Minimalistic Cocktail Illustration in Procreate

1. Intro: As creatives, we often put a lot of pressure on ourselves to create amazing work all of the time. There's nothing wrong with creating good work. Though what I've experienced, those periods of just producing, producing, producing all of the time, I really missed creating just for the fun of it. To loosening up, to release the creative block, or maybe just to learn how to draw something in a certain style. If this is you today, you have come to the right class. In this fun and creative draw along class, I will teach you how to draw a minimalistic cocktail illustration in Procreate. You'll get a bunch of free downloads in class so that you can follow along and create the exact same illustration as me, if you wish. I'm Maya Favorite, a professional surface pattern designer and illustrator, and during the years I've created hundreds or probably even thousands of illustrations and patterns in Procreate. Together with my husband, I create and sell premium Procreate brushes under our brand name, Favorite company. In this class, you will get four of our premium brushes for free, together with a perfect earthy color palette to be used for our cocktail illustrations in class. This is a beginner's friendly class when it comes to the drawing exercise, but you do however need to have some basic knowledge of Procreate to be able to follow along. 2. Class Project: Your project in this class is to create a minimalistic cocktail illustration in Procreate. I've included free brushes and the color palette you can download here in class so that you can follow along and create the exact same illustration as me if you wish. You can, of course, also use your own colors and other brushes and draw a completely unique cocktail illustration as well. It's your choice. Be sure to share your project here in class, and if you share it on Instagram, feel free to tag me with @maja_faber. I would love to see what you create. 3. Downloads: I've included a bunch of fun freebies in this class. You will get four free premium Procreate brushes made by me and my husband within our brand Faber company, and one Procreate color palette. The brushes included are crunchy, a really nice textured brush that is created for this class. This is an awesome brush to add some subtle, but super nice texture to your illustrations, grain stamp number 3, which is a brush that is included in our green Procreate brush set available to buy at my website, majafaber.com/shop. This is an amazing brush to add a little bit of texture to, for example, background, which I will show you how to do later on in class. Blubber, which is a brush that I initially created for another one on my schedule classes, and this brush has become one of my absolute favorite brushes to use in Procreate. Last but not least, snowfall, a fun and simple brush that I created that will give you a random dots pattern to your illustrations, which is a great way of adding some interests to your background for example. The color palette included in this class is called cinnamon cocktail, and it's an earthy and well-balanced color palette that will look amazing in our cocktail illustrations. To download these freebies, click on the Project and Resources tab here in class and download the file that says Download Freebies, or you can go to the URL that you see on screen now. If you have downloaded the files that says Download Freebies, you will get this PDF. You tap here to download, and this will take you to a page where you will write in your name, and your email address, and tap Unlock. You will instantly get directed to a Dropbox folder where you can download your files, if you tap download up here you will get a sit file, but if you want to download the files directly to Procreate, you tap the file, tap the little button and tap Download. Hit "Download" again, and I will back up to download the brush set as well, tap the little button that says Download, tap "Download" again, and download. Now we have downloads in the top right corner of your browser. I'm using Safari here, so if you use another browser, it might look a little bit different for you. When you have the downloads here, you just tap the file, go back to your browser, and tap the second file. That would have brought you the Faber company free number 5 brush set, at the top of your brush library, and the color palette, cinnamon cocktail, then most of the time, we'll end up at the bottom of your color palettes. So you can just grab that color palettes, swipe up with your other hand to bring that pallet to the top of your color palettes. When you download these resources, you will automatically be added to my email list, which is the best place to be to get the news about my free resources, tutorials and classes, and you can of course, unsubscribe at anytime. 4. Inspiration: So first things first, let's find some inspiration for our cocktails. In this class, we will use reference image to draw our cocktails. I have gathered a bunch of cocktails and drinks in a Pinterest board, that I will link to in the description of this class. If you want to use any of these images that I've gathered, I have saved some images here that have some really nice details in them because I think that if you want to draw a drink in a minimal style, it might be nice with some details to add a little interest to your drawing. I have chosen to go with this one, a Christmas-inspired cinnamon drink, which suits me really well at the moment, as it's closing in on Christmas as I record this class. So if you want to use the same image as me, you look this up in my cocktail and drinks board on Pinterest, tap the three little dots and tap "Download image". That will download the image to your image folder on your iPad. 5. Sketching: The first thing that we will do is to create a new canvas in Procreate. Tap the plus sign in the top right corner and the little folder symbol that says New Canvas. I will go for a 3,000-pixel square here. That is for me a good standard size with a 300 DPI. Hit "Create", and here you have your canvas. The first thing that we will do is to sketch up our cocktail. We will start by adding the photo with the cinnamon