Travel Journaling: Urban Watercolor Sketching in Procreate -Basic Watercolor and Sketching Technique

1. Introduction : Hi guys everyone. My name is A, and I'm an artist, Prudence illustrator. And during my classes I constantly share the knowledge that I have about the procreate and water color especially I'm obsessed with magical themes, cute stuff, and some vintage illustrations. During my today's classes, we have pretty special topics. Today I decided to paint with you Waticolor Journalin in procreate. And if you have some illustrations that you wanted to paint for a long time, the pictures that you took while your traveling journey, my today's class is for you. I will show you a few techniques, how to sketch in a fast and simple way. And also, I will show you a few ways how to add watercolor paint to your art. Additionally, I prepared for you lots of stem brushes that will help you to ease your painting process like a lot. And I hope that today's class will be fun and useful. So what are the steps that will follow during my class? First of all, I will show you where to find all my freebies and I prepared for you a lot. Second, I will teach you how to create texture paper, how to reach this authentic watercolor texture in your digital art. And the step number three will be the sketches. I will show you the whole ways how to create different types of sketches and you can decide which one you like more. Our next step will be the most important is painting process. I will also show you a few ways how to paint. Starting from loose watercolor and finishing by well detailed illustration. And then we're going to add some text and stem brushes to add those realistic look to our watercolor journaling. My dear students, I tried my best to make my class engaging and relaxing at the same time. Completing the course will help you to learn more about the watercolor journaling in procreate. And sometimes it can be so useful because we want to process our memories in a creative way. This class is right what you need guys. I will be very happy to see all your art projects and give my feedback on them. And also tell me what you think about my class. Maybe you can suggest me, what are the next topics you want to see at my channel guys today? I want to show you that watercolor is so simple and it's a lot of fun. And in the end of my class, you can see it. Also, you can try yourself in totally new style. You can decide the type of sketches that you like. You can decide the type of watercolor art that suits you more. So today you can experiment a lot. So what I can teach you today, first of all, how to create texture paper. How to create artwork from the sketch. And how to create sketch. And also we will talk briefly, what is composition? What is alpha o clipping mask? How to work with scurves, hue, saturation and brightness. And why do we need blending layer modes? Why they are so important? And why they can change your illustration dramatically. Of course, I will tell you how to a chase and highlights and how to add some volume to your illustration. Yes, I will show you my whole process from the start till finish. And as a bonus, I will share with you my texture paper, custom brush, set color palettes, sketches that I created, and also my illustrations that paint altogether during my class. This class is create for intermediate level, also can be useful for beginners, especially if you've watched my previous classes. For everyone who is interested in painting in water color style and who likes journalin, I'd use procreate for this class with ipad and Apple pencil. So if you have it or maybe some other drawing pads or just regular paper and paints, please join my class. And good luck guys. I can't wait to start this class. And definitely I can't wait to see what you app to project section. Please feel free to enroll and let's enjoy our painting process together. 2. About Class Project: And guys, I decided to change my style a little bit. So I decided to devote a little bit time to explanation of our final project. So like I said earlier, we will explore what are the type of sketches and what are the type of painting techniques. And our final project will be very important part, where we're going to combine different types of sketches and different types of watercolor painting techniques altogether. And that's the final project that I will make in my class. But of course, feel free to experiment. Feel free to try just one type of sketches or one type of watercolor techniques. I don't want to pressure you, just think what you would like to share with me, what you would like to paint and just do it. I prepared for you some reference pictures that I took during my traveling journey. But of course, feel free to use your own sketches. Feel free to use your own references. So once again, our final project will be travel illustration that is created by, you will try to add some text, maybe some stem brushes that will help you to add some final, beautiful touches to your art. And of course, you can use ipad with apple pencil and procreate. Or feel free to use some other drawing pads or maybe just watercolor paper and paints or just even pencils. Whatever you like and whatever will help you to feel happy. Guys, I wish you luck with all your painting illustrations, guys. If you have any questions, you can always ask me in discussion section and I will be happy to help you in your art chart. Again, what you're going to do during my, today's class. This is illustration number one. Illustration number two. And the most important, like I said, final project illustration where we combined the few styles. Here, I think we are ready to get started and we jump into next part of a class where I will explain to you where to find all the freebies and how to use them. 3. Where to Find Freebies: In this part of the class, I will show you where to find all the freebies. What are the nuances you need to know in order to find them, save them, and export into the procreate? And I think we are ready to get started. Hi guys. I'm glad to have all of you here, and I hope you are ready to get started. And before we jump into painting and sketching process, let me explain to you where we can find the freebies, how to install them and how to create texture paper. First of all, let's open procreate, and then we need to tap plus and create custom sized paper. Then we will write 12.5 " pair 8. ". As you see, we have 300 DBI resolution and depending on your ipad, you will have different different number of layers. I have 55. Then let's step create that out. Today's paper. As I mentioned in introduction, the topic out today's class is watercolor journal, Travel Watercolor journaling. I think this class is useful for those people who tend to capture their lives, their daily life. Or maybe they like to travel and they would like to turn the traveling experience into art. I'm here to explain to you and show you some examples how you can do it guys, what I decided to do today about my reference pictures is slightly different because usually I use pexels or unsplash.com for the source of my reference pictures. But because our today's topic is about traveling, so I think it would be great if you can grab your own picture that you took and that you can turn into your art project. And I also took the pictures that I took during my traveling journey. I will share those pictures with you. Feel free to use my pictures that I took, or you can use the pictures that you were taken during your art and travel journey. Okay. Where we can find all the freebies. First of all, my suggestion to open my class in browser, it can be Rome or Safari. Why browser? Because if you do it as skillshare app, my freebies might not be visible. Then when you open my class in browser, in a section project and resources section from the right side to the headline resources, you can find all my freebies when you download them, you need to go to files, app downloads folder, you will see all the freebies that you downloaded. From right side, you will have procreate. Then from left side is files app if you want you can switch the sites. It's not a big deal. Then how to export all the freebies. Here the easiest way is to drag and drop all the files from files app into the procreate. In this case, you can just