Mini Cactus: A 7-Day Brush Pen Art Challenge

1. Welcome and Introduction : Hi, everyone. Welcome to my new class, Mini Characters, a seven day Challenge. In this class, you will learn to paint this seven, beautiful, vibrant and easy character illustration using bras paints and pine liner. Across the week, we will explore around 12 different varieties of characters, forms and styles, along with decorative pots and charming little flowers to make each piece unique and lvy. We'll be working with just three to four seeds of the green along with a few complimentary colors for flowers and pot. All you need for this class are dress pens and a fine liner, no complicated supplies. Hi, everyone. My name is Jushal I'm an artist from India. This is my skill set profile. I create simple and approachable class in oil, pastel, gauze, water color, pen and ink, and more. You can also find more of my work on my Instagram and YouTube. So join me in this class. Each small paintings will take around 15 to 15 minutes and slightly larger compositions will take around 15 to 20 minutes. All the lessons are recorded in real time, so you can follow along step by step at a comfortable piece. This class is beginss friendly and designed as a daily challenge. We will complete one project each day to help you build consistency, confidence, and a creative habit. As a bonus, I have included an extra project at the end where you can experiment with your own coloring style and apply everything you have learned. By the end of the week, you will have a beautiful collection of vibrant cactus illustration. I hope you will join me in this fun and colorful journey. 2. Class Project : For this class et, you will paint seven vibrant cactus illustration, one on each day of the challenge. Each project focuses on different cactus seats, pot designs, and simple flower details. You will be using just buzz paints and a fine liner along with a limited color palette. You don't have to worry about it. The buzz pins that we'll be using are quite easy to get along with, and we won't be using any advanced techniques. We'll be only doing the color and a little bit of overlaying and blending. That's all. You can also see your practice seats and the seat of eight cactus illustration that we'll be painting. By the end of 70s, you will have a beautiful mini cactus collection that shows your progress and growth. Upload your final paintings or even your daily progress in the project section. I'd love to see your work and see on. 3. Supplies : For this class, you will need very basic supplies, pencil and eraser to do the basic pencil sketching, masking tape to secure the paper. For this class, I am using 300 GSM watercolor paper to do the painting. You can use any paper of more than 200 GSM thickness. I'll be using camelin breastbin. I also got this dual te brasbins that I'll be using to create satos, fine liners and the breastpins, I'll be using Sakura micron and Tombos bras pin. That's all. So these are the main supplies that we'll be needing for this class. I'll also be using a little bit of white gel paint to add a little bit of highlight for one of the projects. 4. Basic Shapes for Cactus and Pots : Welcome to the tutorials in here, I'll be showing you how you can create Cacus very easily. Here's a very simple example of the first cactus, very simple cylindrical see like this and making it a little bit over at the top, you can add multiple branches on the sides. This is just a very simple example of Peruvian apple cactus for some of the project we'll be creating. This will be making it a bit more detail. But this is a very simple see that we'll be using to create our acus. Next in here, we have got noto cactus. This is somewhat of a sphere like sap. To give it a little bit of three dimensional p, palm dividing into different sections. And if you're going to extend it a little bit, it becomes pin cushion Cacus. So you have got the rough idea how we'll be using very simple seed to create varieties of the actus. Let me show you a few more examples of different varieties of the aracus. To give it a little bit of three dimensional p, palm dividing into different sections. This is going to be somewhat of oval Zip and we'll be trying to sew that. So these are just a simple pencil outlines. Next, in here, we have got dwarf Becky peer variation of the characters. This is going to be somewhat of oval sip, and we'll be trying to sew that. In here, we have got large rounded cluster of pads on both the sides, multiple pads, and let's create one more example. So here's another variation of prickly peer characters. So these are just the simple pencil outlines. When we'll be doing the outlining using file or the Busbin we'll be adding more details. We'll be giving a little bit more organic shape, adding multiple thorns and doing a little bit of hashing to create a little bit of shados as well as a little bit of highlighted sections. Now let's create a little bit more detailed versions of the Cacus. So the first one Peruvian Apple cactus. I'll be adding this kind of simple thorns on all the sides a little bit for the middle too. So very simple thorns like this. Here's another example. Here's another variation of different kind of thorn that I'll be creating very simple circular seep like this. If you want, you can also add needle like thorns. But for some of the product, I'll only using this kind of thorn. Now, for this one, the flowering barrel cactus, to give it a little bit of three dimensional sep, I'll be dividing into different sections. And as for the thorns and the needles, I'll be creating this kind of simple variations for the thorns and the needle using the fine liners. On top of it, I'll be adding the flowers. Now moving on to the flowers. So in here, I'll be sewing up two or three different examples of the flower we'll be creating I won't be making the flowers that much detail, very simple flowers like this. Mostly, I'll be using yellow sort orange and pinks to do the coloring for the flowers. If you want to make it a little bit more detail, you can do that, but I'll be using simple lines and simple seeps like this to create the multiple flowers. I'll also be wearing the seeps and the sizes of the flower depending depending upon which projects we are doing. But simple seeps like this for most of the flower. Let's create one more example of cluster of flower. A bit more smaller flower. Simple flower like this. I'll be creating cluster of flowers like this for the sides of the cactus and a few for the middle sexon stew. Now for the flowering marl cactus. I'll be adding the flowers in this manner. I'll also be making a little bit of genius if required, but you have got the rough idea. But this will be mainly adding the flowers for our characters in a very simple manner. Since we'll be keeping the project quite simple and easy, I won't be using that much advanced techniques. I'll only be using the fine liners and the breastpin. In here, I've got this Sakura micron fine liner and two of the tomos breast pins. So mostly I'll be using the Sakura micron fine liner to do the outline. If you don't have this, you can always use the normal ballpoint pen or the gel pen. To add a little bit of sading and more detailing, I'll only be using hatching technique. Basically, hatching technique is used to create sading at value and texture by drawing closely spaced parallel lines like this. This is the example of very simple hatching lines. I'll also be making a little bit of variations to the lines. Instead of creating simple and straight lines, you can create this kind of bit curved lines too. Then we also have got this kind of bit Broken hatching lines. Mostly, I'll be using this the broken hatching lines to add more details to our characters. We also have got this kind of lines following the sep of the characters. So these are some kind of the hatching lines that I'll be using for our project. Let me saw what I mean. So using this kind of bit curd hatching line for this cactus, ball cluster cactus, for this Peruvian apple cactus, a little bit of hatching line on top on the bottom, bit of broken hatching lines. The closer the lines to get it, the darker the area will appear. For the cactus, I'll be making the lines follow the contour of the object to make it appear three dimensional variation in the line thickness, length and preser can change the texture and intensity of the sados. So we'll be wearing that too. But now for the pot, for all the project in this class, I'll be adding the pots. I'll be keeping the seeds in the sizes of the pots quite simple. First, we have got this basic conical see for the pot. Meaning, I'll be using this pot for majority of the project. Then here we have got this rectangular set for the pot. Apart from this, I'll also be creating a little bit of oval seeps for the pots like this. And here's one more variation of it. I won't be making the pots that much detail. If you want to add patterns or designs or add a little bit of more texture to the pots. You can do that. Mostly, I'll be keeping it quite simple. If required, I'll be using three or four colors, but many I'll be sticking with only two. So that's all for this video, and I'll be seeing the next vino, happy painting. 5. Sketching Eight varieties of Cactus : Welcome to the first painting. In here, I'll be showing you eight different examples of simple cactus plants with simple pots. For the first one in here, I'm creating this kind of bit oval see for the part of our cactus. Here we'll be creating prickly pear cactus. I'll also be doing the coloring for all the cactus and we'll be keeping it quite simple. So this is prickly pear cactus. It has got flat petal like pads, so I'll be creating multiple pads like this and I'll also be adding small flowers on the sides. If you want to increase or decrease the seeps in the sides or the placements of the pads, you can do that. But this is going to be the simple see for our first cactus. Next, we have got noto cactus, starting with a simple outline for the pot So very generic see for the pot. Mostly, I'll be using the seeds of greens and yellows to do the coloring of our cactuses, a little bit of pink, yellow, orange or red to do the coloring for our flowers. And as for the pots, mostly I'll using sets of the browns, a little bit of orange or blue or black, if required to do the coloring for our pots. I'll also be using a little bit of gray to create the shadows for some of the pots. So this is the very simple seed for our noto cactus. It has got those rounded main body, smaller baby cactus growing around. And later on, I'll be adding the decorative wet pattern using the fine liner or the breast pan. Now for the third one, we have got flowering marl cactus, starting with a simple outline for the pot. A little bit of oval seed for the pot, a variation of the first pot. Now for the cactus, so this is our flowering marl cactus. I'll be creating oval or rounded marl like see for its body like this a little bit conical at the top, bit broader at the middle. This type of cactus produces flowers at the top. So I'll be adding two or three flowers at the top. Instead of the flowers, you can also create BB cactuses on the sides, moving on to the fourth one. It's the same kind of pot that we did for the first one. In here, it's a little bit more broader and a bit more thinner. You can create any kinds of pot as you want, or you don't have to even create the pots for this painting. You can only practice the cactuses. In here, we have got this Peruvian apple cactus, very simple see like this. So tall and vertical stems like this, a little bit of cylindrical see. And we have got multiple upright growths like this. So this is another simple cactus. Now for the fourth one, we have got Pen cushion cactus. Let's start with the outline for the pot. To keep it a little bit simpler, I'll only be creating this kind of pot for all the four cactuses in here. Here we have got pin cushion cactus, small rounded seem like this, tiny clustered spines. It often forms crowns of flour. So we'll be adding multiple flowers later on using fine liner or the breast pane. Now, for this one, here we have got bunny ear cactus. It's a variation of prickly pear cactus. When we'll be doing the coloring or doing the outlining, we'll be trying to give it a little bit more, three dimensional seem by a bit of hatching technique. And as for the coloring, too, we'll be following the contour of the cactus and adding the color in that manner to give it a little bit more three dimensional look and a little bit more volume to it, a little bit more rounded seam with rounded pads grouped together like this. Well, the seventh one seem kind of simple outline for our pot. As usual, if you want to create other kinds of pot, or if you want to add patterns or designs to it, you can do that. I'll be keeping things quite simple. Here we have got fairy castle cactus. So clustered vertical stems like this. This is somewhat of variation of the Peruvian apple cactus that we did as our fourth cactus. We have got clustered vertical stems, multiple ones. This gives it a little bit of dense castle like appearance. Lastly, we have got Dwarf prickly pear variation. It's a variation of the first characters, a little bit more rounded sheep like this, and we have got multiple rounded cluster of pads. As compared to the first one, I made it a little bit larger and a sheep, a little bit more rounded. So yeah, that's a simple sketching for the last one, the dwarf prickly pear variation. And I'll be seeing in the next section of this video where we'll be doing the inking using the fine liner or the bras pane and then we'll be doing the coloring for it. 6. Inking using brush pens: Welcome to the inking. In here, we'll be doing the outline using this Tombos breast pin. Instead of this, if you want, you can use normal ballpoint pen. You can also use black jail pen or if you have Sakura micron Finland, you can use that too. I'll be going over the outlines that I have created. I won't be sticking with the pencil sketch that we have created. If required, I'll be making some changes and adjustment, as well as we'll be redefining the seeps a little bit, adding a little bit more detail links to it. For our first character, the prickly paint going over the outline, going over the outlines. I'll also be creating flowers like this for three or four different tops of the cactuses. Here, if you want to make changes to the sizes, you can do that. You can make it a bit larger, more smaller. As I mentioned, so feel free to do changes, making this one a little bit larger and adding small flower at top. Instead of creating this variation of the flower, if you want, you can create variation of the flower or you don't have to even add the flowers. So it totally depends upon you whether you are going to add flowers or not. Now, let's add needles. For the needles of this prickly pear cactus, I'll only be creating this kind of simple straight lines, tiny straight lines like this to create the resemblance of the needles. For the insides to adding the needles. You can add as many needles as you want. Just don't oversaturate it. Now moving on to this one, adding few more. Now for the larger one, apart from this, instead of using fine line or the breast paint to do the outlining, you can use the breast pain, the colored breast paints to do the outlining later on, you can start with the pencil sketch and then use the colour directly and using a bit darker sats of the color or just overlaying one layer on top of the other to do the outline. If you want, you can do that, too. And with these, we are done with our first outlining lightly raising the pencil marks and see that the ink has dried up, otherwise, you will get smudging