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Mushroom Art in Procreate: Explore Ink, Graphic, Watercolor + Color Pencil Styles

teacher avatar Sandra Mejia, Illustrator + Pattern Designer

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      1:47

    • 2.

      Class Project + Supplies

      1:00

    • 3.

      Initial Setup

      4:52

    • 4.

      Installing Brushes + Color Palettes

      3:39

    • 5.

      Sketching + Basics of Inking

      13:47

    • 6.

      Linework + Fills

      17:18

    • 7.

      Graphic Flat Style

      16:06

    • 8.

      Digital Watercolors Style

      19:53

    • 9.

      Color Pencil Style

      18:22

    • 10.

      Cute Color Pencil Style

      17:06

    • 11.

      Bonus: Recoloring Your Illustrations

      8:20

    • 12.

      Wrap-up

      1:01

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About This Class

Discover the art of mushroom painting in Procreate with this class! We're going to create some simple mushroom illustrations, meant to help you experiment with different techniques and styles so you can grow your skills and get out of your comfort zone.

In this class you'll learn:

  • How to draw in Procreate in 4 different styles
  • How to create ink outlines and easily colour them
  • How to create a vector-like style: a graphic and bold look
  • How to create digital watercolours
  • How to create illustrations that resemble colour pencils
  • How to recolor your artwork!

Who is this for?

I’ll go step-by-step, very slowly, so even if you have never use Procreate before you can follow along. And if you already know your way around the app, you can use this class to experiment with different styles and learn new techniques!

Supplies needed:

  • iPad with the Procreate app installed
  • Apple Pencil (highly suggested)

Resources included:

  • Sketches
  • Earthy and mushrooms colour palettes
  • Mini watercolour brush set
  • Layered Procreate files so you can see how I structure everything

If you're ready to have some fun and paint some mushroom friends then join me!

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Sandra Mejia

Illustrator + Pattern Designer

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Hello! I'm a Freelance Illustrator and Pattern Designer. I was born in Medellin, Colombia (puedes escribirme en Espanol!). I create detailed, stylized, playful illustrations, patterns and characters from my studio in Ottawa, Canada.

I have very big eyes and I love animals. Most of my inspiration comes from nature and animals.

My art has been licensed by companies around the world for use in: Fabrics, Stationery, Kids, Editorial, Greeting Cards, Fashion, Puzzles, Gift and Home Decor.