need to grab for example, this is a color palette you need to drag and drop it into the procreate. Then you need to do the same with the sketches. And, and then you need to do the same with the sketches and our brush set and paper. Of course, another watercolor effect paper is here. Watercolor effect, I just need to drag and drop it into our canvas Guys, when you drag and drop all the files, please don't forget to create new layers. Okay, 2024 paper. This is the paper that I created specially for this today's class and I made it in the shape of a notebook. Another one, we have so many sketches, so let's copy them as well and then we can decide which one we will use and which one are not useful also. Don't worry, I will show you how I made all those sketches. In this case, you don't need to use my pictures if you don't want to. And you can just go ahead and create an illustration that is based on a picture that you took. As you see you guys, I copied our color palette, which is called Travel Watercolor Journal. Here I also have my watercolor sketching brush set that we're going to use today. I created a lot of new rushes we're going to use today. Okay, great. So when we've done with copying all our freebies into the procreate, then we need to close our files app. We can do it just by wiping left. It's fine. If you want, you can cut the canvas to the size of our paper or you can extend the paper. I will show you how to do that. I will show you how to do that. Very soon we copy everything, we're going to start with creating texture paper. 4. Creating Textured Paper: In this part of the class, I will show you how to create texture paper and for watercolor registration. That's very important. I prepared for you totally new paper, which is notebook paper that can help us to reach more realistic look when we talk about the watercolor journaling. But like I said, you can use the paper that I have. You can use the paper, any paper that you may already have. And in this part, I will explain to you why it's important to duplicate the paper layer many times. Why it's important to change blending layer modes. So please follow my steps carefully. And like I said, if you have any questions, I'm always here to help you in discussion section. Let's do it about the paper. Let's move our layer to the top of our layers gallery. And let's say with watercolor effect paper. Wonderful. Now what we should do is we're going to select those two layers like that. And then we will need to choose the transform tool and make sure that you have the uniform tool selected. And then let's just move it to the right a little bit from this side and from the side. That's basically it. Next thing, if you want to make your paper pretty sharp and if you don't want to lose the quality of paper, my suggestion is to go to the paper layer this one and then we'll go to sharpen. Let's just move the sharpen to the 15 to 20% like that sharp our paper and in this case, the quality still looks more or less pod. Also, as you might see, we have our watercolor effect paper. Another thing, what you can do if you want to make it a little bit more saturated, you can go to curves and play with the intensity of our paper that's here. The next thing that we're going to do is we'll come back to our watercolor paper, and then we will change the capacity to multiply. Duplicate it again. Here we're going to change the opacity on our second layer to color burn. Today we will use pretty advanced settings for our today's class. Let's just duplicate it again here. We'll go to learn blendle layer mode. Here guys where the magic starts, please follow my steps and I will explain you what I'm doing and why I am doing the next steps. Wonderful. Next step that we're going to do, we will duplicate linear burn again here. We'll go to the add layer here about our watercolor effect. We're going to go to color burn blending layer mode. Then we'll move the color burn opacity, like ten or 8% Okay, let's keep it like this for now. Then we need to duplicate some certain layers and we need to merge them in order to make our texture paper more authentic. In this case, we will go to the multiply blending layer mode. And we will move to the opacity to around 60% Then we go to color burn, and we're going to duplicate this layer one time, duplicate grade and now merge together. Now we go to the linear burn blended layer mode, to this layer and we're going to duplicate it also, then merge together. Next we go to linear burn opacity, And we're going to move the opacity to 60 or 50% like that. I will go to 50% Wonderful. Now let's go to Color Burn and duplicate it again. Go to lower layer and lower past till also 45 50% Now we will go to the add layer and lower past till 20, 15% it may be even 11 would be 11% key. Wonderful. The next thing that we're going to do, select our paper layers together, then press group, rename and write paper about our watercolor effect. We're also going to rename it and write paper effect. For now, the paper effect layer we're going to make invisible. Let's turn off the visibility. And here we have the paper. Why did we need to make all those steps and make whole life a little bit more complicated here When we use the watercolor brushes, when we use them with our paper, and when we use them without our paper layer, the difference is huge. Next, let's go to my blue hard edge watercolor brush and paint something like that. You see, thanks to the paper, the watercolor effect seems very realistic. But when we turn off the paper, you will lose all this watercolor feeling. I'll show you. You see here like it's still watercolor, but with paper it looks more authentic. Also, guys, about the brightness. If you want to make the paper layer a little bit brighter, you might play with, you see this layer and you can decide whether you want to make it brighter or lighter. I decided to stick to 17% Also, same about the multiply. If you want to make it brighter, lighter, more visible, paper less visible also play with the opacity and liner burn. This is the layer that gives us the darkest wipe from our paper, but I still want to keep it around 50 or 60% in like 55, because I think having such kind of paper texture is very important. Okay, Now you know how to create texture paper For now. We can lock it if you don't need to use it for now. About the sketches that we have, let's just rename them sketch one, sketch two, and so on. Okay, I just made some changes in our layer group names. On the top of our layer groups, we're going to have the paper layer group. This one guys, please make sure that you paint underneath this paper layer group. Because if you paint like above that, you might lose the watercolor effect, say about the paper effect. It will go beyond the paper group, lower layer. We will have the sketches later. We will decide which one we're going to leave or like I said, you can use the sketches that you create by yourself. That's totally fine. Okay, in the bottom we're going to have the background layer. This one, it's basically background and a little bit higher we will have the main color layer. This is very important stage, this is the first stage of our painting process, so we're going to use it a little bit later, and then we're going to have shades and highlights, and a little bit later we're going to add final details where we will add some stamp brushes and text. Okay, so that's our layers and I think we are ready to jump into next part where I will show you how to create sketches. 