Digital Watercolors in Procreate - Orchids

1. Intro: Did you know that Colombia has the largest number of orchids in the world? I'm Colombian and I'm obsessed with orchids. And in this class, I'll teach you how to paint one using digital watercolors. Inappropriate. Follow me as you learn my techniques for painting digital watercolors on your ipad. I'm Santa Mejia and I'm a freelance illustrator and pattern designer. And I license my artwork companies around the world to put on their products. The illustrations that I have created in procreate have been used in funds of products. And I want to show you how I create them. I'll teach you how to use the effect of control water colors. So something like painting wet on dry as opposed to loose and flowing water colors. I've included the specific brush set that I developed to create this effect. I'll walk you through every step from setting up your canvas, installing your brushes on color palette, to using reference images, adapting them to fit your style and the whole painting process. Crafting the delicate petals with adding details and textures and the finishing touches, you'll transform your ipad into a canvass of blooming beauty. With the included resources, you'll be able to start creating immediately and at your own pace. Whether you're assistant artist or just starting, this class is the gateway for creating digital watercolors that radiates the essence of real watercolors without the mess and purchasing tons of tubes of pate. Enroll now and let your creativity bloom. 2. Class Project: For the class project, choose a flower or plant and Droid using digital techniques. You can also practice by painting the same flower as I do. Then when you have the skills paint your own flower. This class includes my watercolor brush, set color palette and sketch and reference image. To download the resources, make sure you're logged in through an internet browser and not the app. Go to the projects and resources tab and download them to your ipad so they're easily accessible. When we start walking through the lessons, remember to post your projects to the project gallery, and if you have any questions, post them on the discussion stab. Now let's go to the next lesson to see how to install your brushes and color palettes and set up your canvas. 3. Canvas Setup: In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to set up your canvas, install the brushes, and the color palette. Let's open Procreate, and I'm going to create a new canvas. You can create a new canvas by selecting this plus sign here Here. Procreate has some preset sizes here. It will start storing the sizes you have created. I always work in either 11 by 15 " if I'm creating a spot illustration, an illustration that might be used for a grading card or something like that, that's vertical. If I'm creating square illustrations or illustrations for patterns, I always work at 12:12 inches. I have the presets saved here. I just have to tap them and they will create that new file. But if you don't have those ready, just click on the plus sign. And here you can create your own presets. I'm going to tap there on here, you can give a name to your preset. It could be like vertical card for example. Here you can choose the size in either pixels, inches, centimeters, or millimeters. I like to work in pixels and inches. Let's say it's going to be 11 by 15. I always work at 300 DPI. So you can print this if you want. This is the minimum resolution you want if you want to print this, and this will show me the number of layers I have. This will vary depending on the ipad you have here. You can set your color profiles. I always work on this one in RGB. You can choose CMYK if you want or if you have a specific color profile you can imported here. I personally don't like how CMYK looks in procreate. I always work in this one here you can change your time lab settings, this is the video that it will record of your whole process. Here you can change your canvas properties if you want to start always with a different background color. Or if you want your background to be hidden and work like in a transparent background. But I never touch any of these, I just click Create. Then we have our new canvas. I'm going to turn it like this because we're going to work on a horizontal illustration. I'm going to show you how to import your brushes and color palette. I have downloaded them and I have saved them in my files, in my ipad. I have them here. This is the swatches and this is the brush set. You just have to tap on it and click open, and it will import automatically to procreate. If you go to your color palettes, you'll see it added here at the bottom. Here it is. If you tap here and you set as default, this will be the palette that will show here when you tap on these different types of color palettes. Now let's go back and do the same for the brushes. Tap on it and click open. Then they will be imported to your brush sets. They might be at the bottom of your stack or they might be up here. Here it is. Here you see your brushes. These two brushes are to add watercolor paper textures to your canvas. I will show you how to do that in class. For now, let me just show you how they work. This is a very transparent brush. You won't really see what's happening, but you will see, it will create a texture. If you tap here in the end and you go to linear