Developing Creativity and Drawing skills: making the ordinary, extraordinary, by creating quick sketches on photos using Procreate.

Do you remember looking at clouds and seeing shapes of dragons or elephants parade through the sky? We will harness your natural creative ability by learning to develop your creative eye by identifying the basic shapes of everyday objects in your environment, taking photos of them, and turning them into something new through simple, quick sketches using Procreate.

These skills will help you identify the basic shapes needed to draw and to find inspiration in your everyday life. The fact that the sketches are quick, means we wont get lost in detail or perfection, and your projects will be clean, quick and simple.

This class is is perfect for beginners to advanced artists who are new to procreate. You lessons will be kept at an introductory level but I will be throwing in more advanced tips and tricks as well.

By the end of this class, you will learn drawing techniques, how to find inspiration in your everyday surroundings, push through creative block, and you will know you way around the basic features of Procreate so you can continue your creativity, independently.

We will be using a smart phone to take photos and procreate app and pencil to draw. But you can also follow along by printing your own photos and drawing on them with pencil and markers. You can be a beginner in drawing and a beginner user in Procreate.

I use these exercises to get creativity flowing instead of staring at a blank screen. Its also my go to warm up exercise, before I begin creating coloring book pages. Once you learn this skill you will never un-see the creative possibilities around you!

Our projects will focus on something as "everyday" as Lamp Posts and you will turn them into 3 new objects. Through this process we will explore basic tools on Procreate and I'll be sure to introduce you to more advanced shortcuts as well. We will be using photo adjustments, layers, pen tool, selection tool and more. After this class you will know your way around the basic features of Procreate so you can continue your creativity independently. These quick sketches with help you identify the basic shapes that form complex objects and shapes, and then draw them. This is the foundation for finding the inspiration in the everyday and turning the ordinary into extraordinary.

CLASS DRAFT NOTE: WILL PROVIDE IMAGE DOWNLOADS FOR CLASSES

CLASS MILESTONE 1 - Scales

Upload your first quick sketch of you lamp-post that has been turned into a set of old weighing scales. This is a warm up exercise using basic shapes like lines, triangles and ellipses.

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CLASS MILESTONE 2 - Old Fashioned Gentleman

Building on the skills you learnt in the first sketch, we will add to these by transforming a lamp post into an Old Fashioned Gentleman. Through sketching rectangles and ellipses and more layers and photo adjustments, you will create your next photo mashup. Post your finished sketch here. Bonus points if you also create an old fashioned lady complete with hooped skirt and hat as well!

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CLASS MILESTONE 3 - UFO

In this lamp post to UFO mashup we will begin to use color, selection, and transparency tools to not only draw on, but combine 2 photos into your sketch, along with your skills learnt in the previous sketches. Post your sketch to get feedback and to encourage other students. Bonus points if you see something entirely different in this photo and draw something entirely new.

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CLASS PROJECT:

Use the skills you learnt in our 3 sketches to create your own photo mashup.

1. TAKE A PHOTO

Take your own photos (or use one of the photos I have provided) and make sure it is as ordinary as possible. Post your photo and tell me what mashup you are planning. Its great to get feedback from your classmates too, as our creative minds will see many ways for your everyday object to be mashed up!

2. EDIT YOUR PHOTO TO CREATE MOOD

Edit you photo to create the best mood for your planned mashup and post a before an after and let us know the mood you are going for.

3. SKETCH AND FEEDBACK

Post your sketch and get feedback

4. SHARE YOUR MASHUP

Share your mashup by posting here and to your social media. Dont forget to tag me and Skillshare so I can share your work on my page too! I cant wait to see your new worlds!

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Genevieve Staats

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