5. Creating Different Sketches: Finally, in this part of the class, I'm ready to tell you about different types of sketches. How to sketch in a fast way. How to sketch in more detailed and time consuming way. So you can experiment and see what type of sketches you would like more or you can try all of them. Let's do it. So we jumped in our sketching part, and here I will show you the sketches that I prepared and I will show you the main differences that I have while I was preparing that. We will start with the simplified shaped sketch and we will go to the most detailed one. Here's a simplified one and now I will show you the reference pictures that I was using while I was creating it. So I need to go to cannabis tap reference. And here you can select the reference pictures that I have or maybe your own reference picture. So wonderful, this is hydranga that I found on the street. I'm a huge fan of hydrangaI, wouldn't just pass by. Of course, I took lots of pictures about this illustration as you see. Of course, we might paint it in a well detailed way where we can paint like every petal one by one, like the stem and like every leaf with all those wins. But I think it's a little bit complicated and when we travel, we might not have too much time for a colors or sketch in this way. We need to learn how to make it in a fast way, especially for flowers. This is my best technique, best way. How I paint flowers, I use the simplified shapes technique. What we basically need to do, we see the object, we see our illustration, and then we need to break the object into some simple shapes here. We might use hydranga as ovals that I paint here. Yeah, I have like 123456 ovals. We're going to have six different hydrangas about the leaves. I paint them as between ovals and triangles. I decided to make them different. Obviously, comparing from flowers, I break the leave into two parts. In this case, I can recognize where we have the flowers and where we have the leaves. Like I said, I didn't paint all of the leaves. I just selected the most important ones, and then I paint them. I didn't draw the stems. I didn't connect the petals all together with leaves. It's not that important for such kind of sketch because you already schematically see where the objects should be. Thanks for such kind of sketches. You can create pretty lovely loose watercolor illustrations. Because it helps, it gives you freedom to use the space to use the colors and the shapes in any way you like. For this type of illustrations, those type of flowers, we're going to paint in loose watercolor style. A little bit more detailed sketch. I call it Quirky sketch. And here is the way how to create sketches. And it's pretty simple when you look at the art and then you just paint it. But you don't need to be too precise. It helps you also to save some time. It also gives you some freedom and it defines your art. You don't need to be too accurate in your art. And I think for travel illustration, this is one of the best options. Because like I said, it gives you freedom and it saves some time. So let me show you the way how, what I did when I was creating such kind of sketch. So let's turn it off for a while. And here also you have a few options. You have blue HB pencil, which is a little bit hard and you see the lion sounds not too smooth. But I also like it, if you want to use it for some schematic drawing, it's perfect. This is the pencil very soft and very smooth. I use it for my sketches. And blue ink, you can use as a dry watercolor. And another way you can use it as a think. Yeah, if you use it with a smaller size, I use exactly this brush when I was creating the sketch for this illustration. What you're going to do. So here we have a few options, what you can do. You can simplify the shapes. Like I told you, it can help you to paint it in a more accurate way. Here we actually can draw a rectangle cylinders like first cylinder. Here we have a little bit bigger cylinder in a part intersections of the cylinders. We're going to have this lovely roof, Chinese style roof. We can count 123.4 this is the biggest one. Next thing, we'll just lower that active. And we're going to come back to our sketch layer. We have our cake and we can start sketching. Like I said here, you don't need to be precise and your lines should be accurate. What I like about this brush that sometimes the lines are a little bit messy and the thickness is also a little bit different what we need because it helps us to replicate the way how we sketch when we actually on a trip when we don't have so much time. Like I told you, this is a perfect way after that when you don't need to use our cake shaped reference, we can just turn it off and delete. This is the way we create how we paint our queer ky sketch. Like I said, this is one of the ways, if you want, you can also already add some shapes, like some lovely brush strokes that can help you to indicate the light source. For example, I decided to play the light surd from the top right side. It means the top left side will be in shadow. This is a querky way how to create lovely art. That's the sketch that I was created also. You see sometimes the lines are not straight at all, so I try to make them a little bit in wavy shape. Like I said, it replicates very realistic style. For example, that you don't have so much time, You don't have eraser, but you have passion and you have a desire to draw. Okay, so we've done it with a quirky sketch, now let's move to next one. And now we move to detailed sketch. Again, this is also the picture that I took. So like I said, feel free to use it. And you see what I like about it, because we have like this baby snail. This is a baby snail. And like a mommy snail, when we create some traveled watercolor journal illustration, it's great to mix some different angles together. Because sometimes you can just one scene, but sometimes you can combine different parts, different illustrations on one paper. I'm going to use the snail for exactly such kind of illustration. I will paint a big place with some temple and then as some details I'm going to paint snail and flowers to show what you can see in this place. Call it messy lines because here you see the sketch. I use pencil here and a little bit ink combine thickness, thick strokes and thin strokes. About this type of illustration, you might start by using H B pencil and then move to six pencil. And if you want to add some thickest parts, you can use put in how you can sketch this art. First of all, you can trace it above all the illustration. For that you need to take the picture and copy it to the layers, then create a new layer on a new layer. Just trace the snail another way, you can just look at the art and create your own snail. Let's do the second option. Also if you want, you can simplify the shapes. Like I said, you don't need to be precise. Here we have a snail and here we have the shell. If you have some parts that you want to erase, just erase it. You might use any brush. You might use a pencil as an eraser as well, or you might use ink brush that I'm using right now. Also guys, let me show you what is liquefied tool. If you see that you make some mistake and you want to change the shape but you don't want to redraw it in this case, just go to adjustments and go to liquefied tool. And then you need to choose push and choose the size like around 50% depending on the size. Then thanks to the tool, you might make the size a little bit bigger. Then thanks to the tool, you can just play with the shape and adjusted to the way how you would like it, how you would be satisfied. We are still staying on the same layer here. We can schematically adjust the shape, like polish it, if you might say. So we can change and show some details. Change the position, show the shadow here, we might show surroundings like where the snail is heading. Then if you want to add, you definitely want to add more shades. You will go to Bull B pencil. That's why I added two ways, two different pencils. Because for such kind of sketching, especially when you want to imitate the realistic feeling, you will need different kinds of pencils. Then I want to come back to HB pencil. Just said, some shades create some crotch hatchings. Show the volume. You have the shadow from the lower part, from the bottom. It means on the top you're going to have the lightest part. Like I said, why call it messes sketch because the lines are a little bit chaotic. That's what I like about it because also it shows that the life behind the art passion also another way how you can make it brighter or how you make it more saturated. In this way, you can just duplicate the layer and you see, thanks to duplicating, the colors are very vibrant and pretty bold. This is the way how I created the sketch for such lovely snail in messy way. And also the final detail. You can go and grab ink brush because it's pressure sensitive and depending on how hard you press, the lines will be thicker or thinner, which is also amazing. Can draw it like baby's name. You can actually use just this brush, just ink brush if you don't