Beginner Strawberry Illustration Shape Texture & Composition in Procreate

1. Welcome: To another fun Procreate Illustration class where you will learn how to make these gorgeous strawberries with flowers and leaves. This class is specifically designed for beginners. It will guide you through step by step with encouragement in order to create a successful project. Hi, my name is George, and I've been a professional artist for over 11 years. Five years ago, I've fallen in love with teaching both online and in person classes. With over 20,000 wonderful students, I've developed this interesting way of teaching that focuses on the project while having fun and learning key concepts in illustration like making interesting compositions, drawing shapes, playing with color harmony, and, of course, learning all the tools of Procreate. For this class, you will need the Apple Pencil, the iPad, the Procreate app, and the free brush and color palette. Let's jump into the class. 2. Canvas and brushes: You start this wonderful class, you need to create a canvas by going over on this side, on the plus sign and beneath it, on the other plus sign, the Canvas should be 6,000 by 4,000 pixels, so 6,000 by 4,000 with a DPI of 250, this will give you about 18 layers depending on the iPad that you have. You don't need that many layers to create this wonderful artwork. Let's create this Canvas. Once you've done so, you will find on the project resources page of this class, this wonderful brush. You need to download it to your iPad once you do, go to Brushes plus and then import and navigate to wherever you have downloaded that brush. Click on it. You will be prompted to this screen over here. Then click Done. I will click Cancel. And then for the palette, you will find the color palette. It's going to be called strawberries, and you will find it on the project resources page. So first click over on this side on the colors, then on plus New from file, and then navigate to wherever you've downloaded the strawberry color palette. And then click Done, and you will have the color palette. 3. Background color: That you have your beautiful strawberry palette and also the silky brush uploaded to the Procreate app. The first step is to go onto the background and select this color over here. And once you do, make sure you are on the first layer, which you should be, select this other color right next to it, and the brush under artistic, the leatherwood brush. Make sure it's quite big to about 65, 67%. The opacity needs to be at about five or six and start adding some textures. I know they are not really visible, but once you raise up your pen, and you do it over and over again. You will start to see some foggy textures. These are just so you get rid of that flat color. Notice how flat it is. And now it's a bit more interesting. You can add some of this pink as well, just to add a few more colors into the background. Just a few times notice how the pink is much more visible. You can also go to this green over here, just the lightest colors. Notice how in the middle, there is a bit more light. In fact, let's go to discolor over here and add a bit more still, just so it's more visible. And now let's see how it looked before and after. That's all you need for this step. 4. First strawberries: Step, you will need to create another layer by going on layers over here, adding a plus, and now you have a new beautiful layer. You will need this red over here and the silky brush right over here. Okay. Once you have those things, let's make sure it's at 100% opacity and the size is quite big to about 16%. And let's do a strawberry. A strawberry has it's something like this. It has a round top and then here it will touch to about here. So let's undo that by clicking with two fingers. And let's go like this and like this. Don't worry too much about the shape. You can fill in the color like this by grabbing this color and dragging it down. I said that you don't need to worry too much about the shape just because you can use this tool over here, which is the movement tool. It helps you move the strawberry, but it does something much nicer, which is going over here on warp, and you can grab these corners to really make this strawberry a lot nicer. And a lot more like a strawberry, okay? It does have some curve over on this side that it shouldn't be. It just makes it wavy. You can go back with the brush, and notice how I've angled the strawberry a little bit like this just to make it easier for you to draw a perfect line like this. Okay. Over on this side, notice how there are some other imperfections. Just go ahead and do the same, angle the beautiful strawberry to a direction that it makes it easier for you to just go like this and have a beautiful strawberry. Okay. Perfect. And now let's duplicate this layer. Go to the movement tool. The way you duplicate layers, let's undo that. Okay? The way you duplicate layers is by swiping to the