Whimsical Fish Character Development in Procrate

1. Intro Skillshare: Hi, everyone. My name is Katya, and welcome to this class. In this class, I will show you how to draw a wind cal character, and I chose something as simple as fish because they still have all the attributes of a character, and they have all the incredible shapes and forms that we can imagine, and we can pull and stretch them into anything that we want, okay? So I really hope that by the end of this class, after we go through shapes, linework and coloring, you will come up with your own winder character that is going to be interesting, full of personality, and you will really enjoy the class altogether because it's meant to be fun and definitely there to make you relax, open up your inspiration, and just go with the flow. Do not push yourself. Do not make yourself drop perfect. Fighting perfectionism here. So, yeah, um, thank you so much for taking the class if you do, and I hope to see you in the first lesson. Thank you. 2. Part 1 Looking for shapes: Hey, guys. So today, we're going to be doing some fish concept sketches and giving some color to them. So we're going to be creating some fun characters, and I hope you will enjoy this class. Okay. So I will share all the resources and the canvas that I created. It's especially made for watercolor and pencils, and I will show you how to use it. So let's begin. So the first thing that I want to do is I have prepared myself a pintrasbard of different shapes of fish, and that the shapes of fish, what I want to do is I want to take different interesting elements and put them all together in a couple of fish that I like. So I'm going to take some colors that I like to create sets first. So let's start doing that. So as I start creating the silhouettes, I'm looking at the fish, and there are some fish. I'm going to take a brush that is I will share this brush as well. So I'm going to take a brush first. First, let's go. First, we're going to go onto the layer. That is not the watercolor layer, so that it doesn't disturb us. So, okay, so what I want to do is I want to take a fish that I see here. And I have my brush quite large. This is the fish that I see here. That's kind of a square shaped fish. And what we're going to do, we're going to maybe give her some lips. Then here at the bottom, she has these very thin kind of looking loppers I'm thinking how to replicate those? Maybe replate them shorter a bit. Like, so I'm already thinking what it's going to look like on the other side. Oh actually, maybe we see only. Here thick, and then let me see. Then further on, then we can separate this. I'm gonna move fish a bit so that I have more space to look at it to work on it. Alright. So here, what we're doing are I'm going to see how her then on top, it's made. It's like this triangle that goes all the way here. And here, there's smaller triangle. Goes all the way here, and then it also has this little part where the tail starts. The tail is quite interesting. It has these little doesn't have a straight shape. Okay, so this is my first Gbola. This is my first fish silhouette. And now I can do is I can go and correct the shapes where I think that they could be better. I'm going to use the same brush to make that they are more visible. Maybe these could be very, very thin, like so. And here you clean up the lin. Here we can add another of those little pointy things. And with the eraser, what we can do is we can come in here and refine it. So I'm going back and forth between the eraser and the brush. Okay. So in this plate, like in this stage, we are shaping our fish. Okay? So What I'm doing is I'm creating these little indents and the flipper that might be interesting. So we're creating an interesting shape. I already can see the eye here, to be honest. Okay, maybe this tail is huge. It counterbalances the fish, maybe let's do it. Smaller. This is the beauty of brocade where you can change things up. And this is awesome. So, okay, so maybe I'll make it smaller. And I'm going to fix the shape here and give it some of those indents. Maybe too many. Let's leave just do. Maybe one here and that's it. Like soap. I'm going to make a smaller brush. And create a more interesting shape. Okay, and now we're going to create those indents also on the fins. Those, for example, the one Like soap. Maybe the lips. I don't like those to be so huge. This is something that I like more. Okay, so this is one of our shapes. I want to make it just a bit smaller queer. Let's see if I like it more squished or, like, maybe it's gonna be facing this way. Let's create some threes like distinctive shapes of fish. And I have here, basically the aquarium fish in front of me. And what I have is guppies, as well. And then I have some of those like flatter rounder fish as know the name. I never know the name, but I like the fish. So, yeah. So let's try another one. I like this technique that I learned from Natal Art. You can find it on Instagram and also from Woofy cat that they use different colors to create the symboettes or to sketch, and it's really, you know, takes away that fear of the white sheet. So let's go on and create