all over the p Now moving on to the second one. Starting with doing the outlining for the pot. Instead of creating this kind of normal straight uniform line, you can make it a little bit dynamic by wearing the thickness of the line for some of those sections. Dividing this into a different section. So dividing this into different section for our second character, the not acus In here, I'll be creating this kind of variation for the flower, total of three or four flour for this one, too. I'll be creating the same kind of thorns that I did for the first one. For now, let's add a few more baby cactuses in here. And two more flowers in here, one more on this side, dividing into different sections. Now, creating the same kinds of needles and the thorns. In here, instead of creating simple straight lines, I'm making it a little bit thicker at the bottom to give it a little bit more thorny appearance. Adding it for the outline section. For the larger one, and as for the lines in the middle, I'm adding needles on both the sides. So creating the needles in alternative directions like this. Doing the outlining for the pot. And with these, we are done with our second one, Noocctus. Moving on to the third one, we have got flowering barrel cactus in here. We have got somewhat of oval or rounded barrel body for this one. Let's do the outlining for this one. Here I'll also be creating flour, a bit more detailed flower like this, total of three flowers. This will be a smaller bid present at the top. And if you want, you can convert this smaller cactus into flour. But I decided to create the flower in here, and I won't be doing the outlining for the baby cactus, the smaller one. Dividing into different sections. Same kind of needle and thorn like the second one. But I'm making the thickness of the needles a little bit more, so making it a bit more thicker, comparatively a bit more thiger as compared to the first and the second one. Here, too, for the insights, as you can see, I varied the I varied the direction in which I added the thorns. And with these we add in with the third one. Now for the fourth one, we have got the Ruvian apple cactus. We have got lots of tall vertical systems with multiple upright growths. Instead of creating simple straight lines, I'm making the lines like this a little bit more details in this form. Doing the outlining for the upright growth like this. We have got one more upright growth in here. We have got a total of three main systems and two upright systems, dividing into two sections like this. And in here, we'll be creating a little bit detailed needles and thorns like this, a total of three lines like this. Instead of creating this kind of thorns, if you want you can create the other variations of the thorn that we have used so far. But for this one, I decided to make it a little bit more detail. That's why I'm creating this kind of needle. For the insides too, adding the needles like this. For the inside, as you can see, the needles that I'm adding are on alternate directions or you can see alternate signs like this. Adding more thorn. Going into third and the final one. Adding the thorns for the upright growth like this. Now for the last stem in here, simple three straight lines like this to green the thorns and the needle for our cactus. With these, we are done with the outlining for all the four characters. I'll be doing the outlining for the remaining one in the second part. See you there. Oh. 7. Coloring the Four types of Cactus: Let's continue where we left off in here. We'll be doing the coloring for all the in chaces that we have created. I'm using students green camelinbapins, starting with this dark olive color. Mostly, I'll be using two or three different seeds of the green to do the coloring. In here, I'm starting with this dark side of the olive green color to create the darker regions of the cactus. I'm considering that the light is falling from the top left side, so the right side will be a little bit darker. That's why I'm using this darker side of the olive green to do the coloring in here. Also adding a little bit of this for the insides to small streaks with this and now completely filling the insides of our cactus, the prickly peer. This first cactus, the prickly pear, it's scientifically known as Optunea. It's native to America. The flat pads are actually modified systems. These are not the lea. It produces an edible fruit called prickly pears. That's why we have got the name prickly pear cactus. Some species are used introdtial medicines and food. This cactus is very drought resistance and can survive extreme heat. Going back once again with the star, call it to add a little bit more detailing for the thorns. Now for the flowers, using a little bit of pink. Instead of the pink, if you want, you can use yellows and orange too. To add a little bit more detail into our leaves in here, I'm using a skin colour over laying it on top of the pink and completely filling the remaining section. And with this, we are done with the coloring for our prickly pear characters. Now let's do the coloring for our pot. For the pot in here, I'll be using two or three different seeds of the color. I'm starting with this darker seat of the ocher. I'll be using two different sets of the ocher. This darker set, I am primarily adding it on the bottom section to make it bit darker. Now, going lighter seat of the ocher and completely filling the top and the bottom section with it. Adding a little bit of this for the upper part too. Now, going with the burnt and adding it a little bit on top of the darker side of the ocher that we used earlier, a little bit on top of the dots that we created. Now and again using the darker side of the ocher and completely filling nine sides, and this is small section. And with this, we are done with a simple coloring for our first pot. And with this, we are done with our first character tricky pair. Now moving on to the second one, starting with this darker side of the green and adding it a little bit on the right side, since we are considering that the light is falling from the top left side. So the bottom right side will be a little bit darker. I'll be using a bit darker seats of the color to do the coloring for this. I'll only be using two seats of the color for this one. This is the first color. And apart from this, I'll also be using the olive color to do the remaining section of our characters. Now, going in with this olive color and completely filling the entire section of our cactus with this. And some of the facts related to this is it's scientifically known as parodia also known as ball cactus. It's native to South America, particularly Brazil Argentina. It's known for its down and symmetrical body. It often produces bright flowers that will be doing the coloring later on. It grows slowly and stays compact, perfect for indoor pots and the ribbed body that it has its alpine expand and store water. And with these, we are done with the coloring for the cactus. Now let's color the flour, starting with this yellow ocher, a little bit of yellow ocher. Now to make it a bit lighter, using the yellow, completely filling my entire section with it and overlaying it on top of some of the sections to make that section bit lighter, to sew a little bit of reflection by this ball cactus. And as for the pot, you can do the coloring in any manner. And here I'm using this orange for the upper part of the pot. Now for the remaining section, using the two sads of the orchid to do the coloring, starting with the darker sed. Let's feel the remaining section. I left a little bit of white strip to sow a little bit of reflection, adding a little bit for the soil at the top. And if you want, you can use another side of the cat, but I'm satisfied with it, so I won't be adding any more color. And with this, we are done with our second one, the ball cactus or the Neto cactus. Now let's do the coloring for our third cactus, flowering barrel cactus. In here I'm starting with the lighter side of the green. Mostly, we'll be keeping it a bit lighter. This lighter side is completely the darker side of the coloring for this one. As apart from this, we'll be using yellow for the remaining section. So this green can be considered as the darker side. I did not cover the entire section with it, only a little bit of it, particularly on the sides of the fonts and the needle, going with the yellow and completely feeling the entire section, overlaying it on top of the green, too. And with these, we are done with the coloring for the characters, now for the flower, starting with the orange. As you can see, I'm not covering the entire sexon. I'm leaving a little bit of spaces in between. I'll also be using a little bit of red and the skin colour to do the coloring for the flower, using a skin colour to feel the remaining section, overlaying it a little bit on top of the orange too. Now to add a little bit more detailing and to make it a bit darker using the red. So this is how we'll be doing the coloring for this flower. And with these we turn with the coloring for the flowers and the cactus. You can do the coloring of the pot in any manner. I'll be using shades of green and the blue to do the coloring. Some of the facts related to this cactus, it's famous for its large and ramatic flowers. For this cactus, the flowers only blooms at night and last only for a short time. It's native to the South Americas. Some varieties produces flower larger than the cactus itself. It's also known as hedgehog cactus. And with these, we are done with the third Cacus. Now let's do the coloring for the fourth and the final characters for this section of the no. So in here, I'm using only two sets of the green to do the coloring, Tallow green and the dark green. Adding a little bit of this green for the middle section. Adding a little bit of this green for the middle section and a little bit on the right side. As you can see, since we are making this region a bit darker, the right side, that's why I'm adding a little bit more on this side, creating this kind of smaller strokes to add a little bit more texture for our cactus. So this is Peruvian apple cactus, scientifically known as Sirius CERES, using a bit lighter side of the green, fallow green, and completely filling the remaining section with it. So I'll be overlaying this on top of the darker side of the green, too. Instead of using this, if you want, you can also use the lighter side of the green. You can also use yellow or to make it a bit more darker, you can also use the olive green to do the coloring for this one. To make some of the region a bit more darker, you can over more layer on top of each other to make it a bit more darker. And with these, we are done with the coloring for the cactus. Now for the pot, I'll be using two different shades of the green and a little bit of black. If required to do the coloring, you can do the colouring in any manner as you see for it. And for some of the facts related to the cactus, this cactus can grow several metre talls in the Y. It's alternative to South America. It produces edible fruit that are similar to the dragon fruit. It often blooms at nine. It's common in dessert landscapes and ornamental gardens. And with these, we are done with the coloring for all the four cactus. And I'll be seeing in the next part where we'll be doing the coloring for the remaining cactuses. 8. Outlining Four More Varieties : Welcome to the second part. Let's continue where we laptop. We have got pin cushion cactus, bunny ears Cacus, Fiery castle Cacus, and dark prickly pear variation. Starting with doing the outlining for the pot. We have got a little bit of curve pot like this. And now let's do the outlining for the remaining section of our pincushion cactus. We have got a small own s and tiny clustered spines that we'll be creating later on. I'll also adding few flowers in here. Less detailed flower like the first one that we did for the prickly pear, a set of three petals like this for the flowers. Now for the thorns, the same kind of thorns that we created for the Peruvian apple gatus as you can see, I'm adding the thorns on alternative directions like this. And with these we are done with the pincushion cactus, moving on to the bunny ear cactus, starting with doing the outlining for the pot. Feel free to make changes to the seats in the sizes that you have created. You don't have to stick with the pencil outlines that you have created. Let's do the outline. Here too, we have got a little bit of curved down sat like this. I won't be dividing into different sections. In here, we'll be trying to so that it's a little bit of curved in sic and have a volume doing the outlining for the last one. Now let's add. Now let's add the thorns in the needles. Creating this kind of cluster of needles to so that it has lots of thorns. Instead of creating this kind of thorn, if you want, you can create the other variations of the thorn that I have sowed you so far. Here, too, if you want to add flowers, you can do that. I won't be adding flowers for this one, but if you want, you can proceed with that, too. If you want, you can add few more growths to it. And with these, we add them with our bunny ear cactus. Now for the seventh one, fairy castle cactus, starting with doing the outlining for our pot. Now it's to the outlining for the vertical stems. Here to Almi creating this kind of simple thorn. The one we did for the Peruvian Apple cactus, dividing into different sections. For the Peruvian Apple cactus, we divide into two sections, and here we'll be divided into three or four sections like this. Doing the outlining for the remaining cactus. To add a little bit of more characteristics to the outlining, I'm using a little bit of broken lines like this. This is optional. If you don't want to use it, you can just create simple and plain lines to do the outlining. Adding multiple thorns on the sides. We have got two or three more stems to do the outlining, and then we will move on to the dwarf prickly peer cactus. It's a variation of the prickly pear cactus. It's a dwarf varieting. Creating the outline for the last one, dividing into different sections. I decided to add one more, a bit larger stem like this in the middle. Adding thorns for the sign. It's optional. If you want to add more thorns for the sign, you can do that, but since it's got lots of systems, I won't be adding multiple thorns for the inside. Adis, it will look a little bit more denser. Moving on to the last one, starting with doing the outlining for the pot. Now let's do the outlining for the remaining section of this dwarf variation of the prick leaf here, creating this kind of bit organic lines to do the outlining, a little bit of curvy lines like this. Feel free to make changes and adjustment to the same. If you want to create simple and plain normal lines, you can use that to do the outlining. You can add multiple stems. If you want, you can also decrease the numbers of the stems. Now, let's add thorns and a little bit more details for the insides. I'll be creating this kind of simple curvy lines for the insides to add a little bit more details like this. This is often if you don't want to create this kind of curvy lines for the inside, you can just simply create the needles and the thorns for the inside. Creating a cluster of three or four thorns for the inside. Instead of this, if you want to create the other kind of thorn that we did for the sixth one, the bunny ear cactus, you can do that, too, a cluster of six or seven thorn. And with this, we are done with the outlining for all the cactuses. I'll be seeing in the next part where we'll be doing the coloring. 