Draw a Sunflower Scene with Procreate

1. Draw a Sunflower Scene in Procreate: Hi, and welcome to this Skillshare course. We're together. We'll be making this beautiful sunflower picture. My name is Avraham and I'm a professional illustrator. I can't wait to show you how to draw this scene. I'll take you step-by-step through creating the background and drawing and coloring the flowers. In the resources section. You can also download not only the color palette I used, I also include, well, my favorite brushes which we'll be using to do almost the entire picture. All you need to follow along is the Procreate app and a willingness to have fun drawing and exploring. Why not necessary. I also highly recommend using the Apple pencil as allows you to draw it in a very natural way with pressure and tilt sensitivity. So if you're as excited as I am about creating, go to the Resources section to download everything you need. And I'll see you in the next class. 2. The Background: Let's start off with a canvas that is 3 thousand by 4 thousand pixels at 300 DPI. And we're going to pick the brush set. We're going to go with the rough texture brush, which is included, as well as the dark blue color from the color palette, can make the brush a little bit larger and start placing just little splotches of blue throughout the canvas. Definitely going to be for this guy. So the darker areas just at random intervals, leaving alone gaps between. Because we're going to put in another class soon. And just put filling up the canvas on the upper part with these blue splotches. After that, Let's switch over to our lighter blue and fill in some of the gaps, will leave a little bit of whitespace toward assimilate the clouds. But for the most part, we want to fill in the majority of the sky because it's gonna be a nice blue sky. A few more patches of blue over here. And I think that's good. Now let's go and blend these together by switching to a blend tool. And by holding down on the Blend tool, it will take the brush that is their current, AN rough texture brush will do a light pressure between where the two colors meet and the white as well. When she was a little bit of a texture. Variation, make it a little more visually interesting. And just keep blending away across the surface until you get the blend that you'd like. Once that's done, we'll go and take our dark leaf color from the color palette and continue adding to layer. This time at the lower half, I'll be adding in spots so green to simulate where the leaves will be. Just like we did in top this guy, we're going to do splotches here and they're leaving little gaps to allow for the other colors of leaves that we're going to add in afterwards. Just make your way across the page. Filling in as you like. There's no real right or wrong here. Let's switch to the next color and start filling in some of those gaps that we left in our previous pass. This greens just a little bit lighter. Maybe a different type of plant, different type of leaves. Just adding in some variation. And now we're going to add in our last green color, the latest of them all, which has also a hint of yellow is toric tinting your tank little bit towards the yellow, the covering. And we're gonna use those to cover in the rest of the spaces. If you leave a little white between. That's also okay. Because we're going to blend them in the same way we did with this guy. Switching to our blend brush and filling it in to get that little color variation where the different colors meet. Just easy blending back-and-forth. Nothing too hard, nothing too strong. I always want to make that just visually interesting with all the different textures and colors as they blend together. And that way if there's a sky and the grasses, It's time to add in our sunflowers. 3. The Sunflower: To start drawing our sunflower, we're going to create a new layer. And as our brush will go to the drawing brush set that comes with Procreate and choose the sticks brush, which has a bit of an erratic texture and sort of reminds me of what it would look like if you've painted with steel filaments. Just easy circles for the petals all radiating out from the center. And once we finished the first round of petals, we can go and add in a few more for the layer that would be beneath. Let's fill that in with some color now by creating new layer for color, we've got the bright yellow from our palette. And go back to the, AN rough texture brush. Make sure we're on the right layer. And I'm going to lower the size to something around 15% so that when we're painting, it will, won't go over the edges too much as we're filling in the petals. So let's run the brush back-and-forth thing, what you want. It can leave some spaces if you want as well. So background shows through. I'm going to try for a pretty good consistency and a little bit of a roughness to the outer edges of each petal. Now for the inner part of the sunflower, we're going to go with a warmer color for the first pass and make the brush just a little bit bigger on twenty-five percent. And then for the most inner part of the sunflower, we're going to go with the darker brown color from the color palette. And just put that in there. We'll go back to our yellow for the palette, for the finishing touch, the texture that's in the center of sunflowers. For the brush, we're going to use the charcoals, burnt tree. I don't want to show up so strongly, so I'm going to lower the opacity. And also, I think if I make the brush a little bit larger than with a small presses, it will cover a bigger area and still be very, a very gentle. The trick is really just to play around with it until you get a consistency that you like. Next, we're going to add in a little bit more volume and color interests to the pills themselves. So for that, choosing our orange from the pellet, and for the brush, we're going to go back to the a and rough texture. And then go over each pedal. Very gentle, just adding a touch, a hint of this orange as we go around. Doesn't have to be on all of them either. Just wherever it looks good to you. In this case, I also like how the orange unifies the petals with the center part of the flower making a hole. The lines