Fluttery Floral Surface Design Collections in Procreate and Photoshop

1. Welcome to Class: Hello, skill share. Let's illustrate fluttery florals and procreate together. What is prettier than florals? Possibly florals and butterflies combined. It's a classic, romantic and feminine combination, and I really adore drawing this theme. If you do two, this class is for you. In this class, I'm going to be going through my entire process as I put together a mini surface design collection with the theme butterflies and florals. I will be presenting the theme in a way so that you can easily have all the inspiration and knowledge to put together your own illustrations and patterns in this theme as well in your own unique way. First, I will share how I gather ideas and what makes up a great mini collection. I also will be sharing two tutorials on how to draw wildflowers and butterflies so that you have the skills to draw unique butterflies and wildflowers of your. I will move on to show you how I personally illustrate and put together a placement illustration and complimentary patterns using Procreate and Photoshop. Hello, everyone. I'm Christina Hukranz an illustrator and surface designer from Marie Fred Sweden. Welcome to my Cherry Pink Studio in January. This is as bright and light as it gets for right now. I've been working as a full time illustrator since 2010, and I've been working with the licensing agent Pink Light Studio since 2019. I've had the privilege of working with clients such as Hobby Lobby, American Greetings, Joanne, to name a few. And I really love working on this classic theme. I think my portfolio is mainly full of florals, though I like to dabble in other surface design themes, but beautiful, classic, feminine, pretty florals really just feels like. Me. If this is also one of your favorite themes, then I think you're going to really enjoy this class. This class is great for anyone who loves drawing florals and butterflies, has a general grasp of Procreate and Photoshop and would like to learn more about surface design. Following along this class and creating a mini collection of your own, you will then have a professional surface design collection to add to your portfolio and to send to potential clients. So let's get started. 2. Supplies and Class Project: To follow along exactly in this class and use the same things as me, you will be using the iPad with the Apple Pencil and the program Procreates. I also finish all my patterns and collections in Photoshop. I'm sure that you can also adapt this process to another program if you prefer. You are free to use whichever digital brushes that you prefer and use your unique style. If you need any help with that, I have several other classes about surfat design, digital brushes and working in Procreate. So check those out. The class project will be to create your own unique mini collection. You can, of course, use my collection as inspiration, but I highly ask of you to create your own unique collection because I might possibly be selling or licensing my work, and you would be copyright infringing on my work if you copy my work and try to sell it as well. So just to be safe, it's always great practice to create unique artwork for your skill share classes and always find ways to make your work uniquely yours. 3. Intro to Fluttery Florals: Alright, before we get started on actually drawing, I just want to share with you some inspiration. So let's jump into Pinterest to get tons of inspiration. And then I'm also going to show you some examples from my portfolio so you can get an idea of how versatile this theme actually is. Right. So here, I'm going to be in this little corner here just to keep it company. But let's take a look at my portfolio, and I noticed that I haven't done any mini collections for this theme, and I've done mainly larger collections. But that's mainly because I usually like to work in larger collections of six. I just feels like my my happy what's it called? Happy medium, my whatever. That's what I like to do. And there's so many variations of this theme, even though you think it's romantic, feminine florals with butterflies, that can be done in several different ways, and I have done a few. So here's something. This collection is a little bit more like vintage botanical. That's what my inspiration was, at least. And the way that I like to personally set up my collections is to have placements and patterns. I think having only patterns in a collection becomes very limiting is not as versatile. If you start putting placements into collections, you can open up the world to your work to a world of different clients that aren't just fabric companies. Then you can work with so many other industries from greeting cards to stationary companies or kids wear or, you know the so many industries. The list goes on. So, so this is one, and I like to have some illustrations are just with no text. So maybe include a little bit of text. You can also here's an example how I've done feminine florals. This one doesn't have any butterflies, but I could easily have included butterflies in this as well and done, like, a happy birthday flutter. Oh, my God. And done a happy birthday fluttery floral collection, that's difficult to say. That's something you keep in mind. You could do happy Mother's Day with butterflies and florals or you could do maybe even Easter. Maybe if you did butterflies and florals and maybe a few eggs or something. But yeah, you can think about creating a theme. That's especially great to have placements if you're going to be using something like that for happy birthday, for happy birthday cards, for gift bags, and not just include patterns. In this specific collection, I had four placements because I was thinking about cards and gift bags more than gift wrap. All right. So in a mini collection, I think my standard would be one placement and two patterns. At least, but you could do three placements. You could do three patterns sometimes, you don't always have to do the same thing. It just depends on the theme that you're working on, what kind of ideas you have, what you feel like doing. Sometimes you don't feel like doing an illustration, and then just do patterns. But I just feel like it really rounds off the collection, makes it so much more versatile if you just include placements and patterns. And then different kinds of patterns, some that are complex. Like this one is pretty full on and then another pattern that's slightly simpler, but please do not include poka dots or stripes. Do something a little bit more developed. That's my tips. Moving on to this one. This one's called flutter Birthday. Yeah, this one did include butterflies and florals. Again, I did three placements and I did happy birthday text or It's your Day, then I did three patterns. And I also want to mention that coordinate patterns don't have to be full on matchy matchy to your theme. They can just be matching to your color palette. I think that's a really modern take. So if you're doing florals and butterflies, every single pattern doesn't have to have florals and butterflies. You can do some pattern mixing, which is really fun. So that's what I did in this collection, too, kind of, you could say random patterns, but I try to bring them up somewhere. Like, this pattern in the tablecloth, in this illustration, kind of has the same vibe as this pattern. So that's something to consider as well. You don't have to create coordinates that are so matchy. So if we take this in an example and create it into a mini collection of three, I would take one of these, happy birthday designs or placement illustrations. You could say this one, and then you'd have a coordinate that's, like, matching to the seam, and then you could do a coordinate that's kind of pattern mixing, that's abstract, I guess. That's an idea. Here's another collection. Again, this one doesn't have butterflies, but it has dragon flies and birds, but I just wanted to give you more examples of how I have created different styles within my style. I still draw in the same way, but I just tweak my collections slightly mainly so that I don't get bored to try different things to see what clients like, see what I like. So this one, I don't know. Was this more sophisticated anthropology. And then the other one was I don't know. What is this? I don't I can't describe. And then here, I went, like, really modern, like, folk art. That was really fun to test out and create really flat images with florals. This one doesn't have butterflies, but I could create a second kind of collection in this style really folk art with, like, mirrored looks and the icon patterns, that'd be really fun. Just include some florals. So it's also a nice idea to reuse your ideas sometimes. Like if you create a collection that feels really successful, how can you use this idea and do something quite similar? Just like, change the theme slightly, change the color palette, but use this as, like, a template for how you create the next collection. I hope that makes sense. Here's another collection full on really like, pinily I kind of used to watercolor brushes. I really love this collection. I think it's beautiful. Yeah, it's hard to see because they're all This is how I used to do my sell sheets with all the images stuck together. It looks so much better with a new sell sheet that everything's by itself. That's like a side note. But yeah, so here's