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1. Welcome to Class!: Hello Skillshare. Lets illustrate a scene. Illustrated scenes are
a great addition to your collections [MUSIC] in your surface design portfolio. It's a great way of adding a little more personal narrative or cozy vibe to your work. Plus they're really
versatile too. It's not all about just cozy
Christmas card design scenes or other seasonal themes, you can stretch this illustrated scene theme beyond that to everyday scenes such as a beautiful green
house or floral shop, or a bakery, or a beach scene. These illustrated
scenes can be used for more than just Wallach too. They can be used as
greeting card designs. They can be used on different
products for your home, such as pillows or a mug, or maybe even some
rug or blanket. In this class, I
will be covering everything you need
to know to illustrate scenes from where to get inspiration and
what scenes you can create to my full process of bringing an illustration
to life and procreate. I'll share how I
gather inspiration, sketch out my design, and then build out
my illustration with flat color in the
final last details. Hello everyone. I'm
Christina Hudcans, an illustrator and surface designer from Mariefred, Sweden. I have been a full-time
illustrator since 2010, when I was a freelance
illustrator. When I started working
more with surface design, I have always brought my illustration
skills to that and I love adding illustrations to my surface design collections. Because surface design isn't
just about pattern-making. It's great to include illustrations in your
collections as well. Illustrations or
placement images are great to add alongside your patterns because
they can be the cover of a gift bag or a gift box or
a different home product, and they can mix and
match with patterns and that makes your collections
really versatile. They can work with so many
different industries. I'm really excited to share
everything that I know about illustrating the scenes with you for your surface
design portfolio. Let's just get into it.
2. Supplies and Class Project: [MUSIC] To follow along with me in the class
exactly as I am doing, you should be using the
iPad with Apple Pencil, and using the program procreate. But you can, of course, use a different tablet and program that you are
more comfortable with. I'm sure that you can
follow along with the class just as well. I will make sure
to share links to all the brush packs
that I'll be using in the description
of this class, if you are curious about what I am using and drawing with. I even have a full get to know your digital
brushes class here on Skillshare that I love for you to check out if
you really want to nerd out with me about
digital brushes. For the class project, you will be creating an
Illustrated scene of your own. Feel free to use my illustration as a
inspiration for your project but please don't fully copy my illustration as
it is my unique work. You should always be
creating your own work, and gathering your
own inspiration, and using your own unique
ideas to create your artwork. If you do want to
mimic my artwork for educational purposes
make sure that you're crediting me as
the original artist, and you're not selling
this artwork later on, this goes for any illustration that you create
here on Skillshare following along with any other
teacher on the platform.
3. Intro to Illustrated Scenes: [MUSIC] Now it is time to learn all about the
illustrated scene. In this section, I
want to tell you about the differences between surface
design and illustration, and then I'm going to
be sharing with you tons of inspiration for the themes that you can work with for the
illustrated scene, from different artists
via Pinterest. I'm going to be
sharing with you, as well as a few examples
from my own portfolio. Let's jump into the
computer and I'm going to show you
tons of inspiration. Let's talk about scenes. This category is so versatile
and so fun and playful, and I'm really excited
to share this with you. I wanted to go over some ideas for what scenes that
you can create. But before I do that, I
just want to make it clear the distinction between surface
design and illustration, and how you use the scene in those two different
areas of illustration. There is some overlap but for the most part in surface design, it's a lot more
decorative and you're not focused on characters. In illustration, it's
more character-based and the focus is on the characters and what
the characters are doing. Surface design is a little
bit more at the surface. You're just showing
pretty scenes, something that's very still, not very many characters
or just hints of characters doing something but for the most
part, it's quiet, it could be anyone any time, it's not so personal
but in illustration, it's a lot more storytelling. I've created a board with
surface design scenes here, so you can get an idea of
what I'm talking about. It's a lot more still, it's a lot more decorative. There's not very
many characters. There may be some hands, or there might be a foot to a dog or somebody on the sofa, but they're not
showing their face or smaller characters but it's not so personal, it
could be anyone. This design could
be on a card or some wall art without
it being like this is so and so this character, etc. But here, if I open up my
children's book illustrations, you can see it's a lot
more character base. What's happening? What are
these characters doing? You focus a lot on that and the storytelling
with characters, either children or adults
or animals doing something. There's crossovers,
so you can see here this has a lot of animals, but it works as a surface design card as
