Scandinavian Folk Art Drawing with Procreate - Stay Home and Draw

all right you ready yes hello hello welcome back to stay home and draw we're just gonna let people join us for a few minutes before we get started really excited for you guys to all be here I am excited to do some fun art worked with you guys today again we're just letting people trickle in so if you guys want to say hi ask a question or two tell me how you're doing we're doing pretty good over here and how Shaye Bardot Casa Bardot yeah we're like almost two weeks out from my due date so really that means any time so if we suddenly disappear from Instagram you know why we'll keep you guys posted I'll just leave you hanging in oh my I mean if I'm on Instagram I'll be sharing cute baby photos don't you worry but welcome everybody we're just getting started we're letting people hop on and join before we get started with the actual tutorial today it's Friday although days really have no meaning anymore most of us know that's probably not you lots of you guys are still working and you know but the days do kind of run together after a while I will say that [Music] Luis Dallas California that's where we're at Jeff and I live in California we love it here it's a very beautiful warm day it's gonna be a warm weekend starting to feel like closer to summer even though spring just started I don't mind it too much if it's like this kind of weather maybe with 80s once you get into the 90s and 100's which it does get in the summertime it gets hot here then it's like let's just stay inside in the air conditioner but if you guys want to say how you're doing I would love to hear from you or if you have any quick questions I can answer before we get started we try to wait about five minutes before we actually dive in so we're about two and a half minutes in now what we're doing we're doing good Phil I'm very very pregnant you guys very pregnant my body is full of human and I'm ready for it to come out but are him ready for the human to escape me oh man I'm excited about today though this is gonna be a fun very like therapeutic I think art session it's a little a little slower paced a little I don't wanna say tedious but uh I don't know it's not as like fast paced I think some of you guys are really gonna like today it's gonna be fun and relaxing which is what we all need yesterday I spent some time just kind of like playing around with brushes and relaxing and like just like drawing random little shapes and patterns and things like that on my iPad and sometimes it's good to just make things without any objective other than to just spend time making something even if it's not really anything so it's always good to do that have any more children yeah I feel like my I feel like that would be an unwise choice on my part really good any more than that I might question my sanity a little bit just because I know how busy I like to keep myself and yeah from from me threes probably that's probably good we're good either one actually if it's a separate layer it's a clipping mask if it's on the same layer it's alpha mask our alpha locks are EF a lock so we will be using probably both of those today so you'll get to see a little bit of that and kind of the differences and stuff so your iPad broke Anna oh I'm so sorry oh I'm glad you're here anyways like oh that sucks yeah yeah hopefully it wasn't like I mean even if it was accidental damage you can still fix it for you but I am my old iPad pro I got before this one I don't know what happened I pulled it out of my bag one day and it just had a crack like this one big crack all the way through but I used it for like a year like that until I got this one we finally got it fixed so I just like went to like a repair place and changed the screen out and you know anyway sorry for that very boring interjecting introduction Oh Mary Blair she's one of my favorite artists I love her so much look her up she's a she worked for Disney for a long time she did a lot of concept art for some early Disney films and she designed it's a small world ride and she's done a lot of really other cool books and advertisements and all to stuff from that era she is just great I really looked up to her or look up to her so we're gonna get started a minute but before we get started I just wanted to tell you guys we are doing a giveaway today first of all you guys know it's yeah so we are gonna be doing a giveaway we're gonna be giving away some brush set and some master bundles so be sure to go to the giveaway page Barto brush comm slash giveaway sign up there you'll be signing up for our email list which i think is really an awesome newsletter we that's where you're sending all the making art everyday info you get the prompt so you get motivational stuff you also find out about other things that we're doing so it's a great list to be on if I do say so myself but we'll be also doing giveaway for the people that sign up through that today and if you already subscribe you can still enter you won't be like double subscribed or anything but you it will enter you for the giveaway so be sure to do that alright I think we are pretty good to start alright welcome back to stay home and draw the purpose of this is to first of all encourage people to stay home during this crazy pandemic we're experiencing so that we can all stay healthy and safe and reduce the amount of people getting sick and also to inject a little creativity into your day I don't know why I keep using the word inject now it has like a whole different meaning it's light of everything that's going on to insert some creativity into your day and just have some fun together spend some time together ask questions and explore some different kind of art stuff so I'm really excited for you guys to be here today we are gonna be learning about the folk art style which isn't necessarily I mean it is a style but it's also like a whole category of art so we'll talk a little bit about that there we go folk art so before we really get into it I just wanted to tell you a couple things so first of all this whole folk art is inspired by this month's making art everyday themed making art everyday is a series of drawing prompts tutorials resources motivational stuff that I write to you and it's more a supportive community all with the goal of helping you overcome your creative fears and establish a daily art making practice so we've been running it since the beginning of 2019 and the community has really grown and it's so cool to see all the creativity and artwork and everything and like the support towards each other that's come out of this it's really amazing so like I said there's a theme every month and this month's theme is weather plus art styles more in the last few days of this month so all month we've been drawing different like elements of weather and it's and kind of exploring them through different art styles I wrote this article called thirty art styles to try and procreate and I'll just bring it up real quick so my website is Bardo brush and this is my tutorials page and here it is 30 art styles just try so to try and procreate and for each there's like a description a Pinterest board with lots of inspiration and then a way to for you to try that in procreate and I'll be adding today's tutorial to our section on folk art right here there we go and I've got a cool Pinterest board so I'll be adding the tutorial here after so let me talk a little before we before we jump into that I just wanted to say we're also gonna be having a giveaway today it's Friday we try to do the giveaways every Friday we're gonna be giving away a couple of my brush sets as well as a couple master bundles today which is like all of the brush sets so if you guys want to enter you can go to Bardot brush comb slash giveaway and you can sign up you're basically signing up for our email newsletter which i think is a really great newsletter to join you'll get information about making art every day lots of other fun stuff too if you already signed up you can still enter if you entered last week you can enter again so definitely go in and put your name down and we will do like a random drawing at the end after we do like a QA so go ahead and do that Bardot brushed comm slash giveaway alright I'm gonna go back to Safari here because I want to talk to you guys a little bit about folk art so folk art you might have an image in your head for what folk art looks like but it's not necessarily one thing I'm gonna go to the Pinterest board that I created and it's not this obviously isn't a comprehensive picture of what folk art is because where is it there alphabetical there we go so what folk art means is basically art created by people that are not like professionally trained artists so art made by the common people like the folks so a lot of times you'll see imagery that has to do with everyday life like here we've got like farming and the general store like you also see like a lot of nature and just things kind of from people's everyday life like animals and things that they see in their own life so it's kind of got some of the things that you see and folk art isn't specific to one region it is it there's folk art from every region of the world so a lot of times you'll see this I think I think this this is what comes up in my head when I think of folk art which is this kind of Scandinavian style folk art with the symmetry which is what we're going to be exploring today a little bit but that's of course not the only kind of folk art there is like there's they're from all over the world I've got these little turtles on the side here and these are an example of folk art these come from Mexico I bought them many many years ago and I have a lot of like Mexican I love Mexican folk art because that's a part of my heritage so that so you can see like a lot of floral elements and decoration and things like that and their cute little animal turtles so um so they're just made by people and not like professional artists and that's kind of the defining definition of folk art and so I have this Pinterest board and it's got a lot of different styles and things like that but again like I said the kind of style that we're going to be looking at is this kind of symmetrical kind of Scandinavians influenced folk art so that's what we're gonna be working on today so I'm gonna go ahead and go over to procreate and I am gonna create a vertical canvas for this I'm gonna use my template 4,000 by 5,000 pixels you of course don't have to use it that you don't have to have a canvas that large that's what I like to use you'll get more layers to use if it is smaller if you're like not on like an iPad pro so I am like I said this is coming from the making art everyday project and today's or it might be this weekend's prompt is night sky so I am interpreting the prompt night sky as folk art so what's kind of cool about this is like I'm looking I'm gonna go back over here our site over to Pinterest that's hold on let me get back to it art styles folk art so you can turn anything into like a certain style and I'm just kind of interpreting the prompt night sky into this kind of like symmetrical decorative type art with lots of I say notice there's like a lot of florals and natural elements and things like that so when I sat down to think about what I wanted to do for this I wanted to include some elements of the