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1. Introduction: Discover the art of mushroom painting in Procreate with my new class. We're going to create some simple mushroom illustrations meant to help you experiment with different techniques and styles so you can grow your skills and get out of your comfort zone. Alla, I'm Sondra Mahia. I'm an illustrator and surface pattern designer, and I create art for companies to use in their products. And I also teach online to over 130,000 students how to use procreate and watercolors and create illustrations. Today, I'm going to show you how to create inked outlines in Procreate and how to easily color them. I'm also going to show you how to create vector like style, a very graphic and bold look. And we're going to explore how to create digital watercolors in Procreate. I will even show you how to create illustrations that resemble colored pencils. All of these in just one class. I'll go step by step very slowly. Even if you have never used procreate before, you can follow along. I will show you how I create my sketches and how I paint the same mushroom in each of the techniques, and we'll even paint another mushroom in each style so that you can practice the technique even further. Even if you're just starting out or you just want to practice something different, maybe try a different style. Then this class is for you. You'll only need an iPad with the procrate app in style, an apple pencil is highly suggested. And I will include my sketches, my earthy color palette, and my miniwater coolor brush set. And I'll even include my layer procreate files, so you can see how I structure everything. So if you're ready to have some fun and paint some mushroom friends, then join me. 2. Class Project + Supplies: For the class project, you will choose your favorite technique or techniques. You can try them all if you want to and draw some mushrooms. You can draw the ones I'm drawing, or you can go ahead and research or even go on a hike and see what you can find and paint your own mushrooms. For the class, you will need an iPad with procreate and I highly suggest an apple pencil. I'm using a grip so that's more comfortable in my hand and your imagination. Most of the brushes that we'll be using are included with procreate. The only ones that are not included are my watercolor brushes, and I will include them here in the class for you to download. I will also include the color palette, and if you want the extended brush set and other freebies, sign up to my newsletter to get them. In the next lesson, I will show you how to install brushes and color palettes in Procreate. 3. Initial Setup: So the first thing that we're going to do is we're going to create a little stack in our gallery to put everything that we're going to do in this class. So this is the way that I organize my files in Procreate. The way I do this is I go here to add a new Canvas and I choose any preset here that is a square. I have this one called 1,200 pixels, and it's 1,200 pixels square, but you won't have that one. To create a new preset, you go here. Here you can choose the width in pixels. You can also choose inches, centimeters, millimeters. Here, it doesn't matter because this is just for our title. I wanted to be square, and I don't touch anything else. I can put the name of my preset there like 1,200 pixels square. And I click Create, and then it will open the Canvas. What I do is I drag any color that I want, and then I create a new layer on top and with calligraphy, I like the monel line brush for this. I choose a different color. Let's choose a light one, and I just write the name of my stack. Here, let's call this mushrooms, and that might be a bit. I'm just going to write it like this. You could also use the type tool if you don't want to hand letter and you want it to be more organized. Let's say mushrooms, and then we go to the gallery, and this is the title of our stack. These are folders now because in procreate, you can have individual files like this or stacks like this one, for example, that has a bunch of files inside it. Now that we have the title, we're going to create the files that go inside it. I'm going to go here and create a new cavas. In this one, we actually have to make sure that we know what size and resolution we're using because this is where we're going to start creating our artwork. For these ones, I just want to create some square illustrations, so I can use my square a 12 by 12 ". You won't have that preset either, so we're going to go and create that one. 3,600 pixel square, and this is equivalent to 12 ". I keep it at 300 DPI because that's the minimum resolution you need to print, and this gives me 47 maximum layers. This will change depending on the iPad you have. In color profile. I like working in RGB in this first profile here under display P three. If I ever need a file in CMYK, I can change to that in photoshop. But I always work in all my files in Procreate in RGB because the colors are brighter than CMYK. I've never had any troubles when I print them. I'm going to name the pre set 12 inch square and created. This is where I'm going to work. If I go back to the gallery, now I'm going to create a stack. The way I do that is that I'm going to drag this one into this one, and you'll see the stack there. If you tap here, you can rename it and call it mushrooms. If you side to the left, you can share it. That way you can share the whole stack in any of these formats. You can duplicate it or you can delete it. If I want to put another document inside there, I have two options. I drag the stack into the document. It doesn't work the other way around. Or I go into my stack, and then I add a new document here. When you go back to your gallery, you have to reorganize it so that this is your first file in the stack, so that when you're out here in the gallery, that's the one you see. Because see here, this one is the first one, so that's the one I see. If I reorganize it, and then I go out, then I see my title. So now we can go into the mushrooms and we have our first file or canvas here, and we can tap here and name it. And let's call this one linework because that's the first thing we're going to do, and there we have it. So I'm going to go into that file. And in the next lesson, we're going to start painting in our first style. 4. Installing Brushes + Color Palettes: After you have downloaded all the files that are available with the class, I have mine in Cloud Drive, but you could also have them on your iPad or Dropbox or whatever you chose to download them. You'll find them here. So When I double tap on it or I open it, it will import directly to procreate. When you go into a file and you go to your brushes, you might find them here at the top. This time, it imported here, but sometimes it's at the bottom of your stack. Make sure you check there if you don't find it at the top here. Also if you import just one brush and not a whole set, it will usually import here to this folder called imported. That is how you install the brushes. Included with this class is the mini watercolor brush set, which has these four brushes and the SM watercolor stamps, which has these stamp brushes. Now you know how to install brushes and I'm going to show you how to install the color palette. For example, here, I have my swatches, and if I double tap on them, they will import to procreate also automatically. When you go here, they will be either the first palette up here, or they'll be the last one here. Usually they're the last one. If you want to work with this palette, you just stop here and set as default. That when you drag your palette out like this, that's the palette that you will see. If you haven't worked with a color picker before, in procreate, you have different options to pick colors. Here, you can just choose whatever color and here you'll see what you're choosing and Here you slide it to change this. This is a similar way, but the slider is here and then you move it around here. This one has different types of color theory things. Complimentary, it shows you the complimentary colors and you just drag them around, and then the one you touch is the one that's going to be chosen. You can do split complimentary, analogous, ta, antratic. I never use this, but if you like color theory, you might like it. Then there's here, which is super useful if you know the Hex code, for example, if a client gives you the Hex code, or if for example, you're doing something for spoon flower and you need a specific text code, then you input it here. But if the palette is out here, it has some limitations to what you can do. What you have to do if you want to input that text code is closed here. Then when you open it here, don't drag it out and that way, you'll be able to type in the hex code. Ener and see, that's your new color here. Same with the palette. When it's docked here and not outside, you can create new color palette, and it will be up here, your new color palette. What you can do is go to the classic mode, for example, and start choosing colors and just stop here to add them to your palette. And if you want to delete that, just leave it pressed and delete this watch or it replaces it for the current color. You don't have to use these brushes and color palettes. You can use whichever you want, and now that you know how to install them, let's start creating some sketches. 5. Sketching + Basics of Inking: In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to ink drawings in Procreate. This is super useful because this might be the style you prefer to draw, or you might be looking to create some coloring sheets or stamps or anything that requires just linework. I'm going to show you how to create that and also how to color it in with flat colors if you prefer. Usually, I include a sketch for you to follow, but I have been getting a lot of questions of how I come up with the sketches. I'm going to show you the whole process, and then that will also be included the sketch so that you can follow along. If you want to include a sketch, you can download the sketches from the class from the resources tab, and if it doesn't work in your iPad or your phone, try it in the browser, not the app. Then you go here to actions, Insert a photo. And place your sketch. I don't have my mushrooms yet because I haven't drawn it, but you will, and then you just go to your layer s panel and you set this to multiply. What this does is, let me show you. I'm going to put this layer underneath, and I'm going to choose, let's say this color. So when I set this layer to multiply, I made the white transparent so that you can see what's behind it. If I left it at normal, the white is still there, so you cannot see what's behind it. I like placing my sketches using multiply and then reducing the opacity here so that I can see it very lightly, but then I can draw on top of it in a new layer or underneath it and still see the sketch. If you're following this class and you're following my sketch, this is the layer where you will start drawing. I'm going to delete that one and create a new one, drag it underneath, and this is where I would start creating my elements. Then at the end, you just go to your layers and you can either turn off your sketch or delete it. There's something really cool about sketches. If you go here to video, if this is on, it