well because it just does. Because it's animals this is a very sweet is for
children so this could work as a scene for
kids' collection. It's a little bit more
difficult if these were people it would be a lot more personal but because these are
animals, it works. That's something
to keep in mind. I hope that made it
clear the distinction between illustration
and surface design. It's a lot less
about storytelling, and it's just about painting a cozy scene that you can add your own memories
or your own experience to. Hear in my surface
design scenes, inspiration board
on Pinterest we can see all things that I've saved. The scenes that
you could possibly draw are a mantelpiece
or fireplace, piece like these
Christmas designs and that is something
that's really good for seasonal artwork
such as Christmas but then you could
also do Thanksgiving with the decorations for fall and something having
to do with turkeys and being thankful or
you could dress up the mantle piece or fireplace
as if it's Easter time. It's something that as if
you were decorating a house, this could also be
how you decorate a little scene for a
collection in your portfolio. You could also do a front door, that's also again great for seasonal or like
this for Christmas, a door like this. But also here's another door. This is more about pride. That's good to have
in your portfolio. This maybe has a little
bit too much going on but if you had something a little bit simpler with
rainbows and some text saying something about love for everyone or love is love
or something like that, that would work really well. You could do a storefront or
a cafe or a street scene. As again, these work so well for Christmas because Christmas
is such a cozy time and there's so many
ways that you can use these themes for Christmas. Here's one example. Here's a house. Here's a street scene
with ice scatting. Here's with a Christmas
tree in New York City. Let's see below. We can use scenes like this for
a little flower shop, or here's another flower shop, and that can be great for a
Mother's Day collection or welcoming spring collection
or something like that. You could theme it out. It could be another occasion, it could again be
decorated for Easter or St. Patrick's Day
or Valentine's Day would be a really cute idea with a flower shop with lots of roses and things like that. You could do a car or truck. This one is great for going on vacation or you've just married. That's a classic with a couple in a car and it
says just married. That's a great scene
for your portfolio for a wedding collection. It's also about
life as a journey. Here's another idea
of using a scene with a camper van and
thinking about vacation, vacation mode, and
things like that. We could do a little
cozy armchair scene. This is close to the fireplace, but here you see
there's just a dog and some feet so this
could be anybody. You can send this
card or have this as artwork on any wall or would it? It doesn't say who it is, it's not so personable. Here's another example
of going someplace is great with the text. Just gives you another idea
of how to use these scenes. Here another example of a cozy
armchair with a dog in it. Again, dogs and animals
aren't so personal. Here as well, it's great
for wall art that's fun. You could do a
tablescape or kitchen. I believe I had
some up here with their hands stretched out over a table grabbing
different things. This is great for a birthday seen here was Christmas again. This is Christmas also, but it would be good
for Thanksgiving. This looks maybe like it's more Thanksgiving or just
a regular dinner, I'm not really sure but that's also something you
could play with with different festivities or seasonal things that
have food-related. Valentine's Day again
would be cute with lots of different cute heart cookies that are being decorated
by different hands. Another example besides
what we have here, I didn't find examples, or did I? Let's see. Would be well this just married, have an altar with a couple
and they have the back. They're facing front too, they have their backs too
so it also becomes less personal. That's an idea. There's other things that aren't seasonal, things like camping, a bathtub like this, vacation scenes like this. A pool or a beach scene like
here's another nice scene, or here's examples of doors
and scenes like that, this one is seasonal, but this one is
just spraying and pretty and could be used
for many different things. You could do a beach
scene like this, or a garden or a
greenhouse or a barbecue. Barbecue that's the
stereotypical dad card for dad's birthday or Father's Day with a dad
but you wouldn't show the face you just show them holding a spatula or
something by a grill, [LAUGHTER] or just
a whole scene of a whole amazing girl's set up. Stereotypical, but it is itself. Then a picnic scene
that's always romantic and
beautiful and great. All these scenes, they can be used, they could be on a cover of a notebook. How cute would it
be with a little flower shop on a notebook instead of a pattern with
just flowers all over it? These can be used for wall art, they can be used
as greeting cards. There's many different ways that these scenes can be used. Again, there's also one more category I
just want to mention, and that's kids and baby. This is where you can have a little bit more
fantasy by having animals doing things like riding airplanes or
hot air balloons or driving cars or
doing other activities. That's one way of playing with a fun scene for a
kid's collection. I hope this collection of
images really gave you a good sense of the
illustrated scene for your surface design
portfolio and gave you tons of ideas of how you can use
