Procreate Watercolor Florals: Digital Painting Techniques.

1. Procreate Watercolor Florals: Digital Painting Techniques: Hi, I'm Priscilla. Welcome to my skillshare class. I'm an Illustrator, surface pattern designer, top teacher and owner of Cardwell and Inc, a boutique design studio based in Australia. I am passionate about simplifying digital design. Today, I'm excited to introduce you to painting digital florals on the ipad in procreate. In this class, you will learn the skills to create floral motifs and bouquets that can be used in various creative projects and industries. From textile design and home decor to stationery and branding. Watercolor florals are timeless assets that add a hand crafted and elegant touch to your creations. In this class, we will start from the ground up with the basics of digital watercolor techniques. In procreate together, we'll explore brush settings and practice strokes to help you get comfortable with digital painting. Then we'll build on these skills by creating individual floral elements from roses and five petal flowers to leaves, and finally, Philo botanicals. Once you're comfortable with creating the elements, we'll explore the art of composition. You'll discover how to arrange and layer your floral elements to create a balanced and visually pleasing bouquet. We'll then learn how to turn those floral bouquets into versatile graphic assets with transparent backgrounds. Which means you can effortlessly apply your creations as motifs to a wide range of products. Finally, I'll guide you through the process of adding text to your designs, using clipping masks and layer masks to create a beautiful typographic poster where the text seamlessly blends with your floral motifs. To simplify this design process, I've provided resources with the class so that you can use the same tools that I'm using. At each stage, a procreate watercolor brush set a carefully curated color palette, links to inspiration boards on Pinterest and unsplash a gold texture to add a touch of elegance to your work. You don't have to worry about starting from scratch. You will also have a procreate canvas complete with floral templates to guide you through constructing your elements and the bouquet every step of the way. I recommend this class for those that already have some experience with procreate. If you're brand new to digital watercolor, I recommend checking out my introductory class on digital watercolor leaves here on skill share first, it will give you a great foundation to build upon by the end of this class. My hope is that you'll not only have gained new skills and confidence, but also had a whole lot of fun along the way. Join me in the next lesson to find out how to access your class resources. And I'll see you in class. 2. Class Project: Your class project is to create a watercolor floral. It could be an individual flower or your floral bouquet embellished with text. You can do this at any stage in the course. If you come up with an interesting technique or application, I would love to see it. Sharing a class project also helps to inspire and encourage other creatives to try their hand at it as well. You can upload your project into the project section just below this video. In that section, you'll also find the class resources to download on the web, not the mobile version of Skillshare. Tap on each resource and then save it to your file storage. From there, you can open or export it to procreate The links to the Pinterest and Unsplash inspiration. Boards can be found in the class description section in the interest of convenience and respecting your time as you work through the lesson on building a bouquet and creating assets. If I am revisiting a technique that applies to several elements, I will slowly demonstrate the technique once, then speed up the time lapse of my process for the other elements so that it's not repetitive. Feel free to pause or replay that initial process as you apply it to the other elements and then continue. You can also ask any questions about the process in the class discussion section. I read and respond to all comments. Okay, that's all for this section. Let's get into the good stuff. Join me in the next lesson for an overview of the canvas set up and to start on a few watercolor drills for creating florals. 3. Canvas Setup & Watercolor Drills: In this lesson, I'm going to give you a brief overview of the canvas and go through the brush settings and a few drills to prepare for painting our florals. If you haven't already, head to the class resources tab in the web version, not the app version of Skillshare, and save each resource into your file storage. Then after you've downloaded each resource, locate your canvas brushes and swatches and select the app procreate as the file location to open them. The canvas will be imported into procreate gallery As the CN I floral canvas. I would suggest to swipe left on the canvas and tap duplicate to create a back up before you start painting. It's a 12 by 12 inch canvas at 300 DPI, which is standard for print ready illustrations and clip art. Your color palette, or Swatch, will be found in the color palette section in your color menu. Scroll until you see it in your list, then tap the three dots on the right to set it as your default palette. This will then attach it to the bottom of your color wheel so that you can easily access it. As we paint, your brushes will be added to the brush menu in Procreate at the top. I'll take a moment now just to go through some adjustments in your brush preferences to allow you to use your brushes most effectively. Head to the wrench icon on the top left and then the preferences tab on my canvas. I've adjusted the left and right hand interface so that my brush and opacity sliders are on the right hand side of my screen. Underneath that is the dynamic brush scaling. This needs to be turned on, otherwise you may have issues getting the streamlined features in the watercolor brushes to work effectively. I also have the brush cursor activated. Next, tap on the pressure and smoothing set the stabilization at approximately 6% and the app pressure sensitivity to mirror my pressure curve. I've added the blue dots by tapping with my apple pencil and adjusted the curve by moving the blue dots with my stylus. The