Procreate Pet Portraits: 3 Playful Styles

1. Introduction: Calling all pet lovers and creative spirits were about to embark on a journey that's all about capturing the heart and soul of your furry companions. I'm Lisa, and this is Charlie. And we're excited to welcome you to procreate Pet Portraits, three Playful Styles to create expressive animal Art with a sprinkle of magic and a dash. And patients you'll be creating pet portraits that will make tails wag and hearts melt. So picture this, your adorable Fur Ball transformed into Art using not one, not two, but three wildly funds styles. We're talking Simple. Yes, stunning, fluid Line Art that highlights your pet's most enduring traits. A flat style with vintage print vibes that will transport you to another era. And a stylized fur look that will infuse your pet with a fresh burst of personality. I know that Art can sometimes feel as mysterious as a Cat, stealthy nighttime of ventures but worry not I'm here to break it all down in a way that even your pet hamster can understand. I've designed this class to be easy and approachable for artists of all skill levels. It's going to feel like walking. Buddy, I'll take you on a walk. After this, we'll be working with the popular drawing and painting app Procreate while making adorable portraits. You'll also pick up a ton of digital arts skills, such as sketching, simplifying, and stylizing a subject, selecting the perfect brushes, working with color and adding texture that brings your pet's personality to life on campus. Whether you're a seasoned Procreate Pro, are just starting out in your digital journey. This class will empower you with techniques that will result in not only incredible pet portrait, but we'll also nurture your competence as an artist. Not only that, but you can use what you'll learn to create gifts that will put a smile on your best friend's face or bring some furry charm into your living space. It's like giving your pet a new leash on artistic life. Imagine being able to capture the corks, The cuddles, and those I'm up to no good expressions of your pet's. These are the kinda portraits that aren't just pexels, their memories, emotions, and stories frozen in time. All you need as an iPad, Procreate an Apple pencil, and some pet photos to get started. And just a little bit about me. I'm Lisa Bardot and I help people find their creativity through drawing on the iPad. I've helped millions of people all over the world learn new art-making skills and discover their inner artists. I've been using Procreate almost a decade and I love how this app lets me explore so many different artistic styles and draw subjects that I absolutely love, such as animals. And trust me, I've been through the whole, Wait, why does my cat looks like a potato phase? I get the struggle. But don't worry, I've unlocked the secret sauce to draw your pet portraits and I'm excited to share my methods with you. You're in for a real tree. But you went G. So let's dive in together and create something that'll have tails wagging and admiration. Can't wait to meet you in the wonderful world of procreate Pet Portraits. 2. Class Project: Your project for this class is to create pet portraits. As you follow along with me during this course, you'll create the three different styles using stock photography. So you'll have a few under your belt. And then at the end of the class, I encourage you to find your own photos, maybe online, or of your own pet and create your own pet portrait. You can choose any of the styles, you can try all three, whatever you wanna do. I would love to see your original artwork. Please be sure to create a project on the Projects and Resources tab of the Skillshare class page. There, you can share all of your work with me and talk about your journey. And if you want to share a little bit about your pet's, I would love to hear that as well. I can't wait to see are worth 3. Tools & Supplies: To follow along in this class, you're going to need an iPad with the Procreate app loaded onto it. I'm using an iPad Pro, but you can use any iPad that is compatible with Procreate. The version Procreate I'm using is version 5.3, 0.1. So if you have an older version or maybe you're watching this in the future, some of the software might look a little bit different. The other tool I'd recommend having is an Apple pencil. This is by far the best tool for drawing on your iPad. You can also use a different stylists or you can draw with your fingers, but you're going to have the best experience if you work with an Apple pencil. Additionally, you will not need any special third-party brushes. We're gonna be working strictly with the brushes that come with Procreate. But you can feel free to experiment with other brushes that you might have in your library as well. I'll give you lots of suggestions for the ones that you can use that are just built-in. Then finally, you're going to need some pet photos. In the next lesson, I'm gonna give you some recommendations of places that you can go to get free-to-use stock photography. So as you're following along in the lessons in the class, you can use those stock photos and follow along with me. And I'm also gonna give you tips on creating your own pet photos if you want to take photos of your pet to create pet portraits from. So I recommend starting with the stock photos and then progressing to using your own photos. I'll see you in the next lesson. 4. Getting a Great Pet Photo: The techniques that you're going to learn in this class are heavily dependent on having a really good reference photo to start off with. So in this video, I'm going to talk to you about where you can get some really great free-to-use stock photography. And I'm gonna give you some tips about how to take your own photos if you wanted to take pictures of your own pet, to create pet portraits from. For the lessons in this class, we're gonna be using photos from stock photography website. Using these stock photos is a really great way to learn using really high-quality pet photos. If two websites that I love to use for free stock photography. The first one is pexels.com. You can just type something in, like dog or cat or bird or whatever you want to search for. And there's a lot of really amazing photos that you can use. Royalty-free, free-to-use. You can check the license if you're curious about how you're allowed to use them. But there are a lot of really good options here. The other one is unsplash.com, another website for free-to-use stock photography here I searched for cat. And we've got a lot of really beautiful options here as well. I've created a collection on each of these sites containing lots of photos that I think would make great illustrated pet portraits. This is the one on pexels.com. This is the one I have on unsplash.com filled with photos that I think would make great pet portraits. And these also include the exact photos that I'll be using in the lessons so you can download them and follow along with me. I'll put a link to these collections on the Project and Resources tab of the Skillshare class page. When you find a photo you want to use, you can tap it and then tap this little arrow icon. And then you can tap Download. And that's going to download the image to your downloads folder. You can tap this little arrow right here. You can tap this little magnifying glass here, and it will take you straight to the file's app where you can find the photos here in your downloads folder. So here's the photo I just downloaded. I can tap it to open it up. And there's one more thing you'll wanna do so that it's ready to use for this class. You're going to tap little Share icon here, and then just tap Save Image, and that will save it to your camera roll. Now you'd be able to follow along with our first lesson where we're going to sketch this cute little pop. Now want to give you some tips about what to look for in photos that will translate well into pet portraits. Now I want to give you some tips about what to look for in photos that will translate well into pet portraits. You want to keep these tips in mind, whether you're looking for stock photos or taking your own pet photos. So the first thing you want to look for is photos that are in good light. You don't want any crazy shadows, nothing too dark or with harsh lighting. You also want to look for photos that have a really clear pose. All these photos are pretty straight on, no weird angles or anything like that. For all the lessons that I'm gonna be doing in this class, we're going to be doing pretty much like a head and shoulders cropping. So if you have a photo like this, it's of a full body. We're just going to zoom in and crop it to the head. The other thing you want to look for is accurate colors in your photos. So you want the photos that you used to be as accurate to real life as possible. So no white balance issues or weird color cast that's going to make your portrait look off, especially in the stylized Fur style because we'll be sampling colors directly from the photos. All these photos are from stock photography websites. I recommend while you're learning these techniques to stick with the stock photos, these will help you not only get a good idea of what a good photo looks like, but they'll help you get a handle on the techniques with a really good Photo. And then once you've done that, you can try creating pet portraits using photos that you take of pets in your own life, maybe your pet or your friends pets. Now if you wanted to take your own photos, I've got a few tips for you there. You want to make sure that first of all, you have a good pose. So all of the pet portraits were gonna do are pretty much like, kind of like a head and shoulders cropping. So make sure you get in there and get it nice and close when you take a photo, it works best if your pet is facing forward towards the camera. Although you can do some shots that are, but more towards the side, but it's good to start out with one that's facing forward. You also want to make sure you take a photo in good lighting condition, nothing that's too dark or has a lot of harsh light or harsh shadows. So nice. Even light is what you're going to want for this. Then I'll also give you some tips about processing your photo, editing it so that we can kinda like touch up the colors and the contrast. So it'll be a little bit more accurate when you go to create your pet portrait from it. If you're taking your own photos, There's a couple of things I would recommend doing before you start to use them as reference photos using these methods. This is a photo that I took at a restaurant. Cute photo. The pose is great. The Dogs looking straight ahead, everything about the poses good, but there is some issues with the colors. Everything looks a little yellow because this was taken at a restaurant and the contrast isn't very good. So I'm going to use a photo editing app to adjust the colors and get it to look a little bit more realistic. The photo editing app that I like to use is Lightroom. There's a free version of it and it's got a lot of really powerful features. You can open it up and tap the plus sign to add a photo from your camera. Roll. Find. Alright, so there is the photo. I like to start under light right here. And I can adjust the exposure and I can adjust the contrast a little bit. I can also take down the blacks a little bit because I feel like there's not enough blacks in this photo. You can adjust the whites as well if you need more brightness. But overall, I think this needs a little bit more contrast. I think that's good. It really like hazy photos like that one. I also like to use under effects the Dehaze slider. So you can turn that on and you can see how it takes some that haziness away. Now the colors are getting really skewed because the white balance is off on this image and all the contrast is just kinda like amplifying that. So you can go under color here and I can change the color temperature. You can try right here it says custom. You can try auto to see if that helps. I don't feel like that's super accurate, so I'm going to just adjust it a little bit more. So you just want to adjust the colors until they look a little bit more accurate to how the dog looks in real life? I think that looks pretty good. Then once you're happy with the photo, you can tap this little Share icon and export it to your camera roll. And once you have a good photo, you're ready to start making some pet portraits. Let's get started. 