Ramen Cat: Creating Art with Shapes

1. Intro: Hey guys, welcome back. My name is Dave Reed aka drug-free Dave, and I know I haven't been on Skillshare in a while. I'd been really, really busy, but I'm really happy to be back with you guys. I have a really short, cute fun tutorial that I call ROM and cat. Basically, I've been using a lot of shapes lately. I always think about shapes when I'm doing my artwork, I love to draw animals and sketch in, even when I'm sketching, I'm always thinking about shapes. What I've been doing is making a lot of shape brushes and stamps so that I don't have to draw every single shape when I need it. Sometimes I can. It's sort of like making a shortcut. So I've made a lot of different shapes and I've included about five or six shapes that I used for this design. So we can do that together. We'll add the shapes, in addition, shading, it'll be really fine. As for all age groups, all skill levels. It's very easy, very simple. And we're going to have a lot of fun with Rahm and get, and actually you can add, you can make your own shapes, you can make your own animal. That goal of this class is for you to think about shapes creatively. And that makes sense. Think about your artwork and think about designs. And think about how much you can do with simple shapes to make animals designs and make some really cool illustrations. All right, so let's move on to the next video class, project. 2. ClassProject: All right, so class projects, so I'm going to walk you through all the steps that I've done to make ramen cat. It's really cool, really easy, and really simple. But if you get the notion to change something, if you want to make a different animal, once you get the feel of what I'm doing, you can change anything that you want. You can change the color, you can change the design. You can put extra details, everything that I do in my videos and my tutorials. It's just a guide. I want you to be as creative as you want to be. Or you can follow this class to the t. I'm happy. Either way. I just want you to be happy and I want us both to make some really fun, really cool artwork. So that's the class project, create RAM and cat, and also be sure to download the brush pack of shapes that have included to download with this class. It includes the color palette and everything you'll need to make Rhyme and cat. Okay, I think that's it. Let's move on to the next video. Shape elements. 3. Shape Elements: Okay, shape elements. So first things first, the canvas I'm going to, I'm going to use for this tutorial is 3000 by 3000 pixels and 300 DPI. I'm using a 2021 iPad Pro. Just in case you can feel free to use smaller uses, smaller canvas. If you have an older iPad or if you don't have an iPad Pro, just make sure the specs are what you need. We're not going to use that many layers, but I just wanted to let you know what I'm using and feel free to adjust it depending on whatever type of iPad you're using. As far as the brushes, be sure to download those to your iPad, it should ask you how you want to open them. Just hit Procreate and the brushes will automatically pop over to your Procreate as Raman cat. And they'll look like this. Okay, so let's bring in our color palette so you can import that from images or you can drag it in. I've included the color palette and that should look like this. This color here is the background color. And usually I don't change the background color here. What I do is just make a new layer and then I make sure I'm on the right color. And then I just drag that in and make that the background. So next, I'm just going to make a new layer. And this is the layer that we're going to start using, start pasting our shape elements. You can hide the color palette for now. Okay, so let's start with our, let's start with our Raman cat. And for starters, I'm just going to make it, I'm just gonna make it white for now just so we can see it nice and clearly loops for the size bigger than that. And that seems about pretty good. I think that was about 46% or so. I think that's a good size for our cat's head. And I'll just put it in the middle. Also, if you see those little yellow the little yellow lines, that's because I'm using the snapping. You can use magnetics and snapping. And what that does basically is if you move things around, once you hit the middle, you'll see that little that little yellow light. So that way I know that I'm in the center of the canvas. Let's bring up our color palette. And this is the color for the cat. I'll just drag that into drag that on top there and I can get rid of it. Okay, so we have our first shape. So I'm going to make a new layer underneath, actually will make it over, we'll do it over the cat. So I'll make a new layer. I'll name this one bowl. And our, name our cat layer. Okay, So it will go to a bowl layer. And then we'll go to our next color, which will be it's kind of like a blue color. We can fix it later. I'll just take this blue here. And then we're gonna go to our bowl. We want to pretty big. That's actually pretty good size. So we'll move the bowl about here, I think is good. Okay? And the sizes don't have to be perfect. You can do whatever looks good for you. And I'm actually not sure why this is a little bit transparent. I probably have to adjust the shape. I'll do that before class, but for now I'll just duplicate it. And then I'll just merge those down. That way It's nice and solid blue. So