Good Enough To Eat: Get Started in Food Illustration

1. Getting Started in Food Illustration: I'm an artist, and I love food. I love cooking food, eating food, and drawing food. If you ever wanted to dip your toe into food illustration, this class is for you. I'm going to show you how to make food illustrations that pop with some easy techniques like layering, adding texture, and playing with color. Drawing food isn't that much different than other types of drawing, but there are some things that we can do to make our drawings look extra appetizing and make that food look like you want to eat it right off the page. For the class, you'll pick a theme and make four new food illustrations around that theme. I'll be working in guache paint. However, you'll be able to apply these techniques and principles to any medium, whether you're a digital artist or you prefer to draw by hand, or maybe you use another type of paint. We'll cover it all. And by the end of the class, you'll have four awesome food illustrations just for fun or to add to your portfolio. So that all sounds good to you, let's go ahead and make something that looks good enough to eat. 2. Food Illustration Overview: Before we get started, I'm going to cover a few of the basics that I like to focus on when making food illustrations that really pop. And these are color, contrast, and texture. Now there are, of course, other elements of art and design, things like line, shape, form, value, but I really want to keep things simple and focus on those three for today's class. If you want to dive deeper on making well rounded artwork, I do have a class here on Skillshare called Let's Get Critical, where I go further in depth on all of those elements and principles of art and design. So first, I want to talk about color. And I think color is really key, especially when you're working with foods that maybe are less appealing in color. Obviously, it's really fun to talk about, you know, vibrant work like these tomatoes here. Sometimes it can be a struggle when you're working with things like bread, pastries, any foods that are just kind of brown or maybe a little bit more dull looking, we want to make those pop and look appealing and appetizing, that's kind of the point of food illustration. So here I have an example of some kebabs that was kind of like a ground meat, not so appealing. That's where color comes into play. So I'm trying to pick out any colors that aren't just, like, a flat brown. It's a little bit reddish looking. I added some kind of green here to add some maybe texture or contrast. And then I'm really focusing on all of the elements around the meat to make it pop. So the meat itself still isn't the most appetizing on its own, but we have this bright green of the parsley, and then we have this garnish here. I believe these were peppers, but that's where color can come into play to try to make something that maybe is a little bit boring, more interesting. And then I'm going to show you another example. So this is a dessert, and obviously we have, like, this bright red strawberry here. The fruit looks really delicious. But the pastry itself is where we need a little bit more work to make it interesting and look like something you actually want to eat. This, I was looking at a photograph of some food that I had at a restaurant. So I really focused on looking for areas of contrast. So where is there some shading, maybe more golden and kind of darker brown bits. And then I also used some line work to differentiate things. And then here is another use of pulling out colors that maybe aren't so obvious right away. So we have these tomatoes at the top here. We all know tomatoes are usually red if they're a red variety of tomato. But I was looking for nuances in kind of more orange tones, pink tones. They can really have so much variation. And even if they're subtle in person when I'm looking at the tomato, I really wanted to highlight those differences. And then one more note on color because not everything really has a dark or punchy color. So, for example, this here, this was a really unique salad. They actually had ranch ice cream, so it was, like, kind of like a ranch dressing that was frozen. But it was very white, obviously. So to give that a little bit more interest, I tried to add a little bit of kind of a creamy white and then left some spots that are more sparse where just the paper shows through. So that can be another way to use color or the absence of color. And then, so we can see that this is an actual part of the dish. I'm using the green around it to create this shape. We also have some radishes that are kind of sprinkled around the salad here. So really with all of the examples, it's a combination of playing up the colors and trying to increase contrast where I can to make things pop. Let's talk about that a little bit more. Here we also have our tons. I'm using the white from the paper to show the shininess of the tons and make that a little bit more dimensional instead of just completely flat. And this is something I like to do a lot with silverware or utensils, but also with