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1. Welcome!: Hi, guys. Welcome to my class. My name is Ke Lawrence, but you can call me, Kate. I'm a self taught
digital illustrator based on Long Island, New York. I've been working in digital
art for almost a decade, and I'm so excited to be
teaching on Skillshare. This class is all about using your imagination to
create a fun moonscape. I'll guide you through the steps so you can make your
own magical piece. Creating an enchanting
night sky is one of my absolute
favorite things to make. My personal style
is realistic with a hint of whimsy and
surrealism to it. Together, we'll be creating
this fun moonscape.
2. Class Project: In this class, we will
be creating a moonscape. No sketching is required
as we will heavily lean on our brushes to guide us into an exciting space composition. In this class, I each step by step everything
you need to know, so it's perfect for
artists of any level. For our project resources, I've attached the brushes
we will be using today, as well as the color palette. Feel free to use your own
brushes or color palette. Most importantly,
I hope you have fun using your imagination
while learning. Here's our lesson list. Setup, background, moon
and stars, falling stars, watercolor, Neverla,
circle rings, liquefy, and finishing touches.
3. Setup: All right. The first
thing we're going to do is make a new canvas. So hit the plus sign on
the top right hand corner, and you're going to hit
the black folder and make a canvas of 2000 by 2000 pixels. So you just tap and then add in the number and then hit create when you're done
on the right hand corner. Here's our Canvas.
Now, the first thing we want to check out is our downloaded brush set that was provided under
project resources. So we have our moon stamp
I made a star stamp, as well as watercolor brush, and then we have some of my
favorite procreate brushes, flicks, fine tip,
thylacine, and nebula. Now, feel free to use whatever brushes you're
most comfortable with. Our moon palette. We have black, white, purple, light blue,
and lime green.
4. Background, Moon, Stars: Okay, the first
thing we're going to do is set our background color. So click on Layers and go to background color and then
click black from the palette. Perfect. Now, click off. And we are going to
start by going to our white. So pick out white. And then we are going to go to our brushes and pick out Mont. Now, when we use this stamp,
we're just going to dab. We're not going to drag. I'm going to set the
size to about 27%, and the opacity is
pretty high. It's 100%. Now, I'm just going to dab it in the middle of the canvas. Then with the arrow tool
on the right hand side, we're just going to drag
it on its side using the little green handle.
It's like upside down. And then we can
just drag and move it wherever we like
on the canvas. To make it a little bit bigger, we're going to
pinch and zoom out. Perfect. Next, we're going to
go to our layers. We're going to add a new
layer with the plus sign. Click on the black
box and hit rename. We're going to call this Stars. Now, go to your brushes and go to the stars brush
that I've provided. And we're going to size it down. I think I'm going to
make it about 10%. And opacity is 100. Now, we're just going to
place the sporadically above the moon,
wherever you like. You can make your night sky as bright as your
imagination is. And then I'm going to add three falling stars
underneath the moon. And then I'm just going
to add a new layer, and we're going to
call it small stars. Click on the box, it rename. Small stars. Click off. Next, you're going to
go to your colors. Make sure you're on your white, and then we're going
to do fine tip. This is the procreate brush. It's great for making
tiny little details. I'm basically just filling in spaces in between the stars that we made before to
make it look unified. You can do them in clusters
of threes and fours, you can do them in a line, whatever your heart desires. And I'm just taking my time. Now, if you have another
stars brush that you prefer, I encourage you to use it. This is just my
personal preference on how I like to
illustrate my skies. I'm also making some
towards the moon as well. And a couple on the sides
and towards the top. We're almost done. I think
that looks pretty good. Now we're going to go into
our layers and hit new layer. Click the box and hit rename. Ma call this flix. When you're done, go to your
brushes and click on Flix. Once you selected flix, we are going to just play
with the brush size, instead of to about 16%, and the opacity is about 70%. Now you're just going to lay it down above the stars
that we just did, and you can do as and
as much as you prefer. I'm doing them in
clusters here and there, just to fill up the
canvas a little bit. And I'm going to zoom
in for a better look. I think that looks pretty good. When we're done with that,
we're going to left swipe on flicks on small
stars and on stars. Then you're going to hit group. This is going to put them all in a small little file that you can always go back to to
condense it, hit the arrow.
