Practice Composition and Perspective: Drawing Landscape Scene in Procreate

1. Intro: Hello and welcome to a new class. Lots of you ask about how to draw a stylized scenes and so in this class, I will share with you some tips and tricks and we will draw a lovely mountain landscape with a cute house together. Hi, I'm Iva and I'm full-time Illustrator based in Central Europe. First, we will look at some theory and then we will go through demonstration, where I will show you how I would apply this theory into illustration. There are many different ways how to draw a stylized landscape. This is just one of the ways to do it. I will guide you through every step of the process, so even if you don't have any experience with Procreate or drawing, try to have fun during the process so you can end up with this lovely spring mountain landscape. During this class, we will start off with some tips and tricks about composition and perspective, then we will start with the sky and the water for our illustration. Afterward, we'll add basic colors for the hills while thinking about perspective, and then we will dive into adding details and lighting effect like shadows and highlights. Afterwards, we will continue building our scene with composition and perspective in mind. I hope when you watch and follow this class you will feel super happy about what you created and you will feel like, oh, awesome, I can't wait to share my landscape illustration with others. When you are sharing it on Instagram, please make sure that you tag me in the image, not only in the description, because that way I can see your illustration, and maybe you will see it in one of the next videos like these amazing illustrations made by wonderful creative people who watch my classes. If you don't know yet, you can find even more drawing tutorials in classes. They are Procreate and other tutorials and I have more than 27 classes. There is a variety from beginner level to more advanced levels and you can also find different topics. Without further ado, let's start and see you in the class. 2. Tips and Tricks: [MUSIC] What perspective and composition theories we'll be using in this class? We will be actually using a variety of perspective and composition techniques during this class to create the stylized landscape. But you don't have to worry about all the theories and details because I will take you step-by-step through the process. But here I also want to refresh your memory or introduce you to some of the rules and composition and perspective techniques. If you haven't heard about them yet or you just don't remember. You know what I'm thinking about while drawing the stylized landscape. First, let's talk about a rule of thirds from my composition class. You may have heard about this technique because it's one of the most well-known composition rules. There is a good reason for it, because rule of thirds is usually a very good start for any composition. Let's talk about what is rule of thirds and how you can use it. It's actually pretty simple. This rule is cutting the frame into nine equal parts, or equal rectangles, three across and three down, as you can see here. Most of the time, you will be placing the elements of the importance in these three spots of intersection. I said most of the time because it's nice to have it near these intersections, but it doesn't have to be super rigid and placed exactly in those spots. This composition is heavily used in movies as well. You might have already noticed it there too. Now we can practice with another composition for our seal story with the ocean. This time it can be vertical frame, and we can also add few elements to create a little bit more story. As I just mentioned, and you can see here, I am trying to place the most important elements of the sketch illustration somewhere on the lines created by these rule of thirds or the lines intersections. You can see I'm placing the baby seal on the rock on the left side of the image, on the first vertical line and between the two horizontal lines. The beach end, I mean where the water touches the beach, and you can see usually the bubbles of the waves, this part sits on the bottom horizontal line and the sun is aligned on the top horizontal line. You can also see that the biggest part of the umbrella on top of the image, and the towel on the bottom of the image, they're also following the split of the rule of thirds. You might be wondering, okay, so what would happen if I wouldn't place these elements on the lines? For example, if I would place our cute seal with his rock in the middle of the image, it might feel strange and not balanced. In other words, it would lead to the less attractive composition. You can try this out, and move these elements around and see what feels right to you. If your first instinct would be placing the elements in the middle, don't worry, we have a natural tendency to want to play the main subject of the sketches and illustration in the middle of the image, but placing our characters off-center using the rule of thirds will more often than not, lead to the more attractive composition. As I said, try to experiment and see what do you like more. In regarding the story, as I mentioned before, adding few elements and create different fields and different storylines. You can know these compared to the left example where we focus on the seal and just him watching the sunset. Now on the example on the right, you can imagine that we are actually sitting on the towel watching the seal and the sunset under the umbrella in the shadow. There are little bit different viewpoints and storylines. One is about the seal watching sunset, another one is us watching the seal with the sunset. You can play around with different elements and see which story or what type of story you can create. Because a lot of us like a lot of examples, let's get more ideas how you can practice these simple shapes and the rule of thirds. Maybe let's make another horizontal layout. Something which is very popular as opposed to their in interior design in simple shapes, which are mountains and sunset. Which might be because people really like to imagine holidays, and it's quite inspirational to look at mountains probably. For these shapes, you can start with few waves and triangle shapes as before, to indicate the mountains. Placing these shapes in a lower third of the image, as you can see, and placing the sun on the left vertical line of the rule of thirds. When you sketch out these lines for the rule of thirds, you can see we can balance this sketch example even better. What would be the simple fix