Watercolor Painting: Summer Fruits and Veggies

1. Introduction + Class Project: Hi, I'm Nicky. I'm a watercolor artist and calligrapher. And today we are going to be painting summertime fruits and vegetables. I am excited to bring this class to you. I've been really inspired by our local farmers market lately there's been so many beautiful fruits and vegetables, and I thought it would be a really fun watercolor class to do. So we're going to start off by sketching out our fruits and veggies. Then we're going to paint, we are going to be painting in multiple layers today if you are brand new and you've never picked up a watercolor brush before, I highly suggest taking my beginner level course first, once you have that basic knowledge, come back and take this class. If you are a beginner watercolor, this class is totally for you. We are going to be painting in multiple layers, a more realistic style today. So it's going to take a little bit longer, but it's going to be super fun. So we're going to pay. And then I'm also going to do a couple of bonus videos where I'm going to show you how to digitize your artwork and then also put it on products if that's something that you're interested in. The class project for this is just to paint along with me and then to post your painting at the end. I absolutely love to see what you guys paint and I hope you share it with all of us. Alright, let's get started. 2. Supplies: Before we get started painting, I want to make sure that you have the right supplies. Today. I'm using a watercolor block. If you don't have a watercolor block, you can totally use watercolor sheets. Just make sure that you tape them down to whatever surface you're working on. Otherwise, going to buckle because we're gonna be using a lot of water. So either use a block or tape down your watercolor papers. Have a variety of watercolor brushes. I have. This is a lot here, but I would say you'll probably need a size 64. And something for smaller details like a 21 or a 0. Then of course, your watercolor palette, I mind is very messy if you've ever painted with me before, I do keep a messy palette, but it all works out in the end. However, your watercolor palette, watercolor palette is we just want to make sure we have a good variety of colors. Yours does not have to be this robust, but make sure you do have the basic colors. And then if you guys have painted with me before, I like to use to water cups. I use one for cool tones and one for warm tones. That way our colors don't get murky. And then I use a paper towel. This one obviously has been used, but I always keep a paper towel handy. And then lastly, you're just going to need a pencil because we are going to be sketching out our fruits and veggies before we start painting them. 3. Sketching: The first step is we need to sketch out our fruits and veggies. Now, I'm going to be sketching a little darker because I want to make sure that you guys can see what I'm drawing, but please make your pencil lines as light as possible. So today we're sketching a variety or we're painting a variety of fruits and veggies. I was very inspired by our local farmers market. So the first thing we're going to start off with is a carrot. Carrots have the long tops. So we're going to make sure we have enough room for that. And then just making that carrot shape, which is kind of a pointed cylinder. And if you ever go to the farmer's market, the carrots usually have a longer route. So that's why I made it that long. And we're not going to worry too much about getting into too many details with the pencil, but you're going to want to have the carrot top up here. Next we're going to draw the radish turnip shape, where it's circular and then comes down to a point. And again I'm going to make that little root coming out. And then the leaves on the radishes are a little more big. If you guys need to pull up a picture of these, please feel free to. I am just drawing from memory right now. There's really no method to these leaves. They're just gonna be a little bit bigger. They're not really small like the carrot leaves. Then we're gonna come down here and we're gonna do an avocado. Avocado if you want to make like a light circle. And then a little circle up here. Kinda like a snowman but with a space in the middle. Then you're going to outline and connect them. A curve kind of hourglass shape. Oops. Again, make sure you're keeping your pencil lines really light. I'm keeping mine darker so you guys can see what I'm doing, but I'm gonna come back and erase these a little bit. And then an avocado has that pit in the middle. It's kind of a teardrop shape. And then I like to put a little stem up here on my avocado and then just a little, just show the edge of the skin over here. I'm going to erase these other lines in here in a little bit. Then we're going to make a zucchini that's that long shape. Zucchinis can be gigantic or they can be small. We're going to do a smaller one here. So it kinda has a bulbous shape at the bottom and then straightens out towards the top, and then it always has that thick stem. Now we're going to do a peach. So we're just painting everything together so we can save paper and we're going to work on it all at once because I like to work in that layered style, so it takes a little bit of time. So if the pH, we're going to do one side that's kinda cut open and then we'll do the backside. So the pH is rounded but then kinda comes up like this. And then that peach pit, kinda like a diamond shape but circular or a teardrop that has the little drop on one side. And then I'm going to do a whole peach over here, kind of circular. And then peaches have that, for lack of a better word, like it looks like a button. But comes down and then I'm just going to do a little leaf, maybe a little one right here. Till then, I am going to do strawberries up here. Strawberries or that kinda teardrop shape again. And then they wear this cute little hat, which is the leaves. Like I said, feel free to pull up an image if you're struggling with me right now. Struggling to draw on my little strawberry. Okay? Now I want to do the papaya. Papaya is similar to an avocado shape, but it kinda comes down to a point at the bottom. Very circular. We're going to do it cut open. So round but pointed at the bottom and then comes up. So the other, so you could make a big circle here and a big circle here, just like we did the avocado. And then connect them if you want. Then there's gonna be a little stem here. And then this is all going to be seeds. But we're just going to lightly outline that so we know when we're painting to make sure this is brown, I'm going to do a watermelon slice over here. So that's a big old triangle. Then there's that white, and then there's the green on the bottom. We're not going to worry about the seeds because we can add those in later. Then I'm going to paint or draw a apricot. Apricot is similar to stone fruit, similar to a peach, but smaller. And that the apricot pit basically takes up almost the whole apricot. And again, we're gonna do front and back or whole and half. And it has that same little crack. We're going to do a banana down here. So banana is curved cylinder, has a little stem here and a stem here. Kinda like a smile. Banana. Then we're gonna do an orange. So we're gonna do a slice of an orange, that half-moon. And then just these little orange segments in here. And then we'll do a whole orange as well. So just a circle. Because the Valencia oranges are in season right now, or I live there so sweet and delicious. Alright, so we have all of our fruits sketched out and we're going to start painting. I'm going to come in here if your pencil lines are this dark and you have a gummy eraser come in here and lightly remove some of this. You don't want to scrub too hard because you're going to remove some of the texture. But hopefully you drew a lot lighter than I did. 4. Let's Start Painting: Now that we have everything sketched, I want to mix up our color palette. So when we're ready to paint, everything is ready to go. Now, we're going to need a lot of colors here. And the first one we're going to need some orange. So just make sure your oranges are ready to go. We're gonna be working in a lot of different shades today. Because we want to have some depth. It's gonna be a little more realistic style of painting. You have orange. We're also going to need to wake up our red for that radish. Just so if you guys haven't, if you're new here, I do have a beginner watercolor course that might be really helpful if you've never painted with watercolor before. But I'm just rinsing off my brush every time I go into a different color. So I'm not mixing it up too much for the zucchini and the avocado. They're gonna be