last setting we're going to adjust are the gesture controls. The one that I want to focus on is your quick shape tool. I'll explain why. First. In procreate, you have the option of making a line. Then if you hold your stylus on the screen, quick shape is activated and changes that stroke to a line. This then allows you to modify the line and move the line around your screen, which is wonderful if you are wanting to create straight lines. Unfortunately, this is not usually the case with watercolor painting. Often you may be doing a detailed stroke. And then the quick shape will activate and turn your stroke into a line. Adjusting your gesture controls will stop this happening. If we head back to our wrench icon preferences and tap gesture controls, there is a menu called the Quick Shape Menu on the right hand side. You'll see what it does. You can deactivate this function completely while you paint, or you can increase the time delay before it activates I. Now we are going to begin with a few drills to prepare us to create our digital watercolor florals. Select a color from either your color palette or your wheel in your brushes. The textured watercolor brush set the brush size to approximately 30% and opacity On Maximum opacity, head to the layers panel and the group in your layers that is marked drills and select one of those layers. We're going to start first with a few lines across our canvas using very light pressure on our brush to practice creating those thin lines across our canvas. Most ipads have palm recognition. Feel free to place your palm on the screen to get more stability in your stroke at any point in these drills. You can also pause the video and practice the drills until you master them. Once you have about three consistent lines across your screen, we can continue to the next drill. For our next drill, we're going to continue with the same level of light pressure, but this time we're going to practice curved lines, bending to the left or to the right across the canvas. This drill is really useful for creating stems or leaves and stalks for small botanicals. We will use these a lot when we are creating our bouquets. For our next drill, we're going to create a series of small C curves across the canvas using light pressure from one end of your canvas to the other. Go slowly try and maintain that light pressure and keep those curves thin, like the lines we have created previously. Next, we're going to add to this technique and create interlocking curves. As you do these, I want you to try and maintain some white space in between your curves so that they do not touch, but they do interlock in close proximity around each other. It almost looks like you are creating an S shape with the two C curves. This technique is going to help you to learn how to leave white space in your painting. Especially when we get to painting overlapping petals in florals like roses, the white space is what gives you that definition between your petals. Next, try and increase the pressure ever so slightly in the center of the stroke, so that the center is slightly thicker than the ends. If it helps, you can also increase the size of the brush slightly. You want to maintain a thin start at the beginning of the C curve, a thicker center, and then finish with a thin point. Okay, that's all for this first page. Head to your layers panel, untick this layer and then we can tap a new layer until it turns blue. To activate it on this layer, we are going to create some thicker petal shapes. This time we are going to start with light, heavy and light pressure, but in a larger curve shape. Continue with these strokes across your canvas. You can always change the direction of your petals as you move across. Some facing up and some facing down to the left, to the right. This is going to be useful again, drawing petals around the center of florals like roses, as the petals will get larger, as you move towards the outside of the flower, in the outer petals, you're going to have more of the petals looser and more exposed. Next, we're going to continue with this technique, but we're going to make our strokes a bit more irregular. In the heavy portion, no petal is going to be a perfect curve. It's important to learn to add a few irregularities to give a more organic and natural feel to your petals. Remember that with this watercolor brush she created, you can always go back and increase the size of the thick part of the petal. As long as you don't remove your stylus from the screen, the edges will still blend together. It's very forgiving that way. Try a few shapes within pressure at the edges and then that irregular shape in the center. Okay, let's grab a new layer and try some larger petal shapes. For these drills, we're going to try and create full petals. We'll start with a teardrop shaped petal, and we're going to use the technique of keeping the stylus on the screen to fill that petal shape. Light pressure at the bottom of the petal to create the point heavy pressure around the top, connected on the other side, and then with your stylus still on the screen, fill it in in the middle to form that teardrop shape. As you continue across the canvas, try and leave a bit of white space on the petal shape. Act as a highlight where the light is hitting the petal. Try to make the highlight at different points on the petals as if light is hitting the petal from different angles. You can also vary up the high light by adding it as a line on the side of the petal without lifting up your stylus. It's amazing the difference a bit of white space makes to add a bit of visual interest to your paintings. Petals can also be triangular in shape, like a flex flower that we'll be making later on. You can try a few of those more rounded triangular petal shape across your canvas as well. Remember that you can always make the bottoms of the flower irregular as well to add a bit of visual interest. Okay, take some time to practice these drills and then meet me in the next lesson to start painting our roses. 