Illustrate Wildflowers With Line Art In Procreate

1. Introduction & What You’ll Learn: Hi everyone, welcome to my Skillshare class. My name is Vinita. I'm an illustrator and pattern designer based in Singapore. I am originally a pencil color artist. Most of my work was done on paper with pencil colors I've been using Procreate for a while now and it has definitely improved my work flow I loved the non-destructive way of working. And also it is intuitive. In this class, I'm going to show you my process of illustrating wildflowers in Procreate. We will be illustrating five wildflowers That's Poppy, Daffodil, Cornflower Daisy and Tiger Lily I broke down the process in four stamps. We’ll start by planning the composition for each flower I will take you step-by-step for each process. Next, we'll finalize our sketch, add color. And finally, we'll add some line art to each flower. In the end, we’ll turn these flowers into A seamless pattern, will be turning them into a half drop repeat. I will be showing you step-by-step process of turning this into a seamless pattern. Few examples on how they look on print-on-demand sites products, few mock-ups If you're planning to license these artwork. Thank you for taking this class with me. 2. Resources & Project : To download the resource for this class, you should be on your webpage and not on your app. Here when you scroll down under Project and Resources section, you can see this section called resources. On your right side. Under this you will find two attachments, wildflower guidelines and Wildflower reference images. You can tap on these attachments and tap Download, and this will be saved in your Download folders. The attachment with the wildflower guidelines has these stick figures that we will be using throughout our class. It's a Procreate file. This will directly open in your procreate app. You can download them and follow along. The second attachment has these reference images. These are royalty-free images. We will be referring to them while we're sketching our flowers. So you can download them and import in our Canvas too. For the class project, you can illustrate any wildflower of your choice. Or you can even use the stick figure from the resource section. Following our list of more wildflowers that can help you decide on your project, please share your flowers in the project section. I can't wait to see your beautiful wildflowers. 3. Canvas & Brushes: Let's start with a canvas and brush setup. I have a folder ready here. This has five canvas with reference images for each flower. The size for these Canvas, or 4 thousand by 3 thousand pixel, with 300 DPI. I've made a collage of reference images for each flower. And also these reference images are in the resource section of this class. You can download and also follow along. The size of your canvas depends on your project. But it's always better to work on a bigger Canvas. I always work on a size of 3 thousand by 3 thousand pixel with 300 DPI. Let's move on to the brushes we're going to use in this class. There is just one brush that I'm going to use for the whole class. That is under sketching pencil. I will be using this brush for sketching, for our rough sketch and also for our final illustration. But depending on your style, you can even choose a different kind of brush. They're more similar brushes under sketching section. Also under Inking section. This brush has a nice tapering effect that will be very helpful when we are working on online art. Let's move on to our first flower, that's poppy. 4. Poppy: Sketch: Let's start with our first flower, that's poppy. I'll tap on my first canvas. I've made these coolidge of reference images. We will be referring to these images while sketching our flowers. When you're collecting your reference images, make sure you can see your flower clearly. For example, the flowers should be indifferent angles. Like you can see the front-facing of the flower here. Here you can see the side angle of the flower and also the other parts of the flower if you need them in your illustration. For example, the buds here. You can see the shape and the fall of the bud here. More buds on this side with a different angle. We can add them to our illustration. This flower has a very thin and baby stem, and the type of leaf for each flower will be different. For example, here you can see this has a very spiky and very tiny leaf to it. Now let's move on to planning and sketching our illustration. We'll start by going to the layers. First. I'll move my reference image to the left. We'll start planning our sketching on this side. Next, I'll go to layers. We'll add a new layer. And I'll rename this layer as stick figure. Stick figure is more like planning our illustration before sketching. With the help of shapes like circles and lines. We can plan the placement of our flower, the stem, and the buds. Under Brush Library. In the sketching section, I have my six B pencil selected. I'll select a gray color. I'll start with the flower first. I'll draw an oval shape. Tap on Edit Shape, will get these four nodes. You can hold these nodes and adjust your shape. Next I'll draw another oval shape. For the second flower. Hold your pencil on the screen until