a lot of foods. So another example is here, we have some kind of subtle highlights, but showing off that this is more liquidy. This is just kind of the sauce from the strawberry shortcake. And I really love to leave white space or add white to add that contrast and dimension. And honestly, it just makes things look a little bit more tasty. Also have the example of these tomatoes here, just leaving that little bit of shine. It adds a lot more depth. Let's see if I have another. Oh, okay. I think this is a really good example of that, as well. So this is peach cobbler, W's got liquid and a sauce, and that's where adding these white highlights can really help. It's emphasized so much by that contrast. Okay, so now let's talk a little bit more about texture. So this is also a little bit interesting to look at because we have a lot of texture going on with the food and less so with the background elements. So even though a majority of the page is the tablecloth here, I really wanted to keep the focus on the food itself. So it's colorful. It draws your eye, but there's so much more detail in the food that we know that that's the focal point. Lot of that is not only because of the detail, but also the texture. So this had cinnamon and spices in it, so I added these little dots to add some more texture, so it would be less flat than the background. I also have a lot of texture going on in the peaches up here. We have kind of the fuzzy skin. I was really trying to mimic that added a lot more detail, and that really provides some contrast with the flat texture of the background. So in this piece, you can really see that color contrast and texture are all really at play here. Another way to add some texture is with how you use your paint brush or your drawing materials, whatever you're using. I have these two pepperonis here or salami. I don't remember which I really used some kind of brief, quick strokes and kind of a little bit of stippling here to add that texture. So instead of using nice flat strokes and making this really perfect tomato, I'm being much more loose and less precise. And adding that texture naturally. So it's mimicking the look of the pepperoni. We have the texture of the pepperoni, you know, that has a mixture of fat and the meat. And then, you know, peppercorns. That's what these little kind of black dots are. So that's how we're getting to the place where this actually looks like some real food. And then I don't do this with all of my illustrations, but a lot of times I do like to add black lines at the end or a really dark line to add a little bit more contrast and also texture. Once again, all of those elements are combined here. I have kind of black outlines. Around all these. And then I'm also adding a little bit of texture with some kind of scribbly lines to mimic shading and up that contrast a little bit more. So now that we've covered those kind of basics, let's go ahead and just get started on our food illustrations. 3. Basic Shapes: This class is for you to dip your toe into food illustration. So I'm going to ask you to pick four different foods around a theme, and then we're going to make drawings based around that theme. So I'm going to do some quick food illustrations, focused on snack foods or foods that you might find on a charcuterie board, little cheeses and crackers and pickles, things like that. So that's what I'm going to focus on, and I think it will give us a nice variety of types of food to draw. So I'm just going to sketch out a little grid here to separate them. And it doesn't have to be perfect, but I just want to keep things a little bit separated. And then I do also have some references here with me. So I have a jar of jam. Some pickles. And I've got some blue cheese. I'm also going to do some crackers. I don't have any with me. So that I'm just going to do off the top of my head. And you don't need to have references nearby. You could look them up on your computer or an iPad, or you don't need any references at all. You can do it totally from your imagination. But I do like to have some kind of reference because sometimes there are just little details that are kind of charming or maybe different colors that you weren't expecting, things like that. So I think that's where it can be helpful to have some references on hand. Then I'm going to be using gouache paints for today's class, and my goal is to just use paint that I already have stuck on my trays. So I'm using leftover paint. I'm not using anything new. And that's where something like this can be kind of fun, too, because we're doing such small illustrations, we won't need a lot of paint. You can use guash paint like I'm using. If you prefer watercolors, go ahead and use those. This class is not focused on how to use guash necessarily, so feel free to use whatever material you're comfortable with. Alright. And I really like to focus on creating a basic shape or form first. So I'm going to get started with my blue cheese. So the cheese that I have, obviously, the base of it is going to be more of a creamy kind of color. And that's what I'm going to start