Art Projects to Inspire, Motivate and Create Beautiful Art! Episode 1: Subject Cards

1. Introduction: Hello and welcome to my new series, our projects episode one. Subject cards. Are you feeling uninspired or unmotivated to produce beautiful art? But you have lots of art material. You've got colored pencil, you've got watercolors, you've got markers and loads and loads of art materials. Your tray or in your art supply boxes. Don't know what to draw, need some motivation, then this class is perfect for you. My name is Jim Ryan. I'm a graphic designer and illustrator and welcome to my new series, our project episode one, subject cards. This series is all about doing our projects with the supplies that you already have to give you that motivational kickstart and inspiration to produce beautiful artwork on a daily basis. I always advocate using art to escape away and improve your well-being by doing a little bit of artwork on a daily basis. And this series is all about getting you to start up on the habit of doing something every day to keep your mind motivated, inspired, and to act as that lovely gets away, away from your hustle and bustle of your daily life. And to just relax and enjoy that beautiful process of using your gorgeous art materials to produce daily art. For this first episode of this series, we're going to be diving into designing these beautiful subject cards. We will begin the class by going through the class supplies that you need. These are gonna be absolute, bare, minimum, and you're going to most likely already have these class supplies. The whole idea of this series is to use the materials and supplies that you already have to start using them to create beautiful art. We're going to then look at creating and designing some templates to produce our subject cards on. This will include adding beautiful frames, adding a splash of color, creating the layout, composition, and adding beautiful patterns to our subject cards. Then most importantly, deciding on what subject we're going to use to produce these brilliant little subject cards. I will be designing step-by-step so that you can follow with whichever materials that you have available to you. We're going to use different materials such as pencil, ink, watercolors, and maybe even some markers to produce these gorgeous patterns and designs. But if you don't have these materials, it makes absolutely no difference. You can substitute with whichever materials you have. So you are not limited to any type of art supply. And once we've finished the step-by-step lessons, then you're going to be ready to produce your own beautiful subject card or a complete setups object cards for you to do in your class projects. So if you want to start this wonderful adventure with me, then grab hold of your art supplies and materials. Sit back, get yourself a nice hot drink, get yourself a nice treat. And let's get started with the class. 2. Class Supplies: Okey-dokey, welcome back. Let's now start off with going through our small classes, supplies and materials that we need to do this exciting class. So let's start off with the first item and that is the lovely job lead pencil. So you're going to need a pencil to do your initial sketching with and grab yourself an eraser as well, which will come in handy to get rid of all those squiggly wiggly lines that you don't want. So we're starting off with pencil. Let's put that to the side there. And then to do some line work, we're going to need some fine liners or even a fountain pen if that's what you're accustomed to, I personally will be using my fountain pen, but if you don't have a fountain pen, then fine line as we'll do. Now, the type of fine liner is important because this will depend upon the actual medium that you go for. So I always use waterproof ink, fine liners like these ones here. And I also use waterproof ink in all my fountain pen. So if we're going to do wet mediums, which we're going to move on to next, then make sure you've got waterproof ink. But if you're going to use dry mediums, then you can use any ink for this class. Let's now look at our fantastic medium. So you have a choice of mediums for this class. So firstly, I've got some standard markers here. These are just water-based markers, basic, cheap Crayola markers. You can use whichever markers you want if this is the option that you want to go for. So this is the first option to use water-based markers like this. If you have brush pens, they'll work fine as well. The second choice is colored pencil. So I've got a few colored pencils here. I've got many more colored pencils, but if I put them all on the screen, just going to go into a colored pencil. So I've just selected a few here just for showing you what I'm talking about. So we've got the second option as colored pencils. They can be any colored pencils. So I've got a few down here. I'm, the third choice is our lovely watercolor. So I've got a nice sets of May standard watercolors over here. And obviously you're going to need a brush if you decide to use watercolor. So we got watercolor as the third option, giving us a total of three. Now I'm going to suggest you use maybe one or two of these options for this class or even a combination of all if you like. However, I'm going to concentrate on the watercolor side because that's just my personal preference. I may do a little bit with the watercolor markers, but just use whatever you have at your disposal. It doesn't really matter what you use as long as you're using the right surface. And that's what we're going to move on into the next part of the class. But before we do that, let's just quickly go through some other items that you're going to need for the class. Let's just move all these lovely mediums to the side. So now I've got a nice little white paint marker. You can use a white gel pen if you have it. And this is just a speckle, a couple of highlights onto our lovely illustrations that we produce. And then I've got a ruler and this is going to come into play in the next part of the class. So important to get yourself a ruler and also some squeezes. So we've got some lovely scissors over here. So scissors, ruler and an option of a white paint marker or a gel pen. It's not absolutely necessary that you have one of these. That's fine. If you have one lying around, great. If you don't, then that's not a problem, but absolutely scissors and a ruler. Finally, we just need something round which will come into play when we do the next part of the lesson. So I've just got this little five penny piece here. You don't need to have a five p. You can have anything that's round that you can draw it around. And that's going to be for the corners of the dimensions that we use. So anything around that you can draw around if you can't find it. No problem, just leave it as it is, and that's it then. So let's just do a summary of what we need. Okay, so firstly, we need a pencil and an eraser. And then we said we needed some type of ink tools, so fine liners or a fountain pen with ink, preferably waterproof ink. If we're going to use watercolor mediums, then some of mediums that we have over here, we've got the water-based markers. You can use felt-tip. You can use any type of brush, pen, or marker as long as it's water-based and not alcohol-based because we're not going to really be doing alcohol markers here. But if you want to use alcohol markers, then you can go ahead and do it. It might you might end up getting different results, but that's absolutely fine. And then we've got some colored pencils which are always good in handy to use. And then my favorite, which is the watercolor super-duper watercolor there. And then obviously you're going to need a watercolor brush if you go for that option. And then I've got this additional option of a highlighter marker. So a paint marker or white highlight gel pen would do. Then I've got scissors, a ruler, and then I've got something round to draw corners from, um, that's it. That's all we need from the actual tools and supplies. Let's now move on to the next main supply, and that is the surface that we're going to use. So let's move on to that one next. Okey-dokey, the next and most important supply for this class is the surface. So the paper stock that we use is very important. Now, I'm going to recommend that you use the thickest paper that you can find. And it all depends on which medium you decide to go for. So if you don't want to use watercolors and you just want to go ahead. Maybe just use ink and colored pencils then I would suggest you use a heavyweight cartridge paper or any cartridge paper that has a decent thickness to it. And bristle board for that would work great. If you've watched any of my previous classes on colored pencils, I always love using smooth Bristol board paper. This for me is one of the best papers you can use. You can see it's nice, durable and it has a decent amount of thickness to it. So bristle board or cartridge paper, if you decide to use colored pencils and ink only. Alternatively, we can use a nice mixed media surface like this. We've got this acrylic paper, which is quite nicely textured and would work pretty nicely this actual exercise for this class, however, this is something that you probably won't have lying around. But if you do, why not give this one a go? This will even work well with watercolors and the actual watercolor markers themselves and even acrylic paint, which is what it's designed for. But we're not going to go down the acrylic paint roots. I'd rather keep it nice and a pliable and simple for this first episode in this series. So if you have any acrylic or mixed media paper, then maybe give that a go for this class. And finally, and this is what I'm going to use, and that is a watercolor paper. Now this is one of my favorite brands of watercolor paper. It comes in a book and this is what I'm going to use. It's hot press, so it has a nice smooth finish. And the advantage of using watercolor paper is you can use watercolor markers on them, which is brilliant. You can use the brush markers, you can use ink, and you won't have any problems. So if you have watercolor paper, then I'm going to say go for your watercolor paper option for this class. So again, I'm gonna be using watercolor paper and I'm going to mainly concentrate on with my watercolors and maybe a little bit of these standard watercolor markers and maybe a little bit of Anki. Anki, or I might add a splash of colored pencil or maybe some marker work, and this paper will work fine, but it doesn't really matter what brand of watercolor paper you use, whichever one you have at your disposal, just use that whether it's hot pressed, cold pressed, because generally watercolor paper is usually quite thick. The one that I use and the one that I always recommend is the 300 GSM. That's usually with some decent brands. That's the thickness you get and the weights, it's 140 pounds, anything lighter then that will work. However, if you do have 300 GSM, then absolutely go for that. That's all the supplies that you need for this class. I know you're getting excited because I'm getting excited. So let's now move on to the first stage of this exciting journey. 