Learn Floral Lettering in Procreate: From Sketch to Final Colored Piece

1. Welcome to Floral Lettering!: If you love nature inspired designs and you want to create beautiful floral letters, this class is for you, even if it's your first time drawing flowers. I'm Jim Bonus, a lettering artist, illustrator, and educator from Barcelona, and I'm also the co founder of Shao Bam. Over the years, I've been super lucky to work with brands like paper, stab, booking.com, or even Calsberg. But nowadays, my real passion is to help creatives like you to find new styles. Through my patron, YouTube, and digital products, I've taught thousands of artists how to push their limits when it comes to lettering and illustration. Today, I'm going to guide you step by step through creating a floral letter composition, breaking down leaves, flowers, and palms, so you can sketch and arrange them with confidence. So you can sketch them in different angles, even different stages of blossoming, and the best part is that you don't need an iPad to follow along. I'm going to be using Procreate, but you can use any other app or even pencil and paper. Class is designed for absolute beginners to master the basics of floral illustration and composition, so we can later on adapt it to our favorite letters. 2. Today's Class: In this class project, I'll guide you step by step to create your own floral and letter composition from scratch. I chose this team not only because I did a bunch of them in the past, but because flowers are such a timeless and expressive element to work with. And when you combine them with letters, you get something truly personal and poetic. Also, you don't need to be a botanical expert or a pro illustrator to make this work. Whether you've drawn 1,000 florals or zero, this class is designed to just have fun and help you get started with confidence. The goal here is to combine organic shapes with lettering, which is something that you've probably seen that I'm really passionate about. One of my favorite ways to merge both illustration and type into a piece that seems alive. And it's a great chance to develop both your sketching and composition skills while making something beautiful that you can share, print, or even gift someone. As I told you before, you can do this project digital or also analog, but I will be using an iPad Pro and an Apple Pencil, and also the drawing app Procreate. But yeah, feel free to follow along using any software or using analog tools like pencil ink, watercolors. I finally, I've also included extra resources to support you along the way, a floral stem as both procreate brush and PNG, a brush set for texturing and also a color palette that I've created. But throughout the class, I'm going to show you how to create this color palette by referencing a sunset photo that I took the other day. You will find all of these in the class resource section. So if you're ready, grab your favorite tools, and let's start creating your own botanical letterform masterpiece. 3. Inspiration: Before we start sketching, I want to show you a couple books that I love. They have been inspiring my work for so long, and I just wanted to show you. Let's do it. There's obviously 1,000 more that you can find out there, but these ones are really, really cool, especially this one because Tahin is, like, you know, has these offers sometimes, and they are quite cheap to find. So yeah, let's see what's inside a little. Remember that I'm going to leave you the links of both of them in the description. So it's good to analyze these kind of flowers because it's going to help you a lot when it comes to colors, composition, ways of just illustrating. Also, like, it's going to give you a lot of movements. I did an illustration, actually, based on this one a couple of years ago. So you will see that you will find just a lot of references, ways of shading, even, like, kinds of different patterns inside the flowers. These are really well studied, and I think you should definitely get the book. Also, you know, styles like engraving, for example, this one, or just, like, more realistic things like this. But you will see that a lot of my work is influenced by especially this book. Look, there's even lettering here. So, yeah, that's the first one that I wanted to show you garden Eden. Alright. Also. Let's talk about the cover. Well, no words, right? So beautiful. So let's go to the next one. Now, this next one, it's very interesting. I found it in a shop in Barcelona. And when I saw it, I had to buy it. It's called Botanicum. It's by Katie Scott and Cathy Willis. Alright, so let's open this up. It's not gonna even fit in the frame. But this background looks beautiful. So let me just zoom out a little bit. There. Okay, so this book is just the best thing to keep in the studio because this is a Spanish version. I'm not sure that you can find it in English, but, you know, I kind of bought it for the pictures as always. So you will find here all information that you are kind of, like, gonna see today in the video in this class. There is different chapters, and they're divided by plants also different flowers. How do they look inside? So let's go and show you all this awesomeness of a book. So you will see that it starts with this Okay, look at this. Like, I would be just looking at this whole the whole day. So I'm just going to pass fast, but you get a sense of what this book brings, especially for composition. Color Palettes, this illustrator is just incredible. Also, if you have any book that helps you with today's class or, like, you studied plants before or you find something beautiful, please share it with us because, yeah, I just need more books like this. So you'll be able, as well, here to sample some colors. You see, like, it even shows you how the trunk looks in the inside. But anyway, let me just Oh, my God. This is so beautiful. So let me just pass first. But I hope that you're getting a sense of, like, why having these books is important and also how important it is to go out in the nature and just document these things. In today's video, I wanted to show you a product that I'm working on that will allow you to document different kinds of letters, different kinds of plants. It's still in the process of making, but hopefully for the next class, I'll be able to show you these field notes that I'm working on. So that would be it for the books. Let's start drawing. 4. Breaking Down Leaves: Start studying leaves first. There's a couple simple tricks that you could do. One is to get the leaves, fold them, and then take photos of them. And then obviously analyze how they fold. The other trick is to draw a simple leaf on a transparent paper, and then you can cut it, and then you can twist that so you can see all the lines. By the way, I prepared you a little drawing guide that we will be using for leaves, flowers, and palms. You will see that I've included it as PDF, procreate file, and also a procreate brush that you can just, like, stamp, and that's it. Okay, we're going to start by doing our leaves. So I'm going to create a new document. And that's going to be in centimeters. Since I'm in Europe, I always use centimeters, so I'll just step here, and then I'll create a canvas that is 30 centimeters width times 22 centimeters height. DPI, so far, I'll just keep it at 300 and I'm going to tap create. Perfect. Now, the first thing that I wanted to show you is that I have prepared a little brushet that will help you throughout the whole exercise. I might be adding more textures later on, but you can go ahead and download it. It's going to be the updated version. Probably like, I'll put a couple more here to do the final exercise. But right now we are going to use these four, well, actually, five stems. And in this chapter, I'm going to start with the leaves. Okay, now, I'm gonna get any color from any color palette. This will be the color palette that we will be creating later on based on my sunset photo that I'm also providing for you today. So we will do this in different ways. We will start with the leaves, and then the flowers are gonna get a little bit more complicated and the palms are going to be a little bit more complicated. So let's start with the leaves. I'm going to break them down a little bit now for you, and we're going to start actually from scratch. So we're going to just you see that here there is also different sizes that I've set for you. So I'm going to tap on this third one, and I'm just going to put it here on the left side. Just go to tap here. And now here we see that I have done some kind of evolution of the leaves, starting with this shape and then we are gonna well, I'm just going to select another brush so the hover doesn't mess me up. Okay, good. Gonna see that we start with the basic shape, and then we go ahead and fold it in one way, fold in another way, fold in the third way. Now, here is basically the same shape as well as the structure. But here, we're just making it a little bit more complicated. We also won't be super technical about names of flowers or the leaves, 'cause I'm pretty bad at it, so we're just going to draw the the different shapes. So this second one, for example, is one that I have a bunch of in my garden. Then we have this one as well. You see that just by doing these little treatments to our leaves, they're just gonna become different and better, and a variety of them in a piece always helps. Now, for example, if we mix this and this, we get this, right? And then if we were to mix this with a fold, then we would get a fold with, you know, a more complicated leaf. We won't do folds on these leaves, though. It's gonna be a little bit advanced for today's session. And now we're gonna finish with these ones, which are what happens when the leaf just bends like this. So what happens when I think this is the mid rib, so like the central part is just, like, a little bit curved, right? So you will get this. And also, this is a different perspective that sometimes I use. And then this one, what happens when one part of the leaf is folded behind the other one. Okay, there is 1,000 more ways to do this, but for today's session, we will get a really good breakdown of what's happening, and then we will be adding it to our final letter. Great. So I'm going to start here on a new layer. My iPad was a bit lagging. I don't know why. And now I'm going to go select pencil. I'll select any pencil that you have. I'm going to just do one that is very solid. And I'm going to draw this shape right here. Okay, so for this, you could do it in a lot of ways, obviously, but you could go to actions, Canvas, drawing guide, and edit drawing guide. Now we can do a mirroring here. So everything that we draw on the left side of leaf goes to the right side, right? So let's go to symmetry. Now here, gona zoom in. And you see this little blue dot. I'm just going to move it somewhere around here. There you go. Perfect. Tap and done. And now here you will see that it says assisted here on this layer. So let's go ahead and I'm going to start doing the shape. So first, I'm just going to draw a line. Remember to tap it with a finger, so it becomes completely straight. I'll do something like this. More or less guiding myself with what I did here. But obviously, the shape is gonna be different since I'm gonna free hand it. So now, from up here, I'm going to just do this shape. You can do it a bit more straight if you want. Let's attempt one more. Okay. This one works. Could also do this a little bit thicker. So the branch is kind of showing here, like it was cut. Great. Now we have the base for our leaf. Now we're going to start doing these lines that we have here. And these are called, I believe, the veins of the leaf. So let's just go ahead and draw a few. Really, it doesn't matter how many. Something like this. I could even go down just to see if you're kind of, like, following the same kind of angle. Then maybe here we could put I don't know, a couple more, maybe. What do you think? Something like this. Remember that you can also draw on the right side, right? And again, if you're doing this without Procreate, it's pretty easy, since with a pencil and an eraser, you can do the same. Maybe just a tiny bit slower. And then from here, let's do something like this. Perfect. Okay, so now we are gonna duplicate this, and I'm going to start drawing the different leaves on top of this one. So let's now duplicate it bring it here. Well, actually, let's do something different. I'm going to just turn the opacity down of this leaf just by tapping on this end. There you go. And then I'm going to create a new layer and I'm going to be doing the different leaves here, then I'm going to move them, so we don't have to change the center of our symmetry. So now if we wanted to do something that mirror, remember that you can go to this new layer, you tap on it, and then you tap on drawing, assist. But for these three first leaves, we won't do that because they won't be mirroring. Perfect. So now I'm going to create one that makes a little fold, like, a very something very subtle, very not complicated at all. So I'll just go from here. And like in the example, I'm just gonna cut it like this. There you go. You see? So, this distance will be similar to what's happening here. So we can make it a bit shorter. And now the thickness of this part, we will do it like this. So we will from here, instead of going straight like this, just gonna bend a little bit here like this. So it's folding a little bit flatter. Right. And then from here, I'm just going to go to that side. Let's do it again. There. Perfect. So now, this part here is the mid rib, so it's this part here. Again, I'm not a botanical expert, but this is how I've been kind of, like, folding and studying different leaves. And this is one of the methods that made it super easy for me since I am originally a lettering artist. So now from here, we will do the second half of it. Maybe you can do it a little bit smaller since it is a little bit behind. There you go. I'm going to select an eraser. Always have an eraser ready. And that would be it. That's it. Now we will just finish the shape. And that would pretty much be it. Nice. Okay. Now, let's select this, bring it there. And let's make another layer, and let's make another fold. Now, what would happen if the fold kind of, like, wants to go up? So we will do the same thing. We will start we will just be working on this upper left side here, just so it's a bit clearer. And then from here, instead of going up and fold it, we're going to fold it from here down. So we will do this and then go up. Oh, just like that. Perfect. And now I will do the same. So I'll do a bit of this shape, kind of, like, more wavy here. I'm gonna go up. And then the second one. And then you finish the plant in the same way. We've got a second one now. Let's move it right here. And then let's make yet another layer. And now we will fold it like it's looking at us. It's a little bit more complicated this one. But you could actually activate the drawing assist and we will do a fold, we will draw until here. We're just going to fold this little tip here of the leaf, and we're gonna just do like some shape like this. And now, all this part is folding right here, right? So we will try to make the same length, maybe something at around here, and we will do it like that. And that would be the mid rib, mid rib here, and then the different veins. Done. Now, what would happen if we turn off the drawing assist, and let's say that we have a fold here, as well. So I'm gonna erase this part there. And now I'm just gonna fold it. So just folding this shape like this. You remember? So this is the fold that you're creating now, and you could create even one here. Again, just as a pure example. And if you were to get a real leaf, you would see what would happen. But if we fold the shape a bit, you can see that we have a