Acrylic Marker Florals in Procreate: A 14-Day Feel-Good Sketchbook Challenge

1. Your Feel-Good Art Journey Starts Here: What if building a drawing habit felt less like just another task on your list and more like a little daily treat? Hi. I'm Jutta, an artist and educator from Germany. I help artists build their skills and enjoy the process. Through low pressure art making that feels playful, encouraging and actually makes you want to keep practicing. Welcome to acrylic marker floris in Procreate. Your 14 days Feel Good sketchbook challenge. In this class, we'll create one colorful floral illustration each day. We'll use bold shapes, playful compositions, happy colors, and a custom acrylic marker Procreate brush set. Challenge is designed to fit into your daily routine. And while it feels light and playful, you'll still be training your drawing skills and creating a steady drawing habit, the low pressure way because growth doesn't have to feel stressful. We'll be working digitally in Procreate, and you'll find all the tools used in class ready for you to download. All you need is your iPad and your Apple Pencil. Of course, you can also follow along in a real sketchbook using traditional material such as acrylic markers. And at the end of this class, I'll show you how you can turn your floral illustration into a realistic sketchbook mockup using Procreates built in tools only. This class is for anyone from complete beginner to seasoned artist. As long as you love color, floorls and low pressure art making, you're in the right place. So grab your iPad, your Apple Pencil, and let's indulge in color. I can't wait to see you in class. 2. Class Project: For your class project, I would love you to share one or all of the flower illustration you create during this challenge. You can post your illustration just as it is, or place it inside the sketchbook mockup using the bonus lesson at the end of this class. You can upload a single page, a few of your favorites or keep updating your project daily throughout the 14 days as your sketchbook collection grows. To create your project, just head over to the Projects and Resources tab and click the submit Project button. Give your project a title, add a cover image, and tell us a little about your experience. How did drawing feel for you? And which illustration was your favorite? You can add as many images as you like by clicking the upload image icon. Once you're ready, hit publish and your artwork will appear in the project Gallery. I'm really looking forward to seeing your colorful floals and cheering you on throughout the challenge. 3. How This Class Works: Before we begin, let me quickly show you how this class works. This is a 14 day sketchbook challenge with one floral illustration for each day. You can follow the class day by day or move through the lessons at your own pace. For each project, you can draw along with me while watching the lesson and pause the video whenever you need more time. Or you watch the whole lesson first and create your own version afterwards. Whatever works best for you. I'll be working digitally in Procreate, but you can absolutely follow along in a real sketchbook using acrylic markers, paint, colored pencils, or any other materials you enjoy. If you're working in Procreate, make sure to download the ZIP file from the projects and resources section. It includes my custom acrylic marker brush set, the color palette I'll be using throughout the class, and a sketchbook photo for your mockups in case you don't have a suitable photo of your own. The easiest way is to download and unzip the folder directly on your iPad. Then simply tap the brush set and the color palette files, and they will automatically import into Procreate. You can import this sketchbook photo whenever you need it by choosing Import and then the photo in your files app. At the end of this class, I'll show you how to place your illustration inside the photo and turn it into a realistic sketchbook mockup using only Procreate's built in tools. All right. Everything is set up and ready to go. Let's start with our first floral. I'll see you there. 4. Day 1: Bold Orange & Pink: So welcome to day one of our feel good sketchbook challenge. I'm so glad you're here. Before we start drawing, I just wanted to remind you that this challenge is all about enjoying the process, playing with colors, creating without pressure, and slowly building a fun little daily drawing habit. So please don't overthink your illustrations too much and just enjoy yourself. So let's jump right in and get started with a new canvas. I've set mine up already. It is 2000 by 3,000 pixels, and I've chosen this size because it will later on match my sketchbook mockup. If you want to display your illustration in the mockup that came with the class, then 2000 by 3,000 pixels is the way to go. But if you want to create your own mock with your own sketchbook, then you might need to do your own measurements. I will show you at the end of this class how you can make your own mockup and how you can place your art in there. So look out for that at the end of this class. But now let's go back to this canvas. And if you don't have a canvas this size or the size you will need, let me quickly show you how you can set up your own canvas. You tap the gallery button and you tap the big plus up here. Then you tap this little icon here with a small tiny plus in there, which brings you to the Canvas panel. So here you can change width, height, DPI, but also the units. And then you just type in the numbers you like, you tap done, and you tap the check mark. I would only recommend you to keep your DPI at 300 pixels because it creates the best outcome when you want to print your artwork later on. But because I have my Canvas already, I'm just going to tap Cancel for now, and then I will go to my newly created 2000 by 3,000 pixels Canvas. All right. And in our first illustrations, we are going to draw beautifully bold orange and pink flowers. It's a very simple illustration. It's just to get used to the brushes, how it feels to draw in this style on the iPad and just have fun. Let's get started with our yellow color here. And then we are going to pick one of our brushes. How about we are going to go with acrylic marker round? This one makes nice and crisp edges. That's why you see me using it a lot for the outlines. And then we're just going to place those center dots of our bold flowers here. We are going to spread them all over the canvas. Alright, let's check the brush size. I think I want to go a little bit bigger, and then I'm just going to place some yellow dots here in the center and just spread them out evenly. I will also try to keep some at the edge of my canvas because usually that creates a very nice indication of a seamless repeat pattern. Then we're just going to start drawing the petals. Half of the flowers I want to have in orange and half of the flowers I want to have in pink because that's just the color combination I like the most. Since we have eight dots for now, we are going to aim for four orange and four pink ones. All right. Let's first of all, add a new layer. And to make the work a little bit easier for us, we are just going to drag this underneath our yellow dots, and we switch, let's say, to our dark orange first, and then I'm just going to draw some petals here. And I want mine to look like this. You just go with whatever shape you prefer. So I will draw the outlines first, and then I will fill my flowers with a different brush. All right. And then I'm going to switch to my acrylic marker. Let's say we use fuzzy, we adjust the brush size, and then we're going to fill our petals with beautiful orange color. And as you can see, it leaves some texture right away. When I color a petal, I always make sure that my strokes are going in the same direction as the petal points towards just to create some additional texture. And also, when I spot some areas where I miss to fill in colors, I would usually leave them because again, it makes it more natural, more real paper looking, and that's exactly what I like in digital illustrations. Alright. That's the orange. Flowers done. I guess this was the right direction. And now I want to give the pink petals to the rest of my flowers. So let's add a new layer. Pick pink. And then I'm just gonna switch to my acrylic marker round brush again and just draw the same petals just in pink. If you want, you can have them overlap, but I decide not to, and that means I need to move this dot a little bit away from my flower. So let's mark this layer with the yellow dots. Let's go to the selection tool. Make sure you don't have colofl enabled. You just circle around this dot. You tap the move tool, and you move the dot away a little bit. And then I feel I also want to move away this one. We do the same. I tap it, and I move it towards the corner. But again, it's also fine. If you want to have your flowers overlap each other, that can also create a very nice effect. Okay, back to my pink layer, and let's draw more petals. All right. And now I want to fill my petals with pink. So let's go back to the brush panel, pick the acrylic marker fuzzy, and just fill the petals. All right. Beautiful. It makes me already very happy. And now, since we have quite some white areas here, which look a little bit boring, so I want to add some leaves to