means that Procreate is recording a time lapse recording of everything you're doing. So I'm going to replay it here and it's going to be very short. But you see that I can see my sketch. L et me delete this. When I'm going to bring in my sketch, I go to add instead of tapping insert a photo, I'm going to drag it to the left and you can choose insert a private photo. Then when I insert my sketch, it will look exactly the same for me. Let's go to the layers and reduce opacity and make it multiply. You'll see that everything looks the same. Let's start drawing here, for example. Very ugly drawing. But when you go and you see your time laps video, I. At the beginning, you can see the sketch. But when I delete it and I make it private, then you cannot see the sketch and you can just see me drawing. That's really cool because then when you export your time left video, you won't show the sketch. That's just optional and you don't have to worry about that if you don't want, but that's a cool feature that Procreate has. I'm not going to be working from a sketch right now. I'm going to delete that inserted image, and I'm going to clear this layer. For drawing, you can look for references online. Just make sure that it's images that you can actually copy and use because the photographers own the copyright. Or just take your own pictures and draw from that, or look online, then stop looking and then start drawing from your imagination, which is what I like to do. I looked at a bunch of mushrooms online, and now I know they're shaped, and now I'm going to start drying them. We're going to create one mushroom that's the same for every one of the techniques so that you can compare. Then we're going to create an additional mushroom so that you can practice the technique further. For inking, here in calligraphy, there's the mono line brush and it's just a straight brush. It's very smooth and I really like it for creating smooth lines. If you go into the brushes, you go into the brush studio and here in stabilization, you'll see streamline. This means let's draw this, for example, You'll see that it's a bit wobbly. If I make the stream line higher, you'll see that it smooths out the lines. Same here with civilization. This one is even more aggressive. You want to have it at a point where it helps you make straighter lines, but not so much because then if you're drawing a pedal like this, see that it's not drawing where I wanted to. It's just making everything very smooth, but it's very hard to get everything you want in the place you want. I like to keep that lower on my stream line lower. So I can still draw and it has some imperfections, because I like to be very precise about where I draw and because I like those imperfections, so that it doesn't look so computer generated. Play around with that until you find something that works for you. Just press done, and then your brush will be modified. There's two options when you're inking. One of the options is to draw with a smooth brush like the monoline, for example. I'm going to close the shape, and the other option is to go for example to sketching and draw with something that is not as smooth. For example, the peppermint. Both are great and you can create your inked drawings with this. But the problem is that if you're going to fill this in with color using the field tool, let's say we're going to fill it in with this yellow. When I drag the color into here, it fills it in very smoothly. But when I drag the color into here, because it is so, it has some holes that the color escape. I can also drag the color and you'll see that here you'll find the threshold. That means how much color is filling. If I keep my pen down and I drag it to the left, it will stop flotting out because then it will be less sensitive to these little tiny holes. But the feel is not so perfect. If that is a style you like, then you can use that. I just want you to have that in mind when you're choosing your brush to create ink outlines. Let's delete this and start creating our mushroom. When you install your palette, it might be down here or it might be on the top. If you tap here, you can set it as default. When you drag this out, that's the palette that comes out. I'm going to be using this one to create these mushrooms. If I am creating my sketch first, I like to use the six P pencil. It comes with procrate here in the sketching folder, and this is my preferred pencil to sketch. I just grab any color and let's say This is the first mushroom we're going to create. This is the one that we're going to make the same for every technique so that we can compare them later. It's the traditional mushroom that has a little skirt, I call it here, and then it has the stem here, and then it has a little white dots, and this is the traditional red and white mushroom that is everywhere. But it's really cool. So I love painting the ones. This is the one that we're going to be creating a lot in this class. It will also allow you to compare the techniques easier because they will be the same mushroom. So I create my sketch like this. I'm very used to drawing, I draw a lot, so it gets easier for me. I also don't draw realistic things. I stylize my stuff. If you want to draw very realistic, then you're going to have to study a bit more about anatomy and practice and lighting and have a reference in front of you, either a picture or an actual mushroom. But because I'm stylizing my art, then it's not so important. Basically here, I'm just making a bean shape. It doesn't have to be perfect. Here I'm making a little skirt. And then here just an bal. Don't worry about this. It's because I tilt my pencil, so it makes a thicker line than if I have my pencil like this. But we're just sketching, so it doesn't matter. Just make very simple shapes if you're a beginner or use my sketch and trace over it. Then you can create different details. You can add more details if you want. I don't like to be too detail in my sketch because I like to draw freely afterwards. I'm going to be creating that mushroom, and I should make it bigger because I'm only going to create two mushrooms in this page. I just use this selection tool and it selects everything that's in that layer. I think I'll make it this size and move it down a bit. I'm going to make the sketch for my other mushroom now. This one is just creating a little bell, and here you can create a curved line and then a stem. And let's make another one here. And then maybe another one here. Yeah, I think that works. Again, that this is not perfect. It doesn't really matter. Just have fun with your art. I'm going to use this as a sketch, and I'm going to do exactly the same thing that I would do if I had imported it, I'm going to make it multiply and reduce the opacity. If you want to be super organized, you can name your layers. Go here and click rename and call that sketch and then create a new layer and drag it underneath, and here is where we're going to start making our outlines. Again, if you want to be super organized, you can call that outline. And now we're going to use the mon line brush. Again, it's in calligraphy monel line. Here you can change the size of the brush. This is how it draws here and here, it draws. It makes a thinner line and then a thinner line. Then the thickest line. You will not have these lines probably because those are little markers that I have added to my brush. Say that I want to create a lot of art to this size, that's 29%. If I tap on it, I can click plus, and it will create that line. That when I'm dragging up and down, it stops there, and it makes it easier to select previous use sizes. Let's say I'm drying everything on the outside with this thick one and I have it here. Then I want to create my details with this size 11, so I create my details. Then I want to go 2% to create little extra tiny details. Then I'm like, Oh, I forgot to close this line here. If I have these markers, I don't have to be guessing what size I was using. I know it's the biggest one here, and I just go there and finish my line and even make other things, and the linework will be consistent. The sizes will be consistent. That's a really cool thing. I went to scrub with three fingers to clear that layer and continue with creating our final outlines. 6. Linework + Fills: I'm going to use a monoline brush and I'm going to drag my palette out again. I'm going to reduce the size right now, it's at 11%. I'm just going to take this dark color and trace this. If you see that your line is not smooth enough, go into the mono line and increase the stream line a bit and maybe the sabilzation. And try that again. And see now it's way better. If you have a part like this that you don't like, just choose your eraser. In the eraser, you can also choose brushes to change how the eraser works. I have this one, like hard brush. It's in the air brushing area. I'm just going to erase this part here. And connect and connected again. Then with the eraser, I'm going to make it very small and then fix this. See how it looks like that. It looks to thick here, and it looks like it's missing this little spot. So that's much better. Now I'm going to do this part. And this part. I like it when it has those little imperfections, so it looks a bit more hand drawn, and here you can do the back of this part, so it looks like it's wrapping around. Then let's create some openings here with the eraser. So that we can draw the little circles there. I prefer using this brush because it's very smooth, but try this out with different brushes. See what styles you can get and what you like. I think that looks good. Now I'm going to add some details, and you can do this in the same layer or you can add them in a different layer. I am going to reduce this to 2%. Then I'm going to create another layer and drag it underneath. Let's call this one details. I'll show you why I do this later when I'm showing you how to color this in. So the first reason is that if I make a mistake, I can delete this layer and my outlines will still be intact, so I don't have to redo the whole thing. And the second reason is because it will be easier to color, but I'll show you later. So You can add some lines like these. When I'm creating inking lines, it's very like tattoo inspired. If you look at how tattoo artists create black and white drawings. They use a lot of hatching and a lot of lines on little thoughts to create their detail. So I like doing that too. Let's say here it has some of those little holes that mushrooms sometimes have. You can leave it a s or you can add even more detail. Let's reduce this to 1%, and maybe you can add some lines here. This will create more of a shading effect to give it a bit more tree form. But this is not necessary. If you like it like that, you can leave it like that or you can delete that part. Just do it. However, it suits your style the most. For now, I'm going to leave it like this, and I'm going to show you how you can do if you want to color it. Let's turn the sketch off first so you can see how it looks. If you want to color, I would create a new layer and drag it underneath everything. I'm going to call that color. Here you can drug in your colors. Let's choose this color. If I want to drop in some color into this, I can do it in the outlines layer and drop in some color and then it will be contained into that layer. But I want to have the