ovals. And it will be like this. Now I want you to go two layers to create a new layer. And this layer will be placed between the water and mountain layer. So this way, everything we're going to draw in this layer will appear behind the mountain. Keep the white color and change the brush to Ica. So what are we going to do now? We're going to draw clouds. What will our cloud look like? Something like this? See? It doesn't get any easier than this. Then we can draw another cloud here like this and fill in our clouds. I prefer coloring them by myself just to give me texture. Now we will create a new layer above the mountain layer. We will move it below the mountain, but for now, let's keep it on top so we can clearly see the shape of the sun we're about to draw. And this time from the inking brushes set, I choose mercury brush. And so far, we've used just three brushes. Now go to colors and pick a red color or something between orange and red. Let's see. I think this color will work nicely. Now we're going to start drawing a sun. You can either draw the circle directly, just like this or draw it and then hold your finger on the screen to make the shape perfectly smooth like this. Now you have your circle, fill it in with the color. Then go back to colors, choose a slightly darker shade and start adding a bit shadow here to give the sun some depth. I darken this area a little. And as I told you, you are completely free with colors. If you want the sun to be yellow, that's totally fine. For me, I'll keep it red like this. After that, go back to layers and move this layer, the sun layer below the mountain. The only part of it is visible. I can also move it slightly upward like this to get the look I want. A 14. Artwork: Fuji mountain part 3: If I want to go back to the same red color I used here, I just press and hold on the color circle, and it brings back the last color I used. And from brushes, I'll go with the syrup brush using any brush you like. And let me reduce the brush size and start drawing the building. Make drawing easier. Go to actions then canvas, then turn on drawing guide. After that, tap on edit drawing guide, choose symmetry and press done. This way, when I draw my building on the side, it will automatically appear on the other side as well. Now, just your brush size, and all I want from you now is to draw a line like this. I'll make it a bit thicker. Then at the end of this line, I want you to draw a small rectangle just to make it base a bit thicker, and I'll extend this part a little. So right now my layer looks hidden because it's under the mountain layer and it's in the sun layer. So I want my building to be on a separate layer. So I'll use the free hand selection tool and draw a shape around my building. Then use three fingers and swipe down and choose cut and paste. Now I move this new layer above the mountain and turn on the drawing access to this layer. I start erasing this part because it wasn't very clean. Then I'll extend my column a bit more. Draw a straight line like this and add a small detail coming out from it like this. And from the very top, repeat the same shape like this. Now you can change your brush if needed and adjust any part you're not happy with. For example, I erase this part to make it more straight. Next, go to colors and make a darker shade than the red we used maybe something a bit closer to Burgundi or just go with a darker color and draw over your lines here like this and also here. And as you can see, symmetry makes coloring and drawing much easier, especially when you're drawing something from a front view. It helps a lot because whatever you draw on one side is automatically mirrored on the other. Now go to colors again and choose a color between orange and yellow, and we'll draw a rectangle here and fill it in. Now we have the shape. Next, go to layers and turn off assessed. I just tap on the layer once and disable drawing assessed. And to completely remove the drawing guideline, go to actions, canvas and turn off drawing guide. Now you have the building shape like this, and you can move it freely and place it whatever you want. And let's place it in this area. And since you want to make it a bit taller, just tap on free four. And stretch it like this slightly. Now, it looks like this. Now go to layers again and create a new layer. And this layer will be under the building, but above everything else above the water, the clouds, the sun, and the mountain. After creating a new layer, go to colors and choose a green shade, maybe something slightly olive, so it looks nice, or any green grass you like. Then go to brushes and choose mercury brush again. Or when you brush you prefer to draw the grass. Then you know, the shape of grass, the simple little drawing we used to make when we were kids, that's exactly the shape we want. So just to draw it like this. Feel free with drawing, then you can either color it manually or just drag and drop the color inside. Now it looks like this. After that, pick a slightly lighter green and add it here like this. Go back to colors, and we're going to pick the same yellow orange we used before from your colors history or pick any yellow shade you prefer. And just your brush size, and let's start adding small flowers. See how I'm drawing them. It doesn't have to be complicated like this. No, make it simple small circles like this, one here, another one here and one here, another, like this. And let me know if you'd choose another color for your flowers. And our artwork looks like that so far. 15. Art work: Fuji mountain Part4: Now for the final element, we're going to add that cherry blossom tree. So above all of these layers, let's create a new layer. And of course, you can rename your layers to keep everything organized. For example, clouds, water, sun, mountain, grass. Dr gate. And the last one here is going to be the cherry blossom. Cherry bs. Oh, okay. And now let's go to