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1. Introduction : Hi, guys. Hello, everyone. Welcome back to my class. During my today's tutorial, I will teach you how to paint forest in water color style. I prepared for you lots of custom brushes, stem brushes that will help you to paint trees easily. I know sometimes it might be a challenge so I try to make it as easy as possible to finish your paint in a short time. Guys I would be very thankful if you could share with me your own artworks, and if you have any questions, suggestions, or recommendations, you might leave them in discussion section. If you're ready, grab your iPad, Apple Pencil, and let's paint together. Hi guys, I'm [inaudible] freelance illustrator. Welcome back to my class and let's dive into forest illustration and paint altogether, different kinds of trees in completely different ways. At the end of my class, you will learn more about Procreate and composition, especially how to use Layers, Clipping Mask, Alpha Lock, Selection Tool, and how to texture, volume, color variation to your picture. Most importantly, you will learn how to paint watercolor illustration in a simple way and your painting technique, you can use the illustration you'll create for posting on Instagram, Editor Portfolio, or sell it on Etsy, Camera World and so on, or just share it with someone whom you really like. I am sure they will be so happy to get an illustration that is created by you. Today, I want to show you that watercolor is so simple, and it's real fun. In the end of my class, you can see it. Today, I will teach you how to create texture paper, how to use stem brushes, what is composition, how to create traditional watercolor illustrations in Procreate, how to draw different kinds of trees, how to paint pictures and without reference picture, how to use mild and default Procreate brushes for watercolor paint, how to apply my new watercolor technique, what as nuances you need to know if you want to create watercolor illustration, how to use Alpha Lock and Clipping Mask, how to texture to your artwork. I will also show you how to add shades and highlights. I will show you my whole process from the start till finish. As a bonus, I will share with you my textured paper, two sets of passed-on watercolor and stem brushes, colored pallet sketch that I created. I will also add file of my pictures that I drew. Feel free to use it for your own art projects. This class is great for intermediate level, also can be useful for beginners, if you watched my previous classes and experienced artists. Probably here, you can find an inspiration and new ways how to paint forest illustration. Your class project will be next. Paint a composition with trees and mountains, using the tips and brushes that I give you today. I will use Procreate for this class with iPad and Apple Pencil. If you have it, or some other drawing pads, or just regular watercolor paper and paints, please join our class and good luck.
2. Creating Paper: I think we're ready to start guys. First of all, you're going to create extra paper and download all our freebies from the website. Now we're going to tell you how to do that. First of all, we're going to open Procreate. After that, in order to create a new Canvas, we need to tap plus and tap plus again. I've decided we need to switch from pixels into inches and the write 9 per 11 inches. Guys, keep in mind, we need to have 300 DPI resolution and maximum layers that we might have is 56. After that tap Create. That's our Canvas, now we need the export texture paper and guys, today we're going to paint in watercolor style. If you have watercolor paper, once again, we're going to go to layers duplicate it a few times. Now I'm going to explain to you how to export and where to find our freebies. We need to open MyPlus in browser. Don't open that in a Skillshare app because in this way, my freebies might not be visible. After that in projects and sources section in the right corner, and there's a headline, resources, you might find all my freebies. When you download them, all the freebies will be in downloads folder. You might go to files app in downloads folder. Guys, after that we need to go and tap Action button, tap, Add and tap, Insert a file. After in downloads folder, you go there and insert our watercolor paper into the Procreate. Next thing either rotate the paper. Now I will press Fit to Screen and now you see it's perfect for the size of our Canvas. That's our texture paper, but we need to get it or send to quarter card texture. For that, we need to change the blending mode. I'll duplicate the layers two times, move to Linear Burn and Color Burn. Next, I will duplicate Linear Burn layer two times and after they merge together, I'll duplicate Color Burn and merge that together. I have to