a little bit different grains. So the avocado is going to be a little more yellow. The zucchini is a little more darkish green. Getting a little darker green. Over here. These are just for our base layers so they don't have to be super perfect. Then for the pH, I am going to grab some opera rose. Actually, I'm going to mix it right here. Opera rose, a little yellow ocher, maybe some more orange, a little red. Until I get a peachy color. My little yellow. The banana is obviously going to be yellow. We have yellow right here, so I'm just going to add some water so it's ready to go and we're going to use it. The papaya, I'm going to use a combination of this Indian yellow up here. We have the red for the watermelon, the apricot. I'm gonna do a combination over here and the orange same things. So everything is all our paint is wet and ready to go. And we're going to paint our first layer. So our first, I'm going to start on the left-hand side and move to the right. And the reason I'm going to do this is because I don't want to start here and then put my hand in my paint. And because we're working with so many different pieces today, hopefully we don't have to take too many breaks because while this side dries, we can work on this side and vice versa. Go ahead and grab some of that orange. You want it to be really light on your palette, on your paintbrush. So pretty watered down because this is our first layer. And we're just going to come in here and paint in that first layer. I'm using a size six brush right now, but I might switch to a four because the tip on this brush is not very pronounced. So I might run into some issues here. Just painting all the way down in that base color. And you can also grab a little bit of a more saturated orange and just lightly poke that in there if you want. I'm going to grab a smaller brush, my size two and I'm going to get some of that light green. And lightly, It's okay if it bleeds a little bit, but lightly touch the orange because that this stems here would be grilling into the orange, are growing out of it. I'm just making these little lines. Then. I'm just kinda making these hash marks with that same green. Don't worry about having a depth of color right now. This is just our first layer. These are those little tiny leaves that come off of carrots that rabbits like to eat. Just lightly. Making little lines. You don't want them to be too thick. Just kinda blotting and some color down here where it might be thicker. Technically. You wouldn't have them all the way down here, but that's okay. Now, moving on to that red radish painting, that base layer. This is really watered down because it's our first layer and that's what we want. Then switching to the green, I'm just putting a base layer down. If you ever have too much water on your brush, just lightly tap it onto your paper towel and it'll get rid of some of that excess water and paint. Moving on to that zucchini, which is a little darker green. We don't want it to be super dark green, but we do want it to look different than the other greens that we've been using. This technique is called wet on dry because we have wet paint and we're painting on the dry paper. We did use a little wet on wet over here when we were having a bleed. But for the most part, we're gonna be using wet on dry. Giving this a little color up here. Maybe it just poking in a little darker color where there would be a shadow down here. This is wet on wet that we just did here. Now moving on to our avocado, super light shade of green, make sure you don't paint over the seed. We don't need to paint over that right now. It's going to be brown. So just leave a space for it. Mikado, moving onto our pH. Whoops, probably add a little more yellow to that. And again, just really, really light. And if you want, you could do a white peach, so you could make this super, super light. I'm just doing your standard yellow peach. We're going to go ahead and paint this. This is the only time we will paint this side and this side together. Because we're going to want there to be some definition between the two. And if this one's wet, that's going to bleed. We don't want that. But we can do it right now because we're just painting a base layer. I added in a little darker shade on the bottom here. To give it some depth. Early on. We're going to leave that leaf so it doesn't bleed right now. Moving on to the strawberries, just grabbing a really light red, Same thing about the strawberries as the pH. This is the only time we're going to be painting them side-by-side like this. Had a little more paint on my brush there. Now, moving on to our lovely papaya. They have a golden orange flesh. So we're going to make it really light right now. But make sure you leave that spot open in the middle because that is where all the seeds are. It looks like I accidentally got another color paint in here, but I think it's gonna be okay. Now something that we can do with the papaya is grab a green, kind of a yellowy green. We're gonna make that outside flesh color or that's outside skin. I'm just lightly tapping on the edge here. It's going to bleed a little bit and that's okay. Your brush should not be loaded with water, it should be light, like it shouldn't be dripping off. This is going to come in handy later to have this done. Then we're moving on to our apricot, which has a lot more yellow base. So this is how I like to paint. I paint in layers. And I like to paint this way because I'm able to get a more realistic look in my, in my mind, I don't paint a 100% realistic, but I am able to get it to look a little bit more. Don't worry about how yellow this is right now because we're gonna be adding a lot of layers. I mean, if yours is shockingly yellow, you can go ahead and pull up some of that color. How you're gonna do that is you're just going to rinse off your brush, dry your brush off on the paper, and then come in and press down and it'll pick up the color. Moving on to the banana, it's gonna be pretty yellow. I don't mind the bottom layer being pretty bright. Still needs to be more diluted, but then we have our watermelon up here. It's going to be red. I want to make sure it's light so we can pull some highlights. And then we're going to skip this white part and get a green. Still a light green because we're going to add darker shades because watermelons have those darker green lines in them. And we're just going to do that. And then lastly we have our orange. We're just gonna go ahead and paint really light. Okay. Now the last thing we're gonna do before we were going to let this dry completely is add the green and we have green on this leaf over here. Still the same really light tone. And these greens are going to be a little darker. So we're going to add this on the little hat. And a lighter green over here. These are dry. We can actually come in here with a brown. We're going to start with a really light brown. And just paint where these guys are. Or were the seeds? The seeds or the pits. We can give them detail later. We're just laying down all our base colors first. Alright, everything has a base layer. We're going to let this dry and then we're gonna come back to it. 5. Painting Continued: Now that everything is dry, we can come in and put in our second layer. I have my size four brush and I'm going to start on the left-hand side again. When I grab a slightly darker orange, I might add a little bit of red to it. That was a little too much red. And now I'm going to come in and I'm going to decide on a light source here. So I'm gonna say the light source is coming in from the right side. That means the shadow would be on the left side of any of our fruits and vegetables. And I'm going to paint this darker color. Make sure your paint is saturated, but it has some, you want it to be a little bit wet if you're starting to see spots being skipped, that means you don't have enough water on your brush. But I'm going to rinse off my brush, grab just water, and paint this area with water. That's not touching the paint. Then I'm going to come in and touch the pink. And it's going to bleed very nicely. Sometimes it needs a little help. You can move it along a little bit. Maybe I want to add in a little more golden yellow at the top. Just poke it in lightly. And then maybe some down here. I'm going to let that dry. I'm going to leave those for later. But to do this same thing with the radish grabbing a darker, more saturated red coming in and just painting one side. My paint is very saturated, but it's still nice and wet. Rinsing off my brush, getting just water, then lightly touching it and it'll start to bleed. Sometimes you need to help it move a little bit. If it was just a little too dry. And I like to poke in a little extra