night sky like moons and stars and constellations and things like that but then interpret it into this style so I'll show you kind of what I'm going to do for that and I've kind of I've kind of planned this ahead so all I've done a lot of the research and legwork to get ready for this before actually doing it with you guys so so I'm just gonna start sketching and then I'll kind of explain what I'm doing so I'm gonna choose like a middle gray to do my sketch I'm gonna choose a pencil brush I'm gonna go to my pencil box set and get the bardo pencil and you can use any pencil brush you can use one from the procreate sketching set to do your sketches it doesn't really matter it's just a sketch and because the full court there's a lot of symmetry symmetry involved which means like repeated symmetrical on both sides like a mirror image I'm gonna be using procreates symmetry feature to do this drawing so I'll show you how to turn that on I'm just gonna check in real quick to see if you guys had any questions before we actually dive in we will do like I want it if you guys have questions about what I'm doing here throw them up anytime and Jeff will he's he's my husband he runs things behind the scenes and he'll throw those out to me as we can and then if we have like topics that we want to talk about at the end that are a little less related to what I'm doing you know throw those out too and we'll do like a big Q&A at the end but sometimes there are there's slow moments where I'm just drawing and I can like answer questions for you though yes there are yes that's a great question and I think a good place to show you so when you're creating a new canvas you'll be able to see how many layers you're getting and to do that you just hit this little plus box right there and you can type in how big you want it to be so if I wanted to do a canvas that was like three thousand by five thousand pixels I can see here that I would get a maximum of thirty one layers and the amount of layers that you get is dependent on how big you make your canvas and also how like fast and powerful your iPad is so I am using what did I say four thousand by five thousand of verdict canvassed 4,000 by 5,000 and if you already have a canvas open like you're already working on one you can go to the Actions menu canvas canvas information and I believe I don't want to work for me let's see there's this layers section and you can see your maximum layers there so I have a maximum of 22 layers with a canvas at that size and we will be working with with a lot of layers today but I don't think we'll hit that maximum we'll be fine so great question any other pressing questions yeah I'll do that in a little bit so you guys will be able to see that and definitely keep throwing your questions out there like I said this is kind of a slow a slower type of art it's not like super fast paced you've spent a lot of time like drawing and coloring things in and stuff like that so there'll be plenty of time to ask questions and stuff in between and I'll let Jeff know when I can take some questions so okay let's do it okay so the first thing I'm going to do is set up symmetry I'm going to turn that on so to do that you're going to go to the little wrench icon which is the Actions menu you're going to go to canvas and then you're going to go to where it says drawing guide and toggle that on and when you do that you'll start to see Lions appear on your canvas and it's not quite set up for symmetry yet it's just set up as a grid so we're gonna go to where it says edit drawing guide and there's some options down here at the bottom and we're going to use the one that's called symmetry and there are different options for symmetry we're going to use this one which just does like a mirror image with a line down the middle so whatever I draw on this side will be repeated on this side there are other options so if you go here to options you can do horizontally reflected a quadrant so whatever you draw here will be repeated and flipped in all the other quadrants and radio these are all super like I fear ever like just wanting to relax a little bit like turn on radials and just like start doodling and it's very therapeutic and like relaxing to draw that way but we're going to use vertical and it's also very important this is very very important that you turn on assisted drawing if assisted drawing is not turned on it won't be repeated like it won't mirror so make sure that's turned on and that's pretty much it so we can hit done oops you see what I just did hold on a second edit drawing guide so there's this bar at the top with the color and you can change the color of your guideline here accidentally hit over here in white so I'm gonna go back over there to like blue it's too close to the done button I've done that many times so now you can see any thing that I draw on this side is automatically mirrored on that side so we're gonna be using like a combination of mirrored and not mirrored well I'll explain so what I kind of had in mind I wanted to do like the moon phases I wanted to have some like shooting star elements and then I knew I wanted to incorporate some nature elements because that's something you see a lot in folk art so and like especially flowers so I had the idea to do flowers that only bloom at night so I did set a little bit of research and let me see if I can find it here I made a sketch this is just like a really like very basic sketch of some flowers that I looked up that only bloom at night so I thought that would be kind of cool to incorporate that for like my kind of natural element so I have these little sketches that I'll be kind of referencing and I'll kind of keep that on the side so now I'll show you how I can pull up the split screen view so if I pull this up I'm going to go to my photos because that's where that image is you can also do with Safari or Pinterest or whatever you want other app and then just drag it over to the side and then I can resize that and I could zoom in and move around so I made all these little like ideas of elements that I want to incorporate into my artwork and I'm going to be putting them here in the artwork so let's go ahead and do that so a miniature I'm gonna draw like a moon and like the different phases around here I want the first one to be centered which it's a little difficult to draw with symmetry there we go okay so what I did here is I drew a circle and it's mirrored so it looks a little weird but then I'm not lifting my pencil up and it's gonna make this quick shape and then if I put my finger down somewhere else it's gonna make like a perfect circle there we go so there's like my big this is gonna be like the full moon and then over here I'm gonna draw the other moons kind of in like a like a pattern like that so there's one and I'm again doing quick shape I'm not letting my pencil up putting one finger down there we go and then it's gonna change and then we'll do one more moon down here okay so these are all gonna be my different phases of the Moon this one's gonna be the full moon this one's gonna be like we learned all the moon phases with my kids because we were curious so we looked it all up one time this is a gibbous moon hopefully I'm pronouncing it right so it's like this parts gonna be dark and this will be light and then they'll do like a half moon Here I am using Bardot pencil from the pencil box set but you can use any pencil type brush to do to do your pen your sketch and then this is gonna be like a little crescent moon and I'm not doing the full main moon phases I'm just doing some of them I'm not doing like the New Moon or anything like that so in the end like this will be dark this will be dark and and what's great is I'm only having to worry about drawing this on one side of my canvas it's gonna repeat it over here which is awesome so now I want to incorporate I'm gonna start with like a big flower right here and you can do even set your canvas up in your composition of any way you want and you'll kind of like start with our bigger like focal points like the moons are probably the most prominent like part of my design here and then all we can fill in all the little spaces with other elements and stuff like that so I'm drawing a flower like this and I don't remember the names of these flowers I looked them up before but I don't remember the names of them but I'm gonna do one like kind of like that so I can use symmetry to my advantage here and kind of do like a shape like that something like that might be easier to draw like when I'm doing flowers and I want them to be you know circular so - so to speak it's easy to like put out some guides of like where all the petals are gonna go and then draw them in so there we go that makes it a little bit easier for me so they have kind of like a little nub there there we go and then the one down here that somebody got what again area that's a little bit easier and then use that same brush as an eraser so I just tap and hold the eraser to choose it as the eraser then I want to draw these little little like circle e things in the middle something like that so I've got that flower and then I'm gonna have this go down and do some leaves now these leaves I don't know if these are the leaves for the flower but this is like a motif like that I've seen in full cart and if it's you know if it's helpful to you what I would probably do is we don't want them that far bring up Pinterest on your little split screen and have like some of the full cart things so you can look for little elements that you can incorporate like oh maybe I'll do my leaves in this style or you know look at some of the different ones and different like the ways that you can depict certain things so you can see these like repeating leaves where it's like one leaf on each side and that kind of stuff so I'm gonna keep my little little sketch I made over there for now okay so that's kind of my big focal point and then I'm gonna add some more things like I definitely want to have some shooting stars so maybe I'll have one kind of going like this yeah stars can be hard you can always if you can't freehand them like that you can always do them you know like like this so that's not that great either but that's okay that's it's just a sketch we can make it look better later so I'll kind of do like a shooting star thing going that way maybe I can do actually maybe I'll do another one going down this way first yeah I want to do something like that kind of coming out here and what we're kind of aiming to do is like fill the hole fill all this space up not to have a lot of free space because it's a very very decorative style and you try to kind of try to fill in as much space as possible with different elements we can have a little something like that and then maybe this one can go like this oh yes I like that and maybe we can do another flower like this one right here so that one's more kind of pointy petals I like that that's good and then I know don't want I just did there um like there's a lot of these kind of like vine shapes I noticed when I was like researching the folk art so I'm gonna incorporate some things like that maybe we can have one going down this way yeah leaves although it's getting a little too close to this edge so I'm gonna redo that there we go the problem with well one of the problems with symmetry is you can't transform