here? I would say to make the mountain on the left a little bit higher, so top of the mountain would be aligned with the left of intersection of the top horizontal line, and left vertical line. Now there is better balanced. It's easier for us to look at this composition. Mountains are usually great to practice simple shapes and these simple compositions. What is similar to these shapes? You can also imagine water in a storm creating big waves which would almost look like a mountain. You can create this shape on the left where you would put this big wave, which is breaking off. You could put foam on top of these wave. This breaking point, or the top of the wave on the left would be aligned again like the mountain before on the top horizontal line, in the left vertical line intersection. Because this wave is much bigger and quite dominant in this sketch compared to the mountain in our previous sketch, now I can balance out this image by making the sun actually smaller. I'm keeping the sun on the intersection on the right vertical line and bottom horizontal line. The next example, it would be similar composition to our first images with the ocean where you just draw one line, but this time it will be meadow. I find it pretty awesome, but you can just draw one line, and it already starts to look like something. Then, I would like to add few flowers in the right bottom corner, filling the area of the right vertical and bottom horizontal line under the intersection with a simple round shapes. They would already indicate few flowers. Because of the perspective, I would draw a few bigger round shapes closer to the edge of the drawing, which means closer to us, and going forward closer to the horizon, the flowers would become smaller and smaller. As the next thing, I will add character, same as with a seal in the first image, this character will be placed on the left vertical line of the rule of thirds. This character will have a dog because it's always fun to go in the meadow with a dog because they are just happy about everything when you go on a walk with them. As I mentioned, this character is placed on the left vertical line between the two horizontal lines, and it's in the middle, so it's not on the intersection of these lines. It similar to our seal example. This is also because we have other elements in this sketch on the right side, where you can see the mountain on the top, which is filling the space on the top right corner. Also we have the flowers on the bottom right corner. All of these three main compositional elements are balancing each other out. If you would imagine that there are no flowers or maybe no mountains, and I would have only the character with a dog, I would probably place this character with a dog on the left bottom corner of the intersection of the horizontal and vertical line. The next sketch example is also with the mountains because, why not? They are just so simple and quick to draw. In this time, let's make a little bit different composition. I will create the ski slope and I will add a skier or persons skiing. We're balancing off this composition with the shadow of the mountain. Maybe you can imagine these rocks are breaking and creating these special shadow. I'm placing this in-between the two horizontal lines and on the right vertical line. Our character is now on the intersection of these lines on the left bottom corner. To finish off this composition, it will be nicely framed by the mountain range and the top of the mountains are nicely aligned with the top horizontal line. Here, I want to show you an example where you can practice with just two elements and a very simple composition. For example, you can place elements on the two intersections in the two corners. Maybe one on top right corner and one on the left bottom corner. Here, I'm placing a kit on the left intersection and the top-right intersection we would have a simple window. This composition is very simplified, but it works and it's easy to follow and pleasant to look at. This was inspired by Santorini images so if you are looking for compositions and inspiration from real life, it's a nice place to look at. The last quick example is a sea, ocean, sun and the boat. Following the same structure as the first image with the sea and the sun. To summarize this first step, how to improve your compositions, I would say I use this rule of thirds the most from any rules and this will be a quick win. If you don't use anything else, consider this rule of thirds and you would see very quick improvement in balance compositions right away. Try to remember that the strong composition is one when the important elements seat as close to the intersection of the rule of thirds or the third lines as possible, because that's where the viewer's eye are naturally drawn. Now when you go outdoors or look at the photographic references, try to know this composition balance and if you need little bit of help, you can always check your camera or a camera phone, of course now. Many camera producers have actually included a display of this grid in a live view mode. Don't forget to check your camera manual to see how to turn on this feature and take many reference pictures. One more thing I wanted to show you in this category, because it's also part of examples of geometry, we can mention the golden ratio. You might have probably seen it around as well, and it might have looked complicated to you, so you are thinking how you should even apply this, or do you actually need to apply this rule into your art? I would say you don't necessarily have to apply to every single image, but it's definitely good to know what it means and where it actually came from. Why do we talk about golden ratio at all? You will find it around throughout nature, like shells or flowers. They are actually quite a few opinions about these rule and some of the products are designed just around this rule. It can definitely be your tool to create your compositions because it's also scientifically proven and lot of master artworks in the past use this rule, for example, Mona Lisa. You can try it out and see if you like to use it as your guidance for the compositions. Here you can see how I would apply the golden ratio rule to our already sketch examples. If you're interested in this rule more, there are countless designs online where people use it, so you can explore this option and test it out yourself. As you already know, there is more to composition than the rule of thirds and golden ratio so let's move on to the next video. That was a quick review of the rule of thirds and I will be also considering