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Alice's Adventures: The Queen of Hearts In Procreate

teacher avatar Irina Young, Busy May Studio

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Class Introduction

      2:18

    • 2.

      Tools & Materials

      0:47

    • 3.

      Class Project

      0:53

    • 4.

      Character Overview

      2:19

    • 5.

      Female Face: Drawing Basics

      7:31

    • 6.

      Female Face: Important Things To Consider

      3:32

    • 7.

      Sketching & Composition

      9:02

    • 8.

      Colour Blocking

      14:59

    • 9.

      The Queen's Face

      21:43

    • 10.

      The Queen's Hair

      7:09

    • 11.

      The Queen's Clothing

      16:00

    • 12.

      The Roses

      11:15

    • 13.

      Finishing Touches

      6:21

    • 14.

      Final Thoughts

      3:24

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About This Class

Welcome to Part 3 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland series where we continue to re-imagine the characters!

In this class we'll look into the character of the Queen Of Hearts, another minor one but with huge personality.

We'll learn to draw a female face and facial expressions, we'll continue using our limited colour palette and learn the basics of colouring the face and the hair in Procreate.

Main topics we'll cover:

  • female face sketching: proportions, features, expressions
  • mastering the Symmetry tool in Procreate
  • using limited colour palette in Procreate
  • the nuances of painting a face in Procreate
  • drawing a character's hair in Procreate

For this class you'll need:

  • iPad with Procreate + Pencil
  • Procreate brushes of your choice or the ones I provide for the class
  • Procreate colour palette (provided)
  • Paper overlay and gold foil texture (provided)

Parts 1 and 2 of this series:

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Irina Young

Busy May Studio

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So you are here - I guess it means you and me have much in common!

We probably share the love for nature and wildlife, the beauty of flowers and birds, and all things pretty - welcome!

My name is Irina, I'm a digital and traditional artist, and I LOVE texture and watercolour!

I'm also a commercial illustrator, art teacher and a busy mum :)

I'm a strong believer that art and creativity make our life more beautiful, so I strive to inspire you to admire the world through painting. Glad you're joining me!

