Creating a Mid-Century Illustration with Procreate - Stay Home and Draw

hello and welcome to stay home and draw this is all about encouraging you guys to first of all stay home during this crazy pandemic we're going through but also give you something fun to look forward to and do and spend some of your time being a little creative maybe learning a new skill and we're just going to draw together we're gonna chat you guys can ask questions and it's gonna be really fun so today we are going to be drawing a mid-century style illustration and this is coming from the making art everyday prompts that I send out I have this challenge where I send out daily prompts you know in an email once a week so there's always something for you to draw every day you never have to worry about what to draw and there's always a theme and this month's theme is whether Plus art styles so we have all these like weather-related prompts like last week we did like Sun and clouds and like things like that and then if you want to you can take the extra challenge with what we call like the plus and the plus is to incorporate some different art styles into your work so I'm just gonna actually have a slide for that real quick I have this article back here thirty art styles to try and procreate which you can find at Bardot brush comb slash tutorials I also have a link in the YouTube description if you guys are on YouTube and it's just like 30 different art styles from like pop art to collage abstract like all kinds of different stuff for you to try and like incorporate into your work so today we're going to be trying mid-century style illustration and the prompt that I'm going to be using is wind it's actually the prompt I believe for tomorrow so let's go ahead and open up procreate and I already kind of started with I have my sketch already ready to go so I'm gonna start with that and kind of talk to you about how I came up with that very rudimentary to begin with this is kind of like the idea that I saw in my head but like put onto my paper in a very very simple way so just to get it out I kind of had this so the prompt is wind and I have this idea of this girl with like the wind blowing and heard like jacket and hair is all blowing in the wind and that was my idea for win and so this is like the very like stick figure asked a version of that idea that I'm going to take and refine and make into like this cool mid-century style artwork so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna pull up split-screen and I'm just gonna hair I'll do it this way I'm gonna pull up that article that I was talking to you about and that way you'll get to see it too which is kind of cool so I'm going to my website Bardot brush calm I'm going to tutorials and you will be able to find that one right here 30 art styles to try and each of these has like a description and characteristics to look for in that art style as well as a Pinterest board and then some ideas of how to apply that into procreate last Monday we did abstract art and so that's what this video is right there so so they're not all complete I'm slowly updating this article because it's a big one it's got a lot of info so I'm just scrolling down to mid-century art see I don't have the description yet but I do have a link to a really cool article about mid-century art I have another mid-century art video that I did like last year and then the Pinterest board which is what I want to get to so I'm gonna open that and it didn't work for some reason going over straight to Pinterest so I'm just gonna go to my account but this is the Bardot brush Pinterest and I have a lot of boards and they're mostly like reference photos and things like that to inspire you guys so it's a cool account to check out I'm gonna go to mid-century illustration and here I've compiled just a bunch of inspirational mid-century art this is kind of like one particular style of mid-century art which I really like which is like the flat black color with like black outlines over it there's of course many different kinds from that era but this is kind of the one that came to mind when I'm thinkin of this style so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go back to procreate I'm gonna swipe up to pull up my dock then I'm gonna grab my Pinterest app and just drag it over to the side I that does split-screen view and I'm even gonna resize it so it's a little smaller so now I've got all these like cool inspirational images as I'm working on mine and so I have done some investigation into this style of course because I have a brush set that I created to make this style called the mid-century illustrators kit and that's what I'm going to be using today if you don't have it that's okay you can probably find other brushes that you can use and I'll kind of like guide you about what to look for if you don't have that set but if you do you can follow right along so I've you know I've observed a lot of mid-century art I've kind of done some research I know the characteristics and what to look for and that's really what you're doing when you are trying to approach an art style is like what kind of common characteristics do I see like I said like a lot of flat color with black line work on top lots of like angles there's not like a lot of roundness to anything like very angular geometric very simple and very flat so those are kind of some of the characteristics that I can that I'm that I see and also like very limited color palettes to which that's a hard one for me because I like to use lots of color so I don't know if I'll incorporate that into my piece we'll see but you know not not a lot of shading like very just flat and some you know a lot of sudden some art does have a lot of these like organic lines that also was a characteristic of that era but you know there's another one with like and and I really like this face this is one that I observed like the little smiley face and the round head and stuff like that so so I've done some research I'm gonna keep this up here on the side just you know if I want to look through and get some more ideas like I can embellish with stars and little dotted lines and things like that like those kind of things so I'm just gonna leave that there so this is my beautiful little stick figure sketch and I actually already made one refined version of the sketch ahead of time so I will show you what that is I drew this with my pencil dardo pencil from the pencil box set but you can use something from like the sketching set like a pencil from the built in procreate set let me go back to my pencil that's just the one I like to use so I'm just gonna reduce the opacity of that so you can see the second one that I did so this was like the more refined version of that little stick figure I tried to make it as like angular as possible with kind of some flowing lines because that's what I wanted