you're satisfied with the shape. Again, I'll tap on Edit Shape and you can adjust the shape and also the position. Now moving on to the stem, I'll just draw lines for the stem. Next, the buds the buds that we saw in the reference image. I’ll draw one bud on the left side, another bud here. Now the leaves. Another bud on this side too. I have to stick figure in the resource section of this class. It's a Procreate file. You can even download them and follow along. I wanted this stick figure to be in red color. So while you're sketching, we can sketch in the green color. Figure can be in red. I will alpha lock this layer and turn this into a red color. I'll hide my reference image and shift this stick figure in the center. Next I'll add another new layer and rename this layer as Sketch. Reduce the opacity of my stick figure. Select a gray color. And we'll start sketching our flower. You can keep your reference image or the collage around for your reference while sketching. Another flower in the second cell. This flower has a very thin stem. I'll try to keep it thin. They're done with the sketch here. Let's move on to the line art and adding some color to this flower. 5. Poppy: Outline, Color & Line Art: Now moving on to the next step, which is adding our client to this illustration for that and go to layers. Hide my stick figure layer, reduce the opacity of our sketch around 50 per cent. Now for the outline, I'm going to add a new layer, rename this layer as outlined, and hide my reference image so we can pick up some color from the reference image. Select a dark red color with the same six B pencil brush with the size of around 15%. I'll hide my reference image layer so we can see the flower clearly. And we'll start adding the outline to the floor first. Now moving on to the stem. For that, I'll first select a dark green color from our reference image. And another new layer, will this layer below our floor outline layer rename this layer as outlined stem so we don't get confused with our first outline there. I'll start adding outline to our stem. I'll be using the same color and the same brush for the leaves and the buds too. I move again back to our first outline layer, the flower outline one. To add the details in the center for our second flower. I'll pick up a dark color from our reference image and start drawing the center. Now moving on to adding some color to this flower. I go to layers. Hide my reference image on our first outline layer. And you get this option called reference. Tap on reference. I didn't new layer. This layer below our outline layer. Reference will help us fill the color inside the lines of a particular layer. Now while selecting the color, I'm going to color each petal with a different shade of red. I'll start with an orange-ish, red first. I am randomly selecting colors and dropping them into each petal. Just making sure that every color is little slightly different than each other. This will help Illustration look more interesting than looking to flat. I'll repeat the same for the second flower too. I'll fill these gaps in the center. I will follow the same steps for the stem. I will add reference to the outline layer, add a new layer, and start dropping the colors in the stem. Let's move on to adding some line art to this illustration. I'll hide my sketch layer, add a new layer, and rename this layer as line art. I'll select the same dark color from the outline. With the brush size around 10%. I'll start adding these lines to the flowers First. Tried to start the lines around the curve area of the petals. Then fill in the center. I'll repeat the same for the stem to. I'll select the same dark color from the outline. Starting with the leaves first. Here we are done with our first flower. Let's move on to the second one. 6. Daffodil: Sketch: Let's start with our second flower, that's daffodil. I'll tap on my second canvas. These are the collage of images that I'm going to use for my reference. When you choose a reference image, make sure you see all the parts of the flower clearly. For example, here, you can see the flower, the stem, the shape of the stem. Like in the second image, you can see the center of the flower clearly. So while sketching, it is easier to follow the shapes. In the third image, we can see the same floor with different angles. Let's start with the sketching on a new layer. I'm going to add a new layer layer and rename this layer as stick figure. Stick figure. Would it be more like planning your flower, how you want your flower to be? This is before sketching. I'll select a red color. And with our six B pencil, we'll start with the flower first. I will be sketching a flower with similar to this image are stick figure for this flower will look something like this. Make sure you're on your stick figure layer. And we'll start planning flower. I'll start with an oval first. Hold your pencil tip until you're satisfied with the shape. Another smaller oval shape. Hold it. If you want to edit the circle further. You can see this option with Edit Shape. You can move this circle around. You can even change the angle, pulling the blue nodes. Moving on to the second flower. I want this flower to be front-facing. Seem like the one in the second image. To make it a perfect circle, hold with your finger on the screen. Now for the stem and the leaves, are we just using lines? I have the stick figure in the resource section of this class. It's a Procreate file. You can even download and follow along. I hide my reference image and move my stick figure in the center. Now for the sketching, I'll add a new layer and rename this layer and sketch layer. Select a green color. And with my six B pencil, I'll start sketching our flower. And we are done with our sketching here. Let's Move. Want to add some line art and color to this flower. 