4. Watercolor Roses: In this lesson, we are going to put together some of the techniques from our drills in the last lesson and create some watercolor roses. I'm going to head to the wrench icon and activate the reference layer in procreate for a moment to show you an image from the collection I created in unsplash. For this class, you can access the Pinterest and Unsplash reference boards in the class project section. Then as you follow the link to unsplash, you can find the image and save it to your camera roll using the down arrow on the right hand side. From there you can use the image select option in the reference layer of procreate to import the image to use as a reference. When creating a bouquet, you need to select some flowers that will be the largest in the bouquet to have as your focal point. Roses are a great flower for this. For our painting, we are going to create two angles of water color roses, a front on and a three quarter side view. Created a section in the procreate canvas to guide you first, if we go to our layers panel, make sure you disable any drill layers by unticking and then collapsing the group by tapping that downward arrow next head to the floral practice group. And tap on the arrow to open it. Tap on the rose template layer until it's blue, and tick the box to make it visible. Opacity is set at around 20% but you can tap the N and use a slider to make it more or less opaque. This is just serving as a guide to direct how we will draw our roses. Next, head to the rose practice layer above it. And select and ticket, grab a color from your color palette. We are going to start with our forward facing floral and paint on top of the template. We're going to start with the interlocking C curves that we practiced in our drills that have the tightest curves in the center. Then as we move out, our petals are going to get looser and they're going to get thicker. Use light pressure to start at the tips of the petals, then the heavy pressure in the middle, and then light pressure towards the end of the petal. You can always reduce the size of your cursor for the thinner petals to gain a bit more control and then make it larger as you move outwards. You can also slowly increase the size of the brush if you need to, as you move outwards. To easily allow you to make those thicker petals with pressure, make sure to leave a bit of white space in between the petals. As you create each new layer, it's fine to have the new layer touch or almost touch the layer below. Aim to have each new layer of petals overlap the breaks in the petals in the layer below as that gives a more cohesive look. But still make sure to leave those areas of white space. For definition, continue as you move out slowly from the center outwards. Remembering that perfection is not the objective, because there are no perfect petals. Just make your petals a bit irregular like we did in our drills. Widening them if you need to, by leaving your stylus on the screen and going back over the middle of your petals. Once you're happy, try this technique again in the area. This time without the template. I'm going to speed up my time lapse. But feel free to pause or keep practicing this technique until it feels more comfortable. Next, we are going to try the 34 rows, when the rose is at a slight angle in a bouquet. This time, the center spiral is going to be tilted to the side, which means we're going to have thicker petals on the side facing towards us. And keeping those petals thinner on the side angling away from us. Still start with the interlocking C curves in the area of the smaller circle of the template. And then continue on with the slightly larger petals, but on the side closest to us, Keeping those petals a little bit thinner on the side angled away by using less pressure on the stylus to give that impression of tighter curls. Continue on, making sure you are leaving a bit of white space between your petals to give that definition. Once you have finished the side view template, try again without the template in the blank space on your practice layer. You can try it in the same direction or pick a different direction applying the same principles. I'm going to speed up my time lapse again here. But feel free to pause the video and continue to practice until it feels comfortable. Repeating the techniques builds up that muscle memory and familiarity with making these strokes. If you're just starting out, when you're ready, you can meet me in the next lesson to start to create our secondary florals. 5. Secondary Florals: In this lesson, we are going to create secondary florals. These florals are generally smaller and used to fill the areas around our focal flowers. For this exercise, we're going to create simple five petal florals. Head to the layers panel and to our floral practice group. And then deactivate the rose template and practice layers. And activate the secondary flower template by ticking and reduce its capacity by tapping the N and moving the slider next tick to activate the practice layer and tap until it's blue. The template is a guide for a five petal flower in both the forward and side facing alignment. Let's select a new color from the palette. And still using the textured watercolor brush, adjust the brush to about 27% loosely paint on top of the template to create the five petal flower. Keeping your stylus on the screen. As you do this, remember that if the quick line is activating, you can adjust it in the gesture controls, leave small areas of white space on the petals as you work your way around. Indicate the highlights by leaving gaps or by adding lines around your petals. This just gives them a bit of definition. Once you've completed this shape, once use the empty space above the template to try it again, but this time just following the shape of the petals. As you paint with your eyes, keep trying these shapes a few times until you feel comfortable with the motion of drawing the petals. Remember that we are going for a loose floral style, not a photo realistic style, have some fun with next. We are going to repeat this with our side facing floral first using the side facing template and painting on top of it. Note the petals facing away are larger and those towards us are foreshortened at any white space as you feel working your way around the flower. Then try this side facing flower again in the empty space above the template, following the same structure, but by eye. Next, we are going to create the centers of the flowers. Most flowers will have a deeper color radiating out