Level up your composition game with these fun exercises in Procreate. We’ll create 5 different digital illustrations inspired by nature! You’ll learn how composition fundamentals work to design powerful compositions in your drawings. We'll train our eyes for composition, practice with composition guidelines, learn many tips and tricks to help you create poster illustrations on your iPad.

What will you learn?

Part 1: Getting Ready

• Training the eye to find basic composition shapes in artworks

• Creating quick thumbnails with basic composition guidelines ( golden ratio, the rule of thirds, golden triangle, triangle)

• Tips and tricks for well balanced compositions (including colour composition)

Part 2: Sketching

• Drawing animals, plants, objects and characters with fashion (all in Safari theme)

Part 3: Go Deeper

Learn creating powerful compositions

• Creating a eye-catching composition with only three elements

• How to use symmetry as a tool in composition

• Depth in composition: Foreground, Middle Ground, Background

• Power tools in composition: scale changes, negative space, placement

• Creating complex illustrations with help of the rule of thirds

• All about colours in composition

Part 4: Finalize

• How to get ready for printing in Procreate

What do you need for this class?

If you'll practice on digital drawing, basic knowledge in Procreate or any kind of drawing app is necessary.

Materials/Resources:

I'll be using Procreate on Ipad, but feel free to use any kind of drawing app. You can even use a pencil and paper, and still learn a lot from this class.

Music: bensound