7. Daffodil: Outline, Color & Line Art : Let's add some color and line up to the daffodil. My first step is to go to layers. Hide my stick figure, reduced opacity of the sketch layer. Next, I'll add a new layer and rename this layer as outlined. Next, I'll unhide my reference image so we can pick up a darker color for our outline. Now on my outline layer with my six B pencil, I'll start with my outline for the flowers first. I'm just going to follow my sketch and add an outline to both the flask. We have to make sure while doing this outline there are no gaps between the outline as we will be filling them with colors. Now for my stems and leaves, again, I'm going to select a green color from our reference image. You can even add a new layer for the stem and the leaves outline. Next go to layers. Hide my sketch layer. Tap on the outline layer that reference. Add a new layer. This layer below our outline layer. Reference will help us fill the color between these outlines, but on a different layer. Now to fill the colors, I'm going to select different shades of yellow and keep dropping them in both the flask. Now selecting a green color to fill in the stem and the leaves. We'll add few basic line art to this flower, which we will be doing on a new layer. Add a new layer, this layer above our outline layer, and rename this as line art layer. We'll start with the flower first. I select the same color as the outline. With the same six feet. Betsy, I'll keep my brush size to around 10%. And we are done with our daffodil here. Let's move on to our third floor. 8. Cornflower: Sketch: Let's start with our third flower, that's gone flower. I'll tap on my third Canvas. These are the coolidge of reference images I will be referring to for my sketches. In these images you can see I have these flower with different angles. Also, you can see the leaves and the buds clearly. So while sketching, we can refer to these shapes. Let's move on to our first step. That's the stick figure. I'll just make this collage smaller and slide it in one corner. We can sketch here. I'll be selecting a red color for the stick figure. I'll add a new layer and rename this layer as stick figure. Stick figure is more like planning. Before you start sketching your flower, I'll draw an oval. Hold it until you're satisfied with the shape. You can even edit shape all these nodes and make more changes, or even change the position of your shape. For the second floor, I'll draw a circle. Hold your finger on the screen for a perfect circle. Shape if you want to make more changes. Next for the stem and the leaves, I'll be just using lines. Like planning the shape and position of your flower. I have this stick figure in the resource section of this class. You can even download them and follow along. Now for sketching, I'll go to layers. Hide my reference image, and displaced my stick figure in the center. A little bigger. And go to layers, add a new layer, reduce the opacity of our stick figure. Select a light gray color. I'll rename my layer as sketch layer. The shape of this flower from the side is more like these tiny stars. And from the front you can see this tiny trumpet shaped petals. And the center line. And start sketching my first plot. Now the second flower. But seemed like the reference image. Now sketching the stem and the leaves. We're done with our sketching here. I'll hide my stick figure. Let's move on to adding some line art and color to this flower. 9. Cornflower: Outline, Color & Line Art : Let's add some colors and line out to our cornflower My first step is to go to Layers. Reduced opacity of our sketch layer, add a new layer, and I'll rename this layer as outlined. Next, I'll pick up a color from the reference image. I'll try to select a darker shade for the outline of our flower. And with our six B pencil brush with the size of around 20 per cent, I'll start adding outline to the flowers Make sure when you're adding outline to these flowers. All the outlines are close. Let them and select a darker color for the center of this flower. You can even increase the brush size. I'll just use the pressure of your pencil to make it look thicker. Now moving on to add outline to the stem of this flower. For that, I'll add new layer, rename this layer as outlined stem. I'll select a green color from our reference image. You can even select any other shade of green of your choice. Now let's move on to adding some colors to this flower. I'll hide my sketch layer, tap on our outline layer and tap reference, add a new layer. This layer below our outline layer, I will be adding two shades of purple