Illustrate Your Dream Art Studio: Composition and Storytelling Practice

1. Introduction: Hello, and welcome to a new class. This class is all about storytelling and composition. So you can think about it like composition and scene based storytelling workout. And this practice, we also have a clear goal, which is our theme of creating dream artists studio space. And along the way, you can pack the room with your favorite details and objects. So the scene will feel more alive and more you. And before we start, if you need a refresher about composition, you can watch the composition class and I will link it in the description. We will start a process with generating ideas to help you decide on things that you can add to your scene, to create the story and the mood and feel that you want. Then we will move on and start creating studio layout, and I will share with you different ideas for compositions and layout. So you can decide which type of layout and composition works best for your dream studio. Then I will show you how you can quickly explore your favorite colors on the quick composition thumbnails. You can follow along with the same layout as I will be using or just use it as a springboard. And then from this springboard, you can customize your scene with different character pose, different outfit or hair for the character. You can adjust the window view to your dream view from the room. Maybe you want to add your favorite book titles or book covers on the bookshelves, or you can illustrate your favorite mug maybe with spots or it has specific theme or add objects and props that add a special meaning to you. Or you can also add your pet to the illustration or your dream pad that you would like to have in the future. Because every object or a character that you can add to the scene can create better storytelling for your illustration. Along the way, we will cover how to balance busy areas with breathing room and negative space, and we will work with value tones on every element to build a convincing depth in your scene. Then we will tweak the edges and just the details until the composition and the colors work well together in the scene. So by the end of the class, you can have a finished illustration that feels personal to you and also tells your story at a glance. All right, so let's dive in. 2. Bucket list: So try to write down some of the ideas that you imagine in your dream studio in the future. So give your list a title and then write down some ideas. I'll just start with dream art studio bucket list as a title. So first, I'm thinking about maybe light and air and probably big window would be nice to add in the studio. Then also maybe a balcony or a sliding door might be nice and maybe a light wall with some photos or something like that. So maybe you are thinking, do you want photos or lots of artworks on the wall or maybe they are kind of on the ground, or where do you imagine kind of storing your artwork? So maybe I'll just add shelves for the finished artworks. And then maybe we can add something about furniture or what type of tables would you like to have? For example, I like to have clean work table, maybe for the computer stuff, and then messy worktable to experiment with the art tools. So you can add what type of tables you imagine in your studio. Then after looking at the photos here, maybe something more with inspiration. So maybe inspiration art wall can be interesting. And then of course, lots of different art supplies, and I'm thinking what else can be super nice there? Maybe different color palettes and different storage options for the art supplies that can be pretty interesting also to illustrate. And then maybe also lots of plans. I think that would make the space look very nice. Then when you review your list, maybe you get some new ideas from this, for example, what do you see from the window or the balcony? Here I'm thinking that we can see maybe a sea or a garden. Or maybe old cute Village. Then when you review it again, maybe something else comes to mind, maybe your current pet or maybe a pet you want to have in the future. Let's add cat and a dog. Then snakes would be probably nice to have as well on the table because when you are sitting on a balcony, maybe you want to have a coffee and some nice snack to munch on when you are sitting there. All right. I think that's it for my list. Try to think about what would you add to your list before you start sketching and illustrating and maybe you get new inspiration by looking at the references. And before we move on to the next part, if you are wondering for this sketching and writing, I was using this a sketching brush which I often use for sketching loose soft sketches and you can adjust the opacity of this brush when you want to sketch very loosely and softly, or you can even use it for writing text, which is quite nice and I think it has that nice flowy feel. If you want to explore some new brushes, this brush is part of my sketching set. But of course, you can use any of your favorite brushes that you currently have. Now let's move on to the next part. 3. Exploring compositions: All right. So now let's start sketching some first ideas and kind of these small composition thumbnails before we look at references because references can influence you a lot, and now you can think about how would you actually imagine yourself within the studio. So these sketches don't have to be perfect. This is just an idea, and then we can adjust and fix later. And also, this is great as a warm up exercise. For this exercise, I will be using this brush number one from my sketching set, but you can use any brush that you like for this warm up exercise. All I have bigger canvas and the size of the canvas is actually quite huge, so I can fit more thumbnails into the one layout. But you can use smaller canvas settings. You don't have to have such a huge canvas. If you don't have enough space, or you can create multiple files for multiple sketches. I just wanted to share with you that I'm working with quiet big canvas. So the size of the brush will look different depending on the brush that you are using. All right. So I can start in the corner, not in the middle in case I want to continue from left to right, so you can plan out the amount of thumbnails that you want to do. For the first idea, I will start sketching with this bigger brush size. So the lines are quite thick, so I don't go too much into detail. So first of all, I'm thinking it would be nice to have a kind of window on the side, and then there is this kind of like a maybe easel. And me as a character. So for a character, you can just kind of create this type of upside down exclamation mark. So it's a kind of triangle with the head, not to go too much to details, as I said. And here, maybe we can add some other details like the shelves and maybe some other decoration later on. And maybe this is the floor. And this is kind of like this top down window view. So this could be like a first idea. But I'm not sure if I want to kind of face the wall. So maybe the table can be like this. And basically, now the character is sitting. This is the chair. So as you see, I'm still using that exclamation point, exclamation mark kind of character. And then maybe the window can be kind of on the side here and there can be another window actually kind of in front. So I just need to add a wall here, but don't worry about perspective just yet. So just approximately. So we see this wall here. We would need to move the character lower and so on. But as a first idea, I think that's kind of good enough. Then I can move on here. And maybe I can see the character kind of from the back. So that's kind of me. And I'm sitting in front of the window, and the table is kind of here. And then I would have two walls. Right here. Then you can have one table here and another table here. And then there will be decorations on the wall. This is a window, so you can have this super nice view. But this type of composition can feel boring because it's very symmetrical. Maybe if we want to do that type of composition, we can change the layout a little bit. If the window is in the middle, you can think about the rule of thirds, as I talked about in the composition class, if you want to refresh your memory, you can watch the composition class. But basically, we can move the character in two thirds. So we are talking about these lines, so we can place the character here, and then we can maybe add easel and then the table can be here off center. And then the other wall would be here. So we are already creating kind of, like, more interest in the composition. So here we would add some of those paintings, right? So these would be some of the first ideas that either the character is standing with the easel in front of the window, so we have the view or it's kind of in the middle. But we can change this composition and then just change the tables, actually. And we can try to change the window, so it's different. So maybe you have a very nice window at your parents' house or in your house, you know? So, kind of some of these older houses had these type of, like, beautiful decorated windows. So maybe even in grandma's house or something like that. So then the table might be still in the middle. The character is still sitting in the middle and we would change the objects which are around. There will be another table here, maybe with the easel, then maybe with some paintings, and then here, we can maybe add shelves with paintings. And then maybe some plans, how we wrote in some of those exploration and notes. And then you can add plants also in the shelves here. Yeah, we already changed the composition a little bit, and I quite like this round window, which I think adds quite a lot of character. And if we have already quite a lot of desks, maybe we can add the kind of cozy area corner. So we would have maybe