from the middle. To show this, we are going to head to our practice layer and tap on it. In the side menu, we are going to select Alpha Lock. This is only going to allow you to paint on the areas that already have color laid down. You'll see a honeycomb in the layer thumbnail to show that this is active. Then go to the brush menu and select the bleed brush and a darker tone to your color. From the color wheel, start to place color in the center of the flower to create a circular shape on both the forward facing and the side facing flowers. You can then reduce the size of the brush and long press on the smudge brush to use the same brush as a smudger, if you need to blend out any edges. Next we are going to create the stamens and anthers in the center of our flowers. Go to your brush menu and select the watercolor edge brush. And then a dark brown or a value that's deeper than the color you flayed down in the center. Tap in a circular motion to create a shadowed area that will indicate the stamens. Next, choose a lighter color of off white or yellow tap over the area where you have just placed those dots to show the pollen tipped anthers. You can make them scattered or dense by just tapping randomly in a circular motion on top of the shadowed area you have laid down. But try and have it slightly offset so you can still see a bit of that shadow beneath it. Do this on both your forward facing and side facing flowers. Take some time to experiment with these techniques until they feel more familiar. Then meet me in the next lesson to create some filler botanical elements. 6. Filler Botanicals: Lavender and Berries: In this lesson, we are going to create a few loose filler elements. There can be sprigs of plants like lavender or rosemary or berries in a range of complementary colors to accentuate the bouquet. Head to the layers. Panel and de, select our previous layers and activate the fillers template by ticking and then tick and tap on the filler stalk. Practice layer, we're going to create two types of fillers, the lavender and the berries. Lavender is made up of a basic stalk with a few butted petals surrounding it in sections. Select an olive green from your color wheel and create a few curved stalks in the blank space next to the template, using the template as a guide. Next on the same layer, we're going to do the same thing with the stalks for our filler berries, adding several stalks at different lengths. Now we can create the lavender buds and berries on top head to a new layer marked filler buds. Tick and tap to activate until it's blue. Then starting with the lavender, select a purple color from your palette. With the textured watercolor brush set at approximately 15% begin to fill in the shapes of the lavender buds. These buds are spaced out in layers down the stalk with tiny oval shapes with light pressure. Work your way down each stalk. Sometimes you can have the groups more clumped together or you can have them fairly spaced as you move down. We're using light pressure with these buds and trying to keep them fairly similar in size. Once you're happy, we're going to create our berries, head to your color palette and select a color for your berries. We're going to create oval shaped berries on the end of each of our stalks. Keeping our stylus on the screen as we create them. Feel free to overlap the tip of the stalk because we will remove this later on. Once they're done, head to your brush menu and select the watercolor edge, brush and a white color. We're going to use this to create highlights on the berries. Keep all the highlights on the same side of the berries to show that the light is hitting them from one direction. Next, you can head to your palette and select a brown color to add a tiny sepal just connected to the stalk at the bottom of the berry. All right, now we can remove the overlap in the two layers. Before we combine them, head to the selection tool on the top left. Make sure your color fill is off. And then choose the automatic selection from the bottom menu. Tap on your screen outside of your painted area, which should highlight in blue. Then in the bottom menu, select invert to reverse your selection and highlight the painted portion. Now in your layers panel, you can head to the practice layer with our stalks and select it. Swipe down on your screen with three fingers and select Cut and Paste from the pop up menu. You've now cut out the buds and berries from the stalks in the overlapping portions. Now on this new layer, swipe to the left and select Delete. Then combine your bud and store player by tapping on the top layer and selecting Merge down from our side menu. Great, to finish up, we're going to practice a few twigs full of leaves that we can add to our florals to make a bouquet in our layers panel. Deactivate our fillers layers and activate our leaf template layer by ticking and our leaf practice layer by ticking and tapping. We're going to follow the template, starting with an elongated C curve on the right with light pressure. Then we're going to create a few leaves along this stem using light, heavy and light pressure on our stylus for each side of the leaf. As you're creating your leaves, keep your stylus on the screen, but just adjust your pressure. Heavy, light on one side and then still with the stylus on the screen. Light, heavy, light back to the stem. We're also going to be leaving that white space in the mid line. To add a bit of definition, make sure as you are adding your leaves to the stem, you are keeping the leaves close together, especially when creating a bouquet. To give that sense of density, we're going to continue to our left facing twig in the space below. Take your time as you work around, remembering that you can also rotate your canvas with two fingers. And zoom in and out by opening and closing your fingers as you paint. The thing to remember with leaves for a bouquet is that they are an accessory, not the main event. The C curves in our stalks are going to be really important to hug closely to the florals and create a frame for our bouquet. Okay, keep working on your techniques until they feel comfortable. When you are ready, join me in the next lesson to build our bouquet. 