5. Canvas Size & Resolution: In this video, I'll walk you through creating a canvas template that we're gonna be using for all the different pet portraits in this course. And also talk to you about creating custom size canvas templates. If you wanted to create artwork that would print out at a specific size. For the entirety of the course, I'm going to be using one canvas Size, and that is 2,800 by 3,500 pixels. This is my standard canvas size that I use for most of my artwork. If you want to create a canvas template for that, you tap this little rectangle with the plus sign on it, and then make sure you're here under pixels and you can type in 2,800 by 3,500 pixels. And then you can give your canvas template name. And then you can hit Create. Once you do that, you'll have a template here and your list that you can use for each of the different pet portraits were gonna do in the course. There's another consideration you should think of when you're making a pet portrait. And that is, if you're going to print it out, you might want to make your pet portrait to fit within a specific frame size. So if you wanted to print it out as an eight by ten or 11 by 14 or something like that. You're gonna wanna make sure that your canvases in the correct ratio. So you will have to crop anything off when you go to print it out. So have a really handy calculator on my website to help you figure this out. It's at Bardot brush.com slash Resolution. And there's some information about DPI and what considerations you need to make about that. But down here we've got a calculator. If you're trying to decide, I want to make a portrait that's going to be printed as an 11 by 14 inch print. Down here, it'll tell you that your canvas size needs to be at least 3,300 by 4,200 pixels to print at that size, at best quality, which is 300 DPI, PPI. Up here explains DPI and PPI. We use those terms interchangeably even though they're not the same thing. But I digress. And then down here, if you're wondering how big you can print your artwork, I have another calculator, so we use a canvas size that is 2,800 by 3,500 pixels. And it says that you can print that at 9.33 by 11.67 " at the best quality. So that's it, 300 PPI. But you can also print it as big as 22 by 2,825 PPIs. That basically means there's less pixels per inch, but it's still going to look fine. Like you can print it that big and it will still look okay, so that's why I stick to this size because I know I can print it at least that big, all the way up to that big. So if you want to trick the calculator out and do a little math for yourself. It's Bardot brush.com slash Resolution 6. Sketching Your Pet: In this video, I'm going to talk you through in detail the process of creating a sketch from a pet photo. The sketch is really key to creating all the different styles. So what I teach you in this video is applicable to all the three different styles that I'll teach you in the whole class. For this lesson, I'm going to be using this adorable terrier photo that I got from unsplash.com, I recommend downloading and saving that one to your camera roll so that you can follow along because we're going to be using this sketch in our first visual style, the fluid Line Art. Let's get sketching. We're gonna be sketching over the top of a reference photos. So we'll start by importing our photo. We're gonna go up to the Actions menu, which is little wrench add. And then we're going to choose Insert a photo. Here. I've got all these pet photos saved on my camera roll. So I'm just going to choose this one of the little terrier. You'll want to resize this and kinda frame it within your Canvas. So I'll zoom out just a little bit. And then I'm just going to pinch and zoom until it's the size that I want it to be. Which is something like that. For all of these pet portraits were gonna be doing kind of like a, like a head and shoulders type cropping. So I want to get the head of it to be the main thing. So I'm just gonna kinda like they're right there. Now, I'm going to reduce the opacity of this photo so that I can sketch over top of it. When I got to my Layers panel, which is these two squares, we're going to tap this little N. And then there, Here's the opacity slider. We're just going to slide that down. So it's still a little bit visible. I want to make sure I can still see some of these details. Then we're going to tap this plus sign here to create a new layer. We're going to use this layer for our actual sketch. Now we're gonna go into our brushes and choose a sketching brush. You can use whatever brush you're most comfortable with for sketching. But in the built-in brushes, you can go into the sketching set and the 6 ft pencil I think is a great one for that. So I'm going to choose the six B pencil. And then I'm gonna go over to my colors. And I like to use the disk view to select my colors, which is this one down here. I'm just going to move this center Selector down into the black. Alright, now we're ready to sketch. The first thing you wanna do is just outline the main shapes of your animal. So I'm just going to draw over the outside of this Dog. I like this. I like to turn my canvas around while I draw. So I'm just kinda following the outline, Probably loosely not not being super, super detailed with it. And then some of the other main shape, well, let's do the ear here. So I'll trace over the ear like this. Kind of goes like that, folds over there. So I'm trying to capture that. So something like that. And then I'll do this one here. So we're just tracing over for now, something like that. And then of course we have our eyes, so we're going to trace over the eyes. Then I also have some little reflections in the eyes here. I'll just kind of draw those on as well. I don't know if all these details will end up in the final artwork, but I want to include as much of the most obvious details as possible. So let's do the kind of like chin here. Just gonna kinda draw over that. We've got the little nose. So I'm going to try and trace over that. The little nostrils. You've got the mouth. It looks a little sad, but we can always make it a little happier. There we go. Draw that like that. Once you've got the main shapes of it, you also want to outline wherever there's differences in the colors on the fur. So I'm going to draw kinda like a little circle for these kind of light brown areas. There's also this white section here. Just kinda goes all the way around like that. Then there's also the brown over there. So I'm going to highlight that there's a little bit of brown right there. Just kinda like draw outlines around wherever there's differences in the fur color. So kinda little bit right here. Because these are gonna be really important for doing pretty much all of the different types of pet portraits were gonna do this class. There's a little bit of, if it's hard to see because the opacity is down, you can always go back down to your layers and you can turn it up a little bit. And then might, might help you see some of these details a little bit more. Like he's got a little spot right there. Other things you can draw our line details. So there's some kinda like line elements happening in here. Kind of going that way. Overall, I think that this sketch looks pretty good for this particular dog. So once you've done all your basic shapes, you've outlined where the different fur colors are and added any additional details or lines like you could also say if you wanted to kinda capture the folds of skin here, you could also draw those in. But once you've finished all that up, you can go back to your layers and you can turn off the original photo just by unchecking this little box here. And there you have your sketch. It is important to always be looking at your original photo as you're creating artwork. So let me show you how to use procreates reference companion so you can always have a little thumbnail of your original reference photo. You go up to the Actions menu, you go to Canvas. And then here where it says reference, you can toggle that on. This little window will appear and it's just showing you exactly what's on your Canvas right now. But if you tap here it says image, you can import an image and select that photo from your camera roll. You can move it off to the side here by grabbing a little gray handle. You can resize it, you can zoom in and just get it so that you have it off to the side like that for any of the Styles. And I'm gonna show you today whether it's the fluid Line Art, the flat Illustration, or the stylized Fur. This sketching method is what you're gonna do for all of them. So once you've created your sketch and you've got your little reference photo off to the side, you're ready to start creating your pet portrait. 7. Fluid Line Art - Dog: It's time to explore it. The first of the three visual styles that I'm going to be teaching you in this class. And this one is fluid Line Art. I really loved this style. Not only do these portraits come together super quickly, but there's actually a lot of room for creativity, despite them being so simple. You get to explore the way different types of brushes work. You get to explore line and what it's like to draw more expressively or add loops. And it's just a lot of PFK-1. So I really hope you enjoy this style. We're going to start off with the Dog sketch that we created in the sketching lessons. So makes sure you have that ready. Let's do it. Alright, we're ready to do our first style, which is the fluid Line Art. And we're starting out with the same sketch of little terrier that we made in the previous lesson. We'll begin by reducing the opacity of our sketch. So we're gonna go up to our layers. We're going to tap on the little end of our sketch layer and then just reduce the opacity so it's just barely visible. I meant like 12%. Then we're going to tap the plus sign to create a new layer above our sketch. We have the reference companion up for this one. We don't really need it, so I'm just gonna go and close it out. You can tap it and then just hit this little X here. For our color. We're just going to use black. And then we're gonna go over to our brushes. Now for this style, the brush that you choose matters quite a bit. You want to look for a brush that is a fairly solid brush that has some pressure responsiveness, meaning that it'll get thicker and thinner depending on how much pressure you use. I'll show you some of the brushes in the built-in Procreate brushes that work really well for this. In the Inking set, there's the studio pen brush. And I'll just kinda like practice over here and you can follow along with me. But this one, if you go heavy, you can see you can get thin or thick lines. It's very smooth. Actually smoothes your lines out for you, which can be a nice look. But you can see the edges of the brushstrokes are very, very smooth. So if you want something that looks very smooth, That's a good brush. You can do the pet pen Dani brush, also from the inking set. But this brush has some nice texture built into it, especially when you overlap your strokes in this brush would you'll do a lot in this style. It makes these really cool like little effects. So this is also a really FUN brush. If you didn't want something that's like not so super black and stark. That's a cool brush pen Dani. Over in the calligraphy set, we have the chalk brush, which has some nice texture to it, and really good thick thins. So that's a really FUN brush as well. Just kinda depends on what visual look you want for your Line, how you want it to look. In the drawing set. There's a Blackburn which this is one of my favorite of the built-in brushes. And it has some really nice texture like it, it gets really dry when you use really light pressure. You can see that there. This brush, you gotta be careful though, because if you have your brush size up big like I'm at like 42%, it gets really thick. So you want to keep it to a pretty small size, like 3% when you use it. So that's Blackburn. And one more you can find in the organic set, and that's the bamboo brush. This one also has some really nice texture. It gets very dry, streaky when you use light pressure. So that could be a FUN look as well. And there are other brushes that will work well, whether they're built-in ones or third party brushes that you've installed. But I think for our example today, I'm gonna go back to the inking set and choose that pan Dani brush. I think that one's really FUN. Rate. So now it's time to do our fluid Line Art. You're going to want to zoom your picture so that it's as big as possible without going over the edge. You don't want anything to be like zoomed out so far. You can't see everything because you're gonna be doing this in as much as possible, one continuous line. So if you're zoomed in, you will have to start and stop so you can resume as much as possible. We're going to try and do one continuous line. And it's okay to be messy and imprecise, but you want to try not to lift your pencil if at all possible. It's okay if you can. Don't be afraid to draw over the same lines again to keep the Line continuous. So I'll walk you through my process of doing this and you're getting a feel for how you can do it. My brush size is 6%. And here we go. Start right here and I come up, go over like that. Just kinda like go back and forth on these lines and then kinda come up and maybe I'll do the ear, just looping it over on itself a little bit. Come down here. And then for these lines inside the ER, maybe you could just do like little loops. Loops look really fine when you're doing this style or use them a lot. So I'm just kind of like traveling over my arms multiple or my lines multiple times. Not really worried if it's like super clean and perfect. I kinda like being really messy in this style. I'm around here, come back and we'll do like the snout, like this. Then the mouth. I'll come back over and do the nose. I'm just kinda like tracing over. I still haven't picked my pencil up, but I will just to show you if you do accidentally lift your pencil up, It's okay. Just kinda like pick up where you left off. So I kinda picked up right here and i'll I'll just keep going and we'll do this little bit here. And maybe this little line. And then for the eye, I'm just going to travel over here, trace around, and then kinda color it in but leave a white spot, which would be like that reflections on the, I won't do that a little bit over there. And this style, this style ends up looking very stylized and just like different and phon, and you get to like lean into the messiness and the wonky Venus. And I really loved that about it. Now I'm traveling back down here. I'll do this one last loop and then I'm done. And then once you've finished, you can go into your layers and you can turn off your sketch layer. So that would be this one, layer two for me. Just uncheck it. Then I think this style looks really nice with an artist's signature on it. I mean, you can always sign your work, but let's especially good on this style. So I'm just going to add my little artists signature here in the corner. You can always come back and touch up a little bit. But like if you wanted to make that I little bit bigger to match that one. But overall, I think just kinda lean into the messiness of this style and just go for it. And this pet portrait is all done 8. Fluid Line Art - Cat: I hope you enjoyed the last lesson creating your first pet portrait in the fluid Line Art Style. I'm going to show you one more. I'm gonna be doing this really cute cat. This photo is from unsplash.com. And I'll be talking you through the process one more time. So if you want to download that one, you can follow along with me. Let's get to it. Here's the kidney done in the fluid Line Art style. I love the way that this brush looks with all the kind of texture built into it. Really fine. And I love like all the wonky ***** about this, like all these funky little pause moles, swirly things, and it's just a really FUN Style. Up next, we're going to bring a little color into our artwork with a FUN, minimalistic, flat Illustration Style with a really cool vintage print effect. Healthy. In the next lesson 9. Flat Illustration - Dog: Welcome to our second visual style of this course. This is going to be a flat Illustration