Create Stunning Fruit Art in Procreate: Digital Watercolor Techniques

1. Introduction: Hello I'm Phuong Lempinen. I'm surface pattern designer and illustrator based in Finland. And I'm delighted to welcome you to my Skillshare class. I'm based in the picturesque landscapes of Finland, a place that often finds its way into my art. I specialize in creating captivating surface pattern and illustrations that reflects the natural beauty and rich textures of the world around me. My works can be found on my own website and Partten Bank. You also can explore my fabric and Home Decor design on Spoonflower In this comprehensive Skillshare class, we are going to dive headfirst into the mesmerizing world of digital watercolor painting using Procreate, Procreate - a versatile, and intuitive digital art tool is beloved by artists and illustrators worldwide. Now get really to immerse yourself in the delectable world of digital watercolor painting using Procreate. This class is a celebration of fruits, from the tantalizing burst of colors to the unique pictures that make each fruit a work of art in itself. Throughout this class, we'll master Procreate watercolor color brushes delicately capturing the intricate details of fruits with precision. We'll craft visually pleasing compositions, select color palates inpired by nature, vibrancy of fruits. And we also add depth and dimension to seamless blending. Last, we'll get ready to perfect your fruit art with highlights and shadows and make your creations pop up the screen. Now this class is designed for anyone who share a passion for art. Whether you are completely beginner to digital art, or you are an experienced Procreate user, All you need are your enthusiasm and a tablet with Procreate installed to embark this creative journey. Let's make art, learn and have a wonderful time together. See you in the class. 2. Class Project: For the project for this class, use all the tips and techniques that you have learned in this class to make your fruits artworks. And you can follow these instructions to help you along the way. Here are some project tips. Select the fruits that inspire you and allow you to experiment with the techniques you've learned. Explore creativity. Don't hesitate to infuse your unique style and creativity into your artwork to make it truly your own. Master techniques: Experiment with different brushes, layering, blending, and lighting to create a stunning lifelike representation of your chosen fruit. Attention to detail. Pay meticulous attention to the detail like highlights, shadows, and texture. To achieve the look that you want, Share and connect Beyond submission. Actively engage with the cosmic community by providing constructive feedback to your peers. It's a wonderful opportunity to learn from each other and grow as artists. When you're ready to share your project, upload your final artwork to Skillshare class project, be sure to include a title for your artwork and a brief description of your creativity process and any challenges you overcome At the project privacy, You can make this project private. But I recommend you to make this project publish because this is a fantastic opportunity for other students to learn from you and for you to receive feedback from your fellow classmates, Showcase your new found skills and connect with the creative community. I'm so excited to see what you come up with. I'll ask you in the next lesson. 3. Gathering Your Art Supplies: In this quick video, I'm going to walk you through the materials you need to get started. First, you want to have some traditional sketching materials at your disposal. This includes pencil eraser and of course, sketching paper. The reason we start with sketching on paper is they give you the chance to get comfortable with your chosen shape and details. To pen an ipad, you need an ipad with procreation. With these materials in hand, you'll be all set to embark on our creative journey together, garden supplies, and let's go to the next let. 4. Choose Your Fruits: In this lesson, we're going to choose our fruit and find creative inspiration for our digital particular painting. It could be a single fruit or a combination of your favors. The choice is entirely yours. Once you decided on your fruit, let's move on to the next step, gathering visor inspiration to find the perfect reference images for your fruit. We are going to visit Splash, a fantastic resource for high quality and free to use photos. The best practice is that you can choose whether photo from Google or from entries, or from unsplash. And combine them together and make your artwork. Then you don't need to worry about the copyright. Now go to the search bar and type in the name of your chosen fruit and explore the available photos. Look for images that inspire you, whether it's the color, texture, or composition. Once you filed the images that resonate with your creative vision, sell them to your device or create a dedicated folder for easy access. But that's not all. I have also repaired a Pinterest board filled with food art. Let's explore it together. Here is my interes board. Take your time to browse foodies, beautiful creations. Pay attention to different styles, color palettes, and techniques used by other artists. This can spark on new ideas and help you refine your vision. As you explore these visuals, think about how you can infuse your unique style into your foot art. It's all about fighting your creative voice. Don't forget to keep a sketchbook or notebook handy to chart out your thoughts and ideas. It's a fantastic way to prins storm and sketch out the concepts. With these tools at your disposal, you're well on your way to creating a standing digit of part color out art inpropreate. Let's go to the next lesson. 