other composition rules or theories but let me point out leading lines. What are leading lines? You can use shapes to lead the eye of a viewer toward the point of the illustration that you want them to focus on. For example, we will be using different shapes, obviously to create leading lines but one of the examples is the road towards the house and when mentioning the road towards the house, we will be using also foreshortening and this is part of the theory from my perspective class. If you don't know what is foreshortening, let's quickly look at that part of the theory as well [MUSIC] Here I have placed our drawing from previous lesson, our books in space so we would have a reference with perspective grid before we start talking about foreshortening. As you have already probably noticed when drawing in perspective, arts of our objects are distorted. For example, in our book's example, you can see that the top plane has a shorter side. The backside of the box is closer to the horizon and far away from us and it is shorter because of a foreshortening. This means that the part of the objects which are not parallel to the picture plane are distorted in order to portray the illusion of a three-dimensional space. Here you can see it on the top side of the box and its tilted edges. Like this, we are conveying three-dimensions in a 2D medium by showing objects moving away from the viewer. In other words, when we draw something that is foreshortened, it's basically an optical illusion that it's created because something look compressed. Because the human eye sees objects in this way and we want to portray the objects in depth in our drawings and paintings as realistically as possible, we want to use foreshortening. Because being able to accurately draw objects receding in space we'll make your drawings and paintings more realistic and help pull your viewer into the scene you want to set. We use the rules of perspective to help us to create these 3D illusion. You can also think about the level or the strength of the foreshortening. If both vanishing points were situated within the picture frame, the angles of the objects would appear to be extremely foreshortened. If they're both vanishing points would be far away from a picture frame, of course, the angles of the objects would not be so extremely foreshortened. Here you can see an example of a river. When you look at the river or a path from a sky, for example, from a hot air balloon, we would see the river flat and with the same width like one thick stroke of a marker on the paper. We assume that we are looking at a perfectly maintained path or a river without any natural varieties. On the right, we have a drawing of the same river, but in perspective of a human looking at it and here we can see the foreshortening. The part of the river, far away from us, appears to be more narrow and the curves of the river appear closer to each other too. Here is another example. In this image, you can see my winter drawing and here, I'm also using the same principle. There is a small river or a forest stream in perspective of a viewer, you can use this effect on the rivers or paths to create more depth in your images. In addition to this, I'm also using the river to lead the eyes of the viewer to the characters in the middle of the drawing. I don't want to repeat all the theory in this class as well so if you're interested more in a variety of tips and tricks about composition and perspective, please also take out these two classes after you practice in this class. Now, let's set up our Canvas and let's start drawing. 3. Canvas and Setup: [MUSIC] The canvas size is 3,000 by 3,000 pixels and the color profile is sRGB. I linked the color palette in the description, if you want to use the same color palette as I'm using during this class. We will hang out together for a while. If you want, bring some water, make some tea, maybe a different drink or prepare a snack. I usually have a coffee or water nearby. I find it important to stay hydrated, so at least get some water. When you are ready, let's get started. First, let's click on the wrench icon here on the top-left corner. In the Canvas setting, go to the Drawing Guide and activate the drawing guide. You can see there is a certain ratio of these squares in this drawing guide. I set it up specifically for this artwork, so probably [LAUGHTER] you don't see the same ratio of these squares, but to adjust that, go to here, click here on the "Edit Drawing Guide". Then you can see there is this setting called grid size. To set up the same grid as I have, just click on the number here. I will set it up, or basically I already [LAUGHTER] had it set it up to 285. You can see it here just on these numbers. You can just write the number that you want. Then you can click "Done" and it's set how I have it for this illustration. 4. Sky, Water and the Hills: [MUSIC] When you are happy, you can click done. Now we will start creating our illustration. First, I will start with the sky for this illustration. Let's click on our Layers menu here in the top right corner, and click on the Background layer. Here in the color palette, choose a light-blue color tone. I will go for this first color in the first row. Now everything is blue, so we have our first step to create our sky. To exit this, you can either click on the canvas or again on the Layers icon. Now, let's start creating the water for our illustration to separate the background and middle-ground and foreground of our landscape. I created this grid. We have approximately same or similar composition. Then when you work with this little bit longer, you can eyeball it and see and feel the illustration and move around the elements how you feel like. But to follow along with the same illustration in the process, you can count these grids or basically count the squares in the grid with me to keep the same composition. To create the water, I will go approximately to the sixth line on the grid. First, let's select the selection tool, never mind, which is the squiggly icon here on the top-left. I will choose the rectangle selection tool so it's easier for us to create that section for the water, and I will go back to the color palette, and I will choose a blue color tone. To do that, I will go for this 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, fifth color in the bottom row. Now with the selection tool, I will count the squares. Here on the sixth square, I will start dragging and creating the selection. When I cover the whole bottom part, I will release the brush or the pencil, and I have the selection