Style with a vintage print effect. This Style is another one that can come together really quickly. And some of the things I love about it is how bold and graphic it can look. This process involves a lot of simplification of a subject. So taking something that can be rather complex like an animal and reducing it down to the most simple forms. So making the body it more simple form, reducing the amount of colors and just keeping everything very flat, bold and graphic, it can end up looking really cool. Then at the end we're going to add some noise and chromatic aberration. Really cool vintage print effect, which will help elevate something that's a little flat and simple into something that just looks really cool and it feels like it's from a different era. Let's get started. I've got a new canvas up. We're going to start by creating a sketch from reference photo. So let's go ahead and import a reference photo. I'm gonna go up to the Actions menu. Add, Insert a Photo, and we choose a photo from my camera roll. I'm gonna do this cute little Coogee for this one. So I'm just going to zoom out a little bit. We're going to position the photo so that really just the head of the doggy is showing. So something like that. And I also like to leave a little bit of space around there, kinda give the piece little room to breathe. So it's not like whoo, like big like that. So that'll give us chance to incorporate more color into the piece. So something like that. Then we're gonna go up to our layers and we're going to reduce the opacity of this. So tap little N, reduce the opacity so that just it's opaque enough so that you can see some of the details. I'm at about 50% and then create a new layer above that. Black is my color right now. And then for my brush, I'm going to use the six B pencil to sketch. We're going to outline the main shapes just like before. But this Dog happens to be very fluffy. So we wanna make sure that we depict the Fur way that makes it look fluffy like if we were to draw the dog like this with straight smooth lines, it'll just look like like a little Dog, balloon or something. And we wanted to look fluffy. So as you sketch, you want to also incorporate just a little bit of these little jagged lines every so often. Like that. That way the dog will actually look fluffy. And the same thing on some of the smaller details like here on the ear. There's a lot of little fluffy things there. So I can kinda add some little jagged marks there. The head, the hairs lot shorter so we don't have to add those there. You can't if you want, but this minimalistic style, I want to keep everything very simplified, so try and simplify it as much as possible. I've done the main outline of it. Now I can start to do the facial features, so I'll do that next. I'm just going to trace over the eyes, kinda like that. Include a little wherever the reflection is. I think whenever you're doing like pet portraits, it's good to incorporate a little reflection into the eyes and makes them look much cuter. And I'll do the nose now. Draw a little nostrils. Just tracing over a little line down the middle. And then for the mouth, there's a lot of details in here. I'm going to try and reduce that as much as I can to just like one shape, one color. I'm just going to trace the outline of the opening of the mouth like that, where the tongue is. And then for the tongue, I'm going to trace that as well. But here, the bottom of the tongue kind of flips up. And I don't want to like, when I would draw like a dog's tongue, I'd probably draw it something like that, but I kinda want to stay true to the original photo because I think it'll help make it look a little more realistic. So I'm just going to make sure to include the underside of the tongue like that. And then maybe like the line down the center, I think would be a good line to incorporate. And now I'm going to also mark where the different colorations of the Farrar. Here I'm just going to draw like a wobbly, wavy shape over that. You could, you could add fur marks to that if you wanted to have these lines be a little more furry looking or you can just have them be kind of blobby. Like it's totally up to you how much you want to simplify it. But that one kinda goes like that. Kinda goes around, around the eyes. Then up like that. This one kind of travels around here. Something like that. That's pretty much it for the sketch. This dog is pretty simple, so it'll be really quick sketch. So now it's time to get to coloring. Let's go up to our layers. We're going to turn off the photo, so just uncheck that little box. Then we're going to reduce the opacity of our sketch. So tap the N, turn it down to like 15% and then create a new layer by tapping the plus sign. We're going to place this layer underneath the sketch because we're working with color. We want to always make sure that we can see our sketch layer when we were just doing block. It didn't matter as much, but put it under your sketch layer. And now I think it'll be great to have our reference photo up. So let's go ahead and pull that up as well. We're gonna go to the Actions menu canvas, reference, toggle that on. Go to Image and then import image and Jews the Photo. And then kinda, just kinda crop it similar to how you have it in your piece. Here. There you go. Okay, now we're ready to add color. The brush we're going to use for this style is in the Inking set, and that's the studio pen brush. This is a very smooth, simple, solid brush and it's perfect for this flat style guide and choose studio pen. And then for the color, we're going to start with a main shape of the Dog, which happens to be white. So let's go ahead and choose white as our color. You can double-tap close to white and it will snap to a pure white value. The thing though, is if we start painting or drawing with white, we're on a white background. It's not going to show up. Are you visible to us? So let's go ahead and set the background color, tap your layers and then tap here it says background color and you can choose whatever color you want for your background. I think a nice blue would look good because our doggie is an orange color and blue is complimentary to orange. So that's what I'm going to choose. Complementary colors look good together. So go ahead and choose, I'm gonna just kinda a warmer blue teal, something like that. Let's go ahead and set your background color. And now we're ready to start drawing. So we're gonna do the main shape of the Dog first. So I'll just start here. My brush size is like 14%, by the way. I'm going to start here and just kinda trace over what I had drawn in my sketch. This brush is rounds, so you'll find that you're like the points, like furry points of these jagged edges become a little rounded. But I think that's just fine because we're trying to simplify it. We don't need to have everything sharp and pointy. Okay? Do this ear kinda just go over these little jagged bits there. Then follow this edge. Add a little more of those jagged lines if you want to follow your sketch. Exactly. There we go. Okay. I've gone all the way around and now I've closed shapes so I can fill that in with color drop. So we're going to drag and drop the color in, and that will fill the whole thing in. So we've got our base color. Now it's time to add our additional coloring for the Dog and then we'll do the facial features. So to do the kind of like orange color, we're going to use a clipping mask. We're gonna go up your layers, tap the plus sign to create a new layer, and then tap this new layer. From this layer options menu. You're going to choose clipping mask. You'll see a little arrow will appear. And that basically means that anything you draw on this layer will only appear within the shape of the layer right below it. So let's go ahead and choose an orange color to do the other parts of the firm. You can actually, what's cool about having this reference companion is that you can actually sample colors from your photo. So you can go over to your photo and select the color of the Fur really easily. You can try it out and see if that's the color that you like. I think it's a little dark. I want to kinda like exaggerate the orange genus of the Dog. So I'm going to choose a slightly different one color, but choosing from the photo will kinda get you in the ballpark, which is nice. So I'm gonna go up to my colors and I'm just gonna go a little more saturated. So this way, something like that. And I'll try that out. I think that's a good color, so I'll stick with that. And now I'm going to kinda just outline these other shapes. So go around that shape and then fill that one in with color drop. And then I'll do the ones around the ears, so trace all the way around that. Now one thing to note is that if I were to try and fill this in with color drop, It's going to spill out everywhere. And that is because if you look at my layers, you can see that this line is not a closed shape. So you want to make sure when you're doing clipping mask that you always close your shapes before you use color drop. So basically I'm gonna take this line, draw. You can't see what I'm doing, but I'm drawing all the way until it connects with this line here. Now you'll see my layers. It's a closed shape. And I can fill that in with color drop. Just something to keep in mind when you're doing clipping mask because you can't always see everything your drawing. So I'm just going to continue my line all the way to there. Now you can see it, but it's a closed shape and I can fill it in color drop. Alright, so that's all the colors that we're going to add for this one. Now let's do the facial features. We're gonna go up to our Layers menu and we're going to add a new layer for these facial features. So let's start with the eyes. I'm gonna do these in not completely black. Not like all the way black, just like a little bit like a very, very dark gray. So go ahead and choose a really, really dark gray. And then you can outline the shape of your eyes like that. And then do the other one as well. And the eyes look a little dead and scary. And that's because we're missing the little reflection. That little bit of weight really makes a difference. So go ahead and choose white as your color and then we'll add a little bit of white there. And that's representing a reflection on the eyes. And it looks like 1 million times cuter. Let's do the nose next. I'll use this same dark gray. Actually what I'm gonna do is choose an even lighter gray and I'll tell you why in just a minute. So I'm gonna go a little bit lighter with my gray, something like that. Then I'm going to draw the shape of the nose. And then I'll fill that in with color drop. And the reason why I didn't go fully dark black is because we want to be able to add these darker details on the nose. So I'm going to use Alpha Lock to do that. I'm gonna take two fingers and swipe to the right over the layer with the nose. You can also tap it and choose Alpha Lock here. And now because I did a like a lighter gray, I can add those darker details in black. So even the nose, the nose seems black. Don't want to choose black as the color. Now I can just add those little like, nostrils like that and then the line down the middle. Awesome, looking good. Let's do the mouth. So let's turn off alpha lock on this layer so we can add something new. So swipe to the right with two fingers. And all do. I'll do that. I'll do the same color as the eyes. Actually, I'll choose that kind of like dark, dark gray. Now I'm going to do the shape of the mouth. And I'm gonna do the whole shape even like over where the tongue is. Just close it up, that's gonna be covered by the tongue. So it's okay if it's not perfect. And fill that in with color drop. Now for the tongue, we're going to create a new layer. So go up to your layers and tap the plus sign, create a new one. So let's pick a color for the tongue. We're going to choose kinda like a warm pink for that. So something like that. Let's see how that, I think that color looks good. So we'll draw the tongue and we're gonna kinda make the top overlap the top of the mouth. And I'll show you why in just a sack like that and then just like close off that shape and then fill it in. And then we're going to make sure because it kind of like O's over the mouth but it goes under the lip. This is how you can do that. So you can go to your layers. You can select the layer with the mouth, tap it and choose, Select, and that will select the contents of the mouth layer. And then you can tap here where it says invert and that's going to invert your selection. So now we've selected around the mouth. Then you can go back to your tongue layer. So go back to the tongue layer, grab your eraser. You can use the studio pen brush, make it bigger if you need to, and then just erase what you don't need. That'll look like the tongue is sticking out of the mouth. Now let's just add our little underside of the tongue and Line details and we'll be all done with this one. Let's just use Alpha Lock to do the details on this one. So we'll take two fingers and swipe to the right. And then we'll choose a darker, little bit darker pink for the underside of the tongue. And then just kinda draw the underside of the tongue like that. Color it in. Then the line down the center. And now let's turn off our sketch in the layers. There is our minimalistic Dog portrait. I think It's very bold and striking and a really cool way to represent a pet that doesn't take a ton of work, which is really, really nice. Now, this is very flat. So I think it would be nice to add one additional element of a vintage print effect. So let me show you how to do that. I'm gonna go ahead and turn off our reference photo. There we go. So in order to do this print effect, we need to have all of our different layers all combined onto one layer. So as a quick way to do this, you can go up to the Actions menu, add, and choose Copy canvas. And that's going to copy all visible layers. So copy canvas and then, and paste. And then if you go to your layers now you'll see that there's a version of your artwork where everything is merged together. And just make sure this layer is kinda like at the top of all your other layers. And it also retains your separated artwork in case you wanted to go back and make edits. So make sure it's at the top. Then you're gonna go to the adjustments menu noise. So