two desks, and then we might add actually a sofa because we have a lot of angular shapes here. So if you're thinking about the composition here, we have some small objects, some big objects. So they are kind of balancing in the rule of dirt. And now we can add another round object. So here we already have one rounded object, which is kind of adding to that variety of shapes. So if we create another composition, so let's try to think how we can create new composition without changing too much of a perspective. So we can maybe create the room that we are still looking forward. So this is like a simple perspective looking this way. So we can add a sofa right here. So the perspective is not accurate just yet. And here we can add some paintings and kind of like a cozy corner, maybe with shelves. Then here there will be some nice desk, maybe even like a stand up desk, if you want. Then there will be easel here. And then there is another desk on this side, and then some art materials and some other details. All right. These can be very nice simple ideas, how you want your dream studio to look like. All right. Now let's move on to the next part where we will look at photo references and more composition, and then we can compare with our initial ideas and maybe improve these thumbnails or create completely new ones. Perfect. So let's move on to the next part. 4. Inspiration from references: All right. So as you can see, I imported some references in the reference window. If you are not sure how to open the reference window, you go through Canvas and activate the reference, and then you can just tap here to import reference, and you can download this Moodboard if you want, or you can just look at the screen while we are sketching because I will zoom in on the references. And after this warm up exercise, you can look up more studio references. For example, on Pinterest, watch out not to spend too much time or basically hours down the rabbit hole on Pinterest because that can take more time than sketching. So try to time yourself, maybe, and set aside the time to just research interest and then get back to sketching or open more references and do these quick thumbnails before you define all the details. And first, we'll focus on more simplified angles like this one, for example, and then we will move on to more complex angles and different perspectives and different points of view. All right, so let's just sketch with this one because I think here, it can be very nice to implement some interesting view. So maybe this view and this overall room is not as interesting or aspiring artist studio, but I think the composition of the room can be quite interesting and has a lot of potential. So you don't have to be expert on perspective. But you can use these type of references just to kind of note down your ideas of the layout in the room and how the table looks like. For example, this table is angled towards us, so you can pay attention to the edges of the table. And naturally I drew this table here with this angle. But when you look at the reference, actually the table it's pointing this way. So just to improve the perspective, if you want this type of semi alism, you can adjust the table. And here can be another table following the shape of this bench. And then here you can add maybe shelves later or something like that. And here we can add the detail of the wall. I think this is good enough for this sketch, then we can move on to another one. This one is a little bit more zoomed out, so we have more space, so we see a little bit more of that ceiling. This could be actually quite interesting composition because you can add a lot here to the floor and this huge window is also quite interesting. And here you can see the perspective how these lines kind of go from the middle of the room and are kind of diagonal following the perspective. So if you want to add maybe some nice decorations, like interesting lamp in the room or you want to have more space for that sofa, what we sketched in one of the examples which was here. You can maybe find the reference for the sofa and then edit here and basically have so much space for tables and so on. This could be another idea. Let's move on to this reference, this reference can feel very busy, but let's try to keep it quite simple. Try to focus on big objects here. All right. What is nice here, it's this long table, but it's not in the middle of the room. It's in the two thirds, as we talked about. I'll just add the table. Then the character, let's just keep it as the exclamation mark as we did before. I can just make the character stand straight and then you can add the hands so the character is doing something on the table. And then all of these in the left part, you can first look at the windows and then some of these other surfaces. So let's just sketch the window first. Then there is another window. So I'm not trying to be perfect with perspective. And then there is this back wall. We don't see how it ends. But here we have lots of shelves. So that kind of breaks the layout in an interesting way, I think. So here you can add lots of art tools later on. And then there are lots of shelves in the background as well. So you can vary the shapes here because if you just add lots of lines, it might not look as interesting in the illustration as it looks here. So maybe you can change the back wall and add pictures, or your finish paintings. But what I think it's nice, we have the big green tree or kind of the greenery in the room. So it's kind of nicely behind the character. And here you will have so much space to add lots of art tools and materials. And here, maybe you add another table or boxes with art tools and paint brushes. So this is interesting layout. Then this one, I think it's quite nice, cozy looking room. So let's try to sketch the main elements again. All right, so if we start maybe with a table, let's add a table right here. We'll make the reference a little bit bigger. Okay, so the table can be kind of like a main part. Then we have the window. The window is quite interesting because this old frame of the window makes the whole room also more cozy, not only some of these wooden elements, I think, and some of the decorations. Then we also have that curtain, which is quite nice, so we can just put it here on the side, so it doesn't have to be in the middle. Then there is this other table, which is quite small, maybe you can adjust that later on if you are going for this type of composition. Then we have the chair, and then we have all of these nice shelves with the plant here. And then if you notice the bottom part of the room, so kind of where the wall meets the floor. This goes somewhere here. And then the shelves are more or less following the floor. And here you will have space for more maybe paintings. You can just place there or more art tool. So here you can add your accessories when you are customizing. And here, let's add the other side of the wall to meet the point. And then here there can be this part, which actually, I'm not sure what it is. Hmm. Maybe you can let me know. So let me know if you know what this light box. No, it's not a light box. Never mind. So you can change this to a painting and add more details and more art here, and then you can add a beautiful view, whatever you feel like. So we will move to that part in the upcoming lessons. Alright, so here is another reference, which is quite interesting. So this type of composition kind of adds that visual interest because we are looking through something here. It doesn't have to be easel, maybe it's a plant. Maybe you can add plant here in the foreground, maybe also here. That can be quite interesting. Here we have this big table. I think that's pretty cool. You can add lots of art tools, maybe unfinished paintings, and so on. Then there is that easel and the artist sitting on the chair. And yeah. That could work quite well. And then we have these huge windows, so you can really focus on the view. So it really depends what you prefer. You can create a smaller window and a cozy room, or you can have a big window and kind of envision your kind of dream view from the studio. And here, actually, we don't have to create this kind of like a wall corner, but this lamp is actually quite nice. So I will just sketch the lamp shape because that's pretty cool. We will look at the accessories later on as well. But you can have this kind of round lamp there. So what I wanted to mention here is that you can keep the wall straight and maybe just add some paintings here to simplify this corner, it doesn't have to have all these details. Although this brick wall can be a nice detail to add in the future, if you want to. So kind of maybe write it down in your notes if you like the type of look or maybe detail like this type of old radiator. That's pretty cool way to heat up or some of these plans here. All right. So let's move on to the next composition idea. All right. So this one has a different layout, so it doesn't have to be landscape only, as you can imagine, but landscape can fit more objects in the room, I think. So this one, it's pretty nice because you can just focus on one table if you want to simplify your scene, and then you can just add the easel here as you can see it. And then the character can be just standing here on the side. Either you put the character sitting behind the desk or standing by the easel and painting. So this feels that it's too much to the edge, so I can just move it slightly here and then just add the corner of the room. And here, you can add some other details. And what I like on this one is that we also have the view and the window and you will have space here to maybe add a carpet or something nice. All right, perfect. We have quite a few ideas already how you can layout the room. And in the next part, we will look at more extreme angles just to get