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Gouache-style Effects in Procreate: Paint a Springtime Postcard Scene

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Class introduction

      1:38

    • 2.

      Setting up

      2:31

    • 3.

      Painting the Sky and Mountains

      15:44

    • 4.

      The Foreground

      8:49

    • 5.

      The Trees

      32:00

    • 6.

      Adding the Swans

      15:56

    • 7.

      The Final Touches

      11:39

    • 8.

      The Project

      1:53

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Overlooked by many, but using the Gouache Brush in Procreate allows you to simulate a great Gouache -style Effect for your Artworks. In this Class we are going to explore painting a Springtime Postcard Scene.

After having done a Winter Impression with Gouache in Procreate in the previous Class, it is now time to discover painting the next season... Spring. It is NOT a must to have done the Winter Impression to join this Class. Each season is a stand-alone Class focussing on different things.

In the Spring Edition we're going to focus on painting in a slightly different way than before. Perhaps not painting differently, but we will not only be focussing on painting alone, We will add blending to the mix. Blending helps us to get even closer to real gouache painting than before.

While we'll be mainly painting a landscape, I'm introducing a new element to this series, animals. What is Spring without some birds? As if that isn't enough, I'm also going to show you how to use a reference from a different season and turn that into a Spring painting.

Plenty of element to discover in the Second Edition of the Gouache Procreate Postcards Series.

Included with this Class is the Sketch, Color Palette and Reference Photos. You will find all of that in the Project Section.

