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Paint a Winter Illustration in Gouache

teacher avatar Liz Trapp, artist

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      2:02

    • 2.

      Class project

      2:03

    • 3.

      Materials

      2:38

    • 4.

      Step 1: Sketch from Reference Photos

      7:13

    • 5.

      Step 2: Paint Snowy Mountains

      8:18

    • 6.

      Step 3: Add Houses and Trees

      10:21

    • 7.

      Step 4: Add Final Details

      10:32

    • 8.

      Thank you

      1:02

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Join me in creating an imagined winter snowscape out of gouache paint. This simplified illustration is a fun project to do a cold winter afternoon (or anytime!) and is available to all skill levels. 

In this class we’ll learn:

  • How do use reference photos to create an imagined and simplified scene
  • How to depict complex elements, like a snowy mountain
  • How to work within a limited color palette to create a cohesive illustration
  • Basic steps on exploring painting with gouache paint

 By the end of class, you’ll have a fun winter illustration that you painted – you can leave it as is or scan it and create greeting cards, art prints, calendar pages, etc. from it (note: This class only covers the creation of the illustration itself, we do not go into any digital processes)

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Liz Trapp

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Hi! I'm Liz and I love all things creative - I grew up wanting to design tissue boxes, running apparel, or limo interiors - so naturally to cover all my bases, I went to school for painting (undergrad & grad). I'm pretty lucky that I did, my love for art has taken me all over the world, from living in France on a post-graduate fellowship to traveling to the Middle East. I've learned so much from my experiences over the years (but not how to design limo-interiors) and I'm really excited to share that with you. I believe that 100% of finding success and satisfaction in a creative career is showing up, again and again.

When I'm not lost in a painted jungle of foxes, deer, and flowers - I'm enjoying life with my husband, toddler son, and baby girl. We live in ... See full profile