created. Now, I can go back to the colors, take the blue and drag and drop it to the section. Cool. Now we have water created and we started already creating our landscape. Awesome. Let's exit the selection tool by clicking on it. Again, this squiggly icon here on the top left. Perfect. Now let's start creating hills. To do that, let's click on the Layer icon again and create a new layer by clicking on the plus sign. Let's select a different color for the hills. I will go for this fourth color in the second row, which is this darker green. Then I will go to the brushes. In the calligraphy folder, I will select the mono-line brush. To exit the brush selection, just click somewhere on the canvas. I will start creating the hill somewhere around the fourth line. You can always count 1, 2, 3, 4, and start drawing the hill. Let's create something like half oval or quarter of the oval. You don't have to worry to make it perfect because you can just hold in place while drawing and as you can see, procreate will help you create this shape. I will release somewhere around here, the second square from the right. Then here on the top, edit art appeared, so you can click on that. These dots will appear on the line you just created. By dragging them, you can just adjust the shape to your liking. Maybe something like this. Maybe I can drag this little bit to the right. I think this looks nice. To exit this mode, you can just click on the editing again, and now the art or the line is created. Now let's drag and drop the color again into the shape, and we have first mountain. Let's create another one by clicking on the plus sign again, and we have another layer. Now go to the color palette and let's create the second mountain or the hill with this third green color in the second row. Now, for the second hill, I want to create a little bit different shape. I will go now a little bit lower than the first hill, so they are not in the same height. I will start creating the hill somewhere here. Let's create more wriggly shape, something like this. I don't like the shape because maybe it's a little bit too wriggly for my taste. With two fingers, I'll just go back, tap once, or you can just click here to go back. Make sure that you are on the same layer. I will try creating this hill one more time. Something like this, I think looks fine and make sure you close the shape before dragging and dropping the color again. But I wanted this hill to be behind this first hill. Let's go to the Layers menu again, and let's drag this layer under this first hill. Perfect. Now as we see that we want to build these hills behind each other, let's create another layer by clicking on this plus sign and dragging it directly under this second hill. Go back to the color palette. This time, I will select this lighter green, which is the second in the second row, and let's draw another hill. Now, I will count around one line of squares and maybe a half. I want to draw the third hill somewhere here. Let's draw another hill here. I think this is fine. You can also make it more perfect as we did with the first one when you just hold the pen and adjust or you can make it a little bit more wobbly. I can try create nicer shape by just going a little bit faster. We have the hill closing the shape as before, and now you can drag and drop the color to the shape. Perfect. [MUSIC] 5. Texture on the Hills: [MUSIC] We have our hills created. Now, let's add some color to unite them a little bit more. Go to the layers, and let's go to this first hill. To add texture, we will use Alpha lock. Click on the icon of the layer and select the Alpha Lock from the drop-down menu. Now it's selected because we see this checkered pattern in the icon of the layer. Now let's go to the colors. I will select the darker green here, which is 1, 2, 3, 4, fifth color in the second row. I will go back to the brushes. First, I want to just mention that you can use any texture brush that you like from the brushes which come with procreate or you can go, for example, to materials and select this brush here, which is similar to the brush that I will be using. But I created my own selection of brushes with noise and grain texture, so I will use that in this illustration. I will open my grain and noise brush set, and I will select this brush number 14. Making sure again that I'm on the correct layer. I will make sure that my brush is around 50%, which I think will fit for this illustration, and make sure that the opacity is 100%. Now, I can start adding some texture to the bottom left corner. It's quite subtle, but you can see it here that we have a little bit of texture. It will be a little bit more visible when we add more colors here. Now, let's go back to the colors. Now, I will select this color, which is the fourth in the second row, and paint a little bit more here on the hill. Going back to the colors, now, I will select the third color in the second row and add some lighter green. Now, you can see that this is starting to add already to our illustration, and it's changing the colors. Now, I will go back to the colors and I will select the second color in the second row. I will make sure that the brush is a little bit smaller now. Let's try 30% and I will just paint on the top of the first hill. Perfect. You can paint either softly or with more pressure to add more color to this hill. Now, I will go back to the colors and I will select the first color in the second row. I will reduce the brush and add a little bit more lighter tone to the top of the hill. Perfect. Now let's go to the second hill and also select the Alpha Lock to be able to draw just within the hill. We will repeat the similar process. Now, we can start again with this lighter color as we have it selected, which is the first in the second row, we have the same brush and the brush is set to around 20%, I think would work nicely. I can just draw on top of this hill. Perfect. Now, I will go back to the colors and now I will go for the third green color in the second row. I will make the brush a little bit bigger, 25% should be fine, and I will draw on top of this hill just to blend these colors a little bit more. I will go back to the color palette, and now I will take this fourth color in the second row. I will make the brush a little bit bigger let's try, 39% should be fine, and draw in the bottom right corner. I think I can make the brush a little bit smaller. Let's try 20%. Let's see, 19 is fine. [LAUGHTER] I can just draw and blend these colors a little bit more. Now, I will go back to the color palette and take the fifth color in the second row and