let's go back to our colors and make sure we have the right color. A little bit lighter. And I'll get rid of my color palette there. So now we have our cat, we have our bowl. And now we can move on to the eyes and the mouth. So I'm gonna make a new layer above cat and we can figure out what we want our eyes to be. So one of our shapes is the regular circle. And regular circle is great. It kinda sounds like it should be easy and you don't really think about it, but a lot of people don't really think about how simple it is to start i, so you just want to start with circles. So let's use this brown color from our color palette. Go ahead and minimize that. And we'll go back to our regular layer here. And this is what are our brown layer looks like now. That's pretty good, but I want one eye to be sort of squinting. So and we might have to make this smaller, but we'll see, we'll see if we want to make it smaller. So let's make a new layer above this I. Let's label this. Let's label the eye layer. Let's go ahead and rename that layer to I. Actually, I guess you don't really need to see me. So let me give you full let me give you full phone. Okay. So we have our eye to little big but we can shrink it later, but we do want to make it sort of a winking eye. So here's what I do to change this into a nice winking eye using shapes. So I'm gonna make a new layer above the bowl. And I'm just going to hold my fingers so I can pick the color of the cat. So now I'm going to go over to my selection tool. And I'm gonna go to ellipse. And I'm gonna make an ellipse about that size. And I'm going to fill it with the color. So now I'm gonna go to my transform tool and using this little toggle here. I'm going to bring it up bigger. And I'll bring it up until I sort of get what I want. So that looks pretty good. That's a nice, nice curve on the eye. And now I'm going to tap that layer, hit Select, and then go back to layers. Go to our eye, three fingers swipe and cut. So now when I hide this, you see that the eye is the shape that we just cut it into. And it's still pretty big to be a winking eye. So we're going to have to go ahead and manually make this a little thinner. So we'll go, we'll go to our buttercream brush and walks. We go to the eraser and same brush but eraser. So we want to check what size it is. It's pretty good. So now we're just gonna take the brush and make a nice arc, and then we're going to hold it. So that will allow it to ever, that will give us a nice clean arch. So we'll start here. Then we'll hold it. So then we have a nice, a nice arch. So now we actually have to sort of crescents. And depending on which one you like better, you can choose this one. You can choose the bottom one or you can choose the top one. I'll choose the top one. So I'll just erase this one away. We're going get another easier way to erase it just be to go to free hand selection tool and just select it. And you can drag it off screen, but either, either way. So now we are on our new eye layer and we can make this smaller. And let's go ahead and flip it. So I'm on the transform tool. Let's flip it horizontal. Feel better to me. And we'll bring it right about. Right about here might be good. So we can always adjust it later if we need to. The second eye, we're going to make a new layer. We're gonna go back to that darker brown color. We're gonna go to our circle. And then we'll just add the circle here. And as usual, I'll just shrink it down to whatever I think is a good size. I'm going to have nice, nice big eyes. So that looks pretty good. I think it's a nice spot there. So now we have both of our eyes, one wonky and one wide open. So let's add a mouth. So we're just going to hit the plus here. And then we're going to use the smug. So I'll tap that, paste it, and then we'll just make it smaller. And you can choose how big or how small you want the mouth to be. So the math could be here. It could be smaller than that. I'm going to make mine really small and really small. And then maybe right around here. Think that looks pretty good. And I'll just move the eye over a tad. I think that looks pretty good. Now for something a little bit extra, if you'd like to. I'm gonna go to the mouth and I'm going to take the buttercream brush, make it a bit smaller than this. And I'm just going to make the little round, little round part here. So I'm just going to start here. And just sort of make a little arch. Make one here too. So I just made a little arch just to kinda make a cuter and you can add that if you want. And then I'll go in with the eraser and just sharpen it up. Make it a little smaller. And just sharpen this up a little bit. Oops. There we go. I think that's pretty cute. So feel free to add little, that little detail if you'd like. Okay, and then there's another detail that I really like to do. Um, same brush, same color. And I'm going to go on the Crescent. The crescent II, the wink EI. And I'm gonna go right to the edge right here and just make a little tab, little round tab like that. Will. Let me do that. Here we go. And we'll fill it in like that. And I'll do the same thing on this side. But I'll make sure I'm on this layer. And I'll just make a little tab, round, little round tab like that. Right? So I'll go ahead and merge these. So I merge those three layers. And I hit select it. The tabs again, go to the cat layer. Three finger swipe down and cut. And now I'll just drag this