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1. Class introduction: Welcome to the spring edition of gouache Procreate postcards. As the title suggests, we want to create beautiful wash painting with a spring theme in Procreate. Now in the winter edition, we just picked up the standard gouache brush that comes with Procreate and started painting in the spring edition. I want to change gears a little bit and make it a bit more challenging. If you haven't followed the previous class and don't worry, it is not a requirement for this class though it gives you a good base. You don't need to do it because I'm going to take you step-by-step through the whole process of creating a spring painting in procreate with the gouache brush. I said, we're going to change gears a little bit. We're not only gonna do some painting, we're going to try to get closer to go wash painting as close as we possibly can in procreate. Using some blending two, I'm going to show you how to blend effectively to get more of a painterly effect in your. And that's not only it, we're also going to add some animals to our painting. And we're actually going to use a for an autumn referenced and turn that into a spring painting. So plenty of challenges in this class. So I'd invite you to come along staff the next video where I'm going to explain what you need and how are we going to approach this whole subjects that we're going to have lots of fun together. 2. Setting up: In this first part, we're going to look together at what you can need for this class. Let me just take you through all the things that are needed to successfully paint this beautiful spring painting. The first obvious thing is, of course, your iPad, and I'm using the Apple pencil. The next thing you're going to need is either one of these files, the postcard, the spring goulash postcard, You European size, so the size or the US size, this is a letter size postcard size. I've created them larger than the postcard needs to be. Just because in case you change your mind, you want to print this on a larger piece of paper. You can do so, but this should nicely scaled down to a posh cartoon. I'm going to use this one. Since I'm in the European Union. And this is all there is on this painting. Now, just one layer with rough sketch, we're going to use as a guide. The sketch you will find attached to the class. Another thing you find attached to class is the palate, the swatch, the color palette. It is called Spring wash and you can download it and probably if you bring it in, it might look like this or you might have this screen. But by pressing on pallets and catch you get these and you get the name to hear it because I'm going to just say the names of which color I'm picking. So there's some sky color, some mountain color in it, some greens in it for the ground and the trees, of course, the pink for the blossom and some parts for this one. The next thing you're going to need is then of course, a reference photo. And actually you're going to need to reference photos. This is the first reference photo. Now the one thing you notice right away, this is not a spring photo, this is rather a four photo. We're going to use some imagination to turn this photo into a spring photo. Now, we're not gonna do the benches and the people were going to forget about them. We're going to do the sky, the mountain, the water, this tree and this tree here. And we're going to add some swan sweat and effort. You need to second photo, and that's this one photo. That is all you need for this class. Now, even if you don't know how to draw though, painted though, that really doesn't matter. I'm just going to take you through everything step-by-step in the next lessons. So once you've downloaded all these materials, then you're ready to go paint. 3. Painting the Sky and Mountains: Welcome to the next part of gouache Procreate postcards, the spring edition, we're going to start painting. We don't need to sketch because I've already provided the sketch. Now if you want to create your own sketch from the reference, Yes, please do so. Of course, if you want to add some elements like the people and the benches, or go for it. But I'm just going to omit them from this painting. But if you want them, please go ahead and do so. Then you of course need to figure out the colors a little bit too. But I'm sure after we've done some painting, you will figure it out too. Well. We're going to paint together. We're going to start with the background, the sky, create a nice guy to the mountain. And then we're going to move on to other paths in the next lesson. For this lesson, we're going to concentrate on the background and on the mountain. Well, let's go. First of all, pick the size you like, whether you want a US postcard, let the size or you want the A4 size. And I'm going to pick the asset before the European size. Now the first thing we're gonna do, we're going to lock this layer. So we're going to tap on layers. We're going to slide to the left and we're going to say, look, we don't want to accidentally paint on this layer. And trust me, it happens more often than you would wish to that you paint on the wrong layer. The next thing is we're going to add, tap this plus and add a new layer. But we want to make sure that our sketch for now just stays on top so that we have to guide where we need to be. And later on we can hide it. In this first layer. I'm going to just rename this. Tapping on it. I'm going to say Rename, I'm going to call this the sky. Actually it's going to be the sky and the water in the background really. But for now, let's call it sky. Now that we have our layer, we're going to pick up brush. Now the brush you can find in the section painting that comes with procreate. So the standard brush. And you see this painting with the large brush, rather large brush for artistic painting though for background that would work, but for sunlight details, use a large brush like that. You're going to pick the gouache brush. Now mine is already picked. So it's scrolling down a little bit and you can see there you go, wash brush. The next thing is we're going to do a background color and we're going to use the sky blue as a background color. So we're going to select that. Now. This brush that comes with procreate gouache brush has a slight problem. Well, it is a very nice brush. It doesn't react like a gouache brush. It has some gouache texture. It is night, but a quash brush reacts differently. We got to compensate for that in our painting. Now in the first section of this postcard painting series, I've just ignore it because it just worked fine for the painting. But for this painting, I want to come closer to gouache. And therefore we need to do some different things in Procreate. And while we go through, I'm going to show them. We could do that in two ways. And I'm going to show you just one way. And if all goes well in the next section of the series, I want to explore a different way of doing this, getting closer to cohosh. But for now, I'm going to show you one way of improving on this brush that will help us to come closer to go as well. That's nicely said, Benjamin, What are you talking about? Let me demonstrate that I've got that brush. I'm going to set the opacity 100%. I'm going to take the size 18 works fine for me. For this. We use a paint here. Now these are very nice strokes. These have some gouache properties in it. Now, normally with gouache, if I would go over this again, I would actually get another layer as it's, s