How to Paint Japanese Ramen - Watercolor Food Illustration with Cute Character in Procreate

1. Introduction : Hello my dear art fellows. During our today's class, I'm going to show you how to paint lovely modern Japanese food illustrations in Procreate, in watercolor. And you're going to do it in a fun and easy way. My name is, I'm an artist, freelance illustrator, and I'm obsessed with watercolor, magical things and cute staff. And during my classes, I constantly share some useful tips and tricks how to use Procreate in fun and easy way. So if you don't want to miss my new classes of freebies that I constantly shared is my community. You can hit the subscribe button and guys, your opinion is very important to me. So you can share with me what you think about my class in discussion section. Oh, you can just read my class, anything that is convenient for you. So it's very important to me. So guys, I'm going to take you through the whole journey, my whole creative process. First of all, I will show you where to find all my freebies, how the inputs ambient as a procreate. After that, you're going to create a lovely paper that has watercolor texture. Our next step field, I will show you how to create sketch. And then finally we can start painting process. And as I told you, I will show you step-by-step process of creating food illustration in watercolor style. And it will be Raman in particularly. And also, I will show you what is true saturation and brightness, how to use scalars alpha lock, why do we need clipping mask and how to use blending modes? And we will create lovely watercolor for the illustration in Japanese style, I'm going to focus on paint and lovely semi transparent watercolor food illustration as our final project. Your project, you'll be same to create Japanese food illustration using any way you like. And you can choose any sketch you want. And that will help you to enjoy creative process. And as a bonus, I'll show you how to create texture paper for our watercolor art. I will share with your new custom brush set so many new brushes, color palettes that I created. I will also add file of my pictures that I drew. Feel free to use it for your own art projects. This class is great for intermediate level, also can be useful for beginners. If you watched my previous classes and experienced artist, probably here, you can find inspiration and you guys how to create Japanese food illustration, guys, I really want to join me. I tried my best to make this tutorial, fun and creative and relaxing. Completing this class will help you to learn new ways how to paint food illustration in watercolor style, and also to get general knowledge how do wisely use space and add cute elements too. I can't wait to start this class, and definitely I can't wait to see what you upload the project section, please feel free to enroll and let's enjoy painting process together. 2. Creating Paper: During this part of the class, I'll show you how to create texture paper, and it's very simple and easy process. And after that, we're going to move to the next class. So let's do it. Hi guys. Hello everyone. So during our today's class, you're going to paint this lovely sushi illustration in watercolor style. And you're gonna use pretty much new brushes for today's class. And I decided to make our illustration cubed. So as you might see, I will add this lovely qt care to our art and you're going to create it as a postage stamp. Let's not wait and get started. First of all, what we should do, we need to open Procreate. And before we start creating our canvas, I will tell you how to export. All are freebies, where to find them and what to do. So first of all, when you open my class, please do it in browser. It can be grown or Safari. Why Chrome or safari? Because if you do it in Skillshare app, my freebies might not be reasonable. You go to Chrome or Safari. After that, you go to Projects and Resources section. And in the right corner under the headline resources, you will find all my freebies. You download them. And after that, you need to go to Files app and go to downloads folder. And this folder you'll see all the freebies. After that, you might split the screen and from one side you will have Procreate and from an asset side you will have file's app. After that, what you should do, You just need to drag and drop also freebies from the file's app into the Procreate. But before we do that, let's create canvas. So in this case, we need to go to procreate and act as a tab and tap Plus again. Then we need to switch from pixels to inches and write nine 11 ". And as you see, we have 300 DPI resolution. And after setTab create, if we created our canvas, now you need to turn our Canvas into the watercolor paper. How to do that? Let me explain step-by-step. It duplicate layers. If you times after that we need to expert papers that we have. It's called paper 22. So let's just drag and drop it. Here. After that we can rotate it and press Fit to Screen. And as you see from HSV happen little bit of space, so it just moves paper to those edges. Okay, Perfect. After said, we need to duplicate the paper two times later, I will explain to you what to do this paper, what to do with Sketch, where to find it, and where to find our color palette and our brush set. So we duplicated the few