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Watercolour Illustrations in Procreate for Beginners - Bring a Hand-Painted Look to Digital Art

teacher avatar Wiktoria Miko, Professional portrait artist

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Welcome!

      1:12

    • 2.

      Grapes

      6:38

    • 3.

      Raspberries

      14:03

    • 4.

      Oranges

      9:50

    • 5.

      Final Thoughts & Class Project

      1:40

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About This Class

Learn how to draw fruits in Procreate using simple steps! We will create these portraits together, one section at a time. Each step of the process is explained and demonstrated in-depth.

  • We will draw three fruits - grapes, raspberries and oranges. 
  • Class is divided into simplified lessons of 15 minutes or less. 
  • The colour palettes are provided to make the process as easy as possible for you. You may import them into Procreate and use the colour sample tool to select them.
  • We will familiarise ourselves with Procreate, by practicing using layers, selecting colours,  the Apple Pencil. 
  • We will learn how to draw shadows and build depth to make our fruits look realistic. 

Why you should take this class: 

  • By breaking down the portrait into simplified steps, you will build confidence when drawing. 
  • The fruits all have different colours and textures so you will learn many new techniques that you can use to create more fruit art in the future on your own. 
  • With the skills learnt, you may create amazing portraits for your friends and family, or even start a business. 

Suitable for Beginner Levels

The drawing process is simplified for beginner artists. 

Materials: 

  • Apple iPad 
  • Apple Pencil
  • Procreate App

HAPPY DRAWING! Can’t wait to see what you create! 