want to spend too much time on adding those cross hatchings. Like I said, it all of it depends on your preferences. Same here. We can go to six Ppencil and start adding some cross hatchings. And so, and so this is a messy sketch. This is a sketch that I prepared earlier. Now we move to a little bit more complicated part, not even complicated. It just takes more time to finish the sketch. We're going to move to a detail sketch. Understood, this is a reference picture for our next detail sketch. Here we're going to use a trans tracing way, the one that I was describing previously. This is a sketch that you're going to use for our today's art, why I decided why I suggest to use tracing way, especially if you don't paint from the nature. If it's from the nature, of course, you need to use the previous way. So you need to look at the objects, you need to look at the nature and just paint. But when you paint something from the picture, and like I said, you want to save some time and you want to paint so many details and you want to be accurate in proportions. So I think the tracing way also can help you. We copy the illustration to the procreate layers and then we lower the apacity a little bit. Then we're going to create one molar on the top above of that. We're going to grab both pencil or six pencil from native procreate create brushes and we're going to start tracing why I suggest to take you B pencils because when you use ink is also fine. But about the details, when the colors, when the lines are bright, it looks better. Or like I said, you can combine together if you want to control the thickness and thinness of the brushes. You can also use pen HB pencil. But my suggestion, after you finish sketching, you may just duplicate the layer. It will help your art to be brighter and the lines will be thicker. Also, another way here, my suggestion of course, you might not be able to paint every tiny tree here is the easiest way how to show that tree has some kind of leaves. It's just to show schematically like the shape of leaves, but don't paint it in too much details. This is a detailed sketch, but not too detailed. You're going to have very detailed sketch like next, but with trees with such nature when it's not architecture. My suggestion to paint trees in this way, it still looks very beautiful. But you will spend way more, less time on the sketch then when you don't need our reference picture, you will just delete it. We're going to have lovely sketch. Like I said, if you want to make lines more Opic you can just Ublcate layer. You see that things by Ublicating you will have pretty sharp and visible lines. Sketch that I prepared. Like I said, feel free to use it if you want here. Why I decided to grab such kind of illustration? Because the composition in this art is very lovely. It's very interesting. We have lovely big tree with huge roots in the center of our attention, in front of us. Behind we also have lovely stream, we have beautiful tree. The composition is very comfortable to look at and very accurate accordingly to the rules. Now we jump into our last part. The last one will be very well detailed sketch here let's do, I think for such kind illustration you might use HB pencil and then duplicated because I think the line should be very thin. Or you can use pencil but make it pretty thin or like I said, use a combination. I told this art, this sketch is very well detailed because you see I paint so many details. I paint so many lines and I didn't simplify them. Okay? And it took me around 30 minutes to finish the sketch. So you see if you have the time, you might use the time for sketching, but like I said, depending on the preferences on time on what you want to draw, whether you have art, you have your picture, or you painted from the nature, you will use different kinds of sketches, because for architecture, it's very beautiful to use such kind of way when you painted with so many details. Or another very popular way is to use a quirky sketch. Like I said, when you don't trace, you actually look at the art and you painted in a little bit, not straight lines here. I use a tracing way. So I just copy this picture into the procreate layers and I lower the opacity and I created the new layer on the top and I just trace every line. The trees here are also more detailed. You see, I tried to paint every part of the tree, but also I simplified a little bit the background so I didn't paint all types of buildings because I don't think they're very relevant for our art for us. And most important is part of this temple. As you see, we have four ways how to create art. The first one is simplified shaped sketch, second is even five was second is quirky lines. When you don't trace at all, you look at the art and you paint and you don't need to be perfect in such kind of sketch. The third one is messy sketch, where you create, you mix the pencils, You use HB pencil, use pencils. You can also use ink brush. And you create dynamic like volumed illustrations with so many cross hatchings and so many lines. The next one is detail sketch, the one with the tree, where you can trace your art depending on your preferences or you can just paint it from the picture, from the nature. But you so much you devote so much time to every detail in your illustration, but still at the same time you can simplify some of the objects, like I said, trees, you can simplify the leaves, simplify the clouds, or like something at the background. That is not relevant. Now, well detailed sketch where you paint every tiny details, every brick on a rooftop because it helps you to create very atmospheric art. That's it for the sketching part. Now let's jump into the next part, finally into painting process. 6. Adding Colors to the 1st Illustration : In this part of the class. Finally, we can start painting. We will start with the first illustration. And what I want to tell you about the painting process is that first we're going to add, just paint to all three illustrations that we have. Then we're going to jump into adding text and stem process. Let's start with our first illustration. Now I already decided to make some group players. The first one will be Queer ky sketch. This 1 second will be detailed illustration. The last one, we're going to combine a few sketches together. Here we will have the messy sketch. We detailed sketch and simplified shaped sketch. And we're going to paint those three illustration together. And we will devote more time to the last illustration, to the last project. Let's have some warm up with the quirky sketch lines. And here I decided to combine this illustration with the stem bra that I also color a little bit. And of course, I will add some text. What I suggest you to remember is that when you create an art, you can use the rule of thirds. What is it? This is a rule. When we place some objects, we need to place them in intersection of lines. Let me quickly show we can divide our space into thirds. Intersection of the lines will be here. Why it's important to place the objects right in those intersections because we look at some picture. It's where our eyes are concentrated. It's where we got the most delightful experience. It's better to place our object not in the center of our art, but just a little bit to the right side or to the left side. Here you see our temple will be right in intersection of the lines here. I think that this place is a little bit empty. I still can put something here. You might go to my stem brushes and just decide which stem might be very cool. Also, like I said, remember we need to place the object at intersections of line. You see here we have the line and we place our flower right in the right position. And you guys, before we start painting, I want to show you what other brushes we have today. And like I said, for today's place, I prepared mostly all the new brushes. You saw HB pencil, you already saw B pencil also. We have blue ink. We have hard edge watercolor. This is our main brush that we're going to use for almost all our paintings today. Blue texture is great if you want to add some kind of watercolor shades and you want to make it in a soft way. My suggestion to use it in clipping mask plendiler mode and later I will show you how to do that. Both soft gradient is perfect when you