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1. Welcome!: Do you love drawing florals and want to give
digital illustrations a go? Then Procreate is just
the tool for you. With Procreate, you can take
one base illustration and transform it entirely with a little imagination
and a few easy tricks. Hi, I'm Kanchan. I'm an artist, illustrator, and art
educator from Singapore. In 2020, I started my Instagram account
@petiteprocrastinator to share methods, tricks, and my
various experiments with watercolor and Procreate. Since then, I've been able
to grow my following, develop my style, and see my art on
various products. Drawing on Procreate is so
easy and the undo option makes it extremely forgiving and a great way to
practice your sketches. But what I love the most
about Procreate is how much I can get out of
just one illustration. I have a portfolio of sketches and I re-use
them to make patterns, posters, and greeting cards. This class will give you a basic understanding of
how Procreate works and the most efficient
steps for creating and editing many different
versions from the same sketch. We'll start by choosing and breaking down
the reference image. You will learn how to
observe the buds, folds, and details of a flower and how to build up
your sketch in layers. Then we'll go on to explore the four ways to
modify your work. A simple color drop method, changing the color
of your lineup, using different
watercolor brushes for texture and transparency, and a slightly stylized
coloring technique. This class is perfect
for beginners. By the end of it, you will have four
different versions of the same sketch, a beautiful
inspirational poster, and a workflow that you can use for making patterns, cards, prints, anything that
you can dream of, so let's get all the three.
2. Class Orientation: For the class project, we will be building up in
steps throughout the class. I will encourage you
to watch each lesson and create your
illustrations as you learn. First, we learn how to draw
and detail your illustration. Then we will go on to learn the most basic color drop method to change the look of
your illustration. Next, we will learn how to change the color
of your line ad. Then I'll show you how
to use the default watercolor brushes that
come with Procreate. Finally, we will learn slightly stylized shading
and coloring technique. Then we will put all
these illustrations together to create an
inspiration poster. You will export
the JPEG format of this and upload it to
the projects gallery. However, I do encourage you to share the
illustrations from each lesson in the
project gallery for feedback along the way. Throughout the class, I will
be referring to this image, which I liked it to the
class resources as well. I have a lesson dedicated to choosing an observing
your references. I recommend you watch that
lesson and learn how to hone your observation
skills and choose the reference image that
truly inspires you. Let's jump right in.
3. Procreate Basics: [MUSIC] Let's start by looking at a few helpful
Procreate features. Now, I'm not going
to touch up on every feature of Procreate, but just a few that we will be using extensively
during the class. We will start by making a
canvas in Procreate and exploring the various tools that we will be using
throughout the class. If you are familiar
with Procreate, then feel free to
skip this lesson. Let's start by opening
up Procreate app. Once we are here,
we'll just click on the plus icon on top to
create a new canvas. Procreate comes with a lot
of default canvas options, you can choose one of these. I actually end up choosing, most of the times the
Comic CMYK 6'' by 9.5'', but I'll still show
you how to create your own custom canvas. Click on the plus icon again. Here you can specify the size of your canvas in millimeters, centimeters, inches, and pixels. I usually keep it at inches, because I get a better idea of how big the
illustration will look. Usually I will keep it at
7'' height and 5'' width, because this is the usual
size of a greeting card and I get a good idea of how the illustration will look
on the greeting card. The same size of this
illustration can be reused for patterns even
graphics for t-shirts, so this size works well for me. The DPI is 300, which is the minimum DPI
for a good quality print. You can increase the DPI, but if you increase
the DPI the file will be bigger and the
layers will be lesser. We can always go up to 400
and see how it changes. If it's a 400 DPI you will
get 91 layers in this; 300 DPI is pretty good for our patterns as well as
greeting cards and posters, so I will keep it at 300. You can choose your DPI as well. The next one is color profile. The difference
between RGB and CMYK, is RGB is usually
better for display and CMYK is better for print. So if you have
your canvas in RGB and then you use the same
illustration for print, you will see some
change in colors which were not expected. Since most of my
illustrations are for printing on cards and t-shirts, etc, I usually
keep it on CMYK so that I don't get any surprises
when I'm printing them. The colors in CMYK tend to be slightly dull as
compared to RGB; RGB colors are slightly
more brighter. In CMYK, I'll select the generic CMYK profile
and click on create. Now we are in the
canvas and you have a few options on the top panel. Let's ignore the ones which
are on the left side, we'll see the ones which
are on the right first. The first one is
the brush library. A lot of these default
brushes will be available for you when you
open your brush library, and we will be using
a few of these. It can get a bit
overwhelming to see so many different brushes and not knowing
which one to use. What we will do is select
a few that I think are important for this class and put them into our own brush library. Let's see how we can do that. Just swipe right on top and you will see a blue plus icon here. Click on that and you can
create your own brush set. I'll just write
here, skillshare. This is a brush set that we've created and we'll move
our favorite brushes into this brush set so you
can have easy access to it. The first one is an inking. There is the studio pen here. What I'm going to do
is swipe a little on the left and duplicate it. The duplicated brushes
appear with an icon on top, so you make sure
that you are moving the duplicated version and
then you can customize it, and we don't change
the original brush. So just click on this and move it to the skillshare
brush library, wait for it to blink, and then just drop it here. The other brushes which we will be using is in calligraphy. One is the monoline, so I'll just
duplicate this again, and make sure you're
moving duplicated one to the skillshare brush set, which is a tongue twister,
and move it here. Then again, we go
back to calligraphy, and the other brush that
I really like using is the shale brush for the
coloring and shading. I'm going to duplicate this
one as well and then click on this and move it
to my brush set. These are three of my favorites
that I use most often. In the watercolor lesson, we will be using the
watercolor brushes. Those are here, and I don't really play along with
these brushes much, so I'm not going
to duplicate them. I'll use them directly
from this brush set. The next step is
the smudge tool. The smudge tool is also similar to the brush
