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1. Introduction: Summer time. Hello, and welcome
to my new class. I'm Rena from VM Studio, a traditional and
digital illustrator and a huge fan of
everything Procreate. I teach procreate classes, and I create a whole bunch of
different procreate brushes and other things that make your digital illustrations
look amazing. This class is a follow
up of my previous one, very, very summer tea party, where we learn to create
juicy summer berries, make compositions, and
decorate the cheese with them. Now I'm inviting you to
join me in exploring several ways you can use the Billustrations
from the PS class. We'll look into some options
on how to bring your By clip art to a new level by creating slightly
more complex, but still simple and
fun digital products and to use them in your personal
and commercial projects. If you decide to use
some other elements in addition to our berries
or instead of them, that's totally okay, as the techniques I'm
going to show you are universal and can be easily applied to most
types of clip art. So if you are ready to have some more summer Berry
creative fun, let's begin.
2. Class Overview + Your Project: So in my previous class, a very, very summer tea party. If you've not taken
it, by all means, go and check, it's fun. So we've created a whole bunch of different types of clip art. We've created some berries, we've created some leaves, and even a tea set. But what's next? As a successful clip art
seller of six years, I often hear, Your
products are beautiful. I wish I knew how to use them. There are actually endless
ways to use clip art from unique greeting cards
and stationery to striking wall art and
beautiful patterns. You can create personalized
calendars, cards, and similar things and
get them printed for you by one of gazillion
printing companies. Some will do it really cheap. It's definitely
worth the feeling of being proud of gifting your own piece of artwork on a birthday or Christmas card. There are many print on
demand websites that offer applying Clip art to
various products like mugs, t shirts, baseball caps, water bottles, and many more. They do come across a
bit pricey sometimes. But if you're looking
for something absolutely unique as a gift, for example, there
is nothing like your own art on a piece of
clothing or a toad bag. Finally, if you are an
experienced crafter, you can print and sell
your own sets of stickers or even print your art on
MC using dye sublimation. So in this class, I'll show you some
easy and fun ideas of what you can do
with your clip art. In the following lessons, I'll share my ideas
on how to create delicious summer berry frames for your social
media in procreate. I'll show you a few ways
of turning your clip art into different types of seamless patterns,
also in procreate. And finally, I'll share with
you some of the ideas of how to use your clip art for your journal
pages or spreads, both in procreate and in
actual physical paper journal. I do appreciate that
you may be more interested in some
things over others. That's why I suggest that
for your class project, you select one of the
following things, social media Berry frame, one type of seamless pattern, or an art journal
spread or a page. I'll also speak about tools
and materials you need for each project in
each dedicated lesson. So feel free to jump straight to the lesson
of your chosen project. However, if you decide
to go for all of them, that will make me
incredibly happy. So let's begin and I can't wait to see your
project uploaded here.
3. Decorative Frame: Strawberry Delight: Right. For this lesson, you will need your pad, you will need your
Apple pencil and you will need procreate
installed on your ipad. You will also need
your clay part that we created in
the previous lesson, very, very summer
teatime illustration. If you've not seen it, make sure you go back and have a look. But overall, of course, the techniques I'm going to use do not imply that
you need to use this particular
clapart strawberries or whatever you can use. Any other clapart that
you've got elsewhere, created yourself or
purchased somewhere and just use it to create a nice
frame for your social media. You will also need,
it's an optional step, but you might need one of the
shape brushes that you can find in the resources section of this class to stamp a frame. However, I'm personally
not going to use any of these brushes
in this very lesson. You will need them
in the ongoing ones. So what I'm going to do, the first thing I'm going to do, I'm going to start with
creating a screen size canvas. I'm going to tap
on this plus icon. And I've already got
titled Canvas here. It's 1080 pixels by 1920 pixels. It's the size of ratio of a social media
screen like phones, for example, Instagram reels, Instagram stories, et cetera. Next thing I'm going to do, I'm just going to
grab whatever color and I'm going to drop
it on the canvas. That's all. Now I'm going to go
back to the gallery and I'm going to tap on this plus icon and I'm going to create a new