is happening here. But this would also start blending in a little bit. And that is not happening with this brush at all. If I pick a different color, that grayish blue, now, this should blend in with each other, but they're not doing that. They're only layering. And with gouache, once I start adding some water, I can actually nicely blend in colors with each other. For that we have to compensate. And what we're going to use that for is the hand. We're going to do a little bit of blending. We could edit the brush so that it does that, but we're not gonna do that in this class. We're going to do that in a different class. Edit the brush a little bit so that it comes closer to goulash actually. But for now we're going to make use of blending. Now what I'm gonna do, first of all, I'm going to remove this. I'm going to tap on my layers, tap on the layer and say clear, that removes everything. We're gonna go to the sky blue color. And what I'm gonna do is I'm going to put the brush on its largest. And I'm just going to add this color like this everywhere. And if there are some white grayish coming through, that is fine. That is my first layer basically, but it doesn't look like a sky, does it. So what we're gonna do is of course we're going to add a little bit of sky colors. We're going to take that sky grayish blue color. And I'm going to just dab a little bit. And I'm not painting as you can see. I'm dabbing in this color a little bit and we're going to go for some sky gray. Let me go to a little smaller, about 50 per cent. Little bit DID may perhaps some clouds here and there they go. What's the other color? Oh, sky warm color. Let's add that too. And there we go For now, this is good. I want a little bit more of the blue black, blue black blue back. So I'm just going to dab some blue here and there. And for a sky, I think I'm fine with this. What I want to make sure is that on the water here, there is the blue nicely. So if you have painted on the mountain some different colors, that's okay, but makes sure we're going to move. This stays nice and blue because we're going to use that same color for the water. I think my sky is totally fine like that. The next thing is we're going to do the mountain. We're gonna take the reference with it. And for that we're going to tap the ranch. We're gonna go to Canvas. We're going to say reference photo. Then we get our reference, our Canvas we're working on, we don't want that, I want the image. So we're going to tap on Import Image. We're going to select that image. And by sliding this, we can move this, we can enlarge this. And we can actually make this smaller and let's make that smaller. Moving a brush, don't want that. If your finger, you can resize this just as with Procreate. All right, that's okay. Now I've got a reference with it for the mountain. Let me move it right there. And I can see a little bit of the mountain, a little bit of the colors I want to use. Now for the mountain, I need a new layer above the sky and I'm going to call this mountain of course. So I'm going to say remained rename mountain. And there we go are mountains. For the mountains, we've got a few colors. We're going to start with the lightest color, the mountain warm gray color. What do we have for size for the brush? That is fine. We're going to stick to that about 50 per cent size. We're just going to paint roughly this mountain. Let's see. I'm gonna go like that here. Another skirt on the bottom a little bit. And that's the first color of our mountain. And right away, you can see this looks like a scene already a little bit. Now you can see also the clouds better because we've got this mountain color. The next thing, what we're gonna do is I'm going to skip the mountain gray, I'm going to the dark mountain color. And on this bottom here, I can see it is quite a lot darker. So I'm going to change the size to about 17 and paint in roughly some of this dark color on the bottom here too. I wanted on here to say old others, very sloppy, but that is okay for now because we're going to use the blending. And even a little bit, there you go. Now, the next thing is, this looks terrible. I agree. You tap the hand. You select the hand, you tap it again and what you're gonna do, you're going to select the same brush. So you're gonna go to painting and select Duke wash brush, exactly the same brush we're going to use for blending so that we keep those same strokes a little bit. Let's put it on about ten per cent. And what we're gonna do is we're going to blend this in a little bit nicely. And as you can see on this mountain here, there is a direction and we're going to use that direction with our mountain to blending these colors. A little bit nicer. Day, go get more of this paint strokes. They're looking a lot more like paint strokes now too. There you go. That looks a lot better as a mountain, does it? No. It doesn't have to be dead accurate. Just licks. It needs to look nice. Now in spring, at least here in the Netherlands, the weather can change drastically. Yesterday, it was 16 degrees, beautiful letter. Now it is about eight degrees. It's called rating and it might actually snow tonight. They say, Well, that's spring here. So we want to bring in a little bit of the coal to while we're gonna do those nice sprinklers on the mountain, we're going to just put some snow, the residue of the snow from the winter on that. Let's do that. For that snow, we're going to use that warm the mountain grade at lighter gray. And we're going to add a little bit where the snow would be. Let's take a smaller brush around nine per cent, I would say. Let's start with the peak here. And do this peak a bit nicer to. And later in a minute we might just blend it in again. This is not the snow, obviously. This is just some nice light color for the actual snow. What we're going to use is we're going to scroll down and we're going to use this white gray for snow. This will be a wide, we're not going to use white, white for anything, but a little bit of white gray. And we're going to add dab in a little bit of this color here. C, and now you get the snowy mountain tops. Day you go, but there's not only a snowy mountain tops here. We're going to make sure we're adding some snow on some of the lower regions as well. Just a little bit. And I think I might add a little bit snow there to. There we go. And now the next thing is, we're gonna go back to our blending brush. I don't think we're going to change anything. Ten is good and at the end we're going to blend in the snow a little bit nicer. And as you can see, I'm not blending in like this. I'm still dabbing in a little bit so that I get some nice brushstrokes using some short-term brushstrokes. I think I might actually like this. Looking good. This is a bit too high, so I'm going to lower it by blending that in a little bit better. And I think I want some snow around here. So going back to the brush, adding some snow, and then I'm going to blend this in right there. Now. That's good. Okay. Now on the sky, I might want to have some lighter clouds to, so let's return to the sky. That with that same color, get a bit of a larger brush. Now I don't want that down here. I want to make sure the snow stays. So what I'm going to hide the sketch, I want to make sure that the mountain clearly stays in there. There is some contrast between the Sky ends the mountain. But what I'm gonna do here, let me see I'm on the sky. You want to add some? I'm still on the blender brush. To add some. That is way too