cocktails. Tap Actions panel, "Add", and "Insert a Photo", and I will select the cinnamon cocktail. I will just increase the size a bit and tap the arrow to place the image. Then I will tap the Layers panel, the little N symbol, and drag down the opacity a bit so that I can still see the image, but at the same time be able to sketch on top of it. Then I will tap the plus sign in the Layers panel to add a new layer. I usually like to sketch in black, so I will just tap "Classic", drag down the color to black, and I use the sketch brush 6B pencil for most of my sketching in Procreate. Then I will just start to sketch up this cocktail and I will try to simplify it as much as possible. The first thing that we will do is to just draw the base shape of the drink with the rounded corner of the glass, I like that part, and we'll keep that bottom round. But I don't want to do these three-dimensional things. I will just drag a line here to do a more of a flat-style drawing. I think it will look nice if the glass would go out a little bit more at the bottom, so something like this will make it a little bit more interesting. Let's try to simplify this cinnamon thing here. I will just zoom in so you can see that here we have some one shape of the cinnamon, so simplifying that quite a lot is like a roll of a cinnamon stick. Then I will simplify the other part of the cinnamon stick as well, that goes beneath the first one. Something like that. To not get confused, I will just erase the parts of my sketch that is at the background, something like that. I definitely want to have this little detail of the little, probably herb thing here. Maybe I want it a little bit more straight, something like that, and just adding some greens here. As you can see, I'm simplifying the shapes quite a lot. That is the style that we're after here. We want to do a minimalistic drawing. That looks pretty good to me. I definitely want to add this cute little lace with the bow. I will just try to add the bow. Something like that maybe, and a little thing that goes down. I want it to look like it is around the cinnamon sticks somehow, so maybe something like that. That looks pretty good to me. Let's have a look at our image and turn off the visibility of our sketch layer. I think to simplify this, I don't want to add this apple or the fruit here. For me, it's enough with these tiny details here to make the minimalistic style interesting but still really simple. Let's see if there is something else that we want to sketch up. I think that we might want to sketch where the drink is in the glass, so maybe somewhere around here, it's a pretty filled glass. We will add the shape of the fluid in this glass like this, and we will draw this with color later on. That is the sketch of where we will place the fluid in the glass. That looks pretty good to me. Turn off the visibility of the image layer. That looks pretty cool. As you can see, we have sketched up our cocktail from a reference photo, but it still is a lot more simplified than the photo. We have removed a bunch of details to keep it as minimalistic as possible but still keep some interest in the illustration. 6. Color Palette: Before we start with coloring our illustration, I wanted to show you how the color palette that is included in class, cinnamon cocktail is made. This color palette is inspired by this image. It's inspired by Earthly, pumpkin spice colors and something that looks a little bit Christmasy. So you have these really soft browns and the earthy, beige colors, and you have the greens here, like the forest green and a darker forest green. So I have just fetched different colors from this image to include as a color palette that we will use. That way, the sketch, the objects that we draw are inspired by the image and also the feeling in the color and the mood of the image with the colors. So this is exactly how I have created the cinnamon cocktail color palette. You can use the exact same color palette as me in class. 7. Draw it Flat: Now the fun begins. We will start to add colors to this illustration. First things first. Let's just remove that color with the color blobs, and now just untap the layer of the image and tap the layer of my sketch so that I can see my sketch. The first thing that we will do when we add color to this illustration is to add a background color and that is because we want to draw the shape of the glass in a cream white color, and to be able to see that white color, we want the background color. We will just tap the Layers panel, tap the background. I will use this ice blue color as the background. Later on in class, we will also add some nice texture to this background. But for now let's just keep it flat, and as I want to have the winter Christmas feeling of this illustration, I think it will look good with this ice blue color to the more pumpkin brown spice, brownish colors. After we have created a background, let's tap the Layers panel and tap the plus sign to add a new layer, and now select the cream white color and the blubber brush. The first thing that we will do is to draw this shape with the symmetry tool, so that's a really good technique to make it look easy on the eye because our eyes likes symmetry, and it's also a good way to keep this shape symmetrical, of course. Let's turn on the symmetry tool by tapping the Actions panel, Drawing Guide, Edit Drawing guide, and symmetry. Here you can tap Options and you have the options to use a vertical guide, horizontal guide, quadrant guide, or radial guide. But for this purpose, we will use the vertical guide, and I want to keep it in the middle of my art board so I will just tap down, and now we can start to draw our glass shape. With this layer selected and it should say Assisted on your layer drawing assist, that means that the drawing guide is activated on that layer, and with your blubber brush and the cream white from the color palette, we will use a brush size of somewhere around six or seven percent, and we will draw the shape of the glass. You can zoom in and make sure that you get a good meet up when you have the symmetry tool. That your lines meet up in the bottom in a good way. For the top, I will draw a line and tap and