lower our opacity to 67 percent in Linear Burn mode and Color Burn, I don't do anything with this layer. After that, I select two layers and I will press Group, next Rename. Now guys, keep in mind, we need to paint underneath our paper layers group. Don't draw on the top, don't draw here. Because if you do that you will not get this authentic watercolor look. I'll show you an example. For example, when I draw, you see I don't have this watercolor look. Because you don't see that watercolor paper is blending into the color. But if you move our layer underneath you see simultaneously we started having our watercolor texture. So guys, please pay attention and paint on this paper layer group. Well, during our today's class, we're going to paint three different illustrations and all of them have the same theme. This is forest. We're going to paint trees and we're going to create different compositions with trees. I prepared for you two brush sets today, for today's class. We have one color pellet. Speaking about color pellets, this is, this one and speaking about brushes, I have for you watercolor forest. This is a brush sets that we need. For today's class, I've prepared for you two new brushes. This is pine tree and pine tree abstract. It shows brush, this is fun. This brush can help you to create pine tree. The other brush is pine tree abstract. This brush is so cool because you see it has this abstract strokes. We have Boo-opal brush, the brush that we used before. This is a great brush for watercolor painting, but our watercolor background is brash and can help you to get a more authentic look and add more shades. Perfect has smaller brush this is perfect for mixing a few shades together. You see you might blend a Britain naturally. Next one is Boo_flowers. This brush is great because it has this edge alliance. I think it's great for as a tree trunk, when we start coloring that. Boo_Splatters, Boo-scrub, one of my favorite brushes. This brush can add some dry FX strokes. Once again, if you press harder you'll have more pigment. Mercury brushes. This is our native Procreate brush, dry brush, native Procreate brush also can have this dry texture. What do we need today? Terraleah brush. This brush we'll use as a blender and guys, I also added a few stems from my newly created watercolor brush set. The first one is this one. Actually guys this time we will use for mountains. It will ease our job. This is stamp brush we also going to use in one of our painting. The other one was tabs that can help you to add some texture. I like these scratchy lines and two more stamps. This one, the first one also dry effect. This stamp is great for mountains as well. Guys, the second brush that I prepared for you is called forests, this one. Wherever you have lots of stamp brushes with different kind of trees, I think that might be useful because sometimes you don't know how to paint all those tree trunks and this will help you and ease your painting process a lot. I also included our pine tree brushes into the set as well. Feel free to use them. This is a baobab. This is one of my favorite tree. I have for you different kinds of trees are pretty unique and you might experiment and create the sketch as you still like. I will be happy to see what you're going to create guys. I think we're ready to start and let's move at our first project where we are going to paint pine trees. Let's go.
3. Project 1: Watercolor Pine Trees: For our first project, we don't actually need to paint sketches, it's so cool. You're going to use stamp brushes and my pine tree brush that I create, one of the pine tree brushes actually. Guys, we are on a new layer, it's underneath our paper layers group. Watercolor forest brush set and I will grab watercolor stamp 25, and grab this color, something between blue and green. This color is actually also here, but I want to have the green, the darker version a little bit. I'll tap like this, after that just go to Transfer tool and flip vertical. Move it to the center, place it somewhere here. Maybe make it slightly bigger, this is our base for our trees. Next thing, we're going to go and grab Blending tool, and as a blender, I'm going to use Tarraleah brush so it just gently blends the edges, so we shouldn't have this gap. Like here, I do like the way how it looks now, I think I want to change the color a little bit. So I will go to Adjustments, tap Hue, Saturation, and Brightness and tap "Layer" like this. Next, go to Hue and play around with colors. I want to have a slightly lighter, and more saturated. I think like that would be perfect. Next step, I will create one layer on the top, and I will move to Multiply blend and layer mold, like that. Next, I will go and grab a pine tree brush. Guys, this brush is pressure sensitive, so please be careful. When