Digital Illustration - Illustrate Plants & Pots In Procreate

1. Introduction: [MUSIC] Are you the person who just loves plants and cannot get enough of them? But at the end of the day, you just cannot take care about them all. I'm always so sad when a plant dies. I decided to fulfill my plant neediness by illustrating them. [MUSIC] It is also so much fun to create pots that I cannot buy anywhere. This is the perfect practice to make my plant dreams come true. Illustrating plants for yourself is such a heartwarming project to do. Consider this class as a money and plant life saving practice that will give you joy and upgrades your skills. How practical. Hi, my name is Alexandra, aka The Artmother, I'm an artist, mother, teacher, illustrator, plant lover, and I have taught art with my online classes to more than 50K students worldwide. In this class, we are going to illustrate plants and pots in Procreate. We will start with a warm-up practice in which we will sketch out some plants and learn their shapes. Then I will show you three different ways of illustrating them. A very simple, flat digital design, an inking illustration technique, and an experimental way of combining digital with traditional. This will allow to any skill level to follow the class with ease. We will work on the topic of color harmony and decorative motives to design some really cool and unique pot hats for our plants. For the final class project, you will have artistic freedom to express your ideas that came up during the class in a fun illustration of a plant in a hat planter. Combining any illustration technique you'd like with your own unique style. The best is that these skills can be easily applied in your future illustration projects on other topics too. The final project can be printed and gifted to your loved ones or framed as a wall art to give your living space some extra greenery. Last but not least, you can use a digital elements to decorate your online surfaces, like your website, Facebook page, Instagram feed, or even used in your future illustrations or any other design. This class is for anyone who loves plants. Do you? If yes, I'm so much looking forward to create with you. See you inside the class. [MUSIC] 2. Sketching Part 1.: [MUSIC] Welcome to the class. I'm super happy to have you here. In this video, we are going to do some sketching. First and foremost, every illustration process should start with a research. If you want to be very precise, look for specific plants, if you know their names, for example, Monstera, or you can research some keywords like potted plants, houseplants, and find the plants that you like, and create some screenshots. We're not going to copy these images, only used for observations. I prepared some plant names that are brought through research. They are on-trend and look pretty amazing, and you can follow me along with sketching out them. The first one is Monstera, but let's just first create a new canvas. I'm just going to go with the screen-sized canvas as usual. I'm going to choose, in the Sketching, the 6B pencil, that's my favorite, and choose black for your coloring. Let's just research Monstera. What you will need to look for is the basically the shape of the leaves. You don't necessarily have to copy one image. When you are going through these images, just grab the most important characteristics of the plant. First of all, you can start by drawing a leaf shape, and then going from it to sketch out the whole plant. Now we're going to just do random parts. We are going to design them later. Now, let's just start by sketching out the Monstera leaf. I'm just randomly choosing one that I can see here, in these images. Let's start with this one. It looks like a heart. Let's just start with a heart shape, with a bit chubby heart. There are holes in it, so I will just go back and forth with the eraser. I will draw this initial line. There are these things, and these holes go within these wings of the leaf. I will just make it a bit bigger. There are sometimes just holes. Can you see that? There are just some holes and not full like these islands in the plant. You don't need to go into too much detail when you are drawing this. Let's just go and just look a full plant. Also, again, you don't need to do detailed drawings of the pots. I will just simply draw a pot here, a bigger one. This is just a rough sketch, and start getting the plant. This leaf that I'd drawn here will be one leaf of the plant. Now, just observe these different shapes, differently angled shapes. For example, I'm going for this leaf here, if you can see that up here. From the side, try to sketch them in different angles. This is really a rough sketch, don't go into too much detail. We're going to sketch out 10 different plants now, so this is going to be a long exercise together. Really, now we are just learning about the different plants that are available. I will do bigger leaf here, like that, and one at this point. Let's just move on. Another