Watercolor and Ink: From Small Illustrations to Beautiful Themed Artwork

1. Intro to Watercolor and Ink: From Small Illustrations to Beautiful Themed Artwork: Many think that artwork needs to be complicated or sophisticated in order to be great. But that's not the case at all. In fact, some of the most beautiful work that I've seen is the simplest, riced, most imperfect workout there. Your simple imperfect illustrations may not look that exciting to you, but they might look absolutely lovely to someone else. This concept reduces creative block, and can get you moving and inspired when you might be stalling out. Hi, I'm Chris, former Retail Management Professional turned full-time Freelance Artist and Designer living in the desert. I love art and design and I've been teaching creative classes on Skillshare since 2016. My specialty is demystifying processes that look hard and helping students gain confidence, which I've done for thousands now. If you've watched any of my other classes, you'll know that drawing in watercolors are my favorite. I'm so excited to have you back in the studio for another project. In this class, I'm going to show you how to start with theme, strategize the placement, colors, sketch, and finish with some paint and outlining to polish it all up. We'll be keeping illustrations small and simple using ordinary subject matters. I'll be doing a botanical theme. But if you're more experienced feel free to jump in with any other theme you like. What I love most about this process is that it's perfect for everyday art or projects with a special theme. Also it can be used for so many different applications like sticker sheets, posters, prints, greeting cards, surface pattern design like wallpaper, wrapping paper, fabric, package design, and the list goes on. This class is for beginner to intermediate artists who have at least some drawing experience and love watercolors. Especially if you're looking for a fun and efficient way to spice up your artwork. Who can take this class? If you're a painter, a surface pattern designer, or a graphic designer, a crafter, a ceramicist, or any other type of creative, looking to maximize your process of trying something new, you'll get something out of this class. Why learn this? You'll walk away with a new appreciation of how ordinary objects can become beautiful works of art when they're grouped in smaller form. Fashion and home decor magazine editors use this process called Editorials to show off the latest styles and accessories of the season. That's why this is the perfect way for you to showcase your art, to share on social media, and your portfolio as gifts or anything else. I cannot wait to show you this process, so you could do it for your own projects and level up your skills. Are you ready to go from simple illustrations, too beautiful artwork? Let's get started. 2. Your Project: [MUSIC] Your project in this class will be to come up with a theme or follow along with my botanical theme and create a full page of small simple illustrations. I'll show you how I use a sketch pad to strategize the placement of my small illustrations, then I'll take you along with me as I make my final sketches on watercolor paper. Next, we'll paint an outline now with archival ink for a finished look. I'll take you through my entire process from start to finish so you know exactly how to do this for all your future projects. Finally, I would love for you to upload your project into the class in Project Resources tab under the class videos. Here's how. First you'll go to the Projects and Resources tab under the class videos. Then click the green "Create Project" button. From there you'll want to upload your cover image for your project. Choose a file, then click "Submit". From here, if you want to replace your image, just click the button below, find an image. Below you can make it larger or smaller with the slider, or you can drag it side to side to position it. When you're happy, just click "Submit". Now your project needs a title. It can be funny, descriptive, or whatever you like. Below is your personal project field. Click "Image" to add image files. Then position your cursor underneath the image to add descriptions. I'm adding a series of images to show my entire process for this project. You can do it any way you like. Below you can also add a video or links. When you're done, just click the green "Publish" button. Once it's published, you can go below the videos and see your project on the right-hand side. When you click on it, you can see that all your images have uploaded. On the right is where people can comment and like your project. I comment on every project, so I can't wait to see you in this space. One of my favorite things to see is what other artists are creating. I cannot wait to see your project if you'd like to share it with me and the class. I never grew so quickly as when I started sharing my work. I know you'll benefit from completing this step. It can seem scary at first, but the more you share, the easier it gets, I promise. Artists connect so deeply when bonding over each other's art. So this will also help you build connections and gain confidence as well as learning new techniques from others. [MUSIC] 3. Tools and Materials: [MUSIC] I just want to talk a minute about what I'm going to be using for this class. Again, very basic. If you've taken my classes before, you'll know I like to keep it super simple because I can just dive right into the process and really enjoy myself with the art itself. First of all, I'm going to be using an HB pencil for sketching. It keeps it light just so I don't have to worry about my lines getting really dark and unerasable and then I've got a gum eraser. It's actually a polymer eraser, but it doesn't leave black marks on my paper