Simple + Easy Fruit Illustrations in Affinity Designer 2

1. Welcome!: Hi there, I'm Jennifer. A few years ago, I left the classroom and found myself at home with an ipad and a skill share membership. Since then I've created countless patterns, numerous illustrations, and learn something new about affinity designer. Almost every day, I believe everyone is creative and I hope to encourage you on your journey. Along the way, I found myself looking for new things to draw. I came across the idea of evergreen themes. Themes that are always in style and seem to be relevant year after year. Think flowers and fruits. If you're in need of art that has enduring relevance and interest, then this class is for you. Drawing fruits is a safe, reliable choice for almost any project or portfolio. Some experience with affinity designer too, will be helpful. If this is your first time opening the app, I'm so happy for you. I'd encourage you to check out my Intro to Affinity Designer to class as well. This class I'll teach you how to draw several fruits in three different styles. We'll also look at the Vector flood fill tool. Throughout the class, we'll cover techniques and tools specific to affinity designer. We'll put some of our fruits together into a mixed fruit illustration for our projects. Are you ready to enhance your portfolio, create eye catching illustrations, or just find the joy in drawing? Then let's get started. I'll meet you in the next lesson. 2. Resources and Project: In this class, you'll create a mixed fruit illustration for your project. We'll learn how to draw several fruits in three different styles. Your project should include at least three to five fruits. However, feel free to use the same type of fruit more than once. I've included some outlines in the resources to help you arrange the fruit. If you need some ideas, be sure to check those out. We'll be drawing in both the affinity designer persona and the pixel persona. It took me a while to get comfortable using the pixel persona. I hope it doesn't take you as long as it took me. Then be sure to share and upload your projects. Your project will encourage other students along their creative journey. Remember to install the latest update from affinity. I'll be working on version 2.3 I'll meet you in the next lesson. 3. Vector Flood Fill: Before we get started drawing, let's take a look at the Vector flood fill tool. Say that ten times fast, this tool can be used for coloring areas to create new shapes. Once you've loaded a fill, the tool lets you flood areas formed from selected overlapping shapes or curves. First, I'm going to open a new document. Any size document will work for this class. I'm just going to use the social media square post. I want to make sure that I do create art boards so that toggle needs to be on and then tap Okay in our new document. Let's add two shapes. We'll use the rectangle tool on the left hand side. Anytime you need to know the names of the tools, you can always press the question mark in the bottom right hand corner, which will give you the names on each tool bar. The top context toolbar actually shows in the middle. And then for your studios on the right hand side, let's first make a rectangle using our color studio. We'll select a fill color. This can be any color that you'd like you'd like. You can make your outline just a little bit wider by increasing the slider for width. I also like to tap on where it says point and type in the actual amount that I like, like a two point. Let's go back to the rectangle tool and select a different shape, maybe an eclipse. Using my move tool, I'll slide this ellipse over and resize just a little bit. Looks like I have my snapping on. I'm going to turn snapping off. Snapping is in the top right hand corner. It looks like a magnet. I can tap that magnet to toggle snapping on or off. I can also tap the bottom right hand corner where it says enable snapping. Then you can check to see if this circle is filled or not. Right now the circle is filled, so I have snapping turned on. I want to turn that off and I could tap enable snapping when this circle here is not filled. So I know my snapping is off. Now I can move this freely. Let's go in and change the color. On our layers panel, You can see the rectangle and the ellipse are one layer. The fill and the stroke are together. To use the Vector Flood fill tool, let's remove the fill color from each shape. Tapping the color dot for our fill and tapping no fill. Now we'll select the Vector flood fill tool. The tool is about halfway down on the left hand side and it looks like a paint bucket and tap vector flood fill tool. Now you can see we have only one dot to choose from. I'll go ahead and select the same colors I had last time. You can see by tapping the rectangle, I now have my fill by using the vector flood fill tool. If we look on the layers panel, we now have two separate layers for our rectangle. One is the outline, the next one is the fill. Now the fill layer is separate from the outline. We wanted to select just our fill layer. We can now move this as a separate part, a separate piece of our rectangle. Let's make sure the tool is selected. We'll load our color on our layers panel. We want to make sure that the ellipse layer is selected and then we can tap inside to fill our ellipse. This is a different way to fill shapes by creating a separate curved layer that you can then select and use separately. Let's look at another way to use the Vector flood fill tool. I'll go back and actually delete what we've done. I also want to make sure I don't have a pill for my shapes yet. One of our shapes needs to overlap the other. I'll select my circle, my ellipse, and the rectangle. And just drag them over so that they are overlapping. Now that our shapes are overlapping, we'll use the move tool to select both shapes. You can check on the layers panel to make sure that each layer is highlighted blue. Select the Vector Flood Fill tool and then load your color. We can tap into each part. To add our fill, I need a third color. Looking at our layers panel, we can now see that we still have an outline for each shape. Now we've created three new shapes which if we select then we can use separately. I'll undo what we've done to look at the next way to use the vector flood fill tool. This time I have both of my shapes with a white fill. Using the move tool, I'll select both shapes. This time we'll look at the modes for the fill tool with the fill tool selected. We'll see on the top context toolbar some options. The first one we're going to look at is in side. This is a circle with the bottom quarter of the circle being shaded. We'll tap in side and then load our color. Let's see what happens on our layers panel. Now it looks like we have some groups for our circle and our rectangle. You'll now see that the new shapes have been clipped to the ellipse, to our base, the new curve and our new curve here. Our new shapes have been clipped inside. If you'd like to use both of them, you can by selecting the ellipse layer