- [Karin] Hello and welcome back to iPad lettering.
My name is Karin
and I normally say that I am here to help you
get the most out of your iPad,
but in this video, we are going to talk about the iPhone.
So many of you have been asking me to make
a Procreate pocket beginner's guide and so here it is.
This video is for anyone who'd like to learn more
about the Procreate pocket app, what it is good for
and how to use the most important features.
I'm going to show you how to make
this cute Halloween iPhone Wallpaper
and as we are working on this little project,
I'll explain how you can use
the various Procreate pocket features.
The Procreate pocket app is available on all iPhones
running iOS 13 and later
and this is what the app looks like.
You can use this app just with your fingers,
but I recommend you use a stylus
because it's a bit easier to see all the lines
that you are drawing.
If you're curious to find out what the best stylus is
for your phone,
I've actually put up another video
where I'm testing out different stylus pens for the phone
and I'll leave the link in the description of this video
so that you can check it out.
The stylus that I'm using here is the Honsky Pen
It's very cheap and I think it works quite nicely.
When you first open up the app,
you will see the gallery
and this is where all your artwork lives.
You can see I've organized my artwork into stacks.
So if I tap on one of the stacks,
it opens up all the canvases that I have created previously.
This is a very nice way to organize all your artwork
so that it's easier to find them.
The little plus icon here is where you can
create a new canvas.
So you can tap on this
and this brings up the new canvas dialogue.
You'll see that there's a few
pre-defined canvas settings already
or you can also create a custom size.
For the artwork we are going to create today,
because it's going to be a phone wallpaper,
we're going to choose screen size
and this is nice because it means that the wallpaper
will fit your phone perfectly.
So, we tap on screen size.
So now, this is the main interface
of Procreate pocket
and I'm just gonna walk you through
the most important features that you need to know
before we start working on the artwork.
The first icon that you see here that's already pre-selected
these are your brushes, so you can tap on this
and then you have a number of brush sets here on the left
and then here on the right are the brushes
inside the brush set.
So you can tap on the different brush sets
and then that will reveal the brushes inside of those sets.
Procreate has a number of pre-defined brush sets
There's actually lots and lots and lots of different brushes
for all sorts of different designs.
So I very much encourage you to have a look
through all the brushes
and it's really a lot of fun
just to play with all the brushes that you might find.
And then next up, we have the smudging tool
and then when you tap on that
you'll notice that it looks exactly the same as the brushes
and this is because you can use this tool
with the same brushes that you would use for painting
and then the same with the eraser tool here.
Again, if you tap on it, you have the brushes
and you can use all the brushes for erasing as well.
And then next up here we have the layers panel
and this is very important.
We are always going to work with layers
and we're going to work non-distractedly
but I will explain to you what this means
a little bit later in this video.
And then here on the right hand side
we have our color palettes.
So you have a color wheel here
and then you can also create your own color palettes
to choose from
and there is a number of different ways
of how you can pick your colors.
My favorite way of picking colors actually is this
and I'm very much used to selecting my colors this way.
And then here when you tap on the modify button
we have some advanced functionality,
but I will show you this once we get
into creating our artwork.
Alright so now we are going to select a brush
and to start with I recommend
that you use the dry ink brush.
This is available from the inking brush set.
It's a very nice brush it's quite soft
and it'll really lend itself to painting the little ghost
then we tap done
and then we are also going to create a new layer
see here, we've got layer one so that's fine
We might also like to create another layer
because we're gonna add a background later on as well,
but for now this is fine
and then we tap done
and then we're going to select black to start with
and now we're going to paint this random ghost shape.
It's kind of an uneven blob like this
and then we are going to fill this shape with black.
And you can do that from just dragging the color swatch
into the shape.
You need to make sure that the shape is closed
otherwise you'll fill the whole canvas.
If this happens to you then you can two finger tap undo
and then you can make sure that all the lines are closed.
Maybe you need to just have a little look
to make sure they're all closed
and then you can do the same thing again.
This is one of the nice things about Procreate pocket
you can use gestures to undo your work.
So, two finger tap is undo
and then three finger tap is redo.
So, anytime you make a mistake it's super easy to fix.
So now this shape looks kind of okay
it's not quite a ghost shape yet
but we can change this.
So now, what we're gonna do is tap on modify
and then you see here how we've got this magic wand tool
so we tap on this and this brings up all the adjustments
that you have available in the app.
To start with, we are going to use the liquify tool
and this is such a cool feature.
So you can see here, in the first setting here
we have a variety of different liquify modes
and the first one we are going to select is the edge mode
and this now lets us smooth out
the lines that we've created.
Because it's a little bit difficult to paint on the phone
especially if you have a stylus
that doesn't have a precise tip,
we need to use some other tricks
to make the lines smooth
and the edge tool is perfect.
So then in the next tab here you've got the settings
so you can change the size and also the pressure
I think the size needs to be a little bit bigger
maybe 15%, pressure's a hundred
and then distortion and momentum are set to 0%.