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Level: Intermediate

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1. Class Introduction: Since you are here, the story Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is probably just as special for you as a test form. Let me welcome you to part three of the story Character Exploration, the third class of my Alice's Adventures in Wonderland series. Hello. My name is Irina. I'm an illustrator from the UK and also the owner of Busy May Studio, my tiny creative business, where I make brushes for Procrit, and also teach procret and traditional art classes where I try to inspire people into relaxed, creative approach to fairy tale and folk art. In the first two parts of the series, we've learned how to approach character creation, build a composition around it to make the character related to the story and paint funny, fluffy animals and procrem. In this class, we'll draw the Queen of Hearts. Another minor but very memorable and full of personality character. We'll cover a number of topics including drawing a female face, the proportions, facial features, and expressions, and the ways to apply this knowledge to our character's personality. We'll use some handy tools in procreate, including the Symmetry tool, and of course, we'll continue mastering the composition, working with limited colour palette, and coloring a female face and procreate. You don't need to do the first two parts of the series prior to taking this class. However, painting the Queen of Hearts is a natural progression from all the things we've learned in parts one and two. If you are a beginner in character building, I'd recommend having a look. This class is taught and procreate and recommended for confident procreate users. But if you're an ambitious beginner, I'd also give it a go. If you are ready to embark on another journey to Wonderland with me, I grab your tools, and let's begin. 2. Tools & Materials: For this class, you will need an iPad, you will need a pencil. The brushes we're going to use are the same brushes we used for the previous two parts. AAW it's our main set. You will also need the Victorian elements brushes that we used for the rabbit in part two. You will also need Rosa stamp. The colour palette, we're going to use the Dormouse main colour palette that we used for the previous two parts, and we're going to use skin tone colour palette. I'm also going to use the paper overlay and the gold foil. They are both optional. All the resources I will attach in the resources section to this class. 3. Class Project: For your class project, I would like you to illustrate the female character from a story of your choice or your own character, as long as it's a human and a woman or a girl. You can draw her in any style from realistic to a cartoon character. Whichever style your heart desires, feel free to follow along this class step by step and create the Queen of Hearts. From this class with me, that will be a great practice, especially if you've never drawn female characters before. If you share your creation with us here or on social media, I'll be super grateful, as we'll all be able not only to admire your illustration, but also draw some inspiration from it. 4. Character Overview: The Queen of Hearts is the hot headed ruler of Wonderland. Everyone's scared of her, and for good reason, she's loud, dramatic, and always yelling her famous line off with their heads. She acts like she's totally in charge, but most people follow her out of fear, not respect. Dressed in fancy red and gold, she loves attention and control, even though the world around her is pure nonsense. To me, the Queen's rage indicates that she's mature and generally not too intelligent, like a spoiled child who's convinced that the world should revolve around her and who throws a tantrum every time things don't go the way she wishes. The fact that the king, right away, pardons all the people she sentenced, and she doesn't really seem to care that much is to me the evidence that she's more hot tempered and impulsive, rather than evil and cruel. Those are the features I would like to reflect in my character. So, the Queen is obviously a female, a young one based on her lack of proper judgment and wisdom. She's got dark hair to make her different from Alice whose hair will be fair. She'll be dressed like a royal in red with a bit of purple and gold. And, of course, she'll wear some form of a crown 'cause she's a queen, after all. I'm going to add some hearts to show her suit and back and some surrounding elements to bind her with a store, some roses. And the facial expression, of course, based on her overall lack of maturity and intelligence and plenty of childish rage, she'll have a stubborn and contemptuous look on her face, furrowed brow, narrowed gaze, and pursed lips. Now, before we move on to sketching the Queen, let's look into some female face drawing basics. 5. Female Face: Drawing Basics: Painting a female face has been an important part of art history, showing beauty, emotion, and identity in many different ways. During the renaissance, artists focus on balance and proportion, while impressionists painted quick, colorful impressions of feeling. Later, modern artists experimented with bold shapes and ideas to show new views of femininity. A human face can be a complex subject for drawing, and if your aim is to paint a realistic portrait, you do need to know all the details of a human face anatomy. But don't worry. In our class, we won't need to learn all these muscles and bones. In fact, for a human, it's enough to see a circular object with two more or less equal dots for eyes and possibly a line for a mouth to immediately perceive it as a face. Even a young child easily copes with this kind of drawing. You don't need to observe all the rules of anatomy to be able to draw a female face. For example, my favorite artist Mark Shagal's paintings of People can't be further from realist, but look how much magic and emotion goes on in In this class, I'm going to show you some simple rules I follow to create a female face in my illustrations. There is no perfect symmetry in a realistic human face, but for our illustration, I think we can use Symmetry tool and Procreate because it's going to be much, much easier to draw facial features. Procreate, I've already tapped on the range I C selected Canvas and switch drawing guide. If you go to Edit drawing guide instead of the grid, you just choose the vertical symmetry, which will allow you to draw same thing on both sides. You can see that I've created an empty layer because initially I don't really need drawing assets. So I've selected the pencil from our set, and the very first thing I'm going to do on a new layer without a drawing a set. I'm creating a perfect circle. I've drawn an ellipse, and I moved it to the very center of the canvas, and that's the base I'm going to work with. Next thing I'm going to do, I'm going to select the arrow tool making sure that the free form option is selected. And I'm kind of squish the circle, making it more human facele. And that's it. So that's a very base. I usually star while drawing a face. And next thing I'm going to do, I'm going to create this middle guidelines, central one vertically and one horizontally. It's just to divide my oval my ellips into halves vertically and horizontally. If it helps, just switch on the grid, going back to drawing assist if you want to make sure that your guidelines are straight enough. So That's all I need on a layer which is not assisted drawing. Now I've created a new layer. I've made sure that drawing a cistonal as you can see, I draw on both sides at the same time. Next thing I'm going to do, I'm going to create this kind of vertical lines to cut the curvy sides of my llips to make the face a little bit narrower. Next, I'm going to work on the central part of the face. And the very first thing I'm going to do the central part. I'm going to make sure that I'm back on my drawing assessed layer and I'm going to divide each half into three more or less equal parts. So I'm obviously doing it on one side and automatically because the Symmetry tool is on, it does the same on the other side. So I've created like eyeball type circles. Ideally, they should be just slightly below this line that we've drawn, and they will sort of represent our eyeball. Now I'm going to work on the bottom half of the face. See this area I'm gonna divide it into roughly get into three parts. They don't have to be equal. You can always adjust it later. So the very top is going to be tip of the nose, and the second one, the bottom one is going to be the mouthline. So you can see that I've created circles to indicate nose and mouth. Now I'm going to put the eyebrows. It's all the guides. Remember that we will adjust the facial features later. And now I'm going to work with the top half of the face, and I'm roughly dividing it into four equal parts. And the very top line is going to be the hairline. That's basically how we find the