Hello fellow art nerds, my name is Felicia and this is part three of our introduction to digital
art, as well as learning the basics of Medibang Paint Pro.
*Cheery music plays in the background*
So I'm going to go through some more new tools and techniques, to help you create
some really interesting drawings, and also take your digital art to the next level!
Make sure to watch the previous parts to this series before you continue with this video, and if
you already have, make sure to have your program open and ready so you can follow along with me!
Here I have my blank canvas to work on, that I got by clicking here up on "file" and "new" at the top.
Now I'm here working on a page, I also made a simple background on one layer, so I just used the
paint bucket tool here, picked my colour and dropped it onto the canvas. I made sure that
my paint bucket was referencing the canvas as well, so it fills up my entire page. Now today we will be
making a magical jewel, or gem that glows. I'll be showing you a way of creating a glowing effect,
there are many ways to do this, but this is very basic. And you can use this on any magical object
or light that you draw. So I encourage you to follow along with me as we draw and go
through some fun new techniques. First, we are going to draw our jewel. I'll be making mine
a teal gem today, but what I can show you can be done with any vibrant colour that you would like.
I'm going to make a second layer here, I did that by clicking on this icon here, just saying
"create new layer." I'm going to be using the pen brush with my correction up at the top here at 20.
To get your pen brush, you have to go at the top right on this toolbar on the left side.
Here is my correction and remember correction makes you have those smooth lines and also helps
get rid of that shakiness a bit, so 20 is a good number to start for this, because we are going to
be making straight lines on our gem. I'm going to grab a dark teal colour here to start with.
And I'm going to start drawing at the top of my gem here making these points go from
a triangle. Now to quickly undo, I'm using shortcuts right now, and that means I am using the buttons
on my keyboard. I'm on a computer so when I click on certain buttons on my keyboard,
it makes the different tools work faster. Instead of me moving all the way to the top here,
and clicking "undo," I can easily hit some buttons on my keyboard that will help
me go faster. Right now, I'm just drawing these straight lines on my gem so here I have
two coming into a point, and on each side I'm going to do a straight line coming down.
Remember you can use the "undo" at the top here, if you don't like the line that you drew.
And then now that I have my two here, I'm also going to draw
the same point at the bottom. So two lines coming into a point in the middle.
I'm going to hit my eraser tool right below the brush,
and going to clean up the lines that I just went through -- just cleaning up any spaces that I have.
And you can do the same as well.
Now that we have our basic shape, we are going to draw some details in the middle that will make
this object appear more 3D-like, and also adding a bit of a pop. I will draw a short line coming
from each point of the gem, and it's going to move inward, so all my lines are pointing to the center.
Just some small lines like this, all on your points of the gem. Here I have one, two
three, four, five, six, so six short lines and now we will connect each line together. This one will
move to this line right here. this one to this line. this one to here, not going across anywhere.
But just connecting right along the edge of my gem, following the shape.
And if you make any mistakes, don't forget you have an eraser, and also the undo button.
Just cleaning up my lines here...
Perfect, so now we have the base shape of our gem! We can go ahead and start colouring it in now.
I will create a new layer -- remember if you're going to add a new thing to your drawing, you should
create a new layer -- so when I hit this button here, I've made another layer, and I'm going to drag it
underneath my line layer. Remember line always goes at the top, and colour right underneath. I'm
going to go ahead and name these, just so I can have them organized, and I also don't want to
make a mistake here -- "line" and "colour." I'm going to choose a lighter teal up here, to colour in my gem.
And I'm just going to colour it in, just with my "brush tool," so I'm going to change
the size over here on brush control. I'm going to drag this slider so, I'm making
the brush size bigger, so I can cover more of my gem quickly. Just colouring inside the lines,
and you can also make it a little smaller to go around those edges,
Just so you don't make any mistakes.
Perfect! Now our jewel is all coloured in.
Now that we have our coloured jewel, it's time to add some glow to it. Since we are going to
be making a new addition to our drawing, we will make a new layer, so this button here at the bottom,
click on that, and I'm going to go ahead and call this one "glow."
Perfect, so now we are going to draw a glow effect around our jewel,
but not using the pen brush this time, so we are going to grab from our list of brushes here in the
corner, we have a lot of brushes to choose from, but today we are going to be focusing on the "airbrush."