for the hair like I showed you I like that little spaceman face so I kind of did something similar for her face and like the hands are really pointy and like the feeder point like everything is just a little pointy so I didn't draw the clothes yet so that's what I'm gonna do with you guys right now I just wanted to give you insight because I didn't draw it on the camera up what I did so I'm just gonna turn off that original stick figure sketch and I'm just gonna work from this one let me grab a drink water we have any questions what my current favorite always changes is the gouache paint box I just updated it a month in a couple months ago now Josh time is flying and definitely not flying all at the same time that one's really fun and I've done a lot of videos recently using that so that's the one I would probably check out there's a lot of material that you can go through and learning how to use it but for me it changes every time I make a new set like I get really excited about it and I use it for a long long time so okay so I'm gonna reduce the opacity of this sketch I'm just gonna tap the little N icon and just move that down so I can just barely see it then I'm gonna create a new layer right above it so this was kind of like my rough sketch and now I'm gonna make a more refined one before I move on to like coloring it and doing all that stuff and I didn't put on clothes before when I do people I kind of - just start with the body and like the shape of the legs and the arms and then I add the clothes on on top of that so I didn't have like an underlying structure so I will probably start with the clothes and I want her to be wearing a raincoat so and I'm kind of like pulling up so I'm gonna get a middle gray instead of black for my sketch and I'm kind of pulling from my own life right now I have a yellow raincoat that I love and I actually posted some pictures and videos and my stories our kids and I went on a walk which I think probably inspired this yesterday in the rain was raining where I am so this is kind of inspired by that kind of want these like big sleeves and I'm trying to keep the lines and everything like super duper simple not getting like too detailed with like folds and wrinkles or anything like that and then I want the coat to be like blowing in the wind because the whole prompt that I'm going off of is wind so I'll have it kind of going off to the side again really simple shapes and then I know we need the buttons which are kind of gonna go like that and then like a hood kind of situation I'll draw her neck in the hood can kind of maybe go off to the side and it'll be kind of behind there so something like that maybe you don't want it that high I draw the color in and then there we go that's kind of like the hood and then I want to do some like cuffs on the sleeves really simple and then I'll just add in the buttons just to kind of give myself a guide for later okay so there's the coat and now I'm gonna add in the hands hands can be tricky I would definitely recommend checking out I have a tutorial series called people skills and it's all about how to draw like the different body parts and like eventually put it together into a body that's too many fingers but it's really helpful to like if you know enough to draw hands realistically to go to speak you can draw them more stylize like this and I'm just going really simple with the hands so I hope that make sense but I definitely check out people's skills if you're interested in drawing people a lot of is just knowing like this finger is longer than the others and they kind of curve right here and the thumb catches this way and you can get even though it's like cartoonish you can get a more realistic cartoon and doesn't look so weird so so there's my hands let's do the legs I think I'm just gonna and I want her to be wearing rain boots so I'll probably draw those on big fat rain boots like that maybe that's a little bit too fat I'll try that again having a really good sketch is really gonna help you out when you go to color so you don't have to worry about how everything's gonna look you just have to worry about like rendering it and coloring it and adding in your details and stuff so there's the boots kind of really simple but and then we'll do the leg Hey oops my leg looks like it's bending a little bit make it more straight tapers there we go cool so that's looking pretty good now I'm gonna do the head and I really like this I'm really referencing this like oblong shape for the head so I'm gonna draw that in I'm not a year to and then like some little bangs the other side and then my eyes there we go nice big smile and then the hair so the hair I want to kind of this is like what's gonna make it look like it's windy is like the hair's gonna be a pretty prominent feature so I'm just gonna kind of make these into more shapes kind of like that maybe one more a little bit like that and I might end up changing the way that looks later that's just fine and then the hair is kind of like wrapping around behind her head and then I'm also gonna be adding like stray hairs and things like that that's kind of like what this is so I'll just kind of draw that in but I'm probably gonna add in more later so so yeah that's me that's my sketch I can continue on and add more detail to the sketch or I can do it later it kind of just depends on how you want to plan it out like I I might actually make the cuffs a little bit bigger than the actual sleeves and maybe like add some line work to show that there might be like a wrinkle right there that's something that you can kind of notice in this style like there are details that show that there are wrinkles and things like that even if you don't I don't know I can't have a good one right now to show you but no good yeah but I want to add some line work just to kind of show that there might be a wrinkle there while still keeping it like SuperDuper simple and then I'm probably gonna add like lines at the bottom of the boots to show like the sole of the boot and maybe like the little buckle trying to keep it as simple as possible but yeah I mean that's pretty much it so I'm gonna probably go ahead and start coloring this in now so to do that I'm going to turn off this or initial sketch I don't need that one anymore I'm going to turn down the opacity of the sketch I just drew so I'm going to just hit the end turn that down and I also like to set my sketches to the multiply blend mode that means they will always look dark on top of whatever colors I put underneath it so it'll still remain visible no matter what and I'm gonna put a layer underneath my sketch I always keep my sketch on top and now I can start I'm gonna start with the basic shape so in you know something like this I'm basically drawing the shape of the color and then I'm going to go over the top and put my line work on top of that so