Affinity Designer 2 for iPad: Birth Month Flowers

1. Introduction: [MUSIC] Do you love flowers? Are you inspired by nature and do you enjoy working on your iPad? If so, you're in the right place and if you're a little unsure or maybe feeling overwhelmed, it's okay. You're in the right place. I'm an elementary school teacher, turned, self-taught, creative. I left the classroom in 2020 and found myself at home with a lot of time, a set of watercolor paints, and a Skillshare membership. I taught myself how to make seamless repeat patterns and affinity designs. Since then, my designs has been selected for journal covers, printed on poly mailers, and I have fabric sold through Spoonflower and other sites for small makers and businesses to use. I hope to encourage you on your creative journey. From Day 1, I knew I wanted to include flowers in my work. It looks so simple. However, I really struggled with them. I thought that the viewer really needed lots of realistic information to see the flower as a flower. However, it turns out that we actually needs much less information than I thought they did. Having come to this conclusion, I knew I needed to try the two together. A flat vector field with simple line-drawn flowers. I created this class because I wanted to share a workflow I recently discovered using masks. I decided to narrow the field and only include birth month flowers. There's thousands of flowers to choose from, which is great but also overwhelming at the same time. Plus birth month flowers have special meanings, which I think make bouquets really neat. I decided to also use reference images for this class to make sure the class is accessible to all levels, especially beginners. Affinity Designer is my go-to program. I work in at almost every single day and I'm always learning new ways to work in the program. I've created over 100 patterns and countless motifs. I hope it becomes a program you enjoy working in as well. Now let's get started by looking at the class project. 2. Class Project: [MUSIC] In this class, we'll create a root 20 line drawn flowers for our bouquets. A birth month bouquet, is a special arrangement only using flowers that symbolize the month that each person from a group or family were born in. For example if you have a group with a birthday in April, June, and August, those are the three flowers you would use. Each month except for November, has two flowers to choose from [MUSIC] If you already know the month for your group or family, please feel free to skip around and go straight to those videos. We'll work in a non-destructive workflow, meaning that we're just going to temporarily erase or hide parts of our drawings, so you always have your original to go back to. Plus, we're going to save each flower as an asset so by the end of this class, you will have a large library of flowers to choose from. I can't wait to see your bouquets. To get started we'll take a quick tour around Designer 2, and look at some of the tools we'll be using. We'll also look at our working document and make sure we have our reference images set and ready to go. If you'd like to add some color behind your line work we'll also look at ways that you can incorporate color. There's no pressure to add color though, as black and white is always in style. Your bouquets are going to be gorgeous. I just know it and I can't wait to see them in the projects gallery. Be sure to upload your project by heading to the project and resources tab, clicking, Create, Project and uploading an image to the project description of your, bouquet. Also, be sure to check out and download the resources. Resources are only visible on a desktop, so you won't see them on a mobile site like your phone. Head to a computer and then make sure to check out those resources. As a reminder, takes 10 seconds the courage to share your work with this wonderful community we would love to cheer you on. Now, go grab your iPad and I'll meet you in the next lesson. 3. Set Up & Tips: [MUSIC] A few tips before we get started to open or import my document. I can go to Open, Import Document and then I need to find the Birth Month Flowers Gallery.aftemplate on my iPad and tap that to open. Since this is a template, you could also go to the templates and then you should be able to find possibly in your recent the template for the birth month flowers as well. We'll use the art boards by turning on each layer. We'll have a reference image and some colors that I've already selected from the reference images for you. You want to use these colors. They're already here, ready to go. If not, if you want to grab your own, feel free. By tapping on the layers menu, we have January toggled on and then I'm going to open the layers panel. You can see I've already done a few drawings in here. I have a few layers that you might not have just yet. But this is our reference image for our carnations, which you can turn on or off and these are colors that I've selected already. Then we can close January and toggle on February. We'll go month by month, turning each of these on, showing the reference image and some color. Let's take a quick tour of our Designer 2 interface. As always, there's the question mark in the bottom right-hand corner which provides a lot of helpful information about some of our tools, our studios, and then our information for the middle and the top for our toolbar. We'll be using a lot of the pencil tool. That is on our left-hand side. We're also going to be using our color studio quite often. There's a black circle here, which will allow you to change the colors. You can switch between swatches. If you already imported maybe your bouquet 1 and your bouquet 2 swatches, this is where you can find those. If you tap on colors, you can use the color wheel. This is how I really prefer to pick colors. You can slide the wheel around the outside. Then there's also a dot in the middle. Grab that or tap. You can change the intensity of the color you've selected on the outside. To the right of the color dot is a paint bucket with a little paint overflowing and this is the option to use fill. You tap, Use Fill. Now you have an option for your fill color. This could be the same or different from your stroke color. Let me change this to quite a different color. Our first color is for our stroke, which will be the line that we're working with. The second dot is for the fill. This will be the inside the painting, if you will, of the lines. You can also work over here on the right-hand side from our top color dot, you can select the same options, stroke, and then our fill. Let's look at the pencil tool with our stroke and our fill selected for just a moment. As you're drawing, you can see that we have a red stroke and a yellow fill. I wanted to change the fill color. I can, so I can come and slide the outer wheel or tap in the middle and change my stroke color. I can also change the width of my stroke. Underneath the Color Studio is the Stroke Studio. On the Stroke Studio, this slider for the width will allow you to change the width of your stroke. Alternatively, you can also use the slider on the left-hand side. A lot of the tools are in two places and you'll just have to figure out which place really works best for you. As you change through different tools, you'll notice the toolbar at the top changes. This toolbar is specific for the tool that you have selected. I do want to mention that you can use different brushes. If you have your line selected here, you can choose a different brush to see what that might look like. I tend to use more of a monoweight fill in my work. However, I have used the solid pen with pressure and pressure and opacity. Another brush I like is the brush pen 01, 2 or 3, I tend to stay in the pen section. However, find something that works for you and your style. Next, let's look at the Stock Studio. The Stock Studio is on the right-hand side. It looks like two pictures on top of each other. The Stock Studio is where I've found all of our reference images. I've used either Pixabay, Pexels or I did use Unsplash for a few stock reference images as well. Once you open your Stock Studio, you can type in the flower or whatever you're looking for, and a tap show keyboard. You'll see lots of beautiful images come up that you can use. If you find one that you like, then you can go ahead and do a long finger hold on the screen. It should wiggle a little bit and then you can drag it over to where you would like the reference image to be. Once you've dragged it to where you like, you can re-size it, making sure you have the Move tool selected. I like to look for images that have more than one angle. This is a really great example because it actually has a side angle, has a top angle, has one, again from a different side. This is also from a top side angle. I look for the angles and then I also look to see if the flowers are maybe more open or closed. I did find there were some times when I wanted to double-check that the reference image flower was actually the flower that I was searching for. To use Siri to help us double-check our reference images, I'm going to select my image. Tap on the three horizontal lines. Tap Export. I want to only export the selection only. Under area, I'm going to select Selection only and should be our reference image, and change the name. Tap Okay. You can save this wherever you would like. Next, find the image on your iPad. Mine is in my files under Recent, you may need to look in your iCloud Drive or On My iPad depending on where you decided to save your image. Tap my carnation to open. Then you'll see on the top right hand there's little eye with a circle and like a magical star. Let's tap on that eye. It should bring up some results. Now, Siri is telling us that this is a carnation, is also telling us that it's a type of flowering plants, and then we have similar web images. This is a great way to check to see that the reference image you're using is actually the flower you think it is. Now let's take a look at the Assets Studio. Assets is above the Stock Studio, has four little lines and then a square and a circle. I'm going to tap on Assets and it'll open to the last assets library that you have open, tap the top three horizontal lines and add category. The category will be the name of all of the flowers we are making. I'm going to type in birth, month, flowers. Tap, Okay. It told me I have a Birth Month Flowers library already. That's okay. I'm going to type in birth month flowers, Skillshare, and tap Okay. Now we have a category named Birth Month Flowers Skillshare, tap back on the three horizontal lines, and let's add a sub category. I'm going to divide my birth month flowers by month. Now I have a subcategory named Assets. I want to change the name Assets to January. Tap on the three horizontal lines, and then rename sub category. In just a few quick tips, if you know exactly what months you want to use in your bouquet, then feel free to just go ahead and turn those on and skip around to the flowers that you need. If you'd like to build a gallery of all 12 months, then follow along with the class as we'll go in order throughout the year. By the way, if you're mostly interested in building bouquets, be sure to check out the lesson on bouquet building using masks. This is where the real magic happens. We have a little bit of work to do first, building out our gallery of flowers. We have a lot of flowers to get through, so hang in there because I promise it's going to be worth it in the end. When we start applying those layer masks and clipping masks, we'll see magic happening. I hope you are able to download and open the working file. If you're running into an issue, let me know in the discussion area, [MUSIC] I'll do my best to get you up and running as quickly as possible. I'll meet you in the next lesson to get started on January's flowers. 