Urban Watercolor Sketching in Procreate: Whimsical Japanese Streets and 2 Painting Techniques

1. Introduction: Hello, my lovely artist. Welcome to my class, and let's dive into digital watercolor art and paint together urban art Japanese treat with cute spirits. Get ready to learn a couple of new watercolor painting techniques for Procreate. My name is Igayun and I'm here to show you that digital watercolor is magical. And you can create magical world with all those cute characters and whimsical nature with your own hands. For that, you will need procreate and a little bit of inspiration. In this class, I will start by telling you where to find the freebies and how to get ready for the painting process, like creating watercolor paper in procreate and exploring all the brushes that we have. I think it's hard to create good art without inspiration and references. So I prepared for you a small video of Rome Japan. This part takes an important role in our taste class. Then we will prepare sketches in two ways. And finally, we will move to painting process. Two beautiful streets are waiting for us and two different ways of painting digitally. I will show you how to add colors, stems, shades and highlights to your art from the sketch to detailed illustration. So we will make our painting a little bit advanced. And the most important thanks to a couple of cute details, we will add magical atmosphere to our realistic drawing. By the end of my class, you will be able to create urban illustration, Japanese trees specifically in procreate using digital watercolor techniques in a fun and simple way. During the course, I will slowly move you throughout my workflow, explaining every step and describing procreate features and watercolor painting techniques, and what you will learn during my class. Me about procreate, more about sketching techniques, how to create watercolor texture paper because it's important today, how to use different watercolor painting techniques and how to apply those techniques in procreate. Next, we will learn how to use layers and blending modes and how to add volume and color variations to your art. How to create urban art in procreate using digital brushes and what you will need for this class. I will use procreate with iPad and Apple pencil. You also can use procreate or some other drawing pads or just regular watercolor paper and paints. And about course resources that I prepared for you as a bonus, I will share with you all the digital set tools that we mentioned during the class texture paper, custom brush set, color palette, of course, references and my own illustrations that I created. Now, who is this class for? The class is great for intermediate level also can be useful for beginners if you have basic understanding of procreate features for those who is interested in digital watercolor art, cute characters, and urban illustrations. And one more thing that is super important and I need to mention your opinion and your feedback is very important to me. So feel free to tell me what you think about the class in discussion or review section. I'll be glad to reply to you. I can't wait to see what you applod to project section. So let's not wait. Grab your iPad with Apple pencil, or body coolor paints, and let's paint together. So if you are ready to create the art that you are proud of, let's do it. 2. Class Project: Now let's talk about Yo Class project. Yo Class project will be next, create urban Illustration with magical elements in watercolor style that will bring joy to you. Of course, don't forget to use the tips that I gave you during the class. Follow my steps, explore the new painting techniques, and choose the style that suits you most, and then create beautiful artwork. It can be Japanese street or maybe the street of your own hometown. About the materials. I'm going to use brocre today and we will paint in two different painting techniques, watercolor techniques. So you can use traditional watercolor paints or procreate Epp or some other drawing pads, whatever you want. In today's class, we will paint urban illustration. We will paint two artworks of two Japanese treats with cute magical characters. Also, we will experiment with true painting techniques. Once again, you can choose completely different topic and draw something you try experiment and enjoy painting process together. So you can share with me your final project and step but pictures with me. I will be happy to see it. Just click the submit project button. It's so easy. And if you have any questions I need more tips, please let me know. I'm here to help you. 3. Tools & Resources: This class, we will talk about resources and where to find them. It's pretty simple just follow the steps, go to projects and resources section, download freebies, go to Files app, and then import all the freebies into the procreate. Well, my dear Skillshare community, let's jump into preparation and then painting process. So first of all, we need to open Procreate here, and then we need to create a canvas. For that, we need to tap plus and then tap plus again. After that, I would like to switch from pixels into inches and write 13 per 10 ". Just make sure that your DPI is 300 and depending on your iPad, you might have different number of layers. I have 85, my iPad is 2024 and let's tap grade. That will be our papers. Right now, let's just talk about resources, where to find them, and then how to import them into the programe. So first of all, when you open my class, please do it in browser. It can be Home or Safari. Why browser? Why not Skillshare app? Because if you do it through the app, freebies might not be visible. And then you go to Downloads folder and you can find all my freebies there. I will add them to the freebies as well. Then we're going to have our texture paper in GPAC form. Apart from paper, we're going to have two sketches Japanese treat Ink and Japanese treat pencil. Then Japanese treat in watercolor swatches. So what you need to do is to drag and drop them into the procret like this. Ding. Then we need to do the same with pencil sketch. And let's create one more layer in sketch. Like that. And when you transferred everything into the procrete, let's just close our files app. Dan sketch. Pencil. Sketch ink. Okay, wonderful. Now let me show you where to find all the freebies in Procreate. So this is a brush that we're going to use today. We have Bigbee pencil. That is good for sketching. Borni incurrent that is very good for sketching, too. Borni ink bk for more details, and it's very good if you want to emphasize some of the things, some of the details in watercolor. Bore artistic, very good watercoloring brush. Bow water drop. This brush is amazing if you would like to mix colors together. Later I'll show you how to use it. Bow dark watercolor edges. Our main brush when we talk about watercolor. It's semi transparent has watercolor edges, and it has watercolor texture. Then Bu hard edges watercolor. This brush is amazing as a shader. If you want to add lovely watercolor, shades that are very clean and transparent. Bu natural stains brush and blender. It's very good if you want to add some natural watercolor bleeding strokes, or if you want to use it as a blender itself, it's also very good brush. You can see it. Bu soft diffuser. This is a blending brush. And but transparent watercolor to add soft gent shades. This brush is pressure sensitive, so try to play with theplorrs and see which way of painting you would prefer more. Blap is lazuli to add some tiny accent is like splatters. Boo, what a colour stem. Salsa stems and new stems that I prepared for you that are really, very lovely and suitable if we talk about effect. Boo, what a colour stamp eight. It's very good to use them in clipping mask. Oh, if you want, I use them as some additional watercolor elements. This one is one of my favorite. I like this bleeding feeling. Another favorite one with sharp edge lines very soft, watercolorly, strokes. And another one. Another good brush. Like that. So you just saw all of the brushes about the color palette. We're going to use Japanese treat and watercolor as our main color palette. And if you want to use this color palette as a default one, you need to tap three dots and then press set as a default. Then when we go to the disc here underneath, we're going to have all our colors. And I think that's it for the explanation about the freebies and all of the tools that we're gonna use today. So now let's jump into next part where I will show you how to create what colored texture paper. 