go to noise. We're just going to add a little bit of noise to the whole thing just to give it a little bit of texture. So it's not like computer flat. We want to keep this subtle, so we're only going to turn it up to about 15%. You can start to see a little bit of texture added. Earpiece just adds a little bit of texture. You can also experiment with the different styles. This one's clouds. You do pillows or ridges. So whatever like look you want. I think I might try the bellows one. And then when you're done doing that, you're gonna go back to the adjustments menu and you're gonna go to chromatic aberration and then tap over to displace. Now this is going to represent how the different colors separations of ink might miss a register a little bit in the printing process. So I'll zoom into some of the edges and you can see it a little bit better. If I pull these apart, you can see those colors separate apart. We don't want it to be like crazy separated. I mean, that actually it's kinda cool. But I like to do it where it's really subtle. So it's just kinda off just a little bit. Like you almost can't really tell that there's a problem. So you can see how much I have it off. And it just adds a little bit of this kinda like print effect to the edges of your artwork and it looks really cool. That is the finished flat Illustration with a really cool vintage print effect. I think this is a really FUN style, super easy to do. 10. Flat Illustration - Cat: I've one more piece to show you in this flat Illustration Style. For this one, I'll be using this adorable little kitty with the bandana. I found this photo on pexels.com so you can download it if you want to give a go to this one. For this one, I'm going to speed up the video a bit so you can get a nice overview of the process and watch me create this piece in a little bit quicker time. And then at the end, I'm gonna be talking you through my process a little bit and some of the decisions that I made to create this awesome flat Illustration piece of this Cat. This is definitely more complicated piece then the Corky I did previously. So let me kinda talk you through some of my choices here, because these Cat has stripes and things like that and then there's whiskers. And so I still to keep it as simple as possible, but as you can see, I use a lot more layers to do the different parts of the Cat. I also added some more details to the eyes like kinda like the border around that in the pupil of the eye as well. I also added whiskers. I did the different coloring. I tried to keep it as simple as possible, but it did the coloration of the Cat like this. And of course all these little stripes. And the bandanna as well, it had a bunch of patterns on it, but I just took all that out and just do a red bandana. And then just added some very simple little lines to kinda just wherever it needed, just a little separation from itself, like where things overlap or where there might be a fold in the fabric. And I'm really happy with how it turned out. The other thing I did was to the eyes. I added just a little bit of shadow right above the eye. You can see here I have that on another layer set to multiply. So it just added a little bit of darkness which the cat had in the photo. So that is my finished piece for this path is still very simple, very minimalistic, just has a few more details than the other one. I hope you enjoyed this minimalistic flat style and you're excited to try it out onto Morgan pet photo. I'll see you in the next lesson. 11. Stylized Fur - Technique Overview: I'm excited to show you one last styles, a part of this course. This one I'm calling stylized Fur. So we're kind of getting a little closer into realism while still making something that's really FUN and unique and stylized. We're gonna be working very closely from our reference photos, sampling colors directly from it to create the different colorations in the fur, as well as adding some shading to the piece. I'm also going to be teaching you how to render eyes and noses and tongues a little bit, especially in the next one that we're gonna do in this lesson. So it's a really FUN style. I love the way this comes out, and I'm really excited for you to try it for this lesson, we're gonna be using this adorable white fluffy dog. This photo is from pexels.com. If you wanna go ahead and download that and can follow along. Let's get started. Before we get started, I just wanted to give you a quick overview of the technique for creating this stylized Fur. So over here I've got just a cropping of some for, I've created a sketch from that. So I'll start by sampling the base color from the Photo and then just kinda filling in the main shapes. I'm just going to do this really quickly. So I color in the main shape like that as a base. Then I would go up to my layers and turn on Alpha Lock, and then go to a different brush. I would be using this six be compressed brush from the charcoal set. Then I'm going to sample the secondary colors. So this Fur color over here, increase my brush size a bit. And then just softly paint this in like this. Then I'll do this one over here. So that's just kind of laying down the two different colors. Then you want to just sample more colors from your photo and try and emulate what you see. I'll do this kind of darker color here. I'll do this color down here, like that. I'll do this lighter color up here. I'm just kinda like sampling and then filling in what I see. And the way that you get this to work best is by having many different colors in the mix. That'll make the fur texture kinda come out the best. I'll sample some of the different tones I see in the white fur. I can even select my own lighter, maybe I want to. I'm like pure white mixed in there. Just kinda add more and more little tones in there until you've got a nice little mix. It doesn't have to be perfect. Just want to get as much color variation in there as possible. Then you grab your smudge tool with the dry brush from the painting set. Don't worry, we'll go over all of this in the main lesson. I just wanted to give you an overview. And then you start smudging in the direction that the first going. So the first kind of going this way. And I would smudge this down like this. And as you can see, especially where you Trent's transition from one color to another. You really start to see the fur texture. Then just kinda work your way up blending, see how the colors really start to make that nice furry texture. Just kinda blend in the direction of the Fur until it's all nice and blended. Does something like that. That's part of doing the Fur Technique. And then the other part is adding little line details like this, which I'll show you how to do during the lesson. We, we do this using blend modes. We do a round of these darker marks. Then we do a round of these lighter little marks and these little line details you want to try and get to match with the texture of the fur. So this is a really short haired Dog, I think it is. So we have little short little lines, but if it was a like a curly hair Dog or long hair Dogs, the lines would look a little bit different. So I'll explain that in some of the lessons to come. There's the original photo and then there is our stylized version. Now that I've done this little overview, let's get started with our Illustration. 12. Stylized Fur - Dog: Part 1: Start by importing our reference photo. We're going to go to the Actions menu, Add, Insert a Photo. And for this piece, I meant use this cute white fluffy dog. So I'm just going to resize this image until it's the cropping that I want, something like that. Then I'm gonna go to my layers. I'm going to reduce the opacity of the photo, create a new layer on top over to my brushes. And I'm choosing the six B pencil from the sketching set to do my sketch. And then for my colors, I'm just going to choose a black. Now I'm just going to trace over the Photo. Got all these Dog is really fluffy, so I'm going to make sure to include a lot of these like jagged lines. All right, Go kinda being a little loose with it. I'm going to really like try to stylize this, not draw it exactly as it is. So I'll do the ears, little fluffy marks there, like wherever it's like really fluffy. You want to just kinda take note of that. I'll do this ear now. Over it. Like you're at the bottom of the ears are like so fluffy. And then like hear a lot of fluffy dogs, very fluffy. And then I'll do the facial features. And I think again, I'm going to really stylize it. So I'm gonna make the eyes really big and round instead of like small and almond shape. Maybe something like that. And then a little reflection. Alright, let's do the nose tracing over that. And then I'll draw in the little nostrils. Go. Okay, and then for the mouth, I'm also going to stylize this a little bit. The mouth opening. And then I'll kinda draw that. I'm not including all these like lip detail. I'm just kinda gonna make a little bit more simple. I'm probably going to make the mouth completely black. And then the tongue. We go. Okay, That looks good. Little crazy, but that's fine. Okay, so I've got all my main shapes and the facial details. Now I just wanted to note if there's any spots where there's different coloration. Now this Dog is all whites, all one color. So there's not different colors of the Fur, but there is a lot of texture within here that will want to have in our final piece. So I'm just gonna kinda circle any spots where there's like shadows are darker parts of the Fur. Like there's a shadow here underneath. We've got like the bottom edge of the snout. And I go in there like the mouth opening. Let's see. Like over here is a little bit darker of the ears. We've got this different coloration. This will just help us make our final piece. So we've got the snout, which is like a little darker on this side. Always around the nose, there's a little bit of darkness. I'm just gonna kinda highlight anything that I think looks like a little bit darker. I don't think me to occlude the color in my final piece. So I'm actually going to make that part go out a little bit. But there might be a little bit of shadow here underneath the head, so I'll include that. Okay. I'm not going to do much more than that because I'll just look at my reference photo as I'm creating all the coloring and shading on this piece. I think that's pretty good for the sketch. So let's go up to our layers. I'm going to turn off my photo layer, reduce the opacity of the sketch layer, and then create a new layer right below it. Then I'll open up my reference companion. And I can actually just drag the photo from my layers and just plop it onto their tap over to image. And there it is. Okay. Alright, so you've gotta reference photo. This Dog is white. So I'm going to start by setting my background color so that I can see it I'm doing, I'm gonna go to my background color and I'll just do like a nice sky blue similar to the one in the photo there. That's good. Alright, so the first thing we're gonna do is draw the main shape of the dog's head. So let's use a brush for that. We're gonna go up to our brushes. And there's a couple of brushes I like to use for this step. One of them can be found in the drawing set, and that's Blackburn. This brush has some really nice edge texture. It's a very solid brush. The other one I like to use is the chalk brush from the calligraphy set If I'm doing more of a short hair Dog, I really liked that one. It's got also some nice texture to it. But since I'm doing this really fluffy dog, I'm gonna do the Blackburn brush from the drawing set. Then for colors as much as possible, I tried to sample directly from the photo. You can pick your own colors and by looking at it. But I find that I have really good results when I sample directly from the photo. So I'm just going to start by selecting this lighter, white, creamy color so that I can do my main shape. My brush size, Let's see, is that about 40%. I'm going to start by going around doing the main shapes. It's like really jagged because it's very, very furry. I use really light pressure to get all that texture of the brush to come out. So I kinda have like very light pressure as I go around and do this edge. But also making my lines jagged like in my sketch. And then I can come back in a little bit more to fill it in. I'm just going to focus on the outline for now. Here where the hair is shorter, It's not as like furry, fluffy. I can use them like more of a medium pressure. And I still get that nice edge texture, but it's not quite as textured. Hair. I'll do light pressure. Light pressure. Okay. That looks good. And now I'll come back in with heavier pressure to kinda color it in. Now, I don't like to use color drop when I'm using this brush because it has so much texture that it won't really fill it in very well. So I'll just color it in. This brush gets really big when you press heavy, so colouring goes really quickly, which is nice. Alright, so go ahead and fill that in. Touch up any edges, like so. Then it looks pretty good. Do a little bit of that for, that's there on the edge. Covering up the ears. And then read the ears on a separate layer. So I'm gonna go up to my layers, tap the plus sign and remove this layer underneath the other layer so that I could do my ears. The chair on the ears is quite short, so I'll do that medium pressure. Except for down here where it got really furry. So I'll just do light pressure there. Then I'll fill it in. Great. Alright, and then over here I'll do the same thing. Almost done doing these main shapes. Great. Okay, So we've got two layers now. We've got the head and then the ears are on their separate layer. Next, I like to draw some of the facial features before I start adding my shading and texture. So I'm gonna do the facial features next. Let's do that on a new layer. I'm going to create a layer above the head layer. And then for the brushes, There's a couple of brushes I like to use for these details. One of them is that same six B pencil that we've been using for sketching is really good for drawing facial features and details and things like that. Otherwise, in the calligraphy set and it's the shale brush. Both are good. I think I'm going to start with the eyes. And so I'm going to do that six B pencil brush. I'm gonna zoom in up here to the eyes. I'm going to zoom in here on the eyes because I like to sample