layers. After that we go to sketches. And I prepared for you two sketches and one postage stamps that you're going to need in the end of our art. So just drag and drop it into the Procreate like sad, and fit to screen. Let's turn off for awhile. I'll paper layers. Okay, perfect. And move. Our postage stamp tool is a button and also make it invisible. So let's move to the new layer. And here we have two lovely sketches. First one is sushi, that one. And let's move to a new layer and go to sushi to turn off one of the sketches. So this is a second sketch. Turned off. We have one more layer less duplicated, and we have cute cat that we also need to drag and drop into the Procreate. Is that one very small and very cute one. Okay, we've done with sketches. Now let's move to color palette. So here I have social swatches, color palettes that you also need to drag and drop into the Procreate. I already have my sushi color palettes at one, so I don't need to drag and drop it. But like I told you, drag and drop color palette into the Procreate app to xhat, we also have brushes and the brush side that's called Bu watercolor brush set where I added a few new brushes. This one, book wash, watery, more edgy and boost salted, great brushes that we're going to use to take. But once again, you have so many other brushes, native Procreate brushes that I included in this brush set that I frequently use. Also the brushes that I created, which are pastel brushes, so spawns and watery watercolor brushes. And also have some textures, some stems, some of them you're going to use today. And watercolor stem cells also create a useful, also drag and drop the brush set into. And also the last step is we have texture. And about the texture we need to create one layer above everything. And let's just drag and drop this texture into say, a property. Once again, let's move it to the edges that are wonderful and also make this texture layer invisible. And now let's rename our layers. So it's a texture layer we're going to use later in the end of our illustration. And after that we have postage stamp. We're also going to use in the end. And let's rename it. So she rename it to a sheet. And here we have papers. Let's do it. Rename paper. Paper. For now. I will show us the way how I turn those papers into the watercolor texture paper. The duplicated our paper layer two times. And now let's speech blends and layer modes. So first of all, we're gonna go to linear burn with the first layer. And the second layer, we're gonna go to Color Burn. Then they need to duplicate linear burn one more time. And after that's been used to merge those two layers together like SAP and does save this color burn vw, and then merge together like sad. After that, we go to linear burn blending layer mode. You go to opacity. And let's move the opacity to around 50 per cent. Why I chose it? Because I want our paper to be pretty much white, not dark. And after that, I select the two layers by swiping, right? And I press group. Then I just write, all our preparations are done. And I think now it's time to move to the next part where I will show you what brushes we're going to use. And we can start our painting process. 3. Adding Colors: Finally, we move to the most important part of our class to paint in process. So I hope you're ready to grab your iPad, Apple pencil, and start adding colors. Well guys, now I've removed the next part five, you're going to start our painting process and we're going to color our restriction. But before we do that, we need to decide what kind of sketch we need to use for our today's class. The first one. And it's very good. I added some elements, some cute elements like those Japanese style ornament. I made those lovely acts like a character as well as, and I also added one egg doses are another sketch is pretty conservative, you might say. So. It has also pretty lovely decorative elements. So you decide by yourself which one you like more. I tend to paint cute art. So I will use this illustration and I also want to add this lovely cat to add some playful elements to our art. Then I'm going to place this kid somewhere here like this. Cat is weight and forces Robin plate and get this pretty hungry. So I'm going to place kit here and we'll get our sketch. And before we start painting, of course, we need to remove some of the elements. It doesn't fit here. So as an eraser, I'm using mercury brush, native procreate brush. Okay. Ready? I don't know yet whether I'm Connect keeps a sketch in end of our art. So if I like it, I might keep it. Okay, So don't need sketch to leave, we'll just delete it and merge together sushi and cat altogether. So this is our sketch. I'm going to love herself opacity of the sketch because I still don't know whether I will keep it in the end of our art. And I will create a couple of new layers. And I'm going to rename them and ride. Okay? I will rename it one more time. And we will write basic color. Located a few times just in case. And about. We have reference picture in about reference picture or we cannot go to Action button to Canvas and press reference. And I'm under freebies. You also can find reference illustration. So what you should do it we just need to press reference an important art, this illustration into. Okay. So color palette is this one. I