that's the method that I'm using here so I am going into the mid-century illustrators kit this is one of my brush sets it's called mid-century if you have it installed and I am going to choose I'm gonna choose the bardo anchor this is a brush that is relatively untextured it has a very small amount of texture along the edge because I don't want a ton of texture for these shapes but I do want a little bit that's going to help give it that style so if you have a brush if you don't have this you can pick a brush that maybe doesn't have a ton of texture but it's gonna be good for drawing like shapes and things like that so I know there's Jack it's gonna be yellow so I'm gonna go ahead and grab a nice pretty yellow and I'm just gonna color in this whole shape here let's see and I'm just kind of outlining it and then I will fill it in see I'm like giving the outline of everything that's gonna be yellow right now so maybe if we have any questions since this will be take me a minute I can take a couple questions if there are any Jeff oh sure but we use a professional film studio c-stands with an arm with a phone we have a second phone so we can actually do Instagram and then we use studio lighting and we have our offices designed for us to record videos so I give a lot of light thankfully which is why bet the cameras themselves our iPhones you guys not not super high tech there although I do film my tutorials on like big care and cameras and that is a great question and I'm actually doing the the color work before I do the line work to me that makes the most sense because I want to pay attention to the shapes and then I want to add the line work on top as the details that's generally my workflow in making art work as I start with big shapes and then I add texture and detail and I go you know start big go small so that's like the way that I do it so right now if I was drawing this shoe here I would be drawing the like shoe part and then adding the detail on top and you can do it the other way if it makes more sense to you this is just the way that I do it so so okay so I'm gonna take this shape now and fill it with color and one thing I wanted to show you is that this brush has it's a little hard to see a little bit of a textured edge and sometimes when you do when you fill in a textured shape hold on I want to show it it looks like this one feels pretty good but you can adjust the color drop threshold so if you notice you fill in something and then there's like a white weird little lying around it right there you might have to adjust your color drop threshold this depends on the brush that you use this one fills in pretty good but you you feel it you sorry you drag it over and hold it and don't lift up your pencil and you see this blue line across and the more you go this way the more the color will bleed into the textured edges and the less you go that way the less it will do that so that's just a tip if you find yourself that that's happening to you so I'm gonna fill that now I've got my yellow shape and I'm gonna move on to will do will do the body so I'm gonna put a layer behind the yellow and this is gonna be like the skin and the hair or the skin the face all that stuff so I'm just gonna choose I guess when I draw people I tend to make them look like me so you'll see a lot of like redheads I draw a lot of experiences from my life so she wears a coat that I have the boots will probably look like the ones I have she'll have red hair cuz that's just what I end up doing most of the time is drawing people that look like me and then I'm gonna so I'm just drawing the face shape - where the hair is gonna go and the ear as well but I've got in just trying to go with really simple shapes nothing too realistic then I'll have to go back and erase some of the yellow for the neck but I'll do that a little bit okay and then we'll do the hands and I can probably take that question you had Jeff while I'm doing this oh that was the sketch so that means that that this will always look dark over whatever I'm drawing so I'm on some colors the like if you just reduce the opacity of your sketch you won't be able to see it I think over like reds sometimes are really tricky so I just generally do that to all my sketches if we're doing like a big workshop or class or something like that we'll we'll do those giveaways so we gonna do one again this week I don't know well I don't have a workshop plan I do have live videos planned so we'll see maybe we'll do a giveaway during that one this one was asking about a tutorial on brushes and we've talked about this in the past yeah the it would it would have to be a pretty in-depth kind of thing to to do a tutorial on how to make brushes I do have one plan that I maybe I'll do with you during one of these lives is like basic brush making and how to like make a brush and customize it and do something like that so that could be really fun so maybe we'll do that in the future it's pretty so I'm making her I'm doing like these would be her pants I guess so I'm making them blue and then I put the boots over them so I don't to worry about it at the bottom with her foot is I will just fill in those shapes so I'm just making a lot of shapes and filling them in right now now I'm gonna make a layer for the boots they're above the like skin and pants layer and I'm gonna make them green because my boots in my life are green with their green with yellow polka dots actually so I'll probably make the boots look like that and it really again really simple shapes very angular very simple that's very iconic of this style and I'll do this one as well this foot is kind of like kicked back a little bit that's why it's at a different angle there you know and I like this brush too because it has some streamlined settings these are the brush settings there's there's a lot that's why I was telling you guys like there's a lot that goes into brushes so it kind of smoothes out your lines for you a little bit that's what the streamlined setting does so it's it's nice for doing like line work especially in things like this corners on this boot a little bit have you make them a little less around even so I'm gonna tap and hold the eraser and that's gonna select whatever brush I was using as my brush as the eraser and then I can erase away a little bit that kind of little sharp in the edge just a little bit make the corner a little more pointy do that oh yeah it's like kind of round right here I can just take some away and now it's like a lot well not a lot pointer a little pointer I could do it here too so that's a good way to get nice sharp corners on things there I think it looks cool um okay so now I'm gonna do her hair I'm gonna put the hair layer probably behind the skin layer so I just create a new layer behind the skin and the boots layer and I'm gonna make her red head because that's what I do like red