below this layer because we don't really need this right now. But it's good to have those elements there so we can color them in later. So the last part that we're gonna do is just make a new layer in-between the cat layer and the brown facial features. And we'll just go to White. Actually, we can go to, we don't have to use white. We can use one of our color palette colors. So we'll go here and we'll use this sort of a light cream. It's close to white, but not quite. I'm rhyming now. So now we're back on our middle layer. Back on buttercream brush. And we can make our little cat teeth. So we'll just make two little nubs here for our little cat teeth. And if you want, you can put you can not have them there. You can have him there and on the bottom, if you'd like. You can have them on the bottom to give you some more examples of teeth. If you want to make this brush a little bit bigger, you can just go like this. Like so. And of course, if you do that, then you have to cover this. Then you have to use the brown and just kinda give that a little outline. If you want to do a mouth like that. Because you don't want to, you don't want to just have it with a white going up into the face like that. But I'm going to stick with make sure I'm on the right layer. I'm just going to stick with little, cute little, I'm going to go to the right color. Cute little nubs on top. I like that. Okay, I think that's good for now. We'll move on to adding some more colors and some more details in the next video. 4. Coloring and Veggies: Okay, buddy number four, we're gonna go ahead and add some colors and some details. And we'll also add some, some noodles and veggies and an egg and things like that to really fill out the Raman. So let's go ahead and color his mouth first. And I'll show you how to do that. I'm going to make a new layer in between the brown, the eye layer and the teeth layer. Now we might have to adjust the teeth layer because we want to keep an outline so that this little area right here continues to look the way that it's supposed to look. So we'll go into that in a second. So first, I'm gonna make a new layer above the teeth. And I'm going to use buttercream. And we're going to use the same colors. This. Okay, make sure we're good. And I'm actually going to hide the brown here. Oops, let me get rid of that mark. So I'm going to hide this layer and I'm going to hide the teeth for now because we don't need them. So now I'm going to layer right underneath this. And I'm just gonna make this outline. So this will just kinda save us down the line. So I'll make that line there. Just make a nice outline here. And then we'll make a nice outline over here as well. Okay, So I think that's good. We may need to make an outline down here, but for now, let's just leave it. And later on if we wanted to, we can always go back. So now I'm going to I'm going to tap on the teeth. And I'm just going to use knowledge and just bring them down a little bit to there in the perfect spot. Okay, that's good. And now for this, I can actually alpha lock this brown. And then I can use a color from our color palette. So let me go to that layer, bring this up. So this is the mouth and the tongue. So I'm going to select that color for the mouth. I'll go ahead and hide my palette layer. So now I can just make the brush pretty big. Now I can just color this in. So now we can just color that in. And great, just make sure you don't bring the color up here because it will color in this other brown as well. So the next thing we wanna do is make the little tone. And that's really easy since we're already awful locked on this layer will just go to our color palette again. Go to our color palette. We'll just take the color of the tongue, minimize that. And we can just make the tongue just make a nice arch right here. And I think that's pretty good for the tongue. Ooh, I see you a little bit. I see a little part that I missed. So that's okay. So I'll just go back to the brown, I'll go back to the color. And I'll just color that in that part that I missed. So I'm going to use this pink color again. I'm going to take this layer off of alcohol, OK? And I'm going to use that same pink color and I'm going to color in his ears. Okay, So now the ears are nice and pink there. So wanna make a new layer above the cat layer. And first, we're going to add these two little light little pops that I always do on my characters. It's really cute, same color as the TIF. So I'm going to select that color because it's easier than going back to my palette layer just to select it there. We'll go to buttercream and make sure we're on a new layer. Okay. So now it's sort of like an upside-down tier. And we'll add it right here. Just like that. And we'll add another one to this side. So just like an upside-down tier. And we'll add to their perfect. Next, make this one a little bigger. And just make them a little bigger. Perfect. Okay. And now I want to add too little to little spots to his cheeks. So I'm going to choose the background color and just go a little bit more orange and a little bit lighter. Something like that. And I'll just use our circle brush. And we'll check the size, make it a little bit bigger, maybe around 5%. That's good. So we want to make it like a spring on his cheeks. So we'll put one here. And then we'll put wouldn't make it a little lower and put one there. I think that looks perfect. Okay, good. So I'm