amazing plant that I love is the snake plant. I'm sure that you know this plant. It will be really easy to draw it. I will just write snake plant here. Again, I will just draw a random part, like this, and it just goes like this. I will erase from it. I also have a snake plant at home. I usually love to use real life references in my artworks because it helps me to stay present and to be more mindful of my environment. I used to say that one cannot simply be more creative than nature is, and there are so many differently shaped plants, it is incredible. With this project, we are praising nature. Thank you nature. Let's go for the next one. It will be the Chinese money plant, defy [LAUGHTER] this pilea it is called here, but you can find it online as the Chinese money plant. Let's just take a look at it. Pilea, yes. It is here. Its leaves are really nicely round-shaped, and there is a dot inside these leaves. I will just write Chinese money plant here. This will be your [LAUGHTER] guide to house plants, how amazing is that? I will do a little smaller pot here. As you can see, these leaves are growing crazily to any direction in any length. You can just do a line and draw a circle at tip end, and just put a dot here. Then, a smaller one with a bigger leaf. Then, a leaf going behind it, that will be like lower direction. Then, I will do one that goes like this, and some closer, I will erase the pot from it, like this. Don't forget these dots, they're really characteristic of this plant, like this. I will do another one here, another one here. This is my Chinese money plant. Let's go for the yucca. These are palms, and I always kill them at home for [LAUGHTER] some reason. Yucca plant. It is a palm that has a trunk, and these very sharp leaves aren't growing out of it. Let's write yucca here. Where? I will just replace, I'll put the Chinese money plant up here, make it a bit bigger, and, I don't know, I would just put yucca here. We'll try to draw a differently shaped pot now, just to experiment with these pot shapes. We are going to explore those two. When I'm drawing a pot, I always start with an ellipse, and then, I continue with different shapes. Let's just start with the trunk. I will just draw a trunk, a bigger and a smaller, and I will just add these very sharp leaves. That's it for my yucca plant. [LAUGHTER] Then, let's continue with the rubber plant. I have it at home as well. It is a big one, and this is the reason I left a space here because I will just draw it this big. It is the rubber plant. You will see this plant has this trunk as well. As you can see, this is a small one, but it can be really giant, I have a giant one at home. Its leaves are also not sharp at the edge, it is oval. These are oval, nice leaves. I will create a bigger pot down here just to give him space. [LAUGHTER] I will write rubber plant here. I will just add the big trunk here to the middle, and just add big round leaves to it randomly. These trunks also split, so they are different directions, so I will make one here, and another round leaf, and I will add one big leaf here, and big leaf here. At the bottom, I will add one here, smaller ones, like this. It's nice. [MUSIC] 3. Sketching Part 2.: [MUSIC] Let's move on. The next one is a succulent, and I have it again here. This is my favorite one. If I'm drawing it from this side, as you can see, we have these very sharp leaves again. Now I'm not going to research it. I'm just going to draw it. I will just write succulent here at this spot here, and just as very sharp. Can you see how many different combinations of leaves are here? There are sharp leaves, there are round leaves, there are circular leaves. So many different plants, I just love it. Let's continue with the calathea, another interesting plant with very nice leaves. They are a bit pointy at the end and there are very interesting shapes within the leaf. You don't need to mimic it 100 percent. What grabbed my attention is this leaf, can you see that this is just beautiful. I'm going to just write calathea here. I will just again draw a pot and add a leaf like this, and within this leaf, I will add these very beautiful shapes. Then there is one that I'm very sure of, that is the philodendron, it is usually the flower that is put up and it is like going down. Just a second, this one. Can you see that? I'm sure that you know this plant. We'll just create a different pot now, and its leaf is a heart-shaped leaf, but very simple. Like this, I'll just write philodendron here. The next one is the zamioculcas, I have it right here [LAUGHTER]. This is again, it has a trunk-like stem, and then these pointy, longer, oval-shaped leaves are added. This one. You cannot kill these ones. I once killed one, but I have a lot of them at home. I would just start with the stems and that the leaves. Okay, two is enough. There's one last one. It is dieffenbachia, if I'm pronouncing it right. But it will not have space here, so I will just put here this one a bit up, maybe