symmetrically so if I just wanted to like select like if it was too close if I wanted to select this and move it it doesn't repeat over there so sometimes you just have to like redraw things instead of like editing them afterwards kind of under the downsides it's okay this one's all about like the process I'm just taking the time to sit and do it and yeah let's do let's do I really like this flower I spent I don't remember names but it was cool it have these like thinner like pointy petals kind of sticking out of the side so maybe we'll do something like that over here and you can draw on either side like I could draw it here and it would create repeat here I could draw here and it would repeat there so whatever like is more comfortable for you that's what you should do so this one is kind of made up of like three petals and then some like those sticking out the side so we can kind of depict that something like that maybe maybe we'll do one more like that and then we'll draw a little stem cool see we're just kind of filling in all the spaces let me just look at my other flowers and see which other ones I can do this one was a cool one these are these sketches are very very simple um but this was like a little flower petals and these like cool little bud things so let me see if I can find a way to incorporate that maybe I can do that over in this space I'm just kind of like looking at the space that I have and then filling it in that one kind of goes like that yeah something like that and then we'll do maybe a different kind of stem something like that very simple we can even do like a little the little bud which they kind of looked like this with like lines like that maybe leave like that there we go okay so we've got a few flowers going on I think we definitely need to incorporate some more of the space elements or this night sky element so like some more stars and things like that I do want to do some just little like kind of sparkle symbols so something like that that's kind of how I do like my stars and sparkles and things like that so we can kind of do a few of those and then we'll also use that to kind of fill in areas that are empty a little bit later I have these really cool these flowers which were like long and skinny and then they have this bloom at the end which were really pretty so maybe I can put those like in this area here so let me draw the little like that part of it first they will do a couple of those and then and then kind of go like that and then this one I'm gonna erase that move it over a little see these flowers kind of look like stars too they really echo the star shape and go with the theme very well and then we'll do some big stems for those the leaf there we go and then they just kind of fit in that little space very well so I was just filling in the spaces absolutely so if there's something you wanted to draw that wasn't gonna be symmetrical in this piece you can go to your layers you can tap the layer see how it says assisted that means that it's got that reflection thing happening so you just tap it and you turn off drawing assist and now if I draw over here it's not going to be reflected over there so you can also another thing that you could do which we were probably gonna do at some point during this is have another layer that does not have assisted turn on drawing assist turn on and same thing be it's not going to be reflected because I don't have drawing assist turned on on that layer you can turn it you can turn it on and off per layer which is going to be important as we you know start to work with layers so let me get rid of all that extra layer okay we're back down to the one layer we're still working on one layer you guys so a lot of this process is like doing the sketch and getting that all going and then once we start coloring it in it goes a little bit faster but you know right now we're planning and just enjoy the process it is you know a little slow but it's also really therapeutic - I think so um I think I'm gonna do some like greenery kind of coming around this way so I'm gonna do that next maybe something and we can have the leaves and we'll do them on this side too and if you guys are if there's any questions I can answer Jeff can throw them at me and I can do it while I'm drawing what else can we put right here definitely want to do some constellations too in there I don't know if I want to do the planets you don't really just see those in the sky maybe I'll put a little star I like these like six pointed stars too so maybe I'll try one of those oops just for some different shapes that one's not that great sometimes it's easier to give yourself structure before you draw something so if I wanted to draw a six pointed star I could start with a like six pointed like asterisks kind of symbol there we go that makes a little bit easier and then I'm not gonna have those lines in the end so I can just erase them I can also do maybe I'll do like kind of a Big Dipper kind of little constellation over here my constellations I'm just kind of drawing dots and lines and I can have it kind of curving around don't know if that's the right amount of stars for the Big Dipper but looks like the Big Dipper to me so that works and then I can put some other little things like that kind of in between maybe I'll do a star over here and maybe one down here we can do like the the six pointed one I like those so sometimes easier to freehand it sometimes not but if you're not feeling confident in your freehanding skills like practice first of all but just try'n we can always make it look better in the real version I'm gonna put like a fakie constellation here one that I'm just like in a makeup maybe you can make up stuff you could do real constellations or you can make stuff up yeah I could do something like that why not kind of looks like a constellation um okay so this area is getting pretty full it's looking really nice I kind of want to give this area some attention too we can do maybe another flower over here which would be nice no I kind of like this same shape I feel like you see this shape a lot in in folk art so this light kind of flower you shape so I'm gonna use that maybe we'll do one like right here we'll have the stem we'll do maybe a leaf on either side and maybe we'll do another of those vines to kind of echo the ones down here coming around so we'll do something like that and this star it's hard to draw let's start with symmetry turned on it's it's harder and easier it does half of it for you but then it like messes with my flow of drawing stars yeah that wouldn't stop that great that's okay yeah it's just as good all right we'll draw some leaves on here here we go it's kind of bigger I like that um so that's that's looking pretty good I think I just need to like fill in here and maybe here and maybe I'll do some more like stars or constellations or something and then I think that should be pretty good we can move on to coloring this constellation so that would be quick shape so quick shape is when you draw so if you draw a really not circular circle like this one and you don't lift your pencil up it will turn into like a smooth shape and if you want it to turn into a perfect circle you put a finger down somewhere else on the canvas and then it will become a perfect circle and you could also edit it by going here to edit shape you can make it bigger you can move it around you can change you know to an oval so that's quick shape and it works with squares rectangles triangles all kinds of different shapes weird polygons but yeah if you look up quick shape and quick line cuz it does work for lines if you not very good at drawing straight lines it will work for lines as well if you put a finger down it will snap so if you want a perfectly horizontal line or a vertical line you can do that it's a very handy feature good job procreate let's draw I'll try this six pointed star over here maybe and then I'll do another whole five pointed star right there maybe like one of those little diamond D stars over here we're all this is looking pretty good maybe one more little nice trick sir something like that and there we go alright so this is a very full composition the space is really filled I'm just gonna keep it as like this kind of circular shape or oval almost egg shape I'm not gonna fill in the corners or anything like that I think that's good but there still is a focal point like there's something that stands out sometimes when you're doing very busy artwork like this like it can just be very overwhelming and everything can kind of get lost in each other but that's why we I kind of kept it like the moon's so big so that there's something that your your eye is immediately drawn to which for me at first is like the moons and then this flower in the middle and then we've got all these other elements to explore for the viewer to explore so now we're ready to move on to coloring I'm gonna get rid of this sketch but I will pull up actually I'll pull up the Pinterest board because I got an idea about colors but it's also good to see how things are colored like these leaves they're like kind of green green light green on the outside and then dark green on the inside here we've got some cool like I don't know like if I like the line work here to go from one color to the next that's kind of neat so it's always good to like make sup observations about what kind of things you see in this style of artwork like these little decorative elements on the flowers are kind of cool so I'm just gonna leave that up and maybe I'll look over to it every now and then to get an idea of color okay let's move on do we have any questions before I do that and you guys keep in mind that I have drawn this once before already so your thought process about where to put things and what to put where might take longer than how I'm doing it here like that's something to keep in mind with any of these videos you know they are slower pace than some other of my tutorials for sure because we're doing it live but like I've already gone through the mental process of like figuring things out and how to do things so don't feel bad if if it's going to take you longer you know to do this you can always come back and watch the video later if you're on YouTube you can pause it I think that like you know if you are following along life but yeah you just get the comments late and like the giveaway stuff made but will email you if you win the giveaway so don't worry about that but yeah don't worry if it takes you longer than it's taking me and this type of artwork like it's just so conducive to being calming like because you're it's got the cemetery thing happening you're just kind of like filling in little areas like it's don't stress yourself out about it this one can be really stress relieving so let it be alright let's keep going okay so for the background I'm gonna do like a blue probably like a dark blue color so that way everything on top of it will pop and it'll kind of be reminiscent of like the night sky so I'm gonna go over to my layers I'm gonna go to background color and I'm gonna go ahead and choose I don't know maybe like a dark navy kind of color and then I'm gonna reduce the opacity of my sketch which and I know if you guys have been following me and watching my tutorials a lot I usually turn my sketch to multiply blend mode which actually makes it