directly from the photo. So I'm just going to sample this color. It's like nice brown color directly from the Photo. And then I'm just going to draw my eyes, color them in. Again. I'm doing them as circles instead of this almond shape because I know I wanted my dog to look a little more cartoony. Little more FUN. Okay. Alright, so did the eyes kinda wanna make sure they're roughly the same size as each other. Okay. That looks pretty good. I'm just going to render the eyes completely right now before I move on to other things. So the way that I like to do animal eyes is this. I'll do the main color like that. I'll go up to my layers and turn on Alpha lock. So swipe to the right with two fingers or you can tap it and choose Alpha Lock. Then I'll choose like a little bit lighter version of this color. So I'll kinda go up this way. That something lighter. Then I'll grab a soft brush, like the charcoal brush. We're gonna be using this brush a lot and a little bit. Six, be compressed from charcoals is really good one for this, it's nice and soft with some good texture. My eyes are pretty small, so my make my brush size fairly small. Then I just add this lighter color along the bottom of the eye like that really softly. Here we go. Something like that. Then on a new layer, I add the pupil. So I'll tap the plus side, create a new layer. I just, I like to use a lot of layers. You don't have to separate everything onto different layers, but I like to. Then I'll go back to my six B pencil brush and I'll get black for the pupil. And then I'll just draw the pupil like that. Then the other one. Make sure they look on an even. And then I'll also add hints you there's kind of like a dark outline around the eye. I'm just gonna draw an outline like that. Something like that. I'll do this one as well. Then finally, I'm going to add a reflection because that's really going to bring these eyes to life. I'll just do it on the same layer. I'm just gonna choose white as my color and then add a reflection on both eyes. They should be about in the same spot, about the same shape on both eyes and look at cute they are, I really think the highlight and then this adding this little bit of lightness down here really make a big difference when you're doing animal eyes. So those are our eyes. Let's go ahead and draw our nose. I'm gonna go back to layer with the brown like parts of the I. Turn off alpha lock. So swipe right with two fingers. And then I can draw in my nose. So I can sample the color from the picture. And I'm going to switch to, let's see, let's switch to that shale brush from the calligraphy set. Mostly because this brush can get a little bit bigger, like the six B pencil is nice, but it's very small. So coloring and stuff takes a really long time. I really love the texture of the edge of this brush. Alright, so draw in the shape of the nose. Then we're also going to do the mouth as well. We'll just use the same color. It's like dark, not quite completely blocked a little like a dark, dark gray. I'll do the mouth, opening. It, go with light pressure, this brush near the ends, you get a nice tapered line. Okay, Here we go. We've got the shape of the mouth opening and then we'll color it in. Okay? Alright, now we're gonna do the tongue and we're gonna put the tongue on a separate layer so we can actually just use the same layer we used to do the life I details. Then I'm just going to sample the color of the tongue directly from the Photo. Choose a nice pink color like that. We've done tons before. And if you remember, we start up here because we're going to end up erasing that part away. Make it a little bit bigger than you need to fill it in. Alright, that looks pretty good. And now we're going to erase away, but we don't need. And remember the method for this is to go to your mouth layer, tap it, choose, select, will select that, the contents of that layer. Then you invert the selection by tapping Invert there. Then you go to your tongue layer, grab your eraser brush, and erase away what you don't need here. Then it will look like the tongue's going up into the mouth like that. Alright, so let's go ahead and just fully render out these details before we move on to doing the firm. So I'll start with the tongue. Since I'm in that world right now, I'm going to turn on Alpha Lock on this layer. And then I'm going to start by sampling the main tongue color. And I'm gonna get a color that's a little bit darker. I'm going to go to that charcoals brush the six be compressed and the charcoal set. And I'm going to use that to like add my shading So as you can see, it gets really dark as it goes into the mouth. I don't think I'm going to get that dark. But when I a little bit of that darker color here and around the bottom, a little bit down the middle, like that. Then I'm gonna get an even darker color and just start darkening this side here that goes into the mouth. I'm using really light pressure, not like really heavy pressure. You'll get like very solid brush strokes. But if you do very light pressure or you'll get really soft strokes. A little bit darker there. And then I'm also going to add some highlights. So I'm going to sample the main pink color and just get a lighter version of that. Just add some little highlights to the tongue. On both sides. Like down the middle is a little bit darker. So on these two sides, I think that looks pretty good. My tongue actually got a little darker than I would like, so I'm just going to lighten it up a little bit with an adjustment. I'm just going to select around the tongue with the selection tool. And I'll go to hue saturation brightness and you can brighten it up a little bit, adjust the saturation there. I think that looks good. Better. Okay, let's do the nose. So let's go to the layer with the nose. I'm going to turn on Alpha lock on that layer, sample, this color. I'm already having this. I already have a six be compressed brush, so that's great. I'm gonna choose a lighter version of that color. Now. The lightest part of the nodes are always gonna be on the top, which is like if you imagine the nose, this is the top and then it goes down. This is the part that's on the snout. Then also lighten up the middle a little bit. This adds some nice texture as well, such as lighten that up. I'll go little bit lighter and just lighten that part that's on the top of the nose one more time. So now it's got some nice shape. And then we can add some details like little nostrils. I can use this layer again, the one with the tongue and the details. So I'll turn off alpha lock so I can add something new. Then I'll switch over to that six B pencil brush and I'll get black for my color. And I'll draw in these nostril openings. Let me do that again. Draw those in like that. And then it's kinda like line down the middle as well. Then the other little detail that you can add, just to make it look a little bit more realistic is a tiny highlight on the underside of the nostril opening. You see it here. Just get like one of these lighter gray colors like that. Then you kinda maybe even lighter than that. Then you just add a little little highlight there. See, that makes it look like it's actually an opening. Okay, so we've rendered our facial details. Next up we're going to work on our Fur 13. Stylized Fur - Dog: Part 2: So to create this stylized fur effect, we're going to be adding some coloration all over the fur. And then we're gonna be using the smudge tool to kinda make it look streaky and furry. When I'm doing this technique, I like to sample colors directly from the photo to add to my piece. So let's go up to our layers and we're going to select the layer with the dog's head. Turn on Alpha Lock. And then we're gonna go to our brushes, go into the charcoal set and choose the six be compressed brush. I'm going to start with some of these colors that are off to the side here. Then I'm gonna go pretty big with my brush size. I'm at like 60%, a little bigger than that. And I'm just looking at the photo and just kinda like adding these along the side here. And they kinda go down like this around. Let's see. There's also some shadows on this side of the snout. I'll add that in like that. I'm being very soft with my pressure. Some of that in, there's this really harsh shadow here. So all sample that's really dark color. Okay. Then I'll get like a little bit lighter over here along the side of the shadow. Soften that up a bit. I'm just going around and kind of sampling some of these colors and adding them in. Here around the eyes, you zoom in. Actually, it's a little bit of darkness that kinda like comes up this way. These little bits right here. The eyes around the eyes we have like a little bit of brown. So I'll add in some of that as well. I'm alike around the eyes that down here it's a little more grayish, so full smaller with my brush size. It looks good like that. Okay, let's do the snow. The area around the nose is actually really dark. So I'm a little bit of that darkness here. Like underneath. Again, I'm just like sampling and then painting that color in here, it gets nice and dark because we have bit of a shadow over there. I'm trying to add as much variation in color as possible, like not leaving anything, just one solid color. Because that's really going to help us with our fur effect in a little bit. You'll see, yeah, let's add some lighter bits. This kinda lighter white color, it's a little bit lighter than the background. It's kind of adding that in. Always be looking at your reference. Okay, we're looking pretty good so far. Little bit of these little bits of darkness there. Sounds a little, I made that too dark. Sample that. Okay, So overall, like I said, this looks a little loose and messy, but that's okay. Alright, so I've just gone around and looking at my reference photo, tried to as closely as I could add some of the different colors that I see. Sample, adding the colors and so on and so forth. Until I've done a decent job of it. We can always go back and adjust later afterwards if we miss the spot. But let's go and do the ears will do the same thing. I'm gonna go to the ear layer, turn on Alpha Lock. We'll zoom in here. I'll get this like no, to me, it looks like almost like a pinkish color, but it's coming out brown. So I think I'm going to customize my color here by getting a nice light, warm pink color. Instead. I like that better. So you don't have to do exactly what's in the photo. You can do. You think, do your own thing. So kinda add that in a go, get a little darker here towards the middle, like that. And then just a little bit of discoloration around the edges over here to get a little white in there. Okay. Looks pretty good. Alright, so I've gone around and added all the different coloration using this six be compressed charcoal brush. Now we get to the Fun part which is make this look furry. So let's start with our main layer, the one with the head. And now we're going to use the smudge tool to create this kind of like streaky for effect. So go to your smudge tool and you're gonna go into the painting set and choose dry brush. Dry brush from the painting set. My brush size. I'm at like 20% or so. I think that's a good sign, Yeah, 20%. So now what we're gonna do is we're going to start smudging these areas of color to make them look more furry. Basically, we're just gonna be doing a lot of little strokes, blending one color into the next like this. You can start to see all like very subtle little streakiness. And you wanna do this in the direction of the first, so the first going down. So I'm doing like downward strokes here. I'm starting at the bottom and going up. So just thinking about what direction the Fur would go, then making your strokes in that direction. Do this here. And just kinda like work your way up. This can go pretty quickly. You can adjust your brush strokes if you wanted a little bit more control. Sorry, a brushed your adjust your brush size, I should say. Especially as you get closer to the face, you want to have a little bit more control. Keep going up. Alright, that's looking pretty good so far. Now that we're getting to the face, I am gonna make my brush size a little smaller. I'm like 12%. The way you really have a look at your reference photo to see which way the fur goes. But generally, it goes out from the nose, up towards the back of the head, goes around the eyes like this and then down like that. So I'm going to start at the nose and just kinda like blend that out like this just a little bit. See all those Lysol furry marks. Blend it back up here. Up here, I'm going up towards the back of the head. And then around the eyes just kinda like encircling the eyes like this. There. You can see all that streakiness. I love the way this affects looks. Blend, blend, blend. So taking all those little soft areas of color and just giving them the streakiness, it gives them movement. It makes it look like for just looks so cool. I love this technique. So let's look in pretty good already. I want to make sure I didn't miss any areas. You can blend back if you need to, if you want to, like drag too much of the dark came down, you can drag it back up and soften it a little bit. Go. But mostly you want to drag like the direction that the firm is going. Cool. Looks good. The other thing that you can do is you can also soften the edges of the for in the same way. So like if I turn my sketch off, I can turn alpha lock off on this layer and then just kinda like smudge this out as well. And that will help. Just soften it a little bit. Make it look more. Just more furry. That's like an optional step you can do. You can go with this kinda like textured edge or you can drag it out and make it look a little softer. Something up here, dragging some into the ears, a little bit further into the ears. Okay, I think that's pretty good for that layer. So now we'll do the layer with the ears. So we will scraggly here. Fluff them up. Okay, That looks good. Let's do the layer with the ears. So I'm starting off with Alpha Lock turned on and I'm just gonna go the ear hair kinda goes up towards the tip. So just going to do this those out this way. Perfect. I'll do the same thing over here that way and then drag that. Good. And then again, I can turn off alpha lock if I want And feathered this out a little bit optional. But I kinda like the way it looks for this Dog, since it is such a fluffy