5. Creating Composition: In this lesson, we're going to explore how to create cultivation compositions. And first have fantastic resource to share with you. Before we dive into the details, I want to remind you of the endless possibilities when it comes to food combinations. Take a look at these bets or filled with standing food bookcases. These beings are not just beautiful, they are a rich source of inspiration. Different fruits are combined to create visually pleasing arrangements. Notice how color, shapes and textures are harmoniously blended. They use start sketching your foot art to keep these pins in mind, you can use them as references to decide which fruits go well together and how to arrange them while sketching your combinations. Refer to these pins. Pins for inspiration, how you can adapt their concepts to your artwork. This is my moodboard. After fighting inspiration for my work, I assembled them into a moodboard. As you can see on the mootboard, The number one, I am to create a vertical piece with a layout like this. Number two and number three serve as fruit inspiration, which all combine my artwork. Number four, revise the background inspiration. I like the background style and planning to incorporate it into my work. Number five, please cut my eye with the colors in style. I may adopt the particular style of color usage in my piece. Number six serves as my source of inspiration for drawing leaves, which are coming out from the force with the mood board is my guide. I will sketch out my ideas and keep it nearby as I can create my artwork. Begin by sketching your fruits on the page. Don't worry about the perfection at this stage. It's all about exploring ideas. Try different arrangements, sizes and angles for your fruits. Feel free to fill multiple pages with your sketch. This process is about discovery and finding the composition that resonates with your vision. Take a moment to reflect on your sketches. Which composition feels the most cultivating, Which one best conveys the message or emotion you want to express Your food Art. Once you've made your selection, it's time to transfer your chosen composition. Duplcate. This is where your sketch on paper becomes the foundation for your digital masterpiece. Join me in the next lesson where we bring your sketch to life in pate. 6. Importing Brushset into Procreate: In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to download and add your brushes to the Brocade Brush Library. This skillshare has recently been updated, allowing you to download the brushes from the project section on both the web browser and set up. However, I'm going to demonstrate how to download them using the web browser. In the project section, simply swipe up until you see the download resources option. Tap the file and then tap download. It will be downloaded to your device. Depend on your browser, whether it's Supery or Google Chrome. Go to your downloaded files and then tap the bet file. It will be imported into procreate automatically. To verify that the Bst is now in the brush library. Navigate to the Brush library and see the, you might see two of them here because one of them is the original. Now let's take a look at these brushes. We have six quatcolor brushes, six stamp brushes, and six qatcolor paper tector brushes. To test the brushes, select the color and paint on the canvas. Feel free to experiment with all of them in your own grade space. Now I'll see you in the next lesson. 7. Adding Texture to Your Procreate Canvas: This. I'm going to show you how to install quart color paper texture to the canvas. First, let's create a canvas using an four document. I'm sure it's available in your prod to do this Top the plus button and select a four. I have no idea what it's not showing here, but you can adjust the orientation of your document by using your thumb and index finger to hold and rotate the canvas. However, if you prefer a vertical canvas, that's now ensure that your brush set is imported to the brush library and swipe up until you find the quarter color paper texture brushes. Before selecting the quarter color paper tectu brush, we need to change the color, hit over the colors at the top right and choose the grey color. I often use a gray color located around this area, but feel free to assert it to your liking. Now go back to the brush library and choose the quarter color, paper texture brush that you refer it, just the brush stock setting located in the top sidebar, which is on the left side of the canvas. In my brocade interface, start painting on your canvas and make sure not to lift your pencil, as doing so might affect the pacity of your canvas. Next, go to the layers and change the layer mode of the layer. You've just been to line burn duplicated the layer, while ten use linear burn and colburn adjust the opacity. In this case, the canvas is white enough and I like it, I'm just leaving it. Feel free to rename your layers if necessary. Now let's draw something on the canvas to see how the paper texture works. Remember to draw below the paper texture layers. You can even lock those layers if you want to avoid accidentorly drawing on them. Now go to the brush library and choose your car color brush. Then select your. You can see different cart color paper textures here repeat the same process with other Ra color paper texture. Different papers can have different feelings. Take a moment to examine the piece. You can see the texture app lied. This is how it looks with the texture with an architecture. Now that you know how to apply pero texture to the canvas, let's move on to the next lesson. 