possibility to work with this layer further to a shading or to change the color easier. If I want to do this now, these two are in the same layer. If I want to recolor, let's choose this yellow. If I want to recolor the outline, for example, S, it won't work very well. Let's say I want to recolor this now. It's touching the outline. This is not going to work. The best way to do this is in our new layer, we're going to add the color, and we're going to tell Procreate to use these outlines as a guide. When I touch here and I select reference, Procreate is going to know that these are the outlines I want to feel. But we're going to do it here. Now when I drop in this color, it stays there. If the reference is turned off, and I drop in some color here, it will fill the whole layer. Make sure that your reference is on and then go to the color layer, and let's start painting or mushroom. I'll drop in this color here, let's choose this lighter one for this part. And a bit darker maybe for these parts, this red or this one. If you're filling it in and you're seeing those little white borders, the paint is not filling the shape up to the border. Just make sure that you keep your pencil pressed down and you'll see the threshold, and when you move it to the right, it expands so see that now it's all full and we don't have those little white borders. So now I can let go. That's how you control that. Finally, I want to use this light color to fill in this little dot. I drop it in, and when I drop it in at first, it asks me if I want to continue feeling too slow, so I'm going to do it again. If I tap continue feeling, then I can just stop here and I don't have to be dragging the color again and again and again. That's really cool. If you have the new Apple pencil and new iPad, then the color drop is really easy to work on there, too, even easier than pressing here. I just press here when I'm done color dropping, and that's it. Now because this is in a different layer, I can easily change the colors, de it, hide it, or do whatever I want with it. If you see here, I created everything in just one layer. All the colors. You could also choose to create one layer per color. And let's turn on the outlines again. The other reason I made the details here that I told you I explained to you is because I can easily hide them or bring them back, or I can change them, I can change their blending mode, see and make it more interesting. It's easier to work with them if they're separate. I like them like this. I'm going to leave them like this, and you can also reduce the transparency. With your outlines, you can swipe to the right, and then the alpha lock will be activated. You'll see the checkerboard appear here. And that means that if I tap here and click fill layer, the whole layer with only the outlines will be filled with this color. See I'll hide this, and it's very light, but there you have it. That's how you can change the color of your outlines really easily. Sometimes black outlines are very harsh on art. If I am using outlines, I don't like making them black. But again, that is a style. So L et's make them this darker color and I like how that looks. Now it's time to draw this other mushroom so that you can practice this technique. You can draw everything in the same layer, but I want to keep my mushroom separated. I am going to group these three, group them, and then this new group can be called mushroom one. Then I'll be able to move the whole group at the same time. Now I want to create a new layer. This one is going to be called outlines again. Here I'm going to create the outlines for these. I have monel lines still selected. If you want for this part, you can make the amount of streamline and stabilization really high because it will be easier that way to paint these lines, and I'm going to use the size 11 and I know it's the same size as this one, so everything's going to be consistent and that is great. Now I'm going to go back in and reduce it again because I want to have more control for the other areas. If you have these overlapping lines, just go to your eraser, make sure it's very small and just erase them, very easy to fix. And let's continue drawing. I like drawing mushrooms because they're very basic shapes, and then you can make them look really cute when you add color and details. These are just like little bells. And we're done with our basic shape. Now we can turn off our sketch because we don't need it anymore and we can create a new layer and call that one details, drag it underneath, and then we can make our brush smaller. Try different ways to add details here. You don't even need to add details. You can leave it just as the outline. I'm trying to follow the form here, because here it's like a cone that goes like that. That's why all the lines start in the middle and I flow out and here I'm following the shape too, see here. It's not a straight line. It's curved. I have fun with this, don't stress too. I always tell my students that unless you're creating a scientific illustration where everything has to be perfect, then just try to have fun with your art. Maybe these ones have these dots too. If you see me drying mushrooms, they always have these little dots everywhere. I find them so cute. Now I'm going to reduce the size even further to 1%, and I'm going to create these lines here. I don't know if these mushrooms actually have these lines here, probably not. But I'm always fascinated with those patterns that mushrooms have underneath where it's a ton of little lines. Then we can add some dots. Just write different things and see what fits your art. For me, I like to keep it playful, not too serious, not too realistic. These things give it a bit of life. There we have it. Now we're going to do the same thing and create a new layer, drag it underneath, call this one color, and then set the outlines to reference. Go to the color layer, and there we're going to start dropping in color. I'm going to choose this color and just drag it in here and then continue feeling for all the stems, and then maybe choose this darker color. To drag here. Then even a darker color, Let's choose this one to drag it here. There we have our dark mushrooms. But I don't like the black outlines again, so I'm going to go to the outlines, swipe right with two fingers until the alpha lock is activated. I'm going to see how this looks with a very light outline. Tap here and choose layer. I actually like that. But I want to color the details in too. So instead of using a blending mode, I'm going to do the same thing here and swap to the right to create the alpha lock, tap it and fill layer. Let's see if I make it more transparent. That looks nice here, but not here. What I want to do is I'm going to grab a brush and in the drawing area. I like the berm brush. It's very textured. But what I'm going to do is choose this color and I can just stop here or I can leave my finger pressed until the color picker pops up, and then it will show what color it's selecting here. I'm going to just paint in the little dots so that they're visible. And I really like that. So I'm going to leave it like that. There's many possibilities with this linework. Again, you can leave it without color and just keep the linework. Here, it's very light, but it looks very cute. Or you can use color, you can color in the outlines, try different things until you find what you like best. In the next lesson, we're going to a more graphic style. O. 7. Graphic Flat Style: In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to create a more graphic style, something that looks like vectors. So Let's create a new file and now we have our 12 inch square preset here, we just tap it and here we have our Canvas. But I like to go to the gallery and drag it to the right so that this is still the title of my stack. Let's call this graphic style. Let's go in and start drawing. Again, if you're following the sketch, just import the sketch. If you want to create your own sketch or you want to see how I create the sketches, just follow along. I'm going to go to my resents here and grab my six B brush, six B pencil story. With whatever color I have, let's drag the palette out. I am going to start sketching some different mushrooms. I told you that this one would be the one that we were going to use for every style so that then we can compare styles. Here it is. That one was sketched very fast, and I just want to make it straight. Now let's try maybe one of those little mushroom bunches. I'm just making very simple shapes. I'm overlapping some of them, not all. I'm making smaller ones. And I'm placing them in different areas just to test out the composition. I think that works great. I just want to make their little stems like this. I think I'm going to make this one a little bit bigger. I'm happy with that sketch, so now I'm going to start painting. I'll make my sketch multiply and reduce the opacity. Let's call this sketch, create a new layer, drag it underneath. Here we're going to start coloring. Again, you can choose to do all your colors in the same layer, or you can create one layer per color. I'm going to do that so you can see the difference and you can choose what you like best. I'm not even going to rename these layers because it takes a while and we don't need it. For this style that is very graphic, I want very clean lines. I like using the mono line brush again. This is very similar to what we did last time but without outlines. Let's create a shape and build it in. Here I just want to fix this. And that's it. Now we're going to create a shape underneath, create a new layer, drag it underneath, and there we'll create this maybe with this color. And make sure you close the shape so that you can drag in the color. Finally, the bottom part, create a new layer, drag it underneath. There we have it. I'm going to turn off the sketch so we can see what we're doing here. I'm going to go to this layer and create a layer on top and there I'm going to create the little bumps. I can make my brush bigger and choose this light color and create the bumps. And that's it. Now you can leave these like this. Some people like very flat vectors like this, or you cannot some more shading, still in vector style. This is not a vector, a vector is like a mathematical equation and the possibility to create vectors is given by the app or software you're using and Procreate does not create vectors. But if you like that flat style and you like the ease of working in Procreate, then this is the way you do it. If you need actual vectors, then you need another program for that. If I go here to my layers, and I go to the top part of the mushroom. You can swipe to the right, and again, you activate Alpha log. That means that if I choose a different color, let's choose this one, for example, and I draw here, I'm only going to draw inside that shape. This is super useful because here like this, I've created some light coming from this side, and then if I choose a darker color, I can go and create some shadow. Then I can use that color to create shadows under these things also. And then I've given it some three D effect and some life. I can do that to every one of the layers. Though I can go here, swap to the right. Maybe if I add a bit of yellow, let's try with this one and see if it's too much. Sometimes you have to tap twice here to actually