Hello fellow art nerds, my name is Felicia
and this is part two of learning the basics of Medibang Paint Pro!
So I'm going to go through a few more tools in the program that will help you feel more confident,
and hopefully get you excited about doing digital art on a computer or a tablet.
So if you haven't already, make sure to watch part one before you continue with this video,
and if you already have, get your program open and ready so you can follow along with me as we
make a fun drawing by the end! So let's get started. So when you open up Medibang, make
sure you are working on a blank page. So to do that, I'm going to click up on "File" at the top,
and click on "New," and I'm going to keep my measurements at 1080 width, and 1080 height,
and I'll just hit ok. So now we have our blank space to work with. So for anyone who loves
Pokémon, today we're going to draw the face of Pikachu! He's our familiar little friend from
the Pokémon tv series, video games, and card trading game. So you can follow along with
me step by step as I show you how I draw him! So we'll make sure we have our brush tool selected,
and I'm going to use the pen brush down here, and also make sure that you have
a good size for your brush. So I think I'm going to put mine at around 15. So remember
you can use the slider to adjust the size here, or also pick one of the presets down at the
bottom right corner. And before we start making any lines, I'm going to show you a feature that
can help you really make smooth lines if you're worried about your pen being a little too shaky,
and that is our pen correction. So right up at the top here, it says "Correction" with a drop down.
Mine is set to 20 right now, yours is probably at zero -- so if you set yours to 20...
let's try and make a smooth line...when you have it turned on to anything that's not zero, your pen
will help you make smoother lines and correct you as you draw. So if I go to zero, this is me drawing
without correction. See I'm a little wobbly there, but if I turn it on to 20 and draw the exact line...
...it's much straighter than the other one. And you can also see if I turn it up to the max,
when I draw, you see how my pen is slowly catching up to where I am. It's kind of dragging along a bit.
This is how we get our correction. When you click on the drop down menu here,
there are lots of numbers. So the bigger the number, the smoother your line will be, but
also the longer it will be dragging behind you. So a good number to keep this at is 20
just for a little support as we draw. So let's start drawing Pikachu. I'm going to move my pen
and take it to the black color so I can line him, and the first step is to draw his head shape. So
his head is round, but I find it it is not exactly a circle -- it kind of goes a bit longer than that.
I'm going to make that shape here...
...kind of like that, and see with our correction on, it made a nice smooth line for me.
So our second step is to draw his curved ears that come to a point.
Like that. They kind of look like small surfboards -- you want to look at it like that.
There we go! And on his ears, we are going to draw small lines that go across like this...
...and this will be the black tips on his ears, and we'll color in those later.
Now, next we will draw his eyes. They are two small circles on the left in the right side,
and in his eyes they also have smaller circles on the inside. This gives him a little highlight
to where his eyes are. I'm putting one on my left eye, moving it closer to the right side, and on my
right eye, moving the smaller circle to the left, so they kind of come inward towards the middle.
So our next step underneath that, we are going to draw a little triangle for his nose
with the point facing down.
And then we'll draw a small wave for his mouth...
...just like that, and I'm going to have Pikachu's mouth open, So I will draw a long "U" shape
that connects from the one side to the other -- just a long "U" -- and we'll show his tongue in the middle.
So we'll do another "U," but facing the other way...kind of an upside down "U"...
...like that! Now for our last step on Pikachu, we are going to draw
two curves on both sides of his face -- almost a half circle -- to show those big cheeks that he has.
And now we have our outline of Pikachu! So now we can go ahead and color him
in. So remember, when we start coloring we need another layer underneath our line
layer. So here's our line I'm going to double click and name it our "Line" layer. Hit ok...
...and to make another layer, we're going to hit this button down at the bottom -- our first one on the bar,
and click that. We are going to drag it underneath our "Line" layer, and I will call this one "Colour."
All right, so make sure your lines are closed just like mine, and there are no gaps because
we are going to grab our paint bucket tool. I think they're kind of thin up here, so I'm
just going to make sure that they're closed. So we can use that paint bucket tool and fill them in.
So on our colour, layer make sure your color layer is selected...
...I'm going to grab my paint bucket, and let's get that nice yellow that Pikachu is.
And we're gonna click on each layer where he's yellow, just like that. Now, I left those tips on
there because those are supposed to be black, so let's grab our black, and click and click.
All right, and same with his eyes too here. We are going to leave these small circles
white, and fill the rest in black, just like that. Now he's starting to look like him! All
right, and then I'm going to grab a red for his cheeks. So I think this is a good color for him.
And we'll do a light pink for his tongue, and a dark pink for the inside of his mouth.
Now, you see I left out a cheek on Pikachu, and now I don't know what colour
I had before. I'm not sure what red it was, and I want to know exactly what red I used for his cheek
so I can match it on the other side. So if I missed a spot and I would like to go back
and fill it in, there's a tool that will help me when I need to know what color of my drawing it is.
So the tool up here we're going to use is on our toolbar here,
and it is this eye dropper tool, right above the hand you see here -- I'm going to click on that.
Now we have an eye dropper as our tool so anywhere we click, if you look at the color at the top there,
it will select it. So now I have yellow and black and pink and red...so it will click -- anywhere
I click will grab that colour for me. So this comes in handy if you were to do a mistake like I did,
And I'll need to grab that red there. So if I go back to my paint bucket
with the red selected, I can go in and fill it with the exact same red that I used before.