and moving with your move tool. Or if you'd like, you can turn off one of the new shapes with your move tool. Selected. Move your new shape with only one of the new shapes shown. The same happened with our rectangle. Now our new shape is clipped to our rectangle, to our base layer, which we can turn on and off and use together or separately. Let's just a little difference in how the Vector flood fill tool works with the inside mode selected. It attempts to create the new shape and then fills and places them inside the existing shapes. I'll undo this again. Now I have my shapes filled with color. I'll use the Vector flood fill tool with a different mode. This time we'll use in between. The in between is the square that's in between the two circles. The move tool selected. I'll select both shapes and then load our color. Looking at our layers panel, we can now see that we have a rectangle outline, our new curve shape. And our existing fill color mode organizes layers into an outline, the new shape, and the fill color which is not clipped to the base layer. This breaks the fills and the strokes apart into shapes and inserts the new fills in between the outline and the existing color. The last way I'd like to show you how to use the Vector flood fill tool is with text. I've turned off all of our shape layers using our artistic text and art text. Going to type out my name move tool selected. I'll make this a little bit larger. I'll also give my name a color to divide my name into different colors easily. I'm going to grab the pencil tool. I'll use black for this and just draw a wavy line through the letters. Select the vector, flood fill, load, your new color, and select both layers. I'm going to drag my curve line for my pencil tool to the right to select both the pencil line I just drew and my name. Then you can take your pencil and drag through the letters being sure that you don't drag through any negative spaces like in the E and my. Those will fill with color as well. Now I can load a different color and do the same to the bottom till I got my negative space there in my E. So I'll undo and try one more time, being careful not to drag my pencil through that negative space. Now I can turn off my pencil line. I quickly have a fun way to add color to text. The very last way I'd like to show you how you can use the Vector Flood fill tool is to change your background color, your layers panel, select your artboard, load your color then simply and your background color will be changed. And one, I think this is pretty nice because now you don't have to draw a rectangle to make that background color, you can change it using the vector flood fill. I'll see you in the next lesson. 4. Flat Style Blueberries Warm Up: With the new document open. Now I'll find my reference image using the stock studio that's built into affinity designer using pexels. I typed in blueberries. I'd like to use the first image with the white background. Do a long hold and drag to the artboard. Then I'll re size just a little bit. Now we're ready to start tracing the outline of our blueberries. We'll start with the layer that's in the back. The blueberries that are in the furthest back, it looks like we have one on the top below. There's one peeking out back here, one down here at the very bottom. And then there's another one peaking out in the center. Using the pencil tool, I like a two point stroke. We can use a black stroke. We'll outline each of the blueberries that are in the back. A part of the blueberry that's behind another blueberry doesn't need to be perfect. I'm going to use an auto close feature auto closes on the top context tool bar. Now when I start drawing my outline of each blueberry, trying to add as many details as I can to begin with. Like all of the wiggles and curves there. But when I get close to where I started, I'm going to release my pencil and it will automatically close the curve the line for me. I'll do the same thing with the other blueberries that are behind. Grabbing the details here and getting close to where I started and releasing. I don't always use auto clothes, but for something like this where they're going to be behind other elements, I think it is a nice tool and it can save a little time. I do have the rope stabilizer on for my pencil. The rope stabilizer is an option on the context toolbar that you can turn on or off if you'd like. You could also use the window stabilizer or no stabilizer. I like to use the rope stabilizer as it does make your lines a little smoother. We have our blueberries outlined. We'll use the vector flood tool. Within between activated, we'll also select all of our layers. You can select a layer by dragging to the right on each layer until they're highlighted in blue. Next, let's load our color using the eye dropper tool. I'll drag the eye dropper to each blueberry and choose a midtone, something not too dark and not too light. Then the color to the right to load your fill and then tap on the blueberry. Let's do the same thing for each blueberry because we do want them to be different. We don't want them to be exactly the same color because we know that everything in nature isn't really perfect. We can also come back later and adjust some of these colors. But for now, let's just use our eye dropper tool and find a mid tone on our layers panel. We now have our outline separated from our fill color. Now we can select the outline layers and you can either turn them off if you'd like or you can delete them for now. I'm going to group them together. Rename this layer by dragging to the left tapping rename layer Outline and turn off the group. Now I just have the fill colors. I'll make another group. I have the outline layer selected with the command controller. I'll turn on shift and tap the bottom layer to select all layers in between, turn off shift and then tap group, this group I'll rename by dragging to the left as the bottom. Now I can turn off this layer and look at the blueberries that are on top or that are in between. We're probably going to need a middle layer. Looking at the blueberries again, this blueberry here is in front of the bottom layer, but it's also behind the blueberry to the left. This one's going to be in between these two should be on top and this one should be on top as well with our pencil tool. Let's go ahead and outline this in between Blueberry. Make sure we have a stroke. Let's outline the blueberry that's in the middle or in between the top and the bottom layer. Use our vector flood fill tool, grab our color. Since this is only one blueberry, I'm just going to turn off my curve layer. But I will select both layers and group them together and rename the group middle. Turn off our middle layer and now we have the blueberries that are on the top. I'm not going to use my auto clothes, I'm actually going to turn that off. And I'll close these by hand to make sure that they look exactly the way that I want them to look. To close, you can use the node tool, then drag each end until they meet. That was a pretty nice