another example of how I've done, like, it's matching. It has, like, I've drawn Everything's quite full on in this collection. I could build this out into a larger collection, added other coordinates that weren't florals or butterflies. Because when you look at this, they all do kind of melt together. There's nothing that's really coordinating in a way that gives you, like, breathing room. So yeah, so this is one placement with five patterns, just to give you an example of another way that I build up a collection, I don't always do the same thing. And last but not least, I have this collection that is called Bloom wildly more like an everyday butterfly and floral collection. Again, I used watercolor esque digital brushes to get that really soft feminine kind of I wanted to get kind of toile vibes with this one and this one. So yeah. Um, that's a look at my work. Now I thought I would just share with you some pintst artwork because Pinterest is the best. So here I have a board called birds and bugs. And there's just so many different ways that you can translate this in, like, it can be colorful and bright, or you can be super romantic with, like, roses and soft pastels and, like, painting watercolor or you can do, like, something kind of folk arty, or you can make it more towards kids or towards more sophisticated for adults or something more whimsical like this. It's just I just adore the possibilities. Um, of color palettes, like going like, dark or light or really pink and purple and really go for the girl thing. Or you could try to also make this something a little bit more, I don't know if UNI six will ever be like florals and butterflies, but you could try if you really make bold shapes and bold colors and not use pink. That would be pretty amazing, I think. There's just so butterflies are so fun to draw because there's so many little details and so many colors. You don't have to make them look realistic. Like this artist has drawn florals into the butterflies. Like, that's another idea that you could run with. Here, I love these ones also. They have florals in them. Your it's just there's so much you can do with this theme. And that's for, like, patterns. And then if you're thinking about placements, something like this would be beautiful. But instead of the birds, you could do butterflies. And think about this would be beautiful for a notebook cover or something like that, like a tin or a beautiful decorative plate or, um, box. You can also do something like a classic still life. This would be great for wall art. Just place some butterflies on those florals. I have my botanical floral class here on Skillshare that you could check out, add some butterflies on top. You can also think about leaving space in your illustration. If you create like what is this? A frame of illustration with lots of florals and butterflies and leave the center empty that could be used for text. Like, for my notebook example, sometimes a notebook will write notebook or journal or diary or 2025, if it's a planner, or even a company could buy and create a thank you card or they can brand it however they want. So that's another option for placement to think about creating a beautiful border design with a text empty in the middle, like a space for text or still life or just like a beautiful image that takes up the entire space. Well, yeah, color palette, just like, go for what you enjoy, what's calling out to you if you like, the bright colors, or do you want to do something a little bit more subdued, or do you want to try to do something folk art, or do you want to try to do something? Try to make it this theme a little bit more I don't want to say masculine. Make it a little bit more not as girly. Mm. Now, you could try out darker colors, not include pink. I mean, pink is best. I have a very difficult time not including the color. Also think about I don't know. I'm just getting lost in so many other artists' amazing work. Remember, look at inspiration to get initial ideas and get excited about your work, but then close out Pinterest when you're designing so that you don't accidentally subconsciously or on purpose, copy somebody else's work. It's really important to come up with your own designs, but it's okay to jump off of somebody else's design and take it somewhere else. Yeah. Alright. Here's another great example of a placement illustration. You could do one beautiful butterfly surrounded with florals kind maybe like mirrored. So it's really beautiful, and that would be a great design to have in your portfolio. Here's another example, like a beautiful butterfly. Looks really decorative. And I feel like that kind of design is easy to put on lots of different items. It could be on, like, a little kids t shirt, and then you would have a coordinate pattern that would be cute on like a pair of leggings, you know? I think that's a really easy example of how to figure out how to pattern mix and create a collection, and then you'd have that other coordinate that maybe is a pattern, maybe something graphic and that would be a border on the T shirt or something else that goes in the collection. Feel free to use lettering in your work if you're good at lettering. Lettering is still very popular in artwork. Yeah, I hope that you've gained lots of inspiration and you have some ideas for how you want to take your pattern collection. And, I mean, you can create several mini collections in different styles still using the butterfly theme here, you can just see how many different variations there are. It's amazing. Alright. That's enough for me. I'm getting too excited. I can't wait to get started on my collection. In the next section, we'll see where that takes us. 4. Project: Ideation: All right. Now that we've gained lots of inspiration, we have some ideas for what we want our collections to look like, it's time to get started on the class project of designing a mini collection together. So in the following videos, you'll follow along in my full process as I do my ideation, sketches, full color artwork, and then finish everything in Photoshop, create patterns and the final collection. Let's get started. This is so exciting. Alright, welcome to Procreate. I just pulled up a screen size Canvas because I'm just going to do some sketches, and it does not matter what size you're using. This is just for your own reference to get your ideas down on digital paper. So I do this for all of my collections because I like having, like, seeing what they're gonna look like and see if it's going to work. So let me just choose a color to sketch with. I'll use this, like, dark teal and then I'll just use here the 60 pencil from Procreate to make some sketches and I'm going to do a collection of whoops. Gosh. A mini collection of three. I'm going to do one placement, one full on coordinate, and then a coordinate that is not matching or pattern mixing like we talked about. Sometimes I like to start on the color palette first to kind of visualize, but I haven't really figured out what kind of color palette I want. So I'm going to go into sketching out how I want my designs. And I think for the my vision for the placement illustration, I don't want to do any text. I just wanted to be a full on just beautiful illustration. And I want it to kind of, like, fit into an oval on the page. I think that would be really beautiful. And I want to do different, I think, more like wildflower kind of flowers. I haven't I still, like I just got started, and I haven't, like, like I said, I haven't completely visualized it, but some kind of, like, I don't know. Are poppies wildflowers? So that kind of, like, a poppy, like, two of those. One big and one small. And then we have to have, like, branches of different vines and, like, smaller florals and then other little details that go off out, not there, maybe, but so that the oval has a nice shape. And then because it's florals and butterflies, I really want to maybe just have one main butterfly or maybe one in, like, a smaller one. So we'll have, like, the butterfly in the center here, but not super in the center, I'm going to do quite organic with that kind of look. Um Yeah. Okay. And then I don't know, maybe another butterfly to the side down there just to add in more and then I'll have to add in other little not butterflies, floral elements. But this is just my sketch and then I'll start to look at other items. That's my idea so far. Then I go into do the final sketches of each image, then I refine this. The next one, I want to have a pattern, and I like the idea of it being like a field of a certain flower. And this one I wanted to have quite a lot of petals like this. So the background's going to be this one specific floral. And, again, I need to figure out the color palette on that, so this is going to really show up, and then they're gonna overlap. Mm hmm. I'm not sure what kind of, like, subtle do they have like subtle leaves, maybe. So it's like almost the same color as the background, maybe. I'm not sure. And then on top of that, I want to include some different butterflies. Maybe in the in between parts, so they really stick out. With that Seems beautiful to me. And then the final one. I have it in my head that I want to do a Harlequin print, but is that, too, just feels really random? How do we get this to make sense? I can do the harlequin. I could include a little detail in some of them. That could be really