color. In some places, maybe down here because there would be a little shadow. Alright. Now we're going to do the avocado. And remember we had that outside skin of the avocado. We're going to go ahead and paint that. It's going to be the darker green. And I'm just lightly going along the edge here, rinsing off my brush. And we don't want our water to go too far because we don't want it to bleed in here because this is gonna be a different color. But just along the edge of where the skin showing. You could put it over here as well. Just a really light line. Really liked. Oops. Pull that up. We're going to leave that one before, oh, actually we could work on the avocado pit. Grab a little darker brown. I'm mixing up. This is, I believe, burnt sienna. I'm really bad at remembering what colors I put where some people are super organized about their color palettes and they haven't labeled. If that's you, that's awesome. I just go by what I see. And I'm doing the same thing. I'm just making a dark line over here. And then rinsing off my brush. Kind of blending that in so it's smoother, no harsh edges. And I might grab just a little bit of dark blue and add it to that brown. There's dog hair on my palette. Story of my life. I grabbed that little darker brown and I just lightly, I'm tapping it along this edge here. There's even more variation with watercolor. Really great way to make things stand out and look more interesting to look at is to add shadows. Because that's what draws our eye into everything. That's essentially why we don't see things flat is because we see shadows and it makes things look more 3D. I don't know if what I just said about how we see things. It's true. Moving onto the zucchini, grab that darker green. And zucchinis usually have these tiny white spots. We're going to bring it in a white paint later to do that. You can do it by leaving space and the white paper, but that's a little more of an advanced technique. It's not a super advanced, but I want to keep this a beginner level, so we're going to just add white paint at the end. I have that really dark green. And like I said, our light is coming in from this side. Then I rinse off my brush and then start blending that green in. Zucchinis for the most part are a bit darker. So let me just go ahead and paint this all pretty dark. We can leave this part later appear, since the sun would hit it more directly than the lower part. Maybe add in just a little more dark. We're not going to worry about the top right now. I made a little mistake there, but that's okay. I'm also going to teach you guys how to digitize this if you want you. That's just a bonus part. But I can remove that in digitization. Otherwise, I can do that technique where I rinse off my brush, dry it off, and then pull up the paint. Now, let us move on to, let's do the peaches. We kept the peaches really light before. Now we're going to come in and add a little more color. Just mixing up a pinky yellow color here. And I'm going to actually do this 1 first and then we're going to come back because remember, we don't want we don't want them to bleed anymore because we want them to look separate. Color. Maybe adding a little more yellow. Peaches usually have some variation there. They're not flat. I mean, nothing really we look at is flat, but they usually have a good amount of color variation in them. Maybe add a little more. Kinda looking like a nectarine here. Okay. Moving on to the strawberries. Same thing. This is very saturated. Rinsing off the brush, letting that water flow and blend who I really liked the way that turned out. We can't paint this one because they're touching and we don't want them to bleed. So we're going to move on to this one down here. Rinsing off our bash, grabbing just water. And remembering that our light is coming in from this right-hand side. Awesome. Now we can go onto this papaya, which is usually an orangey golden color. So we want to bring more of that color in. We're gonna make sure we don't paint over this green on the outside. I have a very saturated paint on here right now. Rinsing, grabbing just water. My water is very orange right now, but that's okay because we're working in those warm tones. So it's going to be just fine. Painting along here. You can paint a little bit into this brown part because it's, does the seeds kind of blend in a little bit? I am going to grab a little more orange because this is looking a little too yellow for me. And just lightly kinda poking it in. Then maybe there would be more of a shadow down here. Alright, I'm going to let that one dry. Moving on to the watermelon, which is very red, the seeds are gonna be black, so those will be easy to add on top of the watercolor paint. When you're painting with watercolor, you can always put darker over it, but you can never put light over it unless it's like a gouache or something. That's important to remember. We're painting from the lightest color to the darkest color. It's kind of opposite with acrylic painting. I used to do a lot of acrylic painting and you can cover up anything essentially because the paint is so thick and water doesn't reactivate it, but water reactivates watercolor paint. Just tapping in some color. There's a light. The light's coming in from this side, so it's going to be a little more light on that side. And this is looking a little harsh to me, so I'm going to rinse off my brush, tap it off, and then just lightly tapping to move it around. Or like scrubbing a toothbrush a little bit. And it looks a little better to me. Now we are moving on. Let's do our banana. Or banana is really bright and we need to bring down that brightness just a tad. I added in a little Indian yellow. And I'm painting the bottom. Rinsing off my brush, adding water. The banana is now looking a little golden, but that's okay. I am going to grab a little bit of brown. Brown that has a little more, that's a little more muted. We don't want something too bright. And I'm going to lightly punch in some color up here where the stem is, and then where the stem is here. And we want it to bleed. It'll give a good look. And we could also put a little line in here. She knew how and bananas start to get ripe. They get a little brown and just let that do its thing and bleed a little bit. Moving on to our apricot, we are going to grab a peachy orange tone. We're gonna do the inside of this one. So what I'm gonna do is actually outline all the way around the seed and all the way around the outside of this. Now makes sure that your paint is not drying when you're doing this. Because if it dries, you're not gonna be able to move it around. Then rinse your brush off. Move the paint around. See it did dry a little bit. So I have to scrub a little to get it out. I'm okay with that because technically there would be a little bit of darkness where the skin is on the outside. But this is looking kinda boring to me. So I'm gonna just add in a couple of touches of yellow that I have an Indian yellow. There we go. I like that better. Moving on to the orange. And orange is going to be really orange. And I'm going to do the big one hole and first coming in here. Definitely be a shadow here where the orange slice crosses the orange. And once I feel like I have a good amount of paint here, paints nice and wet, rinse off my brush again and start adding not water into the other side until we touch. Then it's going to bleed. And I know it might seem maybe like not not that big of a deal that I keep doing it like this. But you really want to do this technique because it's going to make the edges of your watercolor lions smooth. Like look how nicely that blends. That's what we want. It's really important when you do pet paintings, the same technique is super-helpful. To make the first look super soft. This is too dry or too wet for us to go in and paint these guys right now. But this has dried. We can go ahead and paint the avocado. The inside of the avocado is going to be a little more yellow than the outside, not super yellow. That's two green. Same technique. The key when you are trying to paint realistically is making sure that your layers are dry. Before you go ahead and start painting other layers. I'm just moving this around here. That's kinda pretty bright green, but that's okay. This is dry enough that we can go in and paint that peach. You need a little more pink depending on what kind of Petri eating, right? Because there's lots of different colors. I'm just going to start moving this around now. Because the inside of a peach, it's typically pretty light. There's usually a darker like right here where it opens or a word the stem would be just adding water to blend it in. And I do want to put the skin around. Similar to that color. So I'm gonna grab