4. January: Carnation & Snowdrop: [MUSIC] Open our January groups. We have our reference image first and I want to go ahead and see that on my artboards. I'm going to tap this light gray circle to toggle on the visibility. We are actually going to trace on top of this image. I'm going to lower the opacity by clicking or tapping on the three dots and sliding this opacity slider to about 50%. It doesn't have to be exact, just somewhere in the middle. Now, let's create a new vector layer and this is layer that we want to do our drawing on, which is above our reference image. Select the Pencil Tool. And let's make sure that we give our pencil tool a black stroke and we can start tracing. I'm going to use the carnation in the middle. I really like its shape and how it's open just a little bit more than the ones to the left and the right. Feel free to use any image that you want. I normally start by looking for some simple shapes. So this looks like a U-shape here. Then I am going to start with some petals. So this petal here, it looks like it's actually folding out a little bit. So I'm going to try to capture that shape. We have another petal peeking out from behind here and then we have a pedal on the backside and even further back. I like to work symmetrically so I'm going to go ahead and go to the left side now and capture that same feeling that the petals are coming out and they're a little further back than the others. What this flat style, we're not necessarily trying to get every single tiny detail. As you'll notice, I didn't actually go back and draw any of these shadowed areas. So for now, I'm just going to go ahead and ignore them. I might come back in a few minutes and add in a few more details, but for now, less is more in the flat style. This petal here, it looks like it's folded out a little bit. I'm really not liking the way that I started my line there. So I'm going to go to the "Node Tool", tap on the last node, and then I'm going to drop this down a little bit to make it a little smoother. Back to the Pencil Tool. Here's some of those shadowed areas again. So for the time being, I am just going to ignore those. I might, let's see, add in a little here to make it look like there's a separate petal than one in front and then one in the behind. I do want to add this line here to separate the petals. Like that. Let's go back over to the left. This will mimic the right where they're going to be out and swooping up a little bit. Let's start this guy here, I'm not liking how I started that either so let's grab that node tool and go clean that up. Back to the Pencil Tool. So these petals in the back they're a little bit more forward facing, if you will. They're little simpler to draw. I do like to start in the front and work my way to the back. Let's turn off our reference image and see what our flower looks like. I'm liking the fields so far the only thing is I have a little disconnect here, so this line is not in line with the others. Let's see what we can do about that, there's this one coming from over here. There it is. Happier with that. One little area up here, I wanted to clean up as well. Let's turn our reference image back on and we'll go ahead and draw in our stem. So our stem, we just want to go ahead and get a good feel for the shape and the size of the stem at this point. When we get into building our bouquets and future lessons, we may or may not really need the stem. So I'm not going to worry about it too much. I just want to make sure that I have a general idea for what it does look like in case I decide that I want a shorter stem or a longer stem in my bouquet. Lots of zooming out, lots of zooming in and turning on and off your reference image to make sure that it's evoking the feel that you want. I'm happy with this. I think it gives the reader enough information that it's a carnation, that it has lots of folds and petals. I do see one little area I'm going to fix on the stem here. That looks even better. Now we're going to save as an asset, head over to your Layers panel again. Make sure you have your layer selected minus layer 245. You want. You can go ahead and group these together might make it a little bit easier for the future. Then we need to change the stroke to white. The stroke is changed to white because when we go into our assets and just a few moments, our assets are shown on a black background. So it's hard to see the black stroke on the black background. We already have our birth month flowers category on our first subcategory, January. So we're going to tap on the three horizontal lines. Tap "Add Asset From Selection". Now, you should be able to see your white carnation on the black background. Once you have your assets saved, head back over, and let's change that stroke back to black. Now that are carnation is finished. I'm going to show you January's secondary flower , the snowdrop. [MUSIC] Snowdrop is the white drooping flower you see here. But don't worry if you have any questions about what I'm doing I'm always available for questions and the discussion section. Enjoy, and I'll see you in the next lesson. [MUSIC] 5. February: Violet & Primrose: Lets start on our February art board. Go ahead and open your layers panel. Expand your February group and turn on your reference image. Select the reference image, tap on the three dots, and let's lower the opacity again. Tap on the plus sign and add a vector layer. Double-check to make sure that we're on the vector layer above the reference image. Let's tap our pencil with that, activate it, and add a black stroke, zoom in and start on our petals. The violet has five overlapping petals. Instead of drawing each one separately, I'm going to draw the beginning of each one starting at the center and working my way out. Then I'll come back and connect them in a few moment. Now that I have the basic shape of all the petals, I'm going to add a few little connecting lines here to connect to the center of the flower. We also have some anthers here that we need to draw. I'm going to try to get some of these anthers to show some movement just by adding some straight and almost curved lines there. Then at the end, I'm going to draw some longer ones with more of a rounded almost a C-shape or like a bean shape. Trying to make these look a little different than the other ones that you've already drawn. If you need to draw maybe a little outside or above the reference image, that's okay. Just remember we just wanted to give the idea that there's something here. Actually connect these to looked funky like they're just floating out there in space and we give them little connection. Actually, let me use my node tool to connect this just a little bit more. There we go. We definitely have a lighter variation here so starting at the base of the petal and working our way out, it gets darker. Then we also have a lot of lines on each petal. For my flat style that I like not as much detail, I'm just going to do maybe two or three on each petal. Feel free to do more if you want more detail. I'm just trying to keep the consistency between the flowers for each month, similar as well. I don't want one month to have a lot, a lot of detail and for another month and not to have much. That's what I'm also thinking about why only drawing three, maybe four of these lines. Only thing that I'm wondering, is if we could come in and add any work on the ends of the petals. I don't have a lot of folds to work with, so that's not going to help us. I think I'm actually just going to go ahead and leave this as it is though. Next, we want to add a stem. Since this is from the top looking down, I'm going to just imagine and envision that we have a stem that's coming down and then curves a little bit. I'm actually going to make my curve up and down to the right. I like to start in the middle where I think the stem would actually be starting at one and draw and it's like I'm outside of the petal and then pick up with my pencil work there. That's grouping down is one way you could go about it with your stem. Another way you could do this is to have the stem come out down to the left here. I might try that to see what it looks like. There we go. Something like that. Or you might even want to have the stem coming down completely. I'm going to give myself a little bit more room here. I'm going to head to my layers panel and move this up just a little bit. Then the other option is that it would be coming from the backside, almost straight down, but with a little curve because as we know nothing's really perfect in nature. I'm liking the way this feels so it would be something like the flowers standing but then it's drooped over just a little bit from the top. But then you can see the front of the flower. I like that so I think I'm going to go ahead and stay with that. I have everything grouped on the same layer. I'm going to save as an asset now. I'm going to select my layer, change my stroke to white, come over to my assets. I need to make a new subcategory for February. Tapping on the three lines beside assets, then tap add sub category. Now it's labeled assets, I'm going to tap on the three lines to the right of assets and rename subcategory. I tap the three lines again and add asset from selection. Back to my stroke, change this back to black and now we have our violet saved. Here is the quick time lapse of the secondary flower for February, the primrose. Enjoy, and I'll see you in the next lesson. [MUSIC] 6. March: Daffodil & Jonquil: Let's start on our March, our board. We're going to find our reference image and open that. There are daffodils. Let's lower the opacity just a little bit to make it easier to trace and add a new vector layer. Make sure we have our pencil tool selected. Add a black stroke and let's get started. I'm looking for a daffodil that has a side view or the side angle. This little guy here should do the trick. Even though he's covered up, this bottom petal's covered up a little bit, I'm just going to go ahead and add it in as best I think and we'll make it work. So again, I start just looking for some of those basic shapes of the petals. It's going to be a little bit shorter because it's behind. Here we go around. Daffodils are the perfect sign of spring, this bright yellow color. I think they're just a great way to say the sun is shining. In the inside here, we're going to need to make this a little jagged. Just wiggle your pencil back and forth to get some of those. We're actually going to have a fold right here because this is going to make a cup in the middle. We want to make sure we get that. Then we are going to have some anthers. They're a little