left, clicking onto the duplicate, and now you have another layer. This is a very useful trick. And then going on the movement tool and on uniform, you can move this strawberry, as well as distort it a bit more just so you can create another strawberry Notice how if you bring up these corners, you can basically do a lot of things. Notice how if you push the middle, you can create a pointy, beautiful strawberry. Wonderful. Okay. And that's all you need for this step. Remember to click on the arrow just so you don't have the selection. And, of course, let's go into the next step. 5. Highlights color variation: Now you will learn about the alpha lock of the layer. So go on any of the beautiful strawberries. Alpha lock the layer. Okay, and the other one alpha lock the layer as well. Now going on the brush. On artistic leather wood, this time, make the brush to about, let's say, 10%. We don't know yet what size it should be, and the opacity should be at about 10%. Now, grab this beautiful color over here. Make sure you are on one of the strawberries. I'd like to start with the smaller one on the left. And let's start adding some of this texture onto the left side of the strawberry. Okay. Left side of the strawberry, just a little bit of these textures. Notice how I'm not just going up and down. I'm also tapping each time the beautiful iPad, just so it becomes a bit more opaque. So it's not just empty. The alpha lock is actually helping you just draw in wherever you have color. So if you have a red color over here, it's just going to draw on the red color. If you don't have the alpha lock, let's go and show you. Let's undo the alpha lock over here and let's go and do this over on this side. Notice how it's creating color outside of the shape. So let's undo those things. Okay. And alpha lock the layer. This time, let's go with this orange over here and add a bit of orange. Just a few touches of orange. Three times I think it's enough. Perfect. Once you've done that, you can go ahead and pick this brown over here. Well, let's pick this red over here first. Okay, let's increase the opacity to about 30%, and let's add some of this brown on the side. Notice how it's creating a bit more texture that is absolutely nice and wonderful. And let's go onto the other shape and the other strawberry, I mean, and let's add a bit of this texture onto the left side. Okay. Let's lower down the opacity to about 10% and add some of that red back in again, softening those textures a little bit and creating a softer transition. Okay? Just adding a few more. Notice how they are softening the textures, and you can go back with the pink. I think I was on the wrong, so on this one, we should pick up the red. They are not on the same layer, so I wasn't softening it anything over here. Now I am Perfect. Notice how much more soft it is. Let's go on this one and pick some pink, the beautiful pink, and add it back over again, so the red and the pink and the textures become a bit more soft. Perfect. That is all you need for this step. 6. Multiplication of strawberries: As you can see, these strawberries are quite big. So let's make them a bit smaller by selecting both layers like this, just swiping to the right and then going on the movement tool, and this time using the uniform to make them a bit smaller. Perfect. Once you do that, you can go ahead and duplicate the layer over here, and let's create a beautiful composition by rotating and making this strawberry a bit smaller, maybe making it a bit bigger. And also the two ones that we have over here. Let's not select this one. Let's make them a bit larger, just so we don't have to make so many strawberries. Perfect. Once you've done that, you can go ahead and duplicate this layer as well, the one with the pink, strawberry, go on the movement tool. Move it to somewhere over here. Let's rotate it this way this time. Okay. Perfect. Now, actually, let's move and rotate this strawberry just a tiny bit, put it over on this side, just so we add a bit more diversity and movement towards the strawberries, so they are not perfectly vertical. Let's do the same to this one, a little bit of rotation towards the right. Okay. Now let's duplicate this layer over here. Perfect. And we can select it and move it right behind this one over on this side, making a beautiful, nice composition with a little bit of depth as well. Notice how all the shadows are still on the right side. Okay. Now, let's duplicate this layer once again, move this strawberry towards the left over on this side, and let's make another strawberry of the pink variety. This one over here, duplicate it move it, make it smaller. You can also, if you want, just go over here. You can also change its shape, just a tiny bit, just so you have different kinds of strawberries. You can do that to all of them. Let's put it right over here. Let's zoom out a bit so you can see, perfect. I think that this one right over here, I think it's this one. Nope. This one needs to be a tiny bit smaller, but we can do it with the warp. So let's warp it and make it smaller. Perfect. Oh, okay. If we need more strawberries, we can always create a bit more. So we have four on top, three on the bottom, so let's create another one. This one over here, and let's move it with the uniform, make it smaller and put it right over here on this side, just outside of the frame, a little bit outside of the frame so that it opens up the composition a bit more. And that's all you need to do for this step. Of course, you can also squish down the red, beautiful strawberries and the pink ones, just so you have only two layers. Perfect. 