hair is my favorite because it's the most colorful here well that's not like right I have red hair I have self-made red hair I made it that way I'm normally like a dirty blonde I mean there are definitely more colorful hair colors if you go to the lake you know rainbow spectrum and you're into like the not natural hair colors but like red is the most of the like natural hair colors that's the most colorful so that's why I like it I have my hair like that and I usually draw my people like that sure this world might so generally when I pick colors I am over here I'm almost always like over in this area of the color wheel these are the most saturated versions of the colors like you can see all the colors I views are pretty saturated so when I choose yellow I am like to the edge and I tend to make my yellows not too too far over to the green probably like 10 more over to the orange but if you go over to value you can see like there is no darkness at all in this color 99 percent maybe 1% above black and then this it's almost all the way saturated so that's what I'm using and I and I just love bright colors so that's what I am I like to use in my work and I can't see so I need a cult I want to fill in this with color drop but I can't see totally so I'm just gonna turn off the skin layer site oops so I can connect that shape let me get my ID on't because you have a little preview here so it's pretty easy to like see what's on that layer maybe if you had something that was the same color as you know the gray that's in the preview you wouldn't be able to see it as much but if I I wonder what's on a layer I just kind of do that I'm like oh that's what's on the layer you know and it'll disappear and come back I just kind of turn it on and off I work too quickly to like do that but there might be times where you want to like you know figure out what's on each layer so might be good to label okay alright so I've got all my shapes drawn in this is pretty much it so now I can kind of move on to the details of this drawing and like I said I'm trying to make it very much like this mid-century style so like different textured lines that go over the blocked in colors like I said the this style uses a lot of restricted color palettes like this one was just three colors really black pink blue but I like to use a lot of colors so this is my version of like mid-century style so I'm gonna create a layer above all these different colors this is gonna be from my line work and I'm choose black I don't want my line work to be black and then I think the brush I'm going to use for a lot of the line work is the leading edge brush so this is a brush with a lot of texture so if you don't have this set maybe a light a liner type brush that has a lot of texture would be good you could probably find one in like the inking set maybe so just kind of play around and see what works well for you but I'll show you like this has this nice like kind of a kink bleedy texture and that you see a lot in this type of artwork or the era of artwork so I'm just gonna go ahead and do all my line work now so I'm basically just kind of like tracing over my sketch I'm gonna clean up this little that's a little too round right there so I'm just gonna erase away a little bit to make it more pointed all right where her bangs kind of connect to the other bangs I'm go back to my line work now and I'm gonna add some lines for the hair just to kind of give it a little bit of definition like you can see hair doesn't really get much like to it there's like some a few lines I see another one I hear ya the hair is kind of indicated by just like a few lines to give it the impression that there's some kind of shape and you know form there like there's some hair so I'm just gonna add some lines to this and maybe I'll then kind of following along that there we go esra no this one was asking do you have a favorite style of art um yeah I mean like I mean mid-century style art is definitely one of my favorites like Mary Blair is my favorite artist and I love her illustration style it's just simple it seems very effortless that's definitely something that I love which I have learned it's not effortless at all it takes a lot to be able to do that effortless style of artwork so yeah that's kind of what I like very like very simple it just seems like it's effortless in reality it's not sorry I'm getting a little anal about my lines here and redo them but yeah that's kind of what I like as you can see just to get like the line that I want it's taking me a while to get it get it perfect my idea perfect but that's okay I'm not gonna spend too much time on it all right there we go I got some lines and we'll do one more down here and then wrap around yeah where we have we're doing three this week Monday Wednesday and Friday and then we're gonna do yeah 10:30 a.m. Pacific time we're doing three this week and we'll probably cut it down to two the week after that because they are like a lot to do so and they are a lot to do you guys well Lisa one sample I mean we will be having a baby yeah we were like five weeks out from our current pregnant with number three and at that point we're gonna take a break for sure uh so but yeah we want to keep going as long as we can until then so that's what we're gonna do yeah we're we're prep we're preparing some stuff to like go out after the baby's born so those two be stuff for you guys to to do so I forgot to erase that part away for the knick so I'm doing that right now and then I'm gonna I'm gonna go back to my line work okay so I'm gonna work on the coat now kind of spent a long time on the hair so now I'm just gonna add these details so I need to have something that separates the the hood from the armpit area so just like that is all I need you don't often see a lot of out like where there's line details over solid color you don't see like outlines along the edges too much maybe where it's white just to give that area definition so I'm not gonna outline the edges that's not really what you would see in this style so I'm just gonna kind of define things that are behind other things so that's kind of what I'm doing here so I'll stop right there and same thing over there so you can tell that there's something behind that maybe I'll even give an extra line so you know it's a hood like that would be the inside of the hood I'll draw a line here to define the cuff and I drew these little triangles these are kind of like like wrinkles if you wrinkle you know if you cuffed up your sleeves there'd be like a little bit of a wrinkle there so that's kind of I made those four and then I'll do the line here for the kind of way that jacket closes and then I'm just going to draw some little dots or the buttons and I haven't they're too limiting for me but other people might like it so maybe one day I'll do that we'll see boy or girl and this one is a boy