Illustrate House Plants in Procreate

1. Introduction to house plants in procreate: Hello and welcome to my class on drawing houseplants in Procreate plants. I don't know about you, but my house is full of plants. I think I have about 30 different plants at this point, but I feel like everybody's kinda gotten into the house plant trend, which is amazing because they're great for you, they're great for your mood. They're great for purifying the air in your house and oxygen all around. Amazing. So today we are going to draw them in procreate. We are going to start off by sketching the plants. We are going to be painting for plants. Then we're going to add color. I'm going to show you how to add texture that gives your work a little bit of interests. And that's it. For the class project. We are going to be drawing these together. So I would love to see what you guys create. You can also draw your own plants if you have some in your house that are different than the ones that we did today. But either way, please show me your work. I love to see what you guys create for this class. You are going to need a few supplies. The first is you are going to need an iPad with the latest version of Procreate, as well as the stylus. So an Apple pencil or something similar. Alright, let's get started. 2. Sketching Houseplants: Okay, We're going to get started by sketching. The first thing we need to do is open up a new document in Procreate. And the way that we're going to do that is we're going to hit the little plus sign here. I like to use a 2000s by 2 thousand pixel document. If you don't already have one on here, just come over here and hit the plus and then go to pixels and you can type it in DPI. I like to have 300 DPI just in case you end up wanting to print these. Alright, so here we are, and we are just going to start sketching our plants. And what we're going to do is add, each one is going to be on a layer. So I'm going to name this layer, sketch layer. You don't have to do this, but it is good to stay organized if you can. And I am going to grab go to sketching and what pencil do I want to use? I'm going to use my HB pencil. Okay, the first thing we're going to start with is our zebra plant and we are going to sketch out the pot and then the plant. What I like to do is start with a very shallow sea curve. And you can actually make it come up like this. This is gonna be the top of our pot. Then, depending on the style that you want, I'm going to do like a terracotta style. There's a lip here. So I'm just trait like following that same line. The sketch doesn't have to be perfect, but you do want it to be the general shape of what you're doing because I'll make it easier when we go in and paint. Then just having the side come down. And don't worry about how big it is, we can always shrink this later and then just the bottom. And now we're going to come in and draw the plant. You guys might notice, I like to draw out an angle. It's I'm a calligrapher as well, so I'm used to kinda tilting my paper. If that bothers you guys, like draw habit straight, but just know that unless you've changed the command in your iPad or in Procreate, you can just two fingers and swivel it. Okay. Now, the zebra plant, I have a pretty prolific ones. So it has these a lot of leaves and they're kind of a long teardrop shape. And make them, you wanna do some with like a little movement in them. Don't worry, we'll come in and get rid of all those other guys. And they're kinda comes up to a top. I mean, all of them are different but the leaves are fanning out from a top point up here. So if it helps you more, you can draw that top 0.1 and then come down. Just make sure that you are changing your leaves a little bit. You don't want this to be boring to look at. Pull up a photo if you need one. I haven't really big leaf. I'm actually looking at my plant in my house right now as a reference. And this is going to look a lot more like the zebra plant once we come in and make a lot of the details, because it does have these veins that are going to come through, but we don't need to worry about that in the sketch right now. Now I do want to erase just this area right here. So just come in with your eraser and get that. And if you guys have never or you're new to Procreate, you can come in here and change your eraser. So I like to keep it on syrup because it's nice and thick. But if you have small areas, you can use a fine tip technical pen. You can use any of your brushes, which is really cool. Just going to erase. Oops, and you can make it bigger and smaller over here. Alright. So I'm actually going to rename this layer zebra because it's our zebra plant to keep them separate. And I'm adding a new layer. And we are going to move on to the fiddle leaf. So I'm going to make this a little bit smaller, actually. Just move up here. Now we're going to go to the fiddle leaf and we can rename this fiddle. And the fiddle leaf is a tree, although I did just propagate one of mine, so it's a teeny tiny one, but we're gonna do a larger one right now. Again, I like to start off with the pot. This time, I'm gonna do that same shape on top. But I'm gonna make it kinda come straight down. And then I want it to have a little like dish underneath. So I'm going to sketch that in. And the fiddle leaf. Is going to have one skinny, long trunk. Typically it's really skinny. So make sure you're going to have to make sure that your pot comes all the way around, or it's going to look weird. And now the fiddle leaf has these big, old, not old, these pig leaves. And they typically grow in to out of time. So it's common that you'll have another one coming out in the same side. At least mine does. So just making these big leaves. And as you get to the top, the leaves are going to be smaller because those are just sprouting. Then maybe I want one that kind of overlaps here. So I'm going to grab my eraser and get rid of this. And one more over here. That's a fiddle leaf. We're going to shrink that one up. We can always make it bigger later. Obviously, this is not to size right now because they would not be that close in size. Next, the famous path, those, the plant that's basically impossible to kill. Well, that an exponent we're gonna do are basically impossible to kill. The path is, is the one I am. There's a full name for it, but I can't really pronounce it, so I just say Pat those. But it has a lot of little leaves. It's really beautiful. I had to get rid of some of ours because they're toxic to animals. And our dog-like see everything, which is really sad. So the first thing we're gonna do is we're going to start off with a pot, but