even more. We have a space left here for it, so I will just write its name here, and let's just see what Google drops for us. My favorite, I have this in my kitchen and it is the most beautiful flower. As you can see, it has this big pointy leaves layering at each other, and again, very interesting shapes within the leaf. I love it. This is beautiful. Just take a look at it, oh my God. I will just try to do it. I think we have the 10 plants. At first, let me tell you that I'm really proud of you and that you have gone through this sketching process with me. I think this was the most demanding part of this class. Basically what I want from you at this part of the class is to go online to find different plants that you like and just very roughly sketch it out, analyze what shape their leaves are, how the whole plant is put together. Is it a bigger plant? Is it a smaller plant? What kinds of pots do they come in? If it has a trunk? If it is going down or up and what shapes. It is very, very exciting journey to observe plants. Yeah, and you not only can do this online, so if you have plants at home, observed them, love them. If you have plants at home, I'm sure you love them, but maybe you haven't thought of them this way yet. Just go grab them and tell them I love you, I will draw you. You can look for specific plants, learn their names, or observe real-life plants, which is really amazing. Let me just show you this plant. This is my favorite, but I haven't drawn this. Maybe I should, maybe I will. If you have gone through this process with me, I know you have 10 sketches, but you can continue and find ones that you like. I'm going to choose three of these ones that I'm going to continue the class with. I will show you three different illustration techniques. I think this was an amazing exercise and I'm really happy that you have done it with me. See you in the next video where I'm going to show you three different illustration techniques. I'll see you there. [MUSIC] 4. Flat Digital Illustration: [MUSIC] Let just explore the first illustration technique I would love to show you, and it is the flat digital design. The first thing is to choose one from these. I'm going to go with the Monstera. Don't worry, this is not the final artwork that you are going to have as a class project because you can illustrate the class project in your own way. You will have totally artistic freedom. I just want to show you three different illustration techniques that you can use for illustrating plants. If you want, you can try them out with me or you just watch how I do it and then implement some things that you like then into your own artworks. I'm just going to select the Monstera here. Free handling, free finger slide and copy. I'm just going to create a new canvas. Let it be a screen-sized canvas. Again, free finger paste and I have my drawing here. I will put it into the middle. I'm not going to refine the sketch too much because in this digital flat, the main point is that it is a very simple and very easy illustration and also not necessarily having any shadows or things like that. This is going to be very simple. I'm going to choose green. Actually, I'm going to create a completely new palette for my plants and go into some greens. For the Monstera, I love a little bit more yellowish-green and maybe a bit darker one. I will try to choose maybe a different bit darker one, like this. Now, I am okay with these two greens. What is a really good idea to create a color palette? You know what? I'm just going to show you. If you go to the palettes and hit the plus sign, you can create a new palette from a photo. Create a photo of your plant. For example, I made this image from a real plant. I have it in my iPad as well. I can just hit the plus sign in the palettes and create new from photos. Select the image and it will create a color palette from all the colors that you have on that photo. It is a really great way to grab the colors from images if you cannot do it on your own. You don't need to use all of them. Just select the colors that you like. For example, I really love this green. I love this really light one. I love this, a bit grayish one. Something from the browns is darker one, this lighter one. Maybe this one, maybe gray. I'm not going to use all these colors, but this is my plant's color palette, and it will be pretty useful for me, and I'm sharing it in the resources as well. What brush to use. For this one, just choose any brush that you like to work with. It's a solid brush because we are going to create shapes with it. We are not going to use textures now, and most even shadow. This is really a flat design is about having just flat surfaces, maybe with a little texture. What I'm going to use is in the inking, and the mercury brush it is a really nice brush. It's a bit textured, so my artwork is not going to be that artificial with this very straight edges. I'm just going to create a layer below the sketch and I will just lower the opacity of the