7. First dots: This step, you need to click on the top layer and add a new beautiful layer. Make sure you have the right brush, which is the inking brush called silky. And once you do that, select this color, this beautiful orange in the corner and zoom in on one of the beautiful strawberries and make an oval. Just something like this. Drop in the color. Perfect. Now notice how this is a huge orange dot. And you can make it a bit smaller and by a bit, I mean, a lot smaller. Let's zoom in so that you can see how small it is right now. Perfect. Now, if you zoom out and see it, it's quite small. We can make it a tiny bit smaller. Okay. Perfect. Once that beautiful oval is created, you can duplicate it, and this is going to be a duplication over and over again. So we're going to just flip horizontal, spin it a bit, just so you have two of them like this. Okay. Actually, let's move it a bit higher just so it's a bit nicer and a bit more on a line. Squish down the layers now duplicate it and duplicate it once again. Let's move it towards the right, flip it horizontal, spin it a bit. You can also warp it just a tiny bit, just so they are a bit more different. Let's take this one, select this layer. Now, move it with the uniform tool towards the right, flip it horizontal. Just a little bit. Now you have six of them, squish them, duplicate the layer. And now you have 12. Beautiful. That's 12 beautiful dots. Okay. You can duplicate it once again and move it towards this side, and you have, I don't know how many 18. Okay. Once you've duplicated like that and squished the layers down, you can now duplicate it once again and once again and move it higher. Now, you're going to flip it horizontal and rotate it a bit just so they are a bit more different, so they are not perfectly aligned. Just move it towards the right a little bit. Notice how they are intersecting like this, creating a more abstract shape. Now, let's stape the one underneath and do the same. Flip it horizontal, move it and now go to the right so that they are zig zagging like this. Perfect. Now squish once again, and you are making so many dots. Let's squish please. Come on. Squish. And they squished perfectly. Okay. And now let's duplicate it. Perfect. Once you duplicate it, you can move it higher, flip it horizontal, spin it move it towards the right this time, just creating these beautiful dots. Let's duplicate it once again and move it down this time, lowering it. Oh, no. Let's not play with the size. Okay, can start to see how useful those dots are, but they look quite foreign, so we need to also duplicate it once again and put it on top this time. Let's rotate just a tiny bit. Okay. Let's have them not touch over there. And squish everything perfect. The way you get rid of that intense color is by double clicking with the two fingers on the layer and lowering the opacity just to about 60%. I think it's enough. Okay. And now let's just go on to the next step. 8. Dots everywhere: Okay, this is going to be another duplication step. So let's duplicate this layer. Okay. Perfect. Now let's move it from here to just about here. Okay. Make sure it kind of covers both of the strawberries perfectly. Okay. Now, let's do it once again with this one. Let's move it over another strawberry over here and do it over again moving it over on this side. Notice how it's looking a bit more different when it comes to strawberries that are more pink than the ones that are red. Okay. Let's duplicate it once again. Move it. If you don't have enough layers, you can always just squish down the layers and move them around. Perfect. Now, let's do it once again for the last two of them. Okay. I think that's enough over here. Perfect. And the last one, duplicate. Move over on this side. Perfect. Now let's focus on the pink ones because they are easier to just erase. So the way you're going to do that is go on the beautiful layer with the pink ones on the selection tool, select the outside, go onto the eraser, make sure it's quite big. Okay. Over here, make sure you have something like the silky brush, and you're going to go outside and delete these you should be on the correct layer, which will be, I think, this one. I don't know. Yes, this one. So you should find the right dot layer. I just got lucky