Drawing a Greenhouse Illustration: Composition, Layered Texture and Color in Procreate

1. Intro: Drawing flowers and plants, it's so much fun. Combining drawing stylized plants, fun procreate texture brushes and beautiful green house is even better. Hi, I'm Iva and I am full-time illustrator based in Central Europe. During this class, we will work on this illustration step by step together. First, starting with the shapes of these botanical conservatory, and then we will fill it with leaves and flowers. I hope when you follow this class, you will feel super happy about what you created, and you will feel like, oh, I can't wait to share my illustration with others. When you are sharing it on Instagram, please make sure that you tag me in the image, not only in the description, because that way I can see your illustration and maybe you will see it in one of the next videos. Like these amazing illustrations made by wonderful creative people who watch my classes. If you don't know yet, you can find even more drawing tutorials and classes. They are procreate and other tutorials, and I have more than 30 classes there. There is a variety from beginner level, to more advanced levels, and you can also find different topics. Without further ado, let's start and see you in the class. 2. Canvas and setup: I created a color palette for you as well, which you can download and you can find it linked below in the description. The Canvas size is 3,000 by 3,000 pixels and the color profile is sRGB. Now, if you're ready, let's start. 3. Drawing the conservatory - Part 1: Let's start with setting up our background color. Go to the layers panel here on the top right, and click on the background color layer. From here, as you can see, I prepare the color palette for you, and from the color palette, take the first color in the first row. We have this nice muted green color background. Now, go to the wrench icon here on the top left, and select Canvas. From these settings, go to the drawing guide and click on the "Edit Drawing Guide." From this menu, let's go to symmetry. Now we will be creating at the conservatory and symmetry will help us to do that faster and easier. As you can see, our symmetry is set in the middle of the Canvas. You can also change the color of the symmetry guide. Because we have these green background, I will keep this darker tones for the symmetry guide. When you are happy, you can click "Done." Now, when you go to the layers panel, you will see that on the layer it says Assisted. Now go to the brushes, and from the brushes, you can see that I have this first brush baco outside of life, which you can download for free. From this brush bag I will be using the chalk brush for this first step. Click on this brush, go to the colors, and select white color. It's a pure white, and I see that I didn't put it in the color palette, [LAUGHTER] so let me add it there now. Perfect. Now you have it there. Now from the brush size, we are still on the correct brush. I will set the brush to 5%. When you want to save the size of the brush, just click on the plus sign, and it will remember the brush size. Now, we will be creating the shape somewhere in the middle of the Canvas. Let's start with a line here at the bottom. From the middle, I will draw a line going to the right. You can create a quite wobbly line as you can see, and by holding the pen, it will help you to create a straight line. As you can see, it's not aligned with the bottom of the Canvas. To do that, just tap on the Canvas and it will help you to create perfectly straight line. I ended the line somewhere here, so we have similar distance. Now, create another line going up and finish the line somewhere around here. Again, tap on the Canvas to create perfectly straight line and create another line going through the middle, tap the Canvas and release. Now we have this nice first shape. Now let's zoom out a little bit more because this part is covering our Canvas. Now, let's create another line somewhere around here. With this line, try to finish little bit sooner than the other one. Basically, you will not go up until here. Now with the curved stroke, connect these two lines. If you have trouble creating this curve, you can click here, and you can edit this curve. Perfect. Now click on the brush again to exit that mode. Let's create another curved line ending here. Click on "Edit" and let's adjust this curve. I think this works well. Click on the brush again, and I think we can resize the whole thing because it might be too wide for the design I was thinking. You can click on the arrow and select Freeform. Now you can drag to the left here and drag to the right on this side, and adjust so you have similar distance on both of the sides. Perfect. I think this works well. Now switch to uniform. Let's make it a little bit smaller. I have to resize it from both sides. Keep this green circle in the middle of the symmetry. Perfect. Then click on the arrow. Now let's add another element here on the top. Here, draw a line somewhere from the middle of this curve going upwards. Again, use the other hand to create perfectly straight line, and let's connect these and go to the middle. Again, tap to create straight line. Now let's zoom in on this part. Let's create a triangle here on the top. Start here. Go up. Tap to creates straight lines as before. Now we can zoom out. As you can see, we have less space here on the top and more here at the bottom. Take the arrow and move the whole artwork down. As you can see, you have this yellow line helping you to align it with the middle. Perfect. I'm keeping similar distance here and here. Then click on the arrow again. 