I will draw in this bottom right corner. These hills are blending together too much, so I will go back to the first hill and open the color palette again and select the third green color in the second row and make sure that there is a difference in color when they are blending. We have some transition. Now I will go back to the second hill and select the darker color, which is the fifth in the second row, and add some darker tones here as well. Perfect. Now, let's go to our third hill, select the Alpha Lock, and let's select this fourth color in the second row. We can make the brush a little bit bigger, maybe 35%, and we can paint in the bottom part of this hill. Now, I will make the brush a little bit smaller. You can always see how far the grain goes and you want to paint only a little bit at the bottom. For example, if you have a different brush, you can make the brush a little bit smaller or a little bit bigger, just not to cover the whole shape of the hill. You can always adjust this later if you don't like the amount of gradient with other elements later on in the illustration. Now, I can go and take the lightest green here on the second row, which is the first color, and I can draw a little bit of light and lighter tones on top of this third hill. As you can see, this hill is much darker than this one, so we can always add a little bit of light to this one. Selecting the first hill or the hill in the foreground and painting a little bit of these lighter tones here, so we don't have such a big differences. Then I can go to the color palette, select the second green color in the second row, and paint just under this lightest green color. I think they look quite nice now, so we can move on and we can start creating the house. Let's make sure that the house will be behind this first hill and also in front of this third hill. We can create a layer now here by clicking on the plus sign, and let's switch the brush again to the mono line brush as we used before. Now, I will select the first color in the third row, which is a very pale white in this reddish tones and then I will go back to the layers. If I draw something here, it's not behind our first hill, so what I need to do with the layer is to take it and drag it just under this first hill layer. Obviously, I don't want this squiggly line here, so I can delete this layer and I can create another one. Just make sure that the layer is under this first hill in the foreground, and above the other layers. [MUSIC] 6. Drawing the House: [MUSIC] Now let's create the house on the layer below the first mountain in the foreground. I will draw a rectangle here, somewhere, 1, 2, 3, and 1, 2, 3, 4 on this line between these fifth and fourth lines. Every time I draw, I can hold the line before finishing and releasing. The Procreate, it'll help me create a proper straight lines for the house. I need to make sure to connect the lines behind the hill. Then I can drag and drop the color within the shape. Now, let's add a roof to the house. I will zoom in. It's easier for us to create the roof. I will create another layer for the roof of the house. I will go to the color palette, and I will select the third color in the last row. Then I will start drawing a line somewhere here a little bit out of the square or rectangle what we created and draw a straight line if you can, or you can use the help of Procreate. I can finish the line somewhere here. Then I will draw angled line somewhere here and draw another angled line here just to finish somewhere around the edge of the house going a little bit outside. Then I will follow the same angle of this line on this side, something like this, and finish approximately in the same height. Then I will connect these lines. Perfect. Then I can drag and drop the color within the shape. You can make sure that you didn't paint outside of the lines by just adjusting these lines again. We are not striving to be perfect but approximately the right shapes. You can address the line also here. I don't want to go outside of the line. Something like this. Perfect. You can always move the roof by selecting the arrow and choosing the uniform selection tool. You can move the roof little bit to the right. This is a little bit out, and this is similar distance from the edges of the house. Perfect. Now, as you can see, we have this white part going out of the roof shape. To adjust, let's go back to this white shape, selecting the white color again. I can paint within the shape here just to fill in the area of the roof and selecting the eraser. I can erase this part so it all fits nicely within one of the shape. Perfect. Let's make sure that we are on this layer before creating new layer. Click on the plus sign and we have another layer here created above our house, and we will add a shadow. Let's create a clipping mask. We will be drawing on a separate layer, so we have more flexibility. Now, I will select this second color in the third row, and I will draw a line here. Perfect. I will make sure that I will just close the shape and then I can drag and drop the color here. Perfect. This was pretty quick. [LAUGHTER] Now I will add another shadow here. That works nicely. Now let's add some windows. Here we are on a separate layer again. I can take the third color in the bottom row, and I can draw some windows here. I can hold. I will make sure that the brush is a little bit smaller for this smaller detail, maybe around 12%. To make a square, you can hold at the end to make sure you can adjust these lines again as we did before. By clicking on the Edit button, you can select the rectangle and Procreate will help you to adjust this. Super awesome, exit, and now you have a rectangle. Now you can drag and drop the color to the rectangle. Now, I can duplicate this layer just to have two windows. Go to the arrow. Now I can drag the window just next to the outer window and as you can see, there are these blue lines to help you align these windows. Perfect. Now I can duplicate the layer again, and I can repeat the same process. Now I have three cute windows here on this side. When you are happy with the placement, I can merge these layers by pinching them down like this, which is awesome. I can duplicate this layer one more time. I can take these windows and put them on this side as well. I'm dragging them a little bit more to the right because I can keep just two windows on this side, and I think it would be nice. I can delete this one window here by selecting Eraser obviously, and just erasing this one window. Perfect. I will duplicate this layer one more time, and moving these windows