we're definitely going to be drawing over the pot. Because there's a lot of leaves on a path though. I think for this one, I'll still do the little a terracotta. You guys can do whatever you want with your pots. Then we're coming in at an angle on the sides and then round on the bottom. And this just has so many leaves and they're all kind of shaped like this. So you want to have some like a side angle and some where you do see the whole thing. And there when it's just starting, it's kinda like a really thin like almost it's wrapped up in itself. But they're tiny. So you're going to have a lot of vines coming down. You can make it as full as you want or not full. But make sure you're showing that it has these tiny branches coming out. You can do a side view, then maybe one in the front again. And then just come in here and erase any overlap. It's not a 100% necessary that you do this right now in this phase, but you can if you want. Okay. That's our patios. And our last one is like I promised. Let's rename this. If I do recommend naming your layers, I kind of work chaotically, but naming them really does help, especially when you start to have a lot of layers. So this is our snake plant, and this snake plant is basically impossible to kill. You cannot water it for a month, sometimes two months, and it doesn't even matter. It's what I got my husband for his office plant because I knew that he needed something that he couldn't kill. The snake plant has these long, straight leaves. So again, we're going to start with a pot, since we have two of these terracotta pots, and then we have one like this. I think I'm going to make another pot like this. Just kinda circle here. I'm just coming straight down. And literally just kinda wiggling your pen because this is what it's like. It's a succulent. I'm pretty sure. A couple of pieces might come out in different areas. But for the most part, it's pretty straight up and down. You don't need a lot of those because they have, like the outside is yellow. So we're going to do that. And then they also have this design in the middle. But we're going to do all of that once we get to the painting part. We have all of our plants and we are going to get started with painting. I'm going to set them up like this. Let's see. I'm just grabbing them and resizing them. Just so you know, I have, let's see. The uniform clicked. So when I go like this, It's going to scale it and not like warp it. This guy. And then maybe this wasn't the best size canvas or something like this, but we can, we can shrink them down later. Okay, let's move on. We are going to start adding color, and then we're going to add texture. 3. Zebra Plant: Welcome back. We are going to be adding color now. The first thing I wanna do is I want to create a color palette. And this isn't 100% necessary, but sometimes it makes it easier to have a color palette so you have more consistency if you're working, like we're working on several different plants that are all part of one collection. I'm going to click up here where my color is, and I'm going to hit the plus sign. Create new palette. Now, these are cool options as well. If you took a photo outside of like a lot of greens that you liked or you wanted to actually use the colors that your plants are. You can take a photo of it and it'll bring in that all those colors. It's really cool. Same thing with cameras. Like you can go and take a picture. It's not going to work right now because my iPad's down. So I'm gonna come up here, I'm gonna make a new, create a new pallet. And then I'm going to rename this. Let's just say house plants. And I'm going to start grabbing some colors. I actually really like this color as a terracotta color. See if it'll let me grab it. Yeah. I can just if you have any colors here that you like, you can grab them and bring them up here. Otherwise, you can come here and you can make your palette. I, there's gonna be a lot of grains, so the zebra plant is more of a darker green. So I'm going to grab that darker green than maybe a color right above it. And maybe something really light. And then I know that the snake plant is kinda this color, but then it has a yellowy green outside. We can always add more colors when we're painting. This is just a general baseline for us. The path those is really bright for St, green. And let's see what else we have. I think some of these pots, I might wanna do one that maybe is like a really light color. And we can play with this later. It's nothing set in stone right now. And I think about it, we're going to need a white color for the zebra plant. Alright, that's good enough right now. So we have our color palette and we want to work on one plant at a time. So the way to do that is I am going to, I'm going to start with the zebra. So I'm going to uncheck all of my other plants so I'm not looking at them. Then I can take this, I can make it big and I can start filling in some color. I am going to be grabbing. I'm gonna go to inking and my technical pen. This is how I like to do it. Obviously, you guys are following this class for a reason, but explore other pens and see what you like for me. This is how I like to start off this kind of work. I grabbed that very dark green and I am going to create a new layer. You can either create this above or below. Sometimes it's helpful. So I'm just clicking on the 0 layer and moving it above to have it, to have the sketch above your painting. So you can see the sketch still. Just layer this color for Zebra just in case it gets confusing later. And then I just come in here and make this a little bigger. I'm just outlining these leaves. And if I made this leaf and this leaf and this leaf, all the ones that are touching the same color is just going to blend in and be a blob. So what I like to do is add a slightly lighter color, just like you would do in watercolor or any other medium where you're looking at something and seeing the saturation of color that, that makes it interesting to look at, that makes it more 3D. So we are going do that here. But this first bottom layer, I'm going to start the leaves the same color. Oops. So I have outlined this leaf with my pen. And instead of having to color this all in, I just tap and hold with the heck, tap and hold down and I drag it and it fills it in. It is the best and easiest thing to do. I love it so much. I'm just going to do that for this bottom layer of leaves because these would be the darkest ones since they're the furthest away from the light source coming in at the top. Now on this next layer, I want to lighten it up just a little bit so you can go to value, sorry, not value. Classic