little fold here and a little fold. Here. Now, let's move this one as well. There. And now I'm going to pinch these three together, and we have our first three leaves. Okay, now let's go to the second row. Now I'm going to do this shape right here. Let's see how I do it. So using that same thing that we had here, I'm going to remember to create a new layer, tap on it, make it a drawing est. And now I'm going to be doing some different shapes here. So now, there's a lot of ways you could do this. Let me show you one that is not in the example because I think it's interesting. So now here we've drawn these veins, kind of, like, straight, but you could also make them wavy. There's so many leaves out there. So you could do something like this, right? So they come like this and they come like that. So that would be how you would do this kind of veins, for example. And then here, you could join every vein with the next one. Making a super cool leaf. If you were to do it together, you could do it like this. You see? That would be one. I'm just going to erase it, but it's good for you to have the example here. Let's continue with the straight ones. Now, one thing that I do for these folds is every second one, for example, we could do maybe this one and this one. And then maybe we can add one somewhere here. Okay. Now, we're going to make some little holes in here to get that natural shape. So, let's see. I can start like this, actually. Just like, do a little oval here. Yeah. And now, once we have this, we're gonna do this shape. See what I did here? You could also do it straight if you want. You would have the same. Let's do it straight, so it's a bit easier. Sorry for that. Let's do it again. You see? And now we do the same. We finish it here. And from here, we do the same thing. There you go. Now from here, do the same thing. And since we have this one here, do it like this. Let's bring it a little bit more up somewhere around here. And then we're gonna finish it like that. We got it. Perfect. And now here you could do a couple of things. So, for example, one could be to do it like wavy like we did before. Something like this. Again, just as an example, you will for sure, do it better than me. There. We've got another leaf. So I'm going to bring this one down here, create another layer, go back. And let's do something a little bit more complicated. Remember that every step will be just a bit more complicated than the last. Okay, so now let's do this, but in a different shape, shall we? So these are the fall leaves that I call them because my town is full of them. So I'm just going to maybe use this one here. This one here and this one here. And you'll see what for now. So here, I'll do kind of like the same that we did here. You see? The little ovals are gonna be placed somewhere around here. And I'll do this shape now. I'll do this shape right here like this. This time, these ovals are going to be a little bit bigger. And then instead of going up, like we did before, I'm gonna go here. So this is gonna be a little bit trickier, but you see? So these two parts should get closer together, something like this. And then we'll do the same here. Maybe even we could do this one even bigger. Remember that your eraser is your best friend. So keep erasing until you got a nice shape. Now, remember that the more veins you put, the more realistic it's gonna look like. But as an example, I think this is gonna work. And then maybe we'll do one here as well on little indent like this. So we'll do this and then go inside. And then we can somehow finish it like this. So that would be another leaf. You can check the example because with the veins that I drew there is a little bit better. But again, making leaves is cool because it's kind of it randomizes a bit process. So you see here, since the angle of our veins is a little bit different, then you get something that looks a little bit more natural. So you can also go ahead and reference that one. And now, as an example here, we could do something that is a little bit dented. So it's gonna be a leaf that, for example, you could do even, like, this one's this veins like that. And then each vein finishes here like that with a little little oval here as well. And then just go ahead and and do this. Super randomly. And you will see that you will get that kind of result. I'm doing it very fast now. We got it. And now, sorry, that was the same layer, so I'm just going to select this one and then three fingers down, and then cut and paste. I'll put it somewhere there. And then what would happen if we were to do this effect into this one here. So, well, let me just Yeah. Now, this one here, for example, what would happen? Let's bring the opacity down. Actually, let's even deform it a little bit. So I'm just gonna go with the free form, maybe I'll distort it a little bit like that. See? By distorting these leaves, you get different new things as well. So here, for example, we could go ahead and do the same as we did here, but in this one right here. Actually, let me show you a little bit of a thing that I do here. So I do this circle. I stop here, you see? And then from here, I do it again. You see that I'm not mirroring here, but it doesn't matter right now, just an example. There. Now here, stop. I do this circle, stop here, and then I continue. And I'll show you one last time. So stop. Go down and start again. And you see that we've got now something that is a mixing between this one and this one. So you can move it there, leave it somewhere there, bring the opacity back and pinch all of our lips, but not the guide, remember all of our lips together. Perfect. And now let's do the last row. New layer, and this won't be mirroring because that's going to be something completely different. I'm still going to use this as a base just for some lines, though. So I'll do the meat rib that it goes somewhere around here. Like that. And now, I'll do this first part. So from here, I'll do this shape like this. I'm gonna raise this a little bit so it's a bit cleaner. And even do a perfect line. So if you don't lift off the pencil, remember you can do a perfect curve here. So I'm just gonna leave it like this. And now I'm going to start doing this shape first. So it goes like this. And then as it approaches up, it does this curve. Remember that, you know, every time that I do a class like that, and I'm doing these lines that are super free handed, I'm always keeping my whole arm up. You will have to do some stretching later because my shoulder hurts sometimes. But the difference between doing a curve like that, even for letters, obviously, the difference in between having your elbow down and just using your wrist is that you have a certain space to move. But if you move your whole arm, then you can move the whole Um, well, you can make a bigger line actually and have way better control on curves. Okay, so now that we got this, I'm gonna do the other part. So gonna come like actually, this is going to be a little bit closed like that. And then from here, it's gonna be something like this. And now, this part it's gonna fall behind. And you see that we have a nice fold as well there. Okay. Now you can do the veins. So something like this. And we got this one. Now, we're to do the little branch. Instead of cutting it straight, I will cut it like this, just so it plays better with this perspective. Perfect. Now, let's bring this down as well, leave it there. New layer, and let's go ahead and create a more complicated fold. So I'll do a line like this this time. Let's go to the right. I'll do something like this. Perfect. Now that we cut this, I'm going to do one part and it comes. From this. It follows kind of our shape here that we have in our base. And it cuts here. Let's do it again. Cuts like this. Or something like it. You see that now out of just two lines, we've got pretty much most of it. Now, here I will join this with this one. And I'm gonna cut here right in the middle. And I'm gonna Well, actually, let's do it like this, yeah. Better. And then this second part, it comes with it from behind and it does something like this. And almost done, but we have to do the right side of our main leaf. So I'm just gonna do this shape here like this. And now the last thing, I'm gonna cut this here, so it doesn't look like this line is completely same. And I will make it come from up. And we've got this one. Now, we could do the veins here since this is the inside of our leaf. And then here you could do just a couple of them. Like that. Okay, so, we've got a second fold. Let's put it right here. Let's go and create another layer here. Now, this one is super complicated, even for me. So, this one is gonna be the one that looks at us. It's folding, looking at us completely. So we won't see this part of the leaf. We just see this part completely like that. So let's try to make the perspective. So from here in the middle, I'm just going to draw a line like this. This is going to be our mid b. And the leaf is gonna finish around here. Now that you have this, you can actually now imagine it. So I'm gonna continue this kind of, like, straighter here like that. And then from here, I'm just going to do a line that goes like this. So this part is more towards us and this part is a little bit behind. So now I'll do this. There. And we are done. Now, the mad rib, right, goes from here, and this would be behind. So like, imagine it like that's this, this this do this. And it comes here. That's eraser because it's behind. But we will keep this line here. You see? Let's make it a little bit thicker. There. And we've got this fault. Now, we could do some veins like this, just to even make it a little bit more realistic there. And now you could do even this ones like that. There you go. Okay. Now, let's bring it here, and we are officially done with our leaves. I almost forgot here. Let's make this one, shall we? So we'll just do a line that goes like this. And now, it's super easy because we have to just do this meat rip. There you go. Somewhere like something like this. And then we're just gonna from here, just gonna go straight here. And then it's gonna kind of, like, bend here like that. You see how easy it is actually. And now the veins will just go in this direction. And there's gonna be a tiny part of the other side of the leaf right behind it, just like this. Now, if you have time, you can always try to do more effects like this one, right? So you could add, like, different kind of right? Like, different kind of plants and leaves and also do this. So it kind of looks like it comes from behind. Maybe you could make some heros, yay, ya, ya, ya. Okay. Now, let's move on to the flowers. 5. Breaking Down Flowers: Flowers may look a little bit complicated, and you would be right. They are. But we will break them down in a way that makes them more understandable. We will sketch a few different types, so you get a feel for how to simplify them. Okay, so now it's time for the flowers. I'm just going to pinch all these together just to keep it as a reference somewhere. Here, and the first thing that I will actually do is to turn off my drawing guide. So go to actions here on the wrench tool, turn it off. And now I'll create a new layer. I'll go to my brushes, so the ones that I'm giving you today, and I'm going to go to the flowers. But this time, we've got something a little bit different just to help us guide ourselves a little bit more. Flowers are a tiny bit more complicated than leaves, and you'll probably see it now. Okay. So we've got two stems, right? So first, I'm going to show you the She Bams flower. So just tap on it. Let's do it again. Yeah. So you'll see here that I usually use geometrical shapes. It helps me a lot. And you will see here that with them, it's way easier to come up with certain lines. You will see it here as well, and definitely not the first one and not the last one to do that. So you can find a lot of examples online as well. But these are some of the ones that I use the most. I did it in a way that every flower is blossoming. So I'll show you from when it's blooming to when it's blossoming right here. And then we're going to add even more details here as well. Now, you have it here as well. But in this example, instead of showing you the whole blossoming, we just go from here to here, and then we change angles. You can see that every time we see more in the center of flower. And here, I just teach you how to go from a very simple sunflower to a little bit more complicated one, and then what would happen if we were to make it into an angle? Great. So, as we did before, let's make this smaller. Sorry. Let's step here on uniform. Let's make it smaller. Leave it here. And now I'm going to go to Shao B's flower structures, and I'm gonna stamp it, make it smaller, maybe just a little bit bigger, even. And let's stamp it somewhere around here. Okay. Now, we will draw using these shapes here, but I'm going to bring the opacity down just a bit, maybe at around 50%. Let's create a new layer. Let's go back to one of our pencils. Now I'm going to use probably an AB pencil. But again, any pencil that you have will definitely work. And let's start with the beginning. So when the flower is closed, it's very easy. So I will keep this line. But the new lines that I do are going to be a little bit more natural, a little bit more wavy, still following the same structures. So I'm going to start here by doing something like this. And then maybe just make it a little bit. So again, it's not completely straight, that will make it look unnatural. And let's finish somewhere around here. Remember that this will be the center. And we want this to be standing upright. So now here, I will continue with the shape here, then I will go do something like this and finish it down here as well, like this. Perfect. And now this line will go here, like it's folding. You see, it really wants to bloom. And then you can also, like, do more lines here. In our letter composition after, we're going to use combination in between different stages of blossoming. So that's pretty much it. We've got this one. Okay. Now, let's see what happens when this flower opens up a little. I'm gonna use this line again, so I'll do something like this. There you go. Take this and then bring it down. Now one little vein here. Now I'll do yet another one that goes to that side. And it touches this line here. There maybe yeah, maybe something like this. What do you think? No. The vein. Now, these ones are the ones that are the most visible. And now we can do one here that kind of falls behind. This one is a little bit more behind or flower here. It does this little shape. And then here, it does a little fold, similarly to what we did in the leaves. And then it just gets summer like this. And then even you could do maybe another one somewhere around here. Just like this. Now, here, there could be one. Listen, let's do this one here as well. Let's do another kind of fold here. So kind of from here, and then it folds as it reaches up here. Let's do it again. There. And then finally, one here that is behind and one here that is also behind. And there you have it. We've got this one right here. Now, let's go to this second one. Well, third, actually. And this one will be a little bit more open. So you see this leaf, for example, we will have to translate it here and make it so it falls so it opens up more. So let's do it again. We are going to do something that is gonna be like something like this. Again, very similar to how the leaves fold, okay? Perfect. And now comes like some around here. And then here it starts the folding. Then it's gonna be there's gonna be a line here like this. And then one that goes behind. You know what? Like, let's do it again. I'll use this one as the first one. And then there's gonna be one coming from here. Yeah, there. Coming here. And then one behind. Just like