hard to see. But if you zoom out, you might be able to see them better on a different daffodil and that'll help give you a little perspective. They're either going to be dots or they're just going to be long lines like this. You can see where they have a longer line there. I'm going to make mine a mix of the two. I'm just going to make a couple of little long lines. To make dots, I find it easier to turn off my stabilizer and just say no stabilizer for a few minutes and then turn my stabilizer back on. Let's see how this looks. Zoom out, turn off my reference image. This looks a little on the short side [LAUGHTER] to me. I'm going to select my node tool. I do want to drag this out just a little bit. Just to give it a little more of a petal shape. We go back in and add a stem. Since this flower is facing to the right, the stem would be from behind here to the left just a little bit. You can see this one droops to the side and this one as well in the background, it goes up and over. I do want to make sure that that is portrayed. It'd be something like starting here at the base, coming down. Let's start there, that was like this. Let's see. I am going to move this line in a little bit. You can see the daffodils have a lot of these long leaves that look like swords or something. If we wanted, we could go ahead and add in a few of those just to help us remember, especially when we start adding them to the bouquet. Just a long leaf, something like that, might look nice. Then turn off our reference image layer again. We have our daffodil. Going to select the daffodil. I want to group everything together, make it a little bit easier. Picture, change the stroke color to white. If you wanted, you could also change it just to a different color like blue is one of those quick colors that always comes up, then you add it to your assets. We're going to need a new subcategory. Add subcategory with assets as our new subcategory. We're going to tap on the three lines, "Rename Subcategory", March. Then "Add Asset From Selection" The blue shows up really well. If you want to do that, that would be an alternative to white. I'm going to go ahead and change my back to the black stroke. We have our March primary flower, the daffodil. Now with our daffodil finished, I'm going to show you March's secondary flower, the Jonquil in a quick time-lapse. This one is really similar to daffodil as it's in the same family. Enjoy, and I'll see you in the next lesson. [MUSIC] 7. April: Daisy & Sweet Pea: Start on our April art board and open our reference image. Once we have it open, be sure to lower the opacity and make a new vector layer. Make sure I'm on that new vector layer, the pencil tool is selected with a black stroke and we can start tracing. I'm going to start with the outer petals here, and then we'll move to this lovely bouquet of florets in the middle. We are going to simplify it quite a bit, but I think you'll still get the impression that this is two flowers in one, the tiny florets in the middle and the lovely white petals. I tried to add in any extra curves and wiggles when I can. Just find it looks a little bit more natural when it's not super smooth. You may consider trying that in your work too. We have a lot of shadows in the petals here and the creases. I'm not going to include those just because we're trying to go for that simple flat style. I will show a few that are overlapping like that. They were pretty close together, so I just included those to make sure that the viewer knows there are lots of tiny petals here. Starting from the same point is helpful and then overlapping the line. It can also help to vary the width a little bit if you're using a brush that doesn't have pressure sensitivities like I am. I do like a mono weight feel. However, it is nice to add in just the illusion of a little line width variation from time to time. Here are our petals. Let's start in this beautiful bouquet in the middle. I go ahead and trace around the outside, adding as many little wiggles as I can, connecting the petals to the florets, if possible. Clean that up just a little bit. This is where I started in that same general area, so we have a lot overlapping. Then I'm going to add another layer here to our floret. You can really see that it has dimension, it has depth here. We have a lot of yellow, darker areas here. So for those darker areas, I'm going to turn off my rope stabilizer so I can make some dots. I add some very simple elements here. Let's add the stem. The stem is pretty straight, and so I'm going to give it a little bit of a curve instead. Normally, the stem will be coming down straight like this, but I'm going to give it just a little curve and then go back to where it ends right here in this picture. I'm going to start right. Trying to envision where it would come from the base of the flower. We'll just add a little curve, something like that. I think it will work. Select that last line, move it in a little bit closer. You want it with the node tool selected. You could smooth or go in and make those adjustments with a node selected. I think I really liked this daisy, so let's turn off our reference image. Now, we have everything on the same layer. That's always good. Going to group this together. Change the stroke to any color that you want other than black. Go ahead and head to our Assets Studio and make a new sub category. So we're going to add sub category down the bottom titled assets, rename to April. Then Add Asset From Selection. There's our daisy, change my back to black. We have our April flower, a daisy. The secondary flower for April is a sweet pea. So here's a quick time lapse of that flower, and I'll see you in the next lesson. [MUSIC] 8. May: Lily of the Valley & Hawthorn: Let's get into our main artboard and turn on our reference image. Bring down the opacity, add a new vector layer, and let's get to work. I am going to try to get more than one flower here, as they are together on one stem. They're more a group than a single arm. To do this, I'm just going to try to maintain their position if they're in front or behind another flower. I'm going to draw the flower that's on top first and then I'll fill in with the flowers that are behind. Get my node tool, clean this up just a little bit. I don't have my stabilizer on, so I'm going to go ahead and put that back on. This will be behind the stem, so I'm not going to draw that part. I used to not draw with the stabilizer. I would draw with no stabilizer and none, but as I've worked in infinity, I've come to realize that the rope stabilizer actually save you a lot of time and it tends to have a cleaner start than without the stabilizer. When I draw without the stabilizer, I get this little loop or a hook when I started drawing and now with the stabilizer, you can tell it starts just as a nice curve without that loop. If you haven't been drawing with a stabilizer, I highly suggest you check them out and see if there's one that you can work with. Flowers look nice. Let's go ahead and work on the stem. The stem again, let's try to start with the pieces of the stem that are on top, filling in from behind after I've drawn those. This is why I need to have my stabilizer on. I need to clean this. It's fine. I'll make it move a little point like that. Back to the stem, I'm going to take the node tool here and just extend this as compared to drawing a new line. Back to the pencil, some of these stems. This flower is actually looping around and over the front, so that's why I'm going to go ahead and draw this line across the stem to show that it's coming from behind as compared to in front. Then I'll come back and clean that up. A node tool, my handy friend here. Try to zoom in as much as you can to see your work, but sometimes I don't do that as much as I should. Let's turn off our reference image. See how it's looking, that looks really nice. I like that. Let's go back to our layer, group them together. I'm going to select with my move tool, change the stroke color. You probably know where we're headed from here, to our Assets Studio. Let's get that subcategory for May renamed and add asset from selection. Switch back to black. There is our lily of the valley. Up next is the Hawthorn maze secondary flower. I'll draw that and speed it up for you and then I'll meet you in the next lesson. [MUSIC] 9. June: Rose & Honeysuckle: [MUSIC] We'll grab our reference image, turn it on, lower the opacity, add that new vector layer, grab our pencil, and get started. I'm going to start in the center, in the middle of the rows. The rows is pretty tightly packed to begin with, and then it opens up, it gets a little bit looser. Some of these petals, they just seem to end, they just disappear. We're going to have to make some decisions here. This petal here, it just disappears. I'm going to see what it looks like, if I go ahead and extend, I don't like that, those looks too jagged, see if I extend that out to this middle petal. Then bring this petal down around. I want to keep them smaller looking in a little tighter. This one just disappears too. I'm going to have to bring this back down. See how that looks. That one disappeared as well. I'm just going to end it there. The line was a little too straight, redraw it on a curve there. I grab my node tool, clean this up just a tad. Other places I noticed that I could clean up. This petal here is folded out. I just want to make sure that I draw this line underneath to represent the fold. It's a bowl shape and then it's also folded out just a little bit. When you're working with flowers like this that are well-known and popular, you do want to spend a few extra minutes to make sure that you have all the lines and enough curves that it's going to read correctly since everybody knows what this looks like. If it's missing any part, it's going to be very easy to see. So just spend an extra few minutes trying to make sure you've added enough detail. I really want to add some more on that petal. But I think I'm going to leave it for now. Again, just adding some waves, some zigzags, so it's not super, super smooth. Let's see what this looks like without the reference image on. It's reading like a rose to me. I don't really feel like there's too many places where I can add any more detail. I noticed that this rose has a stem in the image. I think what I'm going to do, I'm going to come over here and actually copy this stem and move it over to the rows that I've drawn. Tap the screen, tap the second line, and now you'll be able to move both at the same time. I'm going to move them over here. Let's see how that looks. Great, except one is not too black. Turn off our reference image. That worked pretty well, actually. I like that. Let's group our rose together. I'm going to move it up just a little bit, change the stroke to white. You know what's coming next in our Assets Studio. We are going to add a subcategory and rename the subcategory June. Looks like you already have a rose in here. So I'm going to add a second rose from my selection. Change the stroke back to black. There we have our flower for June, a lovely rose. [MUSIC] The secondary flower for June is honeysuckle. I'll draw that, skit it up, and I'll see you in the next lesson. [MUSIC] 10. July: Larkspur & Water Lily: [MUSIC] Go ahead and turn on your reference image. Make sure the opacity is a little bit lower than 100, somewhere in the 50s to 60s. Add a new vector layer. Make sure your pencil is selected with a black stroke. Since this flower has a lot of blooms off of one stem, I'm going to increase the size of the reference image. That looks a little bit better and let's start working on this top flower. Feel free to increase the size of any reference image. I haven't emphasized the order so that they fit nicely on our board. If you're having a hard time getting in with the pencil tool and getting some of the details, then I would recommend blowing up, sizing out your reference image that your stroke looks a little smaller, even though you haven't changed it but it's just because your reference image is much larger. Draw some squiggly lines again, add bit at each end, and maybe a few dots. Looks like I didn't have my stabilizer on so I'm going to turn that back on and head over to my node tool, do a little cleaning up. If you do have a panel that overlaps like this, if you want to, you can go ahead and draw that shadow line there because that'll help to show the overlap. Let's move to the second flower. This one's facing up and to the right. It looks like we have a back pedal here. Get that to show between the two petals that we've already drawn on the flower. Here's another shading with that overlap, the shadows, I'm going to go ahead and include that. In the middle here I'm just trying to capture some basic shapes, and a few squiggles lines. The last flower here is on the left, facing up and towards the left. Lots of detail here in the center that I don't want to leave out, but I also don't want to make it too detailed. Remember with the flat style, we want to simplify as much as possible, well trying to give the viewer enough information to make out the flower. We're definitely going to know that we have something going on here in the middle, and once we come back with a few of our lines and squiggles, I think we should be about done. One was really a mirror time [LAUGHTER] and a few dots. I like the dots because they do show a little detail without being too much. Let's turn off our reference image and see how everything is looking. Looks like I wasn't on my layer, so let me select the first curve, the last dot I put down, my command, control me a tap, and then the Shift key, which is above. Scroll down to the last curve, group together, and then I can deselect shift. Let's go ahead and add our stem. I'll turn back on our reference image and grab my pencil tool to add our stem. We're going to use the main stem here, along with this little stem here. We can't see the stem for the flower on the left, so I'm just going to freehand that stem in. I'm going to turn off my reference image to draw in the next stem and I think I actually want to move this flower up to give the stem a little bit more room. I'll tap and tap again to get into the flower layer, move it up and over just a little bit, grab my pencil tool again and now just a simple stem like we had in the left-hand side, I think will look really nice. The Black stroke. When the flower's finished, be sure to change the stroke color to something other than black and save as an asset for July. [MUSIC] 11. August: Gladiolus & Poppy: [MUSIC] Let's open our August reference image. This cloud Eolas is a nice red, orange color. They come in lots of different colors, pink, white, yellow, and purple. Remember, feel free to grab any reference image that you like. Grab this one because I do like the way the flowers are facing and how they're a little bit less open on top. Lower the opacity. Add a new vector layer and get started. I'm going to start with this largest bloom here. Again, since this has multiple blooms on one stem, I went ahead and resized the reference image to make it a little bit larger. Also zoomed in quite a bit to try to get this jagged, and a little too jagged there. Let me zoom that line some. There we go. I'll clean this up a little bit. You can tell I did use a little artistic decision-making there and decided to go ahead and make this look like two. Now, when I have the node tool, I think I'm just going to make it look a little bit wider, not it's too separate, anthers there. Pretty sure those are what they're called, anthers. Pretty strong. I might need to come back and change those in a minute. We'll see. With a new flower, I do try to remember to start a new vector layer. This one has, it looks like three petals. There's one that's in front here, one that's in back. I'm just going to connect this to the base right here, where it's going to connect to the stem. We have three petals that are going to fold out. As I'm drawing, I tried to really look at the petals and see what they're doing. Helps me to get an idea of the shape I'm going for as compared to just drawing a bunch of squiggly lines. If you take note of what petal and the shape that you're going for, I'll make it feel like you're not just drawing squiggly lines. Also, the more observant you are and the more you notice, the easier and faster it will become to draw these. Eventually, even need a reference image, will just be able to draw them. I think I'm going to leave this open. Let's take a look without our reference image and see what we think. Without the stem, they're a little hard to make out as flowers. Let's go back in and add our stem. I think I might actually add a third bloom. This one on the top here, that's just so many folds and it's not really open yet. I think that might add a lot. Let's add that to go edit. Tend to follow one line and then go back and add a second lines to show that it's a fold. Let's finish up the stem here. How it's looking. I think I might just extend this line here. There we go. Grab that last node, bringing out. Tap on line, add in a curve. I think I can match pretty well. That's another option too with your stems so that you can always bring out the last node. Just bring it straight out, and then tap on that line and create the curve that you're looking for. Now that we have our flowers done, let's go back and add some detail. I'm going to turn my reference image back on. Grab my pencil tool. Then looking at the granulous, I see there's a lot of curves and some petals that I can add some folds to. Maybe something like this Just to give it a little movement. One's a big one there. I'm just trying to look at the direction the petals are curving to determine what line I'd like to draw. Let's turn off our reference image and see how this is looking now. I really like the way this turned out now. I feel like it was just missing a little bit and those subtle lines give the impression of some of the movement and the folding of the petals. [MUSIC] Sure to save as an asset and remember to change your stroke color to another color other than black. It'll be easier to see in your Asset Studio. [MUSIC] 12. September: Aster & Morning Glory: [MUSIC] Reference image. Open, go ahead and lower the opacity. Add a new vector layer. So you have a black stroke. I'm on the right layer this time and we're going to start. I think this one just pops out immediately because one very large and two, it's on the top of the group, so I'm able to see most of the petals. I'll start with the outer petals and then we'll make our way to the florets in the middle. When I draw a petal that's behind, if I can, I tried to start right at a node, right here. If I grab that node, you can go ahead and change this back to black. Have a nice clean start where you don't have to go back in and clean up with the node tool. I found that to be helpful. Also giving yourself a little bit more room than you think you need can be helpful. Starting your line a little bit earlier to a little bit more room to play with. So this time I'm going to grab this node here, starting there. If I can get a clean start to my line. We come around to the back of the flower here the petals are going to get shorter. So its actually going to go behind little bit. Asters are found in many colors. They were actually inspiration from artists such as van Gogh, Monet and for poets such as Robert Frost. Looks like I got all the petals. Let me turn off the reference image. Looks about right without that floret in the middle. For the florets, I'm going to go ahead and make the outline first, ring to connect the petals if I can. If they're not long enough or if they're too short, I'll come back with the node tool and just a minute and grab those. I'll move these nodes to the line that I just drew for the Floret outline. You want to draw your outline first and have all of these neat, you can. They all don't have to meet either. You can leave some that are a little open. I just don't like them to go over the line. If you want to leave them open, go for it. Let's extend this one. I think just to even it out a little bit. Just going to freehand it and a little shape here that give it the impression that there's another petal dripping back down and back. We are going to simplify these shapes by turning off stabilizer and making some U shapes. Try to vary the size and the position that they're at. So it doesn't look too perfect. I want it to look a little imperfect like it would be found in nature. As I get further to the back, they're going to become less overuse smaller. Just more of a curve line. Let's add the stem. The stem would be a little straight in real life, but I'm going to give mine just a little curve and that'll help when we go to build our bouquets and a little bit. To extend mine there, we give it a little curve. I have another stray mark here. I'm going to delete. Group this together. Move it up just a little bit. Change the stroke color to white. You know where we're headed here, a subcategory and we're going to save this as a new asset. Once your list gets a little longer, make sure you scroll down and you'll see your new subcategory for September. Change your stroke back to black. There is our lovely aster. September secondary flower is the Morning Glory. I'll draw that and I'll see you in the next lesson [MUSIC]. 