and you can go this way, or this way. I'm going to go to the left just a bit. Maybe I'm going to go up. I'm gonna go up a little bit. So I'm still around that same color. Oops. But slightly different. Let's see if it's enough of a difference. Yeah, That looks good. Just coloring in these leaves. And I think this one needs to be a lighter color. This doesn't have to be perfect. You're just experimenting and especially learning how to use an iPad. It takes them experimenting with colors because it's different, at least for me, it's different than any medium I've ever used before because I've been using a pen and paper and watercolor paints for so long that this is definitely a new challenge for me. And then we're gonna go even lighter for these top layers. That's actually a little too bright green for me. I'm going to bring it down here. Technically, if you ever want to grab a color that's in here already, just hold down and it'll do that for you. I thought this one should be a little more bright green. This last guy. So if we removed our sketch, this is what we have right now. Now, don't worry if you think this looks like a blob we're gonna be adding in texture and shadows. But we're going to turn back on our sketch layer. And now we want to do the pot underneath. Now, you can do one of two things. You could come in on this same layer and add the color. But I recommend that we do the pot on a different layer. And I'm going to move that layer underneath. And we're going to call this zebra plot. And you'll see why we're doing this later. Just trust me. Okay. Now I want to come in and grab kinda like a terracotta color. And we're gonna do the same thing. Make sure I'm on that layer. Coming in. Just so you guys know too. If you make an outline and say you skip apart and you didn't complete it. Look what's going to happen. If I tried to do this. Basically the color escapes out of that little hole that's right there. And it goes all over the whole thing. So if that ever happens to you, it's because you didn't complete the shapes, so you have to completely close it off. Oh, dang it. If you ever do something, just undo it this way. I'm going to undo just going around and makes sure. So since this is on top of the pot, technically, I could just draw right through this because these are separate layers. So you don't have to worry that they are touching or that it's going to turn the leaves a different color. Since this layer is underneath this layer, it's not on top of it, right? Because if we did that, if we move the zebra above, it's going to do that. Okay? And just fill in this little area and then fill in this back here. And I want to add a little brown for the dirt. And I'm again going to add a new layer and I'm going to grab this kinda like a darker brown color. And just making a circle here, filling it in. And it's perfect right there. Let's name this zebra dirt. The reason I'm keeping zebra and the name is because we're gonna do this for all four plants. So we're going to need to keep it nice and organized. Okay, Now we're done with our sketch so we could technically get rid of it if we wanted to. Sometimes in Procreate, you're only allowed to have a certain number of layers, so you could delete that layer. It's good to keep your layers nice and condensed. But we're gonna keep it for right now just in case we need it. Now I want to come in and I want to add what is going on here. I'm going to erase this. I don't know why that's done. They're going to come in and add some texture to the leaves. And the way I'm gonna do that is I am going to create a new layer. And this layer is going to be a clipping mask. So I'm going to select Clipping Mask. And that means that it will literally clip to only this little arrow right there. It's going to make sure that whatever we put in this layer only sticks to this painting. It won't go over the edges and won't go on the pot. I'm moving over and I'm going to, let's go with carbon, stick, something with texture. You guys can choose whatever you want. I like the carbon stick. And I want to give these leaves a little bit of texture. And the way I'm gonna do that is I'm going to select a color that is slightly lighter than this. I'm gonna come up here and just start going like this. Do you guys see it? So it adds a little texture. I think it makes it more interesting. And since we colored these different colors, some of these layers are probably going to need a little lighter color. What I can see, how it's on there. So if I took the clipping mask off, it just be a hot mass. But since I have the clipping mask on, it's only going on the zebra plant. I'm going to grab a lighter color, even lighter for these top leaves and actually a little more yellow. Not too yellow but like this. And I'm going to give them little light source coming in here like that. And maybe I want to add some shadows over here. So I'm going down to a darker green, not like black, but darker than this color. Then I'm going to make this smaller and kinda zoom in and make a shadow here. So this is going to make the leaves on top pop out more. Because we want them to show up better. Then there would probably be a shadow underneath here and a shadow over here. Now, you can't really see the difference between these leaves right here and the shadow I currently have is a little too dark, so I'm going to get a color that's darker than this, but not as dark as what we were just working in and come in. Actually, it needs to be a little darker. Just make a shadow. Now, if it's feeling really harsh, grabbed this smudge tool right here. You can change this to whatever you want. This works well for me right now. And you can just come in and smudge it around so it looks smoother, kinda like what you do in watercolor. And I'm actually going to do that a couple times because there needs to be some shadow work here. This tutorial might be longer than I thought it was. Alright. This guy could use a shadow. Same thing over here. I really encourage you to look at either a photo or if you have a plant in your own house to see where the light's coming from and where the shadows are. It's always going to make your painting look more realistic if you do that. Because you need some way to separate the colors here. I'm still working on that clipping mask. So make sure that you still have your clipping mask. Then just going to come in and blend a bit. Len Blend, Blend, Blend, Blend. Okay. We are going to add more details, but for now the shading, I'm just actually going to go a little bit darker for these guys under here. I'm a big shading person. If you guys have done my watercolor classes, you