5. Falling Stars, Watercolor: All right, so we're going
to make a new layer. We're going to rename
it. Falling stars. You're going to go to
your fine tip brush. And with the color white. We are going to draw
like an S shaped line leaning from the
moon directly to the stars for each star. Just to give an illion that the stars are hanging
from the moon. Perfect. Next, we're going to
go and we're going to swipe left on each layer because we're
going to center them. It's when they're all
blue, you're going to hit the arrow and just drag down to the center
wherever you think looks good. I'm going to move it
down a little bit more. Next, we're going to go to our layers and
add a new layer, it rename, and we're going
to call it watercolor blue. All right. Now, we're going
to go into our colors, and we're going to grab that, that light blue,
and then head to brushes and pick out
Keith's watercolor. Now, you can use
watercolor brush that you have that you like
using for this. You don't have to use mine. The opacity is about 36 and
the brush size is about 29. Then from left to right
in the swooping motion, I'm just going to add color and I'm making the opacity a
bit brighter, like 66. Now I'm concentrating
the color in the middle and I'm trying
to feather out the side. Darker in the middle,
er on the edges. Then I'm also going to overlap it a little bit
on top of the moon. So it looks like a shadow. You can make this as dark
or as light as you prefer. When you're satisfied, we're going to move on
to the next step. Get your smudge tool,
top right hand corner, and I'm using
airbrushing soft brush. I'm just going to use that
to blend out the edges. Size it to about 3% and
opacity is about 80%. Then I'm just going
to smooth out the edges just a little bit. I'm using the same pressure
so I get the same effect. I'm just going back and forth,
just feathering it out. All right. Next, go to your layers
and add new layer. Click the box and hit and call
it watercolor, lime green. Go to your colors and select that lime green
from the palette. We're going to use the
same watercolor brush that we used for the blue. Size is 25, and opacity is. Then I'm just going
to go from left to right, one swooping motion. I'm going to add a
little bit underneath the moon just to give
it like a color pop. Next, go to your smudge tool, the little smudge finger. And size it up a little bit to four or 5% and just smooth
out those lines again. Like how we did the blue. The last thing we're going to do
is we're going to group the two layers
that we just mad. Left swipe on watercolor blue, and then hit group and
then hit new group, rename, and we're going
to call it watercolor. That's it. To condense it, hit the little arrow on
the right hand side.