a different fish. Let's maybe make it bluish. Okay. So I'm going to create a new layer here. And let's create that rounder fish. So first of all, I'm going to take a big brush and I'm going to so I want her to be almost squared here, maybe. I'm looking at the reference, I will add also the reference, okay, to the resources, and you can find them. Okay, then it has this little tiny, tiny sale that goes like a fan like so. And here we have maybe a bit of the upper lip. Maybe the lower jaw could be jetting out. That's so. And here we can have some of those. So let's do the overall shape. I'm simplifying the shapes. And now I'm going to be erasing the unnecessary parts. Okay. S. Okay, so I'm going to go with the eraser. So with the eraser, we want to kind of add more interest to the silhouette. Okay? So there are different fish that have different flippers, different flipper bits. So they are very interesting. So like we did with the previous one, we're going to try and add also some whimsy into this. So here, what I want to do is I want to recreate those cuts into the Lo the upper one, like it is on the reference photo. Still, I'm not creating a realistic character. Is gonna be like a bossy fish or something. Then here, the less pronounced. Like a bully fish. Okay. L sew. And then on the tail, we can add some of those fix the shape of the tail, and we can add some of those lines as well. Some of those cuts or I have a different idea. What if it's a bullyfsh We were already thinking about the buoy fish. What if he has a chump out of his tail? Like, se Someone jumped him from underneath, like when he was king, this is what happened with my parents. The little ones, they go bite the big one on the tail when she's not looking. So someone jumped him on the tail. And here we have other maybe some lines to create. Like, sew and the flippers, also, maybe two. Okay. So, this is the Boy fish. I really like the bully fish. I'm quit to get to know it better. Let's do a third fish. The third fish, I want something I'm looking always at the same reference photo, and I want something more traditional fish. But let's make it interesting. So as I have guppies, we can try to do it with guppies. So, or we can use any other reference if you want. So you're totally free to do that. There's also a very interesting fish. I think they call it the spear carrier or something like that. So Ooh, my reference went away. Have the reference here in front of me and went away. So they have this interesting tail. So what if we take a guppy and we take this fish that has the steer on the little tail, and we kind of combine it. So here, I'm going to take my little guppy. So they usually tend to have the, the lips towards the upper side. And I'm looking at the shape of the body. Law fish. This is going to be like a female guppy. Correct the shape. Take away where I don't like it already at this point. And she has this little fan tail. Like, so a little fin over here. That actually separates from the body. So let's keep it. That's an interesting element. I'm going to make the brush smaller to make the the exact I don't know, maybe I want it smaller still. Like, so and then just fill it in, like so. Okay, so you can always go change things, and no one's going to punish you for that. So I'm cleaning up the silhoette. I want the tail to go inside the fin of the tail naturally. Okay. And here, what I want to do is I want to create that little flipper, so she has these little tiny flippers. One, there's gonna be two. And then there is another one here. Like so. And what if we add some of that, like the spear thing? What if she has this long spear thing on her tail like so. Maybe she can have two. Maybe it's a fish, with a weird tail like so. So you'll think about it. And then with the eraser, I want to make it smaller, I want to add some of those maybe some lines here. Maybe make this a bit as we have the spear. You make these a bit rounder. I don't want them to be sharp, so I want to create that contrast. Okay. So now we have our three fish. Ooh. What did I do? What did I do here? Let's remove the cream. Oh. Okay. So now we have our three fish, and each one already has its own personality, I think. So we can start working on adding some details on top of our layer with the silhouettes, because the sillottes already read quite good. The only thing I'm thinking maybe, no, I think I'm going to leave them this way because I think adding little cheese mean bullet fish kind of too. But we'll be doing that in a while. And yeah, I will see you in the next video. 