The Power of Procreate - A beginners guide for drawing greenhorns

1. Hello & Welcome: Have you ever seen these stunning time-lapse videos about the drawing process on the iPad? What if I tell you, you can also do this? And you say: but I can't draw. Than: welcome to my class, the power of Procreate. Hi, my name is Nici, and I started drawing just six years ago. I've always been creative in my life, but more with different handicrafts than with drawing. Six years ago, I wanted to sew some clothes for my kids, and thanks to social media, I came across a posting where somebody described how to design my own fabric for sewing. This posting changed my whole life. I had an office job during the days and used every free minute to train my new design skills. And guess what? Today, I'm a licensed and teaching illustrator and pattern designer. So you never know! I started with procreate a bit more than two years ago. And this was the second milestone in my creative journey. Since then, I hardly ever draw on any other medium than on my iPad. Procreate comes up with a lot of cool features that supports your magically. Let me show you. I'll guide you slowly through all the basics and all the possibilities. And by the way, you learn how to impress with just simple drawing objects. In this class, you'll learn about dealing with layers using the Liquify tool and Assisted Drawing and many more. By the end of this class, you will have a collection of three joyful illustrations. This class is best suited for beginners in procreate and in drawing. But if you're a more experienced artist who wants to learn about Procreate, you are also welcome for sure. Feel free to put more details in your drawings and follow your own personal style. I want you to enjoy this class with no pressure. Your goal shouldn't be to create the perfect masterpiece, but to have fun. Are you ready? I'm glad you are here. Grab your equipment, and let's get started. 2. Your Projects: We are going to create three different projects. In Project one, we will warm up by using different brushes to get a feeling for the pencil and for drawing on the screen. Then we are going to play around with marbling techniques and create a unique pattern which we can add to a text. Project two is a fun one. We will draw a fruity Mandala and use Procreate's magically drawing assistant. We will make simple fruit shapes and add some texture on top. With this simple trick, your illustration gets more character and personality. And finally, protects three is a classic. We will draw a colorful floral bouquet ready to use for upcoming Mother's Day or a birthday card. I'd like to encourage you to upload your finished pieces to the projects gallery by clicking the green Create Project button in the projects and resources tab. I'd love to see it and give you feedback. If you have any questions, please reach out in the discussion section. 3. Helpful supplies: Drawing on the iPad is a totally different feeling than drawing on paper. You have to get used of it. Especially if you're new to this. There are some possibilities to help you with your first steps. The iPad screen is stick straight and slippery. You have two ways to overcome this problem. One a screen protector and two a little hat for your pencil tip. Let's talk about the screen protector first. There are a lot of products out there, from cheap to expensive and summarized: You have to try it out yourself and find your ideal support. Bulletproof glass protects your iPad screen optimally, but it doesn't help you with the slippery. And it reflects the light a lot. I use a mat foil instead. It's very cheap and a link you all my products in the resources section. With a mat protector the iPad is less slippery and it simulates a drawing on paper feeling. Another big advantage is that it's anti glare, so you can use your iPad also outsides. I mean, it's not a miracle product. If it's very sunny, the sunlight reflects also on this foil, but it's much better than on a class. Another possibility is a silicon tip for your pencil. You can put it on and off quickly and it gives you a smooth feeling while drawing. Especially in my beginnings, this helped me a lot to get used to drawing on the screen. Pen tips come in multi packs and have different colors. They are very cheap. I love to spread the world with color. And funny gadgets are always nice to look at. If you like, you can put a dress on your pencil or give him an ergonomic grip. 4. Warm up: In this video, we are going to talk about the Procreate surface and how to navigate here. And then we're going to test some brushes. When you open Procreate, you come to the gallery. Here, you can find all of your created artwork so far. And I tell you all about organizing your work later on. Let's warm up first. In the top right corner, you can find the little plus icon. Click this and you can create a new Canvas. There are different options pre-installed, and I tell you later on, for now, simply select Screen Size and a new canvas opens, which is in the dimension of your screen size. In Procreate, you can navigate with your pencil and also with your finger or more fingers. With two fingers on the screen, you can zoom out, zoom in. You can turn your Canvas in different angles and positions. When you quickly pinch two fingers together on the screen, the Canvas positions 100 percent to screen again. But I prefer making my canvas a bit smaller. So I can see all of my borders. Now, click on the little brush icon on the top right corner. There we have the brushes library. There are a lot of great brushes that are pre-installed. And they are categorized in different mediums. We can find ink brushes, brushes for sketching or calligraphy, or different textures. Some brushes have crisp borders, others are more loose, some are transparent. And often the brushes are sensitive by pressure or the angle of your Apple pencil. On the top right corner, you have a little dot. In my case, it's black, but in your case, it may have another color. Click this circle, and you will come to the color tool. I suggest using the view disk. On the outer ring you can choose your color. In the middle circle you can choose the saturation from light to dark. Over there, on the left, you can select the size of your brush. And on the bottom, the opacity of your brush. And I suggest that you take some time now to try out different brushes and colors and this size settings and opacity. And maybe you can find your favorite brushes. You have made your first steps now. Meet me in the next video to start with our first project. 5. Liquify tool: In this video, we start with our first project and we'll talk about the Liquify tool. I've created a fun color palette for you, which you can download in the resources and project section. Save it somewhere on your iPad. And if you click on the downloaded file, it will automatically import into procreate. You can find this palette under the colored dot. Under Palettes. And normally it installs at the bottom of all your palettes. And you can see, I have a lot of palettes as I love to try out color combinations. And there are three little dots. And when you hold them, you can shift your palette to the top. OK. There we have our color palette, but feel free to choose whatever colors you like. Okay, let's start with our first project, the marbling technique. And if you'd like to keep your scribbling, your first scribblings, then go back to the gallery and create a new canvas. But in my case, I don't want to keep this. And there's a cool little trick, how you can get lost of all of your scribbles. You can swipe quickly with three fingers over your canvas. And your layer gets cleared totally and your scribbles or deleted. Remember, if you'd like to undo