Live Encore: Drawing Floral Illustrations Without a Reference

1. Introduction: [MUSIC] Fall is one of my favorite seasons, I think there is a certain magic to it. Hi, my name is Karla, I'm an editorial and narrative Illustrator. You might know my work from Instagram, where I tend to post quite a lot. You might also know me from my classes here on Skillshare. Today we're going to be doing another thing that really excites me to draw, and that is florals. [MUSIC] While we draw are floral bouquet, we're going to also be talking about color palettes, we're going to talk about composition and about some shapes that are going to help us to complete our final illustration. I wanted us to draw a floral illustration because I find them so relaxing to draw and I think drawn florals can be really helpful for us as a warm-up exercise and we want to be drawing a more complex illustration later on and just because they're really fun and relaxing things to draw. I'm going to be working alongside students and I'm going to be using Procreate to do my illustration, but if you don't have an iPad, if you don't have Procreate, don't worry, you can use any media that you feel comfortable with so we can all draw together at the same time. I hope students feel relaxed by the end of this class and they feel inspired to make mistakes and to maybe just draw things for fun without expecting too much of themselves in an illustration and mostly for them to have fun while we're doing our illustration and enjoy the process. Just so you know, this class was recorded live and I got to interact with the audience as I was drawing. So, now let's get into it. [MUSIC] 2. Getting Started: Let's officially get started. Hi everyone. So happy to have the Skillshare community joining us today for this live class with Karla Alcazar. My name is Jen Hutton. I work at Skillshare on the community team. My pronouns are she, her, and hers and I'm super stoked. I'm just doing proper LA style. I'm very stoked and excited to be hosting this class with Karla today. But I would love to hear a little bit more about who you are and what you do. Of course. Hi everyone. I'd like to introduce myself real quick. My name is Karla. I am an editorial illustrator and I do quite a lot of work. I work with magazines and books mainly for the last few years and I've been a teacher on Skillshare for over a year now, which is amazing. It's been such a fun time. One of the things that I personally enjoy drawing the most are flowers, so that's why I wanted us to draw some flowers today because I think there's something so relaxing about drawing flowers, just not a lot of pressure which is just draw. It's a great warm-up exercise as well. I feel if you would like to draw something more elaborate at some other point, I would always recommend drawing flowers first just because of the movement. I think it's a really good warm-up. Hopefully today, you'll enjoy the class. We're going to be doing this flower bouquet with a little bit of full inspiration and hope that you guys have fun today. For this class, I wanted to do a floral theme class because I honestly feel that when you're drawing flowers, it doesn't really matter how they come out. I think that flowers and nature overall, they're just perfectly imperfect and it doesn't matter if they turn out a little bit wonky, if they're not that symmetrical, you can always just skip it because it gives such a nice, unique quality and I think it's very different from drawing a human, like if you draw hands and it's a bit wonky, it does look wonky. Whereas with flowers and plants it's just like, it doesn't matter, it actually makes it look prettier. Personally, I do think it's a very nice way, as I said before, to warm up. Also, unless you are like scientific botanical Illustrator, then you have to be really specific about details of plants and it doesn't really matter. You can give it your own personal style to flowers and bouquets and everything and I find that really exciting. I think exploration when you're drawing an observation are two great things to keep in mind before we start drawing anything. That's awesome. Thank you so much. I'm wondering just to recap, are there any specific materials that students need today? Not really. You're welcome to join us. If you have a pencil and a piece of paper, that will be perfect. If you have Procreate, which is what I'm going to be using for this class, then feel free to use it. I'm going to be sharing a few tips on how I use Procreate as well. But if you don't have an iPad and you don't have Procreate, don't worry, you can join using anything because we're going to be talking about shapes, about colors, and about all of that and you don't necessarily need any specific media for this class. 3. Choosing Brushes: I'm going to be opening my file here. This is just a regular screen size because it doesn't really matter. If you're using Procreate for this class, I'm going to be using brushes that Procreate already comes with because I wouldn't want to use brushes that not everyone has access to. Procreate actually comes with very good brushes already, so you don't have to worry about like but that looks very different because I don't have those brushes. The first brush I'm going to be using is the HB pencil. I really like this pencil because I think it has a lot of great texture but I think the HB pencil is very thin, what I tend to do is to duplicate the pencil and then I go to properties and I just make it bigger. That just gives me way more texture to work with and to cover the whole screen. If you have an iPad, that's a good thing to consider that you can actually modify your brushes. I'm going to delete this one because I already have this one that it's really big and I like that. The other brush that I'm going to be using is the spectra brush. You can find it down here in, no, sorry. It's