something similar to make sure I don't have too much paint on my brush because it is going to bleed a little bit because it's what I'm just gently outlining it. If you feel like it's too harsh, just grab some water and blend it a little bit. I think we can come back for the strawberry and maybe make a strawberry a slightly different shade, maybe add a little more darker red or maybe a little pink. But if you look at strawberries in nature, they're never mean, I guess they're the same shade, but there's a little bit of variation in there. One day, like I'm going to add a little darker shade up by this. I like to call the the strawberry leaves, like a little crown or hat. Just because technically there would be some shadow here. You don't have to get carried away. You can always lighten it by adding water. There we go. And think, oh, we can go ahead and put another layer onto the screen down here. Since this is going to be at the bottom. Put some dark shade under here. Okay, don't want to get too crazy there. We can't touch this orange slice just yet, but we could do this apricot. So grab some color for the apricot. Apricot is looking a little too similar to my peach. Actually. Okay, this color is good apricot color. And maybe just adding a little darker tone right here where there would be a shadow. Same thing over here with this peach. Or it has that little crease, the dimple. Lightly blend deck. We have to let this all dry. Because if I start going like this, I'm gonna get my arm and all of this. So we're going to let it dry and then we're going to come back and we're going to add one more layer. And then the fourth time we're going to add in details. Okay, now we're ready for round three. I did actually, while I was letting this dry, I pulled up a picture with peach and we are going to want to add a little more yellow in here. So just if you're struggling a little bit, pull up pictures of the fruit, otherwise you can follow along with me. Of course. This guy over here, we need to add some definition to it. But not grabbed the same orange that we use for this whole orange. And I'm going to lightly draw a line. This is along the bottom, the rind. This is very saturated. Then I'm rinsing off my brush and just grabbing water and lightly blending it in. We want this part between the fruit that you can eat, the rind to stay light. If you guys have ever cut open an orange before, you know that they have this white? I think it's called. Now for the flesh of the orange that you eat. We're going to make it a little more yellow. And there's usually those little hair I'll demonstrate. So there's a portion that needs to stay white. It's that membrane, the orange. So make sure you're leaving that space between it doesn't have to be perfect. But basically make your little triangles and leave some space for that membrane. I'm actually pulling up some of the color with that technique I showed you earlier. Just outlining it and filling it in. Then I'm coming in and lifting up some color. While law. Now we can come back over here to our carrot. And we are going to, we're not going to worry about this because this is going to be really easy to add in some details later, but we are going to just do one more round of some color on this carrot. Just grabbing saturated orange, lightly. Painting along the edge, rinsing my brush and just blending it in. Yeah, I like that. It needed just a little bit more of something. Going to grab just straight up yellow and just add that to it. I like that. Okay. Same thing with our radish. Maybe grab a little darker red. Same thing just lining it, rinsing off my brush, then letting that color bleed. And grabbing a little bit darker red along the bottom here. I'm just going to let that dry like that. I like that. I think it looks cool. Now because these leaves are a little bit larger. I do want to add some more color more than we would add for the carrot tops. I'm going to grab a green that's slightly darker. And I'm just gonna do that same thing that I was dealing with. Everything else. Outlining one side, rinsing off my brush and letting it bleed. And maybe some of these are slightly darker. So add a little bit darker green. If you want to darken your green or mute it, you can add a little red because that's its opposing color. Or you could add black, but I like to use, Oops, I like to use the opposing color. I feel like it just works better. It doesn't mute it out so much or make it muddy. I'm going to poke in just a little darker green down here since this is all wet. Maybe this next one is a little more green or sorry, a little more yellow. Sometimes I'm painting and talking and I'm not realizing what I'm saying. Just want to poke in some color here because yeah, there you go. Blend that in up a little bit more. I have tried to grow radishes and I really struggled with them and I love radishes. They're so delicious, super good for you to. They have tons of vitamin C fiber. We're just adding a little darker green. I'm going to add a little darker green over here. I'm just lightly punching that in. Like I said before, if anything looks too harsh, just grab a clean brush and lightly blend it in. Now, moving on to the zucchini, I'm actually going to grab a picture of a zucchini really quick. Because I'm not looking at anything. I'm just frame of reference and I think that that's making these struggles little pets. Okay, I have this leukemia and I'm going to add in a spot that's just a little more yellow. Oops, that's just bright green. Just because sometimes there's a little bit more variation and the green. And I'm just going to blend this and grab my darker green. The same thing. Shadow on this side. And we do need to deal with that little top piece. And that is usually pretty light, pretty yellow. I'm gonna make it yellow and then when we come in or not yellow, sorry, I'm making it like a yellowy green. But when we come in with our details in the next round, I'm going to make it a little, make it pop a little bit more. Coming back to our avocado, we can grab a dark green and lightly paint this edge. This is our avocado skin. And it just needs a little something more. I'm just lightly adding water. And we are going to paint are the avocado flesh. And it's okay if they bleed a little bit. Adding in some variation here. Making sure to leave this lighter on this side where the sun would come in. Something I'm going to do is this around this seed, there would be a shadow and we need that. So I'm grabbing a little bit darker green and I'm lightly poking it in so that there's a shadow on this side. It's going to make the seed standout a little bit more. This is a little harsh, so I grabbed a clean brush and I'm just lightly moving around the paint. Then maybe up here, it would come down just a little bit where the stem is. And we need to work on that seed, but we're going to come back for that after everything dries. Now for the peaches, I want to make it more yellow in the middle. So I'm going to grab a yellow and paint paint paint. All too yellow. So I guess we are doing yellow, peach. And peaches have where the pit is, like the dark, a darker shade coming out from there. And it's usually that a pinky orange tone. We are the census is wet. We can just lightly poke in that. Now this is going to look much more like a peach. There we need it to. Just a little bit more. There we go. Once it hits that water, it starts to blend really nicely. Much better. Coming back to our strawberries, maybe getting a little more saturated or a little darker red. And I'm actually going to leave this strawberry, maybe just the bottom here, adding in a little more shadow. But I'm gonna be sure that I don't come close enough to touch that one because I want to paint that one right now. So I'm just adding in this color. Then I'm going to grab a little bit darker, and I'm going to add more shadow over here. Down here. Maybe a little, poke in a little more red. Add more red over here. Here we go. Alright. It's a little harsh, but I don't want them to touch. Okay. And last but not least, this guy just put a ton of paint here. I really wanted to darken it up. Okay. Back to our Papaya. So there's usually around the center stays a lot more yellow. We're going to put more orange in this. We're gonna leave a line of yellow along where those seeds are gonna be. And then right here, where the stem comes down is the same way to where the stem goes up. I actually made this papaya wrong. Maybe you guys majors better, but the shape is a little bit off. But that's okay. Nothing has to be perfect. Okay. So just coming in here and blending that in. If it's not blending, grab a little more paint. There we go. We have our beautiful papaya. I'm going to grab the green again and just touch