change the color. I don't know if it's a bug, but it's so annoying sometimes. I'm doing this, so it's some shadow in the bottom. See, I think that looks much better already. Let's go here and do the same thing, turn on alpha lock. I'm doing everything with the monoline brush, which is very smooth. But you can also go, for example, to the painting area. Or the drawing area and choose the on. You will see or whatever brush you want. I'm just trying it with this one, and you'll see that this is a very texture brush. If I choose, let me try it with this color so you can see. You can also create it like this and then create some texture and some rough lines. Now, that doesn't look like vector, so I'm not going to use that to teach this style, but know that that is an option. You don't have to do everything with the smooth brush. You can mix brushes and you can mix styles. I'm going to do that. Here in my reasons, I'm going to choose my monel line again and make some shading for this with the monoline brush. The first thing that I'm going to do is with this color. I'm going to reduce the size of the brush and I'm going to create some folds here. And I forgot to create the back part of this. I'm going to go at a layer, drag it underneath and with an even darker color, create the under part of this, and I'm just going to color it in here because it's just such a small space. I want to drag it underneath the stem. There it goes. Now back to this. I want to keep working with this color and maybe create some little lines here. I don't like that. What I'm going to do is make it a bit bigger and create some shadow here as if this is casting a shadow over it, and I think that's cute. And then maybe I can add some more details. Great. That's starting to look a bit more finished than three D. Let's go to the stem and turn on alpha alg and with a darker color. I'm going to try this one and see what happens. Now, maybe this one. That's good. I'm going to add a shadow here and then I'm going to go into the colors, and if I go here, I can make it lighter by dragging it towards the left or darker, dragging it towards the bottom, and maybe add some light here. That's great. Now I'm going to choose an even darker color and make my brush smaller and add those little holes that we had in the other ones. And maybe with a very thin brush, maybe some little lines also. Yeah. There we have our mushroom with a very vector like flat style. This is not my preferred style of art, but if this is yours, then this is a very easy way to create this. Now we're going to go to our layers and I'm going to group these ones. This will be mushroom one. I'm going to turn on my sketch again and create a new layer for this one. It's crooked. In my sketch, I'm just going to tap here and turn it. I don't care about this one anymore because that one's already done. I think this looks much better. Now I'm going to go to this layer and start adding some color. I'm going to add the stems first. For that, I'm going to make my brush, very big and choose this color. Start creating those. I'm changing this up a bit. You don't have to follow your sketch. You can veer away from your sketch if that is what feels better. And that way, you'll have a more flowing illustration instead of having something very contrived. Now I'm going to create another layer for the mushroom caps, and I don't know if those should be red. Let's make those brown. Oh, maybe even try this kind of muted teal and see what happens. That's c. If you want, you can reduce the size of your brush. Here I'm coloring it in like this, just because it's easy. But you can also use the color dropping tool. See that I'm not painting this one, it's because I want this one to be on top, so I want it to be in a different layer because they are touching. I'm painting ones that are not touching. I'm going to color them in. Now I'm going to create that other layer for this one. Create on top and here we go. There we are. Now I'm going to turn off the sketch, and I'm going to start adding some details to these ones like we did here, like some shading. I'm going to turn on alpha lock on each of them and start working with this one. Now that we have this darker color here. I want to add some shadow to this one, and maybe use this one to add some light. Then I'm going to make all of them and then decide what decoration to put on them. First I'm going to add shadows to all of them. I go to this layer and I'm just going to add the light to the top of all of them. And then the shadow. S, this is great that we have it in a different layer because then it was very easy to create this shadow and create that separation. And you don't have to add light and shadow. You can add anything you want. This is just one option. I like those, but I want to create a new layer on top and try out different decorations. For example, I can make my brush very small and I can make these us. I'm going to make it a tiny bit bigger so it goes faster. Now I can go to the blending modes and try different things out and see what I like. That's cute. I'm going to leave it like that. Then I'm just going to work on the stand. I don't like the color that much, so I can choose a different color and maybe choose this one and fill the layer. I think that suits this mood better, so I'm going to use that one. Now I'm just going to go to my brush and choose a darker color this one and try that out. Oh, yeah, I like how this one is working for shadows here. Then I want a darker color like this one to add a little bit of a shadow there. And then some thoughts, maybe. And I like how that looks so I think I'm done. Make sure you experiment with different shading, different colors, different applications, different layers, different blending mode, and see what you can come up with. In the next lesson, I am going to show you how to make some watercolor mushrooms. 8. Digital Watercolors Style: In this lesson, we're going to create some mushrooms in watercolor style because I already have the base shape for this mushroom here. What I'm going to do is swipe to the left and duplicate this file, and I'm going to call this one watercolors. And I'm going to go in this pile, and I'm going to delete this mushroom. We don't need this one, and we have our base mushroom here, and this is what we're going to work with. I'm going to drag my palette out and choose the lightest color. I'm going to go into each layer and I'm going to press fill layer. This one is not alpha lock activated, so I'm going to sw to the left and fill layer. This way, I have a base color for each of the shapes for the mushroom that we're going to paint. If you have never painted digital watercolors before, you can check out my class on EC digital watercolors per procreate, and there I paint a bunch of florals, and I explain this technique super in depth. But the basic thing of the technique is that you create some base shapes, and then we're going to start painting water colors on top of it. I'm going to delete the sketch too because we don't need that sketch right now, and I am going to focus on this mushroom first. I love using my own watercolors. It's a mini watercolor set. It's provided here with a class. If you want the extended watercolor brush set, then go to my website and sign up to my newsletter and you can get it for free. But this one is included with a class. You don't have to use this one either. If you have another watercolor brush set that you prefer, you can use that one. I have a brush here that adds a paper texture and this is very important for watercolors because it makes it look more realistic. The first thing that we're going to do is create a new layer on top of everything, and let's call this one texture. Here, I am going to add a watercolor paper texture to the whole canvas. I'm going to choose this brush. In the colors, I like using a light brown. Let's use this one for now. I have it at the maximum size. You see that I've made my cavas small, this makes it easier to go over all the cavas without lifting the pencil. You won't see what's happening much because it's very light, but I'll go over it again. And when I sum in, you'll see that the paper texture is there. What I want to do now is set this layer to multiply. That the texture ingrains itself into everything that's underneath. Now we can start painting. I like doing everything with this brush, basically, the ultimate feel rough, and I'm going to start painting in the shapes. Let's start by this. Let's leave the dots for the end, and let's start with this, and let's choose the red color. And here you control the opacity of the brush. I'll show you here, it's very dark and here it's very light. You can play it with those things too if you want. I'm going to leave mine at the max, and I have it in the biggest size possible. And very lightly, I am billing in the shape, and I'm pressing harder in some places just to create that difference of tone. That makes it more realistic, I think. Once I lift my pencil, I can go back in certain areas and darken them. For example, if I like it dark here on this side, I can go around like this. If you don't like any of these parts because maybe it's too dark here or there's very define lines, you can use your water plant brush and just tap it, make it a bit bigger if you want, and just smooth out those areas. I'm going to show you what happens without the paper texture. These brushes have texture ingrained in them already, so they will look like texture where it's darker. See that here it's lighter and you cannot see that much of a texture. Here you can see it more. But when you use a water blend brush, it kind of smooths everything out, so you'll lose that texture. So that is why having a texture on top is also great. Then what you can do is just go with your brush again and just go back over those areas, and then you'll have some texture come back up. If I want to add a redder color, I'm going to go a bit brighter with this, then I can choose it there and then just add some more. Just because I want to make it a bit more barn. Maybe very lightly cover this area here, so it's not so light. Then what I can do is I'm going to go back to this and choose the dark red again and make it very small and then I'm going to add the shadows. If I press hard, you'll see that you get that rough edge. I really like that. But if you like a smooth edge, then choose this other brush and that one creates a smoother edge. Choose whatever you prefer. I like the rough edges. I'm going to go around and just add some of the shadows. Great. Now I'm going to move on to this layer, which is this one, and I'm going to choose this darker color. With the very small brush, I'm just going to create the folds here. Then maybe with a darker color, I'll create a shadow, make my brush bigger. Yeah. I like that. Then I'm going to make that very, very transparent and create a not so transparent. And create a bit more definition here in some areas. I'm pressing my pencil very softly and I'm going to add some here to the border. Let's see if we should add some here and then some to this border. I'm going to make it a bit bigger, add a bit more of a shadow here. Y here. Now I can go to this bottom part, which is the back of this and make it a bit darker. You can make your brush smaller and maybe create even some shadows like this, like very precise shadows. Same here. You