3. Template Design: Okey-dokey, welcome back. Now the excitement begins. So we're going to do the first stage of the class. And this is all about cutting out our sheets of watercolor paper or cartridge paper or whichever paper that you decided to use into its lovely little shapes so that we can get them ready and prepped up for the beautiful illustrations that we do on this actual example that I'm going to show you. I'm just using some standard paper here that's because it's quick and easy to do on a camera. So I'm not going to use my watercolor paper, but I am going to use the watercolor paper for when I actually go ahead and do it. So just for demonstration purposes, I'm just using this normal printer paper because it's just easier to cut and show while I'm talking so, well, either paper you decide to use, just use this same method. Now, for this first stage, we need, obviously we need the sheets of paper that we're going to go ahead and use. We need our scissors ruler, we need our pencil eraser, and we need our round little thing that we're going to use to do the corners. So first stage is to get your ruler and your pencil, and we're gonna do some measurements. Now, the whole point of this class is to create some beautiful little panels that are rectangular shapes that we can mimic and create templates of. So my paper here is A4 in size. My watercolor paper is going to be slightly bigger. Your sheet might be bigger as well or even might be smaller. So I'm gonna give you a ballpark recommended size to cut out. This is just a ballpark size. You don't have to imitate this exact size if it's not feasible for you to do, you can do something maybe a bit bigger or smaller, but just keep the dimensions and proportions similar so that we get similar results. So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to measure across the page and this is giving me approximately around about 29 point maybe seven. So 29.7 cm, I've got a cross. And what I want to do is I want to divide this into as many strips as I can. That's our 7 cm across. So over here I've got seven and I'm just going to literally just throw in a little dot there. Then the next seven is going to be on the 14, throw in the dark there. The next term is gonna be on the 21, and then the final sermon is going to be on the 28th. It feels like a maths class doesn't say the seven times table. So now you can see I've got seven centimeter spacing in between each of these dots. And then I've got this excess area over here, which we don't need to worry about. So what I'm gonna do now is I'm just going to bring the rule that down and I'm going to literally do that again. So I'm just going to make sure that my edge is on the starting point there. And again, all I'm gonna do is I'm just going to add in these dots at the seven centimeter intervals, 71421, and then we've got 28. And this will make more sense when we do the next part. So we've got double dots going across our page and all we need to do now is just connect them. Yes, we need to connect them. So it's like a dotted piece of artwork with my ruler and pencil. I'm just going to join up them two dots and just do a line going down. And you can see we've got a nice little stripy strip of a seven centimeter rectangle going across. So again, join the dots over here, like so. Don't press down too hard with your pencil. You don't want to indent your paper, just keep it nice and light. Finish the third one over here like this, easy-peasy. And then finally that last part down there. Let's get rid of that one. And there you go. So now I've got four equal-size strips that are 7 cm across. Now, what I'm going to suggest is let's now trim these lengths. So we've got these lengths over here, and I'm going to say, let's maybe have 14 cm. So if we just measure 14 on this first one over here, so we've got, let's just get that straight. So we've got 21 all the way down here on this sheet of paper. So all I want is this to be up to 14, 14 there. And then on the line at the end, I'm just going to do another 14 measurement there. So 14 cm from the top on the end of that line there. So effectively just got two points now that our 14 and you guessed right, we're just going to join them up. So we're going to do a join me, join the line on this, just to give us a nice equal dimension going all the way across that. And there we have it. We've got our four panels that are seven centimeter by 14 centimeter. Now can you guess what we're gonna do next? Absolutely. Going to cut these out with ours. Let's get our scissors ready and let's just do a quick coffee cut. Now, if you don't have big cities like I've got here and you're struggling, then just take your time with it. Don't rush this. I'm only doing this really quickly because I'm recording this at the same time. So I'm going to be a little bit rough with mine. But when I come to doing my watercolor paper ones, then I'm going to spend a bit more extra time on it to get it right. So just like this, I'm just going to do with quick little cut there so I can get rid of that and put that to the side. And then what I want to do is just trim this edge off just to keep things nice and simple so that you can visualize this while I'm doing it. And again, you may have some more advanced tools. You may have a tremor that you could use to do this. Or if you've got a tremor, then go ahead and do that. Or you might even have a super-duper cutting machine that does some fancy cutting like a cricket explore heir to do. I have one of them. I think I might want to then add fire. Not everyone's going to have a dye coating machines. So let's keep it nice and simple with this scissors. So we've got our four panels here. And all I'm gonna do is I'm just going to go in and cook quickly cut these. So we have some nice little panels. There we go. Fantastic. We've got some beautiful seven by 14 centimeter panels. And you can see mine are a little bit wonky because I've done this really fast, but do spend your time on it. Get that coating, don't really nice. Now, the next stage is we're going to do our nice corner corner things. So if you remember, I said have a nice little round thing that you can draw around the five P or whichever currency you're using a coin, anything that has around to it. So what I'm gonna do is I'll just move three of these out of the way. And we can concentrate on one. So let's just get a zoom in. Zoom in on this looking nice and sharp, Fantastic. So what we need to do now is we'd get our pencil and use the round coin that you have or whatever you have that has a round edge to it and just bring it close to the corner over here so you can see, I'm just bringing it closer that this part of the coin searches that edge and this part of the coin touches that edge. And effectively, all we're gonna do is just get a bit more of a zoom in zoom. So you can see there's a bit, that's all, that's fantastic. So all we're going to do here is keeping it within the corner itself. We're just gonna do a little curvy curve with our pencil. And you can see we've got a perfect curve. Fantastic, isn't it? Great little tip, should I say? So? Let's do the same on this corner, so make sure it lines up nicely. Then just do a little corner and then flipping it over. And we're going to basically do the same on the edges over here. And the reason for this is that once you've finished this beautiful little panel, you've got something that you can easily move around and it just looks quite nice, doesn't say it rather than having those sharp edges which do tend to fold away when you kind of like using them. So it does have its advantage. So there we have it. We've got these lovely little corners here for rounded corners. And yep, what we're gonna do now is we're just going to get our scissors. We're just going to carefully just cut these roundy rounds so that they match nicely. You can see that beautiful look at that and then get rid of that little excess. And all I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna do this around all four. There we go. So let's just do a Zoom is zoom back on this. Get rid of them. Little corner things out of the way. And we're looking really good. I mean, look at that. How easy was that super simple? All you need is a pencil, a penny, or a five P, and some scissors and you've got yourself a gorgeous cutout. So just do this and repeat it for all four of your little panels so that you have for the equally the same. And then we're pretty much ready to move on to the exciting part of the design stage. So once you've done this, give this a go. I mean, if this corner thing that I've done here is fits a bit too fiddly and tricky for you then do you know what? Just leave it. You don't need to bother with it too much. But really it is quite easy to do. It's not as difficult as you might think. You literally just do that little curve and just slowly cut around it. Take your time. Don't rush it like I've rushed it in this demonstration, you're gonna be using your watercolor paper or your expensive cartridge paper. And it's a good idea. Sometimes it may be just practice on some cheap papers, on cheap printer paper to see if you've got the hang of it before you go ahead and use your expensive, lovely watercolor paper. So I'm going to let you do that and take your time on it and don't worry if you mess it up, if the corners aren't perfect, that's fine. We're not here to create perfect artwork, are we? We're here to relax and enjoy ourselves and just get busy with our art materials to produce a some wonderful beautiful pieces of artwork. So once you've got that done, then you can see me on the next one. 4. Frame Design: Okay, welcome back. I've now got four beautiful little panels, seven by 14 with gorgeous rounded corners. And mine are done. And I've actually gone ahead and done this with my watercolor hot pressed paper. So I spent a bit more time on this than I did with the demonstration, just to get these angles really nice and lined up. And it's looking fantastic. So double-sided playing hot pressed watercolor paper and we have four gorgeous strips of beautiful seven by 14. Now for the exciting part, now what we're gonna do is go ahead and do some design work. So let's just move maybe three of these out of the way so we can concentrate just on one scatter, zoom in, zoom in, zoom in on this over here, looking good. So let's get that bang on in the center. Or we need to do now is we need to grab hold of our pencil and we need a ruler. I've switched to a nice small ruler just to make it a little bit easier. And what we're gonna do here is we're gonna go in and draw a border that follows the shape of our overall strip of card watercolor paper. So in order to do that, we're going to create a half a centimeter ring effectively with in this rounded edge shapes. So firstly, what we're gonna do is we're gonna get our ruler measure half a centimeter here. So you've got half a centimeter there and just throw in a little dot like we did in the previous exercise. Move it down a little bit towards the end and again, another half a centimeter dot there. Then we're going to switch over to the other side and we're going to just follow along and do exactly the same. So half a centimeter dots coming in from the left and then at the bottom, half a centimeter dot coming in from the left. I can just write that fantastic. Then what we're gonna do is we're just going to go in and draw our lines to join these two dots, three dots up. So just like that, draw a line all the way from the top to the bottom. Again, don't press too hard, just keep it nice and light. Fantastic. And again, on the other side over here. So we're just gonna go in, gets it lined up, really nice, and we're just gonna go ahead and join those lovely dots. So you can see now we've got a nice half a centimeter line from the edge and it's looking great. So I'm just gonna do a little tilt, the tilt of this now just to make it easier to see, and I'm going to follow the same routine and do a, another half a centimeter. The right-hand side, a little dot there, and then another half a centimeter, a little dot over here. And then let's join these up. So again, line it up with your ruler, do a straight line all the way across. And then we're going to do the same on the other side. We've got that half a centimeter down there and then another half a centimeter over here. And this will complete our actual inner frame that we're creating. So just like that line itself and just do a nice little y. And again, take your time with this. I'm doing this fairly quickly for the demonstration. But eventually what you'll have is you'll have this lovely little frame border coming along all the way through the edge and you may be off by a millimeter here and there, but that's fine. Just do it as best as you can. You can see that my line that I've done over here is gone slightly above that point, but I'm not really that bothered. And again, I don't want you to stress. It's all about relaxing and enjoying the process. Remember, we've got another four panels to do so practice makes perfect. So the next stage now is to grab hold of your little penny or your little round thing that you used to do the corners. We're going to just use our round edge to effectively do a curve between the two lines that we've just drawn in that cross over. So just line it up like we did before. The edge going on to the right-hand side, the top part going on. So the one going across and just draw in that little curvy curve. Fantastic. And again, on the other side, we have exactly the same. Just line it up and do a nice little curvy curve. And that's looking good. So we're doing the same for the bottoms. Just move this on this side, actually, that'll be a lot better. So I won't say. So again, just line it up in-between those lines that we've just drawn in. I'm just dropping that little corner. And I'm going to do the same on this side. So just dropping in that little corner. And look how easy that is. So look at that beautiful stuff, right? Let's just do a zoom back now so we can see what we're doing. Let's get that out of the way and we're looking very nice. So what we've basically done is we've just created this will half a centimeter frame within the panel that follows the stimulus shape of it on the outside. So the next stage now is to go ahead and come up with some creative patterns and designs. So let's move on to that next. 