Hello everyone! I am starting a new series focused on quick tips using different software on your desktop and apps on your iPad like the Affinity suite or procreate! This week we will focus on how to create type on a curve in Affinity Designer on the iPad. It's a simple, but effective design option that can add some visual interest to your creative concepts! Hope you find it helpful. -Jen WANT TO CONNECT OR HIRE ME? VISIT ME ONLINE: http://www.bellasophiacreative.com WANT TO TAKE MY CLASSES OR JOIN MY MEMBERSHIP: http://www.learn-create-design.com Take my classes and try skillshare for free for 2 Weeks! https://skl.sh/2YMW7G3 Shop My Products: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BellaSophiaCreative Redbubble: https://rdbl.co/36lbNBH Creative Market: https://creativemarket.com/JenniferLezan Society 6: https://society6.com/bellasophiacreative 💌 Sign Up For My Newsletter & Get Some Freebies! http://bit.ly/2ucdWzG ☕ Donate a coffee? https://ko-fi.com/thefreelancelife Want to be Pen Pals? P.O. Box 9658 Naperville, IL 60567-9658 ABOUT ME Welcome to the Creative Studio! I'm Jen - A Latina mom of 3, based out of the Midwest. Despite hardships growing up, I attended art school as a first generation student. With a career journey in fashion, design, illustration & digital media, I've come to merge my creative passions into the work I do as a freelancer and teacher. I look to inspire others as much as I look to be inspired! Let's create something great together!

This week I share a run down of my top tips for creating collections and walk you through my personal process for designing in collections. I hope you find the video helpful as you work on your surface pattern design collections! TIME STAMPS 0:00 - Intro 0:58 - What is a Collection? 1:40 - Tip One 1:54 - Tip Two 2:14 - Tip Three 2:42 - Tip Four 3:02 - Tip Five 3:48 - The Design Process 7:52 - Outro CLASSES MENTIONED Design Ogee and Quatrefoil Prints bit.ly/3Q9PqV3 Design 4 Popular Pattern Repeat Types https://bit.ly/3SGFQL1 Full Drops and Half Drops https://bit.ly/3BYXC6i Create a Digital Zine/Catalog in Affinity Publisher https://bit.ly/3vRP1yf YOUTUBE TUTORIALS MENTIONED Make Full Drops and Half Drops in Affinity Designer https://youtu.be/cgAEi2Qh6Sk Create Half Drop Patterns in Procreate https://youtu.be/E7YV9YVfUjM WANT TO CONNECT OR HIRE ME? VISIT ME ONLINE: http://www.bellasophiacreative.com WANT TO TAKE MY CLASSES OR JOIN MY MEMBERSHIP: http://www.learn-create-design.com Take my classes and try skillshare for free for 2 Weeks! https://skl.sh/2YMW7G3 Shop My Products: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BellaSophiaCreative Redbubble: https://rdbl.co/36lbNBH Creative Market: https://creativemarket.com/JenniferLezan Society 6: https://society6.com/bellasophiacreative 💌 Sign Up For My Newsletter & Get Some Freebies! http://bit.ly/2ucdWzG ☕ Donate a coffee? https://ko-fi.com/thefreelancelife Want to be Pen Pals? P.O. Box 9658 Naperville, IL 60567-9658 ABOUT ME Welcome to the Creative Studio! I'm Jen - A Latina mom of 3, based out of the Midwest. Despite hardships growing up, I attended art school as a first generation student. With a career journey in fashion, design, illustration & digital media, I've come to merge my creative passions into the work I do as a freelancer and teacher. I look to inspire others as much as I look to be inspired! Let's create something great together!

In this video, I am sharing a little teaser from my latest course: Creating Vintage Arts and Crafts Era Inspired Surface Pattern Design in Procreate. This tutorial walks you through my process for sourcing outdoor floral and plant inspiration for surface pattern design. I give you a run down of my tips and also share some beautiful imagery of a local outdoor garden that featured an Alebrije exhibit from Mexico! The full course is all about surface pattern design course inspired by the arts and crafts era and designers like William Morris and we will be illustrating and building our repeat pattern using the procreate app. You can take the full class here: My Learning Platform bit.ly/3ooDRgl6 Skillshare https://skl.sh/3uN1d2X Arbington https://bit.ly/3zvvAN3 WANT TO CONNECT OR HIRE ME? VISIT ME ONLINE: http://www.bellasophiacreative.com WANT TO TAKE MY CLASSES OR JOIN MY MEMBERSHIP: http://www.learn-create-design.com Shop My Products: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BellaSophiaCreative 💌 Sign Up For My Newsletter & Get Some Freebies! http://bit.ly/2ucdWzG ☕ Donate a coffee? https://ko-fi.com/thefreelancelife Take my classes and try skillshare for free for 2 Weeks! https://skl.sh/2YMW7G3 Want to be Pen Pals? P.O. Box 9658 Naperville, IL 60567-9658 ABOUT ME Welcome to the Creative Studio! I'm Jen - A Latina mom of 3, based out of the Midwest. Despite hardships growing up, I attended art school as a first generation student. With a career journey in fashion, design, illustration & digital media, I've come to merge my creative passions into the work I do as a freelancer and teacher. I look to inspire others as much as I look to be inspired! Let's create something great together!