this. And even if you wanted to play a little bit further, you could even do another fold here. So if we bring this a little bit further, you will see that now we've got the perfect space to do one last fold there. Okay, good with one. Now, let's do one here. This one is going to be also super open and folding right in front of our eyes there. We'll do this shape here like this. And then here we will go here and do this kind of, like, triangular triangular shape. The mid rib would be here. And then this could finish, for example, Sumern here. There. Made rib here. Now, you could do a little bump here, like, a little there. So that's something that is behind. I'm not gonna touch it right now. Now, let's do four more. So we could do one that comes from here. So it's kind of like behind. And it does also a little fold. Mid rib here. And then the fold would be something like this. Maybe shorter. Yeah, something like this. Now, yet another one, but a bit bit smaller here. So I'll start maybe from here there. Okay. Okay, here we have it. And now I will do one that goes here, behind. Like this. It's gonna be the fault, and then this is what's going to be behind. And the mid rib would be somewhere around here. And then finally, one here that it also kind of, like, does this nice twist. Maybe even a bit more. And that's it. You see? That would be it. We've got this one, as well. Let's go to the fourth one now. Now, this one will be even more open. So instead of doing the folds here, it's going to happen before. So let's start with this main one as we did before. But instead of going up, I'm just going to go here just like this. Yeah, this will work. Now, this like this, then the mid rib will be somewhere around here in the middle. And then as we did this fold here, we're going to translate it here. So triangular shape, and then here it finishes very abruptly like this, and then it falls down. There. You will see that I go from my eraser to my pencil very fast because I've done it in setting. So when I squeeze my new Apple pencil Pro, it changes directly from eraser to pencil. If you want to know how to do it and you don't know, you can always ask me. You can send me a message, and I will get back to you as soon as possible. Okay, so now that we've got this one, let's fold more. Let's fold now this one right here. So it's going to come from here and then do kind of like the same shape here. Ah. There you go. I just realized that I said a word in Catalan. Okay, so let's go down here like this. And then and remember, finish it abruptly and go down. There. And just simply do this right here and the main rib. Perfect. Okay, let's do more. Now, this one behind maybe can be, like, completely folded behind. So I'll do something that goes like this. And it's just completely behind. And now maybe one that comes from here. And does this nice twist, as well. Actually, let's make it bigger. There. There you go. Now maybe I'm gonna cut this one a bit, and then one can be A behind. And then the last one. Okay, maybe, like, could do let me see what I did there. Mm hmm. Okay, so let's do this nice fold here. Maybe be shorter like this. Yeah, I like this, so I'll do it. There you go. No. Line and line. There. Okay, something like it. Actually, I'm going to select it with the free handle. I'm gonna select this part here, this. And then I'm going to turn off the snapping, if you have it off, perfect. And I'm going to just rotate it a bit and just maybe, like, even squeeze it a tiny bit like this. Yeah. Okay, cool. And now I'm just There. Now, we could even put some filaments and some enters here. So, like, what would be the little dots here. There's different ways to do it. So let's let's first do some lines that come from inside like this. Just like, very kind of, like, randomly, maybe one shorter, one longer. That will do. For now, that will do. And then you could do two kinds of enters. Actually, you could do one that is kind of like that, like, very simple or one that goes like this. Just like this kind of different shape. I think I'm going to do these ones. So just add some here. And then now with the eraser, I'm going to erase what's behind just so it's a bit more visible. There. Maybe one here in the middle, as well. And we've got our flower. Now, I feel like I just I would love to start adding some shadows, but we will leave that for later. Okay. Let's now do the second flower. We'll start here by doing something very simple. So I'm just going to just mark a little bit of my center here. And then I'm going to start down here. So I'll do this shape. Then from here, I will add three kind of, like, semicircles. Let's make this bit thicker. It's good to have a good foundation before we build the roof, right? So I'm just gonna add just like this very, very simple, kind of, I don't know how to call them. Maybe like they look like petals. So I just gonna call them petals. And now from here, just gonna draw a circle, kind of, like, market. So something like that. Now, here I'm going to start. Making the shape here. Again, you could go super randomly here. Everything will look good. As long as it looks like it's layered, so it's about to open up, about to bloom, it's gonna be fine. So just doing this kind of more like random something like this will work. Now, some veins here. And from here, just following the shape, kind of like something that is behind and swell the same thing here, there. There. And then there's something behind here, something behind here, and something behind. Here. We got it. Let's go to the second one now. Okay. So I'll do the same, but these petals will be opening up looking towards us. So this is gonna be the start. Then from here, just gonna open a little petal. It's not big, right? Remember, this is kind of like the way we folded the leaf before. It's looking at us. So that's why it doesn't look so long, but more like white. Yeah. Now we will do a couple more here. I'll do something like this. There. And another one. There. Perfect. And now let's do the big petals. Now, you could technically kind of separate these in more parts. So I'm just going to do a couple lines. So it's gonna be one like this, right from the center, and then one like that. Doesn't have to be exact. And then I will do also one that is like this. Now, here, I'm going to fill it in with my first petal. Remember this is the center. So now we will divide the petal like this. You will see how. So I'm going to start the shape here. Gonna go down right here in the center. A do it there. And even make it a bit thicker, a bit wider like that. Then let's bring it here. Now here, you could do maybe just a little bit more wave. Maybe before, so I keep this better. There, something like this. Perfect. And now from here, I'll just do some veins, some little lines here. There. Okay, we have the first petal. So now I want to do these ones here. These ones will be we will see the side of them, right? So I'll do a shape that goes like this, and it falls behind. So it does this, and then it falls here. And it does a little bit of this shape and a little bit of this shape as well, and it goes behind. And this is the most visible part of it, and I'm just going to bring it just like that, very simple. And maybe we could even cut it here. Just like this. Okay, now let's go to the left. Then we will do something similar. There. I got it here as well. There you go. Perfect. Now, let's do the ones behind. Very easy. So one will be I'm just gonna mark it. One will be somewhere here. The other one will be somewhere here. And then the one that is completely and h behind will be something like this. Yeah, that looks good. So I'm just going to erase it a bit a bit with this. When I tilt my pencil, I got the opacity of it a little bit more controllable. So now I'm just gonna start breaking this like we've been doing. And sometimes just, like, as long as you do wavy shapes, this will look good, okay? So don't get super overwhelmed. Boom, we got it. And now let's do this one. There. And that one there. Okay, we've got this one. Now, let's go to one that is just a little bit more open. Here we've got the center here, right here. I think I should have maybe put it a little bit more aligned. But so I'm just going to go to this shape and just move it a bit. You can do the same. Yeah, better. And now, this will be the center of our flower. So, and this one, you're just seeing it like this, right? And then this one, you will see it from up. Perfect. Now, let's also start from here. And now we will be dividing this in five. So I'll look like lines from the center. What do you think? So one could be somewhere here. The other one could be somewhere somewhere there. They don't have to be in the exact same position. Remember, we are not mirroring this right now. Then one could be there. One could be maybe just a little bit more open, something like this. And then the next one, the last one would be here. Perfect. Now, you could even do circles, so semicircles. That's something that I do sometimes just to see where all this is happening, maybe we could even open this one a bit more. Something like this. Foot. Sorry. Let me charge this iPad. Okay, done. Oop. Okay. Yeah, maybe like this, so we keep a bit the perspective. Now, this one can be something like here. Then that one there could be something like there. Then this one can be somewhere here. And finally, this one. Can be somewhere here. I'm just going to erase this a bit. And I'm gonna start doing the shapes. Now here. So Break it here. May I change the center a bit? Yeah, something like this. Then this one could come from here. Actually, this is too straight. Let me do it again. Yeah, that will work, I think. There. Then actually, this one will be in front right, so we will extend it somewhere here. Perfect. There. Now, this one here. Perfect. And now, finally, this one. I'm actually gonna probably put it behind. Yeah. Yeah, just behind. Nice. And and then since they're all meeting in the center, I'm gonna make it kind of, like, so these lines, right? They are. Because the petals are, you know, they start like this. So let's do one petal here. They usually start like this, and then they blend with the center of the flower. It's funny because if a botanist would see me out, they would be like, You have no idea what you're talking about, but this is what I see in my daily walks. So that's my way of explaining it. Great. And now here, you could just do a bunch. You don't have to get super exact with the center of this. So you could do just a little bunch of enters and filaments like we did before. And they are basically coming from the center. And we are done with this one. Now let's do this fourth one. Okay. Perfect. So now we are seeing it right from above. Now, I'll do the same thing. And now we will play maybe with a couple of folds. So as we did before, line line. Then maybe this one I want to be somewhere here, so it's a bit different than this one, there and than this one. There. Okay, let's get started. I'll start with the one down. So, as I said in the example, I open up like this. And I go down here. Like that. Now, maybe this can fold a bit. So just I'm just gonna do a double line here. Like this. And then we've got this little fold here. Nice. Okay, let's do let's do this one. So it will start somewhere here. It will touch this line right there. Wet. Let me make the eraser a little bit smaller. And now from here, I think I'll do a fold here as well, like this. Go up here, maybe do a little cut. Cats always look good on flowers. Imagine that an animal just bit it off, so we could do it here. So if we do first the shape and then we do this little cut, it, it looks more natural. So we could do this here and there, don't overdo it, though. And now here, you see I'm doing this fold right there. There. Perfect. Okay. Nice. Now let's do maybe the left one, so we start balancing this whole composition out. So it will be something like it will go there. Now I'll do more like a natural shape. So now here, you can do this little curve here, and then enter. There. And now we could do a little fold here as well. What do you think? There you go. Great. Now let's do this one right here. And then finally, this one that goes behind everything else somewhere like this. And then here, same old story we did before. They are all going kind of like to the center. And then you could make ones that are a little bit beyond that. And we are done. Now, let's go ahead and do the sunflower. Okay. And for this, we will go again to actions drawing guide, edit drawing guide, and we will bring this to the center. Sorry, I don't know what happened. Oh, yeah. If you tap the green dot, it changes the angle of the symmetry. So you want to move the blue one, remember? Sometimes I forget. Perfect. Now, I'm gonna start doing something very easy. And you know what? I'll create another layer, tap on it, and tap on drawing assist. Perfect. Now, I'm gonna create a circle here. Like this. And now let's start doing the petals. The petals, there is a lot of ways to make these petals. One that is very kind of, like, very easy and graphic is to just, like, do from somewhere around here, go up. And then as you go up, you curve and meet in the center right there. Let's make it maybe a little bit more rounded, but you get the point, right? There. And now that we have this one, we can start doing the other ones. Okay. You don't have to do it exactly all the time the same. Remember that we're talking about the nature here. And we would have here a simple sunflower. Now, let's go to make something a little bit more complicated. And for that, I'm just going to copy this layer. Bring it here. And this time, I will move my drawing guide. And now let's make the second layer of petals. So I'm gonna go behind here. And start making this second layer. Can do this circle just like a little bit irregular. And now, tap on the layer, tap on drawing assist. And with the eraser, I'm going to start erasing some of the things like randomly. So I can start adding some folds here and there, and, yeah, you will see what I'm saying. So, for example, I'm gonna raise here, I'm gonna raise here, maybe not this one. No, this one. Then maybe I can do something here, and I don't know, maybe something something there, for example. And maybe something there, come on. Okay. And now I'm gonna start playing around with this. So you see? There you go. One fold here, then one little one here, another one here. One right there behind it. One here. And finally, one here. So it kind of is symmetrical now, but it has a little bit of more life. And now, if we were to do the veins of our flowers of our petal, just, like, do simple lines. And here we would have a pretty cool looking, simple sunflower. Okay, now let's go and make something even more complicated. So again, We will just do the circles here, even more irregular. And now here, let's do something completely out of the box. So you can see that now we have more lines here than we had here. So I'm going to start doing petals very randomly here, even with a smaller pencil. And I'll do them a little bit compressed, just so they fit, and I still have a little space here. So let's get started. Okay. And while I'm at it, I'm going to start adding some folds as well. Remember, this is one of the leaves that we did. Same with the petals. So you can apply you can apply it here as well. So let's do it. I'm gonna take 5 minutes, I think, gonna probably leave you with a little bit of music, so I concentrate. But again, very easy, very easy and very I can just experiment with different folds. Doesn't matter, really. There's going to be so many that even if you do one that's kind of not the best, it won't be visible. Oh Okay, that would be it. And now, finally, let's do this in perspective. Okay. Now, we're going to start with the first petal for this part, which is the easiest of them all. So I'll start right here and I'll do a petal like I did before. Just the same. There. M Okay, now that we have this one, I'm going to do one right there. And as I approach the side, they are going to become thinner and thinner because of its perspective. So this one will be say it again. Now, the center will be just a bit there. And now another one here. Again, thinner. Perfect. Now we'll do the same on the other side. So on here. Now, one here. I'm actually gonna even fold this one of. Okay. And now before we get even more complicated, I'm gonna do the ones at the side. So this one will follow this like this. Now let's do it a bit less, maybe. Maybe, something like this. Now, this one can go a little bit, like, outside of the box here. So, something like this. And now the ones here, this one will be easy. So just thicker and right there in the middle. Then like this. And then this one can go like that. Remember, this is very similar to what we did here. And now. One here, one here. And now pretty much we have it. Now, we're going to start adding maybe one here that also folds like this and then start filling it up based on the angle. So the ones are on the middle, then they're gonna be straighter. And then as they approach the sides, they're just gonna bend bit. So let's get into it. Now, probably do one as well here that also bends. So something like this. Actually, maybe comes from here. Great. Then one can also bend there. There you go. Now. This one can be a bit wild here. Yeah, why not? Then there's one behind here. And then here, just fill it up. It doesn't matter really what you do here. It's gonna look good enough. Maybe you can do a little fold here. And then one right here and just a fill behind. And actually, here, we can do also one that folds. Awesome. What do you think? Now, this shape, right? Let me do another one here. This shape will instead of being this circle, will be like this. Okay? So it would go like this. And then for this part here, we're also going to make leaves that fold towards here. Excellent. We are done. Let's finally move on to the palms. 