Beginners guide to digitally draw drips using layers

hey and welcome to make a mark studios

i'm miss v artist and art teacher

and in this video tutorial we're going

to be drawing digital drips this is a

great practice activity to build fluency

with digital drawing skills and to

practice using layers

the program that i'll be using in the

video is a free web-based drawing app

called klucky.com

you can use any program as long as it

has layer capabilities

for the digital drawing drips you'll

have some options with how you finalize

your own personal design

you can make it black and white

repeating pattern

rainbow or a monochromatic digital drip

color scheme which is shades and tints

of one color

to get started we'll go to the file tab

and click new

here you'll be able to choose the size

of your canvas

i'm going to be making a square canvas

but you could also do a landscape or

portrait mode to fit what you're looking

for

the very first step

is to click the layers tab

and click the plus sign to add a layer

on top of your white background

this is a very small step but it's a

very important step you want to make

sure that you're not really doing

anything on that back white layer

everything's going to be layers added on

top

for step two we're gonna start to add

our very first layer of drip

i'm gonna select the brush tab and i'm

gonna make the color a black color

and then i'm going to add a detailed

line to create the shape of this organic

looking drip

i'm going to fill it black

and then i'm going to use a smaller

brush size

and zoom in to add finer details

these finer details really make the

shape of your drip more interesting so i

definitely recommend adding these

step three we're gonna go to the layers

tab and add another layer

and this is another very important step

we're gonna drag that layer

so layer three underneath layer two what

this does is it'll allow us to color

underneath that black drip layer without

affecting it step four we're gonna go to

the brush tab again and add a dark color

of your choice

so i'm gonna be doing a monochromatic

color scheme so i'm going to be doing

shades of a magenta i'm going to start

with a really dark magenta and i'm going

to create another drip layer notice it's

really dark i'm following the contours

of my drip

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step five we're going to repeat that

process so we're going to go to the

layers tab click add a layer and then

i'm going to drag that layer underneath

layer 3. for this layer i'm going to

slowly lighten the color that i've

chosen to create another drip layer so

each layer is going to follow those same

contours but get a little lighter each

time

step 7 same process

add a layer and drag it underneath

lighten the color and add in another

drip layer

we'll continue this process over and

over again

until i have eight layers

with klecky eight layers is the max

amount of layers that you can add in the

program

if you're using another program you

might find that you can do more layers

and keep this effect going until you

reach the bottom you'll start to see as

you add in more layers this really cool

rhythm happening this visual vibration

that kind of plays a trick on your eyes

as you get to those final layers you

definitely want to make sure that your

color is pretty light almost like a

white

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if you'd like you can go back to your

white layer once you have all of your

drip layers done

and you can play around with coloring

the white layer and paint a contrasting

color you can even do something else in

the background maybe like a brick wall

don't forget to go to file and save your

work whenever you're done

here's another example that i'll show

you and this is a rainbow drip which is

another fun option to create digital

drips

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something fun that you can explore and

experiment with is adding shadows

so to add a shadow you'll do this on the

layer underneath the previous layer

and you're going to use a blending brush

with a low opacity choose a darker color

and make it look like it's casting a

shadow onto the layer below

this creates a really cool layered 3d

effect on your digital drips

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the eyedropper tool is a really nice

tool to use it's right underneath the

rainbow scale on your brush tab looks

like a little eyedropper what this does

is it allows you to click on a color and

it'll sample that color to fill your

brush with it so it's a really good way

to go back to get those colors that

you've used and you don't have to hunt

around to make it match

and the last thing i do is just add a

couple little highlights onto my top

drip layer for the rainbow effect

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another fun option would be black and

white drips which creates kind of a cool

contrasting color effect and with this

you can also experiment and explore with

creating a fun contrasting background

since the shapes are black and white

maybe your background is really colorful

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