with. And I've got, like, this basic triangle shape. And because I'm focused on working quickly for this class, I'm going to narrow it down by the basic shape. So I've got this triangle, a three dimensional triangle. And I like to make things a little bit wobbly, 'cause I think that adds a little bit more to that food element, too. Not all foods are perfect shapes, especially something like a crumbly blue cheese. So that's the effect I'm going for. Okay, so we got our basic shape down for the cheese. And just to show you how I'm using color here, cheese all over the place. This is much lighter in person, but I'm working on white paper. I want it to stand out, so I'm really kind of playing up a little bit more of the yellowy kind of tones of the cheese instead of the more light creamy. And I'm getting cheese all over the place as I do it. But that's part of the fun. Okay. Alright, so I have that base down. Because I am working with guash, I'm going to be working in layers. And if you're using something like a marker or maybe even some type of crayon, you could work on layers, you know, one at a time, but I'm going to kind of move around to my different snack items. Okay, next, I have my pickles. So I'm going to start with my lightest color because I'm going to be layering on top of it. So that's something to keep in mind, pretty much with most mediums, especially if you're working quickly like this. And if you're working with a medium, that does blend. So if you're working with something like acrylics, you can kind of start with your lighter color, your darker colors. But since I am working with something that is, like, water soluble, it's a lot easier if I start with the lighter colors. So I'm going to start with kind of a yellowy green. As my base. And I don't like to make things just straight up and down too. That's just another trick to make something a little bit more interesting. I'm going to do a few pickles here because I think that will also add a little bit more interest. These are gonna blend together a little bit because I'm doing them right next to each other, but we can kind of define the separation. As I work in my later layers. I'm just keeping these to their basic shapes for now. And then now I'm going to do my jar of jam. So generally, I do like to start out with shapes of my paint. I am going to be working with pen, as well. So I'm going to add some pen details at the end, but I'm going to use ink for the glass of the jar. So I'm gonna draw that first. And you don't have to draw in the exact style that I'm doing for yours. Especially if you're doing different kinds of foods, and I really do want you to pick out your own foods. You can do this combination for this exercise if you would like, but I think it's going to be a lot more fun if I get to see some of your favorite foods in the class projects. I would love to see a variety there. Okay. And this is not perfect, and that's okay. Sometimes I think that adds to the fun. I'm a recovering perfectionist, so that is hard for me to say, but I'm getting better at it. And I am going to include the label. So I'm just kind of drying that there. And we don't really have to wait for that to dry, so I'm going to go in with my paints. And I'm going to start with the jam on the inside. And that's because I'm thinking ahead to our other layers. So I am going to try to emphasize the glass, so the shininess of the glass and the edges of it. But I want to do that last. That's going to be our last layer because the jam is inside the jar, so the details of the glass will be over top of it. I'm just getting a baseline here, so I'm not actually super worried about the colors. Okay, so I think this is a good starter raspberry color, and I'm just going to be really kind of loose here. So think about the quality of the food that you're drawing. There's so much variety and types of food. This is liquidy, kind of more like a gelatin. So I'm leaving some random white spaces. I'm thinking about the thickness of the jar, so I'm not going right up to the edges of the jar either. Okay. That's a good start. And finally, I'm going to add some crackers. I'm going to do a bunch of crackers. And obviously, if you're working on something that's going to be more planned out, you can add some pencil sketches first and do more prework. But this is really more of a exercise. This is just meant to be fun. So I'm working pretty loosely here. When you have the mentality that it's just practice, it changes things quite a bit. Then maybe I'll do like one cracker. It's not part of the pile. Okay, so we have a good base going. I'm just gonna see. Okay, this is kind of dry now. Okay, now I can go in and start working on my second layer. 