9. Coloring the Various Cactus Plants : Continuing on where we left top, in here, we have got the pin cushion cactus, starting with the lighter side of the yellow occur to do the coloring for a flower. Only a little bit of it. Now going into the yellow, overlaying it on top of the yellow occur and completely filling the insides of the petal with this. Now let's do the coloring for the rest of the cactus. In here, I'll be using two different sads of the green, starting with the darker side of the green and overlaying this particularly on the bottom section and a little bit more on the bottom right side. I'm also overlaying this on top of the outlined sections as well as a little bit on top of the nedles and the fawns that we have created. Create a small strokes like this, adding a little bit for the upper part too. Now, let's do the remaining section. So in here, I'm using the lighter sd of the green, and we'll be completely filling the inside of the pincushion cactus with it, also overlaying on top of the darker side of the green. And yeah, with these, we have done with the coloring for our pincushion cactus. Now moving on to the six cactus. In here, we have got this bunny ear cactus. For this, we'll be using three different shades of the green, lighter and darker seeds, as well as a little bit of darker seed of the olive green and yellow. Adding a little bit more darker sad the green for the bottom right side to make it a bit more darker. Also, I'm overlaying this a little bit on top of the needles and thorns that we created. Creating these kind of smaller streaks with the burros to add a little bit more texture for our characters. And yeah, with these, we add with this darker side of the green. Now to make it a little bit more darker in here, I'm going in with the darker side of the olive adding this olive, once again, particularly a little bit more of this olive on the bottom right side to make that region a little bit more darker. Only using a little bit of this and creating smaller streaks with this for the cactus, the pincusin cactus. For this, we have got rounded pads that are grouped together. Now to make some of the reasons a little bit more lighter, I'm using yellow. Also overlaying a little bit of yellow on top of the other two colors. Now going with the light green and completely filling the entire section. I'll be leaving a little bit of yellow and covering the remaining section with this, over laying it on top of all the greens that we used earlier. And with these, we had done with the coloring for our bunier cactus. Now let's do the coloring for the pot, so you can do the coloring in any manner as you see fit. In here, I'm using dark brown to do the coloring for our fifth cactus, the pin cushion cactus. So earlier, we did not talk about any of the facts related to the two cactus that we have created. This is one of the largest cactus genera. A 200 species of this are found. It's native to Mexico. It often produces a ring of small flowers around the crown. It's covered in tiny tubercles, and it's a very bigne friendly house plant. As for the second one, I'm using both the ocher and the brown to do the coloring for the pot. And this bunny ear cactus is called bunny ear because of its symmetrical path. It's covered in tiny hair like spines called glocds. These glocts are very small but are very irritating if touched. This is also native to Mexico, and it's one of the popular decorative indoor house cactus. And with these, we are done with coloring for two pots for the two cactuses. Now let's do the remaining seventh and eighth cactus. In here, we have got fairy castle cactus. For this, I'll be using two seats of the green and darker than the lighter one, starting with the darker side of the green, particularly adding it more on the right side, also overlaying it on top of the needles that we have created and the divisions that we created using the broken hatching lines. So we have gotten lots of clustered vertical stems for this fairy castle cactus. Let's do the remaining coloring. So using lighter side of the green and completely filling all the stems with it. I'm also overlaying this lighter side of the green on top of the darker side of the green to blend the two colors a little bit. Adding the color for the remaining two stems in here, it's nicknamed fairy castle because it resemble tiny towers. This is native to Central and South America. It grows in upright clustered columns like this, and it rarely flowers indoors. And apart from that, it's one of the most popular novelty cactus plant. Let's do the coloring for the pot. In here, I decided to create this kind of parallel lines to add designs in this manner. Instead of this, if you want, you can create any kind of designs or pattern. Simply using two seats of the ocher and brown to do the coloring for this one. And with these, we are done with our seven cactus, fairy castle cactus. Now let's do the coloring for the last cactus in here. So we have got this dark peer variation. Starting with the yellow, we'll be making it quite lighter. So only yellow and the lighter side of the green. Now, going with the green and completely filling the entire sexon with it. I'm also overlaying this green on top of the light yellow that we used earlier. The regions on which we added the yellow will become a little bit lighter, completely filling the entire section with this. This is also a variation of the Optunia characters. It got rounded, clustered pads and it stylized compact growth like this. Let's do the coloring for our pot. The same kind of coloring that I did for the fifth one. And some of the facts related to it, it's a smaller ornamental variety of the optuna It stores water inside its thick pads. It's extremely drought tolerant and can survive long period without any watering. With these, we are done with all the cactuses. Now this is optional. I'm using to create small sados just below the pots. Simple line like this to add the resemblance of the sados for the cactuses that we have created in here. And with these, we are done with this one. And with this, we are done with this project. I hope you enjoyed painting this colorful and vibrant, yet easy cactases. I had lots of fun painting this one. If you have made changes an adjustment to the paintings, we see your artwork in the project section, and I'll be seeing you in the next project. 10. Golden Crown Twins: Welcome to golden crown twins. In here, we'll be creating golden marl cactus. Let's start with the outlines for the pot. So in here, we'll be making the pots a little bit larger line this. Curb rectangular s for the pot. Instead of creating this kind of pot with this so side, if you want to wear it, you can do that, too, creating the bees for our pot. In here, I'll be creating a total of two golden marl cactuses. It will have a bit of rounded barrel like sea with deep vertical ribs, crown flowers on the top, and it will have a little bit of compact cluster like loop. Creating this kind of bit circular s for our golden marl cactus, one more smaller one in here. On top of both these cactuses, I'll be adding this kind of bit smaller and bit less detail flour, using orange and yellow to do the coloring. Apart from that, we'll be using dark green, light green and yellow to do the coloring for our cactus. We'll be using the fine line to add a little bit more detailing in the form of broken hatching lines to do a little bit of seeding, making the upper and lower part a little bit more darker. I won't be creating any kind of distinct detail in the form of thorns and the needles, but if you want to add those two, you can do that. And here, I'm using Sakura micron fine liner to do the outlining. Starting with the flower to do the outlining. Instead of using the fine liner paint to do the outline, you can always use the breast pain to do the outlining later on after completing the coloring. Adding this kind of broken hatching line to add a little bit more details for the flower petal. And as for the compact sheet for our golden barrel character, creating these kind of bit curve lines to do the outlining doing the outlining for the second one. And now, let's add the flower for this one. The same kind of flower. The sides of the petals in here are quite smaller as compared to the first one. Now, let's divide it into different section, creating this kind of deep vertical ribs to divide it into different section. And here, I'm using this kind of bit broken lines to divide into different section instead of it. If you want, you can also use the simple and plain straight lines to divide into different section. But with this kind of lines, I find it that it makes the painting look a bit more organic and add another layer of characteristics to the illustrations. So that's why I use this kind of bit more organic lines, bit of broken lines or bit of curved lines. And to add a little bit more detailing to it, we are going to do this kind of simple hatching lines in here, bit of broken hatching lines like this. We'll be adding a little bit of this kind of lines for the upper part too. But before doing that, let's do the same thing in here for the smaller characters, dividing into different section, creating this kind of vertical lips using the fine liner. If you want, you can also add the needles and the thorn. I won't be doing it, but if you want, you can do that, too. Adding a little bit of texture in the form of this kind of broken hatching lines. Now, in here for the soil, simple lines like this. Let's do the outlining for the remaining section, the pot. Here, too, if you want to create any kind of patterns or designing, you can do that. I'll only be using two or three sets of the browns or the yellows to do the coloring for the pot. You don't have to stick with the same color combination that I'm going to use. You can use any color combinations. So feel free to do experiment on your own. This right side was a little bit small, so extending it a little bit more. Adding more details for the petals of the flower. And as for the upper part, as I was mentioning a little bit more broken hatching lines to add a little bit more detailings and to make the upper part a little bit more darker. So we are using this kind of hatching lines to do a little bit of seeding for some of the regions to make those regions bit darker. Also making this side a little bit more darker to create the clear distinction between the two cactuses. And yeah, with these, we are done with a simple outlining for our cactuses. If you want to make a little bit of changes, or if you want to add more cactuses, you can do that, too. Lightly erasing the pencil ski I see that the ink has dried up, otherwise, the ink will be smrged on the paper and apply light presser with the eraser. Otherwise, the intensity of the ink will be reduced a little bit. Lightly erasing it. Removing the eraser dust. Now, we'll be doing the coloring for our cactus. In here, I'm starting with the orange to do the coloring for the flower petal first, and then and then we'll be doing the coloring for the cactuses. Now going in with the yellow. So overlaying this yellow on top of the orange and completely filling the rest of the flower petals in here. Also adding more orange in here for the other layer of the floured petals that lies on the other side a little bit more of this. Adding the orange for this one. Now going back once again with the yellow and overlaying this on top of the orange as well as feeling the remaining section of the petals, adding it for the second one. And with this, we are done with the coloring for the flour petals. Once again, using the yellow. Particularly overlaying this on top of the deep vertical drips that we have created, a little bit for the bottom side too, a little bit more for the bottom section. And with these, we are done with the yellow. Now let's make it a little bit more darker. So going in with the green. So the same kind of thing that we did with the yellow, overlaying This time instead of overlaying it on top of the vertical ribs that we created, I'm adding it in between it, making the upper and the lower side a little bit darker. I'm moving onto the second one, doing the same thing. This kind of bit curved lines and creating a lot of smaller and larger sticks with this dark green. Also using it to do the outlining. Making the outline a little bit more distinct with this darker side of the green. Now adding a little bit more dark green wherever you think it's required. And with these, we an with a dark green. And now finally going with the light green, overlaying a little bit of the slight green on top of the yellows and the darker sad of the green that we used earlier. We are not going to cover the entire yallos in the dark green, but only a little bit of the slide green on top of the other two colors. Adding it for the second one. And with these, we are done with the coloring for our characters and the flour on top of it. As for the pot, adding a little bit of this burnt sienna now going with the light side of the ocher and completely covering the remaining section for the soil. Now we have got only the pot. So you can do the coloring in any manner, SQC feet. You can also create patterns or designs, or you can just follow along with me and do the coloring in the same manner that I'm going to do using this darker side of the ocher. And now for the remaining section, using this lighter seat of the ocher in here, I decided to create this kind of simple pattern for our pot. Feel free to make changes and adjustments. And that's put some of the fact related to this wind marl character with the yellow flower that we have created. It's native to Mako, and it's also called mother in law's cushion. I can live over 100 year. Apart from that, it also grows slowly but becomes large in the wild. It produces a ring of flower at its maturity, and these may some of the fact related to our project in here. Adding the color in here. And with this, we are done with the coloring for the pot. Now for the sad, in here, I'm using this dual t market that I have. Instead of this, if you want, you can use the normal Greek colon that you have. Or if you don't want to add this kind of sados on the side, you don't have to do this. This is all optional. Adding it on the other side too. This beside the petal and the flour. Extending the side a little bit on the bottom side. This was quite fun to paint, and I enjoyed painting it, and I'll be seeing in the next project. 