4. Create Textured Paper: So it's hard to create what color illustration without what color texture paper. So we will hick this issue. Let's talk about that right now. I think we need to rename our layers. So we have sketch ink sketch pencil here. If you don't want, you don't need to transfer them. You can create your own sketch. Or just simply follow my steps in a class and again, create the sketch that you would like to use. And here you're going to write sketch base. One, and then rename sketch based Wow. Let's play this layer on the top, and I will write paper like it. After that, we need to create one new layer and place it underneath and write paint here and on those layers, we're going to draw. About the paper, now we need to import watercolor paper into the procreate. How to do that. Let's go to Action button then let's press Ed and then insert a file, then go to Downloads folder and then find out watercolor paper and then import it into the procreate. Rotate, rotate, fit the screen. Let's see. Okay, perfect. Then I just want to duplicate it three times. And now be careful. Our next steps are very important. So in the first layer, I need to change blending layer mode to multiply. Then turn it off. After that, I'm going to go to the second layer with paper, and here I will change blend layer mode to color burn, and the last one. Let's go to linear burn here. Then I need to go to color burn layer, and then I need to duplicate it one time. Now we have two layers with color burn blending mode. After that, I need to select those two layers. I selected one layer and how to select the second one by swiping right. So now you see I selected two layers. Then let's just merge them together. So now, again, we have one color burn blending ermo. Then let's go to linear burn and duplicate it too. Again, by swiping right, I selected two linear burn layers and then I will merge them together too. Why I did it? Because by duplicating, we enhance the texture of the paper and later when we apply watercolor paint, watercolor filling will be more authentic. Pay attention because we duplicated the layers and then merge them together, especially with linear burn blending layer mode, the color of the paper became a little bit darker. So in order to avoid it, we can lower the opacity till 60, 50%. Yeah, 60 form is good. Then we have one paper selected, and let's select the rest two layers with multiply and color burn blending layer modes. But this time, we don't need to merge them together, which need to create group. Then I want to rename it and write paper. Why I didn't merge the layers together because I wanted every layer to keep this effect, blending effect that each layer has. So now I keep them together on the top, and my suggestion, let's just lock those layers. Why I did it Because I don't want you or me mistakenly paint on paper layer. So okay, cool. We have our paper, and now what we need to remember, all our sketches, all our watercolor paints should be on the layers that are underneath our paper layer group. Okay? Tintin tint. I think we're ready to go. So let me just show you the difference. For example, if you take brush, Blue dark watercolor edges, and if you want to paint, so you see when we use the brush, and then let's apply another color. And then when we use the paper, it helps us to create very realistic watercolor filling, you see? Oh, for example, if you use a brush, like patural stains, brush and blender. And then when we grab, we want more pink color, you see the way how it bleeds is so realistic. It's like water that you add to the color. And you might also crap, I don't know, like green color. So thanks to the paper, all of the brush strokes that we were using is very natural. And when we turn off the paper texture layer, you see the feeling is a little bit less realistic. So that's why I try to make sure that your paper layers are on and that you paint underneath because if you place our paint above our paper layer group, you see you lose this watercolor feeling. Like that. Now, when we are done with creating watercolor texture paper, let's finally jump into inspiration part. 5. About Inspiration: Finally moved to very important class where to find inspiration. What about reference pictures and how to create unique art with some magical wipes? Let's talk about it now. 6. Rules of Perspective: Well, before we jump into sketching process, I will explain your rules of perspective that we're going to use today a lot in our tooth sketching techniques. What are the rules of perspective? When we want our flat surface, have some depth. So thanks to rules of perspective, we actually can reach those results easily. The rules of perspective is some kind of mathematical formula that can help you to count like the perfect angle and the correct position of the object. We want to understand how to create one point perspective, this is one point perspective composition. We need to paint a horizon line and then paint a.in a center usually of this horizon line. Obviously, the horizon line can be lower or higher, depending on your composition, and then our dot will be the meeting point of all the lines. That means from all of the objects, we need to draw very straight lines right to this meeting point. And then at intersections of those lines, we're going to start painting all our objects. Objects that are closer to us, like at the edges of the illustration, the size of those objects will be bigger. Further the objects go, the size will be smaller. Objects that are closer to meeting point will be smaller. So let's try to create our own mathematical formula in our illustration. Let's find Horizon line. It's not in a century as you see from the illustration. It's somewhere at the bottom, the building. A, be careful. Try to paint straight line. We can start painting lines little by little. And that can help us to understand the correct position of the objects. Something like that. Here we also have the buildings. So we need to remember one more building over there. Okay. So that's the rule that we're going to apply for our painting style here. But again, we cannot use our reference picture ernie for this sketching technique. So now what we need to do is just to delete our reference and turn our lines into more visible ones. So how to do that? Let's tap a window here and then tap Select. So now all our lines are selected. Now I want to change the color. Let's go to which one? Probably bluish one. And then when we selected another color let's come back to the layers again, tap again and press fill layer. So now our lines are not white anymore. They are blue. Great. So the next steps that we're going to do is to actually have reference picture. For that, let's go to Action button, go to Canvas Tap reference. And here we have our reference illustration. So what you need to do is you need to go and press Import and then go to Gallery and Import our reference illustration. Dunk. Next step will be painting, actually. So what I will do, I'm going to keep the lines here on the top. And then I will go to Burni inker brush and go to this brownish color. And that will be our color for the sketch now. Then we have our horizon line that can help us to understand why we need to paint our buildings and people. So the next step that we're going to do is actually start creating sketch. 