custom size canvas. I'm going to tap on this black little folder
with the plus on it, and I'm just going to use
centimeters and I'm going to create the canvas of
21 by 30 centimeters. It's basically similar to a four dimension
size and the DPI, I'm going to use a
72 pixels per inch, dots per inch, sorry. I'm just going to create
next thing I'm going to do, I'm going to go back to our social media screen
representation. I'm going to swipe
three fingers on the colored layer and
I'm going to copy and paste it on the
second created canvas. I'm just going to
reduce the size of it, make sure that
uniform is selected, the ratio is still there. And that's it. So why did we do this? Why why couldn't we create
a frame directly on here? Technically, we could,
but the reason is that I wanted to give some
space around this frame because I don't know if I'm going to be using strawberries cut like running
out of the screen or I'm going to be
using them whole. But I don't want procreate
to cut it on the edges. So that's why I just wanted to create some space around it so I can look and decide which
way I want to go from there. And I'll probably I'm going to maybe reduce the opacity of it, so it's not as striking. And that's we prepared our
canvas for creating our frame. Next thing I'm going to do, I'm going to go back
to our clip art, the strawberries that we
created in the previous class, I'm going to select both layers and I'm just going
to copy them by dragging them together onto
my newly created canvas. Once I see the green
plus sign, I can let go. And now they just
dropped on the canvas. A good practice I
always recommend my students is to create a backup of everything
you're going to manipulate and your
in your artwork. I'm going to
duplicate this group, and I'm going to
switch one copy off. So what am I going to
do with this group? First of all, I would
like to reduce the size. I'm going to be showing
you certain way I do it, but obviously, you can
decide for yourself. You might think that you prefer
the strawberries bigger, you prefer them smaller. I'm going to reduce the size probably to something like this. And I'm going to arrange
them in a nice diagonal way. I would like to put the
half cut berry on top of the on top of the whole berry, and I'm just going to grab
it and turn it a little bit diagonally, just like so. I'm going to grab the half cut one and turn it diagonally
the opposite way. Just something like
that. You've probably guessed that now we're
going to arrange our strawberries
around this frame and how we're going to do that. It looks to me
that this berry is just slightly looking
a little bit bigger. Just reduce the size of it. I'm going to
duplicate the group, and I'm going to grab
and drag it like this. I would probably still prefer the half cast strawberry
to be on top, so I'm just going
to drag it down. And now we've got two
groups of berries here. I'm going to put
them in one group together and I'm going
to duplicate this group, and I'm going to drag
it down like this. I'll syringe it
underneath, probably, and you can see that you've got space left just
for two berries. Our group is here and this is the group
with the two berries. I'm just going to
duplicate this group. And I'm going to drag it
underneath like this. And that's our one
side of the berries. Because I know that it works
perfectly fine on one side, what I'm going to do, I'm
going to pinch it together to flatten it layer and
I'm going to duplicate it. I'm going to grab the move too, and I'm going to
flip it horizontally and use a magnetic and snapping, I'm just going to drag this part of the frame to the opposite side
to the right side. You can obviously prefer not to flip it horizontally,
keep it like this. I thought it would be a nice frame type thing to
do it like this. And what I'm going to do next? I'm going to duplicate
the strawberries again and I'm going to
turn it 180 degrees. And let's see how
it's going to work. I think I'm going to do
something like this. I'm going to drag it
underneath like this, and I'm just simply just going to maybe lift it
up a little bit like this. Yeah. I'm just going to
simply erase this part. Just like this.
Maybe a little bit here just to make it a
little bit more symmetrical. And I'm going to
duplicate this group, flip it vertically, and I'm gonna just drag it
down like this. And maybe I also flip
it horizontally, just not to make it identical. That's pretty much
our frame is ready. The spina that we've
created at the beginning, it's a representation
of our phone screen. So you can see that this frame is running
out of the home screen. That's the way I would
like it to be if you already have a photo that you're going to be
using inside your frame, I recommend that
you try and use it. Also, I would flatten this
group and I would use it as clipping mask to
our screen mockup. That's how your strawberry will look on the
screen over the phone. I'm just going to
go to my photos. I'm just going to use maybe
this beautiful peacock. And I'll show you how to
export it and apply it to your social media stories or pictures in the
end of next class.