want to add some color gradient. Both soft blender brush that you're going to use as a blender. Once again, I'm using blue ink brush as an eraser. Wicolorems good stem that can help us to reach some wadicolor effect. Next we're going to have very lovely additional, some stem brush that can help you to add some journal. In way like that, you can create some composition depending on your preferences and you can just play around. This stamp can help you to show you some details. Also going to use this stamp in one of our illustrations, unforgettable journey handwritings. You might use the phone that you like and add some specific words, or you can use just some handwriting stamp brushes that I prepared for you. Also, stem brushes are based on the fonts that I created, which is elegant imperfection, clumsy imperfection and strict imperfection. We're going to use be hard edge water color for most of our illustrations today. I think we can start with the background color. Let's duplicate this background layer. I will grab this blue color and then I will go to Be water color stem. Now let's go the transform to uniform. Just place it somewhere here. Then guys, if you want to change the color, maybe you want to make it brighter or darker. You can go to course here. You might play with the intensity of color and with the hume a little bit. I think this dark blue color looks very good. So I'm going to keep it that way, like that. Okay, Then we ultuplicatemy main color layer and put it above the background layer guys here, we're going to try to reach some dry watercolor effect. But as a base brush we're going to use be hard edge water color guys here, just try to feel the areas with some color. You might have some white caps. It's totally normal in a quirky way. It's very cool to paint because you can make mistakes like a lot, which is very cool like that. We're going to grab a little bit darker green color. Now let's grab this dark purple color, like desaturated purple color. Don't forget to have some kind of caps. Now let's grab this lovely reddish color. Now let's switch the brush to be ink brush. And we're going to start adding some dry brush strokes. Now let's grab brownish color. And we need to add some kind of trees. Also, don't forget to leave some white caps. Now let's grab to slightly bluish shade and we can try to show some shadows. The dry brush strokes, it looks very realistic. Then I want to add some shades to the trees. In this case, I will create an leery bow. I will go to multiply o. Now we can play layer modes here, you might keep the multiply or you can just go around and look at the blending layer modes that you like. And then you can play Sapacit. I like Luminosity, so I'm going to keep it that way. But I will lowers apacity slightly then go to hard edge water color then lowers apacity till 40% Now the last thing we're going to color our lovely flower. For that, I will use be hard edge watercolor brush. I will grab this lovely peachy color, just gently add the color. Also, no need to be too precise. No need to be too perfect. Guys, also my suggestion to paint on a new layer, but I stayed on a layer where we have our temple. What to do in this case if I want to change the colors or if I want to intensify or desaturate some of the parts. Let me show you. So for example, I'm pretty satisfied with what I have, but I want to make it brighter. I go to the selection tool, then I select the area of the flower. It means I am on a layer where we have our temple. But I selected just the flower, not the temple. It means I can do whatever I want with the selected area. Then I go to curse here, I can play with a curse, I can play with intensity and whatever I like guys. Now here I think what I want to do is I want to make our flower less transparent And why we need to do that, because I see the background color still behind our flower and that's what we need to avoid. And also I want to show you how to use clipping mask. In order to do that, we need to remove the opacity. Because watercolor brushes are semi transparent, we need to do some modifications later with a layer, it should be less transparent. What we need to do is I selected the area of a flower, then three fingers down and I can write cut and paste. Now as you see, our floral is on totally new layer, which is wonderful. So I will duplicate it. Go to lower layer, then go to hue saturation. And brightness, move the brightness all way up like that. Then I will merge together two layers as you see. Now our flower is not transparent. Then I want to use clipping mask because I want to add more shades. In this case, I created one layer above. And I will press clipping mask. I will change the blending layer mode to multiply. Then I will grab the slightly orange color and I will grab blue texture brush. I want to add some texture to this part a little bit, then I will come back to be hard H color. And here I can go to color burn, to linear burn darker like whatever I want. I think linear burn looks amazingly perfect. Also, I can go to curves and if I want to intensify, I can intensify, I can make it brighter, darker, Whatever I like, I want to make it a little bit brighter. Then I want to come back to our flower layer and I will create one more layer. Automatically, it will be in clipping mask a mode because it's between the layer which is clipped and between our original layer. Then I will go to linear burn and I will grab pink color. And I will go to blue texture brush. And then I want to add some shades to the edges of our flower axis. Then I just want to merge all the layers together. Next thing is maybe I think the temple is a little bit too dark. In this case, I will go to adjustments, go to curves again. Here I can play intensity with situation with the first illustration. We finished our painting part and we will come back to this illustration once we've done with other paintings. Let's wait a little bit. 7. Adding Colors to the 2nd Illustration : In this part of the class, we are ready to jump into our second illustration and we're going to try different painting technique. Let's do it now. What I want to do is I will select all the elements of our first illustration and background as well. And I will press group. Let's keep our grid and then we're going to have detail sketch. Let's shift our attention from the tree a little bit to the text that we can increase it. In this case, our tree is still in the center of attention, not entirely, but most of the tree also. From this part, we still will be focused on the stream and on the end of our illustration, but text also will be in the center of attention. In this type of illustration, I will show you different ways of coloring. I will show you how to use different brushes in order to add some kind of texture, water color texture. Also, I will show you how to use scrip in mask, duplicate main colors, put it under knees of the sketch. We can bl shades as well and duplicate the background. Background will be first for the background. I will use blue color and I will use blue texture brush. In curves, main colors, I will grab this bright brown color, blue hard edge, water color, increase the size. Simply fill the area is a brown color. If you go beyond the lines or if you overlap, it's not a big deal. We can use blending brush. The next step is we're going to keep adding color to the tree trunks. But I decided to grab a little bit lighter color. I will create one more layer. I duplicated main color layer and tap clear. Now we have one more main layer color which is empty. Why I do it on a new layer? Because I might play with a pact and maybe I want to change something. I want to make it on totally new layer. In this case, I will have freedom to do whatever I want with the layer without touching our main trunk. You make some overlapping, you can raise it, or you can just leave it like that. Now, about the color, I actually like the way how it looks. But I want to show you the way what else you can do. First course, the one that I was talking about, that you can just play with whatever you want. Then hue saturation and brightness. And here you can make it more saturated or less saturated. Desaturated. You can make it lighter, brighter, or darker. Or you can even play with, make it more greenish or even bluish. It's