small. Clouds go large. I probably made that this really large. Yes, I did. So let's see, around 40 per cent. And just again, same thing, dab in some whites. And now that looks a bit nicer. Let's go to the blender brush. I like that size 50%. But let's put it on really low so that it doesn't blend that strong. So I've got it on nine per cent. And let's blend in a little bit of these edges, especially day you go not too strong. So we keep a little bit of dose, nice colors. And I think I'm fine with this. Yeah, we've got a nice contrast between the mountain might do something really dark colors at the bottom of the mountain. So let's go back to the mountain. We've got that mountain, middle gray we haven't used. Let's add some of this color. I'm about 13%. We do debts. Or it might have actually used this color before. And the next thing is I'm going to add some of this dark color at the bottom. At the horizon line. Get the sketch back so that we know where our horizon line actually is. Going to lower it to five per cent. And really, I'm going to add a nice strong line here. As my horizon line. There you go. And our profusely, I will need some blending. Not that large. Go back to 100%, 12, 13% work. And where I've just added some, I'm going to blend it in a little bit better. Alright, let's take a look at this. I like that. I'm going to stop here. Now obviously, we're not going to stop painting here. We're going to stop the lesson here. We've got our sky, we've got a background. In the next lesson, we're going to add our foreground. We're going to add that water. Well at least work a little bit on the water. And then later on we're going to do the tree and the Schwann cell, of course, Well, catch up with me if you haven't follow me along. And then once you have this and I'll see you in the next lesson. 4. The Foreground: We've got our mountains, we've got our sky. That's only half of the painting suffered of the painting. We're gonna do the foreground, we're gonna do the water. And then already this starts looking like a really nice painting. Well, even if we only add to ground, we already have the distinction between sky, Water, Mountain, and foreground, because we already painted in watercolor, at least a basic watercolor or that is in our painting already. Well, let's continue with the foreground. Now. First of all, I'm going to hide my reference because the reference has four colors and I'm not having a full image. I want to create a spring image from this full image. So I'm going to tap the wrench, tap on that reference slide at button and their colonies, my reference so I can focus on creating my own interpretation of the photo and turning it into a completely different season. We're going to slide a little bit down to this section here where we have the ground yellow, the ground green, the whites, and all these colors. We're gonna do, We're gonna start adding that grounds green, yellow on a new layer on top of the mountain. We're going to call this the grounds. That's good. Grounds. In spring. The colors are of course, new and fresh. And once the season that founders, the colors get darker and darker and the chlorophyll it, I think it's called an English, is breaking down in the leaves, in the foliage and you get darker colors and color slowly disappear. But then the green, everything that, sorry, in the spring, everything that grows new is beautifully fresh, nice bright colors and we're going to start with that right away here. This is slightly too bright perhaps. But we're going to add a different color to it in a minute. This will be our bottom are ground color, the base color. The next thing is, we're going to add that other color, that ground green to it. And just mix it a little bit in their day you go. And now we've got a nice scene already. See we're getting there. Then the ground middle green. I don't want to rename it. Pickets. Just going to add a little bit of the bottom, little bit here. We're going to create a little bit of that. Lights affect, want to have some of that color here too. So that some cases a little bit of the edge here, but more down, it is a little bit darker. And the next thing is I'm going to just take that hand again. And we're going to blend this in a little bit nicer. You get a little bit of this paint strokes that we go and that looks good. I like that. Good. Now on here what I'm gonna do right away, I'm going to create shadow of the tree. So I'm going to imagine my light comes a little bit from this side. And we're going to get that darker green. That should be there. And we're going to go for my brush smaller 54 per cent. That's nice. And we're going to add that down here at the bottom, at the end of the layer, little bit at the bottom, sorry, bottom of this layer off this little bit of a hill. And the tree will be casting a little bit of a shadow. There you go. And then we've got some leaves going here to some of that tree here. We're going to pretend a little bit of a shadow there. At this, a little bit darker. And now we get, sorry, larger and get that hand. And blend that in. Here too. A little bit like this. There you go. That looks nice here to blended in a little bit like that. Right? Now we're getting a little bit of a shadow effect, some dark colors, some lighter colors here. A nice thing. The next thing, what we're gonna do, we're going to add a layer on top of that. We're going to add some flowers. Rename this for flowers. And what is just pretend there are some snowballs growing here. So this spring, we're going to stick to that dark green color because we're going to add those leaves first. And what we're gonna do, we're not going to paint actually had in, we're going to just give the impression. And for that, we're going to lower the brush. I need to brush. Let's try 4%. That's way too big. 2%. Let's try that. Yeah, I like that nice. And we're going to just add some clumps. And we're going to add the weight bite in a minute here too and even hear that still would work. I'm just dabbing this in. At a few here to right there, wherever you like them. My goal sum here. The next thing is we're going to go to that, not that wide, wide, but the white gray. And with the same size. I'm going to add some flowers simply like that. Since we're working on a postcard or not. Yeah, definitely. It is a large landscapes. So we don't need to have all these details in it. We can really get away with just creating some simple things. And as you can see, just simply when you look at it like this, you're going to, your brain is going to say, hey, those are flowers. Even though there is no flower there, your brain basically tricks you. And we are making use of depth perception by creating some flowers like this. Now the water, the water is nice like this, but it needs some tones too. So we're gonna do that too. But we're going to do that under the ground because the ground is on top of the water, of course. So we adding a new layer on top of the mountains, we're going to call this water, or you could call it a lake. And we're going to play a little bit with colors in the water too. Let's see, where are other watercolors dedicated? The watery gray. We're going to start with the watery gray. Select it. Let's see the brush. How large do I want it to? Around 15%. I was probably that is not a dewater grade. Definitely not. That is still that light gray. I want dewater gray. There you go. That's better. Let's remove this two fingers. And let's try again, right? That's better. Again, same with the