a different kind of viewpoint on the room. All right, so let's move to the next part. 5. Changing views: I Alright, so now let's continue with more sketches. And now let's explore a little bit of a different point of view. So for example, in this reference, we have this top down view where you can add a huge layout into your illustration. So if you want to include a lot in your room and the illustration, especially the view or lots of tables and lots of plants, this type of viewpoint can be kind of your go to option. So let me make more space here. First, I will sketch the frame. And obviously, these sketches are very rough, not to be tempted to go too much in detail and not to feel also too precious about your sketches, so you can just scrape them so we don't have to make them perfect. So first, I will look at the walls. So the corner of the wall is somewhere here and it's a little bit angled. Okay, maybe not as much. So we still have the top view, and we see the top view because we see that table there. All right. So that one, we can make actually even longer. So that can be this gigantic table. And then we have all those chairs, and here you can put so much stuff from your art tools or whatever. And here I actually like some of these plants. I think that's pretty cool because it makes it very green. So I'll just add these pots. And some of these plants are taller than the other ones. So I'll just delete the middle part of the pot. Okay. So I'm already going too much to the details, so this is what we don't want. All right. So here, there is this big easel, and the character is kind of standing here. And there is another character. So maybe you are thinking that in your dream studio, you are with more artists. So you are sharing a space. So maybe you want to actually add more tables. So we can add more artists working together and everyone is doing something different. So that can be quite interesting idea as well. So it depends if you want to be by yourself in the studio, maybe with your pets or it's just a room in your house. Or sharing a studio with other people. And there is this big plant right here, which is also pretty cool. And there are more plants here. So you can add other details. And actually, these window seals are quite cute. So you can think about the window seal. So you can add some stuff on that area later on. That's quite nice area to put some details on. So if you have big room like this, Alright, so let's move to the next one. And after looking at this from the top and talking about the small maybe studio room in your house, you can create a top down view. So you as a character, would be here. Then you would see the table kind of from the top. So you would add like arms or something. And then the art works. I mean, okay, these arms look quite strange. So let's just keep it simple. So here we would add maybe some art art supplies or a computer depending if you want to work digital or traditional. Here you can add maybe a computer with a reference if you want, or just keep it simple with art supplies. So you can add that later. And here you can add some nice window view with your favorite view. Or you can keep this just with walls and maybe some decorations. And now, if we look at another idea where you can still see the table, more or less from the top, not as much as in this reference, this kind of reference is more elongated. So we can see a lot from the table. I think that's pretty nice. So this whole part is just a table. So here you can really play around with adding details at art supplies and so on. Here you can either add that computer or you can add something else, maybe even a sleeping cat, if you want. And here, what is quite nice, I think, and cozy is this interestingly shaped window in the back. And here's another table right there. And then you can add more art supplies and add maybe this chair, which is right here. And here you can either add those shelves or maybe a sea view or something like that, which can be pretty cool. All right. And now I can try to combine these two references. So if I take this one and just make it a little bit smaller, so we have a little bit more space. So I can sketch this layout with this elongated room. So we have these big windows in the back, which is pretty cool. And then I can add the table just on this side. So we'll have still all those art tools and objects here. And then we can add the easel right here. So that's pretty cool. You have this bigger room with this crown molding here on the top. Even though this looks more like an office, I think it's still pretty cool because here you can just add some shelves and other decorations in this room, and you can have these two gigantic windows here in the back. So you can kind of combine different sketches without going too much in detail. All right. So you can explore more ideas for the studio space and compositions and try to think about which one is your favorite and maybe write down notes, how you can combine these studies. What do you like about each or maybe which one is your favorite? And why do you want to see the top of the table? What type of view do you want to have? Or do you want to have the view at all and maybe focus on the wall accessories and so on? And in the next part, we will explore how to implement the character in the scene. Is it standing? Is it sitting and so on? Perfect. So let's just move to the next part. 6. Sketching character: So after sketching all of these different thumbnails and maybe even more if you did that, try to think about where the character in your illustration would have the best placement or what would you like the most. So for me, I really like the character from the back, so I can draw the whole studio. I kind of like this idea. Or where the character is sitting by the easel or by the table. And when you decide which type of pose you like the most, you can find different references on different platforms, for example, on psplash or Envato Elements, or you can go to Pinterest. First, I will, um swap here to image. This is one of the references that I found on Envato elements because I quite like the pose, which is mostly kind of sideways, but it's also kind of three quarter view, so we don't see the character's face. So it would fit in this type of layout as well as maybe here. So I will create new layer, and as I already did that, as you can see here, I can just hide this layer and sketch on a new layer. So you would create a new layer here with the plus sign. And from sketching brushes, I will continue using the soft sketching brush and I will reduce the opacity of this brush to start creating a loose character sketch. We will practice sketching some of the poses. These don't have to be your final poses. So first, I will start with kind of a flow of the character, what I want to achieve. So not necessarily action line, which kind of goes through action poses if you are sketching action pose characters, but this will be in the flow of the character that I want to achieve. Then I will add a head of the character. So I will think if the proportions are right compared to the body, then I can sketch the kind of rounded triangle for the torso, even though we don't see that well. And then I can sketch the legs and thinking where is the pelvis of the character, where would be the knee and the foot. And I have other character sketching classes if you want to refresh your memory. So here I need to move the knee a little bit higher. Because I want to keep the same proportions, and then we can sketch the arm and the hands. So the hands are somewhere near the ar tools and the easel. Then we can add the chair, we have the character sitting on something. Now I will reduce the opacity of this sketch and I will start defining the shapes more on this separate layer. So I can make the brush a little bit smaller and higher up the opacity and adjust some shapes if I need to. This feels right. Then the shoulders. I can also think about that outfit, which is nice for this practice sketch, and then you can add a different outfit if you want to customize your character. So to look more like you. So maybe if you like spots or something like that, or stripes, or you want to create a sweater on this character. So you can draw it on top of the sketch later on. So now I'm mostly focusing on the proportions of the character, and we will create another layer just to define this sketch more. So this chair doesn't look like the most comfortable chair, so probably you would want to change the chair based on a different reference if you want to be very precise and kind of create your dream studio. So maybe you'll find a reference based on some kind of like a gaming chair, which are usually quite comfortable. So here I can make the legs of the table straight just to simplify it. And here you can also customize the hair. So maybe you have short hair or you want to keep the long hair of the character, which is quite nice, I think, in this case. Here we can just see the side of the face and then we can just emphasize the hair so there is a little bit more volume, we have the semi realism. I need to swap the eraser to the brush that I'm currently using, which is here in the sketch set. So I cleaned up the sketch slightly. Then I will reduce the opacity of this one even more and I create a new layer and swap the brush to a brush which has more definition and I like to use for more detailed and defined sketches. So now I can start noticing some folds on the outfits, and there is also a class about drawing outfits, if you haven't seen it yet. So here, I'm just noticing where the fabric is folding on the character and where also the shadows in the hair and on the outfit itself. So there is also a class on drawing hair, if you want to refresher on drawing hair after this class as well. So here, I'm just using a lighter and harder pressure just to create