very inconvenient if you not sure what color palette you want to use. Okay, so we've done with the tree trunks, now I like the colors of the tree trunk, so I'm going to merge together those two layers. Then I will create one more layer. I want to add leaves. Why I do it on new layer? Because I don't want to disturb the color of the tree trunk. I will add the main color of the leaves layer below the tree trunk layer. In this case, we will not cover the color of the tree trunk. I will grab this pretty bright green color for the leaves. You don't need to be perfect at any art of illustration. Just enjoy the art process. I think this is the most important part and sometimes we can forget about it. Like I forget very often, I tend to make my art perfect. Sometimes it's very overwhelming my suggestion. Just try to enjoy art process and try to like your art, a way how it goes. Now what I want to do is I will switch to a little bit darker shade. And I will be on a new layer, I will grab slightly brighter color. And I will add one more layer of some greenery in front of the other bushes. I try to paint every new layer with some slightly different variation of green color. Here you see I paint two different layers with the same color. And I think this is a mistake. I just want to remove my, some of the color. I selected the area three fingers down and I press cut. Now I can grab this brighter green color and add one of the layer of greenery to the front side. Also like why I painted with different shades of green, I started with the brightest one from the distance. Little by little, I decided to try to desatrate the color and make it not so bright. Because like the objects that are in front of us, they are the brightest. And a little bit far away, they lose its brightness. And the objects that are far away, they are not so visible comparing to the objects that are in front of us. Now let's add some color to the stream and to the ground. I will grab this pale page color. I will stick to the same layer where we have the first row of bushes and I just add some shades here, spilled violet color, the ones that we were using for our first art. This is a push, okay? Maybe this is also the push. Okay. Here we will have two different kinds of bushes and here we will have the stones. Because here we're going to have so many of them. So I don't want to overwhelm you with such amount. Now for the water, we will feeling color, feeling now. I think it's time to start adding some shades. And I will show you the ways how to do it. What's important in adding shades. If you want to use alphalog or clipping mask, we need to remove the transparency. Let me show you when they create new layer, for example, above the tree. And then we're going to use clip mask. Then we will from normal to multiply because when you use normal plendil layer mode, the colors will be not so intense. When we use multiply, the color should be very bright and we're going to grab this brownish color. Maybe go to a little bit darker shade. Go to boot texture brush. Then when we start adding colors, you see they're not so bright. We still see them, but they're not as bright as they can be. So you can see it. We still have the color of the sky that is coming through, the color of the tree trunk. That's what we need to avoid because we want to have pure colors that are not disturbed by some other shades. In this case, we need to remove the transparency. By doing that, we can duplicate main color. I go to the opacity of lower layer and I will move a passage till 50% And then I merge together two layers. Now when we use the clipping mask, the colors are more saturated, but we still see the color of the sky through the layer. It means that the color is still transparent. We will duplicate the layer again. Go to lower layer, go to hue saturation, and brightness in adjustments and increase the brightness all way up. Then we can merge together two layers. As you see immediately when we merged the white layer with our original tree run Clare. First of all we don't have the positive. We don't see the sky coming through this layer anymore. Another thing is that the color of the texture in clipping mask Clare is very, very bright. Let's remove the opacity in all layers except for sky. We will not add additional layers to the sky. Let's keep it that way. Let's go to the leaves duplicated. Go to the lower layer, pacitytill, 50% merge together. Duplicate again. Go to lower layer adjustments, hue saturation and brightness. And move the brightness up. Then merge white layer with our leaf layer. Great. Now let's go to the greenery duplicate. Lower layer 40, 30% merge together. Duplicate again, go to lower layer, hue saturation and brightness. Brightness deal 100% merge together. Yeah, once again we use clipping mask. If you want to add some texture shade, some additional elements on the top of our art without disturbing our original layer. This is the main difference because we also can use alpha log that will let us paint within the layer. But the difference between alpha log and clipping mask is that when we paint something in clipping mask mode, if you don't like our actions, we always can delete the layer. But when you paint something in alpha lock mode, for example, you want to add some stemsia, you added stamps. Then when you want to delete the action that you made, you can't do it because it's on a layer where we have our tree trunk. You might do it by tapping two times, two fingers on a screen or you can just do it in clipping mask. You have the layer with the tree trunk you created one molayer above, and then you tap on the new layer above and you press clipping mask. You can decide which blending layer mode you like more. I usually use multiply, then I will grab this reddish color. May be a little bit darker and I will grab wood texture brush. Or you can go to hard edge watercolor. And little by little you can start adding those tiny details, the gaps between the roots. But I don't want to spend too much time on this art. I decided just briefly and schematically show you some ways how you can edge shades. Also, you can use some stem brushes. Thanks to the stem brushes, you will have so much texture. Yeah, perfect. Now about the leaves, I'll create 1 mole above clipping mask multiply. But I think I will change the plan Deller mode a little bit. Grab dark green color, hard edge and just tie to tap. What I'm going to do now is I will play with blended layer modes. It's what I like to do, especially I like color burn. It's bright. Dark in color is also good color burn. And I will just lower the sapacit. See I still have very bright colors but not too bright. Now let me show you how to use alphalog. I like the way how it looks. I'm going to merge it together. Now I will go to the greenery. I will not create a new layer, I will just press Alphalog. You need to be careful because you can't undo your actions. Then it's fun, like something just blended. Also, guys, how to add shades. You need to remember that in areas where we have two objects next to each other, we're going to have shadow. For example, here we have roots and we have the bushes next to each other, we will have some shadow. Then we have the tree trunk and some bushes here. The shadow also will be from this side. Sand color may be even darker. Here also parts where a few objects are placing together. We're going to have some shadow Is it's so simple and like I said, you don't need to be well detailed. Yeah, I think that's it. We've done with shading part. Now we can add some highlights. Like I said, you also can do it in clipping mask. Merge together our shading layer and clipping mask mode. We can turn off alpha log layer modes. I think we can merge together all the main layers together. Yeah, we don't need to separate them anymore. Let's create one layer above clipping mask. Here we can go and add screen or add a mode. We're going to grab boost gradient, brush, loper size, a little med, but I think the colors are too intense. In this case, I will go to add a little bit lower opacity. Now about the gradient. Let's merge together our high light with main color. Now I'll show you how to add gradients. In this case, you need to press Alphalog. You will have blue soft gradient brush. For example, you want to make the roots