In this video, I am sharing a little teaser from my latest course: Creating Vintage Arts and Crafts Era Inspired Surface Pattern Design in Procreate. This tutorial walks you through how to set up a reusable actions template to easily create a full drop repeat in procreate. The full course is all about surface pattern design course inspired by the arts and crafts era and designers like William Morris and we will be illustrating and building our repeat pattern using the procreate app. You can take the full class here: My Learning Platform bit.ly/3ooDRgl6 Skillshare https://skl.sh/3uN1d2X Arbington https://bit.ly/3zvvAN3 WANT TO CONNECT OR HIRE ME? VISIT ME ONLINE: http://www.bellasophiacreative.com WANT TO TAKE MY CLASSES OR JOIN MY MEMBERSHIP: http://www.learn-create-design.com Shop My Products: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BellaSophiaCreative 💌 Sign Up For My Newsletter & Get Some Freebies! http://bit.ly/2ucdWzG ☕ Donate a coffee? https://ko-fi.com/thefreelancelife Take my classes and try skillshare for free for 2 Weeks! https://skl.sh/2YMW7G3 Want to be Pen Pals? P.O. Box 9658 Naperville, IL 60567-9658 ABOUT ME Welcome to the Creative Studio! I'm Jen - A Latina mom of 3, based out of the Midwest. Despite hardships growing up, I attended art school as a first generation student. With a career journey in fashion, design, illustration & digital media, I've come to merge my creative passions into the work I do as a freelancer and teacher. I look to inspire others as much as I look to be inspired! Let's create something great together!

Hello everyone! Welcome back to my channel. This week I am coming back with another surface pattern design tutorial. This time, we will be working in the procreate app and we will learn how to create a custom actions template that can be reused over and over again to help you create a half drop pattern repeat. Hope you find this tutorial helpful!! Thanks for watching! Jen TIME STAMPS Intro - 0:00 Setting up the file - 1:47 Tips for strong repeats - 6:41 Creating the action template - 8:23 Drawing your elements - 13:49 Building the repeat - 17:41 Refining and adding motifs - 19:47 Testing the pattern - 23:09 Exporting the pattern - 26:26 Outro - 28:07 Check out my other surface pattern design courses: https://classes.learn-create-design.com/collections?category=surface-pattern-design WANT TO CONNECT OR HIRE ME? VISIT ME ONLINE: http://www.bellasophiacreative.com WANT TO TAKE MY CLASSES OR JOIN MY MEMBERSHIP: http://www.learn-create-design.com Shop My Products: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BellaSophiaCreative 💌 Sign Up For My Newsletter & Get Some Freebies! http://bit.ly/2ucdWzG ☕ Donate a coffee? https://ko-fi.com/thefreelancelife Take my classes and try skillshare for free for 2 Weeks! https://skl.sh/2YMW7G3 Want to be Pen Pals? P.O. Box 9658 Naperville, IL 60567-9658 ABOUT ME Welcome to the Creative Studio! I'm Jen - A Latina mom of 3, based out of the Midwest. Despite hardships growing up, I attended art school as a first generation student. With a career journey in fashion, design, illustration & digital media, I've come to merge my creative passions into the work I do as a freelancer and teacher. I look to inspire others as much as I look to be inspired! Let's create something great together!

Hi everyone~ Welcome back to another tutorial! This week’s tutorial will be focusing on taking traditional linocut into the digital realm. We will be creating a linocut inspired print on the iPad using the procreate app. I will walk you through my process and the brushes I use to translate this traditional tactile medium into the digital world. Let’s get started! TIME STAMPS Intro - 0:00 Setting up the file - 2:22 Sourcing Imagery - 4:07 Extracting the Image - 6:47 Creating the Linocut - 9:38 Adding Texture - 15:23 The Background - 17:28 Final Thoughts - 20:25 Take a class with me! https://classes.learn-create-design.com Design Cuts Packs Uproot Brushes: https://www.designcuts.com/product/procreate-print-works-complete-print-media-pack/?ref=jenniferlezan True Grit Texture Pack https://www.designcuts.com/product/mixed-grit-texture-pack/?ref=jenniferlezan FREE Brushes Mentioned Abbie Nurse https://www.dropbox.com/sh/bb326wie1a84nvm/AAD3t5fVoyuAt1rPDd6nkFQfa?dl=0 Missy Meyer: https://www.behance.net/gallery/41844437/Free-Procreate-Brushes-a-stockpile-of-all-my-freebies Freebies from Procreate: https://folio.procreate.art/discussions/10/28/23101 Abbie Nurse Tutorial: https://youtu.be/fnIFVFmRv90 Stock imagery and Stock video courtesy of: Pexels.com and Unsplash.com Any and all images used in this video are for educational purposes only and their original copyright holder still maintains sole rights over them. WANT TO CONNECT OR HIRE ME? VISIT ME ONLINE: http://www.bellasophiacreative.com WANT TO TAKE MY CLASSES OR JOIN MY MEMBERSHIP: http://www.learn-create-design.com Shop My Products: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BellaSophiaCreative 💌 Sign Up For My Newsletter & Get Some Freebies! http://bit.ly/2ucdWzG ☕ Donate a coffee? https://ko-fi.com/thefreelancelife Take my classes and try skillshare for free for 2 Weeks! https://skl.sh/2YMW7G3 Want to be Pen Pals? P.O. Box 9658 Naperville, IL 60567-9658 ABOUT ME Welcome to the Creative Studio! I'm Jen - A Latina mom of 3, based out of the Midwest. Despite hardships growing up, I attended art school as a first generation student. With a career journey in fashion, design, illustration & digital media, I've come to merge my creative passions into the work I do as a freelancer and teacher. I look to inspire others as much as I look to be inspired! Let's create something great together!