4. Decorative Frame with Gold: Summertime: In this frame called
Summer Times, we will need to repeat some
steps from the previous one, the colored layer representing
our mobile device screen. I'm gonna o scopy
and paste it here. And I'm just going to
reduce the size of a tiny bit to leave a
little bit of space around. That's it. We've prepared the base same way as we did
in the previous lesson. But this frame just a
tiny bit different. It's going to be
gold, it's going to be having some fruits in it. But let's see. I'm going to reduce
the size of it again and I'm going to the range icon. I'm going to select canvas and I'm going to switch
drawing guide on. Then I'm going to go to
you see a grid appeared, but I want it to be
slightly larger to fit my mobile device screen. So I'm going to go
the drawing guide. By the way, it's
completely optional, just the way I find it really easy to do certain things and then just I'm
sharing with you, maybe you'll find
it handy as well. I'm just going to drag this grid size slider
and my frame is going to be slightly smaller than than the screen size
of my mobile device. I'm just going to leave
it like this as a guide, and I'm going to creak down. Now I'm going to
create a new layer and I'm going to
start drawing lines, which will be the
sides of my frame. For that, I'm going
to use one of my favorite procretful
brushes called monoline, which you can found
in calligraphy. I'm going to select it. The color really
doesn't matter because I'm going to cover
it with gold anyway. But let's select blue. Unless decide on the
thickness of my frame. This thickness is
probably way too much. I'm just going to
reduce the size and see maybe still too much. I want it to be more delicate. I think around that, it's maybe 10%, maybe a
little bit higher, 15%. Yeah. That's exactly
what I'm going to do. Now I'm going to start drawing straight lines representing
the sides of my frame. You see these corners, I'm going to start drawing a line from this to this because my aim is to keep this frame
within the mobile screen. I'm going to stand here, like put my brush here
and I'm just going to go and stop here and
holding down my pencil, I created a straight line. And now I'm going
to duplicate it, and I'm going to make sure that magnetic and snapping are
on and using the move to, I'm just going to drag this
line on the opposite side. So, see, here, it's
probably way too far. Sometimes just magnetic
and snapping can be funny. But I think I'm just gonna
maybe bring it somewhere. Yeah, Because I still want my I'll probably bring it somewhere here
because I still want my frame to be visible. Let's bring them to
the approximately to the middle of our
mobile device screen, and now let's
create a new layer. And let's draw another line representing the
top of the screen. So using my grid, I want it also to be
slightly overlapping lines. I'm just going to draw a
line like this and holding down the pencil and making
sure that my line is straight. And I'm going to
grab the move, too, and I'm just gonna
bring it just a tiny bit higher up,
something like this. In the same way I'm gonna
duplicate the shorter line, the top one, and I'm going to
just drag it to the bottom, switch the snapping off, so it doesn't really. Sometimes it's just way too aggressive telling
me what to do. That's it. I can see
that my frame is going to be within my
mobile device screen. I'm just going to flatten it. Next thing, I'm going to do. I'm going to add some graphics. Again, it's going to be one of the things we created
in the previous class. It's going to be
our composition. This one I'm talking about. I'm going to swipe three
fingers, I'm going to copy it. I'm going to go
back to my frame. File, and I'm going to paste it. Again, guys make a backup because once you've
reduced the size of it, increasing the size will
result in the loss of quality. By the way, if the grid is to interfering in your
vision and your design, go ahead and switch it off. I've switched it off
and let's decide what we're going to do
with this composition. So I think design, my idea was to bring it
right down just like this. Which means that
it's going to be cut in the bottom of the screen. Let's clip them as a mask. That's how a frame will
look on your mobile device. And the final element, I would I would like to
add some text saying summertime to your frame and that could be your personalized
frame for the summer. You go to the range icon, you select Add and I'm
going to choose Add text. And you can see that text pops up here and I'm just going to type summertime in one word, and I'm going to
I'm going to select it to activate the font menu, and if I click on it, it's going to open
all the options I can possibly use for
different fonts. I think I'm going to choose the font which is called
Basic Lettering free. It's a free phone that I've
downloaded from 1001 fonts. It's a it's free
for commercial use. That's why I decided
to go with it. Choosing the move too, I'm just going to drag this text somewhere
here in the middle. And now it's time that we cover our text and
do frame with the gold. The gold we're going to use is provided in you free
resources for this class. Whereever you saved it, go there and add it. Range icon add. I saved mine here, so I'm going to