burn, it will ingrain itself on the art underneath. If I create a layer and bring it underneath, then I paint there, you'll see that the water color texture will start to come up. I don't know if you can see it in the video, but if you swim in a lot, you can see it there too. Let's choose any color, maybe. Let's choose this one. I'm going to show you what the brushes can do. This one is to create solid shapes. I like to create with it my base layers. Then we have the detail brush. This one creates those wet edges that look like when you paint with water colors. Then if you paint on top of something, it just makes it darker as if you were painting with different layers of real water colors. Then we have this one ultimate feel rough, which I absolutely love. It creates a rough edge. If you press softly, it starts like adding water. This one is very similar, just that it has a smooth edge. See, this one's a rough edge and this one is more of a smooth edge then this one is like adding water. And it's used to b***d colors or like blurred edges. Now this one is more of a stamp brush. If you paint with it like that, it won't show up. It will just stamp It creates this granulation. If you tap on it several times, it will start darkening areas. I really like using these to create shadows. Now we have the wet edges brush again. I'm pressing softly now at the end, but see it creates some wet edges as the name says. So then we have a soft wash. This one, let me make it bigger. This one just creates a soft wash for a background. Or if you want to add like more contrast to an area, you can just like overlay it. There's a super cool water color which if you press harder, it creates a texture and if you push softer, it adds water to it. They mostly all behave the same way. But this one really goes like our dry brush, when you push hard on it. Then we have the alcohol, which works better with white. It simulates adding alcohol to a watercolor painting. Then we have the splatters, which are like little tiny splatters. You can change the size, those are bigger. And then we have the tiny splatter, which are really tiny ones that are more constrained to an area. I'll show you how to use these brushes as we move along. I don't use them all, I just want you to have a variety and choose whatever suits your better. You can also use any brush you prefer. It doesn't have to be these ones. The ones do include a commercial use license. You can sell any artwork you create with them. Just don't resell the brush set as it is. In the next lesson, I'm going to show you why I love creating digital watercolors in procreate. 4. Why Paint Watercolors in Procreate: Sucky. I love creating watercolors in procreate, and you will probably do too. I love the effects that normal watercolor creates when it b***ds with the paper. Now, thanks to the powerful procreate app and the brushes that are available, you can do that on the ipad two. It will never be 100% the same, but you can get something very similar. I want to tell you now that my way is not the only way to do this, that this style resembles a lot my normal style when I create actual watercolor paintings where I want everything to be very controlled and I don't use loose watercolors or huge blooms, if that is the style you want to create. There's tons of brushes in the market that can resemble that style. You can follow my class and use those brushes too to get something totally different. But the techniques will be very similar. It is very important that you're not just following a teachers or another artist style blindly. It's very important that you learn the techniques and then see what makes you happy, what brings you joy, and what comes naturally to you. That's the only way your style will evolve. Your art is supposed to be a joyful process and that's how you're going to get to that point. Always having fun and not being very contrived. Thinking that your art has to look a certain way or like somebody else's. That's said there are several advantages or using procreate over traditional watercolors. The first reason is that you don't have to buy any materials. No paints, no brushes, no paper, nothing. You have everything you need in your ipad. The second one is no mess, I don't know, Like watercolors are not so messy as other painting techniques, but still having to take out the water and napkins, and brushes and paper. Sometimes you don't want to carry all that around. The ipad is great, you just throw it in your bag and you go and paint anywhere. The biggest thing for me is that you don't have to spend hours cleaning up icons, erasing the watercolor paper texture after you scan it. To me, that is super time consuming, and creating the watercolors on the ipad just eliminates that step completely. And you end up with icons that have transparent backgrounds and you can use in several different ways. To me that's the biggest, biggest advantage because it makes my work so much faster. Now that you know why it's so amazing, let's start working with reference images. 