just going to call this face details. Alright, so, so now let's make some noodles and things like that. And this part is very easy. And for the noodles will use this color of this is also going to be his eyeball color. So I'll select this color here. And for the bowl, we'll just make a new layer above the bowl. And we'll call it, we'll call it food from now. Or actually we'll call it pasta. So we'll call it pasta. And I'll get rid of the palette layer. We'll go to our photo cream brush and we'll make it fairly good size, bigger. It's a good size. And let's drag it below the bowl, but over the face details, that's what we want. Okay. So now, so we'll just make some loops coming out like that and make another one here. And then we'll make some over here as well. As you can see the way I'm doing it. I'm sort of like am giving it a little bit of kind of making it a little bumpy, just what it looks like. It's like noodles. Sort of, you know, not all kind of being uniform. But you can play around with that and make it however you'd like. So let's pretty good with the noodles. And now let's choose the other, Let's choose the green. So let's go to our color palette. And we'll just choose the green here. And we'll make that underneath the the noodles. So we'll just make a few little green pops here. And maybe another one here. Make that one a little higher. And maybe we'll do one, right? We'll do one in front. So we'll do one right here in front of the, the pasta. And we'll do another one behind. So you can just go to either layer. And you can just, you know, however, whatever floats your boat, I'm gonna go back to my pasta layer and just make, make one a little bit higher. Well, make this one a little bit higher. I think. We'll just make that a little higher. Okay. I think that looks pretty good. So I'm gonna go ahead and merge these. Will do I want to merge them? Hmm, I think I'll leave it for now. Just in case we want to add some shading. I probably won't put just in case. So I wanna make a new layer underneath the pasta and the green. One thing about me when I'm doing tutorials is even though I have an idea, I'm always up for changing things and making things better. And that's very important with how I create. So I hope you don't mind seeing me make different decisions because, you know, it's never the same, even if it's the same sort of characters. I never really do the same thing in the creative process because I like to kinda play around. So let's add an egg. So we'll use that color that we used for the teeth and for these. And we'll just make this really simple. We'll just use the circle tool new layer. And I'll add it in there. And what we've learned a little bit bigger. Maybe it even a little bit bigger than that. Okay, so now we have our egg in there. And let's just use our select tool and then free form and really make it ag, go like this. There we go. And we'll just set our little egg in there. I think that looks pretty good. Okay, so now we're at, in our last element for the Raman bowl. But we're also going to add some, some, some sticks in here. So let's go to our color palette. And we're going to choose this a little bit of a golder, golden color. And we're going to go to our butter cream brush. And now we're gonna make a layer below the egg. I'll actually rename this egg. And I'll rename this chopstick. Chopsticks. Ok, so now we're using buttercream. Let's see what size we're working with. It's actually a good size. That's pretty good. So we want to actually make it below the cat as well. So I'm going to bring chopsticks all the way down to right above our background layer. Because I want that to be in the back. So what we wanna do is just make a straight line. And you just want to increase the pressure towards the back and then hold and it makes a nice straight stick. So essentially just so you can see it, I'll do the other one in black. So I'm just starting down here. And then I'm slowly pressing a little bit harder until I get to the end. And then I'm just holding. So then I have a nice straight shape. So let me do that again. Hold it. Here we go. Now it looks good. So now I'll just change that color back to our previous color. And actually I'm gonna make these a little darker. So I'm just going to go to hue saturation and just make them a little darker. That looks better. So now I'm just going to adjust both of these together until there were I think they're perfect. I think that looks good. All right. So now we have our little chopsticks in there and everything so far is looking good. The only thing we need to do now is add a little bit of details to the eye still. Okay, so let's see what's the easiest way to do this would be to add the yellow I right above the eye layer. So we're going to make it the same yellow is the Raman, so that's a little bit of the lighter yellow. You can always just color pick the yellow. And now we're going to use our circle here. And we want it just about the same color as that. I, but maybe a little bit smaller. Whoops. Okay, Mr. Pretty good. So that was about 10%. So remember, we're on its own layer here. And here we just want to, I just want to bring it in to about, so it's a little bit closer to this side. That looks good. And now we're going to use our same green. And you can actually duplicate that layer and just drag the green in. And you can make loops. We want to go to uniform. So we drag the green in and