gloaming as well. I like this one because it has a lot of texture and I like that. But for today, we're going to go to painting and use spectra the one I told you about. This one looks like, not like watercolors per se, but it has a very nice watery feel to it. If you add a little bit more pressure, it just behaves as if you were using watercolors, which I think is pretty cool. HB pencil and spectra are the two brushes that I'm going to be using today just in case that you're using an iPad for this class. If you're not using an iPad, don't worry, like I said before, whatever it is that you have because we're going to be talking about shapes and composition, then that's completely fine, but just in case that you want to follow along and use the same brushes, those are the two brushes that I'm going to be using. Later, I'm going to be showing the actual brushes that I use every time because this one is new. I just discovered it the other month and I was like, this is a really good brush, I've never seen it. It's great that they keep updating the brushes on Procreate. That's amazing. 4. Building a Color Palette: First things first, I would like to talk about the color palette for our illustration. I think that one of the things that personally I like to consider before grabbing a pencil and before doing anything is to consider the color palette. Because it's not going to only influence the mood and the illustration. I feel that it also helps to think about the composition and the elements that you want to include. For me, it's very important to think about what colors might be good to include. All these palettes that I have here, they are palettes that I've gotten from, do I have it here? I'm actually going to show you because I have it right here. I love to draw with markers, so I go to art supplies stores and I just grab one of these that they have there for free, and I just use them as sample, so I just take a photo of them and use the dropper, this thing. Then that's how I get my palettes because then if I buy the same marker, then I have the same marker digitally and the same marker with analog. That's what I do. If you ever go to an art supply store and has some of these, I would recommend getting one because you get a lot of colors that I don't know, me personally, I don't like to use the wheel, this wheel for picking colors because they're just too many and I just feel overwhelmed. I personally don't like that. I prefer having set palettes. Right here, I have my capex and my color pencils, and I have that I actually own, so it just keeps things a little bit simpler. If you know me, I love to work with a very limited color palette, so we're going to do that today as well. It's not going to be that limited. It's going to have about six, seven colors, so it's a little bit more colorful. We can add more colors as we go. It depends. Let's just see how things turn out. But for this class, I am going to be using a dark green, because it makes me think of the very few leaves that are still left from summer and that they're still there. I'm going to be using this burnt orange as well. Because soften your leaf, sorry, turning orange. This yellow, that is not really yellow, I think it's cool. I'm going to look at the color, so I have it right here. It's like burnt brown, no it's brown. It says that it's like brown, like walnut. It doesn't look like that, but that's what it's called, so I'm going to go with that. I don't know about you guys, but I feel when we're talking about autumn, September, October, I think of purple. I don't know why. Especially October, I think a lot maybe because Halloween or I don't know, but I like purple. So I'm going to include purple in this palette just because there's something about it. I just like purple [LAUGHTER] for a full theme kind of illustration. This is me personally. I always go for warm gray just to have it there. Personally, I feel that it just balances things out. If you have really bright colors, adding this gray just balances things out. I always, or not always, but most of the time, I tend to use this gray for most of my illustrations. If you see my Instagram, you're going to see that there's a lot of this grayish. It's because that is like my go-to color most of the time. If I feel that they're too bright, or the palette is to bright. I'm also going to be using this pink for the same reason because I think this four colors on top are a little bit brighter. I think this balances things out a little bit more. I'm going to be using this dark burgundy, this burgundy color. I like it as well. This is going to be my palette. I'm basically just picking a palette based on feelings. That what I feel that something could work. Of course, if you're working on something that needs to have a specific palette then that varies. But if you're going to be doing something personal for fun, something just to, as I said, like for a warm up, I would recommend just thinking about what is the feeling that you want to communicate and think about what colors might go with them. For me, this is the palette that I'm going to be using. If you're using Procreate and you don't have any colors like me, like organized, Procreate already comes with a few palettes that you can pick similar colors, for example like, there's really lovely oranges like this one and this one, right here. Pinks. This is a really nice pink as well. No, don't delete it. There is browns as well that you can pick right here. The ones that already come with Procreate are also really good. My advice for that is just make sure don't pick like a really bright yellow and then like a really muted brown because that's going to make it look off. My advice would be try to pick palettes or colors that are similar in terms of brightness and in terms of opacity. That's just a little thing that I like to do. But of course, if you prefer