hairline. And now I'm just trying to draw the hairline approximately. And the ears will be somewhere on the eye level. And I've just merged all the layers together and I'm going to reduce the opacity because I've just created the guide map for my face. It's not the face yet. Next thing on the new layer, what I'm going to do, I'm just going to start drawing the actual face. I'm making sure that the drawing assess the on the face is equal on both part. And now I'm just defining the shape of the face, the jawline. And now drawing the eyes around the eyeballs. The eyeballs themselves So this is the tip of the nose here. So I'm just going to draw the bottom of the nose and two nostrils. And now I'm going to draw the mouth line. It's basically the line between the upper and lower lips. And now I'm going to draw the upper lip and the line of the lower lip and a little bit of the chin. The eyebrows, the hairline and the top hairline will be slightly above the circle to give it some volume and the ears and that's pretty much it. Of course, I'm going to draw the neck as well. In the next lesson, we're going to look into face transformation based on facial expression, ethnicity, and age. 6. Female Face: Important Things To Consider: Well, drawing a human face and the female face in particular, it's important to keep in mind a number of things that affect the way your character looks. For example, the shape of the face can dedicate age. The younger the person is, the fuller their face tends to be. The eyes are bigger, the lips are fuller and the opposite. The older the person is, the thinner their face becomes, the eyes get narrower, the distance between the nose and the polyp gets longer. Some wrinkles appear. Ethnicity is also important to consider if you want your character to belong to a certain ethnical background. For example, Asian women tend to have sharper jaw line and cat like almond shaped eyes. Black women usually have fuller lips, wider nose, and bigger eyes. South European and Mediterranean women often have slightly lower tips of their nose, large eyes, and fuller lips. While women from Scandinavia tend to have round faces, turned up or snub noses and rounder eyes. When it comes to my art, I find most inspiration in my own background and culture. That's why my female characters tend to be white faced and upturned nosed. Most of my characters are young girls from preteens to early 20s. That's why they're mostly fuller faced, have bigger eyes and fuller lips. Facial expression is another important thing to consider while drawing your character. Anatomically, there is a huge number of facial muscles responsible for facial expression, but to change the expression in our character's face we only need to adjust three features, the eyebrows, the eyes, and the mouth. Let's have a look at what we can do to change the neutral face to some basic facial expressions. Slightly lifting the eyebrows, making the eyes a little bit narrower, stretching the mouth in a smile will make our character look happy. Turning the outer corners of the eyebrows down, the outer corners of the eyes down as well, and the corners of the mouth down will make our character look sad. Turning the inner corners of the eyebrows down closer to the center of the face, narrowing the eyes and turning the mouth corners right down will change the facial expression from neutral to angry. Lifting the eyebrows right up, especially the center parts of them, making the eyes rounder and making the mouth rounder like an O shaped makes a character look surprised. Lifting the inner corners of the eyebrows up, making the eyes rounder, making the mouth slightly opened, also in o shape, makes the character look scared. 7. Sketching & Composition: So I've started by creating a new square canvas. Obviously, on a blank layer. I'm gonna start sketching the Queen's face with a pencil from our main set. And, um, and the very first thing I will do, I'll go to the range icon Canvas, drawing assess, drawing guide, and I'm going to select vertical symmetry. Same as we did when we practiced when we talked about the face building basics. And again, I'm going to create a new layer which does not have drawing assessed on it, and I'm going to draw a perfect circle on it, and I'm going to place the circle right in the middle of my canvas. Using the arrow two, I'm just going to slightly squish the circle. And to draw a guide, I put the grade on, and I'm just going to draw the vertical and horizontal guides, dividing my lips into two equal parts vertically and horizontally. So now I've put the side vertical lines to isolate the curved parts of the sides. And I've divided each side in the middle into three parts. That's for the eyeballs, and I've divided the bottom half into three parts for the nose and the lips. And I've drawn the eyebrows. I've added the nostrils, and I've added the hairline by having divided the upper half into four equal parts. And now I've merged all the layers together and reduced the opacity to use my map as a guide. And now I'm just going to outline on the new layer with a drawing assist on creating the actual facial features. So I've created the eyes The eyebrows. The bottom of the nose, the nostrils, the sides of the nose, the lpline, upper and lower lips, the neck, on the hairline, I've decided that my queen's hair is going to be wavy. And now let's work on the facial expression as we discussed before. So our queen is quite contemptuous and arrogant, but childish at the same time. So we're going to narrow her gaze, narrow her eyes. We're going to make the mouth even more purse. And the eyebrows are already quite angry looking, and I'm going to add a little bit more of length to the hair. I'm going to add the collar of her royal cloak with some love hearts on it, and I'm going to add the crown on top of her head. And that's pretty much it. The sketch of the Queen is ready. So I've sketched my queen, but it doesn't mean that it's all set in stone and I'm not going to adjust something. I'll probably use some liquify tool to adjust some facial features or I don't know, some placement of the features. But overall, I've sketched the queen, the queen is ready. Now, I need to sketch the entire composition with the queen in the center. So I'm going to copy this sketch, and I'm going to create a new canvas screen size, first thing I'm going to do, I'm going to paste the sketch of my Queen here and I'm going to place her somewhere in the middle, something like that. So obviously when we talk composition, it means that there is a group of elements that are working together, creating a nice illustration. So I was thinking, What can I do for my queen? I decided that I'm not going to place a lot of objects around her because she already she's a person. She has personality, and I want the focal point to be her and her face expression. That's why I rejected the idea of placing some flying cards which is different ideas I was going through when I was preparing for this class. However, I would like to add some elements to to this illustration to make it related to the story, which is obviously Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. That's why I'm going to show you what I suggest that we do. The Queen is in the center, and I'm going to add a new layer and I thought that I was going to add a cameo on the background, same as we did with the dormuse and the rabbit, just to keep it consistent, just to keep the illustration from the same story from the same book. And basically, that's it. Remember, it's only mapping the composition. So I thought maybe maybe something like this. As I said, I don't want a lot of elements around the character. So I thought that I just put a couple of roses around her because first time in the story, we meet the Queen in the scene when Alice sees that the soldiers or the gardeners are painting the roses because by mistake, they had planted white roses, while the Queen wanted them to plant red roses. So let's just put some roses around her. For that, you will need the stamp brushes, roses. And I'm just going to literally stamp a couple of them. So I'm going to put one here. Something like this. And then the new layer again, I have the room to maneuver, I'm going to just stamp one here so they see they are slightly different. Also, I'm just going to put it maybe somewhere here, something like that. Also, remember with stamps, you don't have to use the stamp as it is. Feel free like let's say this rose, you stamp it so not only you can change the scale of it, you can make it really small or you can make it, stretch it real big, but you can also get rid of the elements that you don't need. For example, if you want to use a rose without any stem or leaves, just feel free to play around, and I actually encourage that. So but I just so I'd put some leaves just for the decoration purposes. When I start coloring the queen in one of the next lessons, I'll probably make some adjustments around the face. I'll probably make this standing up color of her royal cloak, go beyond the cameo or I'll make the cameo smaller. This is all adjustable. But at the moment, I'm quite happy with the composition, and I think it's going to work, see you in the next lesson where we going to color block our Queen. 