5. Colour & Patterns: Okey-dokey, welcome back. What I'm gonna do now is I'm going to select a nice color and fill in this border edge that I've got over here. And I'm gonna do this with my water-based Crayola marker. I've got a nice little pinky color over here. You can use whichever color you want. If you're using markers, that's fine. If you're using colored pencils, that's fine. Just select a color and the exercise is basically to color in this border that we've effectively created to frame our panels. So all I'm gonna do before I do that is I'm just going to grab hold of a sheet of plain paper and just place my panel on top of that so that I don't mess up my mat. Then we're just going to go in and color this in. And it's just a case of going in and keeping within the lines as best as you can. So just like this, I'm just dropping this in. And you can see with the watercolor paper, these cheap Pete markers work so well. They actually feel a lot more expensive than they are. They feel like those high-quality brush pen markers don't like. But again, if you've got these lying around, then there are a great way to use them in this project. It's just such an easy thing today, so I'm just going to continue doing this until all this border edge is finished. Ok, and there we go. I've got a lovely little pink border that goes all around the lovely petal that we have. And again, just take your time on this, make sure you get every area cupboard in the color that you're using. And that's it for this stage. Now, wait until this dries out. Because again, even with markers, if you're using markers like I am, they do tend to be a little bit wet for a couple of minutes. So ensure that before we do the next stage, everything is completely dry because we don't want to have horrible smudgy. Smudgy is everywhere now, doing so, I'm going to wait for that to dry and then I'll see you on the next one. Okay. Okay, that's nice and dry. Now we can now move on to the next stage. For the next stage, what we're gonna do is we're not going to actually work on the front of the panel where we've got the frame. We're going to turn this around, flip it over, and we're gonna go ahead and work on the back. So let me just get hold of that piece of paper, but just putting my piece of paper underneath my actual panel itself so that I don't make a mess everywhere. So what I'm gonna do now is I'm just going to create a nice little pattern to fill up this back panel. Because what I want to do is I want to concentrate on the front. And it's always nice to add in a back panel. And because we've just used the color to do the front frame of this actual panel. It's just a good idea to just do that continually and go ahead and do this next. So I'm just going to grab hold of my ruler. And all it is is it's just creating some lines that I'm going to do going across. So just like this is just an estimate line going across like this, just to create a nice pattern to fill up that back area. So over here I've just drawn a little wine space and then another line. And then this is all I'm gonna do. I'm just going to follow this along. I'm just going to nudge my ruler a little bit further down, just a little bit like that. And then with my marker, go ahead and just keep adding these lovely little hatching lines. And it just gives it a nice effect. So I'm going to continue doing that now. Okay, So we've just done some beautiful little horizontal lines that are spaced really tightly together to create this beautiful pattern. And it's just such a relaxing exercises and say so what we're gonna do now is I'm just going to flip this over. So I'm just going to move my entire sheets. Just going to flip that over. Let's get Central. So rub out there. And then I'm just gonna go ahead and do exactly the same the other way. So we effectively have a cross hatching pattern on the back. Now, if you are not using these GP markers, like I've got over here, these water-based markers, you can do this with anything as long as it has a tip on it. So you can do it at the pencil with your fine liners, with your normal pens. You can do it with paint markers or colored pencils. Whatever tools you're using, You can go ahead and create this crisscross, cross hatch pattern that I'm doing and it's just a nice little exercise just to relax. I mean, just play something in the background or just to sing the song while you're doing it. I'm sure you don't want to hear me sing, so I'm not going to do that. I'm just gonna go ahead and add these lines. And then basically I'll see you once this is done. So I will just do the first-line to show you what I'm talking about. So just there on the edge first-line going across and again, just bringing it down maybe a little further than we did before just to create an interesting pattern. And just like that, I'm just gonna go ahead and create these beautiful, crisp cross, cross hatched box wines. And I'll see you once. That is done. Okey-dokey, We're now Dawn and look at that. Look how beautiful that looks at gorgeous little criss-cross pattern with our lovely color that we're using. So let's just flip this over. We've got our frame on the main front side of it. And then we've got a beautiful little pattern for the panel back. So that's it for this stage. We've just basically prepped up our beautiful panel so that we can get ready for the illustration stage. And we're just going to do maybe a couple more things on this before we go ahead and actually start working on our main artwork. So let's sit back, maybe have a break, have a nice little coffee and a cake, and I'll see you on the next one. 6. Layout Composition: Okey-dokey, welcome back. Now what we're gonna do is we're going to move on to the next stage of our lovely adventure. So I hope you had a nice coffee in that break because we're going to get all the exciting stuff done now. So I've got my lovely panel that are colored in and added the texture on the back. And this is pretty much ready for that next stage of excitement. But before I do that, I'm just going to show you a little trick. Just keep watching over here. Look at my hand, and now we have four. We've just multiplied it by four. And magically, four of the identical designs have appeared. Well, no, they haven't actually went ahead and did this and completed exactly the same steps. So I've got that beautiful texture on the back. I've used the same color just for demonstration purposes. But again, if you have four of these strips out of your paper, then go ahead and complete the template design just with the frame and the colors. Use different colors if you like, or just use the same ones. It's absolutely fine. What this does is it keeps you ready for each stage at a time. And if you do mess up, then you have a backup of maybe two or three more of the panels that you can work on so that you don't have to start all over again. And it's just a great relaxing process, isn't it? So let's now have a look at our layout, Okey-dokey. So for little layout, what I'm talking about here are two options. We've got this lovely whitespace here that we can do our illustration in for our particular subject that we choose. But it's also nice to have a little bit of writing. So what we're gonna do is we're going to come up with some different compositions for where we're going to place the text, the writing. And in the end we're just going to draw in some pencil lines for the position of our writing. And then that will give us a nice idea of how we're gonna go ahead and compose each one of these panels. So what I've got here is I've just got some printed paper here just for demonstration. We're not going to use printed paper. This is just for me to give you an idea of the different types of layouts that we can do. So I've just got some lined paper here that I've cutout. So we have two options. We can either do our designs in a portrait mode, which is like this. You've got the long strip of paper, or we can do it in the landscape mode. And we can go ahead and turn these the other way round and use them like this. So let's look at the different variations of the portrait mode first. So I've got my nice line paper here. So one option could be, we could have our lines up the bottom half of the actual panel. And then we've got this space on the top where we can do our illustration. We can also have smaller lines to have less text and maybe more space for the actual drawing. So we've got maybe half the area in writing lines. And then on this option we've probably got about 25% a quarter of lines and then more space for the drawings. Or you could actually go ahead and have no lines at all and maybe annotate your illustration as you go along. Or you could just have no text or writing altogether. So you could just have the illustration as it tastes. So there's four options here. Text on half of the panel, text on one-quarter side of the panel, maybe just the illustration with annotations Along the illustration itself, or just the illustration completely by itself. So it's entirely up to you which option you go for. I mean, you can have a mix and match of the options. So you could maybe have a couple that have texts and writing on half of the panels, maybe a few that just have annotations on the actual illustration, or maybe just one that has nothing on it and just has the illustration as it says, that choice is entirely up to you. As you go ahead and make more of these in your beautiful collection, you can play around with the process and composition. So that was the four options that I've got for the portrait mode. Let's now turn it over. So the horizontal mode. Okay, so now we've got our panels laid horizontally. We've got four options here. And again, it's a similar process. I've got a nice little strip of paper that I'm going to be placing on the left-hand side over here. Now, you've got the option of placing this on the left-hand side, or maybe having it on the right-hand side, you can change the orientation according to your preference. So again, like we had with the portrait panels, you can have text on half of it and maybe some drawings or illustrations on this side. You can actually go ahead and do the same on the opposite side and have text on the left-hand side and have your illustration on that side. There. The other options are to maybe have less text and more space for the actual illustration. And again, the other way round where you have text on the left-hand side and more space for your illustration there. Or the alternative is that you don't have any text at all, and you just go ahead and have a space for some beautiful artwork or illustrations for your subject and maybe just annotate them or just leave them as it is. You can actually go ahead and change this around a little bit. So e.g. over here, I've got text on that side. I can maybe have a little bit of text on the left side as well. So you've got this nice little space in the middle? No. So some annotations or just a little story on each side. That's a nice little orientation to work with. You have many different options. So play around with them and see which composition you like. So these are a few more options for the horizontal landscape orientation, Okey-dokey. So once you've decided which orientation and which layout you want to go for, then the next step is to go ahead and physically door in them lines. So that's what we're gonna do here. Now, I've decided to do it the portrait mode, and I want to have a little bit of writing on mine. So I'm going to use the one where we just have the quarter area of the panel with lines on. So I want to have the lines about this much. So what do we do next? What we do is we grab hold of our pencil, we get our lovely ruler. We don't need this little place holder because that was just for demonstration. And what I'm gonna do now is I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to start measuring in some measurements to come up with some even spacing for the line. So let's just get a zoom in. Zoom in on this so that we can see and not miss anything, wouldn't want you to do that. So for me, I'm going to say I'm going to have the text maybe around about over here. So you can see right at the bottom, I'll actually move this to the top so it's easier to see. So right at the bottom of your panel, right on the edge where we've got the edge of the actual paper. I want to go in with 4 cm, so I've got four there. And I'm just gonna go in and I'm going to place my ruler so that I have four down there. And I'm just going to go ahead and I'm just going to add a little dot where the measurements starts and where the measurement is zeros from zero all the way to four, I've got that little point. Then what this is going to do is this is going to give me my line spacing. And I'm going to go in with half