hold to make that line perfectly straight. Let's see how that looks. It looks pretty good. But I think that I still want to keep it a little bit higher, so I will just drag up this line and make a new line, tap and hold to make it perfectly straight and then let go. Then I will just drag in the colors because the blubber brush is a solid brush, so I can just tap and drag the colors to the shape, and then let's see how that looks and that looks pretty good. What I want to do next is to tap and drag the sketch layer above the colored layer, and that is just so that I can see my sketch. You could also drag down the opacity of the sketch layer so that it's not in the way too much, so I would just drag it down to about 40 percent by tapping the end symbol and dragging down the opacity. Here you can see that your sketch is a little bit off when you use the symmetry tool, or at least for me it is, so I will just tap my sketch layer, tap the arrow, and use free form to adjust the sketch so that it has the same shape as my colored cream white object. Next, let's add a new layer on top of the cream white glass layer, and I also want this layer to be assisted so you can just use the same drawing assist by tapping the layer, tap ''Drawing Assist,'' and this layer will be assisted as well with the symmetry tool. For this layer, I want to add the beverage, the cinnamon cocktail in the glass, and I want to use this kind of pumpkin orange color and also the blubber brush, and let's see. Let's start with the straight line. Tap and drag to make that line straight, and I want to make sure that I keep a part of the white outside of my line so that it looks like it's the glass, and I will just fill it in by tapping and dragging the color. Turn off the sketch layer to see how that looks. That looks pretty good to me. Maybe we have something strange going on down here, so I will just tap the layer with the white and if I tap and hold the razor tool, that means that I will erase with the same brush as I draw with the blubber brush, so I can just fix this little top shape in the bottom of my glass. Great. Now we have the glass and the beverage inside of the glass. Let's continue with the next flat object and now I think I can turn off the Drawing Guide because I don't want the symmetry tool to be activated anymore, and I can actually turn off the assisted drawing on those two layers as well. Next step, turn on the sketch layer. Again, tap the plus sign to add a new layer and let's add the cinnamon stick, so we will go for the medium brown and the blubber brush and I will use that for the bottom part of the cinnamon stick. This part and I will just drag in that shape. Now, I don't want it to be perfectly symmetrical anymore, and it doesn't need to be straight either, so I would just draw freehand here and tap and drag to add the color. I think I would just drag down the opacity on my sketch a bit because it is a little bit on the [inaudible]. Tap that layer, tap the N symbol and drag down the opacity, and now I have my cinnamon. Half of my cinnamon stick on one layer and the other half of my cinnamon stick I want to have in a darker brown color, so tap the plus sign to add a new layer on top. Make sure you have the blubber brush selected and add the other part of your cinnamon stick. Something like that and then tap and drag, so that looks pretty cool. If we turn off the sketch layer, maybe it was little bit too straight over here, so I'll just add a little bit there. Great. Next step, we will add the little branch or whatever we call it, the herb at the bottom of the cinnamon stick, so tap to add a new layer and make sure it's at the bottom of your cinnamon sticks. For this one, I will also use the blubber brush and the light green color in the color palette, and let's see if we can use this. Maybe we will drag down the size a little bit, to four percent and draw in this little herb. I would just add these little swashes here to simplify this little branch of herb, if that is how you say it, like that. Turn off the sketch layer and there you have that little piece. Great. Now let's add the last thing, the bow. Tap to add a new layer and for this, let's use the light blue color with the blubber brush and I will just draw in this bow, with the little lace going down there, and I want it to look like this is going around the cinnamon sticks, so I want to add some lines here so that it looks like it's wrapped around. How does this look? Turn off the sketch layer and let's have a look at our flat drawing. Now, we actually have added all of the pieces of our drawing, but they are flat, so we will add a little bit more interest to this in the next lesson by adding some details and texture. 8. Texture and Details: Next up is to add some texture and details to this illustration to make this minimalistic type of illustration a bit more interesting. We will do that with our amazing brushes. Let's start by adding some details to this small cinnamon stick and the branch and odor herb and the bow and all of that. Let's start with the little herb thing. Tap to add a new layer on top of that layer and we don't need a clipping mask or anything for this, we will just select the darker for the screen color and use the blower brush for this as well and drag down the size a bit maybe just two percent and we will just add some details here with a darker green and the blower brush to add a little bit of depth to this herb. Now let's go on and select the cinnamon. Tap to add a new layer on top of this. Here, I want to use a clipping mask to make sure that I don't draw outside of that layer. Let me show you the difference. If I select that one and I will just go a little bit darker with the color that I have on the cinnamon stick and if I would use the crunch brush and add some texture and not have the clipping mask, I will add it outside of this object. But as soon as I tap Clipping Mask, you won't see anything that I have drawn outside of the object. That looks pretty cool actually. Let's keep it like that and I will just use the crunchy brush here is an amazing brush to add some texture and also shadow. Oops. Add the clipping mask again, I accidentally undo the thing on that layer and