8. Ready Your Sketch for Painting: At this, listen, we're going to import our sketch photo into Procreate. After completing your sketch, take a photo using your phone or your ipad. I usually do it on the ipad. Now let's open Procreate. Create a new document with dimension of 4,000 by 4,000 big cells. Top the plus button at the top right corner, you will see the custom canvas option. Change the width and the height to 4,000 by 4,000 big cells. And set the DBI 2300 to add the photo to your canvas. Go to Actions at the top left. Then select Add. Insert your photo and choose it. It will automatically be added to your canvas. Next, let's make some changes. Tap the arrow at the top and your photo will be selected to crop the photo, move the parts you want to cut to the edges of the canvas. Anything outside the canvas will be remote move and place your photo on the canvas age you desire. When you're satisfied, turn off the arrow and go two layers. Turn down the opacity of your photo. I'm going to add the paper. Tu, you've learned how to do this. Repeat after me. After achieving the desired paper look. Ensure you lock all the paper layers because you don't want to accidentally draw, create additional layers below that you intend to draw. 9. Bringing in Your Colorpalette: Welcome to the exciting lesson. Using the right colors is crucial for creating captivating artwork. Let's dive in and discover some tips for selecting and testing your color palette. Before we stop pending, first consider the mood and emotion you want to convey. Warm color evoke energy and passion, while cool color offer a calm effect jus palette that aligns with the emotion in your artwork. Next, nature of reference images. For inspiration, analyze the color relationship. In flowers, landscapes, or even fruits, nature revives an endless palette of possibilities. You can experiment with three main color scheme. Parliamentary, where opposites attract for plan. Analogous where neighboring colors on the wheel create harmony. And driadic tree of colors, even space for vibrant and lens combinations. These theories get you in crafting visually appealing and harmonious color palette. If you are looking for really met palettes. Pins is transf, search for keywords like color palette or color scheme or color combination. Save the palettes that catch your eye, one self. Import these palettes into your procreate. Now I'm going to show you how to select colors and add them to your procreate color palette. In procreate interface, navigate to color at the top right, and then select palette top the blast button to create a new color palette. Since we're doing this, manually choose create new palette. To pick colors from your reference photo, simply use your index finger to tap and hold on the desired color until a circle appears. Move the circle around until you achieve the colors you want. Then add it to your palette. Feel free to add as many colors as you like. Now let's talk about testing your chosen palette before committing to your artwork. This can save your time and ensure your colors work well together. Try to apply quickly those color palettes on your artworks to see what you like best. There is no rule here. Be creative and have fun with the process. Using a testing your color palette is a vital step in the graded process. It tests the tone for your artwork and ensures a harmonious visual experience. Another way you can use to add colors to your palette, change the value at the color section you can see next to the palette value. You can change the value of the color by adjusting the hue saturation brightness. Or just you can import color pallets from interes by simply changing the code from the color, then added to your color pallet. In our next lesson, we'll apply these colors to create standing fruit art. I'll see you in the next lesson. 