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1. Introduction: That Hello. Today we are going to paint winter illustrations using guash paint. This is such a fun project to do to engage with the winter season and to escape to a beautiful, snowy landscape. We're going to make a small scale illustration that's fairly simplified. In this illustration, we're going to use squash paint. If you've not used squash before, it's a little bit of a mixture sort of in between watercolor and acrylic paint. If you don't have quash, but you have watercolor or acrylic paint, you can use either one of those. In this class, we'll first use reference images to build imagined landscape that's based on real scenes and we'll learn how to simplify this landscape as well. Then we'll start laying out our image in gouache paint, and we'll explore using a fairly limited color palette and really thinking about how we'll strategically use color to help pull our eye through the illustration. Then we'll paint the final product. This is a short class. It's fun. And in the end, you'll have a small gouache illustration that you can do whatever you want with. You could leave it as an illustration or as a small painting. Or if you want, you could scan it into your computer and make greeting cards or art prints or a calendar from this illustration. I hope helps you make some fun art in the winter season or about the winter season. I'm Liz Trapp, and I look forward to seeing you in there. Thank you. 2. Class project: The project for this class is to make one small illustration based on the reference photos or whatever photos you would like to use. I'm going to walk you through how to make this illustration. The process for this is first, we will look at our reference photos and then we'll sketch out some compositions, combining the photos together and thinking about simplifying them into this really nice clear and really simple illustration style. Then we'll sketch it out on our paper. This is a watercolor or mixed media paper. It's just a little bit heavier than a typical drawing paper. After we sketch it out, then we'll start by laying down the mountain and we'll work on the sky, the mountain. And the landscape. Then in the next step, we'll go ahead and we'll paint our houses and we'll add trees. Then we'll start to kind of go back through and add details to the illustration. And then finally, we'll add these little splash of red gondolas kind of running through the front of the illustration, and we'll make it snow by adding our snowflakes. So the project for this class is to make one winter illustration that is simplified and if you have quash, utilizes squash. If you don't just use something similar. Okay. I look forward to it. I can't wait to see all of your projects. If you have a chance and you would like to share it, I would love to see them if you upload them to the class projects. You can upload your finished project or a process step if you like, as well. Okay. Thank you. 3. Materials: I'm going to show you the materials that I use for this class. You can screenshot this material list if you want, or I'll upload it to the class materials. Use whatever you have that's close. I start with Holbein acryl guash. It's an acrylic based guash, which means it has more properties of acrylic paint than it does of watercolor. So it's a little bit kind of buttery and nice. The colors I have are magenta, scarlet, viridian, which is like a blue green, yellow ochre, titanium white, navy blue, there's navy blue, jet black, and burnt umber. Throughout the class, I also add in just a pure green and ultramarine blue. I try to keep the color palette fairly limited. I'm going to sketch out my drawing in hot pink for this class so you can see it. But if I weren't using if I weren't filming, I would use that light gray, just a nice pencil that's colored pencil. There's my palette. It's a stay wet palette, so it actually keeps those acrylic gouache paints wet for a couple days. I have my water there. A paper towel. For the palette, honestly, you can just use a magazine page. Anything that doesn't absorb paint. That's my brush that I primarily use. It's a number four round brush. It's a soft brush, so it's good for acrylic and watercolor. This is a number six round brush. I'm going to use it less often in this class, and that one's a number eight round brush. And that one's super soft. And so I will say, I primarily use that number four. It's just smaller. I have more control over the image with it. So use whatever you have on hand. This is my paper. I've cut it to a bunch of irregular sizes, but fairly small there. The largest size is eight by ten, I'm using a Canson paper, which is a little bit heavier. It's a multimedia paper or watercolor paper. You just want to look for something that is like a watercolor or multimedia paper. Then I have my reference photos there. You can download them. You can download that same sheet from the class materials. Here are some examples. We're going to make one of these illustrations, the one with the gondolas, but just what we're looking at as far as our class examples. See you in there. 4. Step 1: Sketch from Reference Photos: Step one of our process is to sketch. I have the reference photos. I've uploaded them as additional resources for this class. And I'm just going to work on thinking about different elements of these photos, not necessarily just working from one in particular, and also really simplifying what I see. This is a very simple illustration. Anybody can do it, and we're just going to focus on some basic shapes here. So I've got some scrap paper. This is not the paper I'm going to paint on. I drew a square. Um to sketch out my what I think my illustration might look like in gouache. And I'm just going to practice some elements over on the side here. I'm working on a mountain right now. This is, like, a craggy kind of mountain like that one you see in the photo. And one of the best ways to paint a snowy mountain is to, first of all, paint the sky around it. And second of all, just focus on some different values in the mountain, some darker spots, some midtones, some different hues. And think about, like, the different sort of pathways that you see in some of these examples. Some of them have ski slopes. So just have pathways, some have tree lines, the different things that define some of these