almost harder to see here so you might have to turn the opacity back up or I could also turn it to screen which will make it lighter than the background so whichever one's easier for you to see like your sketch on you can set it to that I'm gonna try screen when we'll go forward with that okay so now I'm gonna create a new layer I'm gonna put the layer below my sketch because I always want my sketch to be on top too as a guide for me and then I'm gonna start with the moons so for my color I'm gonna choose I don't know like a yellowy with a little bit of a little bit of black in it maybe something like that that's what I'm choosing for the moon kind of a moon color that's such a thing and then for the brush I'm gonna be using I'm probably just gonna stick to like one brush for this whole thing something without a lot of texture that's pretty solid so I'm gonna go into my basic tool kit and I'm gonna choose the inker stream line and this brush has like a tiny bit of texture on the edges but it's pretty it's pretty solid but it has a streamlined feature enabled which helps smooth out your lines as you draw them so that's really helpful if you want to get like smooth you know nice smooth lines if you don't have this set this is one that I made if you don't have that set and now they're alternative which would proceed under the inking set you could try like the syrup brush that one's pretty solid and it does have some streamlining so that's a good alternative if you don't have this brush so I'm using again the inker streamline from basic tool kit if you don't have that tri syrup from the built-in inking set okay so the first thing that I need to do because we talked about this a little bit already is I need to make sure that assist is turned on on this new layer that I made so I'm just going to tap it and hit drawing assist and that will be sure you know they'll make sure that anything I draw on this side will appear on that side so anytime we create a new layer we're gonna have to do that if we want it to be reflected so sometimes I forget so if you guys see me forget say something this was from my basic tool kit it's the inker streamline okay so I'm just gonna go ahead and draw all my moon shapes I'm using a quick shape feature and I'm gonna hold down to make it a perfect circle I did like a weird thing there I'm gonna redo it no I did that it's hard to do it when the symmetry is on because this one's like right on the line so when it kind of did a little weird thing there Mary could just fill that in there's not to be perfect and then I'm gonna use color drop to fill in a lot of what I'm doing today so one thing you guys want to a jet like make an adjustment to possibly is your color drop threshold so let me make it not good for real quick okay so if you fill in your shape and then it has this like weird thing or if it's just spilling out everywhere you just have to adjust your color drop threshold which means you you drag it in you don't lift up your pencil and then you adjust until that blue line fills in is across and fills in as much as you need it to be I'm gonna I'm gonna go pretty high because this brush doesn't have a lot of texture but it has a little so I'm like at 88% I'm gonna redo this who's like bothering me actually so I think it might be easier in this case for me to do this shape the symmetry is really throwing me off with this circle that's right on the line I'm just gonna put it on another layer without the assist turned on so now I'm just drawing a circle without the dis symmetry thing and then I'll make it a perfect circle I could just move it to where I want it to be there you go that's just easier for me this that's right on the line and move it up a little bit actually there we go and now fill it in okay so now I'm going back to the one that I have assist turned on and I'm gonna do the other moons so for these moons I am actually gonna switch now to the like shadow color that I'm gonna use to draw this and then I'll draw the like Crescent part over the top so I'm gonna select this blue color that I've used as my background I'm just gonna get like a lighter maybe I'll go a little more this way lighter version of it maybe a little bit lighter than that even something like that so this is like gonna be the shadow color of the moon I'm gonna make those perfect circles and fill them in just clean that little spot up there we go and I'll do this one as well I'm just gonna draw these circle shapes in this kind of like shadow color and fill them in if you get this like thing where they don't meet up perfectly and you're doing the quick shape here's something you can do like overlap your line a little bit and then hold it down and you won't get that okay Instagram people I just want to mention to you guys our feed will time out after one hour into oh my gosh well it did take a long time thank you for hanging out with me you guys um so well we'll get it going again right away but if you get kicked out just join us again but also YouTube doesn't do that so if you want to watch there you won't have that problem okay cool so I've got like the moon shadows and now I am going to I'm gonna add in the like moon part of it with a clipping mask so I'm gonna hit plus to create a new layer and turn this layer to a clipping mask and that will mean I can only draw within these shapes I've already drawn and then I do want to make sure I turn on drawing assist on that new layer 100% it's all the way up I don't know if that's what you're asking so now if that wasn't what you're asking definitely clarify it I'll answer it again so now I can only draw within the shape I've already drawn which is great for these like drawing in the like moon the light lit up part of the moon so something like that trying to get it there we go oops okay color drop doesn't work cuz that's not actually a filled in shape there we go to fill in the edge and then we'll do a Halfmoon here I'm gonna make sure that's a closed shape before we use color drop and then this one's just gonna be like a crescent on this side I'll just color that in by hand there yeah so we've got some moon phases happening so if yeah well keep going okay so let's get to work on some of the flowers and things like that I'm gonna go back to this layer here I'm not the one with the clip because that would only draw within these moon shapes so I don't do this flower as like a almost white not quite white I'm just using my sketch as a guide to draw these petal shapes and I can color drop that in you do this last one a little bit thinner there we go okay and then for the stem I'm gonna actually put that on a layer underneath so that I can make sure it goes behind that little flower shape so I'm gonna create a new layer I'm gonna put it below the one with the moons and the flower this will be for my greenery here then I'm gonna choose like a green maybe something like that if you guys want to check out the color I've chosen and I do want to make sure that drawing assist is turned on on that layer so I just tap it and turn on drawing assist make sure there's a check and it says assisted right there and then I'm going to the symmetry makes it a little hard to draw this line it's okay that's fine makes it easy to draw these pet are these leaves there you go then I can fill that in like that and I'm just laying out all the basic shapes right now I'm not worried about adding any like colorful details like we were inspecting and we're looking over there so just the shapes for now and then we'll go back and add details afterwards and I'm going to sharpen the tips of my leaves I'm gonna choose the same brush that I've been using a as the brush for the eraser by tapping and holding the brush or the eraser icon and that will choose the inker stream line as my eraser and then I'm just erasing away a little bit of the tip of those leaves to make them pointy er what Miley used to be pointy there we go I am on a different layer actually because I wanted to make sure I could draw it right up and underneath that so I just put it on a layer underneath it and maybe I can I can do certain things like keep all my greenery on one layer perhaps everything in this in this composition so close together it might actually be better to have things on separate layer but it doesn't really matter too much maybe I'll just come over here and start working on these over here oops there we go so I'm just and Geoff feel free to throw out any questions I'll let you know if I always uploading the color palettes from each day I was telling so I think it would be better for you guys to learn how to choose the brighter colors than for me to just give them to you Justin asked me to make more color palettes that's why saying that so when you're choosing colors first of all using the disk view which is the first one is really beneficial and I usually stay in this area of the disk when I'm choosing my colors like this area right here kind of at what like 202 o'clock is the most saturated version of any of these hues so the closer you are to that the more bright and colorful your colors are going to be and the further down you go they're just gonna get like you'll add more black this way you'll add more gray and then you know here in the middle is probably like the muddiest kind of version of that color so sticking up here in this area is going to give you the most saturated version of the colors I try to show you guys kind of the colors that I'm picking alright filling this in any more questions I take a few more I could use color drop here but there's such little small spaces that it's like faster just a color by hand and then I'm gonna use my eraser to kind of crisp up the edges of these leaves make them pointy like my pointy leaves you guys know that mm-hmm and I can even cut off the top of that if I wanted that to be like a nice sharp edge so I can do that as well and then I'll cut off the bottom of that cool and then of course it's automatically doing it on the other side for me which is awesome and you can kind of just like jump around to different elements I think I'm gonna do a few flowers now I'm gonna go back to this layer that I already have the flower on cuz maybe I can do my flowers on that layer and then my like stems underneath them on the layer below it um let's see we'll do this one I remember this was a white flower so I'm gonna do that one in white when I looked it up online I don't know what the name of the flower is but it was white I remember that I am on I have my sketch I have this moon which was like the one that I didn't use symmetry to make I have the one that I clipped to make the like moon phases and then the like moon circles and this is also flowers and then the greenery so what's that five so far all right fill that in do these guys - I really love them - you guys like I don't know why it took me so long to do this just took a pandemic that's all uh yeah I do we're gonna we're gonna do them next week we have plans to do there next week until this baby is born really and then we're gonna take a break for a little bit so maybe you can catch up on the ones you missed but yeah and then once we've had you know some time off with our baby we'll come back and and do some more again because they're really they're really fun I really enjoy them a lot and I'm really glad you guys do too okay I'm going to my lair with all the plants