dog. Now that the sketches off, you can kinda get a better picture of how things are looking as well. If you find that you need to add additional shading or additional colors or you maybe want to soften something, you can do that. Just go back to your six be compressed brush. Like maybe I want to soften this edge a little bit, just paint over it. I got to make sure I'm on the right layer. Make sure you're on the right layer. So if I wanted to do like soften the shadows a little bit, I'm just painting over it like that. And then I'll grab my smudge tool and just merge it out again. So you can go back and change things. Like, let's say you wanted your dog to have a spot or something. I don't know. This is just I'm just showing you has a little spot right here like this dog now hotspots. And now you just draw them in and then blend them out like that. If you wanted to get creative with your dog, you can do that. That's how you can just add something to it. Just kinda like add them in and blend them out like that. But I'm not going to do that. I just wanted to show you. Okay, good. Alright, there's one last step for creating this stylized fur look. And that is to add some little tiny strokes all over to create this sort of like FUN, stylized effect. So we're gonna do that using two layers. One for some little dark marks and one for some little light marks. So I'm gonna go to my layers. I'm going to create a layer above all the other layers. And I'll start with a dark marks. On this layer, we're going to set the blend mode to multiply. So you tap this little N and you scroll all the way up to multiply. And now anything I draw on this layer will have an automatic darkening effect as it interacts with everything that's on the layers underneath. You'll see this as we work with it. So let's start. I'll just start down here. For the brush. We're gonna go back to the sketching set and choose the six B pencil. So this is the brush I like to use for this part. Then for the color, I just like to sample the base color of whatever I'm drawing on top of. So I'll select this light gray. If you select white, it's not going to show up at all. But I'll select this light gray and then I add these little like groupings of these little marks in the direction of the first, following the same directions of the firm. And I like to do them in groupings. I don't like to do I don't like to do them to evenly. And you don't need a ton either. So just like these little groupings of fur, and I really love the look of it. It gives everything a little bit more definition like overall, this piece is really soft, so it does need a little bit of line details and this helps with that. Looks really good. Just gonna go through and add some little groupings of these dark marks. If you get appear and you're like, Oh, these look really dark on this light color. Just again, sample the base color and try that out. This is now very light color, but it looks really good on this very light part of the Fur. So don't be afraid to change your colors like here. Where I have this shadow, I'm going to choose a little bit darker of a color. But the same dark color would look really dark on this light. I would choose a lighter color over there. Okay, I'm gonna keep going over on the face. You just want to again be conscious of the Fur direction. So like for example, here, would make the little furry marks travel up towards the back of the head. And also around the eye. Maybe a little darker there. Around like that. I love do I don't know what it is, but I love doing them around the eyes like this. It really reminds me of like Van Gogh, Starry Night. All those lines that move. Then just keep going. Let's see, Let's do some down this way. I'm going to come back to the ears, so don't worry, I didn't forget them. And just sampling. Focus on little groupings will do over here. This darker color. I love this look, all this movement. I just really, really like that. Here. Keep changing my color based on wherever I'm drawing on top of. That's looking really good. I'm going to add some details here. Over the ears. Maybe all. Sample this color to this one. Traveling up the ear. I'm pretty good. You can also use these lines to add definition anywhere that needs it. So like kinda to separate the ear from the head a little bit. They'll draw lines there. Yeah, I think that looks pretty good. Can add more expressive lines if you want. They don't have to be like all these little tick marks, but I kinda like that style, so that's what I'll do. I need to add a little line down the tongue. So I'll just do this on that same layer. Just sample this light pink color. Add a line down the middle, something like that. Alright, I think that looks pretty good for the dark lines. Now I'm going to add another layer to create some light lines. So I'm going to tap the plus sandy Create New Layer. I'm going to set the blend mode of this layer to screen. So tap the little N and scroll down until you get to screen. Screen has a lightening effect. So whatever you draw on this layer will be lighter in relation to what's on the layers below. It's like multiply but the opposite. So let's go and do the same thing. I'm just going to select a color. Then I'm just going to add a few little of these light lines. I think it helps give it a little bit more depth. It's not just all of these dark lines. You can be strategic with your lines and add them where there's more shadows. But I kinda like to do them all over. Like dark lines where the shadows, I don't know. I think it looks good with both lines kinda mixed in throughout. Here. It's too light, so I'm going to select this color when you're working with the Screen blend mode. The darker the color you have selected, the less you'll see the highlight. Like if I choose this really black color, you won't see anything at all and multiplies the opposite. If used a really light color, you won't see anything at all. So just something to keep in mind as you're working with these colors. If you're working on a dog that's very dark like a black dog or something. Just be careful of the colors that you're using. Know that white or black won't show up at all. Cute. Love this. So just go all over and add some little groupings of white lines. Wherever you want to add them. Again, I'm just going around the eyes. Just kinda here and there. I think my lines are getting a little light over here. So I'm going to sample a darker color. The darker the color, the darker the line will be. Have a less bright the line will be okay, Let's do some on the ears. A lot of lines here where there's like all this for Nice. I like that. That's part of the drawing gets a little therapeutic. I would say it's just kinda like tune out and draw little lines everywhere. I think it's fine. Let's do here. See that's way too bright right there, so I'll choose a darker color. Okay, thanks. This looks pretty good. Just a couple more here and there. Around the mouth a little bit. Do a lot of details around the mouth. In fact, I might come back on my Multiply layer and add like a line here showing where the edge of the of the mouth is. That could use a little bit of a line just to give a definition. There. Now that we're done drawing all our little furry marks, this piece is all done. Let me close out of my reference because I want to show you one more thing that you can do to this particular style, which I think is really FUN and that's to put it in a little bit of a frame. So I'll show you how to do that next. 14. Stylized Fur - Dog: Part 3: To create a background frame, the first thing you wanna do is you want to get all of your layers merged together. So we did this in the last style with the flat Illustration Style when we did the vintage print effect. And that's using the Copy Canvas feature. So the first thing you'll wanna do is go to your layers and you need to turn off your background so that only like the dog is visible. Then you're gonna go over to the Actions menu, add and choose Copy canvas, then choose Paste. If you've got your layers, you'll see you have a copy of your Dog all merged onto one layer. I'm gonna move that actually, so it's on the top. And now we're going to create our background frame. I'm going to create a new layer. And I'm going to draw my background frame. So I'm just going to, first of all, I'll turn on my background. I'm going to use the same blue color for my frame, but then going to turn off my background again to draw it. For the brush, you can use anything. But I really like that Blackburn brush because of the edge texture that it has. So now you're going to draw a circle around the Dog. And you'll notice I left the ears kinda poking out over the top. I did that on purpose and you'll see why in just a second. I think it's fine when you're doing this sort of frame effect to have a little bit of the animal, the dog, whatever it is, kinda sticking out over the top. And then you can also come back with like lighter pressure on the edges. And I like to add a little bit more texture here. Just because I like my frames to be. I don't know, I liked them with texture, but you do want to make sure it's filled in solid in the middle. We've drawn a circle. Very good. Let's now move it behind the dog. Just drag and drop. Now we're going to tap the layer with the circle. And we're going to choose, Select, and that's going to select the contents of that layer. Then we're gonna go up to the layer with all the, all the Dog merged together. We're going to tap it and we're gonna choose mask. And you'll see that a mask is created in the shape of the circle because that's what we had selected when you chose D, the mask. I'm going to deselect. And you'll notice that we can see behind to all the other layers. So we're actually is going to turn all those off. If you tap and hold your circle layer, that's going to isolate it out, meaning it turns off all the other layers except for that layer. So tap and hold little checkbox. And then you're going to turn on your layer with the math. So these three should be checked. So we're starting to get there. You can see it's in its cute little frame. We're going to tap the layer that says Layer Mask, the one with a black and white circle. Then you're gonna go to your brush, your brush tool. The brush doesn't matter, but we still Blackburn selected and want to make sure your color is set to white. Then you're just going to paint over where the ears poke out. Just paint over like that. And then you have this really cute little frame for your dog portrait. There's a couple of things you can do from here. You can export this out with a transparent background if you wanted to use it as a digital graphic, or you can turn the background color back on. Mine is set to the same color as my frame. So I'm just going to change it to like maybe like a darker color like that. Another thing that you can do is add some texture to your actual frame itself. So if I turn on Alpha Lock on this layer, go to my charcoal brush, that six be compressed. I'll sample that color and then I'll just get like just a little darker version of it. Go really big with my brush. Then just add a little bit of almost like a little gradient towards the bottom. Go a little bit darker. So if you want to add some extra will to your frame, you can do that. Then if you wanted to re-size it because mine is kinda off-center, you just select all those layers by swiping to the right on each one. Re-size it. Worry you want it. I think this would look so cute, printed out and put in a frame, kinda like a frame within a frame. I hope you enjoyed learning this technique. It is a little bit more involved in some of the other ones, but I think it's definitely something that's doable because a lot faster when I'm not talking through the whole thing. So up next, I'll show you another version of this with a different animals so that you can see what it's like when I'm not talking to the in the next lesson 15. Stylized Fur - Cat: Up next, I'm gonna be doing this really cute cat that I got from unsplash.com. And you can watch me go through the whole process. This video is going to be a little bit more sped up. So you can just kinda walk through the process. And then again at the end, I'll talk you through some decisions that I made as I was creating that piece. All right, Here is my finished stylized Fur kitty cat. This one is a little bit more complex because we've got a lot of different color variations with the stripes and lots of stuff going on here. But me and I still broke it down to it. Looked at my reference photo. I just tried to emulate what I saw there. I originally I sketched you saw me sketching out the the little areas of color where I knew things were different and that really helped out a lot when it come to what it came to adding all the different colors here. So I did a lot of sampling. Sampling and drawing, sampling, painting became a really nice in the end. You got to trust the process here because when you're in just adding all those colors, because it kinda looks a little funky because it's going to turn out good. But once you do like the smudging, it really takes it to the next level. And then once you add all these little details that just makes it a really FUN, stylized piece. The only thing I did differently from the dog was here in the eyes, since we could see the whites of the eyes, I started out with a layer that just had that. And then I added the iris as a clipping mask. And then I added the pupils on top and then the reflection. And then I just shaded it in a way that looked like in the photos. So you kinda have to play around with that. But when in doubt, you can always just add a little bit of lightness down to the bottom. You don't have to do it exactly like in the photo, but I think it turned out quite nice. Then of course I had another layer that I needed to add because our kitty has whiskers and that just needs to be on its own layer. I added a layer for all the whiskers, but other than that, it's pretty much the same as when I did the dog came out really cute. I love this kiddies little head tilt up. Next, I have one more animal to show you. I'm going to show you how we can use this stylized Fur Technique on one of our feathered friends. I'll see you in the next lesson. 