How to create a cute and magical under water scene using Procreate

1. Intro: Hi. Hi and welcome to this new skill share class. My name is Brenda Baker. I'm an artist and teacher based in the Netherlands. I started to use Procreate in 2018 and already told over 32,000 students my appropriate classes. I have over 20 fun appropriate class for you to explore. In this class, I will be teaching you my way of illustrating acute imaginary underwater scene using Procreate on the iPad. But you are most welcome to draw with any other medium you want to use instead. We will be diving deep in and create the whole illustration step by step, starting at the beginning with creating a sketch all the way to the finished project. We will create a gorgeous and colorful background, adding rugs and the most cute animals you like, all that in a lovely underwater environment between a diversity of plants and where the sun mysteriously shines through. So if you are just as excited about this as I am, then let's come in and let's get started. 2. Getting the downloads and explaining the brush set: So the first thing we want to do is to get all the downloads into your iPad. So you must go to your browser for this, open the class, and if you go to projects and researches, scroll down so you can see every download of it, I'll be starting with the appropriate Canvas, tap on it, download it. Then here it is download now, tap on it again, and it will be visible so you can import it into the gallery, and you can find it in the upper left corner of your gallery. So I'm going back to the class. I'm going to get the swatches by tapping on it, download. Again, tap on this one and on this one, and it will be visible right here. Import it. And if you go to your swatch palette, you can find it all the way at the bottom, directly set it to set as default and switch to my disk. That for me is very easy to work with, but do as you like. And at last part, we have to get the brush set I prepared for you. It's a large one this time with all my illustration brushes in it. Again, do the same thing. I will get visible here. And you will see all the brushes you've just imported at the top of your brush library. So let's dive in a little bit further to this one. This is my canvas. The canvas is not very difficult. You have a top texture and the bottom texture, and you draw everything in between here. So you can create new layers here. And you will see that as we go. And for the brushes, I will run you through very quickly. Is my illustration pencil, and I will be using it with different sizes. I've create sizes here, perfectly fit for this ten by ten inch canvas. And I refer to them in class like size one, two, three, four, from the bottom up, I'm counting. So most of the time I sketch with a very small size, but when I fill in the colors, I'll use it at a bigger size. So that will be very easy, and it will fasten your artwork. Uh, here, I have a playful texture brush, and you can use it as stamps, but you can also lightly smudge with it, and it darkens as you go over it. And this is an illustrated texture brush I like very much. It's got a lot of strokes in there as we go. I normally use it a lot finer, but you will see me use it in a big size as well. Uh, here I have a lot of brushes, and you can easily use them by creating strings. You see the first one is always a little bit crooked. So I start outside of the canvas and I can move it to my liking. And these are all working a little bit of the same, just slightly different. So you can create a variety of plants very easily. Also, you can see a lot of these brushes, and these were made with my illustrated pencil as a base, and then I created some different leaves. So you can play with it very easily. And if you zoom in, you will see the pencil texture as well as it has some pencil gaps in it because I like that. You can also see that in here when you zoom in, and that's why I like them so much. But you have to draw very slowly in the way. They will make a lot of fun. And here, this has a double drop, both side, and this has scratchy leaves, both side. You can see them switching side to side along the way you're drawing. Those are very fun, I think. Also, I've got some foolage brushes. I made some flower brushes, and these are fun with colors. You can see they have a slightly different color in it. And I did the same. And also, I've drawn this by hand with a pencil kind of look. So you can see those little marks in there. And I did the same for the foolage leaves. And when I make them bigger and zoom in, you can see also the textures in those. We'll be using these in class very little, but I would like for you to have them as well. I also created two fun bubble brushes. These are more meant to be like air drops in the water. And these are, yeah, well, more for the color and slightly fun. And well, you can play them. It's a little bit between water bubbles, water drops, and Felix brushes. So you can use them to your liking. I created more brushes for you, some plants. So I'll be using green for that because that would be easy visible. So I created some stemps from flowers as well with the textures in it, as you can see. I created this one out of a watercolor brush. So these are fun as well to use. This is also a fun one. It's already colored in with a little bit of an outline in there, so that's fun. And I have another one, and you can use them to your own liking. And here you can see a lot of texture in this brush as well. The next one are funky doodle plants. They are fun and easy dropping in. So they switch from side to side just every now and then to get them more randomly. And I will show you in class how I draw this by hand. So if you're not willing to look for the brushing, you have, Oh, I've just one plant of that. You can easily draw them by hand. It's very easy. Also, as with this funky doodle plant. I also show in class how you can create a plant like this while drawing. And here are the soft brush and the bouquet lights, and these are from Procreate itself. So that's a quick overview of the brushes. So I think now we're ready to dive in and let's start creating. 3. Creating the Sketch: I so the first thing we want to do is create a sketch. So let's start. I know a little bit of what I'm going to create. So I'll start out with a rock in the middle somewhere at the sea bottom. It's just a little bit of a blob. It's just a raw sketch, and we don't have to stick to that sketch later on, but it's just for our ideas. So I also want to create some plants. So a little bit of large ones over here. And we're going to create a lot of depth with them. So a large one here, let's create something like this here just a little bit of wobbly lines. Don't make it too flat. They have to have some movement in them. So that's important to me. And we can draw one plant in front of the other, so that's okay. I'm also going to create some lovely plants out here, just some little other leaves. And this is just a raw sketch. So don't get too sturdy on that one. And maybe we can draw something around here which has lovely leaves like this. And, you know, yeah, it's underwater, but we can make our own imaginary underwater world from it. So as long as these lines are a little bit wobbly and a little bit fun to look at, it's just a rough sketch. So create those leaves in any wave or shape you like. And maybe some plants in the background somewhere and here in the background also. But we can come to that later on because we can use some stems for that. But the one in the front must be clearly visible. So that's important. I want to create some fun jellyfish here. These are floating by maybe two. ******* from this way in and they are funny. So I give them funny, sweet eyes and make them a little bit like Kawai shape or something like that to make it more fun. They're instantly happy faces. So that would be fun. Maybe a fish in here that's coming from the opposite side. Lovely lovely long tail. And maybe that fish is looking up to those jellyfish up there, saying, hello. So maybe for the fun part, I want to create an octopus here, a little octo maybe I do it on a new layer so I can play a little bit with that. Also for sketching, I can use new layers because when I don't like it, well, that's okay. An octopus has eight legs, so we're going to draw it. I want to have the octopus looking at some pearls. So like, Oh, wow. Look what I found in the sea. So that's what I'm going to create two arms this way and it's going to have found some pearls. So and then we can change six other legs. So well, maybe coming from here. Then we can add some volume to the legs. And the more thickness you add to the legs, the more fluffier and the more happier it's going to seem. So that's why I'm creating lovely white shapes of arms. Legs, arms. Everything is fine for this one. So she's also very happy looking at the pearls, so I must face her downwards. Like so give her a face. You instantly see she's looking downwards by doing this, so let's make it not too much visible. It's just a sketch. Okay, so I can draw some yes in here. This one a little bit smaller because it's coming from the other side. And here are the pearls, so she looking into the pearls. And she's like, surprisingly, Oh, my gosh. I think that's wonderful. And, yeah, I give my characters. A lot of my characters, I give glasses like me, so I mostly draw myself. So if you see a cute little doll, she has white hair and glasses also. I don't know how to connect the glasses, so I just keep the glasses on here. So maybe I'm going to make them a little bit bigger. Maybe more obvious. That's much more fun. So I at these classes. I think that's more fun cute. She also has cute cheeks, pinkish ones. So I think now our little sketch is ready. I'm going to erase some stuff because I don't think I don't need them anymore. So she's wobbly. That's okay. I'm going to draw everything I cannot see. So I just have the sketch ready with the lines I don't need. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. That's okay. I'm going back to the layer below that, and I'm going to see what blend I want in the front, and I want this lovely shape in the front, so I'm going to erase this one from the back because it's larger, and I think it will be still visible if it's all the way in the back. And also, this is still sketch, so I can play with that along the way, it's just for my visibility. And I'm not going to hold through the sketch because we have stamps for that. And we're doing that on different layers, though, that's okay for now. Just for now, I think this is a fun sketch we can create. And I'm going to create this to one layer, put it on multiply, and in this case, it's already on multiply. And then we change the opacity to slightly visible. So again, this is still my sketch. It's not my final work. Maybe I decide to do the fish on bigger or the jellyfish smaller or another side. So let's go from here. This picture only exists in my mind. So if you're drawing to, you're perfectly fine with changing your subject. First, I want to create the background. I'm going to leave this illustration on top, so it's always visible for me. 4. Creating the Background: So now our sketch is ready. It's not like we have to stick to this plan because this plan only exists in our own minds. Every viewer didn't know what your sketch originally was until you show them. And now you can see my process, but you can also see, maybe I changed something along the way. I don't know yet. Let's try. First of all, I'm going to start with creating the background. And for the background, we can use some colors. I've made a color palette for you. And here you can see these colors we can use for the background. And think of the background as if you're underneath the water and you can look slightly upwards and far away above, there's the sea level, and you can see some sun shining through, but there are also plants everywhere around and so we can see lovely shades coming through the plants. So there are blue colors. There are green colors. There are darker colors. And usually, when you're looking up towards the sun shining through the sea, it's lighter above and a little bit darker below. So that's what we're going to create. I mostly create the backgrounds for these scenes first because then you can visualize the colors you create for your subjects in your painting. So let's start out. I've created this block of nine colors, and those are the colors we can use for our background. For that, it's very weird, yes, we have a ugly face. We go to the BB playful texture brush and create a large shape for it, maybe the fourth stripe, size four. First I'm going to the bottom texture. We leave that at the bottom, and we create the colors here, so I'm going to use the first color of this block that is the darkest one here, and we go and create this in the corners here. Don't overthink it. Just tap and dap and blob. You can hear me do that because these are stamps, it's mimicking the colors. That's very interesting to do so. So in the upper corners, you can use a little bit of blues. Those are the only ones I want you to create so far. And then we can fill it in with whatever color you like. I'm liking to use the greens a lot. So don't overthink the use of the colors. And just tap and dap, make sure everything has blocked out the white in the end. That's okay if you want to create something, but make sure the white is no longer visible. I use that one, right? Well, that's okay. It's okay with me. If it's okay with you, it's okay with me as well. Might be this color again here as well. And maybe some blues at the top again. So now you can see there is no more white visible. What we're going to do now is blend all these colors, but be careful. Don't blend them too much. I want them to be a little bit more visible like the sun is shining through the leaves and the shadow. So you have light and darker spots and you can still see some stains of the colors, but not completely fluid. So we go into the magic wad brush, go to Goshen blur and slide it as far as you like. I can slide it all the way, but then all the colors has faded. I think this is stunning, but it's not exactly what I want. I want them a little bit blobby. I'm looking at the of my space in front of me. So I think that will be okay for now. So I'm at 64%, but it's up to you what you like. Maybe you like it more more of the colors visible. But yeah, I think 64% for me will do it. 61, 64. That's okay. We have some shadows in here, and we can play a little bit with the colors we like. So maybe I'm going to duplicate this one just to keep it safe, and I can play with that one. So I'm going to put this one off and going to play. Maybe I want them a little bit more dull. So maybe I put the saturation a little bit downwards. No, it's not what I want. Maybe a little bit bluish green, green is for me, a little bit more green. So I think that will be lovely, maybe a little bit darker. No, I think that's okay. So a little bit desaturation, 1% will do it for me. And notice I have a different color. I see perfectly here than when I see it on the screen, so it changes the color for you as well. So create this one to your own liking. If you're satisfied with that, congratulations. You have your first layer finished. Let's get on to the next one. 5. Drawing the Rock: So now I'm going over to the octopus, the octopus that's sitting on a rock. So I'm going to create the rock first. I'm going to create a new layer, and I take the middle color of these blues. For this one, I'm going to put off the background because I want to color it in with the illustrated pencil brush. And sometimes when your color is dark enough, you can't see through if you colored everything. So that's why I take the colors off at this moment, and I'm going to create this little rock, and I'm going to fill it in with a color. I'm not going to use color drops because I like it. I will zoom in for you. When you have a little bit of see through from the textures because I want to have it as an illustrated something. So yeah, I'm going to color it in, but not everything as smooth as possible. I don't want to see any white, so don't leave the gaps too open, but like this, this is fun if you can see a little bit through here. I will put the background on again, just for this first layer so you can see it. And you can see you hardly can't tell sometimes when your colors are darker, if you can see it visibly enough. So I'm going to tap for a new layer and I will put it on the clipping mask. And you can see now it's clipped down here with this little arrow. And if you don't know what a clipping mask is, everything I will draw on this layer directly above this when it's clipped, you can't see anything else. So for instance, if I take this orange, I can only draw visibly on the layer below. So that's very easy and very convenient. The rest is still there, and I can move it if I want. So you can see it will become easy to use and play with it. So it's easy, and you always draw within the lines when you use a clipping mask above this. Now, I'm going to create some shadows. So I've been using this middle color, so I can use this dark color for the shadows. Now I will be using that with the illustrated texture brush, and I create some stripes above here. You can also see it's hardly visible. For me, it's harder than I see on screen, so you are safe now. And for the lighter part, I can use some stripe here as well. I can choose to blend them with the same brush. By holding it here, you can see it changes and it takes the same brush with you. So when I'm on the smudge brush, I have the same brush here, that's convenient, and I'll go and blend in just by listening. Tapping and dabbing. So maybe this