7. Create First Sketch: Now it's time for sketches. Pencil part is super important today. So I decided to show you two ways of sketching a tricky way, how to sketch in a fast way, and more traditional one. Depending on free time that you have, you can keep adding more and more details. Feel free to follow my steps or use own sketches. Be creative. Make sure that you're on sketch base layer, that you have Burani inker brush, and let's start painting buildings. With this type of sketching, you don't need to be too precise. Maybe just lowers the opacity of the lines till 50%, 'cause I want to see my own lines. And let's try painting illustration. Tank. We're gonna have line over there. And we're gonna have line here and here. And then we have the sign. Let's just start creating the signs. Again, you can skip this part and just grab the sketch that I already prepared. It's up to you. And for this type of sketching, you don't need to be too detailed, too precise, or too accurate. That's the benefits of this style because it's just sketching like the way how you like, work, and then you would like to sketch very fast something. All your lines wouldn't be like, perfect, perfectly accurate. And that's totally normal. The most important will be actually combining our inking brush with watercolor brush strokes. Like that. Then behind, as you see, we have another building or there. Eras your lappinsTing ding ding. And you just need to follow the lines. Those lines will be just straight, but the other one will be tilted accordingly to our horizon line and to the meeting points. So be careful about that. So what I mean is that when you paint the building, you paint the line and then follow the lines here. Then again, one more building, one more line, and so on. Building, tinting and make sure that all the lines here are super straight. Mm hmm. So something like that, and this is the meeting point. Here, let's do the same. We see just part of the building. But here we also have the sign, the name of some of the I don't know, like store or hotel rooms, d d d. Like hexagon shape. Cone is not hexagon. Like something strange. And the remove overlap in like a set over there. Yes. So here we have grand Lounge. Ding. Like three. I think this is a sign of three. Ding ding ding, ting ding. I forgot about one more sign. Here. Here we have the entrance to the hotel. Over there. Let's just show it with some lights around. And like I said earlier, like, just keep painting buildings. Like that one. Follows the line line here, straight line. Line line again. Straight line here. Building. Building here. Line here. Building. What I like about Japan is, like, all those wires, about the wires, just try to take a little bit thicker line, like, increase the size and paint those in a sky wires in the sky on the top of the buildings. One dug here, that connected somehow? Some of them can be thicker, some of them thinner. I think that creates a lovely composition thanks to that. And then we have so many signs like over there, like sign. No, not here, sign here. Over there. And there's written something on it. Just removal lappins but not the wires. And just like if you have more time, of course, you can actually write the actual words, or you can just, like, pretend having something written on a board. And about people, I think just schematically shows a face and just like basic movement where people are moving. Exos to friends. So let's just paint them here. So you can keep painting, keep creating more details, adding more and more elements, depending on time that you have. Remember about rules of composition that all lines go to those directions. Like that. So I don't need my reference picture. It's like, you can keep painting. I'm going to use the illustration that I already painted earlier this one. Because here I spent a little bit more time and I had more details, but again, feel free to keep painting, keep creating your own art or just use the sketch that I prepared. So now let's jump into second sketching technique. 8. Create Second Sketch: Let's talk about our second composition here. This illustration is beautiful. Also, we have linear perspective, and we have our lines over there. Let's go to the rep. And then we just need to move our meeting point over there. Yep, Line should be straight, not the wavy one like what we have here. But approximately, we can see what to expect from the composition. It's like this. Here, we're going to have this is a horizon line. Over there, this is a meeting point. And yeah, all of the lines go from this point. And thanks to that, we can actually understand where and how to paint our lines. But what I want to tell you about this sketching technique will be a little bit different. And to tell the truth, we don't really need our lines for this type of illustration. But of course, if you want to practice, if you want to keep creating your own composition, and use your own style, use our previous style, feel free to do it. For this type of illustration, I'm going to use Bu HB pencil, and then I will lower the opacity of our sketch here, and I'm going to use tracing technique for the second style where we have our reference illustration, and if you want to keep our proportions true to life, you can use second technique where you just paint on top of our reference picture. So turn off the lines. You can keep them. You can have them if you want to try our first painting technique where you look at the illustration and you paint it by yourself without actually referring to the actual proportion, size, and position of the objects. And this type of illustration is good when you have time, when you want to keep it as true to life as possible. So, yep, why not to try it. And what we need to do is just lower the size of the brush a little bit, and let's start tracing all of the elements. This sketching technique is longer. It requires you to spend more time, paint more details because if you trace without details, it will not look finished. So let's start tracing all of the elements. Let's try to show them on your own illustration. Make sure that you paint on a layer that is new and stays on top of your reference illustration. If you don't like this pencil, you can use six pencil, native procreate brush. Or you can use ink and brush, depending on style that you would like to have. Inky Brush is more by brand, and of course, it's very visible. So I'm going to use pencil because it really is muted and it helps me to create very harmonious composition. If you talk about the color, about the brush strokes, how bright or less bright the illustration is. And also don't forget we lower the opacity of our reference picture. So now we can clearly see what we are painting. You can control the size of the brush. Some of