insert the photo and my gold foil texture just
dropped on my canvas. I'm going to stretch it
to scale it according to to the size I've got, and what I'm going to do next, I'm going to unclip this as a mask because if you remember, we've clipped it to try and see how things
are going to look. We've made sure we are happy
with the scale of the frame. We're just going to clip
the gold texture to our frame and you can see our frame turned into a
lovely shiny gold color. Again, summertime. Let's
duplicate the gold frame. Let's drag the layer on top
of the word summertime, or let's use it as
a clipping mask. You can see that it's nice the reason why I didn't
want to merge the text and the frame together is so we've
still got to the room for maneuver in case we want to adjust the
text because you see, like, in my opinion,
this merges. This letter merges
with the frame, so I'm just going to keep
it slightly bit down. And again, our strawberries. And let's make the final look of the frame that we're going
to use on social media. I'm going to flatten
because I'm quite happy with the way the
golden part looks. So I'm going to flatten it, and I'm going to clip it as
a mask to our screen size, and I'm going to clip the
strawberry as a mask. And that's basically the way
our frames going to look. So I can go ahead and
merge it together. So now my frame is
ready to be exported, so I'm going to go
to the Range icon. I'm going to select Share, and I'm going to choose PNG. I'm just going to
save it as an image. And then I can later export
it to my mobile device. So I'm going to go
on my Instagram app. I'm going to click
this plus icon, and I'm going to add a store. I'm going to select a photo. This one, for example, and then I'm going to click this
overlay slash sticker icon, and I'm going to
select a photo option, and now I'm going to pick
my strawberry frame. And I just need to adjust
it so it sits nicely on top of my photo and your
story is ready to go. Let's try another one.
Discard this one, and let's select
some other photo. Something really
summary. This cake, for example, and repeat
the same process, photo, and let's select our summer
time frame and adjust it for it to sit nicely on top of your photo and your
story is ready to go.
5. Full Drop Pattern: Summer Picnic: While preparing for this class, I explored different
pattern designs. And finally, I came
up with an idea of something picnic related
because for some reason, for me, summer is
something picniy, fruity. So one of the patterns we'll create is a summer picnic check. And the other one, I thought of something more like
summer dress type thing, so more floaty, more organic. The half drop pattern
will be creating out of berries and leaves and making slightly more
intricate designs. In this lesson, we're
going to create a full drop summary
picnic pattern. And I'm going to start
with creating a new canvas and I'm going to
put the width of the canvas is 3,600 pixels. The height 3,600 because I want it to be square
and the GPI I'm going to put 300 dots per inch because we're going to
assume that you're going to use your pattern
for printing or maybe perhaps even for selling on spring flower
on EtS et cetera. Let's go for a bigger size. Let's create our canvas. And first thing I
would like to do, I would like to put
the guides separating the canos into four
equal squares. For that, I'm going to select
range icon and I'm going to switch drawing as tone.
You can see the grid. I don't need the grid. I'm going to go to Edit Drawing Guide. I'm going to select symmetry. I'm going to go to options
and select quadrant. You can see that my
canvas is now divided into four equal parts. I'm
just going to click do. And first step
we're going to do, we're going to create the
base of our check pattern. I'm going to create a new layer and I'm going to
select the red color. You can see the hex code of it if you want to
use the exact one, and I'm just going to
drop it on the canvas. Next thing, I'm going
to take the move to. I'm going to make
sure that uniform and snapping and magnetic
are selected and I'm going to drag by
the corner to reduce the size of this square
to the top right corner. I want to make sure that it's 1,800 by 1,800 to make sure that it's seamless
and there will be no gaps. I'm going to create a new layer. I'm going to drop
exact same color. However, I'm going to reduce
the opacity to about 60%. And I'm going to do the same. I'm going to downscale it by
dragging it by its corner to the very top of top right
corner of the canvas. New layer, let's
repeat the step, drop the red color
on, but this time, the opacity is going to
be reduced to about 30%. And let's again down
scale it by dragging down to the bottom left
corner and the very last one, I'm going to use the
off white cream color. If you want to use the
exact same colors, you can see the hex codes here. I'm just going to drop it on my canvas and I'm going
to reduce the size, dragging it to the
bottom right corner. I'm going to group these tiles and I'm going to duplicate
it to make a backup. This one, I'm just
going to flatten. Now I'm going to make
three copies of it. I have four copies overall. I'm going to switch