the edge. So it's a little brighter. It's usually kinda flat. There we go. Okay. We're not going to touch her seeds yet, but we can just hit a little brown and do the stem at the top. And even let it bleed a little bit into the skin of the papaya. Back to our watermelon friend. Grabbing an even darker shade along the bottom, rinsing off our brush for just layer upon layer upon layer. And I'm going to leave the Rhine alone because we're gonna be adding some details in there later. And we'll just add a little tiny shadow over here. I always say that and then I come back and add more. There we go. Now too. Apricot. It's looking pretty good, but let's get that outside one a little help. Kind of an orangey color. Lightly blend it. We don't want it to look too orange. So if you want to add a little pink, you can. We also don't want it to look too Peachy because we want people to know it's an apricot and not a peach. Okay, looks good. Now something we could work on is we could add something to the seed right here. I grab a brown and just lightly go around the edge, rinse off my brush, and then just blend it in and we'll come in on that fourth round and add more texture to the seed. But right now we're just trying to get little variation in the color and show that it's darker around the edges. And we can do that to our peach pit to, let's see, we can come back to our orange. I'm going to say, let's do one more round on the whole orange. Grabbing just a darker shade. Again. I'm painting where the shadow would be. And then along the bottom. Just a little bit up here, rinsing off my brush and letting the orange paint flow around here. I might add just a touch of yellow. Go. We have to let this dry before we can come in here and paint that. So now we can work on our banana. And sorry, I'm pulling up a picture and it's pulling up Banana Republic and that's all I need. Okay. So our banana, I want to darken it just a little bit. It's kinda looking plane to me. So I'm gonna make it just a little more yellow down here. And we're going to come in when we do the details and add some brown spots to it, but I just wanted to give it a little extra shadow down there. Okay. What else do we have to do? Ph is going to need the whole peach, needs a little love grabbing a peach color again, I got to mix up a little bit because I've used almost all of it. So to mix up peach, I have opera rose, I have orange, yellow, lemon deep and a little yellow ocher. And I'm just coming in here. It's pretty dark. That's okay. Making sure you leave some lighter spots. And then we can also add just yellow in there. Mix it up a little bit. Since now this is definitely a yellow peach. And we'll add a little shadow there when we come back for all the details. Now what we could do is this needs to be a little bit darker. Mix up a slightly darker brown. Just doing a nice little shadows that we love to do. Make sure to leave a little piece of the lightest color that you have because it essentially is a highlight. And then I'm going to put a little stem up here. Maybe have it come down just a little. And the papaya is pretty dry so we can come in and paint that brown part. We are going to start off, let's see how do I wanna do this? I'm actually going to paint it all brown. And then we're going to come in and the seeds are almost a black color. So we're just going to make the base this brown. Then when we do our details that we can come in even further. This seat on the apricot needs to be just a little bit darker before we put in the details because the seeds are pretty small. Now what I'm doing is I'm just leaving some little white spaces in here because an apricot and any kind of stone fruit pit is textured. We are going to put some darker lines that will look like divots, but we want those light ones too. And we're gonna do the same thing with the peach one. It's tiny little details like this that really make your artwork stand out. Sometimes it's just as simple as that whole thing. Okay. We're going to come back to the carrots over here and we are going to finally add in some detail. You're going to grab a green that's slightly darker, but those are usually pretty. Think yellowy green, pretty bright. So nothing super dark. And then all I'm doing is just putting little lines. Nothing crazy. But you want to use them sparingly because then we're going to switch the color. So you don't want to have everything be the same color or it's going to look boring. Maybe now I'm going to grab something that's a lot more like bright green. Just putting, I'm using the tip of my brush to put little lines in here. I'm going to grab some water and just blend it. I'm not overly concerned with it being perfect. I'm happy with it like that. And now we are going to put, oh, sorry, we need to, this leaf, we need to add some details to it on this peach. So I'm going to add a shadow on the bottom of it. And the shadow on the side of this line rinse off my brush. And then just blended with water. Doesn't have to be crazy, but it needs to have something because this is looking really plane. And maybe around the center of the pH we want to add just slightly darker. So there's even more variation. I'm just using the tip of my brush to make these little lines and we don't want to put them everywhere a little bit. Okay, Cool. Alright. Now we're going to come in and out or details. We can't quite start painting this guy yet because he's connected to here. So we'll save that one for later. We're adding in the details and the carrots. Carrots usually have these lines in them. You're going to want to grab an orange that's darker, maybe slightly red. And you just make these horizontal lines really simple. Make them some shorter, some longer. And then up on top, I'm just going to add a little shadow on that carrot. Then maybe a little shadow down here. We're kind of comes down. Now for the radish, I want to put some veins and the leaves going to grab a green that's slightly darker. I'm using my smallest brush, so use a detailed brush. And I'm just putting veins and leaves kind of almost like squiggly. I don't want them to be perfect. I also don't want the veins to be all one color. Alternate between maybe a darker shade. Maybe you rinse your brush off. You have really light shade. It's going to make your painting look more interesting if you do it that way. Veins, and you can always come back in and add a little bit darker if you want to. The radish, sometimes they have little lines in them. You could do that too. If you want. You don't have to know darker up. Maybe go like that. Now for that, zucchini has the little top up here. I'm grabbing a dark green mixed with a little bit of brown. And I'm just making those little lines that are in the top of the zucchini. And we're going, let me grab my white paint really quick so we can put the little teeny white spots that are sometimes on zucchini. This is the white that I like to use. This is called bleed, bleed proof white by Dr. Ph. Martin's. But you could also use white gouache if you have it, or even a gel pen, just make sure everything's completely drive. You're going to use a gel pen. I'm grabbing some of this paint and just going to put the tiniest little dots on the zucchini. I don't want it to be too crazy because they're really light on the actual zucchini. Just to give it a little bit of interests to look at. That was very short-lived. Something we forgot is the little tops of the strawberries just grabbing a little darker color and just coming in and painting knees. I'm going along the edge and then I'm just going to add water. It doesn't have to be crazy, but they were looking way to plan the way that they were. Maybe add just a little darker color here and there. Okay. Now for strawberries, they have those little teeny black seeds. So grab black and your detail, the smallest brush that you have, and just make these little teeny flax. There's really no method. Just kinda spread them out. Maybe it makes some like smaller or larger. And once these are dry, you can go in and add just little bits of that white paint. And that's another way to give it a little more depth. Then alternating between the opacity of your black. So maybe some of these are a little lighter and then some of them are a little darker. Now, moving on to our papaya and we are going to mix up a brownish black. And we're going to make these little like kind of see shapes. But we're going to want to alternate between a darker black and brown. Just to make it interesting looking, you want to leave some space in-between them. Because there is space in the actual, if you're looking at a picture. But there's circular. But I like to leave a little white in the middle, not white. Whatever the background color is, like here