library that we saw and the one that we created would be
duplicated here as well. It's basically
just for smudging. So if you have, suppose selected a brush
from your brush library. In skillshare I have
selected my shale brush, and I'll just
increase the size and maybe a color to a
slightly lighter one. This is my color and I have
another darker tone here. The smudge tool I have again chosen the same shale brush, and when I do a smudge
you can see that it's smudging everything together
just like we wanted. You can reduce the size
as well and change it and reduce the opacity as well if you want
and change this. You can use different types. If I wanted to go
to the watercolor and choose one of
these for smudging, then you can use this as well. You can see how it works. It works pretty much
like the brush, but you need to have some color on the canvas
for it to smudge. Then the next one we
have is the eraser tool. It has the same brush set. Right now I'm in my
watercolor eraser and you can barely see anything because it's erasing with the
watercolor brush. The most that I use
most of the times for erasing is the monoline. The monoline clean erases everything that
you have created. The fourth one here
is the layers. We will learn more
about layers as we go on in different lessons. For now, you just
need to know how to create a new layer by
clicking on the plus icon here. Then when you swipe, you get some more options to
lock, duplicate and delete. Lock option is good
to keep your drawing safe so that you don't draw
on that layer by mistake. Duplicate and delete you might already know
what it means. Then when you click
on this layer, you see lots of more options
like rename, select, copy, and we'll use a few of these options during
the classes as well, so you'll get more
familiar with it. The last layer is always
the background color, and you can't delete this last layer if you see
you can't do anything to it. When you click on it, you can change the background color. I like starting my canvas
with a white background, but you can choose
any background to it and it will
change the color. The last one here is
the color palette. The color palette has a
few options down below; the disc, classic, harmony, value, and
the palette itself. The disc is just
a disc where you can move around and select
the color that you want. You can select the color and the different values like this. In the classic view, you can just move
it around like this and then change the
color from this. The harmony, I
don't use very much but you can even pick
your color from here. Then we have the values. This if you already know the hexadecimal value
for your color, you can put it directly here and it will
give you the color. This I use sometimes when I know the color of my websites, color theme then you
can just input it here. The last one is the
palette itself, which I use the most. You can create your own
custom color palette by clicking on the plus icon here or create a new palette from a camera file or a photo. Usually, I'll create
it from a photo. Most of these, as you
can see pallets from my image are the imported
ones from photograph. If you click on the three dots, you can set as default, share, duplicate, delete. Let me delete this one because I don't really use this palette. You might have a
few default pallets which have come along
with Procreate. I don't like to have them here because I don't
really use them, so I deleted them. But what I do most often is
create a basic palette and keep my white and black
here because I think they get used the most
when I'm drawing, I like to have the black and
the white handy with me. A lot of other options
are there in Procreate, I'm not going to touch
upon on all of it. You will learn as you go along and you get
more comfortable. In the next lesson,
we will start with some mindful drawing
exercises to practice the brushes that we will be using
throughout the class. I'll see you there. [MUSIC]
4. Practice Exercises: [MUSIC] If you're new
to drawing on the iPad, then this is the lesson for you. In this lesson we are
going to move on to some drawing
exercises to practice the brushes that we will be
using throughout the class. If you're comfortable
drawing on the iPad, then feel free to skip this lesson and go
to the next one. But I highly recommend you
check this out because the end result of these
exercises can be quite fun. I have two exercises for you to start getting comfortable
drawing on the iPad. The first one is going to
be an abstract art and the second one would be a
slightly more Symmetrical Art. For the Abstract Art, we will be using
both the brushes, studio pen as well as mono line and the color you can
choose whatever you want. I'll just go with
the basic black. The difference between
studio pen and mono line is that mono line is
not pressure sensitive, whereas studio pen is
pressure sensitive. I'll show you what I mean. When I select mono line and
I'm drawing a straight line, you can see if I change
the pressure of the brush, it doesn't change the
thickness of the lines. If I wanted to change
the thickness, I just need to change the size of the brush from this panel and then draw it again and
it changes the thickness. However, if I choose
the studio pen, the studio pen is more
pressure sensitive. If I draw lightly, it will be finer and
if I press harder it will be thicker like this. It gives more realistic feel
of drawing with the marker. As you can see, it changes
with the pressure. I think generally
the mono line is a slightly easier pen to
start with for a beginner. Since studio pen is slightly
more pressure sensitive, it can get a bit
tricky to handle it. But for these exercises, I highly recommend
you try both of them and see which one
you're comfortable with. Let me just clear
this layer where I had sampled the brushes clear. Let's start with
the first exercise. For the first one
I'm using mono line. One thing to note is
that you can change the properties of the brush
by clicking on the brush. There are a bunch
of properties here, but the ones that you
should know of is the stabilization
and streamline. If I draw something here, and if I change the
streamline to maximum, you can see it smoothens out all the lines that
I had created. If you reduce it, it will be true to
what I had created. I usually like to keep my streamline on a
slightly higher side because drawing on the iPad slightly different
than drawing on paper. If you are a beginner,
I would recommend you keep it slightly
higher as well. But play around with this value and see what you're
comfortable with. Just draw some simple
shapes on the page. If you want, you can
draw a heart which is like this and maybe
another heart here. I'll draw some squiggly lines on the background like this. It can be anything just to go with the flow wherever
you want to make. The idea is just dividing
this canvas into different paths and filling
up those paths with patterns. I'll give you some examples of the patterns that you can use. For example, in this, I am going to fill it up with parallel lines to this shape. Maybe I change this shape as well to slightly
more squiggly line. It is it and change this. Now I just follow this line
to create parallel lines. Try to be as accurate
as you want. Try to get comfortable
with drawing. There's no right or
wrong way to do this. It's just about having fun and getting that feel of drawing on an iPad and getting