a scene in your portfolio. It's a great way of breaking up your collections if you usually use a lot of patterns in your work or you do
a lot of lettering. It would be great
to add a scene like this to show another
way that you can create artwork as a great compliment to your other artwork and your
surface design portfolio. Here's just another
look at all of these, but I'll make sure to link this Pinterest board so that you can take a look for
yourself if you'd like. I have pinned a lot of Olivia Gibbs' artwork
because I feel like she is the queen of surface design scenes so I
also brought up her website. I just think that she
has this way of creating these cozy scenes
that can be anyone. Here's an example with a character and
becomes very playful. Because she has lettering. Let's see if we can open,
no we can't get it bigger. Because there's
lettering, because there's decorative flowers here, because it's so symmetrical. It's a really great
design that's more surface design rather
than being something that you would have in
your illustration portfolio because this would be perfect for wall art, or a mug, or a notebook, or some card or
something like that. Let's see, food and
places. Lots of scenes. The scenes that I'm thinking
about in this class are a little bit larger scenes
like showing a lot more area. But of course, a scene, could be more like a
still-life like these. They are always beautiful. But in this class we're focusing
on scenes that are more zoomed out so you get to
see a little bit more. But in another class we can do still lives for
surface design. Here's another cozy scene. Again it'll be beautiful. You could have this, this is an everyday scene, but you can make it
seasonal by making it Easter or Christmas
or Thanksgiving, or 4th of July or
anything like that. There's so many ways that
you can reuse these scenes. I also want to share with you some of my work from my
own portfolio to give you idea of how I
have personally use this to give you an idea of how I personally
use scenes in my portfolio. I have brought up a
few of my artworks. When I went in and did this, I noticed that the majority of my artworks that I've done
in scenes are for Christmas. I definitely need to
branch out and do a lot more scenes that
are for other categories. That was great for me to look through and see that I
mainly do Christmas scene. Here's one with a mantelpiece with lettering and
it's very set up. It's very posed. I think that's another way of presenting
surface design work. Here I did a variation
of this one with a different dog and
different green color. This is like
nostalgic piece here. It's a little bit smaller scene because there's not
much of a background, but still some
things going on with some animals and postbox. Here's an example of a
scene with a car or truck. Also again, quite simple, but your scenes don't have
to be super complicated, but I think it's always fun
to include lots of details. Here I did another Christmas, like it's a French
patisserie with poodles. I thought that there was a cute idea for a
French Christmas. Another one, I did a second
variation with Boulangerie. Then we have another
Christmas door and a Christmas mantle
and another card, this time with a cat and
lettering here to make it more interesting and
make it more of a design. Here's another door
and other mantle. This time with a cat. You can see quite a few of
these are quite similar, but I do small variations so
that I can reuse my ideas. It's fine to copy yourself, but as long as you are varying them enough so
they're not exactly the same. Here, I want to show something
a little bit more playful. This was a little gnome
family and their house in a little mushroom
with some punny text. Here's a whole
collection that I did with quite a lot of scenes. This gives you an example of a whole collection
with scenes. I have both here season's greetings and
here's street scene. Here with pattern
with little scenes. Again, we can do a scene pattern in the future in another
Skill Share class. Here, windows with animals looking at each other
and here you go. So that's another idea. These are very old designs, but it's also gives you an
idea of creating wall art for this was like a
bohemian camping scene. There could be text
added here, of course, or something like that. Then second one. Those are some examples
from my personal portfolio. I hope that this section
has given you lots of inspiration for different scenes that you can create and possibly even a whole collection that you'd like to create with a scene and some complimentary
other illustrations and patterns to really
boost your portfolio. Whether you want to go seasonal by doing a
collection around Christmas or another
holidays such as Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, 4th of July, Mother's Day, Father's Day, one
of those themes, or if you want to do
something a little bit more every day about bringing on spring or
self-love or pride. Or what else could it be? Something just pretty like
a flower shop that would be great for notebooks or
something just really, or vacation or
something like that, because that's always popularly. It's nice to have like
a planner that has a beautiful beach scene on it, or a greenhouse with lots of plants or
something like that. Before I let you go,
I just want to make sure to cover a
couple more tips to make sure that your
Illustrated scene is going to be as
best as possible. Here are a few
things to consider. A couple of tips
to make sure that your scene is even
better than it can be, is to think about
diversity in your work. If you are showing one figure, like maybe it with hands, a hand or something like that. It's important to choose a medium skin tone