closure there, so I'm happy with that. Back to the pencil tool. This one I need to adjust as well. If you need, you can drag the handles to make the curve a little smoother. You wanted to keep your auto clothes on. You could, and then you could still use your node tool to come back in and make those lines smoother. Our outlines finished, let's select all three blueberries. Load the color into our vector flood fill tool for the top blueberries. I do try to select a little bit of a lighter color so that the darker blueberries might be in back and the lighter blueberries in front. Now we have our three fill layers and our three outline layers. Drag To select all three of those group together. Swipe to the left rename layer and select all. Then I'll make a group for the top layer and rename top looks like I forgot to turn off my outline group. I'll turn that off now. I can turn on the middle layer and the bottom layer. Let me turn off my reference image two to see what we're looking at. We do have a lot of different shades of blue, which I, I really like this darker blue. This one is a little too light. I'm going to go and actually just tap in and keep tapping until I find the layer that this blueberry is on. And I'd like to change that color and make it just a little bit darker. Inside the color will triangle. I'll drag a little closer to the darker side, the dark end of this triangle. It's a darker blue. I like that. Now we can group all three layers together. Rename blueberries. Turn on a reference image and start working on our stem. 5. Flat Style Blueberries Warm Up Part 2: Using the pencil tool. Let's draw in our stem. I'll find a color using the eye dropper, and I want more of a green color. Since this is a flat style, I'm really going to stick to one green color. Let's see how this looks. We're at about a six point with our pencil tool and our green selected. This is a flat style, so it is very simple, not very many details. I am going to drag my width down just a little bit, draw our other stems coming off. Then we need maybe three more stems down here. Let's group our stem together using the command controller selecting shift. Having the first layer selected tap the bottom layer to select all deactivate our shift and then group together, rename this layer stem. Now let's turn on our blueberries and turn off our reference image. Our stem is actually in front of our blueberries. We need to drag our stem layer behind our blueberries or underneath the blueberries layer with this layer selected. With my move tool, I'm thinking I may change the color just a little bit, which of course you can do, since this is your illustration, a little darker. Green is going to be a nice touch. Next, we'll draw our leaves with our pencil tool selected. We'll draw the outline of the leaf. Change this back to a two point for the leaves. To keep this simple, I am only going to choose two, maybe three. I know I want this one that droops down here, this larger one to the right. And then I'm thinking about this little guy here. This will give the reader just enough information that they know that there's leaves off of the stem, But it's not going to overwhelm our flat style. I'll use the eye dropper to grab a green color. Then I'll start drawing from the stem all the way down to the bottom of the leaf. If you have on the rope stabilizer, I find it's helpful to come to a complete stop before you want to change directions, then drag back up. If I used my fill color here, you can see that the fill actually continues all the way onto the stem. Which I don't want. I just want the leaf, the end of the leaf here, to have a fill. My node tool, I'm going to make sure that this node is dragged onto the line that's made with my curve. Now I have a closed shape, we can use our vector flood film. We have our leaf layer selected. Select our vector flood fill can load the same green color and then tap to fill our closed shape of our leaf. Grab a new color. Oops, I had the selected, so I'm going to press the X to select. Select our next color. And we'll draw our leaf again, coming to a complete stop, the rope stabilizer, and starting again in the new direction. Zooming in and with my node tool selected, making sure that I have this node on the curve. You should be able to drag it on this yellow line. If it's not there, then just drag it over so that it connects. Then you'll have a closed shape with your leaf. We have our new curve layer selected. We'll load the color into our vector flood fill and tap inside. Then we'll do the same thing for our next leaf. As you can see, we have our outline and our fill layer. For each leaf, we need to keep our outlines because that's what actually gives us our stem of our leaf that connects. Create a new group for the leaves. Rename leaves. The leaves now need to be below the stem, or underneath. I'll tap on my layer, drag down below the stem. Turn off our reference image and let's see how we're looking. The last part, we're going to add a few finishing details to our blueberries. I'll turn on my reference image and turn off my blueberries with my pencil tool. Let's add a few details on top. We'll need a pretty dark blue color. These details tend to look like stars. Since we're going for a flat style, we're going to keep it simple and really just draw a few lines. Drag my width down a little bit. It's about a 12 point, which I think looks a little bit better, Might be a little too large, let's bump that down to about ten in the flat style. The details are also simplified, trying to look for anything that will give the reader just enough information. But again, not to overwhelm, let's turn on our blueberries and see how that looks. Next, I have a few that are from a side angle. This one here in the middle and this one here in the top. For this, I'm going to try to replicate this shape by just drawing a little squiggly line, a little shape up and over, trying to fill in that shape as much as possible. This one will need a fill color for the main details I do like using the same color, not having too many colors. Something I find enjoyable in the flat style will add a fill to that as well. Let's turn on our blueberries and see how we're looking like this. Although this needs to be behind the blueberry on top. The move tool selected. Let's tap into this layer and we can either re size so that it doesn't join, doesn't intersect with the other blueberry. Or if you wanted you could also re arrange the layers. Think I'm just going to move mine a little bit the same for this one. I'll tap to get into the layer size. I'm noticing we're going to have this little white area peeking through. I'll tap into the blueberry beside it and just drag a little bit of the handle over so that covers up that white area. Also going to have a little area down here tap into that same blueberry, drag a little further down. This little blueberry is also very similar to the blueberry on top. Using my color wheel, I am going to make this a little bit darker by dragging down closer to the black part of the triangle. There we go, to give a little definition. All right, I feel like that looks really good, except I still have a little white peeking through. Let's tap on this blueberry on the bottom. Drag that up a little bit, now we have a flat style blueberry illustration. 