know that that is my jam. I just want to make sure that it's clear. When you look at this that there's some shadows here. I'm using that smudging, smudging tool again. There we go. Okay. That looks good. And if you are happy with that, you can go ahead and merge these layers. Perfect. Now, I would like to work on the dirt a little bit just to give us something. And I'm going to add a clipping mask again. When I tell you that clipping mask or life changing and being really serious, they are the best. And I'm just doing the same thing with that dirt. It doesn't have to get crazy. Maybe I want to add some little dark spots in it. I'm not overly concerned because it's not showing that much. I just want to make sure that it's not super boring to look at. Merge Down. And we wanna do our pot. This pot definitely need some love. And the first thing I think it needs is it needs to be darker and a little bit. So I'm getting a darker color because, oops, come back to your inking. And I want to add, like under the lip, I want to make this whole thing darker because technically there would be a pretty good shadow. Oops. So sometimes that happens and it actually is closed. So what you need to do hold on. Well, you need to do is see how it says threshold up here. If you move, see how I'm moving this. It's making it less. So. Oops. So just hold down and move to the left and then it will do what you want it to stay. Okay? Alright, this guy, I want to expand this just out a little bit because it looks kind of funky. All right. I want to do a couple of things here. One, I'm going to add a clipping mask, and I'm going to grab my charcoal again. The carbon stake, use whatever texture you like. And I'm going to grab this color but make it slightly lighter. And paint all over, oops, make it bigger. Paint all over this. So it's looking more like the same color. And now we're going to talk about where some shadows would be grabbing darker. And let's say the sun's coming in from this way. So there would be, oops, gotta make this smaller. There would be a shadow. Oops. There be a shadow all the way under the lip of this pot. And then it would be on this side here, coming down. And under here. Then we just need to blend it because it looks pretty harsh right now. If you guys don't know, you do need to replace the tip of your stylist or Apple pencil, whatever you're using every now and then. I didn't realize how bad mine was until the other day it was completely smashed. That was something that I wasn't aware that I needed to change out. This color. I'm going to darken it a bit and do a little shadow over here as well. And under here because there's some leaves that are gonna make it a little darker. Now, I could spend a long, long time here, but for purposes of this class, I don't want to spend too much time on being perfect. Just wanted to show you the general guidelines and you can come in and out as much time as you want to. Something like this. I'm going to merge these layers because I'm happy with them. And then I'm turning on my other layers. And I need to add those final details onto the zebra plant. First of all, I'm going to add another layer, and let's call this zebra details. And we're grabbing our inking. I like to use a technical plan, so I'm going to use that. And I'm going to use a white color because actually it needs to be kind of a greenish white because that is what the zebra texture or pattern is going to be in this. And I'm just going to come in here and make all these lines coming down. And then there's all these veins in the plant leaves. Of course, no plant is going to be exactly the same. Like if you use this color all over here. It's not going to look super realistic. And we are going for kind of like an animated, cartoony look here. But I recommend saving this color and then having one that's maybe a little slightly darker or has little more gray or blue to it. And alternating between those because it'll make it more interesting. Another thing you can do is you can come in here with white, white. So if you double tap the color wheel, it's gonna go to white, white, double-tap here, it'll be white. If you double-tap here, it'll be black. And adding just maybe like some of these have a little like some of them are bright white lines. If you feel like doing that. Okay, we're just coming in here. We're adding all of these. I'm not going to speed it up because I'm assuming that you guys are doing this with me. And I know that I get really frustrated when I'm in a class and all of a sudden they're like speeding it up and I'm like, wait, I wanted to paint with you. We're gonna do this altogether. You also have the option to speed up yourself if you want to. I know I use that quite often. When I'm watching a class. It's like the little speed dial on the screen. As we get up here, these lines are gonna be white, lighter, right? Because maybe we make these ones white because the light source is coming up here and pull up a picture if you need a reference, but the veins are this is how they go. I'm looking at plant right now. I'm gonna switch again to this color. Now these are fun. If you guys want to post this on your social media. If you could make stickers out of these, you can make patterns for like fabric and wallpaper. I'm not going to teach you how to do that because I'm just learning about myself right now. I know how to do stickers, but I pattern design is something that I'm trying to get into that I'm not good at it enough to teach you yet. Like I said, you could really spend time here for a long time if you wanted to. Or you can make it a quick tutorial or a quick little class and work as fast as you want. Alright, that is our first plant. I think it looks pretty good. One other thing you can do if you feel like it is, add a little shadow down here. And we are going to do that by grabbing like a dark gray color. Remember we said the light was coming in from this side. So the shadow would be over here. And I just am making like a little circle like this. And I'm on my own layer so I can move it if I need to. Then I'm just going to I think put it over here. Then I'm going to set it behind all of this and grab Gaussian Blur. And you just put your pencil down and move it. Like however much you want it blurred. I think that's probably good. It's just like a little extra thing that you can do. You can make it smaller if you want to. But sometimes little teeny things like this just adds so much to your paintings. So I'm going to keep it there and make sure that you label it the ZBrush shadow. And we're going to move on to our next. Before we move on, sorry, I want to show you really quick. I'm happy with this. It looks good to me if you are happy with yours. What you can do is pinch them all together. And this is now, oops, sorry, we forgot the details. This is one layer and then you can rename this zebra plant. And it saves us on layers, so we don't have a bunch of extra layers and then you can just uncheck it if you don't want to see it. So now we're gonna move on to our other plants. 