8. Colour Blocking: So our composition is created, and now it's time to move on to the actual coloring. But as always, as in the previous two classes about the character from the story, we start with color blocking. We know already that since we're using the same colour palette, as for the previous two, the colors do work together. They create this nice fairy tale look and at the same time, they make the illustrations, set consistently nicely together, making them obviously belonging to the same story. However, color blocking is the step that I don't recommend Tim for the simple reason, you just see the color balance because you need to make sure that one color, for example, is not overpowering other colors. What I mean by that is, this is the Queen of Hearts. So we need to emphasize that it's not just an angry lady, girl. It's an actual win of Hearts from the story, which means that there will be some hearts present, and there will be a fair amount of red color present in your illustration, and it's going to be obvious and vivid. Let's just experiment. Let's try. As I said, we're moving on to the final artwork to the stage of the final artwork. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to pinch this composition together. I'm going to swipe my three fingers and I'm going to copy the sketch. And now I'm going to create an A four canvas. It's a high resolution canvas, and it will give you nice quality of your illustration. And I'm going to immediately paste the sketche here, and we can print capacity right down because the sketch is not going to be the part of illustration, but we're going to use it for the guidelines only. Since it's our final illustration, to make it consistent with the previous two, I recommend that you put the paper layer, overlay on top. But as I said in the tools and materials lesson, this is completely optional, this is up to you. But I'm going to do that because as I said, I want it consistent. I've placed my paper layer on my Canvas, I'm just going to stretch it to cover the entire canvas and I'm going to change the blending mode to color burn, same as I did in the previous classes with the rabbit and the mouse. Let's move the sketch on top and let's create a new layer between the overlay and the background and between these two. In the layer stack, this is our area of coloring, adding details, et cetera, et cetera. I'm going to start with the queen herself. I'm going to start with her face. So my queen, let's just grab the brush first. I'm going to use the filler brush because it's the most solid brush in the set, so I'm just going to block the colors using this brush. Now to the colors, so as I said, previously, we're going to be using the dormusmin colour palette, and we're going to be using skin tones. I'm going to choose this very pale color, and I'm just going to coloring my queen. This is her face. Color blocked her neck. You can always try to experiment with different shades. That's probably the palest. That's probably the one I'm going to stick to. Yeah. I think the skin tone I'm going to use is this very first one. In the paler skin tone palette but also there is medium and darker tone. So as I said, feel free to use. I think my queen is going to have dark hair. I'm going to create a new layer, and we are going back to our dormouse main palette I think I'm just going to use this dark gray color, which will look quite black, and I'm just going to color block the hair like this. I'm going to probably add some of the hair behind her face and neck. I'll probably add some more details when we come to the coloring. But for now for the colour blocking purposes, I'm quite happy with that. Let's dress our queen in something. Nice. Another trick for you. When I work with a sketch, very often I have to deal with lighter and darker background, so you can see that despite the fact that I sketched the piece of clothing that my queen is wearing. I can't see it right now because the sketch is dark. So what I usually do, I duplicate the sketch. I go to the adjustment tab I choose saturation and I'm just going to turn the sketch into something lighter. Then during the color blocking or coloring process, I switch between the darker sketch and the lighter sketch. You can see now once I've made my sketch lighter, I can now see the color of the Queen's cloak. So I think that I'm going to make it purple because it's quite a royal color. It's quite a noble looking color, and also the fact that I will have enough red with a sort of crown type thing, with a necklace get her lips with love heart elements on her cloak color. I think purple is going to be nice. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to create a new layer underneath the hair layer because the hair waves going to fall on top of it. I'm going to choose the purple color from the palette, and I'm just going to block And obviously, there is a little bit of the dress color behind the neck. I'm just going to create a new layer and paint color behind the neck. Now, let's make the dress maybe slightly more interesting. I'm going to create a new layer. I might actually clip it as a mask to this mean dress part of the front and I'm going to grab this pure white colour, I'm just going to add a little bit of white elements. I'm not quite sure that this is the way it's going to go, but it might so it's like that kind of pattern, quite like that. Let's color block the color, the clock color already like royal cloak. It's obviously going to go behind the here and behind everything else. So I'm going to create a new layer. I'm going to put it right behind everything else. I thought that's where I add a little bit of the blue color that we used in the previous illustrations, and I'm just going to create this type of big, maybe even over exaggerated color, and that's where I'm going to use this blue color just to make the illustrations more consistent with each other. And now let's use some red, as we talked about, so don't be afraid to use quite a lot of it. So I'm going to grab this red color from the palette. And the first thing I'm going to do, I'm just going to add some color. Here there's this necklace going on. There is obviously going to be red lips. And I would add red love hearts on h. Her clock color and obviously they will be red and the roses. I'm going to add a little bit of this yellow, which I'm going to turn into gold later on or I want. I've not decided yet, so I think part of the crown is going to have this golden element, part of the royal collar, cloak, I don't know, maybe something, something like a part of the necklace, something like that, maybe some of the dress, but I'm going to decide this later. And the eyes, I think my queens going to have blue eyes just to make her appearance even more striking dark hair, almost black hair, blue eyes. This winter type. And in terms of the leaves of the roses, at the moment, I don't know yet because in my main palette, I don't have green color and I absolutely have no intention to introduce it in this illustration, but there are other colors that I can be using without any issues, and that's why I'm just going to hold on and decide because depending on the background and different colors, that will determine the color of the leaves. So now we have the background to fill with color and the cameo. If you remember in the previous classes, the dormuse and the rabbit, they had the dark cameo with a light background. So with this particular illustration with the Queen of Hearts, I've decided to reverse the colors, which means that I want the cameo to be light and the background to be darker. The reason is that not only the Queen is quite striking herself. She's not a whitel or lighter colored animal. She is a woman with dark hair, with red love heart to create the maximum contrast, I want to put lighter background just to make her stand out even more. But at the same time, I want the cameo to stand out. That's why I'm going to make the background even darker, and the whole thing will actually look like a play card with a Queen of Hearts. Let's see how it's going to work. We go to the background color. And from our palette, we are choosing this dark chocolate color. Now we need to create a cameo, which is behind everything else. I'm going to create a new layer and put it right on top of the background color, which will make it behind everything else. The color I'm going to use is this light beige color. I'm just going to et cameo, fill it with color and folia, here we go. That's the look I'm going for. Let's add some pink color for the cheese, for the queen, just to introduce some pink color. Now we can decide what color we're going to use for the leaves. Obviously, it has to be something lighter. I would say, which is going to create a new layer for the sake of color blocking. I'm going to try and use this gray color. Is the second from the left on the top row. And let's see how it's going to work. I can see that it's a nice contrast. See, it's a nice contrast for both darker background and lighter background here. But going forward when we work on the roses, I might add maybe some darker shades to these ones just to make it stand out or or I want. I'll decide later. That's it. That's a color blocking part done, and I'm quite happy with that. Now we can move on to the actual coloring of cream and see you in the next lesson. 