7. Building the Bouquet: Part 1: In this lesson, we are going to take the skills that we have learned and combine them to compose a bouquet. Take a moment to deactivate any of the previous layers. And activate the build a bouquet group in the layers panel so that you can see the process we're going to go through. The first stage is to create some central florals, and these will be our roses and the largest flowers in the bouquet. Generally, you want to have them at an angle diagonally to lead the eye through the bouquet in odd numbers, like three or five. Next, we're going to add leaves. These are going to serve the purpose of curving around our main florals. I want you to note the density of the leaves. It's fine to add a few leaves in between the main florals as well to break up the large shapes. But generally, the leaves should be around the perimeter of the focal flowers to frame them. After the leaves, we're going to add in the secondary florals. They are also in a diagonal arrangement to lead the eye of the observer across the bouquet. They are smaller than the focal flowers, but just add a new color combination to your palette and break up the large objects a bit. Finally, we're going to add a few filler berries to balance out our composition around the edges. These elements are going to be the smallest and also have stalks that will frame around the main florals. For both the leaves and fillers, I like to think of the stems coming together at the center of the main flowers, because everything in your bouquet points towards that focal point. Now that we know where we're going, let's get started. Deactivate all of these template layers except the main floral lines. Also reduce the opacity by tapping on the slider. Then head up to our water color bouquet group. And activate our main flower one and tick and tap to activate it. Our main florals are all going to be forward facing roses like we did in our drills. In your color palette, select a blush tone and a textured watercolor brush from our brush menu. Start with the floral at the top right. Begin with those overlapping curve petals at the center, slowly working your way outwards, increasing the size and the thickness of the petals. Use the petals in each new layer to overlap the breaks in the layer below. Also, just make sure you're leaving a bit of white space between each layer. To add that definition, allow your petals to be organic and irregular in shape. That circle template is just providing an approximate boundary. Okay, next we are going to adjust the colors in this layer. Duplicate your rose layer by swiping to the left and tapping. Duplicate. This will deepen your colors. We're going to assume that our light source is coming from the right hand side of the canvas head to your eraser at the top. And select the water color bleed on E brush at a large size. And then begin to erase a bit of the top layer. Just going to be adding a bit of high light coming from our right hand side. You can also randomly pick areas of color from the bottom layer to add a bit more visual interest. Activate the top layer again and head to the adjustment menu at the top left. And tap it. Then tap hue, saturation and brightness in the menu at the bottom. You can use the sliders to make those adjustments to your hue, your saturation or brightness to either of your painted layers. Take a moment and just experiment with your colors. If you double tap on your screen, a new menu will pop up that allows you to preview your adjustments in comparison to your original colors. Then you can decide if you want to apply the changes or undo them. This applies to any of the options in our adjustment menu and is a great way to determine if you like the changes in real time. You can always also use a two finger tap on the canvas to undo an action. A three finger tap to redo or use the undo and redo arrows at the bottom of your brush sliders. When you're done, tap on that top layer. Then in the side menu, tap the text that says, merged down to combine it with the painted rose layer below. An alternative gesture to that is just pinching the layers together. For our next rows on the diagonal, I'm going to head to the main floral two layer and activate and tap it until it's blue. We are going to repeat this entire process for main floral two, then main floral three. Feel free to pause and go back through the process that I did with that initial rose. Okay. Once we are done with our roses, make sure that the main floral layers are all deactivated. And you can also deactivate the main floral lines in the build a bouquet template. Then meet me in the next lesson and we will go through our techniques for our leaves, our secondary florals, and the berries. 8. Building the Bouquet: Part 2: In this lesson, we are going to finish building our bouquet. Starting with our leaves. Tick the leaf lines layer and reduce its opacity with a slider. And then head back up to the leaves layer in our watercolor bouquet group. And activate it by ticking and tapping until it's blue. Now we're going to create some twigs around our floral that will frame our bouquet. Select an olive green and make sure that you are back with your textured watercolor brush and begin to build your twigs. Create that central stem first using those elongated sea curves with light pressure. Then begin to build your leaves around the twig using a light, heavy, and light pressure for each side of the leaf. As you go, try and leave that white space in the mid line of the leaf. To create that definition, remember that as you add leaves, if you are not happy for any reason with how it looks, just use a two finger tap to undo and try that leaf again. Continue to work your way around the bouquet. You can always adjust the canvas with two fingers to zoom in and out, or twist the canvas around for a bit more control. You can also adjust the brush size, larger or smaller, so that it's more comfortable for the way that you paint. I'm going to speed up the time lapse, but feel free to pause and then continue. You are happy with your leaves. Once the leaves are complete, deactivate the leaf template layer and then we can duplicate our painted layers by swiping to the left and tapping duplicate. Then we can head to our eraser. Brush on the water color bleed and erase areas you would like to highlight on the top layer. Gently erase layers on the bottom