6. Save Assets: User illustrations in our project. Let's save our blueberries as an asset. We'll need to make sure that our blueberry is in one group. I need to group my details together. Then I can select all four layers and group together. Now I can turn on and off my layer and have my blueberry illustration with my layer selected. We'll use the Asset Studio built into Finity Designer. Third option from the bottom, we'll need to set up our category for our fruits illustration. We'll use the hamburger menu on the very top. Aside assets to create or add a category. Category name is up to you. I'm going to name the fruits and Tap. Okay, now we have a new category within this category. We now need a sub category. Again, tap on the hamburger menu and add sub category. Now we have a subcategory and our assets because we have an assets line with another hamburger menu. This hamburger menu allows you to add an asset from selection. Let's tap that. Now you can see that under our fruits category, we have our blueberries saved. We'll be able to use these easily in our projects. I'll meet you in the next lesson. 7. Flat Style Orange Practice: Let's open a new document and insert our reference image. This image comes from the resources that you've downloaded. Hopefully once you haven't downloaded, you'll tap on the document menu of three lines like a hamburger and tap place from place you can find where you saved your image. Under my rests, I have the orange tap open. Then we need to drag to place the image I just drag from left to right and move and re size. We're only going to draw the orange on the left. It's okay about the orange on the right not being on the board, just like we did with the blueberries. We'll use our pencil tool in two point stroke with no fill and a black stroke to draw the outline of our orange. If you need to lift up your pencil like I just needed to, you can activate sculpted pots on the top context tool bar. And sculpt allows you to continue drawing where you left off. I'm going to start on this red node on the end by tapping there and then drawing around as much as I can until I need to lift up my pencil again. When I lift up my pencil, then your new line will form, And as you can tell, it's a continuation of the line that I had started drawing. Do the same thing by starting at the end with this red node and drawing as far as I need to. Now with my node tool, I'll drag the red node to the blue node to create a closed shape. I'm going to go ahead and use my node tool to adjust a little bit of my curve. Now we have our outline. With the curve layer selected, let's choose our vector flood fill tool and load some color using the eye dropper. Again, we'll find a light, mono, dark, more of a midtone color to fill our orange with. Then I'll turn off my outline layer. Next, select both layers and we'll make a group for our orange. We're already quite warmed up from the blueberries. This orange will be a little bit faster. Next, let's use our pencil tool to trace our leaves. Actually turn off my orange layer. I do want this large leaf. I'm not going to draw the one of the front again, just for simplicity, just to make sure our flat style really shines through. Then I will draw a stem, making sure I have a two point and a black stroke. I do want to use my vector flood fill tool, so I am going to close my stem. Could I've used auto clothes or I can manually move my node? Let's select our vector flood fill tool. Make sure we have our curve layer selected and then tap to fill and turn off my outline layer. Head back to my pencil tool and trace the outline of the larger leaf. No tool to grab that node to make sure it's connected using our vector flood film. Let's grab our new color with the eye dropper. Now if you'd like to use your outline, you can turn it off it, keep it. Or you could change that color of the outline to be the green color if you'd like. That's always an option. Two is that you can change the color of the outline or you can simply turn it off. A group together, a name, leaf. It was my stem that all grouped together and rename in my leaf. I'd like to be below my stem layers. I'll drag below. Let's turn off our reference image and see how we're looking. Last but not least, let's add some details. I like to use the rectangle tool to form an ellipse by tapping ellipse, then my color, I like to be a little bit darker than the base color of my orange inside the triangle. I'll drag up and maybe over a little bit closer towards the black end of the triangle. Then I'll start drawing a few ellipses, some circles. Let's add a fill to that as well. I'm really just free handing this right now. The move tool selected. You can drag the nodes for each ellipse to make them a little bit different. You can also drag the handle to rotate. I do like to try to change each one so they don't look like they're Just duplicate copies of the others. Then arrange your dots on your orange until you're happy. Once you're happy, let's make sure that we have all of our details in one group. We'll name this layer details. Then let's select all four layers and group them together as well. Now our orange is on one layer. We can head back to the Assets studio, our fruits category. Tap the three horizontal lines of the hamburger menu, and add asset from selection. Now we should have our orange and our blueberries ready to use in our projects. I'll see you in the next lesson. 8. Color Block Strawberry Warm Up: The next style is something I like to call color blocking, where we'll have large blocks of color. Again, this is more towards a simple style, so it should be quick and easy. Let's get started. I'll use my stock studio again, and in pexels search for strawberries. I like this image on the far right that has several strawberries to choose from. We'll tap and drag to my R board. I really like the strawberry here. This is the strawberry. I'm going to focus on drawing, trying to get this centered, the middle of my artboard, that looks about right. The pencil tool, I'll outline the strawberry, making sure I close the curve and use the node tool to make any adjustments that you'd like. With this layer selected, I'll activate our vector flood, fill with the eye dropper. I'll choose a midtone red and turn off the outline. I know for sure that I don't want this outline, so I'm actually going to delete the outline. I'll turn off my strawberry layer. Let me rename this first using my pencil tool, I'll trace the leaves. I'm not going to get all of the leaves here. Some of them all leave off, especially as we get around to this side, to the right hand side of the strawberry, This layer selected. We'll grab our flood fill tool and our color. I'm going to delete my outline layer as well. Name my layer leaves with the pencil