a centimeter line spacing dots. So I'm just going to do a little dot here, half a centimeter there. One one-and-a-half to two-and-a-half, and then just to finish off on three. So you can see over here I've got these nicely spaced out dots that are half a centimeter in spacing length. So what we're gonna do is we're going to do exactly the same on the other side. So we're just going to measure up what we did so we make sure that we get to the four. So we've got four over here, right on the edge of the card. And then we've got the dotty dot starting from zero, half, one, one-and-a-half, two and a half, and then three. What this does is this gives us a nice guide that we can just draw in our wines. So again, like we did with the frame which is going to join up these dots, the dots. And just like this without a ruler, nice and faint, don't need to press too hard. So just a nice little line across there. Move it down to the next one. A nice little line across over there. Then again, just following that pattern to produce these beautiful lines, spaces that we can add in a little bit of texts. Now, the amount of lines that you have will just depend on your own preference really. I mean, if you want to do a lot of writing, then adding few more lines if you just want. So maybe just have a title and a tagline or a kind of like just a subject description, then just have a space for a few lines. Now another thing about the line spacing is I'm doing nought 0.5 centimeter intervals because my writing does tend to be quite small, I probably don't have the best handwriting in the world, so it all depends on your handwriting style. So if you've got bigger handwriting may be spaced out the lines a little bit bigger, maybe have 1 cm lines. I personally prefer to have the naught 0.5 centimeter. Okay, so let's just do a Zoom is zoom back and have a look at this. Fantastic. So you can see now we've got space for a little bit of text to go over here, some lovely worthy words. And then we've got this really nice panel area for us to do the artwork. So let's now move on to the next one. 7. Border Design: Okey-dokey. The next stage now is to do a nice little pattern in this frame border that we have now, this stage is optional. You don't need to do a pattern if you dealt want you can leave it as it is. But for me, I always like to add in a beautiful intricate little pattern, which just gives it an overall gloss to the actual project that we're designing. So for this, I'm gonna be using my ink and I've just got a fountain pen here. If you want to do something similar, then just go ahead and grab hold of your ink tool, whatever it may be. It might be the fine liners or even might just be a black pencil. Now, if you're gonna be using watercolor for the main illustration and maybe you're gonna get a couple of species of water going good, then I would say probably use waterproof ink like I'm doing. But if you decided that you're not going to really delve into watercolor, actual paints themselves, then you can go ahead and just use any ink for the pattern. So I'm gonna go ahead and open up my fountain pen. And this one has a really nice thick nib on it. So this is a broad nib. So if you're new to fountain pens and you want to learn more about fountain pens and do check out my class on fountain pens specifically, if you just want a quick refresh, I personally love to use fountain pens, especially when I do watercolor or any type of illustration. I've actually moved away from fine liners and just start using fountain pens because there's just so much more nicely the experience and the actual results. So what I'm gonna do now is I'm just going to go in over here into this border area. I'm just going to really create some random squiggly lines. So again, if you want to follow the exact pattern that I'm doing, you can, but you don't really have to because I'm actually just making it up as I go along. So I'm just gonna do a little S-shaped there and then maybe do a, another S shape over here. And then I might have something that comes in like this, just like a W. And then maybe throw in a dot over here and maybe have another dark down there. So you can see on this corner, I've just created this little funny little squiggly wiggly pattern. I think it looks rather nice. So what I'm gonna do is continue doing maybe some curvy lines down here. And then let's maybe do a circle, a nice black dot, and then how about a couple of stippled dots down here. And then maybe just throw in some wines with curves going on at the end. And then again another line with a curve going the other way. And then I'm going to turn my pen across because the line is quite thick. I'm going to turn it away the other side of the nib and let's just do a thin line coming down there. There may be some thin dots over here. So just play around, come up with some squiggly lines, and just come up with a nice kind of pattern that just makes it look interesting. Curly willy is like this. Big leaf shapes or just some dots and lines. Now you can just actually go ahead and just do circles like this. If you just have like a couple of circles and just continue this circle pattern all the way around. That looks rather nice as well. Or you could just do some lines that are going across. I tend to just have a mix and match when I'm doing this exercise for this beautiful little projects. So again, I'm just going to randomly just keep doing these squiggly big leaves. Maybe do a shorter one here, couple of dots there, and then maybe just have a circle, a circle over here. And then again, maybe just have some lines that curve out. And then at the bottom I'm going to turn back to my thicker point, maybe do the S shape again and then have a similar shape on the opposite side and then just align. And then maybe some curly curlies down here and then just throw in a couple of dots. Fantastic. So you can see we've just created this lovely little pattern. Keep continuing on it as much as you want. You might find that you want to just maybe add a few little bits and bobs here. That's absolutely fine. You don't need to follow this exact pattern. Just come up with your own pets. And, and if you don't want to do a pattern and just, just throw in a couple of lines or circles that just follows suit. And if you don't feel like doing that, don't do that at all. Just leave it as it is with the beautiful color going all the way around. So what I'm gonna do is now I'm going to attempt to do something similar on the other side. Now I don't need to have it perfectly symmetrical. Yeah, I might even have random patterns going on each one of these four sides of this rectangle. So I'm going to do that and I'll see you once that is done. Okey-dokey. Now I'm done. I've just filled in my border with a nice random squiggly wiggly pattern. And I think it looks rather nice. It gives it that Lovely mystic vibe, doesn't say so. I'm gonna wait until this dries up. But before that dries up, I'll just explain to you what the next step is. What we're going to basically do is we're gonna go in and with our ink liner, we're just gonna go in and just lying out the actual edge of our border that we did in pencil. And then with a thin tip, we're just going to outline these lines that we did. And that way we're going to have a beautiful ready to start illustration panel with some pre drawn in lines to really get that excitement going. So that's what I'm gonna do. I'm just gonna go ahead and I'm gonna go in and I'm just going to draw in them lines. Now you can use the rule that you use to go in and maybe just line up and do a nice straight line. But sometimes with ink, what happens is if you use ink on the edge of a ruler and you move the ruler away, you get a bit of a smudgy smudge. So I tend not to use rulers when I'm using ink to do my outlining, you can alternatively use a colored pencil. So if you have a black colored pencil, then you can use your ruler to get a nice straight line. But I'm not going to bother with that. I'm just going to do it free hand. I don't really care whether it's not perfectly straight. Sometimes just adding that raw, organic, wobbly look, it looks quite nice and it fits the overall design of our beautiful panel. So I'm just going to wait for that to dry out. Once that's dried. And I'm just gonna go ahead and outline these and I'll see you when that's done. Okey-dokey. So you can see, I just did a nice little outline of the inner parts of the frame with a more thin nibs that this is just another nib that I have on a fountain pen. This is a medium-sized nib because you don't want to go too thick just in cases smudges. And you can see I just followed the line really nice and slowly. But again, if you want to use a ruler, go ahead and use a ruler and maybe just use a ballpoint pen if you have one of them. However, I would suggest that you use your waterproof ink. So if you've got your waterproof ink, fine liner, then go ahead and use that. But if you're not that bothered me about having everything perfectly straight, then just go ahead and do it freehand. Just take your time and just follow the pencil line that you have and you can get some beautiful, nice organic results now. So there you go. And if you noticed, I use just a plain piece of paper just to make sure that my hand doesn't smudge any of the ink work while I'm doing it. So that's a nice little tip. If you're doing ink work to follow some intricate patterns, or you need to have a very steady hand, then maybe just have a plain piece of paper to lean your hand down to avoid ruining your artwork. So what I'm gonna do now is I'm just gonna go ahead and do exactly the same. And just do these lines that I've drawn here using the same pen. So I'll see you when that is done. Okey-dokey, we now don't. So our prep work on our panel is complete now. Everything is nice and gorgeous. So we've got the bat that don't are ready with the beautiful pattern. We've got the front now that is a really nicely designed out, and now the excitement is going to really begin. So grab yourself a nice drink, have a break, have a little tea cake if you like. And let's get all ready for the illustration and text of our beautiful subject card. 8. Subjects: Okey-dokey, Welcome back. Hope you had a nice little break. I certainly did with that lovely Americano and that little naughty slice of cake. Anyway, let's now carry on to the next stage. So before we do the next stage, all I want you to do is just to have a quick look at our final templates that we designed, that beautiful pattern on the back. And then we've got the beautiful ornamental border on the front with our outlines done. So now we're ready to go in and start creating our wonderful subject part of the subject card. But before we do that, just have a quick look at my hand and look at LAX. We now have a force. So what I've done is I've just done the same design on the rest of my panels, and that gives me four lovely panels that look very similar. And on the back I've got the same pattern going on. And this is just a great little exercise to do, just to relax. Just when you have a little bit of spare time, just cut out maybe another couple of pages to produce maybe another set of these cards. And then just work on these patterns that we have at the back over here. Just these nice simple straight crisscross patterns. And then maybe come up with a theme using the same color like I have here. I've used that lovely pink color. Use different colors, maybe do different patterns. I tend to like to work in the set that I get from one page. So I usually get about four cards from one page. Sometimes I get three. And then I tend to do the same design so that I just have a nice set that I can work with. And then if I do mess up on any of the designs that I have another spare that I can work on. So just like that, Maybe before we start doing the design stage, if you want to go ahead, just imitate your design on the other cards. Now if you can't imitate the exact design, that's absolutely fine. If you have a close look at mine, I've done some wonky lines here and there, and maybe doing an extra dark. There are a few more lines here, so it makes no difference. This is just a relaxing exercise for you to just escape away without having to think too much and just use those art materials that you have lying around to produce this beautiful little card, gorgeous, gorgeous patterns just for a bit of mindful relaxation with art. So what I'm gonna do now is I'm just going to select one of these now and then we're coming from and then I can work on the others later. So let's move them out of the way. Okay, so now these are subject cards. So the first thing we need to do is we need to think of a subject that we want to base our card on. This is really easy. What I tend to do is I just looked