layer if you would like any other color variations, then head to our adjustments menu and make those color adjustments. When you're done, combine the two painted layers by tapping the top layer and selecting the merge down two, combine the layers. Sometimes with leaves, I'd like to add a few more shadows or highlights with specific colors to the twigs and leaves. To do this, first tap the leaf layer and then tap Alpha from the side menu. Then select the bleed brush from our brush menu and a deeper green tone. Just tap it in the areas where you want more shadows. Perhaps on the left hand side of your canvas opposite the light source or between the roses where they may be more shadowed. You can also do this with a color like yellow or mustard, adding a few highlights on various parts of the leaves just to give a bit more color variation. When you're happy, tap and remove the alpha lock to deactivate it, then you can deactivate the painted leaf layers. Next, we're going to move onto our secondary flowers. Activate the secondary floral lines in the builder bouquet template and reduce the opacity of this layer. Then head to the secondary floral base layer and tick and tap to activate. I'm going to select a brighter, yellow, orange for these florals from the color palette. And make sure that my brush is on the textured watercolor brush. Follow the generalized shape of the template to create these five petal florals. Feel free to leave areas of the floral with a bit of white space to act as a high light. The way that we did in our drills, you can turn the canvas as you go or zoom in to get a better angle. But continue throughout each of the three groups of secondary florals. I'm going to speed up the time lapse as I do each group. Once you are done, turn off. Layer by unticking. Duplicate the painting layer by swiping to the left and tap duplicate. Use your eraser brush, set on the water color bleed to erase any areas that you would like, that color variation with highlights. And then head to the adjustment menu. And adjust your colors using the hue saturation and brightness sliders. When you're happy, tap the top layer and merge it down to the bottom layer. Next we are going to do the centers of our secondary florals. Tap on the combined layer and select alpha Oc. Then select the water color bleed brush and grab a deeper red or purple tone. Place the centers into the middle of your secondary florals. And then grab the water color edge. Brush for the stamens. Start with a deeper tone and then overlay them with a white or a lighter color for the centers. Continue with this technique in all of our secondary florals. I'm going to speed my time lapse in this process. Once you're happy, we can remove the alpha lock and then deactivate this secondary floral layer. Last but not least, we're going to finish with a few fillers. Activate the berry template layer and reduce its opacity. Then head to our berry stalk layer. Select the textured watercolor brush in a deep tone and begin to lay down the stalks. Grab a rose tone. Then in our layers, panel activate and tap the berry bud layers. Create your berries on top of the around the florals. Once you are finished, deactivate that template layer and then duplicate your painted berry bud layer by swiping and selecting duplicate. Then select your eraser on the water color bleed at a smaller size and erase any areas at the top that you would like to see a high light head to the adjustments menu and the hue saturation and brightness and adjust using your sliders. Lastly, select your watercolor edge brush and a white color and just add little highlights on the berries On the sides facing the right hand side of the canvas where are light sources. Merge your two layers together by tapping on the top layer and selecting. Merge down. Finally, head to your selection menu. Use the automatic selection and select the area outside of the berries which should turn blue. Then invert the selection head to your stalks layer. Swipe down on your screen with three fingers and select Cut and Paste. Delete the cut out layer by swiping to the left and selecting. Delete. And then tap on the berry bud layer and select merge down to combine the berry and stalk layers. Okay, we have finished our bouquet. I'm going to activate all our painted layers. What you'll see is that there's a significant overlap on all our different elements. Join me in our next lesson to create white filler layers underneath all of these watercolor elements that they are opaque layer perfectly on top of each other without that overlap. 9. Finalising the Bouquet as a Graphic Asset: In this lesson, we are going to convert our watercolor bouquet into a graphic asset that each individual element has an opaque background. To do this, we're going to use a new technique because procreate sometimes has an issue with the selection tool. When getting a tight selection without any artifacts, this technique will help overcome that head to your water color bouquet group. And deactivate everything except our main floral on E. Then tap on the plus to create a new layer hold and drag this layer below your main floral. One layer next, head to your color disc and grab a really bright contrasting color to the color of your element, In this case like a bright yellow, and pull it into that new layer. Next, tap on this layer and tap the text mask in the side menu. And then head back to your main Rose one layer tap and select the text reference from the side menu. This will now allow rose to act as a reference for the mask we're about to create. Head back to your layer mask. Make sure that it's active in blue and also ticked on the right, if our layer mask is white, it means that everything on the layer below it will be visible when we drag black into it. Any areas that we drag a black color will become invisible in the layer below. We're going to grab the color drop and pull black into the area around our rows without taking our stylus off. We're going to pull it across the screen to the right to increase the threshold until we've selected main white areas outside our water color rows, but not leaching into any of our painted portion. You'll still see your contrasting color visible in some areas in between the petals. We're going to address that next. Lift your stylus