then we want to go to Uniform and then we'll shrink down R is it'll iris. I think that looks pretty good. Okay. So now we can actually duplicate this again. We'll tap on black and we'll drag the black end. We'll go to our same thing, our transform tool. And then we'll, we'll make his pupil smaller. And we'll put it right in the middle. Good. And I'll actually, I'll just nudge it a little bit over to the to the left. That feels better. And if you need, if you want to drag them both, then you can just write swipe on both of these layers. And you can always like move them around. But I kind of want them I want them looking down. That be cute, but I think I'm what I'm looking to camera. So we'll just leave them there. I think that's good. Okay, so we'll come back and we will do some shading and really sort of bring this little guy to life with shading. 5. Details and Shading: One of my favorite parts is always doing some shading. We're gonna do some really simple shading for a, for a lot of these shapes. And then we'll just do maybe some extra details and things like that. And then we'll finish up by working on the background and just giving a little, a little, a little magic. All right, so let's do some shading. So one thing I noticed in between videos that I want to be I to be a little bit bigger. So I'm going to write swipe on the pupil and the iris. Go to our Transform tool and just make it bigger. Here we go. I just liked the way that hits. I think it just hits better. Okay, so next, as far as shading goes, we're gonna go ahead and shade right on each layer of color. So we'll start with the cat and we'll just alpha lock it. So when you alpha lock, all that does is it means that anything that you color. So let's go to our air brush here. And I'm going to figure out the color later. I just want to show you what alpha lock is. So I've alpha lock this layer. So no matter what I do, it's only going to call her on that layer. So it looks like some sort of ice cream or something. So that's what alpha lock is. We'll do that with each layer as we get to it. So now we're on our airbrush. I'm going to bring the air brush down to about 50 percent. And I'm going to color pick the color. And I'm gonna go a little bit darker and a little bit richer. Like so. Not too much, just something like that and maybe a little darker, something like that. So I'll make the brush fairly big, maybe around 15. And I'm just going to softly shade in just softly shade in one side a little bit on the bottom. Make the brush a little smaller. Shade in a little over here, a little bit more on the bottom. Okay, and remember I'm doing, I'm doing a very, very soft, I'm just adding a little bit just to kind of even amount, but concentrated on one side. Okay, so now I'm gonna go back to the original color. I'm actually going to make it a little lighter. Same airbrush. Going to bring it down to about 5%. And now I'm just going to just put a light airbrush around the edge. Make it a little bigger. And just do a light, little, light, little pop of airbrush around the edge. We're gonna do that a lot. It makes for a really, really cool effect. I'll even do a little bit here on the bottom too. Just a little bit. Okay, So now we're gonna go back to the darker color. Just make sure this is okay and that's right. And now we're just going to sort of give us soft, soft, soft shadow or soft little darkening underneath these elements. So underneath the eye. Softly just making it a little darker underneath his eye. I'll make this a little darker. It's kinda hard to see. Darker there, little darker here. And you want this to be really, really soft. So you hardly see it. You don't really want to see it at all. And if you do, just go back to the original color and you can just softly blend it in with the original color if you make it too dark. Okay, whew back to the darker color. And we'll just add a little bit behind these ears. Okay? And that same sort of thing we're gonna do to a lot of these other shapes too. So we'll go, we'll start with our pasta. Alpha Lock. Take the color. Make it a little bit darker. Use our air brush. And we'll just sort of give it a little color. And we'll do the same with the green. I actually forgot that this green was above, but that's okay. Now that's not a big deal. I'll go ahead and merge these. Or veggies are merged. So for the egg, white, so we just want to go a little bit gray. Not too dark for the egg. So will alpha lock, airbrush, killer egg a little color? Maybe make it a tad bit darker. And now we'll go to pure white. Make the airbrush a little lighter. And just do that airbrush, do that little edge. For the egg. We can even add in a little white here for the egg. Okay, so now let's shade in the eyes. So I'm going to grab this yellow. I'm going to make it a little bit darker. And then I'll go to the eye layer and our Alpha Lock, go to our airbrush. So I'm going to shade over here. And I'll show you why I decided to shave this to shade in the side of the eye. Okay, So now for the green, will alpha lock that? Let's see if I have it here. Great, So here's the green color already have it saved from before. So now we'll shade in over here on the green. So this will give the eye some depth. Because for the eyeball we shaded down here. And since I'm shading it dark up here, it'll look like it'll give the eye some depth. I can actually make it a little darker right here on the edge