the top three off and I'm just going
to repeat the process by reducing the size of each
square by dragging it to each corner of That's it. That's our check base is ready. I'm going to flatten it
by pinching it together. Next thing I'm going to do is dropping our strawberry clip art on top of our check pattern. For that, I'm going to go back to where my strawberries
are saved from the previous class and
I'm going to copy both of them on my check Canvas. This time, unlike we did
in the frame lesson, I'm not going to reduce
the size of them, I'm just going to use
them as they are. The design, I'm thinking is I'm going to put the
whole strawberry right in the middle of my canvas and the half strawberry is going to be in each corner
of the canvas. I'll show you what I mean. I'm going to switch
the half strawberry off and using the move to, I'm going to place
my whole strawberry in the middle of the canvas. And my half strawberry, I think just for fun, I'm just gonna flip
it vertically. Just for variety. I'm going to create three
more copies of it. I have four overall, one for each corner. I'm just going to drag. See once the object is selected, you can see this box with
these little handles. What I'm going to do,
I'm going to drag each strawberry
half to the corner, making sure that the
metals of the frame are in the line of the edge
of my canvas, just like so. And I'm going to place each of them in each corner
of the canvas. That's just to create
the seamless effect. Now let's downscale
the whole thing just to see how it looks. I'm going to group
this whole tile together and I'm going to
make three copies of it. I have four copies overall. I'm going to switch off the
visibility of the top three, and I'm just going to repeat repeat same process as before by dragging it down to each
corner of our square canvas, just to make sure
everything is nice and seamless. And that's it. Our pattern is ready.
6. Half Drop Pattern: Berry Garden: Let's start by creating a new canvas exactly
same one as we created before 3,600
by 3,600 with 300 DPI. But before we start, let's have a look what a half
drop pattern means. Right now, you see the
full drop pattern, and half drop pattern means that the second row tile is
dropped half a tile down. And first of all, we're going to
start with creating a template that we're going to be using for creating
our half drop. For that, we're going to repeat the same step as we did in the previous lesson for
our previous pattern. We're going to switch
the drawing guide on. We're going to select
Edge drawing guide. We're going to go to
symmetry options quadrant to make sure that the canvas is divided into four equal squares, and we'll click done. So first thing
we're going to do, we're going to drop the color, no matter what, doesn't
matter which color, any color on top of our canvas. Let's reduce the size of it. We need it in the
top left corner, making sure that uniform
magnetic snapping are selected. Let's drag it to the
very top left corner, making sure that the
amber lights are on. And what we're going to do next, we're going to load
the selection of it. For that, I'm going to tap on the layer and I'm going
to click Select and you can see that the menu opened
here and I'm going to click Save load and add the plus here. Now my selection, one is added. Let's repeat the process. Let's undo the selection. Let's drop the color on
top of the canvas again. This time, let's create a selection in the
bottom left corner. For that, I'm going
to drag this down and I'm going to
tap on the layer. I'm going to choose Select, and I'm going to
load the selection. This will be our selection two. Let's repeat the process for selection three
and selection four. Now we've created a selection for each corner of our canvas. Now we need the
selections of each half. The quarters are
done less do halves. For that, I will need
solid color on top. I'm going to take the
move too, and this time, I'm just going to drag the
whole screen to the very left, making sure that the middle
of it is on the edge here and amber
light lines are on. And for that, I'm going to
select and load the selection, and it will be my
selection five, and I'm going to do exactly the same for the opposite side. And now we can let go of it. We've created our templates
that we'll be using, and let's start with the motif
of our half drop pattern. So I'm going to
create a new layer, and first of all, we're going to create
the composition. It's the same principle as we did in my previous
class about berries. So we've created raspberries. So I think our pattern should be made out
of raspberries now, raspberries, currants,
and raspberry leaves. So for that, I'm
going to I'm going to duplicate two pieces
of raspberry clip art. I'm going to drop
them on my canvas. Now I will need the
raspberry leaves. Both of them one whole
one and one singular one. I'm going to drag
them to my canvas. The leaves are added, and I will also need some currents just for
a variety of elements. I'm going to drag them and
drop them also on mykanas. So now all the elements
for our motif are radium. I'm going to group them. I'm
going to rename the whoops. Shouldn't have flattened it. I'm going to rename the