over there. Another cool trick that you can do is just select it unselected and see which one it is. Okay, so we have this one over on this side, this one that we're going to need to select and the erase Perfect. The selection tool, the automatic selection tool only selects the outside of the beautiful shapes. And the last one would be this one over here, so this one over here. But for this one, we need to be a bit careful. Okay. We need to be a bit careful, so we don't erase the dots over those areas because this is not under protection. It doesn't have any protection over there, so notice how we need to be a bit more attentive. Perfect. Let's erase this one over here. Probably this one. Okay. And let's go to the layer with the red strawberries. Go onto the selection tool. Once again, automatic and click on the outside. Notice how it's creating everything perfect and going on each ones that are squarish and erasing the dots. Perfect. Okay. You can also go and add to this one. I think it's this one over here. Notice how there is a bit of duplication in terms of dots. That's why you're keeping it a bit separate for now, and there are a bit more dots over here and over here. Okay, we're going to be able to erase those easily at some point. Let's erase some of these. Okay. Perfect. On top. And over here is the last one, focusing and erasing all of these dots. And you might have noticed that there is a bit of duplication over here that is easily solvable. We're just going to add go undo this. Make sure you are on the correct layer, which will be this one over here, and let's erase the dots. That's because there are separate layers. So this one only has these dots and the one below it. I think this one, no. But this one has a few dots over here. So now we can merge all of the layers, make sure we don't have any dots showing over other areas. Just merge everything. I think this one has something. Yes. It does have something over here. Okay. But it can be solved by squishing down. And now we can focus in on the areas that still have some dots just showing like this, just some imperfections. Notice one over here. And one over here. Perfect. Okay. Another cool trick that you can do is alpha lock this layer, and buy Alpha lock it like this. Alpha lock it, go on to the textured brush, the artistic leather wood brush. And you can add some pink if you want on some of the beautiful dots just a bit to change that color. Maybe just on the orange ones, on the red ones, add a bit of pink. Notice how the opacity is quite low. It's at about 11%. It does make it a little bit of a change in the colors, so it does change a little bit color of the beautiful dots. Okay? Oops. And let's add a bit more over here, just over on these sides. It creates a bit more abstraction and variety of color. Perfect. Once you do that, we can end the step here. 9. Strawberry flowers: Let's create some strawberry flowers. Let's add another layer. And of course, we're just going to create one flower and then duplicate it multiple times. Let's go and select this color over here. Well, let's select the white. And let's select the right brush, which is the silky and create a simple, beautiful flower just going like this. That's one petal, another petal over here. And let's add another one like this. Maybe this one needs to be a bit more bulky. And let's add a fourth and a fifth. Perfect. Now, let's drop in the color. Oh, no, it's not connected somewhere. Like over on this side. Drop it in. And let's actually drop in over here as well. Perfect. If you don't like it too much, you can always just add a bit more like, for instance, over here, just adding a bit more beautiful lines and dropping in the color. Make sure you cover all of them like this. Can also erase some of it. If you don't like it. Just make this small brush and create a beautiful line going this way. Notice how it's creating a bit more of an interesting flower. I think it should be something a bit less. It has a bit less of a beautiful shape over there, so it doesn't go so much inside. Another cool trick that you can do is go onto the word and just warp it a bit, so it's a bit more nice. Just squish some areas and unsqueeze the other areas just so it's becoming a bit nicer as a shape. Perfect. Once you've done that, you need to create a beautiful, another layer. Let's go on to the beautiful brush once again. Select this yellow over here. Make a circle. Let's make it a bit smaller. Let's make it a perfect circle. Well, a perfect oval. Click on the ellipse, and let's drop in the color. Perfect. Let's alpha lock this layer. Okay. And going on the brush, artistic, leather wood, and beautiful orange above, we can add some textures just on the right of this red, beautiful dot. And by red, I mean yellow, confusing the colors. Perfect. Now you can also double tap and make it a bit less opaque, just so it blends in with the flour. Now, let's alpha lock the layer of the flour, and let's