is just where the sunlight is coming from above a little bit, but the octopus creates a little shadow, and we're going to create that afterwards. But so far, I'm fine with this. I'm going to create a new layer above this, as well. So also with the clipping mask, I will go to this bright yellow one. And I'm going back to the Illustrating pencil. Size three, and I'm going to create thicker, thinner, push, lift, push, lift, push, lift, push, lift. I'm going to create some stripes like this. So push, lift, push outside the lines, lift, push, lift. Maybe also one here. So it's visible through its pause. I think the rock is ready at this time. So I group them immediately together. And flip it in, and I will call it the rock. I don't always do that, but for the sake of this tutorial, I would like to try and keep up with it. So it's easy when I go to create more shadows or more details to the rock, I can easily go back to this one. 6. Drawing the Octopus part 1: A So now I'm going over to draw the octopus. She is sitting on top of the rock, so I create a new layer on top of the rock as well. I'm going to draw with my illustrating pencil because it's opaque one, and I can play with it. And for the colors, I'll be using a pinkish kind of red pinkish kind of color. I think this would be suitable for her. And let's see what it does. I have my size at size three for the outline, and I'm going to create some blobby shape. It's not perfect, but I think it will be fun. So yeah, here I go. I'm going to create her face first. Now I'm going to color that in. I'll make a bigger size so I can speed up my tempo. And again, not a color drop because I want to have that illustrated pencil look shining through. Then her legs will be coming from behind the head, so I'm going to create a layer underneath her head, and I'm going to draw her legs. So on this one and let's get them all together from behind, so that's okay with me. Free ones from here. Color them in. And yes, I could separate these all on different layers, but I'm too lazy for that, and it's not always needed. You just have to be more careful when drawing later on, but if you want, you can use different layers as well. Just make sure you colour them all the way in. Maybe bump up the size a little bit for the speed. You see, I'm going to create new lines and new shape, and that's okay. I don't stick to my sketch for this one because maybe now she would get any fluffier, so that's fun as well. This one is coming from behind her. And I have one coming from here. And I have one coming from here as well. You see, I go outside the lines with my illustration, but that's fine. Just making it more yeah, interesting to me, so it's not a complete picture. So that's fine. So we have created six legs here. This one should be a little bit thicker to the other ones. And now we have the two legs coming from beneath her head, but it's coming towards her face, and it's not in her face, but it's above this leg. So I'm going to create a new layer behind her face, but above these legs. So I'm going to create new ones from here. And if it's hardly visible for me where I'm going, I can always turn this off and create a new one from here. So it's easier visible for me. And then I can put them back on again. So, yes, it's hardly visible now, but you will see what we're going to create in a moment. We're going to create some shadows and some highlights. So I'm going to starting at the bottom, always, and going to the last part of her, create a new layer and create a clipping mask. You remember, we only can draw on this layer. So if we create a shadow from this leg, which is on this layer, we create a shadow here, this one automatically will pop up. So we're going to choose a slightly darker color than this one, going a little bit downwards. It's a little bit darker, but I'm also moving it to the right because I want to have more saturation as well. I can use either this one or this one, and I think I want to have it playful texture again, so I'm sticking to this one. And I'm going to create a little bit of darkness at the bottom of her legs. And you see, I'm lifting it. You can hear it. I'm lifting it every time. So I get new stripes and new how do you say it? If I go on and on, it will not pick up new pixels. So I'm using this one to go over and over again. And here you can see this one is coming from behind her arms, so I can go over this arm, but it's not visible because this one is on top of it. I call it arms, but it's still her legs, so sorry for that. And also, she has a little bit shadow to where this arm is above it. And I can always go back to these layers. So that's no harm done if you're not exactly going from the right spot immediately. Her head is also going to give some shadow. It's a little bit visible already. And then I create a new layer on top of this and also clipping mask. And I'll take the original color, and I go a little bit lighter from there to create a little more fun and depth. And you see, when I lift it every time again, you can see these little pencil stripes. So that is what gives it a little bit more character to my liking, so And maybe I can take these colors in here and maybe I'll sort them a little bit later for you. I want to remove this one because it's lighter, and I can go even darker than this one. So maybe a little bit darker and a little bit more towards purple to create another let me check it another layer of intense darkness maybe on the shadowed layer again. Yes, a little bit where everything is a little bit darker. And I have to see it when I turn off the sketch layer. Then it's way more fun to look at. You can still see this is a little bit dull. This is a little bit dull, but this is coming more to life already, so that's much fun. Maybe now I see there is a little bit of openness, but maybe that is where the pearl is coming from. I can always color that in later when it disturbs me. Let's get on. These are back balls, the first layer of balls. Let's group them by sliding them together, group them, so we clean them up. I'm going to rename them by, uh, well, shall we call them, Background legs? Just to give it a name. And we're going to do the same to this one. And with a new layer on top, put it to clipping mask, and let's take the same colors again. So this is the color we used, and here we go and create the shadows coming from underneath her head. So I'm drawing them inward and underneath his and maybe some underneath where she's holding the pearls. Good as I can see this also has got to be a little bit darker because these are from behind. So I'm going to make it very dark. This is from this leg here, so I can create a little bit more darkness there. So that's when I go all the way in and out again of these layers. And I can make some changes whenever I want. So you do too. So you're just picking my brain and see how I work here. So I go back to that one again, flip this in and go back to this one, create A here some more darkness. More darkness where the pearls will be the will create more shadow. There will also be some highlights, so I can create a new layer on top of that with a lighter color and also a clipping mask. Don't forget that, and you'll easily see it when you go the wrong way. See, I draw with the shapes of the legs a little bit, so that's fun. And I think these are ready. So I will call these her hands for this group. So it's for me, that's where she's holding something hens. For now, that's okay. And I can always go back to those layers. So let's get on with a head. Also for this one, a new layer, a clipping mask. And let's start with a dark color. Maybe a little bit bigger. And you see I moving with the shape of our head. I can go to the highlighted part, and I will go back and forth with this. So that's okay. Take the lighter part. And sometimes I move the lighter all the way over the darker part again. So that's fun. Maybe even a little bit lighter on top of that again because there will be more light and a little bit darker from the bottom up. Maybe a little bit darker again. I can play with a little bit of darkness for this as well. And her background legs to her liking. We can smudge that a little bit. And as long as we move it towards the point it's directing to, we can play with it. That's the fun part of this brush as a blender, as well. So you can pop those colors and blend them to where you like. So as well as her arms. I'll be using this as well. So it's coming more to life already. So let's check it. When the sketch is off, I often do this because then I can see more shapes, and I can even go in and define a little further, maybe with some purple, dark blue, and maybe with the illustrating pencil. So I can Oh, I have to go to the right. You see here I was drawing on the arms, so it wasn't visible. So when I go here, I can pop in some extra details on the legs as well. This one is way