5. Reference Images: In this lesson, we're going to talk about reference images and how to work with them. In procreate, using reference images is up to you. Some people like to use them, some people don't. I don't like to paint looking at a reference image. I prefer to use them just as a study when I'm trying to determine how the shapes of an object work or how a flower looks like in real life. And then I'm sketching just to figure it out, but then I don't like to look at it much. If you're creating like scientific illustrations or something, that has to be super accurate, then you're going to have to look to a reference image like the whole time so that it actually looks like that. Whatever your preference, just make sure that you own the copyright to the image you're using or that you have the right to use it as a copyright of the photographs is always owned by the photographer. I took this picture. I'm giving you the rights to use it however you want. There are several ways of using reference images or sketches in procreate. Let me show you. There's one way where we add the photo and then you have it in your canvas. And you can modify it, repaint it, trace over it, change the size, everything. If you place it this way and you start painting over it, once you play your time lapse video, you will see that reference image in the video. If you don't want people to see that image, just go to actions add when you're going to insert a photo instead of just tapping it to the left and insert a private photo. Then when you choose your photo, place it and you add layers on top and you start drawing on it. When you go see your time lobs video, you won't see the reference image. Nobody is going to be able to see it. The other way you can do this is to go to the actions panel. And in Canvas, choose reference. Then you will see your canvas or an image. And here you import an image. Let's say we're going to import this one. You can clear it. Import a new one. Let's say this one. That way you'll have it here. You can swim in on it and move it around, or you can just leave it as it is. This way you'll have it here on the side. If you're super summed in here, the image will still be there as a reference. If you want to see the menu, just tap on it and then it will come back. It's very useful to see your canvas this way because if I'm working here, see you'll be able to see what you're doing this way. You don't get lost in the details and you see what the complete image is going to look like. I'm going to show you how I use a tool called Liquefy and it's here under adjustments. Here it is. To me it's great to create modifications in illustrations or in base images. Here you have this menu and it says what the Liquefy tool is going to do, means it's going to push things around. See it's pushing it as I draw on it. And here you can change the size. Now it's going to push even more stuff, or it's going to push very little, twirl, we'll just start twirling things to the right and then twirl to the left, will tir them to the left, pretty obvious pitch. We'll make things smaller and then expand does the opposite and it will make things bigger like a fish eye for crystals. Let's make it bigger so you can actually see what's happening here. It's crystallizing the image. I don't like this effect. I don't know what you would use it to, but maybe there's something fur or something that it can be used for. Edge edge just creates like a flat side to things. Reconstruct will bring back the effects that you applied. You can reset, but that will reset everything. But reconstruct will fix only things that are under your pencil, adjust. You can change the strength, the amount of impact the effects have on your image. Here you change the size as I already showed you, the pressure. Let's if you have more pressure, it pushes up faster distortion is the amount of distortion something can have. That's more distortion and this is less distortion. See, the images do move around, but they don't lose their shape as much momentum. Momentum is hard to show. But see that when I stop moving at the end, it expands a bit more. I really don't touch this much and I just play with the size, and the pressure, and the different options. Let's reset all these. I'm going to alter this image, it suits my style more. For example, when I started pinching this flower, I thought it looks so cute, Being small, I'm going to reduce the size a bit and start pinching it in a bit. I like that better. I'm going to increase the size a bit so I can reduce this one a lot. Yeah, I want to make these guys a bit smaller too. I'm going to pinch on them now. I want to push them in because I don't want to be so long here. I'm going to make it a really big size, so I can really push in here. I don't want to be affecting this flower. I'm going to reduce the size now. Now I want to move this whole thing in a bit. I want to modify the flowers a bit. This way you get to create base images that are true to you and that match your style better. Once you're happy with that, just stop here twice and it's set. Now I'm going to make it a bit bigger and now we can start painting. In the next lesson, we're going to start creating our base layers. 