4. Snake Plant: Now that we have our first plant and done, we are going to move on to our other plants. And it's going to move a lot faster now since you guys kinda know the basics of what we're doing. But if it's ever going too fast, feel free to pause and come back when you're ready. Now we're gonna go this snake plant and hoops. Make sure you're on the right layer. Going to move this snake plant over here and make it bigger. And then I'm going to make this bigger as well. So I can see, maybe I'm getting old, but zoom in on everything. The first thing I'm gonna do in this one is I wanted to do the pot, so I'm coming in here and rename the layer, and this is going to be the snake pot. I'm gonna make this plot a single. Oops, that's not what I was trying to write. Single color. I think I wanna do it like this color right here. So getting my technical pen, I'm on my snake pot layer and I'm just outlining it. And make sure you come over here like this. And all the way on the bottom. I'm just dragging that color in. And we're gonna do the same thing that we love to do, which is add texture. So making a clipping mask, grabbing, Let's do like a lighter tan color. And then I wanted to try a different texture. What about this? This kinda cool uno, hold on. That's kinda cool. So I don't actually like that. Let's look at some other textures. There's a whole texture panel here. Also, if you guys buy brushes, That's an option as well. Let's do, let's go back to our charcoals. And I'm going to do the birch tree one. I'm going to make this a little bigger and just add some texture. This looks cool to me. This looks like, you know, those cement pots, I want to fill it in. I don't want there to be too many gaps. And the same thing, we're going to have the sun coming in from the right-hand side because I want all of our artwork to be consistent. Grabbing a darker, kinda grayish shade and making this smaller and just coming in here along the bottom a little bit. And then just using our smudge tool might change this. Let's change it to that same charcoal. Oops. The back button is your best friend. Okay. I kinda like to smudge this just a little bit. It looks a little more realistic on the texture. So we have that that's a little bit crooked. So I'm just going to move it a little bit. Oh sorry. We're working in a clipping mask. That's not going to work. So I like this. I'm going to merge it down. And I want to move this pot a little bit because it seems crooked. And maybe that snake plant two. Okay. Now we're moving onto this snake or making, or the snake plant. So we're gonna put snake color. And we're gonna do that first layer, which is a darkish green with a little more yellow in it like that. And make sure you go back and get your technical pen. I'm just coming in and I'm going to outline these and drop color in. So if you guys are getting these tiny lines right here, there's a threshold issue. So when I go like this, I want the threshold to be higher. So that doesn't happen. So you just move your stylus across your screen and it'll fill those spots. And I'm gonna make these guys fill them in. Since this one is behind this one. This one can be dark, but we're going to make the one in front slightly lighter. That's done can be dark as well. And we're just coming up here and moving slightly up. We have different color one. Now you can separate your layers here. So if you wanted these lighter ones to be on a separate layer, when you do the clipping mask, you could totally do that too. Okay. We're going to add a little texture, adding a layer clipping mask. That is the word of the day. Something a little lighter. And let's go back to the carbons stick. I liked the carbon stick. You guys can choose whatever you want. And just adding in a little texture here. And since this color is very similar to this one, you're not gonna see it a lot. So you might grab something lighter for the use. Just make sure you stay on them, not on the stuff behind them. I want some darker shadows, like here and here. And here. Maybe at the bottom where it connects into the dirt. Okay. You can smudge it if you feel like it needs it. I'm actually okay with the way that looks, maybe these ones because they don't look quite as dark. I'm going to merge that down because I'm happy with it. And now we're going to add in the details for the snake. So the snake, plant snake, eye. There we go, no snake details. And we want to grab that yellowy color. Say like this. And grabbing my technical pen again. Oops. I'm coming in here and I'm just making a line that follows the outside of this plant. Pull up a picture if you're not familiar with this plant, because this won't make sense if, if you aren't familiar with it. But it's just this yellowy green line that outlines each leaf. That's another reason why I wasn't too worried about things blended in because this is going to show the light. Show you where certain leaves are. Okay. Just outlining, outlining uniform. And then they have this darker color. It's almost like a zigzag in the plant. But I think that's some different pen like maybe this dry ink would be better because it looks more textured. I think we need something even darker. Wow, even darker than that. Yeah, because I want something a little more textured. It looks funky, but it's just like these little lines. And you could even come in and smudge them a little bit. Let's see. Do I want to do that? Maybe just a little bit. So making these lines, it's kinda funny plant. And obviously the ones back in the back, we're going to have to grab a super dark color. It might not even show up. You could skip it as well. Oh, there we go. It does show up. I'm literally just making these little squigglies. And we need to add the dirt. So that looks good. Now we're going to add in some dirt. Grabbing a brown and make sure you go back to your technical pen. Making a circle. I'm not going to worry about that because if I put it on top of the pot, it looks a lot better. And just, we like to add texture. So grabbing this color and maybe the charcoal block to give it some texture. And I'm actually going to move this snake above it. See, now this is acting as a clipping mask, but we don't want this to be a clipping