Let's Draw a Cartoon Bluebird: New Procreate Fur Brush Pack Tutorial!

In today's video, I'm going to show you how you can draw this cute baby bluebird using the iPad, my newest fur brush pack for Procreate, and of course, the Procreate app. Just like always, it's in real time too, so no time lapse, no edits. You can follow along every step of the way. So if you want to draw with me, keep watching. Alright guys, let's go ahead and draw this cute little bluebird. Starting out, I'm using a 2000 by 2000 pixel, 300 dpi canvas. It's an RGB canvas for my brush. Like I said in the intro, we're going to be using my fur brush set, which is available right now on Gumroad. I'll link it down in the description below. You get 25 different fur brushes, along with a three-part video series of tutorials clocking in at a little over an hour and a half. So that's down in the description if you want to check that out. We're going to start out using fur number one. Now, just because they're called fur doesn't mean they have to be like cat-dog fur. Using certain ones, you can get kind of fuzzy effects like we're going to use for this bird. And for the color palette, just like all my videos, I've got this pre-made, so if you want to download the exact same colors that I'm using in today's tutorial, you can find that for free on my website if you go to bjdell.com underneath the YouTube reference materials page, which I'll link this down in the description below too. You can find that, along with the video at the top that kind of walks you through how to install it if you're new to Procreate. So let's go ahead and get started. First off, I'm going to use this blue, and we're going to use fur number one. I'm going to make this a little bit bigger, about 16% and see. All right, there we go. So I'm just going to start to get the basic shape of this bird down. Just kind of this gumdrop shape here. Just going lighter on the edges to get that kind of fuzzy texture, a little bit harder in the center to break up some of the texture so it's not as all over the place here. And once I'm kind of happy with this, then we can lock it in. All right, so there we go. That's going to be the basic shape. Now from here, if you want to change it just a little bit, I always rely on the transform here, the arrow. We can grab that, and with warp, if you want to kind of adjust the shape a little bit, you can do that to your liking too. If you just want to get it exactly like you're going for. And then hitting my brush here is going to lock it in. I'm going to move it just a little bit up here so we've got room for the feet. All right, so we've got the body shape in there. Let's go ahead and get the wings here to the sides. So back up to our layers menu, I'm going to make a new layer, and I'm going to drag and drop this below layer one. So we've got layer two down here. Make my brush just a little bit smaller, about a nine or a ten. We'll start to bring the wings out here on the side, just like that. And then instead of drawing one here, I'm just going to flip this one over after I duplicate it. So we're going to come up here to the layers menu, sliding this to the left, and duplicate. Back up to our arrow, I'm going to flip horizontally down here, and then just drag this to the right. And there we go. So we've got the left and the right wing in there. Let's do the eyes next. So back up here to layer one, I'm going to make a new layer on top of here. And now I'm going to switch my brush. So I talk about this in that three-part video series that you get of the tutorials. I'm going to switch this down to single strand thick. So of course, these can be used for hair, for single strands, or instead of switching back and forth between other brushes in the brush library here, you can also use this to draw bigger sections. So we're going to use that to draw the eyes. Coming back up to the color palette, I'm going to switch to this kind of cream, off-white color. We'll zoom in just a tad bit here, and I'm going to make this bigger, about 15%. Holding down with the Apple Pencil, kind of locks it in, then I can adjust size, and drag and drop to fill it in. Then if you want to reposition this, once again, just grabbing that arrow, kind of change the size, change the angle, whatever you want to do. All right. So we've got the left eye there. Let's go ahead, just like we did with the wings here, we're going to slide this one to the left. I'm going to duplicate that one. We're going to come back up to the arrow again, and we're going to flip this horizontally, bringing it over, twisting it, repositioning it to get it exactly where we want it. So there we go. So we've got a left eye, right eye. Now we can go ahead and merge these layers by pinching together, or you can tap the top one and merge down. Now they're all in one. So next up, let's go ahead and get the iris and the pupils in there. So we're going to make a new layer here. We're going to stay with the same brush, but of course, we're going to change the color here. So top row, third one in, we've got this green, and use that, draw an oval, holding down with the Apple Pencil, and then down again