4. Creating Depth: So I'm excited to go ahead and dive in and add some of those kind of blue elements of the blue cheese. But before I do that, I want to add a little bit more contrast and some shading. So I'm going to go in with, like, a darker color, and I want to go for a little bit of a darker kind of yellowy cream. And he's sort of a light brown. But I want it to be a little bit more interesting than just, like, a plain brown with no other tones to it. So I'm gonna try to achieve, like, a little bit of a yellowish, warm brown tone. So I'm working with my paints here just so you can see. I might grab another piece of paper that I can test things on too while I try to get the right color, so I'm not wasting it on this paper. I'm just trying to be careful here because I just don't want this to get dull. That could be a style. Some people work in a much more desaturated color palette. But I like things to be a little bit brighter. I think it can help things look a little bit more appetizing. My goal with food illustration is I want things to look yummy. You want to eat them right off the page. Okay. I think that's good. So I'm looking to look at my reference and add in some shading and craggy. I don't know if that's a word. Lines. With this food illustration, I'm not worried about being photorealistic. So I am making things up a little bit. Really trying to get the feel of the food and not perfection. If you're just starting out, you're not comfortable, you can try to replicate exactly what you see, but when drying a lot of foods, it's so much more organic than, let's say, something like the glass jar. That is much more concrete. They're all going to look the same. All the jars from the same lot are going to look exactly the same. Something like cheese and a blue cheese at that is going to be crumbly and weird and have all of its own little quirks. So that's another reason I think that I like to work with food, aside from that I like to eat and cook. Okay. So we got a little bit more going on there. I think it looks more interesting. Let's move on to our pickle. Okay, so now I'm ready to go in with a darker color. I'm also going to go in with a more opaque color. This is kind of see through right now. So I'm going to get a little bit of shading and texture. So this is both shading of the actual pickle, and I'm also making it a little darker. It's behind the first one, and not all pickles look exactly the same, either. All right. And now let's go to our jam. So we kind of started with, like, our lightest jam color, and now I'm going to add more depth. So really with all of these, I'm kind of doing the exact same thing, but I'm just adapting it to the food. So now I'm gonna go in with a darker raspberry color, maybe one with a little bit of blue. I try not to just add black. And the reason for that is that we just want things to pop a little bit more. I don't want things to look muddy. Okay, so And here I am looking at my jar because the glass does affect the way that some of the jam looks, too. And I'm definitely going to leave little bits of white to emphasize where some shininess might be from the glass, from the jam itself. Okay. And then now I can move on to the crackers. And I'm going to use a similar color that I used for the cheese, but maybe a little bit more of a brown. Gonna start. I don't love this color, but if I blend it, I think that'll work. Guash is very forgiving. You can see how I'm just going over what I did before. Then here, I'm going for a little bit of a smoother texture. We had the crumbliness and the cheese. For this, crackers are a lot smoother in texture. I'm just trying to lean into that. That's really what is going to help you make food that looks somewhat realistic and closer to reality. I guess that's the same thing. You get what I'm saying. Okay. Alright, so I'm just going to wait for that to dry, and I'm ready to go in with even more detail. 5. Large Details: So now I'm going to go in with some more detail, and I'm going to work on the kind of bluish, greenish color of the blue cheese. So those little I guess, moldy parts. I've got a smaller brush here, and I'm just going to go in and work on some more details with our cheese. This is my favorite part because this is when it starts to look more like the actual food to me is adding these little tiny details and bits of texture. I'm using a combination of kind of wispy little lines. There's like these little lines that run through the cheese. I'm purposely holding my brush really loose and not being super precise because this isn't a perfect grid of lines. So that's something to keep in mind as you're illustrating, knowing when to be precise and have, like, perfect straight lines and when you can be a little bit more loose and care free to match the dynamic of what you're illustrating. And I'm making this up as I go along a little bit, too, so I'm not trying to make this photo realistic. I'm just trying to make it realistic to the characteristics of the cheese. Okay, I'm going to stop there because I have a feeling if I keep going, I'm going to add too much, and I'm going to lose the balance of the kind of main cheese color and then that blue. Okay, let's move on to our pickle. And this is where we can start adding some of those kind of fun little bumps and more texture. I'm going to go in with a darker green, but I also want to change the color up a little bit. So I have this other palette here. I'm using this dark green. There's kind of, like, I don't know, striations, if