Skype on a seamless the mountain. We're going to put that in roughly the sky we didn't do roughly. That's the first color. Then what we're gonna do is, let's go for a water midtone. Basic little bit around the edge there. And down here, I want that mid tone a little bit. And I want some dark tones in the water too. Bit of shadow under here. And where the tree would cast a little bit of shadow. And let's add some shadow there too and the rest. Pretty much okay with. And the next thing is what we want to blend. We're going to use a large brush, 43. Will that work? Yeah, that would work nicely. And I'm blending it in right away in one go like this. And I like that a nice Stillwater. I want to leave it like this for now. I'm okay with this, some nice tones. And as you can see, if I hide the sketch, now, we're getting a painting. We're getting some mysterious part here, which we got a fix, of course, in the next lesson. But for now, we're done with this lesson. That was easy, wasn't it? We've now got a foreground. We've got our water, we've got our mountains and our sky. The next part will be the trees. I'll see you in the next part. 5. The Trees: Our painting is already starting to look like a nice landscape painting, but we're missing some focal points. We want to bring in some points we can focus on. The first focus will be a tree, a tree on the side, and a tree on the other side. Won three really on the side, side on the right and the left one slightly off the edge. And then of course we need ghosts. Wants to compliment this painting that a little bit more of a spring feeling, even more than when we do the trees. But let's start with the trees. For that, I need to bring back my sketch. I need to have a clue where these trees are going. There's a tree, desert tree. These trees are on top of everything. So I'm going to, on top of the flower layer, I'm gonna say trace for a new layer. And there you go. I'm gonna just add them on one layer. Now, for this one we're gonna do next is I'm going to need that same brush of course, but I need it smaller and it needs some different colors. We're going to start with the tree light color. Now I've kinda selected, Let's see, I've cut my brush on four per cent. Now that is too small for my tree, that would be good for the branches up there, but we want to slightly larger. Let's try a 7%. I like that. 7% is a nice for at least the main trunk. One. It's slightly wider. There we go. It's not it's not a, if we take the reference with it back again, it's not a fig tree. So I don't want to have a y fixed strong tree, it's just a thin tree. And I think that is fine. What I have now might even be too thick or any. And I hate to reference again, you could work from the reference. Of course if you wanted to. I'm going to now go to the four per cent and add some of these main branches. Not all the way. And this one, this one a little bit. Here's a branch going there. I think I'm okay with this. Let's see. Might wanna go up with that for yeah, that's good. Now some of these branches. I once for two. There we go. And that's good. And let's lower this to 2%. And I'm just following the sketch. But if you want to deviate from the sketch, you no problem, you can do that. You want your branches to look any different. Of course, your paintings, so you can change whatever you like. I don't think I'm gonna go less than I think I may want to add a level there. No, Why not? An unbranched going down. And though we have all the branches, now we don't have all the branches, but we're getting there. That one a bit thicker. There we go. Let's do decide to need to get some better connection with the others. There you go. That looks better. Needs to be slightly convincing when I'm doing a very realistic one. But we still wanted to be convincing enough so that it looks like a nice landscape. There you go on nasa branch going there. I think I've got them pretty much all on this side. Let's do them on this side. There you go. And that is definitely our first layer. A little bit more tree-like, bit more convincing. Let's hide the sketch. And there's our tree. And there's the tree on the other side. The next thing, what we're gonna do, we're gonna add some darker colors. So we've now used the lightest color. We're gonna go for the brown light color. Starting at the end. I'm going to give some better definition to this tree so that it is clear which branch goes where. We're going to mix this in. Slightly better. Let's see. We're going to start with this one here. This one where there is no sun. We're going to add some darker parts and just create this into slightly more convincing tree. This is a thick branch two. Alright, good. Perhaps dead one a little bit. Now we're going to slide it down to 1%. Then I want it. These brands just a darker side to this one goes in front of everything. That's starting to look a little bit like a tree or a little blended later on too, so that it fits in with the rest a little bit better. But for now we're just gonna keep on going with this. And also make sure some branches got in front of other branches. Some branches go behind other branches again so that you get a little bit. And DAD, the sense of a little bit of depth. Alright. Let's put that one in front of it. Then we're going to have this one behind it. See this one. And now we need to go to the other side. That one cost in front of it and this one goes behind it. Now I went through it. I don't want to with that. Let's put this one in front of that one here. This one goes in front of these. Alright, and she can probably noticed already, this takes a little bit longer. I don't want that on this side, the light is coming from this side. I want it on the back. This takes longer than painting in the mountains and all that stuff. Just goes behind it again. Alright. That is no good. Little bit more on here. Okay. And we're gonna go to the next color, that dark brown color. That is painting that in a little bit to you go basically to get some column nuances here and there. Well, some notes wherever I forgot some parts. I think I want it a little bit more on here. There you go. And right there. I want something too. I think I'm okay with this little bit here. This needs to be turned into a branch. A little bit better. This too. There we go. We need here. And the last color will be that tree dark color and the three dark color. I'm only gonna do right at the edges. Okay. Just one when in front of it, this one goes and from that again. And this one is behind it. I think I'm okay with that. Let's do that here to ride the edge a little bit down there. Just a little mostly on the edge here. And that's nice. Let's stick with this site first. Disk goes in front. This one goes definitely in front of that one. This one stays behind. And now we're having some nice tones on this tree. And only in a minute all going to blend in. Because it kind of looks nice, but somehow a slightly out of place. I want to say, there we go, Good. Right here. Some more. Here we need some I want some there. Good. I want a little bit of that brown color right there. And a little bit more there. So that gets a little bit more color or otherwise, the blending doesn't go that nice. I think. I'm okay. So like this, the next thing, what I'm gonna do is we're going to take that. And again to blend it, gonna go small. I don't want it that strong. Let's go for, let's see, 22%. So I've got it on four per cent of the size and 22% for blending. And I think that is pretty nice. Good go