6. Creating the Base Layers: In this lesson, we're going to start creating the basic shapes of our illustration. First, let's reduce the opacity of our reference layer and make sure it's hidden here. It shows it's a private image. You know it's not going to show up in the time lapse. Now let's reduce the opacity and select Multiply In this layer underneath. I'm going to start painting my illustration. Let's get the color palette out. Choose whichever you like best. The summer one is also included in the class for you to download. Set this one as default. Use whichever you prefer. I'm going to use the Earth on Start with this yellow. Maybe we're going to be using the watercolor brush set. I'm going to use a shape builder solid, make sure it's 100% capacity to create the shapes. And I'm going to create the underneath petals first and fill them. I'm now, I'm going to create a new layer, this one's back petals and this one's front petals. I'm going to do the same thing. If you can see what you're doing, you can turn off the back petals. For example, I don't like that area there, so I'm going to fix it in a new layer. I'm going to turn that one off. I'm going to create this front part. I really have no idea how that's called. It's these two petals that go like that, and then there's one that goes like that. I'm not even following my picture so closely just because I like a more stylized approach, but you can make it as realistic as you want. Finally, there's a bud, well, what I call a bud, it's this middle thing here. We're done with these flowers, so I'm going to turn them on and group them, main flowers. Now I'm going to create a layer underneath. I'm going to create this flower. This one is just going to be one. Continue feeling, this one is just going to be one shape. I'm going to paint this bud that is behind the stem. Because this flower is behind the stem and this one is also behind the stem. I'm going to call that other flower a new layer for the stem. And choose a darker green. I'm going to make this longer because usually your kids just go up and turn like that and that bumps great. Now we just need these butts. I'm going to create another layer, rename this one stem and go back to the yellowish color and just add them here. Okay, we have our base layers ready. I don't want to be using my reference anymore, I'm just going to turn it off. I'm going to bring out my reference here. And choose an image that import, choose my picture. I'm going to have it here just to see how the patterns look. Let's strike this down here. This here. I'm going to go on top of all my layers, create a new layer, and add the paper texture. Choose this color, make sure it's the biggest size of the brush. And go over the whole canvas without lifting your pencil. And do it again and again. Now you can see it a bit in the dark colors but not on the light colors. I'm going to go to Linear Burn that way, it will be engraved in the painting. I don't ever paint on that layer, which I'm going to call texture. I'm going to swipe left and lock it that way. I won't be painting on it by mistake. Let's start. In the next lesson, we're going to start adding textures and details. 7. Adding Textures and Details: In this lesson, we're going to start using the watercolor brushes to add textures and details to our illustration. I'll show you how I do it, but again, I encourage you to use different brushes, different techniques, until you find something that you truly love and that it's truly yours. Make these flowers as realistic or as graphic as you want, just have fun. Again, my brushes are made to resemble very controlled water colors, very loose splashes and water running around the paper. If that's something you want, just experiment with other brushes and you're going to get that effect. I'm going to start with my main flowers and I'm going to swipe right on each layer, just so the alpha lock is activated and we paint only within the layer. Let's start with the back petals. Choose our brushes. Here you have two options. You can use the ultimate feel rough. If you press hard on this brush, it creates harsh lines. If you create softly, it b***ds in. I'm just going to use it to create shadows, so the petals are differentiated. You can also increase the size. The more you do it, the darker it gets. You can also use this soft wash one. If you like this effect, you can use that. But if you like a softer effect, for example, the, where the edges are more b***ded, you can use the soft wash brush. I'm going to use it a bit here to create even more shadows. I'm going to add these lines here where the petal folds. For that, there's like a darker area in the middle and then lighter areas on the site. I can reduce the size of my brush. And I'm going to show you with a dark color, so you can see the difference here of the brushes. I can create this line like this, then it'll be very graphic. Or I can create it like this pressing softly on the pencil. Then it will be more like wet paint on wet paper. Or I can use a brush like the detailed brush and create a very definite line. I can use a brush like the ultimate, feel rough and make it smaller and either press hard and make a line that has the jagged edges or press softly and achieve a more faded look. I'm going to use this one and go in with the yellow and create a darker area. I'm barely pressing my pencil. Same here because I don't paint realistic. I'm being very loose a following the reference. But if you're doing something realistic, then you're going to be paying attention to your reference a lot. Great. I'm happy with how that looks. I'm now going to add the pink details because we don't have pink here. I am going to be using this red. There's two ways to do this. One is you can draw them with the same brush and press softly at the end so you can smudge it or make them very graphic like this. Or use the detail brush, which