sketch. Choose maybe this green. I'm just going to speed this process up. I'm just going to fill in the shapes and plant. Make sure that you are at a new layer below the sketch. [MUSIC] we are going to play with the shadows, so when there is a shift, so for example, this side of this plant has a different angle. I'm just going to choose a darker version of the color and just add it here so that shapes are okay. This part of the plant is going this way if that makes sense. This is going to be [LAUGHTER] the side of the plant or the bottom of the plant. [MUSIC] Now, I'm just going to choose this slider color and actually erase these dots from here because I just forgot and maybe add a little more. Now you can refine the sketch. You don't need to do the sketch and then do these things. You can totally play with it while painting. I will just erase these dots from these like this. It looks pretty amazing. I have this lighter green and maybe try the same brush. Yeah, it looks fine. With the same brush, I'm just going to paint these wanes. I'm totally not going to add more detail here. I'm just going to add the pot. This is going to be just a general pot. This is not going to be the class project pot because that will be more fun. Let's just do a little, very simple pot. In the middle of the pot there is soil and that's brown. I'm not even going to create a new layer. I'm working on the same exact layer and this is a very rough painting. It is just enough. This is just for fun, actually. Not just for fun, you can use this for so many reasons. The point is that it doesn't need to be perfect. Pretty great. Let's choose a color for the pot, and I'm choosing this gray. I'm just going to go around the soil that I created here. It's random pot here. I erase from it, fill it in. As far as I can see, this brush has some shadows. I will turn off this cat. Let me see if I turn off the background. Yeah, it has some texture. When I add it, it doesn't matter, it just adds something interesting to the artwork. Yeah, that's it. This is my Monstera and this is the digital flat design. No texture or minimum texture, no shadows, just plain simple shapes. This is really great for beginners. As you can see, you can do a really nice illustration just by this. You don't need any superpowers. [LAUGHTER] See you in the next video where we are going to get inked. [MUSIC] 5. Digital Inking: [MUSIC] Welcome to the second illustration technique that I'm going to show you, and it is inking. We are going to outline the plants and work with that. Let's just go back to the gallery and our sketches and choose another plant. For this, I thought that I would use the Chinese money plant. I'm going to select the plant again, three fingers slide, Copy, and let's create a new screen size canvas and just place it there. Paste. Make it big and don't worry if it is pixelated, it means just that it was drawn in a very small resolution, but we are just going to refine that. I will create a new layer below the sketch. I will keep black and choose the monoline brush that you can find at the calligraphy. The monoline brush is really good because it has streamline, which means that these lines will be very smooth and straight without these small movements that your hand makes when you are drawing. What I'm just going to do is to outline the sketch, so this is the time when you can refine it. You can also use the quick shape function, which means that when you draw a shape and hold down, it will automatically get into shapes. For example, an ellipse or a circle You can edit shape and you can make a circle from it, you don't need to, like these leaves are not perfect. [MUSIC] Wonderful. I will turn off the sketch itself. Now that we have the outlines, I'm just going to talk to you about hatching. Hatching is the shading technique of the ink because you cannot add values into an artwork with just ink because it is just black and they're not shades of black, they're shades of gray but not black. What I'm going to do here is to show you how to do different shades of gray with black. This is the mistake of inking. We are doing digital inking now. Five levels. Hatching means that you put lines next to each other. If you put them closer, they get darker. If you put them more aside, they will get lighter and when you put cross lines, this means crosshatching, it gets even darker. Let's just keep this as white. Let me remove this. To the second, I will just add simple lines like this. I will use the quick shape function if the line is really long. Now, I will make even more lines, tightened lines, more tight to each other. Now, I will add lines again, but with a bit of crosshatching. Not as tight as these ones, but I want to show you that if I add crosshatch, this will appear even darker. Can you see that? It is even darker than this one. I would do it very tightly in crosshatching, so this is going to be even darker shade for my gray. [LAUGHTER] Can you see that it goes from really light to really