slightly stronger with this. Well, I think this will work now on these branches. In a sec, I need to go smaller. I'm going to go a little bit stronger. Let's go 45 and a size of two per cent. That's nice. And I want to blend in these colors so that these obvious strokes, these lines a little bit more into strokes like this. Because then it fits in a way better with the rest of it. Instead of having small lines, we want to have some larger strokes. There you go. Now if you want to have a very detailed picture painting, what you could do is do the same process and then go over it with a fine brush to bring in some details. I go definitely didn't do this one. Go to 40 small, no, 1% doesn't work. 2% is fine. And how about debt? Right? See more? I'm okay with this one, not this one. That needs to blend in a little bit nicer. I need to blend that in a little bit. And there's a really dark, obvious line there. I don't think I've blended this in. There. You go. Up here a little bit. Definitely. Alright, forgot this one. Good. C and now it looks fits the rest a lot more. Let's do the same here too. Leo. While for that bottom part, we could use a slightly larger size, but well, let's go with this one. Keep on going with it. All right, good. I think I'm okay with this. And there's our trees. Let's check this. I don't like going to blend that in. Slightly. Nicer. Give it some shape at the bottom too. There you go. Now, these are only the trunk and the branches. This doesn't look like spring yet, so we need to add some leaves and of course some blossom to really make this look like spring. For that we need a new layer and we're going to call this, let's call this blossom. Why not blossom? And there we go, blossom for that. What are we going to do first? We're going to find that blossom pink. I've got two things, a dark and a light pink. We're going to start with the dark pink, and we're going to add some blossom. Now it is on 1%, I would say that it's too small. Let's go for two per cent. Let's see if we're going to add some blossom here. And just stipple that n, like that. Yes, and that's just what I want. Good. And this is going to take just a few minutes to add Blossom. And we're going to want these are the mostly at the end of the branches. That's where they go. Slightly inside the branches. Now, this looks like a spring tree a lot more than without this map. You can how many you want to do if this is totally up to you. You want it to be a bit sparse or you want it to be full and blossom? Well, whatever you like. I would say. Go for that. Just don't use strokes like that because then you're gonna get strange blossoms. Really. Only use. Now I'm going to leave it like this. Good. Only use the stippling and do this tree to. And even if it's not completely connected to, to treat that is totally okay. Just reminds you, imagine a lot and AD, imagine these AARP. Really small branches your eyes can't see. Let's give this one a little bit more. Ip. There's warm to do that, right? That's nice. Let's see, I have a gap here. So let's go with some blossom dare to. The next thing is we're going to pick that different color, that light blossom pink slip, and then prepare that a little bit more to it as well. Pip. Oh, just using a technique simply called stippling. As you can imagine why that is called stippling. You can see this is just all of his random. To make this even more convincing, what we're gonna do, we're gonna add some of these blossoms. On the floor as if they have fallen down. And since this tree here, we can add them around here too. I'm going to pick that dark color to Lawson pink dark, some in-between C and now it looks convincing that some of these have fallen down. Let's go back to that light pink too. Just a couple more at the base. There you go. And we get that spring feeling. Now the last thing, what we're gonna do, we're gonna add some leaves to this. For that, I'm going to add a layer under the trees itself. I'm going to call this, of course, leaves then. So that I have a clue what I'm doing. And I'm going to add the mid green, is mid green to it. I'm going to go up a little bit in size around 3%, I would say. Just behind the blossom a little bit. Also on some other spots on the tree. We're going to add some leaves, not too many, because it is still spring. So this tree is not yet fully lift. Now, you can't say that I think doesn't have the food leaves yet. It's just starting to grow, of course. And again, ship, perhaps a little bit at random. I think that is enough. We're gonna do that for this one too. And I'm doing this on purpose behind the tree to get a little bit sense of depth, fun it. Alright, good. Old we're going to do or that, a little bit of that. Other green now, that really yellow green, just a couple Here in there. Just to get a little bit of a nuance in its, looks nice. Alright, I think we have enough to just a couple more on that side. Alright, good. Well, I'll leave it like this. Now our painting looks interesting, but we need some focus here. That's what we're going to use swans four, we're going to put them here and then we're going to work on the water a little bit, get a little bit more lifelike water since it's now one blend. We're gonna work on that in the next lesson. A painting is starting to look good already said, we need a little bit more of a focal attention, 0.1 extra. We've got one on the side, on both sides. We need those swamps to really complete this image and give it that nice spring feeling too. And then of course, that water, that water is to, to play. We gotta do something about it. That's for the next lesson. 6. Adding the Swans: Before we go on to add our final touches to this painting, we want to paint those swans. Now, we're going to make it ourselves really easy, even if you can't paint at all. Should have seen already so far, you don't really need to know how to paint. Just follow the steps. You get a beautiful painting. Same with the swans. I want to show you just a simple little trick to create some pretty convincing swans, even if you can't paint the door. Now, if you want to have a real challenge, of course, get that reference, start painting them from there. But I'm going to show you a pretty easy way to do it. For that. We're going to need our swans into this painting. So what we're gonna do is we're going to tap the wrench. We're going to say Add, and I'm going to add the swan photo. So Insert a Photo, pick this one photo, and then it comes into my painting. This is way too large. What I'm gonna do first, I'm going to take one of these dots, these handles, and give it the right size. Now that would still be too large, I would say around that size. So I've got it now on for 76 pictures pixels and 863 pixels around that size. I think that would work nicely. Tapping that ends now it's day. The place I think I'm okay with that. Where it is now might move it out. I don't want to have it in the middle, slightly off the middle. I think this would work fine. The next thing, what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna just move this image on top of everything. I'm going to press on it and I'm going to slide the Opacity. 