comfortable with this process before you
move on to the next lesson. This is a great way to start. I did a lot of this in the beginning when I was new
to drawing on the portrait. Because if you jump right
into drawing some art, you might feel a
little overwhelmed. You are not getting it
right because it may feel really different from
drawing on the paper. These exercises will really help you get
comfortable with this. Then this maybe I want
to fill this area up with some petal shapes. I'm just going to draw
these petal shapes. Again, as I said, you
don't have to be perfect. Just have fun and
fill up these spaces. Try to be accurate. Try to be clean with your lines. If you want, you can zoom
in and it's good practice. Just go ahead and have fun, draw something that
you like and share this art on the gallery
so we can all see what kind of art you have made because it
can turn out to be really beautiful and feel free to change the
color of the brushes. Well, sometimes it
can look really amazing with the
different colors that you use in every pattern. I'm done with these shapes, which is of petals of leaves and I'm going to fill this
area up with some lines. In this exercise, I'm
going to pick up my pen. I'm going to try to follow this without picking
up my pen at all. It's a great exercise too. Try to make it as smooth as you can and see if we
can get it parallel. This is also a very
good exercise. Then I'm going to fill
this area up as well. I may make some use like this. Again, try not to pick up your pen and see where
you go with this. I'm just giving
you some ideas of the patterns that you
can try for practicing. You don't have to stick to this. You can draw whatever you want. Ultimately it will be a
beautiful looking art. I'm going to finish this all up and I'll see you
on the other side. I guess you've got the idea
of what you need to do to practice and I'm looking forward to seeing what kind
of art you create. All right. This is what I
have ended up creating. I'm sure you have
something which looks really different
because this exercise is such that the end
result can be so different depending upon your mood
and the time of the day. Anyway. If you're
not the abstract art kind of a person then you'll prefer something
more symmetrical. I have another exercise for you. What we're going to
do is just turn off this layer and then click on the plus icon
to start a new layer. I'm going to go on to the
wrench icon, click on Canvas, Drawing guide, Turn on, Edit drawing guide,
then Symmetry. In the symmetry, click on Options and click
on Radial option. Maybe we select a red color
for the lines so that is visible in the
video. Click on Done. In radial symmetry, whatever
I draw in one area gets copied in all the areas and it creates a
beautiful pattern, a beautiful Mandela like this. If you are into a more symmetrical art
and you want to try this, you can definitely give it a go. This is a great way of
practicing these skills as well. There are no rules, just draw
whatever you want and have fun with it. [MUSIC]. I've come up with this
beautiful radial Mandela and I'm really eager to
see what you have made. Please post in the
class projects section. After this mindful
drawing exercises, I hope you're more comfortable
drawing on the iPad. In the next lesson, we will talk a little bit
about choosing and observing your reference images [MUSIC].
5. Breaking Down a Reference: In this lesson, let's choose a reference image. First, we are going to go
over some points to keep in mind when we're choosing
our reference image. I have added the reference
image that I will be using throughout this class in the
class resources section, so you can have a look at that. But I highly recommend to
make the class more engaging, you choose a reference
image that truly inspires you using the
tips that I shared here. When you're choosing
a reference image, they're two concepts
to keep in mind. First, you should see two or more colors in
the reference image. For example, in this cosmos, I can see two colors in
the reference image, the pink and the lovely
yellow of the center, and the second concept
is of textures. You should be able to see at least two or more textures
in the reference image. Textures can be
difficult concept to grasp as [inaudible], but it translates into the
different paths that you see. In this cosmos I can see
your lovely texture of the petals and the beautiful
texture to the centers. Well, so I think this cosmos makes a really good
subject for you to start. Let me show you another example. Here I have the gazania
or the African daisy. Again, in this gazania, I see at least two
or more colors. I can see the red of the petals, I can see the lovely
yellow of the center and even the petal has some shading at the
end of the petals, which is connected
to the center. As I said earlier, the next concept is of textures, so in this reference image, I can see two textures, the textures of the petal and the lovely texture of the center as well with the
beautiful details. Again, this is a
very good example of a reference image that you can think of using for the class. Let me show you an example of a flower which may not be
a very good reference. Now I have this tulip here
which has a beautiful color, and I love the veins
which are in this petal. But I think this is not a
good subject for you to pick up because I can
see only one color, the pink, which is
dominant color, and I can see only one texture, which is the texture
of the petal. Therefore it is not a
very good reference image to pick up for your class. Now with these two concepts, I hope you are able to pick
up a reference image that suits your style
and inspires you. Now let's observe
the reference image. When I'm looking at
this reference image, I'm seeing the beautiful
turns of the petals here. I can see a bit of
the underside of the petal which I
like to capture in my drawing and the beautiful
details on the center. When I translate it
into my drawing, these are the things that
I'm capturing the center, the turns and folds
as well as the highlights and shadows in my
drawing and coloring feeds. I'm looking at this
gazania and I can see this beautiful tone
of the petal here, the beautiful band of
the petal here as well, and the underside of
the petal that you can see a little
bit here as well, and lovely details
of the center. These are the observations
that I'm translating even into my drawing when I'm in the
drawing and coloring phase. Don't worry about the drawing. It might look complicated now, but we will go into more details and depths
in the lessons coming up. With those concepts in mind, this is the reference
image that I have chosen of a beautiful
Japanese anemone. It has three colors, the pink of the petal, lovely yellow of the stem ends, and the green center, and it has lovely three
textures as well. The textures of the petal, the lovely texture of the
stamens and the details, as well as the texture and
details of the center. This is the reference
that I will be using throughout the class. But again, I recommend
you choose your own image and hone your observation skills by using the learnings
from this lesson. Great, I hope that these
tips have helped you choose a reference image
that truly inspires you. Share it in the project gallery so we can all see
what you're making.