our flowers as well. So let's first of all, add a new layer. But then I want to drag it underneath the petals because I might have them starting from behind the flowers just to create some overlapping. So I'm going to go back to my acrylic marker, and then I'm just gonna draw some Let's see in which direction do I start. Let's see. Maybe I'm going to start here and just draw this almond shape from behind the flower. And if you don't like this blobby ends round ends of your leaves, a good trick to get rid of that because it's pretty difficult in procreate to draw pointy edges, pointy corners. You could just go and pick the same brush as an eraser, and then you could just go ahead and erase the tips so they are as pointy as you want them to be. Oh. Oh, that is brilliant. I just think pure lime green might be a little bit too boring. So I want to add a contrasting green color. So let's add a new layer. Let's turn this layer into a clipping mask by just tapping it and tap the word clipping mask. And then we're gonna pick a new color, the darker green, in that case, I want to fill half of the petals with a darker green color like this. And you can see it doesn't pick up the color here. It's just because underneath there wasn't any pixel. I wasn't very careful when filling the lime green leaf. So it doesn't let me color the top as well, which is absolutely fine. The more little imperfections are in your illustrations, the more human like it feels. So that's exactly what I aim for with this technique. And I also, you know, enjoy to just draw without pressure. Alright. I just feel like the white background is a little bit boring. So why don't we fill the background with color as well? So let's start with a new layer and drag it underneath of everything. If you would draw in a sketchbook now, you would have to have a lot of work, making sure that you don't know, damage the nice edges of your petals. So here in Procreate, it's a little bit more convenient. And the trick is just having the layer at the very bottom. Okay, let's see. I think I'm going to go with my very peachy, bright, reddish color here. And I guess I want to go with the maker fuzzy again because it leaves such a nice texture. And then I'm just gonna fill the white spaces here. And if you want to have it really real looking, you could just go and draw around the edges first and then just fill within. You will also be able to see the stroke direction then later on in your illustration. So that can look cool. If you want this effect, it makes it even more realistic. And now I feel it's still a little bit plain. So you could go ahead and add more decorations like maybe some lines within the petals or dots within the yellow centers here. However, I'm just going to go ahead, add a new layer and pick white. And now I'm just going to draw with my acrylic marker round, I'm just going to draw some white dots in here, just like so. All right. And here our beautiful first spread is done. And this is how it looks placed into my sketchbook. I really like it. But remember, you can always share your illustration as it is. But if you like to learn how to create your own sketchbook mockup and place your artwork inside it, make sure to check out the last lesson at the end of this class, and that's it for today. I'm already looking forward to drawing with you again tomorrow. I'll see you then. 5. Day 2: Strings Of Peonies: Welcome to day two of our feel good sketchbook challenge. Today we are going to draw some lovely peony buds because I like these round shapes a lot. So let's get right into it. Okay, I've already opened my two by 3,000 pixel canvas. You open the one in the size that you need. And for this illustration today, I want to have chains hanging from top to bottom. Like this. And on each chain are the peony buds on top of each other, but alternating in height. Okay? Let me show you. It's hard to explain, but better to show. Alright, I'm starting at the top, and I'm just going to draw a long line. And this is going to be my first stem. Gonna clean up the shape a little bit. And then I want to draw one very close to the edge because I want my ponies to reach beyond the border to just create, you know, this seamless pattern feel. And then in between. Okay. In my next step, I want to draw the buds on top, so I'm going to add a new layer, and I will draw just basically red circles first. I want to make sure that the center here does not get a bud because it would look really odd and boring. The eye would just look at this.in the center and wouldn't want to wander around. So that's why I'm going to draw the center peonies on the stems on these here. I'm still using my acrylic marker round. And then I'm going to draw more circles up here. And now in the in betweens, I'm going to place the rest of my buds. That's perfect. And now we're gonna fill our shapes with our red, as well. But let's say, now I'm going to use my acrylic marker juicy. All right, so but now I want to layer our petals a little bit, you know? The petals are behind each other in a pony, and I want to indicate that by just adding more layers with more colors. So let me show you. So first of all, I'm going to go add a new layer, and then I'm going to pick our pink. Think I will go back to the acrylic marker around again due to the sharp edges. Then I'm going to just draw another whoops. This is what happens when you don't turn your layer into a clipping mask. It's good that it happened right now so I can show you. Now you would have to be really careful that you stay exactly within the shape. And there would be a lot of work, actually, and I wouldn't enjoy that so much. My body would is really tense up, my shoulders would start hurting my neck, as well. So for me, it's easier when I don't have to pay so much attention. So I'm going to turn this layer just simply into a clipping mask again. If we have Procreate, if we have all those digital tools, why shouldn't we use them to our benefit? But on the remaining ones, I'm gonna draw it in the opposite direction. And now let's even add another layer on top. Turn that into a clipping mask as well. And now I want to pick the lighter pink here. And then I'm going to draw a third petal like this way. A so now I think like having a plain white background that is a little bit too boring for my taste. So I'm going to change that. I'm going to add a new layer on top, but I will pull it at the very bottom. Just drag it underneath all the other layers. And then I want to pick my minty green color here. And then with my acrylic marker around, I'm just gonna indicate, like bold stripes here, and here as well. A little bit wider. I just want to have a white stripe here, and then I'm going to let's pick the acrylic marker fuzzy, and then I want to fill the stripe with color like this. Alright, but now I move over to my acrylic marker fuzzy again. And that then I'm just gonna fill the areas with the minty green. And now I feel like here in these white stripes, there's missing something. So I am going to add another layer on top, and I will pick probably this yellow here and my acrylic marker around. And then I'm just going to draw like tiny dots in here. Okay. Brilliant. And I think my peonies, they miss some leaves, some green as a contrast color. So let me add a new layer. And I guess I want it to be, of course, on top of our stems, but below our pony shape. So let's put it in between. Below the red on top of the stems. And this time, I guess I want to start with my darker green. I'm acrylic marker around. Just decrease the brush size a little bit. Then I'm just gonna draw two almond shaped leaves underneath my peonies, just like soap. And then I'm just going to fill those shape again. And I guess I want to go back to the juicy marker. I want to pretend that this leaf is on top, so I'm going to start here and draw the strokes in this direction and make sure we overlap and have some texture going on. And again, if you're not so happy with the tips of your leaves, you just pick again a brush you like. I'm gonna go with acrylic marker round as eraser, and I'm just gonna clean my shapes up a little bit. Alright. Now I still feel the leaves are a little bit plain. So I'm going to add a layer on top, turn that into a clipping mask again. I pick my light green, my lime one again, and I'm gonna switch to the acrylic marker around. And now I want to draw like a similar almond shape just right inside here. Just like this. And I might have to pay attention about the indication of the leaves I've pretended that are there, you know, the way they overlap. And here we go with our day to sketchbook spread finished. And I really love the colors together. That makes me very happy. And this is how it would look in a sketchbook. And you can see it looks pretty real. I love it. I just love how the colors pop here. Alright. And that's it for today. I'm already looking forward to drawing with you again tomorrow. So I will see you then. 6. Day 3: Whimsical Blooms: Hello, and welcome back to day three of our feel good sketchbook challenge. Today, I feel like drawing a whole lot of colorful fantasy flowers. So let's get started. I've already opened my tube by 3,000 pixel Canvas. I think we're just gonna start with let's say we start with orange. I'm at the acrylic marker Round, and I guess I want to start with the bold oval down here, maybe another