that can damage the paper and ruin the way my art looks. That is one. Gum erasers are another option. Here's just a paint brush from my garage. I can brush off the eraser dust quickly, easily and not have to worry about getting oils from my hands on my paper. As for paper, I am using a Canson 140 pound cold press watercolor paper. This paper is good quality, it's not super expensive, and it has a tear sheet. Just so if I really want to take this out and frame it or hang it, I can do that, but it still has that sketch book convenience, where I can flip through and see all my art easily. This is nine by 12, so it's a nice work area, but you can work on smaller paper if you like. I often work on, is this five by seven? I think it might be. This is a Strathmore cold press [NOISE] watercolor paper. It's also 140 pound and yes, it's five and a half by eight and a half. That's this size, but I do a lot of quick paintings on this size, but you can choose whatever size you like. This project is going to be your project, so go ahead and choose what you like to use. For brushes I've got a large round, well, this is actually a medium round brush. It's a Size 7 and this one is a Size 3. If you don't have a small round brush, you can definitely substitute with a basic detail brush. But we're going to be painting small items, so I know I'm going to need something to get into some little bit of detail. For paints, I'm using my Viviva Colors color sheets, they're super convenient. But other than their convenience, aside from going out and painting when I'm out and about, I love to use this in my studio because the colors are so vibrant and it's just easy to use. It's easy to hold in my hand. It has its own flip-out color palette that I can clean and use for next time or continue to use these colors and it has 16 colors that last as long as a regular half pan. I've been using this for a year and I'm still not even close to using all this paint up, but when I do, like this one's getting close and it's starting to separate a little bit. I can buy a replacement for any color I run out of and so it's just super convenient and easy to use and I use it for a lot of projects. That's the paints I'll be using. I've got two jars of water because I get really intense with my color a lot and if one jar gets too saturated, I have a second one or if one jar starts getting really dirty, I can rough clean my brush in one and then final clean it in another to make sure it's really free of color before I move on to the next. Then of course, paper towels or rags if you prefer. I use a combination of both and so I'm trying to be a little kinder to the environment as much as possible. But sometimes I need to see my color on a white piece of paper towel and if I don't want to paint it all up, I want to use it for sopping up or whatnot, I have this little tiny sketchpad. It's literally just sketch paper, it's also a Strathmore sketch sheet. This one is three and a half by five inches, so it's pretty tiny. But I can just do some test painting on here to test my colors against a white background. I use this quite a lot. It's a nice handy tool. I'm also going to be using a basic sketch book to capture some thumbnails and do some strategizing. I'm also going to be using a Size 08 micron to outline my illustrations. I do like the look of an outlined illustration with black. It really makes it pop, but you could also use colored pencils or markers if you prefer. That is all we're going to be using. Let's get started with our project. [MUSIC] 4. Getting Inspired: [MUSIC] If you'd like to try coming up with your own theme, maybe you'd like a little help getting inspired, Here are some thoughts for you. If you love nature, perhaps a floral theme could be fun or a forest theme as I mentioned before. There's also ocean themes, bird themes, desert themes so a lot to draw from there. If you're active, you could choose hiking, dancing, cycling, tennis. Obviously, there are so many more options here. Then make a list of all the things that have to do with that topic that you've chosen. I like to think of themes in terms of a storybook. If you envisioned your theme, what things might be shown in the book illustrations? For example, if you're a yoga lover, you could sketch out a yoga mat, some blocks, a yoga outfit, someone doing yoga positions, a water bottle and a towel. If you choose an ocean theme, you could do a series of small illustrated ocean creatures like starfish, jellyfish, a clam, an octopus, fish and there are so many other examples. You could even draw some bubbles going upward to help tell that story. If you love sports, perhaps you can include a uniform shirt, a ball, a sport shoe, and even a trophy. Take your list of items that you've put together, and choose a half a dozen things you'd like to include. We're not going for 12 or 15 items, 6-8 is perfect because we want to keep this project simple and easy. If you get stuck, rely on your favorite search engine. It's a great source to get loads of ideas. Even if you'll be following along with me on the botanical project, for now, I've created a worksheet in the PDF download section under the video titles so that you'll be able to more easily choose themes for future projects going forward. [MUSIC] 5. Color Palette: [MUSIC] Choosing colors for your project isn't always easy. This is another common reason for creative block because you probably think you need to be a color theory pro in order to choose great colors. But there are some hacks and methods that can get you moving and feeling confident again, for example, already done for you color palettes. I've shared a link to my Pinterest board called Color Palettes, where I have hundreds of combinations that are stunning and work well together. There is no shame in