6. Drawing and Detailing: [MUSIC] Now that we
understand procreate basics, we've practiced
drawing on the iPad, and we've chosen the
perfect reference image. Let's start drawing. I'm back in this Canvas which
we had started earlier. What I'm going to do is
go back to the gallery, and I'm going to create
a new Canvas again. Now I have a fresh new Canvas
and we can start drawing. But before we start drawing, I want to share the concept of closing out shapes and the importance of
closing out shapes. For example, I have
this new layer here and I will draw a little
shape of a petal, but I have not closed it on top. When I go to the
selection tab here by clicking on the
selection tab and I try to select the petal, you can see the
entire Canvas gets selected and that's
not what we want. We want only the
petal to be selected because it helps us in
the coloring phase. Let's go ahead and
turn this off, and I I try to close this out. Now, I'll go ahead and click on the Selection Tab again and
try to select the petal, and I can select it. This is a very important
concept in the coloring phase, and you will see what I
mean in the coming lessons. Now that we have this
concept in our mind, let's turn this layer clear
and let's start drawing. Before that, we need to
import our reference image. I assume you have selected your favorite
reference image that you'll be using for this class, and you have saved it
in your photo library. What we can do is
click on the "Wrench," click on "Add," and click on "Insert a photo," and select that beautiful
reference image that you had selected. Now let's go to the last step. Click on this "N" here and reduce the opacity
of this layer. We just need this
as a reference in the background and we shouldn't interfere
with that drawing, so we'll reduce
the opacity a bit. Then we are going to swipe on this layer and lock
it so we don't draw on this by mistake and then
click on this "plus icon," and create a new layer where we're going
to start drawing. For drawing, I usually
use my basic black, but you can use any color. I'll show you how
to change the color of your line art in
the next lesson. Go ahead and choose
any color you want, I'm going to choose the
black, and for the brush, I generally prefer
using mono-line for the outline and then a
studio pen for more details, but you can just use
it interchangeably. I'll use the mono-line
and I'm going to reduce the size of the mono-line
to just one person. Now I'll zoom in. As
I mentioned before, we need to close these shapes. It's easier for you you
start from the center and then go outside while
you close out your shapes. I'm going to start
with the center and just draw an outline, not much details here. We need to make sure
this is selectable, so go to "Selection
Tab," and select. Yes, this is selectable,
so it's perfect. Now let's go on to
the statements. The statements can be
nicely detailed like this. You can create each and
every individual statements. I feel the more
details you add to your illustrations it
gives the wow factor, but it totally depends
upon your style, how you want to have
your illustration. Go ahead and make these details
of your flower as well. If you see these stamens, you try to add them
to your drawing. Great. I have my center
as well as my stamens. Now let's see how
we can select it. Go to the "Selection
Tab" and select outside of the stamens and then select the
center as well. I'm going to select this area
as well and do an inward. You can see all the
stamens were closed, and by doing an
inward now we're able to select only the stamens, and this is exactly
what we want again, so make sure you are able to close out all your shapes
and they are selectable. Now moving on to the petals, I'm going to start
drawing the outline of the petals in the same layer. Just follow the reference image. Feel free to move
your Canvas around. In this area, I'll just increase the opacity of reference
layer and show you. Here I can see a bit
of an underside of this petal and I want to
capture that in my drawing. I'm going to go
ahead and do that. I'll come back to
my layer, lock it. I'll just add these
little details here. Great. Let's continue
with the drawing. I can see some underside
of the petal here as well, so I'm going to capture
that in my drawing phase. Great. We're done
with the petals. Let's see if all these
petals are selectable. Great. I think they're
all selectable even the underside of
the petal is selectable. With this, we're done
with the outline, now we're going to start
adding the details. What we're going to
do is go back to the layers and lock this layer. I'm going to add a
new layer to this. For adding the details, I want to increase the opacity of this layer so it
can be more clear, so I'll just increase it a bit and I'll lock the layer
again for the reference. Now I'm on my layer 3 where I
will be adding the details. You can choose to change
the pen to studio pen or continue
with the mono-line, then I'm going to
reduce the size of this to about eight percent, and I'll start
adding the details. Basically, the details is just following the wings of the
petals that you can see. I'm not sure if this
petal is very clear, but here you can see
clearly there are some dark lines and I want to
capture that in my drawing. I'll just turn this
around and I'm going to capture these dark
lines in my drawing to show the curve of the petal and add some details. You don't have to be too
specific about the lines, but just give a little bit of detail to show the
curve of the petal. Then even in this, I can see a little
bit of a line. I'll just follow
that to show that this petal is going
upwards, like a cup. Double-tap to undo if
you've done a mistake. I'll just do the same for
the other petals as well. Just follow the wings
which I can see, and get my details. Let me turn off this layer
and see how it looks. I think it looks perfect. I like the look of this
and then I'm going to start adding the details
to the center as well. You can see the center has these lovely tiny details
and I want to capture that. Again, you don't have
to be too specific. You can just go ahead and add these little details to add
the depth to this drawing. We're done with this as well. Let's see if I turn off how their drawing
looks. It's perfect. I feel like this area requires some more
details of the stamens, I think we missed that out, so we can add those as well, just these little lines. Can you let me turn
it out and see. Perfect. This is exactly what we want our join to look like. Now, I'll just log the
detailing layer as well. I'll see you in the next lesson where we're going to
start coloring this. Great. We just finished the sketching and detailing
of our reference. In the next lesson, we
will change the look of this illustration by
adding some color to it. I'll see you there. [MUSIC].