one down there. And maybe a third one up here. I think this one is not in the right position yet, so I'm gonna delete that again. Then we can fill our circles with color. And again, I'm going to go with my acrylic marker, juicy. So in my next step, I guess I want to spread some bold red. So let's go and add another layer on top. And then I'm going to switch over to my red. And I guess I want something like tulip shapes or so. So let's switch back to our acrylic marker round. And then let's see where do we start? How about we get one here? Awesome. And I guess we can fill them with color right away. So let's go back to the acrylic marker juicy. I think I want to go with another shape. And I guess that's gonna be in pink. So let's go to pink. And this time, I want to put down, like, a proper tulip shape, so let's switch back to the acrylic mark around. And then I'm just gonna go with this, you know, half oval shape here. I guess I'm not happy with this red shape, so let's move that over a tiny bit. And now we just fill that with color. And if you are not happy with the top of this tulip shape, you could just go ahead and take the nice liner taper that's in our brush set and just use that to erase. And then you have a very straight edge here. I want to bring some yellow into the game. I guess I want to give these tulip shapies here, yellow dot. And I guess I also want to draw yellow petals for these flowers here. Let's just go ahead and do that by adding a new layer and just dragging it underneath. So let's switch back to our acrylic marker around and pick the yellow. So as I said, I want to have some dots up here. And then I want to draw the petals all around these orange ones here. And now we can just color these. And if you wish, you could also switch to the choosy marker. Now, I feel like we need a little bit more orange. I'm going to go back to the orange layer. Pick orange. How about we're just gonna add some dots up here, as well. But maybe this time it's gonna be four. Great. So now I feel like my flowers need a little bit of decoration, and I'm not very happy with the placement of this flower here. So let's just mark these two layers by swiping them to the right and pick the selection tool. And then we're just gonna rotate this flower a little bit. Just have it in this direction here. Yes, that's better. Okay. And now I feel they are a little bit too plain, so I want to add I guess I want to add some stripes here. So I'm going to add a new layer on top of pink, and I turn that into a clipping mask. I guess we can stick with our acrylic mark around. We just make the brush size really small with yellow. And I guess on top of those orange dots here, they could use a little bit of red if you ask me, we need some more red here. So we can actually just go back to the red layer because it sits on top of orange and just switch over to red. And then I just want to draw another dot here in the center. And then I guess those big orange blobs could also use some lines, but, like, you know, rotating ones. Let's see how that looks. So I'm going to add a new layer on top of orange. And I'm going to turn that into a clipping mask, as well. And then I'm going to go back to yellow, and then I'm going to just draw, like, lines like this all around the center. Now I also feel like these dots here need to look a little bit different than the ones on top of the red flowers. So I think I'm just going to draw smaller dots in here, and it works well because it's on top of orange anyway, we're still on the clipping mask on top of orange. A Okay, now I want to give my flowers some stems, add a layer on top. Let's see. I think I want to go with my dark turquoise color. So I think I'm going to draw a flowy stem like this. Yes. And a lot of leaves. And let's say this time, it's gonna get like round leaves. That's it. I don't think we see a stem here, but I think our pink flowers here, they also need a little stem. So let's check and see what we can do here. Add a new layer. And how about we are going with our lime green? Let's go with lime green. How about this time we start underneath our pink tulips here? We drag the layer underneath pink. Like this. For example, They are a little bit plain, so let's add a layer on top, turn that into a clipping mask, and then move over to the dark green. And I guess I want to give these leaves like a darker contrasting color like this. Great. And then I feel like these bold flowers, they also need a little bit of a stem. So this time, I guess I want to start with dark green, and I also want to stay underneath them. So let's add a new layer, grab this layer and drag it underneath. And today, I really feel plain is boring. So let's add more stuff to these dark green stems. Let's add a new layer. Let's turn it into a clipping mask, and I guess I want to give it like smaller almond shapes just in the center like this. Oh, beautiful. I just feel like these here, they also need some contrasting colors, these leaves. So let's add another layer on top of the turquoise. Turn that into a clipping mask, as well. And then I guess I'm going to do the same here. I'm just going to draw some tiny little ovals in there. How beautiful. I love that. This looks so cute. I'm just not a big fan of this background because the background in white is a little bit, I don't know, too harsh for me. So let's add another layer and drag it at the very bottom. I guess this time, I just want to use this off white tone here and just fill it with color. Let's just go with this brush, but make it really big and just draw in the back. And of course, you could just go around to create some more texture. But I'm fine with as it is right now, and I think I want to add a little bit more of this minty color here. So I guess I'm going to draw some dots in the background with this bright mint green. So let's add a new layer. Back to the acrylic marker around. And this time, I create some overlapping. And here's one of the rare situations where I'm not happy how the minty appears with the background. I think it is too bright and too colorful. So I'm going to go to the one tool and I'm going to pick saturation brightness. And I guess I'm going to go a tiny, little bit darker and a tiny, little bit desaturated. I just went down 2%, and right away, it feels so much nicer. And I would call it done here. If you think there should be more, you just go ahead and add more decoration, but I actually like mine the way it is. And here it is how it looks in my sketchbook, Mock Up. I really love how this has turned out. And that's it for today. I'm already looking forward to drawing again with you tomorrow, so I will see you then. H 7. Day 4: Poppies At Night: Hello, and welcome to day four of our feel good sketchbook challenge. Let's just jump right into it. Open your canvas. Minus usually is two by 3,000 pixels white. And today, I feel like drawing some poppies, maybe at night behind like a very bright blue background. So let's see how this goes. So first of all, I want to start spreading my poppies. I'm on layer number one, and since I know I will be drawing a background, I'm just going to go ahead and start a layer right away. And on this layer, layer number two, I think I will start with orange. Let's check what brush are we on? We're at the acrylic marker, and I guess I want to stick with that. I just want to draw and spread a lot of poppies here. And for my poppies, I guess I want to go with two hard shapes that are kind of leaning to the side. And now let's just fill all these shapes with colors. Let's go with acrylic marker fuzzy. And in the background, I want to draw some petals, as well, but I want them to contrast with the orange. So I'm going to draw them in red. So let's switch over to red, pick our acrylic marker around for nice crisp edges. And then I'm just gonna draw petals back there. And right now, I'm just sticking to the acrylic marker round because I'm lazy and I didn't want to switch back with my brushes. And sometimes you're lazy, and that's okay, too. I really love that red and orange together. They look very pretty. And that's our poppies. And now we need their stems. And I don't mind when they're overlap. So let's add a layer underneath red and orange. And I would say my stems are going to be this golden color again. And I'm still at the acrylic marker around. So now I'm just gonna draw stems here. Okay, that looks beautiful already. And now I think my poppies, they need leaves, and I want them to have, like, green, wavy leaves. So let's see. We're gonna add a layer on top, switch over to the lime green, and then we're just gonna have them starting somewhere like wavy. And later on, we are going to fill them with color. Yes, I love that. And I also love the overlapping. Let's just fill them with color again. And we could even go with the fuzzy maca here. And obe by now, I think they need some contrasting color as well. So let's go ahead and add a layer on top, turn that into a clipping mask, and then I guess we're going to go back to the darker green and just gonna draw some some, you know, darker areas here at the bottom. And I also feel the poppies need, you know, some linework here. So I'm going to go ahead and add a layer on top of orange, turn that into a clipping mask, as well. And I guess I'm going to pick red and the acrylic marker. But again, I'm going to go down