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Wiktoria Miko

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1. Welcome! : Hello, I am victory. And this is my very experienced assistant, Toby. I am a portrait artist and in this class I will show you how to draw it. Very, very easy, flush or watercolor style paintings in Procreate, this class is best suited for beginners. The class will be broken down into very quick and easy steps. And I will guide you through the entire drawing process. We will go through all the stages necessary to complete the story. We will begin by creating a color palette. You may either create this with me. We'll use the one that I have provided, which includes all the colors I have used for each of the three drawings. We will continue by drawing the base layer of each fruit. I will show you how to draw highlights and shadows to make your fruit drinks appear realistic. And they mentioned, we will be going over the entire drawing process from the very first pencil mark down to the very last. So it would be amazing if he could join in and withdraw the portrait with me Asda, we are working on it together. I am confident that after this class you will not only be able to draw these free fruits, but create other basic art in procreate. I hope you find this class very informative, but I also wish she find it enjoyable and relaxing and have fun while learning. I am truly delighted to present this class to you. So let's begin. See you in the first lesson. 2. Grapes : Hi students, Welcome to the class. In this lesson, we will be drawing grapes to make this drawing look like it's done with gouache. I am using a watercolor paper as a separate layer and destroying in the projects and resources tab, I will attach this paper, so just download it and import it to Procreate, this paper will show through slightly and we'll create a beautiful realistic effect. We create a new layer and we will create a color palette for blue grapes. We are looking for a few different shades of blue, a dark, a medium, and they light blue. Let's start with dark blue color. I'm selecting one from here and I will just create a small.in the bottom left corner, let's make sure the opacity is all the way up. So we have a new layer selected and with a gouache brush. So this is the, this is in the painting category. It comes pre-installed on the Procreate app so you don't need to download anything. So here we are creating a dark blue dot. And with this brush you have to draw a few layers to get the darkest tones. So just pick up your brush from the canvas and put it back down and you will see how each layer is darker. It also helps if you apply more pressure to the pencil. Now we are looking for a medium blue color, and again, we are creating a few layers. Now, the lightest color. The reason why we're creating this as because once we are painting, we can result back to this color palette and we don't have to search for the color here. It just simplifies the drying process. But it feels like we have a real premixed palette which makes the drawing feel even more realistic. Let's not forget the branch. We also have to premix the brown shades for this. So we're scrolling to the reds here and picking a dark brown color, again, creating a dot here on our palate. And we do the same with a light brown color. We can build layers with this brush. So even though we have only a few colors, we can get so much more value out of it by applying some colors thinner than others. So this is our complete palate. We have a light brown, a dark brown, a light medium, and dark blue. Now we can move on to the drawing. So we're going to use the select tool over here. And we're going to take it all the way down to the dark blur. Because when we start drawing grapes were going to the underlayer first, which is the darkest grapes. So let's make sure our opacity is all the way up and make the brush a bit bigger. We are creating a new layer and we're going to select the darkest blue color. And we will just stop by during the grapes. And this is going to be the underlayer. So the darkest grapes that are in the shadow, We're drying them first because the ones that are on top, they are exposed to more sunlight, so they will appear lighter. So we are drawing the darker grapes fast. And we really want this to be a very dark layer. So let's make sure we draw a few layers of this. Play with this until you click off and then come back on. It doesn't add more color. So just make sure you pick up your brush. While you are building the layer. As you can see, it looks like a real paint. The opacity of the brush is quite low, so the paper shows from underneath. And it looks like a convincing effect as though it's a real gouache painting. So we're just during quiet big blue dots. They are scattered around pretty evenly. And we are looking for a rough current shape. Now let's use the sample tool again and pick up the medium blue color. And we will start working on the second day of grapes. So again, a few layers of this and I'm applying it over the top of the dark blue grapes and I'm doing it in a way that I'm trying to fill in the white gaps in-between the grapes. And now we will use the sample tool and pick up the lightest blue color. And we will create a final layer of the grapes. Again, we're just placing them so that they are covering the white gaps in between the grapes. And it's unknown here at the bottom to make the shape a bit more off, a bit more realistic, amazing. So now the grapes are pretty much done. And now we are going to draw the branch of the grapes. So let's pick up a new layer again. We're going to sample the dark brown color fast and we will decrease the size of the brush because the branch is quite thin. So lets him all the way in. And let's start by drawing a small dot at the top. And let's drag it down. We're going to pull this up a little bit because I want the branches to be a little bit longer. And now I will take the light brown, zoom all the way back in again, make an even smaller brush and add some detail. Here. We want it to look like the branches snapped over here. And we want to add a highlight to the left side to make this look a little bit more three-dimensional. Now what we're going to do is we're going to hide the branch behind the grapes. So let's hold down this layer and then we're going to pull it underneath the grapes. And as you can see, it is hidden behind the grapes. If we want to, we can maneuver it around whether you want it to be shorter or longer. Also something we can do to add a little bit more of a realistic effect is use this blue color and find an even lighter version of it. And will increase the brush size again. And let's build a bit more highlight. I felt like the grapes look kinda flat, so I want to add some highlight early to the lightest blue grapes. And we're keeping them to the left side so that it appears as though the light is coming from the left side. So the grapes on the left will be a bit lighter. As you could see on their branch. We did it in a way that it looked as though the sunlight was coming from the left side and we want it to be consistent. So yes, hey, we're just adding some highlights to the grapes. And let's not forget to add this color to the color palette. So the groups are pretty much done. So we did a dark blue layer of the grapes. We did a medium blue layer and a light blue layer. Then we drew the branch and the highlights on top of the lightest grapes. Now feel free to remove the color palette, and this is how our drawing looks. Thank you so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed and I will see you in the next lesson. 