a little bit dark, let's grab this dark blue color, increase the size. Maybe even just add some color. The areas that you want to make slightly targer. This is a way how you can make gradient. It's pretty simple way we've done with painting this art. By the way, what else you can do? You can mix background and main color together. Then you can go to curse same, you can increase the brightness We've done with painting our second illustration. And now let's move to the third one. 8. Adding Colors to the 3rd Illustration: Flowers and Snail: Finally, we'll reach the third illustration. It's a little bit more complicated and time consuming, but I hope you would enjoy the results that we will have in the end. Speaking about the last art here, we're going to combine different kinds of sketches and different kinds of painting techniques together. Guys, here we will work with alphalog. Also, try different blending layer modes. And we will talk more about the opacity and the steps of create and loose watercolor art easily. I think I will place the temple to this set. I want to place our florals probably to the top. And I will lower the size a little bit because I still want people to pay attention to the snail and snail about snail. Be careful. It should be uniform. I don't want to disturb the proportions. Let's put it this way, all our objects are in intersection of the lines. We created very good composition and we can turn off the Crete as a background. I think I will use the background from our first illustration. I will just duplicate it now. Let's go to the main color, and I think we can start with our lovely snail. By the way, I want to duplicate our sketch to one more time, because I also want to make it as bright as the snail. I will grab this pretty bright beach color and I'll grab hard edge water color. What about the background? Because we see the background is coming through the snail. In this case you'll go to the background grab eraser and just simply race. You see we have so many ways how to deal with the background and to do with transparency like that about this part. We don't need to remove the background because follows a color art. Additional brush strokes. It's just now about second snail, lovely pink snail. For the snail, I want to use reference illustration. Let's add more shades. I will duplicate main color again because I want to add another shade to the shell. But because I added one color under knees, I think the color combination might look very good. If you do clipping mask, you see the color is not so bright because the first layer is very transparent. But when we duplicate the first layer and go to lower layer, then go to hue, saturation and brightness and move it away all the way up and then merge together with the original color. You see the color is more saturated and I think it's pretty bright. Go and grab this pale purple color. It's the sharpness lines just like blended. So we will create one mola bow. We still have this orange color, the saturated orange color. And we can grab this loose watercolor stamp, maybe even this one here. We can rotate and look what is the best way for our stamp where we can place it. Looks good. So now what I want to show you how to make this gradient, this lovely one. I will, I merge together our layers and then I will go to alpha log N. I want to grab this lovely purple color, blue soft gradient brush. I just want to show like pigment from the shell just comes to the snail's body. I think this part can be yellowish. This gradient brush is perfect. If you want to add some color variations to your art guys here, if you want to add shadow, I will show you a very good way you can go selection tool and select the area where you want to add the shade. For example, I want to add shade to the road, but I don't want to touch snail's body and I selected this road area and then I will grab my brush. This area is still selected to this part you see without touching any other areas which is very useful. Same, you can add some brighter color, add some highlights to the road, then dielect. This is one very easy way how you can do it. Another one, we are still in alpha lock mode. Another one we can go to be hard edge, watercolor brush, grab slightly darker color. And add some shadow here if you want to have most rated shadow and if you want to control the shade later, we can turn off alphalog, create one molar above, use clipping mask and multiply. So still you don't need to go beyond the lines. But here you can work with shade and you can decide what intensity you might have. You can just merge together as the layers. And we can intensify the colors by using curves like this. Make it lighter and then more or less intense like that. Also you can go to saturation and brightness and just move the saturation a little bit higher like that. Well, now it's time to start painting flowers in loose watercolor style. For that, we're going to create a new layer which is main colors. I will go and grab the dark green color, and then I'll grab blue, soft gratian brush. Light dark color. Okay, The next step will be gona move domain colors and then go and grab blue hard edge, water color brush. And then let's grab this pretty pale green color. Next, let's just add colors to leaves. Okay, Then let's just uplicate the layer one more time. Go and clear it. Now I want to paint in actual flowers, so let's go and grab this purple color. Now let's lower the sketching layer. Let's remove the transparency of what I did before. So I will go to lower layer, go to sitration and brightness. And increase the brightness all the way up, merge together the same with the flowers. A few striation brightness. And now let's duplicate the shades layer a little bit and let's move to multiply. Then I want to move one of the shades layer underneath of our petals and our leaves. And I want to feel like this, areas that are pretty empty, so I grab them, brush and almost black color. Wonderful. Now I just want to blend this tiny gaps makest bit a more realistic. I want to blend some of the areas here. I'll just merge it together because like this is a loose watercolor style, not all the shapes are clearly visible at the shades. I multiplicated again for the tiny details. I will move to multiply the shading layer, then I will go and grab the stark purple color, blue, hard edge watercolor. The next step is I want to add some highlights. And I will go and grab this lovely pink color, same brush. And then let's grab bright green color. Now, blending. And then I think we need to do something with shades. Okay, so cold. Now my suggestion is to merge everything together like that. And now we can keep adding some tiny details. Go to linear, burn a ink brush. Now we can create some stems and connect together all the elements to be did and connect. Now let's create one leer. Emerge together, create one Muller. Grab almost white color. I think final touch is I first of all want to merge everything together then create one molar above. Go move to liner burn. Let me, let me think like this bluish color. Let's grab one of the stem brushes and then we can decide where we can place it. Lo, another thing is I will create one male bob, linear burn, propish color, maybe another stem brush and lower. Now you know how to create lovely loose vertical illustration in a pretty fast way. I hope now you're ready to move to our nest Next part and we're going to paint in detail this lovely temple. 