pretty different multicolor, and then just a white butterfly. Maybe that would pull it together. Wow, my diamonds are really getting worse and worse. There's that. Now that I have my ideas down for this mini collection. Then let's bring in some color palette ideas. Use a studio pen. Here in my Procreate here this is like a Christmas collection. But it has quite a few beautiful colors that I've been enjoying using, even though it's Christmas, we can always add to it. I like the idea of not making this, like, full on pink everything. So let's see. I like doing background colors. So if we do a beautiful, bright yellow for the main illustration, it could be interesting. And then maybe like a cream for this pattern. And then it would be all the diamonds would be the different colors that I'm using throughout the piece. And I think nice, like a turquoise. This one's very bright. I think I'd want to make it a little bit more sophisticated. Yeah, something like that. I think that looks really good to me. Okay, and then we can start to add on top of that some sketches of other colors. So let me just we can start a color palette, as well. So here we have the yellow, and then we have the turquoise, and then we have the cream. And the turquoise, I'd like to have, like, a darker version that could be good for the petals or the leaves. Do I want to Yeah, and then the yellow, I could have a darker yellow, that could also be leaves. I could Joy. Yeah, using even more like darker gold that could be good to use. I think it's always great to have a few variations of the same color, so it feels very put together. It feels like one color, even if you're using a lighter or darker version of that. So I'm going to also take another darker teali color as well. We need to bring in some other colors, like, kind of like the idea of bringing in this blue. So, like, a turquoise and a blue, maybe. And then I want some pink. So pink tones, and I quite like this more cory kind of pink. I think that would look really beautiful with those blues and that turquoise. I want to use purple, but purple is so difficult to capture in digital artwork or in print. So I'm going to skip that and just use that periwinkle blue. That could be my purple. Yeah. So that's my main idea for colors. Let's see. I like this pattern, wait. Whoops. Go back down here. This pattern maybe would be with the pink petals on that could be really beautiful. And then the butterflies would be a lighter, the light beige and then have small details that could be in the dark gold, little speckles or maybe that dark teal or the blue, just to give a different color or bring in some of the yellow just to something like that. And the teal, for the leaves, the stems and stuff. So that kind of is starting to come together in my mind. I'm really trying to work with contrast in my work. It's really important to see all the elements, so it doesn't just melt together, not use too many colors. I think a subtle, not a subtle. A small color palette really makes your work look more sophisticated and put together. If we go to the other the yellow illustration. I'm not sure. Like, again. If we do the flowers in this beautiful blue, I think that looks so nice with the yellow. And then, again, the butterfly can be the light color and then just do the details in other colors maybe has, like, a little pink in it this time or something like that. And then also, the pink can be in some of these floral elements or the darker blue. We can bring that into the florals. Oh, that looks so pretty. And then for the leaves, like, the stems, maybe we'll use the golden color to not bring in that teal at all into this piece or just a little bit, maybe. I'm not sure if it needs the teal, maybe in a few. Just a few, just to tie that whole thing together. Um, yeah, and then here was another butterfly that would be in white, too. So that would stand out. So that looks really pretty to me. So by, I hope that I can make it look as beautiful in the final piece. And then my final, like, kind of, kind of random. But just, like, just something that breaks how freely this is, I want something more structured. So then, yeah, I would go in with my different colors, and it would be like this. I think this is where the little color palette would look really pretty. Maybe it would be the dark room. Darker teal looks better. That? Something like that. And then maybe it would be this cream would have to be even lighter to show up on the a few random pieces. So that's my main idea for my collection. Yeah. Pretty exciting. What I usually then do is save this as an image. So I'm going to share, just take a JPEG and I save it to my iPad. I'm also going to copy this color palette. And then I go into my gallery and I choose a new document. This is the one that I usually use. I use the RGB. I do Let's do a new one 'cause I'm a teacher and I have to teach you this. Okay, so inches, I like doing 11 by 14. 300 DPI, I will get 71 layers on my specific because I have the iPad Pro. The color profile, I usually choose the RGB because I have not found that the CMYK works very well. When sometimes when I bring the CMYK document to Photoshop, it's compromised. I always choose RGB and I convert it later. That's all you need to know. Create. So then I have my document. This is what I create all my swatches for my patterns on, and for my placement illustrations, 11 by 14 " is a nice size. Like, it's a generous size. Most items are probably going to be printed smaller, like notebooks are smaller, or greeting cards are definitely smaller. And if it's ever anything like wall art that needs to be bigger, there are printing techniques that can blow up your artworks to a slightly larger size without compromising the quality so that's what I do. And then I will paste in, you go add paste. So there's your little color palette, and then I will also insert a photo and I insert my collection so that I have that as a reference when I start my final piece, I might even go in and choose the background color so I know, wait, let's not do that yet. I'm going to go out of this and then duplicate it three times. I have the three documents. Now they have all the color palette and the reference image. Then I go in now, I will choose the background color. You always have to click it once again to highlight the color and then go to background colors so that it shows up here. That's the first one. We have a yellow one. This just helps me to get excited to get started on my collection. So there's the turquoise. Like you thought, done. And you can kind of start to visualize how the collection looks together, having, like, some that are darker, some that are lighter, some that are more detailed, and some that are more airy. Like, to create a successful collection, it takes a lot of, like, it's a lot of things to think about. But it's fun. It's kind of like a puzzle. And then there's no one formula that makes a collection really successful. It's really up to the viewer, if a client has different preferences, you have different preferences, you just have to design for yourself, but with clients in mind and hope for the best. So yeah, that is the start of my mini collection, and how I usually go about creating my sketches and go through my ideas, test different color palettes. I didn't test anything different with you guys, but I mean, that's something you could do several versions like just duplicate your sketch and test out other color options. I'm just going to go for it with this and think it through later. Also, when I could also, like, with these flowers, I haven't really decided officially what it is. I don't want to look at somebody else's artwork at this stage, really. So if I were to go and gather inspiration, I would look at photographs instead. So to do that, I would maybe look at, let's see, wild flowers. Because I look at art all day, Pints gives me art to look at. So it's inevitable that I would see something. But I would look at actual flowers to get some inspiration for different flower shapes and color combinations. Like, this is a beautiful image for those background flowers, those little small extra ones, like, just like a twig with some purple blobs on it. I mean, that would be interesting. I was also thinking of poppies, And I decided poppies. Oh, okay. Maybe poppies maybe I'm thinking of a different flower. Well, they do look like that. Kind of. Um, yeah, so poppies. And then it doesn't matter that maybe my color, that light blue color doesn't isn't found in nature. Like, this is why being an artist is so much fun. That's how I would while when I do the final artwork, I will reference photographs of flowers. All right. So that's how I set up my collection. In the next sections, we're going to get started on the final artwork. 