so that it could be many different races. If you're showing
several people, such as in this scene, there have mixed
skin tones so that you're being kind
and more diverse, so that you are opening up this design to include as
many people as possible. Here they have dark skin tone, light skin tone or medium. Even when you're
illustrating objects such as gnomes or nutcrackers or other characters that
are in your pieces. It's important to remember to, have diversity in your work. Another thing that can really up your scenes and
make them more suited for surface design
portfolio is to add lettering. Lettering is always popular and it's something that
makes it go from possibly an illustrated scene
to something that could be used for card or
something like that. Sometimes surface design seems like this can become
a little bit flat, such as in this
piece when not much, there's no characters here, but I just said that
there shouldn't really be any characters, but by adding little birds, a dog, a cat, can bring some life
into your pieces. It's not just decorative, even though decorative pieces
are beautiful as well. But if you feel like your
pieces a little bit flat, doesn't have much life, consider adding some
animal to your piece. If you are going to be having figures or characters
in your piece, makes sure that they
could be anyone by either having them far out and having a group of
many different people, again, diversity in your work. Or if you're going
to have close up, makes sure that you either
like in this image, you're not really showing a
face so it could be anyone in as here or you're just
showing feet and socks. Again, it could be anyone or here with just the
backs of heads. Again, it could be
pretty much anyone. That is my tip for
making sure that your scenes are more suited for the surface design
industry. Now it's your turn. After seeing all of
this inspiration, I hope that you have got some idea for a type of scene that you would
like to illustrate. Whether that's one of
the seasonal themes or an everyday theme. Gather all of your
reference images and in the next section you can follow along as I
start my class project.
4. Project: Sketch: [MUSIC] It's time to get
started on my illustration. My class project again, please feel free to
follow along and watch my process and use that
to inspire your process. But always make sure
to tweak and change things so they become
uniquely yours. In this section, I'm
going to be sharing with you how I go about gathering additional
reference images and how I go about
laying out my scene. Let's jump into Procreate. Let's start gathering some
inspiration for my scene. I have opened up Procreate and split screen with Pinterest. For this scene, I'm going to
be drawing it on an 11 by 14-inch Canvas at
300 DPI in RGB mode. That is the Canvas that I always used to draw all
my images as it's quite large but not too
large and not too small, so it won't be bad quality, can work on a lot of
products and things. As we saw when I went through inspiration I have done way
too many Christmas scenes, so I definitely need
this do something else. I really was drawn to the feminine flower shop
because that feels really me. I think I'm going to do something
that I like the idea of that being something
that could be worked for wall art or a
notebook like I said. I'm not sure what else
it could be used for, but I thought that
would be cute. In order to not steal these ideas because it's important not to
copy other artists. I'm just gathering
inspiration, ideas, and things like that for
what theme to go for. But when I'm going to
create my actual artwork, I'm going to make sure to look reference photographs and things like that rather than
somebody else's artwork. I'm going to search
for Parisian bakery. We're in Swedish,
That's why it's me. See bakery. Here's what's an artwork. Particularly definitely
something like this is cute. I love down here. This one is great, too. So this is perfect. This is
exactly what I was going for. I love that yellow
stripe and I love the windows here,
the French balcony. If I'm going to start sketching, I'm just using a regular
pencil, pencil brush. This one's called sketcher, is from Lisa Glanz. I want to definitely
like to have the give some froze to make
it even more feminine. I really like the stripe, and I really like
that it was yellow. Up here I want to make
sure to have some, I think I want to do something a little bit more symmetrical. I'm going to do two windows with the French type of
iron balconies, some windows, French
doors or something like that with nice shade. [NOISE] Then here this would be quite elaborate with swirls. When I go to do
the final artwork, I will spend more
time graying out. This should look like [NOISE] the shutter. [NOISE]
They'd be stripes here and then the
stripes on the awning. Then we also need some to
make this not so flat. I think we need some
greenery and the greens can hang down a little
bit so that it breaks up the image a little bit more. On the back wall and just show some hint that it's
stone buildings. That's not going to be so flat. I have to decide whether we're going to
have some saying or could say something
like florist. Don't need that to be in French. Then we just need the front of the building and a
bit of pavement. It's cobblestones and a little
bit romantic and lovely. When I moved to Europe, I only wore high heels and I destroyed every last pair of my high heels on
cobblestones and then I realized in Europe
it's better to wear flats or chunky heels [LAUGHTER]. Then we need a door and then the display
windows, so nice. I think should
have nice rounded. I like the other