3. Raspberries: Hi students, Welcome to the class. In this lesson, we will be drawing the raspberries. We begin with a fresh new canvas. We go to Photo and we import the watercolor paper that I have provided in the Projects and Resources tab. We click on a new layer. And on this layer we will create the color palette. So we go to the colors and we slide over to the pinks. I'm going more towards the reddish colors because it's more of a reddish pink. And again, we're going to pick a dark medium and a light color. For the dark color. Let's pick this one. Make sure we put the opacity up and work within 11% or so size brush. Again, I'm just creating a circle of the scholar so that we can sample this. And it's simplified for us to draw. Now we're going to draw the medium pink. What we're doing is just creating a lighter version of this previous color. And again, we draw a few layers and then pick the lightest version. You can scroll around, see what you like. So this is the lightest color I chose. I think in addition to this, Let's also make one very, very light pink. And this one will be great for the highlights. And we will make one more very dark color as well. So let's select this shift up to make room for the dark color. So this one is almost black. And it will just creating a draft of this right in the corner. This is for the raspberries and we also have to draw the branch and leaves. So again, we are doing dark, medium and light. So look for a green color I like when they fall more into the yellow hues. So we are first getting our dark green and then a medium green. And of course the lightest green. I would like to create a more yellowy shade just to pull the highlights and leaves. Alright, so these are all the colors I'll be working with. We can make them a little bit smaller. They don't need to be so big. Okay, So now let's move on to actually join the raspberries. So we create a new layer. And we're going to draw two raspberries hanging from one brunch. So I will begin with this dark color second from the bottom. And we will just draw a very quick outline of the raspberry. We don't need this to be high divisible. We just want to create the rough shape. And what we will do is we will just create one raspberry for now. Because for the second raspberry, all we can do is duplicate this layer. And it's just a little strategy to save us a bit of time. And I will just draw one Reisberg and duplicate it to make the second one. So we're going to draw all the little dots within the raspberry. And let's start with the button. I'm even going to increase the brush size a little bit. And we really, really want this to be a dark layer. We're creating these very rough shapes just one-by-one. And they cannot be overlapping. They are alongside each other and they are kind of squished, but they are not overlapping. They're also not perfect circles. Almost imagine them as little balloons squished in one very tight space. You just keep on making these one-by-one very slowly. And don't worry about the gaps in-between the berries. We are going to fill these in in a moment. Okay, so this is what I've asked today. It looks like. Now what we will do is we will sample the third from the bottom color. This is the medium pink. We will start here on the left side and just fill in shapes. So we essentially just filling in the shapes just to build some dimension. Okay, so now we have this shape and we will take the light pink color and we really will focus it on the left side. So we are now going to imagine that the light is coming from the left side like this. Essentially what would happen is the light would be focused on the left side and this right side would be a little bit darker. So when we apply the lighter color, we focus it on the left-hand side because this is where it will be more apparent. So it will be most apparent on the left, a little bit less apparent in the middle. And the right hand side will be almost entirely in the shadows, so there'll be very little highlight. So this is a light color we will be using. And we'll start to build the highlight. So we're starting on the left. And again we're just going over the shapes, focusing it towards the left side of each shape. Like this. So now we're coming towards the right side and we're just going to apply it very thinly. We're adding just little touches of it. And we will add some more of it here on the left side to just keep on building the highlight. So maybe now you can slowly see that we are gradually building some depth that the right side looks like it's a bit darker than the left side. And we will amplify this effect even more by applying the lightest color. So this is the very light pink and we will just focus it on the highlights. We'll make the brush size a little bit smaller. I'm working with about five per cent brush size, and we'll focus this on the left side of the berry, leaving this color in the middle of each theory. So you can see how this berry is starting to look a bit more free dimensional. And now what we're going to do is we're going to fill in the white gaps in between the shapes of the virus. So we are selecting our darkest color and we will make a new layer. And we will drag this all the way behind the berry. And we're going to bring this one under the berry with a pretty large brush. We are going to fill this in. Now the buret is starting to come together because of this. We are drawing a few lines of this so that the gaps are really, really dark. Now it looks like all of these little shapes are connected and you can really see how big of a difference this makes when we remove this, it almost completes the very end. Make it look like the shapes are all attached. So now we will start drawing the leaves on top of the barrier. So let's create a new layer here and select the darkest green color. And let's decrease the brush size again. And we start by forming this shape. Almost like a teardrop shape I'm building. And create more layers to make this a solid color. I do a circle and a pointy shape coming out of it again. And I was so cool. This one's going to be carrying down. Let me do one more over here. And a final leaf here to the left side. Great. And next we will pick up the lighter green color. So this is the medium green. And we will start to build the shape of the leaves. So I'm just applying this into the inside of each leaf to separate them from each other. I'm almost trying to emphasize their shape. Now for the