5. How to Draw Wildflowers: Alright, welcome back to Procreate. And before I show you my process, I want to, of course, teach you something in this class about drawing. So I want to share with you how to draw some wild flowers. And in the previous section, I talked about poppies, but since those 5 seconds have gone past, I have realized that the flower that I was actually thinking about was anemones, and they're very similar looking flower, but we'll go with that instead. So I'm just going to find a good example, and I think this photograph is very clear what the flower looks like. So I'm going to show you how I would go about tackling drawing this kind of flower. So I just brought up a sketching pencil. This is from the Lisa Glance Instant Artist pack. I really like her brushes, so I'm going to use that, but you can use any pencil brush. And again, I just like another dark color to draw. The center of the flower is pretty much a circle. And then I out from the circle, there are these little things, and then you can do little dots on top, which is just easy, so we'll sketch that out. And then the petals are pretty standard petal form. I'm not I don't know. When I don't look at one specific flower, I'm just kind of looking at lots of the flowers seems to be like four in the center, and then you combine it like that. So to me, that looks really good, a standard anome. You can add to your flower to make the petals look a little bit more interesting. You can give them as if they fold a little bit. So this one and this one maybe folded up a little bit, and then the ones on the bottom could just show that it's kind of like show a different angle. We can also consider this photograph doesn't have one of those. Let me find another example, more to the side. So here is more of an example if you're going to do another variation with the flower a little bit more closed. So here we'll have the the center, and then we're going to create petals that overlap that piece, so we don't see that. And then we'll have the petals on the other side that are a little bit more open clip that doesn't look good. Like that. And then maybe a little bit like this, so it's a little open like that. And again, you can create the petals. So they look like there's a little shading there. And then this part would only show that middle piece. Let's see if we can find what do the buds look like? Those look like little balls, so that's cute. So just a little bud and then you just do something like that. So these flowers are really simple in my mind. To also make the flower your own, I like in this photograph, you can see that the petals kind of go in the center. There's a little dip. So that's something you could add to your flowers. You could add that little feature, which is really pretty. Could put all of them or just a few. You could also make because you don't have since you're an artist, you can make stuff up. The petals instead, you can make jacket the whole thing to give them some interest like that. Now I'm going to talk about some coloring features that we can do with these flowers. I'm just going to reduce them so that the sketch isn't as prominent. Let's bring back our first flowers here. Let's see. On a new layer with a more sick not thick brush. What was it? Like, more What's this look like? So I would do petals. The ones that are going to be the same color, I would do as one layer. And then I also need to change the color because now I'm confusing myself. So we'll do a light pink here, and then Oh, my gosh. We'll do a light pink there. And then I'll take another layer underneath. I will take the darker pink, and that's where we'll do these, like, shadowed petals. Fill that in. Okay, and then once we have that, I'm also going to put my sketch on top so we can see what we're doing here. And then I'm going to add my little center circle. What color could we do that? We'll do this, like, golden color. And then underneath that, we'll do the little lines. So we'll choose another color. Let's do this, like, darker brown. Just do random little some thick and thin, longer, shorter, going in different directions, so it makes it look really natural there. And then maybe on top of that, we can do a different color. So let's make it a really bright yellow. That doesn't really show up against the light pink. So what color could we do instead? We could do this teal. I kind of like how this brush has different shapes. It's not like a perfect circle. I like that it looks a little bit more organic, natural. You could do a second color to give it more depth. And then we, of course, need to add some texture to all of this so we can do clipping masks on top, and I'll use that color but a little bit darker and choose a let's go to Lisa's texture brushes. A classic brush that I used for years was the pressure cooker one. I really like that one. So that's a good one for whoops. For texture there, we could on the petals, here you do another clipping mask. I'm gonna turn off the sketch cause we don't need that right now. I also like tea towel. So for the pink one, we can do a darker version of that. Just to give some texture there. In the other petal, clipping mask, we can also use a pencil type of brush. Like, here's Lisa's pencil, and within, am I enclipping mask yeah. You could give it details like that to give 'cause sometimes petals have kind of like stripes in them. So that looks nice. You can if it becomes too intense, you can adjust the opacities, so it becomes a little bit more subtle. For that flour, if we want, we could also do a little texture as well, so we can use that tea towel one. Give a nice subtle texture there. I like the the petals had the shading, so we can do that as well. We can take this darker pink and then make it a little darker version. And we have to go Woops. We can use butterknife, I guess, or we can go find that other one that we did before. And create the shading there, so it gives it more of a three D look. And then on the bottom, petals as well. So we need another clipping mask on the bottom one. I think that works with this. Like that. So that is how I would create a textured, but still quite flat and simple anom. There's so many different variations of textures. If we just look at Lisa's here in her texture brushes, there's I need to get a new layer, of course. Loot textures like this. Or your smoky shader. Just like. And then I love her brushes, 'cause they usually build up really nicely. So if you press lightly, they're one shade, and then if you start pressing darker, you can do another. So you could really make beautiful petals like this. With this kind of shader just depends on the look you're going for. So that one's really beautiful. Mm yeah. Light greater. Yeah, here's more another one that's kind of like a half tone kind of thing. Light dusting. Yeah, so, like, simple like this. Soft dough. Yeah, again, same thing. Like, if you use it softly, you can get soft, and then you can get it darker. I have a whole class called Get to know your digital brushes, where I go over so many different kinds of brushes if you need help with that. But that's just like a little run through. So this is some way that you can really make your work your own by picking out specific brushes that you like to work with. Just by looking at my Procreate here, I've purchased way too many, and it gets confusing, but I create different sets of brushes. I go through all the brushes that I have and create groupings of brushes that I really enjoy using. And they're just you just have to play with them and get different ideas. So if you make petals that have more of, like, a stripy look to them, like, this could be something that you could use on top of a I think this is a procreate brush. It's called Ti lacing. There's just so many. It's just completely up to you. I've also really liked using brushes that kind of have this, like, little dots, too. I can give your work a little bit of grungy look. So, I mean, yeah, this is the part that you can really make your work unique and have fun. Impropriate, this is the part that's just, like, insanely fun. So I hope that that was helpful. We can, I'll just group all of these colors do group, so we can close that and get back to our sketch. And I want to just go over a few more like the fillers, wildflowers. If I just delete anemones, can go back. And there's so many different wild flowers that we can take inspiration from. But I was trying to think of we saw this image before in the previous lesson. And I really like I need a sketch. It's a six B pencil. I like the idea of having, like, fillers in the background that could just be a twig, and then it's hard to see, really what is even going on, but that's kind of interesting that you can just do a stick and then put some blobs of color, and that reads as some kind of wildflower. You can do other stems that may be a little bit thicker, and you can do kind of, like, a bud that hasn't quite opened up yet and some petal sticking out on the top. Or the other like the closed anom it was kind of like a little circle. But if you give it some definition or maybe not like a perfect circle, that would work. There's lots of little shapes here. If we look in this image, there's some that kind of look like a little tear drop. That would be pretty. And then, of course, other flowers that we could do. I love that kind of the traditional Is this a daisy something like that? Okay. When you can start to just kind of make up flowers as well, just with different petals. Make them messy. If they're just gonna be filler flowers, they can kind of be whatever you want, if you give most of your attention to the other kinds of flowers. Yeah. That's my little tutorial on how to draw wildflowers. 