16. Stylized "Fur" - Bird: Hope you enjoyed learning how to do stylized Fur in Procreate, you're excited to do more Pet Portraits using that style. I have one more Pet Portrait to show you in this style and you can watch me go through the whole process. I hope you enjoyed this video. This stylized Fur Technique doesn't have to be limited to dogs and cats. You can use it on other animals as well. And I'm gonna show you how to use it on one of our feathered friends. We're gonna do a portrait of a parakeet. So I'm gonna go ahead and add my reference photo. I have this cute little parakeet that I'm gonna be doing today. So I'm just going to adjust that so it's the right cropping, something like that. We go Then we're going to sketch over the top. So I'll reduce the opacity, grab my sketching brush, and get to it. Again, just tracing over the main shapes. I really want to identify these different sections of feathers. The big difference here in the different color variations like the different areas of color on a bird, sometimes will be that there's a lot of hard edges. Like it's not all dislike for like different colors of for blending in with each other. This is kinda soft here, but down here we've got like hard edges. So we might use a lot of layers to do that. Anything that has hard edges and you want to keep those edges hard. That's when I that's when I use different layers. Beak. And I. So we've got like a circle for the eye. There's a little people in there and I see a highlight and then there's this outline, so very similar to how you're doing the dogs and cats. That line that goes around it. Okay. I'm gonna do the feet. I'm going to include the stem or this branch that it's on in my picture because I think it will look weird if the birds just like not sitting on anything. So I'm just going to include not the whole leaf, but just like I'm going to pretend this is like a little branch and then I can do the feet. Go like that. I'm just going to assume it goes back behind that leaf. There. It goes behind it to. Okay. I'm adding these little lines because any little details I might want to include in the final thing. Claw. Alright, I'm kinda goes under the branch. There we go. We're making it up sometimes That's fine. Alright. I've got the fee. Okay. We've got all the details. So now I'm going to start to highlight where there's different areas of color, like here's gonna be this blue. There's also a little blue up there. We've obviously got the feathers here. It's kinda like a shadow that we might include. This link gets a little lighter right there, right there. So a part of this sketching process is also just like identifying like, Oh, I see that it gets a little bit lighter there. That observation those observations are going to help you. When it comes to actually laying down the color. These feathered will probably become line details in kinda play around with some of these shapes that you see. I think for this one will probably have less little late tick marks, but maybe more like feathered, He's like skeletal feathered marks. Then we've got some others here, there like that and then they kinda have lines inside them. This looks all fluffy in there. Okay. I think we've got enough detail to work with in our sketch. So let's turn off our Photo, add a new layer, reduce the opacity, and get to it. Let's get our reference photo up and drag it in. Here we go. Alright, move that over here. Okay, so let's start with armin color. Then for my brush, I need this time I'm going to choose that chalk brush. And now I'm just going to go ahead and do the main shapes. I'm going to do that like I was mentioning with feathers, probably gonna be on a separate layer. What I'm gonna do the body now Color that in the beak on separate layers, so I'm not worried about that right now. Okay, that's pretty good. I think everything else is gonna be on a separate layer, so I'll just color all that in. Alright, so now I'm going to create a new layer to do this wing here. And I'll just sample a dark green color. And just do you all about. I'm just gonna put this on the same layer. I've got this bit of red that's gonna be here, so I don't have to color that part in, but okay, that looks good for that part. And then I'll do one more layer by the red. I'm just going to sample that. That's gonna be something like this. All right, And how about we use the same layer to do the beak, which is like this beautiful orange. Zoom in on that. The be all done. And let's do, let's do the, I. Use a dark gray for that. I'm going to switch to different brush though, because this one, this chalk brushes, not that great for drawing circles. So actually I'm gonna do like a lighter gray. I'm going to choose this layer. I'm gonna do like the circle that's around the eye on this layer with a wing. This kinda like lighter gray. And then I'll do like a black circle on top on that other layer. The red. I'll get a darker color and draw all the round part of the eye. And then one more layer for the highlight, just because I don't want to draw right on top. There we go. All right. Last thing we need to do is like the feet and the branch. So let's see him on down. I'm gonna do the branch first and maybe sample this color, but I think I'm gonna make it more brown, gonna choose your own color. And I'll use the chalk brush for that. And then the feet. One more layer for that. And I'll sample that color. Actually, I'm going to switch brushes. This one. It's good for doing big areas, but not so much for little details. Just draw that according to my sketch and color it in We have this one not being super accurate with this. That's okay. Okay. We've got some clause now. Okay, now we can start adding some color within a shape. So let's start with the main body here. I'll turn on alpha lock. I'm going to sample this dark green and grabbed my charcoal brush. Six be compressed. Can start painting that in here. There's this kind of like yellowish green over here, right there. But on the feet. Also like kinda comes up right there. That actually gets quite right. Just kind of sampling the colors that I see here and laying them down. Just like with our other animals. There's this beautiful aqua color over the top. And then also hear more color variation. The better. Down here it's gonna get dark because it's like underneath the wing. That's really dark. All right. I'm pretty good. Alright, that looks good. I'm gonna go ahead and do the other ones as well before I start blending or smudging. So we'll have a few colors in here. It's really like bright blue are the really bright, really bright on this side. One back here is quite dark. Shade all that in. Alright, I think that looks pretty good. I'm gonna do this last layer now with the red. There's not a lot of color variation in here. I wanna make sure there is some. So I'm just gonna get a little bit darker shade towards the bottom. Okay, So some color variation there. And I'll come back and do the beak and a little bit. Actually, let's just go and do it. Now since we're here, there's like a little bit of red in it, gets nice and orange here. On the bottom. A lot of really pretty colors in this one. And it's kinda dark under there. Little bit. Looks good. While we're at it, lets do the feet. Let's do the branch actually, what are the branch first? And turn on Alpha Lock there. Like a darker version for the kinda making this part up because it's different than the photo. To make the underside dark. Like that. Sample the base color, get a little bit lighter. Maybe a little highlight there. Let's a little too saturated. Then I need to add the dark, dark shadow like underwear the bird actually sitting on, kind of like you see in the photo. Should be really dark over here under the Bird. Go almost black over there. Okay, That looks good. Let's do the feet. Last one, I'm turning on Alpha Lock. And I'm just going to Add an overall texture over the whole thing. Then I'll darken these ones up quite a bit. I'm not gonna do a lot to these. I think that's fine. Maybe a little bit of highlight clock kind of a different color. I don't know. I'm just making it up there. There. There we go. That's fine. Okay, so we've rendered some of the details a bit. Let's start making our, well, it's not furthest time. It's our feathers look a little furry. We're gonna go to our body layer. We're gonna get our smudge tool. We've got the dry brush and we're just gonna do what we did before. So just kinda like smudging this all down like this. And we want to pay attention to the direction that the feathers you're going, they're all kinda pointing down. So that kinda makes it easy. Go. That's looking nice. Let's do this here. Blend that down and then blend the green into the blue. One that go around the eye, add a little more darkness around the eye. So simple like a darker green, something like that. Then I'll feather that. I go. I really like to see like the movement around the eye in these pieces. So that's why I added a little bit more darkness there. I think that looks pretty good for the body. I'm going to add some extra color variations here in the blue as well because I really want to see more texture there. So there we go. I'll just add a little bit in there and then smudge it. Go. Good. Alright, let's do our weans. So go to the swing first. Kinda doing like little motions here. Start down here. Blend all that down so it's a little more streaky like that. Then do that kinda like sweeping motion over here. Do the same thing down here. Go. Oh, that's good. The other thing I'm gonna do on this layer, I think that's like there's this. The other thing I wanna do on this layer. So I'm going to turn off alpha lock. I'm yet to like blend this way. I'm basically like blending this whole shape into itself. I like blending the edge away. So it looks like this kind of a software or the feathers are overlapping. So I'm going to do that all around the top. And I'm doing those kinda like Scala be motions here. Just like blending away the edge of that shape. Here we go. So they look like they're kind of overlapping each other. Good. Let's do the red one. There's not a lot to blend, but I'll go ahead and do it. Then I'm gonna do the same thing here. I'm going to turn off alpha lock and just blend the top edge of the shape just a little bit. Just need a lot. I think that's all the smudging on the feathers. I'm gonna go to the feet a little bit and just do a little bit like kinda like feel like I don't know. Me kinda wraps around like contour. There we go. That's the word I'm looking for them to add. Contrary, I'm not really doing that much here. It's not really changing a lot. So maybe it's not worth it. But I will do it on the branch that I'm gonna go to the branch. And I'm going to just smudge this like this, actually like that butter going to smudge my lines this way. So it looks more like wood. I'm just very lightly going through and smudging the dark into the light like that. So it looks kinda like would like a wood grain. In fact, I think of it add a little bit more darkness here to really like have you in darken that. To really have something to drag around whichever little spots of that dark brown, then I can drag it around there. Cool. K, looking pretty good. So our last step would be to add some line details. So just like before, when to create a new layer above everything else, Let's do the dark lines first, so we'll set them blend mode to Multiply. And then we're just going to add some marks, but they're going to probably look a little bit different because I want to lean into the feathery shapes like these little curvy lines. So let's switch brushes to sketching set six B pencil. I'm just going to add some lines like this. Instead of like straight lines like we did for the fur. We don't need a ton In fact, I'm going to turn off my sketch so I can really see what I'm doing here without influence of the sketch. Again, I'm doing like little groupings of lines. I'm going to add a little line right there to kinda give the foot some definition. Or that leg. I mean, here I'm gonna do some of those scallop shapes, but then to about right there. Then I'm going to switch to like lines. Like that. I'm going to use a line to differentiate that. I show some separation there. There. I'll do like that. Then here I'm going to need a darker line actually. Like that. That's not too dark. Actually, that's a little too dark. I like it, but it's a little too dark, so I'm just going to select a lighter green and it won't be as dark there. That's good. Then down here we also have a lot of actually 90 my sketch again, because I had to draw means already. There we go. Then there's some lines in-between. Good. And then this has a lot of lines there. Over here. Can't really see me if you forget like a black odds in lines to that. And then on the red, I'm just going to draw some more scalable things and then some straight lines, muscle kinda making things up right around the head. I am going to draw some of those like little lines like what we do did on the Dogs and Cats has I love how they look and it kinda makes sense for that little part. The feathers are very short. See, can I come down like that? To some? Actually here I'm going to switch to like the more scallop line. Okay. I think that's looking pretty good. Okay. I'm going to add some details to the feet as well. So I'm just going to draw loops, name, select this color. And then I'm going to draw some little line details. Can also like add like a little bit of shading with this layer if you'd like. I'm just doing kinda like a big bird feet. Like it's kinda like little circles that go around it. Contouring. That's right. Okay. Just to kinda give it a little bit of detail doesn't even a lot. Let's do the beak. So I'm select that orange color. Maybe actually go a little darker and draw the line there. Real event, draw a little bit of it down like that. There's these little things right there. That's probably all we really need for that. Okay, I think that looks good for that layer. So let's go to our layers. We can turn off the sketch layer now and we're just going to add one more layer for our little highlight marks. We're going to set the blend mode of this layer to screen. And then we're gonna do the same thing. So I'll start here. We're just going to add some of these lighter marks here. For the darker color you choose, the less light your marks will be because of the screen blend mode. So if you don't want them to be very, if you want them to