using color palettes that have already been created because when you use them, you learn from them. Osmosis is a wonderful teacher and this is a great way to apply that. You can also simply choose colors that you like already. The color palette I'm using today is very close to my brand color palette. I just love using those colors because they feel familiar and help tell my personal story. Lean into the colors you like. Use variations of them too, to easily expand your options with little effort. Also, think about the theme you've chosen. If it's different than mine. Is there something about the theme that makes you think of certain colors? For example, if it's a forest theme maybe dark green sky blue along with some deep browns and soft yellows or an '80s theme where you might have some bright pops of bold color. Maybe you're taking on a holiday theme of some type, and there are some colors associated with that holiday, which actually simplifies the process a lot. Using one of these methods to choose your colors should make this easier. However, if you're still struggling, please message me in the discussions tab and we can figure this out together. For the project like this, I wait until the sketch is done because [NOISE] I can really see the colors come alive on the page. I can more easily decide what I'm doing with that. I really feel like I'm really loving this. All of the color it's like a green, but it's got some brown in it, so it's a softer green. I really liked that for these. I'm not like a bright green girl. I know some of you already love it, but it doesn't really work with my style. I tend to like muted colors. I think I'm going to go with terracotta on these pods. I thought it would stay with the white, but I think a gray. But I think terracotta is really speaking to you right now. I'm going to go with this burnt sienna. Let's see what the burnt umber looks like. Yeah, I think I prefer this burnt umber, so I'm not going to go with the burnt sienna, I think I like this one. It's more terracotta-looking. What other colors can I pull in here? I really liked the idea of a blue. Let me see what this Persian blue looks like. That's pretty cool. I like that. I think some of the flowers could be this color for the gloves I think I'm going to dot them like I'm going to make them a pattern. I think that would be really cool. As for the watering can, maybe like a light peach could be fun. For this to accent the terracotta, but not mimic it too much. Let's see how I'm going to do that. I think that this burnt sienna, I can take a more watered-down version of it and work with that. Let's color that down really lightly. I think that will be beautiful. I love that. A version of this but much lighter. What else do we have here? I'm going to go ahead and maybe make all the flowers blue. There will be green here. We'll have a balanced blue going around here. Actually, maybe I'll combine blue with this peach for some of the flowers. That can be really pretty. I'll have to figure that out. I don't want too much color on one side and not enough on the other. Blue is going to look maybe a tiny bit heavier, but I'm going to keep it light. Let's see and maybe some orange centers on these. You can see how you can start visualizing all of this. I have the color of my pots, I have the color of my flowers. I know I'm going to make a pattern like a little implied pattern with these gardening gloves because most of them I've seen have little flowers on them at least on women's ones. Then I know what green I'm using, and I know my pots are going to be terracotta. [MUSIC] 6. Strategy Sketch: I'm just going to open up my sketchbook and think about this theme. This is going to be a theme about plants, very basic houseplants, but I don't just want house plants in this composition. I'm going to add a watering can and maybe some gardening gloves. I have to figure out where all this stuff goes, plus each plant might be a different size depending on how I work it. My plant reference, I'm going to go ahead and draw my plants first and what I'm imagining is my plants on the side and then my garden accessories, if you will, in the center, but we'll just see how it goes. I think that will be a little more balanced look. I'm going to go ahead and draw my first potted plant and I think I'm going to start at the bottom just because I know I need to fill that space up and I don't want it to be awkward if I start at the top. I'm going to go ahead and go in just about three-quarters of an inch. This is not final, this is just a thumbnail sketch just to get an idea, but I'm still trying to be thoughtful and try to picture how I want it to look in the end. I think if I draw some plants out of here, this pot is going to be too close to the edge. Right away, I've already figured out something that will help me going forward. That's how it goes, it's trial and error. I'm going to take it in another half an inch, I think that's a safe distance and draw a pot and then I'm going to draw the stems. I'm just going to quickly criss-cross these stems in here, some, and I don't want it too tall. I probably won't make it as tall as the actual image, but I'm going to go ahead and use this column once stirrup plant or is this a palm, I'm really not good. I don't grow plants though even though I love them, so I don't know the names of them like many of you might. If anyone knows the name of this plant, I'm going to go ahead and ask you to put it in the discussions or let me know in some other way if we follow each other on Instagram, you can DM me. But I'm really curious about the names of these. I'm just mimicking the shapes of these leaves as best I can without getting too crazy, perfect, but this is going to be a great, almost like a template for what we're going to be