6. How to Draw Butterflies: Alright, now that we've learned how to draw some wild flowers, especially the anime or poppy type of flower, I want to share with you some ideas of how to draw butterflies. Butterflies are so fun to draw because there are so many variations. I mean, flowers, that's the same thing. That's why they're so popular to draw because there's so many different shapes and colors and textures that you can do. And it's the same thing with butterflies. When I write butterflies in Pinterest, we get up a mixture of illustrated ones and photographs, and it's right that we can look at both to get inspiration for shapes and sizes. But just start off with, I want to choose actual photos of butterflies because we want to be inspired by nature. So bring up an image like this. Again, remember, unless you're you really like depicting specific wild butterflies and flowers, you can make up stuff. You can take inspiration and then do whatever you want. So here I brought up another just this pencil sketch, and the center of butterflies are usually like a head, and then there's some kind of body, and it can be quite slender. Sometimes there's different shapes. It's like a little bit thicker. So it depends on what kind of butterfly look you like or sometimes it's a little bit more shapely. So it depends. Um, here, let me move those around so I can make three different ones. There we go. So butterfly wings also have so many different beautiful shapes, and there's so many that I like. I don't know. Which one do I even choose? I really like this kind of shape. If you really want to make them mirrored, you can highlight select using the Select tool. Before you press anything, you go down here and this means copy. And then you can press the arrow tool, and then you can flip it horizontally, and then you have a perfect match. That's handy if you want your butterflies to be really precise. I usually am not that fussed, and I like to kind of have the wonkiness of drawing something. But if you are, per se, doing like a mirrored kind of illustration, you can, of course, use the mirror tool or you can just mirror your illustration yourself manually like that. All right. Let's think of some other shapes. Like there's some that are a little bit more pointy. And then yeah, there's like with different shapes down here. So that's interesting. For this last one, now I don't have any room for this. Draw too big. We can do more, like rounded. And then you can kind of, like, make up as you go. They also have the beautiful antenna. Some of them are quite small. You could do really small. You can make them really, like, exaggerated. And then it's a matter of deciding how you want to decorate your wild your butterflies. And this is the fun part where we can take inspiration from nature because they're pretty amazing. There's so many different kinds of, like, there's circles and lines and little, like, dots. And some of them have an edge that's a different color and, like, little almost I don't know what do we call that like a scallop print. You can just do lots of different texture brushes. I really like a mix of everything. And then, like we saw in when we're gathering inspiration, there's so many artists that decorate their butterflies with flowers and things. So instead of doing something that looks kind of natural, you can create some kind of flower. Like, here's a flower with petals, and you could do dots and circles or, like, stars, and you can really just decorate however you want to, which, again, really fun because you're an artist. You do what you want. Mm, yeah. And here we could do different, like, more modern florals. I really like that because it's fun. I don't know. It's difficult to know. I also want to mention, it's really fun to draw butterflies like this really flat. It makes your image a lot less dynamic, so we can also think about drawing butterflies in different angles. Here's some nice illustrations. So again, you have the butterfly shape, and then you do the wing, however you would like, and then you have a second wing, you show that part, and then this would usually be a little bit darker or lighter just to give the contrast, and then you can have your antenna like that. So that's really pretty. If you continue to look at different photos of butterflies, you can find different shapes so that you do create them with different That was very sketchy, sorry. To give them different so they just look dynamic. That's the kind of words that I'm trying to find. Just want them to look a little bit more dynamic. These are amazing. Look at those, like, abstract shapes in there. It's just again, oh, I love these, these look very almost like a child drew them. That's really fun. If we're going to go back and think about coloring these, I'm going to reduce the opacity, and then I'll put a layer underneath, and again, choose a brush. We can use the same one that we did before. Or now, I'll use another one. One of my favorites is the dry ink from Procreate. If you've taken any of my classes, that's usually what I'm using. And we'll go for a yellow butterfly. And then, again, I like to draw the main shapes in different layers. Here I'll make the bottom layer darker to give that some variation. And then on top, I will do the body. Let's do that one brown. It really dark brown. I like to keep the body quite ****. Simple. I'm going to make the antenna a little bit. Longer. I thought it looked too fat, so I'm going to make them a little bit skinnier. Yeah, I like that better. Okay. Then we go in and add clipping masks. So to this one, maybe for the body, I would just give it a little bit of definition. Let me turn off the sketch. Maybe you could do some like, fuzzy lines, like, it's kind of hairy, or you could do poka dots or, like, proper stripes. You could give them a little happy face, depending on the style of your artwork. That's not very defined, but, I mean, you could give them a little eyes and a mouse if you're doing something kind of cute. That's pretty ridiculous. Then we can go in again to the other petals and first give them a little bit of texture like we did before, choose a darker version if you'd like, or different color. And then we need to find a good brush. So I really like that tea towel one. That was nice. And again, I like not having it perfect on both sides, that it's exactly perfect. So then it does give it a little bit more life. And then on top of that, we can start adding, with a pencil, I can go in with different colors, and I can create designs. We're different. Maybe we'll give, like, sometimes butterflies have those, like, big, almost, like, Is on them. Maybe I'll do that. Or I could do that here. It's like an eye in different colors. Something like that. And what else? Just try different things. Here we'll go down and do the other ones or clipping mask on the bottom petals. Are they called petals, butterfly wings? They're called wings. Oh. So give those a little bit darker the texture. We can do the same one or you can try different. Here powder. I remember liking that one, too. Since it's the bottom one, they can get a little bit more textures, so it looks like even more shadow, and then add a clipping mask on top of that, and then yeah, add more designs quite like the circle. Akin that one pink. So like that. And again, just so many different designs you can test out. If you want to go something like this that was kind of close to the reality of a butterfly or not. But it's still quite abstract or we could go the route where we're making flower designs or something. So this is the part where you can have even more fun, even more fun than we had with with the wildflowers. With butterflies, you can seriously, as you can see from the inspiration that we can gather here, there's just so many different ways of designing, different colors, so fun. I love that one with just, like, bunch of poker dots in it and stripes and this is really fun. Hmm. And this is beautiful. Thinking decorative, the whole thing. So pretty. So I really hope that you enjoy creating lots of beautiful butterfly designs. Remember to gather inspiration from other artists and from real butterflies and kind of mash it all together in your brain and draw something that becomes uniquely yours. 7. Project: Placement Illustration Process: Alright, friends, it's time to get started on my placement illustration. I'm going to leave this as a time lap so you can follow along my process, but I'm not going to take you step by step. I hope you enjoy. Oh Alright, so that's my final illustration. I hope you enjoyed the process. I think I think I like it. I could tweak maybe this butterfly a little bit more. Maybe it's not enough contrast, but sometimes when I zoom in, it looks nice and then zoom out. I don't know if it kind of melts too much into the flowers. I could play a little bit more with that. But for the most part, I think that I'm really happy with how this turned out. I especially love the yellow background with the darker yellow leaves and the pink and the blue flowers. I think maybe just my butterfly is not sticking out as well as I would have liked. So yeah. But overall, I feel pretty happy with this. Yeah, I love the color palette and I enjoy that the butterflies look, kind of playful, whimsical, but not being too overly crazy. I don't know. It's hard to do things on camera, too. I want to sit here and think about this for a long time, but I just kind of have to get through it. But let's see if I tweak those butterfly wings at the end. But this is it so far. Thanks so much for watching. Let's jump into the next section where we're going to do the butterfly pattern. 