this, you can always go back with the little arrow. But in my case is it's okay to delete it. Okay. Our first step in our first project is to fill your layer with these colors or colors you like. Quickly. Fill in your Canvas with different dots. You can get loose with this. Your dots don't have to be in a specific form. Okay. Have you filled all of your canvas with different colors? Now, let's start with the fun part. Over there on the left, you have the little magic wand icon. Click it and down that list you find liquify. And here you have different settings how we can mix and match these different spots together. The size controls, how big is the area that gets liquified. The pressure determines how strong your chosen effect will be depending on the pressure you take on your pencil. Distortion give some chaotic elements into your effect. And momentum means how long the liquification goes on after you lift your pencil. Let's play around with the different options. With push you can push color to the left and to the right, or somewhere you like. You can even swirl it a bit. And you have the twirl settings left and right. And if you keep your pencil on the screen, you get this little twirlings. When you reduce the pressure the twirling gets even slower and not so strong as the other time. You can pinch together. Or you can expand. With the crystals... I take the pressure up. ...you get this nice little... I don't know how to describe - electronic vibes maybe. And I don't know what edges does exactly. I don't use that too much. When you click reconstruct and click on a specific area, all the changing you have made in this specific area of the brush size, gets back again to where you came from. Play around till you find something you like. Under adjust you can undo your steps in a slow way. Till the beginning. If you press reset, all of your changing, get lost and you can't redo it! And you have to start again! If you'd like, you can get out of this liquify mode by clicking either the magic wand tool or the pencil. There, you're back. And you can for example add some more color. I think I will add some black here and there. And try again to liquify. Okay. I like what I've created. Now. It's time for some extra lessons. And I tell you all about layers in the next video. 6. ALL about LAYERS: In this lesson, I tell you all about layers, what they are, and why we use them. What actions can be taken on layers and what the **** is a clipping mask? In Procreate, we work in different layers. And what that means, let me demonstrate you. I choose to inka brush, in inking and make a dot on the canvas. And then with... take the green one, a second dot. Okay. What if I like now the dark dot in front of the green dot? Then the only way would be, no, there are two ways. You can take the black again and draw over the green one. But it wouldn't be the same then before. The second method would be to take the eraser and delete the green part and then draw the black again. But it's also not very comfortable to work that way. Okay, Let's try an other technique. I go back till I have my black dot. And here comes the Layer menu. Over there on the top right, you find the two overlapping squares. Click that. And here is the Layer menu. We have our black dot on layer one. There is the background layer. This is a special layer in which you only can choose the color of your background. Or you can turn it off or on. That's all. And we can create with the little plus on the top right corner another layer that opens above layer one. And now we can choose the green color, make the dot again. And then we have total control. We can, with the little checkmark on the right, we can turn off a layer. Or with a long press on the layer, we can shift them. We can even take the green dot. And here's a little arrow. And we can shift the dots around. Or rotate it, flip it, make it smaller, without changing the black dot. Cool, isn't it? And we have also the possibility, here is on the right, the little "N" click that. The "N" stands for normal, which means that the layer, the view of the layer is in normal mode. And here you have different blending modes. And with these blending modes, you can create some unexpected versions of your illustrations. You have to try it out. On the top. You have the opacity, which is in this case at the max. You can also take this little blue dot and swipe it to the left to reduce the opacity. Now you can also see the black dot shining underneath. Let's take the opacity back again to maximum. There are several more options you have on your layers. You can click on this little preview. Here you have the menu. You can rename your layer. I like to rename this not with the pencil, but with my fingers. Here is the keyboard. Let's type green And layer one. Rename. Black, okay. You can also clear your layer, which means that you delete all that is on that layer. And you can merge it down. So the two dots are on one layer. When you swipe the marked layer to the left, you have other options. Here, you can delete the whole layer or you can duplicate it, for example. And take the second dot and shift it to the right. Or you can lock the layer. And now you are not able to change this layer until you unlock it. So if you try to draw again on this layer, which doesn't work, and there's a warning saying you have to locked layer selection. You can open your Layers menu. And then with the swipe to the left again, can unlock this again. Then you can draw again on this layer. This is very helpful in case you have, let's say, some sketching and don't want to draw on your sketching by mistake. You can lock this layer and make your painting on a separate layer. Okay, I delete my second "green" again and show you an other cool trick. When you click on the green preview again, you can choose the option clipping mask. And what that does is very cool. It clips your layer to the layer below. And now only the parts of the green are visible that are overlapping with the black shape. You can always turn off the clipping mask and the green dot is here again. And you can turn on the clipping mask again. And you can go further with your drawings. But now you can only draw within the shape of the black dot. And the brush stroke stops automatically when you cross the border of the black shape. That's a very helpful function. And I use this all the time. Now that you know all about layers, let's get back to our project number one and clip our marbling pattern to a fun text. 7. Add text: In this video, you'll gonna learn how to add some text and fill the text with our marbling pattern. Let's use this Clipping Mask technique to fill this nice pattern in a fun lettering. And the little wrench icon on the top-left under add, you find add text. Type "have fun". When you double-click on the text, you can select it all. And when you click here on the bottom, the double AA, you come to the fonts menu. On the left, you can choose from different pre-installed fonts. I suggest using a font that is quite bold and has crisp borders, so our pattern fits in the best. And I suggest taking the "Eina 01". Make it bold. And do you remember with the two fingers, you can always zoom out of your canvas. And I'd like to zoom out now. So I can see all of my canvas. Now take the little blue dots in this text field and make your text field bigger. Till the border. Double-click again to select all of the text. And again the AA, you come back to your menu. And now I think the bold. And now take the size up. And I like to make it uppercase. With one finger on the side, you can move your lettering and move it till it's centered. And than click done. And now we have the Layers menu over there on the right. And use the clipping mask technique. Therefore, take the layer one with our marbling pattern, shift it to the top. Press on the preview. And then choose clipping mask. And there we have our fun lettering. And in the next video, we'll fill up the gaps with some details to finalize our fun lettering. 