contrast, that's completely up to you. If you're using analog materials as well or if you don't have any colors and you just want to use a pencil, that's fine. Then just a little tip. If you ever use a palette, maybe think about the emotions or the feelings that you want to communicate. Because I think, and I've seemed to say this every time. I feel that sometimes we forget that drawing is a way to communicate, and I feel that sometimes we get caught up in the, I cannot do it well, or that it has to look a specific way. Whereas it doesn't matter what it looks like. What counts is what you are expressing with it and that you're communicating something with what you're doing, so that's another thing. Don't feel any pressure. If you don't draw flowers on a regular or if you don't think that you can draw flowers, don't ever say that you cannot draw or that you cannot draw flowers, because that's not true. Everyone can. 5. Shaping Your Flowers: The next thing I would like to talk about is shapes. I would love to talk about this because I have a niece, she likes the idea of drawing, but she gets really scared about this. I cannot do it, I just don't do it. I remember telling her, it's like the typical advice that people give you. Just think about shapes and try to see things. I said, just think about the geometrical shapes, basically, geometric shapes. She was like, that's boring. I don't like your advice, but she's actually following my advice and she is actually enjoying the process because she feels that she has a guideline. That's something that me particularly, I've been drawing professionally for about five years now or more. Oh my goodness, where did the time go? But it doesn't matter if you draw professionally or not. I think it's always helpful to go back to basics and just think about everything in terms of shapes. When it comes to flowers. I like to think of circles and triangles. I'm just going to open a new layer just to draw some shapes and tell you how personally I like to draw my flowers and how can that take the pressure off to some degree. My flowers, I like to start with circles. Then I think of the center of my flower. Then I think about the quantity of petals that I want to draw. I like flowers that have a lot of petals. I don't know what they're called, but I really like them. They are like daisies, but they're bigger. I love those ones. What I do for those flowers is that I start to think about symmetry and the amount of petals that I want to draw. So I think of each line as a petal. Again, it doesn't matter if it's not perfect. This will be my skeleton to draw a flower. After that, I'm just going to draw over it or on top of it. Let's use this pink that we were going to use today. I'd like to think of each line as a petal, as I said before. Usually, petals come in either elongated shapes or with a little spiky bit as well. Sometimes they are tiny, sometimes a little bit wider. So for this kind of flower usually are rounded and elongated. So that's why I'm going to be drawing for this flower. I'm just going to turn each line into a petal. This is just a sketch, by the way, we're going to be doing a replicate in a minute. This is just a quick sketch so you know what my felt presses is as I'm drawing the actual bouquet that we're going to draw. Then I like to draw the center. Usually these flowers, they have this center that's quite wide. Then I'd just like to have the details and the little leaves. It's just a really quick way for things to have a certain shape. It's fun, but now that you have your skeleton, your structure. It's just really fun just to draw and not to think much about it and it takes the pressure off, I think. Instead of circles, think about the center as well and do the same. I'm just going to add a few petals for this one. We use purple for this one. Again, this is just a sample drawn. This is going to change the perspective of a flower. So this is going to be a little bit. I think it helps, again just to think about different perspectives. The other thing I'd like to draw is triangles, and that's for flowers that are opening up like that and then lines that stem from here. We already used that pink, we're going to use this one. So as you can see, it's basically the same flower, the one I'm drawing. You can see it from a different perspective, like the front, sideways, completely sideways. I think thinking of really basic shapes really helps. Also, there's this shape that it's like a little bit, I like it, and I've been really enjoying drawing flowers like that recently, it is half a circle and then a triangle, like that. Let me just redo that because it doesn't, like that. What I like doing is we're going to be thinking about the petals, the amount of petals that we want to include. That looks like a spaceship. But it's okay. It's going to be a flower, I promise. It's like a sideway view of our flower. You can add more petals if you think it's too bad, and just adding a float of few details. That's another way that we can draw our flowers. I think it helps again and also for leaves, it's the same thing. I like to think of them as, maybe not like circles or triangles, but it's all about lines, and just connecting those lines. Then if you want a different shape, just go over it like that. If you want something, let me use that brush that I told you about. Then you can just make it look more like that. So what I recommend is if you're going to be drawing anything, really, think of it as shapes, because sometimes, especially if we're using preferences, if we're seeing something, me personally, I want to copy it, and I'm like looking at that and just like making sure. I think for me, that's not fun. For me, it's more fun to just let your hand loose and just actually explore what your hand actually wants to do. Like naturally wants to do. I think that's really good and especially if you're trying to find your own style or your own way to draw something. I think it's really important to let your hand do its thing. If you don't like what it's doing, it's okay, you can ask yourself, why is it that I don't like what my hand is doing, how can I improve it? I think it's a good way to start finding your style if that's something that you're after. 