you paint, if you want to have lighter tip, just press lighter, and if you want sharper one, press harder. Just try to experiment, I don't need it. I will grab Blending tool, and I want to blend this part just a little bit. After that just grab eraser, as an eraser, I am using Tarraleah brush as well. We have one pine tree, I'll create one more, same brush. We have second pine tree highlights, see how it looks very realistic. Be careful, don't go beyond this line because this is our background base, we can't go beyond it. I will merge together these two trees. Next, I will create one more layer and it will be underneath our pine trees and I will go to a slightly lighter shape. You'll have a multiply blend layer mode and I will grab pine tree abstract. I'm on a same layer, select this pine tree and think where you want to place it. It looks great. I have the same brush, I'll create one more layer and this also will be multiply blending layer mode. I will go and grab a darker shade, and I'm going to place a pine tree somewhere here, okay perfect. Move it to this area somewhere here, now grab Selection tool, press "Freehand", and you might select areas that is overlapping, three fingers down and tap "Cut". Now guys, next step I'm going to create one more layer that will be behind everything. I will not change the blending mode. I'll go and grab the slight blue color, something like that, and I'll grab pine tree, normal one, even lighter. I will go to Hue, Saturation, and Brightness. You might play with saturation color variations. I think I want to have some a little bit brighter, and more like bluish. Select this pine tree and place it here and it looks great. Now guys, I'm going to go and add some shades. I will go to our background layer, this one. Create one more layer on the top and I'll press "Clipping Mask", change the mode to Multiply. Next, I will switch the brush to Tarraleah brush, this one. I will go and grab a slightly darker color. You might think, maybe this one will be great at first and I want to add some shades. After that grab Blending tool, same brush, and blend the sharp lines. Next thing I have same multiply blending layer mode, I will change the brush to Boo scrub and I'll change the color to dark purple. Here I just go slightly to the edges you see here, and I just want to show the sharp lines. Of course not everywhere, just in areas where we have the darkest shade. After that grab Blending tool, now we're going to do the same with our pine trees. I will go to the darkest one, this one you see. I'll create one more layer on the top, set as a multiply, go to Clipping Mask, same brush, same color. I just want to show these very dark strokes. Our aim is to show a little bit of shades. Perfect. I'm going to do the same as the trees, the one behind. Multiply this one, Clipping Mask same, grab this dark green color. It's like you want to blend some colors one and another. It's like you put the color from this pine tree to another one. I show the shades, create one layer, Clipping Mask, Multiply this pre to light color, and guys it looks just wonderful. Now I'm going to add some splatters, so I will merge together all the layers like this together with these ones. Now create one more layer on the top and I will go ahead and grab Boo Splatters, grab light green color, move to Multiply. I want to add some splatters and after this go and grab light color, create one more layer and add a little bit of splatters here. After that, you will go and grab Tarraleah brush spell. I want to go to this pine tree's layer, use Tarraleah brush as an eraser. Lower that [inaudible] a little bit and I want to erase tiny bits, tiny parts because I want to make it half transparent. Same with this pine trees. A little bit transparency. I don't like how it looks, now I'm going to merge together all of the layers like that. If you like, you might go to Curves, tap "Layer" and you might make it lighter, darker, more saturated, less saturated, guys, it's up to you. I'm going to keep it like this, so I made it slightly lighter. Now, my next game I'm going to go and move it slightly to the center. I want to write some code beneath that might be some postcard. So I will grab this greenish color and go to action button tap, "Add text". Now think what you want to add, you might write happy holidays and I've to change the font. Choose a font that you have tried to look very cool. Yeah, happy holidays. Done. Guys, we're done with our first illustration. Once again, you might go and grab a splatter brush, this one. Let's find and add more splatters, it looks wonderful. Yeah, happy holidays, so we're done is our first illustration. Now let's move to the second one, where we going to paint pine trees as well. But now we're going to add some mountings, so let's go.