13. October: Marigold & Cosmo: Just like with the rose, I like to start in the middle and look for those petal shapes where I can get them and then work my way out. It can be tricky in the middle here, just like with the rose so try to do the best you can. Remember, you can always go back and add more detail. I find it a little bit easier to go back and add than it is to try to take away. You might end up with this open space here in the middle, and that's okay. Now that I have most of the center taken care of, I'm just going to start on the left and work my way around. The idea that we're trying to convey here is that we have a lot of petals that are tightly packed together. They do have that wavy or jagged edge. Start back on the right-hand side and work my way around to the front, around to the back again. Marigolds are most commonly known for their bright orange blooms, although they also bloom in shades of white and yellow. It's hard to make out here, so I'm just going to do the best I can adding in many wiggles as I can trying to get the shape to match with the petals so I can see. Think of the folds here really are a bit of a mind teaser, it really makes you think about what you're doing. Not sure if that's a fold or not but I'm going to take it as one for now and we'll see how it looks. Second thought, I don't think that's going to be a fold, so I'm going to come back and take this out real quick. Also, if you have time, I do encourage you to go back and trace over your first tracing, as every time you trace, it'll get a little bit further removed from the reference image, so it will become even more unique to you. Let's see how we're looking, I'm going to go back in and see if there is any places where I could add some details, maybe like here, there's this fold. There is a lot going on. Like I said earlier, when I turned off my reference image, it looks a little land, so that's why I want to go back in and add a few more details. I really want this to be a fold, but I think it's just a color of variation. Keep coming back to it and looking at it, and I've decided I'm going to leave it alone, and then come back and look at it again. Let's try and see what this looks like now. We have added some more detail I think helped. I'm pretty happy with this. Go ahead and save as an asset. We'll need a new subcategory. Here's our marigold for October. I sized it down a little bit so that it'll be more consistent with the sizes of the flowers we've been drawing already. I'm going to take a few minutes and draw the cosmos, one of my favorite flowers and I will see you in the next lesson. [MUSIC] 14. November: Chrysanthemum: [MUSIC] In this lesson we are going to draw a chrysanthemum for November's flower. Say that 10 times fast. Mums are symbols of loyalty, friendship, and joy. I have my mum open, I've dropped my opacity and I'm ready to start drawing. I am going to resize this to make it a little bit larger. We're going to start in the center with the yellow. Just make almost like a bean type shape in the middle. I'm going to turn off my stabilizer. Since this is so tightly packed, I'm just going to use dots to represent all of the petals we see here that haven't opened and bloomed yet then I'll turn my stabilizer back on to Rope Stabilizer. I want to make some C shapes here and just some curves to start to show that we have some taller wider petals here. Mostly Cs to start with, and as we get a little further out, start more of like a teardrop almost. An open teardrop, something like this to show that they're a little taller and wider. I'm just going to work my way all the way around. Then we'll start getting some really tall ones towards the edge. You may need to start making some just artistic decisions and taking the liberty to draw where you might not be able to see exactly. But again, just gives the idea that there's a lot going on here. I think it gets a little bit simpler as you start working your way out a little bit. So don't get too worried about the inside there that's really densely packed. You can always go back and add in more if you feel like you didn't add enough to begin with. Zoom out and see how we're looking. I can see that there is a lot in the middle and we're starting to get less as we move further out. You are going to see a lot of shadows and for the most part I am going to just disregard those. However, I do want to try to get these petals that have started to open but there's still folded with this secondary line. The mum is the only flower we have for November, which is a good thing because it's going to take just a little bit longer than some of the other flowers that we've drawn or that you might have selected from other months to draw. I think it's well worth it once we get finished though. If you see you're close to an edge and you just want to go ahead and get those outer petals, go ahead and grab them or you can keep working your way around. I always think it's pretty exciting once you can see those outer petals, so I go ahead and grab them knowing that that section is complete. Some of these outer petals you can really see some of these creased fold lines. I just like to go and just a little bit to show those creases. Looks like we are almost all the way back around to where we started. All right, let's turn off our reference image and see what we have. It looks like we have a gorgeous mum. We will need a stem. Let's go ahead and draw that in now. We'll be coming from the center here. I like to add a little curve just to make it seem like it's part of nature, that it's not 100 percent perfect. [MUSIC] This is our one and only flower for November. Be sure to save it as an asset and I'll meet you in the next lesson. 15. December: Paperwhite Narcissus & Holly: December's flower, the Paperwhite Narcissus. It may look familiar as it's in the daffodil family. Let's get started. I have my reference image already. I'm going to size this up. Bring down the opacity, add the new layer, hence get started. I'm going to go ahead and start in the center so that we get our shapes there. Then I'll start with each petal. This one's going to be behind, so I'm going to do the petal next to it first. I'm trying to work from forwards and then backwards, it's a little bit easier. Few lines here to show detail on the petals. Then let's add the stem. You're doing these in order and coming off over November. It's a nice little break from what we're just working on. I think I do want to go back and add a little bit of detail on the other petals. Just to add a little movement, see how that looks. I like that. Let's go ahead and group everything together. Change our stroke color. You know what to do with our subcategory. We'll save this as December asset. That's a wrap on our flowers with December's Paperwhite. [MUSIC] December secondary flower is Holly, with its iconic red berries. I'll draw that. I'll see you in a few minutes in the next lesson. [MUSIC] 16. Foliage examples: If you decide to use foliage in your bouquets, there's a couple of ways you can go about it. I have some reference images that are included in the resources that you can use so we'll walk through those now quickly. First up is something like this. This is from a picture of babies breath. I had to enlarge it quite a bit and as you can see, there's lots of other places I could go to get some movement and some different shapes, with some foliage. You can also use some leaves like these. The one I cared for the most was in the middle. However, feel free to use all three of these if you like, the shape of those leaves. I also have some eucalyptus. This one I got a little creative with. As you can see, some of the leaves are on their side and they're pretty flat. They just look like circles really so I took this leaf that I had drawn here and duplicated it, moved up here, resized it just a tiny bit. That might be something you want to consider as well, that once you have a leaf shape traced, you could duplicate it and move it around to different areas. [MUSIC] Here are a few examples of foliage you could use for your project. You don't have to use any foliage. It's totally up to you. 17. Gallery: [MUSIC] Well, let's take a few moments to build out our gallery. Our gallery was designed to me, a one-page quick reference to help you remember exactly what you have saved as assets. Go ahead and find the month and the flower you'd like to insert and insert. Remember we saved this with a white stroke, so we'll need to change it to a color so that we can see it a little bit better. You can move it to where you like and change the color. I'm going to use my color picker to use the colors that are on each artboard. Feel free to use whatever colors you want and if you'd like to change the stroke, you can go to the width slider and slide this up or down. The smaller, the more delicate it looks. A little bit wider looks nice as well. I think 1.5 will work there. I did want to mention that once you've inserted your asset, you're only really going to be able to change the stroke color. If you go to add film, something like this will happen. We actually have a lot of different shapes and concave curves which are trying to be filled using our fill. For now, stick to changing the stroke color and having a solid outline. If once you add color to your flowers and save them as assets, then you can drag them over and start changing the colors. But for now, we'll just stick to a nice line illustration. I'm going to go ahead and work my way through my gallery, inserting my assets and changing the colors. [MUSIC] If you'd like to flip your flowers, you can come to the bar at the top. There's a triangle. Underneath, you have the option to flip horizontal or to flip vertical. Those might be helpful when you're trying to look for a placement for each flower. I have a feeling your gallery looks fantastic. I can't wait to see it. If you would post your gallery with your bouquet in the project, I cannot wait to see them. They will make my day. 18. Layer Clipping: [MUSIC] I'm going to add a rectangle and a circle to a new art board I have open, for a quick demonstration of how layer clipping works. Layer clipping is essentially placing an object inside another, I want to place this ellipse, the circle inside the rectangle. I'm going to select the layer and drag on top of the object that I want it to be clipped to, once I release the circle is going to be clipped to the rectangle, and it's going to show the boundaries of the rectangle. I have the ellipse or the circle selected, so now with my move tool selected, I can move the ellipse and it will stay inside the boundaries of the rectangle. I can also resize while it's clipped as well, let's try it the other way now. I'm going to drag my circle above the rectangle, so again they're just two objects on top overlapping each other. I'm going to drag the rectangle to the circle now. Now the rectangle is clipped to the circle. Once I have the circle selected, I can move both objects at the same time, or I want to come and just move the rectangle, you position it so it's more, half and half there, I can also come and just change colors quickly. Here's an example of some foliage that I have created using layer clipping, so you can see on each leaf there's a subtle shifts in color and the greens, and I did that using layer clipping. Wanted to show you each leaf here, if I turn on and off each leaf, you'll see that looking down here on this bottom leaf, I have one object that has been clipped to the leaf. These are overlapping, just like with our circle and our rectangle, and it takes the shape of the object it's clipped to. I've done that for each leaf and see the one above also has an object clipped to the layer, so you can see how you could do this. Couldn't grab the leaf asset that I have saved, let's change the stroke color to black, we would over just a tiny bit and now we'll need to add our first green color. Going to come to my Color Studio, to my Swatches, and choose a green that you like from bouquet 1 or bouquet 2, I'll go with bouquet 2. I'm just going to pick this darker green shade here using the pencil tool, I'm going to add a new vector layer, drag this layer below our line-work, below the group and pencil tool going to add some rough color, making sure that this color is behind the line work, use my fill, fill is the paint bucket