at my favorite type of things that I like to draw or even what I like to eat and then just draw them and then I'll just go ahead and base it on that. It could be anything for you if you want to follow along with what I'm gonna do in this demonstration version, that's absolutely fine. Follow along and do what I'm doing. But then after you do this, then the idea really is to get the rest of your cards and come up with a subject that you really love. It might be the same subject like myself or something completely different. And then just do that series and complete your cards set with a little bit of writing and some drawing. Or if you fancy not doing any writing at all, just do the drawing and leave the panel blank as it tastes like we went in the previous lesson, going through the different template designs. So I'm gonna show you some of the examples that I've already done just to give you a bit of an idea. So over here, I've got a nice little set. So we'll just move this one out of the way for now. I've got a nice set of some food items that I love. So over here we've got a gorgeous chicken burger there. Oh, I'm getting tempted right now. I feel like I'm in one right now is I've got chicken burger, one of my favorite types of food items do I have? And then I've got a nice barbecue mixed going on there, and then some pro noodle noodles. So gorgeous brown noodles over there. And all I've done here is I've just done a big title underneath the illustration and just add it in a little bit of text just to make it look nice with these ones, what I've done is I've drawn pencil, I've drawn ink, outline, and then I've just gone in with watercolor and added in a few highlights. And that's usually the method that I like to do. But if you don't want to do watercolor, then just use whatever materials you have colored pencils or markers, or anything that you'd like to use or just leave it black and white. There's some examples that I've got, black and whites as well that I can show you. But if you notice over here, if you notice the pattern that I have on the actual border, I've just kept it really simple. Whereas the one that we designed was with that nice kind of like an intricate design. Those squiggly wiggly lines over here, all I've done is I've just done just simple lines going all the way across a little dots and each four of the corners. And I've done them in different colors. So if this is something that you like, then go ahead and do this, it's a lot quicker and more simple to do. And on the reverse. All I did was pretty much exactly the same. I just use the same color as the border to come up with that crisscross pattern. It's just really easy and quick to do and you don't have to think about it and it's just a nice relaxing exercise. So that was one example of the food subjects that I like. And again, I usually do food subjects all the time. Let's just move these ones out of the way and I'll show you another example. So with this next example, I've got cars and if you've watched any of my videos before or if you follow me on social media, you'll know that I'm absolutely crazy about my cars, especially my classic cars. So I've got a nice, a three set of designs here for cars. I'll just do a bit of a zoom in, zoom back over here, gets everything out on the way so you can concentrate on the gorgeous drawings. Over here, we've got three designs on the horizontal way where we've got the text on the right-hand side, and then we've got the main illustration in the middle. And again, with this one, all I've done is I've just used ink and kept it nice monotone black and whites gives it a really nice effects. Or if you want to work in black and white, it was absolutely great. Then with the border on this one. This one's slightly different compared to the original one that we did. So I've just got the little lines and then I just basically putting a little dots in-between the lines and just given them a different color. So again, with this just little bits of writing on the right-hand side and little bits of blurb, whatever you want to do, maybe if you want to do it in this orientation and in this style, go for it on that one. And then if we just flip these over again, I've just used that same crisscross pattern on the back just to give it that nice touch and it's looking rather nice. So that was the second example that I've done. Then let's move on to the final example, and probably one of my most favorite ones, and that is beautiful houses. So again, if you've watched any of my classes, you know, I'm absolutely crazy about drawing these whimsical fairy land style houses and doing these little landscapes scenes. So you can see here, I've got three nice little designs, and these are what I do more often than any other subject. So again, with these ones, you can see if you look at the kind of orientation, I've done different template designs for each one of them. Whereas with the other examples we have the same template design. But for this one, what I've done is I've got a little bit of space for text here. I've got more space over here for text. And if you notice, I've left this little bar here as well where I can actually add in a title. So that's another funky little designed to do. That's what you like. And then over here I've got half the area for our writing. Again, the style is exactly the same. I start off with a pencil sketch and then I go in with my ink liner, do watercolor, and then do some final highlights with a little bit of white. And then with the borders again, I've got this more ornamental floral kind of wiggly line style ornaments style frame here. But again, if you have a look at this one on the right here, I've done a little indent of a circle. So if you have maybe a series of maybe ten or 12 different illustration cards that you want to do. Maybe you could number them 123. So that's always a nice little touch to do and that's really easy to do. All you need to do is basically just use that penny, that you had the five people can't find me if I pay anywhere. Oh, where's it gone? Where's my five pig on a someone's stolen. It's okay. So all I did on this one was I just added the five P there in the middle and I just drew around it, rounds it in pencil when I was doing that initial border stage. And again, that's all I did. And then I just created this nice little pattern inside it. So if you want to do something like this, then go ahead and do it. What I'll do is I'll leave all of these designs that I've got. I'll take a picture of each one of these designs so that you can use them as a reference in the resource sheet for you to check out, have a look at and maybe look at the patterns and the orientation so that you have something else to actually look out for more inspiration. So I will leave that in the resource packs or do check that out if you want to have a look at that. And there you go. There's all my beautiful designs or muddled up and mixed up. Let's now start with our actual design. And I'm gonna get the card right in the middle, do a zoom, zoom, zoom on that. And then we are ready to go. And the subject that I'm thinking right now, by looking at those cards, I've just been inspired immediately as I'm recording this class, is that I'm going to do that, you've guessed it. I'm going to do my whimsical house drawing, so I'm just going to come up with a whimsical house sketch, do it in the three stages, pencil, pen, and then watercolor. And then just write a little bit of a story that connects it and we're gonna be ready to go. So let's move on. That one. Next. 9. Pencil & Ink: Okey-dokey, welcome back. Now the main excitement begins. So let's start drawing in with our pencil, a nice little construct for our illustration. So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to start off maybe by dropping in a couple of bumpy bumps over here, just a few bumps there. And then maybe throw in a couple of these mini mushroom houses that I always like to do, keeping it really nice and clean. I mean, you don't have to have so many details in these illustrations. I just have a habit of just clustering so many elements into my drawings, but that's just my style. If that's what you'd like to do, then go for it. If you want to follow this actual illustration that I'm doing step-by-step and go ahead and just follow, go back and see what I'm doing on this. Again, I'm gonna give you these images of every stage of this process and these drawings in the resource packs or do check that out. Once I've completed the pencil sketch, I'll take a picture of it and I'll put it on that resource pack so that you can go ahead and imitate it if that's what you want to do. But if you want to come up with your own image, That's absolutely fine. It can be any subject that you want, food, cars, whatever you want to draw, whatever you fancy, go for. Great. So I've got that little nice little cluster of mushroom house is there. And then maybe we have a little, we believe, wobbly horizontal line here that could be a riverbed and maybe just a few little bumps down here. Again, this is just a light pencil sketch. I'm going to go over this with my ink. So again, just doing these nice little rock bedside things over here. It's a similar pattern, isn't it? So what I usually do with the type of drawings that I do, so I'm going to do now is maybe add in a couple of these triangular shapes down here. And I think that's looking rather nice, maybe a little one down there. And then the main part is the house, the house drop in, maybe a roof, they're keeping it nice and light this way. And then dropping that roof top down here. And then maybe throwing in that angle there. And then let's just square it off at the bottom for our lovely house and then maybe have a space here for a window, little window there. Maybe another little window offsets over here. And how about another window there? And should we do with door? Now, I'm going to just leave it as window. So let's just add a nice chimney down here. So again, simple drawing, just simple little shapes and sizes. And again, if you want to go ahead and do your own, absolutely. Go ahead and design something. You love to do. A subject, whatever that subject may be, something in technology, something in kind of like landscapes or anything you want, maybe some food, food items, some sweets. So go ahead and do that. Am I adding a little side element here? Maybe dropping a garage. Maybe this could be a little garage or a hot that you can do your artwork in beautiful little houses and say, I just looked at jumping and just go and start designing things in and having a cup of coffee in this little whimsical. There we go. Now I'm going to do is maybe drop in a couple of peaks up the back. So just like this, some of these peaky peaks coming in just like that. And I think we'll just add a couple of design elements on top that can be like the ends of ice cream cones. Can write, maybe throw in another one of these triangles things here. And maybe another tip of the triangle thing that I think that's looking good. So a couple of detail lines here for the brakes again, keeping it really light and clean. I'm gonna go over the whole thing with my pen. So when you do outline, it looks so much more better. And then we've got this space here for a nice, You guess, the boats. Boats. I know. I constantly keep talking about boats and houses. It's because I'm just obsessed with beautiful houses and bow. So let's just keep it really nice and whimsical and uttering that say, look how quickly we did. Literally took just a few minutes. And just like this, if you want to maybe do your sketches on your other panel as well, if you're in the mode for doing different designs and that's what I tend to do. But I'm not gonna do this now because it will take a bit longer. I tend to usually get my other panels and just literally to two to three drawings at the same time. So I'll just maybe do a continuation of this during hair or adding some more elements. And that way you can get the job done a lot quicker and complete your set. But again, I'm just going to move them to the side because we're just going to concentrate on this one. So for this one, what I'm gonna do is I'm just going to give you a little snapshot of that and puts it in the resource pack so that you have this little outlines at work on. And then the next stage for me now is to go in with my ink. And all I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna go over these lines in ink. So I'll see you once that don't Okey-dokey, welcome back. So I've just done my outline using my fountain pen and waterproof ink. And again, I want, I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go ahead and take a little picture of this and put it into the resource pack so that you have this. You can follow along