4. Project 2: Watercolor Mountains: We're ready to start painting our second illustration. We're going to turn off this one, create one more layer. Once again, it's underneath our paper layer group. Now, for this kind of illustration, guys, I think we need to create some rough sketch. I will go and grab mercury brush, and I want to show that we will paint some kinds of mountains. Something like that. It's just rough sketch, so don't worry. I will duplicate the layer, once again I'm going to paint underneath, I'll sketch a layer. Guys, I have some stem brushes of mountains. Of course, they might be not just mountains, but they look like mountains. I'm going to use them. I will press "Freeform". Now, we can experiment, create one more layer, grab another mountain, move it around. Once again, this is just the basic shapes, so we can just erase them or something like that, but I like these edge lines. It looks like what we need right now. Perfect. Now, let's go grab razor, selection tool, select the areas that we don't need and press "Cut". Guys, once again, this is just the base. We're going to blend these edges. You might grab same stem brush and think where you want to place it. Lighter color, grab another mountain and place it like that. I think for us is completely fine. I will press [inaudible] mode. Next step is I'll create one more layer underneath, and I will press this pretty bright blue color. I will grab boo opal brush. I just want to add some sky. The next step is I will go and grab this yellowish color, create one more layer, even brighter. Now, I will go and grab a pinkish color. Once again, new layer. Now, my aim is to remove the transparency. I will go to this yellowish color, replicate it, go to lower layer, tap "Hue, Saturation, Brightness" and tap "Layer". When we remove the transparency, you see our yellow color is not affected by the blue color. Merge that together. The same with the red color. Go to lower layer, I want to separate it from the yellow color. Move brightness to maximum, merge that together. Now, merge together all three layers, we use the sky. Grab lantern tool, and I want to blend the colors. I want to show that we have the sunrise. From the edges you will have larger shades, so you'll create one more layer. I will go and grab this bluish color. I want to remove the transparency because it's completely fine to have it like this. Now, guys, I will merge that together. I will go to Adjustments, tap Hue, Saturation, Brightness and tap "Layer", and I want to make it slightly brighter. I want to increase the brightness. I don't want to have it that dark. As you might see, it looks wonderful. I'm going to add some yellow color and green color to our mountains because I want to show the reflection. Boo opal brush, a little bit of yellow color and green color to the mountains. Now, guys, we're going to go and grab this mountain, and I want to make it slightly lighter. Same Adjustments, Hue, Saturation, Brightness, lighter. You might play with the Hue, same with this mountain because I don't want to have them that dark. Now, you can go to Curves, tap "Layer", and now it's way more easier when you use just curves. We have two mountains that are total dark. I guess now we're going to need to play around, and we need to change the color variations a little bit. How to do that, first, mountain. Actually, we can merge them together because we need that on one layer. I will go and grab Selection tool and press "Freehand". I want to select this part and tap "Add". Same here, select this part, tap "Add". Feather, 13 percent. Tap "Adjustment", "Hue, Saturation, Brightness". Now, we need to play with color variations. I want to make this part brighter, this here, increase saturation, and now I want to change the color a little bit. Great. Now, let's go and do the same with those mountains. I'll merge them together, select this area, tap "Add", select this area, tap "Add" again. Feather, 12 percent, Hue, Saturation, and Brightness, tap "Layer", increase the brightness. I won't saturate it or something like that, I just need to make that lighter. I'm satisfied with what we have. Now, we need to add some pine trees. How to do is to out create. We don't need to out sketch a layer anymore, so I'll just delete that, like this. Then, guys, I need to grab boo scrub brush, and I want to extend our mountain like this. I want to show that we actually have two mountains. Grab boo perfect color small, and I want to show some shades in this area. Now, let's create one more layer, set it as a multiply layer, grab pine tree brush, this one, and we need to show tiny pine trees, like this, all around. Now, blend into layout. I don't want to show the pine tree here, just tiny edges, like that. [FOREIGN]