40 per cent works for me. And we're going to add a new layer. And we're going to recall this name to swans because they're going to be more than one. Not all might put them on their own layer, I think. So Let's rename it and say S1. One, S1 only. Okay? Next thing is on this layer of swan, this one layer. I'm going to zoom in and want to pick that Schwann gray color. And I'm going to just paint over the painting and everything where it is white. I'm going to paint over, and now this is way too large. This brush, I think 2% might be the right size here. I'm just going to paint over this one. Don't wanna go that much outside. I don't want to have it super extra accurate either. As not nice as it wanted to be slightly convincing. I'm starting with the dark color and in a minute we're going to add the light color to it. I want to do this all on one layer. Now we're going to only paint the swan itself, not the reflection in the water. We're gonna do that differently. Now we've definitely got a nice small brush, go to 1%. Even the lowest, the smallest it can go and add the rest to it. Now, there's all kinds of different colors in it. We're just gonna do a simple impression of this one. And that basically means we're going to give it just a few colors, not all kinds of colon new answers. There we go. There's our S1. Now we've painted over everything and have no clue or other things go, but I think we can pretty much see it. Let's go for that black color. The S1 has no black, so we're going to use the water dark color or the tree down. Let's go for the water dark color. Let's see. That would be pretty okay. I'm going to undo it. I'm going to go for the water dark, tree dark. I think that would be more convincing. Yeah, that is a better black. Still have the 1%. Want to paint in all the black now on the tip of his nose, sorry, not nose, beak, of course. What am I saying? Down here? We've noticed there's the leg. Good. And for the next color, we're gonna do its beak now. Swan beak. Paint that in one simple color again. Yeah. Good, and if I hide the photo now, this is what we get. It's not done yet, but we're getting there. Might have this line slightly less thick. The ego blend it in slightly better goods. And now I can go back to the swan gray and see some water coming through. I may want to add some of this color on it a little bit better. I'm going to go to larger brush that makes it easier. Right? Now that's one part of the Swan. Now we're going to bring in the white. Alright, see, and now it's looking like S1, S0. And that gives a nice attention point of attention there. Some focal points. Good. Now we're going to find the white, the light gray we have. The white gray. Don't want to rename it. I'll only want to select it. Now on the swan, what we're gonna do is on the edge. I'm on, add this color to it on the head a little bit for that she could bring back the reference picture. So let's get the reference picture above the swamp. See if that works. Then we need to lower the opacity so that I can see where I want to add some light colors definitely, of course, at the back. Oh, am I under swan? Yes. I'm on the room in which I don't want to paint on that one. I need to make sure I'm on the swan layer itself. Good. That looks nice. We're going to blend this in a minute to make it look really good enough for the next thing. Let's see, we have the swan gray. We're going to take the water mid tone. And right, where there's some shadowy parts. We're going to add some of that color only to bring some depth in it. Once I'm there two, Good. Now we're going to hide that image. You can see it now. It already draws our attention by the colors, but we're going to blend them in. Of course. Let's see, around 50%. Size is on, I don't know, 1%, 2%. I'm going to blend that in carefully with the black. I'm blend this in. Really nice to the ego and no one is looking a lot better. Some color nuances in it, some tones here and careful around this bit to that is the lack of the swan. We don't want one debt to blend in completely ego. Let's see, let's bring this up a little bit. Let's take a look at it, seeing that looks a lot better, only hear 1%. Want to blend this into bit nicer. Connects the head a little bit. Hey, go on that. So S1, the back here. A little bit. That looks good. Now we're looking at the painting. See, that adds something really beautiful. Now I don't only want one S1, I want to swan, I want a couple of swarms in the spring that is much better than one lonely swung want this to be more spring-like. And so, and often, often, most of the time, swans are in couples, of course. Of course we need some reflection in the water. We're gonna do that now to get a second swan. That is of course, very easily what we're gonna do is we're going to slide this over to the left. We're going to say duplicate, and now we should have two swans. Let's see. The bottom one is to one now in the back and the top one is the one on the front. And we're going to move the top layer. The bottom layer. In this case, we're going to tap on the arrow and we're going to move it. I would say around here, that is nice. And we're going to tap it C, and that looks very nice. Just a pair of swans, a couple. The next thing is, we're going to need the reflection of the swans. Let's see, do I want to keep them here or do I want to move them up a little bit? Now? I think I want to just sign with them here. Now we have two swan swimming in the water, but of course reflects in the water. So what we're gonna do is we're going to select the layers. We're going to select the top swan and then slide this over to the right. And then we're going to say group. We're going to group these swans into a group. And we're gonna slide now over to the left and we're going to duplicate this group. The bottom group will be our reflection. So what we're gonna do with this, we're going to add select that arrow again. And what we're gonna do, we're gonna flip it vertically. And today we have our reflection, but it's on the wrong spot, so we're going to move it. First of all, under D S1 that is on the front. That is good. Now we're gonna go into that group tapping on the arrow. And I need that bottom one. And I'm going to move this one till it goes to the other one. There you go. Now our reflection is now of course, the heads are. What's happening with the swan status. Weird, isn't it? As if this is reflecting too? So what we're gonna do is we're going to take a eraser. For an eraser I simply use from the standard airbrushing. I'm going to use medium hard. For airbrush that is fine. The size doesn't really matter that much. I've got it on 17% and we're actually going to remove this too. What does ever is behind this one, the ego and that's good. And for the next one, this one, remove his head. So that is not in she might do it a little bit further. In the water in the ground. We move this just a little too, and that is bad and not wish way too strong. So what we're going to go do with these, we're going to of course set the opacity change that, press on the N in the layer, change the opacity to, I would say 60% looks good to me. And the other one we're gonna do the same 60% and then look, Edit and say, Now that looks a lot better. See, now we've got a nice one. Might go a little bit. Even back to 49, 45%. That's not right. Let's try 45. Tops 12. A wet cotton off 45 already. The bottom then. Yeah, that one, it's 45. Let's see. That looks better. Yes, now it's got a nice reflection. Alright, so we've got our swans ready. We now have all the major elements in our painting. The next thing, what we're gonna do in the next lesson is do the final touches. A little bit on the water, add a little bit of more shadow at some places just to finish this painting and create it and make it really beautiful and complete. I'll see you in the next lesson. 