mask. Oh, okay. I messed up there. Don't do what I just did. So merge these guys and then move it up here and then make sure it's not a clipping mask. So what I wanna do is I want to show that there are shadows coming in here where the plant is going into the dirt because the dirt that you use for a snake plant is supposed to be really like papillae and easily drained. So it has a lot of like lumps and stuff in it. That's what I'm trying to show here. Alright, that looks good. I'm going to erase or delete my sketch layer and I'm going to merge down my dirt texture. I'm happy with all of these, so I'm going to merge those as well. I'm going to, let's add that shadow. I think it'll be fun to have that on everything. So I'm grabbing a black, essentially that I'm making. Oops, don't forget to get your technical pen. And making that circle. Filling it in. And I move it behind the plant. And then I'm just going to tap it over. So it's just right there. Then grabbing the Gaussian Blur and just letting it blur out. I like that to be a little more blurry. I can always make it smaller if I feel like it's just too big. Perfect. There's a little I'm going to leave that. Maybe it's a chip and the pottery. Let's make it authentic. Rename this snake plant. Awesome. Let's see what we have so far. We have this snake plant and we have the the zebra plant. It looks really cute. I like them. I think they look adorable. Awesome. So now we're going to move on. This actually needs to move a little bit. There we go. Move on to the fiddle leaf. We're going to turn off these layers and we're going to move them under here since they're done. I'm going to delete that because we don't need it. And now we're going to work on our fiddle leaf. 5. Fiddle Leaf Fig Tree: Alright, we're ready to move on to our fiddle leaf. One of my very favorite houseplants, makes sure that you have your technical pen. And we are going to go in and color some of these leaves. Now the ones on the bottom, we're going to be darker because they're older growth. And our ones, as we go up the tree, it's going to get lighter. So I'm just going to move to a little bit of a lighter color. I don't know if you guys have ever seen a fiddle leaf in real life, but the leaves are kinda shiny. So will definitely show some little highlights with, when we come in for our details. I'm gonna make this one the same color. Then I'm gonna go and move the color up. We get a little more yellow. Here we go. For these guys. You can outline them all. And then come over and add the color. Brush. There you go. Okay, that looks good. And then we want to add in some texture. So we'll add a layer above it. Click on that layer, make it a clipping mask, have that little arrow. And for the top, we're going to use a light green cg color and grab some kind of texture since we've been using the charcoal block. I think I'm going to stick with that. I'm just going to actually make it bigger. Add a little bit of that texture on there. Actually, I don't think I like that. Let's do the vine chalk. I like that. It's a little more close together. There we go. And then I'm going to grab a little darker color and make some shadows in here. Make it a little smaller. Again, our light source is coming from the right-hand side. We want it to be consistent with all our plants. So the shadow would be on the left-hand side or like underneath here. I'm going to grab just a little bit darker because it would slightly darker than that. And going to smudge, whoops, get the same kind of texture. Okay, Cool. Moving on to our leaves below it. In order to get this color, I'm just going to hold down my finger and it has that color now. And I just want to get something a little bit lighter. I'm on the same chalk. And I don't want to get into these darker leaves. So just stick on. Just be careful not to do that. Or you could have put these leaves on a separate layer and then not worry about it, but we're just going to be a little bit careful. Okay? Same thing, grabbing darker color to add some shadows here. Shadow, shadow. This one, I'm going to pretend like it's on top, so we're not gonna do a shadow there. And then just much, that was a little too much smudging. Finally, our darkest leaves. We're going to add something a little lighter line chalk little bit. Now, since these are on the very bottom, there would be a shadow right here. And this already looks pretty much like a shadow because it's darker. I think we're good there. So that looks good. I'm going to merge down my clipping art or clipping mask so that now it's on the leaves. And I want to do the trunk of the tree. I'm going to grab a pretty dark brown and then I'm gonna come in and add little highlights. And I'm gonna go back to my inking technical pen. The trunk is usually long and skinny. For a fiddle leaf. Wobbly. It's not going to let me do it. So I'm just going to paint in and then make sure you're kinda showing where the branches connect. Okay, then I'm going to grab something a little bit lighter. And I'm going to make a clipping mask. And going back to that same texture, the vine, vine charcoal. And just adding that in. And then grabbing something darker. Maybe making this even smaller along this side which would be totally shadowed. It will also be shadowed up here where the leaves are kinda covering it. And then shadow down here. And there would be some shadowing in here as well. Cool, Awesome. So that looks good. I'm going to merge that down. And now we need to make our dirt and our pot. Go back to grabbing my technical pen like this light brown. And I'm just going to draw a circle around like a flattened circle and color it in. Again with a clipping mask. Grabbing and charcoal. Let's do something kinda rocky like this burnt tree. Make it darker. There we go. Kinda looks gravelly. I'm going to merge down and I want to move this layer underneath the tree trunk. So just do that. That looks good. And we're going to paint our pot now. Oops, that actually got put into a new group. I don't want that. So I just want to click and drag it under. Perfect. So now our pots, let's see. So we've had one that's kinda yellow. We have one that's terracotta. Maybe we go back to that yellow color. Make it a little lighter. Outline. Oops. Make sure you have your inking pen. Outline it. And then I'm going to make an outline over here because the pot would go around. If you're looking down at it, you would see that I've decided I don't wanna do this plate underneath, so I'm not going to paint that in. I'm going to add another layer, do a clipping mask, and grab that really light color. And let's see. Let's go to charcoal