layer, calling it motif, and I'm going to duplicate
it and switch this on as a backup copy because
I will need to pull more elements
on that and from it. I don't want to keep coping and pasting from different canvases. Now, remember how we created the composition
in the previous class. Let's arrange our
elements in a nice way. And that is my motif. What I'm going to do, I'm
going to flatten this layer. I'm going to
duplicate it to keep a backup copy, needed as well. What I'm going to do next, I'm going to start working on the seamlessness of
my half drop pattern. Now it's important just to watch and observe and make sure that the sequence of actions
is the right one because one wrong step and
the pattern will be wrong. What I'm going to do,
I'm going to create a new layer and
I'm going to drop a solid color as a background
of my composition, I would recommend
some neutral color so it doesn't interfere
with our design. I'm going to use the
cream of white color from the previous lesson
about the check pattern. I'm going to combine
these two layers, the color one, and the
motif one in one group. I'm going to go on select meniu and remember
how we loaded the selection. You open save and load, and I'm going to tap
on selection one, which is this corner
of my canvas. What I'm going to do,
once it's selected, I'm going to select
the move tool and I'm going to
flip it horizontal, and I'm going to
flip it vertical flew away of the canvas. Now, I'm going to choose
Select again and this time, I'm going to load selection two, which is this part and
choosing the move tool again, I'm going to flip it horizontal
and flip it vertical. What I'm going to
do, I'm going to use this part to do
exactly the same. Select, save and
load, selection six. Move horizontal. Article. That's the base
of my pattern is reading. What we need to do next, we need to make sure that this
negative space is filled. You can make the pattern
very dense, Dads. I usually leave some gaps in mine so you can actually see
the color of the background. What I'm going to do,
I'm going to drag my duplicative motif on top and I'm going to see how
I can nicely arrange it. I'm going to place it
somewhere in the middle, but you can still see that
there are a lot of gaps there. That's why we needed our backup
group with the elements. I'm just going to start
coping and pulling the elements from our group to arrange them in
a nice way here. I'm not going to
dwell too much on it. You get the idea. So
I've created my design. I'm going to flatten
it, not the background. Just don't flatten with the background color because
this background color is only helper you might want to change the
background color later on. What I'm going to
do, I'm going to flatten my newly
created elements. I'm going to drag them inside of my group and flatten
them with the berries. Oops. With the berries leaving the background
as a helper. Now the second part of
our tiles transitioning. I'm going to
highlight this group, and I'm going to do
the same process, but with the
opposite selections. I'm going to go to
select Save and load, and this time, I'm going
to choose selection three, which is this corner. I'm going to grab the move
two and do exactly the same, flip horizontal flip vertical. On the same group, select
Save and load selection four, which is this corner. Move two, flip horizontal,
flip vertical. And finally, I'm going to do
something with this part. I'm going to grab the select, save and load, and I'm going
to choose Selection five. I'm going to choose
the move two, flip horizontal,
and flip vertical. You can repeat the process
again if you want, but I think I'm just going
to leave it like this. Now let's see if
our design work. For that, I'm going to create four duplicates which will
make overall of five groups. Don't flatten anything just yet, and let's switch
the top four off. And what we're going to do, we're going to start reducing
the sizes of our tiles, which we've done already,
many times in this class. So I'm going to pull
it to the Oops. Remember to switch back
on magnetic and snapping. I'm going to pull
it to this corner. Now I'm going to
pull this one down. But this time because
it's half drop, we cannot put two here, one here, one here because
it just won't be seamless. I won't match. What
I'm going to do? I'm switching the
third group on. I'm going to reduce the size
to the corner same way. But this time, I'm just going
to drag it and place it in the middle of the right half. You can see now it
perfectly matches. Now I'm going to place
the other two tiles, one on top and the
other is on the bottom. That's our half
drop pattern ready. Let's get rid of the
color background. Because usually if you
sell your pattern, very often you don't
use the background, so the customer can use
a background themselves. You can go ahead and
flatten the parts and you can create a new layer or you can
change the background layer. I'm just going to drop some
nice blue color underneath. But see, if you're
changing background color, you can have fun by selecting. Now the absolutely
optional step. If you would like to put some sort of texture
on top of your pattern, I suggest that we
create a quick, seamless overall texture on top. What am I going to do, I'm
