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Beginners guide to digitally draw drips using layers

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    hey and welcome to make a mark studios
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    i'm miss v artist and art teacher
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    and in this video tutorial we're going
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    to be drawing digital drips this is a
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    great practice activity to build fluency
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    with digital drawing skills and to
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    practice using layers
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    the program that i'll be using in the
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    video is a free web-based drawing app
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    called klucky.com
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    you can use any program as long as it
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    has layer capabilities
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    for the digital drawing drips you'll
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    have some options with how you finalize
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    your own personal design
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    you can make it black and white
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    repeating pattern
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    rainbow or a monochromatic digital drip
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    color scheme which is shades and tints
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    of one color
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    to get started we'll go to the file tab
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    and click new
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    here you'll be able to choose the size
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    of your canvas
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    i'm going to be making a square canvas
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    but you could also do a landscape or
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    portrait mode to fit what you're looking
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    for
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    the very first step
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    is to click the layers tab
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    and click the plus sign to add a layer
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    on top of your white background
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    this is a very small step but it's a
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    very important step you want to make
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    sure that you're not really doing
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    anything on that back white layer
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    everything's going to be layers added on
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    top
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    for step two we're gonna start to add
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    our very first layer of drip
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    i'm gonna select the brush tab and i'm
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    gonna make the color a black color
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    and then i'm going to add a detailed
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    line to create the shape of this organic
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    looking drip
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    i'm going to fill it black
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    and then i'm going to use a smaller
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    brush size
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    and zoom in to add finer details
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    these finer details really make the
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    shape of your drip more interesting so i
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    definitely recommend adding these
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    step three we're gonna go to the layers
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    tab and add another layer
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    and this is another very important step
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    we're gonna drag that layer
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    so layer three underneath layer two what
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    this does is it'll allow us to color
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    underneath that black drip layer without
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    affecting it step four we're gonna go to
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    the brush tab again and add a dark color
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    of your choice
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    so i'm gonna be doing a monochromatic
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    color scheme so i'm going to be doing
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    shades of a magenta i'm going to start
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    with a really dark magenta and i'm going
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    to create another drip layer notice it's
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    really dark i'm following the contours
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    of my drip
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    [Music]
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    [Music]
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    step five we're going to repeat that
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    process so we're going to go to the
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    layers tab click add a layer and then
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    i'm going to drag that layer underneath
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    layer 3. for this layer i'm going to
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    slowly lighten the color that i've
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    chosen to create another drip layer so
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    each layer is going to follow those same
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    contours but get a little lighter each
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    time
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    step 7 same process
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    add a layer and drag it underneath
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    lighten the color and add in another
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    drip layer
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    we'll continue this process over and
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    over again
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    until i have eight layers
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    with klecky eight layers is the max
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    amount of layers that you can add in the
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    program
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    if you're using another program you
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    might find that you can do more layers
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    and keep this effect going until you
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    reach the bottom you'll start to see as
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    you add in more layers this really cool
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    rhythm happening this visual vibration
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    that kind of plays a trick on your eyes
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    as you get to those final layers you
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    definitely want to make sure that your
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    color is pretty light almost like a
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    white
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    [Music]
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    [Music]
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    do
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    [Music]
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    [Music]
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    if you'd like you can go back to your
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    white layer once you have all of your
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    drip layers done
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    and you can play around with coloring
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    the white layer and paint a contrasting
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    color you can even do something else in
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    the background maybe like a brick wall
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    don't forget to go to file and save your
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    work whenever you're done
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    here's another example that i'll show
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    you and this is a rainbow drip which is
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    another fun option to create digital
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    drips
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    [Music]
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    [Music]
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    [Music]
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    something fun that you can explore and
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    experiment with is adding shadows
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    so to add a shadow you'll do this on the
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    layer underneath the previous layer
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    and you're going to use a blending brush
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    with a low opacity choose a darker color
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    and make it look like it's casting a
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    shadow onto the layer below
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    this creates a really cool layered 3d
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    effect on your digital drips
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    [Music]
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    the eyedropper tool is a really nice
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    tool to use it's right underneath the
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    rainbow scale on your brush tab looks
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    like a little eyedropper what this does
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    is it allows you to click on a color and
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    it'll sample that color to fill your
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    brush with it so it's a really good way
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    to go back to get those colors that
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    you've used and you don't have to hunt
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    around to make it match
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    and the last thing i do is just add a
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    couple little highlights onto my top
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    drip layer for the rainbow effect
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    [Music]
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    another fun option would be black and
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    white drips which creates kind of a cool
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    contrasting color effect and with this
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    you can also experiment and explore with
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    creating a fun contrasting background
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    since the shapes are black and white
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    maybe your background is really colorful
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    [Music]
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    i hope you found this video tutorial to
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    be helpful
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Beginners guide to digitally draw drips using layers
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