dark with simply just adding lines and crosshatching. This is how you can add shadows with inking. Now, at this [inaudible], we are not going to fully shade it, but add a little bit of shading to it with this inking technique. We will add color also in a later stage. Just take a look on a leaf. Can you see that there is this really light dot here? Then when the light is coming, half of it is in shadow and half of it is lit. We are going to really stylize it. Let me just start with one leaf, I will just draw this dot here and go off from one side and imagine that there is a line making it like in half. Imagine it, but don't put it there. But start at the edges and add crosshatching lines. I mean, just these hatching lines to the side of it. If you need help with this, add a line below this sketch, and just put it in half so that you can turn it off. Put this halfing line into a layer below the sketch, and go back to the sketch and add your hatches there. It may help you. You don't need to be perfect at this, you don't need to keep these lines perfectly to the same size between each other. I will turn off this one, and can you see that? I love to do it on my [inaudible] helping guide, so I will just do it again because then I can really see where it goes. Let's do this to all of these leaves. I'm going to speed this up so that it doesn't bore you. [MUSIC] It looks pretty nice. This is our lightest shadow. We will have darker one in the soil. I'm just going to draw this line here and the soil will be very dark. I'm going to draw very tight lines to the soil. Maybe let it be like this. I'll just crosshatch the half of it. This half is like from this tight one to lighter ones, and this is going to be these tight ones too crosshatches here. Let me just erase this. Pretty nice. What's left, I'm just going to add some lines to the side of this. Let's say the light is coming from here, so I will add these lines to the pot, following the angle of the pot like this. You can also do something like this. With these lines, it makes it a little bit more interesting. Now we inked it. Let's do something really fun. I'm going to create a new layer below the sketch and make sure to have this hatches and the outlines on the same layer and hit it as a reference. Now, go to the layer below, and let's choose colors and you know what, I'm just going to drop my colors, select the color and drop it. Now as you have studied as a reference, these outlines work as a coloring book. Now I'm just dropping colors as I wish, and it is in a different layer. Voila. How fun? Not this. It might be here as well, and this one here. Amazing. I will choose this really light brown. Below this is close, so it will use these hatches as a reference. It will just add the color only to these lines as it's closed. I will just fill the pot like this. Add a very dark one for the soil. I will make it vague and just fill in. Wonderful. What do you say? I think it is really interesting. I really love it. It is really fun to explore new techniques. This is my inking technique and see you in the next one where we are going to play with even traditional techniques. See you in the next part. [MUSIC] 6. Traditional Texture Technique: This is so much fun. In this part, I'm going to show you the traditional texture illustration technique that I just discovered that it looks pretty amazing. But let's just first again, go to my old catches and choose a flower that would work amazingly with this. At first I thought about a snake plant, but I love the color there too because it has this really nice things inside. I'm not sure. Let's just do this snake plant as it was my first idea. I can do it with color there and then I will show you that as well. I will just select it, copy, go back, create a new screen sized Canvas and paste. I will make it big. Now what I'm going to do is to put my iPad aside. I'm back with my traditional supplies and I'm really excited about because I miss that so much. I brought water work paper, pink brush and some of the colors. What I'm going to do is just to paint this with water and create some nice textures. I'm going to experiment with water and paint. I haven't done this in years. My God, I love watercolors so much [LAUGHTER]. I already have some color drops here. I will try to make as we are creating plants. I'm just going to make green where color blooms. [MUSIC] I'm mixing blue and with yellow and green. There is greater variety of pigments. [MUSIC] I also soak up very excessive water at the edges so that it dries quicker. It also adds a little bit of interesting texture to it all when it is so done. But don't overdo it. Now that it is dry, let's see, is watercolor blooms and it's all colors are all so beautiful. What you need to do now is to take a photo of this with your iPad. I'm just going to open the camera and take a photo often. Make sure to having a flight to take a high resolution image of the texture. You can scan it also in a scanner, whatever you prefer. We