the details are very tiny, so you can lower the size of the brush. Or on the contrary, some of the lines like, for example, wires will be thicker. So on those parts, you can increase the size of the brush. So you will create some kind of volume variation like some thickness of the brush strokes that will help to create some kind of dynamic in your Every street in Japan is very unique, and it was really hard to make a decision which reference illustration to use. Or maybe you can actually be detail, but don't paint all of the elements. That's also possible. Okay, depending on which am you want to achieve, you want to show everything as realistic as possible, or you just want to create this feeling of movement and just, like, presence and help viewers to be present in Japan in a moment, like in your illustration, to have the same feeling from the atmosphere. So like I talked about the wires, we can increase the size, and some of the wires can be thicker. Some of the thinner. Mm hmm. So keep painting. Or you can just grab the sketch that I already prepared, and you can save some time. Or, you can create totally different illustration. Use maybe Japanese street or maybe another street that maybe you saw or maybe you found on Internet, or maybe some other pictures that I took in Japan. Of course, feel free to use any picture that will, you know, help you to feel the spark when you are painting. Here, I decided to paint three people like one, two, and three because this person in the center, if we paint four people altogether, it might feel a little bit messy. Or, if you want, you can change the color of the pencil too. Black or blue. Okay. So like I said, you can use my own sketch that I prepared or use your own sketch. This is a sketch that we have in the end. It's almost black, but, of course, feel free to use any other pencils you have. Okay. And you see in some parts, we still have some a little bit thicker brush strokes, so a little bit thinner. Like that. Tag, now let's create one layer. And now I want to add some magical elements to our illustration. Again, it's not necessary. If you want to keep it very realistic, you can do it. So for this part, I will use Sixbey pencil. And I just want to create some lovely magical creature. I want to add some to our illustration. So they will look very realistic. Now I add them separately on a new layer because, again, I want to make some changes. And second, if you don't like, you might just not paint it. Dear. I like some spirit rabbit spirit, like that. Maybe I want to add one more here. So, the creatures, our magical creatures should blend naturally into the environment. So try to practice and see where they like how they look and how well they fit into the background. Because this is, you know, Japan, like country of spirits. So this I think the best place where I can add like this in these two spirits, and maybe I will paint some spirit over there, like in the center of our attention, and it will be a little bit inspired by Miyazaki movies. Because I'm a huge fan of Miyazaki, so maybe some ghost to walk in head with those tiny hands. And in the head, what if we add some heat? And also a coast will be semi transparent. That's why you don't actually need to erase the surroundings because our creatures will be not entirely visible. Like the spirits. Some people see them, some people don't see. So this spirit will be walking. You can use liquefied tool and push the spirit a little bit to the sides and add some elements to it. Now still, I will go to the sketch, and I will grab both diffuser as eraser, and I want to erase some of the brush strokes from the original sketch. Like I said, our creatures are semi transparent. But still, they covered like, partly in the background. So I want to make it less visible. So both of diffuser as eraser. Grab it. Don't erase everything entirely. Just make it less visible. Well Okay. Yeah. We've done with adding those lovely, magical creatures to the background. And let's just merge together our magical elements and sketch pencil together, and also do the same. Let's create one more layer. Switch, go to Burani incur brush, Lovers size, of course. New layer. Magic spirits. Magic rename. And here we can start creating those lovely spirits. I think they can look a little bit cute. It's also fine. Maybe smaller. And I don't want them to be perfect. Like that. So cute, lovely spirits, like maybe, like, protector of the city or something like that. You can push them. Maybe he'll be sleeping for this part. Then you can tweak it the way you like. Maybe you'll be over there. Like a little bit chubby cost. And we can copy pay them, rotate, reform, make some changes and move one here. With this spirit, I might want to delete some parts, cut something. Cut. And this one will be just sitting over there. And the last one, I probably would like to put him somewhere here. Like Happy Ghost. Then years smaller size. Hmm. Like cutie. And same, we're gonna grab erasor, go to our sketch ink part, and erase overlapping. Like not erase entirely, but just makes them barely see. D. Okay, our lovely elements are added to this part two. Okay, and now we've done with this lovely magical atmosphere. Now let's jump into painting process. And like I said, I also will show you two different painting techniques, and in the end of my class, you will decide which one you like more. 9. About Painting Techniques: Let's briefly talk about two different painting techniques. And first one will be a little bit more like loose watercolor style where we will spend less time on painting details, but on the contrary, we're going to show some air freedom in our illustration. We're going to have a lot of splatters, some unexpected blooms, and I think that can help you to create very dynamic atmosphere. So speaking about the second painting technique, here we will spend more time, we'll paint all those tiny details, but I will keep more or less muted color palette. And I think since the second painting technique where we will play a lot with colors, we can have more harmonious atmosphere in our art. And then you can decide which one you would prefer more. Also, what I want to tell you for our painting techniques, I will lower the size of the sketch a little bit because, like I said, I want to have this airy atmosphere, and that means that we will have some borders around our illustrations. That's why it's very important to leave some space around art. So first one, as I said, we're going to have inking illustration, and I think before we jump into painting process, we need to rename some of the layers in order to see clearly where we need to paint specifically. So first, we will add adding colors. Second one, we have shades, then platters after that stems. So those are the steps that we need to follow in order to create a lovely illustration. And what I would like to do is to group that as the layers, and then I will duplicate it. So and rename, first one, I will write clustration and second one pencil illustration. And we will see clearly where we are and what we should do. So first of all, we need to be at adding color layers. So let's get started. 