4. Drawing the conservatory - Part 2: Now let's zoom in on the top part. We can create these nice detail here in form of a half oval or a small diamond or something like that. Because some of these conservatories are botanical gardens have these nice details on the top. Now, let's add few details here. We can start here on the top. Starting from the middle, create similar curved line going downwards. Perfect. Then click on the arc and edit the curve to your liking. You can also move this one and also move the top part a little bit down. Perfect. I can add another one, I think this is fine, and if you want to edit, click again here. Now let's add more lines here, starting in this part, creating curved line, and finishing here. Trying to follow similar shape as here. Now, I can create another one. Perfect. Here as well. As you can see, this one is a little bit too low, so I will click on "Edit", and I will adjust this top part. Perfect. I will add one more here. Perfect. Now, let's create more lines here at the bottom. Here I was thinking that we can maybe create like a door shape and maybe we can have three of them. Let's see how that will fit. I will create this on a separate layer. Click on the "Layers", click on the Plus Sign, and you have to click on the Layer again and activate the Drawing Assist. It will help us to create the symmetry. Start here, go upwards, finish somewhere around here. Tap the canvas to create straight lines, and now we can connect these curves in the middle. Perfect. I think this works nicely. Now, go to the layers and you can duplicate this layer by swiping to the left. Duplicate, go to the arrow, and you can move this door shape to the right. Click on the "Layers", duplicate the layer again, go to the arrow and move the door to the left. Perfect. When you are happy with this shape, go to the layers and you can merge all of these layers. Now, let's add few more details. Let's add line here. I will zoom in a little bit. One line here, tap the canvas to go straight and one line here. Perfect. We can add few details also in this part I will start here. I have to start in the middle of the lines so it doesn't go over up the canvas, and we can add one more here approximately in the same height. We can add few lines here as well, to add some details here too, and here as well. Lovely. Maybe here because we have a lot of empty space here up, and another one here. Let's add a line aligned with this one, so it looks a little bit more like a window and one in the middle. [NOISE] [LAUGHTER] Because it's in the middle, it's sometimes hard to match the thickness of the other lines. But other than that, I think this works nicely. Now, because this one is a little bit more transparent than I would like it, I will go to the layers and I will duplicate this layer to create more opacity with this brush. As you can see, it creates these darker shapes. Now, I can merge these layers, and I can see here it's still a little bit transparent. I can zoom in, and I can create these line again to add a little bit more opacity here and also in this part. I think this works better now. I can zoom out, and now we can start adding some greenery to this conservatory. 5. Adding greenery: Go to the Layers, click on the plus sign, and drag this layer below the first layer. Now go to the brushes. Now we will select one of the brushes which come with Procreate from the Inking folder. I will take the Mercury brush and from the color palette, take this first color in the second row. You can zoom in so you have more space to rest your hand, and start creating leaves going from the middle outwards with curved shapes. Let's make the brush a little bit smaller first. I will keep it to 2% and I will save the size by clicking on the plus sign. Now, I will create this curved shape, and by holding, you can always adjust the arc. When you are happy with the shape, you can repeat the similar shape on the other side, close the shape, and now you can drag and drop the color into the shape, and make sure that the threshold helps you to fill the whole shape. You can check it by zooming in on that. I think this is fine. You can zoom out. Now go to the Layers panel and duplicate this layer by swiping to the left and click "Duplicate". Go to the arrow and flip the leaf horizontal. Now add another leaf here. We will rotate this leaf as well. Perfect. Now, duplicate the first leaf again. Click on the arrow, drag the leaf higher, rotate the leaf, and make it smaller with the