can go in and create more precise lines. And this will look better once we paint this bottom part. Let's go and paint that now. Let's choose this color, and I'm going to make my brush full opacity and a bit bigger, and I'm just going to create a shadow here as if this was casting a shadow down there. Without lifting my pencil, I am softly going back and forth over there to diffuse it. I can do this with this brush or you can do it with your water bland. I'm just going around just to create some darker borders. And I can add darker colors here too. I'm going to go back to this color, make it smaller, and I want to create some lines. And then with the darker brown, create some of those little dots. Then maybe just some very dark borders here because sometimes watercolor does that and create some very dark borders. Now we just have to add some shading to the white spots here. Let's go to the layers and then choose our spots. I am going to use the yellow. Let's test this yellow and make it sm and maybe add shadows here. I'm going to make it a bit bigger and press softly. And I think we're done with it. Now we're going to create another mushroom so we can practice this technique further. Let's go to the layers and this is already grouped. Let's close that group like that. I'm going to create another layer to create a sketch, and I can use this same brush for the sketch. Let's choose a darker color and make it smaller. For this one, I want to create one of those mushrooms that grow up. I'm just creating a basic shape like this. Like basically a triangle, but with a scalloped edge and then we just give it the stem. Then this one will have all these lines here. Then sometimes the border folds over. Let me create that here like this. Now I'm going to use the selection pre and selected, and I choose this one and just make it straighter. Now do what we do with the sketch all the time, multiply, reduce its size. I'm going to call it sketch. And now I'm going to create a layer and drag it underneath, and here we're going to create our mushroom. So we have to start with a base shape like we did here. For that, I love using the monoline brush, and with any color selected, you're just going to go ad and create the base shape. And you fill it in. And then I'm going to create another layer on top, which is going to be for the leap that folds over. So I choose another color, and I'm going to do this. So this is the top part. And then it goes like this. Then here it kind of gets bigger and it kind of turns. Again, I'm doing this from memory. I looked at some mushrooms before starting to draw, and then I draw them from memory, and that's how I like to stylize things so that they're my own and not a copy of a picture I saw. Okay. So now we can hide this sketch. And then we're going to activate alpha lock on these two layers, and we're going to choose the lightest stone, and we're going to fill them. The reason we choose the lighter color is because I want to resemble painting in real water colors where you start with a white paper and you just add color. The reason we're not choosing white is because we actually want to see our shape. Any color that's a bit of white where you can see what you're doing works great. This first color works great for that. We're going to do exactly the same technique here. We're going to choose the ultimate feel rug from the mini watercolor set. Let's make this mushroom. They're usually very orange. I'm going to start with yellow and make it very big. I'm going to add a base yellow color here and I'm pressing harder in some areas and softer in others, just to create that variation. I'm going in again. Now I want to add a bit of red to create some orange because the colors will mix a bit between them because they're transparent. T I press really hard there and like that in some areas. It's going to go softly here, so it's not really white there. Then I can go back in with more yellow, make some areas brighter. And do that until you're happy with it. I'm going to show you a trick here. Another way you can create variations in your tones in water colors. You can go to the selection, make sure free hand is selected. For example, you can create a shadow here. By going to adjustments, hue saturation brightness. That way, only this area that doesn't have the lines is going to be affected. Not all these, but just within the shape we have in this layer. Only this little part. Let me show you. See, just that part. This edge is very sharp and we don't want that. Well, I don't want that right now, so I'm going to go back and release my selection, and I'm going to select it again. So I'm going to go around like where the shadow will be. Here, I'm going to select feather and I'm going to feather it out. It means that the edges are going to be softened. When I go to huge saturation adjustments, you'll see that there's not a hard edge anymore. Let's find a color that suits these. That's very pretty, and I can make it brighter here. And I can make it darker. I think that's nice Let's release that. That's another way to create different tones within your watercolor. I'm going to use that technique again and I'm going to create some darker areas here. Let's go to the selection. Let's create some lines here. If I tap that dot there, then the selection tool will be released and I can draw other shapes without them being interconnected. This is great for these, for example. I could be using the brush to draw this, but I just want to show you the possibilities with the selection tool. Always remember to feather it out if you don't want sharp edges. Now we can go to the hue saturation and make it a tiny bit more saturated here and a bit darker. Let's release that. And there it is. I like that. We're going to work on this layer a bit more, but now I want to paint this stop shape. But I'm going to go to that layer and I'm going to make that darker. I'm just painting. I want to add a bit of yellow on top of that. Just to make the colors match a bit more. I went to dark, so I want to just go slightly here softly and maybe add a bit more on this side. Break. Now I want to go back to this body and make my brush, very small and with that dark color, I'm going to create some lines. Then I'm going to create some very light lines. So like that. If you don't like them to end abruptly, you can use your water blend brush for that and kind of like drag them down a bit. And then kind of smooth that out a bit. That's just a preference. You can do it if you want or you can make the lines very graphic. But this smooths them out a bit. I like that effect. Now I want to create more of a shadow here. I'm going to use this color and make this bigger and less transparent and maybe add some shadow here. Just to give it a bit more dimension. Am here. I'm going to create some lines here too, like this one. I just love detail. Maybe this one has smaller spots and some spots are. Like minor imperfections. Now I want to go back here again, and I want to give this a very light line. It's like a rim of light. You can see the difference between these and these and you can understand that it's folded in. Maybe go over some areas here. Just to make it more obvious. This is a made of mushroom, so I can do whatever I want to it. Then maybe with this dark color, give it some spots. I'm going to make it a little bit bigger. Make it less transparent. Yeah. That's kind of cool. So we're done with that mushroom, so now we can group it, and we have our two watercolor mushrooms. In the next lesson, I'm going to show you how to create colored pencil mushroom. 9. Color Pencil Style: In this lesson, I'm going to teach you how to create colored penciled illustrations. Let's duplicate our watercolor pile again so that we can use that base mushroom. So duplicate it. I'm going to tap here and re name this one colored pencils. And open it. I'm going to delete this mushroom because we don't need it, and I'm going to delete the sketch. I'm also going to delete the texture. I'm going to open this mushroom and again, drag out my palette and fill each layer like we did before. With this light color, we go to f layer f layer. And we have our base shapes. I'm going to create a paper texture for this, and I'm going to show you how you can do that too. If we create a new layer, I'm going to drag it on top of this group and name it texture. If you select a brush that says add paper texture and you swipe left and you duplicate it, you'll get a new version of that brush. When you tap on it, you'll open the brush studio, and if you go to grain, you'll see that this is the paper texture that I add when I use that brush. If you go to edit, The grain editor will open, and when you choose import, Procreate has something really cool that it's a source library. You can use any texture you have created here and import a photo or a file or paste if you have cut it from somewhere else, but you can also go to Procreate source library and choose from their paper textures. They have really cool paper textures here. For color pencils, I like to use something like charcoal six B or charcoal wine. Maybe even graphite. Just play around with them. I'm going to choose graphite here and you'll see that the texture is white. I want to tap with two fingers to inverted so that what gets painted is what's black. When I click done, you can go to about this brush and you can rename it here. Once you add a name to the brush and a logo and your signature, you cannot change that. This one still has my old branding and my old married name. Don't mind the powers there. You can add a paper graphite. For example, and you clicked on and now you have a new brush with that graphite texture. Let's choose this brown and just cover the whole page with that texture and see, there it is. When I set this to multiply, it's going to ingrain itself to the paper. If you see it's brown and muddy and you don't like that, you just go here to hue saturation brightness and you can add a bit more brightness, and the texture will be softer. And you can try with saturation, reducing the saturation, will make it like gray, and increasing it will be more the brown will be more yellow. You can try that too, or you can go here to curve and you can play around with this until you make it brighter and it looks like you want it to look. I like it like that. It's going to be very subtle so I press here, and now I can start working. If we don't like this at the end, we can just change it or delete it, so don't worry too much about it right now. For colored pencils, I like creating a soft base of color at the beginning, I like doing that with the ultimate feel rough because it will make it uneven. It just makes the coloring process way easier. I'm going to choose y light colors. Let's choose this red and make it less transparent and make the brush very big. I want to make sure I'm here in the mushroom cap and just paint softly like a base of the color. And do the same for everyone. This one, sorry, that one we're going to leave that color because it's going to be very light and this one like this. Now we're going to start adding our colored pencil texture. For the colored pencils, I don't like the super smooth outlines. I wanted to look like it was done with a pencil. I'm going to go to the layers and I'm going to turn off the alpha log. I do that by swiping with two fingers right again and