ones that we saw, they had a little
sign that said open. I think that gave
it a good look. This is very symmetrical. Up here maybe I could
have one of the shutters open so that it could be a
little bit more life in there. I could have a cat looking out or something
like that and also could talked about
adding some life. I could have a bird maybe somewhere else like the
cat looking at a bird. There's a little bit
of a narrative here, but not so much that
it's like a story. But here a little
bird and a cat, and the cat looks at the bird. Weird cat, whatever [LAUGHTER]. It's getting worse, looks
like a bunny, rabbit. A little bit better. Then let's see. I look at that one was so beautiful with
that signed with the flowers. But I don't know. Some signage here with it'd be nice
to break that up. What else? You need to have, start
bringing in lots of florals. Like we have all the florals
appear that's going to be coming down from the balcony. Then the actual
flower shop obviously has to have flowering trees and fruit trees and to decide
how that's going to look. I just realized I
looked at bakery, but I was doing a flower shop
[LAUGHTER] that's funny. Here is a more of a plant shop. Let's look up florist instead. When I thought of
Paris, I think I immediately thought
of baked goods, but I see florist shop. See what comes up? My gosh. Yes. We need rows and
rows of flowers like that in different
buckets and bins. Could be like little
and then like this. I like the symmetry again. If I had a citrus tree, like a lemon tree or
something over on each side, it could look nice. I could have some
welcome mat here, to make it more again, like it's an actual place. I need something inside. That is interesting too, to some flower decorations that. That's my little scene drawn, and it's going to
be full of color. It's mainly just decorative, but we have the
cat and the birds, so that it has maybe a little
bit of interest in their. Make sure that I haven't missed any incredible inspiration. I could work with the window
and how that looks or more crown molding on the
doors, very high region. But for me this is enough information to get
started on the final. I want to just quickly look at a color palette before I get started
on the final, because I like to have that set and I would like
it to be a little bit more sophisticated
this image rather than being overly coraly,
but it's difficult. Let's see, this one
is beautiful with the sage green and coraly color that can be really beautiful. Let's see if we can come up
with a color palette here. I'll get a new
layer and I'll get a little bit bigger
brush and I'm going to reduce the opacity of my
sketch so in our face. I want to get a sage
green like that. I think that would be beautiful. I'll make my brush bigger. Love that, and then mixed
with that coraly pink. This is really pretty. I like that there's a
pop of yellow in there. Maybe it has to be a
little bit more orange. Then even though I don't
want it to be coraly, still need some
more proper pinks, so I'll d a darker
coral and then one that is a little bit pinker, see how that goes too. Again, maybe lighter pink
there and with the green. So it's nice to have for
other greenery in the image, to have another
green or possibly change when it's a little
bit more yellow, green. Now there was enough
difference. Let's see. Even warm green like that. So it clashes, but that could look nice. Then I want an
even darker green, so we have some details
in the leaves and things. I'm feeling like this is
getting a little too matchy. We don't want it just to
all be peach and CG green. Want to also look at this green, a darker version of that one. Swampy, we'll see how that goes. I think something a
little bit unexpected, like a lilac would
be interesting, so let's find a
good purpley color. If I turn that off, here is my colors that I'm
choosing right away, the main colors in my image. I think that would
be really beautiful. I also want to make sure to
have some neutrals in here. So I'm going to bring the lilac. That's not neutral, but okay. Let's go for a more of a
cream color, creamy gray. I can use b for the
stones or pavement. I want something a
little bit warmer too, so let me get another. We go with this
golden color here, see if we can find color there. Maybe something like that could be useful
for the pavement. Again, we can use the more muddy color like that and the warm coraly
color that's a little gray. Same thing, even
lighter, sage color. Here we have some
neutrals as well. So then I have something
to work with here as well. I think this is good. Maybe another color in here with this golden brownish
color could be useful. That is the color palette
that I'm going to start with and we'll see
where it ends up, but I'm really happy
with these colors. I think this is going to
be really pretty, I hope. Then here's, my sketch again, we'll bring it back to opacity. That's how I work
out a sketch in my image and think
about setting it up in when I work on an image
that is for surface design. It is a lot more
decorative and it's a lot more about symmetry to me. I think that's more
pleasing to the eye , but not necessarily. You can create images with different angles
and things that are also decorative and beautiful. That's my process. I hope you found it
inspiring and interesting. Now, in the next section
we're going to get started on creating
the final image. Now it's your turn. I hope that watching my
sketch process inspired you and helped you
along when you're going to start work
on your sketch. Now it's your turn to do that. Get a sketch going either on traditional paper
in a sketchbook or within Procreate, like I did.