so we'll have what we grow boy and our kids are all really excited about it so cool so I don't I don't really need again the line work I was talking about how things are in front of other things I don't need lines here really because there are two different colors and there's already definition between those so and it's I mean of course it's totally up to you like how much line work you want to add to that but this is about oops I don't know what happened here this is about good like for me in this style like as far as like adding black lines so the next thing I want to do is add I remember I talked to you guys I'm going to add some like stray hairs and things to make it look more windy so I'm just gonna go to this same layer here I'm gonna grab this red hair color and I'm just gonna I'm using the same line brush and I'm just gonna add some hairs that are kind of you know flying out swirling around a little bit just to make her hair look a little more messy oh how many I'll add you've odd one more here I'm just kind of adding in a few hairs maybe I'll do one on this side if it looks don't look too weird yeah kind of give it a little bit of something there no no I want shorter hairs there probably not really I'm gonna make this one a little more curvy there so just a few hairs I actually don't like this one very much okay so just a little bit to kind of give it something to make it look like a little more messy like the wind is blowing in cuz right now yeah the hair is the hair and the way the jacket are flowing are really the only indication that there's any wind and I am gonna add some like wind details to make it look like there's wind so so I'll go ahead and do that now I am pretty much done with my sketch I've added in all the line work and everything that came from my sketch so now I'm gonna turn it off that's not it there we go and it's definitely good to make sure you turn off your sketch because it can like skew your perception of how you're doing on your heart once you turn it off everything's gonna look a little different you're like oh I need to add more detail there you know something like that um okay so I think I'm gonna add in the wind now and for that I'm going to create a layer above everything else I'm gonna choose like a blue like a light blue maybe something like that yeah maybe a little cooler and the brush I'm going to use is Bardo dotty it's the dotty brush from the mid century illustrators kit and this brush is like has these cool like dotted kind of irregular dotted lines so I think that'll be really fun for adding in some wind so I want to kind of draw some wind I gotta figure out you know how I want it to go I kind of want like some little lines like that maybe one more over here I kind of think about where things overlap you don't want to like these are there's a thing called tangents or things just line up and it can be very jarring like if the if it stopped right here and it hit this line a little bit that wouldn't look as compositionally pleasing so kind of watch out for things like that you want them to kind of overlap things in a more pleasing way so to speak and I realize I didn't put this above my line work layer and I wanted above everything else so I kind of have some cool like lines now there we go so now I've got like something that looks like wind and I also want to maybe add some leaves like leaves are blowing in the wind to me this drawing isn't fall this is spring so my leaves are gonna be green instead of like fall colors that's just like my personal preference and how I want to make this art so I'm gonna get some like leafy green colors and I'll probably do the inker brush again to draw the leaves and I just want to kind of have them and I made a new layer above the wind lines and I'm just gonna draw some like leaf shapes and fill them in I'll do a few different kinds of leaves just like the one that has lots of leaves on it someone's asking do be teach their kids to draw I kind of give them a lot of creative freedom and I really like for like for kids especially to explore their own creativity and I love seeing what comes out of their head without me teaching them so not not like specifically like if he asks I can help him but I really like to see you know what comes out of their heads versus me like trying to influence them yeah they have a lot of freedom we have a like a playroom that we've set up for them and it's they like have like six drawers worth of craft stuff and art stuff so they kind of just have free rein to like play around and be creative I think that freedom is really important versus like trying to make it happen there you go but and then he also like sees us doing creative things too so that has a big influence on on our kids as well cool so I've got some leaf shapes going if you noticed I was using like the eraser tool to kind of sharpen the make them more pointy and you know do that and then I'm gonna add like a maybe I'll do it in black it's maybe gonna do it in dark green but I've been doing it in black so maybe I'll do a black to add like a little really simple little line over it maybe I'll go just like a few little lines want it to be really really simple not get too detailed this one's upside down I don't know about this one there's just some lines there this one can go like a stem and maybe this one goes like that there we go so now the lines have some details - okay so the next thing that I want to do is add some more text some texture to this because right now it's really flat and like mid-century art would have been printed that's how you would have seen it it's not you know they didn't have digital art back then so you you often see a lot of print texture so for that you know like stuff like this I don't think all of these are from that era some are reproductions you know the stuff that people have made more recently in that style in this like inspiration thing but what I'm going to use to add my texture is from the where is it texture makers set this is another one in my set and I have these two brushes the press fine and the press rough and I think these are gonna be really good for adding a little bit of texture to my flat areas of color so I'll start with the press fine brush and I'm gonna do I'll do the hair first cuz you can see it's probably the easiest I had just done a little bit of wine work to these leaves and that was with that was from where is it the mid-century set I use the bleeding edge brush to do all my line works all these little lines these lines this hair here I used the inker brush to do all the shapes like all the colors and the shapes like these leaves and then dotty to do this like wind so I've really just used like those three brushes right now okay so I'm going to a different set now this one's called texture maker it's another one of my set I'm gonna do the hair first I'm just gonna select