with our other finger, we can lock it in to a perfect circle, and then drag and drop the color in. Once again here, if you don't like the size or position, you can grab the arrow. Here you're going to want to change it to uniform though, because we are going to want to keep this as a perfect circle. So we can just change the size of that if we need to, like so. Now let's go ahead and let's get the outside of the eye a little bit of a different color. So we're going to slide that one that we just did to the left and duplicate that. Coming down to the bottom one then, come up here to our color palette, switch to this dark green. So the fourth one over on the top row, we'll drag and drop that. And then grabbing the arrow again, change the size of this around, there we go. Now of course, this is coming outside of the eye now, so we can, with this one blue, we can slide this one to the right now. These are both selected, and then with the arrow, we can change the size of both layers at the same time. All right, so we've got the iris there. Next up, let's go ahead and do the pupil. So with that green selected, I'm going to slide this one to the left and duplicate that. Coming up here to the color palette then, I'm going to go with black, drag and drop that in there. Arrow again, and we'll drop the size of this and get it lined up right there on the edge. Okay, so now let's add a little bit of depth and dimension then to this eye. So coming up here to the layers menu again, I'm going to go to layer five right here. I'm going to make a new layer on top of this, and then we're going to tap this one and we're going to set this as clipping mask. This allows us to color in on this layer, and it's only going to show up on this green part here. It's not going to go outside to this green, and it's not going to go outside to this cream color part of the eye. Coming back to the color palette then, we're going to choose this darker green here that we used for the outside, and we're just going to draw a straight line here across and kind of fill it in. Almost halfway, but not quite. Then coming up here to the adjustments layer, we're going to go to Gaussian blur here, and then sliding our Apple pencil here to the right, you're going to see it's going to give us this nice kind of fade between that darker color to the base color here. Just a nice little gradation there. All right, so now that we've got those done, we can go ahead and combine these. So layer five, layer eight, layer five, and layer five here. All those eye layers, we can just pinch those together and make those one layer. Now we can flip this over after we duplicate it to that right side. So sliding this to the left, hitting duplicate, grabbing that arrow again, flipping horizontally, bringing this over to the right, and then locking it in, we now have the left side and we've got the right side. Now, of course, we're going to add some more shadows and highlights in here later, but that's going to be the start of the eyes. So now we're ready to move on to the beak. I'm going to stick with the same brush, but we're going to come up to the layers menu and down to layer one, the body. We're going to make a new layer here, and then switching our color to orange. And I'm just going to draw an oval here in the center, dragging and dropping the color in. And a lot like we did with the body here, I don't want this shape, so I'm going to go to the arrow and transform this under warp. And with this, you can really kind of make this the exact shape that you want to go for. So the warp is something that I really recommend if you don't really feel comfortable with your drawing skills, if you can't get the exact shape onto the canvas that you see in your head. Get something close and then come in here with the warp just to fine tune it into what you see. There you have it. That's going to be the top part of the beak. Now we're going to do a bottom part of the beak on a separate layer. This is going to allow us to add shadows and highlights a lot easier later on. That's also why we did the wings on a separate layer too. So it separates those from the body. The second beak area down here is going to separate it from the top. So coming back up to the layers menu, we're going to go underneath that beak layer now and make a new one. And we're going to draw an oval down here. Now once we fill this in, you're going to lose that separating line right there. So if you need to see exactly how far down this is, what we can do is we can come back up to the layers menu and we can just turn down the opacity of layer 7 here. So tapping that and dropping the opacity, you can see where layer 7 comes down into and how far this one comes up into it. So with that selected then, we can go to the arrow once again and just, I'm going to switch this to freeform, we can just reposition our bottom beak exactly where we want it. Once we have that done then, of course, we need to come back up and turn that opacity back up. These all come together now, but like I said, once we go in there to do the shadows, it's going to separate those really nice. Beaks done, eyes are done, body and wings. Let's