6. Breaking Down Palms & Ferns: Palms and ferns is something that I didn't think when I was doing this class. But then I was like, This could be very interesting to actually do. They add a lot of movement and contrast and sometimes I forget to draw them. We will study their flow and structure to help balance our piece later on. Okay, let's go onto the palms. So I'm just going to hide this layer. I pinched all of my flower parts together, so we have the flowers, and we have the leaves as a reference. Now, let's create a new layer. And let's go to the shop BAMs palms. So going to stamp it here. So around here. And you will see that we have different kind of palm leaves here, and if we were to put them all together, we would create a palm. I'm not going to be, again, super specific about what kinds of palms are these, but definitely the most interesting are these ones here, and these are the ones that I see constantly in Barcelona. So now, I found a couple names probably that I'll be skipping. I hope that I will remember some of it, but I believe that these are gonna wait, let me select the pencil again. I think these are called Well, obviously, the leaf lets. So the leaflets, 'cause this is a leaf, right? They're gonna have a lot of cuts, and depending on, I think, again, depending on how young is the leaf, it's going to have more or less cuts as well as when it bends. So for example, this one, see there's a lot of these little cuts then might be because it's a bit older. I think, again, correct me if I'm wrong, I would love to hear more about them. And then I have something that I'm not sure of, but like the branch. So like, this part here in the middle. I think this is called the pitile. So like, that's the pitile would be all this part. And then as it becomes as it becomes inside, I think these little parts here where the leaflets come from, I think it's called regs or Riches or something like that. Again, not sure, but probably we could be talking about the PDO, which is this, and then the leaflets. Let's see if I remember. Okay. Now, let's go to a new layer and I'm going to now select the habamsPum structures. And now, same size. It's the third little dot here. I'm just going to put them here. You can see that they're pretty much already done here, but it's going to help us a lot in order to create this. Okay, so we start with these ones, but you will see that when you get here and when you master how to do this, this is just, like, so easy, actually. And when you start understanding the folds and all of that, it just becomes super fun to drop. But let's start from the beginning. I'm just going to turn the pasity down, and I'm going to create a new layer. Get a pencil, again, whatever pencil you have. And now we are going to be using this base to create the pum. So fairly easy as well. The only thing that we will have to do here is to go a little bit. You see, we got all the structural parts here. And this, for example, these triangles here are going to be the ones that are having like the biggest cuts on these leaflets. So I'm going to start with this one here. Now, you could basically do this. So you do this and you do that, and then you kind of have a palm. You say you have the leaf. But I'm going to go beyond the lines just to make it a little bit more interesting. So, anyways, let's start with this cut. So I'm going to start with the cut like here, and then I'm going to go beyond this a little. And then here, I'm just going to maybe do something like this and then something like this. Then I could just do something like this. Then maybe there could be like one that comes from behind, so it could be something like there. Yeah, that could work. And then maybe a little cut here, and then it joins here. Okay, let's continue. And as you can see, I'm not using any symmetries this time because I don't want this to look boring and symmetrical. You can see that I'm kind of like cutting it. Just make it a little bit more interesting. Always following these lines that I've prepared for you because in this sense, it's gonna be way easier to make. Then we are done with this side. Then here, actually, we could do something a little cut like this and then join it here like this. Great. Now, we could do the other side. Let's go faster this time. Let's see what happens here. You can see that, like, it's kind of cool to go fast, just so you're not thinking about the shapes of it. And by the way, this is real time. This is not a time lapse. So it's all about just letting your mind flow here and see what's the result. There. I could finish it just by doing the PTO here. And we're done with this one now. Let's go to the second one. Pretty much the same, but we move the PTOle to the left. Therefore, this right side is more visible and the other one goes a little bit behind. But again, same same, same, same as we have just done. So then maybe here we could exaggerate this. Well, actually, there's a cut here. So there. Okay. Perfect. Great. Let's do the other side. The side instead of going like that, it's going to be if there is this outlier, it's gonna be a little like in that shape, so it goes behind, right? Again, pretty random here. Let's make the video. Don. Now, let's do the third one. Now, this one is the same as that leaf that was folding. Remember that? And we just saw one side. Well, this one, we're going to get to experiment a little bit because since there is the leaflet cuts, it's gonna be more interesting to actually show what's behind cause like, you know, when we had the leaf here, it just, you know, pretty easy. But now that we've got these cuts, it's gonna be just a tiny a bit more interesting. So let's start here. Actually, I'm just gonna rotate it like this. If you have a paper as well, rotate it. It's gonna be easier. And then let's start doing this shape. Even you could do one that just goes here. And then instead of cutting here, it could also start right here. And then just gonna make this last one here. There. And when it comes to behind, well, it's pretty much the same. So just go a little bit nuts here and then make some that go a little farther. If you had time, you could also add some shadows behind just like this. So it's clear what's in front and what's behind, right? Also, you don't have to fill it up completely. Maybe there is some leaves that go right here behind, and then they're not visible. So keep that in mind as well. It but yeah, I'm definitely gonna add some shadows for this one. Like, very simple. Mark them here. There. And then finally, just let's do a bit more here and we're done. With the leaflets now, let's do the po Boom. Done. Let's now go to the fourth one. Now, this one, I'll be doing it very dried up, and in a very random distribution of this leaf light. So let's try here to do something looks a little bit crazier. And these palm leaves are, you know, as I said before, very cool to play around with because yeah. You just, like, can come up with, like, very, very weird shapes that end up making sense together after. Mm. Let's finish it up. Now, there's the possibility that there is some visible part from behind. I'm not gonna do it because otherwise, this exercise will last a little bit too much, but same as here, you could add behind, right? So let's say if you were to add one here, you could just add it here and just give it a little shadow. And even you see here, I marked it because it goes a little bit behind as well. You can see just a part of it. Done. Okay, so now we have the four, and we are gonna start with the wavy ones. Now, very easy to make these ones as well. I marked here the direction, and our job here is going to be doing some wavy lines. And then, like, some sort of like it was like a flame shape, if I can say that. So yeah, let's give it a try. Let's start up here. Gonna start something like this. You see? So every line, I'll go from thicker here to thinner, right? So it's gonna be thicker, thinner, thinner, thicker, something like this. And then just continue doing it. Maybe one just, like, cut here, and then we could start somewhere here. There. Perfect. Let's su the out of sight now. You'll see that sometimes I rotate the screen a 1,000 times just to find the best angle. Okay. Okay. Now, let's go to the second one. Same old story, but just going that way. And then maybe you could even do some longer ones. Then maybe one can be a bit wild and go to the other side. You see, like, the wind is blowing and then maybe affecting some of them differently than the others. Oh. Say this one. It's going on top one or the other, it's good to practice this because as we get to the lest palms, which are gonna just twist and bend and all of the above. So it's good if every once in a while, maybe you just do, like, a crazy one like this. And then you put some maybe. You see? Maybe one can be on top of it. The other one can be behind. Just feel free to go a bit nuts with this. And remember to zoom out here and there, okay? It's always good to see your pieces from afar. Also take a break sometimes. And most of all, do not burn out because you've been doing it for too long, which happens to me constantly. Okay. Let's finish it up fast. That pidio Boom. Good. Let's do the third one now. Now, even we are hiding this part here. So this is going to be super kind of like the leaves are gonna be tighter because we won't see them much. It's similar to what we did here. So these ones are kind of similar, but this one is another obviously another breed and another angle. So it's more curved so let's go ahead and start doing it. Now, I put less lines here. You could make it thicker, if you want it like this. Or you can stick to this and make them thinner. Think I'll do it halfway. So something like, Yeah, I like this thickness. And then maybe I'm gonna be adding one or here, like, here and there, there. You see, as I sat behind, they're kind of together, and you could even do this, see if you want to go faster, cause some of them won't be visible. You see? Is just like this. Done. And then here, let's continue. And then here. There. Video. Perfect. Now, let's do this one and you remember the shape of this one, right? Because it's the exact same one as we used before for our leaves. So it's going to be the same, but adding this kind of pum effect of the leaflets. So the leaves are just going to fall here. So we're going to do this. See, they just falling. Just like that. Maybe one, like shorter, one longer. Then maybe what would happen if one falls short here, for example? Well, it would go maybe like that, right? So maybe we could do something like this. And then, for example, it goes behind this one, it goes on top of this one there. See what I'm saying? Now, let's There. Let's make a little maybe cook here. Then let's make another outlier here. There. Now, maybe one can go like this. Remember, the plans are unpredictable. There. And now, same old story up here as we did before. So it's kind of we won't see it much. So make sure of that. You see? Because they are falling behind, right? So maybe, like, one can maybe come and, like, fall shorter here. But generally, as long as you do lines, that is enough for this part. Then maybe here, let's let's make something a little bit better here. Maybe. Okay. Yeah, something like this, huh? What do you think? Okay, now, the branch or like the PDO just go behind here. There. Man. Done here. Okay. Perfect. What do you think? Let's do these ones. These ones are, as I said before, super interesting. So let's go ahead. And I'm going to tell you that you can do this yourself after. It's all about having let me put you an example here. It's all about having a pile and all about having a shape. It doesn't matter which one, really. Palms are very unpredictable. But, if you do this, kind of, like, shape like this. And then you start throwing lines. You've got this, okay? And, for example, if you throw a line like here and you're like, Hey, what happens if this part of the leaflet kind of, like, breaks here, right? And then what happens if this one goes up here? Then it's when this palm trees become interesting. So that's what I've done here on the guide. And now, let me show you first how to do a normal leaflet and then how to make the folds. And then after you've done probably at, say, 10-20 folds, you just gonna do it by yourself without any instructions. So let's start from the bottom, actually. Let's do this one right here. Now, the shape of this palm is kind of like, as well, so it comes from thin to thick to thin again. And then the same for the other side. Thin, thick, thin. Always finish with thin. Doesn't have to finish like that as well. There's going to be a lot of pumps that finish like this as well. But for this exercise, I rather finish like I told you before. It's gonna be easier. Now, for the fold, I'm not going to start with this one. It's a bit more complicated, but let's start with the fold up here. So, it's all about doing this. You see? And then see what I did here. So I go, I do the shape. I go beyond it, and then I finish it. You see? And the main line is right there in the middle. Then after you could do this and this. And that would give you that would give you a Perfect fold. If you were to do more detail that would look something like this, maybe some shadows here. Some shadows here. And you see that it looks cool. Now, we could do instead of folding it like that, we could make that the fault is in front of our palm tray, for example. So of our palm leaves, sorry. So if we raise this part in the middle, there you go. We could do something that does this. You see? I just change the line and then it goes in front. And there you go. So let's do this one, for example. Now I'm gonna fold here as well. Just one fold, I think. Perfect. And now I'll do this. And then let's do this one, for example. So