9. The Queen's Face: We've done some color blocking, and I suggest that we put this away so we can move away from the color blocking, and now I'm going to start properly carefully coloring. So let's start with the face. With the filler brush and going back to the skin tones palette, I'm going to select the lightest color for the face and neck, and I'm just going to carefully fill the face and neck. Let's add the hair right away just so we know that we're dealing with a human face, not just some sort of mannequin or something. So I'm going to create a new layer, and with the same brush, I'm going to go back to the palette of dormasmi and I'm going to select this dark grey colour. Now I'm just going to I'm going to put a new layer in, and I'm going to put some of the hair behind. Let's put the dress on right away as well. So on top of the face and neck layer, but underneath the hair layer top here, I'm going to choose the purple brush. So that's it. So that's our queen, color blocked. And I'm going to probably switch on the camo I'm going to drag it out of the color blocking just to create the contrast. Between the queen and the background. Now I can focus on coloring in the face. That's what we're going to start with. I'm going to create a new layer. I don't have to clip it as a mask. I'm going to use the pencil to like this one more pitchy color. I'm going to reduce the opacity a little bit, and I'm going to work on the eye first and other features. So let's switch the sketch off and see what we've got. Consider it mapping. That's the way I draw faces to my characters. I map it with skin tone first, and now I can work on darker areas just to emphasize them. And for that, I can keep the sketch switched off. I don't need it right now. I'm going to create a new layer on top of this mapped skin tone features. This time I'm going to change the blending mode to multiply. And because I want my lines to be slightly more precise, I'm going to choose this brush, which is called fur details. If you remember we used it for the four of our animals in the previous classes. But this time, it's going to help us define the facial features a little bit more. Let's see the colors we've got. For example, this color is too light. I'm going to select this maybe darker color. I'm going to reduce the size, and this time, I'm going to make the features where I need them slightly more contrasted. For example, I'm going to add a little bit of hairs on the eyebrow because our queen is dark hair, so her eyebrows are probably dark as well. I'm just going to add a little bit of hairs here. I'm probably going to even make her eyebrows slightly fluffier because just to indicate her nature as a little bit of her rageful cruel side. Now, I'm going to make the eyelid a little bit more contrast. I can bring the size up a little bit, opacity down and not holding pencil like this, but with a side, I would just add a little bit more softer stroke to the upper lid. I'm going to leave the bottom lid probably as it is right now. Now, because nostril is essentially a whole, it's going to be naturally darker, deeper. I'm going to emphasize this feature on here and I'm going to leave probably features more so on the mouth. I'm going to switch my skinch back on. This is the middle line of the mouth. That's where the two lips are joined together, and I'm going to make it contrasted as well. Something like this. Now, let's work a little bit more on the I so what I'm going to do, I'm going to probably pinch this together because I'm quite happy with that. I'm going to create a new layer underneath. And the very first thing I would like to do, I would like to grab the fellow brush and I'm going to go back to my main color of the dormuse and as I said, will be using the pure white color. I would like to cover the white of the eye with a white color. To make the eye stand out more. Now, let's create a new layer and clip it as a mask. We can switch back the sketch on to see where the pupil and the iris are. I've clipped the layer to the white, as I say, the color of the eyes of the queen are going to be blue to create a maximum contrast between the hair and the eye. I've selected the blue color with the same solid brush. I'm just going to add the eye. And let's add the pupil. Let's try and use this darker color again. You see? And that's the eye. What else let's see shut off. I'm quite happy with that. What else I would do? I would probably add a little bit of purplish eye shadow around the eye. Let's see how it's going to work. Remember, it's a digital artwork. If we don't like something, we just cancel the move or we can just erase easily. That's why it's so much easier in my opinion to paint digitally than with traditional mediums. I'm going to take the texture flufkin because I want something more smoky going on. I'm just going to select this purple color. I'm going to create a new layer on top of the features layer. I'm going to change color the blending moden I burn. And let's see, I'm just going to probably increase the opacity but reduce the size. And what I'm going to do, again, with the side of the pencil, these brushes, actually, most of my brushes I create. They have this different when you draw like this, from top, it's one effect when you draw sideways, it's sort of like fluffy, more colored pencil effect. So what I'm going to do, I'm just going to turn my pencil to the side, and I'm going to create this sort of nice shade. To make the eye stand out, I can always grab them. I can always grab the smudge too and just smudge a little bit. But look how nice the contrast is also naturally, the eyelid will cast a shadow on the eye. That's why I've just added to make the eye just a little bit deeper. I quite like the effect, I would like maybe to use the same brush with the same manner. But I'm going to go back to the skin tones and I'm going to select probably let's choose this color and see. That's quite light, Let's choose. I think I'm just going to choose the sechy color. I'm just going to reduce the opacity, and I'm going to just add a little bit more contrast on the same layer with the linear burn mode. I'm just going to add a little bit of contrast here and there. Maybe reduce opacity even more, this transition is much lighter and just going to smudge a little bit. And a little bit here. This area, the nose, just a tiny bit just to make a little bit more contrast here and there, a little bit on the side here and a little bit on the chin. And since we are here on the same layer because I just don't see any reason to create a new one, I'm going to swap the brush to pencil one and I'm just going to add a little bit of the slide, making the face a little bit more defined. I might just go back to the neck and grab the erasor or two just to make it a little bit more tidy. And remember, we're only drawing half of the face because the other half we're just gonna copy and mirror. So I'm just going to take the smudge too, and smudge the lin little bit, just a tiny bit. Something like this and let's add the mouth one of the main features of this face. I'm just going to create a new layer. I'm going to switch my sketch back on, and I think I'm just going to grab the filler brush and I'm going to go back to my main palette and I'm going to use this red color, let's just add reduce the size, and let's add one side of the mouth. So it's quite a small mouth because the face expression as we define it is already quite contempt. So something like this. The only thing the mouth will go behind this mouth line. So we can see the line itself. Something like that, and let's switch this sketch off, something like that. We obviously add a little bit more touches. But now let's just add the pink check. I'm just going to create a new layer and I'm going to use probably texture fluff again and I'm going to use our pink color from the power, opacity around 50%. I'm going to put the size to around seven. I'm just going to add this blushy check. A let's switch the sketch off, something like that. Let's see what we've done, finally. What I usually do, all the symmetrical features like one side of the face, we just painted. I've grouped it in one group, and I'm going to duplicate it. Quite like that. Look, that's quite more intense. I quite like that. I'm going to leave the separate features as a backup as a group, but it's the double layer because it's more in contrast. And I'm going to pinch it together. I've got the facial face features