in. But also with this brush, it's a fine blender brush, so You can play with this, as well. I just so you can give it some slighter bit of more accent, so I'm going to create this on this layer as well. Just see where it's coming from. And blend it? Forwards and backwards. We can blend however we like. And it's just by giving it. Don't go all the way smoothing back and forth. Stripe it out because that's where the textures come from. And sometimes they mustn't be very visible just adding some hint of shadow or tones of stripes. That would be enough sometimes. So I think this will be too hard. Maybe soften it up a little bit. Then I go to her arms, and then I go do this, as well. Blend them in. You can see. I'm I'm I go back and let us see what you do. So I'm going to blend this a little bit inward, and then I take it with me and then I'm going to pull it back again. Look, that's visible for you. And maybe I'm bringing in too much detail, but, yeah, I want you to learn as well. And now I go back to the head. Let's get rid of these layers. Fix that. And let's see that we can bring a little bit more shadow in here with the darker colors as well. Mm. Blending from outside in, blending from inside out. Yeah, let's keep it striped and with a lot of textures. So don't smoothen it too much. I think this looks gorgeous. Is it an octopus? I don't think so, but that's okay with me. 7. Drawing the Octopus part 2: I can also see now I need some shadow below her. So I go back to the rock layer and I open it and I go creating a new clipping mask on top of everything. And maybe I can use this darker purplish one, maybe a little bit more bluish. And I'm going to create a little bit shadow underneath this what I'll be using. It's either this way. These two brushes are fine. If you use this brush, just use stamping. I'm not on a clipping mask. You can see that and I can change it easily, and then you can see what it does. I immediately gets rid of everything that's outside of the box. So I can also play with this one as I blender brush by going back and forth. As long as it's a little bit darker, hear it tabbing and dabbing on my screen, not smudging, but tab and dabbing. And then I can place it while I'm doing this, so I push it back, bring it towards me, pushing it back. It's just playing with these. So you can see it happening in front of you. There's no right or wrong. Just make sure your paws aren't hovering above the surface, so I think there should be a little bit rock up here, as well. I can easily fix this because I'm having a clipping mask. If I push this backward, I can create more rock behind her. So I'm going to my magic wand liquefy. And I pushing up the rock as well a little bit. So I see the clipping mask wasn't very part of it. Oh, it must be the shadow that would be on top of there. So I can create a little bit of shadow because it's all the way here. So it will be dark anyway. But now, you see, it's not floating from somewhere or anything like that. So I think this is fun to look at. Let's get more details on the octopus again. Let's give her a face. And for a phase, I will go to a new layer on top of that. Will I be creating a clipping mask? I can do so. But maybe I will for the eyes. That's okay. For the eyes, that will be okay. For the glasses, I don't maybe because the glasses are going outside of her face. So let's keep that in mind. So I'm going to create the eyes now. I'm having a like one, very small size. Sorry, this one, the very small size. And let's get on with the illustration again so I can see what I was looking at. I start with her pupils. And give her a spark in her eye at the same time. And when I give her a highlight here, I want to give a small la moon like shape half circle on this side, and I will blend that at the same time. So I'm going to stick this very softly up and down. And when you zoom out, it's it's making her eyes look glossy and give it a watery glare in it. So is it glare? Glare glimmer. Shimmer, glimmer? I don't know. I'm sorry. My English isn't that good, but I hope you understand. So now we have pupils of her eyes. I want the white of her eyes, but those are behind her pupils. So I create a new layer, and you see when I create a new layer in between the clipping mask, it automatically has a clipping mask. I go to the white, maybe one size bigger size two, and I can create a little shape outside. Oh. I know I want a little bit of white visible here. Yeah, maybe that's funny to do so. Yeah, I think that's funny. Also on the same layer, I would draw her mouth. What color? I think maybe like some of the purplish darkest color here. I'll get it in here as well. I have not decided yet if I want to make her smile or surprised or something like that. So maybe for now, she will be surprised, maybe she's smiling and happy with it later on. Maybe I can draw a little bit of light in her open mouth. So it instantly gives her more depth, so that's fun. And I want her to have some lovely rosy cheeks, but what color should I do for her? Maybe some lighter color. I don't know yet, so I created a new layer so I can play with that. Maybe here. Maybe I get them some more pinkish. Let me see. I can play with these saturation a little bit maybe darker. No, that's not funny. This will be lovely, I think. Yeah, this will be cute. And on top of that, we can create glasses. Now, for me, I used to wear black glasses. The frame of my glasses were black. Now I have some rose gold, so now everything I draw has rose golden glasses, as well. So let's see if we can create that. It's a little bit of golden and yellow and rose in between. So let's first go to a new layer, create a circle. Hold it, and then tap. Then you have a perfect circle. I want to move it a little bit, so create a little bit bigger. Move it a little bit to the side here. I'm going to create another one bi duplicate, so I have the same circle. I'm going to create it here as well. And maybe I want to get this one because it's a little bit more to the background a little smaller, maybe a little bit to this way. Maybe a little bit upwards also. I think it's I think it's funny when the glasses are a little bit outside the head. I like that a lot. Making this one a little bit bigger again. So I can always change that later, so I will create a bridge between those two. And I'm going now, I'm going to do blend these together by punching them. Go back, punching them together, and now I'm going to use the alpha lock because, yeah, I want to play with this with the rose and the pink and something like that. So let's create a little bit. Pink shimmer. Maybe I'll turn them to black anyway, because there is a lot of pinkish going on in here. But yeah, we can always play with that. Maybe some orange colors just to your liking, right? We can play with a lot of colors within here and always end up with a lighter one at the outside. Just go over it a little bit, so you can see all colors in here, but make sure the outside lines and there where it catches the light are a little bit lighter. And also a fun thing to do is create another one, like so, duplicate, swipe to the left, duplicate, and change this into black. Fill layer. So you have the background that is, I will put off the illustration. Now you can see you have more defined because this is an open texture, but you can also move it a little bit downwards. So there will be a shadow of the glasses. I want to say brill. In the Netherlands, we call it Bill, but it's glasses in English and maybe turn down the opacity a little bit. And also I want it on multiply. So it blends in with everything behind it. So this is what you can play with to give it more defined structure of the glasses. So I think this will be fun. If you want to have it more like real glasses, you can see a little bit darkness on here. So maybe we can play with that as well. And for that, we must color within the glasses, but I don't want to have it on the same layer. So what am I going to do with an easy step? For now, I'm going to take these classes. Take this as a reference. So everything I draw on another layer will refer to that. So I can easily give it a color drop within now. And the easy part is, it's on a It's on another layer, but it's still using these lines as a reference. Immediately, now taking this off because if you forget that and you want to color drop something else, it will be referring to this, as well. And if you don't put them off immediately, you have to search for Where is my reference layer? Why is it wrong? So I will explain that you have to do it right away. And now I can play a little bit with your opacity and you can see now it is more of glasses because it's just not a color, so just a little bit different. You can also make it darker. So, for instance, if you want to use a brownish color because, yeah, why not wear sunglasses underneath the water? You can change that a