mountains. So in this illustration, I'm going to do kind of a craggier mountain, not like a ski mountain in the background. And that's going to let me use some darker blues, some purples, even. And then I'll work on some other hills. So here I'm just sketching it out. What might that feel like in pencil? It's going to It's like an exercise to warm up. It's just gonna give me a little start here. I think I'm going to layer the hills. So I have, like, a softer hill in front of this mountain. Just go to pull out some darker tones there. And on this softer hill, I'm looking at more of the sweeping lines that I see in some of these snowy banks. And it's very hard to see, I realize. In the sketch here. But I'm just laying out some really light tones just to help remind myself, maybe to put just a touch of color there. I've got some gray just again, help me warm up and think a little bit about what this hill might look like. Again, I'm not working directly from one photo, but I'm just using all of these photos as inspiration. I'm going to put another hill in kind of behind here. It's got a little some sort of little pathway. I see a lot of those, so I'm going to go ahead and put a little pathway here. So I'm just lightly sketching out, practicing different parts of this drawing. Here I'm going to do a little house really simple. It's like a rectangle with a triangle on top. We're gonna push it back into space a little bit here. It doesn't have to be perfect, and in fact, if it's not perfect, it's even better. Makes it more special. Gonna put a little door, some windows. You can decorate these however you want. You can make a little wreath. If you're doing some holiday theme, you could like decorate it like a gingerbread house. You can make all the houses different, really take it whatever way you want it. I'm doing the most simple version of everything here. So here I'm going to practice a tree line in the middle and then little loopy lines that come out the side. In paint, it looks a little bit more substantial, but still it's just a really simplified tree, kind of quirky and definitely a fun addition to the illustration. So here, I've got my square drawn. I'm just going to think about what I want my composition to look like. So how do I want the elements arranged on this page? I've got my craggy kind of mountain in the background, my softer hills in the front. I'm going to start to think about like, oh, I like that gondola. It's nice to have something moving in the picture. Maybe it's a train, maybe it's a gondola, maybe it's a ski lift, something. It's kind of fun to break it up. Also, when you paint a lot of snow, it's a lot of blues and purples, really cool colors. If you can put something in that could pop, so I'm going to make these red when I paint them, then that really can make the picture seem finished. I'm going to draw a couple houses in some up close, so they're a little bit bigger here. My little pathway is going to go from the house up this hill. Just use this step to get lost in creating whatever world you want to create. It's really fun exercise. I'm going to add a couple more houses here. They don't actually all have to be pointing the same direction. You can flip flop them a little. And sometimes that can add nice movement to the illustration too. Just going to draw on some little trees. Again, this is just a sketch. It's on scrap paper. It's just going to give me a template to work from for my painting. So, something that really is fun is to just fill the page with trees and little details, little houses in the background. Just think about how you can fill that space. I'm going to add a little skier in really simple. Not much detail there at all. I'm just kind of drawing a body, some arms, legs and skis and a hat. Usually even skip the face or any body parts because it's so small anyway, it would adding too much detail can really complicate it. So just keep it simple. I'm going to go ahead and fill on the resume sketch here, and I'll meet up with you in a minute. 5. Step 2: Paint Snowy Mountains: Step two, we are going to first sketch on paper, and then we're going to work on defining our snowy mountains. So first, I'm going to get out the paper that I'm actually going to paint on. This is just a little bit heavier paper. It's 140 pound watercolor paper. I've drawn out my sketch on here. Just use some pink pencils so you can hopefully see it a little bit. Normally, I would do it in a light light gray if I weren't on camera. Next, I'm getting out my palette. This is a nice palette. It kind of keeps the paint wet. You can actually store it for a little bit. And I'm using a cla gouache by Home. So I'm going to lay out my colors here. All the colors are listed on the materials list, and I've got my brush. And for this landscape, I have a ton of white, and I'm going to put out a lot more. So the first thing I'm going to do is mix up my navy blue and white and a little magenta to try to make, like, a bluey, purply color for the sky. When we're working on this illustration, one of the easiest ways to define a snowy landscape or snowy mountain is to paint in the sky and the space around the landscape. That way you can leave it pretty much white while adding some tonal things in. So I'm just trying to get the right color. You know, if you want it lighter, you can have a lot of white, and then just add a little blue or magenta to it. If you want it darker, add more blue and more magenta. I always recommend adding your color to white instead of adding white to your color. Makes it go a lot smoother. And here I am. I'm just painting in the background, the sky. And I'm painting around the mountains, and I've used some water on my brush. If you find that your paint is pulling too dry, just add a little water. I like to mix in kind of a lot of water with Mah. And that's the thing I really love about using this material is that you can really tailor it to what you like. Acrylic gouache is kind of in between watercolor and acrylic paint. It definitely has more of the same properties as acrylic paint. It dries up if you leave it out, and if you don't have enough water, it can get a little gummy kind of depending on the brand and colors that you're using. They're all a little bit different. But here I'm just trying to get a nice opaque coverage in the sky. And again, just going all around my mountains. I'm painting