11. Blushing Desert Tower : Welcome to Blessing Desert Tower. In here, we'll be creating another Peruvian apple cactus with three or four flowers. Starting with the simple see for our pot. For this pot, I'll only be using red and maroon color to do the coloring. For the soil, I'll be using shades of ocher, and I'll be using two or three shades of the green to do the coloring for our cactus. Creating this kind of upright barrel see for our cactus. I'll be creating multiple groups on the sides, side branches like this. And to add a little bit more detailing, I'll be creating this kind of ribbed vertical structure, and later on, I'll be adding few hones and needles on top of it. So creating more side branches in here like this. If you want to increase or decrease the sizes and the numbers of the side branches, you can do that. On top of all the side branches that I have created, I'll be adding flowers, simple flowers. This is our basic simple pencil sketches. If you want to make changes in adjustment, feel free to do that. To do the outlining in here, I'm using Tombosbespin. Let's start with this kind of bit broken lines to do the outlining for our flowers. For a simple seed like this. With the pencil uske, I did not create this kind of seed, but you have got the rough idea how you can easily create this kind of simple flower petals for our flower at the top of our Perrone apple Cacus, creating this kind of bit broken lines to add more texture to the outline section for our characters, a few more thorns like this, for the insides. For most of the sections, I'll be creating this kind of outline for our characters. Instead of creating this kind of outlines, you can always use simple and plain lines to do the outlining. Here too, I'll be adding flowers. So as I mentioned, for all the growths that we have created, I'll be adding the flowers on top of each. And depending upon the sides of the growth, I'll be wearing the sides of the flowers. So for the smaller ones like this, I'll be creating this kind of smaller versions for the flower, and for the larger one, we'll be creating the larger one. In total, I have created five growths for this project. Instead of five, you can decrease or increase the numbers doing the outline like this. Now let's add the flower at the crown. Now for the last growth in here, adding the flower at the top, creating smaller flower petals in here. Now, doing the outlining for the remaining section, going over the outline for the ribbed vertical structure that I did, so I divided it into two different sections. If you want to add more details, you can use a little bit of hatching lines. You can also add few thorns for the inside. I won't be doing it. I'll be using colors to create the resemblance of the thorns. Creating the bees for the cactus in here. Finally, doing the outline for the pot. Adding the best for our pot, a little bit of more thorns for our cactus and adding the final flour in here. So if you want to add more details, you can do that. You can add more thorns, a little bit of hatching lines to make the upper part and the lower part a little bit distinct and a bit darker. You can also do a little bit of seating at the lower section of the growth to make it a little bit more darker and to create a clear distinction between different sections of the characters. In here, I'm applying light presser with the eraser to remove the pencil scale. Insert that the ink has dried up. Otherwise, you will get smudges all over your paper and apply light freezer with it. Otherwise, the intensity of the ink will decrease a little bit. So in here, I'm starting with this darker seat of the red. It's maroon color. Small streaks with this like this, adding it for all the flower petals that we have created. On top of it, I'll be either using the skin color or the pink. And with these, we are done with this color for all the flower petals. Now, in here, I decided to go with the skin color. So overlaying this on top of the baroon colour that we used earlier as well as feeling the online sides of the petals that we created for the flowers, adding it for the last one. And with these, we are done with the coloring for our flowers. Apart from this, if you want, you can also use yellows and ls to do the coloring for the flowers. Now let's do the coloring for the cactus. So in here, I'm starting with this olive green, so creating this kind of broken lines. I'm using this color to create a little bit of darker regions for some of the sections of the cactus, especially for the grooves that we have added. Using this kind of broken lines to act as the hatching lines for our characters, particularly adding a little bit more near the vertical lines and adding a little bit more for the lower sections of the addisonal growths that we have created. And with these, we are done with this. Now going with the dark green and the same kind of lines, bit of broken lines, overlaying this a little bit on top of the olive green that we used earlier. Also extending it a little bit for the grooves that we have created. O. Now, once again, going back with the olive color, adding a little bit more this on one side of the cactuses. So I will be considering that the light is falling from the top right side. So this section, the bottom left side or the left side will be a bit more darker. That's why I'm using a little bit more of this olive color on the left side to make this region a bit more darker. For the remaining section in here, I'm going with this lighter green. So we'll be completely filling the remaining section, the entire insides of the cactus with this. Also overlaying this on top of the olive and the darker side of the green, and it carefully beside the flowers that we have created. And if you want to make some of the regions a little bit lighter, you can also use a little bit of yellow. You can add the yellow right now or you can wait for it. So after adding the green, you can add a little bit of yellows for some of the section. Let me make the green a little bit more lighter. Adding it for the last growth on the right side. Now, if you want to make some regions a little bit darker, you can add another layer of the greens on top of it. But I'm satisfied with it. With these, we are done with the coloring for our characters. Now let's do the coloring for the pot. In here for the soil, I use the ocher. For the pot, the same maroon colour that we use for the flower petal. A little bit like this in here on the side. Instead of using this color combination, you can use any other color combination. You don't have to use the same colours that I'm doing. You can also create other kind of patterns or designs for the pot. And with these, we are done with the pot. This is optional. In here, I'm using y to create the Sadows on the sides of the character. You don't have to use the same gray that I'm using. You can use a simple and plain y to create the Sadows like this. You can just keep it simple without any sados Adding so beside the pot. Now for the bottom section, making it a little bit larger. Adding it on the other side too, and here too, beside the flower metal. And with these, we are done with the sing desert tower. I hope you enjoyed painting this one, and I'll be seeing you in the next project. Happy painting. 12. Little Prickly Guardian : Welcome to Little Prickly Guardian Project. In here, we'll be painting Prickly Pear Cactus. We have already created one Prickly Pear cactus. This is going to be a little bit more defined, a bit more larger. In here, I've already started with a simple C food the pot. I'm creating this kind of simple version of the pot instead of this, if you want, you can create any other kind or any other variations of the pot. Now let's do this sketching for our Prickly Pear Cactus. In here, I'll be creating this kind of multiple flat owl pads for our characters. Here, if you want to vary the seats and the sizes, you can do that. You can also vary the placement of the multiple pads that I am creating. For the main stem or the branches, I will be making it a little bit thicker and for the auxiliary branches, I'll be making them a little bit thinner and bit smaller. In here for the top creating multiple flat oval pads. This is our basic simple pencil sketch. I decided to extend the pot a little bit larger. Feel free to make changes and adjustments to the pencil sketch. Now let's do the outlining. In here for this one, I'm using the Tombos breast paint to do the outlining. I'll be using both simple plain lines as well as this kind of bit broken lines to add a little bit of more texture to our painting. Instead of doing this kind of outline, if you want you can do the other kind of outlines with kind of bit broken lines that we did for our last project. So let's do the outlining for all the pads that we have created. And then we'll be creating small dots clustered for the thorns and the needles. Put some of the sections, as you can see, I'm creating this kind of bit broken lines. Apart from this, if you want to add a little bit more texture and detailing to it, you can make some of the lines a little bit dynamic by wearing the thickness of the lines. You can also use the hatching techniques to make some of the section a little bit more darker by using the hatching and doing a little bit of seeding. I'll be doing the seeding, but I'll be using the breast paint to do that. But to add another layer of detailing, you can use that like the one we did for our first project. Here, if you want, you can add few more pads, but I'm satisfied with it, how it turned out. Now adding a little bit more detailing, creating the flowers, small flower like this. These are not that detailed, very small projections like this. I'll also be creating multiple thorns, multiple thorns needles or you can see Areolas for the cactus that we are creating in here. Simple shapes for this. For the las, I'm creating this kind of small seeds, and for the flowers, I'm creating this kind of larger seam. If you want, you can also create the needle like thorns that we have created for other projects. For most of the larger ones, I'll be creating this kind of small flowers, and for the remaining ones, I'll only be creating this kind of small las for the remaining section on top of the pads. As for the colors, I'll be using three colors. I'll be using yellow. I'll be using green, and then olive green. I'll be using yellow to make the right side a little bit lighter. I'm considering that the light is falling from the top right side, so that right side will be a bit lighter and the left side will bit darker. So that's why on that side, I'll be using the darker side of the olive. And as for the pots, I'll be using ochre and the brown to do the coloring. I'll also be creating the same kind of cytos that we created for the other two projects. Continuing on with the remaining section, creating small ulas for the remaining section, as well as some of the smaller flowers for the larger part of the cactus. Regarding this prickly pear cactus, some of the interesting facts related to it. This is relative to the America. It produces edible fruit called prickly pear. Its pats are also edible on prepared properly, and it has tiny spines called glocts that are very irritating. It's smy drought resistance. This pats that we have created are not the leaves. These are the estems of the plant. Yeah, continuing on with the remaining section. This kind of smaller hatching lines in here. If you want to create multiple lines like this, you can do it for the remaining section to make it a little bit more detail. Now, for the last pad in here at the front, small nuls as well as a little bit of small flowers on top. And with this, we are done with a simple outlining and adding a little bit more detailings for our Prickly Pear characters. Still, if you want to add few more pads, you can do that. And with these, we are done with the outlining and the detailing. Let's erase the pencil and sketch, inset that the ink has dried up. Otherwise, you don't get smudging all over the paper. Also apply light presser with the reser to erase it. Otherwise, the intensity of the ink will be reduced a little bit. Now let's do the coloring, starting with the lighter sads of the color. So yellow, a little bit of yellow on the right side, also adding a little bit of yellow for the flowers too, flowers for the top, as well as for the flowers in the middle. So using a little bit of yellow like this. Later on, I'll be using a little bit of red to do the coloring for the flower. Instead of using red, you can also use pink or orange to do the coloring or you can only use the yellows and orchard to do the coloring for the flowers. As I mentioned, the light is falling from the top right. That's why I'm adding the yellow in this side. So for all the pads in here, I'm adding the yellow. Ticker streak of the yellow on the right side. So I added it for all the pads. If you want, you can also add a little bit on the left side. And with this, we are done with the yellow. Now going in with the olive, starting with creating these kind of smallness streaks with it, add a resemblance of the thorns in the needle. And now let's add it on the left side. Thinner streak as compared to the yellow and adding it on the left side. Also create these kind of smaller streaks to add the resemblance of thorns and make some of the section a little bit more denser and a bit more darker. Instead of using the color combination of yellow, light green and the olive, you can also use the darker green and the halo green or any other seeds of the greens that you have. Adding multiple smaller strokes for other regions. Now for the main branches, let's make it a little bit more darker. So creating this kind of a bit thicker streaks on the left side. And with these, we are done with it. Now, going in with the green. I'll be completely filling all the pads that we have created for the characters with the lighter side of the green. I'm also overlaying this on top of the darker side of the olive green that we used and a little bit on top of the yellow. I'm not going to cover the entire yellow, but only a small portion of the yellow will be covered by it. And the section that will be covered by the yellows will appear a little bit lighter as compared to the green that we are using. If you want, you can also cover the yellows, too. Going over the outlines, then adding a little bit of green beside the yellow and then completely filling the remaining section with the green. Adding in here on the side. So we are halfway there. Oh Now for the remaining section in here for the larger stems. And as I was mentioning, if you want to add a little bit more details to it, you can also use the darker side of the green or halo green to add another layer of the coloring, particularly on the left side to make it keep it more darker. You can use it to create hatching lines and do a little bit of seeding for the additional pads that we have created. And with these, we are done with the coloring for the character. Now let's do the coloring for the pot. In here, I'm using brown, adding the brown for the soil. Creating this kind of simple parallel lines as a design. This kind of pattern or design, you can create any other varieties or designs for the pot. Now going in with this lighter side of the ocher and completely peeling the entire section. I'm also overlaying this on top of the brown too. Making this region a little bit more darker by overlaying more layers of the ocher in here. And with these, we are done with the coloring for the pot. This part is optional. In here, I'm using y to do the outlining. So starting with doing the outlining for the pot in here. And now for the remaining section. In here, I'm using this dual tip breastpin that I have to do the outlining. So with this, I get a little bit of advantage that I can create a bit more thicker lines. That's why I'm using it. If you don't have, you can use the plain and normal gcloor that you have. And if you don't want to do it, you can just keep it simple as it is for the additional pads that we have created on this side and the right side. And with these, we are done with the sados. Now let's do the coloring for the flowers that we have created. So for the upper part of the flowers in here, I'm using red to do the coloring. Adding it for the flowers at the middle section tune. Instead of using this red, you can also use orange or pink to do the coloring. Small tiny streaks with the red to do the coloring for the flowers that we have created. If you don't want to do the color, you can just leave it as it is simple and plain yellow colored flower. And with these, we are done with our project, little prickling garcian. I hope you enjoyed painting this simple variation of the Prickly beer arcus, and I'll be seeing you in the next project, happy painting. 