on one side, and I'm going to duplicate it. I'm going to switch the sketch back on and now I'm going to take the arrow two and I'm going to move it, flip it horizontal, and I'm going to move it and place it based on our sketch the same size side. And let's just work a little bit on because I can see. Some areas are a little bit too intense, and we don't want that. So for example, see the shades around the mouth and everything, we don't want them too intense. I've switched the sketch off. I can pinch this together, and I'm just going to work a little bit on. I've just grabbed the eraser two and I'm tiding the sides here. And I can see you see there is this inconsistency, so I will have to go back and tidy the face a little bit. But for now, I'm just going to work with this. So this bridge of the nose is way too intense, so I'm just going to grab the smudge two, which is texture fluff. I'm just going to smudge it a little bit down just to get rid of this harshness. I don't need such contrasting lines. And also, let's take the texture flouf too and just maybe till get rid of this. We can add a little bit of lighter area, working around it, making sure it works well together. Just tiding it. Now, I feel like I need to add a few lines here and there. I'm just going to grab the fur detail brush. I'm going to create a new layer and I'm going to grab the darker. Color from the sketons maybe this reddish brown, and I'm just going to add a little bit, reduce epacity. I'm just going to add a couple of lines. Yeah, I think maybe something like this. And now I feel like I want to tidy the face a little bit better. I'm just going to grab go back to the face layer and I'm just going to grab the razor or two. I'm just going to tide you face a little bit better. I always when it comes to the faces, I always experiment with liquefy too. Oh, let's just smudge a little bit over the chin as well because that's just way too contrasted. Something like that. You can always add some highlights to her eyes so you can grab the filler brush and the pure white color. You can add a little bit of light if you wish so. Now I'm just going to experiment with liquefy two, seeing that if there is something I can do to improve the face of the queen, I'm just going to merge this together, and I'm going to put the face and the neck in the same group. I always duplicate it just to create the backup and I flatten the face. Now I'm going to go to adjustments, liquefy and I'm just going to play around with liquefy too. By the way, let's make sure that we do it consistently. We go to Canvas, we switch on drone guide, and we create symmetry. Let's put all the elements in the middle. The face on the medal and using liquefy too, I'm just gonna play around the facial feature just going to reduce the size a little bit. Maybe maybe just the cheek bones slightly or on the contrary slightly wider, actually, quite like eyes a little bit more open. I like the eyebrows quite low. Maybe the noise a little bit. See if you gently touch. That's basically it. I'm not going to do anymore with the fish. I'm quite happy with that. Next thing we're going to work on the hair. 10. The Queen's Hair: In this lesson, I'm going to show you how I usually work on the hair of my characters, which is basically the same principle with any of them. So what I'm going to do, it's basically creating contrast. So this is the face, and this is the hair. What I'm going to do, first of all, I'm going to make the hair on the back darker because naturally whatever object is close behind it gets shade cast on it. I'm going to create a new layer. I'm going to clip it as a mask and I'm going to turn the blending mode into multiply, and I'm just going to grab the filler brush, same color as the hair, and I'm just going to increase the opacity and you can see that it's darker. So now with the mean here, and we can actually pinch it together because there's no need to keep all the layer separate. This is our mean front foreground here. I'm just going to create a new layer and I'm going to clip it as a mask. And let's just quickly have a look how to create this gloss on the here. There is a wave, so you can see that if you look at the here, at the volume. This is the dip between the rise and fall. So where they fall is naturally obviously going to be darker area and on the sides where the wave rises, the top of it will hit the light and obviously they will be lighter. That's all the basic rule. Let's create a contrast. I'm going to switch the blending mode to multiply. And just to create a nicer transition, I'm going to use Pinter lip Brush, 100% opacity and the same darker color. Let's see. I'm just going to it's probably easier if it's a little bit. S. So this is where the wave falls. That's why it's going to be darker naturally. Usually darker here closer to the root. I'm just going to add a little bit of shading on the other side as well. That's the shading. And obviously, to make it a little bit more natural, slightly more realistic, what I'm going to do. I'm going to select the fur details brush and I'm going to add some individual hairs, just like that. With this kind of motion, indicating that this weave, it's more of a sphere type and that's why we are arranging here, like in the sphere. Just like that, like nothing too complicated. Just adding a little bit of detail to the here. And now, I would like to add some fly away here to make it less flat. I can create actually a new layer right underneath this foreground layer. Keep it on the normal blending mode, and with the same brush, what I'm going to do, I'm just going to add a few flyaway heres here and there. Not too messy because it's green after all, you know, her hair is all nice and sort of tidy. A lot of products probably she's used on her hair. Just like to create less of the flat effect. A little bit of, like, individual hairs here and there. Not a little bit here inside. Oh Now let's add some highlights, which is basically the same principle. I'm going to create a new layer. I probably I'm going to put it underneath this one because I still want to see the dark individual hairs. Keeping on the normal blending mode, I'm going to use texture flouf brush and I'm going to use the slightest beige color. I'm going to increase the size, reduce opacity because I don't want too much contrast. I'm just going to gently add on top of the wave where the light hits the top of it, I'm just going to add a little bit of a high line just like this. And maybe I'm just going to grab for detail brush. I'm going to choose a darker beige color, and I'm just going to add reduced opacity and add some white individual hairs as well. That's here ready. 11. The Queen's Clothing: Now, let's add other elements of our Queen's outfit. So I'll probably start with the dress. So we've got behind the color behind the neck and I'm going to start working on that one. I'm going to create a new layer. I'm going to clip it as a mask, and I'm going to change the blending mode to multiply, and I'm going to take the pottery brush and with the same purple color that I used for the gown itself. I'm just going to reduce opacity and I'm just going to add a little bit of shading. I'm going to play around the different scales of the brush. Now probably to make it slightly more interesting, I'm going to create a new layer, clip it as a mask. I'll probably move it between the shading and the color itself, and I'm just going to use the pattern brush. Let's say deck of cards just to show that she's the queen of all suits not just um not just heart. So I'm just going to add some pattern there. I can play around with the size of it. I kind of like the smaller size, something like this. And you can always play with the blending mode. So because it's a white color, you will need some lighter blending mode. I think I'm going to stick to overlay. So I'm just gonna leave it as a test maybe reduce the opacity a little bit just to make sure that it looks like it's on the background. So now let's work on the front of the gown. We can pinch this together. So this is our gun. And let's add some shading. First of all, I'm going to clip it as a mask and I'm going to turn the blending mood to multiply. Just to stay consistent, let's use a pottery brush, same purple color as we used for the gown itself. I'm going to increase the size, and I'm just going to add a little bit of shading in the bottom. Maybe something near the here xround with different just to add a little bit more of color interest, you can always choose different color. I can choose that blue one and just add a little bit. O play around the different brushes like texture fluff, for example, it will add a little bit more solid coverage. So not going to dwell too much on that. Now I would like to add some decorative details to the gown. For that, I'm going to create a new layer and I'm going to clip it as a mask. I'm also going to use drawing access to make symmetry just to save myself some time. I'm going to grab the filler brush, and the color I'm going