different lines. You can also reduce the size of the brush if I want to be more precise. And our character will be quite far in the illustration if you want to create the whole room. So I don't have to really define the face that much here, so you can just add a little bit here and then just addhir. If you want to be more precise, you can zoom in and try to notice what do you see on the face of the character? So we see partially the eye and the eyebrow and just a little bit of nose. And here we can make the hair a little bit bigger, so slightly more volume. Perfect. I think that's good. And now we can add some of these fold. As I was mentioning, paying attention how the sleeve is curved. So it's this way in this perspective. Then the arm is on the table. So I'm not creating elbow like this. This would look curved if the arm is kind of off the table. And if we want to create the same look and feel, we can just add a straight line. Then we have a little bit of foreshortening when this part of the arm looks a little bit shorter, and I think it's enough to have one hand right here and just to simplify it. I can just create this simple shape for the hand because we can see the fingers here. So kind of this simple shape for the hand, I think works in this case, quite well. So here it's already a little bit blurred, so you don't see that much detail anyway, and from the distance, it should work quite well. And of course, I also created a class about drawing hands. If you want to explore that as well. So here is another fold. And then we can also add a little bit of these kind of lines for the checkered flannel shirt pattern. And then we have that chair. Using quite simple shapes to sketch the chair. Here we don't see the rest of the chair, but I can just follow the angle here. Now, let's create these legs. I think I can move the leg a little bit lower. That's why we are sketching on a separate layer. The whole leg can be just shifted. Me. Keeping the same proportions. Here, I'm paying attention to this line if it is curved this way or this way because that will help you define the perspective and the shape of those areas and that part of the leg. Now I can add a little bit of detail here and then we can just add simple foot. You can just draw shape like this and then you can add the shoe to that shape. And I think it works quite well in this simplified form. Then just to add another leg, which is behind, and this one kind of goes straight and this foot is more flat on the ground. And for the easel, you can just follow the lines, how you see them angled in the reference. Okay. So basically, this easel is kind of like table easel in my drawing. And then we can just add these legs of the table. Now to emphasize some of the lines to finish off this sketch, I can just make some of the lines a little bit thicker. Here, make sure that the legs of the chair are in the same height. So kind of everything feels more balanced. Perfect. And on a separate layer, you can add a little bit more definition with a slightly grainy brush just to add a little bit of shadows. So you can maybe make the hair different color just for this sketch. And then I see there is this fold. So this part can be a little bit darker and the leg just kind of here and part of the drawing and then you can reduce the opacity of this sketch. All right. So I would call this sketch as done for this step of the process. And the next step would be to collect maybe more references. So for example, you can look at Pinterest and collect all kinds of photo references for your character poses. So I created a whole board for myself to explore different character poses. Or you can collect more references in a mood board where you explore your favorite poses that you found, so you don't spend too much time on Pinterest, for example. I collected a lot of different character references and I practice sketching more. So let me quickly show you so here you can see a preview of more of my practice sketches. Based on the collected references, I practice drawing more character poses just to explore the right pose for the upcoming project illustration. So more practice always helps you to get more comfortable with certain poses and certain details. And I also recorded this process of practice and drawing, and I will link that in the description. And now we can move to the next lesson where we will start customizing our illustration and preparing the whole layout and the concept for the final project illustration. All right, so let's move to the next lesson. 7. Make it your own #1: Alright, so after we practice sketching the thumbnails and creating different compositions, now we can start sketching our dream studio. So whether it's layout facing window with walls covered with art and the table on the side or the top view, whatever you prefer, and I will be sharing with you my process. I will show you a few different layouts if you want to follow along step by step, and you can still customize and I will show you how to adjust different things to make the illustration more your own. We will start with basic room layouts, and then we will start customizing the elements in the room. For the sketching, I will be using the same brush as before. I created the frame on a separate layer. Now I can duplicate this frame so I have more of them on the same page for this first layout. Now I can merge them and duplicate them again. Now I can start sketching on a separate layer, so I will keep these just as frames. So I will start with the front window facing layout. And because we talked about rule of thirds, I will not put the window in the middle, but a little bit of center on that crossing of one third of the image. So here, as you can see, I also move the window a little bit higher, and we see less of the ceiling and more of the floor. I kept the door kind of closed on one side, and I'm creating this kind of, like, French balcony kind of window look or open to maybe a terrace, and the other door will be kind of partially open. So here we have the first layout, and I will copy the same layout to these other two. So we can customize that later. Now I can merge them. And now we will create another room layout idea, and then we will start customizing the other part. All right. So now let's create more zoomed in version. So I will start creating a wall. And then we will see a little bit of the ceiling. And here we will place the window just here on the side. So it's a smaller window. And then we will still have some space on the wall, and we will have space for the table and other things. This will be the other idea for the layout, like very zoomed in version. So here we can add the bottom of the room as well. So we don't see much of the floor or much of the ceiling. All right. So this is the zoomed in version. I will copy this one and duplicate it. And now we will create similar layout to this, but even more angled. So that means I will move the window here, more to the corner. So the window is smaller than here. So it's kind of wider window frame. Then it's even closer to the left wall. We can see more of this right wall. Let's move it even more. We will not see this left wall that much, and then we will see bigger part of the room here. This window can be this wide window which is similar to this one and you can also customize it with different look if you prefer. So I will open this part as well. So we kind of see bigger part. Perfect. So we have some basic layouts, and now we can test out different details and placements on top of this layout in the next part. 8. Make it your own #2: I All right. And now let's start adding some elements to explore these layouts further. So I will continue sketching on the same layer, but if you don't want to lose your layout, you can just duplicate and then hide the previous layer as a backup. So if we start with this sketch, we can start with placing the table. So I'm thinking that the table would be very nice if it's placed right in front of the window, but maybe not fully, so it's not blocking the view. And in that case, we can just add the legs of the table, and the character would be kind of sitting here. Which I think would work quite nicely. This would be the first idea for the table, and of course, our character needs a chair, not to float in the air. If we move on to this one, we are still in the same layout. So in this one, let's place the table that the table is touching the wall. So here we can add the legs of the table, and then the character will be either somewhere here. I think here could be a nice placement with a chair and kind of sitting like this. Perfect. I think that works, and then you can imagine that we can add the table to this other wall as well, or we can actually add the table kind of closer to us. And then the character is kind of bigger in the frame. So it's sitting somewhere here. So we see more of this table kind of right here. So maybe the table is even longer. So it's not aligned here with the door to go outside. And you can sketch on a separate layer if you prefer. So you can move around the table and other elements as well. But I think this is kind of like faster way to explore how you want the placement of your studio to look like. So now, if we move to this layout, so this is kind of further out, so we can see more of the studio. So we can add the table kind of closer to us here. And then the character will be sitting here on the edge of the illustration. So the character is not really in focus of the illustration because it's kind of here in the corner. And then you can add another table here. So you can have these two tables and you can leave the space maybe for a easel. So here, we can move the table. So let's put it somewhere here. So it's kind of touching the wall. And then you can add the character kind of sitting here. So the character needs to be a little bit bigger. I