tool selected. Draw our stem. I'm going to select auto clothes. I have a white fill here. If you'd like, you could use a fill color or the stroke and the film rename my layers stem. And then turn on my other layers and turn off my reference image if you like the stem where that you can leave it or you could drag it behind the leams. I think I'm going to make it show just a little bit more. Now we have our flat strawberry, but let's add some blocks of color to this. Now we'll add a few details on the leaves as well, with a different color. I like to do this by tapping on the strawberry layer and duplicating the layer. Tapping on the three dots and selecting duplicate. The duplicate layer is on top. I like to change this color to be a little bit lighter then I re size if you'd like to resize it so it's directly in the middle. You could do something like this if you like. You could even duplicate this layer one more time and change the color to be even lighter. Or if you prefer, I'll turn off my last layer, This second layer here, we'll actually drag so it's a little bit off center. Maybe I want it all to be a lighter color on the top and then have it off centered. Now on my layers panel, I can drag my duplicate copy on top of my base layer to clip this layer to the base layer. Now I have strawberry with two large blocks of color. You'd like to turn on the other duplicate layer, the lightest layer to resize. Something like that. Could look very nice as well, noticing I have a little dark red here poking out from my light red. I'd like to increase the size of that just a little bit. Now let's add some blocks of color to our leaves. I'll turn off our leaves layer and our strawberry, which I'll go ahead and group together, rename Strawberry and turn on our reference image. The color I want to add here is this darker green color that's actually being made by the leaves almost turning up a little bit and casting a shadow. Or by the leaves actually folding in and up on themselves. To do that, we'll draw with the pencil tool, these darker green areas, and then we'll clip them to our base layer in just a moment. Let's select a dark rich green color. I can draw on and off of the leaf adding a fill, Choosing a new color for a second leaf, you can add the stroke and the fill here if you'd like. Then maybe this one too. This one tends to have a darker green area. I changed this leaf here because I had selected. I'll deselect by pressing the X, choosing my new green color, and then drawing the outline, that green section. Now I can select all three curved layers by dragging to the right. Turning on my leaves, drag on top of the leaves. Our green detailed areas will now be clipped to the leaves. You won't be able to see any of the green that we were drawing off of the leaf. It'll take the shape of our base layer which is our leaves. Now with our move tool selected, if you'd like to move any of these that we just drew, you can if you want it to be a little bit more prominent. That one I think looks pretty good. This one I'm noticing I didn't get all the way to the tip of the leaf, so I'm going to drag out a little bit and make that larger. Then of course, we have our details. Let's add some of our dots. I'll use the ellipse tool for this. Again, free to draw them by hand. I have some that are a yellow, golden color. I'll do a few of these. First I go to make sure I have a pill as well. With the move tool selected, I'll tap and drag to make them a little more of an oval, not a circle. And then we'll do the same thing, the different color, in just a minute. Right? Let's select a darker red color, make sure we have our ellipse still selected, then we have a fill of our darker red as well. I'll group my details together by tapping the top layer. The command controller activating shift, tapping the bottom layer, turning off shift and grouping together. Our details need to be on top of our strawberries. Let's drag our details layer above the strawberry layer. Turn off our reference image. Now we have our strawberry. If you'd like all of the details to be the same color, you could easily change them here. You could even change and make them a little lighter or darker if you'd like. Here is our color blocked strawberry, if the save as an asset. Let's select all of our groups and group our strawberry together. Head to your Assets Studio, cap the three horizontal lines, and add asset from selection If you'd like to have more choices to choose from when you start making your project, there's lots of other good, juicy strawberries here that you could choose from. I do recommend that you practice and draw another strawberry or two, so that you'll have more to add to your projects. I'll see you in the next lesson. 9. Color Block Practice: For the orange and the color block style. Go to and open a new document. Now from our asset studio, we can use our orange. I'll tap on the orange and also tap Insert. Now we have the base for our color block, Orange. After looking at this again, I think I'm actually going to change the base layer of my orange to a brighter orange color. We're actually going to turn off the details layer as we're going to add some color blocking. And then we'll come back and see if we want to keep those same details add to them or make new details there. Orange layer selected. Just like with our strawberries. I'll come to the three dots and tap duplicate. No, I don't need this outline. I'm actually going to delete the outline now. I can change my orange color to be a little bit lighter than my base color. Drag over towards the white part of the triangle. Now, with my lighter orange base selected, I'll drag over to the left to create our first color block. Now would also be a time, if you'd like to go back and make this bottom layer even darker, you could a richer orange, which means you might want to go back and adjust your lighter orange color. Or you could keep it the same with my new color block layer selected. I'll drag this layer to my orange curve layer. The clip the new color blocking to the base orange layer. Now with our pencil tool, we'll free handsome shapes and add a darker area here where our leaf would be casting a little shadow on our orange. I like to draw a little bit more than what I think I'm going to need. Then I can come back and change the shape. I'll drag my freehand shape that I just drew to my orange layer. It can be clipped. It didn't quite get it onto this base layer. I'll drag one more time all the way down to the base layer. Now we can see that it's clipped because we just see the outline of the orange. The freehand part that I drew is now hidden. The move tool selected. You can tap in sometimes you can tap more than once to get into the layer. I can make some minor changes. You tap again, you can activate your node tool. So if you want to make it a little more free hand looking, I'm going to change the color here a little bit. Let's see how that looks. A lot of times I like to zoom out, Step back, take a look, and then zoom back in. And keep working