that's the right word on the pickle. So that's what I'm mimicking here. I'll probably go in with a smaller brush to add the actual bumps. But I can also kind of wiggle my brush and add some imprecise ones here. I'm using the brush a little bit dry. That's another way to add some texture if you're working with guash or watercolor Really any paint. And then to add some contrast here, I'm going in with a line, so kind of creating a little bit more of a separation between the pickle that's kind of standing up in front and then the one that's lying down behind it. Even though I'm working loosely for the most part, you can see I'm being a little bit more careful here as I get into more of the details. Depending on your style, you can keep things much looser. There's a lot of ways to draw in the way that you're comfortable with or in the style that you work with. So do what feels right for you. And if you're just starting out, you can kind of imitate what I'm doing here. It's okay to copy a little bit when you're learning as long as you're not only copying other artists. So the more you practice, the more you'll develop your own style. All right, so let's move on to our jam. So now this is going to be a little bit more loose again, even though we're getting into more details. So I don't have a ton of depth in here yet. The colors are really just a little bit lighter and a little bit darker from one another. So I want to make a little bit more of a purple. I'm trying to stick with what I have on my palette already, but I might have to add some more paint if I can't get the right color. So I'm going to add an ultramarine blue because I want to make it darker without losing too much pigment. So if you're not used to mixing colors or aren't super into color theory, using two colors to make things darker will be a little bit more interesting than just adding black to make something darker. I'll get a richer, darker color. And sometimes I actually like if the blue kind of comes through. So I'm going to, like, mix this. There we go. And this will create more of a contrast, too. Something else I like to do when I have, like, a highlight, like, a really shiny one like that is to go right up on the edge with a really dark color. So it's going to make that pop even more. I'm going to go a little bit more kind of golden brown with my colors for this. As I'm adding these details, I'm also keeping my paint a little bit more opaque and less water color than I did at the beginning. So that's what I like about gouache paint is you can really get pretty opaque with it. And I'm trying to mimic those ridges a little bit, but I'm not worrying about drawing actual little lines. At this point, I'm just kind of shaking my brush to get some of that texture of the edge of the cracker. And then I will be adding the little dots later. And then with the crackers that are more in the background, being a little looser with those. Okay. So I'm getting closer to being done. I realize just now that I don't really have anything for this label, and I'm just gonna make something up here. I like a little bit of that rougher texture. And because this is meant to be a little bit of a octagonal shape, I'm thinking about where the light would be hitting the jar. I don't have the jar in front of me right now. I'm gonna go grab that again. Alright, that works for now for our label. And I'm gonna add a lid, too. So I'm gonna go in with this more opaque gray Right now, all of these food illustrations are just floating in space. So we don't have any shadows or background, and that's totally fine depending on what you're working on. If you want simple spot illustrations, let's say you're illustrating a recipe and you want to represent all of the ingredients or maybe you're making stickers. So it would make more sense to have cut lines around each object. Then I don't think we really need any background shadows or anything in the background that's additional. But if we do want to make these look like they're not quite floating in this white space here, we can add some shading. And even if you're not adding shading here, we could still do some very simple basic shading to the object itself. So we're going to do that with some kind of washes. So one way I like to do that is using very transparent paint. And once again, I try not to do this in just a pure black. I like to use some kind of color that's going to be darker than the main color of my object. So I think I am going to use kind of a blue, and then I just have a scrap piece of paper here. I am going to test it out first because I don't want to ruin everything that I just did. So I'm making sure to get a lot of water on my brush. Okay, I think that is transparent enough to go in and add some shading. So I'm just going to use, like, bigger strokes to add some shading. I might have to go back in and fix some of those details a little bit because it is smearing it. I think it wasn't quite as dry as I thought. That is the risk when I'm working with something as water soluble as squash too. There's some shading that comes in over here too. Okay. That