here and tap to use fill or not. Now we have the same color, green on each leaf. I'm going to draw above my green leaf color now, a new vector layer in a different shade of green. But for now, I'm going to use gray just to make sure that it's easy to see and I'm going to draw an object that's overlapping the leaf already. I'm going to come all the way out and around to make sure that it overlaps. Now we have the gray overlapping the green. What we can do now is, we can drag this curve layer to our green color layer. Let's select the curve, drag down so it's on top, you'll see it's blue on top of that layer and release. Now we have the curve with our green color. However, we haven't clipped it to leaf just yet, we're not entirely sure which leaf it is because right now they all look the same. I'm just going to do a little turning on and turning off to see which leaf I have overlapped with ding ding ding which is this one and the bottom. I need to select the gray part that I want to overlap with, the green curve. I know my leaf is all the way at the bottom, so I'm going to drag it so it's on top of this leaf on the bottom and release. Now this gray part has been clipped to the green color that I added previously. Let me undo that real quick, show you again, selected the gray curve that's overlapping, I know this bottom curve is the leaf that I want it to be clipped to, so I'm going to tap and hold the gray curve, drag down so it's on top of the leaf that I want it to be clipped to and release. Now this gray part is automatically clipped to the green color. As you can see, I have a little green, that's actually showing here, so I want to talk about why we have that real quickly. When I filled in my shapes, I think I actually had a stroke and a color, a fill. When you're filling in your shapes, you really don't want this stroke, or you'll get some of these almost like a border or an outline sometimes, so we really just want a fill. What I can do is just drag out some of my nodes here to fill in my shape since it'll be a little bit smaller without that stroke. We can come in and change the gray to a green to add some color variation, and I don't want a stroke on this either, I just want a fill. Let me change this back, now on our gray overlapping part, we could change our color and play with the opacity sum just to add a subtle color shift. We could also go ahead and change the blend bonds. Tapping through starting on normal to darken, multiply, which I really like, and then bringing down the opacity. That's really subtle looking there, we'd have to do this with each curve. The way that I like to do this is to go ahead and draw all of my overlapping elements first, and then drag them down and find which leaf we want to clip them to. I'm going to make sure I have gray selected again, and I'm going to draw those overlapping curves again. This one's actually on top of my layers, so I want to drag this one down with the group here to be below the curve. So now we have our curve layers again that we need to find the matching leaf form. Now that I have all my gray leaves that are overlapping, I'm going to drag the gray curves to the layer with the green. As you can tell, not a lot happened. Now we need to find the corresponding leaf it needs to be clipped to. I drag the layer to the first green leaf and see we have one that was clipped. Let's go ahead and find that one, looks like it's going to be this first one here. Now we need to take the curves that I haven't been clipped, I'm going to select those. The second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth. All six of those I need to drag down to the next leaf. Should see a five and a red circle dragged down to the next green leaf curve layer release and now we have quite a few looks like because I didn't actually get them onto the leaf, they're below the curve layer and they're not clipped because they're coming off of the green leaves. Let me try that again, right on top and now we have one that state. Let's see, looks like it's this first one, I'm turning on and off, so I'm going to grab the second, third, fourth, and the fifth layer, hold down my pencil, I should have four layers now, I'll drag below to the next curve. Let's see which one it is, it looks like it's this one, so I'm going to take the second, the third, and the fourth curve, drag the three layers down to the next green leaf. I need to take the second and the third, drag those down to the next leaf, it looks like I should only have one left to drag down to the next green layer, and now they're all clipped. I can select all of my gray overlapping layers and change the color, at the same time, I can change the blend modes, bringing down the opacity again to give a little difference in the color there. You can also go into each layer and just select one at a time and maybe play with the opacity, bring one up, tap on another layer that you've clipped, maybe bring it down a little bit, just to add a little variation. I think that looks really nice in your [MUSIC] leaves just to give a little subtle detail without drawing attention away from your flowers. [MUSIC] 19. Layer Mask: [MUSIC] Layer masking is a non-destructive workflow that allows you to reveal a part of a layer while the rest of the layer remains hidden or masked. I have two of our flowers that I brought in; the rose and the hawthorn. I want to essentially erase part of the rose, but not permanently. In case I want or need to bring those parts of the rose back, it's a great alternative to erasing, which is permanent. Let's look at how you would add a layer mask. I'm actually going to switch to the pixel persona. In the pixel persona, I'm going to choose the layer that I want to apply the layer mask to. In this case, this is the rose. I want the rose stem to be behind the hawthorn, and then I want the hawthorn flower to be in front of the rose petal. I'm going to hide part of the rose. With the rose selected, I'm going to choose the eraser. The erase brush is the third brush from the top. Now, I'm going to erase part of the rose. There we have it. That part of the stem of the rose is now hiding. We've applied a layer mask. You saw the assistant popped up on my screen to tell me that it added something for me automatically, that was great. This is the mask here, this white box and the black. Black conceals. The part that I'm actually concealing is in black, and then the white reveals. That's what's being shown. If I were to turn off the visibility of my masking layer, then what I've erased comes back. I always have this option to keep my mask on or to take it off. I'm either hiding part of the rose, or revealing. I still want to be working on this mask layer because I have a little bit more to hide. We come down to the stem again and erase. I like to really zoom in and make sure that I erased every pixel, every part here of the stem. Also, I'm going to need to erase part of the stem here. I want the rose to be behind the hawthorn. If it's hard to tell what line you should be erasing exactly as to which lines on the rose and which lines on the hawthorn, you can go back to the designer persona and either lower the opacity on one of the flowers or change the stroke color. It makes it a little bit more obvious. Now the hawthorn is in blue, the rose is in black. I'm going to switch back to my pixel persona. Want to be on my mask layer. The erase brush selected. Now this will be a little simpler because I can see what part of the rose is overlapping with the hawthorn. I'm noticing now as I've changed the color that I really like to have the rose behind the hawthorn, so I'm going to drag that below. See how this end of my line definitely shows each pixel. Because we're working in the pixel persona, I want to make sure that this black line is perfectly smooth and it lines up flush with [MUSIC] the blue line, which is going to be really hard to do. That's why I dragged the rose below the hawthorn, and it just hides that part so it makes it a little bit easier. 20. First Bouquet Masking Part 1: [MUSIC] We're going to add three flowers. First is the violet. Next, I'm going to grab our aster, September, and let's grab our mum for November. Looks like I have the violet and aster on the same layer, drag one out from the other. I'm going to group each layer and rename, I'm going to tap on the three dots, tap Group, and then I can enter the name of the new layer, this is the mum. I'll do the same thing for the other two layers. Now I'm going to decide what stroke size I want for all of my flowers. I want it to be consistent, so I'm going to try three, two-and-a-half or two. I think three should be fine, so I'm not going to worry too much about size right now because I can always size up. I do need to worry about where I want to arrange and how I want to arrange these flowers. So one tool that's going to come in handy as this flip horizontal, right now, this mum is leaning more to the right. If I were to flip horizontal, it'll now lean to the left. That tool is very nice to use when you're trying to figure out what arrangement you want with your flowers. I am looking for a little overlap here. I feel like an overlap really gives more of a real life appearance. Because we all know what a bouquet, there's so many things going on that there are stems and petals and different parts overlapping. I want to try and go ahead and get that in my illustration as well. Right now we have a whole lot of black lines going on. I'm going to re-color some of these. Just do whatever color you have available, the blue, and then we'll leave that as the black. Now it's a little easier to see that I have some orange and the blue overlapping. I have a little of the blue and black overlapping, but not much. That'll help me as I'm trying to find an arrangement that works. I'm also looking at the stems. I want the stems to come to a meeting place, a common ground here, so they are all close to each other. They could be tied up with ribbon or with string. That'll work for now, I do want to go ahead and use my node tool to make my stems a little bit longer, and to bring them down to about the same length doesn't have to be perfect. I do want them to be a little closer in length. Now, let's switch to the pixel persona. We can start masking some of our overlapping areas. Let's start with the mum. So I have my mum layer selected and I'm going to select the eraser brush tool. Now I can come in and erase the orange. This yellow orange color is what I want to be erasing. It's going to temporarily hide for me. Now the aster will be in front of it, will look like it's in front of because it's overlapping on top of the mum. Then this doesn't have to be exact because we are going to change the stroke back to black. Once all of these lines are black, the same color, you won't notice where they start and where they stop. I think I'm going to leave this little overlap here. I'll come back in just a minute with aster and take off that blue, hide that blue part. Then do I want the aster to be behind the mum petals? I think I do. I'll come back because what I need to hide is that blue part. Right now the only thing I can hide because I have a layer selected for the mum is any of the orange. We'll leave that for