do the last part here are going to be the legs and the feet. So we are going to come up here to our layers menu. Coming underneath layer 1, we're going to go ahead and make a new layer. We're going to do the legs just down here. I'm going to zoom in a little bit and just pull in kind of this rounded corner triangle, kind of an oval back here for that heel. Just kind of pull up and around a shape like that for that toe as it comes out. Alright. Now I want to have another section back here so it does look a little bit more three-dimensional and not as flat. So back up to the layers menu, coming under that layer 9, we'll make a new layer here and we'll draw an extra part of a toe back here. Once again, just like the beak, this is going to help us when we go in to do the shading to keep those separated and we're good to go. Now these, I'm not going to flip them. I'm going to actually do all the shading and highlights and then duplicate and flip just to save some time. So we don't need to make a copy of these right now. I do want to pinch the wings together. Those can all be on one layer. So pulling back out then, this is what we have so far. So now we're ready to go in and actually add some of those shadows and some of the highlights to start to give this some depth and some dimension to it. So let's start with the body first. Selecting that layer, making a new layer on top of that, tapping this again and setting this as clipping mask. It's going to allow us to color in on this layer. Once again, it's not going to go outside of that blue. It's not going to go on to the wings. It's not going to go on to the feet down here. It's going to stay on just that base shape. Back up to the color palette then, I'm going to use this darker blue starting out right here. First color on the second row and back to the brush menu here, the brush library. I'm going to switch over to fur four. Now I've got this set, opacity is about 48, 49% and size, let's start, maybe try 13. Now with this, I'm going to go really light. So like I said at the beginning, yes, these are fur brushes, but even for a bird shape like this, it's still going to work. As long as you go light, if you go too heavy here, you're going to see, yeah, you get those really apparent strands in there and that texture. But right now I'm barely pressing on the screen and you see that it's starting to build up just this really subtle texture here. So it's really going to make him look like he's fuzzy and has that kind of baby bird texture to him. We're going to have a light source coming in from this top right. So our shadows are going to fall here on this backside. From here then, let's go ahead and make these eyes pop a little bit. So I'm going to come up here to the layers menu with layer four selected. I'm going to go ahead and slide this to the left and duplicate it. Then I want to select the layer at the bottom here. Coming up here to my color palette, I'm going to choose black, I'm going to drag and drop this onto each eye. Now, of course you can't see it because we selected the layer underneath this cream color, but that black is still there underneath and we're going to see it here in a second when we go up to adjustments, we go to Gaussian blur, we're going to slide this to the right and you're going to see that that black starts to fade out around those eyes, makes those pop out a little bit more. All right, so now that we've got that done, we can go ahead and come down here. Let's drag this down and we're just going to pinch that together with the shadows that we've already done over here. So these are all on one layer now. Still using that fur brush four, I'm going to drop the size down to about 8%, maybe even smaller. Let's try five and I'm going to start to bring in some shadows and textures here around the beak. Just like that. I'm also going to bring some here in underneath the eyes, it's going to come back up in here now and darken up these underneath just a little bit. Another kind of bag under this eye here. The wind is really crazy today too, I don't know if you can hear that or not. So I apologize if that's getting annoying, I'm not sure how much the mic is picking up on that. So we've got the bags there under those, let's go ahead and kind of like a chin under here. Once again, barely making any pressure at all on the screen. If you're getting super dark stuff like that, it means you're pressing too hard and if you're getting that with the opacity at 50 and you find you just have a heavy hand, feel free to drop the opacity down further. These are the brush settings I'm using just based on my technique and how my hand hits the screen. If you feel that you're not getting the same effect, feel free to play around with those settings too. All right, so we'll build this up a little bit more and then I'm going to come up here to the colors palette again. I'm going to switch to this brighter blue here and we'll add in some highlights now into these middle parts and this is going to separate these even more and make them pop out. It's really going to build up that 3D effect and really work in separating those. So there's that. I'm going