next stage, we're going to pick up a light green color. And we are going to draw it in a way so that it's lighter towards the left side where the light is coming from. Because remember, we drew the buret in a way that the sunlight would be coming from the left side. So we have to be consistent with this. I'll just add a touch of this to the leaves on the right. And now let's make the brush much smaller. We're using about a 2% size. And we are going to draw the line that runs right down the middle of each leaf. So this is the same light green color. Okay, and now what we're going to do is we're going to duplicate this barrier so that we can draw the second one. So what we're going to do is we are selecting the layers. And let's make sure that these three layers are next to each other. And we click on the top one and click Merge Down. Then we do the same thing with this one and merge down. And now when we move these around, they will all move together. We go into this layer and we are going to slide it to the left side. And we're going to click Duplicate. So now what happens is we have two berries. So we're going to select the bottom layer and click this arrow here on the top. And we'll go into, move it to the left side to create our second Barry. I'm rotating it a little bit. And I'll also make it just a little bit smaller so that the two berries are a little bit different from each other. And we want the one in the bacteria appear as though it's a little bit darker because as you can see, they merge right here. So we are selecting the darkest pink color. I guess this is a burgundy. And we'll just go over the barrier over here. And we're doing just a thin layer enough to separate the berries from each other. And now you can see that the various kind of a pay separate. Now we can also go into this magic pencil button over here at the top. And we will select the hue saturation and brightness at the very top. I'm going to drag down the brightness scale. And as you can see, if we drag it down, that changes the brightness. So we're going to just make a slight hint darker, just by three per cent darker. And then I'm taking this Barry and I will make it just a little bit lighter. It's just a tiny difference, but it really helps in separating the two raspberries from each other. So we are creating a new layer and we're going to draw the branch that connects the two berries. So let's select the darkest green collar, zoom all the way in. And essentially we want to connect from this point, this point into the top of the branch over here. So we drag it down, create a slightly curved line. We're going to go over this a few times just to make it quite thick. And we're going to do the same thing with the barrier on the left. Connect them at the very top, and make this quite dark green color. Now, we'll go into sample the medium green color and we are going to make the brush a little bit smaller. And we'll start to build highlight on the left-hand side. We remember that the light is coming from the left side, so we need to be consistent. And now let's take the lightest green color, zoom in again, and we're going to just draw one more stroke to enhance the highlight a little bit more. And this is pretty much done. The only thing we have left to do is we want to add a hint of yellow and we will add some final highlights. We make this brush really small and add some final highlight again on the left side branches. We can also add some to the very tip of the leaves. We are focusing this on the left side because this is where the highlight is coming from. And you will also complete the very top of the branch. So I am adding some highlights here. This is pretty much done. This is our raspberry during complete. So now what we will do is we will merge all of these layers and we can get rid of our color palette. We can move it around. However we like it. You can increase or decrease the size. And that's it. This is our Turing complete. There are some additional things he can do if you want to. You can go onto the magic pencil icon again and play around with the brightness, see if there is any effect you prefer. You can make the darker likely. You can change the saturation and the hue of the berries, make it a little bit more blue or a little bit more red. And what you can also do is you can go into the color balance and you can play around with each color, see if there's anything you prefer. And this is our raspberry drawing. I really hope you enjoyed it. I know I did. I hope you learned something useful and I hope you loved the drain. I will see you in the next lesson. Thank you so much for watching. Bye. 4. Oranges: Hi class. In this lesson we will be drawing oranges. So again, we start with our watercolor paper. We're going to start by creating a new layer and we will build our color palette. So again, we are using the gouache brush in the painting category and make sure the opacity is up and pick the size. So let's start by picking the colors for the oranges. So this seems like a very good column, and this is going to be the mid tone. Now we need a darker version of this color. So this is going to be the shadow color, then a very light orange for the highlights. So we've got all the way to the top and we pick a light orange from here. Let's see how that looks, and let's just make this a little bit smaller. We also want to draw the branches and the leaves, so we're going to need a green color. So we slide over here to the grains. And I picked this one. I always like the ones that have a slight yellow hint to it. Again, my type a few times to make sure I have a really thick layer. And now we need a lighter version of a scholar. And I suppose we can start with drawing the oranges. So let's make a new layer. So let's start by sampling the Smith turned orange over here. Let's use a pretty big brush. Essentially, we just want to draw the free large circles. So I'm just making this into a very thick layer also has a trick. If you draw a circular shape like this, connect the two and hold it down. It will make a nice Sacco NFC tap. It will create a perfect circle. So you can use this as a guide. So when you are creating a shape like the orange, you can use this trick to create the perfect orange circle. Say Hey, we just draw the circle, hold it down, and then we color it in. Let's make this one a little bit bigger and now onto our final orange. And now what we will do is we will add shadows to the oranges to create depth. So we sample the darkest color. And we're going to imagine that the light is coming from the top left angle. So if you picture this, it would be lighter at the top left side and dark at the bottom right side. So we're going to focus all the shadows towards the bottom right side of each orange. And when we draw the branch later on, we will also focus the shadows onto the right side and the highlights on the left side. We are making essentially this half-moon shape. And we can use this pointing, the finger icon over here. And we can essentially use this as a blending tool. So we just