here, like the one for the inside of the petal and the darker one for the outside. Next, let's add color to the stem and the leaves. Tap on the outline stem layer and tap reference. Add a new layer and put this layer below our outline layer. I'll select a lighter green and start dropping into our stem and the leaves. We'll be adding a very basic line onto this flower. For that, I will add a new layer above our outline layer, and I'll rename this layer as line art. I'll select the same color as the outline. The darker shade of purple. With my six feet and see the size to around 10%. I'll add some basic liner to the flowers first. We're done with our third flower here. Let's move on to the fourth one. 10. Daisy: Sketch: Let's start sketching our fourth flower that's Daisy I'll tap on my food Canvas. These are the collage of images of collected for our reference. Always choose a reference image that can show you different angles off the flowers Like in this image, I can clearly see the petals and the shape of this flower. In the second image, you can see the center clearly, which will help us while we're sketching. Before sketching our flower, we will be doing a stick figure. Like for example, for this flower stick figure will look something like this. Also you can see the tiny buds. Let's move on to sketching our flower. I'll select the reference image layer and drag it to one corner. Will be sketching on this empty space on the right side. Now my first step is to add a new layer and rename this layer as stick figure. Stick figure is a step before we start sketching. We'll use line and so good to plan our flower. I will be using six B pencil for all our steps and all the layers. I'll start by drawing a circle. Hold your pencil tip on the screen and hold with one finger to make it a perfect circle. Another circle in the center. This will be a front-facing flowers, like the second image in the reference image. Hold your fingertip to make it a perfect circle. And you can even adjust until you're satisfied with the shape. For the second floor, I'll be drawing an oval. And this time I'm not using my fingertip because that's going to make it a circle. Once you leave your pencil tip, you can see this option with edit shape here. Four nodes will appear on your shape. You can even adjust with these nodes. Next I'll draw another oval in the center. Tap on Edit Shape. If you need to do any changes. You can even hold these nodes and change the shape. For the stem and the leaves. I'll be only using lines. I have this stick figure in the resource section of this class. You can even download them and follow along. Once you're done with your stick figure, Let's move on to the sketching. First, I'll go to layers, hide my reference image layer, select my stick figure layer, and move it in the center. And reduce the opacity of this layer to around 50 per cent. Next, add a new layer and rename this layer, sketch layer. Select a gray color. I'll start with the first flower. Moving on to the second floor, sketching some stem and the leaves. We are done with our sketching heel. Let's move on to adding some colors and line art to this flower. 11. Daisy: Outline, Color & Line Art: Let's start adding some bright color to our daisy. Now my first step is to go to layers, add a new layer, and rename this layer as outline. I'll select a bright yellowish orange color with my six B pencil brush. And I'll start adding this outline for the center of our floss. Now for the petals of the flower, I'm going to select a light gray color. As the buttons are white in color, we can unselect white. I'm going to select a light gray color and start adding outline to our petals. Outline for the second flower. Now for the stem and the leaves, I'm going to select a bright green color. You can even add a new layer for the outline of the stem and the leaves. Make sure while adding the outline, there are no gaps in between. So we can fill colors in them. We're done with the outline here. Next I'll go to Layers and hide my sketch layer. Tap on outline layer tab reference, and do new layer. This layer below our outline layer, I'll change the background to a little darker color. So when we're filling the flowers with the white color, we can see that clearly. Now for the center of the flower selecting a light yellow color. And I'll drop that in the center. Selecting a white color for the better. I'll drop the white color in one of the better. You can see this option called continue filling. This is when you want to continue filling same color in more than one shape. For example, I need all my pedals to be in white color, so I don't need to keep dropping the same color again and again. I can just take my pencil tip to the place where I want the color to be filled. I'll do the same for the second floor too. I'm done with the floss here. Let's move on to the stem and the leaves. I need a color slightly lighter than the outline of the stem. I'll select the outline color. Select a lighter color from the Color panel. Drop in one of the stem area, tap on, continue filling with three color. Take your pencil tip to the areas you want it to fill. Again. You can adjust the threshold here by increasing or decreasing the percent of the flood. We are done with filling colors here. I'll go to Layers. Now for the lineup, add a new layer and rename this layer as line art. For the petals, I'll be selecting the same color as the outline color. And we'll start adding these basic line up to the petals. I'll continue this for both the flowers. Now again for the stem and the leaves, I'll be selecting the same color as the outline of the stem. Now for the center of the flower, I'll unhide my reference image. Select the same color as the outline, like in the reference image. I'll start drawing these goods from the outline, which goes towards the inside, a little smaller towards the inside. Same for the second flower to be and done with our daisy here. Let's move on to our fifth floor that's tightly. 