doing. But I don't want get too detailed because again, these are just thumbnails. I do want to know how far this is going to be spread out, and I think I just need a little bit more down here, that's nice. It's not exact on both sides, but there's enough volume on both sides, it looks nice and balanced. I'm going to start out with another one. These other two plants in this composition are going to be a lot shorter, so they're not going to be as tall as this, so I can allow for a lot more space. Maybe the gloves could look good here, potentially, I'm just going to draw an oval. This is where the thumbnail part comes in. I wanted to initially sketch this to get an idea of how much space I needed for this. But now that I have a feel what everything is going to look like compared to this plant, I can now just draw some blogs. I think I want an item here and let's see. I could even do an item, just to fill the space, that goes horizontally, potentially like the gloves. I think I might like the watering can hear, so I'm just going to make a note. It's very easy to forget this stuff once you get into the details of your project. I'm going to go ahead and do that, I'm going to tentatively put gloves here and then I'm going to put another pot here about the same size as that one. I'm going to put a little quote in here. Because this is going to be the plainest of these elements. I'm pretty happy with that, I think I might want to move this down a bit and make these leaves a little bit more full than they actually are in the image and that will be a fun reference. But I've got a good start. These are very similar size and so I'm going to have more space to maybe add some more accessories or more plants. Again, this gives me a great test runs for my final project. It probably would have helped if I had a sketch book that was the same size, just because we are trying to fill the space. But again, I've learned enough here that I can take this and keep on going. 7. Final Sketch 1: [MUSIC] Since I know I want my watering can in the center, I'm going to go ahead and sketch that out a little larger. And that's another solution is to maybe make these just a taste larger, so that they fill the paper a little bit more without changing my composition too much. I'm still in the sketching phase and I can change any of this. I don't like that line right there, it's a little too angular. Great. I don't consider myself a letter. I move very slowly when I am sort of writing a quote or whatnot, but I really enjoy them. I'm stretching myself to improve in that area. I definitely highly recommend trying new things, stretching yourself in areas that you don't feel super qualified and just to improve and get some new skills on your belt. Great. You know what could be really interesting to add if I have extra spaces, maybe a flower or two, that can be really fun. [NOISE] Next, I'm going to do my hanging plant. I'm going to go ahead and just sketch out. Even though I can't see much of the pot, I'm going to go ahead and sketch it out so that my plant looks good in relationship to it, and I can always erase whatever I don't want. [MUSIC] Now I'm going to go ahead and sketch out. Again using my sketch as a guide, I can go ahead and create the pot. It's going to be a little larger than what I have in my initial sketch. Then I'm going to start fanning out these leaves. [MUSIC] Great, that's looking good. I have this space in here to think about. Then I'm going to start with my larger plant down here, because I think it's going to take up most of this space here. You might have noticed I took out one more leaf here just to give me a little more space up at the top. I might even end up moving this down a little bit. Maybe I will just move this down just to give it a little more space up at the top and bring some of this down a little bit more. This is what you want to be doing at this stage, is adjusting and making sure that you're happy with your composition. I'm going to go ahead and make sure I'm not too close to the bottom and not too close to the edge either, like I did before. We learned that lesson. [NOISE] [MUSIC] 8. Final Sketch 2: [MUSIC] Then you can just start filling in with leaves. You don't really have to add more stems necessarily unless you want to, and I think I want to put one here, small one. I'm pretty happy with that, but I think I want it a little taller. I'm just going to add a stem right here and put some taller leaves over here. You can also put partial leaves like this. I can allude to a leaf, and that's nice and full. I'm pretty happy with that, and I'm going to move on to the next plant. [MUSIC] I'm going to start drawing my leaves, and I can kind of keep them a continuous thread like this. It saves a lot of time that looks really cute. You can also get really creative with this and make these plants your own. You can change the colors. You can change the shapes. You can invent your own plant if you want to. This can get pretty fun, as fun as you'd like it to and honestly, I think that's all I'm going to do. I'm just going to keep this one really simple. I didn't do any of these exactly like the image, but it's working for me and I like it. Now, I think I'm going to add a gardening glove here and maybe one here. I also have the option of [NOISE] adding some flowers, like I said here and here. In fact, I think I might do that. I'm going to go ahead and just draw the gloves stacked. Even though on this image I sourced, these are really messy and they're next to each other. I'm not going to sketch them that way. I'm just going to draw a cute Daisy-shaped flower here and that really nicely fills in the space. Maybe I'll have it with a little baby flower next to it, just to give it a little personality. Now, even though I'm doing my final