creates even darker borders to create the details in a very graphic way. I'm going to keep using my ultimate feel, rough and this is the brush I use the most in my illustrations. I'm just going to loosely recreate these patterns here. This seems like a line. Then it seems to be like lines of thought. I'm pressing softly here. My color is more b***ded. Let's see how that's looking. I like that. But now I'm going to reduce the size of my brush and start creating more definite shapes here. More thoughts when you're creating water colors in procreate First, like they're not going to look exactly like regular watercolors. Although some people get very close, I just like the idea of having certain similarities to water colors. Second, that it takes patient like regular watercolors and layering, and layering of different brushes and textures, just like the real thing. The more patient you are and the more textures you add on brushes, the better it looks, in my opinion. I'm going to split this up because I'm going to add a lot of dots. You can also go here to make a selection and make sure free hand is selected. And do this. For example, I'm creating the lines, close. Feather it a bit just so it doesn't have harsh lines. And then go to your brushes. Select the splatter brush, let's make it maybe nine and tap here. This brush works as a stamp. It's a brush that you tap. You don't draw with it. If you draw it, it's going to be very dense. But if you use it as a stamp, then it's going to be very random. It can help you speed things up and also make a more random pattern release that this is how it looks. I'm going to do it and keep on with my manual way of doing it. Here I am dragging more color in. I'm pressing darker in these areas where there's more shadows and it's darker here and then lighter in these areas here. For variation, you can also use different colors. I'm going to add some shadows to the borders here if you want. You can go in with the detail and add darker edges because Arial water colors normally have that effect. Let's keep on and I'm going to start going a bit faster again. I'm pressing hard here and releasing here, so it's soft. I'm now focusing on this one. This one seems to have more thoughts than this dark area here. I might go to my details and add some dark dots. The good thing about this detail brush is that if you press softly, it creates small dots. And if you press hard, it creates big dots. Great. Go back to the ultimate feel. I'm going to add some shadows here. Let's do the area, it starts around here, and that area of the petal is darker. And now I'm going to start adding lots of dots. I can use a darker color to add dots too. Finally, add some shadows. There it is. I think it's looking good. I'm going to go to the other layer, front petals, and start working on those. It's basically the same process and I mostly use just this brush. If you can create other effects, you can use other brushes, but just try them out and see what you like best. This one is my favorite favorite brush, that's why I use it so much. If you want to smudge something, go to the water b***d brush, and this really smudges things up. If you want to soften any transitions or something, this is the brush to use. If you want to create granulation texture, then use the Bloom brush, which is amazing. Let's go back to this one and start adding some dots again. I'm going to add some pink, and now I just have to do the other side. Now go to a darker shade, and I think that's great. I'm going to add some white here. I'm lifting my brush and tapping, and tapping just so I make it darker. Because I want it to be really white. Same here in the back petals, but maybe a bit less white, so you can actually see the difference. Now I'm going to go to the front and create these weird shapes here. I'm going to start with this color, color this in. It has a rim there that I'm going to leave because it also differentiates it from this here. It's way darker. I'm pressing really hard with my brush. I will go in with the water. B***d and b***d that out a bit just so it's a smoother transition that one seems to have a bit amount of dots. I'm just going to add some dark dots here just to make it more interesting. Then go to this side. And this side is the opposite, like the rim is like this. This is actually on top of this middle area. What I'm going to do is because this is in front of everything, I'm just going to cut off that area. I've done with three fingers cut and paste. That will be on its own layer. I'm going to bring that to the top and activate alpha so I can keep painting it. I have realized that this is very round and it's not in the proper location. See here, here, it's more like up here. I'm going to go to that layer because in that layer we also have some other buds. I'm going to select it, modify it, make sure that free form is selected so I can make it more oval like and I can rotate it. Maybe I'll make it a bit bigger. Yeah, that seems much better said that because we move that, we now have a hole in here. Look, I'm going to turn this off so you can see there's a hole there. We need to go and modify it. I'm going to go to that layer and turn off the alpha lock, so I can actually paint outside of it. And with a shape builder solid select the same color and just fill that in. Great. Turn on the alpha lock. Again, I'm going to turn on my other