add with this color over here some textures on the flour. Notice how it creates a bit of texture. Then it makes the flour a bit more integrated into the Background. Okay. Once you've done that, you can move towards this color over here, making it even more close. And if you want, you can go and add with the white, the lightest color, just a few textures on a few petals, just on the edges of the petals, creating a bit more contrast and texture. Okay? No, this is going to be the first flower. Let's merge the two layers, duplicate it, and let's make it a bit smaller. Move it over here. And with the warp tool, this is very important because the flowers will look quite the same unlike strawberries. If you make them, just duplicate them and paste them everywhere, copy and paste them everywhere. So notice how we are just making it a bit more lower, we're just dragging and curving it down just so it has a bit more perspective. Another trick that you can do. Let's go on the first layer. Let's make this flower a bit smaller with the uniform tool. We've made it a bit smaller. And a bit smaller over. Still. Perfect. Let's move it over here and duplicate it. Of course, and rotate it. Notice how now it looks kind of wonky. So let's change that shape just a little bit from the middle. It's always easier to do it first from the middle and then corners. And then you can play around with it until it feels nice. Okay. Let's go and duplicate the first layer once again, just because it's a flat, beautiful shape a flat, beautiful flower, and let's warp it. Once again, notice how from the middle, they just look a bit better. If you drag the middle down, they just look as if they are in perspective. Perfect. That's four flowers. You can always merge them, duplicate the layer. And let's go on uniform. Zoom out a bit, rotate the flowers, and we can add them just over here, creating three more flowers just on this side of the canvas. Perfect. Okay, let's duplicate this layer once again. And add just a few more flowers. Like, for instance, we can add one just over on this side, just going and opening that composition. Notice how this one needs to be erased because it's cut, because it's this one over here. Now we can merge all the layers, and that's all the flowers that you need for this class. 10. Leaves and foliage: Now that we have this wonderful composition with flowers and strawberries, let's click on the layer that is just above the background and click on the plus. This will give us another layer that's underneath everything, and this will be the best layer to do some leaves. Strawberry leaves are very, very simple. Let's start with this green over here. Let's actually start with the middle one. Okay. And let's zoom in a bit over here, make sure you have the right color, the inking color palette silky. And we're going to do one single part of the leaf just by going like this, just making these small little teeth and then going down, and then up, making a longer one and then going like this on the other side. Okay. And connecting it. Make sure it's connected over here as well. And then you can drop in the color over on this side. Perfect. Now, it might need a bit of erasing. Erase the top just a little bit. Let's erase it once again because it's too round, and let's draw these small little teeth a bit less visible. Notice how they are a bit less pronounced. If that's the word that I was looking for. Okay. And it also looks a bit more organic. Perfect. Now it's time to add some texture on top of it. And to do that, we need to click on the layer, click on the alpha lock, make sure you have the artistic leatherwood brush, and with some dark tones, let's add some texture on top of this beautiful leaf. Once you've done that, you can go ahead and add some lines with the same color. Don't worry if they are too strong, and the lines should go something like this. So, something like this and from the middle to the outside. This tree on this side. Make sure you don't go from the same spot where you've gone through the right. Make sure you go from in between these lines, just like that. Okay. Notice how these lines are very, very thick and also quite visible. A cool trick that you can do is go back to the artistic leatherwood brush, add a bit more texture on top, now going back to the color that you've used for the leaf. And add it over top. Notice how much more integrated into the leaf these lines are now going back to some darker colors. Adding them on top, and the leaf is much more pleasant to look at. It doesn't have those intense inking lines. Okay? Now, as you did with these beautiful flowers, you are going to do with the wonderful leaves. And we are going to swipe to the left, duplicate the layer, and start rotating it, moving it underneath, maybe flipping it just a tiny bit so you can start to see how nice and beautiful these leaves are. We can also make them smaller. Of course, we can also take the first one and