that hair color I'm going to turn on alpha lot because I just want to add texture to that shape and I'm just gonna choose like a lighter color like a lighter version of that color and then I should just be able to kind of paint that over and you can see I don't need it to be too much but it just adds like a little bit of something to make it not so flat so I'm gonna do that to everything so I'm gonna do I'll do the face next I'm going to turn on alpha lock to secure my shapes as I draw in this texture let's get the face color the skin color maybe we'll go darker instead let me see how that looks a little bit darker you can go lighter or darker it's just up to you that's too dark I don't know mm-hmm that's too bad and I can even use it to I can make it more heavy like where maybe there'd be shading or something and then lighter on the face do the hands and that's it for that color else have to do the legs which are on this layer so I'll get like mid darker blue I am using press fine from the texture maker set I don't know if it has any like pressed paper texture uh you might want to look through you could maybe try somebody's charcoal pushers I don't know for sure I'm not sure yeah I'm not as familiar with the built-in brushes so some try to get back to texture maker okay and now I'm gonna do the jacket so I'm hitting the jacket layer and turning on alpha lock select that yellow and I'll do maybe a darker yellow want your OC no I don't like that it's a little too dark all right there that's a little bit more subtle I'm trying to go for pretty subtle here I don't want it to like take over and be super obvious that there's this texture it just like adds a little bit of something I got to do the boots so I'm trying on alpha lock they're grabbing that color look a little darker just painting that over and I think I did everything now except for these leaves and leaves so I'm gonna grab yeah and I'll go darker there you know just a little bit super subtle um I forgot to add my polka dots to my boots so I'm gonna add those now I have yellow yellow polka dots or like light yellow on my boots so I'm going back to my mmmmmm mid-century set I'll use the bleeding edge brush that's fine I'm just gonna draw a few polka dots very good cool all right cute okay so now I'm gonna focus on my background a little bit and then I will be done with this illustration so I kind of want to have the background to be more of like a you know like a creamy color so I'm gonna change that by going into my layers go to background color and I'm just gonna like play around and see like how dark I want it to be when I change the background of course it is gonna affect the way that the two colors contrast next to each other and what I thought would be a cool element for this drawing is to have like a white circle behind everything I don't know if there's it something like that so I'm gonna go ahead and create a layer for that so I'm gonna create a new layer I'm gonna choose I'll do the fat inker brush it's just like a bigger a little bit more textured version of the inker brush I was using then I'm gonna grab white if you double tap near white it will snap to white so that's a really quick way to get it and then I'm just gonna draw kind of like a shape around her and fill that in just to kind of give it a little bit of interest and not make it like on a plain background hmm kind of ever find it and make it home however you'd want it to be but this is a great way because I do struggle with backgrounds and I tend to just leave them on the white back a lot so this is a good way to add a little bit of something that isn't you know adding trees and a whole scene and stuff like that just giving a little bit more interest now that I've done that I might make the background a little bit lighter I don't know I'm gonna add some texture to it for sure so I'll do that next I'm gonna create one more layer below the white circle that I just made our oval I'm going to select this color and get go back to my texture maker set and use press rough this time it's a little bit rougher texture mm-hmm and I'll get a darker a little bit darker I use the Bardot fat anchor from the mid-century set okay so now I'm just using that press rough I'm just painting over a little bit of texture over the whole thing just to give it a little bit of interest pretty good the only thing that's bothering me a little bit is like right here these like little triangle shapes that are happening because of where it's hitting her hand so I might just make the circle a little bit bigger these are like fine little things that you you know you notice the more you you draw like that's bothering me just a little bit where am I trying to get I'm trying to get to the mid-century set I use the fat anchor for that so I might just like there that's a little better it doesn't bother me as much if they're just sticking over the edge a little but I like that her hands are over the edges and her feet are over the edges I might even try it no yeah I kind of like that I'll do it that way so I'm just erasing a little bit of a way to I think I like how her whole hand or her whole fingers are over the edge yeah so the back so I changed I'll show you a second I changed the background to be this color it's like this beige I don't know like off-white kind of color the background is set to be that and then I created another layer just to add the texture because I can't add to a background color it's just a flat color so I just created another layer for that and I think that's it I think I'm pretty much done with that um oh yeah there was one more thing I was going to show you guys which is to add if I wanted to add even more shading like I kind of like it the way it is but you do see in this style a lot go back to Pinterest really quick I see if I can find a good example you do see kind of like like a stippled shading sometimes trying to find a good example of this but I'm not finding one all right well I've seen it before and I can't I didn't I guess I don't have one on this board but um I'll show you what I mean so to do that I would basically I'll do it to the jacket so you can see it so I'm gonna create I'm gonna select that layer and create a later right above it and set that layer to be a clipping mask so that way I can draw in a new layer if I don't like it I can edit it a race and I have total control over what I put on that layer but it's clipped to the shape of this yellow jacket I'll show you why in a second I grab black and I'm gonna grab the speckle brush it's like the last one in the set and you can use this to add some like shading along the side like that and I can even you know erase some of it away if I get it in spots actually don't mind that it's back there in the hood right there I can add it here maybe underneath I can make the brush size smaller this brush is pressure sensitive