Transcripts
1. Introduction: Hello and welcome
to a new class. In this class, we will
be drawing flowers from reference, and
more specifically, we will be drawing
rose and we will look at variety of references and I will show
you how I combine these references into
one illustration. Hi, I'm Eva, and I'm a full-time illustrator
based in Central Europe. During this class, we will
first look at references, and then we will go
through the demonstration, and I will show you
step-by-step how I would apply these references
into an illustration. There are many
different types of roses and ways how
to draw a rose, and this is just one
of the ways to do it. I will guide you through
every step of the process. Even if you don't have any experience with
Procreate or drawing, try to have fun during the
process and in the end, you can end up with
this beautiful pink rose with a blooming
flower head. We will start off with
a rough basic sketch. Then we will
redefine the sketch. Afterward, we will
add basic colors, and then we will dive
into adding details. Of course, some lighting
effects like shadows and highlights to bring more
interesting details to our rose illustration. I hope when you
watch and follow, you will feel super
happy about what you created and you
will feel like, wow, I can't wait to share
my rose illustration. 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 27 classes. 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: [MUSIC] The canvas size
is 3,000 by 3,000 pixels, and the color profile is sRGB. I link the color palette
in the description, if you want to use the
same color palette as I'm using during this class. We will hang out
together for awhile. If you want bring some water, makes some tea, maybe a different drink
or prepare a snack. I usually have a coffee
or water nearby. I find it important
to stay hydrated, so at least get some water. When you are ready,
let's get started.
3. References: In this lesson, I will show you a few references
and I will tell you more about what I'm
considering when choosing reference
for drawing flowers. In this case, it will be roses. As you can see here, I have different types of reference images
for drawing a rose. Let's look at them one by one. What is great about this
first reference image is that I can see the rose
heads in different angles, so I have variety
to choose from. But on the other hand, I don't see the silhouette
of each rose clearly, so I will not be able to draw the shapes easily
with this reference, because the roses
are overlapping each other in these
nice bouquet. In addition to this, I don't see the bottom
parts of the stem of the roses in case
I want to draw them. To compare with the
second reference image, which is this nice pink rose, is that one image is from the side view and other
image is from the top view. I can use the yellow roses to draw them in the
side view and I can see how the roses are growing from the top view on
the pink reference image. [MUSIC] What I
like on the second reference image with the pink rose is that I can see the
rose from the top view, as I mentioned, and I can see the petals of this flower
head very clearly. I can see the shapes and also the highlights
and the shadows. On this third reference
with the pink roses, it's easier to see
the silhouettes in the side view compared
to the first reference, but I still don't
see the whole rose. What I like about this
reference is that I can nicely see the leaves
of the rose bud, which is opened under
the rose flower head. Also the shapes of the leaves have interesting bent shapes. Talking about the
leaves, for example, if I want to use the reference
for the leaf silhouette, this reference is nice, but I will go back to
the first reference because I can see the
zigzag edge of the leaf, which many people
consider a very recognizable for a rose, so I want to use this leaf
edge in my illustration. Then I will use the third
reference to look at the lines on top of the leaves
because they are clearly visible on
these reference. Lastly, I found this 3D rose rendering where you can clearly
see the rose silhouette, the stem, and the
leaves as well. But here, I don't like how
the flower head looks. To solve this, I can always go back and use this
second reference for the flower head shape
and combine all of these references in my
final illustration. In addition, I believe
it's better to combine more references in your
illustration because in that way, you will avoid direct copies of someone else's
photography or design, which can be a
copyright infringement. To avoid all of this, always try to combine more reference photos
or use your own. The same goes for
the illustration. If you can always try to create your own designs after
you learn something, following it step-by-step, especially if you want to put it in your portfolio or make prints because you
can't sell copies of other people's
designs or photography. To summarize, always try to use more references or use
your own references. Now after we look that how you can choose
reference images, let's dive into drawing a
rose using these references.