again. Maybe this part tree. I like that. I thought it looks kinda cool, are pretty cool with the other plant. But I'm going to fill it in more so it looks more like cement. Then I'm going to smudge it a little bit. Perfect. Then I want to come in and add just a little bit of a shadow on this side, on the bottom. And then just switch that around. Remember our clipping mask is keeping this from going all over the place, which is amazing. I think that looks good. I'm going to merge that layer down. I'm going to get rid of my sketch. I don't need it anymore. And it's time for some details. And the leaves, now the leaves have pretty large veins in them. And it's kind of similar to the zebra plant where it's thought really limeys, light green. I'm going to grab my technical pen. Where are you? There you are. I'm going to start drawing these. You can see if you look at the fiddle leaf, the backside is usually brown veins, but the top is usually these light ones. And I'm gonna make this smaller, maybe 8%. And you just go like this, kinda wiggle them a little bit so you get some movement. And we can come in here with the white and add little highlights. Like I said, they're shiny leaves. We're definitely going to be adding those highlights. It's kind of just like a shaky V on here. Like you drink too much coffee, which happens to me quite often. Sometimes it's hard to paint small details when you have jacked yourself up on coffee. It's so neat how just small details like this really adds so much. Now I am going to make it just a little bit darker, a little more green. Since we're moving down a little bit. Makes it cool, more interesting to look at. Perfect. Okay, that looks good. And then since these are so shiny, I'm going to grab a white and I am going to add small details. So this is going to look funky at first, but I just added some right there. Then I'm going to grab our smudging tool. I'm on that chart vine charcoal because I think it's going to smudge it the best and then just start smudging, smudging until it's pretty loose. And it just looks like a highlight in the leaf. You can do this several times. You're going to have to go back-and-forth between oh, actually, sorry. That's a smudge. I thought you're going to have to change your brush a lot, but you don't have to do that because we're using the Smudge button. So just pick a couple of places, maybe make like one line you could do like a circle and a line. Add some up here. It's all about those little details that are going to add so much to the life of your artwork. Alright, now we have to smudge all of these, which is pretty fun. Just come in and smudge, sludge, sludge. And it gives it that look at the fiddle leaf is unknown for those shiny leaves, they actually get pretty dusty and you're supposed to wipe them down. We have a corky that sheds like crazy, so I always have to wipe down our fiddle leaf. Then if you really just want to give it that extra pop, you can come back, grab white, white with your I have my ink pen on. And just maybe making some of these veins have a little white shadow or highlight. And you could even do it on the leaf too if you want. Okay? And lastly, we are going to do that shadow that we did before. We can go ahead and merge all of these for the fiddle leaf, and we can rename fiddle leaf. Now I want to add that shadow at the bottom. Remember it's just it's on a new layer, but it's not only shape. If you guys didn't catch that. Procreate, if you draw a shape and you just hold your pen down, it'll snap it. So you could do a circle. You could edit it. I didn't make it at all circular, so that's why it didn't grab it, but it'll make a circle for you, which is really cool. So that's why when I draw this, I just hold it down and it snaps it into a perfect oval shape. Going to fill it in. I'm going to push it underneath the fiddle leaf. And then I'm coming up and grabbing Gaussian Blur and just dragging my pen until I'm happy with the results. So I think I'm good with that. I'm going to merge them. And there we have our fiddle leaf. Okay, so our plans are looking pretty adorable, and now we just have to do that last plant, the potatoes. 6. Pothos: Okay, We want to make this bigger so we can see it. I like to zoom in. And I am going to add a layer and make sure I have my technical pen. Then we're going to use several shades of green because there are so many leaves on here and some will be newer leaves and some will be older leaves. You really want to make sure that you have a variety of, it should be one kind of color of green, but a variety of shades of it. So you wouldn't wanna do like a blue-green and then a forest green or like a Seiji green, although that kinda looks like that. But along the same color path, color, theme. And actually, because we are going to be using so many different colors, are clipping masks are going to be a hot mess if we do that. So I'm going to separate these different layers. So I'm gonna grab this tool right here. And I'm drawing around the leaves. Then I'm doing three fingers. Oops, just kidding. Let's try that again. So I'm coming up here to this tool. I'm drawing around. These leaves out are the same color. I'm going to three fingers cut and paste. And now I have this on a separate layer. As you can see, a little bit got left behind, but I can just erase that. That's right here. And we can fix that later. The reason I'm doing this is because when I use the clipping mask, I want to make sure that things like we're gonna be using different colors for the lighter greens and we are for the darker greens. So now we're gonna go in and just make this darker green. We're going to do all the leaves that we want in that color. So kinda have a vision for that. Overhear. You kinda, if you're not familiar with Photoshop, procreate is very similar to that, the way that layer's work. So you kinda have to start thinking in layers when you are using a tool like this. It can feel weird at first, but once you get the hang of it, it's, it's easy and it's really helpful when you're working in layers to keep things separate. Let's do now I'm going to move on to, I'm gonna make a new layer and do a darker green. For some of these. Maybe I feel like that one wouldn't be that dark. Maybe these guys would be k. Now I want to go back to this lighter green, and I want to do several of them in that color. And you can do this one too. Okay. Now we're going to work on our clipping masks in layers, different layers. Now I'm on the darkest green layer and I want to do something just a little lights. I'm going to use charcoal just because we've been using that with everything. And I'm coming