little bit. Maybe this is fun, too. Maybe I'll leave it like this. I don't know yet. I can play with it. I have enough layers, and if I don't have enough layers, well, that will be fun. I think she needs some, how do you call it? We say Such Nap. Sucking some things where she can stick everything on it underneath her paws. Will I do it on the same layer? I think I can get away with doing it on top of everything. So let's get if let's get to see if it will work out fine. It's just creating as I go now here, so that will be fun. Maybe a little bit darker as well. So we take the darker part. Just some fun dots at the bottom side. Just here and there, we don't have to use much of these. Just a hint. That's the fun part with imaginary creatures, and to give it a slighter look as well, we zoom in and create maybe a lighter.in there. That's fun. Maybe this is too light. Maybe I go a little bit back in here, but not too much. It's light enough. Just a little bit of visibility in there. And because it's on a different layer, I can always play. M. I think she's cute now. This is fun. And now I have to create a shell. Shell will be a little bit beige, yellow. I can create a little bit. Like, so on a new layer on top of her hands on top of everything of the octopus, I'm going to create a new layer, and I have to get my illustration back again. And this is why I have to draw everything. Again, like so, create a little bit of darkness, maybe a little bit more brownish for the shadow part of this one. Maybe some stripes. I can play with this. Get rid of my illustration because it's annoying me. It's just a hint. It doesn't have to be perfect all the way. Maybe I'm giving it a little bit more of a shell shape. Smaller size. It doesn't have to be precise. It's just a hint. I'll be darker again. Okay, and now the fun part, the pearl gets in. And I want to create a very whitish yellow one, bright color. And I'm going to draw this behind the oyster because it's coming from inside, and I want to draw a huge one. So now I don't have to be careful too much about this one. And I'm going to play a little bit with lightning on it, so I'm going to go wider. On top. I'm also going to play again. I duplicate it, and I'm going to play with another tool, which is called bloom. And you can see now we have a sliding bar. You can see it's a little bit glowing even more. And I'm going to another layer below that, creating a new layer. Put that layer on Ed. Go to the bright orange with the soft brush, and I'm going to create a little glare. So it immediately gives some light to this illustration already. So I think our octopus and her bright pearls are ready at this moment. And let's crop the whole octopus. Everything has to do with your octopus, even with the hands, background legs, and group these again as well. So we now have the whole octopus group. Here. Maybe I want the shadow placed in this as well, because when I want to get rid of the octopus and I want to um I want to draw something else on it, I have to change the shadows as well. So I'm moving that all also in this group. So I will call this the octopus. October. I can say this one is finished now. See, now the shadow is also gone, and I can create something else if I want. I have to remove this because now it's no longer clipped to the rock. Oh, sorry. For that one, so I have to erase that one manually. Here we go. And put these layers together. If you don't have as much layers as I have, you can always if you're satisfied with your octopus, at this moment, you can always pinch every layer together or just these groups within the groups, you can put them together, but I have enough layers, so that's fine for me. Let's get on to the next chapter. 8. Drawing the first plants by hand: Let's go back to the plants in the background. So you hear me say the plants in the background. So we go back to the background and create a new layer above that. I will again, choose this middle one, and here we have fun brushes I created for you. We are going to draw one plant together because I want you to hand draw as well, and then we go and make some changes with some other plants, but I want you to draw them as well yourself. So I'm going to create a new layer. Yes, I already have a new layer, and let's get back to the Illustrating pencil size three, and let's create this one here at the front. And it's just a simple stroke and you see, I'm not perfectly going over my sketch, so that's fine and create round leaves for that. Play with these as well. And now you can color them in. So bump up the size a little bit, stay within the lines. Maybe this is too big. Don't making such a mess or fuss about it, so that's okay. I just want them to be illustrated so they don't have to be perfect. And I want that great pencil texture there. Swapped to the eraser brush. I wanted a brush to draw with. And also, if you're having a hard time to keep it visible, just put off the background so you can look if you have too much open gap. A little bit, I don't mind. That's because it's handraw and that's okay, but too much isn't okay. So maybe this is the best way to draw. Color them in quickly, and you can see I'm not doing everything precise, but that's okay. Just keep it loose and like an illustration for children's book or something. And if you're finished with that, we can tick on and giving turning on the background again. So now for this one, I want to create a new layer on top. So that's how easy this is. I can do this with a brush as well, and we're going to do that later on. So creating a clipping mask for this one, using the darker colors, and I will be using this brush again because I like the strokes of this one. And I'm going to blend from inward out and you see immediately it gives a lot of texture because of the stripes of this one. And we can create with a lot of different colors. You can use any color you like. You can also use the greens. You can use some red or some pinkish in these colors. It's all to your own imagination. But you hear me tapping and dabbing. So I create new strokes. If I going back and forth, I don't get the texture. I want that fun. I want to scratch them off like a lucifer stroke or hair strokes just because then it will be even. And if you're having a hard time, just follow the strokes and turn your page a little bit. And maybe some darker color to the lower parts of the leaves as well. Then I'll be jumping in with some lighter parts from the outside, inwards. And you can see I'm going over these as well, slightly softer. So they mix and blend colors and they layer also the colors. So a little bit on this side because they are a little bit off the page. And maybe I'll be getting more even of a darker, purplish. This, maybe this one, a little bit will be fun. Let me see if I can like that. A little bit as well? Oh, yes, I think it's wonderful. And it's also good for getting those colors a little bit back and forward in the illustration. So use those colors a little bit everywhere so they can blend in as well. Yes, maybe soften it a little bit with the same brush as well, going back and forward with these colors. Also, keeping those pencil strokes alive, maybe here's too much of the purplish, pinkish color. So here you have one plant already drawn for yourself, maybe a little bit on the stems as well here and there, just where the leaves come together and a little bit below the leaves because there will be some shadow, but not forgetting when it's too dark, it won't be visible. So then you take a little bit of light within the pencil a little bit here. So it's visible again. Maybe blend it a little bit to soften it. Just give it a little bit more life and fun within it. So maybe like this one, again, sometimes also fun to create a little shadow light to give the leave some thickness at the bottom side. Again, it's all to your own imagination. You can draw them anyway you like. I mostly do this also with eucalyptus plant, but they are not on the water, so that's why I'm keeping in blue and not green. Otherwise, it will be too much of a eucalyptus. Maybe here it's again it's fading against the background, so maybe I'm taking a little bit darker here. So it will be visible. Maybe it's too hard now, so I'm going to blend it a little bit again. I think this one looks wonderful as it is. So I'm not going to do a lot of things to this one. So now we hand drawn one and we can make it easy with using our stamps. Again, we're going to draw behind the octopus. This one is you can group it, but if you don't have a group, you can layer it. You can also easily simply duplicate this one. When I do one, let me see. Flip it. Move it. I have two, but it obviously mirror image now, so you can play with the size, make it smaller. So you have instantly filled up your page already. And if you see I think this is not bothering me, but if you think it's too bothering, you can also play with your liquefy and then play a little bit with the leaves to make it less of a copy of the other part to run. I think it's cute here, so I leave it there. I think it's fun. Also, the colors are coming together like this. Maybe I will change the background later. I don't know yet. But I just want to show you some other stuff. I can pinch these two together so I can save layers. 