4. Rough Sketch: First click on the wrench icon and activate the Drawing Guide. This grid will help us to
create the illustration. Click on the Edit Drawing
Guide to make sure you have this pixel
size for our grid. As you can see, my pixel size for the grid is 95 in this canvas resolution. When you are happy, click down
in the upper-right corner. As you can notice, I have a light yellow set
as a background. Go to Layers, select the
background layer and choose the light beige
yellowy color from the color palette to have
a softer paper-like look. You can keep the background
white if you prefer, but if you want to keep
the same color as me, use the light beige yellowy
color from the color palette. Now let's start sketching. For our first rough sketch, I will create a new layer by clicking on the plus
sign in the Layers menu. For this part of the process, I will be using my current
favorite sketching brush. But you can use any
other sketching brush, which comes with procreate. From the brushes which
comes with procreate, I like for example, 6B pencil brush or procreate pencil from the
sketching folder. The sketching brush
that I designed specifically for the
rough loose sketching, is because it's
actually good for our loose sketching and it helps me to keep the loose strokes. If you want to practice more expressive
strokes like this, and if you want to test out some new brushes for sketching, this brush is in my
sketching brush set. Now, let's start our rough
sketch with a rose head. To get the proportions
like I'm using, mark approximately 12 squares based on the grid drawing
guide that we opened. Then draw angled ellipse, which is tilted little
bit to the left. Now, talking about sketching. You can use dark color for
sketching black or gray, but I prefer sketching
with more color. In this case, I'm using
the dark-red from the color palette for this rough sketching
part of the process. Then mark approximately
six squares on top of the ellipse and draw
a smaller ellipse, which will be a placeholder for the middle part
of the rose head. Because we are looking
at the rose from a slide top view and
also from the side. Then I will mark few lines, how I plan on layering the petals on the rose head
using these curved lines. Afterwards, draw a curved line starting from the middle of the bottom of the big ellipse, and this will be the rose stem, as you might have guessed. Then sketch smaller curved line on the right side of the stem, and then add few small
leaves on the stem, or maybe we can
call it a branch. Then repeat similar shapes on
the left side of the stem. Notice that they are wider in the middle part and more pointy
at the end of each leaf. Afterwards, repeat it one more time on the bottom
right side and add more leaves on this part of the stem and the
stem branch as well. When drawing the leaves, try to keep the leaves on the stem smaller
than the rose head. We can keep the focus
on the flower itself, basically the head of the rose, and the leaves on the
stem are not stealing the attention from the rose
petals and the rose head, which are always so lovely. Now we have a bunch of
nice leaves on the stem. When you are happy with the shape and the
placement of the leaves, add a half ellipse
under the rows head. This will be the green part where the rose is growing from, the rose bud which is already
open under this rose head. Remember that you can always adjust the rough
sketch very easily. For example, after
sketching the whole rose and seeing the composition, I think that the middle of the rose on the top
of the ellipse, which you can see can be a
little bit smaller and cuter, and that's why we can adjust this smaller ellipse almost to a circle on top
of this rose head.
5. Clean Sketch: Now let's refine the sketch
on top of our rough sketch, and we will do this
on a separate layer. I will create another layer
by clicking on the plus sign. I will also reduce the
opacity of the rough sketch. Now for this cleaner sketch, I will take a different brush. From brushes which comes with procreate you can, for example, use the shale brush
which you can originally find in
calligraphy folder. [MUSIC] I will be using this pencil brush
for the cleaner lines. Then adjust the brush to 5%. I will sketch on a new layer, which will be on top
of the other layers. Then I can define
some of the petals of the rose using
elongated C shapes. Start drawing the
petals from the middle, which we already marked, and continue drawing the petals of the flower head
towards the edge of the ellipse that we
marked so we can easily plan the size
of the flower head. Remember creating bigger
and bigger shapes for the petals towards the edge. Smaller petals in the middle
of the flower head and bigger petals on the
outside of the flower head. I can also draw
some of the petals outside of my base
silhouette because it's interesting to have different silhouette and to
break off the round shape. Also, try not to draw
perfectly smooth lines, and you can create
little bit of wavy or bubbly shape
because the petals in real life over the
rose are sometimes banned on the edges when
the flower is open. [MUSIC] When you are happy with the shape and the
placement of the petals, add a half ellipse
under the rose head. This will be the green part where the rose is growing from. The rosebud, which is already open under these rose head. Now draw a few curved lines to define the stem
of the rose more. Then you can add few thorns on the stem using
triangles again. [MUSIC] Now let's also
redefine the leaves. We can add a little bit of
this zigzag edge of the leaf, which is quite recognizable
shape for the roses. As before, notice
that I'm keeping the leaves more
round and they're pointy on the top [MUSIC]. When you are happy with
the cleaned-up sketch, let's start adding colors.