going to create a new layer, and for this task, we will need one of the brushes from our
previous very y class. So if you've not got them, but you want to do this step, make sure you go back and
download them from there. I'm going to use the
texturizer cloth. And the color I'm going to use, see, that's my background color, but I'm going to use a
slightly darker color. And what I'm going to
do, I'm going to switch these berries off just
so I can see better. I'm going to switch the
blue off as well and just change the background back to white so
I can see better. I'm going to gently add some texture by almost
cross hatching it. I'm not going to
try and coloring all the spaces because the
pattern is quite busy itself, loads of elements, so
I don't really need the texture to be super
solid, it's fine like this. And I'm going to add a little
background to this texture. I make a pink. Let's duplicate it as a backup
because we might need it. I don't know why,
but just a habit. Let's group this and let's
create three copies. You have four overall,
what are we going to do? Instead of reducing the size
of this group to the corner, we're just going to drag the
whole canvas to the corner, making sure that the
umbrelights appear. The whole thing, we did this with our half strawberry
in the previous lesson. And let's get rid of this pink background so
it doesn't distract us. Let's create a new layer and
using same texture brush, same color, I'm just going to add a little
bit more texture. Just remember to stay
away from the edges, and I don't mind this white gaps because the pattern is so
busy you won't see. I'm just going to pinch
all of it together. And that's my seamless
overall texture is ready for the pattern. I'm going to sish my pattern
back on and I'm going to change the blending
mode to multiply. Hopefully you can see this
lovely canvas texture on top of my beautiful summary
half drop drop pattern. I really hope I've
inspired you to create some amazing
patterns of your own. There are so many ways to use your patterns from personal
projects on print on demand websites
we've talked about before to selling your
patterns in your online shop. You can create and sell
various collections on marketplaces like
Etsy or Spoonflower, where you have a great tool
of checking your patterns, quality and giving yourself and your customers
an opportunity to see your designs on
different objects like homewares and
elements of interior. What's important
to remember here, I would like to point
out two main things. Make sure your
patterns are seamless and there are no
gaps between tiles. Especially if you
intend to sell them. The dimensions and resolution is the other important thing. It's probably safer to make your patterns
on a larger canvas. For example, 3,600 by 3,600 pixels with higher resolution
of at least 300 DPI. In this case, they'll
be perfect for both selling and for
print on demand. But if you're just
making patterns for fun or to use
exclusively on the web, it's probably more
sensible to do lower resolution and save
your iPad storage space.
7. Art Journal: Preparation in Procreate: Before we start creating
a journal page, an art journal page, I would like to put a
little disclaimer. I'm not a very experienced
journal artist, but every now and
then I feel this edge to create a journal page
or even a whole spread. I know that many of the clip art pieces I sell are used in various
junk journals, creative journals, art journals. So I thought, why not
utilize some of our summer Berry tea party elements in creating some lovely
journal spread together. This lesson will be about
a very simple design, which amateurs like me or even complete beginners in our journaling will find
very, very easy. But I also hope
that my experience, our journal ladies out
there will find it inspiring enough to bring
it to a whole new level. I was debating with myself whether to include
the stage or not, as I'm sure that experienced
creative journal artists don't approach the
process this way. But if you're a complete
beginner or if you're like me, someone who journals only occasionally thought I'd
offer my experience of layout preparation as
a graphic designer in the past with years in
the editorial industry. The preparation
stage, you will need your iPad, your Apple pencil, procreate installed
on your iPad, and you will also
need our clip art that we've created in
the previous class. Plus, I'll be using some of the additional resources
that you can download below, like a couple of titles, a poem, and procreate
brush set with shapes. You don't need to use
any of these elements. Go ahead and use your own. But if you want to follow
this class step by step, I suggest that you
download and use them. Usually, I start my
journaling page with thinking about an overall
idea and in our case, we want to utilize
our design clipper. So I thought the idea
of the spread will be one summer day with
the purpose of documenting some very
special day in your life. So for you, it could be a nice day with your
family or a picnic with a friend or just
a lovely walk in the park with your beloved
pet on a warm sunny day. So whatever makes you happy, whatever makes the day special, I encourage you to get creative and to documented in the