9. Creating more plants by using stamps and specialty brushes: I want to make some lovely plants in the background. So I create a new layer below that, but on top of the background. And I'm going to the dark one of this, maybe even darker. I don't know yet. And I'm going to use some steps for that. So I've created a lot of fun. I like this one a lot. So I can create a new one, move it a little bit downwards, make it bigger. Put it a little bit out of the scene. And now it's too much here. So I want to create a multiplied layer. It's darker, but now I can play with the opacity to make it much further away in the background. And you can see light coming through. So that's an easy way to use stamps like these. And you can create another one with this one. This is small, make it bigger, too big. Just play with it as you like. So this will be also in the background. Maybe I will do this on a new layer so I can play with the opacity later on or move something else or create other colors with it. But you make it bigger. So here, just keep a hint of these. Let me see what I'm doing because otherwise I can't see it. Make it a little bit here. We can now already see there seeing come into life. And that's what I like with these plant stems. So we're going to use even more. I'm going more towards the foreground. We also have brushes here. And these will do exactly the same as this, but maybe now a green one. So let's get it here. How big is it? I want to be on top of the background. Or these will be in the foreground. Yeah, I want to be on top of the shadow plants. You see? These are the shadow pants. Maybe I can group them, make these shadow plants. So I know these are in the background, and these are in the foreground, so I'm going between them, and I'm going to create a fun brush. So maybe here somewhere too. Maybe a smaller one. It's coming from here. And these have a stick to the end, so I can erase that a little bit. So it ends with the leaf. And you can see, I gave these stem some pencil scratches as well. So they will be easily like a pencil look, but you can also see it's coming into more depth right now. I'm going to play with some colors on this one. And let me see. I can use this one for that. That's okay. Maybe I can. Oh, this is a little bit too light. And I have to go on a clipping mask for this one, create a new clipping mask above that, tap on it. Maybe I will play with these colors as well. I've been using this color. I'm going slightly lighter and blend in some colors. You can see it's very easily, very quick fix for this one. And again, if you're having trouble seeing it, get rid of your background, so you can see every leaf. Also, the little ones we mustn't forget. And yes, deers are behind the plant on the foreground, but that's okay. Using a darker green, even darker than this one, maybe a little bit more bluish. So we can play with these colors as well. But sometimes you have to check back on how you are with your background. So that's very important. Dap and dap every here and there. We'll be using that same colors with this one as well on this side, so giving the top color some highlights, the top of the leaves some highlights. And some darkness to the bottom parts. Don't make it too hard on yourself. Just play with the colors, then. Give them some playful stuff. Check it with the background again. Yes. But I think these aren't popping up like I want them to. So I'm going to blend these a little bit, maybe with the same brush. By holding it, it will have the same brush so I can play a little bit with blending the leaves. And I think they could pop up a little bit more with lightning, so I create another layer on top with a clipping mask as well. Choosing a lighter color, maybe I get some outlines for that one. Will it be using I don't know. Let me see. For me, it's also playing with these colors like maybe a little bit lighter, even more. Yeah, for me, this lighter green works, but it all depends on your background color. And that's why we have duplicated one, and we can play with it again in the end if you want to make things more visible. It's more important you give your leaves a little bit more defined outlines. So make sure they are visible. And if they are not visible, you can always also create more darkness behind it, so they will pop out more. But first of all, let me see we can play with this as well. Maybe if we pop a little bit more dark behind it, like, for instance, this darker one and creates well, with this one in the back they can come from anywhere. It's just to our own imagination. Make it and multiply and lose the opacity a little bit. Like so. And you know, the ones that are darker and more saturated by color, there are more to the foreground and the ones that fade away are into the background. So that's fun to know. So we go to the shadow plants again, maybe create a darker green one here. Maybe we can check on let me see this one as well. You see it's between days. We can play with that one, as well. Obzits maybe a little bit bigger. So you can play with these as long as you like. And You can play with it yourself a little bit, so you don't always have to follow what's there. So you can create to your own liking. That's fine. I want to add some fun parts. Maybe I want to play with the background. Mm let me see what I've now. Maybe I want a little bit darkness here at the background. So I'm going to this part above this one, create a new layer, maybe with a soft brush on this bluish one. Maybe just a little dash, creating some bluish darkness again. Maybe put it on overlay or multiply to blend more in. I think that would be nice, yes. I also want to have it in the foreground some lovely doodle plants. You can easily draw them yourself. I will do the yellow one, not on the overlay layer. It will be in the foreground, so I have to be all the way here. It makes it more fun and smooth. So I've got some stems here. That would be fun. Maybe a little bit higher, so like these. And you can easily draw these yourselves. I will do them for you. Like on a small size, you can draw some strings easily, very easily. So these are fun to create yourselves, but I also has step for these. So You can create to your liking, and these are made just like this one, and create one, two, three, four. Just leave the pencil on stage one, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. So you can play along and create your own doodle plans. And yeah, I just created the stemp for it, so it's very quick illustrated. And it easily pops up and give it so much more fun and brightness to your illustration. I also have this one, like, on top of the rock, like we made some leaves. So I want to keep the rock a little bit visible, but also want to show you the leaves. I've created some illustrated fooliage and it's also when you see it with a lot of texture, I drew it with my pencil and then created a brush out of it. And let's create some fun leaves from here. So it's a little bit like so. And then we can take some greenery. Like it's growing at the bottom. You always start with the darker one first and then build up to lighter colors. And even lighter on top. So that's instant fun. And we can create a new layer on top of that, and we can easily fix it with flowers. So let's go back to this one, maybe a little bit more color. You can create that as well. So like, there are some flowers in there. I wouldn't work as an eraser brush, maybe smaller. So these are more like flowers here. A little lighter. And I don't know why, but there can be flowers underneath the surface, right? It's our imaginary friendly zone, so I think that would be fun as well, and maybe some from here again. And the lighter color. It will bring in some color and some funness, and, yeah, I like that. So I want to give it some friends at the at the top, like we did those jellyfish. 