8. Project: Main Pattern Process: Alright, my friends, now it is time to get started on my pattern. And I use the same canvas 11 by 14, and I create all of my motifs on this. And then later on, I will bring this into Photoshop to make the actual pattern. I still don't like that Procreate doesn't have a pattern feature. It cuts off the edges, so it's not a professional pattern that you can move around that if you send to the company, if they move the items around, it's going to be cut off on the edges. So Photoshop doesn't do that. That's why I use Photoshop. But of course, if you're just getting started, creating patterns in procreate is a nice option. But once you start getting serious about creating your artwork, I would highly consider using Photoshop instead. So I'm just gonna get started on this image. And these flowers, I don't have, like, a real flower in mind. I'm just going to make these up. So I hope you enjoy watching my process again of how I bring this pattern for life. Okay, that's the final sheet with motifs. And as you can see, it's not a pattern yet, but I'm going to upload this in layers up to Photoshop where I will rearrange it. But before that in the next section, I'm going to just work on the blender pattern, the other abstract coordinate, we can call it. Okay. Bye. 9. Project: Coordinate Pattern Process: Alright, now we're working on the final section. I'm going to try to do a harlequin kind of diamond pattern with some simple butterflies in the center. And again, you can watch my process creating the small motifs. This shouldn't take very long. And again, I will finish the pattern in Photoshop. No. All right. Now my motifs for my simple coordinate are finished. And again, I'm going to upload this to Photoshop to finish. So I'll make sense what I did here and why, but I just wanted to make motifs that will hopefully repeat very nicely. In the next section, you can follow along as I upload all of these designs into Photoshop and create my final collection. 10. Project: Final Collection: All right. So we're in Photoshop now, and I have uploaded my images from Procreate in layered PSD files. You can see over here in the Layers panel that all the layers that I created while making my artwork is here. So we're just going to clean up the file a little bit. And if you need help with this process even more, I have a whole class called File Organization. File setup and organization, I think it's called. Where I go over this full process and how I organize my files and create cell sheets and all that because I'm just going to scheme over this part. I'm going to take away, here's my color palette. I delete that, here's my sketch layer, so I delete that. That doesn't need to be in the file. I go down and also I'm going to delete my sketch. Initial sketch. Then we just have the artwork. I'm going to highlight all of that, copy it, and I'm going to pull it into my sale sheet. This is a sale sheet that I use with my agent, so that's why it has their logo. It's my logo, their logo. Room in the middle for the artwork here, I'm just going to place it in. And then you can also see that this document, I have created it in CMYK. My artwork was in RGB and then it converts to CMYK in this instance because I have chosen colors. If you've taken previous classes from me, my color understand color and procreate, I create color palettes that are CMYK friendly. I mean, I'm just telling you all the different classes I have, but I have 30 classes here on Skillshare that I know will be helpful for you. Okay, so that's another class I'll link all of the classes. Alright, so then I'm going to group this. So that's a group, and I call it artwork in layers. So if I sell this artwork to a company, they have all the artwork and layers. If they need to change a little color somewhere, they can do that themselves, but for the most part, they would contact you if they want to make changes to artwork because it's your artwork. Okay, so I placed that there nicely in the middle. Why didn't it do this Artwork in layers. And then I'm going to change the SKU, a number that we use to and identify, again, that file organization. Class would be great if you need help to figure out how to keep track of all of your designs and deals and things like that. I'm going to call this collection flutter, I know. Very creative. And then I closed this so that my PSD file looks really clean. I'm gonna get rid of those lines that helped just guide me. And that's my final artwork. You can see that I did end up changing the butterfly to the pink on the bottom. I thought that that melted in better into the image. Still unsure, but I'm just gonna go with this. I take a screenshot for my records. Okay. And that's the first one done. I also take the artwork, copy that, and I bring it into a second like a collection cell sheet. So I'm going to paste that in. I usually press Command E to flatten the whole image because you don't need the layers in this one, and I'm just going to put it in here. I'm sure there's a way of making it exactly, but I mean, I'm not a photo shop genius. I'm going to change the SKUs of this collection. I can't believe I'm almost up to thousand. Flutter. There we go. So that's the first one. That's really quick. But that's how I will present this to my agent who then presents to clients. And this is what I did before having an agent. I also created sell sheets and collections like this and had SKUs for my artwork. Now we're going to move on to the pattern. I, of course, usually save all of this, as well. Let me do that just because I'm going to freak out that something's going to happen. This one I don't need to save because we're done with it, so don't save. I already have the original in my files. This one I will save. Mm. In here. I also save it as a smaller JPEG so that it's easy to send in emails. There we go. Okay, so moving on to the next one, we have this pattern. So how do we make these motifs into a pattern in Photoshop? I'm going to show you. First up, again, like I did in the other one, I'm going to clean up the file by removing the color palette, the sketches and other sketches so that we just have my motifs. I'm going to copy all of that and bring that into the cell sheet. I'm going to delete this artwork. And then group that and write original motifs in layers. So that's all available to the company who purchases, if that is important to them that they need things like that. Some companies prefer to create their patterns themselves, so then they can have the motifs themselves and arrange it. Um, sure, they can do that. And right. So now I'm going to I'm just going to let's say, I have two different groups. So let's see. What's this? That's a That was a sketch, too. So I'm going to just hide the flowers for right now so I can work on the butterflies. So I'm going to flatten all the butterflies. Command E. And then I'm going to make them individual motifs. So I'm just going to Lasso and use Command J to put them in a new layer. And I just go and do that on every single one. Right. So then we can double check that I got up everything by doing the original and unchecking it. But now I can delete that, those are all done. I'm just going to hide those while we work on the flowers. So I can bring those up. I can just flatten that group, and I'm going to lasso around these as well. J, Command J. And then the last one. Command J. Alright, same thing. We uncheck this one to make sure I got all of them, and I can delete that. Now I'm going to save this. Save as butterfly pattern. Alright. Because of my file system, it's so nice that I can just give my files generic names. Otherwise, yeah, having to come up with original names for every butterfly pattern you create, would be exhausting. So that's another reason why a naming system is so great. So now I'm going to start with the flowers only, and I'm going to open up view pattern preview. I really like this simple pattern tool. I mean, I wish that it could do half drop patterns because I think they are way better, but this is good enough, and you just have to put your artwork into repeat sometimes so that you can show that you can do it, and a company might redo it later. I mean, I think it's just nice to show it in repeat to show the company what it could look like, and then they can do their own tweaks to it later. Okay. I think I want to for this space, I think I like this one the best, or do I like this one? Maybe the smaller one is better. I don't know. Let's try this one. I'm going to press Option and pull it down to make a duplicate Command T to transform, right click and flip horizontally. So that fits in nicely there. I like that. So that's essentially my pattern with just the flowers. I like that. I'm going to save that Command S. All right. And then now I'm going to bring in all the butterflies, so I'm going to bring those in. And now I can arrange those. I think maybe I drew some of them a little bit too big so I can reduce the size a little bit and I can twist them around and just make sure that they fit in nicely in these, like, empty spaces. The only thing you have to know about using this pattern preview tool is that you have to do all the work inside of this box. Otherwise, it's gonna get wonky. If you have anything outside of it, it can show you real quick. Oh, my gosh. This little fly, like, started to attack me. See, if you start to it will cut off stuff, so that's not good. Alright, so everything has to be in here. I will reduce the size, and