3. Part 2 Characters and Personality: Okay, so now we're going to go into the drawing of the parts of the fish that are within the silhouett, okay? So what I'm going to do is I'm going to create a new layer, take, let's maybe like a black brush, still using the same brush, okay. And now we have to focus on each fish in particular. So I don't want to draw the shape of the fish itself. What I want to do is I want to add details to my fish. Okay. So here, I can already see that eye. I am sorry, but I could not unsee the eyes since the very first time that I did it. And I really like these big eyes that seer into, like, Oh that. So here, what I want to do is I want to separate the body from the flippers. Here, we're going to do a little lip. Here, we're going to separate this part. Maybe the body goes like so. And then we can do Okay, so this is our fish. I'm thinking maybe it can have a bigger eye. Like, I don't want to make it perfectly perfect. I, I want to make it more interesting. So we can have a fish or like this. We can have a fish shape like this. This is going to be the flipper itself. Okay? Maybe we can have something like repeating the pattern the eye here. Like a bigger eye loop here is like a smaller one. So this is gonna be one color, and then there's gonna be the other color. And here, there's gonna be the opposite. The tail will start. Okay. So this is one fish. Thinking about those lips, what can we do with the lips? Maybe's redo them. So this is completely totally improvised. So, guys, have fun with this one. Like Hm This one already gives it some attitude. Like, Hm. I mean, like a fish. Um, I want to see if we take the side ball and we play with the size. Maybe it can be looking like into different directions. Maybe they can be looking at each other. This one's gonna be. Dude, like, we can also add this. No, I don't want it straight. And then the eye can go. Here, we can erase this part. It's gonna be like, Oh, no. Oh, my God, I don't want to draw mean fish, no. Let's draw it, like Scared. Let's draw it scared. It's so a bully, it's like, oth don't know. But now, maybe we can change the path a bit. It's scared. Now we have a scared fish, not a happy one, fine. Okay. If we move this eyebrow, it's very easy to change. Now he's an angry fish. Like, by moving just the elements of the eyebrow. And now he's like this Ah. God. Board fish. And the eyeball, if we move it under the upper eyelid, it's gonna give us that appearance of, sure, whatever. Maybe this fish is like mega pretty, and she thinks a lot, like, or he let's give her some eyelashes. I know it's a fish. So remember, the eyelashes, we're going to put them where the upper eyelid meets the lower one. So let's make it a bit thicker. And here, maybe she has these kind of she's a girly girl. She has these kind of heart shaped scales. See, like, it's so cool that it's getting a personality of its own already. And here, maybe we can add her some of those. Te markings. Like so. So we have a very, very, like High school girlfsh. Okay, let's do the other one, okay? So I'm going to do another layer again. This guy he has to be the bully fish. So, I'm thinking about placing both eyes here, giving him a big tooth. Like. Like so with this big tooth with these tiny eyes. That's quite. We can set them wide apart or we can set them like quite close together. L's see. What we first do. The eyeballs. Like so. They're too big. What if we do one eye only? Too far away. And we need to move this tooth. It's too large. Maybe we can make multiple tees. High school bully. We can refine the shape. Uh, maybe I can be even a bit curved. Mean fish, Miner winerfsh. What if one of them was broken? So this is the ideas that you come up with. What if we had the tooth here that was here and it got broken. So this is this kind of Manfsh. No, like this, he's scared. Like this, he's scared. And maybe we lower the eyebrow a bit and make it more squared. Like, so the meaner winerfsh. And here we have the body shape. Here the flipper starts. Okay. Like so. Maybe we can do one thing. Maybe we can make him squarer. So he is, like, like, very, you know, mean guy. Mean guy, we're making him square. So here we have that part, and here we have the bite. Like so. And over here then, we have to give him that art where the head ends and the scales kind of start. And here, what if he has squares like scales? He doesn't have them round. He has them square. Like rounded square. Like so. Maybe here, he will have a band aid. For all the times he was fighting. You will make it bigger the band aid. Like, so and maybe even has a black eye. What do you think, guys? I think this is coming along quite interesting. So now we are left with the third fish. That is our little yuppie fish. And now, what we're going to do is we're going to think about her. I want to give her everyone has quite large eyes. I want to give her this big eye as well. Like so. It's like, What's happening? What is happening. And here we will have maybe just a normal fish. And the fish, what if this was shaped like a brown I think this one has to be a bit bigger. The like so. Okay. Okay, so we have the three winners, I guess. So I'm going to now, what I'm gonna do. This could be more interesting. I don't know, like, um, bigger eye doesn't have personality. I don't know. Maybe we could work a bit more on it. But if it's a princess. Not that I like senso fish. Then we don't have that mouth. If it's a princess fish, then she should have these like. Like this. Maybe this is her perky nose. Like this. She has a nose. Yes, fish have a nose. So like so, and maybe she has these beautiful scales that will be in rainbow colors and the tao that also is, like, Okay. So here, I'm going to outline now. What I'm going