8. Add details to your lettering: In this video, we'll create a little shadow under our text and use the gaussian blur for that. We'll learn about when our text gets rasterized and draw some details in to finalize our project one. Okay, that's quite cool. But I think there's room for improvement. For example, I don't like this big gap between the two words. And you can change this when you go to your Layers menu and choose the layer with the lettering, you come direct to your text menu. Double-click on the text again to select all. And then with the AA, you come back to your fonts menu. Here in the middle, you have the leading. And when you take the little blue dot and move it to the left, the gap gets smaller. Click Done. Okay, much better. With the little arrow on the top left you can select the whole lettering. And with one finger, you can again move it till it's about in the middle. Okay, press the button again. And now let's decorate the border. If you like. You can create a little shadow behind your lettering. So you can create a nice 3D effect. Click the Layer menu and swipe the layer to the left. There you can duplicate the layer. This is the layer where the pattern is clipped on. This is a layer behind. When you click the move tool, you can move your lettering a bit right and down. So the sun is from here. And we take the shadow this way. Press the arrow again. If you'd like, you can make your shadow a bit more blurry. So it's not that hard. For this choose the Magic Wand Tool. And click Gaussian blur. When you turn on the Gaussian blur, the text layer gets rasterized automatically, which means that your layer is not a text layer anymore, but it's an image. So if you like to change your text after that, the only possibility would be to write the text again or copy from the layer above. And when you swipe with your pencil to the right, at the moment is zero per cent. And when they swipe to the right, the percentage goes up and the borders of the letters get blurry. I like my shadow at about six per cent. Fine. When you click on your layer again. And do you remember? Under the little "N"? You can reduce your opacity and then make it a bit less, about 55 percent. Much better. But there's always room for improvement. I suggest decorating our borders with simple spots and stripes. And let's see what will happen. I choose different colors, and make some big spots in the corners. I think this might be a nice one for that. So let's create a new layer that is on top and make the decoration. Now I'd like to make some striped borders. And if you like, you can add some more confetti and streamers. If you've made a spot or streamer, you don't like very much, you always have the possibility to use the eraser tool. And the eraser is the opposite of the brush tool. You can also choose from different brushes to erase with. So for example, you can choose this striped brush, which I don't know how to pronounce and erase some parts of your borders. Or decoration. Or you take a more solid brush and erase the whole dot. Congratulations. You've finished your first project and I love to see what you've created. So please upload it to the project gallery. And I give you feedback. Now that you've finished your first project, it's time for some extra lessons now. And I tell you all about how to export your artwork in the next video. 9. ALL about EXPORT: In this lesson, you'll learn all about exporting your artwork and how to create some amazing time-lapse videos. For sure, you can also export your work and create, for example, a jpeg you can upload to your social media. Or make a PSD file and export it to Photoshop. You'll find the exporting functions under the little wrench icon, under share. There you have the possibilities. You can download, for example the procreate file to save it somewhere on your Cloud or somewhere else. You can make a PSD document, a PDF, or a JPEG. Just click on it. And you can airdrop it to your Mac. You can save it in your Media Gallery, or you can save the file as a JPEG. We've done so many steps till now and the surprise is, all you've done so far was recorded automatically. And here under the wrench icon, there is the video section. And you can make a time-lapse replay. And you can see in short form the steps you've done to create this artwork. And you can also export this video to upload it, for example, to social media. So go to the video. And here is the export time-lapse video. And here you have the possibility to save the video in full length or only the first thirty seconds. The reason why this video was recorded is because this little bar is turned to the right, that's activated. This is the time-lapse recording. You can always take this recording off. But be aware, you get asked if you'd like to delete the existing video that was recorded till now. Or when you click "Don't purge", the video gets saved in the background. And now, when you now take further steps, they won't get recorded. And when you take it on again, the recording will go further. Now you know how to export your work and how to create these amazing time-lapse videos. Meet me in the next lesson for a dive deep into Canvas settings. 10. ALL about CANVAS SETTINGS: In this lesson, we talk all about Canvas settings. We talk about how to choose the perfect size for your artwork and how this decision relates to the amount of layers you have. And finally, we talk about color profiles. When you create complex illustrations with a lot of colors and details, you'll probably create a lot of layers to have the total control over your designs. The more layers you use, the more possibilities you have depending changes on your work. By clicking the little plus icon on the top right corner. You create a new canvas. There you have a few pre-installed possibilities. And here you can see some that I've created myself. On the top right corner, you have this little black rectangle with the little plus in it. And when you click that, you come to your Canvas settings. Under dimensions, you can choose the size of your Canvas. You can select between pixels, inches, centimeters, millimeters. And let's say, for demonstration, we create 3,000 by 3,000. And here you have to DPI. Dpi means dots per inch, and it describes the image quality. I never work under 300 DPI. And in case you would like to print out your artwork or license it on products, you shouldn't go under these 300 DPI. Depending on your width and height and your DPI, you have a certain amount of maximum layers, in this case, 55. I always like to create as big as I can to have good-quality. But I also need a good number of layers. So these settings are quite important and you have to choose wisely. Under color profile, you find two main color profiles. RGB and CMYK. RGB are the colors that are given on screens on your computer, your iPad, or your phone. And it's a bright color palette. And CMYK is how printers interpret colors. These profiles include less colors, and they are also not as saturated as the colors in RGB. I normally go with sRGB, with this one. And if I sell or license a certain designed to a company which uses a CMYK profile, I can always change to that. When you create an artwork in CMYK, changing later to RGB wouldn't work. It wouldn't make a difference. But it's always okay to make it the other way from RGB to CMYK. And here under time-lapse settings, you can set the quality for the time-lapse video that is recorded in the background. And here, under Canvas