7. The Final Touches: Time for the final touches on our painting, we're going to take a look at it and see what we can improve on it. That's always a good thing once you're done and you think you are done. Let's take a look at painting and say, alright, I'm really happy with it, or leave it like this. Or I might add a little touches here and there. Touch it up a little bit so that it looks the best it can look. Alright, let's start with that. The first thing I want to change isn't right there in my painting, I see something that doesn't look nice. So I'm going to the mountain. I want to take that hand. Slightly larger. Seven per cent. That blend that in slightly better. That's good. And there was some kind of a blob. Alright, good. What we're gonna do is we're going to add a water line. First of all, we're going to the final touches. And where's the water? On the water or above the water? Let's do a new layer above the water and call this or to improvements, improvement, fine water improvement. For that first thing I'm going to need is the light color again, that white, gray. And my brush, I'm thinking I'm going to slide to 1%. Now, first I'm going to start at the swans. And we're going to add a little bit of water here right at the bottom and get some movement going. There you go, see, and that already simple trick improves it a lot and we'll do that on this one to add some movement to it. As simple as that. Now the swans are moving. They're not static anymore, but they're moving. I like that. We're gonna do the same here. And we're going to just add a shadow line, sorry, not the shadow light and shoreline. And you may want to just add some lines under a two like that. So did you get the idea of water? That is, water is of course at the world, at the bank of the river or the bank of the lake, whatever disease is not static. But there is some movements. So we're adding some movement to it. Now if you want to, you can move. You can add some movement in some different places, but you don't have to. You could leave it like it is, just, you could add a little bit of movement to like this, see, and that just looks a lot better. And keep in mind, this is not going to be huge painting like this. It's going to be a small painting like this size. It's like the smaller even I think. So. You won't see all these details. It's all about the impression we're giving. The next thing, what I wanna do, I want to add a layer on top of everything. I'm going to remove that swan image first four on that group with the swans. And we'll add some general shadows. My typing, not shadows. I'm going to set this to multiply. So I'm tapping on the end and moving up to multiply. I'm going to probably do this around 50 per cent, I think would be fine. I'm going to pick the dark black color, the tree dark on the mountain, the mountain dark. I'm going to do the mountain dark, not totally black. Alright? I'm gonna go to 2%. I think I'm going to start with the swans. And we're going to let them cost a little bit of a shadow onto the water like this. See, that makes it more convincing, life-like, I might not too much blend this in a little bit. 4%, 30%, 4%, 30% of sizes, four per cent and the opacity around 40 per cent blend this in just a little bit. Here to get back to the brush. I'm gonna do the same here at the edge of the water. I don't think I need to blend that in. They just don't press too hard with your pencil. Get some shadow into the water. Also under these lines I've painted in. By doing that, see you get the idea. The illusion of some small waves going on. Very simple. That you go and you get the idea that there's a little bit of movement in the water. What I wanna do here, I'm going to go to four per cent at this bank. I simply want to add some dark color here. Want to blend it in on the edges. Just a little bit better than this. There you go. And I might want to do that on this side a little bit to add some shadow on the water. Now blended them going to 100 per cent. I think for this blending, that's better, right? Do that on the other side to blend this in a little bit better, see, and now we've got some, not only blue, white, sorry, the blue smooth water, but some shadow here. And dab, going back to this brush, smaller 2%. And I want to add some shadow to the flowers to just a nice finishing touch. There you go. That looks a bit more convincing. Okay, that's more smooth. You go Good. Might want to add some general shadow, might do go larger, sea around six per cent. And I'm carefully adding some general shadow. And I want some more shadow right there. Smoothness a little bit. There you go. Good. I think I like that. One may wanna do a little bit on the tree to that is too large to per cent. No, that is not good. 3%. Bottom of the tree and at the back of the tree, a little bit like this. Just giving the tree a little bit of shape. By adding a little bit of shadow. Like that. They go, Oh, I like that better. Hit to just at some of the bottom of these. Good. I think I'm okay with this. Alright, let's see, at the bottom of the mountain, 6%. I'm gonna do that too. And we're going to of course, blend that in a little bit, following the direction of the mountain. And around here, I'm doing the same. They're all not on the tree, please. I want to stronger. There they go. And now I'm blending it in. But again, following the direction of the mountain. Now I might have someone on the tree, so I'm going to use the eraser and erase that on this site, the ego, and apparently I removed it there a little bit. Too much. My blended in a little bit. I think. I'm pretty happy with this. Well, and that concludes our spring edition of the goulash Procreate postcards. We've got two beautiful postcards now already a one-to-one and lovely spring one. Next up is the project. So I'll see you there. 8. The Project: Welcome to the project. Now you may have noticed that there are two more photographs attached to this class, some folks with some sin it did I forget to paint them in? No, I actually did not forget to paint them in. But that will be your project. For the project, I challenge you to add these geese to the painting. You can do both photos. You can do only one of them and place them where you think they look the best. A day flight towards the swans, whether they fly away, whether they fly higher in the sky. I'll leave that up to you. Find a place where you think they look best and paint them in just in the same simple way that we've done this one. So don't make them complicated and detailed. Just quick painting. You can use the colors I've provided or pick your own colors from the keys. I'll leave that up to you. Once you have done painting, I would of course, love to see the complete finished painting. So please do post it in the project section for all of us to enjoy. And if you want to help me even a little bit more than I would say, leave a review so that I can get some feedback class. And so that others will find this class more easy to see what other students think of it and just encourages them to follow the class as well. Thank you for being with me in this class. I hope you really enjoyed it just as much as I enjoyed creating this painting and then creating a lesson about it. If you haven't done the winter edition, I would say do that too. Or if you just want to do something completely different, I've got a lot more Procreate classes here for you to enjoy on Skillshare. Well, again, thank you for being with me in this class and I hope to see you in another class.