now maybe I'll do like a darker green for this one that's good to like you know switch up the colors that you're using mix in it like if I'm doing a bunch of greenery I should do some different grains yeah this is a good time for Q&A you guys cuz it's really like slow process not much to explain I'm drawing leaves right now you don't need a reference to do color drop I know we did that in some of our other videos but you just need a closed shape like if you draw a shape like this and dry and colors are out that the colors just going you gotta imagine it so it's gonna spill out everywhere so it just has to be a closed shape and we talked a little bit about color drop threshold at the beginning you also have to make sure that's turned up to the right level there we go that one off well let's do this little flower here maybe this one can be like an orange I don't know if it's orange in real life but it kind of reminds me of a poppy so that's what I'm drawing [Music] that's something you set up in the canvas templates so basically it just has to do with making sure your dimensions are either longer on the width or the height and it will be vertical or horizontal so the one was 4,000 pixels across the top by 5,000 down if I had written it 5,000 by 4,000 then it would go this way but you can't just turn it as well it might mess up your time-lapse a little bit but you can always just work sideways you can turn it in gallery view you just take a little icon and you twist it so when you let go to gallery you can do that we'll do the little bud here and again I'm just choosing colors that are pleasing to me regardless of the actual real-life colors of these flowers like that's totally fine - it's your art if you wanted to make like an accurate scientific description of these like nighttime flowers maybe do differently but I am NOT okay I'm gonna go - I meant to put the on the flower layer instead of the one with the plants but that's okay I'll just make another layer sometimes I you know the layers yeah same times I don't get them exactly right that's fine just make more layers I just want to make sure drawing assist is turned on on any new layer that I create so I'm gonna do like a little full nub there that would be quick Klein one second let me draw this and I can show that to you again I meant to put it on the moon layer but then I just kept drawing and I forgot and now it's on the one with the Lance I could move it but it's fine I'll just create another layer that's why it's really about knowing like what what is behind what things and I just know that I needed some stems behind this so would be easier for me to draw right there so I just made another layer for that like the layers don't a 100% matter on this kind of particular type of art but I'll go back to that layer did it all this to make it a little more than the lime-green for this one oh yeah line so draw your line and don't pick up your pencil no just that created an arc it also does arcs so don't lift up your pencil and that'll make a straight line and if you put your pencil or your finger down then it'll snap you just keep throwing them at me Jeff keep asking questions I'll tell you talk about other stuff too it doesn't have to be like procreate could be more art what you did I don't know whatever you guys want I'm an open book for the most part I'm happy to share whatever you guys want to hear about I have been using the same brush the entire time which is from my basic tool kit it's called Pinker streamline if you don't have that set try the syrup brush from the built-in procreate set it's in the inking inking set well I would depend on the application you can export your artwork out as a Photoshop file and bring it into Photoshop I have you I've done that to do things like I don't use Photoshop for much these days I do I try to do most of it Procrit just cuz I like using it so much more some of the things I do use Photoshop for are creating repeat patterns I haven't found a good way to do that in procreate that isn't like super unintuitive and annoying and then like resizing things for the web is the only thing but yeah you can export as a Photoshop file and that will retain all your layers and everything like that so I hope that answers that question if I can clarify I just let me know I'm gonna go back to this layer with the moons that's not a good question for me I don't know I would recommend my friend Brooke Brooke Glasser she teaches on Skillshare and she has a really great class about art and business Jeff can find a link to her class she's got a really great class that's not that's not my purpose in teaching you guys like some some people teach about you know art and business and making money and things like that I'm more on the side of like art and just personal enjoyment and you know improving your skills and everything like that so yeah I want you guys to do it I mean you can do it for any reason you want like I do not judge you at all if you want to sell your art I think that's amazing and if you can make money off making art like awesome that is great like that's a lot of people that's the dream right like I wanted to do that for a long time and like I would fantasize about about like I just hurt okay so real talk like I went through a phase of I don't know I was a wedding photographer and not feeling very satisfied in that role and I really wanted to do more with art and I just wanted people to like like my art and like appreciate it I'm sure you can relate like I just wanted people to like what I was doing and like wanted it that was kind of like something that I wanted and I you know I I know there's I have a little bit of like this like ashamed feeling in my throat because I don't know what is this stigma about like just making art for art's sake and it doesn't matter what other people think but like it does matter like people you care what other people think like that's true like that's just you know human I think anyway but like what happened was in the end like I tried to do something like that and I tried I don't know I just didn't work out for me and once I really started like sharing what I was doing um which is exactly what I'm doing now is like I'm I'm just kind of like giving away my knowledge as much as I possibly can that's when things really shifted for me so that's kind of like my philosophy now is is like any success that I've had is due to me giving myself away and giving away my knowledge and sharing with the community and I feel like I can have more impact on the world by teaching than by just people liking my art not that there's anything wrong if that is is what you want like people do like my art they tell me all the time and they like my drawings and things like that so I still I still get that so I don't know I'm just kind of going off on a tangent a little bit about that topic I hope that all made sense I'm kind of trying to draw and talk at the same time so I bought these guys in Mexico I think when I was like I don't think it was one of our trips no um yeah these are from Mexico I bought them I think I bought them when I was there as a teenager so many many moons ago I let's see I went to Mexico half my family's Mexican so my mom is Mexican so I am half Mexican and I got to go spend about six weeks there as a teenager and teach at my aunt's school she lives in Mexico City and I got to work with like little kids my my students were I think they were like the like the five or six year old range I forget week we but I taught art of course I was like the arts and crafts teacher there and I didn't I mean I'm not fluent in Spanish or anything but they're cold goal was to learn how to speak English so it was great for them to have an English speaking teacher they're teaching them so we did all kinds of fun arts and crafts stuff and and then of course like all my family came later and we had like a big family reunion and like shopping with pyramids and everything like that it was awesome I love Mexico it's been too long since whattcha that's not true Jeff and I just went back to Mexico last summer for our 10-year wedding anniversary we've been married for ten years we brought home a little souvenir yes but it was it was we did like the whole all-inclusive resort thing because it was our anniversary we just wanted to relax oh it wasn't exactly like authentic Mexican culture or anything like that so I want to go back and spend time in Mexico City see my family and take the kids actually I want them to experience that too we love traveling as a family and traveling with our kids we planned to take our new baby in the family to Paris this summer but we don't get to now because of the pandemic so maybe next summer we'll get to do that there we go all right so making progress here are you guys slowly but surely just kind of chatting with you guys is nice too I hope you're enjoying it as well and you're not like bored I would actually if you guys want to post up what I was gonna say before that sorry I will answer that question I want to hear what you guys are working on like at the same time if you guys are doing this or if you're doing something else but I haven't answered that question now I went to school at Sacramento State University right here in Sacramento where I live and grew up and I'm very deeply rooted here in Sacramento and they had they have a really great graphic design program and so I got to do that when it was a pretty new program they were just kind of like overhauling it and you had to like apply to get in like you were in this cohort for two years with the same people which is really cool I loved it and it was a really great program and I learned so many so many awesome things that helped me out like design wise like really helped me out as an artist and as a business owner and things like that so I really really loved it and I also double majored I did photography as well none of my layers are in multiply the only thing I have a blend mode set on is the sketch layer and actually have that set to screen and that's what makes it appear kind of lighter than everything else but I'm not using any blend modes I probably will not use any blend modes for this piece and definitely let me know if there's more you guys want me to explain I'm just kind of like drawing these shapes and filling them in kind of mixing up the greens I'm using I'm gonna go do this one now yeah I am NOT like a purist and being you know I'm not gonna be like you should only use procreate and iPad because that's the best thing you could possibly use not true the best thing you can use is the one that you like using I think that is amazing and and we have this making art everyday thing but I do not i 100% do not restrict people participating to like using iPad using procreate using my brushes like none of that matters what matters is that you make art like and I remember one person last year was joining and made all these really cute birkut collages like physically cut paper and they were doing that way and I've seen people do it with painting and just drawing and you know pencil sketches like even if you did one pencil sketch every day you would learn so much and this is just a skill like you doing digital art is is a skill like any other medium there's things that are very unique to digital art that are not you know like you would never use something like an alpha mask