10. Painting Apples: Before we stop ending, I just want to let you know that if you don't have much time to sketch your own, then you can use my sketch to practice ending with quarter color in procreate. Buy the sketch in the class resources under the class project section and add it to your Brad on your own. Keep your color palette photo nearby, so you can easily refer to the colors just like your mood board to keep your vision consistent. Now let's stop ending beginning with these apples. If you're using my sketch, feel free to get creative. They don't have to be apples. They can be any other proof. First, let's paint the base using quart color. With tax your brush to the brighter red or you can take the red from that area on the screen. Adjust your canvas by zooming in or zooming out or rotating it to find a comfortable working position. Bend is your wooden paper, you can lift or not lift your pencil as you refer. After bending, you can use the smudge tool to plant your pending and make it smoother. Feel free to adjust your brush to refine your piece. I often use the same brush that I use for bending repeat the brushes for other apple, create another layer and set it is clipping mask. A clipping mask allows you to paint only within the area that's already painted. To keep things organized, group these apples with their names. Now go back to the clipping mask layer, gender brush, to the stem brush, quarter color leap, and use it to add shades to the edges of apple. Add some green shades and red shades where needed. If there are areas that need highlights, use the same stem brush with the erase toll to erase some paint. When it comes to shading, feel free to be creative brushes with more transparency to shades and use the smooth toll to adjustments for the apple stem. Choose another color such as brow, and draw a quick stem with one line. If you feel the shades, the apple are not quite what you want, go to the shading layers to make adjustments. Adjust the opacity of the shading layer to align it with your vision. Now to recap. First we paint the base with the quart color, with the quart color with texture brush using the bright color tone as shades to the edges. Sam brush Articolo lead. Use the other brushes with lead paint to adjust the shade of your subject. Experiment with the smush toll and the eraser toll. Paint everything on different layers and then adjust the layer to align with your vision. 11. Painting Pear: Let's pin the peer, go to the layers and turn on the sketch layer. We will pin on the new layer, but I want the per layer to be between those apple layers. I'm going to flatten this apples group and then separate them into different layers. To do that, first, we need to turn on the selection tool and make sure you are on the apples layer to the lower apple. And then use your three finger to swipe out the screen. You see the window of copy and pasted, Peer to cut and pasted. Then go back to the layers again. You see they are now on separate layers. Go to the layer where you want to paint. The peer chose a color and change your brush to potter color with ticture. Adjust your brush size and need it. I broke the per layer between these apple while painting. Feel free to add some highlights by leaving some small space on the pier empty. If you wish to delete those white spaces within you, the smug hold that error or paint over it and then you smug hole to smooth it. Now make another layer and set it mask. We're going to add shade to this per I'll go for a brown or some red. And also green chose the Sam Brush quart color, Led top outside the pier edges. So it still provides paints on the pier. Use the eraser tool with the Stam brush for erasing some paints. I need it try to add depth to your peer by using different brushes. Brought the pierce them in the same way as we drew it on the apple, Making as many adjustments as I needed. We are dealing with it peer. Let's move on to painting lemons. 12. Painting Lemons : With the lower lemon. Apply the steps you've learned from painting the apples in the peer. Check out the speed band at the end of this lesson. Now I'll show you how to paint the other half of the lemon. These don't need to be lemons. If you use my sketch, feel free to turn them into orange juice or any other fruits. First, use the quarter color with picture to paint the base of this lemon. Use the lighter yellow to paint another circle smaller than the first one. Duplicate the circle you've just thrown. Then make the gleaming mask and Janet's color white. I'm going to change the color of the base. I think the yellow is so light, so I want it to be more saturated. So I'm just to another yellow and then paint it. I also make some adjustments with a shape to now go to the light yellow circle layer, move it to the brant and use the eraser tool to erase the light yellow paint. We are going to make the lemon wedges. I think I want the white part to be clear, so I'm going to duplicate the white circle and then merge them together. Now make the clipping mask clear to the base. And use the stem brush, auto color, to add shades to the lemon base. But you know what the visible part of this base is now small. I decided to get another brush with less paint to add some shades in the process. There are many times when you want to adjust your element right way. Just do what you feel it, right? I'm going to change the yellow of the lemon wedges. I want another yellow tone. Now we'll draw the details for the lemon wedges. I choose the hard edges, Articolo brush for this part. And another dark yellow. Draw short lines one by one until you feel all the wedges. After you finished the first line layer, continue with the white shot slides. Now I'm going to make some adjustments. I'm going to add some darker shade around the white circle here. I don't like the look of the white part when I'm out. I'm going to make some adjustments. First, I need to select all the layers that go with that part. You can choose the layer by sweeping right the top, the arrow at the top and you can rotate or even genie shape rotating is enough. I'm going to the shading layer and edit the shade under the white part. I use the much hole to blend it, then add more depth to the lemon skin. Now I will organize these layers by group them and men them. We've just finished the painting. Lemon lesson, Jake, the pet pin to see the brushes of another lemon. 