6. Planning Your Composition: Now let's actually start with the composition. Again, I'm going to be using Procreate, but if you don't have Procreate, that's okay, you can just follow along. When I'm thinking of compositions, I like to draw a grid. It doesn't have to be perfect, it doesn't have to be straight, it doesn't have to be anything, this is just for me to have an idea of where I want to be placing my elements in my illustration. I'm going to get rid of the palette for now. For this illustration, I want to be drawing maybe two types of flowers because I have six colors, and some leaves. Then maybe I'm going to be adding some little. I would like to add a moon for some reason, but we'll figure that out. We'll figure that out as we go. My grid, usually I like to place the elements either here or here or here or here, but sometimes they just do whatever it is that I want to do. The grid just helps me to figure things out, but don't use it as like this is just the way to go and there is no other way to do it. Again, follow what your intuition is telling you. I want to be drawing a big flower here. Usually what I do when I'm planning my compositions is to think of not necessarily symmetry, but balance. I think that's a better way to put it. I think of balance. If I'm going to be having a circle of circular flower here, I'm thinking that it needs to have something similar somewhere. I'm going to be placing another one here. There are similar shapes, so it just looks a little bit balanced. Since it's a bouquet, I'm going to be connecting all the flowers together. Let's just make it go all the way down to this line. They're connected. I'm going to be drawing another flower facing sideways. I would like that one to come here. Again, it's going to be connected to it. I need to think of another flower like this such as it looks a little bit more balanced. I'm going to be placing it here. I have quite a lot of empty space, so I'm going to be using it to draw leaves here, another one here. I always like to draw leaves like this. For this one I'm only going to be drawn one because I want that element to stand out a little bit. That's going to be like the thing that perhaps draws attention to the image. This is my sketch somehow. Now I'm going to be doing what I told you that I'm just going to be drawn the petals like so, this one like so. There's quite a lot of empty space here. I'm going to be drawing a smaller flower here and maybe add a little one here. This one, it's going to be like this flower, but maybe it's going to have less petals, so it just looks a little bit different. I'm going to be doing like a star center and then two lines for it just to have five petals. This is my basic skeleton. Another thing I like to do is just to color on top of it just so I know roughly what colors I'm going to be using for this. I'm going to be using this pink instead of the light pink. I'm going to create a new layer and I'm just going to draw real quick on top of the drawing. It's the same thing. If I'm going to be using pinks, I'm going to be trying to use pinks in a similar way. Like this one I'm going to use orange. Maybe this one will be orange and yellow? No, purple. I think purple is better color for this one. A purple here, purple here, green and green. Maybe I can use that gray I told you about as a background. Maybe we can add a little bit more orange, but we'll see that in a minute. This is our basic structure for our illustration. Now that we have that, we can actually start drawing. I have a question for you. I just thought for the folks who may not be using an iPad right now and maybe using watercolors for this stage, is this like they're doing a sketch just to figure out how they're going to use the colors in their composition and now you're moving on to the more polished drawing? Yes, if you're using analog media like watercolors, markers, or whatnot, I would really suggest doing a little thumbnail on a little piece of paper, it doesn't have to be perfect, it doesn't have to be big. It has to be messy even just for you to have an idea of what it would look like when it's finished. But if you're not using an iPad, definitely do a few thumbnails, tiny ones really messy, real quick just for you to have an idea of what it would look like when it's finished. But sometimes I get lazy and I don't do them, but honestly they make a big difference. The drawings that you do determines more than the ones that you don't. Definitely do little thumbnails and color on top of them as well real quick so you know roughly what the finished illustration would look like. 7. Illustrating Your Sketch: Now we're going to be doing the final illustration. As I said I'm going to be using this brush, I'm going to be using that pink. As I see it right now is like coloring book almost. This is the fun part for me, you just don't think much about it. You can be thinking about other stuff. I find this really relaxing. You don't have to think much about the composition, you don't have to be worrying about what it looks like or how it's going to turn out. If you're using Procreate, if you're using the iPad, this is what I personally like doing to add texture. You're going to create a new layer and then you're going to create a clipping mask on top of that. Then I like to use a different brush, the one that I used to create more texture. The clipping mask is just going to make whatever we draw on top stay within the shape that we have before. For example, I want to draw