settings, you can choose now your background color or you can always make that later, or you can turn off your background. In this lesson, you learned all about Canvas settings. Meet me in the next lesson to explore the color tool. 11. ALL about COLOR TOOL: In this lesson, we're going to talk all about the color tool. How to create your own color palettes with the color picker and the harmony tool. When you click on the colored dot in the top right corner, you come to your color tool. We've already talked about the palettes. You can organize your palettes by holding the three little dots and shifting them around. And of course, you can create your own color palettes. Click the little plus icon on the top right corner. And there you have different options. For now, let's click "Create new palette", and an empty palette opens. You can create your own color palette by when you go to your disk menu and choose a specific color. This is chosen. And by clicking here in your color palette, you save this specific color. And you can go on to choose colors and click them in your palette. Here is your palette. You can of course, rename it by clicking on the little untitled word and tip some "test" or whatever you like to name your palette. And you can also delete a swatch you've already saved, or move it around. Or you can move the whole palette to another place. Let's take the green back again. If you like, you can share your created color palette as I shared my "greenhorns" palette with you. And therefore you have to click on the three little dots. And here is the Share button. And the palette exports. And you can save it somewhere on your iPad or in your Cloud. Let's delete our created color palette and create a new one. Imagine you've found a photo or an image on social media, or you took a photo you like because of its colors. And you like to save these colors from this image. Then go to the little wrench icon and click "Add". And you can insert a file or photo. I take the file. Because I saved in downloads this little image, which I found on Pinterest. And I like it, because of its colors. They are quiet in my style and they are bold and sunny and they give a good mood. And now you can take the colors from this image. Go to your Color tool. When you take one finger and press it long on your image, you see this circle and this tiny little plus within the circle, there you choose your colors. I like this sunny gold. And I can save it in my palette. And choose a turquoise. Save it. And the light blue. I think the turquoise is quite too bright. So I delete it again and take another one. Better. It's a nice color palette. And let's rename it by clicking on the untitled palette and type sunny, whatever, waves. Okay, and now you can share it. And there are also some other options. Here, on the bottom line, you already have seen the disk menu and you can also choose the classic view. We are, you can here choose your color. And here in the square, your saturation. And of course you can also click it in your active palette. And here is a little history. It's also helpful sometimes where you have your last 10 colors you have used and you can always clear it. So it's empty again. But I don't know why I should do this. If you have a specific color you'd like to use and you have the hex code from that color, you can go to value. And here is the possibility to type in your hex code. Or, and this is very helpful sometimes, you can go to harmony. And if you have problems to choose specific colors or you don't know which colors harmonize together. You can go to the harmony tool and choose for example a Color And then you have, we have triadic view. We choose the little blue. There you have the two colors that are harmonizing in that triadic way with the blue one. And you can save it by clicking on that and save it to your palette. Or you can choose a different option instead of triadic. There are also complimentary. So you have the complement color to your lime green or split complimentary. So, here you can click through and see what the different options do. Now that you know how to pick colors. Meet me in the next lesson to talk about how to drop them in your artwork. 12. ALL about COLOR DROP: In this lesson, we go further with picking some colors and then we drop it into some shapes. And in this way, we can also change colors of existing artwork. In this way, you can also drop the colors from your drawings. So we have now the orange chosen. And if you like to draw further with the yellow one, you can go, instead of going to the palette and choosing the other color. You can hold on this yellow and paint with that. Or on the green. And here comes another cool function: When you have a closed shape, and that's important, but more later. You can simply take your color from your color tool and turn it in and your shape is filled. That's also a huge time-saver. As said, it is important to close your shape. So for example, if you draw your circle, but leave a tiny little bit open and you take the color and drop it in. It fleets over the borders because it's not closed. So close it, do it again. And now the color has filled. If you'd like to use a more textured brush, like the little pine under drawing. Let's make it bigger. And you try to drop it in. Oops, what happened? We've closed our shape. It's totally closed everywhere. But the color fleets over the borders. Let's go back and try again. When you drop your color in, leave it there on the screen. And there we have to threshold. And at the moment, I have 94 percent threshold. Move your pencil to the left and the percentage goes down. And now the circle shows again. And if you have it at about 86 per cent, the overfleeding stops. Dropping your color in, when you use a textured brush may not have a satisfied result. Because you have your textured outer line, but not in the middle. So to be honest, if I like to use that texted brush, I will draw it in. It can feel quite meditative to fill in with the pencil. With this color drop function, you can also change the colors of your drawing shapes. So in that case, we have the yellow dot over there. And I would like to make it green now. So go to your Color tool, choose the green. Go back and drop that in. And you've changed your color. Are you ready for an other cool information? So I said with the color tool, you can click in and you have your history where you can choose the color before Or the last time we had the yellow and now we choose the green when we hold long on the colored dot, it changes to the color we had before. In the last both lessons you learned so much about colors. In the next video, we'll explore the amazing drawing assist. 