7. Adding Color: Now it's time to color your illustrations by using the most basic
color drop method. The most important part is
to keep these colors on separate layers because it has some quick updates and
modifications in future. Right now we have the drawing ready and the detailing
done, let's start coloring. Before we start coloring, let's import the palette if you haven't already done that. Click on the
"Palettes" and click on "Plus" icon and
"New" from photos, and then select that reference
image that you have. You'll see a bunch of
colors were imported, but I think it's a good idea to keep your palette minimal. What you can do is sample off of your colors and see which
one you'd like to use. I'll create a new
palette of my own, so create new palette and move
the colors that you like. I'm going to move a light
color and a dark color. I'm going to also move one
yellow for the center, and one dark and light
color for the center. Then if you wish,
you can delete this. You don't need so many
of the odd colors. I'm going to just keep it
minimal to these five colors. Let's start coloring, but let me just rename
this first so that we don't get confused
about which layer it is. Rename it to Outline, and rename this to Details. Then log both the list Outline as well as the Details layer. Then click on the
"Plus" icon, create a new layer where we are
going to start coloring. I'm going to rename this
as well the Colored layer. Go back to our Outline
layer and click on this and click
on "Reference". When this outline
is the reference, any color you add in the color layer will
be dropped within the boundaries of
the outline that you have created since
that is the reference. Now coming back to
your colored layer, click on the color
that you want to drop. I want to drop this color, the lighter shade, and just
drag it and drop it here. You see when I drag and
drop the details are lost so what you can do is
just click on this layer, colored layer and move it right down below the reference layer. Now let's do the same for
the rest of the petals, just drag and drop. Great. For the
backside of the petal, I want to use something darker, so I'm going to use this
darker shade and I'll drag and drop to these small areas. Now we've colored
all our petals, now let's move on to the
details of the stamens. What we will do is put
that in a different layer, so just lock this and create a new layer and rename
this to Stamens. Coming back to the Stamens. One option is to select, click on "Automatic"
and "Colorful", ensure that you have selected your yellow color and click
on each and every stamen to just fill it up because
dragging and dropping to these would be quite
tricky, they're so small. But even this can
feel a bit time consuming depending
upon the amount of details that you have. The other option is just go to the selection tab and
select everything which you don't want to be colored
instead of the smaller details, and even select the outline that you don't want
to be colored. I'm going to even select
these little lines. Now you've selected
everything which is not yellow and just do an inward. You see the blue is only the stamens which has selected once you do an inward. Go back to your Stamens layer, click on that and
do a fill layer. You see all the stamens are now filled and you have
that colored area. Let us do the same
for the center, I'll use a brighter green. Go to your list,
create a new layer, ensure you've locked the
Stamens layers so that you don't draw on it by mistake. In this new layer, rename it to center, and just drag and drop the color so you have the
center colored as well. This was the most easy drag and drop method to color
your illustrations. In the next lesson, we are going to
change the look of this illustration by
changing the line at color. I'll see you there.