Uniform selection tool. Duplicate this leaf again, go to the arrow, flip it horizontal, and add a leaf here. We can rotate it as well a bit. We can make it also a little bit smaller. Perfect. Let's duplicate this leaf again. Go to the arrow. Move the leaf, flip it horizontal and we can rotate it slightly too. Perfect. Now go to the bottom leaf, duplicate that one because it's the biggest one, go to the arrow, flip horizontal, and let's move that same leaf here to the left and make it a little bit smaller. Duplicate that one, go to the arrow, flip horizontal, and rotate it slightly. We can make it a little bit smaller as well. Perfect. Let's take the second leaf, duplicate that one, and move the leaf here on the top. Now there are two similar, so I can rotate it slightly. I think this works fine. Duplicate that one and flip horizontal. Let's make it smaller and let's rotate it. If you are having trouble with amount of layers, you can merge these layers because they are not covering each other, so you will be still able to select them. Let's merge some of these layers. I will keep this layer separate so I can still duplicate it. I can merge these. I will duplicate this one and move the leaf here and rotate it slightly and make it smaller. I will duplicate this one again, go to the arrow, and move the leaf here. Let's create one more. We can rotate it. Perfect. I think this works nicely. Now, I can merge all of these leaves. Now click on the plus sign, create a new layer, drag it below the other leaves, and now we can add few stems. With the curved movement, you can connect these stems. But as you can see, this line is little bit too fake, so let's go back and let's make the brush a little bit smaller. One percent should be nice. Click on the plus to save the size. Let's create this line again. Try to create these curve movements when creating this line. Now let's add some texture to these leaves. Go to the leaf layer, click on it, and select Alpha Lock. This will help you to draw only on top of the leaves. Go to the brushes, and from the free brush pack, select the Brush Number 7, which is called Rust. Go to the color palettes and take the second color in the second row. Keep the brush around 6%. You can save that size too. Let's paint on each leaf little bit in the lower two-thirds. Now go to the color palette again and take the third color in the second row. Make the brush a little bit bigger, 14%, and let's paint a little bit above the other color we just added there. Do the same on each leaf. As you can see, this brush creates this nice variety in textures. Now go to the color palette again and take the fourth color in the second row and add some light touches on top of each leaf. Perfect 6. Adding flowers: Now, go to the color palette and add a new layer by clicking on the plus sign. Now, go back to the Inking folder and select the mercury brush again. Go to the color palette, and now let's take this light blue color, which is here on the right in the second row. Make sure you are on the correct layer, which is not the leaf layer, and let's draw a few flowers. I will zoom in. We'll add few of these flowers. I will start here, and with a lower pressure, I will create these three petal type of flowers, something similar to tulip. I will add another one here. Maybe not tulip because it's in blue color tones, so maybe something similar. We can add another one here. Now, I'm filling in the shapes by painting, not dragging and dropping the color as you can see. You can try both techniques. I will add one more flower here. I will also add few smaller ones and I can just do circles. Simplified look for the flowers or they can be like a small bud like when the flower is not open yet. Now, go to the Layers. click on the "Layer," select "Alpha Lock," go to the Brushes, and from the brush pack, you can select the rust brush again, go to the color palette, select the darker blue. Let's add some darker tones on the bottom of each flower. You can add some texture on the bottom of each of the circles as well. Perfect. Now, go to the Layers, and let's add some of the stems below these flowers as well. Click on the plus sign and drag this layer under the flower layer. Go to the Brushes and Inking folder and keep the mercury brush. Go to the color palette, and now take the second color in the second row. We have to make the brush smaller, so 1%. Click on the plus sign. I can zoom in so you can see a little bit better. At the bottom of each flower, I will draw the simple line and connect it to the stem below. Here, it's hiding behind the blue flower. I will finish the line here. This one can go over the leaf. I think this is enough. Perfect. Go to the Layers and now click on this one, the blue flowers, click on the plus sign so the new layer will appear on top. Go to the Colors and select the second yellow, which is the second yellow from the last line of the colors. Now, I will go and make the brush a little bit bigger, so 2%. Now, we'll add some yellow flowers. With the circular movement, you can create these random shapes and it will