13. ALL about ASSISTED DRAWING: In this lesson, we talk about assisted drawing. How to set up your drawing guide to use the symmetry tool. Procreate offers a lot of functions that help you save your time and go quicker in your drawing process. Imagine you would like to draw a beautiful butterfly. So the one-half of the butterfly is the same as the other half, but it's mirrored. And there you have to function in Procreate. The drawing assistant. Go to the little wrench icon, under Canvas. You can choose the drawing guide. Turn it on. Okay, and you see now this little grid in the background. Here is edit drawing guide. And here you can make some selections. At the moment, the 2D Grid option is chosen. That shows, you have a little grid in the background. It's only a guide. So you can click Done. And you have this little grid here. And the layer is empty. But you can draw now on the grid to have some guide. And turn the drawing guide off, and the grid is vanished. So that's one possibility to guide you. Or you can choose the symmetry tool. And this is the exciting one. Here you can on the top choose the color of your mirror axis. Choose a color you don't use much in your illustrations. So you can see it on the canvas. But I leave mine black, so you can see it the best. You can also turn on the opacity or the thickness of your guide, but it's okay to leave it quite thin. And here are the options. On the bottom, right. At the moment, the vertical axis is chosen. Which means when you draw in the right half of this canvas, all your draw here is mirrored in the other half. Or you can choose horizontal, or quadrant. So all you throw in one... It doesn't matter in which half you draw. So all you draw in one, in one rectangle is mirrored in the other three rectangles. And you have the radial option, which is quite amazing if you like to draw mandalas. Let's try out the vertical option. Click Done. And here you have your mirror axis. So all you draw here, for example, let's draw some kind of butterfly. And all you draw here is the same on the other side, but mirrored. Of course you can draw here too, and it mirrors here. So that offers quite a lot of options you draw with that. Let me show some examples from my work. Do you remember the three fingers swiping quickly on your Canvas? You can clear your canvas. Let's go back to editing our drawing guide. Go back to your options. And there's a little more option here. Here's the rotational symmetry. When you turn it on, let's see what that does. I try to create a butterfly again. Okay. Can you see? It shifts all you've drawn here is mirrored in this way. So it shifts to the other side, not flipping. And go back to your drawing guide. And let's try out the quadrant. Click Done. Let's draw here, or here. Or you can go from the center. It's quite amazing to watch, isn't it? And that offers so many possibilities. Before we go over to our second project, let me introduce you, in the next video to the quick shape function. 14. ALL about QUICK SHAPE: In this video, let's talk about how to draw perfect shapes with the quick shape function. If you are like me and have a shaky hand, you will love what I show you the next. So if you like to draw a straight line with the shaky hand, it may look like this. Procreate comes up with the quick shape function, which means, let's delete this terrible line. When you draw the line and remain with your pencil on the canvas, on the screen. The quick shape function activates and it straightens your line. Let me show you. Draw your line. Remain on screen. And the line turns straight. Amazing, isn't it? I love that and I use that all the time. If you'd like to draw a straight line that's perfect parallel to your borders, you can also do this. So draw it about parallel and then it turns straight. And when you take one finger and click, I remain still with my pencil on the screen, and hold one finger on screen, the line goes perfect parallel to your border. But there are not only lines you can create with quick shape, you can also create circles. Make some kind of circle. Hold the pencil and it turns not straight, but curvy. We leave it here. And there we have the ellipse with the little triangle. Click here. And you have the possibility to, there are four little blue dots in here. You can shift them around, turn it bigger or smaller, or move it. You can move it somewhere else. Or you can switch to circle. It jumps back to your first position where you've drawn the circle and makes the circle perfect. Let's see in the next video. And let's create a fruity Mandela together. 15. Sketch a Fruity Mandala: It's time for project 2. Let's create a fruity Mandala together. In this video, I'd like to create the sketch for our fruity Mandela and I suggest not creating it in a rectangle Canvas like our last protect, but in a square form. So it's more typical for the Mandala. Therefore, click the little plus icon on the top right. And by clicking the black rectangle, you can create your very own Canvas setting. And I suggest typing 3,000, by 3,300, with DPI. If you have an iPad than mine, then the maximum amount of layers may be different from mine, but I have 55. Click Create. Let's turn on our drawing assistant. Click the little wrench icon. Drawing guide on, edit drawing guide, choose symmetry. And in the options, the quadrant. And I like to create it rotational symmetry. Click Done. I like to make my sketches with a dark color. And with sketching, the 6B pencil. Okay. Let's check the size of the brush. That's good. I like to draw a little strawberry field in the middle. And therefore, I take my pencil from the center and make a little bow. It doesn't matter if it's perfect or not. In the next video, we will use the sketch only for a drawing guide and draw on another layer are nearly perfect illustration. So, and there we make a strawberry. A kind of rectangle with round corners. And make some zig zags for the leaves. And some dots. Cool. We can add another smaller strawberry over here and add some leaves. And I make a triangle with zigzag borders. And you can also go over this mirror axis. Because we had the rotational mirroring activated. So it turns over the next axis, OK. Let's add an apple over there. Like that, kind of open ellipse. And the second on the other side. And the stem. If you like, you can add a leaf on the apple. And we can add a pear over there. Take the eraser and roughly erase what you don't want to have. Go to brush. Make a little stem. Let's add an orange over there. So, make a circle. Leave the pencil on the screen to make it perfect. And we can make some, I don't know what this is called, but you know, you see what I'm doing. And the corner is still free. And there we can add a cherry. Let's add a cherry. Make it somewhere here. And the cherry. Okay, and let's add a leaf that turns down, and maybe a small one in the corner. I don't like this leaves. I go, I undo them. And maybe I undo the cherry. Make only one cherry with the stem. And two smaller leaves. I think it's better. Okay, that's pretty. Let's meet in the next video to create our illustration. 16. Illustrate the Mandala: Okay, Let's draw our illustrations now. Therefore, go to your Layers menu. And here is the sketch. And I like to have the sketch with less opacity. So it doesn't disturb me too much while drawing over it, or better said under it. So I leave it on the top so I can always see my sketch and I draw underneath. To not draw on our sketch layer by mistake. We can lock that layer. Swipe to the left on the layer. And there you can lock it. And let's create another layer and take it underneath the sketch layer. When I create this kind of illustrations, I always create one layer for one color. So let's take Layer 2 as our green layer, where we only fill in our green parts, the leaves and the stems, for example. Let's begin with the green ones. I think I like to take the turquoise instead and make the leaves with the turquoise. But you can also choose this green or this, or some other green you like. And I choose the studio pen under inking. So it's a solid brush with clear strokes. And I prefer drawing the shapes with clear strokes and then adding the texture over the shape instead of drawing with a textured brush the whole illustration. Do you remember from the assisted drawing video, you have to turn on your Drawing Assist on every single layer. So if you draw without activating, you draw only one stroke. And when you go to Drawing Assist, it works. Okay. So I take my studio brush a little smaller, about eight per cent. Yeah, it's a good size. And then draw, try to draw a straight bow for the strawberry. It's always a good choice to draw as quick as you can. So there's not much time to get your hand shaking. And our sketch, I said it's only a rough sketch. So if