to use is pure white. I'm just going to maybe just slightly smaller size, 100% opacity, I'm just going to make this contrasted color, and I'm going to add a little bit of lines to the design of the gown. Something like this. And let's just create another one. I'm going to switch on drawing assist, and I'm going to switch on clipping mask as well, and I'm just going to use the pink colour, reduce the size a little bit. I'm just going to add some pink elements to the design of the gown. It's no right or wrong there. It's just up to you what you choose to do with your design. Let's play a little bit with a blending mold. I think I quite like it normal. I like this combination of pink white and purple. The only thing I might do, I'll just pinch these lines together, and then I just put it between the shade and the background of the color. Don't worry about this because we're going to clip, the whole of the queen to the cameo and it feels like I want to add clipping mask, drawing assist. I want to add some light line in the behind color. Something like this. And maybe even change change there. Blending mode. Something like this. Now I would like to add the cloak, color this exaggerated standing up color. I'm going to go on the background above the cameo but behind the whole pin, I'm going to use drawing assessed as well, and I'm going to select this blue color because that's in our color blocking, we've decided to use that. I'm just going to draw Let's make it just slightly bigger. Beyond the cameo, we want it to be like, really exaggerated. Well, let's draw Oops. Let's just, uh, make sure. This part of our design. And yeah, something like this. I don't know, we can play around with the size of it. Maybe we don't want it that big, let's just decorate it a little bit. I'm just going to add the clipping mask. Again, I'm going to change to multiply. I'm going to use some lighter, lighter opacity brush. Or you see, I need to move a little bit shift a little bit to the side. Sure. I'm just going to add a little bit of shading here and there. You can mix in some purple color to keep it consistent together if you wish so. Let's add some design elements to our queen's color. I probably would grab the flow brush again, the blue color, and they might just um add a little bit of decorative details just to make it a little bit more interesting. Let's create the clipping mask. Let's do the drawing assessed as well, and let's just use some of the yellow cour just to create the line let's maybe add some of the white detailing on it. Something like this. Now let's add some love hearts. I've created another clipping mask, but this time, I'm going to use the red color. I'll probably just create a love heart here. I'm going to make sure that I place it the way I want it to be, something like this, and I'm just going to duplicate it, and I'm going to splt it horizontally, and I'm just going to make sure that the designing is consistent on both sides, something like that, not being too precious. Now let's add the crown. So I would just probably flatten the color because it's not a big deal, it's on the background. Now let's create the crown. For that, I would probably flatten the here. I'm going to create a new layer, and first of all, I'm going to create the base of the crown, so I'm going to make yellow. I can always try and move it a little bit. Let's create a big love heart. I can choose the Symmetry tool to ren acess I'm just gonna Make sure that it's nice and solid. I can play around with different size, but something like that. I think I'm going to just complicate the design a little bit. I've just duplicated the lock heart. I made it smaller. I put it in the center, and I'm just going to turn the blending mode to multiply, just like that. And I'll probably add a little bit of red love hearts on the base of the crown. Something like this? And that's basically it. Also, we talked about. Remember at the beginning when we were talking about tools, wait forgot the necklace. So I'm going to add the clipping mask on top of the layer with the neck and with the red color, I'm just going to create this sort of choker. And I'm going to make love heart necklace, just to show that it's a Queen of Hearts. That's it. Now the only thing that optionally you can choose to do, you can add some gold elements. For that, I'm going to create a new layer, by the way, you can check out my gold class if you want to master the gold painting. But now I'm just going to quickly add a little bit of gold because it's a queen. I'm not going to dwell too much of it and it's completely optional. I've created a new layer on top of everything, but obviously underneath the paper texture. I'm going to create another layer on this top layer, I'm going to add my gold texture. So I've added the gold texture on this layer. And what I'm going to do, I'm going to clip it as a mask. So you see, it's disappeared. So we go on the empty layer underneath, and that's how we start painting with gold. I'm going to be using the filler brush because it's more solid and I want my gold to be obvious. I'm just going to add some gold details here and there. I'm not afraid to overdo it because in my opinion, there is no such thing as too much gold. I'm just going to start with this crown, and I'm going to draw little gold elements. That would actually help also if I create the drawing assessed here. I've got a symmetry going on. I'm just going to add some gold elements here and there and your imagination is your limit. Mm And I think that's it. That's our Queen ready. In the next lesson, let's put some nice decorative elements around her. 12. The Roses: Now I would like this part of my queen to be clipped as a mask to my cameo. For that, what I'm going to do, I'm going to duplicate it to create the backup. But with this one, I'm going to switch drawing asstof and I'm going to select this lower part of it. And I'm going to cut and paste it. And I'm going to clip this part as a mask. In this case, we've got the queen clipped to the cameo, but the color of her cloak going beyond the cameo. Now, what we're going to do, we're going to add some roses as we discussed. I'm going to go back beyond the paper layer. I'm going to create a new layer. This time, I'm going to be using my roses and I'm going to use one rose in the bottom and the other on top. I'm going to use the white color and I'm just gonna stamp one rose here. Something like this. And I'm gonna stamp the other one on top. Something like this. And that's basically my sketches. I'm going to clip them together and I'm going to reduce the opacity, now I'm just going to color the roses in. I'm going to create a new layer and let's fill these roses with red color. I'm going to select the filler brush. I'm going to choose red color. I'm just going to outline the red part of the roses. Fill them with color. I'm just going to duplicate it to make sure it's as solid as possible, something like that. Now I'm going to fill the leaves and stems. With colour, we agreed to use this sort of bluish gray color for the leaves. I've created a new layer underneath the red roses layer. I'm just going to coloring the stems. So we've colour blocked the roses and so it occurred to me that I would make the transition because the roses were being painted in the story with red paint from white to red. So the parts closer to the queen will be red and the ones that go beyond will be white just to show the transitioning. But let's just do one step at a time. Now, I would like to add some symbolic shading to the roses. I really wouldn't want to focus too much on them because this class is not about it. For reference, for guidelines, I'm going to switch the sketch off and I'm just going to reduce the opacity. What I'm going to do, I'm going to create a new layer and I'm going to clip it as a mask and I'm going to change the blending mod to multiply. I'm going to grab the filler brush, the red color, and I'm just going to make some parts shaded. I'm just probably going to reduce the opacity a little bit. Obviously, the very center will be shaded. And the bottoms of the petals will be shaded, too. Something like this. You can choose and use the smudge tool texture cloth, just to smudge the shading a little bit, if you want. That's what I sometimes do when I just want to add a little bit of softness around the edges. But I want the roses to be more graphic illustration style rather than realistic, just to keep it in consistence with the queen. Let's add some highlights, Clipping mask, keeping on the normal blending mode, and I'll probably use texture fluff and white colour with really low opacity just to add some highlights here and there. That's what I'm going to do with the roses and I'm just going to pinch them together. And now I'm just going to quickly work on the leaves. I'm just going to create a clipping mask, and I'm going to change the blending mode to multiply with texture fluff, I'm just going to use this gray color just to add a little bit of shading here and there on