the folder is gonna be in front this time. Oh, so again, open up, cross, finish. Then here Done. Now, let's continue with the other leaflets. Now, this one doesn't have to fold, can just be like this, maybe. Then we could fold this one. Then this one will fall heavily, so I'm just going to do this. And then cut it like this. Well, actually, let me cut it a bit straight. So like this. There and do the same here up. Here down, sorry. Perfect. Now, this one, you can just draw it, then you can decide later, maybe this one and this one. So you see that it looks very interesting like this. One behind and one in front. Let me see this one. We could even fold it, like, let's see. We could do this, and then then once you have this line, you can decide, right? So you can maybe do this. Then here, give a bit of entrance and do this. And then even you could make it like it's folding like that. It's a little bit crazy, but you got what I say here. It's kind of like origami. D. Okay, let's do this one now. Now, this one is very easy, and you could turn on the drawing assist, go to Actions, edit drawing guide, bring the drawing guide right here and start doing the same. These pumps are a little bit boring to draw, but in real life, they're gorgeous. There. Done. Now, let's go to this one. Again, this is the same, same same technique. So let's do some folds first. And then once we have them, then we can go and do the rest. So let's start with Sorry with this one here. So I'm going to do I'm going to do this ones a little bit more less straight, like the ones we've done, but a little bit more curved. So something like this. Then actually, maybe. Yeah, maybe something like this better. And then the part of the fold there. And then here. There you go. What do you think? I like it. Okay. Now, maybe we can do this fold here. Let's do this one up here, maybe. Then maybe this one. Then this one will be interesting as well. So for it, we could do something like this. Now, come here, and then it will fall from here. So it would look something like this. Yeah, good enough. Okay. Let's finish it. Almost done there. Done. What do you think? Fun, right? It's all about. Again, it's all about the main line structure. Now, let's do this one. So this one is kind of like falling. It's hanging a lot. So it's a little bit more complicated because of the folds, right? So especially this part right here. So that will be something like this. I will always keep this in the center. Now, from here, I'm gonna go down. Go down here until the end there. And now, easy, one following the center and the second one. And we we got this one. Okay, now let's do this one behind. So same old story. Just gonna do this. There. And now, first one and second one. Let's do it again. There. Okay. Now, this one, we won't even see where it begins. So I'm just gonna do a little line here and it goes down. There. Now, this one. Let's see how I can start this one better. Actually, I think I'm gonna turn to this. Yeah. Yeah, like this. Okay. Perfect. Now we have done the most complicated ones, so I'm just gonna do this ones that fall here. But first, I'm gonna do this one that's an outlier, so there you go. There. And now, just do the rest, like easy. No faults, nothing. Perfect. Okay. Now, maybe let's start with this one here. Something Nike as before. There you go. Now let's fold this one. This one's up as well. Same technique down like this. Well, actually, let me maybe use a different angle here. So yeah, better. Then here, same. Sorry for that. Let's do it again. Since it's behind it, it's a little bit confusing right now. There. Perfect. Now, this one, like, super easy. Let's fold this one up. And then the last two. There. Mm hmm. Perfect. What do you think? Oh, I forgot the ones. Okay. Sorry. Let's do it. I forgot the ones because they're really easy to do. It's just they're not super visible. They are a bit more together because they're falling from here. So there is more of them, but you cannot see them much. So there. Do. So we are now officially done with the pumps. And we've done something that It's quite funny because I had assisted on from here. So I've duplicated the pumps here and there as well. So forget about that. We'll just pretend that it didn't happen. We still have the guides here, so it's good. So let's move on now on to making a floral arrangement without thinking. And I want to show you a really cool technique that I've learned from someone. Let's do this. 7. Loosening Up: The Moebius Sketching Technique: So now comes the fun part because we're going to get to relax a little bit. I learned a technique from Tim Gul who learned it from Mobius, and this method helps you let go of logical thinking. Allow your hand to move freely, creating organic and natural compositions. Let's do it. Okay, so now it's time for a little art meditation. I'm going to turn off the layers, and I'm going to create a new one. Now, the exercise here would be to just let your brain calm down. We have no intentions here. We just want to draw lines that flow with each other. And I don't know what's going to happen. I didn't I didn't sketch this before, but it's going to help us come up with a nice composition for a floral arrangement before we jump onto the main exercise for today, which is going to be the floral letter. So I'm going to get a pencil. Let's try with a peppermint. I didn't use this for a long time. Yeah, that will work. So, this technique that I've learned from Tim Gul who said that learned it from Mobius is just about letting your mind go and see where it takes you. The thing is that if you want to create a floral arrangement, you have to be precise where you want to put the flowers, right? Let's do one where I'm actually actively thinking about it. So we could do something like this, and then you'll see. Then I know that there's going to be a flower up here, for example, maybe one somewhere here, right? And then I know that there's going to be obviously, like leaves here and here, and then maybe something like somewhere around here, right? So I know I'm making a calculated thought of, like, where these things will be at. But if we start going without thinking much, just creating lines, then somethings can happen here. So let's get into it. I'll leave you with a little bit of music, and I'm going to try to just relax and see what happens. Okay, so here it is. I have no idea what I've just created, but for sure, I know that it was a nice 15 minutes. Now, from this random thing that you've just drawn, we're going to understand, maybe, like, if there is any shapes that can help us in order to construct a floral arrangement. 8. Designing Your Floral Arrangement: Using the while lines we just created, we will start refining a cohesive floral arrangement by introducing all the elements that we've learned before. Okay, so I'm just bringing down the opacity of this weird thing that I did, and I'm going to create a new layer. Now, I'll draw a circle because I feel like there's a lot of circles here in this crazy sketch. So I think if I maybe put it somewhere around here, let me move it a bit. It's going to serve me as a nice element for my arrangement. I'm going to use it as a kind of like a secondary background. You're going to see. Mm. Okay. Now here, the good thing is that we have a lot of lines and we can analyze where the flow of our arrangement could be. So I'm thinking like, there's this middle line here that I really like. So I think I will just use this line, for example, this one right here. Yeah, that's gonna look good. And I think I might even bring it until here. Let's see what happens. And that's gonna be my main flower. Yeah, good enough. Then I'm going to use this circle as an excuse. To make the flower. There you go. Now, here I'm just doing I'm just positioning the flowers because since we already draw them, we can go ahead and copy paste them so we don't have to, like, do everything from scratch and we can have a functional sketch in no time. So let me just do the center here. And that's going to be one of the flowers that I showed you how to do before. And since I have this one here, I'm thinking. So now I'm going to use this line right here and I'm going to bring it, so it kind of naturally follows from the main line. And now here, maybe I can use. You see, there is this circle here, and then there's this. So maybe I could use that as a shape. Why not? So maybe we could place it, like, something like this. What do you think? Now, we could do another flower here. Yeah. Perfect. Okay. Now, I kind of, like, drew a flower here and I swear that I didn't intend for this to be a flower. It was just a bunch of circles. But it looks like a flower that has a center here, and it's looking that way, right? It's a bit off from our composition now, but maybe if I if I drew it, let's see what happens. Say we could do something like this. I'm not doing the structure of this one because I did it by mistake, even. So that's one of those happy accidents, I guess. See? There. And then maybe this circle here could be something like this, and maybe this one is a little bit too big. So I could just make it a bit smaller and do something like this. What do you think? Now from here, have to think of a way that this could actually match. So flour comes from here. Actually, I kind of have a line here that I could use. So maybe I'm going to use this line right here, this. And then maybe there's one here that I like, so maybe I could do something like this. So it's kind of, like, parallel with this one. So maybe something like this. And then, yeah. Okay, not bad. Not bad, not bad, not bad. Okay. Nice. I could finish this one like here. Okay. Now, this one could finish there. And then I'm thinking about using this circle in a way that it's kind of like a window, right? So there's some things that are hidden inside of the window, and then some of the things that are outside. So these ones are going to be mainly the ones that are going to be outside. And then I'm thinking that maybe right here. And again, now I'm just, like, going away from some of the lines here. But maybe I could do a big flower somewhere around here. H Hmm. That could look interesting, I guess. Could do one that has the center somewhere around here. So maybe even if I was to do you remember that one with it that had a center, and then it had, like, this composition of these petals that were behind. You remember that one that was like this? And then, like, something like this. And then this could be the flower. Something like this. Okay. Now let me think what else can I do here? I could add maybe a little palm here, so following this line right here. And then I could draw the structure Then maybe, like, some of them could be on top of this flower and some of them could just be behind. Hmm. Okay, pretty good. I think I don't know it's gonna happen later, but I think I've got something here. Okay. Now, maybe there could be another one using this shape here. So maybe there could be. So, like, if let's make this thicker, right? So maybe there could be some maybe big leaf here. Let's it could be like this leaf. That cuts inside. And then, obviously, we will make everything thicker so the branches are good and a little bit realistic. And then maybe we could draw one here that's still about to bloom. And now we have the big elements here. We could either start. Well, actually, I need another palm because it kind of feels like I need to balance this out. We have three flowers, well, four flowers. I'm going to do tiny leaves after. So they are somewhat in the middle. And I think that's gonna be it. I'm not gonna add much more. So maybe there could be another palm tree somewhere down here. Let's see if I can find maybe, like, a shape that I could use. So there is this little thing here. Maybe we could add a circular palm tree or maybe just, like, one randomly here in the middle. What do you think? Maybe? And we can do some kind of a shape here. Yeah. Sure. We could do something like this. And now there's a little one that is up there. And maybe we could make here sunflower. We could just copy paste the one that we did before. So it would be the one that had a perspective that you remember that it had the center here. And then it had like this one right here. H. I think this could look interesting. And then finally, let's do some leaves. Now, this one, maybe. I can make it as well. Longer. Actually, like this one, I'm going to make it outside. And I'll do that one that falls, you remember? This one should be, but yeah. There. And now this would look something like this. Can rotate it and put it somewhere. Here, maybe a little bit smaller there. Somewhat in the center. And now that I have this, I'm going to bring this down and do a cleaner sketch. So now let's go search some of the things that we wanted to put. We could draw from scratch, obviously, that would be a good exercise. But again, not a lot of time. So we could maybe put this pum, for example. So we're gonna select this And maybe even this one. What do you think? I really like this too. So that's duplicated. Sorry, I didn't select the layer. Let's go here. Three fingers down the screen, duplicate it. And then just gonna make them bigger and start placing them. I think I'm going to place this one here. Fits perfectly. And then this one. Here. Good. Perfect. Okay, now I'm gonna go get the let's see some of these flowers. So I could get this one. And then which ones where you put? I think I'm going to put this two. So there's gonna be the two here, then this one right there. And then I wanted to put this one, but I think I'm going to go with this one. And obviously, this one. So three fingers on the screen. Duplicate. And let's start placing these ones. This big one will go here. Perfect. Now, this one will be here. Then this one will be here. This one here. And here's a little technique. If you see that it doesn't quite match, it could go to warp and just warp it around a little bit, just a little bit. Until more or less you think it could adapt. And now, finally, we're going to get this one and bring it up here. Perfect. So now we've got this. We got the palms. Now, we're just going to make sure that So I'm gonna erase some of these parts here just so they actually look like one on top of the other. Maybe the other parts of the palm. Can just hide like this. So the sunflower is on top. There. And then maybe this one can be on top as well. Great. Okay. Now I'll pinch these two together. I'm going to create a final circle and erase those parts that I don't like. Well, the ones that I've decided that going in that are going inside, right? So there. Now let's go to this layer and erase, for example, this part here, Then this one goes on top. This one This that's it. And now in the same layer, I'm just going to finish my lines. And that would be the final sketch that I could render, even though we won't get into it today. But you could use any technique that you want, watercolor, dry media. Or the technique the techniques that I'm going to show you later on when we do our final letter with everything that we have learned today. Actually, this, yeah. I'm gonna bring this line on top of everything there. Let's make this rounded like this. And I'm actually going to select this with a free hand selection tool. And then with the word, I'm going to make sure that is following a perfect circle. Way better. And now I almost forgot this flower. So I'm gonna turn everything off, and I'm gonna go and do this flower a little bit better. And I'm almost done here. Yeah. Actually, there should be a bit there as well. Mm hmm. Yeah, maybe some Yep, way better. And now let's draw this line. It's gonna bring everything just so I see what I'm doing. Then I got an idea here for the pum. We can actually put this half behind, half in front. What do you think? So So I could start erasing, so, for example, this part here. And then all this can go behind. And actually, maybe just a couple more of them, and then go to the palm and erase this one. Let me see, gives us this nice effect that some things are behind and some things are in front. And now I'll do the same here. We can erase maybe this one. Then this one that is kind of boring. We can leave the folded ones, which are the most interesting ones there. And now go here and clean this up. Great. Now let's go finish. This. I'm gonna actually finish the plan right here. Pinch the two together, and now let's just finish our job here on a new layer I'm gonna make. M then we are done with our floral arrangement. So let me just make sure that some of these things are properly layered. So, for example, this could actually, you know, what I can erase here the leaf, so it goes behind. And then this goes like this. Then some of these things as well. Some of them can just Go. And then some of them are gonna be on top. So let's finish cleaning this up. And now the circle part as well. So some of it goes behind. And we are done with our floral arrangement. 