decided to give you some freedom to choose the colors that you might like. So I have some options for you. And about as a brush, I'm going to use blue gouache, watery brush. This brush is truly amazing. And I'm going to start with this dark brown color. Large size of the brush lethal. It says brush looks like gouache little bit attains the same time it has this watery texture. So I think it would be very cool if you use it for our today's class. If you press harder, you will have more. That's how it works. I have to say it, I would go and grab this brownish color. So whenever you create an illustration, when we draw something, especially in watercolor style, not just what a capstone, any style you want, any medium you use. So if you can just have just solid one solid color, of course they have some shades. We might have some brown reflections or we might add a little bit purple color. Don't worry, if you see some overlap and it's not a problem. Later, we can just erase it. And here we have light colors, so I'm going to grab a lighter color. Now if you're going to grab Bu quash watery as an eraser as well. Because you see in this part in our sketch behave pretty light color that I haven't go and grab this beige color. Increase the size a little bit. I'm on the same layer. I don't want to create a new layer, such kind of art. I know that in our reference picture we have pretty bright color, but I decided to make it a little bit lighter. And also, I'm going to add some colors to this part of our plate. Later I will add more sheets and more colors. Like said. So either go and grabs is a yellowish color and the yellow shade. Let's look at our plate and see where we would have some shapes. I like that this brush is pressure sensitive so it can control our capacity. Part of the plate will be in shadow. Now, let's go to mercury brush and let's erase some overlap. Likes it. And probably I will go to almost white color. And I want to show that here we have highlights. So this part of the plate shouldn't be too dark. And same here. So you might use just eraser and erase this part of the plate. I use almost white color. And I'm going to add some shade to this area. So our aim don't feel any pressure. So you might experiment with color with the brush strokes. See what kind of brush strokes you would like more. And either go and grab almost brown color. And I'm going to add some color, two dots. I want to fit it with as a part of the plate. And you see the brushstrokes look very cool, very artistic. So now if you do go through these elements and so small, and add a little bit of shades to this area. So completing the ornament. So as you might see, I decided to make the sketch a little bit different. But you might follow totally, completely as a picture that I will share in the previous packet. So we've done with the plate, it looks very lovely. Now let's go to this wooden plate and I will duplicate the color, go to basic colors. And here we go. Let me think. This color, same brush, increase the size. I want to increase the size given more. In this brush, we actually can see the brush strokes creates very realistic feeling. Authentic watercolor. Erase some of her Lepanto, and see where else we need to add some colors. Just art is not to loose watercolor, so we want half sauce bleeding colors one and another. We will not have this inaccurate borders. I want to stick with a sketch and I want to make it pretty much clear, like controlled watercolor. And place between chopsticks also be, how wouldn't they? And this part, you'll be a little bit lighter. Same layer. For this art versus Japanese ramen. I decided to choose muted colors. Like keeps a Japanese style theme. And as you know, for Japanese art, we don't have to write too much of bright colors. You have muted colors, like a pastel colors. So I decided to keep the traditions, although it's not traditional Japanese art. But because of the CCO layered brush strokes. But still, I want to keep it in a frame of Japanese art, at least like looks like said. Okay, I'm done with this part as well. Now let's go to chopsticks. And for said, we're going to return to our plate layer, grab pretty bright yellow colors, add colors to chopsticks. I can now we have a eucalyptus and also still on the same layer, I stay there and bright green car, crazy, like sad. And I will go to a little bit more yellowish shade. Here. I want to draw stem. Nano is eucalyptus later I'm going to add more shades, but we're going to do it later in the shaded part. And I will duplicate basic color layer one more time, move it to the top. So I'm going to put, I'm going to draw this Roman and grabs his page. Motor yellowish part, same brush. You might draw some soup. Well done. Now we will grab orange color. Now corrupts Dijkstra reddish color. I decided to start with a light color, light red. Because later, like I told you, we're going to add shades one-by-one. If you have overlapping sets normal, we will just erase set overlap like that. Grab eraser, mercury brush. And in parts where we need to erase, Let's just erase. The brushstrokes are unwanted. And then I'll create one molar on the nice. Because we have x. In our today's art. You're going to play this light and shade. Exaggerates a shade thanks to the negative, negative shade and light. I'll show you