it don't make it perfect on your sketch, that's totally fine. So here in the center there's a little dot, I fill it. We don't want to have this. Make it nice. Okay. Draw the leaves from the strawberry. If you like, you can draw within the shapes to add the color. If you'd like to have some meditation. Or you can color drop it. And here is another cool trick. Drop the color in and over there is continue filling.. Oh, you have to do this very quick. Okay, I go back. Show you again, drop in, continue filling and the color drop is still activated. And now you only have to click within the shape. And the color drops in there too. And when you're done, click the check mark. OK. Let's draw the stem for the other strawberry. And also the leaves. Color drop, again. Continue... Cool. And I see some white spots in these corners. So even if you take your thresholds quiet to the maximum, these corners will still remain. So I always check after filling, if there are some spots and simply draw over them. Let's draw the leaf. Double-check the corners. I don't like top. Refine it a bit. And there is the leaf on the apple. And also the stem. I do it in this color. The studio pen, which we've chosen is a sensitive brush by pressing the pencil. So if you only draw slightly, it's a small size. And when you press heavy, it gets bigger. So it's cool for the stems, you can make it small at the beginning and press harder and make it a bigger size on the end. And the leaf. We can also make the leaf a bit overlapping over the apple. Think this would look pretty. I think it's better. So, we close this gap over there and fill it with the leaf. Drop in. Check. Fine. And the cherry. You can also make a bow with the quick shape. So make it, hold and the bow makes perfect. It's an arch, and you can edit it also. Make the leaves. And there is the stem for the pear. Let's choose the background color the next, I think it would be best to take these cream on a background. Cool. We add an other layer and go further with another color. Remember, always click on the drawing assist. And this time, we draw the strawberries. And I choose this red one, and draw over the strawberries. Fill in. And you'll see, we have covered the leaves. This is because we've made the layer over the leafs layer, over the green layer. And let's shift the red layer under the green one. And there we have our leaves. Take the other strawberry. And there is the cherry, which might also be red. Let's make the apple next. I choose this lime green, create another layer. Turn the drawing assist on. An draw the apple. Let's create the pear next. And the lime. Let's turn off our sketching layer now. We can check if our Mandala works. And I think, it looks quite pretty. Meet me in the next video to add some details and textures on top. 17. Add details to the Mandala: Let's add some amazing textures and details to finalize our fruity Mandala. Go to your Layers menu. And I like to have my details on a separate layer. Turn the drawing assist on. And I like to have the spots in the strawberries. So I take the layer over my red layer and draw with the same as the background layer. You can also erase this part. But I like to draw it in. So maybe I would like to change the color later. Okay, and I think I like to have,... Let's use our pencil, our 6B pencil, which we used for the sketch and make the dots with that. And for the cherry, we can make a kind of blending over there, from the sunlight. Okay, I think, we have done the red layer. So let's go further with our green layer and there is the apple. Let's see what we can do with the apple. Maybe, the apple needs some texture. So we can turn on. Oh, I forgot. For sure. We have to turn on the Drawing Assist and additional, we can turn on the clipping mask. And I think I like to have some, some shading on the bottom. And maybe I take the red color. Let's try out, and I use this quite often, the spray paints and the medium nozzle. Than go outside the shape, because it's quite big. You can always reduce the opacity on this layer. But you can also try out the different blending modes. See what this does. I like this one. Make it bigger. Let's go to the pear. I create another layer that's above the yellow layer. Turn drawing assist on and choose the clipping mask. And this time I choose the lime green. I use again the spray paints and the medium nozzle and create a texture. On this side. And also on the bottom. And for now, I leave to lime as it is. And I go over to my leaves layer to add some details. So, create a layer above our leaves layer. Turn on drawing assist and already the clipping mask. And then I take again inking, studio pen and create some veins in the leaves. And the leaves for the strawberries, I think I add the texture with the color from the background. So I switch the background color and make here the veins. Make it a bit curvy. So it's more interesting. Let's add some more details in the strawberry leaves. If you like, you can add some more details. So let's create a layer on the top and make the core in the apple. Oh, what have I forgot? I forgot to turn on the Drawing Assist. Maybe make the second one the other way around, to create some more interest. I'd love to see what you've created, especially your details. And I suggest that you upload it to your project gallery so I can see it. I'd love to see it. Now that you've finished your project 2, It's time for another lesson. Let's talk about gestures in the next video. 18. ALL about GESTURES: Let's talk about some basic gestures in this video. And how you can avoid making unexpected speckles on your artwork. When you click on the little wrench icon, you have on the top, the preferences. Click on there. And there, down there, you can change here a lot. But down there, you have the gesture controls. Click on that. And if you go down this list, you have general. And in your case maybe this bar for enabled painting with finger is on. And in my case, I'd like to turn this off. And this means, I can't draw, choose a color, I can't draw with my finger, only with my pencil. So I can't make, when I go with my hand over the screen, I can't produce any unexpected dots here and there. To show the difference, I turn it on, Done. So maybe I lean my hand on the screen and create some speckles with the back of my hand. I turn this off and make all my drawings with my pencil. The gestures, you can take on the screen and not involved in this. So your gestures always work. For example, with the fingers swiping quickly over the canvas, it clears the layer. There are some more other gestures, I like to show you now. For example, I said, when I make a brush stroke, you can undo it with this little arrow. And you can also undo it with two of your fingers clicking. And it's done. And if you like to redo it, you can take three fingers. Click, and it's here again. And when you make more strokes. And you'd like to undo, you can do it by clicking with two fingers over and over and over and over. Or you can do it by holding your fingers long and it undoes in a quick way. And redo, also the same. You can hold long with three fingers and all gets redone. The next video is all about selecting and transforming some elements. 