13. Buzzing Barrel Friends : Welcome to Bging Barrels Plant Project. In here, we'll be creating Old Man Cacus, starting with a simple outlining for aur pot as usual. Instead of creating this simpler version of the pot, you can create any kind or any variety of the pot. You can create this kind of simple rectangular sea for the pot or you can make this a little bit over like this, adding curve lines on both the side to make it a little bit curving. So this will be our pot. If you want to add designs or pattern to it, feel free to do that. Now for the characters. In here, I'll be creating three upright column for our old man characters. Here, too if you want to vary the seats in the sines or number or the numbers of the upright columns of the characters that we'll be doing, you can do that. So this will be our three cactuses for this project. If you want to do some changes in adjustment to the sketch, feel free to do that. In here, I'm using Tamosbspin to do the outlining, creating this kind of outline for the thorns and the needle. For this old man cactus, it's covered in soft hair like spines. So that's why I created this kind of needles. For the middle section in here, I'm wearing the directions of the thorns that we are adding. For all the cactuses in here, I have divided into three sections. If you want to add flowers on top of it, you can do that. If you want to add few growths on the sides, you can do that, too. Instead of creating this kind of outlines, you can create other kind of thorns and needle that we have created for other projects. But you can just follow along with me and create this kind of bit soft hair like spines for our characters. For the middle secon here, I'm wearing the directions of the thorns that we are adding. So we have alternative directions for the thorns in the middle. Doing the outlining for the last one. For some of the sections, I'm adding a little bit more details in the form of this kind of smaller lines to add a little bit more resemblance for the pans and the needles. This is ops if you don't want to do this, you can keep it simple triple lines like this to add a little bit more details for our outline. Apart from doing this kind of outline for the characters, if you want to make it a little bit more uniform, you can do that. You can do that by creating simple and plain lines to do the outlining. Using hatching lines like this to create a little bit more detailing to add more texture for our cactuses. So these regions will be a little bit darker using this kind of bit broken lines. To make it a bit more darker, you can add more lines. This is, if you don't want to use the hatching lines to make it bit darker, you can always use the colored breast beans, do it later on. Now, let's add the outlining for the bes of our cactus. Moving on to the pot, simply doing the outlining, following the seep of the pot that we created. Adding a little bit more details for the upper part of characters, a bit of broken hatching lines like this. And with this, we are done with the outlining. Let's lightly erase it, ensure that the ink has dried up, otherwise we will be getting smudging all over our people. Now let's do the coloring for our cactuses. Here, I'll be using the three seats of the greens and the yellow. Here I've already started with a darker seat, so using this olive green and adding it particularly for the outlined sections as well as for the middle region, we'll be considering that the light is falling from the top right side. So the sados will be cast in on the left side. But since this is divided into different sections, there are two cactuses in front and one in the background. So the sados casted win the two will also be making the middle region a bit darker. That's why I died it for the inside st. Not to make it a little bit more detail here, I'm using darker shades of the green, creating this kind of smaller strokes to add a little bit more texture for the characters as well as to create resemblance of the thorns. And with this, we are done with the green. Now, to make it a little bit lighter, choosing the yellow. And as I mentioned, we are considering that the light is falling from the top right, so adding the yellows on the right side. Adding a little bit of yellow for the middle regions too. And with this, we are done with the yellow. And finally, let's do the coloring for the remaining section. So using green, we'll be overlaying the green on top of the darker side of the green as well as the olive green that we use and a little bit on top of the yellow to. Adding a little bit of this green on top of the yellow to like this. Now we will be doing the same thing for the remaining two cactus, adding it carefully near the outline section, and overlaying it entirely on top of the dark green and olive green that we used earlier. Carefully adding it in here near the yellow. We don't want to cover the entire yellow. Adding it for the bees. And with these we are done with the coloring for our old man Cactus. For the soil in here, using a little bit of ocher. And now for the pot, for the pot, I'll be using two states of the blue, sky blue, and the dark blue. I won't be creating any pattern or design instead of that, if you want to create any kind of pattern or designs, feel free to do that. In here, I'm starting with the sky blue. So this will be the reflexion caused by the light. That's why I created this kind of smaller stream. Now go in with the dark view and completely filling the remaining section with it. Feel free to create any kind of pattern or design or use any other kind of combinations. And with these, we are done with the pot and the carcus. You can just keep it ast is, or you can just follow along with me and create the sados as well as I'll be creating two or three small bees, starting with a grain to create the sados. In here, I decided to create a little bit of rougher texture for the sado. So I'm using this bras with no ink. That's why I'm able to create this kind of rougher texture for the sados. Instead of creating this kind of sado you can create the normal kind of sados that we have created so far. You can leave it as it is, or you can follow along with me and add few small honeybees. Before doing that, I'm creating this kind of spiral pattern to add a little bit more details to create the path for the bees. These two are opson. If you don't want to create, you can just leave it as it is. I'm using a bit of broken lines to create this kind of say pattern. Instead of using black, you can use any other color. Adding last one in here. Now let's create very simple bees. Simple oval C for the body of the bee, circular C for its head. Simple sp like this for its wings. Here's another bee, simple oval Sep and circular C for body and the head, and this kind of bit elliptical C for the wings. If you want, you can create a few more bees. I'll only be creating two bees. Now going with the breast pain to do the outlining for our bees. I'll only be using yellows and willows to do the coloring for the bees. Creating the sting for the bees. Tiny projection for its feet, doing the same thing for the second bee, creating sting, dividing the body into different sections, tiny projection for its feet, and doing the outlining for the wings. Creating its stinger for this one, and we are done with the outlining for our bees. Some of the interesting facts that are related to this old man cactus, it's native to Mexico. White he protects strong desert sun. It's very slow growing. It takes a lot of time to grow and to mature. It really flowers indoors and it can leave for decades with proper care. These are some of the facts related to our old man cactus, going in with the yellow to do the coloring for the bees body, completely feeling the insides with it. And as for the wings, in here, I'll be using the same sky blue that I used earlier, adding a little bit of sky blue for the wings. And with this, we are done with our project, budging Barrel friend. I'll be seeing you in the next project, happy painting. 14. Golden Bloom Optunia : Welcome to this project, Golden loom obtenia. For the next project, we'll be creating a bit larger and a bit more detailed, bit more colorful and vibrant cactuses. In here, we have got another flowering prickly peer cactus, starting with the outline for the pot. For this one, I decided to create a bit larger pot like this, bit of ovals. And I'll be using two seeds of the Blue to do the coloring and I'll be creating circular and oval sieves as to design. If you want to create other varieties or kinds of the pots, you can make it a bit more longer, bit, taller, bit more broader. And with these, we are done with a simple sketch for the pot. Now let's create the cactus. In here, I'll be creating a total of two larger cactus and then I'll be creating multiple smaller ones. This two will be the two main stem or the branches. Apart from this I'll be creating multiple cluster pads, a total of eight or nine, and on top of all of them, I'll be earning yellow and orange colored flower. Now let's create additional cactuses on top of it. I'll be wearing the seams and the sines. Mostly in here, I'll be creating this kind of bit ovals. If you want to make it a little bit more broader, you can do that, too. So for the larger ones, I'll be creating a bit larger flowers, and for the smaller ones, I'll be creating bit smaller ones. Simple seeps like this to create the flower, the same kind of flower that we have created so far. This will be the biggest flower. I'll be creating two more flowers of the sig. Apart from that, all the flowers will be a bit smaller. I'll also be creating two or three small flower buds. For the middle one in here, creating smaller flower bud. Let's create the flower in here, too, for this one. So this is yet another larger one. Now for the cluster pads in here, creating this kind of bit half open flowers. Let's add one more in here. Creating one more cactus in here that lies behind these two larger ones, adding more pads on top of it, smaller cactuses, adding small flower buds on top of it. Now in here for this one, creating another flower. So this is a little bit larger as compared to the other smaller flower beds that we created. And with this, we are with a simple pencilsk. Now let's do the outlining. In here, I'm using Sakura micron fine liner to do the outlining. I'll also be adding a little bit more detailings for the flower petals in form of this kind of two or three simple straight lines. You can consider it to be simple hatching lines for the insides of the flower or you can see the middle section. We'll be creating multiple hatching lines to create the stamens. For the flower, I'll only be creating yellow and orange to do the coloring. Instead of it, you can use other variations of the colour. You can use orange and ocher. You can use pink and red. You can use blue light blue and the dark blue. You can also use skin color and pink. You have got lots of options to choose from. And with these we are done with a simple outlining for the flower. Now for the cactus, creating these kind of smaller olas. On the sides, I'll be creating small needles and the thorns. I'll also be creating few thorns and needle for the insides. And for the lower section of each pad, we'll be doing a little bit of hatching lines to do a little bit of seeding for the flower bed, doing the outlining like this, simple lines, a bit curved and organic lines for the outlining. As I was mentioning, a little bit of curved hatching lines in here for the bottom section of the smaller cactuses. Moving on to the third one in here. Let's start by doing the outlining for the flower. A bit of broken hatching lines for the petals of the flower. For the middle section of the flour, adding a lot of line to make it a little bit more detailed. Now, let's do the outlining for the min petals for this flower. Instead of using only orange and yellow to do the coloring for all the flower, you can also use other colors. So you can create larger flowers with the yellow and orange for the smaller one or for the birds, you can use other color combination. Or for half boomed flower, you can use pink and red. So you can use two or three different color combinations to do the coloring for the flowers, doing the same thing, creating outline, creating smaller anulus for the insides of the cluster pad, and a little bit of curved hatching line to make the lower secon a little bit more darker. In here, for the outline of the cactuses, I'm creating a little bit of broken and curved lines to make it look a little bit more realistic and add more characteristics to the cactuses that we are creating. Instead of this, if you want, you can create simple and plain lines too, that will do the work too. Now for the second one in here, same kind of organic line using a little bit of broken lines to do the outlining. For this two, we have got three clustered pad. One of the flower is blooming, and the other two will be half bloom, creating aula a little bit of broken hatching line. Let's do the outlining for the half bloomed flower. And with these, we are done with this one. Do the same thing for the remaining two. I decided to do the outlining for the arcus first, and then we'll be doing the outlining for the flowers and the flower petals. Now let's do the outlining for the half bloom flowers. Doing the outlining for the petals like this. In here, since the sizes of the petals are quite smaller, I'm not adding the hatching lines. Before doing the outlining for the larger flower, I decided to do the outlining for this one, the cactus that lies behind the larger two. Doing the outlining for this circular one, adding the flower bud on top of it, and for the smallest one. This too has got smaller flower bud on its top. Using hatching lines to do a little bit of seeding, creating these kind of bit broken hatching lines to make the lower renals a bit more darker and doing a little bit of seeding using this technique. Adding thorns on the side. I'm not making it that much thorning, but if you want, you can add multiple thorn. Now for the larger one, I'll be adding urulas for the inside as well as few thorns. Randomly adding the les for the inside. Now for the lower part in here, using the same broken hatching lines and yeah, filling the entire section with this kind of curb hatching lines. In here, I'm also making the sides of the hatching lines a bit larger. So we are extending the lines a little bit. To give it a little bit more volume and doing a little bit of curb lines for the upper part too. Now creating few thorns for the inside. I'm not going to add a lot of thorn, but few thorns. So four or five sets of the thorn. Now for this cactus two, adding the ulas and the thorns. And now let's do the hatching lines. Doing the outlining for the remaining section for this one. Now let's create the olas. I decided to do the outlining for the flower first, and then we'll be continuing on with adding las and doing the curve hatching lines and adding the thorns central part, adding more lines a little bit more detailing. Now continuing on with creating the ulas for the inside. Creating a few thorns for the inside and the outside. Let's do the hatching line for the bees. Curve simple broken lines to do the hatching. Here, too, we'll be extending the sizes of the hatching lines a little bit more. Adding a few more lines to make it a little bit more darker. For this character, too, we'll be using three seeds of the greens and a little bit of yellow, yellow to sow some of the highlighted section and to make it a little bit lighter. So we'll be using olive green, dark green, light green and yellow to do the coloring for our characters. Now for the soil, this kind of bit broken and curved line to create the outlining for it. And finally, let's do the outlining for our pot. And with this, we are done with the upper part for the pot. Now for the remaining section, With these, we are done with outlining