think this is also quite nice. And let's figure out a different layout for this one. So to this one, let's add the table, but maybe this time to the other side. So something like this, then you will add the character kind of sitting here. In this part, Perfect. Now we can add a character also to this layout. So here we can add a table kind of right under the window and aligned with the other wall. So we see more of the table here. You can add more art tools and supplies. And then the character will be sitting here. And then here you can add some nice view. So we can kind of swap this. If you don't want to kind of look outside of the window, you can add a table here. So the character is maybe sitting here. And then here you can have the other object. So that can be pretty nice. Or we can create this full on just really focused on having very long table and the character is sitting similar to this one, just to see how it fits the layout. So I think like that, and now you can add other elements to your layout. For example, do you want another table or would you like to add a sofa to your layout? Let's say here, I would add another table. Which could be pretty cool. Here, I can add a sofa, which you can sketch pretty easily with using simplified shapes like the rectangle, and you are following the shape of the room, kind of this perspective. So it's not hyper realistic, but it's kind of believable. So maybe here we don't need to add a sofa because there is not that much space, but we can add that here because we have more space on this wall. And in the next part, we can start adding the painting easel, paintings on the walls, and shelves and plants and other decorative elements that you would like to add to your room. And of course, you can already select just one, and you can continue customizing that one. So you don't need to continue with all of these layouts if you were following along with exploring all of these. Until now. Alright, so now let's move to the next part. 9. Make it your own #3: Alright, so at this stage, really try to think about what layout kind of speaks to you, you know? Like, where would you feel the most comfortable? Would you feel the best when you are looking at your own artworks, maybe facing the wall, and then the window is kind of next to you, or do you prefer sitting really close to the window? Or do you prefer to sit kind of in the back of the room with a wall behind your back kind of to feel more cozy. And then you have kind of the whole view to the room, or you kind of like to sit in more like, smaller and enclosed room. So really try to reflect what you like, and then you can look around in your house and try to fill the room with the objects that kind of have some kind of special meaning to or has a special memory or favorite artworks. So now it's the time to add some of these type of elements, and you can still mark maybe three layouts that you like the most. So for example, I quite like this one because it has that kind of cozy feel of small room. Then I also really like this one because we can have still a lot of space to explore. But me personally, I don't like to sit against the wall, so I wouldn't be finalizing this one. And then I really like this layout where you can kind of see the whole room, and then you can still have this cozy sofa. So if I select maybe this type of layouts, so if I start with this one, I think it would be actually nice if this whole thing, let me take the freehand selection tool would be more in a top view. So I can actually stretch the table so we can see a little bit more from the top. Then I can take the distorted selection tool and see how this can work. I can also take the warp and make sure that the lines are still straight when you are adjusting, so it doesn't become too warped. Then I can just delete these leftover parts. Because now I can just be still messy. These are not perfect sketches. And now I can just fix some of these lines. So we see the table more from the top. So there will be a chair. And here you can start customizing. So here I can put some shelves, maybe with my favorite objects. So you can put like picture frames, maybe with your friends or family. Then maybe some favorite art tools. Then maybe some open sketchbooks. So whatever you can think of what you have around kind of on your desk. So you can add, like, more holders for pencils and maybe other kind of material kind of organizer art supply things. I created a whole video about practicing some of these art tool elements if you want more inspiration and I will link that also in the description if you want to explore that part more or you can just draw from references. What do you see around you or search on Pinterest for references on the art materials. So here you can maybe put your favorite painting. Balancing some of these smaller elements with bigger elements. Here you can add maybe more shelves. Here we can put maybe your favorite plant, or you can add more photos kind of to add more memories to your illustration. This can be maybe big flower painting. And here we can add maybe some planted flowers in pot. You can have more of them and here you can either add your pet. Here we can have maybe a dog. This looks more like a fox, but you get the idea for now. Maybe we can change the ears, it looks a little bit more like a dog. All right. So this is kind of like that sketch of what you can put in your room. And then if I feel this one. So as I said, I really like that the character is sitting with a view. So here, probably I would put a lot of shelves because I kind of like shelves with maybe plants. So kind of balancing different plant shapes and plant design, maybe with lots of art books and references. I can put also more plants here on the top, so they have more light. Really think about how would you like your studio to kind of look like. So reflect what are your favorite things. Maybe you saved before, kind of types of decorations. Maybe you like to have a pottery and bowls and these type of things or maybe some souvenirs from your trips. Maybe those are some small statues, from your travels or something you did in a pottery class with your friends or kids or other family members. So really think like, what can you put here? Which kind of reflects your personality or your quirks and these kind of things that you really love in your house. And then on the table, you can put more art materials and other ideas. So you can put favorite tools here. I can also add, like, a clock, which can be quite nice. Maybe here, we can have some cool lamp. Because after living in Denmark for so long, I was so influenced by all those beautiful designs you can have in the interior. So I really like some of those shapes that you can get furniture and other objects. So I really like Scandinavian interior design, all the textures, they add to the interiors are beautiful and a balance of clean shapes with textures and you can of course, add more colors to it. We will talk about colors in the upcoming lessons. Perfect. Here, maybe I would add a colorful rug, so we can add a rug here, not concerned so much about the perfect perspective here, just putting down ideas. Maybe here, we can add a ket another potted plant would be nice. And here, maybe we can actually instead of the lamb, which we can add maybe to the other side, or on the table. So I can put the lamp kind of here or let's see. Maybe here? Do we need a lamp? Yeah, I think this would be nice. So maybe a lamp here, and here we can add an easel. So it depends if you would like to paint with the easel or not really. So that's up to you. So you can add that here, maybe in the corner. And then maybe you can make the sofa a little bit smaller. And here we can kind of add another table with art materials. So some art tools. And here we can add some paintings on the wall. I think that would be very nice. And here, maybe we can add some plants in the foreground, just to create that cozy feeling of lots of plants in the interior. I think that would be super cute. So here you can add another plant or just maybe add that bigger rug. Or you can actually make this table longer so you can add more art tools if you want to. So you can just move it like this. Depending how long do you want to have it. And here we can just have more art materials. Whichever would you like to have. Now you can customize the view from the window. So what would you like to see when you are looking out of your studio? Is it maybe seaside or it's a seaside town or is it a village? So you can also add kind of like a porch. So it doesn't have to be right there, so it doesn't have to be the view kind of from the top floor. So I can add a small porch with like a fence. And here, you can have more like potted plants or something like that. And then I can add maybe more greenery up there. And then I would like to have a sea view. So that would be nice maybe with a little bit of kind of mountain range in the back, and then we can add some birds right there. So here I can just fix the carpet a little bit. Maybe actually I'll make the carpet longer. Yeah, maybe like that. Let's see. We'll see you when we test out the colors. And then in this one, I was thinking here, you can kind of make a bigger tree, maybe some like Mediterranean tree, like those beautiful pine trees. Which you have in some areas, so not necessarily a palm, but in some drier areas, you have also pine trees. And then you can add horizon. So make sure that the horizon is straight. So you can add some waves. You can maybe watch people surf if that's something you want to look at. And then here, you can even add maybe some cute houses if you want to see maybe a village from your window. So now you can finalize your favorite layout with the details based on your favorite items. So you can clean up the sketch with sharp pencil brush or maybe ink brush, but we will paint over with color so it doesn't have to be perfect. I will clean up the sketch with sharper pencil flat brush, and I will reduce the opacity of these sketches, and I will clean up that sketch on a separate layer with that selected brush, so you can select different brush if you prefer. And then you can define the character based on the previous lesson where we looked at how you can translate the sketch from the reference. So I think I will continue and clean up this layout. So if you want to, you can continue with this layout with me, and then you can just customize the smaller objects on the table and on the shelves and maybe the window view. So you don't have to do a different layout for this exercise. All right, so I will clean up the sketch, and then I will meet up with you in the next video. See you there. 