10. First Art: Add Colors: Ready to jump into painting process. Use the brushes that I provided EZ freebies, or native procreators or your own brushes. Don't forget to paint on layers that are under texture paper. We will have very special painting techniques today. So let's not wait, and let's go to our first illustration, and I will show you everything just right now. About the brushes, I'm going to use pull water drop first and about the color palette, let me tell you what is what? And for the first illustration, you're going to first row of colors. And the second row as you see this one is for the second art. And the last color is for the sketching. Then don't forget about adding our reference restration. Yes, this is the one. Because we need to paint under the sketching layer. So we are at adding color layer. We have blue water draw brush, and I think we can start with this blue color. Let's just add some color. Control the size. And also, you can go beyond the lines and it's totally normal like this. Also about the sky, you see, it's a little bit brighter than actual blue colors there. Same, I still have my blue color, same brush, lower this size tiny bit. And you can use the same brush as a blender here, but control the size, obviously, likes to have this lovely harmonious feeling. Also, you can use Batural stains as a brush, blending brush. I also can give you very lovely results. Okay. Here and there. Wonderful. So let's keep painting. Brown. You shade here. Overs size. Brown color here. Reddish color. I want to add some red colour over there. Purple one and about purple. I want to add it here. Bluish color here. Let's see where else we can add blue color. So our main colors will be different shades of blue, some dark red color, and also yellow. Now, reddish color. I'm going to add it here because of the lights and some yellow sheets. Now road will be fresh. Now, let's go to water drops as a blender. And I just want to do it like this. You see? Is this blending feeling. It's absolutely amazing. Let's see what else we need to do. Let's go to this dark blue color. Saying water drops and I ad too dark. Lines here. Dark blue. Maybe a little bit more red. Over there. Purple color? Okay. And I think we need to add a little bit of shades in this area. What if it's blue color? And spread it. So what about people? I think I need to add some colors to people as well. Grayish or maybe almost black. Too much. So as you see, I don't spend too much time on painting those tiny details in this style, and it's good for those people who don't really like to spend a lot of time on painting those tiny details. I forgot about this part? I think we've done with first part of our painted process with ding color. And now I think let's jump to the second parts. Well, 11. Add Shades: Stop adding shades, and I'll try to add details and shades little by little. Laxes. Brown shades. And by the way, about the shades, my suggestion changed blending layer mode to multiply because in this case, the color would blend more naturally. Dak about a blending tool. I'm gonna use natural stains brush. You can keep the brush strokes. I think they might look more or less natural. I'm now same with those boys. And don't forget about shades from people. And also we're gonna have shades from this special building system? I don't know how to even describe it. It's really special. Here we can bland. Underneath, we gonna have some shade? Like something there. And also, as a shade shader, you can use this purple shade. I think it also might look good. Or even the color of our sketch. Hm, then. Now, this co. Be careful, yeah. Brown shade. Some shades here. But also don't forget we still have highlights that we later apply to our illustrations. L it. Okay. Wonderful. My suggestion if you want to exaggerate the shades, you can go to cures and then play with intensity and color variations of the shades. If you want to make it a little bit more saturated or brighter, lighter go saturation, and just play with it. I just made it a little bit staged and lighter. I don't want our illustration to be too dark. Another option, you can just duplicate the layer, and thanks to duplicating, the illustration will be more dynamic. I'll just duplicate one layer, then I will lower the opacity till 40%, and then I will merge our basic layer here. Already there. But you also can do the same. You can go to curse and make it slightly lighter, or slightly saturated. That's what we had. We made it a little bit lighter. Okay, so we've done with this part. Now let's jump to Edin Stems part. 12. Add Stamps & Highlights: Oh, I forgot about splatters. So let's add splatters and then stems. Change plainlaar mode to multiply on stems. I will grab this bluish color, and I will go to Blais latush and I'll just tamp it. Le this thing. Then what about this reddish color? I want to add it here and add it here. Like it. Cool. That's it. No need more. Stems. About stems, I will duplicate it a few times because I want to add a few steps. So my suggestion, what if you take, again, bluish color, maybe a little bit brighter. And I would like to have my favorite what color stem for. And I want to use it as you see the line of the wire. Like the direction will be like wire. I think it looks great. I'll just have it here. I'll just rotate it over there. And if you want to make it brighter, same what I told you, go the curves and increase lower the size and make it more or less vibrant. Saturation, make it more saturated and a little bit brighter. Wonderful. Same, I want to also use the same stem brush for this wire. That's why I have one more layer or I can just duplicate the exact same layer. I just two exes. Great. Let's merge together two stems that we already have. Let's go to the new one, and here I want to go with reddish color. And what about my favorite watercolor Stem three? And that one I'm gonna apply flip vertical probably here. Now, you can use freeform tool and actually change the size and style of the stamp. I think I will keep it here. Part. Doblgate one more time. Same stamp, where is it? And now I would like to place it somewhere else where it might be most suitable. Here. Also, merge together so stems, merge together with Nazi stems. Duplicate. What about? Let me think which stem would be suitable? This one? It's pretty good with splitting edges, and I'm just thinking where to add it. So let's just place it here in this area. List. Now we need to think which color might be suitable for this type. Of stamp. So we went to hue saturation and brightness, and now we are experimenting with colors. It definitely shouldn't be blue because we already have a lot of blue color shades. Also, not red. What about these colors like pink and saturate or desaturate? Probably will saturate it a little bit. And I truly like this color shade. One more layer. Here I will go and grab bluish color, and I want to add some stem to the sky. Dublict. Make it more saturated. So in it, you see color just like blends from one stemp into another. Like. Also reddish color. Plant this tip. Now it's time for adding some highlights. Okay, we can merge all stems together, and let's just rename my right highlights and go to normal layer, grab white color, and let's come back to Buran inker brush. So now we need to show some highlights and show the brightness that we have. And later, I'm going to add more yellowish shade. Me some reflection. If you want, you can use Boony ink your beak to exaggerate the shade. X. But again, depending on the mood that you would like to create, you can alter or skip some of the part or on the contrary, add more highlights, depending on the atmosphere that you would like to have. Okay. So highlights part is good, too. Now, what I would like to do, like I said, to add some yellow color here. And let's create one layer. Duplicate. O Clear. So we have highlights new layer, normal blending layer mode. And now we can start adding more shades, more color