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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
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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. You can use this technique to create any
illustrations you like, even to create
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