to go ahead and make this bigger now, back to that 13-14% and I'll start to hit along the side here, just bring in some of that texture where those highlights are coming in from, where the light source is coming in from and from here we can also go up here and switch our color to white and just bring in a little bit more texture. So this, I'm not really using this as a highlight per se, it's just adding another value in there that's going to play off of that blue, so you just get a few random lines there that add some texture. Switching back to that blue, I want to add in some here across the nose too. So we'll add in that, I'm going to drop the size just a little bit, down to about 10, pull in a highlight there and across the top there, drop that just a tad and come back in here. Okay, pulling back, that's what we have here. Now let's go ahead and work on the wings, same technique. Coming back up to the layers menu and layer two, selected, we're going to make a new layer on top, tapping this one, we're going to set it as clipping mask as well. Coming back up to the colors, we're going to go back to that blue, we're just going to come in here along the bottom, make this back up to about 10% here, coming along the bottom and the side. Now we are losing the separation between the body and the wing there, but don't worry, we're going to fix that here shortly. We're going to make those pop out a little bit more. This one not as much because we have that lighter color there, so that's doing the heavy lifting of separating those. Now I'm going to come back in with that bright blue that we used on the edge there, I'm going to hit the edge of this one, just work that texture down, just like that. Okay, now to separate this a little bit more, what I'm going to do is I'm going to come back in with our original blue. So the blue from our body, we're going to put just kind of this rim highlight around the bottom. So we'll have our main light source coming in here, but there's going to be another light source or something shining and reflecting down here. So coming back to layer 10 then, which is our clipping mask layer for the body, with that lighter blue, I'm just going to come back around the edge and pull out some of that shadow that we had down there. Now I want to do the same thing because that light source coming in there, I want to do the same thing to the wings, but I don't want to hit it too close here to the body, I want to keep it more down here. So with layer 11 selected, that's clipping masked to layer 2, I'm going to drop the size of this down to about a 5, and I'm just going to hit the bottom there. Just get a little bit of a highlight there and just a tad bit over here, not too much. And that makes that pop a little bit more. There you can see kind of what we're left with. Another thing I want to do is I want to add some eyebrows in here. So if I come up to layer 5, I'm going to make a new layer on top of that, and then coming up to my color palette, I'm going to switch just to the black here, and then for my brush, I'm going to switch this to fur 5. And with this, you're going to see, I'm going to come in really sloppy here, and I'm going to have it thicker here and kind of trail off down there. Like I said, this is really sloppy, so we're going to fix it here in a second. But just getting them basically where I want them positioned. And now I'm going to erase some, and I want to erase with that same brush. You can of course go in here and search through, but one of the other procreate shortcuts is if you hold down on that, it sets the eraser as your current brush. So we're still on brush number 5 now. If I get the size here set right, maybe 8, I can just come in here and I can erase then and get this tapered like I want it. So that's why I came in really sloppy to begin with, because you can always come back, that's a little bit too much there, you can always come back and erase. To fine tune it. And I think that looks pretty good. From here too, once again, if you want to adjust those, selection tool here, because we have two of them, we can use select and freehand, and we can actually just lasso this, and then using the arrow, we can warp. And you see, since we lassoed it, we just selected the one, so we don't have both of them selected. We can change these to exactly the position we want. Selection tool again, selecting the other one, and then transforming that one, you can pull that around to exactly how we want that one positioned. Let's add a little bit of extra value into here, coming in with some white, so back up to our color palette and white. Back to our layers, I'm going to go ahead and select these eyebrows, and I'm going to set this as alpha lock now. So alpha lock works like clipping mask, except we're all on one layer here, we're not on a separate layer, so anything you do to this, it is a destructive action, meaning that it's going to affect that base layer, because it is the same layer. With clipping mask, you can always undo that layer, delete it, and it doesn't affect the layer that it's clipped to. But with this, I think we can kind of knock this out pretty quick