variations. We This layer actually will not be normal later, we'll change it to Nins some of the lights to our art on my thin. And we also have our creatures a little bit yellowish 'cause they need to glow. Just some color, make it semi transparent. Maybe just blend it a little bit more, and then our creatures will fit perfectly. And then now let's go and change layer mode to screen if you would like, or to add, or you can just keep playing and see which style you would like, lighting color is also nice. And also, you see helps you to blend naturally. So I would stay with overlay layer. Bartistic 'cause I want to show some of the red colors here and there. Red color adds some kind of form feeling to the art. Also, some people have also this red reflection on the clothes from the colors around. Just paint them on objects around you. Some bluish color? Bushes, bushes. We don't need our reference picture anymore. Now let's jump into our final step there. I'll add some colors to our lovely magical creature and we will add some magical atmosphere to the art. 13. Add Magical Atmosphere: Hey, magical atmosphere. Let's go with this radio shade, artistic brush with still on adding colors layer. It's You can draw it separately, or you can just stay on this layer, like I said. Now let's go to highlights layer, and we still have the same brush, yellow color. Io. Here highlights. Add here and there some yellow shades, and then some red colour, so you can add a little bit of some red glow around your lovely spirits. Sees barely seen because we used blended layer modes. But they still can create this feeling. Also, my suggestion create totally new layer and spirits Glow. Here screen. Bula is lazly bright color, like yellow or something, and just a some glow around them. Maybe try with another blending layer mode. Add is good, too. So you see you have the glowing effects around there. So it's up to you see what works best for you. And also, if you would like, you can tweak the intensity of the colors. You can make it more saturated, less saturated. How to do that. If you want to keep the layers and then in case maybe you would like to change something, let me show you. Let's go to Action button share GPAC and save tration. Then we need to create one more layer above of everything. And let's just import our illustration into this procreate file. This is our illustration on a paper. It says separately. So when you do some alterations, it will not affect the other layers. So let's go to curse, but it will affect our whole illustration. S. I don't want to change it too much. So for me, it's totally okay. And also, you can go to color balance and also play with color balance here, too. Also change the atmosphere and mood a little bit. I like these type of changes here. And then we've done our first illustration, first painting technique, which is more like a loose watercolor painting. And then I think it's time. Now it's time to jump into the second style, which is very gentle to my mind. So let's do it. 14. Second Art: Add Colors: Time to move to the second painting and explore second painting technique. In this part, we will spend more time and paint way more details. So let's not hesitate. Well, I think we are ready for the second part of the class, where we're going to explore the second painting technique. And like I said, earlier, with this technique, which is more gentle and harmonious, we're going to work a lot. And also, depending on free time that you have, you can keep adding more and more details. Another thing that you can play with colors too. Later, I will show you how to do. About our main brush, you're going to use blue, dark, watercolor edges as our main brush and about color palette. You see the second layer that will be our colors for the second illustration. Let's start with creche color, and let's paint road. Make sure that you are staying on 18 color layers, which has normal blending layer mode let's start Tint, tinting. Try to try not to go beyond the lines. And don't lift your Apple pencil from the screen. Otherwise, you will have overlappings, which is okay. You can always improve it by using blending brush, but it just saves more time. And remember that I goes to semi transparent so you can paint. Yeah, actually, you can paint on it. Okay, cool. Done with the road over there. Now, let's grab a little a darker color and paint the second part of the road. Always, you can look at the reference picture over there and see what type of color you would like to use. Mm hmm. If you want, you can change the style a tiny bit and have some tiny, like, white, blank spaces. It's also okay. You also can do it Dacord Darker road. Here and here. Let's see what's next. Here. And let's grab tine a bit of brighter color and look at the illustration. We still have some gray shade here. And also, remember, we're gonna use linear perspective here. Let's see what do we have? And because of that, what is it? The background. We're gonna have part of the road here. You actually can do something like that. No, I don't think like Mm hmm. Oh, great. Like I said, it might take us, like, a lot of time to finish painting this art step by step. Same brush. Let's go to bluish color. You see at our illustration, it's almost white, but I want to make it blue. And about blue colour we have we can't have overlay paso. It's very gentle. Just parts where the colors almost white. Try to keep it white. Mm hmm. Likes it. Wonderful. Now, let's grab almost white color just with yellowish tone and add some shades like fill it with some of the object. Here, I think we also have this yellowish shade. Oh, maybe not. I think this part. And here, Lucy, I already started leaving some of the white spots. Don. Okay. Now, let's see where else. We're gonna have some of this yellow **** over there. And probably in those buildings far away. It's pretty suitable. And this building now gray ****. You see, I have some of our weapons, and I push it too close to the edge. Like that. Just remember I told you don't go too close to the edge, leave some air around the edges. So for me, this is good. Thing, ding duck. Tiny bit. Now, let's keep painting and see. Maybe this color is slightly lighter. You're gonna add more shades? And this part for the lantern goes here. So the difficulty that you might face in this type of illustration is that we have so many details. So first of all, it might take a lot of time to finish the illustration. And second, you might just get a little bit lost trying to understand what is what? Let's make it slightly bigger and paint it like step by step. So I think in this area, we can add some brown shade. It's not that light, but I want to keep it light. I don't want to make this art too dark. 