So now we can smooth out the edges
so all we have to do now is kind of follow the lines
and now you can see how we can pull out the edge
and make it nice and smooth.
So now you can sort of create the exact ghost shape
that you would like.
And the nice thing about making ghosts is that
it doesn't have to be super precise
so you can just do this until you are happy
with your shape.
So now we are going to change to tone
and we're going to change the push mode now
we're also gonna decrease the size a little bit
so we're just gonna make it maybe, let's see, 9%
and now we're gonna drag up here from the bottom
to give the ghost sort of blanket look here
I don't know what you'd call it.
You just have little edges like this.
Another next thing we want to do is create the background.
So we can do one of two things
you can either change the background color
and then you can just choose any color that you would like
for your background and then it creates this background
but it's little bit hard to see
because it's not so easy to change.
So what we can do instead,
we can now choose the first layer
and we can fill this layer with a color.
So now we're going to choose maybe this blue
and we're gonna fill the whole layer with blue.
So now this color I don't like so much
so I'm going to change it
and there's an easier way to do that
which is much easier than changing the background color.
So now we're gonna go back to our adjustments
and this time we're gonna select the hue saturation
and brightness sliders
and this is probably one of my most favorite
and most used tools
because now you can adjust the hue of your background
and you can choose any color that you like.
You can also change the saturation here
and then you can choose the brightness.
So really you can dial in any color that you like
for the background for your ghost.
And then I actually want the ghost to be white
and not black.
So let me show you how you can do that as well.
So now we're gonna go back
and select the layer that has the black ghost on it
and now what we're going to do is alpha lock this layer
so you tap on the layer thumbnail
and you see here how there is a secondary menu popping up
and it's got the alpha lock feature here
and once you select that you can see that
it's got this checkered background
and this means that only the peak source
that already have color on the screen
will be able to get changed.
So now we're gonna tap done
and then we're going to choose white
and then we're going to go back to the layers panel
and now tap on the layer thumbnail and then fill layer.
So now this is gonna change the ghost to white
and there we have a white ghost.
And the reason why it's so easy
is because we have two layers.
We have one layer with the background
and then we have another layer with the ghost.
If we had painted them on the same layer,
you wouldn't be able to do this.
That's why it's so important to always choose new layers.
So now we're gonna do the same thing again.
We're gonna choose a new layer
and now were gonna draw the eyes.
So now what we can do here for the eyes,
you can hold down the stylus and you can see here now
how it says edit shape.
So this create shape tool
and this let's you create custom shapes
so when you tap on this you can see here now,
you can choose between ellipse, quadrilateral, and line.
So now we can adjust the eye of the ghost
to anything we want.
We can make it wide, or small, or whatever we want,
but this is a super handy feature again
because it's really hard to make straight lines
and not wobbly lines on the phone.
This feature's super handy.
And then we are going to fill this shape again.
So we've one eye done.
Now what we want to do is create another eye
and the easiest way to do that
is just to duplicate this layer.
So we're gonna go duplicate and then done.
And now in the modify menu,
you've got this black arrow tool.
And this is your layer selection tool
so this selects all the contents of the layer
and now you can move this around any where you want
but now I think the eyes are a little bit too big.
So what we're gonna do now is group these two layers
so we can move them at once
and in order to create a group of layers
you can select both layers.
You can see now there's a dark blue
and this is a slightly lighter blue layer
and then we can tap on group layers
and now we have this group.
So now you can dual open to see what's inside the group
and we can close it again
and now, if we go back to that black arrow tool
we can change both at the same time.
We can also resize the layers now
so we can just make it a bit smaller,
we change the shape
so we can make these ghost eyes a little bit cuter.
And so now, I think the eyes are a little bit
too close together, but because we've got this layer group
I can select one of the eyes
and then I can move this a little bit further up this way.
So now we also want to give the ghost
a little bit of a shadow.
So now what we're gonna do is duplicate that ghost layer.
So I'm gonna duplicate this
and then we're going to change the opacity
of this layer a little bit.
It's now not visible,
but I will show you in a second what this looks like.
So now what we're gonna do is go to adjustments
and then go to opacity
and now you can see here how it says slide to adjust.
And now we're gonna change this to about 40%
and then select the layer.
And now we're gonna pull it out a little bit
so now you can see over so slightly there's a shadow
coming out below the ghost.
Now, we're gonna transform this layer a little bit
and we're gonna use that warp tool for this.
Now we can just create this shadow
and make it a little bit bigger.
And then the next thing we're gonna do
is write boo here at the bottom
and there's two ways of doing that.
Of course we're going to create a new layer at the top
to start with
and the first way of doing this is just writing the word.
So you can choose any brush that you like
and let's have a look in the calligraphy brush set
to see what types of brushes we have.
So there's a large variety of different brushes
that you can try out.
I'm gonna use the script brush
and so now I'm going to write boo here.
This is not super easy.