10. Drawing cute Jellyfish: And then now I want to go to the jellyfish. You can see out there. They are very light and see through. So I'm starting with a blue color, and I will check if my illustrating pencil will work. I will do it with number two here. And let's create a little bit on a new layer. I have to be on a new layer behind the octopus, yeah. On a new layer. I'm going to create a little bit of this jellyfish here. I'm going to create here another one. So not exactly the same size, but that's okay. And I want to color them in. So I'm making a little slide a pier. It just easily half circles, little bit elongated. Like a mushroom kind of childish mushroom. You see, again, I don't use my color drop here because, yeah, I don't like that. I want to be hand drawn with a lot of character. So that's what I'm doing here. And from there on, I will do a new layer on top of this one, and I'll be doing that with a reason. I'm going to a little bit lighter version of this one, so a little bit lighter. I'm going to do the outline of this, but a little smaller, maybe with this one. Yeah. I'm going back to the layer below, and I'm going to the blue one again. Maybe a little bit bigger now. Do I want the bigger size? Size three? Yes, I want size three. And I push further and loosen the strings when I go outside, so push, lift lift, push, lift, lift, just like we did with rock, push, lift, lift, push, lift, lift. Lift Push, lift, lift, push, lift, lift, push, lift, push, lift, lift, push, lift, lift. I say that to myself in my head because otherwise, I keep forgetting that, so push, lift, lift, push, lift, lift, lift, push, lift, lift, push, lift, lift, lift. Yeah. So I'm going to a layer above this, create a new layer. Go to put this on the clipping mask. I will take a darker color from this one, and I will be giving it some color again. Just below the jellyfish, a little bit. So it will give it some kind of shadow. And I will do this with the fish itself, as well. Maybe a little bit more bigger. Et's get rid of the illustration. Let me see what we've got here. I think they look cute. But jellyfish are normally a little bit see through, so we can play along with that. And for that, we're going back to this layer. I'm going to erase, but I'm going to erase with a soft brush very slightly, very small, maybe change the opacity so I can kind of erase a lot at the same time. So I'm going to slightly, maybe a little bit bigger. Wait, wait, wait. Am I on the right brush? Yes. I want bigger. I did the wrong one. Bigger. The fun part is when you have the jellyfish in front of a plant, you can get to see through the plant as well. And that's why we needed to outline on another layer. Maybe it's too hard now. I can always change the opacity a little bit, so I think this would suit him fine. So there are a little bit see through, and I can blend these colors a little bit. So I go back to the layer for this blending. What's brush am I on? I want to go to my illustrating pencil because it's small and I put it up inside, so I can blend it very softly. Almost no touching. Very softly. I can blend this a little bit, so you can still see the color changes. You can still see the see throughness of the jellyfish, and now it's time to give them their Kawai looking like faces. So on top of that, I will create with maybe a black one, yeah. Let's get the illustration on again. Oh, there kiss. This is so much fun. This accidentally happened, so it's push a harder one and lift it. So let me see. I have to write pencil for this. Push and lift. But that's thinking, Oh, yeah, maybe. Yeah, maybe a little bit smaller. Take it one side. So push and lift it a little bit towards the end, so push and lift and push and lift. So it's a friendly face, so that's fun. And this is the mouth will be Big all the way. So push and lift, push and lift, and for the mouth. It's bigger all the way. And I think this one is too soft here. Just to out every once in a while. So yeah, they'll be friendly. Give it some cheeks, oh, that can be done on the same layer with this pinkish guy, maybe soft ones. Cute. Get rid of my illustration to see how it looks. Oh, I think these are cute, cute, cute. Cute. Yeah. I'm satisfied through now. And maybe we had a fish somewhere, a colorful fish. Yes, I want that one to be a yellow, orange fish. So I'll go back to my layer three. But first, let we um get this foiliage together as a group. Foilage. I hope I did it well like this, so I can mix it. These are the jelly fish, this one, this one, this one, and this one, group them together, rename jelly. So we can move on to the fish, and we'll be doing that in the next chapter. 11. Drawing a sweet Fish: So in this next chapter, we will be drawing the fish. I go to the middle one of this yellow, and I'm taking the size three of my illustrated pencil, and I'm going to draw the outline of the fish. Maybe it's a little bit too big. Go to size two. And I'm going to fill this in on a new layer, I'm going to draw the fins of the fish with the size two again. And I'm bringing that layer back to below the body of the fish. And why it's because we never get a sharp edge here as I want. So if it comes from behind, it's much better visible. So it will have a fin up back one below the belly on this side of the fish, and one a little bit smaller that comes from behind the fish. And we also have the tail part. And we color that in as well. Let's get back to the body of the fish. I want to create highlights and shadows. So again, we going to create a new layer on top, create a clipping mask, and we go to the darker color underneath the belly, and we're going to create this illustrated texture brush, and we're drawing some smooth lines. Just back and forward, lift your pencil every time. We'll be doing the same on the top part with the lighter color. But just keep on bringing that pencil up and down. And then when I zoom in, mix and blend those colors a bit because it would give much more pleasure to the drawing for the illustration, and maybe a little bit darker towards more of the bottom. Maybe a little bit of that pinkish also in there towards the back. Then we'll bring some color back again. Just a little hint of that color. And we're going to do the same with the with the tail and the fins of the fish. So create a new layer on top of that one with a clipping mask. And we going to use very small? With the orange one, we draw some stripes outside the fins. Make it darker coming from behind. And that's what I see. It comes from behind the fish, so that's okay. I'm going to get rid of the illustration for you, so it's easier visible. So that's what I meant when you're coming from behind, it doesn't show too much if you don't have very neat lines. Maybe also a little bit of the darker one again. And we'll be doing the same with the tail as well. And take those lines with the shape of the fin. That's very important for this one. Taking this bigger one, darker one. And the lighter color and draw it back inwards. You can see those colors blending in smoothly, and you can see the lines drawing in smoothly, just as if you're doing hundreds and layers of pencil strokes. And when you use them out, you have a lovely color blending fish, so that's fun. What we're going to do now is only on this tail, we're going to merge these layers together by smudging them, pinching them. So these colors are on the same layer. You leave this one as they are. But this is important for the next step we're going to do later on. So create this one as a pinch layer, create a new layer on top. Don't clip it, but we'll be using a lighter color, this one. And we'll be using the illustrating pencil at the smallest size, size one, and we're going to draw the outline of the fin. And maybe I'm making it a little bit smaller, but I think this would be fun to keep it like this. Maybe a little bit wavy line, so like this, make it as smooth line as possible. So we're going to create maybe even smaller lines within that. So drop it halfway. Let me see. Drop it halfway here size one. And just go back and forward with the shape of its tail. We'll be doing this on this way as well. I think we have a lovely fish in the sea right now. And what are we going to do next? And this is why we had to do what we did by keeping this together, is we're going to softly erase this with the soft brush, small size, maybe a little bit less opaque and just get rid of a little bit of the color. Just make it see through and just as a smooth blending. And there you can see that the stripes we did later on will be visible. Still, so you have a see through of the shoes fins, tail fins. Maybe a little bit smaller. And the reason why I did it with less opacity is we can make a yeah, very more precise. Otherwise, we would have erased it all the way through. So now we have a little bit of see through fins, and we can see that if we clip the fish, make the fish to all of the fish of one group again. We now move the group. You want to keep the fish in front or between something, you can see it's see through. And that's why the group is very handy. We can make some changes of where the fish is coming from. Maybe I want to keep her here or I don't know. I don't know where she came from originally. Ah, a little bit off here. So yeah, we can play with that or can duplicate one and make something or something go out of the area. She needs still have a lovely face, as well. So I'm going to create yes. Within this group, we're staying with white.in her face. Let me check where I created. Eyes. Make them big again. And the fish is looking upwards to the jellyfish. I create a new layer on top of that and create a circle within that. The reason I did it on top is that I can make changes if I'm not happy or satisfied or I want to look it down. I can still change that a little bit, give it a little glare in the eyes and reminder of this glare, I want to have the glare at the same side. So I'm going back to my smaller brush. Plant this in a little bit. So it's just glossy again. Yep, she can have a little mouth. And she's smiling. And maybe some little rosy cheeks, as well. And then easily create fun like this. A bit random. Don't think of it too much. Maybe go on multiply, so it darkens also at the bottom. And create a new layer on top of that because I want to do also some white, but white doesn't stick on multiply, so I have to do it on a new layer as well. I think this is a cute fish. So this is mostly the illustration so far. We have to play with some lightning, have some bubbles. You can illustrate much more if you want. If you want to create some other creatures. That's fun. Fine by me, as well. So I'm going back to the background. 