Join Mar for a 4 week introductory and continuing course into procreate. For this class you will need to purchase procreate and have a tablet or device compatible with the procreate app. For continuing students- Mar will work individually with you to come up with projects to challenge your procreate skills.
This class will take place in our upstairs classroom- please let us know if there are mobility needs. This class is for teens and adults.
Curriculum:
Week 1:
– Introduction to Procreate & Digital Art
– Digital art vs. Traditional Pro’s and Con’s
– What are?
– DEMONSTRATED BY
– Fruit Drawing, or ask them to create their own simple
shape. Shading and Highlights done on separate layers.
– How to choose a canvas
– Sizing your canvas for a purpose
– Layers and how to Use Them
– There is a Layer Limit
– Creating/Deleting Layers
– Effects on Layers
– Adjusting Colors
– Moving Objects (And how to move across layers)
– Clipping Mask vs. Alpha Lock
– Brushes and How To Download Them
– Finding Brushes
– Sharing Brushes
– Creating Brushes
– Layer Groups
– How to Group layers
– How to Ungroup Layers
– Renaming Layers
– In the end, give time to draw and have them explore brushes/settings
Week 2:
– Using Procreate for Rendering
– *DEMONSTRATED BY*
– Another Fruit Drawing
– How to import a Traditional Drawing
– How to take photos and adjust photos
– Making lines from your traditional lines
– Sketching in Digital
– Shapes vs. Lines
– Adjusting Sketches
– Grab and Move
– Liquify
– Creating Straight lines, circles, squares
– Coloring
– Tracing Sketches vs. Using original lines
– Using ‘Reference’ when there is line art
– Color fill
– Rendering
– Shading with a multiply layer
– Using Color Theory
– Experimentation
– Once again, Time at the end to do any kind of subject
Week 3:
– What Goes into making an interesting piece?
– Choosing Colors
– Basic Color Theory for Digital
– Using a Gradient Map to choose colors
– *DEMONSTRATED BY*
– Using just one shape in a composition
– Using 3 colors to make an interesting drawing
– Finding Colors
– Finding Color Palettes online
– Using a reference
– Composition
– Be interesting and unafraid
– Using Reference and adjusting!!
– Tracing a reference vs. Referencing
– Copyright, it’s real
– Cropping your canvas
– Spend most of this class having everyone choose a subject and put them
into a famous piece! Have them use wisdom from before, giving a chance
to use everything they’ve learned. Encourage them to think outside the
box, i.e. making the tower in starry night a person and they’re sitting on a
chair or the like
Week 4:
– Decorating Your Art (This one needs something on the canvas already, so
coming in with a previous art piece or quickly making another)
– Noise
– Sharpen
– Bloom
– Glitch
– Halftone
– Chromatic Aberration
– Using Brushes
– There are imported brushes, but also
– Luminance Brushes
– Patterned Brushes
– Textures
– Abstract
– Elements
– Another moment of Experimentation
– Painting a Fantasy Environment
– Last week, so helping them create a final piece then ways to share them
with the world!!
– PSD vs PDF vs JPEG vs PNG vs TIFF
– Selecting Multiple Canvases to Export
– What paper is best?
– Depends on situation
Procreate Beginning and Continuing
Mar Simon
$115
Monday May 13th, 20th, June 3rd and 10th.
6-8pm