and zoom into your canvas using two fingers. And then continue pulling the black color drop into the areas between the petals. In this process, take your time. It is important zoom in if you need to get into any of the small areas, rotate your canvas using two fingers. As you do this, if you see any sections at the join of your petals that are still showing that bright color through, head to your brush menu. And select the small watercolor edge brush. And then zoom in and gently remove the pixels in those bright portions. The rough texture of this brush will mean that that watercolor edge should be maintained. Once you're happy with your selection, head to your layers panel. Then we're going to merge the layer mask and the bright color layer together by pinching them with two fingers. This will ensure that now you have a perfect selection of your rose in only the painted watercolor areas. Now to get rid of that bright yellow tap on the layer to alpha. Lock it with the text in the sign menu. Then select white from your color palette. And then tap it again. And select fill layer. This will fill it in white. Now we can turn off our reference from our painted rose layer above by tapping and selecting reference to deactivate it. Okay, this is wonderful. Next we are going to use this selection to cut our rose out of our watercolor texture paper. Because although we have the selection, we still want to maintain a watercolor texture on top of it. To do this, head to the wrench icon, tap on the ad tab and then tap the text copy canvas. Now head to our watercolor texture layer stack at the top in our layers panel. Tap on it until it's blue. And then swipe down with three fingers and tap Paste. This will create a flattened watercolor image with the texture above that layer. Now we need to cut out our rows from this flattened layer. Head back down to your new white opaque layer that we created. Tap the layer. Click Select in the side menu, and then head back up to our flattened layer and activate it. Then make a three finger swipe down on your screen in the pop up menu. Tap, Cut and Paste. This should now perfectly cut out your rose on one layer while still preserving that water color texture so that you have a transparent background. We don't need the cut out layer anymore. Swipe to the left on that layer, in your layers panel and delete it. We can now check our selection. Pop your stylus on the tick on the right hand side of your cut out rose, which will deactivate all of the other layers except that rose layer. You'll still see the watercolor texture on your rose, but there is a white layer around it which is your background. If you scroll down to the bottom of your layers and untick the background color, you should see your PNG rose with a transparent background perfectly cut out. Now this will be ready to use as a watercolor asset on a range of products. However, this is only rose number one. We're going to repeat this process to create elements out of each of our roses, leaves, secondary florals, and fillers. I'm going to do that off screen, but feel free to pause the video and rewind and watch the process again as you go through each of your elements. By the end of the process, your elements should look like this, with each individual element on its own layer. When you put them together, a bouquet that is perfectly overlapping in its elements. To export, head up to the wrench icon and then the Share tab. And select P and G. This is the only file type that will give you that transparent background. If you save it as a Jpeg, it will bring that white background back only as a PNG. Take some time, export each of your elements into your camera roll or into your file storage. I would suggest that you name them as you go and then export your bouquet as a whole. Then meet me in the next lesson to have a play with adding text intertwined into your bouquet. 10. Integrating Text Using Masks: In this lesson, we are going to incorporate a frame letters and make a typographic poster out of our watercolor bouquet. Using masks and clipping masks. First head to your layers panel and highlight all your elements by swiping to the right and then selecting group to group them together. Then select the whole group by tapping and head over to your transform menu. In the menu at the bottom, turn on snapping and magnetics with distance and velocity on max. Now we can move our bouquet until we get two yellow lines intersecting on the two axes to show that it is centered. Next, we're going to add a bit of contrast by going to our layers panel and scrolling to the bottom and tapping on background color and selecting black. Then head back up to your group. Tap the group and then use the plus icon to create a new layer above it so that we can create our frame. Head to the wrench icon at the top left. And select drawing guide to activate it and then tap the text edit drawing guide. I have my opacity at about 36, my thickness at 64, and the grid at 113. I have no assisted drawing. My color is set to white at the top and then we can tap done. For our next step, we are going to need to have our quick shape activated. If you turned it off while you were painting head to your wrench, icon preferences, gesture controls, and quick shape to reactivate it. Then tap done. In our brush menu, we're going to select the monoline simple brush and a white from our color palette. Brush is set on maximum. Then we're going to use our grid lines to create a square without removing your stylus. Wait for the quick shape to activate. And also place one finger on the screen so that it makes a perfect square. Select square from the Quick Shape menu. And then tap on your transform tool to resize and position it. Tapping on one of the blue dots that shows up with your stylus will bring up a number pad tap to unlock the dimensions and enter your pixel size. I'm going to make both 2,820 pixels. Using this number pad is a really great way to ensure that you are getting a precise shape. Then tap the empty space on the tool bar to get rid of the number pad. Without adjusting anything in your shape, you can now move the square until it's centered on your canvas. Once that's done, we can head over to our layers panel. And I want to hold and drag this layer to the bottom of the bouquet, so