layers and go back to the ultimate feel, rough brush and using this brown color, I'm just going to create this area here. It's like a hard, I'm going to create these textures here. Even go here to this last area and add more details. I think that looks great. Now we just have to do this. I want this to b***d into these other petals. I'm going to go to the bud, turn off alpha lock so that I can go to my brushes and use the water b***d tool and smudge it out. See, it's b***ding out. I think that looks better than just having the harsh outline. I'm going to go back turn on the alpha lock and go back to my brush ultimate feel rough and start filling it in. That is actually the widest part of the image, so I'm going to choose white and fill it in completely. Yeah, then just use some shading to create this shape here. Maybe a bit of a shadow here. Yeah, I like how that looks. I'm just going to add a bit more shadow here because here you can really see the contrast between these petals and we're not seeing that. Now. I'm going to go back to that layer back petals. I'm going to add a layer. And set this layer to clipping mask and then set it to multiply with a dark color. I'm just going to go over it and add a shadow. This is a great way to add shadows to your illustrations. I feel that when you add darker colors like this, it starts to create so much contrast that it's what brings your illustrations to life. I'm exaggerating the shadows. There's obviously not such harsh shadows in the original illustration, but I think it's just bringing it to life a bit more. There we have it. That's our orchid. Now, we have our first flower. I hope you like this technique. It does look a bit like watercolor. I don't like rough edges in watercolors, and that's why I use a brush that's solid. If you wanted to mess up your borders a bit, could go into each layer. For example, the front petals turn off the alpha lock and then go in with the water b***d brush softly, start to b***d out some of the edges. If you like that look, go ahead and do it. But I prefer having my smooth edges. In the next lesson, we'll paint the stem. 8. Painting the Stem: In this lesson will create a more rough edge brush to create a bit more unpredictable effects on our stem. I'm going to close my main flowers group and go to the stem. For things like stems and leaves, I love using a lot of texture. I would use something like the super cool water color, which I'll show you. I'm going to close the reference. I'll show you how this brush works. If I press harder, it's solid. If not, it's more transparent. And I can keep going over it without lifting and get different effects as if the water color had dried in different layers. I love using these for stems and leaves. Again, this is a very graphic look, I'm not trying to be realistic here. Then I'm going to use the ultimate feel rough and make the brush bigger softly. Just start adding a bit more light. I love the textures this brush creates there. I pressed really hard and it bloomed. And I love that. I love that effect in real water colors, and I really love it in this one. That's why I tried to recreate it in these brushes. Now I'm going to add a bit of darts, just maybe more here in the areas where the flowers would create some certain shadows. Same with the buds, and that's it for the Sam. In the next lesson, we'll paint the rest of the flowers. 9. Painting the Rest of the Flowers: In this lesson, we'll paint the rest of the flowers. I'll be going a bit faster as it's exactly the same technique. And I think you already know how it goes. So let's go, I'm going to start painting this one. I'll go into that other flower layer, and I'm not going to add too many details to this one just because it's in the back. I want to add some green here. I'm going to add some white with a very thin brush here so I can separate this petal here and here. Way, these petals become a bit separated from this one. Then I'm going to add just a tiny bit here, just a bit of that red and a little bit of indication of dots just because you can barely see them through here. I think that's enough for this. Now I'm going to do this flowers with the main flowers and start with the back petals again. I'm going to start with this yellow, make my brush bigger, and then start going in with the brown. Yeah, now I'm just going to start adding that dot, and this one has way more defined dots, I think. I think that's enough for that. So now I'm going to use the pink and a bigger brush size and create some of the shadows here and dark borders. I'm going to go into this layer where we created the dark, multiplied shadows. And I'm going to add them right now. Now I'm going to move on to the front petals. It doesn't have alpha lock activated. So I'm going to activate it because I have the pink already. I'm going to start adding some of the shadows with it. I'm going a bit faster in these flowers just because I already showed you the technique and it's just repeating the same steps over and over again. I push hard if I want a darker color or I go in several times. I push softly. When I want colors to b***d in like this, if something's very patchy, I just go in water, b***d brush and b***d the edges. Let's continue with the ultimate feel and add some darker colors and reduce the size of the brush and get a darker color to start adding some dots, maybe a bit bigger. I'm