rotate it quite a bit and place it right over on this side, maybe over here. That's perfect. Now let's duplicate it once again. Make it quite small. This time, we can even use the Warp tool to change it quite a bit, and let's move it. Let's flip it horizontal and move it right over here, rotating it right underneath this flower. Okay. We need a smaller one, so let's duplicate this one, once again, flipping it horizontal, making it even smaller, distorting it a bit, going back to uniform. And rotating it so that you can add another one just over here. You can always merge down the layers. Now you have four leaves, you can duplicate them and add a few more. Just flip it horizontal. Just add a few more over on this side. Don't worry if you can't really move them like that. A cool trick that you can use is going on the S tool, which is the selection tool, going on free hand, selecting these two over here, and then going on the movement. Rotating them and just adding them somewhere where they belong. Maybe over here, they look quite nice. Let's zoom out a bit. Let's flip them once again, just so they come from the outside in. That's nicer, and that's perfect. Now, let's select this one over here. Select it, move it, and let's move it over on this side, coming from this side this time, coming from this side, opening the composition in that direction. Okay. Let's do it once again with the layer that has the most leaves, flip them horizontal, move them somewhere over here. We can even rotate until we find a position, focus on one leaf at a time. Like, for instance, I'm going to focus on these two over here. They will look better if I just go like this. That's perfect. And I'm going to have a leaf over here that we need to take from here and move it, make it smaller and place it somewhere over on this side. Perfect. This one looks quite nice over on the bottom. And just a few more. Let's merge the two layers above that have the cut leaves, and let's duplicate it once again. And let's move them over on this side. Notice how much more beautiful this looks, and we can actually rotate it a bit just so we delete that foliage over there, that beautiful leaf, and we can add this one over on this side. I think that's just about enough. You can merge down all the leaves. And now we can go onto the selection tool, select maybe these two over here. Copy and paste. And now we're going to do something super nice, which is going above almost all of the layers except the flowers. And we're going to have these on top of some beautiful strawberries. Maybe it just goes from this side to this side like this, just cutting that strawberry a little bit just so it creates a bit more depth. We can also duplicate this one and have it distorted a bit. Let's move it to somewhere where you can see. Let's distort. By distort, I mean, warp. And we can add it over on this side, creating a bit of depth that way as well. Perfect. Okay. And that's all you need for this step. You can also merge these two layers if you want. Just very hard to pinch. It's very hard to pinch. And now we pinched it, and they are beautifully nice. All it needs now is a few stems and some branches. 11. Stems for the strawberries: Exactly like you did with the leaves, you are going to have some beautiful stems for these wonderful strawberries. Some of them will sit on top of the strawberries, some of them will be behind. So we're going to start with the ones that sit on top. You need to create the layer above all of the strawberries, including the textures, the dotted textures. Make sure you are on the right brush, which is the silky brush. You need the color of the leaves over here. Perfect. And let's zoom in a bit over on this side, and we need to create a stem, maybe making the brush a bit bigger to about 14%. And then we're going to go something like this with a few fingers. Just some fingers going down like this, connecting them over here. Make sure to add a bit more and you can also go outside a little bit like this with the fingers and from over here because they go behind the stem itself. Okay? Make sure you don't leave them as fingers. You need to add a bit of thickness to them, just making them a bit more triangular. Okay, perfect. Now, this one needs a bit of reshaping. Let's go to warp and make it a bit thicker and longer to the stop side. You're going to basically do that to all of them, but before you do, let's apply an alpha lock. Okay. Just so you add some textures with the darker color. Just add, oh, no, not some lines. Let's add some textures with the leatherwood brush. Okay. Let's also add some beautiful light color at the fingertips. Just on the fingertips. Perfect. Okay. Now, let's duplicate the layer. Let's move this to maybe over here. Let's rotate, position it quite right. Okay. Let's rotate it a bit more. Perfect. Now, let's duplicate it once again. Move it into position over here. Right over here. That looks nice and perfect. Maybe