you see that the checkerboard is disappearing, and I'm going to start working on the mushroom cap. There's a lot of brushes they sell with colored pencils and you can use those. But if you don't have any of those in sketching, you'll find the six p pencil that comes with Percrate, and I really like it. For doing this, there's many techniques. I'm just going to show you the one I create and this creates all types of different effects depending on the way you paint. So I just want to make it clear that this is not the only way to paint colored pencils here. With this color, I'm going to make sure that I have it at a big size and that the opacity is very light because if I have it dark, this paints very dark. This is also something you might like this type of texture, but it doesn't look like colored pencils, or it looks like colored pencils that you colored in really hard, all the surface was covered. I like having mine at a low opacity. And making it very big because this technique is time consuming. This way we go faster, S. This way, I can color faster. You can also have it smaller. Let's make it a bit less. This is also something you might like. Which creates a totally different effect. For me, I like to do the first base with a big brush and then add some details with a smaller brush. I'm going to show you that. Let's make it more transparent and bigger. I like to create some like an outline very softly. And then just choose a point and start painting from there. I'm just creating lines like this. Because our brush is so big, I want to make them a bit separated so you can actually see as if you were painting with a color and not just covering the whole surface. I'm going to speed this up now super fast because it's the same motion. We have the base of the mushroom and now I like to make this a bit smaller and then go in dark in some areas, and you can do it with the same color. I like doing some places with the same color. I'm going to do the shading here, like the shade and the light is coming from here. I'm making these parts and you can tighten up the outline like this, and you can also add other colors. Just press softly, so that it's not so evident because if you press hard, then maybe that's your choice, but I like it being more subtle. I'm just creating little lines here. See now it starts to take shape and become more t. I go back and forth between different colors and different sizes of the brush, and I just keep darkening some areas. I'm following the direction that these initial lines have. I'm just going in with a bit of longer lines where I want this to be a bit darker. Then I'm going to go back in with more dark color to make this a bit darker this side. Great. I think that looks good. Now I'm going to add a bit of darker color here just a bit. Just to create some variation in tone. Maybe go back with this re another bit of dark color here to this corner. Yeah, looks more tree deep. You can also go in with lighter colors, or even let's add this yellow for light as if the sun was shining on it. So I'm going to add that here. I like this style for kids things. You can also choose other colors. So let's add some here. Just to blend between the yellow and the reddish brown here. For kids books or kids illustrations, I think this style is really cute. I really like that. The only thing I'm going to do now is to create the dark shadows here. I'm just going in like this. Very fast. I. Then we can just go into the little dots here with this yellow maybe at some light here. You can make it less transparent because this color is very light, so you wanted to actually show up. This way, it also makes them smooth because remember we created them originally with the monoline brush, which is very smooth. So they don't look as colored pencly. I'm going over the edges to make them look more like rough. Again, the sun's coming from here and we're adding this yellow. You could even make them a bit darker in the bottom with these if you wanted. Just to make it even more tree dimensional. It's all a matter of style. I'm just showing you different things so that you can get ideas of what you can do, and then you just adapt it to your own art and to your taste and to what you want to create. Let's see how that looks. I like it. Let's continue with this other layer and I'm going to choose this color. I'm going to make it transparent and very big, and I'm just going to add softly a base And here, I'm going to make it smaller so I can create the border. And then just make it a bit less transparent and smaller and we can start creating the folds here. I'm just darkening these areas. I want to add the shadow. I'm going to choose this color and make my brush transparent and just add the shadow here softly. Yeah, that looks good. I can even use that color to darken some areas here. With colored pencils, I always find they look better. Let's make this smaller. They look better, not so small. They look better when you mix different colors. Then I'm going to do the back part, this one. I'm just going to color this with the same color but make it very dark. Then I see here that I didn't follow the shape, so I can go here and fix that by choosing the lighter color and just coloring that in. Then I can go back to this color and fill it in and this original color fill it in. D here. Then I can use a lighter color and create some lines. Just to add a bit more texture. Great. Now we're going to go to this part, and I'm going to use this color, make it big, so dark. Lighter and fill in the base like we did with the mushroom cap. I'm going to create a border and then just fill that in. And then go in with a less transparent and smaller brush and just create some shadows with the same color. I'm going to make this site a bit like the bottom, make the bottom. Now let's add more shading to this area. I'm going to choose a darker color and do exactly the same thing. Here I'm pressing very softly. I'm not lifting my pencil. I'm just dragging back and forth. I'm going to add some shadow here too. I want to make it here so you can really see the difference between this part and this part. I press harder here, so it's darker and then softer down here. Then I want to add the beat more dark. So it's not like a straight line there. I'm just going over it several times by pressing softly. That's how I get a smoother blend of the colors. Now I can even add a darker color like this one. No, maybe this one. I can make my brush smaller so that I can create lines like these that are more defined. I. I really like that I can see the defined pencil marks here. But if you wanted it to be very smooth, you just colored it in like this. And then you'll get a smoother texture or not texture but amo application of the pencil. Now I want to define this bottom edge. Maybe this one. And a tiny bit of dark here. Maybe create some lines. And then even choose a lighter color. You can choose this one and then go here so you can make it a bit lighter. And then add some detail like that too. Even go lighter to this one and add some light details in this area. And then grab the darker color and make the little dots and even make it a bit darker here. Let's see how it's looking. I really like this. So I think I am done, and now what we're going to do is create another mushroom so that you can practice this burden. 10. Cute Color Pencil Style: I have this mushroom ready, and I am going to create a new layer and create a sketch there. I think for this one, because I like using this for Kits illustration. I want to just make a little cone like this like a little bell shape. Here, you just add the way lines. Then let's add a little solid base like this. Now this is one of those mushrooms that has layers, and I'm going to do that now and see that my sketches are never that. They're very loose. They're just simple shapes. I hope this helps you with your sketching also, just make very loose lines. Then you can refine it when you're sketching, just have fun and try to capture basic shapes first and then start adding some details. Maybe this one wants to have a little door here. Somebody has to live in this cute room, and then it'll have a door and maybe it'll have a little window here. Maybe it needs a little friend. Why don't we make a little bumblebee? That's visiting. Maybe it's bringing a flower. I know the class is about painting mushrooms, but I just wanted to give you this little quick extra thing because if you're using this style, maybe you wanted to make it more, and I think this would be a good idea. So Let's move it here and now we can start painting this. I'm going to do the same thing that I always do to my sketches and it's set it to multiply, reduce the opacity, and create a layer underneath. Here we don't have the base shape as we did when we started here. I am going to create that first. Let's just go and grab the monoline brush again. I'm just going to create the shape very fast. Doesn't have to be perfect, and fill it in. Then I'm going to create another one, drag it underneath, and I'm going to create this bottom part. Let's choose that color, for example. Close the shape, fill it. Then let's create one last layer here and maybe with this yellow. It doesn't matter what color. I'm going to just create the little B. I'm not going to create this, and then the rest, I'm just going to create later. I'm going to swipe it to the right to activate alpha lock and fill it in with the light color. Layer, P layer, P layer. I think now I can make my sketch even lighter, and I'm going to start coloring in these. Let's start by the top part here. This part, let's make it some greenish teal. I'm just going to fill it in with my watercolor brush very softly, just to give it like a base layer. Then this part, I like that cream color for the B, I want to give it maybe a bit more yellowish color. Now we can go back to our recent ones and you'll see your six p pencil there or whatever pencil you're using, and we can start painting. I'm going to make sure I'm in this layer for the mushroom cap. I'm just going to take this color and start doing exactly the same process. But because I still have the alpha lock activated, I can only paint inside there, and then we get these very smooth lines, which I don't like. Let's undo that and make sure that the alpha lock is not activated. Yeah. Now I can go outside and create a nicer outlines. That look like they're colored with actual pencils. I'm just going to outline that and then start filling this in. If you put your pencil like that, like you tilted a lot, then you won't be able to see the lines. So if you want to see the lines, just make sure your pencil is a bit more upright. Se. There you can see the pencil marks. Now I'm just going to go and feel all this in the same way. Here, when I'm reaching this part, I don't want it to be so dark so you can actually see the difference. I'm just going to color in these bottom parts first. Then when I'm reaching this area, I'm going to reduce the size of tiny bit, and I'm going to press softer. Then we're going to come back and add more shading to this, but for now, this creates a differentiation between this layer and this layer. Let's make this a bit bigger again and do the same thing. I'm going to speed this up a lot because it's the same process for all of them, like all the layers. Now we're going to start adding some darker and