are in this screen sized Canvas, we have a snake plant here and hit the orange button and hit Add, insert a photo and insert texture. You have just taken a photo off. You don't necessarily need to make it too big. But I'm going to zoom in just a little bit. I love it, this photo is very nice and harsh. I love these pictures it got. What we are going to do is to go to the sketch of this snake plant and place it on top. Now we have it here. We are going to do a little trick. I'm going to create a new layer above it and fill in with white. Now, make sure that you are at this white hit the selection tool. Make sure that you are in a freehand selection. Select around the snake plant. Now free fingers slide and cut. Now you have this shape cut off or cut out from this white layer. What you can do to make these shapes better, you can erase from it. It now works like a layer mask. You can erase from this shape to make them look even better. If you want to, you can just simply repaint the white to get back. This way you can really learn what a layer masks are for. But this is really nice way now to add this texture. You could have just erase this shapes from this white layer. But this cut edges is actually an illustration style cutoff paper style, if that makes sense to you, I'm sure that you have done this when you work in the garden. Now, what I'm going to do is to select the layer of the texture. I can just move it around and find the perfect colors and watercolor blooms, what I like. It looks fine. I will turn off the sketch so that you can see. You only see now an outline and are still wet, so it doesn't really look that good. I will turn this sketch back on and we're going to add some more thing. Make sure to create a layer over this texture. Again select a green, I will choose this light green as the snake plant has its sides is really light yellowish green. I will choose the mercury brush in the inking and I will outline it. Outlined these individual things. Yes I'm working below the cutoff. It doesn't really matter. It looks pretty great. You will see. Now I will turn off the sketch and it looks pretty amazing. If you wish, you can put it over the cut-off, but I don't like it like that. I really loved this cutoff effect. You can obviously paint over it so you can add little leaves or the stems into it. I don't think this flower has them. But you can experiment. For example, like this is really interesting. Take this project as an exercise or experiment. Now you can create a layer over everything. I will turn on the sketch. You know what I thought, I will just add very simple part for this flower without this ellipse effect, I will just add this black rectangle to it. Simply add, for example, white dots, why not. This is very interesting, I love it. Turn off the sketch and this is a super cool illustration of a snake plant, maybe even without this stems. Maybe I will just erase them. We have the third illustration style I wanted to show you. Let's do a little recap, I will go back to the gallery. We had the flat digital design where we just use plain color and copy the shapes then we had the inking where we used the cross hatching to add shadows. Then this is the traditional texture implemented into the flower. What I suggest is for you to take any of it and combine it in any way into a final project. It will be really fun and experimental and allow it totally. In the next video, we are going to talk about color harmony. I'll see you in the next video. 7. Color Harmony: [MUSIC] Let's just talk about color harmony. I'm going to create a new screen sized Canvas to talk to you about it. What is color harmony? They are combinations of colors that look good together. We have three primary colors, which is red, yellow, and blue. I never done this in digital, so we will see what comes out of this. These are the primary colors. Now, if we combine these, you will get secondary colors. For example, I have blue. If I combine blue with this yellow, I will smash them together, I will get green. It doesn't work as the real paint, so you can see it is green but I will just add it here. You will get green. Maybe a lighter one. You will get green. If we combine red and yellow, we will get orange. I know that you know this from kindergarten. Orange. If you combine red and blue, we have the violet. If you take a look on the disk here, this is the color wheel. Can you see the colors? I will just select it and turn it around. We had the yellows up here, the greens, the blues, the purples, the red, and the orange. This is how the color wheel goes around also in digital. There are color harmonies and thank God, we have the color harmony tool right here because we have not just these colors, but as you can see, tons of them. They are color harmonies. Here you can see the color harmony brighten. It is complimentary. If you click that word, you have split complimentary, analogous, triadic, and tetradic. Let's just say the complimentary colors. Complimentary colors