9. Share Your Results (Midway): Now that you've created your own floral arrangement, it's the perfect time to just take a breather and share your progress. You've already done something amazing, designing a custom layout using natural elements, you studied and sketched yourself. And to be honest, that's huge. So before we move on into adding everything that we've learned into our letter, post your floral arrangement in the project gallery because I would love to see where you're at. And in this way, I can leave you some feedback and maybe cheer you on. Plus, I believe that sharing it midway helps you stay motivated and kind of makes it easier to track your growth when you see the final piece come together. So let's celebrate this step. Can't wait to see what you've got so far. 10. Coloring with Nature’s Palette: About to sketch, refine the details, and also making the composition pop. Then we will pull color palettes straight from nature. I have an awesome photo that I can't wait to show you. Well, you actually probably seen it because it's also under Project Resources. But we will sample each color together, so you see how I create a color palette. Okay, so now we will start doing our color palette. I'm giving you a sunset photo that I took last week, which I was really impressed by the colors, and I automatically thought about doing this exercise with it because there's a lot of good colors, but you can also use your own photo or whatever you have. Like, I'm going to show you my techniques to get the colors from an image, and you can pretty much do it from any image. So you'll have to go here to the wrench tool and then d and then insert the photo and import yours. I already have it here. But before that, I'm just going to hide everything else. I'm not going to well, I deleted the sketches that I didn't that I didn't need anymore, but I'm leaving this here just in case and also all of the other flowers and plants and palms that we've done before because we're going to use them as well now like we did with the floral arrangement. Okay, so now let's see what we can do here. I already created this color palette, so it's going to look like this one more or less. So yeah, so go here to this color here and then go to palettes. And then we'll tap on the plate sign, create new palette. You can also new from the camera or you can also just like, drop this photo inside, and it will create a palette automatically, but I never do that because the colors are just like they're gonna be all random and you won't be able to use them. I mean, you will be able to use them, but the way that I kind of save the colors is a better way to understand how tones kind of, like, work. I hope that made sense. But anyway, I'm just going to create a new palette. And then this you can rename into, like, sunset um, whatever, sunset, floral letter, for example. And then I will start with the color that I love the most, which is this pink from this. I think that's an almond tree. I think I'm not sure. But, um, it's really pretty because it's the first one that I see flourish this year. So I'm going to go here, tap here, and then I'm going to sample the pink. I'm going to start with a pink that its value is somehow in the middle. So I'll get something like this. And then I'm going to be edding it here on the third little square. Okay, now you might be wondering why? Well, I always go with the mid tones, the tones that are going to be more present in my illustration. And then from there, I kind of go. So I'm going to now select the other color that is really strong and which is the sun. And I think I'm going to get a nice yellow, and I might change the value a little bit because I think this is too saturated. So I'll go ahead and get a yellow somewhere here. Well, actually, instead of getting this one, I think this one is way too strong, I'm going to go somewhere around here. Good. So I have my color here. Now, I might sometimes I just go here and I kind of, like, get something similar that I like better, maybe, like, a little bit more orange. And then you tap here for, like, a second or two and then set current color. And you will get this one. Okay, perfect. Now I'm going to have to find darker values for both and also lighter. So I'm going to go to the pink first and I'm going to try to see here if I can find something that is darker or like the next step, I would say. You see, like, somewhere around here, I kind of like what I'm seeing. Wait, I'm just going to select another brush because the hover is kind of messing with me. Okay, cool. So let's get from this petal here, maybe, like, a darker pink, something like this, maybe. Let's do it again. I like this. So, put it in here. Perfect. Now I'm going to get something darker. So I'll get probably something like this and place it here. And now something lighter. So let's see if there is one of these petals that is kind of like touching more the light. Maybe somewhere here, there is, like, this nice you see, this nice tone, so I'll put it here. And maybe you can even make it a little bit whiter. And, again, set current color. You see, now we have these four pinks that will be really fun to play with. Now, let's go for the yellows. So for the yellows, I'm thinking about something darker, obviously. So I'll get maybe something around here. Let's see. Yeah, maybe a little bit darker even. Mm hmm. And now something even darker. But that's, you know, I'm gonna also get oranges after. But probably I'm not gonna go for a darker yellow that is more to the orange, but instead, it just you see, when you go straight here, you just lose saturation. So well, actually, to the left, you lose saturation, and here you just make it darker. So go select this yellow, and I'll give like some value somewhere around here. Good. Perfect. Okay, so now that we have this, I'm going to go for the orange ones. And again, I'll do, like, maybe like three or four oranges and also reds. So let's get now a very let's say an orange that is clear. Let's say this one. And I'm gonna place it somewhere. I'm actually going to place it. Here. Now, let's find something a little bit darker and more saturated. Something around here will work. Yep. And now something even darker than this. And probably that even goes to the red. You see? We have some red color here. So maybe I could sample something in between this. This is maybe too dark. You know what? Let me save this one right here and then find something in between. And I can do that just by going to the wheel and kind of doing it myself. Yep. Okay, I like what I'm saying here. Okay, now let's go from pink to blue. And to do that, gonna go to the sky, obviously. And I will try to find you know what? Like, I'm just going to sample the sky, just like this part up here, and I'm gonna place it here. Now I'm going to try to find something a little bit lighter, so I can do it in the wheel directly and place it here. And now maybe a tone that is just a little bit darker. So you can go up here maybe as it goes up, it kind of gets darker. Let's do it again. And even make it a bit darker yourself, maybe something like this. Yeah, okay, that will work. Now, I want to get maybe I see some other colors here. So, if we zoom in, there's some greens, I don't want to put greens in today's illustration, though. So I'm going to go maybe you see here, there's some kind of a purple color here that I think it's going to be a good transition. And probably probably even we could use it for the leaves instead of making them green, we could probably do them purple and blue. I really like what's happening here, but it's a little bit desaturated, so probably let me get this color, for example. And then I'll save this as a dark purple here, and then I'm going to just move the wheel slightly here and try to find a nice purple that is saturated, but not that much somewhere around here. And let's place it in here. And now, just trying to find, like, a dark purple value, something around here and put it there. And just with this, we are done with our color palette. So in the next lesson, we are going to start creating our letter with these two brush structures right here. So I'll see you in just a second. 11. Inking Your Design: Making It Pop: To apply everything we've learned. Today, I'm also giving you a letter stamp that will help us with the structure for our final letter. You will see that is available as a procreate brush, stamp it, and that's it. And also a PNG just in case you're using another app or for non digital artists. Remember that you can also find these under project resources. Okay, so now we've got our color palette, and we are going to start with our letter. So, create a new layer. The color doesn't matter. At the moment, something dark. I have a purple, so it's good. And now I'm going to go ahead and stamp these two things here. So this is going to be our base. So I'm going to get the maximum size, the fourth. It's really important that both of them are on the same size, so they align perfectly. So I'm just going to stamp it, okay, not the last one. So let's see what happens with the third one, even the second one. Okay, we will do one thing. We will get the third one, and we're gonna rotate this, and we're going to stamp it. Makes sense? Now, I am actually gonna paint this in pink and create a new layer. And I'm going to get, let's say, a blue color, maybe like something. Maybe this one and go to the branches. Now remember that we picked the third, and then we are going to just stamp it. Just for you to see it, I'll probably get a purple so you see it better. So just like around somewhere here, but always on a new layer. Okay? Now, go to the transform to, and we are going to transform this so it aligns perfectly. In order to do that, you can use this curve here, for example. Until you see it aligns perfectly to the curve. You can always turn off the snapping, so it's better. But I think I've done a pretty good job. See? Now it's perfect. Now, if you were to bring down the opacity, you see that it's quite there. I made these stems just so we can accelerate the process a little bit because otherwise it would take us hours to do this letter. Now, I'm going to select both of them. I'm going to rotate this, go to the Transform tool, and rotate 45 degrees twice. And now with the uniform selected, I'm just going to make this smaller. So I would say around somewhere here, and then this will be around here. Perfect now. Turn the snapping on, and let's center it until we see a yellow line across our vertical axis. Let's see if we can find it now. Sometimes it's so hard to find this line. There you go. Okay. I'm just going to you know that if you tap outside the boxes, you're actually moving the image, but like one pixel at a time, so that's always good. And I'm done here. Okay. Now, I'm thinking maybe I can move it a little bit to the left after all that struggle that I got with the yellow line. But since this part is heavier, then maybe by moving it to the left, it's gonna look a little bit more centered. What do you think? I think that's good enough. Maybe just a little bit more even. Yeah. I like this. Perfect. Now, go ahead and bring the opacity down of our letter. We won't use it, but we will need it to draw everything else. And now let's create a new layer on top of everything else. Get a pencil, and let's get sketching. These are pretty much like all the structures you will need, but now I'm going to start sketching some leaves. Some of the leaves that I'm going to sketch now you have done before, most of them. But some of them obviously will not adapt perfectly. So I'm going to draw them again. Now, so if we start, let's say, let's start here on the left. I decided that this will be a whole huge leaf. So it's going to be let me get the other pencil that I had the eight B better. Yeah. So it's gonna come from here there. So you see this is gonna be a leaf that is gonna fold and go here. So let's do this. And then this goes down here. Nice. Now, let's more or less finish this shape of the leaf. Now here, you'll see that it bends here, right, as we were doing before. Remember that we have drawn all of this before. And now this one will bend and go there. For this, I'm just going to make a little shape from here that goes like this, touches the G, and then falls down a little. But you see what I'm saying, right? Perfect. And now this comes like this. Until touching this part right here. Perfect. And now, same old story here. There. Let me redo it a little bit. Actually, let me step back. I want to do this a little bit better. Yeah, maybe like this. And now let's finish it up. But now we've got this massive leaf. And I'll do first the leaves, and then I'm going to copy some of the flowers that we sketched before. So we don't have to sketch them all over again. Now, there's going to be a leaf as well here because this G kind of always has this little part up there. So I thought maybe we could put a bending leaf or anything. So we're going to start somewhere around here. See, then we're going to go up and just follow the shape. There. And then we're going to make it bend. So it touches this line here. Just like this, and then it goes down. Like this. It starts looking like a leaf, right? Perfect. Now, we'll do like this little shape here like this. And then we will finish it up. Just like that. Perfect. And now, obviously, this line. Right there. Nice. Now, since this goes inside, maybe I could create some kind of a hole here so I could do something like this. There. Okay, good. Now, we will go down and create the leaves down here. So I'll create this one first. This one is one that I showed you. So the last leaf that we made. And this one will simply go from here till there like this. And then do this little shape here. Maybe. Let me redo it again. I'm actually not satisfied with this shape. So let's do it again. Okay. Better. Yeah. Better. Okay. And now there is the part from behind that goes around here. And this one goes behind. So even in the sketch, you can add a bit of a bit of shadow here. So you know that it's behind. And now, remember that the veins will go just like this. And there's also, this little shape here that I still don't like, so I'm going to go to the selection free hand, select this line here, and then warp. And then here, I can finish the retouch. Okay, now. Perfect. Let's go to the next leaf, and it's gonna be an interesting one here. We will use this branch. To make the lift. So I'm going to start here in this intersection here. And then I will go like this. I'm going to just go out of the G a little. Like this. Let me redo this a bit. So the flow is a little bit more natural. Great. And now, it's going up here. And I'll do a little fold right there like this. And so it meets around here. There. Okay. Perfect. And now this, you see, we will