12. Tiger Lily: Sketch: Let's start sketching our fifth flower That's Tiger Lily. I'll tap on my fifth canvas. These are the collage of reference images that I'll be referring to for sketching and also for picking up colors. When you're collecting your reference images, make sure you can see the flower clearly. Like for example, here you can see the flower from one angle. In the second image, you can see these buds and also the stem and the leaves. While sketching, we have to make sure we follow these shapes. Every plant and Flower has their own different, unique structure. Now let's move on to our sketching. I'll select my reference image layer and slide it on the left. And we'll sketch on this right side. We'll start by adding a new layer. I already have a layer here, tap on the layer and rename this layer as a stick figure. Stick figure is a step before we start sketching. It is more like planning with shapes, like circles and lines. I'll select bright red for the stick figure. With my six B pencil brush. Brush size can be anything around them. I'll start with the stem first. I'm just using lines and I'll adjust the size and the position section of the stem. Next for the flower, I'll be drawing an oval shape in the center of the stem. Draw an oval shape. Tap on Edit Shape. If you need to do any changes, will see these four nodes on your shape. You can hold these nodes and adjust your shape. Next to tiny stem for the buds And oval shape at the end of these lines. And at the bottom these tiny lines for the leaves. Now let's move on to our next step of sketching this flower. I'll go to layers, hide my reference image. Shift this stick figure in the center. It is the extras here. So begin. Draw the center of this flower. Again. For the center of this flower, I'm just using lines for the placement. Now to start sketching alphas, reduce the opacity of my stick figure layer, add a new layer and rename this layer as sketch layer. I have to stick figure in the resource section of this class. You can even download that and follow along my six B pencil. I'll select a light gray color for my sketching. I'll keep my reference image on the side and unhide my reference image layer. And just keep it on the canvas. Going back to my sketch layer. And start sketching my flower first. Itching the buds here. Let's start with the leaves. So we are done with our sketching here. Let's move on to adding some colors and line up to this flower. 13. Tiger Lily: Outline, Color & Line Art : Let's add some colors and line art to Tiger Lily My first step is to add a new layer and rename this layer as outline. I'll reduce the opacity of my sketch layer. I'll unhide my reference image to pick up a color for our outline. Pick up a dark orange for our flower. You can even select your own color from the color panel to start adding outline to the flowers first, make sure you don't leave any gaps in between us. We will be filling these colors. Next, pick up a dark green color for our stem and the leaves. Again, I'm going to pick up a color from the reference image. You can even pick up a color of your own from the color panel. I'll continue adding the outline for the stem on the same layer. But you can even add a new layer for this. Now to add outline to the buds, I'll select a bright pink color. For this. I'll add a new layer and outline to the buds and the center of the flower. We're done with the outline here. Let's move on to adding some colors. For that, I'll go to Layers. Good to outline layer, tap on the layer and tap reference. Now add a new layer and put this layer below our outline layer. Reference will help us fill color in this flower. But on a new layer, I pick up a light orange color for the outside of the flower, and a dark orange for the inside. A light green color for the stem. Instead of dropping the colors so many times you can even use the option. Continue filling with three color on top. Now to fill color to the buds, I'll go back to my layer. Select a light pink color, and I'll fill all the three buds Now the color is going on with the Canvas because the reference is on a different layer. I'll go back to my outline layer. I'll turn off the reference here. On Layer five, drop the color again. I feel the pink on the center of the flower looks today. I'll add for locally or five and painted with the bright pink again. Our next step is to add line on to this flat. For that, I'll go to layers, add a new layer, and rename