5. Project: Color: [MUSIC] Time to add some flat
color to your illustration. In this section, I will
show you how I build up my illustration
from the ground up in flat layers of color with a little bit of texture and
it's going to be really fun. Now I've closed up my inspiration
and I'm going to just start coloring this
in with flat color. I always start with the background
first and then I go further and further
into the foreground. I use different layers
as you will see, but I don't have a specific. I just make sure that I'm able to make changes later
if needed simply, but I'm not crazy
about layering. To begin with I'm going to bring back my color
palette again. I'm going to make this a little
bit smaller so it doesn't take up my entire piece. I'm going to reduce the
size of the sketch or the opacity so that
it's not in our face. We need a new layer
to start drawing on underneath the sketch. I can choose a background color. I think I'm going to choose this like beige pink as
the background, it's going to be like the walls. I think we'll see if that
needs to change later, and then now I'm
just going to start trying to lay my flat color. There's several
brushes that I use. I either use this
[inaudible] pastel pencil or the procreate dry ink brush. I think I'll go
with the pastel one because I've been really
liking that lately. I'm just going to
go layer by layer and build this illustration up. As I go maybe I will
add some texture. As far as textures I really I'm loving Shelly Laslo's brushes, so I love this wet crayon
one for some texture. I love her H2_O wash
one that gives it a nice watercolor effect. I will make sure to
link these brush packs that I'm using
in the description in case you were excited about any of these
that I'm using. You can always check
out my digital, get to know your
procreate brush class. It's my best class
here on Skillshare. So enough labbing, I'm going to get
started on this piece. I'll do this in a time-lapse, otherwise we will be here forever. [MUSIC]
Enjoy the music. I've finished blocking out the building like the
structure of my image, and then in the next section I'm going to show you
how I'm going to bring this to life with all the
plants and the flowers, and the cat and the little bird. This is my process
for building out the background and I have added a little
bit of texture here. As you can see I added some shadowing and texture just so there's some variation, but I will continue
to work on that later as we continue
with the image also. I hope you enjoyed watching
my process and let's keep going in the next section.
Now it's your turn. Start building up your
illustration in Procreate with different layers and adding little subtle textures
for right now in details, but in the next
section we'll start getting into the real details.