later. What else. Corn, have some seaweed. And for the CBD, people grab greenish color versus size. Some carrot. Going to add some colors slightly later. And reddish color shows a carrot. From this side we will have noodles. I can now cancel last part. Now we need to decide what kind of color I used for the camp color on the top. Here. For the Raman. Let's return to the ramen and I'm going to use white color, showing us even not quite smooth or some more yellow. Okay, let's return to the cat. I'm thinking about that might skew to our art. May be almost white. And I'm going to add some peach color, pink color. Not too bad. This is a basic color, so we're going to add more sheets like k. Now final step is background, so we're going to go to bluish color to a shape. Well, so Don re coloring part. And after that, we move to next part where you're going to aid shades and highlights. Let's move. 4. Adding Shades & Highlights : This part of the class is also very important because we're going to add highlights and shades. That's always the end of our class. So if you're ready, just wait a little bit and let's keep paint. Well guys, now we're ready to move to the next part of our class, which is Ed and shades and highlights. Here, I want to, before we start adding shadows and highlights, I want to remove the transparency in some outliers. This brush is pretty to Opec disease, watery gouache brush. But still you see when we've got paint and our background, we still have some overlap hands. And in order to remove them, we need to duplicate the layer with our eucalyptus same value duplicated automatically. We don't see those overlap. And that's wonderful. But I don't want to have two bright colors. So when I duplicated the layer, I go to law over layer. Then I go to Adjustments, Hue Saturation and Brightness. And I move our brightness to 100 per cent to maximum. You see an infant with w two times. We don't see the overlapping anymore. So once again, we turn off our white layer B Cs are overlapping, so we turned on we make it reasonable and we don't have that overlap. After that, I will just merge together as oscillators. And about a cat, this one, it's a little bit too transparent. Also, I want to duplicate it two times and merge together. Say, I'm gonna do with our noodles, duplicate it. Now it looks so bright, so cool. I will love herself. Pass it the main video, 50 per cent, because later I'm going to add more shades. And I don't want it to be too dark. And then I replicated again about plate layer. This way. It's wonderful, but still I don't want to have a too bright, so I will oversee opacity maybe till 20% and merge together. If I want to intensify the background color, I also can duplicate it. And it looks so dark. So I have a loggers are positive, 30, 40 per cent, and merge it together again. So here, legs basic color, I will rename and I will write background. The rest end here. Let it be okay. Raman plate wouldn't play a key. Wonderful steel at UCI I have tiny overlapping with the background and our lovely cat. So I go to the background, grab blending tool and just blend the color from that kits. Finally, remove the transparency and I explained to you why we did it. And now let's start adding shades. I'll start with wooden plate. I'll create one layer above. And I will use clipping mask. And I will move blending mode to multiply. And why we use clipping mask because it lets us add shades without leaving edge is yellow borders of our plate. And I think that our goal with this brown color, I'll grab both sorted brush and way too big, too big. And that'll just add shapes in this area. After said, I will go dark brown color and I will move it to this part more. So we have the shade from the plate. Now reddish color because I do see the texture so it's not so smooth. So we might add more shades in different areas. Now, grab a light yellow color, create one more layer in between. Why I created one molar in-between, because I don't want to change plans and layer modes because I want to have it pretty bright. And if you use multiply, we will not be able to use this bright color. Brown. Okay, I am satisfied because what we have means this wooden plate. Once again, if you want to make some of the areas lighter, you might just simply do that. This is fine. Okay. I like how it looks. And I'm going to, so what? This is, the shades that we create. If you want to intensify the shade, you go to our shading layer, go to curves. And here you might play, play with the saturation, with the shades. We said, visit you as well. Key. Now, if you are satisfied with everything, you might just merge it together. Lease our original plate, lakeside. Now let's go to this to another plate, more blended layer mode to multiply and use clipping mask. Here we have dark brown color, dark brown. And same brush. When a darkens plate. That's some shade here, like the shades from Raman. So I like this wooden. Add more bluish color. I like it says play this back. You see I don't use too bright shades. Okay. Like I told her, if you like it, you might leave it that way. You might duplicate in order to intensify the color, or you might go to hue saturation and brightness. I'm going to stick to this shaded part. And we also have chopsticks, I forgot, and we have eucalyptus on this layer. So let's