for the petals are encroaching a little bit too much in the center of the flower for me. So I'm going to go to the eraser tool and use again as our eraser brush D in rough texture and gently remove some of those, some of the petal, the lines of the petals from around. And now we can go and add in a little bit more character to each leaf by returning to the sticks brush and using our brown color and adding some texture to each of the leaves. Try to vary the pressure and directions a little bit. Nothing too hard. Keep it light and gentle just to add a touch of character to each petal. And if some of the lines are a little bit too hard, a little bit too intense. Just undo it and try again. There's no exact science here. We're just going for something that's pleasing to the eye. With that, I think we finished our first flower and it's ready to move on to add some more. 4. More Details: Let's turn on the other flowers. I'm going to put them on a new layer, even though they read, they could be on the same layer as the other sunflower. Because at the end I want to make some duplicates of them. So it'll be easier to move them around and have to make the first round of petals. I'm going to go add in that second layer like it did for the main flower. Now let's make another sunflower. This one angled a little bit to the right. And a third sunflower, which is, which has even more than a profile look. Now let's add in the color for those sunflowers and we'll do that on a new layer beneath our line work will go back and make sure we're using our bright yellow color from the palette. And for the brush going to be the rough texture, very small because we want to make sure that it doesn't have the lines filling each flower. And you could add some slight variation to the yellow if you wanted. By going back to the color picker and change the color. I'm just going to keep them all the same yellow because I'm going to add in some orange afterwards anyway. They'll give them some unique, each one making that a little bit unique. Push the color around. So now we'll pick up that orange color. And first thing is going to put for the center of each sunflower like we did for the first flower. And now the brown, making the brush just a tiny bit smaller so that it stays within the orange and we can see the orange arrow surrounding it and all sites when you're working on small flowers like this. So even subtle colors make a big difference so you don't have to press too hard and I'll still be very noticeable. The browns. Let's add in some textures for the petals using that sticks brush again, making sure that we're on layer with all of our linework. And go in and start drawing very delicate lines. Sometimes even just the barest hint of a line is enough here. Now as promised, we're going to go back to our orange. Remembering to go back to the a and rough textures brush and go on the right layer as well, the layer with all the other colors for the flower itself. And start to add a little bit more variation on the petals themselves. Just small touches here and there. That's enough. And we can't forget the yellow coloring, the inside part of the flower. So let's go back and find our charcoal brush and make it really small dots in the center of each flower. Now the smartphone is a fish. Let's go to Layers panel, and merge the linework with the flowers themselves. So now when we use our selection tool and freehand, draw around it, we can make a copy and move the whole thing. Very easily. Rotate it a little bit and put it where we think it'd be a nice addition to our collection of sunflowers, will repeat that I going back to the layer with the small sunflowers on it, picking another sunflower, two, duplicating that as well. Let's move that, then flip it around, rotate a little and shrink it. And don't wait, that's going on top of the other ones because we're going to go back to layers and add in a mask for the flower. That way we can start to paint over the flower and make those parts disappear. Let's go back to our trusty, AN rough texture brush and we'll use that for playing the mask. And that was I drunk with this mask is basically telling procreate that anywhere where I'm drawing with a black color to make that part of the flower disappear. Let's repeat that with the other flower we copied. And then I'm asked to that and start erasing that as well by painting with black. If you raised more than you wanted to. So you can easily just change the color to white. Then when you draw with the white, it will bring back whatever part that we had previously removed. So I think this looks good for the parts of the flower there'll be revealed. And let's add in some darker foliage on a layer above these flowers to add in a little bit more dimension and shadows to why these flowers might be obscured. And just add in some happy foliage. I think now it's time to add in a few stems. Let's go and shrink our brush just a little bit. Okay, well, maybe not that much, just scoping yellow with larger, about size 10%. And we'll go add the stem for the largest flower. I'll make the brush half that's either on five per cent. To make the smaller stems. You don't need to add a stem for each flower because the foliage will be covering it up. So you just really need to do something. I think the stems might be staying out a little bit too much. So let's go and blend it a little bit in the charcoal brush, set the burnt tree brush, and then we can gently blend the stems so that they will start to disappear as they get closer to the bottom and where the other leaves are. Take your time and just keep adding, blending and kill those good to you. And that my friends is how you make a field with sunflowers. 5. Class Project and Thank You!: Thanks again for joining me in this Skillshare class. I hope you had fun following along with me, anchoring the sunflower scene. That would mean so much to me if you could post your drawing in the projects and resources section so I can see how it came out. I'd also love to know how you'd like to class. I'd be so appreciative. If you could lift a review or comment about it. Thanks again for joining me. I look forward to seeing you in the next class. Bye for now.