well maybe something like an alpha mask but there's no alpha mask in painting there's no layers I mean kind of painting it's very different so this is just a skill that you can learn like any other medium but the drawing skill that that to me is key like you can apply drawing to a million other things so the act of the actual act of drawing I think is the most important part let's do our little star up here every day sorry that's a BS kind of answer but that is literally like draw draw every day try and draw things and if you're new it's it's probably not gonna look that great at first but that's okay just persist through it and keep trying and keep trying I did a little me and Jeff when was that 2018 I think so Jeff Jeff Jeff is creative for sure he is definitely a creative person but he doesn't have the leg drawing skill it's not his skill set he is photography video like he's really creative problem solver cooking yeah all kinds of things drawing is not one of those things electrical wiring to wire up our own [Music] yeah creativity comes in many forms you guys yeah so um so back in 2018 Apple released the iPad a nine point seven inch iPad and it was the first iPad that wasn't an iPad pro that supported the Apple pencil so he wanted to get it and he wanted to start to learn to draw and of course I wouldn't be his his teacher so we started this little series we didn't know that's really April isn't it so so yeah so I made all these little like lessons for him and kind of based off some lessons I had found online if you go to my Lisa Bardot like Instagram stories I think I saved them as a highlight in there and you can also go to Jessica Jeff Jeff drawing right yeah yeah that's his we made him like a little Instagram account and you can kind of see where he started and that's like where most people that never have drawn before with that's what it would look like and no offense to Jeff but you know it looks like kindergarten or draw because like kindergartners are new to drawing just like any other adult who is new to drawing that's not to be an insult or anything that's just like a starting place so but we did some exercises but just about like trying to draw straight lines and you know circles and shapes and and and like basic things like that to kind of just train your muscles to to get down on paper like what's in your head and that's like a big part of it that's what practice is all about is just kind of like translating what is in your head and and being able to reproduce that with your hands just like if you wanted to play piano your fingers would need to learn what to do so I think that was your question forget we kind of went off on it a lot of tangents today today is a tangent day it just depends on what effect you would want and I want to do like an intensive like class on blend modes because I think it would be very helpful like I've shown you guys a couple like what different blend modes you can do for specific reasons and things like that but there are many more and they do some pretty cool stuff if you go to my live video about abstract art we did do some experimentation with blend modes and it was pretty cool like you kind of just really the best way to get familiar with them is to see what they do like just turn it on and see what it does so but yeah be difficult to just answer that question I think I'm drawing some of my constellations now just in white and I put them on I just put them on their own layer just because I thought that might be handy but also make sure you turn on drawing assist whenever you create a new layer is anybody posting like what they're working on like as they're following along if they're doing night-sky or doing their own thing I would love to know how do I just one of the sides of the stars with the symmetry tulips or no when I go let me talk I'll do the symmetry answer because I well actually maybe explain that one more time in your question and I'll try and answer that so I mean they don't quite understand what you're asking yeah and I like to the post person that posted it if you guys whoever said that if you want to oh wow yes well you could turn temporarily turn off drawing assists so you just tap it and then you just turn it off and now I can edit this side without it affecting this side in fact I will show you what I'm gonna do for the moons so I'm just gonna skip ahead and add some detail to this I still have a few more things to like finish doing but I think it would be good for you guys to see this so let's do it this way I'm gonna go to this layer first well I'll go to I'll do the big moon first so I'm just gonna create um I'll do okay because we also have a question about alpha lock and clipping mask so I will do the moon as an alpha lock and I'll do the smaller moons as a clipping mask so you can see the difference so if I want to turn on alpha lock I just swipe to the right on that layer with two fingers and I'll get this like checkerboard pattern and then you'll see the alpha lock is checked so now anything that I draw is confined to that shape I can't draw anywhere else I could draw on this star cuz it's on the same layer get rid of that so I'm gonna choose like a darker I'm gonna add some like craters and things to the moon so I'm just gonna like draw some little shapes and dots and things like that just to give it a little like moon like texture and so if I wanted one to go off you know I can draw it here and it'll go off the side without like appearing you know over there if that makes sense just kind of like making this up as I go bearing the size of this different thing so alright so that's just well I didn't do it that much but we'll leave it there so now I also have these other moon shapes which I want to add the like texture to so I could turn on alpha lock on this layer and I could draw them in and then it would be mirrored and but I kind of want each to be unique so I'm gonna put it on a new layer so I'm gonna create a new layer and I'm going to set that layer to be a clipping mask by tapping it and hitting clipping mask and you can see that it's well actually these are clipped twice it's clipped to here in here so this might not actually work sorry I'm not yeah no I just want it to be confined to this shape so maybe this is the best example okay give me give me one second I'm gonna set it up so it works better and you can see it I'm gonna select this layer invert it and then clear out the extra stuff from that layer okay and now I'm gonna turn off clipping masks don't worry like you don't have to do any of this stuff that I'm doing I'm this is just so I can show you okay so now I have these shapes I'm gonna turn on this layer as a clipping mask I turned this one off so this one is just clipped to these moon shapes okay if I turn off that you can see the like shape that's actually there and so now I am working on a new layer to add in these details instead of doing it on the same layer which is great because now if I'm like oh that one's ugly I can just erase it I can I can use transform and move things around I can't do that on this layer because it's on the same layer so that's alpha lock it's on the same layer clipping mask is on a separate layer that way you can manipulate it that's the benefit of doing clipping masks versus alpha lock is that it's on its own layer so now I can go through and add whatever kind of stuff that I want to add to make the moon and I don't have a cyst turned on so it's not gonna go over here I kind of want to make them all unique and not like reflected on the other side please let me know if that makes sense in the comments I have a video about clipping mask and alpha lock if you guys want to like check that out Jeff can probably throw it up in the comments but it's it explains it maybe a little better than I am right now and there's visuals and everything like that so I would highly recommend checking that out there's a lot that you can do with clipping mask and alpha lock and stuff got some dots there okay cool I've added some details to these moons you turn this one back on there you go and they're all unique because I didn't have the UM so you know I can just erase this one because it's on its own layer and redo it okay cool let me just real quick go around and add the rest of that stuff on and then I'll add some more details are you guys hanging in there and doing okay I hope again I'm happy to answer more questions and things like that I know this one is kind of a slow process but sometimes it's nice to be going through the more questions Jeff I love them I have a matte glass screen protector have a link to it on my YouTube page are on the video description of this and then also I have an FAQ page on my website where I link to the one that I use it's a matte glass screen protector and I really like it because it makes everything more smooth like gliding your pencil across that's our doorbell probably Amazon it's just a really nice feeling when you draw it isn't so much about the glare though it does take the glare down so that might be helpful for some people but it's more about that feeling that when you're when your pencil glides across the screen I find that without it it's a little sticky like when you're just using the glass it just kind of like sticks a little bit it doesn't like when I have the difference when I have it and what I don't is like night and day for me it just feels so nice going across so that's my preference and this one that I'm using in particular doesn't really affect the some of them do effect like it makes it kind of look crystallized it kind of affects the picture a little bit makes it less clear so this one seems to be pretty good I haven't noticed any problems with it I bought this one a few times because I really like the feel of it they all have like a slightly different texture so what else you got Jeff okay we're almost there almost there you guys I'll be able to start right there impromptu star okay did we get everything in this sketch pretty much I think so cool all right so I am done with laying out all the components as basic shapes without adding any detail and yet I can also turn off my sketch at this point because it's not giving me any more information that I need and now I'm gonna start adding in just not a lot of details just a few little things to kind of give it a little more dimension a little more interest I'll start with this flower right here so I'm gonna go to that layer and I'm gonna create a layer right above it I might end up using clipping masks for this so I'm just gonna turn on the clipping mask so I'm going to top that layer and turn it to a clipping mask and so really the point the thing is you want to pay attention to what layer your layers are clipped to and things like that all right I'm gonna choose white and I don't have a cistern on which I do want to have turned on so I'm going to tap that and hit drawing assist and now I'm just gonna add a little bit of detail to these little petal shapes like that symmetry makes it nice and fast but it does both sides for you at the same time and then maybe some little I had those little like dots in the middle so I'll use I'll do those in maybe like a yellow don't like that what else is on this layer I have these other the pink flowers the white flowers I can add some embellishment too though here I'll do the pink because they're right here