go to chopsticks, because chopsticks are too small, so I'm going to use a bull for gouache, watery brush. It's multiply versus size. And I'm going to add some sheets. Go to curves, make it darker. Option, just duplicate it. I keep merge together, create one layer, clip it. Same multiply. Now let's play this eucalyptus. I don't change the brush tool for salted brush. Grab this dark, olive shade and add a little bit of color to the edges. Again, curves. You see I made the color a little bit too pale. And after that edge brush, all dark green color, duplicate, duplicate, create one molar in-between. So automatically it's in a Clipping Mask mode. And I go to the port, to the edges. And I'm going to add some sharpness. Just be careful with stamp. Don't draw anything on stem. Of course x and what time you can devote to this illustration as the more details you can add. But of course we don't have houses time like today because I know you're busy. You have some other things to do. So if an edge is some most important parts, and if you have time, you might keep playing with your art, keep adding more details. Next section. And then large capacity. You skirt so it's up to you and blend some sharp lines. I'm merged together. That's a create one more layer in-between to blend in their modes, multiply and grab a little bit bluish shade, both salted brush or boil water drops also put option. Here. You might add some bluish color. Eucalyptus usually I'd have now two-ply motor. So if I set t and like I told you, play with color and stamp, don't forget about it. And grab let me think what kind of brush? Wash water, likes it. I came down with eucalyptus as well. Now we have, once again, you might increase the size and make it a little bit more saturated. That's what I did, merge together and work together with plate. Now we have Raman in and lovely cat. Also multiply CalliBird. And keep adding some sheets to our elements will be darker. I should have done things that we need clipping mask here. So I will remove the clipping mask because I want to draw in some areas where I didn't add any color grade. So now we edited, we see some colors, some shades to carrots, seaweed, and to corn. And I'm going to add some color to it as well. So I will grab both salted brush. Add some shades to this bar, grip orange color, and add some shade to this orange colors. Does it you here grab a reddish color and add some red shades to our craft sticks even a reddish color blending tool. I don't want to have it too dark. Okay, and now we need to show noodles. And for that, I created one molar underneath. And I want to separate noodles from soup. So know those will be lighter and sub-field bit darker and I'm a grandpa glazing brush for that. So water will be darker, noodles will be lighter. And now let's just, let's just duplicate this layer. So if we made it darker and we showed the noodles, now it looks wonderful. If you want to make them darker, like I told you, go to course. And you might make it even more darker. For me. It's fine. And final file up our almost final parties to help background. I want to add some color, some shades to our lovely cat. And I'm on a layer with shades above everything. And let me think. Some pinkish color. Glazing brush, this same brush In this shows that for like say if you wanted to saturate yeah, this part, just this area without touching the rest of the shapes. You just need to select this area. Does it go to adjustments to yours? And here we might play these colors and everything. I still want to add some shade to our kit. So I'll create one more layer underneath of our shading layers and either go slightly purple shade. Corporate goals. Coase heard about this. Hello. I didn't clip it. Like I told you. I don't see it's a new country. And I want to separate cared so from the background. So in this case, what I'm going to do is I will make a background color a little bit darker. Go to curves and think about colors or shapes. If you want, you can duplicate it. I don't want to duplicate it. I'll keep it that way. Maybe saturate it a little bit. Normally will not do it. Okay, fine. Merged together. Now background create one more layer above and move to multiply. I want clipper to because set background color slightly transparent. I might, I can be, I'm afraid some of the shapes might not be usable. So I will go to the brush. So like I was talking about the negative space. So chubby ground to a bit darker comparing to some elements of art. And I think it might look very, very cold and go to hue, saturation and brightness. And you might play with a human. You might see what kind of color might be very cool. I still have bluish color more like I said. So I'll create one layer and I have a mode to multiply. And I'm going to go slightly to purplish shade. In an area where two objects are next to each other, such like this, eucalyptus leaves or cat. And it's played, we might have darkish, likes head. I'm going to switch to 0, water, it drops rash. You might use my stamp brushes that I have. I don't want to use them today. But once again, if you'd like, you can get some. So like I told you about the negative space, I'll kid is pretty bright. So I decided to make the shade around cat darker. In this part, we will have shaped, like I told you that two objects are next to each other. So I don't go and grab this. Let me think. This pinkish color, maybe a little bit darker. The same brush. And I'm going to show the shadow here. Dark puke and show some shade. This part. Yeah, blender, KV, then use our reference picture anymore. So this is the Arctic we have and it looks very beautiful. If you want, you might add more shades to our background color. Grab watery drops. And if you like, you might have some sheets here. So increase the size. And you can do whatever drops looks very great. And eraser overlapping means. Let's not make our Raman. Yeah, For now, I truly likes the background and the way how it turned out. Now let's move to the next part where we're going to add some texture and turn out the postage stamp. 