without doing clipping mask, so I'm going to drop this down to about, let's see, 1-2% here, and we'll just come in here and hit the top of the eyebrow here, so we got a little bit of a highlight there on the top. Just playing with the size to get the right size of the brush. All right, I think that looks pretty good. Pull that down a little bit more on this side. Okay. So there we go, we got the eyebrows in there. Next up, let's go ahead and work on the beak here. So back up to our layers menu, I'm going to go ahead and select layer seven. This is the top one here. Color palette, I'm going to choose this, actually let's go with this darker one here, the very end, and we'll switch our brush back to the single strand thick. Zoom in here so we can see, and I'm just going to pull a shadow here. I need to make a new layer, totally forgot that as I'm switching the colors here, so new layer, clipping mask. If you did that automatically and caught it as I was going along, kudos to you. A lot of this stuff is kind of doing the same action over and over again, you'll get really quick at it and kind of learn what to do next without even thinking. So of course I didn't really think that much right there, but layer 13 now clipped. Pull this down and around this beak, just like this. Now switching the color to that lighter orange, I'm going to come back in here, just kind of come along that line that I just did. Now like we did with the eyes there, we're going to come up here to adjustments and go to Gaussian blur, we're going to slide this to the right, and it's going to start to give that three-dimensional effect there. With that done now, we can also add in a highlight here, so if we tap layer 7, make a new layer, you're going to see this automatically sets the clipping mask, we don't even have to come in there and do it because the layer on top of it is already clipped, saves you a little bit of time. Coming up to colors then, I'm going to switch to white, pull some white there, and then just a little bit of a shine there. Back up to adjustments and Gaussian blur, slide that to the right, and we've got a nice little highlight there. All right, now to the bottom, back up to our layers menu, selecting layer 8, this bottom one here, new layer, tapping this, setting this as clipping mask, back up to our color palette. Now this time, I'm going to start with black, and come in here with black underneath, just because we want this separated a little bit more. If we do that same color, it's going to start to blend in just like it did with the body and the wing over there on the left. Back to the color palette, selecting that darker color here, start to pull that around the side and underneath, you don't want to go back too much into that black, we want that to stay up there underneath. And then back to that lighter one here on the color palette, we'll pull that down here. Okay, with that done, and once again, you can see, this is messy, I talked about this in some of my previous videos that come with this brush pack. When we're using this Gaussian blur technique, don't worry about making it perfect, you can make it messy because it's all going to blur and blend together, so that's something that you don't have to waste a lot of time on. So adjustments, Gaussian blur, to the right here, and we're losing a little bit right here you can see, so to fix this, once I've got it blurred about 7%, I'm going to grab the arrow, and just like I did before, I'm just going to kind of fine tune this with that warp. So after you do the blur then, you can go in, just like we did with the shape of the beak, the shape of the body itself, you can fine tune even those layers using that warp as well. All right, next up, let's go ahead and work on the eyes, get those popping a little bit. So back up here to the layers menu, let's go ahead here and we can go ahead and combine the pupils and the eyes now. If you think you might come back to those, if you don't want to, that's totally fine, totally up to you, but I'm going to go ahead and combine those, and then I'm going to make a new layer, I'm going to tap this, set this as clipping mask, then coming back up here to the color palette, I'm going to go ahead and use that darker, actually let's use that orange that we were on here, I'm going to zoom in here, and I'm going to start just kind of bringing a line here, it's going to be tapered at the start and at the finish, so a light press to start out your line, more pressure coming down here, and then letting up pressure here, so you can see it in action here as I kind of complete the stroke. One more time, I'm going to up the size of this to about 22, so you can kind of see the stroke there, of course you can't tell the exact pressure that I'm doing, but light pressure heavier light, light pressure heavier light. And then you can also kind of pull up and out to get that taper there as well. Just takes practice. So now that we've got that back up to adjustments and Gaussian blur, we'll slide this to the right and get these to kind of pop, you want just kind of that round spherical shape there. Now that we've got that done, let's go ahead