so I'm just gonna get like a darker pink maybe add a little whole thing in the middle um you know what we did a painterly tutorial um last Friday was it yeah I don't it's not my cup of tea honestly but we did do that tutorial and you know it's I can I can do it it's not my favorite thing I love stylization and like I think you get to see inside the artists brain a little bit more versus just seeing their skills so that's why I like you know stylization it's all about the choices that the artists make to depict something in a certain way versus just like reproducing what it looks like in real life and I love seeing that you know when I look at other people's art so that's what I like to make as well but yeah I mean I we did do that painterly tutorial recently so you could check that one out and that definitely is is more realism okay we're gonna do this guy get a little gray for that one I'm just kind of like you know I'm kind of remembering some different things that I've seen over here when I'm adding detail to these it's not you know realistic maybe I'll do like a little line underneath there or something like that I am still using the Bardot inker streamline from basic toolkit cool I like that I'm anything else on this layer I can do it's not all my stuff on that layer so I'm gonna go down to the stuff in this layer there's a lot more flowers and things so I'm gonna top that layer create another layer change it to it or turn on clipping mask and also turn on drawing assist so some of the things on this layer I see are like you know lots of leaves and flowers I'm gonna go do these I'll do the little orange flowers over here and like I think I saw oh we can't see it I'll just go ahead I'm gonna do like a darker orange to add a little bit of something else to this like that like this is like something that I saw in one of these so adding just a little touch of extra color to make it look a little bit more detailed we'll do something like that and because I'm using a clippie mask it's it's going right up to the edges but not over so that's great that's what I wanted and then we'll do like some little lines on this maybe there we go these flowers are also on that layer so I'm gonna get a darker pink and do something similar oops that's not correct grab that pink get a little bit darker pink you guys are asking about color and you can see I'm like kind of staying up in this area so you get those really like bright colors I just love bright colors they make me very happy yeah I should see my house that's very bright Oh what else is on this layer this guy maybe we'll just do some simple like that and right there okay alright what else can I add some detail to kind of did all the flowers now I'm now I'm gonna work on the leaves a little bit which are a lot of them are on this layer so that's great and just I'm just gonna do something really simple for these let's start with this one I'm gonna select that color maybe I'll get like a darker cooler version a little bit darker like that okay and I'm just gonna like color in like half of it so just adding a little bit of something without it being too detailed but I think these little variations in color will really add like a lot of definition to your artwork will figure with my brush that's faster there we go that looks good I like that and maybe for this one I'll add like a lighter color maybe just like to light maybe you just don't like half the leaf or something like that actually here we'll do it this way cuz this is the beauty of me and having used a clipping mask is like I can I can take it out too far you know it's like I don't want it on the stem but I can go back and erase that later so I'll just quickly draw in like half of it it doesn't matter if it goes onto the stem a little bit cuz I'm gonna erase that right now so I'll just go in and just get rid of that and I wouldn't be able to do that if it was an alpha lock I wouldn't have to I could select the green and like paint over it but I think it's just better to have it on separate layers so now I've got a little bit of dimension there let's maybe do something similar here which that one's on this layer so create another layer clipping mask drawing assists and I think the color is pretty good already so let's yeah I I will I will not change my brush you guys I won't be for this one I'm just gonna everything with one brush which is um when what month am I gonna do that I've got like the whole year almost almost planned out for making art everyday you guys wear well maybe I'll tell you guys a sneak peek of what next month is gonna be at the end of this but like we're gonna be doing a month where like the Plus which is like an extra element that you can use to like challenge yourself to be more creative like the extra creative challenge is gonna be restrictions where maybe you'll do it only with one brush or only three colors or I've got a bunch of other ideas and things that we can do but I think that's gonna be really fun I actually love working from parameters which is basically restrictions like rules and things that you have to do in order for you know to meet the to solve the problem this is this is where I come from like as a designers graphic designer because we're always working with parameters like as an artist you kind of have free range you can do whatever you want cuz you're the artist but when you're a graphic designer you're working within parameters usually where it has to be this size or it has to communicate this message or you know you can only use these colors or whatever and I actually thrive on stuff like that I love having that kind of restrictions put on me some people don't like some people do not like having that they just like to be free but I think it actually makes me more creative because it's like okay here's this problem I need to solve I need to do this but I need to make sure I do it in this way what kind of creative solutions can I come up with in order to do that so that's something that we're gonna be exploring later on that I think a lot of you guys are gonna like and the plus like the plus thing that's something that we added this year we didn't have the plus as a part of our practice last year and it's always completely optional so you don't have to do it you don't want to but I think it really helps and like seeing you guys create this month alone like with the art styles and trying to incorporate that kind of stuff into your work I think you guys have all grown so much from that it seems to me like looking at what you guys are creating and the way that you talk about it and stuff like that it's something that's really going to help you grow a lot as an artist so well it kind of depends I mean if you're talking about something that I'm doing right now I'm just drawing over it with a different color you could also use the hue saturation brightness adjustment to adjust colors you could just literally just color drop in a different color if you have like alpha or actually don't need a lot turned on you could just drop in another color and change it that way so if there if I'm not understanding your question let me know and I'll try and answer a little bit better let's do the underside of the screen here we go so I'm just kind of blocking that in and then erasing away what I don't want here we go okay one more I think that'll probably be the last thing that I'll do is kind of add some I'm on the right layer oh yes maybe I'll just do this one like halfway like I did one of the other ones there we go and then I'm just using the eraser to kind of I want it to only cover half of the stem so just touching that up a little bit okay cool I don't think there's any other details that I wanted to add to this piece they lump really pretty good about it so I think I'm gonna call it good and be done with it and I can also turn off my drawing guide like you don't even need to have the drawing guide turned on throughout the whole thing sometimes it's helpful but as long as you have drawing assist turned on like symmetry will still work go to this layer like symmetry will symmetry would still work even if that line isn't turned on you just have to have a cyst turned on so that's kind of how that works but yes this is my folk art inspired piece of the night sky just realized one thing I wanted to add which is some little lines to this so I'm just gonna do that real quick but in a second we're gonna throw up the giveaway information so if you guys want to be entered into the giveaway I'll put that up in just a second there we go all done so as you can see like it's completely it's it's got a lot of things that echo there's like folk are kind of Scandinavian style with the cemetery and things like that but since I brought my own element of the night sky into it it's like a night sky interpretation of folk art and I think looks really cool so if you guys are let me pull this light up come on there we go okay so there's the information for the giveaway bardo brush comm slash giveaway we're gonna close that up in just a minute so if you want to get entered for that to win some brush sets for me you can go ahead and do that now and then I would love to see what you've made so if you're posting your work to Instagram please tag me so I can see it that Bardo brah I'm also Lisa Bardot on Instagram that's my personal one so please please please like that's kind of one of the thrills for me is like creating these tutorials just seeing what you guys make from it so please do share and and I want to see it so so I think we'll give you guys one more minute to enter the giveaway and then we'll close that up and do a QA so go ahead and enter right now if you want again this is we're gonna be giving away a couple brush sets and then a couple master bundles which is like all of my brush sets so so do enter you'll be signing up for the newsletter but you'll get really cool information like about making art everyday and and I really hope that you think about joining that if you want to improve your skills it's all completely free so you just have to commit to doing it and I think it's a really good thing to do so yeah we're gonna do right we'll give it another couple minutes and we'll close it and at that point we'll do like another we've done a lot of Q&A today but we'll do some more and Jeff will be downloading all the names and putting them through randomizer and then we'll call it the winners after the QA so so go ahead and do that and and also like I would love to hear about what you made during this time I'm curious I know a lot of you guys do follow along and like make it but I'm doing like during it but sometimes people also like do their own thing and they just listen and kind of pick up some info whatever you do is cool so I don't know we don't have a name that we agree on yet with our son we he was four days old before he had an official name so Jeff and I did not agree there our daughter we knew when I was pregnant like we were both we were both really happy with the name so so sure she had a name before she was born and this one will probably the same I think he'll be born and will take as many days as it takes to finally decide we'll see well let you know we'll let you guys know affinity designer I'm not super experienced with it I'm more I I've used like Adobe Illustrator to do stuff like that my computer but that is one that is very