I want to change. So this is just, like, the fun part of just moving stuff around until it looks nice. Um, I definitely feel like the butterflies all need to be smaller, like that. Where's this one go? Like up here. Maybe this one's kind of nice there. This one's way too big. Like, like this, maybe. Um, this one, I feel like a little bit too angled. See, sometimes they mess up anyways. I don't know why, so I can't explain. So this Whoops. This tool is kind of wonky still, so I don't really don't really know. Oh, here's another one. That one's also too big. Make that smaller. Where does that one go? Like, on the flower then it melts in too much. Hmm. On this one. Give that a little ankle. Okay. See where that goes down here, maybe. Hmm. Does this look nice? I usually like to duplicate a few like the prominent one. Like, this one is quite big. So if I duplicate it and flip it, then it just feels like it repeats nicer. I can make it even. Let's see. Does that look better? You just have to kind of, like, move stuff around until it feels good to you. Hmm. Do we like this? It looks flattery and pretty. And sometimes it's nice to zoom out and see what it looks like. Hmm. I'm not sure. This is so difficult. I kind of feel like it's empty space here. Maybe I will reuse this one. Again, I'll flip it and see. Yeah. Then I feel like I've used a lot of the space. It feels really full. It's feminine and kind of modern and flat, and I don't know. It's quite cute. I like this. This space kind of feels like, Does that look better? Kind of annoyed how those antenna were overlapping. All right. Is this good? All right. I'm going to call it. I think that this looks good. This is the part where you can go a little bit crazy, but I just like to done is better than perfection for me. Move on to the next. This is good enough. This shows what the essence of this pattern is. It's really pretty. So I'm going to save this and then file to make the pattern swatch easier, you can press edit Define Pattern. Press Okay. Now it's in your panel with patterns, pattern panel. That's so difficult to say. Okay. So then we can take all of these. So now you have all the repeated motifs and in comparison to Procreate, where this is your swatch and everything outside of that would be cut off. But here in Photoshop, you can continue to move things around, even if you open up a new file. That's why I think it's important to use Photoshop instead, if you're going to be sending pattern files to professional clients and not just, like, your own website or if you're doing things for spoonflower, then it's okay to use Procreate. But if you're working with clients, I think Photoshop is a better option. That's just me. Let's see. All right. So we close that because that's just something we need. I'm going to paste in all the motifs. As you can see here, now you can see, here's the swatch, and here it is cut off, but it's not really cut off in the actual final. Um, it's hard to describe. This pattern tool is kind of weird. But if you okay, it's hard to show. It has all the vital information. Plus, I have given the original motifs, so they have that as well. But here you can see, I don't know why sometimes they cut it off and sometimes not. I really don't understand this tool, what's going on there. But anyways, we'll make that into a group and I call this pattern in layers. That's that and I close that as well because that's just for their reference if they need it. Then on this here we go. We have the guide here that I have, and above that, I'm going to go down to this panel and press pattern, and I go and choose from the last one that we created, and then I'm going to scale it down usually somewhere like 67 is good to show off the pattern. Now it's taking over the entire cell sheet, so that's not good. So we need a clipping mask. So in between the layers here, the pattern fill and the guide, you see that finger, little hand with a finger. You press option, you get this clipping mask, symbol, and click it and it goes right in there. Now we can move this around until it looks nice on the page here. You can see the pattern is repeating once, you can see that. I'm just going to change the number to 989. I take a screenshot for my records. I make sure that the file looks nice and clean over here, they have the two groups of the pattern in layers, and they also have the original motifs and layers. Then here's just swatch for their reference, but they can also use that, I assume, then the contact information. That's my second cell sheet done. I'm just going to save this, save as. I change the name and I save the JPEG version. This is my full process, but it goes pretty quickly. Once you get into it, I guess the drawing part, of course, takes the longest. We save that. Then I'm going to take this pattern fill and the guide. I select those, copy it, and then I'm going to bring it into our excel sheet here, paste, and then flatten, com E, transform and put it in. You can see that this one I feel like the teal and the pinks maybe got a little bit duller in the CMYK version, but just slightly. There we go. So that's the second. That's the pattern finished. Pretty cute. Now we're going to work on the final. Here we have my very simple pattern, and here I have my butterflies, and then I have all the different diamonds in pattern. Not in pattern in groups. So I'm going to delete my sketches. And these butterflies, I want to put those on separate layers, so I'm going to lasso those. I could have drawn them on separate layers to make my life easier here in Photoshop, but I didn't remember to do that. Okay. Okay. And then I made my canvas is a little bit too Small. So I need to either make the canvas bigger or I need to make these motifs smaller. I'm let's make the canvas bigger 'cause that just seems easier to me. Okay, I'm going to highlight that color, and I'm going to make W one is this crop tool? Frame tool. Crop tool, right? I'm just going to make it bigger. Make the background same color. Okay, then we can work here. Which one's this? Make sure that autoselect is on group and then that won't make it easier. I'm going to make sure that these fitting nicely together. Now, these ones don't fit, but we can just place them randomly and we can see how that looks. Okay. In order for this to then repeat nicely, I'm going to have to crop the image. So I'm going to bring this down. That's good. Let zoom in. I want about this much space, so I'm going to go like that. And on this side, I'll do the same. And on the top up here, there's a little bit of space, but down there there's a little bit more. I don't know. Would that be good? I just give it a little bit more. Okay, we're going to try this. This is my swatch, and I think it's going to work. We'll see. View pattern preview. So that's repeating that side, and I'm just going to duplicate all of those and put it here and hopefully it will fit. So I'm going to Can I group all of these? Well, I'm sure I can. But maybe I don't want to repeat them. Like, this I'm slightly annoyed. I didn't think that those were gonna be two there. Do I like that? Not really. Hmm. That's okay. Um, can I do this? Yes. So I'll do that there. Then it repeats like that. Uh huh. Nah. Let's group that and then we can duplicate that group. Hmm. Yeah, it seems like it doesn't have enough space, so we didn't give this watch enough space, so we have to go back. There we go. And then I'm gonna go out of the pattern preview, and I need to give it a little bit more wiggle room. So zoom in and give it a little bit more space. Like that. Just a little Okay. And again, we need to fill in that background. There we go. Now we'll try that again. But we've already duplicated that layer, so it should be easier this time. Pattern Preview. And then we're still on group select, so we'll move this down. See? And now when we replace it, it fits perfectly. Ooh, that looks nice, except for now, I have three blues right here, so we have to fix that. Hm. And I don't like this. Yeah, we need to fix this one. Let's see. Which one is that? So it's in this one Okay, so this one, we need to change the color of that. So which color should we do? Instead should we do this like green greening? There we go. And then, of course, that's the wrong color that's annoying. I don't like doing all these kinds of adjustments in in Photoshop. I'm so used to doing all the drawing in in Procreate. I need a bigger brush. Okay. I just made sure that I had the layer on Alpha lock, which is the symbol right there. Okay. So that helped. Now we just have this one. Oh, it's the same over here 'cause that's duplicated twice, of course, so we have to do this one, as well. Alright? Let's see which layer is that. No. Huh? That's in this one. What Now I feel like I don't know what I What happened to my layer? There we go. So professional. It gets confusing when there's so many different layers. Okay. This one we're looking for. Is it this one? No. It's this one. And then it's this one. Yes. So, again, we're gonna choose that beautiful green gold color. And then I have to take this one and alpha lock it and choose the beautiful yellow color. Okay. So that is done. Now I just want to fix that these two blues are close to each other. What color should we do here instead? Or this one, we can change this one to the light pink, I think. Would look nice. So we have to figure out instead of or group, we can click this