11. Testing colors: All right. So when you are done customizing your scene by adding maybe books, plans, your favorite art supplies, now you can go to the layers and you can group all of these. So we can test out the thumbnails. You can also copy the file, the canvas if you don't have enough layers. But now I can just duplicate it hide the original group, then I will flatten this one and I will make it smaller. So we can test out the colors quite quickly without going too much in detail. I will duplicate the scene three times, so we can test out different colors so you can find the color which fits you the best. Let's move these two to the side and then I can actually merge these and duplicate this one as well, but I don't want to move all of them, so just one. Now I can merge them again and I can set this layer to multiply so I can sketch behind this concept. And if you don't want to see some of these darker parts, you can merge the layers without this one. Right now, we will create a new layer and try to think about the color that speaks to you the most. For example, I really like the warm yellow color, try to choose one color which really speaks to you or your favorite color. And let me show you the color wheel how you can create a limited color palette with your favorite colors. All right. So if I choose this main color to be this warm yellow, I can then select some of the colors which are nearby, for example, this orange yellow color as well. And then maybe a little bit of this darker orange, so I know that they would go together, and then I can go to the other side of the wheel and then I can use the colors which are kind of here, which is thredic color scheme. So we would create this kind of like a triangle. But if I don't want to have these colors super saturated, I can go to the less saturated colors, and I can use less saturated pink. Which should work quite nicely with these orange color tones. And then I would go to this part of the color wheel, as I said, and I will use some of the blue color tones. So I think some less saturated blue color tones because we want to have a sea and the sky there, and then I have some flowers. So again, I will use some green tones from this less saturated green. So you can work with some of these colors which are on the triangle on the color wheel. But try to choose one of your main colors right here, and then you can work with opacity. So for example, if I feel like this green is still too bright or too saturated, I can move the slider and make it less saturated. So it works with my overall color palette quite well. So for example, if you would like to have the main color, purple color, then you can work with some of the orangy and greenish tones. So try to mix and match and try to create this limited color wheel. And I have also class on creating a limited color palette, so you can watch that one as well if you want to refresh your memory. So now I will test out some of these colors in my thumbnail scene. So I can make the brush bigger, and then I can add the color mostly to the floor, for example. Which I think it's super nice, or I can decide to add that yellow color on the walls and maybe also on this opposite wall, and maybe also the sofa. So I think that would be quite nice. So try to plan different areas. So let's say if the floor in this one is yellow, then maybe where else can I add these yellow color, maybe on the planter pods, on the lamp, and then you can flip it. So you can try to add the yellow maybe as a sunset if you want, maybe the floor on the balcony is yellow, and then the table is yellow, and as well the sofa. So where can you put your main colors? So you can add them to some of your paintings, some of your books. Enough art materials, then you can take the green color and test it out on the plants if it works with this yellow. I think here, it would be actually nice to have a darker green. I would go to the color wheel and I will change the green to a darker green. Yeah, and I think that works better. So I'll just add that to the color palette, and then I can just add these green color tones to the plants on the thumbnails. And for this colour blocking, I'm using just painterly brush to quickly color block the areas. But you can use any other brush that you prefer. For the outside, I will use lighter green and maybe even lighter because I want to have all the bright colors inside. So as you can see, I have lots of green because I like to paint plants and flowers and so on. So you can think about what really is your favorite color. And now I would like to balance it with some pink color. So maybe I can add the pink to the books outfit of the character or maybe the chair is pink. So you can test that out, then pink on the painting. So maybe some of these paintings. Here, the sofa can be pink. So you can test out what kind of look you like more. Maybe here the rug is pink. Here you can even make the table pink if you like that. So balance those favorite colors. So maybe you are going for a yellow and brown if you want the brown kind of wooden desk. And you can also adjust this pink to be a little bit more brown. So it's kind of like similar color, and then you can add it to your color wheel. So maybe even more brown. And then the desk can be this brownish, pinkish orange or something in between these two. You need to always test out the colors next to each other. I also tested this light pink on the wall and maybe I can make the pink a little bit more purple, this purple blue but less saturated. I should work well with these other colors. Because I want to have the main focus to be on this yellow floor, I think that will be very nice. So this can be very subtle, almost kind of graton. So I'm just balancing out the other details. And here, I'm thinking there would be nice to have light from the balcony so something. Maybe like this. Yeah, that can work well. And then I can have these darker green tones on all of the plants, just to have that nice contrast and I can add that yellow to all the books and planter pods. Most of the color distributed around will be that yellow. Here I want to make sure that this is different enough, not the same yellow, but it can be still this orange yellow. Or I can make also the as kind of closer yeah, that can work or this light is less saturated. And then the table can be kind of this warmer color. So we can add more of that yellow here on the table as well. So it's kind of not fighting with that floor here. And then I can have more of this light blue also on the windows, maybe here on the ceiling. Then I can make the sofa, actually this lighter purple. The whole floor stands out more and then I can just add some of these cushions in yellow. Try to balance out. The colors here. So you basically add the most of the colors that you really enjoy. And here, I will add brown hair to the character because I think, you know, I can make the character look more like me. So try to customize the character and see what works for you. For example, if you feel like there are too many colors, you can always move the slider to less saturated tones and maybe you can make the walls. More gray, and then add most of the colors to the accessories. All right, so I will keep this thumbnails a reference, and then I will use the bigger version of the illustration in the new canvas, and then I will start adding colors. See you in the next part. 12. Coloring #1: And now, when you are happy with your selected base colors, we will import this image into a bigger canvas unless you are already working in a bigger canvas, so you can work on all the details. So I will select the layers, the sketch layer, and the color layer, so we can work directly from that. Then I will drag the layers, tap on gallery, and tap on the new canvas, which is bigger. And I am working in my paper texture template so I can have extra texture, and you don't need to use this type of template if you don't want to. Now, I will go to the layers and I will select both of them. I will zoom out, and I will make the sketch bigger the one I selected. So it kind of fills almost the whole canvas. Something like that. Perfect. I will now reduce the opacity of the sketch even more because I want to redefine some of the edges and basically paint with the brushes, and I don't want to keep the line art. But if you want to keep the line art, you can keep it on multiply the blending mode on multiply, and then you can redefine everything just under the lines so you don't have to be so precise. Now you can take your favorite brush, and we can work from this rough layer because you already did some work, so you don't have to redo everything. So from the brushes, I will be using my painterly brush set just to get that painterly feel. But again, you don't have to use the same brushes. You can use your favorite brush for this base colors. And you can use something which behaves more like watercolor or guoche and maybe has some rough edge. So I love this brush because it has the rough edge, but also it's more painterly. So I like to mix and match, sometimes use