and let's add another kind of highlight here on top, so if we make another new layer, tapping layer 4, this sets its clipping mask, let's go back in here with white now, the second row, fourth in, and I'm just going to kind of go almost halfway, just do this kind of curve shape here over top, just like that. Now this we aren't going to blur, so we want this to be pretty nice as far as the lines go, you don't want this to be too shaky. Of course it's hiding everything, so we want to drop the opacity here, so if we go back up to our layers menu and hit N for blend mode and bring down the opacity, I'm going to set it about 17-18% there, now we've got this nice kind of highlight there that does once again the heavy lifting of making this look three-dimensional, and let's also add in some more highlights. So layers menu again, layer 4, new layer here, I'm going to zoom in, and we're just going to add in some ovals here for highlights, now with these I think I will go ahead and blur these a little bit so they are a little bit more subtle, so if we go to adjustments of course in Gaussian blur, we can slide these to the right and get those blurred a little bit more there. Kind of lose that bottom one, so if you want to make it bigger, or if you want to blur it less, totally up to you how you want to do it to kind of keep that in there. So alright, that looks good, let's go ahead now and work on the leg down here, so same technique that we used for the beak and the other sections, we'll start with layer 9 first, that front one here, new layer, tapping that, setting it as clipping mask, back up to our color palette, coming in with the darker color first, come in underneath, the body, back up on this side, kind of there where it comes in and meets, just a little bit there, and down here on the bottom. Back in with the lighter one now, we can go over top of some of that that we already did, just like that, back up to adjustments and Gaussian blur again, sliding that to the right, see we start to get that kind of three-dimensional look there, if we want to add a highlight in here too, not so much a crazy highlight because of where the light source is coming in, but enough to just kind of break up the colors, tapping layer 9, making a new layer, like I said, automatically sets it as clipping mask, coming up here to white, just kind of hit along the top here, and maybe a little oval right there, like I said, really subtle, Gaussian blur here, and sliding to the right, alright, now we got to get that back one, so layer 10, new layer, tap this, set it as clipping mask, this one I'm just going to go in with one color, I'm just going to go in with that lighter one here, because this is going to be very subtle here, adjustments, Gaussian blur, slide that there, and you see how that breaks up now, we've got those two different layers, we can add the shadows and highlights on the separate layers, and it makes that so much easier than trying to draw that line and separate those by hand, just a really simple way to do that. Now that we're finished there, we can go ahead and duplicate that, so here, if you want to, you can merge all the feet layers together, if you think you might come back and do more, it's totally up to you, I'm going to go ahead and merge them together, if you don't want to, basically what you have to do, slide all of these to the right, group them, and then duplicate the group, then flip the group, it's up to you. So we've got those together, I'm going to go ahead and slide this to the left and duplicate it, up to the arrow, flip horizontally, I've got them both selected is why it flipped completely, so I just need to select one here, arrow, flip horizontally, freeform selected, just bring that over to the right then. So we've got the left leg, the left foot, the right foot, the right leg, and everything's pretty much done as far as the base shape, the initial shading, from here, this is where I really like to go back in, refine stuff, really make those shadows pop out a little bit more, and build up some of the structure that we've already got started. So to do this, number one, I'm going to come in here and I'm going to switch to black. Back to the brush library now, I'm going to go ahead and switch over to Fur 15. So this one, I cover this in the three-part video tutorial too, I use this one in one of those. This one has kind of like a sheep or alpaca, llama type of feel to it, but if you use it really light, you can also not get a ton of texture out of it, and it's just going to bring out the stuff that we've already done here. So once again, you don't want to come in and go super hard, we're going to go layer 10 here, so that layer that's clipped to the body, you don't want to press super hard here because it's going to look like that, and that's not what we're going for. But, I've got the opacity at about 20% here, and see if I start to just really gently here, barely pressing on the screen once again, start to just kind of go over the strokes that I've already made. This one I'm going a little bit heavier to bring out that eye. See, it really starts to just kind of emphasize and enhance