indicate these clusters of flowers. It's like smaller flowers. I can add some here. As you can see, I'm creating the circular movement. When you add another layer of color, every time you lift the pencil, you can see this brush creates this additional value range of the color. Let's add another flower here, and let's create some here as well. We need maybe some yellow tones in this top-left part. Let's add some flowers in this part as well. Perfect. Now, go to the colors and select this third yellow in the lineup of yellows, and let's add a few darker tones in the middle of these yellow flowers. Now, you're creating smaller dots indicating middle of the flowers or if you have more flowers in this cluster of small flowers, these are their seeds or middle part. Perfect. Now, go to the layers and create another layer. Go to the colors and take this purple color, which is the third from the right in the third row. Now, let's add some of these flowers here too. You are creating the same circular movement and creating more clusters of flowers. One smaller here, one here in the middle, and one more here, and maybe one smaller one in this part. Perfect. Now, go to the color palette again and take the darker purple, which is the second in the third row. Let's add few darker spots in the middle of these flowers too. Perfect. Now, go to the Layers, click on the "Layer" and select "Alpha Lock." Go to the Brushes. Let's go back to our brush set and select the rust brush again. Go to the Colors, and now select this lightest purple in the third row. Let's add a little bit of this lighter purple on top of these flowers. Let's do the same for the yellow flowers. Go to the Layers, click on the Layer with the yellow flowers, select "Alpha Lock," and go to the color palette and select this lightest yellow in the third row. Let's add some lighter tones on top of these flowers as well. I'm painting only on the top part of these flowers. 7. Details: Let's add few more details. Go to the Layers, click on the layer with the blue flowers and create another layer above. Click on the layer and select Clipping Mask. Now go to the Brushes, let's see, maybe this chalk shader will work nicely for this one. Go to the Colors again and select this light blue, which is the second in the second row from the right. Zoom in on these blue flowers and let's add few lines going from the top to the bottom of each flower. Let's do the same on the big leaves. Go to the Layers, go to the leaf layer and click on the layer, click on the plus sign, and let's create clipping mask. Go to the Colors and let's select this lightest green, which is the fourth in the second row. Let's draw a line going downwards in each leaf. Because we have the clipping mask selected, you are drawing on top of the leaves, but you can always adjust it and not erase the leaf. You can add this line to all of these bigger leaves and you can make the straight line or a little bit curved, however you prefer. Then you can add few lines to suggest the leaf details. Repeat the same on all of these bigger leaves. Now let's add few smaller leaves to feel the shape of the conservatory. Go to the Layers and create a new layer, and drag this layer to the bottom of the layers. Go to the Brushes and go to the inking folder, and select the mercury brush. Now we can add few smaller leaves in the same shape as the bigger leaves. But I think I need to make the brush a little bit smaller, so let's go to the 1%. Now I can create these smaller leaves. Actually for this part, let's turn on the symmetry. Go to the Layers, click on the layer, and click on the "Drawing Assist". These leaves will also be reflected on the other side, so we can feel our Canvas faster. Now let's turn off the symmetry and let's de-select the drawing assist, and I will add few leaves here in the middle, which are not symmetrical to the other side, so we have a little bit more variety. As you can see, you can play with these shapes and make it your own and add as many leaves as you want. You can also add few circles just to create different shapes and we can add maybe few leaves here on the top as well. Perfect, I think this is almost done. Maybe I can add few small details here at the bottom so we really feel the whole canvas. It looks nice and lush. All right, I think this is it. 8. What to draw next?: This is it. I hope that you enjoyed creating these lush conservatory which was inspired by Botanical Gardens in Geneva and I can't wait to see all of your versions, so please do share your projects because everyone's hard work is little bit different and if you want to expand on the knowledge you learned in this class, you can watch my other classes about characters and also about colors called color palette and color and light masterclass. Visit my page or profile to find them, and if you would like me to share your projects on Instagram, please tag me in the Instagram stories, in the post and post description, so I can help you and your art to be discovered by more people. Thank you so much for being here and see you in the next class.