use it to make the perfect fold. Adapting flowers to letters and make them readable is a little bit complicated sometimes. But I've prepared this G for a while. And you can do that, too, because by the end of the day, if you do a letter that has kind of, like, more nature inspired natural shapes, then adapting it with leaves is going to be easier than than expected sometimes. Great. Okay, now we start seeing something here. Perfect. Now, let's go to this leaf. Nothing much to it. Just mark it because we already have it, right? So there. And there. Done here. And now let's make the last leaf. And we're gonna start copying the flowers. So I will do it right here. So this is gonna be the fold, and then the leaf is gonna start from here. So there's gonna be this branch here, spied pidio was it? I don't remember the name now. So it will go like this. Go up. Mm hmm. There. And now here we are gonna break it and do our fold. Man, let's finish it up. Something like this. What do you think? Remember that the cleaner your sketches, the better your piece will be later on. Now here I'm also going to do a leaf. That just goes, like like this. So it's the perfect excuse. So this branch goes behind. Perfect. Okay, now, let's go dig some flowers. Again, I think I'm going to pick my favorites like we did before. So I'll go to the flowers, and I'll pick these two. So just like we did before, select them three fingers on the screen, duplicate. But first, select the layer, of course. Well, actually, let me select also this part here. So I'll select this one and this two. And I think from here, that's gonna be it. So three fingers down, duplicate. Let's bring it up. And then we could paint this in another color, for example. So we see what is happening, right? So let's now bring back these layers. And we're going to fill the other blanks here. So, for example, we need to add a flower here, for example. I'm going to add one here, even though we don't need it because we already have the leaf. But I thought this could be one of the flowers. I think that's going to look pretty good. So let's get the pink. I'm going to move this here and I'm going to place the first flower. So I think I'll do this one. And I'm gonna rotate it and turn off the snapping so I can rotate it better not try to adapt it somewhere here. Even like this? Well, actually, no, let's put it like this. And let's bring it somewhere around here, I would say, what do you think? And now with the word, an advanced mesh, you can just go ahead and try to adapt it a little bit better to the letter. Doesn't have to be exact, but just a little bit. What do you think? There you go. I'm always asking, what do you think? And I know that you will not reply instantly, but I feel like I love talking, and sometimes I would I would like some live feedback as well. So I should do a live session soon. Okay. There you go. Okay, now I'm going to just erase this part here, and what do you think? It adapts pretty good. Perfect. Now, let's get this one. And we will rotate it flip it horizontally, and put it right here. There. Nice. Okay. So now that we have this one, I'm going to get the last flour, and I'll put it somewhere around here. And this one, I think I'm just gonna go beyond my G. Just like this, that will work. Eriase oh and we are pretty good here. Now, I forgot that I'm going to use yet another flower. So I think I will get this one right here. And again, like before, select three fingers on screen, duplicate, bring this color in. Let's bring it up. Turn everything on and then. Let's place one here because I think these flowers are going to be pink, and this one, well, all the flowers are gonna be pink, and I want to balance out the colors. So I think I'm going to put this one here. Yeah, actually, I had it ready before already. Perfect. Now let's try to maybe adapt it better. So again, go to Warp Advanced mesh, and just gonna bring some part here there. And even if this goes out, that's fine. Nice. And now I will actually maybe even get another one of this. Somewhere there. Yeah. Perfect. Pinch them together and get a pencil now. And I'm gonna now cover some of the spaces. So there is one here, for example, that you see that will go that way. So I'm gonna create some petals like flying around, maybe. Maybe here. There. Yeah. Maybe a couple here, like simpler like this. And also, I'm gonna go up there. Let me do one here that is quite big. Like this. Just select it and move it a bit. Perfect. And now, maybe with a purple, just to know that this is a leaf. I'm gonna add a leaf here. And maybe one right here. And I'm done with the sketch. Okay, now, before I go ahead and start rendering, what I like doing always is to add some color just to see what's gonna happen, right? So we don't have to paint later on kind of blindly. Now, I'm going to turn off the letter G, make sure that it's still readable. Obviously, obviously, it's not gonna be as readable as a Helvetica. It's not going to be readable as the original G. Okay, so now we'll start adding some color. I like doing that because before you render the piece, it's always nice to see what's about to happen to your piece, right? So I'm going to turn off this letter G, make sure that it's still readable. Obviously, this is not going to be super super readable. It's also not most of the intent of this piece, right? But I can still read a G now even with the line. And I think when we add the colors, we will definitely read it. So now that I have this, I'm going to create a new layer underneath my lines somewhere around here. And I'm just going to start painting it a little bit that much, just like just to understand what's going to happen, right? So I will get from the brushes that I gave you, I think I'll get, like, the soft shadow. And then I will start painting. So I'm going to start with the flowers right here. I'm actually gonna put this layer underneath the flowers, so we kind of cover the purple. And I'm just going to start painting a little bit with this pink, actually. Like if we were children, we don't have to make sure that the piece is perfect at all. Remember this is just for the feeling that it's gonna give us. Yeah, that looks pretty good. Now, I always do these colors in separate layers, kind of the same as I do when I render my whole piece, because then it's easy to change them through adjustments, give saturation, and brightness. You can go change the color that you don't like, and you don't have to change your whole artwork, but rather just one color. So Perfect. Now let's go paint this one here. There you go. And these loose petals as well. Okay. Perfect. Now, I think the plant will be well, the leaves is gonna be a mix between a nice blue and a nice purple. So I'll create a new layer underneath that. So it'll be here, actually. And I'm going to start with the blue. So I'm going to start maybe with this clear blue and paint these sides, the ones, the folds that are on top. So this one then this one. Yeah. Actually, underneath the lines, should be here. Yeah, then this one here. Now, today, I'll show you one of my techniques to paint this. But if you've seen any other of my classes or obviously any other classes online, or if you have any other brushes like dry media, watercolor, you can also use that technique. Well, it's pretty obvious, but I just wanted to I just wanted to tell you that even though I'm gonna be using one specific technique, you can use whatever technique you want. You also make it you can also make it flat. You can also put it into vectors if you would like. And then this one here. Okay. Now, well, this and maybe even the leaves could with this color. Yeah, that will do. And now, with this other blue, I meant this one. In the same layer. It's the same tone. So if I want to change it later, I also want to change both blues at the same time, right? I'm gonna show you what I mean right now. But spent this one. And now on a layer on top, I'm going to select this purple. I'm going to make it a clipping mask. And I'm going to go down to the color mode. Why? Well, because I want to add some purple tone in my blue. Yeah, something like this. And that's pretty much it. I could do maybe maybe a new layer. And then with this yellow, maybe we could paint some, like, nice details. The yellow is always a super good contrasted color to add some fine details here and there. So maybe even this one could have something coming out of it. Right? So, and now maybe with some orange, we could also give just like a little tint here on the plants just a bit here. Lately, I'm obsessed with the combo of, like, pink and orange. So maybe we could make this happen in this plant as well, in these flowers. There. And we are done. Now, I would do the floor as well, so I could make a new layer and then go to the selection tool, the rectangle and do a rectangle somewhere around here. And then for the floor, we could paint it into this pink. And then with the soft shadow brush, maybe we could give it a little bit of a lighter tone here. Remember, we will be doing this after, so you don't have to be super precise. But this was always good for me to give me extra motivation because I kind of know how this thing is gonna look like in the end. And then we will figure out the background later on. Perfect. Now, you could go ahead and select all of it, make it a group, duplicate the group, tap on the group, and now flatten it. Now, I always like keeping my images here as a reference, and then I'm going to turn off my colors here. So now I'm actually going to erase all my sketch since this is the only thing that I need a little thumbnail. So I'm just going to reveal what I like what I like to use after. So the sketch, obviously, and then this line. So I'm just going to select those, bring them up, erase the group. Now I'm going to pinch this sketch together, bring the past it down just like this, and now create underneath my lines there. And this is going to be for my first part of the letter, which is going to be this leaf up. So I'll do this one. Here, you can select the clean lines. I've just included it in your brushes as well. And let's get to it. You will just have to go through your lines here. Can always put it as an eraser. As well. And then with this technique where actually, let me just touch one little thing here that now the size is good. I'm just gonna maybe remove this taper better. So The technique that I always use is to do compound lines, right? So you do this one, you stop, make it better with the shape edit, and then finish it up. It will always give you better lines. So as we did with the color, let's do this part from all the plant. Perfect. Now, let's go and create a new layer for our second blue, which is gonna be the folds of our leaves. Let's do it. Actually, I think this blue is too dark. So I'll just sample this one right here and I'll just find a darker shade. Yeah, this one works. So I'll just place it somewhere here. Now, when you find these things, for example, now, if we were to paint, it would go behind, right? So I'm just going to turn off this for a second, and I'm going to show you how I do it. So let's do the shape. Now, we don't have to care about how it finishes here because remember that we have this in the other color. Let's reveal it. And now we could do it in different ways. We could add masks, for example, but I'm just going to erase that little part. You could do it also manually. But what I will do is to tap on this layer. So the dark one, tap, select, and now go to the original one to this one right here. And with the eraser, I'm just going to erase this part. Done. Okay. Now, let's go back to my darker layer, and let's continue. Did we just forget? Yeah, I forgot this part before, so I'm just gonna paint it right now. This will go behind, so I will just erase it manually, since it's a small part there. Okay, and let's do the dark. Put this one here. And finally, this one. Perfect. Okay, now let's go to the pink. We will create a new layer on top of everything else, but not the sketch. So on top of these lines, right here, and let's go with this third pink that we've created before. And now here, we're going to do it in different layers. Every flower is going to be in different layers. So the first layers that we're going to do are the ones that are in front of us. So these ones. You see? And then in another layer, we will do this. So we have separated layers, and it's easier for us to paint later. That's it. That will do for il. Let's do this one's. Also, the petals. Everything that we can get painted now will be better for after. See, they're all separated. Now, this petal, we're just going to do this upper part. We could even paint this one. Actually, let's just do one half. So let's just do this. Yeah. So same here? Than this part here. This Then down here, we could do this main one. And that will do for now. Okay, now, I'll do another layer just underneath this one. And with actually, let's do this. This one that we just had now, let's paint it with this lighter pink. Yes. And now in the underneath layer, I'm going to use that original pink. And I'm going to start painting things that are right behind this, but still on the foreground. So I'm going to leave all this part for layer. Let's do it. Okay. Even some of them that are kind of behind. But since they're not touching our main shape, I'm also gonna do it. Otherwise, we will immediately run out of layers. So, kind of, like, everything that is not touching this red, this pink, sorry. Hmm. Okay. That will be for now for that flower. Look, actually, I could even do this one here. And then from here, I could do maybe like this one. And this part here. There. And obviously, this one. And you know what? I could even do this part here. Yeah. Okay. Let's do another one underneath this one with this pink. You see that now I can do bigger areas. Look, even this one, though it goes behind, again, let's try to save as many layers and still make it easy for us. Yeah, I could do it like this. Actually, this one is kind of, I can do it in this layer, this part. There. And even this one, actually. As you start filling up the gaps, you will see that you will think, Oh, I could use this there or that there. Like, for example, this, as well, I could just even though it goes behind, but I could place it here. And then, even this. Nice. And these pins are just a reference for us to know that they are different layers, but then after we will make them all the same. And again, this is an approximate job. You don't have to do it perfectly, right? For it to look good. Here. You see, I can actually use this color. And if you don't want to here's another little technique. If you don't want to touch this and that and you want to paint just Okay, so let me explain it over. So we are on this layer right now, yeah? And this goes behind, but since I want to save layers, I cannot I could just, like, draw like this like I've been doing. But if you don't want to touch this layer, you could always go to This one, tap, select. And now down here you go to Invert. Now, you can draw in any layer, and you won't be stepping on this one, even if it's on top. You see? It's always going to be there. So you could always do that and then paint this like this better. There. Perfect. Let's go down. And this last layer. Hm. Interesting. We have this part right here. I think I'll need another layer. So I'll paint this and this potentially. Well, actually, I can do this as well. There. And even this ones. And one last layer just for this part. But whatever. I'm just gonna use the same color. It's fine. I thought I would do everything in three layers, but well, it's okay. Now, let's see if there is any other element that needs painting. Maybe we can add somewhere something if you want. But I think that is pretty much it. We can create a layer on top of everything else, and with the yellow, we could draw these little things I forgot the name of. There. So far, that's it. And now I'll do another layer. Let's see, on top of this line, maybe? No, actually on top of all the colors. So on top of everything but the yellow. And I'm going to start doing these mint ribs here. So I'll do it, and I'll erase it in the parts that I don't want it. And in these parts, I'm just going to make it so it goes out a bit. See? This is gonna look more realistic if you do it like this. Like that. Let's do this. And you can also add more like thinner. Like this. Oops, here, there is a should be a hole here. Better. Let's go back to this made rib. Actually, that's the better. 