5. Project 3: Watercolor Baobabs : We're ready to paint our third illustration, so we can turn off the second. one create one more here for the sketch. I'm going to go to my forest stamp brush and grab tree stamp, that picture's a baobab. I'll go place it to the center here. Center over there. We show that this is very big tree. We need to show the ground, that will be here. I paint it pretty low because I want to show that this tree is huge. I'm going to go and draw some bushes or tiny trees somewhere over there, like that. Now I want to draw more baobabs. I have duplicated this layer, the stem brush and I'm going to paint this smaller one. Move to free hand. I want to remove the overlay part, three fingers down, tap cut. Guys you might delete the sketch when you start painting or you might remove it, it's fine. Both ways are fine for you. I decided to keep it that way. I have duplicate this layer one more time. Free form. I'm going to place it somewhere here. Put on eraser. I'm duplicated one more time. Lower the size and put it behind. I like it. I will merge together all the trees. Paint the outlines. Erase this part. Now let's go to sketch a layer. I want to erase the parts that are overlapping. Also, guys, I want to draw people because I want show that those trees are so big. Let's draw two people. I will select and I will press, Copy and Paste and merge together. Guys, it's very important to paint trees on a new separate layer. Keeps that in mind. Lower the Opacity because I want to control and see what I am painting. I will go and grab Boo flowers first, and I will grab this brown color because I want to show the tree trunk, and I want to show very sharp lines, like this. In the area we already have very thin line, and very later we're going to use another brush. Done. Now we can change the brush, create one more layer. And I will grab Boo Opal brush. Let's return to same layer because I want to keep adding some details, lower the opacity, and this brush can help you to add those as shades. Maybe it will be a little bit lighter, but it's fine. If you want to remove the gap just paint second time and the color will be darker. Done. Create one more layer. I'm going to use a slight green color, same brush. Increase its size. Now I'm ready to show the leaves. You might leave some white gaps, it's fine. I like the shape of the leaves, it looks very interesting. Guys this brush is pressure sensitive so if you press harder you will have bigger strokes. Well, let's keep painting. Guys, I'm going to create one more layer underneath, and I want to paint the background and everything. I will go and grab this pretty bright beige color. Now I'm on the same layer. Grab this pretty bright blue color, increase the size of the brush. As you see we have some overlapping, you might see there's a blue color. It's fine. Later we're going to remove the transparency. Same layer, I'm going to go and grab dark green color. Now, also same layer. I'm going to grab this grass green color like. Now grab blending tool and blend the overlappings. Create one more layer on the top and draw people. For people, I'll grab this dark green color as well. Like this. Now, we don't need our sketching layer for now, so I will turn it off. I will go to the layer where we have this basic shape, basic colors, the background, grab freehand. I want to choose the sky, the middle part, and then press "Feather". After both the adjustments, press "Hue Saturation and Brightness", and I want to make it brighter. After that, I want to remove the transparency from our trees. I'm going to go and I will merge together our baobab. The parts of baobab go to lower layer, and after that I will go to adjustments tap "Hue, Saturation, Brightness" and tap "Layer", and move the brightness to maximum. Duplicate it two times, and that's pretty enough to merge together. It's easier now we remove our limits. Now let's keep adding some details and shades. First of all, we'll start with the sky. I decided to paint background first. I'll create one more layer and I'll set it as a multiply layer, and I will clip it. Once again, let's remove the transparency from our background as well. Increase the size once again, why we remove the transparency? Because when we do that, and after we use clipping mask and add extra shades, the shades will be brighter. Now I want to go and grab more watercolor, stamp 20. Keep in mind, we need to be on a layer where there's clipping mask. Increase the size, and you might think where you want to put these shades and it looks wonderful, very saturated and very realistic. One more stamp, increase selected. Now to increase this size, I'll create one more layer. I'll clip it as well. Multiply it. After that, let's grab our watercolor stamp 25. Remember what we did last time, so we're going to do the same here. I'm going to select some basic shades and I'm going to use them. It looks very realistic. Select this part, and I can move around. Now make it this way. I will keep it like that. Now create one more layer. Set it as a multiply. We change the color as you see just a little bit, and let's do the same in this part. Select it and place it. Let's just blend it a little bit. Also, I want to add some shade to the road, I'll create one more layer. As you see, it's automatically in a clipping mask mode. Now we're going to this stamp, watercolor stamp 33. Have freeform, make it slightly smaller because I think too too big, and now it looks just perfect. Now