in size. And I'm just going to, you know, draw a few lines up there into the petals. And I guess we do the same with the dark red here. We go up a layer. We add a layer, we turn it into a clipping mask. I'm gonna go with the brown here. Oh, that's wonderful. I love this as it is already, but I really, really want to add, like, a dark blue background. So let's go ahead and do that. I'm at the layer one now, layer number one, the first one. And I'm gonna switch to the dark blue now. And I'm going to go back to my marker fuzzy and make the brush size really big. And then I'm just gonna draw this beautiful dark blue in the background. Oh, my gosh. And look how these colors pop. Yes, very pretty. And the remaining space here I am going to fill with yellow dots. First, we start with the dark yellow. I'm obsessed with dots, apparently. And now, on top of this one, I want to add, like, another circle in the center in the very, very bright yellow, like this. So it looks like the stars are having a little glow. And here we go. That's our next illustration. Done. How beautiful and how much fun that was. And here it is in my sketchbook. I really love how this has turned out. And that's it for today. Thank you for drawing with me today, and I'm already looking forward to drawing with you again tomorrow. I will see you then. Oh. 8. Day 5: Folk Art Tulips: Hello, and welcome back to day five of our feel good sketchbook challenge. Today we are all into tulips, and I've already set up my canvas. You need yours. I think once more, it's going to be these kind of strings, similar as we did with the peonies. So let's jump right in. I want to pick my golden color here. And I'm gonna stay with acrylic mark around. And first of all, I'm gonna draw the stems here. I guess one is gonna be here. One is probably gonna be here. Maybe we have to move it. We'll see, we check when we have our other stems because now I want to switch to a different color, and you know me, I'm going to add a new layer and I'm going to pick, let's say, this dark teal here, and now I want to draw with the equal spacing here, I want to draw another stem here. And then one in between. And maybe we can move this one a tiny little bit. And then we can also move the tier one, a tiny bit. So it's just more or less equally spaced out. And I guess I want to go with two different tulip colors as well. I think one's going to be pink and one's going to be maybe blue. Let's check how it looks with dark blue. Alright, so I'm going to add a new layer. And I think I'm going to put the dark blue tulips together with the teal stems. So I'm still at my acrylic marker around, and I'm just going to draw like a dark blue tulip right here in the center. Just like soap. And the same height is gonna give us a tulip here. So it doesn't fit completely onto the canvas, and that's exactly what I'm hoping for. Then we will have another one down here and another one down here. And we can see the bottom of the ones that would follow on top. Great. This gives this great indication of a seamless repeat pattern again. Then let's switch to our let's say the acrylic mark her fuzzy or maybe juicy today. And then we're just gonna fill our shapes. And then we can clean up our shapes with the acrylic marker round as eraser. Beautiful. Okay. So that's tulips number one. And now we're going to draw the remaining one here in between. Let's add another layer on top of our golden stem layer and switch to pick. And then we draw our pink tulips here in the in betweens. All right. And then we can fill them with colour. Let's go back to the juicy. I think the stems are a little bit plain. Of course, we also need some areas here where the blooms are growing out of the stem, and we're just going to go back to our golden color, pick our acrylic marker around, add them to our stems. But I want to clean up the pink shapes. So let's go back there, pick the eraser. Alright, and I think we need some leaves, as well. And I guess I want to have the leaves growing from right where the other tulip stops like this, maybe. Okay, so we can fill our leaves as well. Beautiful. And now we can do the same with our teal stems here. So let's move over to the teal layer, pick teal, and then first, we draw those little funnels here. And then we add the leaves right here in between. And now we can fill these shapes. That looks great already. However, I think the tulips are still a little bit too plain. So let's add some embellishment to them. So I'm going to add a new layer on top of the blue layer and turn that into a clipping mask. And then I want to pick a contrasting color, and I think I want to go into the complimentary range, which for blue is yellow. So I think I'm going to go with this dark yellow or bright orange here. And then I'm just gonna draw three loops at the bottom and fill them in. Oh, wait. We didn't color in the stems up here, so let's do that first. Let's go back to the golden layer, pick our golden color. And then we want to draw the same pattern here into our pink tulips. So let's add a layer on top of pink, turn that into a clipping mask, as well. And here I think I want to go with bright yellow. And now I feel we need more yellow and more orange. So I think I want to use these colors as well to create contrast in the leaves. We add another layer. We turn it into a clipping mask on top of the golden layer. And since we have yellow in the pink, I also want to put yellow into the golden layer just down here, just as a contrasting color and a repetition of the yellow. Beautiful. And now let's do the same with the teal layer here. So we're gonna add a new layer on top of teal, turn it into a clipping mask, go back to the light orange and just give these leaves the contrasting colors, as well. Oh, yes. I kind of feel like this is getting this folk art, Scandinavian folk art feel somehow. I feel like I would like a little bit more contrast between yellow and the golden ochre tone. So I want to go back to my ochre layer and I'm going to hit the wand tool, go to Saturation brightness. I think I'm just going to make it a little darker, 2% and all of a sudden the color pop way more. Maybe three. Yes, that looks much better. Awesome. I just think due to the white background, it all has, like, a pretty cold feel. So I'd rather have the background in my off white. So I'm gonna switch I'm gonna pick my off white here. Switch to the acrylic marker juicy, bump the brush size up and just gonna color in the background, and everything looks much warmer right away. And here we go. This is today's sketchbook spread done. It looks amazing. The colors really work well together, and this is how it looks in my sketchbook. Amazing. I really love how this has turned out. Well, and that's it for today. Thanks for being here with me, and I'm already looking forward to drawing again with you tomorrow. I'll see you then. 9. Day 6: Blooming Cascade: Hello, and welcome to day six of our feel good sketchbook challenge. Today is going to be very colorful again. I think we are going with very colorful fantasy flowers again. And also, I guess we have them growing on strings as well. However, we have some of them growing upwards and some of them growing downwards. So let's see how that goes. Since I'm pretty sure I'm going to put a color in the background, I will add another layer right away. I have my two by 3,000 pixel canvas, and you please go with a measurement you need for your sketchbook. And then I check. I am at the acrylic marker round. I think I want to have a golden stem again, and I will put this right in the center. Let's eyeball the center at around here, and we are going to make it a little thicker. And if we're not sure if this is in the center, we can use our wonderful Procreate to help us. So we set it to uniform. We turn on snapping. And then we check and see where it will snap. This is the center. Okay. Brilliant. And then I guess I want to have another set of stems as we did yesterday. So let's add a new layer. And this time, why don't we go with dark blue again? I really like the dark blue. And then I'm going to draw another stem kind of here. Somewhere here. And in our next step. I want to place a flower right in the center here of this golden stem. I guess I want to have petals in the background and in the foreground. So first of all, let's add a new layer. I think I'm going to go with pink now. I'm just going to place almond shapes here on the stem. And then I'm going to add petal number two here. And we are going to seep the tips of these petals down there as well. And I could imagine that we'll also see some petals peeking in from the side. We could also go ahead and, you know, clean up the tips a little bit if we would want to. But I'm actually kind of fine the way it is right now, but I want to add some petals in the foreground, as well. So I'm going to add a new layer. I'm going to go with orange now. And now I'm going to place those pointy oblong shapes here, those siga Pisks here on top. Just in case you're wondering, I'm still with the acrylic marker round. I don't think we're going to see one here, but maybe we are seeing one there. Definitely not up there, but here we see the start like this. Now I want to do the same just in the reversed order, upside down. Here I want the orange in the background, three petals in the background. And, of course, as we need to