for the pot. As I was mentioning, creating simple circular shapes for the designs. Instead of creating this kind of simple pattern or designs for the pot, you can create any other designs or pattern as you see fit. This is optional. You don't have to follow along with me. You can create other variations for the patterns and the designs. For the upper part of the pot, I'll be using red, and for the remaining section, I'll be using dark blue and the light blue. I'll be encircling the circles that we have created with the dark blue. And for the remaining sections, I'll be using the light blue, and for the insides of the circle, I'll be leaving it as it is simple and plain white. And with these, we had done with the outlining for the characters, flowers and the pot. Let's erase the pencil skin. So using eraser and lightly erasing the pencil skis that we did. Now let's do the coloring in here. I'm starting with the orange, so going over the lower section of the flower and flower petal with this orange, adding it on the other side of the flower too, like this. I'm not adding it for the central part. So we'll be doing the same thing for all the flower and the flower petals and the small flower buds and the half plum flowers that we have created. A little bit of orange for the lower side, also overlaying this orange on top of the simple hatching lines that we have created. Adding it for this one, too. Let's add it for another larger one. Adding it on the other side too. Put the smallest bid in here. And with this, we with the orange for the flour. Now for the remaining section, simple and plain yellow, we'll be completely filling the entire section with this. Also, we'll be overlaying this yellow on top of the orange. Carefully adding this yellow for the outlined section of the flower. I'll be adding the yellow for the insides of all the flour. To make it a little bit more darker, you can also use a little bit of red. On top of the orange, you can create smallness strokes of the red to make it a bit more darker. Or instead of using orange, you can also use orchard to make it a bit more darker. So you can use red or orchard to make the flowers a little bit more darker, adding it for the larger flower in here. Completely filling nine sides with it. And with these, we are done with the coloring for our flower, and it looks quite beautiful. Now let's do the coloring for the cactus. So starting with the olive green. Mostly adding it on top of the hatching lines that we have created. We'll be making the lower regions of the smaller cactus bit darker. Adding it over the hatching lines that we created earlier. Also, I'll be creating few small random strokes for the inside to give the resemblance of the thorns and the needles. Small strokes like this for the insides. For the larger cactuses in here, adding a little bit more of this olive green. Now for the smaller cactuses, adding a little bit less, so comparatively less as compared to the larger ones. For the bottom section of the cactus, make them a little bit more darker, so add a little bit more lines. Make the strokes a little bit more thicker for the bottom section. Adding a few more lines for the inside, making this region a little bit more darker. And with these, we had done with the olive green. Now, let's go in with the darker side of the green. Adding this darker side of the green just below the flower and the flower buds. Also creating the same kind of smaller strokes that we created with the olive green to give more resemblance for the thorns and the needles. And compared to the olive green, I'm mostly adding it for the upper part and the middle part, using this darker side of the green and adding it in here for the middle section of the cactus, overlaying a little bit of it on top of the olive green. And with these, we are done with the darker green. Now, let's make it a little bit lighter. So using a little bit of yellow, mostly adding it on the top right side, small streaks of the yellow to make this region, the right side a little bit more lighter. In here, we are considering that the light is forming from the top right. That's why I added the yellow on this side on the top right side. Finally, going in with the light green. So completely filling the entire section with it. I'll only be leaving a little bit of yellow to be visible. Mostly for the smaller ones, I'll also be covering the yellow. But in the region where we added yellow will be comparatively lighter, and as for the dark green and the olive green, we'll be completely covering it. Let's do the coloring for the smaller cactuses first, and then we'll be doing the coloring for the larger one. Added carefully near the flowers, we don't want the yellow and the orange to mix with the greens, carefully filling in the green inside the outlined section. Now for this larger one, leaving a little bit of yellow to be visible on the right side. Now, let's completely fill the inside with this screen. Overlaying this screen on top of the olive green and the dark green. Now feeling this remaining section. Making the bottom section a little bit more darker by adding more layers to green. Now for the second one. Feeling the entire section with the green. Adding the green carefully inside the outline section. Also for the lower section of this clustered pad, add a little bit more green to make it a bit more dark the lower sections. Adding the green near the outline section. Now let's completely fill the insides with the slight green, not covering the entire yellow in here. With these, we are done with the green and coloring of our cactus and its flower. Let's do the coloring for the pot for the soil in here, using a little bit of ochre. The only thing that remains is the pot. As I mentioned, I'm using red and the blues to do the coloring. Let's get started. I'll be completely feeling the inside with it. I'll also be doing the outlining for all the patterns and the designs that I have created. This process is going to take a little bit of time. Still, if you want to create other kind of variation pattern or designs for the pot, you can do that, or you can just follow along with me and do the coloring in the same manner that I'm doing. Till we are doing the coloring, let's talk about some of the facts related to this flowering prickly pear. This prickly pear cactus is from the optunea species of the cactus. Most of the optuna species bloom in the spring. It has got cluster of pads that we have created in here. It has multiple bright yellow flowers, sometimes yellow, sometimes oranges, and it has got compact growth. This kind of bright and vibrant flowers attract bees in the pollinators. Damper Center, Center and dump and dam And some of the cactuses from this Optunea family produces edible fruit. It also thrives in the rocky soil. And in here we are done with the lighter side of the blue, now going with the darker side of the blue and using it to do the outlining. Using this to do the outlining for all the circular seeds that we have created. W We have got three or four more, and then we'll be doing the coloring for the bees. I'll be using ese to do the shadows as well as using red for the upper part of the pot. Let's do the coloring for the top and then we'll be creating the bees using the red to do the coloring in here. Instead of this, you can use other colors too. You can also use darker side of the blue. And with these, we are done with our pot and the cactus and the flowers. This is optimal. If you want, you can create the same kind of shados that we have created for the sides of the cactus. But in here, I'll only creating the sado for the base. And with this, we are done with our golden plum Optunia. I'll be seeing you in the next project, Happy painting. 15. Cactus Companion : Welcome to Cactus Companion. In here, we'll be creating a total of three characters, different varieties of the character, starting with a simple outlining pullover pot. Basically in here, I'll be creating this kind of cylindrical seep for the pots. Feel free to make changes and adjustment to the seeds of the pot. Instead of decorating this kind of pot, you can create any other variety or any other seep or side of the pot. Creating one more pot in here. For this one, I'll be creating barrel cactus. For the middle one, I'll be creating sugaro cactus and for the third one, I'll be creating Otonia micro dis or buningear cactus. As for the coloring of the pots, I'll only using two seeds of the color. Brown and yellow occur to coloring. I'll also be using y to create the shadows. And as for the cactus, I'll be using the seeds of the green, light green, dark green, and olive green. I'll also be adding flour now let's create our cactus. In here, I'm starting with the middle one. So for this one, I'll be creating sugaro cactus or you can say young colnar cactus, the same kind of cactus that we have created in our earlier project. I'll be creating total of two main columns, and on the sides, I'll be creating multiple growth. By multiple, I mean two or three growth. Here, too, if you want to value the seeds inside, feel free to do that. Let's add one more, a smaller one. Now for the barrel cactus in here, simple oval seed. Now create into simple shapes like this for the additional Cactus. Now moving to third and the final one, but ear Cactus. Make it a little bit more and larger, adding additional cactus in here. Now for the second main branch, let's make it a little bit more larger, adding additional characters in here. And with this, we are done with a simple pencil escape, the outlining. For this in here, I'm using Sakura Micron fineliner. Simple lines like this. I'm also using a little bit of broken line. I decided to make the side of the pot a little bit larger extending the side on both sides a little bit. Doing the outlining in here for the additional cactuses that we have created. We have got additional projections of the cactus in here. Now, let's do the outlining for the first one, the barrel cactus. In here, I'll be creating a little bit of different kind of thorns. I'll be using white sakura micron jelly pin to create the thorns. Instead of creating that kind of thorn, if you don't have sakura micron pin, you can use the other kind of thorn that we have created so far. And the color in here will be a little bit different from all the projects that we have covered so far. And with these, we are with the first one. Let's do the third and the final one, bunny ear Cactus, starting with the outlining our pot. Simple cylindrical C like this. I forgot to do the outlining in here for this one. So creating the simple cylindrical C for the pot. Moving back to our bunny ear Cactus. You don't have to stick with the pencil sketch that you have created, feel free to make changes and adjustment. As you can see in here, I'm not strictly following the outlines that I created earlier with the pencil sketch. I made changes in adjustment as required, doing the outlining for the additional cactuses on the top. I read the pencil sketch. Now let's do the coloring. For this one, I'll be using sides of the green, darker shades of the green. So starting with the dark green and adding it on the right side. Apart from this, I'll also be using halo green and olive green. Beside this, I'll be adding the halo green and for the left side, I'll be using the dark green, the olive green, creating this kind of stroke on the right side. And with this, we are done in the dark green going in the halo green, adding it just beside it. We are not going to cover the entire section for the middle portion like this. Okay. Now for the final branch in here. And with this, we are done with the hallo green. Finally, going in with the olive green. Adding the olive green for the remaining section on the left side. Instead of olive green, if you want to make it a bit lighter, you can use the light green. But for this, I decided to create a little bit of darker variations for the cactus. So we'll be using this color combination for most of the cactuses. Completely filling the insides with this. Now for this section. Filling the entire left side with this. On top of this, I'll be using jelly pin to create simple lines simple broken lines to create the resemblance of the thorns later on. Now for the sugaru cactus, here, too, I'm using this dark side of the olive green on the left side. Besides this, I'll be using the light seed of the green, and then I'll be using the dark side of green. Instead of using halo green for the middle, here, I'll be using the light seed of the green. On top of this, on top of this, I'll also be adding flour using yellow and pink colour. I'll also be using a little bit of aqua colour, adding the olive green for the additional cactuses on the sides. Branch adding in for this largest one. Creating a few more streaks in here for the middle section. Adding it in here too. So smaller streaks with this olive green. Now for the light green, adding india beside this olive green, I'm also overlaying a little bit of this light green on top of the olive green, adding it for all the cactuses that we have created in here. A few more additional streaks with this light green. To avoid smudging of the color by my palm, I'm using tissue paper. Enough for the remaining section in here, filling it with a dark seed of the green. I'm not going to entirely cover the green that I used earlier. Only a small section of the green will be covered darker sd of the green like this. Adding it in here for this smaller region. Now for the remaining cactus, the same thing. Carefully adding it beside the lighter side of the green and then feeling the remaining outline region with this darker side of the green. Right now, this are not looking that green, but when using the white to add more details, it will look far better, adding it for the additional cactuses. Now for the smallest one in here. Nough for the final one instead of coloring it in the same manner that we did for the earlier two, I'm making a little bit of ens. In here, I'll be creating this kind of patches using the sads of the green, dark green, light ring and the olive green. So you can just follow along with me, or if you want to do the coloring in any other manner, feel free to do it. With these we are done with the dark green. Now going in the olive green. Adding it comparatively less, creating smaller streaks like this with this olive green. Now for the remaining section in here, I'll be completely filling it with the light shed of the green. Completely filling the outline region with this. To make it a little bit lighter, you can also use a little bit of yellow color. And let's put the flowers in here, I'll be using yellow. And with these, we are done with the coloring for three cactuses using jelly paint to create this kind of small simple lines. And creating the resemblance of thorns like this. If you don't have this or if you don't want to create this kind of pattern or designs for the cactus, you can always create you can always create the same kind of thorns and needles that we have created so far. This is optional, but I'll be going to cover all the cactuses with this kind of lines. And this process is going to take a lot of time since we have got three cactus. So you've got the rough idea how we'll be creating this kind of line. So you can follow along with me and add the detailings like this or you can opt out and read the other kind of simple thorns and needles that we have created so far. This is our third or fourth Optunea cactus that we have created in this class. So this is Optunea microdasys, bunny ear cactus, the name the bunny ear because it looks like money ear. It has tiny hair like spines called glaucoids. This is one of the very popular house plant cactus