watercolor brushes, sometimes gouache and then add some textures with sketching or pastel. So it really depends on the look that you want to achieve. Now I will just fill in the shape based on the sketch just to be a little bit more neat. I will be working mostly on one layer because I don't plan to move around some of these elements, but if you want to move around the element, that the element should be on a separate layer. So it's easier to paint the background on a separate layer and the element on top. But because I already have all of that, I will just keep it as it is. So from the layers, I'm still painting on this one, as I said, and I will start with this yellow and I will go around the shapes to fill the space. I will speed up some of these painterly part because you can see that I'm just filling in some of these shapes. Now I am really going for just filling the shapes and be more precise with coloring this illustration. If I still want to, I can redefine some of the elements like the pots or the character on a separate layer. Y. So what is nice about working from this type of thumbnail is that you already have few colors kind of here on the canvas. So you can kind of play around with adding more colors here, so it doesn't have to be just one color. And especially if you want to add more textures to the elements, it's easier to have them on a separate layer. So we will do that. So I can show you how you can add some of the textures. So now let's be a little bit more rough with the background colors, and then we can add the elements with more defined brush strokes. All right, so now as I have the rough base colors kind of defined more, I will create a new layer, and then I will draw some of these detailed elements in more precise way. So I can just finish off the background more roughly and quickly behind those elements. So having them on a separate layer definitely helps you to be faster with the background if you want that. All right, so see you in the next video. 13. Coloring #2: I and now you can start defining some of the objects in your room, whether you edit books to the shelves, plants in pots or paintings on the wall. You can create a new layer and you can use the same brush as you were using until now for these base colors. And when you are painting the object, you can already start adding some shadows. So you can imagine that the light is coming from the window. So when we have the plant, the shadow will be under the plant. And then the plant will have a lighter edge. So we will have a lighter color here and darker here. So I will do the same on all the objects, add lighter color closer to the window. And then if there is a shadow, I will add a darker color under there. So I will start coloring and I will speed up this process because it's a lot of repetition. So you will know what to do already after this one plant. So make sure you are on a separate layer, and I will define this plant with the same colors. More precisely. So this is inspired by the pancake plant. All right, so let's just continue filling in the shapes based on the sketch that you created. All right, so now I am overall happy with the rough definition of all the objects. For example, here, I edit few ideas of the painting. So maybe this is a painting of the landscape of outside. I still need to add some houses here, but that could be quite nice thing that basically this character is drawing the scenes outside. Maybe there are butterflies around in this area and some flowers in the ways or some other geometrical element. Maybe this one looks too much like not smiley face, but sad face. I would need to change that. And here we have new ideas for the paintings and some sketchbook. And then here I edit a dog, and then here you can maybe customize a favorite mug or some other elements. So I might add something more here. And here, I edit kind of this geometrical illustrative cat. But this one is quite dark. So either I will make this cat dark or maybe I'll add another cat kind of sitting on a balcony, which would reflect this illustration. And then I did more landscapes because I like to paint landscapes. Now I will just add more colors to the background on a separate layer. So the elements will be on one layer, and then the background definition will be still on this layer. And I want to add a little bit of kind of shadow, so a little bit darker areas here in these parts further away from the window. And then I will define the outside space a little bit more with the houses, as I said, and the boats. So now I can paint more behind these books. So you can play around with adding more details. For example, you can also add more flowers to these plants. And maybe you can add flowers to some of these other pots as well. So we have more colors in the illustration. All right, so let's continue adding more details. And again, I will speed up this part because it's more repetitive as well, so you don't have to watch it on a real speed, you can watch it kind of sped up. But if you want to have it slower, you can always adjust the speed to a little bit slower if you want that. All right. So I'll just continue on this layer. Before we move on to the next step, which would be adding more textures at the end as an optional step. To see the preview of your canvas, you can always activate the reference, so it's easier for you to see where you still need to add maybe some colors and some contrast. I will just continue on this layer by adding more shadows in this area. I will also define this light coming from the window a little bit more. All right. I think it looks good so far. And then in the next step, we will add some nice texture detail like reflection on the glass or some nice details on the water and some flowers to some of these plants and some nice crisp edges to define some parts more and add a little bit of texture and blend some of these areas. All right, so I will see you in the next video. 14. Final illustration: So the illustration already looks pretty good, and you can always take a break and step back and come to the illustration the next day with fresh eyes to kind of see what would you like to adjust and define more. So for example, here, I think we can add some nice flowers to some of the plants. So maybe also here in the corner. And on this one and this one. We can also add a cat in this part, and if you want some colorful carpet would look nice and you can also add some nice background to the computer or maybe keys to the car or more items which are specific to you and your story. Now first, let me show you how you can add some flowers. And for that, I will create the flowers on a separate layer so I can move them around and adjust quite easily. From the brushes, you can change to a brush which is more rough and for the flowers. From this set, I would use the bristly brush, which is number 20. And of course, you can use a different brush for this part if you don't have the same brushes as I'm using. So from the colors, I would go for a pink color because I think that would work quite nicely on some of these plants. So I can show you just here so you can see it there. With this type of brush, you can just kind of like tap and create this fluffy flower, which is pretty cool. I will make sure that I'm on a separate layer because as I tapped, I went back to create a new layer, so it disappeared. I can add some of these flowers to this plant. And I think actually would be cool if the plant is hanging here. I'll just add more flowers here. And then I will add some green with the same brush as I was using before. So kind of to keep that consistency. Now, I will go back to the flower layer and I will swap to the brush for the flowers. I need to make sure I'm on a separate layer, always double check. And then I can add kind of these flowers to more of the pots. And you can change the size of the brush because you want to have a small flowers kind of in the distance and bigger flowers closer to you. And of course, you can change the color slightly so you have more variety. So let's add some flowers here, even though this was more inspired by fiddle leaf fig, but we can add maybe kind of another plant here in the foreground. So we can add some of these kind of bigger flowers with these type of brush strokes. So we kind of indicate, like, open flower, which could be nice. So I will add, like, lighter color on top. And then we have some of these smaller ones and darker at the bottom. And we can also add maybe some orangy red flowers. So we have some variety in colors. We can maybe make them brighter, so you can kind of decide how saturated you want those flowers to be. So I think here, they can be pretty saturated because there is, like, lots of light. So that's pretty cool. And we can add some flowers also here. And why not to add some nice yellow flowers also outside? Perfect. Now I will go to a different brush, something which has more sharper edge. You can select your favorite brush that you can create more sharper edges with. For that, I quiet like this brush or brush number one, and now I will add some details to the edges of the window and some window reflections. So if you are happy with your flowers, you can either leave them on a separate layer or you can merge them with the other layer. And for those windows and other details, I will continue working on this layer with the smaller elements. I need to swap to very light color. So I think very light blue, so kind of like white, but you can make it a little bit more blue. And now I will just draw kind of these diagonal lines on the window so we can indicate the reflections of the window. So kind of we are saying that there is glass, right? And we can do the same on this one. And here we can reduce the opacity of that white little bit, so it's not so bright against this dark background. So just make it a little bit more blue. All right. I