with my move tool selected. I do think I want a larger orange section showing here and I don't want it to be, it's perfect. So I'm going to move some of my handles here. Then I feel like I am going to add another free handed color block under the leaf here. I'll take the freehand layer and drag all the way to the base layer, change the color a little bit our leaf, I'd like to have a lighter section at the top. With the pencil tool, I'll freehand make this black. For now, the shape mimics the top of the leaf trying to get that same line. Now with our freehand curved layer selected, we'll drag to our base layer of our leaf so it can be clipped. As you can see, now we have our outline. We can see our green outline. After we've clipped our freehand drawing, we can our outline, we turn off our outline and we're also going to miss the stem. Since we used a stroke and a fill instead of our vector flood fill, we can correct this by drawing in a stem. I'll need to make the stroke about two points. It looks like I had my auto clothes on still. Let me deactivate that. Drag the layer that we just created into our leaf layer. Now our leaf will be behind our stem. Now we don't have our green outline time. You're going to clip an object onto another object, it's really best not to have an outline. That's why our vector flood fill tool works really well for filling in shapes and being able to turn off that outline. Now I need to take care of this color because we don't want to leave this black. I am going to change this to our original green color. However, for this layer like to change our blend modes. Our blend modes are here where it says normal. You can tap through to the different modes or you can click on the name. And then you'll be able to scroll through to find a blend mode that might work well. The screen mode is working well. I also really like to use multiply. With multiply, I like to bring down the opacity. 25 gives a very subtle look. 75, of course, is a little darker, and then 50 was in between the two. As you tap through, you'll see that there's some that don't interact very well with the layer below. Although you never know, you might find something that you like. Sodas are worthwhile endeavor to tap through just a little bit. I think I'll go back to multiply at 50% You'd like to add a little darker area here where the leaf and the orange may be touching or where they're casting a shadow. Could do that with our free hand. Again, trying to imitate the shape of the orange, I had mine in, that green. I'm just going to be hard to see until we change the color or add a blend mode. I'll select the curve, the freehand I just drew, and drag all the way down to the base layer of the leaf. There we go. Let's change our blend mode to multiply. Let's have this be pretty subtle at 25% move tool and a tap in, Keep tapping, keep tapping. Make this just a little bit smaller. Now, back to the details. If you want, you could turn on your details. Maybe move them around just a bit, give it a little rotation if you want to see if you could keep using the ones that you've made earlier, change the color. I think I'm going to stick with some of these darker details, Although I am going to add a few more details. I'm on my details layer. I'll select my ellipse again. I have my color selected. I'll start adding a few more details using the command controller. I'll activate shift, make sure the first layer is selected, tap on the second layer, Deactivate shift, and I'll drag all eight layers to my details now. They should be in the same group. Let's turn this down just a little bit. Now we can add our orange to our assets. I'll see you in the next lesson. 10. Texture Pear Warm Up: I have my new document open and from here I'm going to place my reference of a pair. I have mine saved in my files under recess, just like we've done before. We'll use our pencil tool to trace the outline of the pair. Remember, we can turn on our sculpt mode if we need to pick up our pencil at any time. Sometimes it's nice to be able to draw it and parts instead of feeling like you have to do it all at one time. I'll use my node tool to connect the curve. I'm also going to tap on the blue line to add a node so I can make this a little imperfect. With our curve layer selected, let's activate our vector flood fill. Their eye dropper will find a color. I'm really looking for more of a green color, Not so much a yellow. And see what we can get. Drag the outer circle of the color wheel closer to green. There we go, I like that. I'll tap on my curve layer, which is my outline and turn off the visibility of that layer. Draw our stem. I want to make sure that our stem closes when I get down to the bottom. So I can use our vector flood fill tool, but not quite. There we go. Our layer selected will fill our color and turn off our outline. I know I don't want this outline. I'm actually going to delete that. Then I'll drag my stem below my pair layer. For now, I'll group my two layers together for my pair. Then my stem layer is below the pair. Let's switch over to the pixel persona. We'll tap on the designer icon and select pixel, the pixel persona. We have a few different options. I'll hold down the question marks. You can see some of the names of the tools on the left hand side, what tools we have on the context toolbar, and also our studios on the right hand side. The right hand side probably looks the most similar to what we see in the designer persona. From here, we're going to use our paint brush to add texture. Our paint brushes look a little different, since they are pixel brushes. You can toggle through each category just like you do and the designer persona, or you can tap on the name and then you'll be able to scroll through the list. I like to use some of the sprays and spatters for adding texture airbrush. Four is one that we can start with. Before we get started with our brush, let's make sure that we can see our reference image. I'll select our layer, the move tool, and drag to the right. Then I'll select both the pair and the stem and drag to the left. Now we'll be able to see our pair side by side. To start adding that texture, we'll start with a lighter yellow color and build up to a darker color. Let's see if we can actually grab something even lighter. You can also see your color here as well. You could use the eye dropper from here if you want to, or from the panel on the right. Then we can start adding texture by drawing over the pair. There's long passes, just to add our first base layer of texture, as you can see, it's pretty subtle. You might not see much of a difference yet, but this is where we'll need to zoom in and zoom out to see some of our changes. Our pixel layer that we just created can be clipped our base layer by dragging on top of our curve layer. Now anything past the pair will be hidden using the same brush. Let's change the color to be a little bit darker. I know there's a darker areas on the right side of the pair, at the bottom where we have a shadow. And then at the top, that's where