under. Perfect. We have more windows. Now I can merge these layers by pinching them down. Now, let's draw door. To do that, I will draw the door on the same layer here. Let's draw a rectangle by pressing and holding on the screen. You can always edit these lines as we did before. Perfect. I think this works. Now, as you can see here, the shape is not closed. If I drag and drop the color, it fills the whole canvas. I will just go back and I will close this shape. Then I will drag and drop the color within the door shape. Perfect. Now, let's add a little bit of shadow to the roof. I will click on the roof layer and I will select Alpha Lock. Now, I will go to this fourth color in the last row, and I will draw little bit on this side of the roof. Then under the roof basically here on this side. Perfect. I will add little bit of shadow to the windows as well. We need to make sure this is also with Alpha Lock. Then I can add little bit of shadow to these windows as well. Then also to the door. We can add a door knob here. Perfect. Let's also add a chimney. Let's make sure we are on this layer, the main shape of the house. We can swap the color to the white, again, which is the first color in the third row. I can draw a chimney here, which is similar to the rectangle shape. Perfect. Now I will go to the shadow layer here, which is above the house layer, and I will select the second color in the fourth row, and I will draw a shadow on the chimney as well. Now we can add little bit of shading on top of the house roof. Let's create another layer and choose a clipping mask. Now, I will go again to the noise brush. I will select the brush that we used before, and I will select a darker brown color, which is this fourth color in the third row. I will paint on the left side of the roof to add little bit of shading. Now, I will go to the main shape of the house, and I will select the Alpha Lock again. I will select the second color in the last row and I will add a little bit of the gradient in this part as well. Perfect. We have a house now. This is awesome. Let's continue building our landscape. [MUSIC] 7. Drawing the Trees: [MUSIC] I just zoomed out so we can see the whole landscape. Now, we can create some trees. Let's create another layer in the foreground by clicking on the plus sign, make sure this layer is on the top. I will go back to the monoline brush and select a green color. Let's start with this darker green, which is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, fifth in the second row. I will make the brush a little bit bigger, let's say 20 percent, and I will create these rounded, blobby shapes, which will be our trees. Here you can be a little bit more creative and play around with different shapes of the trees. Now, closing the shape, I will drag and drop the color to the tree shapes. I will zoom out a little bit more, and I will add few more tree shapes here on the right side as well. Perfect. We have some bushes and trees in the foreground. When you are maybe not happy with the shape or you want to adjust them, you can always use the selection tool here and use the freeform or uniform on the sort to change the shape. I can make the trees a little bit smaller here. I think that works quite nicely. Now let's add more trees here behind the second hill. You can make sure you are in the correct layer here. This is the second hill. You can also name the layers to be more organized. Now, I will create a new layer in between these two layers of the hills. Clicking on the plus sign again, and let's draw more trees. Here, I can add one tree, and I can close the shape, fill it with color, and create more trees here. Fill it with color. Then let's add some more trees on this side as well. Closing the shape. Perfect. Now we have some trees and we can add some gradient to these trees as well. First, we are adding gradient to these trees as we just created them. Let's go take our textured brush and we can select this green color in the first row, which is the third from the right and I can add a little bit of the lighter green to the top part of those trees. I am painting quite softly to control the gradient. As you can see, I was painting outside of the trees which we don't want. [LAUGHTER] Let's go back and make sure that the layer has Alpha lock on as we did before. Now, I can paint properly on these trees adding little bit of lighter shade. We are sprinkling these trees with a lighter color. Perfect. Now I'll go through the color palette again and select these lighter green, which is the second in the first row and drawing a little bit more on the top, I will make the brush slightly smaller, maybe 10 percent, and drawing on top of these trees. Perfect. I'll do it also on this side. Nice. Now, let's go to the other layer which we created in the foreground, create Alpha lock so we don't forget. Now, let's take the third green in the first row. Make the brush a little bit bigger again, maybe 20 percent, and let's paint on top of these trees. Nice. Now, let's take the second color from the right in the first row. Make the brush smaller, again, the 10 percent, and let's paint just on the top. [MUSIC] This is coming together quite nicely, I think. Perfect. Now we have quite a big part of these trees created. Let's create branches. Now, I will create another layer to do that and I will go back to the monoline brush and I will select this first color from the right in the first row. I will make the brush smaller, let's see, around 10 percent, and I will draw branches for the trees here. I will angle them little a bit, maybe like this. You can draw few branches to your liking. You can make them thicker or thinner and you can just play with these shapes. You can just add maybe few of them or more of them, however you like. You can make them also little bit more straight, for example, like this. Let me add one more here. I can add one more here. Perfect. I can also reduce the opacity of this layer by clicking on the N on the layer, which stands for normal blending mode and then reduce the opacity of these tree branches to see if you like them a little bit more subtle. But I think they are quiet nice in this very bright color. Perfect. Now, we can create branches also for these trees in the background or in the middle ground. Let's create another layer to do that. You can repeat the process. Just drawing the branches. We are drawing on a different layer because it's easier for us to draw these lines behind the hills. I made a mistake here, so let me go back. I can draw some lines here. Perfect. I can add some lines here as well. [MUSIC] Perfect. We have some details on the trees now, which is super nice. We can also make the branches a little bit smaller with a free form selection tool. Maybe they don't go completely high up. I will do the same with these tree branches, which we created before clicking on the arrow and making them a little bit smaller. But this is up to your preference. I think this works quite nicely. Now, I will add a little bit more darker color here, so we have little bit more contrast on these trees. Making sure I'm on the right layer, I will go to the texture and select this darkest color here, which is in the first row. Now I will make sure that the brush is a little bit bigger, maybe 30 percent, and I will draw a little bit in this corner to create a little bit more contrast. I will make the brush slightly smaller [MUSIC] and create more contrast in this corner as well and a little bit more here. Perfect. 