some texture here, so I'm just going to use the pencil. If you want to draw outside of it, it's not going to work. It's just going to stay within the pink area. It just helps for things to look a bit more exciting. I just like to mix two different medias or two different brushes as you can see in this part where I drew and it doesn't show, just because the clipping mask is on. Also I like to add shading, so I'm going to add a new layer, and it's already a clipping mask. I'm going to be using the same color and set the layer to multiply. I'm going to use the same brush that I used to do a flower just for it to look a little bit more dimensional. Maybe as much a little bit with this little hand right here. It does look a little bit more polished. Now I'd like to use a new layer for my pencil details. It's just because the way that I draw digitally, I like to extrapolate it as if I was drawing using analog media. For me there's not much of a difference, so I try to follow the same process. Now I would use this pencil that I actually have here and you'll see it's the same color and that's why I will use for the stem of our flowers and for the center of our flower. There you go. I'm going to be using the same pink for this flower that we have down here, so I'm going to go to the same layer. All the elements are the same color within the same layer. If you're using colored pencils or watercolors or any other media, I don't know why, but me personally when I'm using analog media, I tend to be more careful for some reason. If you feel similarly, I would again just recommend just don't be careful and just do what your hand wants to do. I think it's a good way to either warm up or to find happy accidents in a way. Sometimes it's just nice to discover that oh, I didn't think that this shape could go well or this stroke could turn out this way and it actually works, and then you can incorporate that into your other drawings and that's really cool. Now when I'm working with markers and colored pencils, I like to use colored pencils to add details. That's why I've attended to hear, I'm using the HP pencil to add little details here and there. I'm going to be using white to add a little bit of details. Now I'm going to be using purple for this too. I'm going to have a new layer painting. This one has five petals. Another thing, in your brush library if you're using Procreate, I have in one place all the layers I duplicate the brushes and created a specific set of brushes. These are all the ones that I use, but because the one I'm using here I just discovered recently, I haven't added that one yet. I'm going to create another clipping mask for the texture. That's a little tip, if you're working with several brushes to have all of the brushes that you use on a regular in one single place so your just have easier access to them, because right now it's like I think that I'm wasting a lot of time going from one place to the other. Don't forget, for your shadows, set it to multiple, otherwise this is not going to show. Again I'm going to be using white for the little details. I like this color a lot, this burgundy. I'm going to tell you what it's called, it's called Tuscan red. I think that's a pretty standard color. In case that you want to use it at some point for other things, if you like this color, it's Tuscan red. Now green. Another layer, let's go to green and use that. Again if you're using Procreate, obviously it's really exciting that there's so many different brushes available, but honestly Procreate does come with really good brushes, and you can adjust the brushes according to your own needs. You can adjust the size, you can adjust the texture even. Before you consider buying a lot of brushes, maybe explore the ones that Procreate already comes with because they are honestly really good. I would definitely recommend exploring the ones that are already there. Actually I'm going to draw all the leaves in this layer. Then if there's something really specific that you look for, then perhaps do buy extra brushes, but if not, then definitely explore the ones that Procreate already comes with. Also for the ones that are using Procreate, if you go to the Procreate forums, I think, you can get free brushes over there as well. Some nice people who make brushes sometimes ask you to test them and just to let them know what you think of their brushes and they'll let you use their brushes or some other kind people just made this brush for fun, you can have it. Of course, you can find a lot of good brushes on Gumroad, and they're really affordable. But definitely I would suggest before buying a lot of brushes, explore what Procreate already has, because sometimes it happened to me before I had Procreate when I started using Photoshop for drawing, I bought a lot of brushes that I never used. For the leaves, real quick I'm going to add the clipping mask to draw the texture for all of them for these leaves. Now for this line here, I'm going to be using a color pencil for this. I'm using the pencil brush because that's what I would use in "real life". I would like to say something real quick about the composition. I think that what makes a composition interesting is that there's a variety of similar elements and one different element, I think it just draws the attention quite a bit. 8. Finishing Touches: We're nearly there. We're just going to add a little bit of details because I think that's what makes a composition interesting as well, the little details. We're nearly there. I'm going to be using, again, my HB pencil to draw the petals. You were saying something about you're trying to erase less I think. Yes. Thank you. Yes, definitely. I think this is very important because I started using Procreate about two years ago. I was just basically using markers. When I started using Procreate, I noticed that I was just getting caught