it's brown. Just to make it a little bit interesting, you're alternating, you're making these T-shapes between the brown and the block. Then they kind of come up here. Okay. Looks good to me. Maybe do a little shadow over there. And our watermelon. We need black seeds again. That's just a teardrop shape. I like to leave a little highlight. I feel like watermelon seeds are always really shiny. And then the same thing that we did with the strawberry seeds is some of them make them a little bit lighter. Because maybe they're pushed further into the melon. And it just looks more interesting. It gives you more depth in your painting. Some are smaller, some are bigger. I love watermelon. I have had the worst slot getting a good one though lately. Okay. That looks good. And then watermelon have on the outside they have the lines. There's like the light lines and the dark lines. We're going to make those lines. I'm just like bringing my paintbrush in a rocking motion. Just making these tiny little lines. Nothing too fancy. There we go. And we do need to connect this a little bit. So what I'm gonna do is grab a little bit of green, kind of a greenish gray color and make a line here and here. And then I'm going to take that same paint and go along this edge. And then just have water and let it blend. Because it wouldn't be completely white. Just not realistic. Maybe even dropping a little bit of a yellow in there. Cool. Now we can come down to our apricot and I want to put a shadow in that little dimple. I'm grabbing a little bit of like a darkish brown. And I'm drawing the line, then what I'm gonna do is rinse off my brush and grab water and blend it in so it doesn't look so harsh. Now if I come in to the apricot pits and use a little bit darker brown. This kinda makes squiggly lines. And some are going like this. Say some are going the other way. Just adding a little extra shadow. Maybe using that same color for a little stem right here. And almost could do the same down here. Putting it another shadow over here. Alright, that looks good. Maybe just almost grabbing black. To make a couple more of those little areas. Coming back to our banana, we're going to get some brown and we're just going to put some spots on the banana. Slightly putting this spot. And then I'm going to rinse off my brush and grab just water and blend some of them. Then maybe put in some lighter ones up here and blend those two. Grabbing a little darker brown and just giving a little color to the edges. I'm good with that banana. Let's come back to our orange. I have saturated orange for the rind. I'll leave it like that. And then grabbing an orangey yellow and just painting along the edges of these little oranges. Now I'll make sure it doesn't dry. And then just grab water and kinda blend. Blend. Just blend. And make sure you vary your color just a little lightly. So you get something interesting to look at. Then our last guy up here, onto our pH. We can take a green and make little lines in this peach leaf and grab that darkish brown, black. And we're gonna make the pit of the pH. And those are usually pretty deep pits. So feel free to pull up a picture if you want. But it's just these really dark, squiggly lines. Because there's usually a lot of texture and a peach pits. And I'm going to alternate and get basically black to do some of them. So they look deeper than others. Grabbing a brownish peach color, maybe a little gray to make this dimple. And then just lightly blending it in with water. I think that looks good. We could add on our avocado. Avocados kinda have or they do have a bumpy skin. So maybe I'm just adding little dots over here on this side. So it appears to be bumpy. The avocado pit. I'm just going to add one last brown black shadow just to make it stand out that much more lock on to blend the day because I want it to be a little more harsh. And I think these little guys need just a little something extra. I did tell you if you grab white, Let's grab white again. We can use on a couple of things. Just little tiny dots just on some of the seeds will show that there's a little highlight like the sun is hitting them. And same thing with these papaya seeds. Maybe just having some of them have a little white on them. Don't think they're sticking out. And even this orange here, you can put little light white lines to show that it's glistening. And the last thing that I don't want to do, Let's see, is that orange. I want to put some little dots for the oranges kinda have pores. If you squeeze them, you get that beautiful lemon or orange sides. I just want to put tiny little pores. So these little teeny dark orange dots. And if you do too much, just rinse your brush off and blend it in with some water. All right, There you have it. We have painted are fruits and veggies. Now, if you want, you can be totally done right now. But in the next lesson, I'm going to teach you how to digitize these and a couple of things that you could do with them. 6. Digitizing Your Artwork: Alright, we aren't going to get started. This is a bonus section, so don't feel like you have to do this. But I did want to show you guys how to digitize your artwork. If you are interested, I am using an Epson Perfection V 600 scanner. I love this scanner. I'll link it in the details of this class. It has been super helpful for me. But you can also use your iPhone to take a picture if you want. And we will be using Photoshop. So you'll need to have either a scanner and iPhones, some way to photograph your artwork and Photoshop. The first thing I'm gonna do is I'm just looking in the preview window here. And I like to scan in as a JPEG. I will say if you do a tiff, It's better quality because it doesn't, what does it call it? It doesn't compress your file. Jpeg is okay for right now, I just my computer is so full of huge files right now, I just can't take on one more big file. And then over here, if you are using the same scanner as me, you're going to have these little toggles. We can also add our artwork in Photoshop so you don't have to worry too much about this. That looks pretty good to me. I'm gonna go ahead and scan. Just going to take a minute here. Alright. So Scan, I'm going to drag it down and drop it into Photoshop. And we are going to start digitizing. The first thing I wanna do is I want to image rotate this counterclockwise, so it's straight on. And I'm going to zoom. I hit Command Plus. And we need to do is remove the background. Now we're pretty lucky here because the contrast is pretty high between the paper and the artwork because we did some pretty vibrant artwork. Now, if the contrast was really low, it's a little bit low over here because these are some light areas. It might delete some of that. So we're going to test it out really quick. I'm coming over here to the left-hand side, my panels over here with the magic eraser. And I want to push up my tolerance to 55. Having my tolerance higher is going to make sure that it takes up all that white paper. And all I have to do is click. And it looks like This is perfect. The way that I'm going to test this as I'm coming over here and making a new layer, I'm going to drag this layer underneath my layer with the fruits and veggies. And then I'm going to grab the paint tool or the paint bucket switch to black. And I'm going to make this layer black. You can make it any color you want, but I like to make it black because it helps me to see things better since this is so bright. As you can see, we do have a couple of little flecks left, and we actually did get rid of some of the artwork up here. Now, personally for this project, it doesn't bother me that much, but since this is a teaching lesson, I want to show you guys what to do, so that doesn't happen. So I'm just hitting Command Z and going back until I get to that layer. And a couple of things that you can do here. The first thing that we could try is we could reduce our tolerance. So the higher the tolerance, the more it's going to get rid of anything that is similar to the white background. The lower the tolerance, the more picky It's going to be about what it removes. I'm going to zoom in here and let's drop it down to 35. What I'm gonna do just so we can check this easier is I'm going to add back in that layer, that block layer underneath and make sure you're on the correct layer when you go to erase. That was one of my biggest problems when I first started, I was not on the right layer. So make sure you're on the right layer and we'd moves us down to 35 for the tolerance. And let's see if it's still gets rid of this. So it does. Oh, actually. It looks like that's pretty good. So 35 was what we needed. You can keep going lower and lower. But do note that the lower you go, the more you're gonna