so like the lighter you draw the smaller the dots are and the heavier you draw the bigger they are seem kind of like very it based on pressure um I can do actually maybe I'll do the inside of her little hood so I can look like there's some dimension there and I'm just drawing that and then erasing away where it's not the inside of the hood so that makes it look like it's dark there um I can also maybe do her hair so I'll make the clipping mask for her hair too so I'll select the hair hit the plus sign and to make a new layer I'm gonna tap on it and hit clipping mask and then you know down here would probably be you know by her hair would be dark maybe over here as well I can do a little bit further if I want you know you kind of play with it and see what looks good to you maybe on the back of the legs too I can do something like that and so I'm gonna do the same thing create a new layer set it to be a clipping mask to that layer with the skin and the the legs I'm just gonna add a little bit of shading there this is just like another thing that you can add if you wanted to give it a little bit more dimension than what I had previously done let's see clipping masks for the boots just a little bit on the back maybe so yeah I think that's looking pretty good and that's definitely a style in of itself as adding the shading you could do it flat like I had done a minute ago or you can add this kind of stipple shading but in black because that's very like indicative of that style versus like adding the shading in you know a darker version of the yellow or darker version of the red but if you wanted to do it that way with different colors you can definitely do it that way too I think either way is great it's your art in the end so make it exactly how you want it to look don't worry about don't worry about it not being accurate to the style or anything like that I just noticed she didn't have eyebrows but I'm gonna give her some eyebrows with the bleeding edge brush but after that I think I'm done with this drawing so just finish that up if you have any questions as we're kind of wrapping things up go ahead and type them in and Jeff will read them off to me in just a sec but I'm pretty happy with this illustration I think it came out really cute again this is my interpretation of the prompt wind and I did it in a mid-century style so I think I'm pretty happy with how it came out so I'm gonna go ahead and take a couple questions now I just lost Instagram so I'm gonna pop you guys back up real quick probably lost all your questions yeah instagrams the backup so now we'll go ahead and like yeah it behaves just like alpha luck but it's its own layer so like if I had to use alpha lock to add this black I wouldn't have been able to go in and erase I couldn't eat I couldn't have even painted yellow over it because I would have lost all this texture that I had done so it just basically it's it's like alpha lock but on a new layer so you have more control over erasing you can use hue saturation brightness to affect the color and you can do all that fun stuff you can do when things are on their own layers she does need cheeks no that is a very accurate assessment I wanted to put cheeks on I totally forgot so thank you for that I'm gonna grab I'll grab her skin cuz I do find a cheek color I'll grab the skin tone and then I'll just go more into the pink and maybe a little darker and I may use that same speckle brush to do the cheeks thank you for saying something oh that's not dark enough so I'm go a little bit darker oh yeah it's so much better with cheeks that's cute thank you can't believe I forgot the cheeks I love adding little rosy cheeks to my people drawing say like just make me happy so I like doing it that was a brush for my texture maker set called press rough and there's a bunch of different like textures in here like there's paper textures grunge canvas denim wood and all kinds of fun stuff in there so it's a good way to add a little bit of just a little subtle something sometimes can make a difference in a drawing cuz without it I think it would look very flat kind of boring so no no that's my preference another question if you like you can you can have a transparent background for sure like if you turn off the background color like okay so I turned off the texture and the background and now maybe this is what you mean and now this has a transparent background so I could put it on top of something else I guess exactly exactly the question question it's on my iPad a lot I posted to Instagram a lot of the artwork I create is for you guys so I do create a lot of stuff for myself which sometimes I post and share about and it's I kind of like when I'm just making for me a lot of the times I am like trying to express something that I am going through or something that's happening in my life and my kind of outlet that I like to use is drawing and writing and sharing that on the internet like it's really helpful for me to kind of process my thoughts that way into like writing and drawing and then and then I just share it on the internet because I'm I'm you know I'm I'm shy sometimes but I'm also kind of an open book too so it kind of depends learning in practice I'm in that camp for sure um I don't I don't want to say it but I don't really believe in talent it might be loaded but um I think that passion is inherently in you and interest in personality that's like all inherently part of you but like and being inherently talented I don't know if that's true if you are inherently passionate about something you're gonna do it a lot like if you really love piano and you just like found piano and you're like I just love doing it and I just want to do it all the time that's your personality it really suits you you're gonna play piano all the time you can get really good at it and people are going to be like wow you're so talented but hey well I've been playing since I was three years old like yeah like I spent a lot of time on this so I think that anything can be learned the thing that you might you know some people have that others don't is that passion and that part of your personality that you're born with that makes you want to keep going and keep doing it so for me like creative things draw it like that's all such a huge part of my personality that I just want to do it all the time and of course I'm gonna get a lot better at it because I'm doing it all the time so not often enough but I will show you what I do when I when I do it I'd usually do it to my iCloud which is like you're like online storage that Apple sells so it's in my which is a mess let me just tell you here's okay so before I upgraded to I procreate five which is probably something I say back up maybe like once a year I should do it more but I create a folder on my iCloud I wouldn't rely on that but I I usually end up exporting my art to a JPEG