now. Then I'll switch over to the aster layer. I still have my erase brush selected, and now I'm going to erase the blue that's between the orange lines that was so tiny right there that it's really not going to be noticeable, so I'm just going to go ahead and mask that as well. I like to work almost shape to shape, so within this first petal. I erase just the line that was on the left. Move down to the next petal and erase that line that was in the left side as well. Now I'm to these bottom petals, I'm going to erase left side again, all the way down, and let's see. The black one is the violet, so the violet can be behind and the aster can be in front, so that'll work pretty well. I changed my mind on this part, so I'm going to go back to the mum layer. To go to the mask layer, I need to toggle the layer open, tap on mask, make sure my eraser brush is selected. Then I'm going to erase that overlapping with the blue. Next we can head to our violet layer and start masking. I want the violet to be behind aster, the aster is in blue, the violet is black, so I'm going to mask out, it's black here. I'll actually take it all the way down. We'll switch back over to the designer persona with the node tool selected, and this violet, I'm going to go ahead and bring up stem just a little bit, and let's change all of our layers back to the same stroke. So add a black stroke to all of them to see how it's looking. I can see right away, I forgot to mask an area here. It looks like it's wining from behind and front and behind, which is not what I was going for. I'm going to go back to the pixel persona. Tap on the aster layer, toggle that open tap mask, erase, then I'm going to erase this stem. Part of that used to be that orange and the blue, now it's all the same strokes, we can't tell where it starts and where it stops. Our flowers look pretty nice. Let's go ahead and add in some foliage. I'm going to switch back to the designer persona. Select the pencil, and I can either draw freehand some foliage or I can add in some assets. Let's add in some assets first. 21. First Bouquet Masking Part 2: [MUSIC] Scroll down to my foliage and add the eucalyptus. I saved these as assets and have them ready to go. Also going to grab some baby's breath. Going to duplicate the baby's breath by holding down with one finger on the screen to get my quick menu. T hen I can tap, "Duplicate" then Move tool selected, drag over. I'll flip that to make it look a little bit different. Resize it just a little bit. Next, I'm going to use the Pencil tool to freehand some foliage. I have a big opening here in the center, almost to the left. A little something here could also be nice, and then there's a little empty space here as well. I'm looking to just fill out the arrangement. I had my auto close on, so I'm going to turn that off, show you what it does in just a moment. Now I'm going to enable auto-close. Is to the right of our stroke and our fill, and with auto-close enabled, it will auto-close the shape for you. I didn't actually close that. I can show you again, it automatically closes to that node that you first started drawing. I like to turn this on when I'm drawing my leaves. However, just make sure that you remember to turn it off. I know whatever I draw here is could be hidden behind the aster and the violet, so I just skipped that area and went down to add that last leaf. There you go. Turn off your auto-close. This is also helping to fill out the stem area because I would like to put a little ribbon or some twine on the bottom here. Auto close on, just going to draw a different shape now, little point. I tend to keep my foliage pretty simple as I really want the flowers to shine through and be the stars of the show. Let's turn off, deselect our auto-close and try one more, right over here to the left. I think this will balance us out a little bit. Tap "Auto Close" to select. I'm going to go in and add all of my foliage elements into the same group, especially the ones that I did by hand, with my Command Controller, I enabled "Shift". I tapped the first and the bottom layer, grouped those together, and now I can turn on and off my foliage. Drag my foliage below the flowers., Then I'm going to switch to the pixel persona to start masking some of our foliage. Let's start with the hand-drawn foliage that I have. Before I get started, if you wanted to go ahead and change the color of your foliage, you could select that at the designer persona, go ahead and change each layer. That would make it a little bit easier to work with when we switch back to the pixel persona. Actually, I want to make both of those blue because they're the baby's breath and then our eucalyptus. Switching back to the pixel persona now, I have this orange group, which is the free-hand drawings I've done, which I'm going to mask. If you want to adjust the size of your erase brush, you can do that easily down here by sliding the width slider. The stem is going to show through the aster petals. I'm just going to work from petal to petal erasing the lines that are between the petal line and the leaving what would be shown behind the petals. It's peeking through, so I'm going to leave this. This is one of the petal shapes though, so between this line and this line, I'm going to erase. There's also another petal, so I'm going to erase. Here, this is an open space between petals. If you accidentally mask something that you don't want to mask. Like I went too far on this yellow line here. I'm going to select the Paint Brush, make sure I have a white stroke and fill, and then I can paint over the part that I just erased. A lot of times it comes in a little lighter at the first pass, so if you'll paint over it again, and it should be that same color as the rest. That's a way to reveal part of your mask if you've accidentally hidden too much and then just switch back over to the erase brush. I'm going to work on the next layer, which is blue baby's breath. Then I do need to extend the stem. I'm going to switch back to the designer persona, grab my Node tool, I'll add a little curve to that and make sure it's not hidden behind anything else, at the bottom here the stem shows a little bit. Grab the other baby's breath. Now that I extended those stems, I need to go back and mask out any parts that would be showing through our outline. I want the stems to be behind the flowers, not in front. Looks like all the blue is now behind the black. Then our last group is this eucalyptus. This is a petal here, so I'm going to make sure to mask out eucalyptus. Another petal. Then we have some petals here. This is actually going to be really hard to see. I might just go ahead and mask this out as well. I left this little part of the stem so I could extend down with the other stems. Perfect. I'm actually going to mask this in just a minute, so it's okay that it's a little wonky there. I'm going to switch back over to the Pixel persona. I want to make sure I'm on my mask layer. I have my Eucalyptus selected. I've toggled it open on my Mask layer. Now I can mask away part of the stem that I just extended. Let's take one final pass here before we start adding some color. I can see I missed some yellow here in front of this aster. I'm going to go back to the Pixel persona, select the yellow freehand drawing mask layer and erase. Not seeing anything else right now, but that doesn't mean that we can't go [MUSIC] back and grab something if we see it in just a few minutes. In our next lesson we'll add some color. I'll see you there. 22. First Bouquet Flower Color Part 1: [MUSIC] I'm going to select all of my layers, and change the stroke to black. Let's start with our aster. I want to go ahead and actually grab the purple that I had on my art board before. I have saved a file that shows the images and color. I saved just this art board and I exported it. Now, I'm just going to put it here as reference so that I can come back and use it for colors. Again, this is the art board that we were using on our working document. I exported Art board 1 and saved it to my iPad. Then I tapped the three lines and place to place from files or if you saved it as a photo from your photos. Now I'm going to color grab the purple to start with, for the asters. Grab a mid tone here. Using the pencil tool. The purple selected, going to start adding some color. This is actually above our line work, which I would really like it to be below our line work. I'm going to drag this curve below. Then keep working. Just on adding a rough color. This point, it doesn't have to be perfect. We can come back in with our node tool. Now that I have my color roughly filled in, I'm going to select the node tool and make some fine tuning adjustments to make sure that the color isn't coming out from behind my black stroke. There are lots of different styles here. If you want it to show a little bit behind or from behind, your black stroke, go for it. Or if you want it to be a little bit more of a cleaner in the lines type fill, just make sure that your blue line, tends to be on top of the black line. It doesn't have to be perfectly centered, but it does need to be on the black line. Tap the purple area that you've just colored. Select the nodes that are hanging over where you can see the color peeking out from the black, and just drag them in a tiny bit. You want a new node, just tap on your line. If you have a lot of nodes together like I did here, you can always tap One and delete it as well. You do see some of the eucalyptus that I need to mask in just a minute, so I'll go back and do that when I'm finished with my color. Next, I need to grab some color for the middle of our aster. You can either go straight to the reference image here and grab some colors, or if you want, you could use the dots that are already color-grabbed for you to decide. Don't want that, do I. I'm going to de-select the orange color now. We'll go on with our pencil tool and fill in. Drag our curve layer down to above. Our purple petals are grouped with purple petals. Now we can do the same thing with our node tool. Our aster has some yellow and purple group this together. Start on our next flower. Let's add a new vector layer, and drag your vector layer to the bottom. Below are aster flower and actually above the image, if you've placed that now there should be an image. We have our mum. Let's grab a color for our mum. We're on the bottom layer and we will trace the order. The outline of the mum didn't quite zoom out enough, so I wasn't able to grab those bottom petals, but I'll fix it with the node tool here. I'm noticing again on the eucalyptus, I need to go back and mask some of that. This isn't looking very nice there either, so I might need to go back and the white paintbrush add back part of that stem from the eucalyptus. We'll have to see what that looks like in just a minute. Since this layer is behind or below the aster layer, I could just paint right below that, I didn't have to worry about those curves there. It looks like I've made it all the way around our mum. Going to go to the pixel layer, select the eucalyptus mask layer, the erase brush mask out this overlap that I forgot. 