the leaves. And also it occurred to me that I quite like this white outlining on the roses. I think it adds this nice element onto the leaves as well. I've just decided that I'll keep it as part of my design, and I'm just going to bring it down here and I said that I was going to make the transitioning between red and white. I'm just going to show you how I can choose to execute this task. We're going to be working with this red part of the roses. We've got red roses. Now we need white roses. For that, I'm going to duplicate this layer for the red roses. I'm going to switch the top one off and I'm going to work on the bottom one. I'm going to go to the adjustments, part of the menu and I'm going to choose huge saturation and brightness. What I'm going to do, I'm going to reduce the saturation, but I'm going to increase the brightness. Actually, saturation maybe 15% and brightness is about 75 and the hue I'll probably leave it as it was. At the moment, they look like light pink. But in the contrast with red one, red color, they will look white. You can also play around with things like color balance. You can make them a little bit more bluish. That will make them appear white. Again, I would like to go back to saturation to reduce it a little bit. That's basically white roses. These are red roses and we want to create this transitioning from white to red to make our Queen of Hearts happy. What I'm going to do the white roses underneath, the red roses on top. I'm going to add a mask to the red roses layer. So we tap on the layer and we select mask, and now I'm going to select the texture, fluff, brush, and you can see that the color is automatically black because for our masks, it's either black, white or shades of gray, and I'm going to increase the opacity to 100% size and what I'm going to do. I'm going to switch the roses back on, and now I'm going to mask parts of my red roses turning them into white. Showing the transition, showing that they used to be white. But because of our Queen of Hearts, they turn to be red. If you feel like you need to reveal more of the red roses that you've masked too much, select the white colour. I'm just reveal a little bit more. If you reduce the opacity, obviously, the mask is going to be more opaque or transparent depends on how you look at it. I'm quite happy with that. I think it's showing that the roses used to be white. Now they are red to make the queen happy, and that's basically all the elements, accompanying elements, I would like to be around my queen. Let's do the finishing touches in the next lesson. 13. Finishing Touches: For the finishing touches, the plan is the following. I would like to tidy the illustration up a little bit, and I would like maybe to add some additional elements that this illustration can benefit from. But again, it's all optional. If you choose to do it or not to do it, it's up to you. So first of all, I would like to tidy the roses because you see the stems are a little bit untidy. So what I'm going to do? I'm going to put all the roses and the leaves and the stems into one group. I'm just going to flatten it. And I'm going to take eraser to, and I'm just going to erase maybe this part, just like that. Probably I'm going to select the texture flofF the eraser and I'm just going to erase a little bit of this just making it disappear on the background. I can see that there is just a little bit of the cameo. I'm going to duplicate it to make it more solid and I'm just going to take the filler brush and Smooth. This little bit. Now I would like to work on the cameo a little bit because we still can see some of it and we want it to be a little bit less flat. And how we're going to do that very, very simple. I'm going to create a clipping mask on top of this cameo and I'm going to change the blending mode to lineburn I'm going to grab some texture brush like let's see the texture shader and I'm going to select this beige color, increase the size of it. I'm just going to add a little bit of texture. Here and there. You can experiment with different types of textured brushes. There is plenty of them here. There is painterly. Pottery is quite a textured brush, so I'm just going to grab maybe blue color and just add a little bit just to make the color of the cameo less flat. And also, you can use some decorative elements. Like, first of all, you can use some of the pattern brushes here from our main brush set or I would probably use one of the stamps. For example, in Victorian element set, there is Victorian element six, and I've created a new layer and I'm going to turn the blending mode to multiply, and I'm just going to maybe choose this purple color again and see how the stamp works. I can put it in the center just above her crown which is quite uh, quite nice. You can go further. You can use other elements like this, for example, let's turn the blending mode to multiply and let's just maybe stamp here and you can remember with stamps, you can experiment with the sizes, you can erase whatever whatever you feel is not needed. C I created this aximetrical composition. You can reduce the opacity of it if you want so. But that's basically just to give you an idea that you can create a lot of elements. Again, this type of elements will unite, unify this illustration of the queen with the illustrations of the dorms and the rabbit, making them belong to the same story. And the very last thing I would probably add again completely option, the matter of sort of personal preference, I would add a frame around it. I've created a new layer underneath the upper part of the queen, and I'll probably I'm going to choose the most royal out of all the elements like the frame elements. I'm going to choose Victorian element five and with pure white color. I'm just going to outline the cameo you can also edit the lips. I'm just going to put it really close to the edges of the cameo, making it look like. I really like it because it creates this sort of lace effect, which is also part of the Victorian style of clothing or interior or something. All these things like give out this Victorian vibe in my humble opinion. That's basically pretty much it. I would like to add the finishing touches, but obviously, you guys feel free to take it even further because in my opinion, there is no such thing as I said, as too much. My style is basically about a lot at the same time. So I encourage you just to experiment. Don't be afraid and yeah, well done. 14. Final Thoughts: First of all, let me thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking this class and a special thank you for my students who have been with me from the very start and who have taken every class of mine. There are a few important things I'd like to say. First of all, when it comes to human face drawing, like with anything else in art, observation is the key. Pay attention to the faces of your family members and friends. Watch discreetly people on the train, your work colleagues, and your street bussers by. Pay closer attention to people on TV, actors, singers, TV personalities, celebrities of all kinds of ethnicity backgrounds and ages. Observe how emotions change facial features. Observe your own face while doing makeup, for example, try to express emotions of happiness, sadness, surprise, rage. All of the above will help you immensely in learning to draw human faces. I would also like to apologize if some lessons are too long. There is so much information I'd like to share that sometimes it's virtually impossible to squeeze it all in and buy size lessons. Feel free to adjust the playback speed of my classes of my lessons to make it go slightly faster. I won't be offended, I promise I don't mind at all. Although my classes are quite long, still, I don't manage to fit in even a tenth part of what I like to share with you guys in them. I give you absolute basics, and I encourage you to work further on the basics to elaborate on details, lighting, shading, color tones, et cetera, just to bring it on a new level. At the same time, I don't want to become a daunting task for you because my whole point as a teacher is to make you believe in yourselves. Prove to you that illustration doesn't have to be complicated. You can do it once you switch your mindset from doing a chore of drawing to a nice, relaxing, soul healing time spending. So what I would kindly recommend after you've done this class, don't just leave your illustration behind and rush to move on to the next illustration, to the next project of yours. Make yourself cozy. Pour yourself some nice hot drink. Switch on your favorite TV series on and open Procreate with your illustration on your lap. And just let your hand draw. Let it add, let it cross hatch. Add, remove, experiment with colors without involving your brain too much. Try it the promise magic will happen. Thank you again. Please share your illustrations with me either here in the discussion section or on Instagram. At my underscore is underscore, tag me on Instagram. I hope to see you in my next class.