one, see which that one is in. It's in here. This one, yes. So it's the blue one here. Highlight the pink. And then we have to do the same thing here with that extra layer that I did the pink on let me zoom in so I can see that I'm actually painting everything. Here we got some blue left. Okay. There's that. And is that good? No, now it's up here too. I change this one to the pink as well. So we do Or should this one be the nice green again? I like that color. So it's in here. Good. It's this one. So I'm going to do the green gold again. Whoops. Hmm. Oh, it's this one. Sorry. There we go. And then this we do the yellow again. Alpha log, brush, Zoom in. Okay. So now I have a pattern that repeats nicely. This one and this one maybe is annoying. We could go in and do that, but I think it's right. It's playful that some of them dabble. I like it. All right, so now we have to figure out if we need more of these butterflies, which I think we do. I'm going to now close out all these little groups so that I don't pay attention to those anymore. All the diamonds or fines, we're going to look at these little butterflies and we need to repeat those a few times. This again, I'm going to option and then flip it. Why should we place you down? Maybe appear in the blue. That looks nice. I want to repeat this one. For this one, I will flip vertically. That could look nice. Where should we put you here maybe? Then this last one also I'll flip it because it makes it just look slightly different and you can go Hmm. I guess there. It's kind of lame that they both are on the same color, but it was okay. Bounces around nicely, I think. That's a nice little detail. Okay. So I haven't I don't know what's up with this line here, but that just feels like it's a glitch. Yeah, it is. Okay. All right, so let me save this pattern 'cause I haven't done that yet. Uh Diamond. Pattern. Again, I'm going to edit and then press Define Pattern. Press Okay. Then there's that. I'm going to take copy all of these layers. Because I didn't flatten anything, I don't have to put that as a single layer or as a group here. I'm just going to have just one layer one group for this one. Group pattern in layers. So they have access to that, all the original layers. And then here you can double click on this pattern and you can choose the new one. I think this is a good size as well for this one. We need to change the number 990. Again, we can adjust this a little bit so that we can until it looks good to us. Looks nice. Take a copy for my records. I make sure that the file looks nice and clean over here. There you go. So that's the final pattern. And again, I'm going to save it because even though that didn't take an incredibly long time, you still don't want to start over just because your computer goes crazy and does photoshop crashes, that's not unheard of. Then I save for web to make a smaller There we go. And then I'm going to again, copy that pattern here and the guide copy, bring it into the final here. And I like that. And then I have a in mind cover line, so I'm going to just do that. And here's my final collection. I think it's playful and whimsical. It's girly without being just pink and fury. It feels kind of young, but it also doesn't feel like it's super kids, but it could be for kids. I think it just feels really whimsical. I'm really happy with how it turned out. I don't think it's the best mini collection I've ever created in my life. But sometimes that doesn't matter. If you don't completely love it, maybe a client's going to really like it, you know? Like, sometimes you don't have the same taste as everybody else. So it's always important to just keep going and keep designing and you're gonna get better, and some collections are going to be really amazing and sometimes they're just gonna be totally just okay, like this. Or maybe you think this is, like, the most pretty thing you've ever seen with your eyeballs and you're wondering, Christina, what are you talking about? This looks really good. So it's hard as an artist sometimes to see in your own work what is really amazing or not. So, I just wanted to mention that. Here's the final collection, and this is what I would send to my agent. This is what I would send to the potential clients. I would say I would save this as well as a PSD and a smaller JPEG so that I can send that easily and upload this to your website if you want to have previews on a private page or this is what you would send every month in an email to your clients to see if they would be interested. And I have so many classes. I have that file organization class. It's helpful to show you this process a lot more in depth on how to create a sell sheet and how I organize my files later. I also have a class called How to Professionally approach buyers and how to find buyers and how to send and pitch your work. I hope you find all of my content that I have here on Skillshare here on Skillshare, really helpful. I also have other classes about surface design. So just check out my entire catalog. There's so much for you here. I've really tried my best to cater to creating the kinds of content that would be helpful for aspiring surface designers. 11. Next Steps: Alright, that's it. Before I leave you, I really want to talk to you about a few next steps that you can take so that you can take your new knowledge and really run with it. Really hope that this class has made you feel more confident creating successful mini collections, especially in the theme of fluttery florals. But you can, of course, take everything that you learned in this class and apply it to different other themes from, like, wow, woodland animals or abstracts or food and beverage items, you know? So it's very versatile, but I'm very happy that you followed along. So after creating this mini collection, how can you translate that to another theme? Can you brainstorm other themes that you can create mini collections in this sort of style? Another thing that I would love for you to think about is how is possibly building out this mini collection into something larger it's great to offer small collections in your portfolio because you can really show multiple different themes and variations of your style, but having also larger collections of six or eight is really great to also have a lot of variations or lots of examples of this theme to present to a client so they can pick and choose. Maybe they'll buy the full collection, maybe they'll just buy four or two, and you can offer the other half to another company. It's just really amazing to offer collections, and it just looks so good in your portfolio. It looks so put together. I love collection so much. And finally, I'd love for you to research different other pattern types that you could try in future pattern collections or different compositions for illustrations that you're going to try or lettering that you want to try. Just have a running list of different things that you'd like to add to different pattern collections so that you don't make this cookie cutter mini collection. And even though that's great a few times, but if your collections always look the same with the same types of placement and combinations of patterns that support that placement, it's going to get a little boring. So I think it's always important to, like, do some research and look at your peers and what they are creating and get their inspiration from patterns and color palettes from the world around you. There's so much inspiration to be had pretty much anywhere. 12. Thanks for Watching: Alright, that's it. Now we're in the final video. I just want to take the time to say, thank you so much for taking this class and being a student of mine. Please remember to leave a review for this class if you enjoyed it. It really helps my channel to get viewed by other students, and it really lets me know that you found it helpful and useful, et cetera, of course. And if you're feeling brave, I would love for you to upload your mini collection class project to the class project section so that I can see what you created. If you need any help, let me know if you'd like any specific feedback. Let me know. Otherwise, I'll just give you general encouragement and love on your collection. And if you'd like to see me outside of Skillshare, you can find me on Instagram at Kristina Hultkrantz on my website, Kristina hultkrantz.com. And I also have a really beautiful patron community. If you are also loving the collections, and you would like to learn more about that and gather monthly inspiration for collections and design a monthly collection with me, I have something called Collection Club, and it's just like the name. We create collections every month together, and it's supportive and you get very personal feedback, and I have gotten to watch other designers grow their skills for the past two years that we've been doing it. So if you sign up now, there's two years of content, so amazing. And besides that, I also have fun Friday where another little monthly drawing group where we develop our drawing skills, and it's like, in the name just pretty much for fun. So yeah, those are other places to find me. But of course, make sure to follow me here on skill share, so you'll be notified when I publish my next class. Alright. That's that's it for me. Thanks so much again for taking this class. I'm going to go breathe and, uh, drink water. You guys are the best. Im.