up and the things have to look a certain specific way because it was so easy to erase and to redo. You just tap twice and then you can just start all over, whereas with analog media, you cannot really do that. If you draw something that you don't particularly like with a marker, then that's it. Recently, I've been trying to erase less because I feel that when I go back to drawing with markers, I feel a little bit of frustration because I just want to erase everything. I just expect so much, they have to look a certain way and now it didn't work because I have to redo everything. I just think it's not a good way to think about things, that things have to be perfect or they have to be a specific way. I don't know. I'm trying to erase less, especially when using digital media just to take the pressure off me. It doesn't make any sense to expect something perfect every time because that's just not how life works. I'm going to be adding a few other details in a minute, but I would like to add a background real quick. I'm going to be using that gray, the gray that I mentioned before in the beginning, the gray that I always use. I'm going to be using the same brush because this one it actually covers the whole screen. It's like a really big brush. Now, it makes the colors a little bit too muted for my liking, so I'm going to just turn the opacity a little bit down. I think that works a little bit better. I like that a little bit more. Let me check my original. Everything is going according to plan, according to my little thumbnail right here. We can now add whatever we want to real quick for details. When I think of fall and when I think of autumn and all of that, I think of magic, I think of sparkles. I don't know. There's something really special in there. I don't know what it is. I don't know if it's just a change of seasons, but I'm going to be adding a few little sparks here and there. I'd like to do this as well because I feel that there's a lot of empty space and I feel that it needs something brighter, a little sparks of something. I usually do draw little dots. If you've seen my illustrations, I tend to draw little dots a lot. I do that because I feel that it balances the colors a little bit, but also because it just fills in the gaps that are a little bit bare. What I'm going to do is add those little sparkles here and there. I'm going to use yellow because, I don't know, it's just my intuition is telling it to use yellow. I'm just going to go for it, which I think it's another important thing that I guess it's worth saying. Sometimes just follow your intuition, it doesn't have to make sense. This is how I just do my sparkles. I just do a cross in little curves and I just go over it. Again, it's not symmetry, it's balance. There's going to be an even number just because I feel that it just balances things out. I'm going to use white real quick to draw that moon that I wanted to draw. I'm going to use a circle, and then just erase the bits just to make it a crescent moon. Actually, I said not to erase, but this one, I'm going to cut and paste it in a different just because I didn't like where it was. This has been a really great class. I love your approach so much. You are demystifying this process just with providing this underlying drawing and building with shapes and swatching out your color palette with these little thumbnails. I'm excited to tackle this one on my own time. This is very cool. Oh, thank you. That's really kind. Before I forget, I just added this little leaves with orange because I wanted to make it look a little bit more fall-ish. It definitely has to be orange if we're thinking of fall. I think it makes it a little bit brighter. I'm going to be adding some shadowing using the clipping mask. I just real quick in. I feel that this flowers, the yellow ones, they need shadowing. I'm going to create another clipping mask real quick, set it to multiply and just do some shadowing, like so. Again, it doesn't have to be perfect. If you find the lines too harsh, you can always match them with this. There you go. We're nearly finished. I do feel like I want to add white to it because of this little white dots and I think that they help drawing your attention to the illustration. The problem is that the background is not as dark for it to show. The opacity of this layer of the background, I'm going to set it to max because I think that with the white little dots, it's going to make a difference and it's not going to look as muted as I thought it would. I think it's always good to reconsider and try new things. I'm just going to be adding little dots here and there. Maybe this one here as if it was pollen because it does look a little muted. I think that's probably what, to me, seemed a little bit off, but there you go. To me, this looks almost finished, if not finished. I don't like those two lines I drew. Another thing, and this is something that I should follow my own advice, if you can and if you're working in Procreate, name your layers, it's going to save you a lot of time. That's something that I forget to do very frequently. I think that it's complete. As I said, it's a nice warm up exercise, and it's a nice way to explore color, a nice way to explore moods, and a nice way to just see what your hand wants to do. For me, flowers, before I draw anything, drawing flowers is a really good exercise just because it's all about shapes, it's all about strokes. I do really believe that it helps. I hope that you found this little class and exercise helpful. I really love to see what you guys did. I would love to see any works in progress if possible. 9. Final Thoughts: [inaudible], any final closing thoughts before we wrap up today? Thank you, everyone. It's really lovely to have you guys here, and I hope you guys have a lovely rest of the day. Perfect. Thanks so much you-all Thank you. Take care.