have the reverse color, we want to add some pink petals on top, so we can't obviously draw them on the pink layer, so we have to add another layer on top. Go back to pink. I just feel the contrast between the petals isn't big enough. I want to add lines, but only to the foreground petals. In that case, the pink ones. Let's add a new layer on top. Let turn it into a clipping mask. And I guess I want to go with light pink in this case, and I'll stick to this brush. I'm just going to turn down the brush size. And then I'm just going to add lines here to the petals just to create some more contrast. Great. Now they are much more visible. Perfect. And let's do the same with the orange foreground petal. So let's add a layer on top there, too. Turn it into a clipping mask. And now I guess I want to go. Let's go with yellow or light orange. Let's check and see how light orange looks. Let's turn around. H. Alright. Oh, that looks brilliant. Okay. I just think the stems look a little bit odd, and I think there needs to be something like a thing where the petals grow out of soup. I guess I want to add that on top, and I think we also need leaves. So to this stem here, I am going to add, like something like a dome up here. We don't see those domes here at the sides, but we will see them here at our blue stems. So let's add a new layer. And here we need to do the same in blue. Hey. And now I want to give my stem some petals, as well. And I guess I want to reverse the colors once more. So to the blue stems, I want to add golden leaves, and to the golden stem, I want to add blue leaves. So since I'm at blue and on the blue layer, And then, of course, we need golden leaves here at the blue stem. So let's go back to our ochre, golden color. Let's go back to the ochre layer. Amazing. And now I feel like the leaves need a little something because they look very plain. So I'm going to add another layer on top, turn it into a clipping mask, go back to blue. And inside, I'm just gonna drop like soap. And the same we can do with the blue in golden. Let's add a new layer, turn it into a clipping mask, go back to the golden color. B. And I still don't like the background. I think what's missing here is some color in the background. So I think I want to try how it looks with our mint green or very bright teal. And I'm going to go with acrylic marker fuzzy, make the brush size really big and just draw the background. Oh, my God, yes. Oh, yes. I really like this one. However, we used yellow in these petals here or a bright orange. And I think we need to repeat a lighter yellowish color. So how about we add on top a layer, go to yellow and just let's go back to the acrylic marker, draw circles here in between the tips of the petals. I wonder how it looks if we put another bright yellow.in the center of the yellow dots. So, let's check let's find out. Let's just put another layer on top, go with a very bright yellow, and check how it looks. If we add another dot, and I guess I like that. T. And here we go. Our today's floreed spread is finished. And here it is in my sketchbook. These colors really pop, and that's it. Thank you for being here with me today, and I'm already looking forward to drawing again with you tomorrow. I'll see you then. 10. Day 7: Cornflowers: Hello, and welcome to day seven of our feel good sketchbook challenge. Today, I feel like drawing blue corn flowers. I really like those flowers. They are so pretty, the blue so bright, and this is what we're going to draw today. So first of all, I've started my canvas, you start yours, and then I will switch over to my dark green right away. And I will use my acrylic marker around. Let me bump up my brush size a little bit. And I will start with putting down three vines. And then we're going to add some leaves, nice and big pointy leaves. And in the in betweens where you feel it's a little bit empty, we can add some tiny stems, where later on maybe some buds are growing out of something like this. And I feel like we need some here on the bottom, because otherwise we would have three at each stem. That's kind of boring. And then we can fill in our leaves. So just color them in using the brush you prefer. I think I'm going to go with acrylic marker juicy for now. Can you believe we're almost finished with our first week of sketchbook florals? I hope you're enjoying the journey as much as I do, and I can't wait to see your spreads in the project gallery. Wonderful. And if you want, you can clean up the tips of your leaves. And in our next step, I want to give these leaves a little bit of lighter area here right in the center. So let's add a new layer. Switch over to our lime green, and then I'm going to go back to my acrylic marker. I guess I need to decrease the brush size a little bit. And then I'm just going to draw a smaller oval in here. And now we are going to fill in the style of the show our beautiful corn flowers. So let's add a new layer. And then we are going to switch over to our bright blue here. So let's increase the brush size a little bit. And then we draw these super long hard shapes all around the center. And this is our first cornflower. So if we fill it in, you see it looks very, very nice here. And now we just continue to fill empty gaps with more of these beautiful blue pops here. And you can see I'm really loose. I'm just moving my hand. So, and then it's just about filling the petals again. Really nice. And I feel like there's still a pop of color missing. Like, within the center of our corn flowers, I want to add some stamen, and I guess I'm going to keep them yellow. Just a nice pop of color here. And I'm just gonna draw random dots here in the center. Just like this. Yes, this works really well. Beautiful. And now I still feel we need some color. So I kind of want to add some bright red or so, just to add some buds here, and these little empty stems here. So, let's add a new layer. And drag it, I guess underneath. I think I will also change the background color. I'm going to add a new layer on top right away, and this is where I go ahead and draw my little butts here. Maybe let's see what's going to work. Maybe something like this. This definitely is a bright pop of color. Oh, wonderful. I love that. I also love the overlapping here. Very, very nice. So, as I said, I don't like the white background, so I think I'm going to go ahead right away and pick my off white. And then I'm just gonna fill that in with the fuzzy marker pretty big again. Yes, and that makes it much warmer right away. And still I still want to add some more color because I think there's quite some empty spaces here. How about we go with dark orange? Just some random flowers here and there where you feel like it's a bit too empty. And this way, I guess we combine the red and the yellow nicely, which makes the whole illustration a little bit more cohesive. And I guess we could have either repeat yellow once more as the stamen within those little orange flowers or we could try how it looks with blue. Let's see. Let's go to the blue layer, pick our light blue once more, and then we're just going to draw a little circle in the center. And this way, the blue has some repetition as well. And here we go. I think we're done. And this is how it looks in my sketchbook. Beautiful how these colors pop. I really like it. And that's it for today. Thank you for being here with me and I'm already looking forward to drawing again with you tomorrow in week two. I will see you then. 11. Day 8: Hibiscus Daydream: Hello, and welcome to Week two of our Feel Good sketchbook challenge. And today, we're on day eight. I'm so glad you're here with me. Today it's all about leaves. And I think I want to go back to my golden ochre color. And let's check our brush. We're on the acriticmrka round, and I guess that's a good choice. And then let's start by just adding two veins like so, and we're just going to fill the entire stem with big pointy leaves. These are the leaves that will stay in the background, so we don't see that much of them. They just cover most of the background. So let's switch over to our acrylic marker fuzzy for now, turn down the brush size, and then we're just gonna color in our leaves. Beautiful. And then I feel like I want to give them a little bit of a darker center. So let's add a new layer on top. I don't think we need it as a clipping mask, move over to our brown. Go back to the acrylic marker round, but we need to decrease the brush size. And I just want to draw like a tiny little triangle in here. And now we want to add some mint or teal color ones on top. So let's add a new layer. And now I guess I want to go with the teal color here. And then I am going to add two more stems, but maybe going in a different direction. Great. And now we're going to do the same on these veins. We're going to add some leaves pointing in either direction. And now we can just fill those with color. So I'm going to pick my acrylic fuzzy again and then start just coloring in. And this time, I feel like I want to add, like, a lighter vein on top, so I'm going to add a new layer, switch over to my light mint, go back to the acrylic marker round, and then I just draw one line trying to taper it out a little bit. Like so. And now I feel that this white background really bothers me, so I want to change that. So let me add a new layer on top, and I want to drag it