Layers are like burgers, you could think of each layer you use as an ingredient carefully placed
to create a feast for the eyes. I share my tips on how to use clipping layers folders and more that
you could use for any artwork these tips aren't just limited to drawing Burgers, don't worry, also
heads up, I'm deathly sick in this video so forgive my voice for being a little bit off. First step is
to just plan the burger for me I'm just going to start off really simple and then it's up to you
what you want to put on your burger, I'm going to draw the lettuce. If you could imagine it's kind
of like a blanket, so first I'll draw a simple square and here comes the fun part now I draw
the squiggly and there's nothing too complicated just yet you don't have to overthink it you know
just draw doesn't matter how many layers you use but then for the sketch right now since we're like
super early into it it could just be one layer cuz we're just trying to figure it out, right?
I think at this point I want the burger to be sort of flying around kind of like falling into the
air and if you want to you could even give it some character if you look at my burger it kind
of looks like shoes, these tomatoes, so I could put like googly eyes. Say you drew your burger but then
you want to separate it right because they're on the same layer look for this tool kind of like
a dotted line make a selection it lets you move it around so you see that so to add those little
ridges I'm just going to do the same thing as the the lettuce so I draw like little waves and then I
draw lines so yeah we can start coloring actually. It's time to make a new layer, [and] we're going to be
using as many layers as we can so like that we have the burger then I'm going to make a layer
under it then the burger patty just like that then I make a new layer again some nice purple onions
yeah right here purple actually I'll show you what I made before cuz we had the same assignment
but it was themed an alien burger here, would you guys eat this burger? This burger is purple so if you
look here even though the tomatoes are the same I have it on different layers. This tomato I can
just move it around so another thing you guys could name your layers if you guys would like
to so that you guys don't get lost! (It's a good habit) It's kind of making me hungry I kind of want the burger... So if
I make a new layer and then if I click on clipping that means that it's stuck on that layer I'm not
shadowing it like this like flat kind of making it round like this so you could use multiply if
you'd like to for the shadow it automatically makes it darker. I'm just adding like the bigger
Shadows for now so onions are white on the center so I'm just adding some circles cuz
onions have layers after all. Why am I sideways? Oh, I'm just like tilting it it's kind of like
when you tilt your paper right it just makes it easier and I'm adding these shadows just to make
it easy to differentiate these tomatoes from each other and then I'll add the pink area onto here as
well so you can see how how nice it is when you have separate layers and if you keep it nice and
orderly you just draw inside of the shapes and here's another tip for everybody so be careful
when you're zoomed in super close make sure to zoom out every now and again because sometimes
you might be doing like this really really pretty detail right but then if you zoom out you can't
even see it so try to zoom out every now and again so that you don't put too much effort
and then it turns out you can't even see it. Yes so for this one I'm just locking transparency
just to make it easier for myself. There we go so we got our pickle so you can see how satisfying
it is. So now I'm going to go back and I will merge these together now, well I know I could
have merged them together earlier but it's up to you to decide when/if you merge them and then I'll
show you guys a trick so you can make a folder and then you can put everything in there make a
new layer and then you make it multiply and then you make a clipping layer and you can see that I
could add a shadow onto everything this is really useful if you just want to add the simple Shadow
onto everything or this is also why we took our time to separate them into different layers and
then you can just simply draw the shadow. Forgot the sesame seeds, oh yeah, we're not done just yet
still a lot of detail to add.
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it on separate layers cuz now all you really need to do is make another layer under it and
then just add the Shadows, finally, that's how you always save the the best part for last, you got to
be patient. The shadow you could make it lighter by making it more transparent and then now I'm
going to texture the burger because the burger isn't just something smooth I'm going to add some
little bumps to it and then I'm going to make it greasy and shiny like it was Fresh Off The Frying
Pan. So I'm just kind of making random dots like that to make it look like a burger. So actually
I could use my harder brush so that it's not as smooth maybe I'll add like another layer on top
just the see how I would add like the greasy shine only on some parts like the edges then
I add it on the top parts so I'm not really using any sort of layer for this one just a normal layer
nice greasy burger. "You didn't put cheese", Oh yeah! You're right, oh my gosh, I didn't put cheese oh
my gosh, you're so right! But see this is the nice thing see look at this, boom, easy [american sliced] cheese. So that's
why it's so important to have it in different layers. I'll add another one, maybe it's different
cheeses too so maybe this one is slightly orangey how did I forget to add cheese and I added pickles
and veggies on it? I done goofed... Yeah so you can see that the way I'm adding the shadows for the
cheese I'm not adding black, I'm not just going yellow and then making it gray as you can see
that it's kind of ugly right the shadow so what I did is I pick yellow, I pick orange, and then I
made it darker. So now you can see makes it look more appetizing same for this cheese
I'm going to pick a more red-orange, make it really, really shiny by adding some cheese shine and like that, there you go, cheese.
Here's another thing, so maybe I'll add a shadow under the onions, I'm adding a shadow like that and like that.
The same thing for here, we're going to make it multiply and I'm going to add a shadow like so.
So you can see that it adds a lot, just like that little shadow. It makes it feel more realistic and that they're interacting with each other.
I think the tomatoes are perfect already, we could leave it be -- just keep them separate, but I want to merge all three together.
Then I'm going to add the same shadow here on the tomatoes, I'll make them shinier actually because fresh tomatoes, they have dew.
Maybe the same for the lettuce so it's not artificial looking, making them shiny because they're slightly wet, slightly (huey /j) dewey (and louie /j)
I think for this part you guys could zoom in but again have a balance for it, getting your nose too close
to your drawing, you'll miss out on the bigger details. That's the one that everybody sees, no
matter what. Again this is another exercise to balance your layers and simple rendering
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