brushes and choose the syrup brush. And from the color wheel, start with orange, then move slightly down and choose a brown shade. I'll make my brush a little smaller and zoom my canvas out a little so you can see everything clearly. Now, let's draw the branches, and actually, it's very simple. Start with one branch, then draw another branch coming out of it, add another branch extending downward, and another one here. Just keep building the structure using simple lines like this. You can also make your branches longer if you'd like. For example, I can stand this branch over here like this. And once you're happy with the branches, let's move back to the color wheel and choose an orange tone. Using the mercury, brushes start adding the flowers, just like we had before. Simple flower shapes like this all around the branches. Then take a slightly darker shade of the same color and add it inside the flowers to give them a little more depth and variation. And just like that, our cherry blossoms start coming to life. Now, we will repeat the same thing on this side as well. So go back to the orange and start drawing the flowers. When you finish a darker shade of orange, some touches here, and they're like this. And that's our finished artwork. I'm sure your virgins turned out even better. So I'd love to see them. Make sure to send me your artwork so we can look at all the beautiful details and creative touches you added. Now, let's take this artwork one step further and add an effect that completely changes its mood. This effect will transform it from a regular illustration into something that feels like an old vintage pnt with a nostalgic look. Personally, I think it would look amazing, printed as a postcard or a greeting card for someone who loves Japanese inspired artwork. So before we add the effect, we need to combine all of these layers into a single artwork layer. So let's open the layers panel, and as I mentioned before, I always like to keep a copy of my original artwork before applying any effect. That way, if I ever want to go back and make changes, I still have the untouched version ready to select all of these layers by swiping right on each one until they all turn blue, then we will tap a group. Now we have a group containing the entire artwork. The next thing we will do is create a duplicate of this group. For the first group, we will tap on it, choose rename and call it main artwork. This will be my original backup copy, and I'll keep it safely stored. Then I'll hide it. Now I select the second group, tap on it, and choose flatten. This combines everything inside, then group into a single layer. At the moment, the effect we're about to add will only affect the artwork itself, but it won't affect the background. And we want the background to receive the exact same effect as the artwork. So here is what we will do. Create a new layer underneath your artwork layer. Then we will select the same background color we were using before. After that, we will hide the original background layer and use color felt to fill this new layer with the background color. Finally, we will merge the background layer together with the artwork layer. Now we have one complete layer containing both of the artwork and the background. Now let's go to adjustments and choose noise. And we'll start raging the slider to the right. Let me zoom in a little so you can really see what's happening. Can you see how the noise effect is changing the artwork? For me, I get to around 19%. I think 19 looks really nice for this piece. It's just enough texture to give the artwork vantage feel, and it starts to look less like a clean digital illustration and more like an old print or a traditional artwork with a bit of character. Let's zoom and take a closer look before we move on to our next artwork. Tell me, what do you think? And that's exactly why at the beginning of the course, I was explaining everything in a more technical way. I wanted you to understand all the tools first things like noise, bloom, different effects, sharing options, layers, and all the other features available in Procreate. So once you understand what each tool does, applying them to a real artwork becomes much easier and much more fun. Alright, let's move on to our next artwork. 16. Art work: Fire Flame: Our artwork now is how to create a fire flame. So go back to the gallery and yeah, create a new canvas. You already know how to set it to screen size, so you're doing great job. But first, let me rotate my iPad and make it vertical like this. Okay, so now go to brushes. From the inking brushes set, you can choose the syrup brush or from the calligraphy brushes set. Choose monoline or from airbrushing, choose hard brush. I'll go with monoline from calligraphy brushes set and increase the size to the max. Now, we will work on one layer only, and this layer will have three shades of blue. The first shade is a very light blue. So let's choose this light blue, and start drawing a line. Hold for a second until the line becomes straight, then drag the color from the color wheel and drop it. Go again to colors and choose a darker blue. Let's go with this shade or just go with the pure blue as I do here, and draw another line, wait a little until it becomes straight, then drag the color and fill it. The last shade of blue will be the darkest. I'll make the spot a bit smaller. So draw a line, hold the fillet. Now you have three shades light blue, medium blue, and dark blue. Dy blue takes a bigger space and the shades get smaller. Actually, the exact colors are not important, but this is just a guide. Then the medium blue, then the dark blue at the top. Now I want you to go to layers and change the color background color to black. Done. Now we're going to work with this layer, so tap adjustments and choose liquefy set the size to 76% pressure to maximum and the rest of the settings to max, and choose the twirl. Now, we are going