just like I had doing this illustration. So what I'm gonna do now is I'm just going to wait for this ink to dry. And then once the ink has dried, then we can go in and start splashing in our lovely watercolor colors. So let's wait for this ink to dry and I'll see you on the next one. 10. Colour Splash: Okey-dokey, welcome back. So now we're ready for our exciting stage of adding color. But before you add color, just do a quick little Ruby, ruby out with your eraser of those pencil lines, like you can see here, I've just rubbed out to all my pencil lines, so I have a nice clean ink sketch over here. And if you still have some pencil lines remaining on the border from the initial border frame that we created. You can go ahead and remove them as well if you want. If you don't want to remove them, That's absolutely fine. Sometimes I just leave them in. But if you don't like these kind of lines coming away from the patent that you've done. Then just go ahead and do a quick little eraser job on this so that you have a beautiful, clean, lovely panel of art. So the next step now is to add color. So let's go ahead and do that. But before we do that, I just want you to have a look at my hand. And now we have three look at that. So I bet you could have guessed what I was going to take that I'm sure you got I've just done two or more panels and I've basically extended my artwork and just had a continuation on the right-hand side with my little whimsical sketch and done the same on the left hand side and just kind of varied it a little bit. Again, you don't need to do this if you don't want to go ahead. But I will leave picture of this full sets that I've drawn just in case you'd like to follow it step-by-step. So just like that, we've got a nice a three panel design there. I decided not to use the fourth panel because I just wanted to keep that as a tester. So three gorgeous little panels there and we can start now adding the color. Okay, So now let's concentrate on our main panel and get a nice splash of color in this. Just going to do is zoom in, zoom in on this so that you can see what I'm doing. We don't need to focus on the lines for now. Just focusing on that color of the main illustration that we've got. Make sure we've got a gorgeously me zoom in, nice, crisp, clear image for you to see so you don't miss anything and we're ready to go. So what I'm gonna do for this is I'm just going to use my watercolor set here. These are just the standard watercolors that normally use. And I've got my little sample swatch there. If you're new to watercolors or if you want to learn the basics of watercolors, then do check out my class on watercolors for beginners. It's an extensive class that goes through or watercolor techniques. If you want a refresher course or if you just generally want to know more about watercolor, the tools that I'm gonna be using, just a standard velvet brush over here, my normal watercolors and that's it. And we're just gonna be applying that paint to this. So let's now start off by just getting a bit of wet on my watercolors are going to make sure that I have nice little towel underneath there so nothing gets wet. Do a quick little spray spray of my watercolors to activate them. And again, I go through all these techniques in my watercolor class. If you're interested in learning more about watercolor, get my water ready, my water jar, and we are ready to go. So we'll just move this on this side over here. And then we've got our lovely panel. What I'm gonna do is I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to go in and maybe just adding some water just to this area over here. So I'm just getting some plain water now, added some plain water on my brush. And where I've got this water area, I'm just going to literally drop in a little bit of plain clean water just so that it gives it a nice moist and look. And we can create a beautiful little shadowy area underneath the boats and easily blend the colors in with just adding a bit of blue. So I'm just going to add a bit of blue. What I'll do is I'll move my colors on this side so you can actually see what I'm doing. So again, Let's maybe move this here and move this down here so you can see and follow along if you want again, if you've got the same image that I've got here, just use whichever colors you like. Or if you've got similar colors like me, then just go ahead and do that. I'm just going to add a bit of blue to the palette there, just a bit of standard ultramarine blue. I'm just going to drop it in where I've added that water. I just want this to be a nice liquidy water on the base. And again, I'm just going to keep things very simple here. I'm not going to do too much color blending or due to many different techniques because I'm not really focused on that. This exercise is all about just creating panels and using your mediums. It really get practicing again in art and just relax. It's all about relaxing. It's not about stressing and getting the perfect technique. So the perfect artwork, it's just about relaxing and that's what this series is all about. So quick little cleaner the brush. Then I'm going to go in with some darker color now. So maybe let's add in some nice bit of orange. I've got some orange here and he oranges know we've finished, so I'm just going to drop in some orange in my palette down there. Nice bits of gorgeous orange over here. And maybe just adding a little tub of that red. A clean it cleans. Don't want to get me colors or muddied and mixed up. So a bit more red there. Ready orange color down there, and then maybe warm it up with a bit of yellow. So it got so gorgeous cadmium yellow there. Okay, What a beautiful color that is. Okay, So with that color, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go in and start dropping in some of this color on these peaks just like that, okay, That fantastical of that gorgeous, beautiful, vibrant color. You don't need to follow with the same colors that I have. Go ahead and do whichever colors you want. You want to use, greens, pinks, wireless, whatever color you're fancy, it's your illustration. Do any colors that you like. So with the orange, I've got that there and then maybe I might add in a little bit more red. Let's make this like an autumn feel because at the moment we're in the autumn season, so I'm just going to add a bit more red to that mixture there. Bit more red there, and maybe dropping that red tone on this peak at the front, again with watercolors, it's a slow medium to use because you've got to wait for each of the layers to dry out before you go ahead and start doing close to each other. Otherwise they're going to bleed into each other. So if you don't want to spend too much time in watercolor, then just go ahead and use another medium like colored pencils or just normal markers. So that'll be a lot quicker, but I always prefer to use my watercolors. If you know me, it's one of my favorite mediums, CH, so it's got a dry brush. I just dry out my brush, tap it on the side of my paper towel. And then all I'm gonna do is I'm going to pick some more colors now, maybe let's do the roof for the roofing going to use this gorgeous, gorgeous shade of brown, this role brown colored, beautiful burnt sienna, beautiful color that one gorgeous, right? Just like that. I'm just going to drop that in on the roof and keep it nice and dry. Don't want too much water saturation. I don't really want any bubbling up or I don't want my car to start warping because that's another thing because this is a very small surface that we're working on. And it all depends on the quality of the watercolor paper that you use. You will get some bubbling up and warping of your cards. So just bear that in mind. Keep the water content really low. Don't over saturate your brush with water. You just want to keep it nice and dry. So again, I'm just going to add in maybe some color down here. And just like this, I'm just going to slowly build this scene and just build up the colors from warm colors, cool colors, then switch it to the mushrooms here. Again, for the mushroom is going to use the same color for the stems of them mushrooms where we've got these windows and these really nice patterns. And it's looking rather nice. So just like that, just strategically pick out the areas that are dry, that don't have wet next to them and just fill in that area with color and then wait for the whole thing to dry and then move on to the next section. That's usually the practice that I do. And it works very nicely. So again, I've got a bit of wet over here, so don't want to touch anything down there. Maybe I might just add in some of the color on this sky type area. So let's just go ahead and do that. Let's pick a nice bluey blue. We've got a nice vibrant blue over here. Just going to add a little bit of that vibrant blue and then maybe dull it down a little bit with some red, just a tip of red on there. Little bit of red. And that's looking nice. So just like that, droplets in gorgeous, believe that isn't it. Like a slight indigo blue that beautiful, just a light indigo, gorgeous, gorgeous color. So still getting so excited because I get excited and just get a message on low pants. I'm gonna, I'm gonna fumble my brush. I use just going to fall over that border and I'm going to ruin it all. Then I'm not gonna be happy bunny. And then I might have to have another coffee. I've already had one this morning. So let's just continue. And then just like that, ferritin don't need to be very specific about it. Just keep it nice and tidy and it's looking great. So I'm trying to do is I'm trying to avoid colors that are too similar to the color that I've got on my border here. Because if I've used this pinkish shade, it's going to blend in too much. I want to use colors that are effectively not really too much of the lighter red tones. I want to have them and more opposite color that are contrasting to that frame that I'll give it a really nice touch. So what I'm gonna do now is over here where I've got the blue we've got this water area here that's still a bit wet. We can start adding some nice little dribble, dribble of color on it. So I'm just going to clean my brush. 11. Building Colour: I'm gonna get it nice and dry. Don't want to over saturate now. And then with that darker, more vibrant blue that I've got up here, I'm just going to go in and just going to start dropping that in. So you can see we're getting these beautiful cauliflower bubbly effects. And it merges in really nice because our base layer was that light blue to just set it all up. And then you've got this gorgeous, vibrant blue. Love it, absolutely love it. Imagine a world without color array. So it would be a very, very different world, wouldn't say it, but color is such a blessing. And he's just fantastic. What a great thing cholerae. Beautiful blue, that one. I mean, I love all colors and if you've watched any of my classes, you'll know that I absolutely love vocal is, but some people, they don't like certain colors they don't like. But to be honest with you, there are certain shades I'm not too fond of like lime green or like a pure lemon yellow. I'm not really too fond of them colors, but even if I have them colors, I'd still use them. Because again, colors adjust gorgeous, aren't they? They just add so much dimension to everything in life, not just to paintings, just to everything that you see. There we go. Just a few little dabs of color. They're nice and saturated and you can see I'm using minimal water for this because I already laid down that water getting a bit of a bleed and bleed there on the lines. I don't want that. No, I don't. So I'm just going to push it to help with my finger. And that's looking really nice. So just like that, clean that up. And in-between these mushroom house is just going to add in maybe just a dab of that blue. Just make sure it doesn't smudge over to that orange. And look at lot fantastic stuff. So we've got our blue part done. We've got our peaky peaks and the actual house area, roof stone and the chimney. Let's maybe concentrate on this area here now. I'm just going to go in and clean my brush and dry brush out. So all I'm doing to drive the brush out is I've got me little towel here and I'm just dabbing my brush on the towel like this to dry it out. So what we're gonna do now is let's just maybe add in some green color. So I've got my gorgeous green down here. Beautiful sap green can't be, it's a bit of sap green, a pizza bit of sap green. I'm just going to use this area of my palette just to give it a bit of a spread and maybe just add a dot of water to it just to keep it nice and fluid. And then with that green, I might just go ahead and do some nice green over here. So just like that, I'm just going to drop in some green to that beautiful