It's definitely much easier to do this on the iPad,
but, you know, it's a ghost
so it doesn't have to be super precise.
So you can just write boo like this.
That's pretty cool,
and then we're gonna select this.
You can just adjust as you can see here,
there's a green handle so you can rotate your shape
like this and then you can place it
and so now what we're gonna do
is maybe warp this a little bit as well
and this time I'm gonna choose advanced mesh.
So this is now going to give me some additional modes
that I can adjust for a little bit more precision
and to make this a little more ghostly.
So this is one way of writing boo,
but then you can do another way as well.
So now we're going to go and create another new layer
and I want to keep this layer,
but I don't want it to be visible right now
so what we can do now
is turn the visibility of this layer off.
It's got this checkbox here
and if you uncheck this checkbox,
it'll turn the visibility of the layer off.
Now we've got the new layer selected.
So now what we're gonna do is use the text tool.
Now tap on the wrench and then go to actions, add
and you can see here there's a number of things
that you can add to your canvas.
You can insert a file, photo, you can take a photo,
and you can add text.
And this is what we're gonna do.
So now we tap on this and then we can add text
so now we're just going to write boo again.
And so, this might not be the font that you like,
but now you can double tap and you can go edit style
and now you can choose any font that you already have
on your phone.
I think this check Armstrong font is quite cool
for this type of lettering.
So we're gonna choose bold italic
and then here in the design tab,
you can change the size if you want,
and then there's all sorts of other set things as well,
which we're not gonna use right now,
and then here in the attributes,
you can do some different alignments if you like.
You can outline the text if you like
and then we can arrange this here at the bottom like this.
So this is another way to add text, but I actually prefer
my handwritten text.
So we're gonna turn this layer off
and then we are going to turn this layer back on.
So now, the next thing we're gonna do
is do some shading.
So we are going to create another new layer
and this time we're gonna do it at the bottom of the stack.
So we're just gonna go to the background layer
which is the pink layer.
We tap new layer
and now we are going to choose an airbrush for this.
We're just gonna choose the soft brush which will be fine
and the black color
and now we're gonna add a little shadow here
and we wanna blur this out
so you tap on modify and in the adjustments,
you have gaussian blur.
So you select gaussian blur
and then here it says slide to adjust,
so we're gonna slide this to the right like this
to blur this out.
So you can see it gets quite blurry,
but not this is a little bit big,
so now we're gonna choose the black arrow tool
and we're gonna make this a bit smaller.
We just want a hint of a shadow
just to give the impression that this is floating,
and then we're also gonna decrease the opacity
a little bit.
So tap on opacity and then we're gonna bring this down
give it so slightly,
you just want a tiny little shadow,
and then I think it looks good.
So now we're gonna go back to the layers panel
and then above your ghost layer, add a new layer
and this time we are going to create a clipping mask.
So you tap on the layer thumbnail
and then you tap on clipping mask.
This is a different version of filling a shape.
You could fill the ghost layer directly above
because we want it to work non-destructively
we're gonna use the clipping mask
and what that means is any pixels that you put
on this layer only get applied to the ghost.
I'll show you what this means.
So now, we are going to choose a different brush
and we're going to the touch-ups brush set
and then you can select the noise brush here.
And now we can paint in a little bit of a shadow
to the ghost as well.
One of the things I haven't shown you yet
is how to change the size of the brush.
You can see here there's two sliders.
The top one changes the size of the brush,
so you can slide up to make it bigger
and then slide it down to make it smaller.
In this case, we want to make it very big
and then the bottom slider here is for the opacity.
So the further up it goes, the more opaque your brush is
and the further down you pull it the more transparent it is.
So we don't want this to be too opaque,
so we're gonna drag this down quite a lot
and so now we can paint in a little bit of a shadow here.
And now this is quite intense
so we're gonna change the opacity of this layer as well,
tap on modify and then adjustments, opacity,
and now we can even so slightly turn the opacity down.
So we only wanna have an even so slight shadow like this,
and now you can see here that
that ghost shadow comes through a bit too much as well,
so we can adjust this.
We're gonna select that layer with the shadow
and then we can adjust this a little bit.
I'm just gonna choose the warp tool again,
and bring this back, and now it looks much better.
Alright and here is our ghost wallpaper done.
So the only thing we need to do now
is export this so we can use it as a wallpaper
and that's very easy to do as well.
Tap on modify
and then you can see that we've got this share icon here
and you'll also see that there is a variety
of different formats that we can use to share this image.
I recommend that you choose jpeg or png
either of them will work fine
and then you can use the image as your wallpaper.
So now you tap on save image and then we're done.
All right so this is a very short intro
into Procreate pocket.
I really hope you found this tutorial useful.
It would be awesome if you could give me a thumbs up.
Subscribe to my channel if you haven't already
and then I'm also going to bloop up another couple of videos
with Procreate pocket tutorials
so that you can try out your newly learned skills
and also create some different projects.
Thank you so much for watching
and I'll see you in my next video.