13. Painting Berries : We'll continue with the berries. Make a new layer and choose a new color. I'll go with this bubble, choose the quarter color with T to brush. Now we're going to paint the base. I'll start with those big berries next to the upper lemon. I broke the berries layer above the upper lemon group and started painting. I painted the base two times to give it the big base. I make another layer for the berries below the fruit layers. Then I go through the same process with the other bubbled berries. When I set these, I plant the berries to be blueberries, but they look a lot bigger than blueberries. More like grapes, maybe. But the way I paint them makes them not look like grapes. I just want to say it's your art, so you can decide what it is. Even if your elements look weird and unrecognizable, they are still your art. And still work with your ideas. Now let's move on to orange berries. I use the same to color with. Take your brush and adjust the birt size as needed. I randomly paint these orange berries until they are in. Then I add variation by painting some berries on top. Now let's add leaves and other tiny flowers. 14. Painting Leaves: Make a new layer under all the other layers and choose the green color for the leaves. I continue to use the quarter color with Take brush, paint your leave. But you don't need to follow the sketch. You can go with your imagination at the moment. Don't lift your pencil to get the beautiful paint. Ta, you can leave some little spaces on your leave to make it look like real quarter color. Continue painting on the leaves in the same way. With this kind of leaves, you can just follow the sketch and add some variation by going in different directions. Choose another green and draw the thumbs for bubble berries on the same layer with the leaves. Then make another layer at the top to bend those leaves at the center. Now make a new layer and it needs to be on top of the fruit layers. And we're going to add some tiny flowers. This is not complicated, so watch my speed bend and follow along. Now I'm going to add some shade to the leaves. I chose the green, make a new layer and set it as the clipping mask. Then I stop painting. This looks more interesting when there is variation on the leaves. We'll finish the basic painting of this artwork. In the next lesson, we'll add some background for this piece. 15. Painting Background : After you feel everything is good and you don't want to make any changes to the main elements, then we're going to flatten on the fruit. And every element will be on each layer. Then group all the layers together. Now make another layer and bring it forward. You can see on the screen the Bush was the United Bush in your bust. This is the hard brek edges brush. I'm going to use it to paint the background, the big size of my brush and paint around my elements. I left my brush as many times as I want. After finishing the background, I want to refine a bit. I used the **** toe with quit color with Tto to blame the background. Now I feel like I don't like the ink of this background. I want it to be brighter. So let me show you what we can do. Go to the adjustments at the top left. In saturation brightness, I'm going to adjust the background by playing with saturation and brightness until I get the color I want. But if you don't like the being back route, then you can also change the back route. Here is how make a new layer above the back round layer and set it as a mask. Go to color and choose the color you want. When you have the color you want to change to tap the color circle at the top right corner fold and drag the color to your canvas. Make sure you're on your clipping mask layer. You can duplicate the clipping mask layers and give them colors. And you can switch between backgrounds that you want. Now let's put to the next lesson. 16. Adding Shadows and Highlights : Go to the layer with apples and beer. Make a new layer and set it as a clipping mask. Crap your blue quarter color brush with less end. It's a versatile tool that allows you to create, solve realistic shadows. Choose the shadow color you desire. I'll be using a slightly darker turn to at de chang the mood of the clipping mask layer to multiply and bring down the opacity of this layer. This blending mood allows our shadows to interact with the underlying layer, giving a more realistic appearance. You can also use the same color, because the layer is in multiply mood, then the shadow will be darker anyway. Now, carefully paint shadows where your fruits meet or where you want to enhance the three dimensional field. Don't be afraid to experiment with the brush size and res, for more natural effect. Focus on areas where the fruits overlap or cast shadows onto each other. This gray a sense of death and realism our composition. Now let's bring out the brilliant with highlights. Choose the stain, brushed part, color bled. This will give your highlights a soft and organic feel. Instead of using the