that we can have the effect of some of our elements overlapping it. The white looks good, but we are going to take it to the next level and add a bit of gold to this layer using a royalty free image from Splash that I've attached in the class resources in the class project section. Download and save it to your camera role. Then with the frame layer active, go to your wrench icon to the add tab and insert a photo. Find the gold texture in your images and tap to insert it. Increase the size with our transform tool until it extends around our frame. Then tap the layer in the layers panel and select Clipping Mask from the side menu to clip it to the frame layer below. Okay, that's our frame done. Now we can add our text head to our berry layer in our element group and tap it. Make sure you have white selected from your color palette. And then head to our wrench icon on the left to the Add tab. And then tap on Add Text. This will activate Procreates Text Tool and your onscreen keyboard. I'm going to turn on tap lock and then type in the text. Beautiful double tap on your text to select it. Then this will also activate a new text editing quick menu Double tapping in this menu will open up the full text dashboard. Generally, when creating a typographic poster, you want a bold font. I'm going to select Impact from procreates, built in available fonts. I'm going to keep the text alignment centered and set the size at about 195 by tapping on the numbers to bring up another number keypad. You can also use the slider, but this is more precise. I'm going to set the kerning, which is the space between the letters. At 62. And then adjust the leading, which is the space between the lines to about -18 And tap on the side to remove the number pad. Now we can tap done, and adjust the blue dots that automatically show up to make sure that you have three letters on each line. Then we can use our transform tool to place and center our text on top of our bouquet. Great, now we can start to work these letters into the bouquet with the help of some layer masks in our layers panel. Duplicate this text layer and untick one so that you always have an editable back up. At any stage, you can always go back if you want to make font changes by tapping on the layer and then tapping the edit text function on our visible text layer. Tap and select Rasterize to convert the layer into a flat image layer that we can add masks to hold and pull this layer so that it is in between where our roses end and our other elements begin. Now tap this layer. Choose Select from the side menu in the bottom menu on your screen. Select Invert. Now we can head to your leaves layer. Tap and click Mask in the side menu. We'll do the same for the secondary floral layer and select Mask and the filler buries layer. The layer mask will fill the shape of the text in black. In the black areas, the elements will appear to be hidden wherever the text is. We're now going to select our monoline brush from our brush menu. And a pure white from our palette. Begin to use the white to bring back our leaf, berry and secondary florals. It looks like they are wrapping around the letters. I'll start with the berry layer mask tap to activate it in bright blue. And then zoom in and use the white to bring back the berries on the letters A. And if you think you've made a mistake in the way that you have brought the berries back, you can always use a pure black color to then hide the elements. Again, I'm going to keep going with these on the and the L until I have the berries that I want looking like they are wrapping around those letters. The beauty of masking is that you're not really erasing anything. You are just non destructively adjusting what you see and what you hide. Next. On our secondary floral layer mask, we're going to tap to select it. Then we're going to bring our secondary florals back around our letters. And a bit of I'll start with I and you finally with our leaves. I'll activate the layer mask and bring back some of the leaves on B and in the middle around that. Okay, I'm really happy with how that looks. To finish up, we're going to just turn down the white in the letters a bit by selecting our original text layer, tapping to alpha locket. And then selecting the off white from our color palette, and tapping again to fill the layer, that is our final piece. Well done. Join me in the next lesson for final thoughts about your class project and how you can use these motifs and skills for personal or commercial use. 11. Final Thoughts: Thank you so much for joining me in this class. I have truly enjoyed sharing my techniques for creating digital watercolor florals with you. These versatile assets have a range of applications across various creative industries. You only have to explore platforms like Canva Design Cuts or Creative Market to see the high demand for watercolor assets among graphic designers. These assets can elevate social media posts, stationary surface pattern designs, and so much more. I hope this class has inspired more creativity in you and deepened your understanding of how to incorporate floral motifs into your creative portfolio. I would love to see your class project, and you can do that by taking a screenshot on your device and uploading it to the class project section just below this video. I encourage you to add your own unique spin on the skills you have learned. A few ideas could be sharing an individual flower, you've painted a full bouquet, or a typographic poster. If you're a bit more adventurous, upload your floral assets to your Canva or Adobe account and use them to frame a quote or invitation card or even on a product mock up. I cannot wait to see where your creativity takes you and sharing your projects help inspire other creatives. If you're on social media, you can always tag me at Cardwell and Inc. I love to see and reshare student projects in my stories and on the Skillshare tab on my profile. If you have a moment, I would love it if you could leave a review of the class. I take the feedback on board. And it really does help me refine my techniques as a teacher. As I create more classes, you can stay updated on my latest classes, tips and giveaways by following me here on skill share at Cardwell and Inc. Design. Have a great day and happy creating.