23. First Bouquet Flower Color Part 2: I'm going to add a new vector layer, [MUSIC] drag to the bottom, and then select my color for our violet. I think I'll go for a pretty dark purple here since we already have the lighter purple and the aster. Seeing one spot, I need to touch up here, so I'll do that in just a minute. Another option you have when you're coloring is you can actually move the stroke line a little bit if that's helpful. There's our violet. I'm going to go back to purple aster, fix that. I also noticed that I forgot to add a lighter color. The middle of the merm. I'll do that in just a moment. Then I'm going to add a little detail to our violet here. Looking at our reference image, the violet has almost like a white, a very light center that fades to the darker purple. I'm going to try to relay that same type of fill. I have light purple for my stroke and fill. Just going to draw a wavy circle. You could do each pedal more detailed if you want, something like this. Also convey that same feeling that we're looking for. Just drop the opacity a little bit. Let's head back over to the merm and add a little detail on our merm. Look at our reference image, our merm has a darker red in the center where it's very tightly packed. The density is greater there and a tiny bit of yellow. You can choose to keep the yellow or just add the darker red. Let's see what it looks like. Here's where we're talking about that very tightly packed area. Going to add a new layer above our color. Let's change the bloom mode to multiply our red color. We can see right away what we're laying down is a very dark red. Going back to our layer, we can drop the opacity sun to create just a darker shade of our red. While we're at it, let's go ahead and add a little detail to our aster. Looking at our reference image, the asters have some bolts, completes almost on each petal. It has a darker and a lighter area. Going to add a new layer above the color purple. Drag between the yellow and the purple. We change my blend mode to multiply. Grab the purple color. We're going to drop that opacity down in just a few minutes. You could add as few or as many lines as you'd like here. I have my stroke and my fill, so it makes for a little rounded curve if you want that. If you just went straight and you'll just need a stroke. If you wanted to go even further down. Something like that could look nice. You could also leave this off if you want. You also don't have to add this. If you'd like to just keep the one purple color. Making sure I have the layer selected. When to drop the opacity down. Thirty percent looks about where I like it, so you can see it, but it's not super prominent. [MUSIC] Now we have all three of our flowers colored. We're going to add some color to our foliage and also a ribbon or a piece of twine to the bouquet. 24. Second Bouquet Masking Part 1: [MUSIC] Let's start by grabbing some of our assets. I'd like to use the carnation for January. How about the daisy from April, the miracle from October, paperwhite from December and let's grab one more. This one will have five. Let's go for a summer birthday, how about the Hawthorne from July? Move Tool selected, I'm going to select all of the flowers and try to come to a common width. That looks good for all of them. That was 1.9, 2. Three is a little heavy feeling, so I'm going to go back to two. We'll start arranging them. I don't want the paperwhite to be in the back. It will look larger, daisy. Carnation could also be in the back maybe in front of or behind the carnation. I'm looking at some overlaps here already. I have a little with paperwhite and the carnation. I don't have anything with the daisy yet. You want to change the colors, we can change that now to make it a little bit easier. The yellow and the green, I have some overlap. A little bit on the stem there as well. The carnation, I know I'm going to need to add a stem because it doesn't have much of a stem. Maybe it could fit under the paperwhite just a little bit. Then the Hawthorne, let's see, the Hawthorne has stream. Maybe something in the front and center here. Bring my daisy up a little bit. Since we're not going to have any foliage on this one, I want to make sure that the arrangement is already pretty balanced. It's already following some symmetry with the marigold and the daisy and the Hawthorne centers here with the stream in the front. Marigold would go behind the Hawthorne, the stem. The daisy will go behind the Hawthorne. It's like the carnation will go behind the daisy. Paperwhite will go behind everything as well. Let's rearrange our layers and see what we can get. Hawthorne will be in front, paperwhite will be all the way in the back and I'll drag that to the bottom of my layers. Carnation will be in front of the paperwhite. I'm going to go ahead and add the stem to the marigold. Although I think I'm actually going to close this, the stem, the carnation, I'll draw a stem that curves down. Go back and grab my nodes and do a little fixing here. Remember, most of this is going to be behind that Hawthorne, so I'm not overly concerned with how it looks behind that Hawthorne, knowing I'm going to mask out most of that in just a few minutes. My main concern is what's going to be showing from below and above the hawthorn. You go ahead and change those to the same color. Grab the paperwhite, nodes, drag those down. 25. Second Bouquet Masking Part 2: [MUSIC] The daisy which is in purple, add a little curve to the daisy as well. It has always lots of playing with the nodes to begin with. I'm happy with that. Let's go ahead and start masking, we switch over to our pixel mode. I'm going to start with the flower in the back of paper white. Grab the erase brush and start erasing the yellow lines. The paper weights all the way in the back, so it's going to go behind the Hawthorne. Moving on to the carnation and tap the carnation layer, make sure you have the eraser brush. The carnation will be behind the daisy. I need to erase, temporarily hide the green. Going through the purple. Noticed I accidentally erased part of the green stem here. I'm going to tap back to my paintbrush tool. Make sure I have white selected. Then I can add back that green. Sometimes it takes a couple of passes, couple of strokes. I have two pixel that wasn't quite getting there. Let me see if I can get back in it again. There we go. Sometimes just switching back over to the erase brush and then back to the paintbrush can help. I know I'm going to be masking out this purple in just a moment too. I just want to make sure they have all the green masked from behind it as well. The green will be behind the purple. Let's go to our next layer, the daisy. Daisy will be behind the Hawthorne, mask out the purple into the orange. There's some of that green that I didn't get just a moment ago. Tried to get all but I miss some, so I'll have to go back and get that in just a minute. Didn't erase too much of my purple, so I'm going to grab my paintbrush, paint this back. I'm going to stay with the purple for just a minute because it looks like we're just about done masking the daisy. Before I forget, I want to go back to the carnation layer, tap on the mask layer, and grab the green parts that I missed. It looks like that purple didn't stay for some reasons. Let me go back to the daisy mask layer and paintbrush. Paint this back on. The Hawthorne's and orange here, I'm going to mask out any of the red that crosses through the orange outline. It looks like we have our masking complete. Make some final last-minute looks here. For now, it looks really nice, as we know, we can always go back and mask out more or paint more back if we need to. I'll see you in the next lesson to add some color. 27. Exporting and Resizing: [MUSIC] Before we wrap up, let's spend a few minutes looking at how to export our bouquets. Right now, I don't want to export this entire artboard because I'd have the white background behind it. I need to group my bouquet together, I'm going to select Shift, the top layer is selected. I'm going to grab the bottom layer to select All, tap "Group", de-select my Shift. Now, I can turn on or off just my bouquet. With my bouquets selected, now, I can drag up the corners to resize. I can also come to Transform and type in a width and a height. If you know exactly that you want a 2000 by 2000 pixel, then you have exactly a 2000 by 2000 pixel. Also, if you tap on the "Width", if you're working maybe with a principal and you want this to be an 8.5 by 11 then tap over where this says pixels, px, tap over to the right to inches and then type in your 11. Now, this would be sized for an 8.5 by 11 inch document. To export as an 8.5 by 11 inch, I want to make sure with my move tool I have my bouquets selected, I'll tap on the three horizontal lines, Export. My last setting that I used was JPEG, which is great. That's going to include the white background as well. If you don't want a background, then you'll want to select PNG as the background will then be transparent. I'm going to select JPEG, rename. On my Area, I need to select Selection Area. I like to preview just to make sure I'm saving what I think I'm saving. Then you can tap "Okay" to find where you want to save this on your iPad. If you'd like to export your bouquet with a color behind it, you could add a rectangle. I'm drawing out the rectangle, starting in the top left-hand corner and then dragging out and down. Come to Transform, if you'd like to make sure that it's 8.5 by 11. Now you have a colored background, or you can select your bouquet, drag it to your rectangle on your layers panel. You may need to make sure that your bouquet group is above the rectangle group. Then from there you can also resize if you wanted. This is the same thing I have for the string I'm actually going to change this just to make it a little bit lighter. Almost a white there. To export both the background of the rectangle and the group, we'll need to group these together and then we can export like we did before making sure that we change the Area to Selection Area [MUSIC] and then tapping "Okay" to save that to your iPad. I'll see you in the next lesson to wrap up this class. 28. Thank You: [MUSIC] Thank you for joining me. You have an incredible library of flour assets, and a couple of bouquets, I hope. You know how to use layer clipping and layer masks to give your bouquets and work some depth. I hope you continue working with these tools, making more bouquets, and refining your unique style. Remember to upload your beautiful bouquet to the project gallery so that we can cheer you on. If you have any a-ha moments or any celebration that you'd like to share, leave those in the discussion area, and I'd love to start a conversation with you and other students. Please, feel free to share your work on social media as well. Tag me @jenni_got and I'll be sure to share your beautiful work. Lastly, I do want to encourage you to leave feedback. I really appreciate students taking the time to let me know what they really liked with the class, and also what I could improve on. Feedback is critical to being an effective teacher, and I want to be the best teacher I can be for you. Congratulations on completing this class. Thank you for choosing me to learn from. I can't wait to see your beautiful work. Thank you for being here. [MUSIC]