those areas that we already worked on. This is also something, like I said, I save for the last just because I want everything else done so I can see exactly the effect that I'm getting without too much stuff getting in the way. As I start to add and do stuff down here, it's going to look a little bit different because of doing the shadows down here and everything else. So, I wait until I'm done, get those other layers kind of grouped together, and then come back in. See, I keep going over here and I'm not on that layer, that's why it's not doing anything. And with this too, you can adjust the size, get different effects, different smaller strokes if you need them, and just build them up. Now coming down to the layer that's on the wings, I can use that. It's going to kind of come in there, build those up. Back in here to the legs then, I'm going to combine and group those legs together. Now I can bring in this down here. I do need to set this though as alpha lock because I'm not on a clipping mask layer here. So I can set this as alpha lock here, just come in and bring that shadow out a little bit more, a little bit more down here at the bottom. I need this smaller though for the bottom of the feet here. I'm just going to bring those shadows out even more. I don't want to get too much into the eyes because I don't want that black to show up. These are pretty warm colors here. With the cool colors going in and reemphasizing everything with the black, you can't really tell so much that it's black. When you start to go in on these warm colors though, it does start to change the overall feel so be careful with those. Then coming back in then with that blue on layer 10 here on the body, I'm just going to come back in one more time and just brighten up some of those a little bit more now that I've got everything done here. One of the other things that I talked about in the tutorial series, and I'm assuming if you're following along with this and have the brush pack, you have watched those. So I apologize if it's repeating stuff that I've already said, but with these brushes, you get a very, of course, fur effect. You get a fuzziness, a softness to the textures. Now when you're using that hard line brush like this to do the eyes, to do the beak, to do the feet, it's very different than the overall feel of the base character. Comes off a little too harsh and it doesn't feel like it really fits. So once I'm done here, I like to go back in and blur the hard lined areas just a little bit so they look a little bit more fitting with everything surrounding them. So to do that then, coming up here to the eyes first, and this is the last thing to do, obviously, because I'm going to start combining stuff. So make sure everything is squared away. You're happy with the final product, where it's at right now, because once we start grouping and combining, we're not going to be able to change it. So I'm going to group the eyes here together, and go ahead and group the top of the beak. Actually, we can group all the beak together. And then the legs and feet are all in one anyway. So starting with the eyes here, selecting those, I'm going to go up to Adjustments and Gaussian Blur, and I'm going to start to slide these to probably about, say, 3% looks pretty good. Same thing here with the beak, Adjustments, Gaussian Blur, sliding these to about 3% as well, and then finally the legs. Before I do those, just look how these kind of pair with the body, and then see how these kind of stick out like a sore thumb. So the idea is just to make everything look like one cohesive design. So with those selected then, back up to Adjustments and Gaussian Blur, sliding those to about 2%, 3%. This one, we're losing a little bit of that separation there. So if you wanted to, with these, to do it beforehand, before you grouped all of them, that is going to change that just ever so slightly. So you see those start to kind of blend in. Now if that is the case, let's say we want this, we can fix that kind of easy. I'm going to leave that like that, and then I'm going to go back into Layer 10. I'm going to make a new layer, I'm going to hit Clipping Mask on this one. And this kind of shows you why separating these were a lot easier than doing them separate, or doing them together. So going in with this darker brown here, I can go in and I can kind of add this. I'm going to switch my brush back to that single strand. I can add this, but of course I've got to be really careful to not get into that section that we already did. So I can add that in there, and go back to my Adjustments and Gaussian Blur and slide this, and it will add that back in. But once again, it's something you've got to be really, really careful with. We're losing a little bit here towards that. Can drop the Opacity to blend it in a little bit more. But there we go. And you can see now, everything looks just a little bit more cohesive. It looks like it all belongs together. Last but not least then, I'm going to go ahead and make a new layer here. And I'm going to sign this. And we are going to be done. So there you go. 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