blend these colors together to create a very seamless blend. So why don't we repeat the process over the remaining two oranges. Also, this orange will be slightly behind this orange over here, so it will cost a small shadow. Again, we use our blending tool and we work these three colors together. And I keep my opacity at about 60 per cent. It's quite a strong brush. As you can see. If you have a low opacity, it just gives you better control over it. If you just bring the opacity down, it's much easier to control the brush this way. So now we're going to sample the lightest orange color and we'll pick up a bigger brush and we will start to rebuild the highlight. Again. Remember we are focusing this towards the top left side and using layers to build up the highlight. And every time I create a new layer, I make it a little bit smaller and I focus it in a smaller part of the orange. Again, by creating a layer pretty much around the entire orange than the second layer. It's bit smaller. Then the next layer will be even smaller towards the center. So even though we are working only with three colors, which seems like a very limited palette, we can use layers to create more times. So what I'm going to do is I'm even going to sample an even lighter shade of yellow. And we'll just focus it right in the very center of the orange. And of course, we have to add this to our color palette. So as you can see, these oranges look kinda 3-dimensional. Because we drew the shadow towards the bottom right and the highlight was the top-left. Sorry, it's very consistent. The light is coming from this direction and it looks a little bit more realistic this way. Okay, so next we're going to draw the branch that connects these oranges that sample the darkest orange color. Before we do that, let's just move this layer down a little bit so we create room for the branch. Okay, So we sampled this brown color and let's make sure we are working with a smaller brush. I'm using about a five per cent brush. And we will try to connect these three points to each other. Let's make a lighter shade of the brown for the branch. And we will essentially add highlights to the branch. And that's not forget to add this color to our palette. And I would also like to make a darker version of this brown to add some more shadows. So I am just focusing it towards the right side of the branch. We will also add some darkness to the very tip of the branch, so that's a bit more distinct. What I would also like to do is is this lightest color and use it as a highlight to the branch. So again, I'm using a small brush and I'm focusing it on the left side of the branches. And now we can finally move on to drawing the leaves. So let's pick up this dark green color and let's draw a leaf over here. And let's use just a slightly bigger brush size to help us create a nicer shape of the leaf. So essentially I'm creating like a teardrop shape. And I'm going to fill this in. And let's create another one over here. And let's also create some leaves coming out from behind the oranges. So let's create a new layer and let down behind the oranges. So you hold down the layer and you put it underneath the oranges. So let's have this one over here. Now what I would like to do is I would create another version of the screen. I'm creating a darker color just so we can add some depth to the leaves. So let's add this to our palette in case we want to use it after we go back to our oranges. And remember the light is coming from the left, top left side, so the shadow will be focused towards the bottom right. And again, we can use our blending tool to make this blend a bit more seamless. So now we're going to sample the light green color and we're going to add the highlights. Again. We're focusing them towards the top left side because this is when light is coming from. And of course we have to add it to these two leaves as well. And now let's use a very small brush with a light green color. And we're going to create the line that runs right through the middle of the leaves. And this kind of follows the curves of the leaves. And we will also draw the little lines. Why don't we know, merge these two layers together so we click on the top layer and make sure that it's above the leaves. We tap on it. We click Merge Down, and now it's all one layer so we can move it all around. Then we want to connect to these leaves to the branch. So we're going to use our darkest color. Make sure we are working with a thin brush. And we're just going to connect them like this. Again, we have to kind of go over the line a few times to make sure that it's dark enough. And we want this line to be connected to the light green line that runs free to leave, if that makes sense. Now for the last step, we are going to sample that green color and we're going to focus in on the left side of these little branches that we just drew. This is the finished drawing. We can now take up our color palette. You can resize it however you like. And that's it. I really hope you enjoyed this class. Thank you so much for watching, and I will see you in the next lesson. Bye. 5. Final Thoughts & Class Project : We made it to the end. Congratulations for completing the class. This was not a simple portrait, so I would really like to praise you for finishing all the lessons. To summarize, we drew free fruits. We started with the grapes than the raspberries, and finally the beautiful oranges. We began each drawing by creating a color palette. Then we draw the basic shapes of the fruits. We followed by creating the highlights and shadows. Finally, we finished off by drawing the branches and leaves. I hope that by breaking them, the drawing into these four sections, we managed to simplify the drawing and give you more confidence to create on your own. That being said, for the class project, I would be delighted if you attempt to this drawing with me. It would be amazing if you created all three fruits with me or perhaps pick just one you like the most. So follow the class along and the draw with me as though we are working on it together. You will find all of the project details and the drawing references in the projects and resources tab below. I welcome any questions you might have. If you would like me to clarify something or explain something, father, I wouldn't be truly delighted to help. I would like to thank you again for joining me. I had so much fun creating this for you. I found the drawing very relaxing and hope you did too. I have a passion for teaching, so truly thank you for being here. Here's my Instagram account on my website if you would like to see more of my work and support me. I also create portraits of people, animals, and other landscapes. So if you are curious to see those, that's where you'll find them. I also have more pastel classes here on Skillshare. So if you enjoyed this course, please have a look. That is all I am very excited to see your project and answer any questions you may have. Thank you again for being here and a big congratulations for completing the class. Bye.