guys, let's just merge it together. I'll create one more layer, set it as a multiply, and I want to add one more shade to the sky. I will clip it, dark blue color, same stamp brush over there. I want to make it bigger like this. I just want to lower the opacity. Make it barely seen, see see here. We're done with this part, I like that. Now let's merge it together. Let's go to our baobabs. I'll create one more layer, I will set this layer as a multiply and I will clip it, grab dry boo scrub brush. We need to reach some dry effect because in baobabs, we have this circular shape, you see we have it here on our sketching layer. I'm going to show it. I'll show some shades from the tree branches like that. Be careful don't paint on our leaves. Blending tool. Now let's go and grab green color, maybe that one, and increase the size, and they can show some shades. Here guys, we can use the circular shape, like this, like make the circular movement. You might add some shades all around. Now I want to add some stamps to our baobab as well. I'll create one more layer, I will set the blending mode as a multiply. I will go and grab same brown color, and I will grab this watercolor stamp 33. I see now we have the scratch line, that looks very beautiful. I'll duplicate it, and I need to lower the size and move the scratcher lines to this part as well. Merge together, create one more layer, multiply it, lower the size and place it here. Then I just use the stamp brush, as you might see, it looks just amazing. Erase overlapping, if they overlap with our tree trunk. Now let's merge together all our shades. Next thing, I want to add some colors to our people who are there. I'll do the same. I will press this time select so I don't create a new layer. I will go to lower layer, same stamp brush, probably brownish one. I want to keep adding some shades with this stamp. Looks beautiful. Now I want to show the shades, the reflections, the shade from the people, because they are walking on the road. I will duplicate the layer. I will flip it vertical. I have Freeform tool, so I will distort it a little bit and I'll place shades like this. Next thing, let's just lower the opacity, make it not so bright. Next thing, guys, we also can show the shade from our baobabs over here. How to do that, we are going to duplicate the baobabs, after that I will flip vertical, you see, and we need to show the angle like this. We are going to use distort, and I just want to move it to this angle. I'm going to distort all our trees like that. I'm going to select this tree trunk and move it as well. As you see this picture took us more time than the rest. After that, I want to make them not that bright, so I will go to the hue, saturation and brightness. I will desaturate them, and move to the greenish color like that, and after that I will low the opacity too. If you want, we can play with curves, make it more or less saturated.
6. Project 3: Final Details: Guys next is final details. What we are going to do is, I want to add more shades. How I will do that, I'll show you. How layers work here. As you see the background and baobab set on different layers. That's very important. I want to create one more layer. Grab this brownish color, go to multiply blend in layer mode and I want to add those strokes go to uniform when in free form even better. I want to show some strokes. I want to make the picture look more realistic. Same I wanted to do here. Next, I will match together that with tree trunks. Next, I will grab watercolors stamp 20. Grabs this dark green color, something like that. You erase this part. You erase it and just slightly blend this part. The same here as well. The next thing that I will draw, I want to cut some edges. How I will do it. I'm on the layer recent backgrounds, and I will go and grab rectangle, and I have to press, "Copy and Paste". Now, turn off our previous layer, like that, and either grab eraser. I just want to erase this part. Everything that goes beyond the lines. Same I'll do to the shades. You can even make your bow above slightly bigger. You see, you can go beyond the skyline. It looks very interesting, is it feeling like what we have. I'm going to merge everything together, like that. Now you can play with a cursor. You can increase the size, make it brighter, make it more way brand I think is being done looks beautiful. Then guys the last thing that you might do, you can create one more layer and you can add some text. Just tap, "Add text" Here you might try something like, let me think. You can write, "Our trip to Madagascar was amazing hope to repeat it next year." You can write whatever you like, or like my precious memories based on the left bonds. Or does my family, or I was so surprised to see such a big tricks. Anything you want, anything you like. This is end of our class. Now you know how the bay and different trees in watercolor style, easily. Guys, I wish you luck with your artworks. If you have any questions, suggestions, you know where to find me, in discussion section. Let's see each other in a new video. Bye, bye.
Inga Yoon, Digital illustrator and teacher