We'll go ahead and click on that, now the difference between our "pen brush" and the "airbrush,"
if you go ahead and colour, right on your canvas, you can see that the airbrush is very, very
soft. Much softer than our hard pen brush here. It has a very nice glow to it already.
I'm going to eye drop pick this colour right in the middle, so I'm clicking on this "eyedropper" tool, on
my toolbar here, and clicking in the middle just so i can get my colour back. I'll head over to my brush
again, and I have my airbrush tool. I'm going to make this a good size, I'm keeping mine at about
100 - 102, right there is fine. And right underneath, remember this is the opacity slider, which also
means that it makes your colour see-through. So how see-through your colour is going to be.
I'm going to keep mine very, very light, because I want to be able to build up the colour, instead
of having it very solid. I want to be able to keep going, and adding more colour as I go.
I will keep mine around 15, and I will start colouring right around the edges of my jewel.
Very lightly pressing down with my brush, I'm colouring the edges of my jewel.
Very, very lightly just going around it, not too far out from the jewel either.
Very lightly pressing down, creating a halo all the way around, so very lightly,
soft look around this jewel. You can already see now that we are making a glow effect with this.
This is already giving a great glow effect, but we want to make it more believable. So we are
going to talk about "layer blending modes," so layer blending modes are used to change how the colours
blend together. They give different effects to your drawing, some could lighten up your colours,
and some could make them more vibrant, or even help you make shadows and make your colours darker.
We are going to look at the layer blending modes here, they are found in your layer
window, right underneath our "opacity" dial. If we click on this drop-down here, we can see a
lot of different options, these are our layer blending modes. There are many to choose from,
but we will be focusing on "screen" and "multiply" here, so with our glow layer selected, if we choose
"screen" here, you can see your colours become more vibrant and bright, helping us make our jewel
really glow on our background. Screen adds brightness to your layer, now the
other layer blending mode we are going to talk about is the "multiply" layer right up here.
The multiply layer is the opposite of screen. It will take the information from
the layer underneath, and make it darker. I will demonstrate this by making a shadow layer.
Clicking down here, creating a new layer, I will call this one "shadow"
Click okay, still with my colour of my gem here, I'm going to lower the size of it, just so I'm able
to draw exactly where I want to go. I'm going to start colouring on my gem, but before that, I'm going
to change the layer blending mode to "multiply." Right now, it's on "normal" which all of your
layers that you create new should be on "normal." I'm going to hit "multiply" so that's right underneath.
Click on there -- nothing happened because we don't have anything on our layer just yet.
When we start drawing, I'm going to draw on this side of my gem here, you can follow along with me.
You can see how the colour gets darker, even though I selected the exact same colour
as the gem here. It's the same colour, I didn't go any darker,
but with our layer blending mode, it changes the colour for you. Making the colour darker than what
it's supposed to be, and that is what the multiply layer blending mode does. It makes the colour darker.
Here we have our shadow on the side of our jewel, so now our jewel has
a great shadow and glow to it. These layer blending modes and the airbrush technique
can be used around any object that is magical, or has a glow coming from it.
If you were drawing a lantern, or some sort of light, this would be great to use as well.
I'm going to go back to our glow layer here, and I'm just going to do a single
highlight on the opposite side where we have our shadow. I'm going to grab up here on my colour
palette, I'm going to grab a very, very light colour almost white, just a very light teal colour.
I'm going to increase my brush size just about to 30 here, and I'm going to keep my opacity at about,
let's say 18 here. I'm going to lightly press, very, very lightly following the shape of my jewel --
creating this line right here. This adds a pop to your gem, and an extra highlight. Very lightly just
making a line all around the shape of my gem.
Now perfect, so this is our glowing jewel that we have. We made a line drawing first, then
we created our colour layer, colouring in our gem and creating a glow behind it. So this is using
our screen layer blending mode, and we also had a shadow on the one side of it using our multiply
layer. I hope the tools and techniques discussed today will help you with your artwork in the
future, as you can apply these tools to anything that you can come up with! This is one of a four
part mini-course on Medibang for beginners. I teach digital art camps and classes at Winged Canvas,
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