I'm going to focus a lot of my time is trying to build up some color in those areas. It may not look like you're actually doing a lot to begin with, but once you in, you'll be able to see that you have made a difference on this side. I like to draw more of a curve shape. And then at the bottom, also just almost like a C shape back and forth. You don't even have to lift up your pencil. You want to be more of a solid color. Let's choose a slightly darker color. I think that might have been lighter. Let's see if we can get a little, we'll go back to the top section of the pair. I'm going to do some passes over pair you could, and then focus on the top and the right hand side. I'm going to grab a really pretty dark color for the base here. Start color, I'm going to use pretty sparingly on the right and a little on the top here. Let's add one more darker color. Actually let's make this a little smaller and then go back and add, there we go to add some of the dots that we see along the pair. I like to use a brush called the Magic Stipler. There's four different options here. The two I use the most would be a variable and a constant. I'll tap on constant. For now, I have a pretty dark color. I don't want the darkest color, but I do want a darker color. I think I'll go to my recent colors and grab this one that was pretty dark. Let's see how this looks. Okay, Y, It's very subtle. I'm not being able to see very much. So let's change it to a darker color and increase the size sum. Now we can tell that this is too large. It's very dark, but it's a little too large. Let's undo that. Drag our slider down a little bit, and see, here we go. This is about the size I was thinking. All right, I think I have the right size there, although I'd like to add a new pixel layer. Now I'll do the dots stipling on a new layer. I'd like to do some of these details on a different layer so that I can go back and change maybe the blend mode or the opacity. Let's look at that. Now I have a normal blend mode. Could do multiply with a 50% opacity. That's a little bit closer to what I had in mind, or maybe even 25. Let's try 30. There we go. 30 is a little bit more subtle than I had originally. I like having it on a separate layer so I can go back and make some of those small changes after I've done a lot of the work. Then we can also add some texture to our stem using the same paint brush as before. We can use our air brush. Let's get our brown color, then Choose a slightly lighter brown and see how that looks. I'll turn on my reference image again because I do. Yes. The stem at the base right here and then at the end is a little bit darker. I want to make sure that I get that. Then I want to grab that color as well. Maybe even one shade darker. Let's see if I can give it up here. There we go. All right, so now we have a pair with texture. Let's make sure we have our pair in one group so that we can save as an asset. Select both layers, the pair and the stem. We'll group them together. You rename the layer. Make sure with the move tool that your pair is selected. Then head to the Asset Studio and add asset from selection. Now we have another fruit that we can use in our project. I'll see you in the next lesson. 11. Texture Practice: In this lesson, we'll use our flat orange and use our pixel brushes to add texture. I have my new document open and I've already inserted my flat style orange. To add the texture, it is helpful to see the reference image. I'm going to go ahead and place that reference image again. This time I just need it to be small and off to the side, just so that I can get some ideas for color right away. I noticed that my orange is a little bit more yellow. Let's take care of that and get our orange to be a orange color. Let's grab an orange for now. I'm going to turn off my details, then we'll switch to the pixel persona. We'll use our paint brush again. This time I'd like to use the nus spray, starting with a lighter orange color. Start making some large passes over your orange. Let's see, this is a pretty fine texture. If you'd like to increase the brush size, that could be helpful in getting texture without being as fine. Now my pixel layer has been automatically by the assistant clipped and created below my base layer. Select another light orange color, maybe just a little bit darker. We want to start building up some areas to the right here, a little bit on the left and then some on the leaf and a little bit on the orange as well. I'm going to turn this down just a little bit. Now I am going to start focusing on making some large passes on the top right. We're going to do a little bit of that. There we go. On the left side here, let's choose a slightly darker color. You can either lift up your pencil as you're adding texture. If you hold it down it'll be a little bit more concentrated, like I want a lot of color on the bottom here, almost need a circle of sorts over here. The pixel brushes do take a little bit of trial and error, a little bit of practice, just trying to figure out which brushes you like and how you like to use them. There are a lot of good brushes. I would recommend taking a little time to just flip through some of the categories, maybe make some of your own swatches and just see what each one looks like by itself. I'm going to go back to a pretty light color, go over the top again, I just like to do this at the end to try to get to the light colors to peek through. Still, especially in areas where I feel like it might be a little too dark or a little too heavy handed, I do have some water drops that I'd like to try to show as well, using our paint brush. Let's go to the ink splatter. Increase the brush size quite a bit, and then choose one of our lightest yellow colors and see if we can get a little splatter effect, looks a little too large, and bring it down a little bit. Let me go ahead and put this on. A new pixel layer, a new pixel layer, a new brush, and a light yellow. Let's see if we can get some of these water drop type looks. Since it's on a new pixel layer, I can go ahead and try a different blend mode. Multiply maybe at 50 is pretty subtle. Let's try 75. Let's go with 50. I do think I want to go in and add an even lighter area on the left hand side of the orange. I'll select my lightest yellow and drag to be even lighter. It could be almost to the white. I can go ahead and make a new pixel layer, or I could draw on the layer that I already have created. Let's change your color to be even lighter if you'd like to see what your blend modes would look like. Codoggle through lighten actually works pretty well for this. It's also helpful to see sometimes where you have a lot of your texture, especially if it's pretty subtle. Overlay would also work well, hard light. Be sure to toggle through your blend modes to see if there's something that works. Let's make sure we have our group selected. With our Move tool, we can add our orange to our assets. Add asset from selection. Now we have a textured orange we can use in our project as well. I'll meet you in the next lesson. 