'Cause it's pretty sunny. It has some amount of contrast, and you will create the mood for the art. So I don't want it to be too gloomy. I just want to create this, like, lovely inspiration of feeling. Then we will have some brown color here and here. Okay, so it will be our first storefront? We've done. This one? Okay. Now, let's go further. Wait a second. This part. He's not finished yet. Let's finish. Here. And then room, Bram, broom. Aka down here. And about the stick, I'm thinking we have dark color. Let's go with almost black color. You can grab Burani inker brush. You can use the same brush that I used earlier. Oh, use this runny inker brush. It's a little bit more opaque. If you like everything, let's come back to dark watercolor Edges brush. And here Wait. What's your name for this thing is it bucket? I forgot its English name. D brown color. Left some white spots. We went beyond the lines. Ding ding ding ding. And some here. Perfect. Now, let's keep it in colors. About this part, I think we can make the color. Let me think. Yep. Me like pomegranate, but like darker one. So I chose the color that we were using for the sketches. Maybe tiny bit brighter, 'cause I don't want it to be, like, the same. No, not brighter. Later, I will add some stems and color varish. I lifted Apple pencil from the screen. Now as a blender, I'm using Bonatural stains, brush and blender, same that I was using in my previous class. Like that. Now this part. So, guys, I think now I will just be quiet for a while, and I'm gonna spit up the video. To ton to even blue colour. I took blue colour from our first class. We don't have a lot of blue shades here, so I didn't create a special color for this part. I decided we can just take par color from our first painting technique. Okay. What about adding blue shade here. I think that's not bad? Next, go with this dark purple color and fill this area with color. So like little by little, that's the way how you are painting and creating beautiful art. And I think for this part, what do we have here? Behind, we also have dark shade, but everything in maybe it still will be more grayish part. A little bit with blue tone. 'cause, like I said, I don't want to be too saturated. That's why I don't want to make it too vibrant. But on the contrary, I will add more color variations later. Now, let's see. In the bottom, we're going to have some dark sheades Here. So it's like umbrella. Okay, but over there, we're gonna have which color? Henan likes it. Let's see whether we filled all of the area with some specific color. We still need to add some brownie shade here. And behind, we have blue shades and I think also something like brown color. Let's grab gray shade. Which is almost white because you see the tone, the hue of those store fronts is a little bit different. And same here, let's go with bluish shade, tiny bit, and greyhone. To fill this part of the building with special color. So we need to differ one building from another. We have many wires here later, we will add the shades to those wires, but tiny bit later. And we have one more building which is also gray here. Let's see from this area, bluish shade. Also, we can add some gray color here. And I blend the line that went beyond m Lanterns that we're gonna have almost white, but they still have this yellow shade. Cool. So what's left? Store fronts and people. Not storefronts, like those ads. And let me see what else. This part is a little bit not finished. So let's go with it. So what I want to do is just to grab purple shade. Same color, and I just want to exaggerate this Yeah. This part is yellow. This part will be? Not yellow. What about some other yellow shades? Where is it? So, about store front, if you have time, you can paint as many details as you want. But if you don't have time, it's also fine. Just paint it schematically. Okay, enough yellow for me. Mm hmm. I think this part is not finished though. So I'm gonna have darker shade over. And let's grab brown, note brown, like dark brown color. And we need to add more lines here. If you want, gobs Purani inker brush and paint it with more details. Now, let's finish with people. I can emit a bright red color. We can add red here. White? Uh, Now, people and about the girl. So I changed the picture a little bit. I decided to add some flowers. The girl is walking and holding flowers. I think it can add, like, very warm feeling to our illustration. She will have brown color hair. Of course, you can paint any color you like. And about her outfit. A. I was so surprised that people in Japan, they're wearing usually some muted and dark colored clothes. It really impressed me, like, a lot. I expected they would, you know, wear something colorful because I was raised on Japanese cartoons and animation. But what I saw, people are very stylish and they tend to wear, yeah, some dark colored outfits. Okay, wonderful. Done with the first girl. Now, second. Dark brown hair. So sheats and then maybe this part. Also, we're gonna have some details and some colors here. D, d, d. So we've done with the first part of our illustration. And now let's jump to adding a tiny sheet part. 15. Add Shades: We've done with the first part, now I think we need to start adding shades. And about the shades, I will create two layers, and I will change layer mode to multiply. Now, let's go ahead and grab B transparent watercolor brush. And about the blender. This time, I'm going to use Bosb diffuser. I set the brush to maximum, as you see. And now I will grab the slight purple shade. Remember, this brush is precious sensitive. So if you press harder, you're gonna have more shades. And I just want to show shades on this part of the house. Same some part here, then shade in this area. After that, shade on the floor. Then I will add some shade here. And, of course, on the store front part, we're going to have some shades underneath. So thanks to using this very soft and gentle brush, we can show the shades and on the other hand, add some color variations, which is important. Be careful don't too much. And if you think some shades are not too beautiful, you can just plant them. And let me show you some magic trick. W, first, let's just at some shades on lanterns. So the magic trick is next. If you want to exaggerate the shadow, how to do that, by duplicating the layer, we can enhance our shade lexis. That looks good. What about lowering the opacity till 50 and then merge two shading layers together? So when you finished with the first shading layer, let's go to the second one. Here, let's go to the layer above and switch to the multiply blended layer mode. And then I will go to BuhardEdges brush. So this brush is very special because you see, it's sharp. Don't worry later. We're going to lower the opacity, but it can give you very distinctive shades. And if you worry that it's too dark, so in this case, we can just lower the opacity of our shading layer. And it will not be that obvious. And like I said, now here we can add more details and show more shades to this part. Same about the window. This part. Why we chose those purple shade because it's perfect and suits really every color. That's why I don't need to change it, like, every time. Same about I think it's barrel, right? And we have some buildings far away, but because they are far away, we will not spend too much time and paint a lot of details for them. Just synthesize them briefly. And because it's a spirit, it has no shade, so we won't add any shades to this part. And again, if you want to have darker shades, like I said, what we can do is actually increase the opacity and make it a little bit more saturated. Lexis. Always saturated, again, whatever you want. For me, 50% would be good. I don't want to make it too dark. Okay, once we've done with this part, we added tiny shades to everything, like our people the custom shade on the floor, and we added some color to the outfits. So the shades are pretty natural here. We can jump to next part and start adding stamps. 