6. Nebula, Circle Rings, Liquify: All right. We're going to
add a new layer, it rename, and we're going to
call this blue circle. Now, grab your light blue color and go into your
watercolor brush. And we're just going
to size it up a bit. And we're literally
just going to make a circle above the moon. The thumbnail of
the moon, at least. Once you're satisfied,
you're going to go into your smudge tool on the
top right hand corner, and you're just going to out the edges and the middle just
to make it nice and smooth. Perfect. Now hit your layers, and we're going to hit on the n, and we're going to
slide down the opacity, quite a bit till it's about 66%. Next, hit new layer, rename, we're going to call
this one nebula. This is where it gets fun. Now, go to your colors, select your lime green. T. And then go to brushes and go
all the way down to nebula. Now, this is a stamp
brush from procreate. We're going to size
it down to about 67. Then the opacity is like 85. We can always play
with that later. We're going to d it in the middle and I want to
make it a little bigger. I'm going to hit the arrow
on the top left hand corner. Using the drag box, I'm just making it and bigger. It's looking pretty good. Let's head to our layers
and clicking on nebula, you're going to drag
it all the way down between stars and the moon. Looks pretty cool, right? Add a new layer all the way up top and
rename it. Circle rings. Go to your brushes and
click on thylacine. Head to your colors
and find your purple. Now the brush size is
going to be about 16%. Opacity is all the way up, and we're going to
play with that later. Now we're just going to drag
in one swooping motion, making a squiggly
circle around the moon. Don't worry if it's not perfect. If you hold down,
the ellipse tool will come out and make it
a perfect circle for you. Now I want that to be centered, so I'm going to
go to my arrow on my left hand corner and I'm going to move it till it's
centered around the moon. Next, go to layers. Click on n on circle rings, and with the opacity meter, slide it down really low. I have it about 50%, but we can always lower
it later if we'd like. Hit new layer, and rename it. Liquefy. Go to your colors,
click on white, and then your brushes
and select fine tip. We're going to in a bit. I'm just going to
make a long snake going across the bottom area that we colored in
before the water color. It doesn't have to be perfect
because we're going to move it around all
of these lines. But just a general idea, that's
what it should look like. Next, you're going to
go to your one tool. You're going to go
look all the way down the list and find liquefy. We're going to be using
push as well as size 20%, 21, From left to right, we're going to holding down
in one swooping motion. We're just moving
the lines around. I'm doing it on the top as
well. And then on the bottom. This tool is super fun
and very versatile. You can use it in all
different kinds of work. Now I'm just dragging down
the bottoms of the lines. And just moving it around so that way we can
still see the stars, the falling stars
that we made before, and just making it
look like it's water. During the tops of the lines and the bottoms of the lines. I'll zoom out, check it out. I think it looks pretty good. Now, we're going to go
to the same layer and play with the opacity and
we're going to slide it all the way down to a 5%. 7%. S.
7. Finishing Touches: All right. You're
going to head into your layers and add a new layer, and we are going to rename it. Moon green watercolor. I'm just being specific so that way we don't get confused. Now go to your colors
and select lime green, Head to your brushes and
grab your watercolor brush. We're going to size
it down about 45%, and the opacity is about 75. Now, right above
the thumbnail of the moon in a c a shape, we're just going to add a
little bit of lime green. I'm using a very light pressure. I'm also going to
do a little bit on the left hand
side on the top. Now we're going to
add a new layer, and let's rename that. Moon white watercolor. Let's go into your colors. Grab white. Make sure you're
on your watercolor brush. In a little bit. Then I'm just going to add
a little bit of white, make the brush size
quite a bit bigger. I'm going to do that
and redo it again. Just to highlight
what we did before. We're not going to
cover it up because we're going to
lower the opacity. Cover up the work we did before. I'm just going left to right, using a light
pressure up and down. Then we're going to do a
little bit in the center of the moon like a C shape
again towards the top. To give it that pop. And then a little bit
towards the bottom. Now you hit the end and slide that you pass any meter
down until you like it. If it's too bright for you, you can totally slide
it down to 23%. We're going to hit a new layer
and rename it moon dust. I'm going to grab that
light lime green, and go to fine tip in brushes. L et's zoom in. Opacity is 100%. The brush size is 100%, and we're just going
to make scattered dots in an S shape again, leading from the moon across the circle rings and into
the darkness of the sky. I just feel like this ties
everything together a bit. Like all the colors. You can do as many or
as few as you'd like. I'm also going to do it on
the left hand side as well. Up and down motions. Now, I like using
the technical pen because you get a variety
of sizes and shapes. I'm also going to do a
couple of dots like below. Just like that.
8. Thank you!: Congratulations. You
finished the class. I hope you enjoyed
creating and learning. I can't wait to see
what you all made. Make sure to upload
your finished moonscape to the projects gallery. Here, I can provide feedback,
encouragement, and support. Thank you so much
for taking my class, and I hope to see
you again soon. Bye.
Caitlin Lawrence, Digital Illustrator + Designer