8. Changing the Outline Color: In this lesson, we will change the look of this illustration by changing
the color of the lineup. I will show you two different
methods to do this, and they are very
quick and easy, but it really changes the
look of the illustration. What we're going to do before we start changing the color
of the line art is, I'm going to group
all these layers together which we had colored, just swipe them right, and group them, and maybe you rename this group to colored and I'm going
to turn off this layer. The next one is changing
the color of your line art, so it gives a really
beautiful look to your illustration, I'll show you what I mean. For example, if I have
a darker background, something like this, or yellow, and I want this
illustration to be in a white color or maybe
an off-white color. What we can do is create a new layer on top of
the Outline layer, and click on this layer
to make a clipping mask. Then change the color
to whatever you want, I'll choose off-side and if you want you can
choose a white as well. Then go back to your Layers tab, click on this clipping mask
layer and do fill layer. You see it gives a nice
different view to it and we can change the same
for the details as well, so click create a new layer
on top of the Details layer, click on this new layer, clipping mask, click on the layer again
and do fill layer. Now it has given a nice new
look to your illustration, and there's a second way
to do the same thing. If I removed all
this clipping mask, go back to the layer, remove the clipping mask, what you can do is create
a new layer again, select the Details layer, click on "Select, and click on the new layer
and do a fill layer. Same thing for the outline, click on the outline layer, click on select, then go back to the last step, create a new layer on top, click on this layer, new layer and do a fill layer. It gives you the same result
in the different steps, so either you can use a
clipping mask technique or the select layer technique to change the look of
your illustration. Now we've learned two methods, and let's see how we can
combine these two methods to form different
illustration looks. What we can do is, let me just combine these two white layers
and group them together. Move it on top, rename this to White. I'll just turn it off and
turn it on so you can see a different view of
your illustration. Let's combine these two and
see what it looks like. You can see it has a really
beautiful different look by just turning on
and off fill layer. If you want to change
the background color, you can go ahead
and change it to green and see it
changes completely. Now, keeping these
two concepts in mind, let me show you
one more technique of changing the look
of your illustration. I'm going to turn off
the Colored layer. You'll see that if I change the background
color in this case, even the flower color
changes because it is basically see-through, there is no color in this. You can use the same drag
and drop technique on your outline to change the color of your
illustration itself. If I want the illustration to
be completely yellow color, so just click on a new layer, and go to the selection tab, select outside,
then do an invert, so it selected the
entire illustration, and in this new layer, I'm going to just go ahead and do fill layer with the White. I'm going to move it down
to the reference layer so that you can see the lines. Let me turn off the White, so this is how your
reference will look like. Now your drawing
would look like, and you can move
it around a bit, and change the color or
look of your illustration again to give this
little distorted view, and I'll just double tap to undo because I don't want that. When you change the color
of your background now, the color of your
illustration doesn't change. This is how you can combine
these two methods to make very different looks
to your illustration. Now, if I want to
change the color of this flower to
something like a pink, I can just go to the last step where I had dropped the color, click on this layer, click on "Select", and then go ahead and
change the color, fill layer to pink and your
entire flower changes. These are really easy techniques to change the look
of your flower. Now if I change the
outline to white, it gives a completely different
look to this flower now. I hope you've understood
now how you can use these simple techniques to form many different looks
to your illustration. Now, I'll see you in the next
lesson where we will start exploring the watercolor brushes that come by default
in Procreate.
9. Using Watercolor Brushes: [MUSIC] In the last two lessons, we saw how to lay a
foundational color and how to change the
color of your line art. In this lesson, we're
going to start exploring the watercolor brushes that come by default with procreate. Now, let's start exploring
the watercolor brushes. I'm going to go to my list. I move this colored layer
to the colored group. I'm going to turn
off all the layers. I will change the background
color back to white. Go to your brush
library and go to the watercolor water brushes. You have these four brushes which are used for
the watercolor loop. These beautiful flexes, splashes give a nice watercolor
effect to your illustration. Let's start coloring. Turn on the details as well
as the outline. For the coloring, we
need a new layer, so I'll use this new layer
that I have created. But before we start coloring, just go to the selection tab. Select the patterns
that you want to color. That's because these
watercolor brushes tend to be quite thick and we want to keep them within the
boundary of the flower, petals that we have. We're going to select all these individual petals and go back to the new layer
that you have created. I'm going to use the wash
brush to add the first-layer, but I want to see
the reference to see which areas are darker
and which are lighter. Click on the "Wrench", click on "Canvas", and click on "Reference". References has three
options the Canvas, which will show you what you
are currently working on, the image and the face. We're going to use
the image type and import the image
that we are using. I'll just move this on the
side just as a reference. You can even sample
the colors directly from this but I don't
like to do that because I want to
keep my palette limited and I don't
want too many colors. But when you sample, you
keep adding new colors. But you can go ahead and just click on this and
change the color. I'll go back to my
previous color. I'll make sure I'm
on the wash brush and I'm looking at the
areas that are dark. I will reduce the size of the wash brush and all
these darker areas. I'm going to add the
first layer there. I'll just drop my color
to all the darker areas. I'll change the color
to a darker shade for this petal because this
petal is quite dark. If you long tap on the color, it changes back to
the previous color. Just follow the reference image. A slightly darker color here
so I'll decide that color. Great. This gives you the base. What I'm going to do next is
go to the Water Bleed brush. I'm going to start adding some details here with
the Water Bleed brush. Reduce the size of the
Water Bleed brush. Swipe it to add these
little wings to our petals. Follow the same
lines that you had drawn earlier for the
detailing please. Change the size of
the brush as you need and continue this with
the rest of the petals. Great. If you want the
petals to be darker, just change to a darker
color and change your brush to a wet glaze, and reduce the size
of it and just drop the user darker
shades to the petal. I'm looking at the reference
that petal is darker so I'm just going to try