So if you ever need to grab the same color again or part of your drawing, you don't have to guess
what it was -- this tool will do all the work for you very quickly. So now that we have our Pikachu,
I would like to be able to move him around my page. So I will talk about the move tool
which is right by our toolbar here...it's this compass shape with arrows that are pointing up,
down, left, and right. This is our move tool, so let's click on that.
now the move tool allows us to click on any layer that we have selected
and move it around our page so if i were to click and drag on this layer this is our color layer but
i don't want both of our layers to be separated i want both of these to stay together
as we have our whole drawing here so since we have two layers that i don't want to separate
i'm going to create a folder within our layers so they can both stay together so that is this
button down here in the middle right where you see our layers it's this folder let's click on that
so now we have a folder i'm going to move it to the top of our stack and if i click and drag
on one of the layers and move it in over top see how it highlights all in blue around i'll let go
and now our color layer is inside of this folder we just created so i'll click and drag our line
one as well and move it into the folder and now i have both the line and the color in this folder if
you click on the folder icon here you can close it up and click on it again to reopen it so i'm
going to double click and call this one pikachu this is our drawing in here so folders are great
if you need to organize your drawings too so if you have too many layers in your list you can also
make a folder and then name it by double clicking on it and this will help you not get too confused
on which layer is which and it can be really fast to grab them if you need to so now that i
have both of my layers in this folder and i still have my move tool selected if i click and drag now
both layers will be selected and now i can move it wherever i want so if i wanted to move it
down here or maybe up at the top i can i'm just going to leave it right in the middle but this is
very handy for other drawings that you're making so now that we have our pikachu face here
i would like to put mine in a shape or a frame in the background but i would like to have my lines
perfect without using a brush and there is a shape tool that we can use just to do that
back on our toolbar here we are going to click this icon here it's called the shape brush tool
it's right underneath our eraser so let's click on that and this tool can make perfect lines
circles and rectangles just by clicking and dragging so if we take a look at the top
these are our different options that we can choose from we'll talk about this first one here the line
so we will click on this line tool here now if i were to drag out a line
now since we have a folder we don't want to have our folder selected anymore we
now want to create a new layer so i'm going to make a layer within my folder
and i'm just going to drag it to the bottom here and i will put it into my folder i want it to
be the background so i'm just rearranging my layers make sure you always have your
line layer at the top then your color and then your background so i will double click on this
and name it background just so i don't get confused and now we're going to be working
on our background layer so make sure that when you use this shape brush tool you always have
a layer selected and not the folder if you have the folder selected it just won't work
and you might be a bit confused to why it's not working just make sure you have a layer selected
so now let's take a look at this line tool up here so we'll have this selected so now that we have
our background layer i can click and drag anywhere on my page to bring this long line anywhere
i'm still clicking and dragging to move this preview line so if i were to let go at any time
it will make a line exactly where the preview was before so see this line this will show us
where the line is going to go so if i want to make a small one i can just let go here and it
will make one for me so if you want to make a straight line but you just can't get it perfect
this will come in handy and this also depends on the size of your brush so my size is 15 here if
i make it very small and do it again the line will come out a lot more thin than the one i had before
i will bring it to 12 for now
so another one we can try out is the rectangle tool so we'll skip these two other line ones here
these ones are a bit more advanced so i won't talk about them yet but this rectangle tool will help
you a lot so we'll click on this one here and it's very similar to the line tool all you have to do
is click anywhere on your page and drag out your rectangle you can make it small or really wide
and big anywhere you want so if i let go here now my pikachu is within a square and
i didn't have to go in and draw those lines it did it perfectly for me and very quickly
and this also applies to the circle tool up here as well so we'll click on the circle one
and again if i click and drag anywhere on my page a big circle will pop out if i let go now
pikachu is in a circle so actually i will keep the circle since i like how that looks for my pikachu
and remember you can move your layer by hitting the move tool if you click on that
maybe you didn't like how your shape came out or where it was on the page you can move it around
so you can center it to where you would like or center the whole entire thing on your page as well
i'm going to move these to the center so now i have my frame here and i would like to make this
color a blue color for pikachu so i'm going to grab my background layer that has this circle
on it i'm going to hit the paint bucket right on my circle now i have a blue line going through it
and i also want to have the inside of the circle colored so i'm going to hit the background there
and now it's all filled again too so now i really like my circle but i'd like to add some stripes
in it too so instead of just taking my brush like this and making straight lines with my pen i can
make perfectly straight lines with the shape tool so when we click on the shape tool we'll
click on the line one right up here and we can click and drag to make those nice straight lines
i'm just going from top to bottom making my lines
clicking and dragging
now also remember if you want a certain color from your drawing from before so maybe you wanted
to have a red background remember you can use the eyedropper tool at the bottom click on the
eyedropper and if you click anywhere it will pick up any color that you have on your page even the
white if you click on the white space here it will pick the white as well so i still want my blue
so i'm just going to click up on the top there so now we have our pikachu in a little background or
a frame to put him in so now he's not just on a white page we have something that looks
really nice in the end and this is with using our eyedropper tool our move tool
and our shape tool and we also learned about using layer folders in here using our line
color and background and putting them all into a folder so this also organizes our work
and makes our project much cleaner this is one of a four part mini course on medibang for beginners
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