6. Base Color: [MUSIC] Now we don't need
the rough sketch anymore, so you can reduce the opacity of the rough sketch by
dragging the slider to the left or you can also hide the layer by clicking on the tick on the right
side of the layer. Then click on the
clean sketch layer. Click on the N on the layer and change the blending
mode to Multiply. [MUSIC] We will start
with the flower head. To add color, create a new layer by
clicking on the plus sign. Touch and hold, and drag the new layer under the
clean sketch layer. [MUSIC] Then select
the third color in the first row, which is this nice pale pink. Afterwards, select
the monoline brush, which comes with Procreate. [MUSIC] Set the brush to 30% and follow the clean sketch that you created to draw a
silhouette of the rose head. [MUSIC] Close the silhouette, and then you can drag and drop
the color into the shape. When you are happy
with your flower head, we can repeat the same
process by adding color to the bottom
part of the flower, which is basically our
stem and the leaves. First, we will create the silhouette with the
leaves on one layer, and then we can add shadows. To continue, go to the Layers menu and
create a new layer. This layer should be under the
pink rose head silhouette. Now, go to the color
palette and choose the second color from the
left in the second row. Then follow the
shape of the stem, flower bud, and the leaves to create the green silhouette. Basically the silhouette
for everything green. Don't worry, you don't have to make it perfectly clean shape. You can always clean it up
after you fill it with color, and see if you like
the thickness of the stem or the branches
for the leaves. [MUSIC] Remember that
you can also rotate the canvas to find a
comfortable angle to draw in. I just want to keep the canvas straight so you guys
don't get dizzy from me rotating the Canvas all the time while
watching this video. [MUSIC] Now when I
outlined everything, I can drag and drop the
color into the shapes. Just make sure that the shape is connected also under
the flower head. [MUSIC] After dropping
the color into the shape, I can see that I can
make some leaves, branches a little
bit more narrow, and so to do that, I think the eraser set it to four percent and delete part
of the silhouette. [MUSIC]
7. Petal Outline: [MUSIC] Now go to the wrench
icon to access settings. In the canvas, you can disable the drawing guide now because
we don't need it anymore. I will also hide
the references and move the rows to the
middle of the canvas. To do that, you can
select the layers by dragging to the
right on each layer. Then using the selection tool, move everything to the
middle of the canvas. Now we will start drawing the outlines for
the petal shape so we can have the petals more defined in our
rose illustration, we'll have more details. Now we will create another layer by clicking on the
plus sign again. The new layer should be above the pink rose
head silhouette. I will also select another brush for this
part of the process. I will use my smooth wash brush from my gouache
set for this part. You can keep the
monoline brush for this part as well so you don't need to use my gouache brush. Now select this second
color in the first row. Set the brush to five
percent and create nice outlines for the petals
on top of the flower shape. We're creating these new
outlines so we can draw on a separate layer easier to add shadows later in the
process. [MUSIC]
8. Shadows: Now I can create another layer which will be for the
shadows for our petals. Click on the plus sign again and we will make sure
that the layer is under the outlines of the petals and above
the base silhouette. From the brushes which
comes with procreate, you can use the shale brush, if you don't have the
gouache brush set. Now take the fourth color in the first row and set the
brush size to eight percent. Make sure that your brush
opacity is set to 100 percent. Then we will add some shadows in the areas between
the flower petals and in the middle of the flower where there is less light
on the flower head. To create the shadows, I'm following the outlines
of the petals as my guide. To grow these shadows, I'm using shapes resembling half ellipsis thicker in the
middle and more narrow on the edges as I'm trying to recreate how the
shadows would look in the real life when
the light is casting the shadows from the
top on the rose head. [MUSIC] Now let's add
some color variety in form of shadows to
the green part as well, which is the stem and the leaves as you
might have guessed.