in here and doing the same thing. Maybe make it a little bigger so I don't get so many streaks. And it's only going to work on those dark leaves because those are the only ones in this layer, which makes it way more easier. And maybe I want to add some darker shadows here. Maybe right here. This side, our light source is coming from the right side. Or a leaf might be covering up a certain area which would make it shadowed. Then I'm gonna come in with my smudge tool. Around. Here we go. Okay. Merge that down. I'm happy with it. Now we're moving on to these greener leaves. Clipping mask. I'm going to select that color so I know where I'm starting from and then I have to do something lighter. You can go lighter or darker. I like to go lighter. That's usually my go-to. That's way too thin so make it larger. So we're not getting streaks. That's kinda cool because I don't have to worry about it going on any other layer. Now grabbing something a little darker and putting in some shadows, Rabia, shadow here, maybe one down here because this leaf underneath here, here. And then smudge. Okay, Lastly, we're happy with that. We're going to merge it down. Lastly, we want to get that green, really light green and add. I didn't have my clipping mask on. Okay. Now it's on. Can these are kind of at the tippy top, but we can see if maybe here there's a little shadow coming in. Maybe over here. These guys look good. Merge that down. We can merge all our leaves now. We need to add in the vines or the branches that connect them. Now grab a green and a new layer. Grabbing my technical pen and just connecting all of these, I am going to use a clipping mask on these to give them a little texture. Okay. Let me know how you guys like using clipping mask. I really think that they like change the game with it. But that's just my personal opinion. And this is looking really kind of bland to me. I'm going to add another layer because I might want to get rid of this. But I'm going to add a darker green. Just a line underneath. So it looks like a shadow. It's just looking boring to me. That's why I wanted to do this. Yeah, that looks better. It just makes it more dimensional in my opinion. Okay, cool. Now we can merge all those and we have to paint that pot and the pot looks like it's underneath. Well, it is underneath the leaves, but we don't have to worry about that because all we need to do is make a new layer. And then we can just basically hide this one so that we can draw that pot. I'm gonna make it that terracotta color. Oops. Technical pen. Come in here. Oops. I went too far. Make that lighter color. That's a little too light. There we go. And even though we can't see a lot of this, we do want to draw the whole thing basically because just in case we move something around. Okay? Now, we definitely, this is looking funky over here. There we go. Definitely want to add some texture here. Clipping mask, charcoals. Sue carbon, stick. A little lighter. What's going on here? Oh, it's really similar in color. That's why. Okay, then we want some darker areas. And I'm actually going to grab my technical pen for these and add some lines. We're going to use a smudging tool. Maybe is a little bit over here. And then smudging, we get that beautiful smudged out shadow. That looks a lot more natural. And we really got rid of a lot of texture here. So I might want to add a little bit back in. I'm going to grab carbon stick and just lightly come in here. And then maybe use that for this right here. That's way too big. Sludge. Okay. I'm happy with that for now. We need to do the dirt. So grab a brown. This can be pretty simple. I'm going to leave it flat because we don't see a lot of the dirt in this plot. Thanks to the pothos plant. We are going to merge that down and then you, okay, So if we were to merge this right now what's going to happen is your pot is going to be in front of your plants, not going to look like the plants inside of the pot. So you need to do is take this layer of leaves and move it above the pot, and then you can merge it down. We want to add a couple of details in the leaves, just small veins. Grab that really light. Green. Grab your technical pen. I keep calling it inking pen, sorry, new layer. And the reason I use new layers just in case I, if I don't like what I did, then I can easily remove it. And we're just making these really light lines. They just have like a vein down the middle. At least that's what it looks like to me. Their leaves can be a little bit shiny too, but we don't need to add those highlights. You guys can, if you want. Awesome. Get rid of our sketch. I'm happy with the details. I'm going to merge them down. And then the last thing we have to do is just that shadow. And going to grab my arrow tool and make it a little smaller, fill it in. Then I'm going to put it behind, grab the Gaussian blur, and blur it out. I'm happy with that. Perfect. All right. You did it, you guys. Okay. 7. Final words: I wanted to see these all lined up. So I'm going to shrink them down. You know what I'm actually going to do? I'm gonna make a new canvas that's more long and skinny. And the way to do that is just to set up a new canvas. I'm gonna do inches and the width I'm going to say is eight, and the height is four. I forgot about our fiddle leaf. That might affect our fiddle leaf. I think we're okay. Okay, so you guys can go like this. You can hit your layer. You can name these two and copy. And then you're gonna come over here. And three fingers paste. And your plant is here. Now. We have one, I'm gonna do this with all of them so we can see. Make sure you're on the correct layer. When you hit Copy. Paste. Technically are fiddle leaf would be a lot bigger compared to these other plants, but that's okay. Little leaf copy paste. These are like giant compared to the other ones. And lastly, we're going to grab the zebra plant. Copy. Paste. Awesome. So here are you guys is beautiful plants. I really want to see what you create, so please, please, please share what you create. You can add it to the class project section. I, I always say this, but I really love seeing what you guys make because it's, everybody does it a little bit differently and it's really amazing to see. Also, if you are on Instagram, you can tag me at lavender and see. I love to chat with you guys and know that you're watching. And also, if you enjoyed this class, could you please leave a review? They mean so much to me. I love reading them, but they also get my class seen by more people. I hope you enjoyed this class. If you have any questions at all, feel free to reach out to me and I hope you have an amazing day.