get. Kind of like unclean lines. So you can see it's left this around the strawberry. I can come in here and clean this up. But to me, since this is just a tiny bit over here, it's more worth it to me to get rid of all this stuff. So my artwork looks really clean and lose a little bit of the top of the carrot. Now, if this was artwork that I really cared about and was going to be sold, I didn't want to lose part of the carrot. Then I would do this. I would come in and clean up things. But I want to show you just going back to the 55 Tau tolerance, how clean it would look. So it looks a lot cleaner. There's still a little bit that needs to be cleaned up, which I'm going to show you guys how to do. But I did again, lose some of the carrot top. I'm okay with losing the cutoff and a little bit of the radish for this artwork. But if you're not okay with that, what you can do is we can go back again. And go back to 35. We're not going to lose it, but now we have to come in and clean up this artwork. So a couple of things you can do. I like to grab the eraser tool and just come in here. Now, if you don't want your line to be so harsh and you still want it to be soft. Come up here and you can change your brush. You can change it to a soft brush and you can make it hard or less hard or less hard is going to mean that it's more of a smoother. As you can see, it's really smooth. For my style of artwork. I'm actually okay with the harder line. But this is going to take a little bit of time. So I am going to fast-forward this. But just so you guys know, you're describing your eraser tool, another thing you can do is I wouldn't really recommend it for this particular use, but you can use your magnetic lasso. And if you just click it, it magnetizes to the darker edge. Then you just, oops, you can hit delete and it'll delete one of the anchor points. And then just come back around and you have to double-click where you started and press Delete. It'll get rid of it. And then to get rid of the marching ants command D, I'm on a Mac, sorry if you're on a PC, I don't know what the piece the one is, maybe Control D. Okay, so I'm gonna come in here and I'm going to clean up all of these little areas and you guys can do the same. And I'm just going to fast forward it really quick. So you're not watching this for an hour? Alright. Something that I didn't explain to you guys was, if you are again, I'm on a Mac, but you can do the brackets, the open brackets to make it the eraser bigger or smaller. I'm not sure what the command is on a PC, but on a Mac, it's the brackets. Forgot to tell you guys that. So just coming in here, got a little more to clean up. I'm not going to make this perfect because it doesn't need to be. But if you are, if this was a project for a client or I was putting this on a product, I would really get in here and get this to be just absolutely perfect. But for this, it's looking okay. Just coming in here, another thing you can do, so the Magic Eraser wasn't able to pick up this, but I'm able to grab the Magic Eraser and come in there and get rid of that. So sometimes if there's little spots like that, you can grab your magic eraser again and it will get rid of them. Just doing one quick overview to make sure that for the most part, this is looking good. Just to remember that this is watercolor. It's okay if things are a little bit like a jagged edge, and if you zoom in, it's really jaggedy. And that's okay because that's the nature of watercolor. Now that we have this all digitized, what I'm going to do is separate them because right now they're all on one layer and I want them to be on separate layers. If I want to do things like make a card with them or a tea towel or something like that. I'm making sure that I'm on my original layer. And if you are a very organized person, I highly suggest labeling your layers. I'm really bad about it. I remember working in advertising as a project manager and the art director would get so mad when the other artists would not label their files. So label your files for your own sanity. I'm coming over here, I'm grabbing my lasso tool. And it's just what it sounds like. It's a lasso and I'm going to lasso the fruit and put it on its own layer. To do that, I am clicking down on my mouse. I'm holding down the click. What would you say? I guess that's right. Then I'm going to come back to my original point, make sure they're touching, then release the click. I'm going to right-click. Again. I'm on a Mac. I'm going to layer via cut. And as you guys can see over here, I have the papaya on its own layer now, and I'm going to label that layer. I'm going to do that with all of these pieces. Something else that you guys can do is libraries. I don't know if you ever use libraries. I use them all the time. As you can see on the right-hand side here, I have tons of them. I use them a lot with my wedding clients. Um, let's see, like adding and Matt, save the dates. I put all of the digitized art work into here. So that when it's really nice when you're working in the Adobe Creative Suite, because when I get into illustrator and I'm designing their save the date, so their invitations, I can just pull all these things over, which makes it super simple. And it's also in Photoshop if I need them. But if we want to make a new library, we're going up to these little lines right here, clicking Create New Library. And I'm going to call this fruits and veggies. I hope I don't already have a library labeled that. It looks like I don't. And it's the easiest thing in the world. Grab your little selection tool over here or the move tool. And I'm clicking, holding down my mouse and dragging it. And you see the little plus sign with the green. And I'm just dropping it in there. And now it's in my library forever. It's amazing. Another way you can export your artwork is you can export as a PNG. Now you want it to be a background list PNG, because otherwise you're going to have a white box background that's coming with their artwork and you don't want that. Typically if you're gonna be using it for different uses. So this, you can just export like this. I'm not gonna do that because I'm making a library. But essentially what I'm going to do is I'm gonna come in here and I'm going to do that with everything. So grabbing the lasso tool, cutting it off of the original and paper, labeling it. So you do want to label it because it's going to be labeled when you move into your library to, and then just dragging it over to the library. I this is like a lifesaver for me. I don't know. Maybe it's really simple and a lot of people know this, but it's, It's pretty awesome. Something else you can do. I like to use the Lasso tool because I can make the lasso tool any size I want. But some people like to use this marquee tool. Let's see where I can use it. So I could use a here. And it's the same thing. Layer via cut. Oops, that was actually an apricot. So I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to move these all into my library. And then in the next lesson, I'm going to show you guys maybe a couple of not, maybe I'm going to show you a couple of fun ways that you can use your artwork to create products. 7. Adding your Artwork to products: Alright, we're gonna get started and just, I'm going to show you some simple ways that you can add a design to some products. So the first thing that I wanna do is I am an illustrator. I have opened up a file that is five inches by five inches. And I'm going to grab my ellipse tool. I'm holding down Shift and just pulling out a circle. We're going to keep this behind. I want to make a little wreath with the watercolor artwork that we just created. I'm just showing you guys a really simple way to do this. Of course, if you know how to do pattern design, you can totally do a pattern with these. But I just wanted to show you a quick way. So again, I have my library's open here. If your libraries are not open, what you need to do is come to Window and make sure libraries is clicked. Then I'm getting into my fruits and veggies. And all I have to do is click hold down and drag it onto this. It is not on here yet, it is on my mouse. And what I do is I hold down shift because I don't want it to get warped. And I just drag my mouse to the size that I want the artwork to be. And just edit it to the size I want it to be. And I'm just going to go around this. Now I keep this circle in the background so I make sure that it's a perfect circle. And I'm just doing the same thing. I'm just dragging these fruits and veggies, turning them appropriately. Banana. This is reminding me of those candies rents right now. I don't know if you guys are familiar with that. Now, let's say, let me grab something like this peach here. Let's say I want