12. Adding Shadows, Highlights, and Texture: This final episode, we will make our piece stand out. So we will add shadows and highlights for depth, and we will add beautiful natural textures using the brushes that I'm also providing. Okay, so we are done doing the veins, and then before I get started with something else, I'm just going to go in this layer that I've just created. I'm going to duplicate it. And I'm going to bring it to the background. And the reason why is because I'm going to change the mode of this right here, and I still want to keep the ones as a solid vase. So, go to this little N, and now we're going to see which one looks good. Usually, the light ones give a very good effect on these darker lines I didn't want to do something super visible. I think I'll probably keep it like this with hard light. I like what I'm seeing here. Perfect. Now, before Oh, yeah. Now we're going to go to the purple layer. So the one that I've given you today, and I am gonna make sure that this one is following this. Perfect. M Okay. Great. Now let's create the floor. I'm going to erase this image since I don't need it anymore, and now I'm going to go ahead and create a floor. So as I did before, I'm going to go here to the last layer. So in the background, and I'm going to go to the selection tool, rectangle. And now I'm going to add a floor right here. I'm going to drop the pink color and now I might even change the background color before anything else. So I'm going to go to the background color. Gonna tap on it, and now I'm going to put it into a dark purple. So this is one that we took. A black would also look good. I'm just going to go with purple since we have a lot of purples here. So now, this kind of starts looking good, and we could actually live it like this. It's a flat piece, and that's good enough. But I'm obviously gonna add some more effects. And I'm going to be showing you how. So for, I'm going to tap on it and make it an alpha log. Now I'm going to be getting this color. Maybe even a yellow. Let's try with the yellow. And the soft shadow that you have here on the little brush that I've given you today. And just gonna add some lighter tones here and some darker pink down. Awesome. Now I'm going to add a drop shadow of this plant. So we will think that the light comes from this side. So from the upper left. And so it's going to cast a shadow here on the floor. So I will go ahead and create a new layer on top of my background, go to the selection tool, go now to Ellipse. And I'm going to draw an ellipse here. Let's say something about like, something like this will be okay, I think. And maybe with this darker purple, I'm just going to drop a color inside. Okay. Now I'm going to move it slightly to the right. Well, actually, no, I'm going to make that the light comes especially like from up here, not from the left, but from up. So this shadow is kind of a little bit more balanced here. So I'm going to add one right here. Now what I will do is to duplicate it and hide one. And then with this one, I'm going to go to adjustments and then Gaussian blur, and I'm going to add a Gaussian blur just like this. Now I'm going to go to this little N and I'm going to change the mode into something dark like multiply and maybe even bring down the opacity a bit because remember that I had another one. Well, I'm going to also put it into multiply. And this one will be way smaller. So this is just for the immediate thing that actually touches the floor, right? So there's two I always put two shadows. So I'm going to make this also caution blur like this and then just bring it down a bit. Perfect. Even a bit more gaussian blur, I would say. Yeah. Awesome. And now with the eraser and the soft shadow, I'm going to erase just a bit in this side here. There. And just put here. Cool. Now, you know what? I'm even gonna sorry, I'm even gonna create another one. So I'm gonna duplicate this. Bring capacity super down, and just make another Gaussian blur. Perfect. Now, you could even do a little shadow that comes from here, so he could duplicate it again. Maybe bring it here, make it a bigger Gashmblur like this and just leave it somewhere there. Now you can pinch them all together. And maybe the color is a little bit too strong. So I'm going to go to adjustments, hue saturation and brightness. And now here, I'm just going to move the hue until I find something, maybe even the saturation until I find something that blends with this background a little bit better. Yeah, something like this will look good. Okay. Now that we have this, I'm going to start adding some shadows to some of the leaves. So let's go to this leaf. And again, we could be adding effects here until tomorrow, but I'm just going to show you the basics, and then I'll probably even finish this piece after. But I think if I get perfectionist, like I always do, probably it's gonna take me more than 5 hours. So I'm just going to show you the basics, and then you will be able to experiment with it as well. So I'm going to show you now how to paint, for example, this leaf right here, how to make some shadows, how to make some lights. So go to this layer, add a new layer, tap on it, and make it a clipping mask. Now, I'm going to go here and I'm going to select this I think I'll just do a stronger blue. So something like around here, I'm going to edit somewhere here. And then I'm going to go to the soft texture brush, which is one of my favorite brushes that I've offered in Petrin ever since, and I really like it because it's kind of like the soft shadow. But as a shape, it has this nice texture that I've created a few years ago. So it gives you, like, this kind of, like, cloudy texture that I really, really enjoy. Great. So I'm going to now add a little bit of shadow on this part here there. On this side, See? This starts looking like already like something, right? Okay, now I'm gonna add a harsher shadow here since there is this flower on top. Just go to make it like comes from small here. It's kind of like the closest is to the letters the closer the shadow is and the strongest. And then as it goes here, it's kind of generating this. Great. Now, let's make one here as well. There. Now, let's continue with the shadows. Let's do now the general ones. So here, there's gonna be one just like here at the fold here. Then there's gonna be one here. If you see that there is two shapes together, so when I add shadows here, it goes here as well. You can go to the selection and select free hand and just select what you want to shade. There. Perfect. Now we can go here. I wonder what is this line. There is one line here that I don't remember creating. So I'm just gonna try to erase it. There. Okay. Let's go back to our shadows, and let's continue here. Adding shadow here inside, and also on this side, and definitely also coming from the flower. There. Now, gonna add some here as well. Perfect. Now, some here. And that's it for this. I'm gonna go here, just add a bit. Not much. There, pun. Let's go up. Perfect. And now I will go to the selection too, and I'm going to select this part zone. You can see here, I'm going to go and select this part right here. And now I will go with a smaller size brush and add a bit of shadow that touches right here. There. And now with the bigger one to plant it a bit better? And I'll do this on the other leaves as well. You can also do it the other way around. Like first the big one and then go and do the small one. And then here Okay. Okay. Now we will add some light. So in the same layer, I'm going to select this blue color, and I'm just going to add some light. I'll just add it somewhere around here. That will do, actually, just a bit. Yeah, just a little bit. Also here, maybe just a bit. Then here, and that's pretty much it. Now let's go to the second blue. And we will get this blue color and just give a big old brush here, just so it becomes kind of like the blue we had in the in the other layer there. And now let's repeat the process. Darker blue? Shadows in. And remember, so like this. I'm actually gonna give him more shadow here. It's kind of going inside and it didn't look like it. That was too much. Yeah. Okay. Great. Now let's go here. And then here. I like this part. And for the lights, you can also select this white color. So the lights are even a little bit stronger than on the other half. Okay, maybe a bit up here. I actually forgot the shadows here. Okay. And now that we have this, let me add just a bit here. The last thing that we are going to do for the blue parts is to add the same as we added the shadow here, but we're going to do a light. So we will start actually with this part. So we're going to select the opposite. So this part right here, and we are going to add with this blue, the light blue, just a little light here. There. And let's continue doing that. Let's do it on the other side now. And actually, this was pretty badly done. Perfect. Let's do just a bit more. Now, for the flowers, I will do a clipping mask for each. And I'm just actually going to show you with one flower because otherwise, it's gonna be a little bit too much, I think. I already was calculating a little bit less time for the leaves and look at us right now. So for the flowers, if I was to do, let's say, this one, for example, it's pretty much the same as we have done for the leaves. So now I'm going to try to find first. Yeah. So this one right here. And I'm just going to start adding some shadows the same way, the same way. Just like this. Maybe a bit here. You can even go find a darker color. There. Actually, it way too dark, so Nope. Okay. And now you can also balance it out with the pink. You could add a little bit of orange, even right there in the middle. What do you think? Maybe even a lighter pink somewhere. Just look around in nature and see what you find. And then the lights, we can do them right away. So we could add some lights right here in the middle. And that pretty much will be, how am I gonna shade the flowers? Let me do another petal. For example, let me do this one. Let's go to the clipping mask here. And here, let's start adding maybe, like, more pink, right? Then maybe like some shadows here. There. Then maybe some orange. Just a bit right there in the middle. And maybe some extra lights here. And that would be it. So as an exercise, you could finish the flowers, and I'm also going to show you a couple more things right now, so I'm going to finish it later. But for example, when it comes to these purple branches, so I'm going to add also a clipping mask. And then what I'm going to do is to add as well some shadow right here. And here, let's say, And then as it goes down, the shadow gets less strong and it goes to the other side. So here. There. So that's the second exercise that you can practice. Then a little trick here. So you see that this branch is going on top of this leaf, right? And this is not a branch. I totally forgot about it. Again, keep forgetting the names of the plants of the plants parts, so go to this leaf here and add a shadow that actually comes from this branch. So if you add it just a little bit further down, it's going to look like the branch is not touching the plant. O. But it's gonna give you this nice. You see? Like it's flying right on top of it. Cool. And then also one brush that I gave you today as well. I think the last one we news is the rim light. For the rim light, it's really interesting to add some lights to our piece. So you could add, for example, if you go to, to make a layer on top of everything else, you could put it into an overlay mode. And then you could add some lights like that. You could do you could do it in different places. You could do it even here. Or maybe here. Looking at the few. And it's gonna make your whole piece pop better. So maybe here. Right? And keep experimenting and you'll see that this gives you great results. And now we could even do. And you see that every time that I'm telling you like, Yeah, it's done. Well, surprise, surprise. So let's add a new layer underneath my floor. And here I'm just going to add maybe with my soft texture brush. I go to add some yellow. 'Cause remember that this was a sunset kind of thing. So maybe some yellow, maybe some orange. I just want to pay a little bit of tribute to my photograph. So I'm just gonna add a little easy easy easy sunset right here behind. See. So it gives us this nice little effect here. And then maybe you could even add some lighter purple. Here, maybe even some darker shades as well. And when you have everything done. So when you finish all these little details and all the flowers and all that, which now you have the tools for. Now you can go to actions at Copy Canvas, go on top of everything else, and that's something that I always do. Three fingers down the screen and paste. Now, in here, you could always go to color balance, and you could check if you tap here, you could check your shadows, your midtones, and your highlights. That could give you, for example, if we go to shadows, that could give you a better control over your color palette, so we could maybe, like, make it more bluish. Maybe the mid tones could also change, see? And even your highlights, maybe there is, like, some of the highlights that you would like to maybe make more pink, for example. So you see the difference? You could always make it pop like that. And then finally, since you have this layer, you could go to adjustments. And now here you can add a couple of things that I always add, which is the chromatic aberration. If you do this, it's just going to give you this nice effect, like the aberration of, like, kind of, like an old camera. And then if you add some grain, which is the noise one, it's just going to give you a little bit more of a better, kind of, like, it all comes together a little bit better. So that would be it for today's piece. Don't forget to do the shadows and the lights, and you'll be done. Thank you so much. So here's the final piece with all the shadows. You can see that I've also added in the end this grainy effect together with what I showed you, well, let me find it the chromatic aberration. So if we turn this layer off, you can see all the tiny details that I've included that are pretty much what I showed you before in one of the flowers and in one of the leaves. I've also included a couple bigger flowers here. You would do that by just, like, copying the G and then bring it to the sides and then go to adjustments and add a little bit of caution blur. And that would be pretty much it. I thought I would show you before we finish. 13. Thank You and Next Steps!: Okay, so we are done. Here's what we covered in this class. How to break down leaves, flowers, and pumps into simple shapes. The mobius inspired technique to loosen up your creative process, how to design a floa letter step by step, and adding color, shadows, lights, and texture for a polished final look. Can't wait to see what you create. Make sure to share your project with the class. Now, if you want to dive deeper into floral lettering and you like retro inspired designs, you should not miss my Arnivo Skillshare class where we explore floral ornamentation in a completely different style. Thanks for joining, and I'll see you in the next class. Bye.