are those that are opposite to each other on the color wheel and they look together. Well, let's just see this color combination that I have automatically here. If I take this green and this purple, they look good together. If I take this, I don't know, let's say this red. I've got this mint blue. Amazing. Let's see another one, but let just see the split complimentary. The split complimentary means three colors, two next to each other, and the one at the opposite, you see opposite to these two. If I select any color, these will be next to its opposite. Two colors. Let's take a look and let's choose a color. This, let's say this, they look well together. Then let's see the analogous colors are three colors next to each other. It will be this light purple, this pink, and another pink. They are colors that are close to each other and they look well together. What else? We have triadic they are evenly spaced, three colors evenly spaced from each other on the color wheel. Let's say this pink, this green, and this blue. They are amazing. I really love this combination. What else? We have the tetradic, they are four colors evenly spaced. Let's continue with this blue, this green, this red, or orange and this pink. It is a nice combination. What I suggest, let's work with now, either with the tetradic or the complimentary color harmonies or anything you are free. I just want you to practice this color harmony tool now that you understand how it works and find colors for the pots that we are going to design. Now we have talked about color harmony. See you in the next video where we're going to talk about what I had in mind with this pots. [MUSIC] 8. Designing The Pots: In this video, we are going to design the pots. We will have our font plants in. Until now we have worked with simple shapes. But now I thought, or this is the idea for this class to create heads. I just bought a pot that is a head and it looks fantastic with the plant in it. I thought that we could play with this idea together. I'm going to create a new screen-sized canvas and let me just first show you how I use to draw pots. I already told you that. I have the black now. I have the 6B pencil now. I always start the pot with an ellipse, and a shape, it's an ellipse. Then you can continue with so many different shapes. What we're going to do now is to do at least five of these pots and then just to experiment. Then we are going to find the ones that we like and combine them with the plants that we want to illustrate and the techniques that we want to apply. The most simple part that we can create, is this rounded shape. Remember to add the bottom. It's usually not rounded but more flat. My problem usually is that [LAUGHTER] I cannot do two sides the same. This is not a problem because I love to keep my illustrations like not artificial and not perfect. But you have the symmetry tool. If you go to Canvas and Drawing Guide and Edit Drawing Guide, you have the symmetric tool here and then hit Done, and you have a line here. So if you want to create an ellipse and the shape that is the same in both size sides you can do so with this symmetric tool but I don't want to use that now. This is a simple pot. This is so fun to add eyes. For example, closed ones. You can play with tribal elements. You can just simply add, for example, a nose and the mouth and I don't know some decorative elements. So fun. Just imagine that there is a plant in it as a hair. I think it looks pretty cool. This is my first one. Let's take a look on the second one. I will go with a different shape. I'll again, start with an ellipse. It's an ellipse. Yeah, it is not perfect, so I will just re-arrange it like this. For example, pots did have different shapes. For example, like this. This can be the ear and eyes looking up like this or it can really be a hand itself. So it will be like this. It can be a head, with a neck like this. You can do, for example, a longer one. For example, like this. Actually, if you go on Pinterest and write, head pots for plants, you will find so many ideas. You don't necessarily even have to have a full head or only a half head. There's so many fun ones. [LAUGHTER] This is a punk person. This looks so great. Face pot head planters is also a good idea to have. I don't know what to look for. This is so nice. Heads with plants. I love this one there's several heads in it. There is an old lady, this is perfect. These are some very fun ones too. My God, I loved his glasses. Well, I will do. So these are fun as well. These are so nice. There are so many different ways you can create these heads. I didn't start with looking for inspiration because I always love to start with my intuitive ideas. Now I know that I loved the idea of the glasses, so I will just try it out. Maybe on a pot that is not round. Let's just try it. I will do dot eye. So nice. These are just some experiments I am going to continue to the final part of the class where we are going to create a class project. What do we know