19. ALL about SELECT & TRANSFORM: In this lesson, we're going to talk about how to select elements, to transform them and how you can cut and paste. Let's say you would like to move only this one stroke. So you can go to this icon on the top-left. Choose freehand. And then you can go around to shape, take the Move tool, and then you can shift your selection. You can also, by taking the little blue dots, make it bigger, smaller, or with the green dot over there, you can rotate your stroke. And here are some more options, for example, when you take one blue dot, it resizes by uniform or you can resize by freeform. So, we can make it in this direction and this separately. You can also flip it, or rotate it with 45 degrees. If you like to duplicate the stroke, you have also the possibility to take again this little wrapping icon. Go over your shape. And then with three fingers swiping down. Then there is another menu which you can, in which you can choose your copy and paste functions. You can cut it out the stroke. You can copy it. You can copy all of your layer or you can duplicate. Try this. And now it's duplicated. That means it took the stroke and made a second copy on a single layer. So you can move it down. There you have the two strokes. Or, you can select it again, take your three fingers, swipe down and you can say cut and paste. So this takes the stroke from your main layer and moves it to a separate layer. We are done with all the theory now. Let's use the next few lessons to create our third and largest project, where we sum up all we have learned. 20. Sketch Florals: Let's go over finally to our project number three. In this video, we're going to sketch some floral elements. Take the plus icon, create a new canvas and I suggest taking the same than before. So, somewhere in your listings might be the 3,000 by 3,000 pixels. For the floral bouquet we need some blooms and we need some leaves. Let's try out some blooms shapes first. So therefore, again, take your, under sketching, the 6B pencil and a dark color and try to create different blooms shapes. And we start easy. So, for example, you can draw a circle in the middle. And the basic one might be a kind of a daisy with five leaves. And a more advanced one might be ... as a guide, you can make a circle in the middle. And I'd like to make it a bit more unstructured. You can erase your inner line, guideline, or leave it. It's just a sketch. I choose this form and shifted a bit down. Than draw a circle around this. Make it perfect. And by clicking here, I can shift it. So this is in the middle. And my circle around is just a guide. And now I make the petals. So let's make smaller one, a big one, but slim. I create the top first. And then the bottom. I always do it this way. So I can't insert some shifting to one direction. They don't need to be exactly. So make it, or try to make it randomly. And we can create a third one, a more advanced one. I make a triangle on the top and make the pedals turning down. Again, try to make it randomly. The pedals can overlap and differ in size. Now that we have the basic shapes for our blooms, we need some leaves to fill up our bouquet. For that, turn off your layer with the blooms and create a new layer. And then let's draw some leaf shapes. I make one big. And then one with thick round leaves. And again, try to make it randomly so the leaves don't have to be perfect and vary in size or in direction of the small leaves. I like it a bit smaller, so we don't need to make it that big on that canvas. The move tool. Take the blue dot on the corner and make it a bit smaller, shift it. Okay. Then I'll make another one with more round leaves. Like that. Let's create another one. A long leave with curvy shapes on the edges. Okay. That's all for now. We have finished our sketching for the floral bouquet. Meet me now in the next class to create the illustrations. 21. Illustrate Leaves: In this video we're gonna illustrate our leaves elements. For that, go to our Layers menu and reduce the opacity. If you like, you can lock your layer and then create another layer that's behind that layer. And I choose the turquoise and choose my inking, the syrup brush, and take this middle leaf and outline it and fill it with the turquoise. Okay, now that you've created this leaf, go further with adding some texture and details. So create a layer that's above and clip it to that layer with the clipping mask. And then I suggest taking this light green color and choose a textured brush. So, for example, the dry ink and make it big. And now we can go over the leaves and paint half of each leaf with this light green. Make it somewhere around the middle. Where you divide into dark green and light green. And if you draw over the shape by mistake, you can always choose the eraser and erase that part. Remember, your illustration doesn't need to be perfect. If you like, you can turn off your sketch layer. So you see your illustration better. And take the eraser and erase some of the light green that went over. Cool. There we have our first leaf. To get a good organized illustration, I suggest making groups, where you group all of your layers that are for one element, together. Therefore, you can choose this layer, here is the texture for the leaf, and the second layer by swiping to the left. Now you have selected both layers and then you can group them together. And now you can rename that group and say, take it with the keyboard and say leaf turquoise. And now you can turn it off because it's finished. And go over to the next leaf. Let's make this big leaf now. I take the, leave the light green. Go back to my studio pen and create the shape. Whoops. Oh, okay. Have you seen? I've drawn by mistake over the sketch layer. So it's good to lock it. I've forgotten to create a new layer. I turn off the sketch again, create a new layer and clip it. And make some texture with the lime green. Try the flicks. Oh, nice, that works. And we've done the leaf number two. Go to your two layers, layer seven, and swipe the layer to the right. And you can group this, rename it, leave light and big. And turn it off. Create a new layer. And let's draw over this. And I think, I take again this light green, studio brush. Turn that layer off. I don't like this little corner. So I zoom in and make it nice. Create a layer above and clip it. And let's choose the turquoise and make the veins. And I like to have my leaf turquoise at the border. So for that, I choose my spray paints. That's one of my favorite brushes, and medium nozzle. And go somewhere near the border. To create this effect. Go to your layers. And again, select both of the layers and group them. And the last one is this. And I take the lime green. Create a new layer, grab the studio pen. So now that we've drawn all of our leaves, you can unlock your leaves layer, and if you like, you can turn it off or delete it. Create a layer that's above. Clip it to the layer. And here I like to add, with the light green, maybe, here are the textures, the rosettes. Try to press only a bit. And you have this nice little texture in it. So I like my stem without this texture. Therefore, I take the eraser and erase over the stem. Take the two layers, grouped them, and rename it. And there we have our leaves. Meet me in the next video to illustrate our blooms. 