because it's easy to propagate. Continuing on with the remaining section, creating simple lines like this. Also, as you can see, I'm following the same of the characters and adding the lines in that manner. For the last one. Also, if you want to vary the siges of the lines, you can do that, too. You can vary this piecing. And instead of creating this kind of simple lines, you can create other variations or other designs or pattern that will be interesting too. And with these, we are done with our first character. Now for our part. Here A using brown and yellow occur. Three simple parallel lines, and for the remaining section, I'll be completely filling it with the yellow ochre. Going in with this yellow ocher and completely filling the remaining section in between the parallel lines. For the upper part two, I'll be adding this yellow ochre. And with these, we add them with our first cactus. Later on, I'll also be adding the flower for now continue on with our middle one, the second one, for the sugaru cactus In here, we'll have to create bit more longer lines. Here as I was mentioning, later on, I'll be creating pink and yellow colored flour on top of each cactus. For the barrel cactus, I'll be using yellow color for the bunier cactus, I'll be using red. Now for the larger one, completely filling the entire region with this. So this cactus, Sugaro cactus is also known as Yang Column Cactus. This is one of the iconing desert cactus of Arizona. It can grow up to 40 feet tall and may live up to 150 to 200 years. And the thing about it flower that it blooms at night. White in here that we are adding is clearly visible for the darker region, but for the lighter region, the light green. So it's not that much clearly visible. Continuing on with the second one. For the pot in here too, I'll be using the same color combination and seen pattern or design, parallel lines with the brown, and then filling the remaining section with a yellow ochre. For the upper part of the pot in here, I'll also be using the yellow ochre and a little bit of brown and I'll be creating shadows later on. In here for any of the project, I have not created any kind of background, but if you want to experiment with creating background or create any pattern or designs or any kind of text, you can do that, too. We have got only a small section to add the lines to, then we will be moving on to our prickly pier Cactus. The lines in here as I was mentioning on top of the lighter set of the greens and not a visible. You can use the black fine liner to add lines like this or the lighter set of the green. That will be interesting too. Now for the smaller one, getting multiple lines like this. Now for the last one, following the seep of the cactus and adding the lines using the jelly pen. If we have not created this kind of lines, the project would have been completed. I'm using the tissue paper to avoid smudging of the colors by by palm. And with these we had done with our characters. Now let's do the coloring for the pot. Adding a little bit of brown for the upper part for the sewing. Now, creating simple parallel lines using the brown. For each individual pot in here, you can create other designs. You don't have to stick with creating the same kind of design for all the pots. And with these, we turn with the brown, now going in with the yellow ocher, adding the yellow ocher for the upper part for the soil, now completely filling the remaining section in between the parallel lines with this, adding it for the bottom section, and with this, we adn with the pot and the second cactus. Now for the third and the final one, following the sweep of the cactus and adding the lines using this jelly pen for the insides. For our barrel cactus, it's also called golden barrel cactus. This is the third barrel cactus that we are creating. This cactus can kneel over 100. It grows slowly and it's very compact. Apart from that, it also stores large amount of water. Adding it for the second one, following the sep of the cactus. And with these, we are done with this section. Now for the final one, once again, following the s. Now for the larger one, I'm starting with the straight line in the middle and then I'll be following the sep of the cactus and adding the lines like this, making the lines a little bit curvier, making the lines a little bit curvier, following the oval seep of the cactus. Now for the other side, the same thing. As we move towards the right, I'm making the lines a little bit more curvier. And with these, we are done with the jelly pen. If you want to add more details or if you want to create any other kind of pattern or designs with the jelly pen, we agree to do that. You can create patterns and design on top of the pot using this jelly pen. M for the pot, I'm starting with a brown. I'll be creating the same kind of simple and normal design, three simple parallel lines with this brown, and then I'll be filling it with the yellow occur. Adding it for the bottom section. With this, we are done with the brown, going in with the yellow occur, starting with adding it for the upper part, now peeling it for the remaining section. And with these, we are done with the coloring for about three cactuses and the three pots. This is addisonal. We are going to create flour simple flour seeps like this. These are simpler versions of the flour. Instead of this, if you want, you can create a bit more detailed and a bit more defined versions of the flour. For this, I'll be using yellow. A total of five flour for our barrel cacatus Put the money ear cactus, simple petals like this for the flower. I'll be greeting three or four flowers on top. Simple seams like this. I'll be using red or maroon or pink colour to do the coloring. Greting one more smaller flower in here. A bit more detailing. Erlin I was not going to add the flour for the middle one, but then I decided why not add flower in here too. Adding the flour in here, a bit larger flower for this columnar cactus. Greting this kind of oval seeps with hatching lines in the middle. Now for the petals, numerous petals like this. Creating the petals like see for this one, too. Now for the last one. And with these weturn with outlining for our flower. Let's do the coloring. For the first one, the barrel cactus in here, I'm using yellow to do the coloring, completely filling nine sides with it, applying two or three layers of the yellow to make some of the section a bit more darker. For the columnar cactus on the sugaro cactus in here, and here, I'm starting with the ocher for the lower section. Making it a little bit lighter by using yellow and completely feeling the outlined region with it. As for the petals in here, I'm going to use only single color using skin colour to do the coloring for our petal. You can also use a little bit of pink or red to make it a little bit more colourful. And finally, for our bun ear cactus, using red, adding the red for the outlying region for our petals. And with these, we are done with the coloring for our flour and flower petals. This is optional, using red to create sados for the best of our pots. Simple seeps like this for the sad does. And with these, we are done with our project Cactus companions. I'll mesing you in the next project. Cool 16. Ruby Tipped Optunia : Welcome to Rubi T OptuniaPject. Here we are creating another prickly pear characters, starting with a simplified sp for our pot. Instead of creating this kind of simple variation of the pot, you can create any other kind of pot, you can make it a little bit more broader, you can make it a bit larger. So feel free to experiment with various seeps and the sizes for the pot. I'll be using two or three seats of the color to do the coloring, using brown, as well as yellow ocher to do the coloring for our pot. Now let's create our cactus. This will be the main stem of our trickle pear cactus. We'll be creating lots of flat oil pad for our cactus, a total of six or seven, and on top of them, I'll be adding the flowers. Creating oval pads on the sides. Here you can play with the seeps and the sizes of the pads that you are creating. You can make it a little bit larger. You can make it a bit smaller. You can also change their placement. I'll be creating very simple variations of the flower on top. Adding the flowers on top. The flowers are optional. Creating few more additonal pads in here. As I increase the number of the pads, I'm increasing their sizes, adding the flowers on top in here too. This is going to be our simple pencil sketch for our characters. If you want to make some changes and adjustment to the pencil sketch, feel free to do that. Here we have got one mean branch and three stems coming out of it. And on top of that, we have few more additional branches or few more additional pads. Now let's do the outlining for this here I'm using Sakura micron fine liner. And let's start with doing the outlining for the flower. Not the entire section of the flower is visible. We are only doing the outlining for the petals that are visible. And for the lower section on the bottom part of the petals, we are doing a little bit of hatching lines to make it a little bit more detailed. Simple hatching lines like this, following the conto the seep of the petals to add the hatching lines. Now, let's do the outlining for the cactus. So I'll be using this kind of bit broken and curved line to do the outlining. Instead of creating this kind of lines, if you want, you can use uniform and clean lines to do the outlining. On the sides, I'll be adding multiple thorns, and let's divide into different sections. Mostly, I'll be dividing into three or four sections. These are just rough estimate, and these are optional. If you don't want to use this, you can just proceed with you can just proceed without adding it. Dividing into different sections for the upper one, two, using this kind of mid broken lines to divide it into different section. On each sections, I'll be adding multiple thorns. I'll be clearing two or three simple and plain lines to create the thorns. Now, let's do the outlining for the remaining sections. For the auxiliary branches in here, the same kind of line, better up and curved line to do the outlining. Using this kind of lines make the whole project look a little bit more organic. That's why for some of the section, I use this kind of lines. Dividing into different section using this kind of bit broken line on top of it, I'll be adding the flowers later on. Let's do the outlining for the remaining section, the largest system in here. And in here, since this is the largest one, so the two auxiliary branches of the characters that are attached to it, I'll be making those region a little bit thicker. So this kind of simple lines like this. So I'll be adding more lines later on, doing the outlining for this auxiliary branch, the flat owl pads that we have in here. Let's do the outlining for the flower. Instead of creating this kind of flower, as I mentioned, you can create other variations of the flower. You can also create the smaller flower buds that we used in our last project. You can also create half bloom flowers. Adding one more flower in here. Only two or three petals of the flowers are visible in here. And for the lower section, we are doing a little bit of hatching lines to make it a little bit more detailed. So with these, we are basically done with the main outlining. Now we'll be adding more detailings in the form of this kind of stripped lines. And after that, we'll be creating and adding multiple thorns and needles for the insights as well as near the outlined regions. For dividing the cactuses into different sections. Let's divide this largest one into different section. Apart from that, we'll also be using a little bit more hatching lines for the lower section of each individual stems to make those region a bit more darker. Quitting lines for this one, dividing into different sections. Now let's do the outlining for the pot. Still, if you want to make changes and adjustment to the seeps of the pot, you can do that. Doing the outlining for the base of our pot. And with this, we are done with a simple outlining. Now, let's create multiple thorns throughout the entire region. Creating this kind of small bumped seed, and on top of it, we'll be creating two or three thorns. This is optional too. You don't want to create this kind of simple bumped set or areolas. You can just directly start with creating simple thorns like this. Pair of two or three thorns on the sides. I'll also be adding thorns for the inside or the inner regions like this. You can also add the thorns on alternative direction if you have divided the cactus into more sections. Adding the thorns on the sides. Let's add the thorns in here too, creating uls and adding thorns on top of it. And as I was mentioning in here, I'll be adding the thorns on alternative side. For this one, in here I decided to add it on the left side and for this one, adding it on the right side. So we'll be adding the thorns on the remaining sections of the cactus. This is going to take a little bit of time since we have to create lots and lots of thorns. Adding a few more thorn in here. Now for the smaller ones. For the smaller ones, adding four or five batches of the thorns like this. For the intersections in here, one or two pair of the thorns will be enough. Moving on to this one. Now for the insides. Apart from the outline and the middle regions, I'm also adding some thorns and random ling like this, adding it for this larger section in here. Creating simple saps, simple projections like this for the irreguls and on top of it. And on top of this, we'll be adding multiple thorns, a set of two or three thorns like this. Moving on to the inside and creating thorns. Now for the last one, adding thorn in here, Now, we have got only two sections. Let's quickly create more thorns for the outside region as well as for the intersections. After doing this, we'll be using a little bit of curve lines to do hatching for the lower sections. And as for the colors in here, I'll be making the flowers a little bit darker, so we'll be using reds and pinks or skin colour to do the coloring for the flower. As for the characters, I'll only using three seats of the color. I'll be using yellow, light green, and dark green. For the pot, I'll be using brown and a little bit of yellow occur. I'll be creating very simple parallel lines as the pattern or you can say designs for the pot. I'll also be using a little bit of green to create the shadows for the pot. Now, as I was mentioning, using this kind of small broken lines to make the lower regions a little bit more darker, a bit more detail. Simple lines like this, broken hatching lines. If you want to make it a little bit more darker, you can add more lines. And to make it a little bit more defined and a bit more detail, you can add more thorns for the inner region. Instead of creating this kind of two or three thorns, you can create simple one or two thorns that we have created so far in our earlier projects. And with these, we are done with the outlining. Let's erase it so that the ink has dried up and then lightly erase it. We don't want the ink to be smudged on the paper. You going that erast dust? Let's start with coloring our flower first and then we'll be doing the coloring for our characters, starting with the maroon color, adding a little bit for the lower regions of our flower. Tiny strokes of the bras like this. Instead of using this, you can always use yellow red and orange to do the coloring. For this one, I forgot to add the detailing, so using the fine line to add more detailing. Now, going in with the red and making the flour, the petal of the flower a little bit more detailed, creating