green, nice warm autumn style colors. These aren't, they want to make sure that I don't go ahead and mix it into this orange because that's still quite wet. This one has dried out because we just use a little bit of water in that. Just carefully bring that down. And even if it doesn't make sense, it's no big deal. Not to worry. If you mess up. It's not the end of the world. You just go ahead, wait for it to all dry out. And then you can just add another layer on top or just use some colored pencils to go over it and fix it, or there's always a fixed and you can see now I've got that little bit of bleed there, but I'm not bothered because I just want to chill out and relax. Just continue and add in that nice, gorgeous green there. I mean, look at that fantastic that isn't. It's so nice and colorful, popping with color. And what I'm gonna do is on my other panels that I have a Mac just go ahead and color then in straight after I've done this one so that I've got the similar colors in my palette that I'm ready to go so that I can have this beautiful continuation artwork that we can all see at the end, but that all depends on what mood I'm in. So if I'm in the mood of doing more coloring, then I'll go ahead and do it just like that. Just do what you feel like and that's gonna be great. So just like that, my green is in those peaks. Oh, I forgot a little spot down there, so just get a bit more green. And let's just drop in that lovely green, just pure colors, not too much color mixing. In fact, we're not really doing any color mixing. Just did a little bit on that water area. But just keep it nice and simple. Don't over-complicate things and you'll be good to go. And what I want now is I want to create a bit of a warm gray color, so just a bit of red here, and I get that bit of red. I'm just going to add it to this blue mixture that I've got and then just bring that green in as well. And then just go ahead, clean my brush and then add some more speckles of blue to that. What that'll do is it'll give me a nice gray tone, a nice kind of reddish gray tone there. And I think that's going to look quite nice. So just a nice reddish gray tone over here. I'm just going to drop it on these little rocky rocks down here. Again, that's looking a bit too close to the color of me pink. So I've decided to change my mind and I'm gonna go in clean my brush. And let's add in a bit more blue to this, a bit more blue to that. And then that will mute it out a little bit more. And then what we can also do is. Just add in just a tub of brown to the actual mixture. And we've got ourselves that nice warm, grayish color over there. So I think this will be a bit better. Just dry my brush and just pick up that pigment and then just drag it across C. Now that looks so much better. I just want this to be nice and light. And that's the advantage of using watercolor. You can just quickly come up with these light mixtures. Whereas if you're using colored pencil or any other medium, then you're stuck with the colors that you've got. It takes a lot of effort to get the colors that you want, especially if you don't have those particular colors in your pack. So you can see beautiful little light shade of gray over there. And I'm going to use that same shade to go across these peaks. Over here. Again, I might end up getting some mixing or some bleeding from them, orange bits coming down or from the blue coming up. But do you know what? I'm not really that bothered. I just wanted to give me water colored dawn. That's the thing again about watercolor. You got to wait for all the layers to dry. So if you don't fancy waiting and spending more time on it, then that's fine. Just go ahead and use another medium or just go ahead and just throw the watercolor together and see what creation it gets easy. I've got a bit of a bleed to bleed there, but I'm going to read that and sometimes it can look quite nice just having colors going all over the place and bleeding into each other. Sometimes it creates a beautiful effect. So just like that, they go in and add that beautiful color to me. Rock bed, pit of rocks is water area edge that we've got and just let that color bleeding, that's absolutely fine. Just adding a little bit more and spread it out. And it's looking fantastic, isn't say Okay, so now what we're gonna do is we're going to concentrate now on the House, the House part. And then when nearly done on this, so let's just do the house, the house part. And from that one, I'm gonna go ahead and maybe do a nice light shade of this color here. So this is like a yellow ocher color. And I'm going to just add it into that palette there, as you can see. Really nice, hello, beautiful shade. And then you can add a bit more water to it because I want this to be quite light. I don't want it to be too saturated. We want everything to have a bit of contrast and variation. If everything looks the same, then you just can't see anything going. Yes. Let's just see what this color looks like. Yes, I like that color. That looks really nice and I'm just going to spread it out. Not put too much color in, just spread it out to keep it nice. And Postel like beautiful color there. Bring it down. Now my rock bed is a very saturated and wet, so I'm just going to leave a bit of a gap until that drives because they don't want that going into my house, the house color, although as you can have all sorts of issues then outweigh. So again, just garage area is going to bring that color and all I'm doing is dragging this color across. You can see I'm not adding any more water or color, just dragging that color across and that's going to be sufficient to do the whole house. So again, let's bring that down here, leave that little gap and just adding this in like dots, just like that over here so that basically the light color touches the whites of the paper. And it just lightly hints and tints that beautiful paper into a nice shade of color. I think that's looking good, so let's just add that same one. So the chimney and again, I still got quite a bit of that moisture on my brush. And I'm just bringing that up here to complete this off and a little bit on them shoots of that chimney doing things modal up with the green. I'm not really that bothered. And that's looking quite nice, isn't it? So let's now concentrate maybe on these mushroom areas and that bowtie belt for the mushrooms, I think I'm going to have maybe a nice pure red. Let's have a pure red for them. Mushrooms let them pop with pure red. So we've got pure red hair, just added it to that orange mixture. And then that'll look quite nice too. So maybe just throw away in red and I'm going to put the red all the way across the mushroom head. That rhymes that, doesn't it read all the way, cross, cross them. Mushroom head. Let's just color them in. Throw that gorgeous, vibrant red on there. Look at that beautiful, isn't it? I'm not bothered about the dots because I'm going to fix them later when we come to the next part. 12. Completing Colour: Maybe for the boat, let's just go in and create a nice brown for the Brown who's going to take this pure Brown from here? I'm just going to add it to where I've got this orange. Just add it to that orange, pure brown. So that orange so that it contrasts nicely with our blue. So just like that, pure brown into the orange there and just going to lightly bring that across. Gorgeous koala, isn't it beautiful? What a beautiful color that it's like a, it's like a coffee color though. Fancy another coffee now actually beautiful brown there. And we've just got these PGP x left now. And then we're nearly done. So clean my brush and then maybe add a nice reddish tone to them as well to give it a bit of contrast. So I've got this orange mixture here. I'm just going to bring in my red and maybe just add a bit of that orange to red just to make it slightly more deeper. And that's looking quite nice. Let's just throw that saying yes, look at that beautiful stuff. So I don't want that to touch my house because I don't want it to bleed in because that's going to be quite heavy bleed co-working into the house so we keep it nice and dry on the edges and sometimes just leaving that white border around the edges looks quite nice as well. It looks like the little highlights. So just doing that there. And then again to take a bit more of that paint. And then just go across here and then just bring it down there. And again, if it mixes with the top part of the garage, I'm not that bothered. There's bringing that down here and not touching the edge of the House garage. And I think that's looking great. So look at that beautiful, warm, gorgeous colors. So we've just got these kind of like little points on these background kind of peaks that we've got. So maybe we could just add in a darker green on them that might look quite nice. So let's just get a nice dark green. So what we do is we just get the blue. I'm just going to get the blue and maybe just add it to the red there to get a nice shade of violet. Then I've got a nice bright green color here. So this is like the milli in green at the onset that, and that's gonna give us that gorgeous Look at that. What a fantastic color, That's a beautiful green, one of my favorite colors. But then again, I bet you're saying with color, don't you? Like? I like all colors. So just add that beautiful green to that. Look at that fantastic. It's become like an emerald green, doesn't say. So. Just add that there and you know what, I don't really care if it mixes in with the light green there. I think that'll give it a nice effect. And then when we come to outline this with a bit of white, then we can go ahead and separate it. So I'm just going to literally drop that in. And that's looking rather than isis. And so nice rich emerald green mixture over there. Again, we'd go through a lot of color mixing and creating colors and just doing the basics of watercolor in my watercolor classes, do Chatbots out. If you really want to get back into watercolors or you want a refresher. So there we go. Now we've got these little elements here for the mushrooms underneath the red. But I'm going to leave them as it tastes because I want to have a little bit of white popping out. You don't need to color every element that you have of your drawing or your illustration just leave some areas of white so that they just pop out and add a bit of contrast. So now I'm gonna do is I'm going to let that completely dry out once that's done and we can move on to the next one. 13. Cross-hatching: Ok, welcome back. So now the watercolor has all dried out really nicely and you can see we've got a nice contrast of color going on. Nice vibes going on there in this nice little lowly whimsical sketch. What the next stage for me usually is to do is just add in some crosshatching lines. And you don't need to do this if you're following along, but if you want to, then go ahead. So all I'm gonna do is I'm going to use a medium nib pen that I've used before for the details. And then I'm just gonna go in and just add in a little bit of hatching lines here, just to add some texture to the elements that I've got in the drawing. For me just adds a little bit more interests and it's my style of sketching. I always prefer. I'm sure if you've watched any of my other clusters, you know, I always do a lot of cross hatching work and ink work, especially when it comes to watercolor and just general sketching. So just adding in them lines there and then maybe on the rocks on top, I'm just going to add in some lines going the other way, just like this really nice and thin going gain in one direction. So it just gives an indication that we have some texture over here, a bit of a rough surface just to add a bit more interests, really. So just like that. Adding them in quickly, not spending too much time on it. Then again, on these ones in the foreground, I'm just gonna go in and do them in that direction just like this. So it creates a nice frame for the text that we're going to work on later on. So just like that. And then I'm going to maybe just adding a bit more outlined on the bolt. See boats here. So just like that, I'm just going to outline again and then maybe just adding some lines coming down like this. And then a couple of going across. And then on the outside of the sales, I might just add in some darker lines. So where I've got those white gaps, I'll just wants to cover them all. Then for the poll that holds the sales, just bring that across there. There's basically doing a double outline so that it just be a bit more prominent so that's looking good. And then where does water area is? Maybe just drop in a couple of dots here just to indicate that we've got some movement. And then where we've got this horizontal line that divides the rocks from the water. Just going to add