nicest possible way. So for our preparation stage, we will need an A four canvas. For that, I'm going to
select this plus icon, and I'm going to
select A four paper. I'm going to turn it like that. And that will be the representation
of my journal spread. And I'm going to go
to the range icon, drawing guide, edit drawing
guide, and the symmetr. I want this line
vertical line in the middle representing
the middle of my journal. Using the shape brushes
for your Procrit, let's have a quick look at them. I've created some ovals, circles, both solid and
frames, rectangles, squares, text
placeholder, corner, and this organic shape
represents some text. I'm going to start
because the idea of my journal is one summer day. I'm going to start with
this title holder. I'm going to select some light color and I'm just going to stamp stamp this
cloud somewhere. I'm going to switch
snapping magnetic off and I'm thinking that I'm going to choose free form
so I can play around with the shape of my cloud. I think I'm going to put my title logically
somewhere here, so you open the journal
and the title is here. By the way, little know, you can see the titles bigger, smaller in the document in the resources
section to this class. But if you know how to
do lettering, of course, go ahead and write all
these letters with, um, using your
lovely calligraphy because I'm not a
lettering artist. That's why I have to use Photoshop to create
these titles for myself. But if you are lucky to be talented in that sphere as well, you probably have
your skis limits so you can just write
down whatever you want. But for the preparation stage, maybe it's worth using the
placeholder like this. Now I'm going to build my
design around this title idea. So using various shape stamps, I'm going to start arranging
different elements to make sure that they look
nice on the page. For each placeholder, I'm going to create a
new layer so I have the freedom to play around with the positioning of it
with the size, et cetera. So what I've noticed
about our journaling, the more varieties of shapes
and sizes you've got, the more mediums you've used, but that's already
know about this class, the nicer and more compelling
your design will look. I encourage you to use various
sizes of your pictures, of your elements, add some text, add some lettering, and that will bring it
all nicely together. So now my layout is ready, and basically I can
start already using it, using it as the guide and start my thinking how I'm going
to use things on paper. But you obviously need to know what to put
in this element. It looks nice as
the set of shapes. But let's think about it. What can we use
as elements here. And I suggest for this
preparation stage, you just drop different
clip art and wording, et cetera to look how your page is actually going to look
on your art journal. Let's start with this big text. In the resources you can download file with
lettering and I'm going to start with adding it
on top of my placeholder. So I dropped it, and now I can get rid
of the placeholder, you don't need it anymore. And I think I'm going
to put the poem here. Here, as I say, you can place a photograph of
yourself, your loved ones. I'm just going to use
some generic photo. I can drop on it. And now I'm going to start adding the clip art that we've created.
8. Art Journal: Put in Practice on Paper: For the practical part
of our journal class, you will need the
following things. You will need a sketchbook, journal of some sort, with a blank spread available. You will need paper. You can see I've printed already my ***** that we've created
in this stage of preparation. I've also on the second for created printed
out some patterns, and the kind of paper I'm using, I'm using a thick card
whites 250 grams, which on the hindsight is a little bit too
thick for my liking. I'm using the oyster
colour paper, 120 grams, which seems perfect. You see this time,
I managed to print out to keep everything
within the paper, and I printed a photo
with me and my daughters, which I put the frame from
the previous lesson on, you will need some form of glue. If you have children
of school age, you probably I'm 100% sure you've got something
like that at home. If not, it's really
something that can be easily picked up in the supermarket
during the grocery shopping. And you need a pair of sharp scissors and
obviously for printing, you will need a printer with inknet that's all you need to create a
nice journal spread. Now, all I need to
do is to loosely cut out each separate
elements from my paper. I've arranged all my
pieces in the way I've planned in the previous
lesson in the iPad, and now I need to blue them
separately one by one, making sure that the
overlapping ones go on top.
9. Final Thoughts: That's all for now. I would like to thank you from
the bottom of my heart for joining me again in these creative activities
of Summer Berry's designs. And I can't wait to
see your projects uploaded either here or
in Instagram or both. If you upload your
projects on Instagram, please consider tagging me at my Underscore Busy underscore. Me, I always love seeing your designs and artworks.
And see you next time. Okay.
Irina Young, Busy May Studio