a bit more rotation. Okay. And let's do another one, duplicate. And this is the last one for the ones that sit on top. This needs to be way smaller because this strawberry is smaller. On the uniform, on the movement tool, and I'm just pinching the corner to make it smaller. Perfect. Okay. Now you can merge all of them. And once you do, you need to go on to the layer with the fuzziness in the background and add a plus. This will be one of the stems that sits on the back. So let's zoom in over here. Let's select the correct color, which is this one. Make sure you have the right brush, the silky brush, and let's add a stem like this. And then let's add some nice fingers just going up like this. Remember to add some thickness to them, make them a bit more triangular. Okay. Perfect. That looks nice. And let's add a bit more thickness to this stem, as well. We can also erase some of them if they are not too triangular. And once you do that, you can go ahead and add an alpha lock, go on to the correct brush this time artistic leather wood going on with a darker color on the top and the bottom. And in the middle, let's add just on the fingers, on the left and the right, some of this lighter green, creating a bit more interesting contrast. Okay, that's one of them. Let's now duplicate now, move it over here, rotate, make it a bit smaller, place it nicer on this side. Let's duplicate this one once again. Move it right over here. Let's rotate it and place it over on this side. And this one needs another one, as well. Let's duplicate and place it over on this side. Perfect. Okay. And we have one more step, which will be to add some stems in the background. Perfect. 12. Vines Thank you: Remember to merge the layers. You can merge basically all of the layers if you want. I'm not going to do that because maybe we want to move some things around. I've just merged the stems and the leaves at the bottom, and I'm going to do at the top, as well. Okay. And let's add another layer on top of this layer with the textures. Perfect. Make sure you have the correct brush, the inking, silky brush you've downloaded. And let's go over some of the things that you've learned. You've learned a lot of things about layers and positioning and how to duplicate them in order to create so many things, including textures. Like this and how to really work around by selecting the outside and then deleting these textures. So that was a nice thing that you've learned. That's a cool trick. And you've learned how to duplicate these layers and work on them, w them with the movement tool. Let's actually go on to a correct layer. You've learned about the uniform the distort the warp. You've also learned about the selection tool, the automatic, the freehand selection tool. And also, you've learned about color, about textures, about composition, making things smaller and bigger. You've learned how to make a background that's a bit more abstract with just a few textures, and you've learned how to duplicate things so that you don't have to draw everything so many times. Just because leaves and strawberries and flowers tend to be almost the same if they are from the same plant. And now you are going to learn how to do some stems. Let's go on the silky brush, and let's start over here and try to connect these stems and just go in between some leaves and some things, just going with some vines like this. Remember that beautiful strawberries grow on vines and they are connected. This layer is on the bottom, as you can see, and it is, of course, going to be super nice. You can also go something like this with a vine that goes a little bit outside from another beautiful vine. Okay, and going this way with another one, Perfect. I think it needs to be erased. I don't like that one. You can do them as many times as you want, I'm just gonna end it somewhere here. Perfect. Well, maybe a bit higher like this. Okay, perfect. And now you can add a bit of alfoc and add a bit of this nice color, this light green, make it quite big and add a bit of texture onto these vinees just so they don't seem so flat. You can also add some darkness, some darkness to them. That's how you create a bit more diversity as well as a bit more texture, so things don't seem so flat and illustrative without working too much. The alpha lock really, really saves you from a lot of work. You just added a few touch ups and the illustration, the things, the vines on the background become so much nicer and look at how much it changes the composition. Notice how empty it looks. And once you add these lines and vines, it looks so much more well put together. Remember that this background also made a lot of difference. Notice how if you take it away, it looks much more flat. And now it looks much more presentable. Thank you for watching and being part of this community. If you are gracious enough, please leave a review. It will really help others know that this course is for them as well.