13. Example Project Idea: In this lesson, let's look at some of the outlines and how you can make your class project a mixed fruit illustration. This is one that I've made using some assets we've made together in class, and some I've also made on my own. Outside of the class, I used an outline from your resources and filled in each fruit based off of the color and the shape that was given in the outline. I then added some shadows. Let's look and see how you can make your project. Here's an example that you could use with a couple of strawberries, oranges, blueberries and lemons. This one includes a pear. Then I'm going to work off of this third one right now, which is two lemons, two oranges and a blueberry from our assets. I'm going to grab our lemon and arrange that so that it fits most of the space of the outline. Grab another lemon and resize the orange. I actually think I want the color block orange that we made. I have my fruit, I like to arrange them on the layers panel. I know I want the blueberries to be in the back. The lemons, I'd like to be on top of the oranges. Then we need to start adjusting some colors and maybe turning off some parts of the fruits. I'll go back to my outline group and turn this off. Since now I have the fruits placed where I want them to be. Now, I'm also noticing that this orange, I believe I would like it to be above one of the lemons, but not the other. We drag that between the two lemons. And now this lemon, I just really want the body, the shape of the lemon. I don't really need the greeneries. I'm going to turn off the leans and the stems. This lemon, I'm going to make it a little bit larger to hide some of that white space. And I'm also going to change the main color of one of the lemons, maybe something like that. The orange. I'm also going to change its main color. Find my base layer there. I feel like I have a lot of dots going for details. I think I'm going to turn off these details and I'm also going to turn off the leaf. Since I have one already, actually, I might leave this leaf and turn off this leaf in just a moment. Although I do want the stem to be a little different. Let me adjust. That also adjusts the placement of the leaf. Blueberries. I'd like the blueberries to be tucked in a little bit more. They just pop out a little, then I think I can leave my orange like it is, though. I might turn off a little of the color blocking for this one. Yes, let's make that more of a flat style orange and just have some color on the leaves. Might actually duplicate and flip blueberries to add a few more blueberries here on the bottom. Now I have an illustration of mixed fruits. Using the different assets that we've made, changing color, slightly turning on or off different parts of the fruit, really give you a lot of flexibility. 14. Project Shadows: If you'd like to take your illustration one step further, You can add shadows. Let's look at that for just a few minutes. Now, I know that I have this orange is on top. The orange on the left is below the lemons, and then the blueberries are in the. The orange, if we had a light source coming from above, would be casting a shadow onto the lemons. Lemons would be casting a shadow onto the orange. Then the orange and the bottom lemon, and this top orange would be casting a shadow onto the blueberries. First, let's select our lemon. Using our pixel persona, we can add some shadows using our paint brush. I like to use the basic brush. You can use a round brush or soft round brush, but I do like just a basic round brush. We're going to select the same color as our lemon because we're going to use a blend mode. In just a moment, we'll add a pixel layer above making sure we're on that pixel layer. We're then going to draw where the lemon would have a shadow from the orange. Right now it's hard to see because it's the same color. When we go to change our layer, the blend mode to a different color, you'll be able to see that even better. I like multiply then about 25% because we just want it to be a subtle shadow. It doesn't need to stand out too much or take away from any of the other elements. Just a little subtle shadow. If you want to move your shadow, you can. Right now. I'm going to move this in just a little bit. Now we'll do the same thing. We'll select our lemon layer. We'll add a pixel layer above you want. You can go ahead and already change your blend mode to multiply, select the same color. Make sure you're on the new pixel layer. Your paint brush selected. We'll draw in our new shadow. Now we need to clip our shadows to the lemons. This pixel shadow goes with this lemon. I'll drag my pixel shadow to the lemon. Now it'll be clipped to our lemon. Then I'll drag my pixel layer here that I just drew to my lemon. It'll be clipped to the lemon. You might need to drag it further down into the group to be directly on top of that base layer. Now we can change the opacity to be about 25% to select and make it a little bit smaller. There you go. Now just some subtle shadows. This lemon is actually on top of the other lemon. This lemon will be casting a shadow on the bottom lemon. We can make a shadow on this layer. Again, here we have our lemon and our pixel layer brush selected in the same yellow color. I'm going to add shadow here. We still have our multiply and 25% opacity applied. Now let's look at our orange. We have our orange layer create a new pixel layer above. Select our paint brush and our orange color, make sure we're on our new pixel layer. Let's add our multiply blend mode to our pixel layer and then start drawing. We'll take our pixel layer and clip our pixel layer to our orange finding the orange base layer and letting go. Then let's change our opacity to about 25 Adding shadows to the fruits, especially the ones that are on top. Just add another layer of depth and a little complexity to your illustration. Feel free to add the shadows or I can't wait to see your projects. 15. Export and share: When you're finished arranging your fruit, be sure to group everything together. Arrange it how you would like. Choose a background color if you'd like a different color than white. And then export your project by coming to the hamburger menu and tapping. You can export as a Jpeg, you can export the whole document. Tapping preview will allow you to see what you're exporting before you export. Then tapping K, you will then be able to upload your project to the Projects and Resources section on our class page. 16. Thank You!: Congratulations on completing this class and learning how to draw fruits in several different styles. I hope that you have a nice selection of assets to use for your next project. Thank you for being here. Remember to upload your project to the Projects and Resources tab on this page. Your work will inspire other students. I can't wait and look forward to seeing them. Lastly, a quick review of this class is always appreciated. Feedback helps not only teachers but also students. I'm honored. You chose this class best wishes on your creative journey.