sketch, any of this can still be changed. If I don't like this, I can do something different. [MUSIC] I'm really happy with this. It's cute. It's fun. There's a nice distance in between everything, and it seems to be flowing pretty well. There is a little bit of extra space here. I could do a spiral shape, and this could even be a peony to be anything you want it to be, but it's a pretty flower, and maybe do one over here. I can make them different sizes, different colors in the end, and a smaller one may be here, and that's really great. I really liked that. It just kind of filled in some of these spaces, and move on to the next step which will be painting. [MUSIC] 9. Painting 1: I'm going to go ahead and start painting and I'm going to go ahead and start with my green on this plant here because I can let it dry and I won't get my arm in my wet paint. That's something you can strategize with your projects, is to know that if you're wet here, your arm might be landing on that if you need to get over here. I'm going to start here and just to be sure I have the right color. Yeah, that's great so I'm going to go ahead and just start. These leaves are small. I'm going to go ahead and use this medium brush because I can get through them pretty quickly and the tip is nice and pointy so I can just buzz through these pretty fast. I'm going to make some some lighter, some darker because that's how leaves are and I can start just moving pretty quickly through here. You can see I'm moving pretty quickly. This does not have to be perfect. In fact, the less perfect it is, the more I think I'm going to like it. That's just my style though. I love loose, free-style painting that leaves a lot of room for the imagination to play and put the pieces together and that's one of the reasons I love watercolors so much. It's so good at implying shapes and textures without having to tell every little detail. I'm going to go back and paint over some of these that got so light I can barely tell they're green, especially on this one side and I can even not paint the whole leaf through, just paint the center of it or the side. You can see I'm filling in spaces too. Now up here while this is still a little wet, I'm just going to go ahead and spread my brush around, just to fill in this spot where I know that there are so many leaves that there are leaves behind other leaves, and they're just going to be implied at this point. Great. Great start to that. I need to get a little water on my brush because it's getting really dry. This one is going to be a lot easier, but we're going to do it in layers. I'm going to do this front layer first. I'm loving this soft olive green. I think it's really pretty and it's definitely working for my color palette. I am going to fill some spaces in here because we know that plant is so full. I got a speck of viridian green. Now viridian green has a lot of blue in it and that's not the look I'm going for, so I'm just going to go ahead and see if I can pick that up a little bit. There's some water. It's okay to mess up. You can just fix it and if you can't, you can just keep going and then start a project afterward and see if you can give it another try. 10. Painting 2: We're going to switch colors and do my blue here and with one stroke. Wow, that's super dark. I forgot to test that first, but you know what? That's okay. It can be dark. I didn't plan on it being dark, but I think I'm fine with it. It's going to be really pretty I'm staying away from the center because I would like that to be more orangey or peachy. One thing I can do to thin this out is not put more paint in my brush, but bring this very dark blue puddle, let it saturate the rest of the flower and then it instantly and naturally thins out the paint. There's another little bonus tip for you. Maybe since these leaves are so light, maybe some dark blue is exactly what we need here. This one's a little more blobby, but that's okay. We'll let it be blobby. I think I'll do this in blue also, but I'll make it much lighter. I'm going to use my palette. That's a lot of paint, way more than I wanted. I'm going to go ahead and thin that out. I have one blue rose over here. I'm just going to fill that whole thing in. I'm going to go ahead and paint this, my super light sienna color so that it can start drawing. I'm going to move to my smaller brush. Let me rinse this one first so that paint doesn't dry on it. Always good to think about your brush care as you're going so you develop good habits. I'm going to go in these corners a little bit better. I don't really care if this paint is super even. In fact, the more uneven this dries, the cuter it's going to be. I really embrace the imperfections as you'll know about me if you've been following me for any length of time. I think I'm going to go ahead and take just some pretty dark blue and I'm going to make some dots inside these gloves. Try and keep them as small as I can. I'm going to be adding maybe some orange to this, and that's how it'll be cute. It'll be an orange polka-dotted theme here or orange and blue. I think what I'd like to do, I thought I was going to add some terracotta in here just to show that there's a pot, but I don't think I'm going to need to. I think this plant stands alone. I'm going to go ahead though and paint these other pots with this burnt umber. That's really dark. I'm going to dilute that by just adding water and no more paint. That should be plenty for the entire pot. You're going to just keep pulling paint down from this corner to fill the rest of this space. 