9. More Shadows: Now to add the shadows, we will create another
layer so it's easier for us to follow and basically color only within
the base silhouette and this time we will
use clipping mask. From the drop-down menu, we can select the
clipping mask and clip this layer to
our silhouette of the stem and in
that way we will be drawing only within the
silhouette of the stem layer. Now select the third
green color from the left on the second row
from the color palette. Then paint on the half of the leaf to create
the color variety. In this case, we are not
creating realistic light, but stylized coloring of the leaves by just
coloring half of them. Some of them will be
lighter and some darker. Add this green tone only
to some of your leaves. Now go back to the color palette and select the fourth color in the second row to paint
the half of the other leaves. [MUSIC] Then go to the color palette and select the fifth green color
in the second row, and paint under the flower head, as well as the lower half
on some of the leaves. [MUSIC] For little bit of variety you can also draw smaller triangle shapes on
some of the smaller leaves. Then also add this
darker green color on the main flower stem in the
middle and on the bottom. Then also add this
darker green color and paint the flower head, as well as the lower half
on some of the leaves and on the main flower stem in the middle and on the bottom. Now, let's add more
shadows to the rose head. Create a new layer
under the outlines of the petals layer and choose the fifth color in
the second row. Now, let's add some shadows to some of the corners
of the petals because there is basically less light getting into
these parts of the flower. [MUSIC] Now let's add more definition
with even darker shadows. To do that, we will this time
stay on the same layer and use the silhouette of our darker shadows
that we just created. To do that, go to
the Layers Panel, Click on the Layer Thumbnail and select Alpha Lock this time. Then go to the color palette and select the sixth color in the first row and the draw
within our existing shadows. Again, just in the corners
of the petal shapes. [MUSIC]
10. Highlights: [MUSIC] We can also add some highlights on
top of the flower. To do that, we can create another layer above
the shadow layer. Now, we don't need the sketch anymore so you can
hide the layer by clicking on the tick on
the right side of the layer. Click on the plus sign
and this layer is still below the outline
layer just to keep the clean a look of this
illustration because we spend quite some time
already to create this nice and clean outlines. Now we can draw with
the same brush on top of some of the petals
with our lighter color. Now select the first
color in the first row. We will draw a few highlights
on some of the petals. As you probably notice, these are not
realistic highlights, but stylized suggestions
of the highlights that I like to use when
I draw stylized flowers. This became part of my
style when drawing flowers. You can experiment with
different shapes on how to create stylized highlights
and also shadows, of course, on the flowers to
find your own unique style. For example, you can use dots instead of
the lines. [MUSIC]
11. Details: Now let's add few stylized
details on the leaves as well. To do that, create
a new layer above the shadow leaf layer and
select the clipping mask again. Take the first color on
the second row and draw a line in the middle
of each leaf with few lines going from the middle on the leaf
towards the edges. Remember that you
can also rotate the Canvas to find a
comfortable angle to draw in. I just want to keep the Canvas straight so you guys
don't get dizzy from me rotating the Canvas all the time while
watching this video. Now let's add some
darker color as well. Take the first color
on the third row, and continue drawing on the same layer on the
few remaining leaves. Repeat the same process few
times on the other leaves. Line in the middle
of the leaf and few shorter lines going from the middle towards the
edges of the leaves. [MUSIC] There you go. We have this super beautiful
rose illustration, and I hope you are happy and super proud about
what you created. I also hope that you'll
share it with others. Don't forget to tag me so I
can find the illustration. Again, thanks for being here, and see you in the next video.
12. How did it go?: [MUSIC] How did it go? I can't wait to see all
your awesome artwork. Please share your drawings
and illustrations, also the work in
progress if you want, in the project section. If you want to expand on the knowledge you'll
learn 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 picture
profile to find them. 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 watching and see you
in the next class.