right over my gondola that I drew. Don't worry about it. Chances are your lines will show through a little bit, and if not, you have your initial sketch. You can see mine right behind. I'm actually working on top of my scrap paper. So I can kind of remember how I had things laid out. And you can keep fiddling with the color. Sometimes after it dries, I decide I want a lighter or darker, and I'll go back in and add another layer of color. Now I'm going to go into the mountain. And just like we practice with the sketch the initial sketches, I'm just using pretty much the same color. I've added a little more water to it, so it moves really smoothly across the paper. But I'm just adding in some more or less blobs and squiggles to help define some of the craggy areas of the mountain. This is the mountain that's really kind of rugged that I was referencing from the photo. And I'm going to kind of continue doing this throughout the mountain. Trying to pay special attention to the base of the mountain where I have the other hills in front of it. Putting more darker tones down there will help differentiate the two types of landscape from each other. So that's what I'm working on right now here. I'm using my slightly bigger brush. It doesn't really matter. The brushes I've suggested are all in a similar size range 86 and a four. Certainly, the eight and the four are the ones that I use the most, and they're pretty different from each other. But I like to use the tip of my brush anyway to try to get a little variation there. And again, I'm not doing anything really, like, particular, just sort of making some squiggles and feeling it out how I want that mountain to look. Going to take my smaller brush here and I tend to after I finish the sky, I tend to do the majority of the illustration in the size four brush. It just feels a little bit easier to control for me, especially on such a small paper. So I think my paper, I just cut it. It's not like a regulated size, but I think it's about 6 " on the longest or on the top side. So six by eight maybe is my guess. But you can work on any size paper you want. So I mixed up the same kind of color, but with more magenta. Just to add a little visual interest, a little variation in some of those parts of the mountain. And I'm going in with my smaller brush and certainly focusing on adding some, like, dots and, like, littler lines. I had these kind of bigger blue ranges that I painted before, and now I want to make a different kind of line. So you can think about, like, little boulders or rocks or some smaller area that you would find on a mountain. Now I'm going in with even lighter color. This is really just magenta mixed with white, and I know I'm going to use it in another part of the image. I'm going to have it show up again with one of my skiers. It's nice to think about when you introduce a color, where you're going to use it again. It's good to use it maybe a couple times throughout the image. Now I finish At Mountain, I'm going to look at these sloping hills and think about my use of color there because I already have other stuff I'm going to use. Um, houses and trees and skiers. I'm not really This isn't really detailed. I'm just adding in kind of a light magenta puddle, essentially, thinking about maybe like a reflection or the way, when you look at a really smooth, snowy surface, you could see this sort of blue or purply shadow on it. So that's what I'm working on here. I'm just adding some variations onto that color a little more white to lighten it up a little bit. And I'm kind of dotting it throughout the landscape. I'm going to mix in a little bit of navy with that white. It's nice. If you've planned out where your houses are going, it's nice to put, like, a little shadow of color sort of around them, thinking about how snow piles up around buildings, around your house, around trees, things like that. And again, I'm mixing a pretty good amount of water. Every time my hand goes off screen there, I'm dipping it in water, just to help kind of keep that paint moving slowly or nicely. 6. Step 3: Add Houses and Trees: So in step three, we're going to add a little more detail to our page. We're going to start working on the houses and the trees. This is really going to make everything come to life. Again, I have the materials listed up there. And for this, I'm going to start with yellow ochre mixed with white. So we're going to make a light yellow ochre. And this is going to be for the face of the houses. I tend to do all the houses the same. Like I said, when you were sketching, you're welcome to make them all different, all different colors. Dress them up, make them look like gingerbread houses. Whatever your heart desires. This is where you can really let your imagination go. Again, I'm just keeping it really simple for this image, but feel free to take it wherever you want. So I'm just painting in the face of the house, that front facing part of the house. I'm not going to do any sides right now. And I'm not adding much water to my paint. So when I start working on the foreground or things that are closer to the front or this upper layer of the image, I tend to use a slightly thicker paint just because it covers better. I want it to be just a little bit thicker. I still want it to flow nicely, so my brush is still wet, but I'm not mixing it with water like I was for the sky. I'm working on another house, the face of it. I'm going to do all of them kind of in one sweep here. And don't worry about leaving spots for windows or anything like that. You can add on top of that. That's what I'm gonna do. Here, again, I keep it really simple with the decoration of these houses. But even if you were to add some wreaths or if you want, like, twinkly lights outside or something like that, you can still just add it on top. I would do that last. So here we're just working on the base layer of the houses and just the front of the houses. Even though I have these tiny little houses, I'm not quite sure you can see it super well. Because they're very close in tone to the hill that they're on, but I have these tiny little houses in the background, and I'm still painting them with the same color right just on the face of the house, that light yellow ochre. I'm going to clean my brush and I'm going to just dry it off a little bit. And you'll see me drying my brush a lot. And that's