underneath. And then I want to go with my peach color once more. So let's go to the acrylic marker, juicy and just colour the background in. Oh, yes, that looks so much nicer. Beautiful. Yes, the green leaves really pop now. And then it's time to add our flowers. I think this time, I want to go with, let's say, pink. And I want to draw something like hibiscus, maybe. Just pink flowers that have a heart shaped petal. I would say five ish. Just like so. And then, again, we go over the border to just create the indication of a seamless repeat. Maybe one tiny bit in the corner. Alright, and then we can fill our petal with. Let's say we go. We go with the juicy this time. All right. And now I think I want to add some stamen to our flowers here. So let's add a new layer. Go over and pick. How about we pick the light orange here? And then we're just gonna draw these kind of shape here in the center. Alright. And I feel like we're missing a little bit of contrast between the flowers and the leaves in the background. So how about we add another layer underneath our stamen on top of pink. We switch over to red, turn the brush size down really low, and just add a few lines here in our petals. Just confident lines with your hand. And that's it. Oh, my gosh, I really, really love that. And this is how it looks in my sketchbook. Really, really pretty. I absolutely love this design. And that's it for today. Thanks for being here with me, and I'm already looking forward to drawing again with you tomorrow. I will see you then. M 12. Day 9: Chrysanthemums: Hello, and welcome back to day nine of our feel good sketchbook challenge. I'm so glad you're here with me again. Today, I feel like stripy, very stripy. So first of all, I want to tint my background because I feel always really bothered by the white because if you think of a sketchbook, usually the paper is not completely bright white, but more like of off white or cream color. So let's just go ahead right away, turn the brush size really up and just color the background. And in my next step, I want to add some stripes. So let's add a new layer, and I guess I want to go with my dark blue today. Let's go with acrylic marker round. Just bump up the brush size a little bit. I guess I can cover the spread with five, like really bold stripes. So let's see where we put them. I guess one goes here. One goes here, maybe. One goes here. Let's put that in the center. Let's go to uniform, turn on snapping. And then we just got to put that in the center. Great. And then there's one in between here and here. And then we can make them wider. I feel like this stripe should go a little bit over to the center. How about gonna move it over a tiny tat, and then we can fill our bold stripes with colors. Let's just go with the marker fuzzy again and just colour it in. I just feel like they're getting bigger and bigger. So I guess this one is a little too thin. How about we gonna put, like, really big daisies on top, not in white. But let's go with pink and use the marker round. And now I really want a lot of petals and just go all around the center. And the more confident you are, the less wonky the petals are going to get. Oh I think this one needs to go to the side a tiny little bit, so let's just move it over. Yes. Like so. Beautiful. Alright. Now, we just need to fill those with color. And I guess I want to stay with my acrylic mark around because it's easier to fill small shapes with this one. H. I really like that the blue shimmers through the petals that just gives it this, you know, real feel as if we'd use like real acrylic markers. So as you can see, I'm using all the tricks to make sure my illustrations don't look digital. So now on my next layer, I guess I want to add, like, some stamen again. And this time, I feel like I want to go really dark with my dark brown. And I guess I'm gonna go with this kind of wobbly circle shape. And I feel like we're missing green. So I definitely want to add some leaves from underneath. So I'm going to go back to my blue stripes layer and add one on top. And then I guess I'm going to pick my dark green shade here. This flower here gets a leaf upright in this direction. Just like so. Amazing. Alright, and now I just want to add some lighter center into my leaves. So let's add a new layer on top. Switch over to the lime green. And then I guess I just want to do it this way. And that is today's spread done. And this is how it looks in my sketchbook. Super cool. I really love how the colors pop. So thanks for being here with me today, and I'm already looking forward to drawing again with you tomorrow. I will see you then. 13. Day 10: Rhapsody In Pink & Orange: Hello, and welcome back to Day ten of our feel good sketchbook challenge. I've got my canvas ready, so let's just dive right in. Today, I feel like maybe warmer colors. So let's start right away by coloring the background. How about we go with our peach color again? Then we switch over to our acrylic marker fuzzy and just draw some nice peach background. Okay. And then I feel like adding a lot of leaves and stems. We add another layer first. Hm. And then I guess I want to go with bright red today. So, let's switch to our acrylic marker around. I want to start with just a big stem, which is going to turn into a wobbly leaf. Right. And then we're just gonna fill these five bold leaves with beautiful red color. And I guess I'm gonna stick with the marker fuzzy, and I'm just gonna color them in. Alright, that's the pop of color in the background. And now I want to add another plant in the foreground. I guess I want to go with my pink and my acrylic marker around. And then I'm just gonna add more of these flowy leaves, I guess, here in the foreground, just in pink. But I also want to add some stems. A I just feel like this could lean a little bit in a different direction. How about we gonna rotate this one? Maybe a little bit like this. That could be better. And now let's cut in these leaves. And this time, I feel like I want to add some interest to these pink leaves. I guess I want them to have some stripes. So let's add another layer on top, turn it into a clipping mask, and I guess I want to go with my bright pink now. Go to my acrylic marker round, but turn down the brush size. And then we're just gonna give the indication of just a lot of veins here. It So I think I'm going to add some orange flowers here. Alright, let's just check. We're still at the acrylic marker round. We bump up the brush size a little bit, and then I guess I want to have something like random petals with a lot of pre space in between them. And now we just need to ink them. And now I feel like they should have some lines as well, the petals. So let's add a new layer, turn it into a clipping mask, pick, let's say, red, and then turn down the brush size. And then we're just gonna give them some random lines in there again. And don't worry about the center. We're going to cover the center in a minute. How about we add some dark stamen center to our flowers here in, let's say, brown. So I've just added a new layer and I pick my brown, and I think I'm just going to stay with my acrylic marker. And then I'm just gonna draw just whatever wonky blob here in the center of our flowers. I think we could add something like I don't know, like capsules or maybe some seeds or pots, something like that, but I don't want them to cover the flowers. I just want them to be underneath. So I think we're just gonna add let's say we add a layer below orange here. And then I'm just gonna draw something like that, a seed pod or whatever it might be. And that's it for today. I really like the warmth of this illustration. And this is how it looks in my sketchbook. A really nice pop of color with the red in the background and the brown in the foreground. Really, really cool. All right. So thank you for being here with me today again. And I'm already looking forward to drawing with you tomorrow. I will see you then. 14. Day 11: Bluebells: Hello, and welcome to day 11 of our feel good sketchbook challenge. Today is going to be all about blue bells because this is a flower shape we haven't covered yet. So I've opened my canvas and I'm ready to go. And I already know I don't want to start with my white canvas. So let's pick our off white. We are on layer number one. Pick the acrylic marker fuzzy and make the brush size really big. And as I said, we want to draw some blue bells. So let's add another layer, pick the light blue color here and switch over to the acrylic marker round. And now we're going to draw these kind of bell shapes, something like this. And then we're going to add some scallops maybe at the bottom. And we're going to spread them all over the place. I guess that's enough, and now we can fill them with color. And I think I'm just going to stay with my acrylic marker around as the small edges down here are really tough to color otherwise. Oh Yes, and that's the blue bells done. Alright, so let's add another layer, but underneath, so I'm going to move a layer down to the background and just add a layer on top there. And then I want to draw the stems on this layer, and my stems are going to be dark blue. I guess I would look really nice. I just need to turn down the brush size quite a bit. And then I want them to be like, really flowy the stems so it looks like, you know, like they have this