I will just add some texture here, so something like that. Then I will tap to add a new layer on top of the other part of the cinnamon, add clipping mask and fit that brown color. Drag down so that I will get a little bit of a darker color here. I use the crunch brush again to just add a little bit of shading but at the same time just really settle texture to this cinnamon stick. Make it look a little bit more three-dimensional but at the same time not like advanced shading just adding a little bit of texture. That looks pretty cool. Now we will continue with the liaise with the bow, so tap Add New Layer on top of this, tap Clipping Mask, and I will go for the darker blue-greenish color, the dust blue color and I will use the blower brush here to make it look like it's striped lace. I will just drag up the size on that a bit to where am I? Five percent. Add a little bit of lines here so that it looks stripped. I think you know how a striped lace look so that is the look that I'm after here. It doesn't need to be that really detailed work you can just add a little bit of stripe here and there and not think about it too much. This will look amazing when we zoom out. I'm just adding a little bit of stripes. There you have it. It looks really cool like that I think. Let's add the last piece of texture on the glass and the cocktail in itself. Tap the layer with the beverage, the orange layer, tap to add a new layer on top of it. Here I will also add a clipping mask and I will tap to select that color and go a little bit darker. Use the crunch brush again and let's see what size of the crunchy brush we want here. I want large crunches or gritty texture on this drink so I will go for something like 25 or 30 percent and I will just add a little bit of texture to the outside of this drink and then I will go a little bit darker again and just add to the outer parts a little bit darker. Then you can just go over and choose yourself how much texture you want to add. I just want a little bit of texture because that is what I think will look good. Then you can just go over and add as much texture as you want with this crunchy brush. As you can see it gives this dotty gritty look and I think it's a great brush to use to add a little bit of texture to your minimalistic drawings. Personally, I don't like adding too much texture but a little bit looks really interesting I think. There we have it, we have added texture to the whole cocktail. Now we will add some texture to the background so let's head over to the next lesson. 9. Background: Let's add the last part of this awesome cocktail illustration and that is the background. To add a little bit of interests to the background as well, we will add some texture, to do that we will add a layer on top of the background layer. I'll actually add it on top of the image layer so tap the plus sign to add a new layer at the bottom of all of your drink layer. Then I will select the blue color in the background, tap and hold to select and I will just drag down the color a little bit darker and a little bit more saturated, so a little bit to the right and down. For this, we use the grain stamp number 3, and let's see what will happen if we use the maximum size. That looks pretty good but I don't think that you can see that on screen so I will just add a little bit more dark and saturation in the colors so you will be able to see it on screen and add some texture with the stamp brush. With just a few taps with the stamp brush, you will get this awesome texture in your background and I'm actually satisfied with that as the grain stamp. Now, we will add a new layer on top of that to try to add a little bit of snowfall to make it a little bit more wintery as I'm drawing this kind of winter cocktail. Tap the color palette and the cream white the same we used on the glass and then I will use the snowfall brush and let's see where we are. Let's try to use it at 20 percent and that's a little bit too small for my taste, so let's try it at 50 percent, that's a little bit too big, let's go for somewhere around 35 or 40 percent. This brush is random and that is what I think is fun with it so if you just tap and drag, you will get a lot of snowfall and that's a little bit too much but if you just tap here and there, you'll get these random dots that I think looks really cool. If you feel that some dots are too misplaced or like this, or maybe too big, you can just go in and erase that part so I'll just tap the erase tool and I don't want any of the dots to be on my object. Here we have a double one, I don't like that so then I will just tap a little bit more to add some more. I really like this random look, I think it brings a lot of interest to this drawing and the snowfall brush also give this really winter feeling to this cinnamon cocktail and that actually is all there is to it. Now we have created our cinnamon cocktail with the texture added subtle but really nice and we also added the texture to the background and added some snowfall with the snowfall brush. 10. Export: That's it. Now we have created our full illustration. By just adding a few details with texture, we have gone from this flat look to this much more interesting textured illustration, and the background texture added too. Now, all there is to export this illustration to be able to share it as a project here in class. To do that, tap the actions panel "Share" JPEG. You can just select where you want to save your JPEG. I will just save it as an image. Then you have got it to your image app. There you have your finished illustration. 11. Thank You: That's all for this class. I hope that you had a fun creative exercise drawing this minimal cocktail illustration with me. Thank you so much for watching. If you liked this class, you can hit the follow button by my name to make sure that you don't miss out on my future classes. If you have any questions at all about this class, please ask them on the discussions page and feel free to leave a review to let me know if you enjoyed this class. I would love to hear your thoughts. Make sure you share your project here in class. If you post it on Instagram, feel free to tag me with @maja_faber. Thanks again for watching.