be more subtle essentially, you want to make the color darker. Add some colors in there. Some down here. Oops, I didn't choose that really dark color. There we go. I'm just going to add little lake. I don't know if the edges of the feathers kinda will do a little bit in here. A little brighter. Cool, that looks good. I don't know if I want. I can add a little bit there. Okay, let's do over here. Just little groupings of these lines. Doing here as well. Then around the face. Groupings of lines helps to zoom out and see where you might need more. This is getting these like Line is a little too light, so I'm going to choose this darker color. Even that's a little bit to choose this color. I got real dark. There we go. I selected this dark color and now my lines are a little more subtle. Wherever you think you need. Some extra lines. Just add them in. Overall, I think the silicon pretty good. I'm just trying to decide if I need anymore. I think that looks really good as is. So it's all the same process as with the Cats and Dogs. Just your line work is actually the only thing that's a little bit different. I'm changing up the shapes of the lines kinda fit what the actual animal is. So, but I think it looks really cute. I'm gonna put this guy in a little frame just like before. Here's my finished parakeet portrait. I hope this inspires you to try other types of animals besides Cats and Dogs. I think that you'll find it's applicable to all sorts of animals. Up next, I'm going to show you a lot more examples that I've created using the three different styles I've taught you during this course. I'll see you then 17. More Pet Portraits!: I hope you've enjoyed learning how you can take a photo and create these three different styles with it to create some really unique pet portraits. In this video, I have a lot more examples to show you of some of the pet portraits that I've done in the three different styles. So I'll show you what I started with the reference photo and then I'll show you how I translated that into some of the three different styles. Bunch more examples of pet portraits done in these three different styles. I've actually created many a pet portraits in preparation for this course. There are actually just so PFK-1 to do, like they came together really quickly and it was easy for me to do lots of them because I had so much FUN. So I'm gonna show you the original reference photo and then I'll show you the different versions of that I created in the different styles. So starting off with the parakeet I showed you in the last video. Here is the Line Art version and I really love how this one came out, especially here in the belly. I translated those scallops marks into these cool little loops. And I really love how that one came out. I think I did this one also with the pen Dani brush. And then this is the flat Illustration Style. I tried to translate as much as I could into flat shapes. And then I also added some little details using the same studio pen brush to do those scalping marks kinda like in the Stylized For version. And then this is the original stylized Fur version of the parakeet that I did. Next step is this photo you guys have already seen, but I want to show you the three different versions. So this white fluffy dog. There's the Line Art version, super simple, as you can see, I didn't make it all one continuous line. I decided, since there's so much It's like a white Dog, I decided to leave whitespace and stop. The line. Started again in the middle. So you don't have to have one continuous line. You do have, or you want a minimalistic version, which I think it's just so cute. It's so simple. Almost looks like a little snowman and I really like it. This is the stylized version and I love this one so much. It was actually this particular illustration that I did that when I finished, I would just had fallen in love with this style and this is still probably my favorite pet portrait that I've ever drawn. I just loved him so much. He looks so happy. So next up we have this core you that I showed you in the flat Illustration Style. Here's the line version of that, which I think is really cute. This is the flat Illustration Style which you've seen and the stylized Fur version. I think he's so cute. And I also did his, his eyes and a big they're not round, but I decided to make them round because I think it gives them a lot of playfulness and character. Then I wanted to see what it would be like to do something other than a dog, a cat, or bird. So I did this cute little hamster. This is a Line Art version of that. It came out really cute. Then I also did the stylized Fur version of that. This was a lot to do with how the shading was. And then I added some line details to differentiate the ears and whiskers and things like that. Really cute. I love this photo. This dog is so cool. This is an Afghan hounds. I was really excited to do this one. This is the Line Art version of that. Like at an Alpha, just looks like a hippie or something to me, I really like it. Then I also did the stylized Fur in this one. So this dog has lots of long hair. So I decided to illustrate that, like making long lines, long wavy lines instead of like short little lines. If you have a dog that has lots of curly hair or long hair, just change up the type of line that you use for that part of the Illustration. And you've seen this photo before. We did this guy for the fluid Line Art example. Here's a version of that. This is a previous version I'd done with a different brush. This is the flat version. I think it's so cute. I love animals that have these bold shapes in their coloring. And this one came out really nice. I like it a lot. Then this is the stylized Fur version is very furry on this one. I actually, this was, I think before I started adding the little lines all over. This one doesn't have it, but it still looks really cute. We did this one for the fluid Line Art style. So here's a different version of that, same one that I drawn previously. So I think I use studio pen to do this version. This is the flat style, really cute. When you're doing an animal that's like white, It's always important to include a little bit of the shadows like this, so it just doesn't look like one flat color. So that's an option to do when you're doing this kind of flat style and you're working with a white like where there's a lot of one color. That's how you kinda add some more interests to it just by adding a little bit of shadows like that. Then this is the stylized Fur version of that one. Very cute We've seen this photo before. I showed you this in the flat Illustration Style. Here is the Line Art version of that. I think the bandanna on this particular Cat like really makes it. I think it's so cute. And then this is the flat Illustration that I showed you. When I found this photo. I just knew I had to attempt it. If one of those Grumpy Cat kinda Cats and he just looks like a grumpy old man. This is the Line Art version of that. Forget what brushes I used for that one. But you can play around with different brushes and you get a totally different look, which is cool. Then this is the minimalist flat Illustration Style version. Also really FUN. I just overall wanted to capture the grumpiness and that had a lot to do with this leg brow line so that I made that a big feature of this one. Then this one's this stylized Fur version. And I love the way this one came out. I spent a lot of time on this one actually like getting the different color variations, right? So there's a lot more color variations and maybe some of the examples that I showed you, lots of line details like really emphasizing the lines of the face here. And again, that brow line to really bring out the grumpiness of this Cat. Then this one, this is one of my favorites like this reference photo is already so adorable and you have so much to work with here. And I had a lot of PFK-1 translating this into two or three different styles. So here's the Line Art version. I love so much. It's a little sweater, it's a little expression. And then the tiny sweater is so cute. So that's the fluid Line Art one. This is the minimalistic one, which again, I love it. I think the addition of like the clothing and having that other pop of color, it really adds to it. So even if it was just like a color to add a pop of color is really nice, but his little swirly knows, just gets me. I love it. Then this is the stylized Fur version. I love it. There's another one I spent some extra time on really looking at the reference photo and trying to get the right colors where they need to be. But it's all the same process. This one just has like a lot more like lines to show the folds and different things because that Dog has lots of folds. The next three are pieces that I made for the dog, just Art Challenge. So this is a drawing challenge for the month of August where it's all dogs every day the month is the different Dog. So a different dog breed. And so these are some pieces that I made for that they're all in the stylized Fur type Illustration and I'm really happy with how they came out. So that's one and there's another one. And Shiba, you knew, I love his expression. But it's all the same process. Then this Great Dane, it's really proud of how this one came out, especially the tongue and the mouth. That's been something I had been avoiding doing because it's a little bit more challenging. But again, I was just observing my reference, shading it according to the colors that I saw there, especially here on the tongue. And following the same process that I had followed for everything else. Just kinda spending a little bit more time getting them there and adding fine little details. What I'm really happy with how all of these came out 18. Sharing & Printing Your Pet Portraits: One last thing I wanted to show you is how to export your artwork so that you can share it online or print it to give as a gift or hang up in your home. When you're finished with your pet portrait, you're gonna go to the Actions menu, share. And then we have some different options here, I recommend using PNG. Png is a great format because it doesn't apply any compression to your p.sit. So it's not going to like degrade the quality at all. It also supports transparency. So if you did have a piece with the transparent background like the stylized Fur one where we added the frame. It supports transparency so you can paste it over your Instagram story or anywhere where you might need transparency in your work. It's also great for printing. So PNG is what I would choose. You can save it to your camera roll. You can AirDrop it to your phone, or you can set it to your computer if you wanted to print it out. If you are going to print it out, you can print it on your home printer. I would just recommend using a piece of photo paper. Glossy photo paper isn't gonna give you the most vibrant colors. So there's a recommendation for that. If you're going to send it out to get printed, of course you can do that. You can use service, you can take it to a photo printer or somewhere else that prints like high-quality prints, so that you can put it in a frame and give it to somebody you love. I also have this page on my website. It's Bardot brush.com slash make dash stuff. And this is a whole page of things that you can make with your Procreate artwork. There's some really good information about RGB versus CMYK, which color profile you should use. I recommend RGB CMYK and this will explain why raster versus vector. And then down here is all the things that you can do with your Art. Print it on clothing, on home decor, journals like this would be a really FUN way to use Your Pet Portraits is by printing it on the front of a journal. Places where you can order prints if you wanted to make Wall Art, pins, stickers, I have a whole series on different ways that you can make stickers versus like making them at home or ordering them fabric. There's a lot of things that you can do with your artwork. So I would definitely recommend checking out this article if you want to learn more 19. On Your Own: So now that you've gone through the whole course, you follow along and learn how to do the three different styles. I am encouraging you to on your own, create your own pet portraits. You can use stock photography, so go through and browse those different sites and find a photo that inspires you, maybe think of a particular Dog breed you'd like to draw. So you can do that or you can try taking some photos of your own pet or your friends pet to create pet portraits based on some of the animals that you love in your life. So dogs, cats, rodents, birds, whatever you want to do. So find a great photo that you want to use and try one of the styles, maybe try all three styles. And when you've done that, I want you to go to the Projects and Resources tab of the Skillshare class page. There, you can create a project and share your original pet portrait. I would also be really cool to see the original photo that you use to create your portrait if you'd like to share that, as well as a few details about maybe why you selected that breed or if it's your own pet. Tell us a little bit about your pet. I think it'd be really FUN to see. And you can also share the portraits you made while following along in the class. I would love to see those as well. I cannot wait to see Your Pet Portraits. 20. Conclusion: Congratulations on making it to the end of the course. I hope you've had a lot of PFK-1 creating pet portraits in Procreate. Not only did you get to explore these three really FUN visual styles, the fluid Line Art, the flat Illustration Style with a vintage print effect, and the stylized Fur. But you also picked up a lot of really amazing Digital Art skills along the way, got really familiar in working with Procreate. We got to work with layers, clipping masks. We get to choose colors and select brushes. We got to learn a lot about working from reference photos, which was a big part of this class where he went blend modes, how to stylized and simplifies subject. I could go on and on. You should be very proud of yourself for all the stuff that you've learned during this class. Now that you have those skills, I hope you're empowered to go make pet portraits of all the furry friends in your life. Until next time, be sure to give some love the animals in your life and happy art-making