think that works quite well. And now I will add a little bit more shadows around the windows, so there is more definition in this part. And for that, again, I will swap to different brush which is quite similar with the defined edge with a little bit of sharpness to it at the edge. So you can continue working with your favorite brush that you can use for the edges. So here I will use darker blue. And I will add a little bit of shadow here behind the door. And you can make the brush smaller so you are able to kind of define the edges easier. And I will do the same here so we can kind of add a step in the transition from the living room or the studio to the terrace. Here we can make it even darker in one part, just to make sure there is that distinction between outside and inside. We can add this darker part also next to the railing. To have a little bit of shadow here because we have it already on more elements that we always have lighter and darker color as well. So we are kind of keeping the consistency on all of these elements. So here, I'm just adding sharper edge on this canvas. And I will add also that kind of shadow on the edge of that canvas. So it's a little bit more defined. But and I can do the same also here on the edge of the door and also on the top here. And we can add a little bit of that shadow also under the picture frames on the edge of the table. Basically, we are defining some of the edges a little bit more. Yes. All right. Now we can also add a cat or a dog in this part, or you can add a carpet if you feel like it's quite empty. So I will add the dog and a cat in this part. So we have something to lead our eye towards the character as well, and there is something happening here. The character is framed nicely with this computer because we have these shelves and the computer and pictures. So there is something happening around the character. And then we also have the lamp kind of leading towards the character. And there is more examples in the composition class if you haven't seen it yet. So you can watch that class as well if you want a refresher on composition. Now let me just add these animals, and I will speed up that part because I will be using the same technique as before. So I will draw it on a separate layer in case I want to move them. All right. And now I will move this cat below this object, so she's kind of behind the table. So I think that works quite well. And I think adding a dog here would be pretty nice as well. And you can watch the class about drawing cats as well if you want. I have a class about observing the shapes, silhouettes and how you can draw different cats in different poses. So I will draw a dog here as well, and then we can kind of cover up this kit because we don't need it anymore. So I will go back to this part, and I will just paint over this kit. And you can add another pot with the plant as well here, which I think would be pretty nice. And you can also kind of design the pot. So let's double check. This one should be on a separate layer, so we added like some shadows here. So I can paint the new pot on the layer with flowers, so we can add actually some stems to these flowers as well. So let's do that. So here you can add a different plant. So you can use different brush to create the leaves. For example, scratchy brush like that. So we kind of create that type of plant as well. Now we can add the stems for these flowers on the separate layer. I quite like this scratchy look. So it really depends if you prefer more neat brush strokes or more kind of the textured scratchy looking ones. And I think it adds quite a nice variety to the overall illustration. So here we can add maybe more contrast because here we don't see the leaf. So I will just move the slider to darker tones, and I will also make them a little bit more green blue. Perfect. And when we have this brush, we can add some textures to some of the greenery. So if you are happy with the flowers and plants, you can move to the layer with the background because we had those green parts there. And now I can just add more kind of these dark parts, and I can just play more with textures. So there is more variety, so I can create more of these scratchy textures in that part. Okay. And these type of scratchy textures you can create also with pastel brushes, which I love to use very often as well. So this kind of like pastelly textures. So imitating the bristle brush you can have in traditional media. So I will do that also here on the tree. And you can play around with different hand movements to add these textures. And I think it's always nice to add more textures. So as well as I said, so it's nice to explore what look you prefer. And then you can add some soft textures, for example, on the sofa, and you can take maybe something like oily brush or something which is even more flowy and painterly. So I will take this brush, and then I will add a little bit more of that kind of brush stroke right here, just to smudge these colors a little bit more. And I can do the same here on the floor. I'll swap to that area, and I will just add kind of more of this darker yellow in these smudgy brush strokes. Perfect. So like this, you can add some textures to the interior. And you can also add a texture on a separate layer on the sea. So you can create a new layer for that. And for that, I usually like to use some of the green brushes, but you can draw some white dots if you want to if you don't want to get more brushes, but this is kind of like a fast way how to do it. But you can add detail like this on the ocean just to little bit more of that sparkle to some area. So that's something I like to add as one of the details on water, even though it's quite far away. Now I will add a dog and maybe a carpet here, as I mentioned, and maybe one more planter here just to fill the space. So like that, you can play around with adding more elements with the same technique, and I will speed up this part, but you can still watch it if you are interested in that part as well. All right, so I edit the carpet a little bit more plants here, and you can decide if you want to add a pot or a plant, but I think just plants here in the corner are just fine, and the carpet is not following the perspective like 100%. But I kind of like the wonkiness which kind of is going on here. So it's not super accurate in terms of perspective, but kind of more believable. And then I edit a dog and we have the cat. And I think now I can also hide the sketch layer. So it depends if you want to keep the sketch or not. And here in the background, we can make this yellow part, a little bit darker to create more contrast in this part. So I will keep this brush and I will just use this darker yellow tone and make everything a little bit darker in this part. And we can also stretch the shadow from the cat, so it doesn't have to be so precise because everything is kind of like these long shadows, even though it's still kind of middle of the day, but we can pretend it's kind of later in the evening. And we can also make these shadows a little bit darker. So let's just take darker blue and add more shadow here around these plants just to add more contrast. Perfect. And now you can group everything together if you're happy or copy the canvas. So we can just select everything and group. I will also duplicate the whole layer if you have enough space. And when you duplicate the layer, everything becomes even more saturated because we have more layers with these blended brushes. I can flatten this group if you're happy with everything, and then you can also go to curves and adjust the curves if you want more contrast. So you can also look at the smaller thumbnail view and adjust the image to your liking. If you want to have more pastel look or very light colors, you can move the slider there or you can move it more towards the darker tones, and then you can create that kind of curve on the curves. So that helps you kind of to adjust more area. So you can play around with this one and see what look do you prefer. So I kind of like this contrast look in this image as it is now because I think it's quite nice to have more contrast, even if you are maybe not kind of super happy with the colors that you started with, you can always adjust things. And you can also go to color balance and adjust if you want everything more purple, so you can push the slider towards magenta. Or if you want everything a little bit more yellow or in the blue tones. It depends on that mood as we talked about previously. I have other video with more references about inspiration on the mood in the scene, and it will be linked in the description if you want to check that out as well as video of practicing some of the elements which are in the image like the props you can add to the studio. If you want even more practice, you can check out those videos. And you can also adjust the saturation a little bit here. You have to be a little bit careful, so the greens and yellows don't become too strong. So here, you can just move it slightly, and you can also adjust a full hue if you want to play around with other colors. But I'm pretty happy how this looks as it is now. So I will call this done, and you can adjust and define more shadows if you want, and you can add more definition to the edges, and you can play around with the whole illustration even more. But I quite like this painterly look as it looks now. So I would call this D, as I said, and I hope that you enjoy creating your dream studio, whether it's just part of the studio or this full room maybe with your favorite pets and other details. If you decide to share on social media, please tag me so I can reshare your illustration as well. Or you can upload it here so others can get inspiration as well and see your project. So thank you so much for watching and I can't wait to see your illustrations. Bye.