this layer as line art. My 6B pencil brush. With the brush size to around 15. We'll start with the flower first. I'll select the same color as the outline of the flower. For the line art, one of the most important tip is to follow the shape of the flower. For the buds, I'll select a dark pink color. I want the shape to be to turn darker than the base color. For the stem, selecting the same dark green as the outline color. Next we'll be adding dark spots on the fly. For that, I'll add a new layer and rename this layer as spots. I'll select a dark color from the reference image. My brush size is around 50 per cent. I'll start adding these uneven spots using the reference image as my reference. And we are done with our fifth floor here, that's Tiger Lily. Let's move on to turning these flowers into a seamless pattern. 14. Seamless Pattern: Half Drop Repeat: Let's turn these flowers into a seamless pattern. We will be turning them into a half drop. Repeat. My first step is to duplicate our folder. This is to keep our original artwork safe. For duplicate. I will swipe left and tap on duplicate. Next, I will rename or folder as wildflower working so that we know which folder we are working on. Tap on my working folder. Next step is to merge each flower into one layer. I'll start with the first one. Two layers. Delete my reference image, stick, figure, and sketch from these layers. And I'll pinch and merge all the other layers. That will give us just one diode with the flower. I'll repeat these steps with all the other flowers. For diagonally, I want to add the flour here. You copy paste the fly we already have. For that, I will duplicate my layer first, hide my previous layer, tap on selection tool. And with my freehand option, I will start tracing the floor. You can even use eraser to get rid of the extra on the sides. Once you're done selecting the floor, tap on copy paste here to get the selected flower on a new layer. I'll try to position this flower on the stem. And we're done with that Tiger Lily here. Next for the pattern, I will create a new Canvas. Tap on the plus sign. Again, on the plus sign. And I'll keep my canvas as 4 thousand by 4 thousand pixel, 300 DPI. Now, I will drop or copy all my flask into this Canvas. Now, she'll be done with getting all the flowers into one Canvas. Next step is to select all the flowers, group them, and duplicate the group. Hide one of the group. We have this group so we can have an extra set of laws in this canvas. So in future, if you need any flower, we can go back and duplicate, open the group. And I'll hide all the flowers except for Poppy and Lily. Because these two are the brightest color, these two are red color. I want them to be more like a hero element of my print. I will not be repeating these two flower within our block. I place these two flowers first. All the other flowers will be more like a filler to the print. We will also be repeating them a couple of times. Here. I'm placing all my floss inside the block. Later, we'll split them into a half drop repeat. Once you're done placing all your elements inside this square will merge all these elements into one layer and then split. Before merging them, I'll duplicate the group. So in future, if we need to do any changes, we still have them on different layers. Now we have this one layer with all the elements. Now to split this layer, I'll select any light color. Add a new layer below this layer below our element layer. Fill the whole layer with this color. Reduced opacity of your colored layer. Group the layers and duplicate the group two times. Hide any of the two groups here. Select one of the group. Now under snapping. Make sure your magnetics and snapping is on and the distances around 21. Now slide this group left. Slide it until it snaps in the center. And you can even see a golden line in the center. Now unhide one of the other group. This will slide right? Again, this needs to snap. You can see a golden line. That means it's on the perfect seamless line. Unhide the third group. And this will go down, right down and needs to snap again. If it is showing any gap or overlapping on any of the splitting areas, that means you need to redo the whole splitting process. It should be seamless like this. Next I'll delete all the color fill layers and merge all the rest of the layers into one. Now let's fill the empty space in-between these flowers. I'll open our previous group and duplicate the flowers I need to fill in-between these gaps. I will split this daffodil vertically into half with the same splitting process we did before. I'll merge all our flower layers. Duplicate this layer, hide the layer. And I'll just repeat. Select the layer and drag it to one corner. And drag it to the left corner. Duplicate. Drag it down. Duplicate again, slide it right. And a step up. You can see the block snapping. Again, duplicate the layer. Slide it up. Duplicate our block again, and fill the bottom corner again. Here we are done with our half drop repeat pattern. Let's try it with different background colors. This is how it looks on print-on-demand sites that society6 and some mockups if you're planning to license this artwork. Thank you so much for taking this class with me.