along that line. And it'll really make it 3D look. And now just another little detail. We're going to add a new layer. We're going to go up here to the bright green room, make this layer and add layer. And we'll make our air brush really small. And we'll just do a pop of light like this. And we can go ahead and merge that down. And what's really cool about this is what I did. I, let me make sure I so one thing that you have to remember to do, I can't quite remember if I did it. So I need to select the green and then and then make the marks on the with the airbrush. So I'm not sure if I did that. I don't think I did. Here we go. So I don't want it to go outside of the green. So just make sure that you select. Just tap on the green layer and hit Select, and then go up to your new layer. And you can add that, the mark in. And now you can merge that down. Perfect. And if you want, you can change the color of the eye to just go to hue saturation. So if you want to change the color, you just make sure you are on your green layer. Adjustments, hue, saturation, and then you can change your color. Okay, So let's do some shading on these chopsticks over here. So we're going to alpha lock that same thing as before. We'll take this color and make it a little darker. We'll take our airbrush and we'll just lightly airbrush in-between them both. I'll just try to give the edges some depth. And we can, since it's behind, we can sort of add a little bit of shadow down here and also adding some color. So let's use, let's go to reddish color. Make it bright and I'll go a little bit more red, something like that. And you can choose any color. And we're going to use our buttercream brush. And now these are already alpha lock, so we'll just, we'll just paint on them like that. And let's put two little, two little dots here too. And you can color these anyway you want, you can make you can make an extra line on them. You know, you can do a zigzag thing. You can make any design you want on the chopsticks. And I actually want to change the color. Make it a little, a little more real. I want it to be a little more. That's a better color. It was a little too bright. For me. I wanted a more muted red. Okay, and then we'll make our little circles here. I like that. Okay, so now let's add some. Actually we need to shade the bowl. So let's go to the bowl. Will alpha lock that? We'll grab our blue with a little bit darker. Go to our airbrush, make the air brush bigger. And I will just put the up with opacity around 60 percent for the airbrush. Because sometimes the airbrush can be very harsh and you want it to be very soft. And go That looks nice. It a little bit on this side too. And I'm even going to go a little bit darker. Just for another pass all the way on the right side. Then I'm gonna go back to the original color loops. And I'm going to go a bit lighter. And I'll make the brush a little smaller. And I'm going to give that nice little edge lighting. Just softly, softly shading in very edge. To give it that nice edge lighting, I'll go a little bit bigger and just kind of soften that gradient. A little bit. Nice. I'll darken up this side a little bit more. Dark enough, the bottom a little bit. Okay, so now let's add some details to the bowl. And we'll use, Let's go back to our palette, color palette. And I think I actually just use the background, the background color for the, for the bowl. So let's make a layer above the bowl. So here's our bowl. Will make a layer above the bowl. And then we'll go to our outwardly plant and make it a little bigger. And you can actually, you can add the plant wherever you'd like. Feel free to add the plan as you see fit. I think I'll add it like that. Just kinda look good like this now. I think I'll leave it like that. I'll make it a little smaller. Here we go. So add just this little detail. And I'll add a straight line going across as well. So I'm going to use buttercream. I'll make it very small. That's good. Maybe a little bit bigger, maybe like 8%. And I just want to add a straight line going across our bowl. And we go. And if you want, you can, you can maybe add one to the bottom. You can add some other details. That's kinda nice actually. I'll leave it off for now, but it's kinda cool. I think I'm gonna go over some extras and different details after this. I almost forgot. So we should select our bowl. So let me do that again slowly just so you don't get lost. So we're going to tap the bowl, hit Select. And then down here we're going to hit invert. So now we can go back up to this layer and I'm going to get rid of the background layer just so we can see what we're doing. So now we're inverted. I'll take my eraser, make the brush kind of big, and then I'll just erase away the excess. That way if we decide to change the background, then our goal is clear. 