popular and it's iPad app so he could check that out alright so I think we're gonna go ahead and close this up so that Jeff can download the names yeah how did you start so I kind of touched on this a little bit and I don't I mean career is kind of a loaded word to me um I don't know when that started good per se uh so I I went to school for graphic design of photography and then right towards the end of college or right after I graduated I think yeah so a year after I graduated we started a wedding photography business and we did that for like 11 years or so 11 12 years and we still got a couple weddings this year if they don't get postponed hopefully not hanging in there for you guys wedding people um it's it's a rough road that you're on right now and at some point during that during that time I wanted I felt the pool to shift more towards art but I didn't exactly know what I wanted to do like I said I wanted to I wanted to make stuff and I wanted people to want those things so that I could make money doing it and make it something that I could use to support myself but I didn't know exactly how to do it and everything is just kind of like happened I don't know like very organically I I started I decided I wanted to learn to draw better so I decided I would draw every day for a year that that was what inspired the making art everyday project I started and because and procreate like I found procreate and the Apple pencil and I was like this is amazing and that prompted me to draw everyday and improve my skills and then there weren't brushes that I liked so I decided to make brushes and I started so I decided to sell them I thought other people might want them too so I started selling them and then I thought it would be good for people to like learn how to use them like I use them or however they want to use them let's just started teaching and it's all kind of just rolled on from there and then then I decided to make art mark make making art every day and make that an official thing and you know make props for you guys for every day of the year and write weekly emails and that's what I started last year and so it's kind of just like I'm just I'm the kind of person that just like thinks of things and tries them like I like doing that I like having ideas and then pursuing them and so it's that's why it's hard to say like what's your career it's just kind of this ever-evolving thing that I do and it's always changing so I know don't don't think about your career is this like very concrete thing like just keep making stuff and hopefully you'll find ways that you can turn it into work and make money off of it like there's lots of ways that you can do that I highly recommend checking out the creative pep talk podcast if you're interested in like learning about art and business it's all about creating a thriving creative career hosted by Andy Jay Miller and he is just so enthusiastic and amazing I love that podcast so check out that if you want to learn more about like business and art and then Jeff also threw up a link to my friend Brookes art and business class on Skillshare so I don't know if that was your question but that's my story sure I love food art yeah I can definitely do that I think like I'm trying to and I want to hear from you guys like your requests and things that you want to see because we're just leave this whole like art style exploration of in April because that's what we did for making art everyday and next month we're doing something different but I also want to incorporate some other general type stuff and I don't know I just want to do like a mix of things with these live videos so it is really important for me to hear from you guys what you want to hear so I'll probably soon throw up some like Instagram surveys or surveys in the Facebook group to see what you guys would love to learn about that's okay just doing a few things over there we've been doing a lot of chatting today because this is not a very instruction heavy type of artwork so we've already answered a lot of questions do we have any more all right giveaway time yay okay so the first thing that we're gonna be giving away is so we just do like we were giving away these cool decals but I ran out so deep brand if you're listening you should send us some more so we can give them away I emailed them but you know pandemic and all I'm sure they're busy um so we're gonna give away three three winners that are gonna win a brush set of your choice from Bardot brush so we'll go ahead and start with that we're gonna just call out like the first part of your email address and then we'll also email you if you're a winner and you can also find it at Bardot brush comm /faq I have all this stuff that I use and links to that as well so first up first winner congratulations Pam Appleby we will email you and you can choose one of the brush sets whichever one you would like and it will be yours and you can have fun with it congratulations Raylan back you're a winner brush set of your choice from Bardot brush and then Howard congratulations men we will email you with the details about how to get your brush set and we're gonna do what we usually do two winners but we'll do three today since we don't have the pencils to give away so yay let's do so this is for the master bundle so it's basically all of these sets all the sets that I sell is the master bundle so let's go ahead and pick our three winners for that we have Frank Tina Frank congratulations Tina I hope you have fun with that we'll e-mail you and you're gonna be making some cool art stuff on procreate next up we have Devin has in flu congratulations you are gonna be a master bundle owner will email you the details I'm gonna go to this so I apologize keone Walsh or however you actually say that you are the winner of a master bundle we will email you the details congratulations to all the winners we've been trying to do the giveaways once a week and Fridays so as long as we haven't had the baby yet we'll be back again next week I think we still got a couple weeks like until my due date so I think we'll be okay um but yeah we will be back again next week doing live videos I think we're gonna do Tuesday and Friday again yeah we're doing Tuesday and Friday 10:30 a.m. Pacific time we'll do them until the baby's born and then we'll take a little break yeah well we'll be we'll be coming back there's lots of videos if you have it I mean some of you have been with us for every video which i think is like incredible thank you so much oh my goodness oh it's the 20th live video that we've done since we did the first one Monday after the shutdown started like we did five that week and five the next week three and then three and then two and then two so we're kind of trying to meet you all more manageable for us but like I've been like doing them to week so we'll how many we do when we come back after the baby's born but well we'll be doing two next week and we will be in our new month of making art everyday which that's what we're gonna be doing okay so the month of the theme that we're gonna be doing for the month of May is going to be objects so these are gonna be like we're going exploring in adamant objects and then the plus is going to be decades so I think this is gonna be really really fun I'm really excited about it so they're so inanimate objects we just did weather we've done things like food and animals and and lots of different topics you can go to Bardot brush or if you go to making art every day calm you'll see like the past prompts down at the bottom there's a link to that so inanimate objects which i think is going to be nice and approachable for you guys to draw but then if you want to do something extra and push you can draw an object as it comes from a certain decade and each week of May there's gonna be a different decade theme so we're gonna start with the 50s I have a drawing that I did that's going out in the email so I drew a jukebox some of the objects are things from like that decade and some are just like not you can draw them however you want interpret however you want but if you want to do like a themed thing you can do it like from the 50s so I think it's gonna really fun if you guys signed up for the giveaway you'll be getting info about that going out on Sunday so we're gonna be working 50s all the way to the 90s so lots of fun stuff that's going to be coming down the line for next month and then Jeff I think you said you had a couple questions that we could answer before we wrap things up what Oh problem yeah I'm really excited for next month especially like certain decades some almost would you do character design and what are the fundamentals to inspire young artists that's a big one so character design that is something I do have planned for making art everyday later this year so stay tuned I also have the people skills series which is all about helping you I'll pull it up real quick learn how to draw people in a stylized way and of course you can apply that to characters it doesn't have to be people it could be humans if you find a way of drawing eyes that you like and apply that to drawing animals or whatever characters this is and emotions and things like that so I would highly recommend checking out this series didn't quite finish it last year but I plan on finishing it later this year so we'll be exploring that later this year I promise and then the other question was about I don't know how to answer that like everybody is inspired by different things and for me I could talk about myself I am inspired by things that other people make I've kind of talked about this before but like Jeff he is inspired by nature and he'll go out in nature and like take photos or just just be a nature and it really like fills him up but I love being in like cities and seeing things that people have built and created and that really inspires me so for everybody it's gonna be different and I think a part of the process of becoming an artist or developing yourself as an artist is finding what inspires you so I know it's probably not a great answer to your question it's not really an answer at all but but yeah just just try and find what inspires you because that's going your driving force that keeps you going and the other thing that inspires me is just the creative process itself I love starting with nothing and turning that into something and then looking at that something and saying oh my gosh like I made that like that's awesome like it makes me feel so good so that's another thing for me all right well I think we're gonna wrap it up now again my name is Lisa Bardot I'm the owner of Bardot brush I make awesome brushes for procreate as well as tutorials and educational resources to help you guys learn how to make art including things like this video and I also run making art everyday which is drawing prompts and motivation to help you overcome your creative ears and establish a daily art making practice and that is all complete the making art of day is completely free so I hope you'll think about joining us if you want to become a better artist and learn how to draw more so thank you again for joining us it was a long one today and I really appreciate you guys being here and I hope you have a wonderful weekend we'll see you next week bye bye

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Published: Fri Apr 24 2020