1. Learn at your own pace in this 20-week online course.
2. Artistic guidance & feedback from the artist herself.
3. Engaged & supportive community of peers to exchange feedback.
4. English subtitles (Original audio in Korean).
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With Procreate,
Capture light and shadows in your illustrations.

#. How to turn a photo into an illustration: Photo analysis - Sketching - Coloring - Effects

As anyone who has tried to draw a picture knows, it's harder than you think to create the atmosphere that you want. It is not too difficult to realistically reproduce the picture if you take the time, but it takes a lot of thought to draw a picture with the desired feeling with proper omissions and exaggerations.

Because I know the frustrated feelings you get from facing white paper, I have prepared simple perspective theory and sketching methods to help those who are beginners, to help them draw without that frustration. I’ll show you many methods, so choose the method that fits you.

1. Sketching and Planning

How to sketch using the grid

After choosing a photo to draw, the first thing you must do is a sketch. Sketching is important because it helps to organize the information needed when coloring. As important as it is, there are many people who struggle with sketching.

Don't worry, that's why I have prepared a detailed curriculum with perspective theory and sketching techniques to help you out!

Simple perspective theory for drawing the background

2. Coloring that captures mood

Color determines the overall impression of images. Rather than directly using the colors as they are in photos, you should choose colors that effectively create the mood that you want to portray.

So, in the class, I will talk about basic color theory such as the three elements of color, base color, complementary colors, and various tips when using color.

3. The effect of using light and shadows

Drawing with light

As a photograph captures the light at the exact moment the photo is taken, the expression of light is important when drawing illustrations. Light changes indefinitely with time, season, place, etc. Once you understand how colors change with the change in light, you will be able to expand your capacity to express atmospheres.

One of the best features and advantages of digital drawing is “Drawing with light.” With hand drawing, you draw using a brush or pencil, but in digital drawing, you draw using light on a luminous screen. Therefore, I think that digital drawing is most appropriate for expressing the light in pictures taken on a digital device (dslr, mobile phone, etc.)

Before / after adding light with the blending mode on Procreate

One way to maximize the expression of light is the blending mode on Procreate. It makes it easy to express darkness and light and it helps colors look richer as well. I’ll show you the many ways you can use blending modes.

Complete illustrations that capture light and shadows

Illustrator Yeran

Take and choose the photo you want to draw yourself!

1. How does a drawing capture light and shadows?
2. Meet Yeran: illustrator, artist, and your instructor
3. Let’s look at the materials used in this course

1. Canvas settings and the multi-task function
2. Functions used when editing photos
3. Exploring the various brushes and creating your own palettes
4. Using and blending layers

1. Editing photos: Distortion, size, and color correction
2. Planning: Dividing the background into smaller sections
3. Three-dimensional backgrounds: Understanding and identifying perspective
4. Traffic cone: Sketching off of photos

1. Tints, Shades, Tones, and Color Harmonies: Basic Color Theory
2. 7 Tips on Coloring: On secondary colors, color and mood, and finding colors
3. 7 Tips on Coloring: On harmony, limiting color use, preliminary coloring, and analyzing contrast

1. Planning and sketching
2. Coloring
3. Adding a character and highlight points

1. Planning and sketching
2. Coloring
3. Depicting light in the dark

1. Planning and sketching
2. Coloring by section
3. Coloring the details
4. Expressing lights and shadows

1. Planning and sketching
2. Coloring
3. Expressing light
4. Adding snow, making corrections, and creating highlight points

1. How light changes based on time
2. Analyzing and sketching night and day church pictures
3. Planning how to color the sketch
4. Coloring the daytime view
5. Coloring the nighttime view

1. The standards of choosing a photo to draw
2. Drawing simple figures
3. Practice coloring with various drawings

Congratulations on completing the course!

• People who want to become good at drawing with the iPad
• People who like photography
• People who want to express many colors and lights
• People who want to capture the short but beautiful moments of everyday life
• People who want to learn various functions of Procreate

You can access the class videos for 20 weeks. Within that period, you can replay the videos in as many devices as you want.

Also, you need an Apple Pencil to take the class. iPad Air, iPad, iPad Pro all works! Do not forget about downloading the 'Procreate' app as well.

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