because sometimes as I paint, a little drip of water will sort of make its way down the brush, and I know it will mess up my painting. So I have to stop and dry it. Now I'm just picking up yellow ochre just straight from the tube. I didn't mix it with anything. I did not lighten it, and I'm doing the other side of the house. So that way it kind of puts it in shadow a little bit. Again, this is not a technical painting or illustration. But even just those details and thinking about the difference in color between the front and the side can really add a lot of excitement to the illustration and really make it look finished. So just like I did with the face of the houses and the light yellow ochre, I'm just going to take the regular yellow ochre and paint all the sides of the houses. Okay. And now I'm pulling up the burnt umber, which is a dark brown. If you don't have the same colors, just pick whatever you have that you want to use or that's close. I'm just using a dark brown for the roof. And I'm going to do the same thing I did. I've been kind of following the same formula and painting these houses. I'm going to go through and do all the roofs. And something I like to do, I think it just really helps set it apart from the rest of the landscape is once I paint the side of the roof that you can see the most of. So the side you see me working on right now, I will add just a little line on the other side of the roof, just a little overhang. And that just helps it acts as kind of a nice outline. It just helps set it off from that landscape. Sometimes, when I'm painting anything or working on anything, there's a little chimney there, by the way. Um, you have to think about, like, how can you make the elements different enough that they don't get sucked into the landscape without just outlining them? How can you kind of do it in a sneaky way? So this is one way using the roof as a really dark contrasting color. To really define that house from the landscape. So I'm going to go through. I'm going to do all the roofs. I'm putting little chimneys on all of my roofs as well. And after that dries, we'll do the trees after this. And then after the house is dry, then we can go in and add some of the windows and doors and things. Okay, just kidding. Now I'm going to add some doors. I'm just using that same dark brown. When you can keep from introducing a new color, that's typically good, just so that you can it doesn't get too overwhelming. So, I'm keeping the houses really similar in color palette and I'm using just this dark burnt umber. To create, like, a little balcony. I see those a lot in these, like, European ski lodges and some dark spots for windows. After that dries I'm going to go in and add a little white on top of it. So doors, just some way to kind of break up these these houses, these walls. All right. Now I'm going to go in and work on my trees. I'm going to let the houses at this point just dry. I have taken some of the Vidian green, which is a pretty dark green and it feels like it has a little blue mixed in. I'm just going to work on these little trees throughout the picture. And something I really like to do is make the trees a variety of colors all kind of in the same family. So I'll use the Vardian green and then just regular green, and then the navy blue. And then I have an ultramarine blue, which is brighter and white. And I'll do some combination of either white and one of those colors or just one of those colors straight from the tube, or a couple of those colors mixed together to make the trees. And I'll do one color and a couple trees kind of throughout the image. So right now I'm with that verdian green. And then I'll switch colors and then I'll do some more trees throughout the image. And then I'll switch colors and I'll do more trees. And I'll just kind of fill up the illustration here. And you'll start to see it really kind of come to life. Once you start dotting that landscape, you've got houses in now you're adding trees, and now it's going to start to really feel like a kind of whimsical place to be. Now I've taken my white, and I'm just gonna go back into the houses. I've got my trees all set, and I'm going to add little blocks for windows, and I'm going to do this all throughout my houses, just to help, again, add some contrast and add a little detail to these places. So I'm gonna go through the whole thing and add those little windows. Then we're going to let everything dry just for a minute. And in real time, I'm moving pretty quickly from one step to the next. By the time you finish one, it should pretty much be dry and you can go on to the next step. That's why I'm working back and forth a little bit. But after this, we're going to go in and add our final details to the image. 7. Step 4: Add Final Details: All right. And for our last step here, we're going to add details. Have fun. We're going to add skiers, gondolas, whatever else you feel like, some snowflakes, things like that. So I'm going to start with some skiers. I've got my ultramarine blue, and I'm just making a really simple shirt, rectangle, two noodly arms coming out somewhere. You can look at some of the reference photos which have skiers far away in them and kind of see how they might stand. But honestly, I'm not too worried about details. I'm just going to add two little legs. I'm using black for this one, and then two skis. Don't forget your ski poles. And then it's about 50 50 if I put a little face in or not. I'm going to do it. Today, I'm going to take a little of that burnt umber that we used for the roof, mix it with a little bit of white, put a little dot there. And then we're going to add a hat on top. Think about what people wear. This is a good time to include little bits of color throughout your image. So I'm going to put a red hat on. Forget what I said earlier about like too much color being too distracting. This would also be fun if you like, added an orange or just some other color that could make the little figures stand out. But overall, having a pretty consistent palette is great. But with the skiers, it's kind of a fun spot in the illustration. I'm going to make another skier here. They have a light pink. It's just magenta and white mixed together shirt or jacket. That's the same color that's in the background mountain. I said I was going to repeat that color. It's nice to sprinkle the same