6. Project: Final Details: [MUSIC] We're almost there, at the finish line. Now we are going to
be adding all of the final details
that are really going to bring your
illustrations to life. We're going to make sure to
bring a lot of interests into this illustration. Let's go. Now, it's time to add all the
fun final details and it's really going to bring this
illustration to life, so I can bring my
sketch back up. Then again, this part is where I'm going to
be adding in all of the flow rules and the bird and the cat and just and
the final lettering, and then of course
make any tweaks to colors and add shadows so that it really pulls the
entire thing together. Again, I'll keep
this as a time-lapse so that you can watch my
process. Let's get started. [MUSIC] The image is pretty much done. Just a few more things
that I want to tweak here. I want to get some
extra shadows in here, so I'm going to make
a layer on top of everything like I did in my
adjustment layers class, and I'm just going
to give everything some soft light shadows. Soft light, and then
choose a lighter gray, and I like this Shelly
Laszlo wet crayon. Here, that's where
I can go in and darken certain areas even more, it pulls the whole
image together. There's certain sections that
I want to be more defined. Little bit more shadow
on certain places, like underneath the balconies , do the pots. That looks nice. I feel like maybe I want some
other small details too, maybe a crease here where
the bird is standing. That makes a little
bit more sense. I'm going to try to get
some shadow here, the bird. There we go. Then maybe this is done. I think it turned
out really sweet. It has a very feminine vibe, but that's just how I
naturally create things. I just can't help myself. I can not use pink,
and that's my thing. But I think I like that it
has some grounding colors, like the gray in the background
and the beige you pinks and this greenish, gold color on the pots, also grounds the image
so it's not too girly. This is my final scene
for my portfolio. You can of course,
always just work one off by just having
one illustration, but it's also nice to work on images to go with this to
make it a full collection, and if I were to do that, I think I would complement this illustration
with a pattern, a floral pattern would be great, or a pattern that had flower pots would be really
cute I think it could do. Because I have a cat and a bird, I could even do a
pattern with cats and birds and flowers,
something like that. I always like being
able to reuse my ideas and my images and my
color palettes that I like. I can take this illustration
and turn it into collection. I might do that later
for my portfolio. But for now, this is the image
that I created for class. I hope that you enjoyed
following along and I definitely can't
wait to see what you come up with
for your scenes. Whether you're also going to do an everyday scene like me, or if you're going to
do something seasonal for Christmas or
another holiday, so I can't wait to see that. Alright. Now it's your turn. I hope that my process has inspired you and
maybe you've taken some tidbits of how I go about building
out my illustration, and you can bring
that to your work and finalize your Illustrated scene. I honestly can't wait to see what you guys are
going to come up with.
7. Next Steps: [MUSIC] That is the
Illustrated scene finished. I hope that you enjoyed
watching my process. But before we go, I always like to leave you with a
couple of next steps so that you don't feel stuck and you know what to do next. Number 1, I would love for you to consider
maybe building out this Illustrated scene into a small collection of just a few pieces
such as two or three, or a fuller collection of
maybe six or eight images. These collections are an
incredible tool to add to your portfolio
because they're a way of showing that you are a master at using
a color palette, of developing a theme and designing several things
that go together. It's really easy for a company
to pick and choose items that already go together
and look great, and it's also an
opportunity for you to make more money because instead
of just selling one piece, maybe you're selling
two or three or eight. If you need help
designing collections, I have several classes here on SkillShare that can
help you with that. I'll leave them linked in
the class description. Another thing that
I would love you to play with is a different theme. If you did something seasonal, why not try an everyday theme. These Illustrated scenes
can be quite playful and fun and they don't have to be so serious or sophisticated. You can go wild with them. Because why not illustrate a beautiful beach
scene if you're really looking forward
to a vacation like I am. It is dreary January
right now in Sweden, and I could just dream myself away in
a tropical vacation. Wouldn't that be nice to draw? It also could be a
fun product later for a company to buy
for who knows what. Lastly, I would love to remind you that
it's okay to play. It's okay to try out different
variations of your style. You don't have to stick
to your signature style or that theme that
you usually work on. Test out different themes like I suggested in the second tip. Why not test at
different brushes? Maybe you want to do a
little watercolor look or try something a little
bit more paper cutout. Being an illustrator and
designer is so much fun, so please don't lose
that enthusiasm and that experimentation like you do when you're
just learning art.
8. Final Thoughts: [MUSIC] That is it. Thanks so much for
following along in my process as I taught you
about illustrated scenes, and shared with you my
personal process in Procreate. I really hope that you
inspired to include illustrated scenes in your surface design
portfolio as well. I really, really
can't wait to see what you come up with
for your class project. Please make sure that
you "Upload" your Illustrate scene to the
class project gallery, and let me know if you're
looking for feedback or I can just give you
some great encouragement. Make sure to follow me
here on Skillshare so that you will be notified when
I posted another class. You can also check out the almost 30 other classes that I have here
on the platform. I'm sure that there's
something else that you'd love to learn
from me and check out. If you'd like to hang out with
me outside of Skillshare, you can find me on
Instagram@emmakisstina , my website emmmakisstina.com. I also have a very supportive
private Facebook group where we do free
feedback sessions, and have a daily dialogue
which is really nice, and I even started a monthly collection club on patriarchy which
is really fun week, design themed collections
together every month. I can't wait to see you
in all of those places, and in my next class. Bye.
Kristina Hultkrantz, Illustrator & Surface Pattern Designer