11. Painting 3: Awesome. Well, let that dry. I'm going to go ahead and paint these orange and I want them pretty dark. We're using a similar color between this is the same color, this and the terracotta, but we're going to add variation in the intensity. That's almost like using a different color completely. The beauty is that it's going match and be cohesive and pick up these other colors even though there are a different version of them. This is dry now, so I'm going to go ahead and drop my color in the center of these. I don't want to touch my blue too much because I don't want to activate that paint with this water. I'm just going to carefully keep my brush in the center, and you can see I've activated a little blue, but it's not going to interfere too much. I'm going to let that go and move to a smaller brush that can just be a little more detailed. That pulls a little orange right up to the top. This I don't think is blue enough, so I'm going to go ahead and add just to smidge more of blue here. Want it to be good and noticeable. I am ready to paint the rest of my greenery because these are dried almost completely. Now this one turned out more yellow than I really wanted, so I'm just going to pick some of that up and hit it with a little darker color, so it drives the way I'd like it to. Again, some of these I'm only partially painting just to make sure they have some color variation. It came out a little dark, so I'm going to pull from it and start painting these leaves over here. While I'm passing by, I'm just going to paint this as well. The rest of these lines I think I'll be inking, so I'm going to leave those completely undone for now. I think I'd like to switch to my smaller brush for this. Now I'm going to go back through and just darken some of these, the second layer, and I'm going to maybe fill in here a little bit here and there, down here at the bottom. I have one more little leaf to paint right here. I have some orange dots to make over there. I'm going to try and stay where the blue did not touch the page so it looks like a nicely spread-out polka dot design. Here we go. This painting is done now. We ended up with blue in all four sites here. Even though they're not the same intensity or even amount, they still help balance the page. The green is nicely balanced and we have some orange that's nicely balanced. Even though there's none up here, it's okay, there's plenty here to keep the eye moving and this is forcing your eye up. It's almost like there's orange in this direction anyway. I think we're good. We are ready to start inking. 12. Inking: Now that the painting is all done, let's do some outlining. I really like a black archival pen because it really balances the color and it grounds the whole illustration. I am not being too precious with this. You can see there is some gap here and I went too far down here, but I'm not worried about that, I am just having some fun. The last step here is to just erase any unwanted pencil. I'm really happy with this. It's so cute, I can turn it into a sticker sheet or a poster, or even a greeting card, anything that I would like it to be, I can isolate these elements and turn into a surface pattern design. There's so much I can do with something like this and I can't wait to see what you come up with. 13. Let's Recap: We have talked about a lot of steps in this class so let's do a quick recap. First, get your tools and materials together. I'm using some basic watercolor and sketching supplies. Next, you'll want to look for some inspiration if you don't already know what you'll be using as your theme for your small illustrations. Then you'll want to pick a color palette of about five or six colors maximum. Fewer is fine, but more could get a bit complicated. We're going for a simple project, so the fewer colors, the better. The next step is to make a list of all the elements you'll be using in your project. Get a sketch pad out and strategize the placement of all your elements on the page until you have clarity. You can fill any empty spaces with smaller elements. Next, sketch out your final draft on your watercolor paper. Think about how you'll place your colors throughout your sketch. If it helps, you can make notes on your strategy sketch where your colors will go on the final project. Now, it's time to paint. Using your strategy sketch as a guide, paint your elements, keeping your colors balanced throughout your composition. This makes it extra pleasing to the eye. Unless it's time to ink an outline on each illustration, you don't have to ink every detail, but giving your illustrations an outline will bring them to life and make them pop off the page. I hope you enjoyed this project as much as I did and I can't wait to see what you create. 14. Conclusion: I am so happy that you came and spent some time with me in the studio today. I am truly honored that you did, and I hope that you learned some things that you can take with you and use over and over again to improve your projects in the future and do some new fun things. I really hope you take all the skills we learned in this class and practice them to make beautiful art that you can use in so many applications. If you enjoyed this process and love fashion, I have another class that I think you'll love called Fashion Illustration-Watercolor Fashion Sets, which uses much of these same principles that apply to fashion. In the meantime, I really hope you create a project because it's the most effective way you can learn and grow. When you do, please share your project in the project gallery for feedback and to inspire others taking this class. You'd be surprised at how much other students will benefit from seeing your work. If you need help in uploading your project, you can refer back to the "My Project" video, which is the second video in this class, for detailed instructions. I would love it if you left me a review of this class so I can keep improving on how I deliver this content to you. 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