erasortle, we're going to use a mask for this layer because I don't know if I would like the result. The mask will protect your original painting. When you are on the mask layer, make sure your color is black. This will work like the Erasortle and the toe black works like 100% of the opacity. Tap on the areas where you want to add a touch of brightness. Perhaps where the light catches the surface or where you want to emphasize certain details. This could be a top of food, or the edges catching some light. Feel free to experiment with the size and opacity of your brushes by justing them to achieve the perfect balance of your shadow and highlights. With those orange berries, I choose the same orange and make a new layer. Then set it in the multiply mode. I start pending randomly on the base to make more variation and active to those berries. This is a step after adding highlight and shadow. I recognize that I want my artwork to be more vibrant. I have shown you in the last lesson, we're going to use the same method, but you can choose to platen on the fruit together, then adjust the saturation and brightness. Or you will adjust one by one when you are satisfied with your artwork. Let's go to the next lesson. 17. Finalizing Your Artwork: Make a copy of this document to back up. If you are satisfied with your work, go ahead and flatten all your layers before making any changes. Duplicate your work to have a backup and hide one of them. The smoke toll with a quarter color with texture brush to play with the paint on your artwork. Tap randomly on the edges of each fruit and see if you like the way it turnouts. Now create another layer and try some time brushes. This step is just needed if you would like to. I don't often do with my artwork, but I want to show you what you can do to make your work look more interesting. Start with part color plaster, one with the biggest size popping randomly on the canvas. Try bringing up and down the splatter layer to see how it looks. It's better if they are in different layers so you can change the colors whenever you want. If you don't like a particular shade, create clipping mask for each paint layer and find another color that catches your eye to change. Let's talk about style. You can see that they have changed color of the background to being. Again, in art, your unique style says your part and makes your work instantly recognizable. One way to enhance your style and to your artwork is through educate details. By incorporating distinct elements like lines, starts, dashes or textures to infuse your creations with personality and individuality. Experimenting with the details allows you to create fascinating burdens, emphasize specific features, or convey a particular move. These small but importul touches not only make your work visually appealing, but also contribute to its tinctiveness. They can become your signature, giving your art a unique voice and resonates with your audience. Don't let your creative flow and use the elements to express yourself uniquely. Remember, it's the little details that often make a biggest difference in defining your artistic style. 18. Exporting Your Artwork: Now after finishing your painting, we will export our artwork to share it with the world. Check, if you want to change anything, then go to auctions at the top left, top share and choose the file format that you want to use. I often choose Back or A, B, and G after seeing export successful to your photo gallery to find your artwork. However, since it's a high resolution photo, if you plan to share it on the Internet, make sure to reduce the quality to avoid unauthorized copying of your artworks next to Canva.com You need to sign up for a free account. If you already have an account, go to create your design. At top right here, I will go with the custom side of 2000 by 2000, big sales after your canvas appears. But your photo from camera O at the left end of your screen, Choose your photo and will plot, automatically. Drop your photo onto the canvas and this will fit the background. Now you have two options. You can tap the download button and download A, B, and G to your photo gallery. However, if you would like to choose the photo mark for this work, then go choose the Share button. You can choose the ice type and even recite your photo. Or just the quality I with 80% quality and the same size. Lastly, top the down log button. Let me show you the difference between the original artwork and the lower resolution work. Now we then and make sure to share your work to the class project section. 19. Final Thoughts: Congratulations, you finished this class and I'm so proud of you. This has been an incredible creative adventure, and I hope you enjoy it as much as a head. Remember, this class is not only about creating a stunning food, art in procreate is also about discovering and nurturing your artists voice. In this class, you explore the techniques and learned about composition and also experimented with colors. Your final root art is a reflection of your unique style and creative journey. If you're interested in this class and you found it useful, please give me a review in the review section that also have other students can find this class. Thank you for being a part of this class. Keep learning, keep creating until next time. Goodbye.