12. Add Magic and Final Touches: So now I want to create some bubbles, and I want to create some sunlight, and we'll be doing that all the way at the back. So this overlay layer was also for darker parts of this one. So I'm going right above that. I'm going to use the bouquet lights on yellow. The bouche light is the brush from Procreate itself. Let me see what it does and just slightly drop in some bubbles, make it bigger, smaller, whatever you like. I think it's less visible here than it is on camera. So I'm going to create a little less like I want to. So I think for the screen, this is fine now. And I also have a bubblish brush created for you, fun bubbles. I will create that with white on a new layer. And I'm going to there where the plants are, I'm going to create some fun bubbles as well. So just play with that. And if you don't like it, it's also fine. See for yourself what you like. And now for the final part, the last ray of sun through the waters, I will going to create something. I want to get rid of the drawing, the illustration, the sketch we made. And I'm going to create another ray of light, and I'm going to all the way on top, and I'm going to choose this What kind of color would I like? I think I'm going to keep with this lightish yellow. I'm going to the illustrated texture brush. We're now going to create an ugly face, a very ugly ugly face, so, Okay. But we have to do this step by step. So on this layer, we're putting it to d and I'm going to create this brush and make it very big. And I'll be drawing some rays of sun going from the middle outwards. And yes, this looking very ugly. And I do soft stripes, but I want you that you see the stripes from this. This is very ugly, right? So let's keep that in mind. We'll be doing this with different steps. Don't go with me as we are doing this. Just look for yourself first, and then do this. I'm going to use Gachenblur very slightly. Magic one Guhenblur, and I'm moving slowly to the right. But you see, I want it softened and smoothened but I still want to see the stripes. I don't want this. I still want to see the stripes. And the point I like the stripes is where they just get fuzzy enough, still visible. But yeah, I know they are way too bright now, but that's okay. The fun part is, it's also catching the lights on the plants, and that's why I do this on top. Yeah, so it's very light now, but it's okay because we can always make it soften right here. So there you have your ray of sun, and it's still visible on the leaves and through the plants and everywhere. And I think I want to have a glow more on this pearl, so I go back to my octopus. Yes, here it is. And I want to give this more shimmer. Maybe I can duplicate it. Yeah, and then go one lower and then maybe bigger. Let me see what that does. Okay. Maybe a little bit. Less. But I wanted to pop it the light of the pearl. Maybe I can get it a little bit darker around here and a little bit lighter up here. So I go back to the background. Let's bring it back. And maybe add some darkness again with overlay or multiply. It's also fun. Multiplies even a little bit darker. Maybe I will do this with the soft brush again. So you can see it slightly changes creates a very different effect. I'm going to create a lighter also maybe at the bottom, at the top, a little bit from where the sun is coming from. Maybe this could be a little less Yeah, I think it's funny like it is now, maybe some green here, a little bit more greenish. You can play with this as you like. These are just small details. And we can even create go back to this plant. I like to go back to this one. Yeah, that's these and I'm going to create a new clipping mask on top of that, and let's see what this does. Maybe I don't like it. That's okay. Maybe I don't like it. But let me check first. I want to bring in some white because I think it's very dull now, so I have to bring in some more lightning, lighter stuff in there. Yes, I think it immediately gives something extras. You see, without the white and with the white. So always add some white in your painting to cheer everything up. I think here can be a little bit of sand. I think I would love that. Sandy color, little bit beige color. And let's play with this brush, and it will be in front of all the leaves. So I think also in front of the foilage That's just a little bit of a rocky bottom. Just a little bit. I think she's funny. And maybe she can have some little dots under her head as well. So let me check if I can do that. That will be fun. Maybe also on an ad layer. Let me see. We just check and creating some fun here. Or screen is also a fun one. Let me see what that does. Illustration, brush. Let me check. Maybe. Slightly. No, it isn't fun. It isn't it is nice. Maybe darker would be nice. Let me see. Uh, go to normal, change color, like, into this one. Select fill layer. So you can play with this however you like, maybe multiply. Yeah. This will be fun. Yeah, I think she would be cuter like this, so you can make any change you like. So explore a little bit. You can create more plants in the background, so go back to the background. Um Shadow plants. And what plants do we have still? Oh, we have such fun plants here, like these are fun. All the way to the top edge. Multiply, bring them back. And it's also fun to create this at the foreground a little bit. Well, maybe between the plants like here. With the yellow ones. But this a little bit too small, but you can see where I'm coming from, maybe a little bit behind the first ones, so a little bit bigger. So you can play and have some fun with these. And again, you can make some shadows. You can do anything you like with this. So go to a little bit darker color on a clipping mask. Maybe orange. It could also be fun. Then we will bring back some orange like clipping mask I was doing. Maybe go back to this orange. Not too much this one. Just to give it a little bit of color difference. We can bring in some green ones as well. What kind of green would be lovely for this one? Ah, we haven't done this one yet. Oh, yeah, we have done it, but in the background. Create a clipping mask on that one. Just a hint of stripe on the top one. Maybe a little lighter. Just play with these colors and let it pop. You can go in as deep as you want with this one. Maybe we can give a little bit of glow behind the jellyfish. Let me see. This is Octo. Where is the fish? The jellyfish, go layer behind the jellyfish and create with lights and soft brush, a little bit of kind of a halo behind them. So they're all lightened. This one is a little bit too big, I think. It was a fun idea to let them glow a little bit. Maybe a little less. Yeah, I think I I'm ready. Maybe this is a little bit too dark now. I can play with that. I can play with that. Bring back this opacity. The overlay layer. And this a little bit back. Yeah. I think we have a lovely illustration now. 13. ss underwater final thoughts: Thank you for watching this class until the very end. I hope you have a lot of fun while learning a lot of new things. You can get the best out of this class when you draw a new scene yourself, create to your own liking, discover and design your own creatures. Don't forget to post your end result in the project and resources section of this class. For me and for everyone else to see what you made out of this class. Also, if you're on Instagram, I would love to see you work. Tag me as **** Webble and maybe you will see your class project reposted in my stories. I would also like to ask you to post a review of this class. It would help me and other students to know how you feel about this class. So thanks again for watching this class until the very end, and I hope to see you in the next class. Hi.