lighter shades. I'm thinking I'm going to add dark to the tips and lighter down here. Let's choose this darker color. And my brushes a bit smaller now. I'm just going to go and darker in these areas. I'm not going fully in there outlining it, but just outlining the tips. There I can start darkening some more areas. Just play around and see what feels good. Again, I'm going to split this up because it's the same process. I think I can turn off the sketch for now. That way you see what's happening. Now I just want to go in and make some lines longer so that it doesn't stop there abruptly, but it blends in into the other color. See, that looks so much better than this because it's blended into the other color now when we add the lighter color here, it will blend in even more. I. I'm just going in and making some longer lines, very irregular. Fast. I'm not overthinking this. I find that once I have the basic shapes, it's really fun to just keep adding details, and that is why my art is so detailed because at this point, I don't have to think about it. I just have fun. I'm not worried about if it's going to look good, if the drawing is proportionate, now it's just making it a bit better by adding more stuff. Great. Now I'm going to create the lighter areas, and I think I want to use this blue here because it will also be a brighter color. It will create not only light, but it will also make it a bit more lightly. I'm some lines go further down. Again, it blends the color into the colors that are there. Great. Now I want a very light color to add a lot of light. With that blue selected, I'm going to go here and go up to make it way lighter. Yeah. Then I'm going to add some lines like this. To brighten it up a bit. If you want, you can also go around here, make it even lighter and go around here. And just add some to the edges to make it look a bit more tree dy. See now it looks like this is thicker. I can do that. Great. Now I want to create this part. I'll go to that layer and I'm going to use the same colors that I use here basically. Grab this one. I'm going to make my brush and just create the outline. I'm just going to add a little base color. Great, and now I can start adding darker areas and even choose a darker color like this one. Make the brush a bit smaller. If you go out, you can just use the eraser, make sure it's small and erase your mistakes. I'm adding some shadow here. I think that works good. I'm going to add some lines. And then some very light lines. I need to make this less transparent so we can actually see what's happening. Great. Now I can add the. Let's turn on the sketch and maybe we want to make the door. And I'm going to reduce the transparency and just color it in. You see that this site is darker, I'm pressing harder when I'm getting to this site so that it has a shadow already. I'm just going to go over everything, so there's not so many white spaces. Now I can just go in and add the details with some lighter color. I want to make some divisions. And then maybe some little lines. And then going in with a darker color and Mark those divisions even more. Maybe this border. Then I think we need a darker color. So let's choose this one. Yeah, then make the little door there. Then let's make the little window here with that dark color two. Now we can go a and color our little B. Let me make the dark line here first. I can make the brush of it smaller. L et's make the eyes. I want to pull opacity when I'm making the eyes. Little mouth. Again, this is optional. I just thought it'd be fun to add a little friend. Then here we have the little hands and legs. Then we have to color the yellow part. I'm just going to add some little hairs to it. It's like a fussy. And then go back with that black color and do the same. So it's ultra fussy. Great. Now we have to do the wings. I think we can choose this blue here. I want to choose a lighter color to differentiate them here. And a darker blue here to mark the front and back wing. Now I want to create the flower in a layer underneath. I'm going to go here add a new layer and create the flower. Let's choose this color. And I'm just going to paint it like this and give it a yellow middle. Then just choose this color that's lighter to make some details. Let's this green for the stem. Let's turn off our sketch and group these layers. Call this home. And there it is. I hope you like all these techniques a lot, and in the next lesson, it's going to be a bonus. I'm going to show you how to change the color of your illustrations. 11. Bonus: Recoloring Your Illustrations: In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to change the color of your illustrations. These techniques work with any technique, but let's try with the colored pencils. Because I want to have my file intact, I don't want to work on it. I'm going to create a copy, so I'm going to drag to the left and duplicate. That way, if I change the colors here and I don't like it, I will still have my originals here. Let's go into this copy and there are several ways you can do this. Let's concentrate on this mushroom first, for example. That is this one, and I can change each individual layer. For example, If I go here to the adjustments, I can use hue saturation and brightness to change the hue, so that's the color of these. Let's make it a bit brighter. I can change the saturation, which will make it more saturated, more brilliant, or less saturated, so more muted. Let's make it more saturated. I like that. Then here I can change the brightness, which will make it lighter or darker. I think the brightness was okay because we don't want to lose our shadows and our lights. I'm going to just leave that at 50% as it was, and that is a very easy way to change the colors. You can also use a selection tool and make sure that free hand is selected and select parts of your illustration. For this, I like to activate the feather and add a bit of it so that it's not a harsh line. Again, go to the adjustments, hue, saturation, and brightness, and I can change the hue for that area only and maybe make it more interesting. That is cute. But I wanted to be more in the tonal range, like oranges and pinks and red, and I'm going to make that more saturated, and then I'm going to release that selection and look at that. That looks totally different now. I can change these areas too if I want. I can go here and go to huge saturation brightness, and maybe I want to make this a bit brighter, so it's a bit lighter and more saturated so that it matches these. I think the hue is good, but if you want to try some other out, just go ahead because sometimes you will find something here by mistake and it ends up looking really nice. I'm just going to go to this one and do the same thing, because it's a bit muted now that everything is brighter. I'm just going to increase the saturation a bit and maybe the brightness. Now I release that. That is a very easy way to change the color of your illustration. Let's try another way here. Let's say that I want to work with a different color palette. For example, this one, mushrooms, I'm going to set it as default. If you want to download this one, when you subscribe to my newsletter, you'll get access to these and other color palettes too. This is not required for the class, but I'm just going to show you how it works with it. Let's close this mushroom and open the home one. If I go here to the cap layer and I create a new one on top, I can touch it here and set it as a clipping mask. That means that what I do on this layer is only going to affect this layer. If I paint here, it's only going to paint on top of this. I'm going to go and set that to color. And you'll see what happens with it now. If I go to my brushes, I just want to go to the air brushing and choose like a soft brush. It doesn't matter, I just want a big brush. Let's say that I want this to be this yellow color. I'm going to make it very big and I'm just going to paint over it. And it changes it. Then I can just change the opacity. Or you can also try different blending modes and see if there's something there that you like. For example, that one and then play with opacity. But the color just changes the whole color tone. If I wanted to be this blue, I painted like that, if I wanted to be pink, I painted like that, and I changed the color in 2 seconds. Let's say we do want it to be blue as it was. But then I think that's looking a bit flat. What you can do is you can merge these two layers so that those changes are applied permanently to these. Now it's that color, you can go to your selection. Let's select this side, for example, and increase the feather bit, and then go here to hue saturation brightness, and I can change the brightness. Maybe increase the saturation of a tiny beat, make it darker and release that. Then we're starting to add more shadows to it. We're starting to create some death. Then you can also use the selection tool, for example, for some areas, touch the dot so that it closes. Let's better this out. And then go to hue saturation brightness, and maybe we can change the color of data beat, a tiny beat towards a bit of a purple and increase the saturation. And lift the brightness *** and release that and see if you like that. Then you can do the same thing to every layer. You can create a new layer, set it as a clipping mask, set it to color. Then because we have several elements here, we can choose this yellow, for example, and do the same thing where everything is now a yellow tint, or you can make your brush smaller and color this part, for example. Then the door, you want it to be this bright red, you color it in like this. Then the window wants to be dark blue. You can make your brush smaller and color this in like that. Then we can do the same for the B. Another layer, clipping mask, set it to color. Let's make the black parts bluish. And even the wings. Then we want to make the little be yellow. I'm making the brush smaller and just adding more of an orange than a yellow. I'm adding some areas where it's more orange. Then that's flower, we can do the same thing. We create a new layer, clipping mask, set it to color and maybe painted with this pink. And the yellow make it like this orange. There we have it. We've changed the colors really easily. So that you're not stuck with the colors you created your art with. You can create variations of it, so you can have this one be the very bright virgin and you can have the other one be the more muted virgin. I hope that helps and sparks a lot of ideas of ways that you can repurpose your old w by adding a new fresh color palette. We've come to the end of the class. In the next lesson, we will recap everything you learn. 12. Wrap-up: So this is it. You made it to the end of the class. I hope you got out of your comfort zone, experimented with different tools, different styles, different techniques, and you found something that you really like. Remember to share your projects in the project gallery. I can't wait to see what you create. Follow me here on Skillshare, leave a review, and share this class with your friend. Now you know how to create ink illustrations, how to color them easily. You know how to create a vector style bold graphic look. You know how to create digital watercolors and even how to create color pencil sound Ippriate. 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