a bit larger strokes like this. I'm overlaying this red on top of the maroon and creating this kind of larger strokes following the seep of the hatching lines that we created earlier. And adding it for the last one. I'm also doing outlining for some of the section of the flower petals with these. Doing the outlining for the flower petals too. And now in here, I'm going with a skin color and completely filling the outline region with this. And with these, we are done with the coloring for our flower petals. Let's do the coloring for the remaining section, the characters, starting with the yellow. So for this cactus, I decided to keep it a little bit rough texture. So mostly, I'll be using this kind of arms strokes to do the coloring for our character. Wearing the crecia on the breast to create this kind of bit thick and thin lines to create this kind of strokes. Yellow will be the lightest color in here. I'll also be using light green and dark green. I'll be adding the darker green on the upper part and the lower part of the characters. And that's what the light green will be overlaying it on top of both the yellow and the dark green. We won't be covering the yellow entirely, but some of the sections of the yellow that we are adding right now will be covered with these, we are done with the yellow. Now going with the dark green, creating the same kind of lines by wearing the recess a little bit bit of thick and thin lines like this. So creating this kind of strokes and wearing the side dish of the strokes, too, to create this kind of lines. Mostly, as I mentioned, I'll be adding it for the upper and the lower part. Adding it just below the flower and a little bit for the lower sections like this. Apart from this, you can also use the olive green colour to add another layer of detailing. Put the larger stems in here. As you can see, I'm making the side dish of the lines a little bit more larger. Add it accordingly for the smaller one, make the side dish of the strokes quite smaller and for the larger one, make the sides a bit larger. Adding it for this one. Now, fine in here, making this region, the lower part a little bit more darker. And with these wet with a dark green. Fine, going with the light green. The same kind of strokes. For the lower and upper regions, we'll be adding a little bit more green. Also overlaying it on top of the yellow. As I mentioned, I'm not going to cover the entirety of the yellows. Some of the yellows will remain visible like this. Instead of it, if you want to cover most of the yellows, you can do that, too. But as I mentioned, I'll be aiming to get a rough texture for this project. That's why I'm creating these kind of strokes and do the coloring in this manner. Make the upper part and the lower part a little bit more darker by adding more greens there. Continuing on with adding the green for the remaining section. Now for the last mean branch in here, creating this kind of dynamic stroke. Making the lower region bit more darker by adding more layers of the greens in here. And with these, we are done with the coloring for our characters. Let's do the coloring for the pot. As I mentioned, I'll only be using browns and the yellow ocher to do the coloring, starting with a brown. The upper part of the pot will be covered with this brown, and apart from that, I'll be creating two parallel lines. And then for the remaining section, I'll be filling it with a yellow ocher. Also making the bottom section a little bit more darker. Feel free to create any other kind of pattern or designs. I'll be adding the parallel lines later on. Let's feel the entire section with the yellow ocher first, and then on top of it, I'll be adding the two parallel lines to create simple pattern or you can see simple designs. And finally, going back once again with the brown to create simple pattern like this. And with this, we are done with the coloring for our pot, going in with the green to create the sados in here just beside the base of our pot. This is optonal if you don't want it just leave it as it is. And with this, we are done with our project, ruby tipped Optunia. I hope you enjoyed painting this, and I'll be seeing you in the next project. 17. Numerous Mini Cactus : Welcome to the bonus Project. In here, I'll be creating a total of 16 small ccnses. I've divided the people into three different sections. And in here, I've already started with creating different kinds of pods. For this row, I'll be creating a total of seven pots with seven different kinds of cactuses. For the next row, I'll be creating a total of five cactuses, and for the last row, I'll be creating a total of six cactuses. So a total of 18 cactuses. Feel free to experiment with different seeds in the sizes for the pot. Right now, I'm showing different examples of the pot, but when I'll be doing the outlining with a fine liner, I'll be making all the pots of similar size. As for the cactuses, I'll be creating the varieties of the cactus that we have practiced so far. I won't be doing the coloring for any of them, so feel free to do the coloring on your own. And this is our last pot in here. Now, let's create some cactuses. In here, we have got the castle cactus. I'll be creating four cactuses in here. Right now, I've created two, and later on I'll be adding two more. Feel free to experiment with the seeds in the sides as well as the placement. For the pots on the second row, I'll be adding it in between the pots like this. Before creating the cactuses, I decided to create the outlines for the pot first and then we'll be creating the cactuses. In that manner, we can overlay the cactuses on top of the pot. That will make the whole process quite easier. A total of five pots for this row. Feel free to increase or decrease the number of the pots. And mostly for the first and the second row, I'll be creating this kind of simpler version for the pots when I'll be doing the outlining. For the third row, I'll be creating a different kind of pot. In here, I decided to create this kind of square or you can see a rectangular C for the pot, a total of seven part for this row. I'm trying to maintain this uniform distance between the pots. If you are not that confident, you can always use the roulette to divide the paper into different sections. In that manner, you can easily create the pots or you can use smaller sizes of the paper to create individual araces along with the pots, creating the upper part for the pot. Now, just adding this simple rectangular s for the upper part of the pots. So these are going to be our 18 pots. This is our sugaro cactus. Only two auxiliary branches in here for our cactus. The third one decided to create barrel cactus, feel free to create other varieties or other species of the cactus, simple oval sap like this. For this two decided to create another variation of the oval cactus. So here's our second barrel cactus. Now for the fifth one, call them nar cactus. In here, we have got columnar cactus and I'll be creating multiple smaller cactus alongside it. These three are going to be the main branches, and these are the auxiliary branches. Now moving on to the sixth one. In here, we have got bunny cactus. For this one, too, I made some changes when I did the outlining. Here's another sugaro cactus. This is a little bit larger since we have got more area in here. And this is going to be our first row of the cactuses for our bonus project. Now let's do the second row for this one, and decided to create another bunny cactus. Before doing it, let's add the upper part for our pot. Now, in here as I was mentioning, I'll be creating another bunny ear cactus. This will be a little bit larger. In here, we have got comparatively more species ears compared to the first row. So I'll be creating bit larger cactuses and some of the cactuses will be overlaid on top of the pot, but mostly it will be only remaining in this area. Here's another barrel cactus. For the third one in this row, we have got this prickly pear cactus. Here's another barrel cactus. So the fifth cactus of the second row, here we have got dwarf cactus, oval pads like this. For this one, I'll be creating multiple one, simple oval sets like this. And you can add as many auxiliary or smaller cactuses as you want, making this one a little bit larger. When I'll be doing the outlining, as required, I'll be making changes and adjustment to the pencil sketches that I created. And we are done with the second row. Now for the third row in here, here we have got more area compared to the first and the second row, a bit more larger cactuses, simple cactus like this. Let's create another variation of this cactus, a little bit more broader and bit thicker pads for this one. A a few more smaller ones. And we are done with the second one. For the third one in here and decided to create a simple one, a total of three cactuses. Here's another one. So another ricky pear cactus. In here, we have created lots of prickly pear cacus and varl cactus. And we are done with the fourth one. We have got two more. For this one, I decided to create a bit larger and bigger one, adding auxiliary branches of the cactuses, smaller columnar saps for the cactus. Then with this, we are done with the fifth one. Now for the last one, let's create one more barrel cactus. This time, I decided to make it quite larger. Big circular seep like this. With these, we are done with a simple pencil sketching for all the 18 cactuses. Now, let's do the outlining. Mostly in here, I'll be creating this kind of organic and curved line to do the outlining. I'll also be adding additional elements such as flowers and birds or adding a few more additional characters. Feel free to make changes and adjustment. You don't have to stick with the outline that you have created. For the third and the second row, I'll only be doing the outlining for the pots that I created. But for the first row, I'll be making kings to the seeps of the pot. I'll be creating the same kind of pots that I created for the second row. But if you want to experiment with different kinds of pot, you can also create varieties of patterns and designs for the pots. Continuing on with doing the outlining for all the cactuses that we have created in here. Outlining the top of our pot. Let's do the outlining for the top first, and then we'll be doing the outlining for our cactuses, doing the outlining for this one. Doing the outlining for the third and the final one. Adding a little bit of detail by dividing into different sections to give it a little bit more volume and depth. I won't be adding the detailing for all the cactuses. Feel free to add any kind of details as you see fit. I'll only be adding the detailing for this kind of cactuses. For some of them. I won't be doing it for all the cactuses. Making the lines a little bit more thicker by adding more lines. Now for this one, the burning cactuses, here I won't be adding thorns and needles too, so feel free to create or add any kinds of thorns. Outlining this one. Here's another variation of the prickly pear cactus, the same kind of line that I use, adding additional one in here. Now for the remaining section of the upper part, one additional in here. Going over the outline for the remaining section. And with these, we are done with the fifth one for the sixth one, starting with doing the outlining for the upper part of the pot. Now for the remaining section of the characters, simple oval seep using this kind of broken lines to the outlining. I decided to add a little bit of detailing, so I'll be adding few thorns for the inside as well as glucoids. With these, we are done with the third row of our cactuses. Let's do the outlining for the remaining section, the pot. For the second part, I'll be doing the outlining later on. And with these, we are done with the outlining for most of the pots and all the cactuses. Since this is going to take a little bit of time, and we have created a lot of pots and lots of cactuses. In here, I've increased the speed a little bit. If you want to follow along with me, you can reduce the speed or you can pause the video for this cactus. In here, I decided to create this kind of broken lines to do the outlining and adding the details for the insights. Doing the outlining for the pot. So as I was mentioning, I'll be changing the seats of the pot for the first two. I'll be creating I'll be transforming all the pots into this simpler s. For all the taller cactuses, or you can say columnar cactuses, I'll be adding details, and a few lines like this for the sides. But for the remaining cactuses, I won't be doing it like the prickly pear cactuses or the barrel cactuses. I won't be adding much detailing for them. If you want to do that, you can do it later on. Now for the fourth one, same simple kind of pot. Outlining the simple oval sap. Feel free to make changes and adjustment to the sp sizes as well as the placement of the cactuses. Let's do the outlining for the pots first, and then we'll be doing the outlining for the cactuses. Simple saps like this. Another columnar cactus in here, adding a little bit of detailing for the inside and creating a few additional auxiliary cactuses. And with these, we are done with the outlining for all the cactuses for the first row, doing the same thing for the second row. Starting with doing the outlining for the pot first and then we'll be doing the outlining for our cactuses, carefully doing the outlining for the pots, near the cactuses of the first row. Especially here, carefully doing the outlining for this first pot. Now we'll be doing the outlining for the remaining five cactuses. Still, if you want to make changes to the sides of the cactuses and the pots, as well as the placements, feel free to do that. We are done with the first one. The second one, the barrel cactus. For this additional project, we have a lot of columnar cactus, barrel cactus and prickly pear cactuses. You can experiment with different kind of thorns and needle. You can create varieties of flour. You can also do a little bit of hatching technique to make some of the sex and bit more darker. You can create varieties of patterns and designs for the pot. You can also create designs and patterns for the cactuses tube that will be interesting. And if you have any other ideas, feel free to use those tube. And with these, we are done with outlining on our cactuses. Now let's erase it. I decided to add a little bit more detail for some of the cactuses. For this one, creating this kind of smaller areolas. Adding a few thorns for this one. I won't be doing it for all the cactus, but this is just another example. So I'll only be covering up to here, feel free to do the coloring in any manner, add additional aliment as you want. And with this, we are done with this bonus section. See you in the next video. 18. Class Conclusion : Congratulations on completing the mini cactus, a seven day challenge. Over the past seven days, we have painted vibrant, playful cactuses using use paints and fine liners, from simple down forms to tall desert towers, from soft texture to tiny flower and decorative pots. We have practiced building seats, layering greens, adding highlights, and creating texture with a small stroke. I hope this challenge helped you to feel more confident using rush paints. Don't stop here, try designing your own character variety, experiment with different pot patterns, change the color palette, maybe create a full character collection on one page. And if you enjoyed this class, please se your project in the gallery. I absolutely love seeing your interpretations and color choices. Thank you so much for joining me in this creative journey. Keep drawing, keep experimenting, and I'll be seeing you in my next class. Happy painting.