6. Extras and Examples: Okay, So when you bring the background back and we will resume our layer above the background. So now I'm just going to tap on this background layer, make it a little brighter. And then I'm gonna go to my selection tool rectangle. And we'll just add a nice rectangle right across the bowl. And we'll drag the color in. And now we'll go to Adjustments, gaussian blur, and we'll blur that. So now we'll do the same thing on top. We'll just make a rectangle on top, will drag the color in. And we'll go to Adjustments. Gaussian blur. And we'll just blur that a little bit on the top as well. And if you don't feel that these are light enough, you can always go to hue saturation. And you can make them lighter. So you want, I'm just barely visible. I don't need to be too bright, but just a little bit brighter than the background. So now we'll make a new layer above that will take our background color and we'll go a little bit darker. And then we'll take the ellipse. And we'll make a nice ellipse right here. And we'll fill that in. Then we can position it so it's in the center of our bulb. Looks pretty good. I'll make these a little bit brighter. Here we go. Okay. So he's looking really good, but I just want to show you some extra little tips and tricks and things that might make your cat look a little bit better and make your, make your image a little bit better. These are things that I always do once I'm pretty much finished with a drawing. So the first thing is the eye. If you don't like this big wide I. One thing that you can do is you can make a layer underneath the cat layer, and then you can take a color. So I just chose a color that's pretty close to the side of the eye. And you can actually make a nice eyelid. Can just bring this across. And you can just color in. You can color in that eyelid. And then you can alpha lock it. You can make your color a little bit darker and you can add some nice shading to it. So you had some nice shading to it and really makes it gives it that. I'm kind of nice little lower I look. And if you want to get really technical, Let's see how this looks. I'm going to take the pink from the tongue. And let's see how it looks if we bring this across. Might be a little too aggressive. Let's try this color for the inside of the eyelid. So you can do something like that. Maybe. I think it looks nice. And also another thing that I was toying around with was coloring in this bottom lip. So let's try it. So in order to do that, you want to be on the cat layer. Or you could actually be, you can actually do it on a layer underneath and maybe even the same layer as our lower eyelid. So you want to be, you want to have buttercream. You want to have this same color here, the same dark brown. And since we're on the inside, I can just slowly make our make our outline on the inside of the mouth to color the mouth in. And they'd it looks nice. And I think it still looks good with the I being this big. But let's see what it looks like if VI is small. So I'm going to swipe on both of these I elements and then hit the transform tool. And we'll just make it a little smaller. See how it looks. Here we go. I think that looks good now it looks more like it's looking at camera, looking at you. And we also wanted to play around with a nose. Let's see which layer should we do it on? We'll do it on a layer right above the face. And we'll start out with, we'll start out with this brown color. We can always change it to a pink if we want his nose to be pink. But let's just try a nice simple triangle. So we can do a nice simple triangle like that. We can try coloring it pink. See if we like that. I think the pink looks really cute. And Brown stands out, stands out a little more. Maybe even this color, Let's see what that looks like. It's a little it's a little bright. And another really easy way to do an I, do a nose is to do a heart. And I actually have hearts on some of my other my other brush packs. But hearts are really easy. So we just do something like this. And then like that. Heart can be really cute as noses. And we can make a more narrow heart. Might be a little more fitting for a cat. That's a little more narrow. And of course we can sort of adjust it like so. And I know it looks pretty cute. I want to add a little more shading this side of his body. So I'm gonna go here. I'm going to make it a little bit darker. And always make sure you alpha lock your layers. Okay? There's so much you can do when you keep the layers separate. You can change the eye color. You can change the color of the bowl. Can change the background color. I merge this to the background. And I'll actually emerge. I will leave that for now. Can change the color of the background. Oops. Shadow. Let's go to our background here. You can change the color of that. I'll just save a copy of this to pay. Will actually, before I save a copy of it, when you change, if you do change the background, change the color of the shadow as well. So now I need to change the color of the shadow and needs to be blue. And maybe I'll make it a little lighter like that. And then I'll go back to our original. And I just wanted to show you a few more little details that might be fun. To go back to the green. I, there we go. We'll save this. And I usually save my work multiple times. So let's say we didn't want to nose and we wanted to change the mouth. So we'll just color over this. We take it off alpha lock and just color over this mouth. And we'll use smudge. And we'll just kinda smudge away. Smudge away what we've done. You can go back to the original color and you can go to Airbus and then you can actually paint it away as well. Just go back to the original color and then softly kind of paint so it's clear. And you can just experiment with just doing a small mouth like this. Something like that will make the edge is sharp. The same way we oops. Paint the edges sharp. Like so you can do something like that. You can do a cute kind of come back to this color. You can do it in a