In this pro lesson, let me show you how you can make creations easily in procreate. At the moment of the recording of this video lesson, procreate doesn't really have a gradient generator, you can only paint, use the smudge tool, erase, make new layers and access layer options and find colors so that you can create your illustrations. However, there isn't really a tool where it allows you to select two colors to create gradients. So here's what I can show you on how to make creations in procreate. First we're going to pick a layer and we're going to choose a color. I'm going to start with this very dark purple and we're just going to click and drag in order to fill this layer completely.

Now back into the Layers panel. I'm going to create a new layer and I'm going to select a new color for that I'm going to drop in this very light purple. In this first example here, I'm going to show you how to make a gradient with two colors. Now using the move tool, I'm going to drag down this layer until about halfway through. And now we have these two bars of color. Next, we're going to click on adjustments, and we're going to click on gosh and blur.

And by dragging your finger on to the top of the UI of procreate, you're able to set the amount of Gaussian Blur that you want for the second layer. I'm just going to open the panels here so you can see that the motion blur is only affecting layer two. With that, we've actually created a gradient between two color valleys. Now, let me show you how you can make a gradient with multiple color values. We're going to go back into the Layers panel, delete this layer that we just blurred. We're going to create a new layer and this time once again, drop the light purple Now with the move tool, I'm going to set it about a third of the height of this illustration.

I'm going to go back to the Layers panel, make a new layer, choose a new color, it's going to be this hot pink, and I'm going to call it drag onto our canvas. And once again, using the move tool, I'm just gonna set it about another section off our illustration. Just one last time, I'm going to create a new layer, select a new color. This time maybe we'll do this lime green. And just once again, we're going to use the Move Tool and maybe set it about a quarter of our off the height of the this illustration. It's going to reposition so that there's no gaps between each color.

Now that we're looking at all these colors, right now they are in separate layers. So the trick that I just showed you about blurring layers won't really work unless all these colors are blended together. Otherwise, I could just show you what happens here. If I'm going to go motion blur and blurring the green layer, we're only getting the green blurred and that's not actually what we really want. So I'm going to go back here to the Layers panel. In using the pinch, I'm going to blend I'm going to merge all of these layers into one layer.

I can even pinch everything, so even the dark purple is now in one layer. Now back into our adjustments, Gaussian Blur. If I now drag the bar along, I get a blend of all of the colors and that makes it even disappear. Some of the colors in this case the green has actually been killed because the blend is at 100%. But if I slide it back just a bit around maybe 60 or 55%, we still see a little bit of each color. If I click here on the tools to kind of get out of these out of the box and apply the percentage of the Gaussian Blur, here's our gradient with multiple values.

So that about covers how we can create gradients with two colors and multiple colors. But I do want to show you just one more thing. The one of the use cases of making gradients is being able to create new layers. But this time, let's go here back into the tools and add some text. I'm just going to type Hello, and expand this box as much as we can, because we're going to edit style and make this text as big as we can. Now I'm just going to reposition this text a little bit more at the center of the image.

And now back into the layers. I'm just gonna pick our text layer and set it at the bottom of our gradient and now on the gradient layer, click here to bring the options. And I'm going to select Clipping Mask. So now right here we have the gradient only affecting the inside of these letters. And if I were to select our text layer and the move tool, I can now find other places and other values off that gradient. And you can definitely find some really interesting combinations right here.

So I believe this is how we can achieve gradients of two colors in multiple colors. And this is also a great example on how we can use gradients in your illustrations. They can be painted inside shapes. They can be a background, like a sky in your illustrations, and many other things. And I really hope that you could start using gradients into your illustrations