in a thicker line there and then maybe just dropping a couple of dots and wavy lines just to add a bit more effect. So that's enough for the foreground and the middle part. Let's now move on to the house, the house. So again, with the house, the house, I'm just gonna go in and maybe just darken up some of these lines down here just to make them a bit more prominent. And again, just bring that down here so that we don't have it all fading away into the cooler. And then basically just adding that lovely thick outline just on the outer part of the house. We don't need to do this for every single detail, just like this. And then maybe just for the outer part of the Chimney. Just like that. And that looks quite nice. And I'm going to do the same for the peaky peaks over here. Just create that we will wobble line just so that we have a nice dark contrasting line going across. And it looks fantastic. So just a bit more here. And then we unknowingly don't own this one, so I'm happy with that. So for the windows, again, I might just go ahead just adding a little bit of an outline on the left side and maybe just adding those windows bars. Again. Maybe out someone's going across like this just with varying gifts, creating my own little window house. So just like that. Fantastic. And I forgotten to do this part. I'm inside the edge of the roof. The most important parts of the house is living roof to keep those rainy rain drops out. So just on the actual chimney there. And then what I might do is just going to tilt my panels so it makes it easier for me to go in and do these random lines going across. And then maybe just adding a couple more over here on the side of the house, indicate some brick lines and then a few on the garage over here. And then just bring that down. And let's center it again and just create those brick layer lines. Brick pattern looks fantastic and just a few on the garage don't need to go overboard. And I think that's enough for the detail part. So let's just look at these peaks at the back and maybe clean these up a little bit. So again, a little bit of an outline over here, just on the peaky parts, just like this. Just move it up and down on those beautiful peaks. Then maybe we're just going to add in some stippled dots here, just underneath where we've got these kind of like M shapes. We've got these little sharp shapes just to give it a bit more interest in texture. Couple of stippled dots there and then maybe some thicker stippled dots on the top. Just like that. And we're looking great. So there you go, that's looking pretty nice. And then maybe just that dividing line between the outlines that as well. So just maybe just outlined this just like that. And we're looking fantastic. So I think that's enough for the actual outline itself. Let's now move on to the next part and we're gonna go ahead and use our lovely white paint marker pen to go ahead and add in the highlights. So let's just give this a little shaky shake. Now with the white, Let's just maybe adding some little dots here just to give it a nice divider. And then maybe just adding some highlights over here on the edge of the rocks, just like that, just to make it look a bit nice. And then we've got the tower dots on our mushroom houses. You remember I said just going to paint over them so we're going to deal with them later. And that's what we're doing now. So we just whitening then dots so that we've got this really nice, beautiful pattern on them. Most of your mouse is. And then maybe just a line over here just on top of that boats just to distinguish it a little bit more. And then just a couple of white lines that are going in from the top just to add an element of highlights over here. So it looks like we've got a bit of a sparkle of light just hitting these rock areas. And then the same for the little beautiful triangular peaks that we've got at the front. Just a couple of lines, just dotted on the top hand right side. And again over here just on the top right side, just to add a little bit of interests. And then maybe just a nice white line going down here. That's looking good. And then maybe just a couple of random lines just going on the roof tiles just to make it pop. Then just on the edge of that chimney. And then on the chimney shoots over here just a bit of white and maybe just drop in some random ones from the bottom. And just give a quick shaky shake, make sure it doesn't spill all over my illustration. So there we go. Just a couple of light dots over here so that it doesn't look too odd. And maybe just a little bit hints of whites over here. You can keep going on and on as much as you want to satisfy your detailed needs. But I think I'm going to leave it at that. So this one is a now, don't, so the last part now to do is just add a bit of a blurb over here. And all I'm gonna do is I'm just going to use my fountain pen to come up with a nice little story that connects the hairs lovely scene. But you don't have to do this if you don't want to. So I'm gonna go ahead and do that now. I've finished my little blurb now with my little writing over here. These are just the kind of writing that I do that connect it to my own illustrated book. It's just all about a trip, go into a cafe on the boats, on this lovely journey, all about a gorgeous reverie, thinking about the food that treats and cakes that we are anticipating. That's what it's all about. So that's it for this one. Let's just do a summary of the class around up before we explain what the class project is going to be all about. And then I'll see you on the next one. 14. Class Project: Welcome back. We are now complete with our beautiful subject cards. So before we go on to what the cost project is, all I want you to do is look at my hand and look at LAX magically have completed another two panels. Here. You can see over here, what I've done is I've just continued that illustration on the left panel and then doing the same on the right so that it looks like A1 complete sketch added my little blurb at the bottom, and it's all done. I have a nice complete set of subject cards, so you don't need to do this the way I've done it. But if you want to absolutely go ahead, decide on whichever subject you want to do and you're going to have a wonderful adventure in creating your subject cards. So for your class project, what I want you to do is follow the steps in the class, in the lessons that we did in creating our beautiful subject cards. Now, you don't have to finish all three or four depending on how many cuts out of your piece of paper, you can just complete one and leave it as it is. But make sure that once you've completed it, you've gone ahead and posted it to the project gallery. Then if you have time to do maybe another one or another few, go ahead and take a picture of them and put them together and post it on the project gallery as you create them so that we can have a look at your wonderful, beautiful subject card artworks. And I can't wait to see what you come up with because I'm sure you're going to do much more better illustrations and I've quickly don't hate today. So I just can't wait. It's such a nice exercise to do. And then once you've done it, you can just stack them together and just maybe just put them in an envelope or even put them on display, put them in a frame or put them on your wall for you to see and for everyone to enjoy your gorgeous creations. So I hope you enjoyed the steps. I certainly did. And I'm going to have a coffee now. And then I'm going to think about my next step. I'm gonna go ahead and design because it's just such a great exercise. So that's your class project. Then follow the lessons, come up with your own subject car. Decide on any subject that you like. Add a bit of text to it if you want, if you want to do a different orientation the other way, then go ahead and do that. If you don't want any texts, just leave it as it says, and do it however you like. Add a nice little pattern at the back. I'm going to show you is actually, let's show you some other styles of patterns that I've got at the back here. So what I've also done is I've also done a sets and we'll just move these out of the way. These are just templates that I did. I've got these different orientations where I've got the landscape and then I've got the portraits over here. But I did this whole thing with a watercolor border. And then I used a color pencil to go in and create those lines. If you want to use colored pencil, that's absolutely fine. And then on the back of these high went a little bit funky. So I decided to just come up with all sorts of lovely little patterns. Patterns, crisscrosses, round circles. Let's just get a zoom back so you can see I've got all these funky little patterns here, all created with pen and colored pencil. I spent quite a lot of time on it. And it's just a case of just sitting down and spending a little bit of time every day just to come up with these patterns. But you don't need to do this for your class project. You can do this after when you get into the routine of creating these beautiful subject cards, I thought I'll just show you this so that it's something a little bit different than the crisscross pattern that we did. But again, it's just entirely up to you. Again, do remember with colored pencils when you do a lot of this pattern work at the back, you do tend to get a lot of the colored pencil coming after. You can see It's coming on my fingers there. So you might get a bit smudgy, smudgy all over the place. So that's another thing to watch out for. So I would probably recommend that for your class project, you just stick to a simple background pattern using maybe a marker or just with your watercolor brush, just come up with some squiggly wiggly lines. So you could just do it with ink or pencil just to fill in that back. Or alternatively, if you don't want to do a pattern on the back, than what you can do is like I've done on these examples here. I've actually done double-sided on these. So let me just show you this. So on these cards over here that I've got, I've got a few cards. I've actually gone ahead and drawn a double side. So I've done a landscape on this side and I've got the portrait the other side. So if you just flip these over, you can see I've done a bit of a landscaping, landscaping on one side and a portraits on the other side. So that's entirely up to you if that's what you want to do and you don't want to do a pattern this way you have two cards and you can complete two designs or just have the same panel going across both sides. It's entirely up to you. You are as flexible as you like to base. So there's no restriction, just complete set of cards if you can, and if you can't complete a set, then just do one and we're going to be good to go. Again. I can't wait to see what you come up with. So let's just round the class up with some final thoughts. 15. Final Thoughts: Oh, just a couple of final thoughts now on the class. I hope you enjoyed the step-by-step process in producing these lovely subject cards that we did. You know, I certainly enjoyed the process and I'm going to continue doing it just like I have. And I hope that you continue to do this. I hope you'll give the class project to go. And I hope you really use this as a motivational, inspirational idea to give you a daily task to do, to just build up and keep that memory muscle going with your art supplies, just to give you a bit of an escape away from your daily hustle of daily life and work lives. So hopefully this will give you a nice little taster into this series. And what I'm gonna do is I'm going to continue with this series by producing different art projects and to maintain the momentum of really coming up with some beautiful designs and ideas that you can do, again on a daily basis to really keep yourself engaged within the world of arts. So I really hope you give this a go. And if you have any questions, leave them for me in the project gallery and do upload all your artwork that you produce. No matter how many designs you produce, keep uploading them for us to say. I will say all of them. And I can't wait to see the type of equations that you've come up with. I'm sure they're gonna be much better than mine. So do give it a go and don't forget to follow me on social media and also follow me on Skillshare so that we can keep in touch and see what we're doing with our daily life in the project series. And just generally, I personally like to draw on a daily basis. And like I said before, I always advocate using art as an escape for your well-being and for mindful art adventures. So I hope you enjoyed this first episode of the series is going to be many more to come, and I hope you join me on the next one. Take care of yourself, keep sketching and I'll see you on the next class.