8. Drawing the Mountains: [MUSIC] Now, let's create more background here. I will make sure I am below this third mountain. I will create the new layer, and I will drag it under the third mountain or hill here, and I will go back to the monoline brush. Let's go to the color palette and I will take this second light gray color in the second row, the second from the right. I will create this bigger mountain somewhere, maybe around here to keep the composition balance. I will count 1, 2 from the top, and this will be the highest spot for the mountain. I will start drawing from the right side and create a mountain range. You can play around with these shapes. It doesn't have to be perfect. So just make it your own. Make sure you will close the shape and then you can drag and drop the color. I will need to make sure that this layer is below the water layer, so the mountain is not sitting on top of the water. I don't really like the shape here, so I will take the eraser, because this is a little bit too sharp for my liking. I'll make the eraser smaller around 30 percent and adjust this shape, so they are similar, I mean, this bump is similar to the other shapes that I created for the mountains. Perfect. Now, let's create another mountain range just in front of this one. Let's create a new layer. This time I will take this third gray color in the second row, and I will draw another mountain shape. We did a little bit different shapes than this one, so it's not just copy paste, and just continue drawing these shapes just as we did with this previous mountain range. Perfect. Enclosing this shape here, dragging drop the color, and we have another mountain range just in front of this first one. To separate the mountain and the water a little bit more, let's create another layer. Plus sign, we have a separate layer, and this time I will select this darker gray, which is the fourth in the second row. I will go to the selection tool and choose a rectangle selection tool and draw a small rectangle on the bottom of the mountain. Perfect, and drag and drop the color there, so there is little bit of separation. Now, I will deselect the selection tool. We can now add some gradient to one of our mountains to add a little bit more color. Let's make sure we are on the bigger mountain layer. I will select Alpha Lock, I will go to the texture, and I will select this first gray in the second row. I will paint on the bottom part of the mountain. [MUSIC] Perfect. Now, I will go back to the colors and I will select the second color in the last row, and I will softly paint on top of the mountain as well. [MUSIC] Perfect. 9. Colors of the Water: [MUSIC] Now, let's add some details to the water as well. I will create another layer above the water layer. Select the sixth blue color in the bottom row. Perfect. Go to the selection tool and draw a rectangle below our mountain shapes. Perfect. This should be fine. Now, I can drag and drop the color within the shape. I think these works nice. Perfect. Now, I will create a new layer above the other water layers. I will zoom out a little bit. Go to the selection tool. This time, I will take the ellipse selection tool and create two ellipses here on the side, just for a variety of shapes. Now, I will take this fourth color from the right. I can fill in these shapes that I just created. Perfect. I will go back to the selection tool, take the rectangle again. Now, I will draw a rectangle shape here. Fill this shape again. I will draw another rectangle here behind the hill. I can fill it with color again. Now, I will make sure that this rectangle is similar height to these other ellipses that I just created. Now, I will zoom in a little bit more and I will create another ellipse just here at the end and drag and drop the color to the shape. I can adjust these ellipse a little bit. Perfect. Now, I can see there's little bit of leftover here, so I can make sure that this is deleted by just creating a selection. Slide down, cut. Then I can repeat the process here, so we don't have any leftover paint. Nice. We have a little bit of variety created here. If you want to adjust your ellipses here, you can always select the Ellipse, go to the arrow tool, and adjust it a little bit more. Perfect. Now, I will add one more layer to our water. Again, using a rectangle selection tool, I will add more color to this part. I will select this lightest color, which is the third color in the last row, and drag-and-drop the color again. Perfect. Then create another layer again. Let's draw a few more ellipse shapes in the background as well to create a little bit more variety in the water. To do that, I will select this second color in the last row and create these elongated ellipse shapes. I can drag and drop the color. I can just duplicate this shape, so they are the same. You can duplicate the shape again. [MUSIC] Perfect. I think this is enough. Nice. 10. Clouds and the Road: Now, let's create some clouds in the background. Before doing that, you can emerge these blue details on the same layer and I will go to the background, almost to the background layer, and create a new layer behind the hills. Perfect, so this will be for the clouds. I will go back to the calligraphy folder and mono line brush, and I will select wipe for the clouds. Now, I will create these fluffy clouds in the background in a similar style how we created the shapes for the trees. Close the shape, drag and drop the color and now I will show you a fun trick. I will create a mask and on this mask, we'll use again our texture brush, which we were using until now. I will make the brush a little bit bigger and I will paint on the bottom part of the cloud. Now, I will make the brush a little