9. Adding Colors to the 3rd Illustration: Temple: Domain color, pretty pale color, Bo, hard edge water color and link. Hey, wonderful. Now let's go and grab this bright green color. Do it on the same layer, but here, try to leave like more wide gaps between the leaves. It's like showing that the leaves are not so dense. I think that's fine. So the next step is we're going to wait here. Let's just finish painting this part of the building, some background dark gray color. You see for this type of watercolor painting, you might have some white gaps between the lines and it looks pretty lovely. You see, unlike the ones that we have here or here, this is pretty dense. But for this type of illustration, we're going to have some white gaps and that will help us to create some special wipe too. So we're done with this part. Now let's go to the main colors, another layer, and here we're going to make this magical trick. You guys here, I will go and grab darker color. And you see I am trying not to lift my apple pencil from this script. Now let's grab a razor. Let's just show some bricks and now let's grab darker color. About the magic trick, what I was trying to tell, let me show you here is just duplicated. You see automatically it became dark what we need. Duplicate another one, lower the pacity, but not too bright, merge together. Now about this part, what I want to do is I will uplicatedow, I want to remove the transparency. Merge together guys. Here like I said, we have two options. First we can go and just press alphalogow. We can draw within this layer and I want to add a couple of new shades. I'll grab brownish color. Have the same brush. Okay, this is one of the options. Now we still have alpha log. Now we're going to switch to another brush too. Soft gradient brush, the one that I was talking about. Let's grab a little bit reddish color. Increase the size here I want to add some color variations. I'm going to grab orange color. And a little bit like if from one side we're going to have shade another side. Like for example here we're going to have some highlights. Now we don't need alpha log. Same we can do here. Tinting Turk shade. I can add some calibrations to the leaves. Now what I want to do is I will use clipping mask, create new layer above. Now move to clipping mask and then I will go to Linear Burn. Why I decided to use clipping mask? Because I want to intensify the shades in linear burn blended perfect. I will go to brown color. I'm ready to go to hard edge watercolor brush. We'll start and shades little by also why clipping mask is good because you don't go beyond the lines of your original layer. Okay, now I'm going to lower the capacity. I don't want to make it so bright blending tool and you can blend the sharpness if you want. Next thing that I want to show you is I want to add some texture. For that, I will go to put texture brush. Then merge together my linear burn, the original layer clipping mask, linear burn again. Then I want to grab a little bit reddish color and try to add more texture. Same we can do with another layer clipping mask, linear burn. Pay attention. It will be too bright like I said because the layer semi transparent but I don't want it to be too bright. It's fine. Okay. What I wanted to do is I want to in merge together all the layers intensify the layers. In this case, you can go to curves, you can see it. You can make it brighter, light, see positive. Done this temple. Now I think I want to add some color to the sky layer. Let's go to the shade layer. Blue color. A blue hard edge watercolor. I just want to show some sky. My, any suggestion. You can also show the shadow on a wall from trees. In this case you can go to shades, layer one more and you will go to multiply. Then go to page color. Keep same hard edge brush can just, you can lower the opacity if you think you need to do it. Like if you're satisfied with everything just merge together all the layers like so now we've done discoloring all the parts and I think it's time to add some text and stambrushes. 10. Adding Text and Stamps: And finally we are ready for our final details where we're going to add text and postage stamps. Different kinds of stamps that will help you to make your illustration even more beautiful. Let's do it and guys, tiny suggestion. I forgot to add some lovely flowers for the florals to the trees. Hard edge watercolor that you can find such kind of flowers in such areas on trees. Also, what's interesting in travel journaline is that you can paint like a huge pictures and then some detailed one. Like the most important thing is to find a way how to connect them. Then we'll go to final details and to text layers. Let's start with text. Make sure that you stamp is higher than your illustration. In this case you will avoid the overlappings. You will place the text on a top layer. We are on the same layer with previous text. You can use selection tool and select the areas that you want to use. Just adjusted, Maybe we're going to need some stem brush. In this case, we will go to final details and how to connect tiny details with the original large picture. We're also going to use final detail layer. We won't go to the new one. I will grab blue travel stem six. Make sure that you're using uniform not free form. You see we can connect the flower like you can see such florals on trees, in temples like that. As you see, we've done with all our stems and texts and we can call this piece finished. Now let's make it in visible. Let's go to the second illustration here. We're going to have text and we're going to have final details. Let's start with text. I think handwriting will be perfect here. I want to show that this is a journey. So I'm going to write like unforgetful journey, and I'm going to place it somewhere here. Let's go to text. I want to add something like that. Very simple handwriting, uniform, and you can write it summary here. My suggestion to duplicate the text so it will be brighter and I think something is missing in this area. So I want to add some details. I want to add dates here. Let's create one layer. Let's go to blue frame. I think we can call this piece Finish To. Let's place the text above all the layers in our group layer and make it invisible. Now the third illustration here, we're going to have lots of text and a lot of final details stems here. I will try to imitate also handwriting, but not too precise, not too perfect. Let's go to the text layer and think what type of handritin might be suitable. What if you place it somewhere here with similar font? Yup. Then look about final details. What if we add some math? We have Albert Einstein. Why don't we add some math illustration, maybe the last couple of stems because I think this part is a little bit empty. I think we want to add some stamp here too. I want to add some frame to this quote, selected free form. What we're going to do here is merge everything together, guys. Additionally, I want to show what are the paper effect you can add. First of all, let's expert the paper that I also added to the freebies rotate feed to canvas and move it a little bit to the sides. Okay, so in about the paper, I will show you some magical trick a little bit later. Now we still have paper effect color burn, blende layer mode. You can move the past a little bit higher. You see in this case, you might see the texture that coming through through the paper. It helps you to create some very lovely watercolor effects. Our first illustration, it's perly sin because we don't fill all the paper with some specific color. Now we have additional paper layer effects. This one here, my suggestion is to play with the blending modes because every blending mode, depending on the illustration, can bring new totally different arts. Of course, you can adjust the intensity and opacity. This is the second illustration here. I also use overlay, like I say control the intensity. This is pretty pale and the situation looks so good and so authentic. And let me see what else we can have. I like overlay here and thanks to the paper, it helps you to unite all the three illustrations together. And it doesn't seem like you paint them in different styles. Guys, I hope you enjoyed our today's project and you learned something you about painting process, about the sketch and especially when you travel somewhere and you or you like some watercolor journaline. So I wish you luck. And let's see each other necklace. But this is the end for our today's class. And I hope you enjoyed our painting process together. And you learned a lot about watercolor, journaline, and procreate. And you learned a lot about different types of sketches and how to apply different watercolor techniques while painting process. Guys, I wish you luck with all your love, the art projects and of course I will be so happy to see all of them once again. Your feedback is so important to me. So I would be very thankful if you could leave it as well. About our next class. During our next class, I already prepared for you a very special topic which is postage stamps. And of course it will be in watercolor style. So let's see each as the next class. Bye bye.