on my computer to post or it's on my phone like so I have it like if I lost my procreate it would be devastating in some sense it's gonna don't back up often enough but I have a lot of my favorite ones sort on my computer just because I've exported them like they're not procreate files so I can't edit them but that's okay for me if it was like a client work or like I'm gonna be illustrating a book that I'm writing with a friend children's book coming up which I'll share details about soon but that that stuff's gonna be backed up like nobody's business cuz it's really important so this is what I do though I create a folder for my palettes and you can share from procreate like you can share a palette it and then save it to your iCloud and I save it into this folder so I have like pallets files there's like two hundred some-odd files and these are procreate files so maybe I'll do a video one day about backing up but I backup them as procreate files because then I could just import them back into procreate and they're the same as they were and then brushes as well if you have a lot of brushes or you've customized brushes I have lots of backups of my brushes of course but so that's kind of how I do it and then you know I'll if it's a different time I'll add another folder that says backup from whatever that time was and start adding more files into that so there's probably better ways to do it but that's how I do it I'm so glad you're here you know what I would recommend doing is just going through all the brushes and seeing what they do like you can get you maybe get a cool texture I use this spray paints to do this like tattoo video last week and I got some cool texture out of that there's one called textures but it's not like the same curve that's abstract it's not like the same kind of textures there's one called grunge so I just recommend like going through and experimenting and seeing like what all the brushes you know can do Industrial has some interesting textures in it you know you might be able to get some kind of textures out of that so yeah just play around and see what they all do like getting to know your tools is a big part of learning and being an artist and understanding what all the tools you have can do we did a procreate workshop a couple weeks ago as one of these live things and one of the things I suggest doing is a brushstroke study where you just go through and like see what all the brushes do and what they look like and get familiar with them this is kind of an interesting texture so as is this you could do something like that which we use for my case and I think what they do is there's a trick using just a case yeah I have a case which has this little slot for my Apple pencil to protect it which I like other that's the only thing I really like about this case other than that it's just like a boring case with like the lake thing you fold into a triangle to make a stand I don't really love this case but I did link it in YouTube comments so you can find it there and then I also have a stand which I'll pull out and show you real quick this is from elevation lab they might be sold out right now but I love this stand it's like heavy metal heavy duty it has three different heights that you can use with it so you can like snap one of these out and make it you know stand up a little bit more it doesn't move so this would I have on my desk next to me that holds my iPad and I really love it a lot so that is also linked I don't know if they have any in stock though they might be sold out but keep an eye on them I really love that case or that stand one maybe one more question before we sign off for the day well thank you so much for joining us today I hope you have fun like making some mid-century style art if you want to pair your illustrations where the perspective children's picture book I have a graphic design education so that's a big question it's probably the answer is like research like research what kinds of I mean if you're trying to do text in a children's book you want something that's legible more you know more than anything that's really important but check out like if you're trying to match an era like mid-century look at artwork from that time look at design that time and see what kinds of fonts and things like that they used at that time and if you want if you're looking for like a really authentic look I would recommend doing that but like lots of lots of research or if you're doing a children's book might not be a bad idea to like talk with a graphic designer and maybe hire them to help you do some layout and things like that like I will be designing my own book but I literally am a graphic designer too so I have that background and that that background learning about design has helped me out a ton with so many different things in art and business and everything so oh our brushes are all on sale everything in the shop right now is 15% off including the bundles which I usually don't really put on sale because they're already discounted a lot but we've kind of been running the sales so far for the duration of the like quarantine I keep extending it because I really want you guys to have access to them right now while you're at home so you can afford them a little bit more easily so I do not have a definite end date I mean I have one on my website that says April 13th or something like that it's possible I will extend it so eventually I will end the sale I don't know exactly when that will be but now is a great time to get a discount on like the bundles because I don't generally put those on sale except for maybe like once or twice a year so thanks for asking that all right cool well I think we're gonna wrap up thank you again for joining us like I said I hope you have fun making some mid-century style art and this kind of gave you some insight into what the characteristics are about that style I would check out the making art every day challenge this is where this all is coming from our prompt we're doing weather themed prompts and the prompt was wind and we're also exploring art styles so that's what we did the mid-century style art so it's a great way to really kind of flex your creative muscles help you get into a habit of drawing every day and try just like a wide variety of subject matter in your artwork and get you a lot of really good experience and practice so you can find that at Bardot brush comb slash join ma E and I'll give you a lot of good information about making art every day and my website against Bardot brush I hope you guys have a really awesome day we will be back again on Wednesday and I think we're gonna be exploring doing some collage in procreate which I'm really really excited about so stay tuned for that and I hope you have a guys have a great day thanks bye bye

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Published: Mon Apr 06 2020