to flip this. There's a couple of things you can do. One is if you click on it and then you just hover, you're going to get this little thing. That's good for turning things like this. But if you want to completely flip it, you need to transform. So go to, I always forget where it is because it's different in Photoshop. Go to object, transform, reflect. And you could do horizontal, which wouldn't make sense here, or vertical. And I wanted to do vertical to flip it up a little bit. Oops, cancel. And then I'm just going to come around and make it this wreath. Now when you make a wreath, It's important to keep things balanced. And it's just, you just have to learn as you go. I wish there was a hard and fast rule, but it's kind of more of just looking at your artwork and seeing where there's holes in it. I usually just place things and then I go back and move them around, something that you can do. So say, I want this banana to be in front of the strawberries. I'm going to make sure my bananas selected, right-click, arrange, Bring to Front. And that's an easy way you're gonna be using that tool a lot. As you go through this. I do have a lot of orange in this color palette. And I want to make sure that it's evenly dispersed. Like there's some different like there's some greens and there's some oranges, not just like all orange on one side. And then you can just Command C, Command V. So copy and paste if you want to. I want this to be behind the peaches, but in front of the strawberries. So I'm going to send backwards. And sometimes you have to do it a lot because what's happening is it's, I'll show you on a layer, layers panel over here. The avocado is going down the layers panel each time I say send backwards. So as you can see, the strawberries actually, I want them to still be. Actually, that's fine. No, I want the avocado to be above the strawberries. But I want it to be that was a peach, right? I want it to be below the pH. So what I would do is I would move the peaches up above. There we go. You'll have to play with that a little bit. And then let's see, let's add some watermelon. This isn't going to be perfect. I love how I had to say that so much. I'm such a perfectionist. That's why I have to basically, I'm just telling myself this. But if you are a perfectionist, be easy on yourself. Maybe I'm copying and pasting this banana and I want to flip this banana. So I'm going to reflect horizontal. Let's see. Yeah, like that. My dog. She just let out a sigh. That kinda looks silly, but whatever, it's fine. Put some strawberries up here. Obviously like this needs when you're making a wreath. It takes a lot of time. That's why whenever I do this stuff for clients, it's it's pretty pricey and there's good reason for that. It's because it takes a lot of time to get this right. It's you can't just come in here and be like, Oh, I'm just going to lay a couple of things down. There's definitely a method to it. Oops. And maybe you wanna do just veggies or just fruit. You don't have to have all of this in here. This is kinda looking like a hot mess, to be honest. Let's see if the zucchini has a place here, but let's, let's see. We could try it. Definitely very time-consuming. And I am going to be offering a class on how to make race and how to do crafts and stuff. But it's going to be a lot more involved. And for this class I was just teaching you guys had to pay and this is just a bonus. So we're not going to get too crazy with it. But I do want to make it look like halfway decent before we before I show you the products, oops. Maybe put this guy, I want him to be behind. Here we go, and then it's looking pretty buried here. So we need to put something over here. And let's see, why don't we do one strawberry maybe on top. And then you can also look at this and assess what colors you need. So there's a lot of red over here, so something green would be nice. But I don't want Too much. We could do an avocado. But maybe flipping this avocado, so it looks a little different. Vertical. There you go. And you want them to be similar in size. I'm actually okay with that. I like it. I'm going to put another avocado up here, but I'm going to hide it behind stuff. Okay. And just needs something else right here. Like this. A little bigger. Oops. And if you're ever having a hard time moving an element, these are pretty like I'm able to click on everything. But you can always lock things so that you can pick up something else. This is very crude. Not crude, but like a very simple, rough breed. But it's just for the purposes of me showing you guys how to do this. I'm going to take this and I want to export it as a PNG. The reason you want it to be a PNG is because you don't want it to have a background and because you want it to be printed on something. Now I can see real quick, I made a mistake on this. I did not get rid of these marks right here. And a way you can edit that is double-click on your radish. And what it's gonna do is it's going to open it up in Photoshop. And to better see, I'm going to do a black layer back here. I'm going to zoom in and I want to fix this. So this is really cool. Oops, I'm on the wrong layer. On your radish layer. This is really cool because, because your artwork isn't a library, it's accessible in all of your applications for Photoshop and you can edit it. So if I decided that this was way too red and I wanted to make it lighter or change the color slightly. I could do that. Make sure you get unclick this black layer before you save it. So now I'm going to hit Save, and it's automatically going to save it to my library. And it's going to update it in illustrator. Isn't that so cool? It's just amazing. I love it. Let's export this as, excuse me, as. Unless PNG, I'm just going to save it to my desktop. Fruit and veggie wreath. And we are going to use your art boards for some reason. Oh, you know what we need to do? Go to your Layers panel and get rid of that circle. So just unclick the eye and it'll get rid of that. That's why we're having that white circle in the middle. So X4, again as a PNG background, Liz, fruit and veggie reef. Perfect. And we're going to go to a wholesale site that I use. Now, if you are not a business, I'm pretty sure that it's hard to get a wholesale license because I had to apply and add my website. But I don't know. Maybe if you tell them that you're interested in the future, they might let you use it. Otherwise, I suggest going to a website like Zenzele. It's going to be for the most part, the same process. I'm not going to show you how to use dazzle because dazzle is very customer-friendly. Like a customer to customer business or a business to customer business. It's very easy to use their stuff. But on printed minutes, I'll show you really quick. So say they have all these different products. It's really cool. You could do mugs, you could do like home goods, blankets, drink, where if you're doing something such as the blanket, I would recommend doing a repeating pattern. But for the purpose of this, I'm just going to show you really quick. So we have this pillow. And as you can see, you have to order a larger quantity. I think the least you can order as ten. And what you're gonna do is design the product. You just go ahead and drop in your P and G. Double-click. And let's see how slow. This is. Something that I did for Christmas. I did tea towels. It's really cool. I really recommend if you are a business getting that that license. So I can load this up and I can insert it onto my pillow. And as you can see, this is outside of the red mark and it needs to be inside of the red mark so I can edit this. Why is this going to be so difficult? Actually, maybe that's fine. Let's see. Okay, so you can see on the edge. So I would need to edit this and make it smaller. But I just wanted to show you guys it's really easy to upload. Once you have the background list, PNG always want it to be background list and you can do all sorts of products in here. Let's see. 8. Final words: Alright, you did it. Congratulations on completing this class. I really hope that you enjoyed this class and maybe learn something new today. If you wouldn't mind leaving a review if you enjoyed this class, it means so much to me. It gets my class seen by other people and it just makes me feel good to know that you guys liked this class. Please leave a review and please share your artwork. Again, I love to see what you create and it's really cool because everybody will create something slightly different because everybody is unique. Thanks again for watching this class. If you want to follow me, you can follow me on Instagram at lavender and see I also have a YouTube channel and I have more Skillshare classes as well. I hope you have the most beautiful day.