going to go in with a bigger brush and add some darker areas like this, just to create a bit more depth. And then choose this lighter color. And maybe add some here because the petals are looking a bit flat. See here, you can see they have some dimension. Yeah, I like how that looks. I'm going to add some white on the borders just because you can see here, there's a bit of white, maybe a bit of white here, and a bit of white here. Now I'm going to continue onto the front part. This has this shape like this also where it comes, and the shape is like this, and this is darker in here. I'm going to create this darker area in here. And I'm just lifting my pencil and putting it back down to create dark, dark areas. I will come in with my water b***d brush and just soften that up. I can use my shape builder solid, pick up this color and define these borders even more. Yeah, that looks better. Then I'll go back to my ultimate feel rough and keep adding some shadows. Actually, I'm going to pick my pink and add some pink shadows here. But I'm going to add a darker color so you can tell it apart from the petals in the bottom. And this is artistic license. It's not like that in the picture, but whatever makes your picture work better than do that, Okay, now it has like a dark area here and some little dots. Grab some yellow and add some yellow dots in these areas. And then continue shading these sites. I'm going to add a little bit of white here and here, and then go on to the bud. Again, I want to turn off the Alpha, use the water b***d and b***d it in. And then turn on the Alpha lock again and start painting it with the ultimate feel rough. And then add some shadows here. Great, I'm liking how that looks now. I just want to add a bit more depth to the back. I'm going to go here to that layer with this color. I'm going to add a tiny bit more shadows and add some white here. In the next lesson, I'll be painting the pots. 10. Painting the Buds: In this lesson, we will finish painting our illustration. Let's go to the bots. I'm going to look at them once and then turn off my reference layer. Let's see, they're all there except for this bottom one. I'm going to paint them really fast with some green. I'm just going to darken the bottom part here. The bloom is great for that. You just stop here. It creates this very pretty granulation. Remember I like mixing different colors so that it looks more realistic. I'm going to add this yellow because it seems that adding different shades of colors makes the water colors look a bit more realistic. I'm darkening it here with a green. Finally, I'm going to add a tiny bit of white just to create some highlight because those pots are shiny. I'm going to do the same thing to all of them. I'm creating some shadows with cranes. I'm not coloring the whole thing because they have lines there. I'm leaving them. I'm avoiding painting there. I'm just making the bottoms on the top darker. I don't want to focus a lot on the bots and add a ton of details on them because I want the main focus to be on the flowers. I'm going to go back in with that loom up around here and then go back in with the yellow and the white. Finally, I'm going to paint that last pod, which was here with the other flower, this one I'm simply coloring. I'm going to go into the bloom and darken it there. I'm going to call this done. Let's close the palette and here's our illustration. In the next lesson, I'll show you some finishing touches. 11. Finishing Touches: In this lesson, I'll show you how to add some finishing touches to your illustration, and we'll wrap things up. If you want to add even more watercolor texture to it, you can go ahead and unlock this texture layer. And then swipe to the left duplicated, and you'll see that it's way more intense. It also gives it a beige background because we used a yellowish color to create it. If you don't want it to be that yellow, you can go here hue saturation and then remove the saturation. And do that to this one. To go here saturation and reduce the saturation, then you'll have an actually white watercolor paper texture. Now I just want to make my colors a bit brighter. I'm going to go to my layers and add a new layer and fill the capas with this yellow. I go to the layers and set this to a brightens up the colors. If I'm using a light color here, I'm going to reduce the opacity maybe to there see it's duller and now it's a bit brighter. I'm just going to rename this as Brighten. If you see here, it's affecting the color of my paper and I don't want that. I'm going to drag it underneath my texture. That's way better. I hope that you feel confidence to apply these techniques to your illustrations and that you practice with different flowers or different plants or even different subject matter. Now you know how to work with reference images. Create the basic shapes, add details and textures, and finishing touches to your illustrations. These watercolor illustrations can be used for a lot of different projects. For example, for creating packaging design, or even a pattern for textile design. I would love to see what you create. Remember to post your project and pack me on Instagram at Art by Sandra Mahia. Remember to join my newsletter so you can keep getting more freebies. And stay up to date with all my news. If you like this class, share it with a friend and leave a review. See you soon by.