color throughout the background and foreground. If you can, it's just a nice visual balance. I'm just making some darker magenta pants for her or maybe red. I'm going to add in her skis here some little poles. She won't get everything in all the time. That's okay. Just suggest it. It already looks so fun with the skiers added in. It's so delightful to populate little worlds that you make. I think I'm going to put one more little friend in here maybe a snowboarder over on this other side. You could put a ton of people on your mountain or just a few or nobody at all or a dog instead of a person or a deer or something. It's just think about what you want it to be like. Having some sort of presence and they're an animal or a person, it really can liven the illustration up, especially if you finish it and you feel like there's something missing that could be it, might be worth a try, but it's also okay not to do it too. I don't really know what snowboarders look like, technically, so just put a little one line down instead of two for the snowboard. Little hat there. Now, I'm going to mix my two kind of brown colors together, my yellow ochre and burnt umber, and I'm just going to make some tree trunks on some of the trees. Not all the trees need them, but I put them on a lot of the trees. Part of it, again, from a design perspective, it's just nice to have that brown found in other parts of the image as well. It's also a good thing to do while you're waiting for your skiers to dry. Alright, next, I'm going to tackle these gondolas. I kind of forgot about them because I got lost in the image. But I think they're a really important part in finishing it up. So I considered having black cords that they're on or cables, whatever those are called, but I think it might be a little drastic it already cuts through the image. So I've mixed my jet black with some white and made a gray, and as I'm painting it here, I think, like, it's maybe not dark enough. Like, it's starting to get kind of lost in there. So I'm going to darken it up a little, but I just don't want it to be totally black. And I'm going to just going to go over that line one more time, make it stand out a little bit more. Now I'm going to do my second one. I had two next to each other. One for each gondola. Okay. And so now we've got those down. It doesn't feel like it ruined the image, so that's good. I always kind of nerve wracking to put something right through the middle of it, but you got to trust yourself. I'm going to start to make the little thing that the gondola hangs on, and then I'm going to switch over to my red. And actually make the gondla. And this is super rewarding because it's really, really cool to have this pop of red kind of right in the front of your image. It really is a nice. I think it's got a nice look. So I'm just making little roof, little sidebars, just keeping it super simple. Don't worry about the windows now. At some point, when the red seems like it can handle it, I'm just going to put a little white in the window. So Um, I think the mountain is a little even though you can really see through a window, obviously, the mountain is a little distracting to see behind the gondola. You can use your own judgment for if you're doing something similar, if you want to be able to see through the windows or not. But I've kind of taken the approach with this image that the simpler, the better. So I'm just going to block out the window to keep that part a little bit more simple. So I'm going to finish up the red part of these gondolas, and then I'll go back in as it's drying and blocking the windows a little bit. Alright, I have mixed up. Well, I wait for those to drive. Mixed up are really light gray to put a little smoke in the chimneys. This is not super evident in the illustration, so I would say do it if you feel like it. It's kind of fun to do, but it's not something that's really visible. And I'm just gonna take pure white and put little dots all over the sky to make some snowflakes here. Big dots, little dots at random, all around. And now, I found that I think my red's dry enough to not bleed. I certainly made the paint pretty thick, so it shouldn't be an issue. And I'm just blocking in my windows with white. You might find with gouache, something that's nice about it is that it's pretty opaque. And so even though it might take a couple layers, you should be able to paint over, you know, anything you've painted underneath. If you can't, just make sure you're not adding any water to it at that point. You want to keep it as opaque as possible. Okay, I'm gonna go back in with the jet black and just add little dots into my windows. Nothing real specific. I just felt like they look empty and, like, they need something. So I'm going to add in these little dots here. Kind of like window panes. Um I'm just going to add even less detail on those little ones in the back. And then I think we've got some sort of industrial stuff, like a little maybe like a little paint or a little bar on the outside of the gondola and probably, like, some sort of little guardrail or something inside. So I'm going to go ahead and add those in. And at this point, the illustrations pretty much come together. And you can kind of take a minute and think, like, is there anything I want to add? Do you know, is there anything else that it needs? But I think for the most part, I feel like it's pretty much set, and we have a cute little winter illustration, and you can do all kinds of things with it. You could give it to someone as a holiday card. You can scan it and make a print out of it, or have some cards printed or just keep it as is. So enjoy enjoy your illustration. Thank you. 8. Thank you: M. Thank you so much for joining me for this winter Illustration class. I had so much fun making these pieces, and I hope you did too. If you are interested in Guash and you want to take some more classes, I have a few more classes on skill share, which I have different subject matters, but also cover using Guash or also use Guash. I'd love to see you in there as well. I would definitely love to see your projects, feel free to post them on the class project section. Um, it's always so fun to see what students come up with and what you come up with a from your own creative voice. So I look forward to it and thank you so much for joining me, and I'll see you next time. Bye.