little bit open mouth. And these really simple little loops, simple little mouths. And what else might be fun. And you can also, if you have a cat, you can also do designs on him. So he looks like an actual cat. Like let's say you have a cat with a darker ring around is his. I would just go to whatever color that is, maybe a nice color like that. And I'm just going to hit Select. I'm gonna make a new layer above. And let's say he has coil like this around as I fill that in, like so. And let's say maybe he has its select again. Select. And we'll go back to that same layer. Maybe he has brown years. Color that in loops. Is brown hair, brown ears, something like that. Maybe has a little bit of a lighter snooty. Might have to do your details again, but you could do it. It would just be more work. I just have to make those details again, something like that. But there's a lot of places you can go with it. There's a lot you can do. And I love it. Sometimes I have to stop myself or else I will just keep going all day and all night. Because this is the fun part. I think this is the fun part for me, is experimenting and just seeing what you can come up with. I think this is adorable. Little nose. I think that's adorable. But anyway, before I stretch this out any further, I think I'm going to call this. I really had a good time. I hope you guys enjoyed it. This is ROM and cat, and this is a version that I've never seen before, but I think he looks I think it looks really cool. Let me fix up here on his me fix his little Thanks. You don't mind that it comes off, but if it does, and I feel like I want to give it some personality. I think that looks cute. Go ahead and save this. Maybe we'll make this all a little bit bigger. Another thing that I do a lot is take all of your layers that you've done work on. Actually this one I want to drag up. I'm going to drag my my name. I'm going to keep that there. So I'm going to drag that layer out. But all of these layers where I've done work on, I'm going to select them all. Group loops. That way I have everything. So if I need to move it from wanna make this bigger, I can make it bigger. Just so I have control of everything. So there's one last thing that I almost forgot. So I had to go back and add this in. It's what I always do. I add my jelly beans to the eye, the Jelly Bean and the highlight. So I'm gonna go make a new layer all the way at the top. And I'm going to use butter cream, but I'm going to put the brush on. You know what we're gonna do? We're gonna make the layer 30%. C is tap on the layer and you want 30% opacity. So now we'll go to our boat, a clean brush. We can put that back up to a 100 percent opacity. We have white right here and butter cream brush. And now we're just going to make, will make a nice, nice jelly bean right in the dark part of the eye. Just make a nice jellybean there. And you can also, you can actually, you can also do it on top and do like a whole big jelly bean here. That's another way to do it too. It looks kinda nice. Let's stick with that one. So that's just a big jelly bean right here. So now we'll make another new layer. And this one we won't change the opacity, so it'll be brighter. So now, since we have this light pop here, we'll make, we'll do this little bit right there. And then we can just merge these two. And then we have our little I highlight right there. Perfect. I love it. So I hope you guys had a good time doing ROM and cat. And let's move on to the last and final video because I recorded it before. And yeah, this is just the exit altro. Thank you. All that good stuff. So let's move on to the next and last video. 7. Thank You! : All right guys, thank you so much for joining me today in class. I hope you really had a fun time designing ROM and cat. I had a really fun time making him. And I just love being here and showing you what I know and teaching you what I know. And I'm glad that you guys are with me and we're hanging out and making really cool, fun, cute illustrations. Be sure to tag me on Instagram if you want to post ROM and cat. I love to proceed to my story. I love when you show me what you've done in class, be sure to join my Facebook group for more procreate tutorials, subscribe on YouTube. I'm actually doing a lot of live YouTube videos. So subscribe on YouTube and click the bell. It's seems to be a really cool, warm experience like with the YouTube lives and with people that come and chat. And I see them all the time. So hopefully I will see you guys there. I'm really grateful that you guys take my classes. Hopefully you enjoy my classes. Hopefully you keep drawing and hopefully you keep using shapes because trust me, shapes are where it's at. Cool shapes and all that stuff is the basis of what makes really good art. Really good. Also, this is another new thing that I've been doing up and making a lot of brushes. And I've actually been putting them on GEM rule. So if you like this style of creating and you'd like these shapes, I actually have a lot more. I've been making a lot more shapes and you can pick those up on gum road. So if you'd like this, definitely check out my gum road. I'm pretty sure it's gum row.com slash drug-free, Dave, where you can just go to my website, drug for Dave.com. You can find everything that I do and everything that I have out there in the world is on drug-free day.com. Alright, so keep drawing and we'll catch you all in the next video.