5. Final Details: Finally, last part of our class where we're ready to add final details and z field visit and where you're going to finish our final project, and where you can share this with your own loudly artworks. So grab your iPad, Apple pencil, and let's finish our class. Okay, almost done. So once again, what do we have a basil layers, we have background. You have the shading layer above. We have wooden plate and the already merged the shapes with this wooden plate layer. We have played with shades as well, our lovely cat's Raman and shades about ceramics. Now I am on the shades layer and I'm going to add some tiny details to our lovely cat. So I will grab six B pencil. And I'm going to add some, emphasize some of the colors, right? And now go to dark purple color. I want to show some cuteness osis cat thing. What else you can do? So what else you can do? You might stick out here. I forgot about those lovely creatures. I didn't shows the eyes pink color and shows that consensus way. Like said, What else you can do? You might keep the sketch. And in this case, you might increase our capacity and keep it says way. It looks also very lovely. Or you might play with, in a sketch, you might play with blending layer modes. What we have here, multiply, lightened is likely. So this is like if we don't want sketch, so it might look like this and looks beautiful, very soft, but I still want to keep sketch. So I think lighten the screen very similar. It looks good because it adjusts to the colors that you need. And in some areas you just don't have the sketch. So admired, hard, light, high leg divide, very long. Overlay. Looks good for me. Like this. It looks very authentic. We still have some scratches. And in some areas we just simply don't have the sketch. It looks cold bad in this area. You don't see clearly. I'm not sure about this part. You might just go and love herself by city TO like 35 per cent. That's what I did and I'm going to stick to this part. So now what else we can do it? Like I told you, we have postage stamp and before we turn it on, I want to show you how you can use this texture layer. We go make it visible. And also we need to use blend and layer modes. Here you might play with blending layer modes and you might see which one you like more. You might pose a texture above the paper layer, or you might pull it on paper layer. I want to keep it under the paper layer group because I don't want our paper to be affected by this texture. It looks amazing. You see it has this old vintage way. So see what you might like log experiment. Overlay looks also very soft. You see soft light, hard light. Wow, the speed of light also looks wonderful. And Color Burn looks good for me. You might love herself. Opacity, yeah, like 40 per cent. It's like without texture, with textures more saturated and it's softer. So I will stick to this way. And after that we have postage stamps at, we're going to make turned on like sad. And if you want, you might add some quotes or whatever you want. Grab a dark color, black, black color or something. Exit. Go to one of the layers. Glaze this new layer above everything bad, below our sketching layer. And here I have some options. We have some quotes, some handwriting that you might use, or you might just use your own handwriting or any font you like. And if you want, you might just waiting, I press it two times. If you want images, put it here, put it in an area where you would like. So this is an imitation of postage stamp and I think it looks just wonderful. Like said, if you want, you might create one layer above. And we might add our handwriting somewhere here. If you want, you might move. You can try it. No, I still want to keep it here. And this is I like zip postage stamps. How it turned out. I think it looks just fine. Very cute guys. I hope you enjoyed today's class as well. And in our next class, I'm going to use real traditional watercolor. I think for some of you, if you just want to relax or if you want to feel the difference between the Procreate art and real watercolor art. So our next class is for you with teachers in next class. And if you want to share with me your lovely art, I would be very glad to see Sam and share with you my opinion about it and see you. But that was the end for our today's class. And now you know how to create lovely food illustration in modern Japanese style, in watercolor style, in Procreate guys, I wish you luck is all artworks. I will be happy to see you all exam and give my own feedback. And let's see each other next lesson.