now? Let's just do a little recap on it. We have tons of sketches of actual plants, so we don't really need to worry about that. We know free different illustration techniques, the flat design, the inking, and the traditional textures that will help us to freshen up our illustration techniques. You don't need to do only one style. You can combine them anyway. We have colors, so we can choose from color harmonies of a complimentary colors or triads. I'm going to go for this color combination. I guess this is the one that I loved the most, but we'll see. Then we have some ideas for flower pots. What I'm going to do now is to create a final canvas for my final artwork. See you in the next video where we're going to start the class project. [MUSIC] 9. The Class Project: [MUSIC] Let's talk about the final artwork here. Now you have these sketches. I have shown you three different illustration techniques and we have illustrated or sketched out some head planters. Now, you don't need to use every illustration technique I've shown you, and you don't need to make an illustration just in one technique. You can combine everything together. You can use only the flat digital if you like, you can use a little bit of inking or the texture or you can leave out one of them or you can just illustrate with your own technique that you are used to. For example, let me show you what I have done. I have created some more, six of them, six of these plants. Let me show you the first one, for example. This is a completely flat digital illustration from inking. The only thing that I took is the outlining so that I have it more defined. I used it to enhance my pot. But basically, this is just a flat digital illustration and I don't even have textures or shading here and it still looks pretty amazing. This is why I'm showing you that these techniques are so fun. Here, for example, I implemented the flat digital. I also don't have any shading and texture. What I have here is the texture from the traditional media that I have created and I changed its hue. I selected the texture that I added into the artwork and hit adjustments, hue, saturation, brightness, and changed it completely. You can play with that as well. Then here, this is one of my favorite, is Chinese money plant. Here, I outlined it all. I used this inking, but not the shading part of it. I implemented again the flat digital as I haven't added any textures and shading and I added the name of the plant with lettering or my own hand lettering around it and it made it so fun. Just look at it. Then here, I even went even more surrealistic. This is a succulent. I added some decorative elements here. I again used here the traditional texture that I created and again change the hue, saturation, brightness, and I didn't even include the face. I tried but it didn't look good, so I added an eye here. Then I went more detailed with this one. Here, I applied shading, gradation, some reflections, and textures. Here you can see there's drop shadows below these glasses and these illuminance brushes for these really nice effects. This is the way I am illustrating. I love to illustrate and I complete my artworks usually. I created one of these as well. Here I don't have anything from that inking part. I think this looks pretty amazing and it is okay here as well. Here I implemented this inking, so I tried it out. But basically, this is again, a flat digital. I added some glass effect or reflection so that it is like this glazed pot and it looks pretty amazing. Then I put them together and they look so fun, oh my God. It is so great to have a collection of these flowers together. You can use these elements separately here and there. That's how I took this assignment. But you might have some different ideas and unique ways of taking this idea to the next level and I'm really looking forward to see it. Now, I'm only showing you a spread-up process of one of the illustrations I've created here. Make sure to just follow your heart and your creative energies and create something beautiful. [MUSIC] See you in the next video and I'm really looking forward to your final artwork. [MUSIC] 10. Final Thoughts: [MUSIC] Congratulations, you've finished the class. I'm so proud of you and I'm sure that you had at least as much fun as I did. Please make sure to upload your project to the project gallery, including any number of artifacts that you have created considering that I couldn't stop myself from making them. I'm really looking forward to see the project gallery full of these beautiful artworks. It will be also a great idea to create a shelf artwork for yourself that you also have every artifact that you have created in one collection. Also, share with us any other ways you used your artwork. For example, if you made stickers or printed it as a wall art. Follow me on social media, on Instagram, and Facebook, and tag me as The Art Mother when you are sharing your artwork there. 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