to refer to that. Just to add some darker shades everywhere if you had missed
it in the first layer. Great. This is the petal as for the center as
well as the stem, these are too small. You can use any brush
for those areas. What I'm going to do
is create a new layer, then go to selection tab. Like we did previously for
the color drop method, I'll select everything which
is not the stemming first, even the lines, and
then invert it. So only the stemming
are selected. Then do it inward. Now only the stemming are
selected go to the new layer. You can lock the petals layer. Select a yellow color. I'm using the wet place
brush and adding the color. Let's do the same thing
for the center as well. Now you see the details are
not visible so just move the colored list below
the details layer. Just group them together and name this group
as watercolor. Move this down below
the details layer. The details and more visible. Let's add some fun
splashes so go to your water library and
select the mad splashes. You can change the opacity and the size and just
splash it around. Try out the water
flicks as well and drop some flicks to give
a nice effect. If you press harder, it
will be bigger splashes, if you touch lightly,
they will be smaller. This is how the watercolor
effect will look like, but this works as long as
your background is white. Watercolor brushes
are transparent, so if I change my background
to something darker, for example, you see since the watercolor
brushes that transparent, you'll see the background
through it and it may look good in some cases, but if you don't want
this and you want the original look of the watercolor brushes
with the white background. What we'll do is let's turn
off the watercolor layer and change the
background color to something white against
that you can see. Then I go back to my
drawing layer and I do a select and I click on
outside of the drawing layer. Now everything which
is not the flowers selected and I do an inward so only the flower
will be selected. Then I go back to my list step, start a new layer. In this layer, I'll click on this layer and do a fill layer. This has created a white
background for us to use. I'm going to turn on the
watercolor layer again. I'm going to move this, the white layer into the watercolor group
below the watercolor. When I change the background
to something dark, you will see that the
watercolor effect is still maintained since we have
a white background to it, even though the brushes
are transparent, the darker background is not making a very big difference
to the illustration. Great. I hope you had fun using
these watercolor brushes. I'll see you in the next
lesson where we will start exploring a slightly
more stylized shading and coloring technique. [MUSIC]
10. Stylized Coloring Technique: So far we've seen how to lay a foundational
color to our illustration, change the color
of the line art, and we played around with
the watercolor brushes. In this lesson, we will explore a slightly more
advanced shading and coloring technique to
add the highlights, shadows, and small details. Now let's start
coloring this with a slightly advanced
shading technique. We're going to reuse
the base layer that we created in the first
color drop method. What I will do now is turn
off this watercolor layer, change the background
back to white, and I'm going to turn on
the color layer this time. I just want to see how the
colored base looks like. I'll make a duplicate of this group and turn off the original colored one
and rename this to shading. The idea is that we have the base layer created
and we just add more details on this
layer to give it more realistic shading look. I'll turn on the
reference again, go back to your wrench
Canvas and reference. I have my reference on the
site for me to refer to. Now I'm going to go
to my shading group and create a new
layer inside this, on which I will
add more details. The brush that I select
for this is go back to your Skillshare Brush Library, and select the shale brush. The color that I choose
is something light. In fact, I want to make it
lighter than this because, you can see in the reference
it's pretty light. I go to the classic view and I'll just move this
to a lighter shade. Now, I'm going to add
with my shale brush wherever I see
these light tones, I'm just going to add these
lines in the same direction. Sorry, missed one step. You don't want the
color to go outside. You saw that I'm
going to add color, but it's going outside and I
don't want that to happen. The best way to do that is go to your color layer and
click on "Select." Now, go back to the new
layer that you had created. This way now we are coloring
only on the petals. Now, just reduce the size
of the brush a bit and add the details in the
same direction as you see the veins
in your reference. I'm just going to go ahead
and do this for this petal. I'm just dropping
the color right now. I see some light colors here and I'm just
dropping this color. In the next step, we
are going to smudge it. I'll just drop it wherever
I see the lighter tones. Next is go to a smudge tool, and make sure you're on
your same shale brush. I'll select this
shale brush again. In the smudge tool, reduce
the sizes slightly bit. I'm going to smudge
all this lighter tones with the darker color. When you do a smudge, you'll see that some of
the value is reduced. If you want, we can
go back and add that value back. We'll do that. I'm just smudging it first. If you feel it's too much, you can just add the darker tones this way
into the lighter ones, and if you want the light to be smudged with the darker
then you can move your brush from the lighter
tone to the darker tone. This way you can smudge it. If you want, you can reduce
the tones a bit more. I want it slightly right here. Then smudge it again. Let's continue with the
rest of the petals as well. Here I see some
really darker tones. What I'm going to do is move it to a darker shade
in my palette, and add that with my shale brush to this
area where I see dark. I'm just dropping the color
like we did last petal. Then I'm going to reduce
this to a lighter tone, so tap and hold, it'll go to the previous color and
then drop it here. Make sure your petal layer
is still selected so that you don't accidentally
color outside the layer. Now go to the Smudge
tool, and again, just follow this veins to smudge this color
into the petal. I'll continue this
for the rest of the petals in the same style, and I'll see you after that. Now you have this new look
to your illustration, with slightly more stylized
shading technique. I'm going to turn
off this selection and I'll close my
reference as well. I'm going to lock
this layer now. Let me show you how we can
change the look of this. If you want, you can
change the Colored layer. I create a new layer
on top of this, clipping mask, and I do a fill layer
with some other color. For example, maybe yellow, and I fill layer
with the yellow. You see you have this new
slightly different look to it. You can change the same even
with the shading layers. If I select on this one and
create a new layer on top, the new layer is clipping
mask for the shading layer. I reduce the color to
something like this, and I do a fill layer for this. You change the look of
this illustration by changing the base layer color as well as the shading layers. You can get infinite number
of combinations like this and totally change the look
of your illustration by just adding a
clipping mask on top. So far, you've learned
four different ways of altering your illustration. In the next lesson, we are going to put
them together in our class project to form a beautiful
inspirational poster. I'll see you there.