to create the fire by tapping and dragging upward like this, tap a little, then drag up. And let's repeat this part again, make sure that you got it. We choose from adjustments, liquefy and set the settings as you can see, like me here. Then we're going to make the fire flame by tapping a little bit, then drag up. So tap, drag up, and keep doing this, tapping, dragging up until you get the fire shape you like. Now a fire looks like this, let's add some highlights. So go to layers and create a new layer. Choose the light blue color again that you used at the beginning and draw a line like before. Fill this part with the light blue. Now, for this layer, change the blending mode to add. After that, go to adjustments and choose bloom, increase the size to around 50 and burn to 41 or however looks good to you. Then go again to Liquify and use the same method to pull it upward. Tap and drag up, tap and drag up. Now the fire looks like it is gluing, especially from the bottom. And you can also try this with different colors. I tried it once with pink shades of pink and purple and also with yellow, orange, and so. And this is our second artwork. 17. Artwork: Animation: Let's do our third project, which is animation, and we will make a very simple and nice animation for text. So let's go back to the gallery, and, yeah, good job. We're going to create a new canvas with a screen size. Let me first rotate my iPad to be horizontal like this. Now, what are we going to do? Tap on layers and see the first layer here. This will be our background. So choose any background color you want. For me, I'll go with this beautiful dusty rose and drag the color from the color wheel into my canvas and will be like this. After that, tap actions. Canvas. Animation assessed. Then tap on this canvas, and I want you to choose the last option, which is background. So it stays your background for all the frames you will draw. Then tap at frame. And let's go to brushes. I want you to choose any brush you like. For me, I'll go with the calligraphy brushes set, and maybe I'll try this chalk brush. It looks so nice. But let me try another brush, maybe this monoline. No, I think I'll go with the chalk brush. It looks much better for me. So just choose any brush you prefer and choose the color you will write with. I'll combine two colors light blue and white. Now, I want you to write anything comes to your mind. From here, I'll just write Hello. So let me just increase the brush size and start writing Hello. Then I go with the white color and decrease the size again and just write the same word over it again. After you write your word, we add another frame. Now, look, the word becomes lighter. This helps you with animation, so you can see what to draw next and how the movement will you can also control the onion skin opacity. You can make it stronger or very light. It was around 53 here, which is good. And we're going to write the same thing in this frame. You know, first, we can just add a little heart, maybe two hearts here to draw one here and another small one here. And yeah, let's repeat the same process and write the word hello. So go back to the color you were using before and start right hello again. You can move the word a little bit higher here, make it a bit bigger, and add white inside it. And to make tracing easier, just save your brush size and don't do like me because I just forgot to save my brush size here. Add the color inside your word. It doesn't have to be a word. You can just draw a ball or a heart. You don't have to write anything for me here. Let's draw the hearts and move them a little bit higher and add another frame, go back to the color again and repeat the process. But this time you can move the word a little down, lower it a bit and write the word, No, it's hello. Then go with a light color and trace inside it. And you can repeat this process several times as much as you want, draw the heart. And for now, when we press play, you will see that the hello is moving, but it's very fast. So go to sittings, and here we can change how the animation plays. We can choose Bing Bong, one shot or loop. And for Bing Bong, it goes back and forth like this. And the one shot, if we just play it, it only play once and then stop. Loop is the best because it keeps repeating your animation again and again, again and again. But right now it is too fast. So we reduce the frames per second from the settings, and it's here set 215, so we just lower it until we find what works best. I think seven or six looks very nice. And it will look like this. So this is a simple and nice animation. You can use it if you are making a video and put it at the beginning as your intro. And let me show you another animation I made. So let me go back to the gallery, and let's open this one. If we press play let me just flip the iPad. So yeah, if we press Play, it looks like this. This animation took so much time and frames, but actually worth it. So for now, how do I save my animation? Go to Actions, Share, then choose animated Jeff. And it will look like this. So once I tap done, it start exporting, then it gets saved in my gallery. So when I go here, my gallery, I will find it saved. There are many tutorials about animation, so start practicing and try that, and you will really enjoy it. And now we finished our three artworks, three projects. I would love you to send me your work and show me what you did. I'm sure it will be amazing. So don't hesitate. Just send me your work, and let's support each other and share our artwork. 18. Bye Artists!: I hope you enjoyed the course. And I'm sure you're ready now to create, draw, design, any artwork you can imagine. I can't wait to see your artwork, so make sure to send them to me because I'd love to see all the beautiful things you have created. And if you have any question, I'll be happy to help. Thank you for joining me, and I'll see you in the next course. Bye.