just instantly added a little bit more depth and a couple of strokes. Then if I want to take this even further, I can add a shadow. This one, I'll show you an example of a sharp shadow. When I go in with the pickles, I'll do a softer shadow. Let's get this nice and opaque. Okay. Then sometimes I do this. I realized I don't even realize I'm doing it. I do practice lines before I'm even touching the paper. That's something I do a lot. You might see me doing that throughout the class. It's just something that I do. It's almost like a little bit of practice before I put the paint down so that I can do it with a lot more confidence, especially if I want to do something with a really sharp, definitive line. For this, I'm following the shadows from my example piece that I have right in front of me. O Okay. So now we have a shadow, and then I'll go back in to fix some of those details that got a little bit muddied by my kind of wash of the shadow. Alright, let's move on to our pickle again. And now I'm gonna go in and add some more detail with those little bumps. I'm going to use my smaller brush for that. I'm actually gonna use the smallest one I have. The bumps are just a little bit darker, so I'm darkening my paint a little bit more. And I'm gonna go ahead and start adding those. And I'm not worried about adding every single one. If you want to paint or draw in a really realistic style, you can go ahead and do that. I like to keep things a little bit more loose and more of a suggestion of the bumps. So even just by adding them, I'm adding some texture. I don't have to add every single one. Lovely. I'm like, kind of obsessed with this. I love drawing pickles, eating pickles, painting them. They're just really fun to me. And let's add some detail here. Okay, and then just a quick little trick here. I felt like this wasn't standing out enough, so I'm just adding a little extra line. I don't have to add a line around the entire pickle. Just adding some extra contrast here where these two pickles intersect. So now I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to add in, like, all the little seeds. This is raspberry jam. They usually have those tiny little light colored seeds. So for this, I could go ahead and use, like, a light colored gouache paint, but it's not gonna be very opaque. It's gonna be kind of hard to see. So I'm actually going to go in with a paint pen, just barely an off white color, if you can see here. It's a thicker pen. I'm just trying to stick with what I have. I'm not going out and buying anything new, so I'm just going to add some little dots with that somewhat randomly to mimic the seeds. I'm kind of pulling a little bit as I add them so that they're not only little circles. Okay. I think that looks good. I'm going to add a little bit more to the lid of our jar. I'm covering some of our inclines, but I'm gonna add more at the end, so I'm okay with that. Alright, and then onto our crackers. So I'm gonna go in with my tiny brush. To add a little bit more detail. I'm gonna use a little bit of a darker color. So I'm using this kind of brownish red. And this ocher yellow. And then I'm adding just more fun little ridges, being really loose with it, adding in those little dots from the cracker. For this cracker, it's a little bit more sideways, so I'm kind of adding more detail to the edges, then just a little bit more shading. Alright, I'm going to go back into our cheese now and reinforce some of those details that we lost when I added the shadows. 6. Final Details and Flourishes: Like I have a lot of really good depth in here. We have a lot of nice contrast between light and dark. If I really want to add a highlight, I can go ahead and add something in, like, kind of like what we did with the seeds here. So I could add just a little extra shine. I want to make this look like it's actually, like, wet and glossy. I think this actually isn't light enough. I might have to go in with an actual white. I don't love using a pure white color. But sometimes that is a good way to get things to pop. So it's So just a little something extra. And then I'm going to go ahead and like I said before, I was going to do a softer shadow with this. So I'm going to do a similar blue color as before. But I'm just gonna get it really desaturated. Sometimes another way to do that is to get the paint on your brush and then run the brush into the water. You get really light color. So let's just do that. Real light shadow. And then this one I am making up a little bit because I'm looking my reference is pickles in a jar. So I'm going to have to imagine the light is hitting the pickles here, the shadow's going to be coming back kind of back this way and down to the right. Okay, so back to our jam. Now I want to mimic the look of glass for the jar. So I'm going to use some very light, more watered down paint for that. Do this kind of greenish blue. I'm gonna be pretty light here with my paint to start. I'm gonna do it like the light is just kind of coming from up above. So these edges are going to be a little darker. When I'm working with glass, I definitely leave