11. Final Composition: So far we've learned four different ways of altering the look of
your illustration. In this lesson,
we're going to put all these different
looks together to form a beautiful
inspirational poster, and then we will be adding
a motivational text to it. You've come a long
way and you've created four different styles. If you have chosen
just to create a few styles of the four that I've taught, that's
perfectly fine. For this class project, we will use whatever you
have created and put them together into an
inspirational poster. This is my original canvas. What we'll do now is
go back to the gallery and duplicate my original
canvas just to be safe. Then go back to this
new duplicated canvas. What we'll do now is merge
these layers together. Let's go to the
shading layer and unlock anything that you have. I'll delete this Layer
11 which we had just created for our
style experience. I'm going to duplicate
the shading group. I'll tell you why. Let's
duplicate this first. I'll click on this
and do a flattened. Now I have a yellow
version ready with me. Then for the next version, I'm going to remove these layers and I want the pink
version with me. I'll remove these layers and
I'll do a flatten again. Now I have a yellow version as well as a pink
version with me. Then I'm going to go to the colored original base
layer that we've created, and I'm going to
merge this as well. I'll just unlock
everything and delete this layer and go to the
colored one and flatten it. I have three
different styles now. Same way for watercolor, I'm going to flatten it, just unlock this
also, and flatten it. We don't want the
reference layer anymore, so unlock it and delete it. Depending upon the look
you want for each of this, if you want all of them to have the lovely details as
well as the outline, then we can duplicate these and merge it with
the original one. Let's see how it looks. If you want this look without the outline you
can have one look like that and this way. But I like the outline, so I'm going to duplicate
it three or four times, for example, 1, 2, 3, 4, and the white one as well. I'll just swipe and duplicate, duplicate, duplicate, and even the detail,
duplicate four times. Then unlock all of them. I'm going to merge
these two together. I'll just say merge down. Click on this outline
and see merge down. Then I'm going to merge this with a detail
layer as well, merge down, and do the same for the rest of the
colored ones as well. I will merge outline, and then the detail layer
with my pink version, same with the colored one, and finally the
watercolor version. Now you have a yellow, a pink, a simple illustrated, and a white, and we also have this white outline
that we had created. If I do this, it has a totally different look. What I'll do is
merge this as well, flatten the white one, and maybe we give another
look to our illustration for the pink one, like this. I'm going to merge this
white outline with my pink. I have now four different
looks and we're going to use all these looks to
create our final poster. Keep them here as it is. Go back to the gallery and
I create a new canvas. This time I'll create
A4 size canvas, which is usually around 8 by 12, so the width would be eight
and the height is 12 inches. Keep the DPI at 300. But then go to your color
profile and change it to CMYK generic and create. This is your around
A4 size poster. You have a pretty good idea of how it looks after it's printed. What I'll do now is just move my illustrations that I had merged together into my poster. I will turn off the
background because I just want the illustrations
and not the background, and go to the Wrench, Share, PNG, and save it to
your Save Image, save it to your photo gallery. Do the same with the
rest of them as well. All of them are in
our gallery now, so we're going to go back to this A4 size canvas that we had, and import them, so
add, insert a photo. This same way, we will get the rest of them, insert a photo, insert. We have all of these here, all the inserted photo layers. We're going to just move
them around to make a beautiful composition
and then add a text to it. What I have in mind is I'll have all the flowers at the bottom of my poster and I'll
have the text on top, and I might add a few
flourishes here and there. Let's see. Click on the arrow. I'll turn off
everything else first. I just have this white outline. Click on the arrow and
reduce the size of this. You should reduce the size and not increase
the original size, it will get pixelated. Just move this around. Another thing to notice, if you move this
illustration outside the boundary and
you deselect it, you're going to cut off all the illustration that has gone outside
of the boundary. If you want to do that, you can, but just make sure you double tap and go to the original and duplicate this so that you don't have to
import it again, then come here and just
move it around a little. I'm just going to reduce
the size and move it. Maybe do the same with
the yellow version. It's totally upon
you how you want your composition to look like. I wanted it to be like this. You can add more flowers, you can add more leaves, however you want it to be. I want this class to
be at the bottom of the illustration and I'll
write the text here. The text that I want to write is every flower blooms
in its own time. I'm going to go
ahead and click on the wrench and add text. I want to write
blooms using a brush, so I'm going to go ahead and select a brush which
is a studio pen, and maybe slightly pink color. I'll add a new layer on top of the text layer and
I'll just write blooms. Then I'm going to add
more text for the rest of the code, so add text. I'll move it here. Maybe
I change the font sizes. If you select on this, select the entire text, and you can change
the font here. As you can see there a lot of
fonts that you can select. I'll select this, I like
this font, and that's it. This is my final poster. If you want to print this
poster and share it with us, you can just go ahead like this, Share, JPEG, and save the image to
your photo gallery. Now you have a beautiful
inspirational poster. Please share it in
the Projects Gallery to inspire us all.
12. Conclusion: [MUSIC] Congratulations. After the end of this class, you will have four
different versions of altering the look of your illustration and a
beautiful inspirational poster. You can even use
these illustrations to make patterns, cards, graphics for T-Shirts and upload them on print
on demand sites like Redbubble or society seeks to have your own
custom merchandise. If there's just one thing that
I hope you take away from this class is the importance of planning your
illustrations in layers. When you plan your illustration, both the drawing as well as the coloring in different layers, it gives you the freedom
to change the look of your illustration with
a few easy twigs. Finally, do share
your illustrations and your class project
in the project gallery, so we can all have a look at it. I strongly believe in a
supportive community, so I will definitely share my review and feedback with you, and I will be really
happy to receive your feedback for
this class as well. Follow me on
Skillshare as well as Instagram for any
future class updates.