curve, and some in this direction, and some in the other direction. And now, where the flower is attached to the stem, I want to add something like this kind of dome shape here. And in our next step, we are going to add some leaves here and there. However, I don't want them to cover the beautiful blue stems. I want them to be underneath. So let's add a layer underneath our stems. And then I think I want to pick my ochre golden color here. I'm still my acrylic marker round. I guess the brush size is also nice. Alright, I guess that's enough, leaves. So let's switch to the acrylic marker fuzzy and then just fill in the shapes. I feel like up here is a leaf missing, but not another one that leans in this direction. So maybe I'm just gonna draw it like from the outside inwards. I feel like it's almost done. I just think the ochre leaves, gold leaves, they should have, you know, some pattern on them. So I'm going to add a new layer on top and turn that into a clipping mask right away. And then I'm going to go back to my blue and to my acrylic marker round. Then I'm going to turn down the brush size. And now I think I want to give them just some stripy pattern. M And here we go. And I think that's it. It looks super pretty. And here it is in my sketchbook. It looks really, really nice. I really love how these colors look together. Alright. That's it for today. Thank you for being here with me, and I'm already looking forward to drawing again with you tomorrow. I will see you then. 15. Day 12: Full Bloom: Hello, and welcome to day 12 of our feel good drawing challenge. I've already set up my canvas and I'm ready to go. Today, I feel like I just want to fill the canvas with beautiful flowers, and they can look weird and wonky and random. I just try to fill each and every space. I'm pretty sure I will add another color in the background, so I'm going to start by adding a new layer right away. And then I'm picking my beautiful red and my acrylic marker round. And then I'm just gonna draw a whole lot of petals here. Alright, so let's fill the shapes with color. I will just stay with my acrylic marker round because they are pretty small, and it's going to be easier to fill them with color. Beautiful. And now we're going to fill the remaining space with pink flowers kind of in the same shape. So let's add another layer and switch over to pink. Alright. And then we can fill these with pink. So now I think we want to add something to fill the empty spaces here, and I guess I'm going to go with weird shaped leaves. So let's add another layer. And I guess I'm going to go with a dark blue. And then I'm just gonna fill in something like this, like a really wonky and weird looking leaf that fills kind of the empty space. They look a little bit weird, but that's okay. And we can clean up the shapes right away, as well, if we feel like we need to do that. So it's really too cold and harsh for my taste. So I want to tint the background. Let's go back to layer number one, which is empty. And then I think I'm going to go with my peach color and pick the acrylic marker fuzzy, and then I'm just going to fill in those empty spaces. M Although I feel like something is still missing, so I guess I want to draw in some decorations into the dark blue leaves. So I'm going to add a layer, turn it into a clipping mask. And I guess I'm going to go with the light blue here and my acrylic marker around. And then I'm just gonna draw in another contrasting shape here in the center. Alright, now, I feel like we need something to cover the center of our flowers. So let's give them some stamen. So let's add a new layer. And then we need something with contrast. So I think I'm going to go with the dark brown here. And then I'm just going to draw a nice brown oval circle ish. All right. And I think that's it for today. And this is how it looks in my sketchbook. Really, really cool. So thank you so much for being here, and I'm already looking forward to drawing again with you tomorrow. I will see you then. 16. Day 13: Tangerine Daydream: Hello, and welcome back to day 13 of our feel good sketchbook challenge. Today, I feel like all about scattering flowers around on the canvas. I want to go with orange and pink. So let's jump right in and start by painting the background of our canvas in orange. And I think I want to go with my acrylic marker fuzzy, and I bump up the brush size, and then I'm ready to paint. And and I really like the stripy texture. It really takes a digital feel away, right away. Alright. And in our next step, I just want to spread like loopy flowers, you know, my favorite movement loops, and I want to create those on a different layer. And I guess these flowers are going to be light pink. How about we go with light pink today? I guess I want to spread them everywhere, put them in random directions, like if someone just threw them on the canvas. And I want to turn down the brush size a little bit. I'm just not happy with this shape up there, so I'm going to erase that. And now we're just going to color in the shapes, and I think I'm going to go with my acrylic marker juicy, but I guess we need to pay attention with the brush size. And if I find something that I want to clean up, I'm just gonna do it right away. Alright, so that's step number one done. And I guess in my next step, I want to put some more pink into the bottom of my flowers here, the same shape, just a little bit smaller. So let's first add a new layer, go to the darker pink, and then I'm going to pick my acrylic marker round because that's a smaller shape and that's easier to paint with. I'm just gonna draw the same shape at the bottom. Then our next step, we're going to cover the bottoms because our little flowers here, they need a stem. So let's add a new layer on top. And then I guess I want to go with my brown yew here. And then I'm just gonna define where the stems are going to go first of all. And then we can give our flowers some leaves. And that's all our stems. Beautiful. And as I said, we want to cover the bottom of our flowers here. And I guess I want to make the leaves a little bit more interesting. I want to give them a contrasting color. So let's add a layer on top. And I guess this is better when it is a clipping mask. So I'm going to turn it into a clipping mask. And then I'm going to switch to my golden ochre ochre color. But I still feel there's a lot of empty space. So I think I want to spread some random golden colored dots here and there, just to fill the empty space. And I feel like we don't even need this golden layer as a clipping mask because it's not really going beyond any border. So we can turn the clipping mask off. And then I'm just going to draw on the same layer with gold And because these dots all by themselves are a little bit too boring, I'm going to go ahead add a layer on top, and then I'm just gonna fill my off white in the center. And here we go. We're finished. That's our today's flower spread. And this is how it looks in my sketchbook. The colors look really nice together, and it seems that I've drawn in my sketchbook right away. All right. Thanks for being here with me today, and I'm already looking forward to drawing again with you tomorrow in our final lesson. I will see you then. 17. Day 14: Blooming Squares: Hello, and welcome to our final day of our Feel Good sketchbook challenge. I really hope you've enjoyed these two weeks and you are going to continue with drawing every day. But now let's start our final floral illustration. And I've already set up my canvas, and now I want to paint the background in my off white. And I'm going to pick my acrylic marker fuzzy in a very big size. Today, I want to create something like a checkerboard pattern. I want to have alternating dark blue squares and fill the squares later on with flowers. So my contrast color is going to be dark blue today. So let's add a new layer, pick our acrylic marker around. So my first bowls stripe is going to be in the center somewhere here. Then I think we can fit another one here and another one close to the end, and the same is here and there. All right, maybe we can move this one a little bit towards the center. And now we need the horizontal strips. And now we just need to color in our blue squares, just like in a checkerboard pattern. I'm still with my acrylic marker around, and I'm just going to go ahead and fill the squares with color. Beautiful. And our checkerboard pattern is finished. And as I said, I now put flowers in those squares. In my blue squares, I want to have some daisy like flowers, so means white petals and a yellow center. And in the empty squares, I want to have like an orange dot with two leaves at the bottom. Let's add a new layer on top, and then I'm going to pick my white white. This time, we are going to go with white. And I'm gonna stay with my acrylic marker around. And I want them to be pretty large in the square, but don't go beyond the border. And now we just want to color them in. And now on top, I want to put a big yellow circle. So I'm going to add a new layer and I'm going to go with my darker yellow U. And then I'm just gonna draw like a large circle in the center. I'm still with my acrylic marker around just with a big brush size. All right. Let's move on to our next flower shape, which is going to be orange first. So let's add a new layer on top. And then I'm going to go