white space because we can see through glass. I don't want it to be totally opaque. That's all I'm gonna do for now because I'm gonna have to wait for this to dry a little bit. Okay, and then our crackers, we're actually ready to go ahead and add in some ink. So I like to add in ink details at the end. You could also just use, like, a much darker color or maybe a color that's really high contrast to make this stand out, but I like to add in little details at the end. So I'm going to go ahead and use pen for that. And this has a little bit more to do with kind of my style of working than anything you have to do. So take this with a grain of salt. Sometimes I like to add some kind of line squiggles to suggest some shading. And then I could also use my ink to add shadows. So that's another way we can add some contrast with the background if we would like. Totally optional. You could also do some kind of cross hatching. And then finally, just because I want to finish the little crackers off, I'm going to add some flex to mimic the look of salt. I'm going to use my pen here again, and I can just, you know, dab and add little flex of salt in a random way. That. This brush or this paint pen is a little bit thicker than I would like. So another thing that I could do is get some paint or some ink and kind of do a splatter effect. So I have white inky here. And the reason that I like to use ink or a paint like the paint pen is that it's gonna show up more against the guash. If I just use guash paint, it might just kind of soak into the rest of the painting. So this will kind of stand out more. And I'm going to grab, like, a bristly brush. I think this could work. I'm just gonna dip it in. It's important that it's a pretty dry brush. This is just, like, super cheap brush that I got in a pack. I'm gonna test it out before I do it on my actual paper. I'm just gonna tap it. You can see that it'll paint splatters. This brush steady and tap it with something else. The closer I get, the larger the splatters will be the further I get, the smaller they'll be. But it does have a chance of spraying elsewhere. I'm okay with that. This is just exercise for the class. You don't have a ton of control where it's gonna go. Okay, so now that looks a little bit more organic maybe and some kind of, like, smaller specks of salt. So I'm done with the crackers completely now. I'm gonna consider that done. And then I'm just going to add some final details to the rest of these. So I got to make sure they're dry first. I'm going to do the same thing with the pen on my cheese. So sometimes with my ink, I'm just kind of reinforcing some things I already have on the page. Maybe I want to add a little more definition here between the edges of the cheese. I can add some squiggles. I can also reinforce some depth. The shadows. And I think it looked fine before adding these, but I just wanted to show you that there's a few different ways of working. Alright, with our pickles, I'm going to show you more options instead of using my micron. I'm going to use a brush pen to add those, like, ink details. I'm just going to show you what that looks like. My pen is getting a little bit low on ink, so this might not work. I might have to use an actual brush and ink, but let's try it out. So I like this because we can get just a different quality than you get with a fine tip pen. I can reinforce some details and shading. This one's dry. I do like the effect of that. It's a little bit messy looking. This can be really nice too, if you wanted to make something flatter and then use the ink to make a lot of the details. Here we already have a lot of details, so we don't need to add a ton here. Ink can also be a nice way to separate this from the white of the paper, too. So it's another simple trick to do that. Alright, I think I'm all done with my pickles now. Alright, so I worked very lightly initially. Now I can go in with more opaque paint to add some of those details to the glass. Basically, what I'm going to do is add details that will help us see the edges of the glass and how the jar is shaped. So still a little bit ser, and I want to make it more opaque. Let's do that. Okay. So that's drying, but I can work on the top of the jar for now. So I'm going to use this pen again. And then I could add some words on here if I wanted, so maybe I'll do that. Alright, so now we have four little food illustrations, and I hope you feel a little bit more confident going into drawing your favorite foods. So don't forget to add yours to the class projects. 7. Thank You: Thank you so much for joining me in this class today. I can't wait to see your food illustrations, so please don't forget to share those. If you enjoy this class, be sure to leave a review, and I'd love to hear if there's anything else you'd like to learn around food illustration or drawing or any other topic. So please let me know. Follow me here on Skillshare for updates, new classes, and discussions. I'll also provide feedback if you do submit any class projects. You can also follow me on TikTok and Instagram at Shana Sell Art. See you next time.