From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)

841 Signing your artwork like Joan Miró

From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)

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841 Signing your artwork like Joan Miró

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- In this movie, I'll show you how to sign you artwork as if you were Joan Miro. So once again here I am working in Adobe Photoshop Sketch, running on an iPad Pro, although you can use an Android device if you prefer. And this is my version of Miro's signature from his 1978 piece of artwork Figure Star. And I've gone ahead ane enhance it a little just for fun, but this gives you a sense for how wide he made his signature and how he's go this distinctive M as well as that acute accent over the O. And so I'll go head and tap the top right corner of the screen in order to bring back the interface and then I'll tap close in the top left corner of the screen, and I'll open up that document that I've created so far. And I want to sign the artwork on an independent layer at the top of the stack. So I'll go ahead and tap the top layer so far, and then I'll tap the plus sign above the top layer and I'll select sketch layer like so. And by the way, I have my layers over here on the left side of the screen and my brushes over on the right because I'm left handed. In your case they may be swapped. Now I'll go ahead and select the ink pen, this guy right here. And I can confirm it's the ink pen by clicking on the little settings icon and notice right there, the words ink pen. And now I'll click on the color circle right there and make sure it's set to black which it already is and now you can adjust the size using the size widget. And you may have more luck by dragging up and down with your finger as opposed to your stylus. And incidentally, when I say stylus, I am working with an Apple pencil. All right, so I'm looking for a size value of 10.0 and now I'll go ahead and zoom in on the bottom right corner of the artwork. And I'll rotate it as well and you can do that just by two finger dragging. And now I'll write my own name by first creating this line like so, and then I'll draw a D that circles around into an E like so, and I've got the beginnings of the K, and now I'll just draw the rest of the K followed by another E. And if you don't like what you see just go ahead and tap the undo icon up there at the top of the screen. And then draw those letters again. And in my case they're looking like they're a little bit too thick so I'm going to undo once again, and then I'm going to take the size value down to let's say 8.0 and see if I can get some better results here. And I'll go ahead and drag the K, followed by the E. Still too thick, so I'll try it again. Ah, art is so painful, but I want you to see just how much time you might want to put into your signature. All right now, the one thing I'm missing, of course, is the acute accent. The accent aigu. So I'll go ahead and draw that guy in which implies that my name is pronounced Deke. But still, that's how Miro would have done it. And now I'll just go ahead and do a two finger pinch so I can see my entire artwork. Now that's looking a little bit big to me and it's at kind of at too much of an angle I think. So I'll go ahead and create a copy of this layer by tapping on it. And notice this is also, by the way, how you rename a layer. So for example, all I'd have to do if I want to assign a different name is tap on the words sketch layer, that'll bring up the keyboard and then I would enter something else. But I'm just going to escape out of here. This is what I wanted to do. I wanted to create a copy of it first. I'll tap on duplicate right there, and that'll create a duplicate of the layer. Then I'll double tap on the original to turn it off. I'll tap on the new layer just to make sure it's active. And I'll go ahead and select transform this time. And that will bring up this little transformation boundary, and I actually want to zoom in. I don't want to zoom the letters quite yet. Now I'll go ahead and take them back down. So you just drag inside the boundary to move things around. You drag a handle in order to scale, and then if you want to rotate the letters you just do a two finger drag like so. Inside the transform boundary tends to work best. And let's say that's what I'm looking for. It's really up to you what you do with your signature, but this is what I'm going to do with mine. And then I'll tap the done button in the top right corner in order to accept that transformation. I'll go ahead and pinch out so I can see the entire artwork and I'll tap that top right icon in order to hide the interface. And that's how you sign your artwork just like Joan Miro. Here inside Adobe Photoshop Sketch.

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