and pick my orange. I just want to draw like a bigger circle, more like to the top of the square. Beautiful. Oh, I like the colors already a lot. So in our next step, we gonna draw some leaves. So let's add a layer on top. I think I'm going to go with my light green now. I'm going to stick to my acrylic marker around, but I'm going to turn down the brush size a little bit. One leaf goes here with a little stem, and the other one goes in the other direction. And maybe the stem needs to be a little bit bigger. Like this. Very, very nice. But I think the just lime green leaves are a little bit too plain. So I'm going to add contrasting colors. So I'm adding a new layer, and then I'm going to turn it into a clipping mask. And I guess I'm just going to go with the dark green. And then I'm just going to draw the bottom half of our leaves dark green. And here we go. Our today spread is finished. The final one. I really love how this has turned out. The colors go really well together. And this is how it looks in our sketchbook mockup. Really cute. All right. That's it for today and also for the entire class. I hope you enjoyed all the floral patterns, and the drawing process was as feel good for you as it was for me. And please don't forget to share your florals in the project galleries. I'm really looking forward to seeing a lot of beautiful flowers there. And now let's move on to the next lesson where I will show you how I created these mock ups. I will see you there. No. 18. Create Your Own Sketchbook Mockup: As promised, I want to teach you how to create your own sketchbook mockup. As you can see, here I am with a photo of my sketchbook. We want to put our illustration into the sketchbook and to have that working. So nothing goes beyond our sketchbook. We need to work with a clipping mask. However, since this is an entire photo, I can't put a clipping mask yet only into the sketchbook. What we need to do is create a separate layer out of our sketchbook pages. I'm still on this layer. But I'm going to pick my selection tool, free hand selected, color fill turned off. And now I'm just going to draw all around the edges of my sketchbook page. And I try to be as accurate as possible. When I feel I need to move my hand, I'm just going to lift up my pen. I don't start at the very end of this line because sometimes that creates a weird zig zag. I'm just going to start a little bit further away and we can even just do tapping. But sometimes there's roundings and I want to follow these roundings. This seems to be quite straight. But here we have it rounding a little bit. Mm And then here, it seems to be quite straight. So I'm just going to go until here. I just tap and then the line's gonna be increased automatically. And this seems to be quite straight to me, as well. So I'm just gonna tap. And then we need to just go back here to where we started. But I see here is a little rounding as well. So I'm just gonna follow that. And I'm going to close my shape. So as you can see, the background has this tripe pattern, which means it's not selected, but our sketchbook page is selected. And now I want to just duplicate this selection here. And I have the copy and paste menu put on my Apple Pencil. So if I double tap here, it's going to bring up the copy and paste menu. If you're still using the default settings of Procreate, you just need to do the three finger swipe down to call up the copy and paste menu. And now I want to tap Copy, which means this layer is copied. And then I do it again. I call my copy and paste menu and I say paste. Now we have a separate layer. Let me show you which is only our book pages. And now that we turned off the photo, we can see we weren't as accurate and we can clean up the edges a little bit. So let me pick my eraser and my nice liner tapered with a small size. Just go to erase those dark edges we don't want to have in our illustration later on. And since we've copied our sketchbook pages, instead of cutting it out of the image, we still have the sketchbook pages intact underneath. So it doesn't matter if we go a little bit into the paper. It just makes it even more obvious that there's a sketchbook underneath with more pages. Brilliant. Okay, so that's our sketchbook pages. We can turn on our picture again. And now I'm going to show you how we're going to put the image into the sketchbook. That means we need to insert a photo. I'm just going to tap my wrench tool here and then insert a photo. All right, so here we are with our illustration right in our image. However, we can't see where our sketchbook really is. So what I want to do now is I want to turn my illustration into linear burn blend mode. Like this. So now I can clearly see where our sketchbook is. And I'm going to start moving my illustration around a little bit. So first of all, I want to rotate it a little bit just to make sure it fits kind of the bottom edge, and then I want to make it a little bit smaller as well. And now, of course, it doesn't have the same distortion as my sketchbook, but we can work on that as well. And to make it really realistic looking, we want to cut our illustration into pieces, and that's also pretty simple. So I'm going to go and pick my selection tool, and then I make sure I see here in the middle the center and I tap here. There kind of along the center line of my sketchbook and all around the illustration. And then I call my copy and paste menu again by double tapping on my Apple Pencil. You do the three fingers wipe down, and then I just say cut and paste. And you can see it turned back into normal blend mode, which is no problem at all. We just go back and turn it into linear burn. Linear burn does not only show us the outline of our sketchbook, but it also makes the color interact with maybe some stipples in your paper texture, for example. So this is going to be seen in the illustration as well, which makes it more realistic. All right. Now we can make sure that our illustration fits the pages. I'm going to go back to the move tool, and now I tap Distort. All I need to do is I'm going to pull it so the corners fit the corners of my sketchbook. Then we also create this interesting perspective that makes the illustration more realistic. Great. But now we can see since it has straight edges, it doesn't follow the rounding of our sketchbook. However, that's no problem. We just move over to warp. And now we enable advanced mesh. And now we can grab those notes here and just pull the illustration to where we want it to be. Here we need to go down a little bit. I actually like when the illustrations both halves overlap a little bit because that creates this natural arise. Then we just pull around the notes until we think we're happy. Now we can see we still go beyond the border. But that's no problem. We're just gonna turn this layer into a clipping mask. Ta da. And here we are. Beautiful. It looks fantastic. I can see I was a little bit rough in my edging here, but that's no problem whatsoever. You can try to make it a little bit more tidy. And then we're going to do the same steps with this half of our illustration. So make sure we're going to go to the other layer. And then we do the same procedure. We tap the move tool. We go back to distort. And we pull the notes. And then we move over to warp with the advanced mesh. I actually really like the distortion here. Because if you check in a sketchbook, where this creases in the center, you always have a little bit of distortion where one page ends and the other one starts. It's hard to draw in a real sketchbook and make this really invisible. So this kind of makes it even more realistic. But we still go beyond the borders a little bit. So let's turn this layer also into a clipping mask. And here we go. And it looks really, really nice. If you zoom in, you can really see the strokes, you can see the crease. And if you would want to add a little bit more shading, you could definitely do so by adding another layer, pick a dark color, maybe an airbrush, a very soft one. And then you could just add some shading here in the center just to make it even more realistic. And then you would turn that into linear burn or another blend mode as well, just to have it interact nicely with your layer. You play with the opacity, and here we go. It really looks fantastic. I hope you will use this mock up trick. You can do your mock up with a lot of different things. Maybe you take a photo of your cup or your mug or a book or whatever it is, and then you can montage your own illustrations in there. I hope that helps. So let's move on to the final lesson where we'll wrap up the class. I'll see you there. Right. 19. Final Thoughts: You did it. You reached the end of our 14 day feel good sketchbook challenge, and I am so proud of you. I hope you had as much fun creating these cute little floals as I did. Over the past 14 days, you've explored bold shapes, playful composition, happy colors, and different ways to fill a page without putting too much pressure on yourself. But most importantly, you've showed up every day. You practiced and you added a whole collection of new pages to your sketchbook. Please don't forget to share your project in the project gallery. You can upload your favorite illustration only a selection of pages or your complete set of 14 colorful florals. 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