16. Add Stamps & Details: And for this part of the class, we don't really need our reference pictures anymore. So what I'm going to do is I will go to splatters layer and I will switch bland layer mode to multiply. Same I will do the stem layer, duplicate, and create one more layer and write details. Well, we will add some elements that will help us to increase the contrast. So let's go to the splatters. And what about bluish color? Bula is lazily. And I just want to add some splatters here and there. I think it will look good. Yeah, place stamp here. The first one, and I will move it over there, rotate, place it here. Now, let's go with brownish, maybe even orange color. Create one Musta same stamp brush. I like its orange filling. Maybe this one I'll put somewhere here. Now we need that stamp first. Yeah, I want to put it this way. So try to rotate it and see where it would look better. Now we have the second stamp. Also, we can see where to place it, free form, and I want to use it here. So, what about blue color? Because I think we need to add some shades to our lovely sky. So let's merge together all the stems that we have. Have new stem player, multiply blending layer mode, be sure that you are using it. And use this beautiful stem for this kind. And I think we can blend this edge tiny bit. So diffuser is really good brush, and it can help you to blend it very naturally. And if you like everything, like I said, merge together with the previous layer. Duplicate stem brush one more time, Stem layer, one more time. Using I'm thinking this stem brush. It's pretty natural. And I want to show some of the color variations. So thanks to the stem brush, you see, we can reach those different and very beautiful color variations for our illustration. Then if you like everything again. And the last one stem brush, let's use this purple shade. And I just want to add tiny soft feeling to our last art. What do we use this stem brush. And now we can see where we would like to use it, maybe even brighter. I think I would like to use it somewhere here and have this beautiful watercolor look. Then if you are happy, merge stems layers together. Cool for the tiny details we're gonna apply. Boron inker Brush have new layer details, multiply blending layer mode. Let's go with dark, maybe even bluish color. What do you think? And we need to add some colors to wires to some tiny details that we had, and we just didn't use. Also, to barrel. So all the elements that we can enhance, let's just enhance because those tiny details can help us to add some contrast to our illustration, and thanks to that, it will look So I can write down something like that. Right here. Let's see. Same what we did with our sketch, we're going to do the same with illustration. So we just took thicker brush and we just emphasize some of the lines because I think without that, it might look a little bit pale. Dan. Now it's lovely brown color. Almost Brown shades here. Write something like a name for the store. Okay. Now that's what I was talking about. Let's see what else we're gonna need. Then slightly lighter. More details here. And you see, thanks to this brush, we added so many details that help us to brighten the illustration. Later, I'll show you the difference. Where else? Gonna need to use these lines? And here. I think it this part. And I think we've done with this part two. Almost. What about white color? I think we still need to add some detailed white color, clear, switch to blended layer mode, normal, double tap crab, white color, and increase the size. Maybe let's crab running in your peak. Not too big. And I still think we need to add some white shade. Dare gonna have white color, too. White or purl? And then so if you don't want to have it too bright, obviously, you still can just lower the opacity till 75% or something. So the color will be bright but not too bright, so it will look more or less harmonious. I'll have it till 80%, ding ding ding t something like that. Here, we've done. We coloring our lovely Japanese tree. Now let's add some magical elements. 17. Add Magical Atmosphere: About magical elements, we're gonna use dark watercolor edges, blue color, and our lovely creatures will have blue colour. I like to paint them the spirits everywhere in my paintings. So they My head will be light purple and body, I think yellow. But what I would like to do is to add some glow. And let me show you how to do that. First of all, green colour. I want to add some color to those. Maybe it'll be rubies. Well, not rubies, emeralds. So now let me just duplicate magical elements. And then what about changing the color? The blend the remote screen or even add? And oh, I like lighten color. And then I will go to adjustment and Gach and blore and move to 23% Lexis. And if you want, you can just tablicate it, and the glow will be even brighter. Merge together. So if you turn off our normal layer, that's what we're going to have. Pretty glowy. And then let's go to layer where we have normal blending layer mode and see which blending layer mode we would like more. White. And I like pin light. Look at this. It's transparent. Shows some glow, but on a Wow, look at this. So scary. Okay, pin light, I'll stick to this one. And let's go to magical elements and also press normal. And here I just want to add a little bit of color to our cute creatures blue colour, maybe brighter, a little bit. Here, purple. Color and some orange shade, and then just blend it. Tiny bit. And you can go to curves and you see play with intensity. Maybe like that and duplicate it again. So our creatures will be very super magical. Let's just merge it together. Ring. And if you want, you can go to adding color layers. Also go to curves and play with intensity with a color. And then thanks to that, our lovely creatures will be even brighter. I do like the way how it looks. And remember, I wanted to show you that the details layer is very important, too. So let me show you. So here we have layer with details, and then when we turn it off, look how it looks. It's a little bit dull and you don't emphasize the most important thing, so it's really hard to see the volume in a picture. And then when we add details, it looks way better. We're done with the second painting technique, and now you can decide which style, which technique you would prefer more. And I hope it can help you to maybe change your style to some extent or maybe open some new doors or maybe just get more inspiration. And now the new creative ideas, you can create more and more beautiful artworks. Congratulations. This is the end of the class, and now you definitely should be proud of yourself. You learned some useful things and created beautiful paintings, and in the future, you can create more. So what we have learned during our today's class and why we did it. Now you know more about the procreate, about sketching techniques, about how to use different watercolor painting techniques, and how to apply all those techniques in procreate, how to use layers and blending modes, how to add volume and color variations to your art, and how to create illustrations in Procreate using digital watercolor brushes, and also how to add some magical touches to your watercolor art. So why this class was useful? Now you can experiment with your style. You gain some inspiration and creative ideas. What's more important? We can create digital art that is so similar to traditional watercolor do. Guys, I will be happy to see all your artworks in project section, and I will be glad to give my own feedback. Also, I would really appreciate your own opinion about this class. You always can leave a review your thoughts in review section, and what's next? My future class. We will have very serious and interesting topic. Japan in digital watercolor, seven prompts that will help you to explore Japan and level up your digital watercolor techniques. So let's see each other in my new class. Bye bye.