22. Illustrate a simple Daisy: Okay, Let's illustrate our blooms now for that, turn off all the leaves layers and groups. Turn on your blooms sketch. I turn it to the top and make the opacity down and lock it. So create a new layer. And let's start with the simplest one. I suggest taking yellow. And we take again our studio brush, studio pen, sorry. And draw over. This time, I don't make a perfect circle because in nature, this part of the flowers are also not too perfect. And then create a layer that's underneath, and make our petals. Turn off our sketch layer. And now we can make some textures. Let's add a layer above this yellow dot. Clip it. And let's choose the orange. And our spray paints, medium nozzle. Then we create another layer and take it under the yellow dot. And I tried to create a kind of shadow that's from the petal and the middle of the flower. And now I want some more texture over the red pedal. And therefore, I take this color, coral. Choose, maybe our sketching, 6B pencil and make some stripes to the border. And this time I take my pen, the angle of my pencil a bit to the side. To make the stripes more subtile. Instead of holding the pencil big, straight. You have this. But if you take it more to the side, It's more subtile. Isn't that a sweet little daisy? If you like, you can also try the different blending modes. That's fine too. I think I leave this. Cool. Now, I group all of my layers again. This one, this one, this, and this. Group it. And say Red Daisy. Turn it off and turn the sketch layer on again. And I think we should draw two different colors from each sketch to have a nice bouquet. Create a new layer. And I think I choose this lilac. Go back to my studio brush, inking, studio pen. This time, I make the middle a bit different. I choose this coral, make it a bit bigger. Then I turn my studio pen a bit down. Four per cent maybe, and make some, I don't know. I ran out of words with my botanic. So, these little blooms shapes and make a dot and then make it around the middle. So this might look nice. Make it in different directions. They can overlap. Okay, fine. And now let's make, with the yellow, a layer above little dots within the middle. And I choose the dry ink for this. I turn the sketch layer off. I clip it. For better effect, we can do like in the version before, create a little shadow that's underneath this middle. We have done our second bloom. Let's group our layers. And name it. In the next video, we're gonna illustrate the second bloom shape. 23. Illustrate a Coneflower: Our next bloom. Let's pick this one. So create a new layer. And I choose the yellow. And go back to our studio pen and outline this top shape. Fill the color in. I check, if there are spots. And on an other layer, and I suggest taking the layer down, we can create the petals. I choose the coral. Be aware that you close all of your shapes, even if it's underneath your bloom. So the color, when you drop it in, can't ran out. I turned my layer off. I see there's some white spot. Perfect. Now I create a shadow on this yellow shape. Then, I like to make a stripe in the middle of each petal and I take the red, and choose gloaming. It's a nice texture. And I draw very slightly. I don't like the first one. It's too much. And now I can go back the three steps and also undo this one. But it's this one I don't like. And therefore, you can go to your to this icon, the ribbon icon. And we can select this one. And do you remember three fingers swiping down, opens our cut and paste, copy and paste menu. And here you have the cut. Now we've cut it out and can draw it again. I reduce my brush to six percent and try to make some smaller ones on the sides. Nice. Let's group together our layers. I don't know how you call this flower in English, in German we call "Sonnenhut". And I simply type that. It's only important that I know how my file is organized. Turn it off and draw again a Sonnenhut. I stay with this red color. Jump back to my studio pen. I create another layer for the top head. I choose the coral. Then I take another layer, clip it. And choose my yellow. And again, go back to the dry ink under inking and make some dots in this. Let's turn off our sketch layer to see our petals better and create a layer above. And now I like to make some stripes on the end of each petal and go to my 6B pencil. And choose the lilac. Let's make a shadow underneath our coral shape. I don't like that to much that lilac. I try to check the blending modes. Oh, that's better. Linear Burn. Cool. Group that together. So there's only this one with the lot of petals left. And we're going to illustrate that in the next video. 24. Illustrate a detailed Daisy: For that, create a new layer. I think, I stay with the lilac. And switch back to my studio brush. And make the petals. Let's draw the middle with this, this coral. I turn off my sketching and take another layer and clip it. Let's try the leather wood under artistic. I like that. And, maybe above that lilac, we can take the coral again and take our spray paints, medium nozzle. Again and again. I love this one. And color in the forth part of the petals and I like to create also a shadow that's beneath that coral. And for that I think try the red. Make it more subtile. Not too much, but a bit. So it's kind of glowing. And now we can take the red, we can leave the red and take our sketching, our 6B pencil to make again, some random stripes. But I think maybe this coral is a bit too much. So we have selected the layer with the texture and we can take our eraser and erase with the spray paints. Let's try it out. Make it big. And erase parts of that drawings. I think it's better now. Okay, group the, group all the layers. Turn it off and do this bloom again. And this time, I try to make, I try to leave some room between the petals. Fine. Let's draw the middle. And I leave my studio pen and make it a bit smaller. Five percent around, and make three stripes in every petal. OK, fine. Let's add some shadow underneath this light yellow. And in the middle, I stay with the red. And grab our 6B pencil again and make some, sorry, wrong layer. The layer above and make some half circles. And we're done. We have created all of our illustrations. Let's group that and meet in the next video to arrange the bouquet. 25. Arrange a Floral Bouquet: Look, we have created some amazing blooms and leaves with only simple shapes and amazing details. So to create our floral bouquet, we go out to the gallery and duplicate our Canvas by swiping to the left and here are the options. Duplicate. I always like to make a separate artwork for my drawings and then a separate for my arrangement. And that's because we probably re-size our elements and to not lose some quality of the original drawings, I create, I'm on the safer side to create a separate artwork for that and to arrange it, to have them all nicely organized and to be able to arrange it better, we can merge some layers down so we can organize it better. I delete my sketch layer. I cannot delete because it's locked. Unlock and delete. And here is this flower. And I merge it down to one layer. So if I like to change, to make some changing, I already have my original drawing artwork. And you can merge them down by taking the, the first layer and the last layer and swiping it together. Okay, and we have one layer. And I shift it above this group and delete the group. I like to start a set with our yellow bloom. I turn off all layers now except the yellow bloom and turn in one-by-one to arrange it. Okay. This one I chose for my center of the bouquet. And I make it a bit smaller. The next, I take this one and make it somewhere down here and resize it. Make it smaller than yellow one. I take my snapping tool off for this and rearrange the other elements till it's a nice bouquet. And I duplicate my leaves to have more to fill in. Duplicate. And to make it a bit different from the other version, I flip it. So it's mirrored. It curves in the other direction. Our last step is to choose a background color. Maybe this creme. Or if you'd like to have it more contrasty, you can take the dark one. Happy birthday! 26. Look what you have created!: Congratulations, you've made it to the end of the class, and I hope you have created three artworks, you really like. You've definitely learned a lot about procreate and you should be proud. I am proud of you. So please upload your artwork to the gallery and let me see, what you have created. So what's next now, I suggest you take your new skills and train and train and make steps further. You will see when time passes, you will get better. And in the meantime, I promise you to work on another amazing class. And I hope we see again. Bye.