bit smaller so I don't cover the whole cloud around 20%, and by painting on the bottom part of this cloud, I'm revealing the background, which is super cool because I don't need to delete part of the cloud in order to do that. It creates more layers. But when I'm happy with the cloud, I can merge it again. Perfect so let's create another cloud. Going back to the calligraphy folder and selecting the mono line brush, you can also use the recent brush set, which is basically here. But then you want to make sure, you know, when I'm taking the brushes from. Now, I can paint another cloud here on this side, closing the shape, creating the mask again, and taking the drain brush, painting on the bottom as we just did before and let's merge them and I can also duplicate this other cloud, take the arrow tool, flip it horizontally, and I can add another cloud here, selecting uniform, making it a little bit smaller. Hitting a mask and making sure that I will make it a little bit smaller, seven, and mask this bottom part so okay, maybe a little bit bigger works better. I think this works a little bit better. As you can see, I want to still, uncover this part of the cloud and because we have the mask, I can make sure that I click on the mask. Here I will select white and I can paint again on top of the cloud just to reveal part of it again. Here I revealed too much so I will go back to smaller brush and black, and I will paint on this bottom part. As you can see, this is quite useful tool so now I'm happy with these clouds so I can merge this layer with a mask again and now let's add a road to our house because otherwise, how would you go and visit anyone who is living in that house. Let's go through the calligraphy and mono line brush again. I will select this last color in the last bottom row. First, you need to make sure that the layer is above the first hill so we can actually draw on top of the hill [LAUGHTER] and now we can draw the curved line. I think this works nicely and then I will draw a second side on the right side of this path and make sure that these lines are connected on both sides. Also here on the top and then I can drag and drop the color within this shape. Here, I can make sure that I delete this part which is going a little bit outside of the hill shape and I can also adjust the shape by going to the arrow tool, selecting the warp and I can adjust this shape slightly. [MUSIC] Perfect. I think this works. If you don't like the shape, you can always erase part of it for example like this. Then hold and again, procreate can help you adjust the shapes so I can do for example this type of adjustment. This should work fine, this is pretty nice. Then I can create a Alpha lock again. Take the textured brush and adding a little bit of this darker tone which we used before on the hills, which is this fifth color in the second row and I can draw a little bit of this shape here so its a little bit more integrative. 11. Details and Final Touches: [MUSIC]We're really getting there. We're almost finished. Let's add some fun details. Let's create another layer on top of all of these layers and I will go back to the calligraphy section and the monoline brush and I will select the third color in the second row, which is this gray color. I will draw a few birds here in the sky. Just these small squiggly lines because they are quite far away. Just a small fun detail. I can add maybe two more here, maybe three. [LAUGHTER] I think this is perfect. Then we can add also few flowers. Let's take this yellow color, which is the fifth color in the first row. I can draw simple ellipses here in the field as we talked about in the first lesson, playing with shapes. I can make these ones here so they don't have to be perfect. There is a little bit of variety and then I can make the brush bigger, around 19%, so it's easier for me to create some shapes here as well. You can also use the selection tool and ellipse if you prefer that here, I think they can be a little bit more bow. There is a little bit of variety here in shapes. This can be a little bit bigger. So you can play around with different shapes and color. These details add, I think quite a lot of nice color here to the environment. And I can also take this second color in the first row making sure that the layer has Alpha lock on making the brush little bit bigger and I can paint over some of these flowers so they have a little bit a different color. Again, we are creating a little bit of variety here which is quite fun. Now we can add some final touches to the sky. Let's create another layer behind the clouds. Perfect. I will go and take our gray brush again and I will take this fourth color in the first row. I will make the brush a little bit bigger maybe 40% and I will zoom out so I can see better. Let's make it smaller, so around 26% and then I will paint slightly on top of the sky, very lightly. Then I will make the brush a little bit smaller at around 13, 12%, and then I will paint on top of the sky a little bit more. Perfect. Then let's add some few last touches. I will take the second color in the first row. I will make the brush slightly bigger again, around 20% and then I will paint on the bottom part of the sky. [MUSIC] Perfect. Now let's take this second color in the last row and I will paint over the bottom part of the sky one more time. [MUSIC] Perfect. When you are happy you can disable the drawing guide so you can see your full drawing without any obstruction of the grid. If you can still see this box with the settings, you can just click on the canvas and then you can see the full illustration, what we just created in this video. Awesome. I hope that you enjoyed creating this artwork with me and you will share your projects and illustrations. Don't forget to tag me and upload your project also to social media and also here in the project gallery. Thank you again for being here, and see you next time. Bye. [MUSIC] 12. Final Thoughts: How did it go? I can't wait to see all your awesome artwork. Please share your drawings and illustrations. Also the work in progress if you want, in the project section. If you want to expand on the knowledge you'll learn in this class, you can watch my other classes about characters, and also about colors called color palette and color and live masterclass. Visit my picture profile to find them. If you would like me to share your projects on Instagram, please tag me in the Instagram stories, in the post, and post description so I can help you and your art to be discovered by more people. Thank you so much for watching and see you in the next class.