Hello everyone! Welcome back to another tutorial. This week I am sharing a teaser video from my latest course - Learn to create nostalgic 90s GIFs in Clip Studio Paint. In this teaser, I share a lesson from my full class and the lesson walks you through how to get your art work onto the GIPHY platform. I also walk you through how you can use your GIFs on social media like Instastories WITHOUT HAVING TO BE VERIFIED!! This is a question I see a lot, How do I use my GIFs without a verified account? Well, all you really need is a GIPHY account and you can STILL USE YOUR GIFs on social media! Watch the video to learn how. If you are interested in learning my whole process for creating and animating GIFs using the Clip Studio Paint Software - check out my class trailer here: https://youtu.be/61N_gzqzSKk And you can take the class here: Take the full course on my learning platform: https://bit.ly/3PMmUZX If you prefer Skillshare, you can find it here: https://skl.sh/3LlUORy Thanks for your support! Jen WANT TO CONNECT OR HIRE ME? VISIT ME ONLINE: http://www.bellasophiacreative.com WANT TO TAKE MY CLASSES OR JOIN MY MEMBERSHIP: http://www.learn-create-design.com Shop My Products: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BellaSophiaCreative 💌 Sign Up For My Newsletter & Get Some Freebies! http://bit.ly/2ucdWzG ☕ Donate a coffee? https://ko-fi.com/thefreelancelife Take my classes and try skillshare for free for 2 Weeks! https://skl.sh/2YMW7G3 Want to be Pen Pals? P.O. Box 9658 Naperville, IL 60567-9658 ABOUT ME Welcome to the Creative Studio! I'm Jen - A Latina mom of 3, based out of the Midwest. Despite hardships growing up, I attended art school as a first generation student. With a career journey in fashion, design, illustration & digital media, I've come to merge my creative passions into the work I do as a freelancer and teacher. I look to inspire others as much as I look to be inspired! Let's create something great together!

Hello everyone! Welcome to my latest tutorial. This week I am sharing 3 ways I create custom color palettes in the Procreate app on my iPad. I also include some helpful tips on sourcing color inspiration as well as walk you through how to load procreate .swatches files and how to export your color palettes to share with others. I hope you find this helpful!! Chapters Intro - 0:00 Sourcing Images - 1:44 Using Coolors.co - 5:12 Creating Palettes in Procreate- 6:50 Method 1 (Manual) - 7:35 Creating New Palette - 8:44 Method 2 (Hexadecimal) - 10:09 Method 3 (Auto palette from image) - 13:23 Setting Default Palettes - 14:38 Importing .swatch files - 15:05 Exporting .swatch files - 16:33 Outro - 17:52 Creative mentions Bardotbrush.com Check out her YouTube - https://youtube.com/c/BardotBrush Visual and Color Resources Coolors.co Colourlovers.com Pinterest.com Unsplash.com Pexels.com WANT TO CONNECT OR HIRE ME? VISIT ME ONLINE: http://www.bellasophiacreative.com WANT TO TAKE MY CLASSES OR JOIN MY MEMBERSHIP: http://www.learn-create-design.com Shop My Products: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BellaSophiaCreative 💌 Sign Up For My Newsletter & Get Some Freebies! http://bit.ly/2ucdWzG ☕ Donate a coffee? https://ko-fi.com/thefreelancelife Take my classes and try skillshare for free for 2 Weeks! https://skl.sh/2YMW7G3 Want to be Pen Pals? P.O. Box 9658 Naperville, IL 60567-9658 ABOUT ME Welcome to the Creative Studio! I'm Jen - A Latina mom of 3, based out of the Midwest. Despite hardships growing up, I attended art school as a first generation student. With a career journey in fashion, design, illustration & digital media, I've come to merge my creative passions into the work I do as a freelancer and teacher. I look to inspire others as much as I look to be inspired! Let's create something great together!