to do is I'm going to outline the silhouettes of my fish. Actually, it went to give this guy this little lamb. Like, so I know it's a cliche, but I love the deepwater fish, and the sea angler is like, you can't beat the anglerfish. Okay, here we can do this. And this and this fish also is a very beautiful shuett. You have two girlfsh and one boyfish. I really would love to see what you come up with. So I'm just outlining that silhouette so I know where it is so that we can start adding colors. So take your time and outline it carefully. But mostly we will be working over with water colors and colour so. Okay, so now we take away our layers with the color we can have already, we can see already the three fish that we have created, and now it's time to get into the water house. The the the 4. Part 3 Adding Color: Okay, guys. So now what we're going to do is we're going to try different color variations for our fish. Okay? So I have different to here. What I do is I'm going to select this fish that I like the most, and I'm going to duplicate the whole group three times. And see which fish I like the most. So let's try to add different colors here under the layer of imperfections. Okay, so I'm going to close these. I don't need them for now. And what I want to do is I want to try out different colors, okay? So I'm going to go in Adelson Fis' brushes, and I'm going to go into each of my fish. So here I have these layers, okay? So I'm going to turn them off for now. Going to select only one that is on. I'm gonna select it. Now that I have it selected, I can remove this area, like to hide the layer, okay? And what I'm going to do is I'm going to choose a watercolor brush and start adding colors to my fish. So this one, maybe I want to make a more purple. Like so. Now, I want to do some of that watercolor spread, maybe going into blues. Maybe the part here can be blue. Like so. And maybe going a bit into pink also. And here, the light, actually, I'm going to remove it with my watercolor eraser brush, the same from Adelson arises brushes. And I'm going to add yellow. Like, we have these colors. So yellow is on the opposite spectrum, so that's going to add some of that. Some of that kind of highlight, okay? And I'm going to add maybe some reds, but I want to do an overlay layer, like so. So I want to add some warmer pinks, and I want to add with this brush that is watercolor dry jitter. Let's try. You can try different textures. So I'm adding a bit of this, a bit of cooler blues. And what I want to do here is I want to create a color burn layer, and I want to make it deeper purple here on the tips. On the tail. Here and on the fence, as well. Like so. Then obviously, we're going to go in with the eraser brush. Again, I'm using Adelson ferus as brushes, and I'm going to go into this layer and I'm going to raase the eye and the teeth. As well as these laster things, like the band aids. Okay. And here as well. Okay. So here I'm going to erase them as well on this layer. So the teeth, I want them to be a bit kind of yellowish. So let's add another layer in normal. And I'm going to go into this yellowish kind of color, and I'm going to add my base layer color. And I'm going to lower the size of the brush. And what we're going to do, we're going to create that color of the teeth. Kind of yellowish white. And the eye may be also kind of orange. And here, the eyebrow, I would like to go deeper in the eyebrow to create that scary menacing looking eyebrow. Okay. And for the I think maybe we can go even darker orange in the eye, maybe this is too much. Maybe if we take what spread, water spread, make it smaller. So here I'm just trying out the brushes, okay? Like so, and here also make that light brighter. And now, if I deselect the whole thing, I'm going to add the eye that is going to be with the normal base color. The eye here and I'm going to add in the color burn layer, I'm going to add the wet with what, what, what, what what color. Wet spread, I'm going to choose this area. To make it kind of that he has a bruise. Like, so and also on the overlay and on the maybe it too dark, less o pasity. Okay. So this is one version, and now we need to also add in the normal. We also need to add the color of those band aids, and maybe we can go into something kind of bluish. I was thinking maybe we can make them completely cute. But, okay, so let's select the band aids first. Or fighter fish. Okay. Let's try to fill it in. Think this color fits. Okay. We take edge loaded color here too. Add this bluer maybe darker color. Okay. And maybe now if we go and we hmm. Let's do one thing. Let's create a new layer. Let's select this shape that we have. Was my shapes. This one, yes. I'm going to select it. And I'm going to fill it with white. Ooh. Let's go here so I can merge the colors. Okay. And now these ones, I'm going to put them together, okay, so that I can change the color of different parts, the way I want. So this is one fish. Here, what I want to do is I want to take this fin, and I want to go into the color saturation and make it darker and push it backwards. Okay. And now, what I want to do is I want to add some random kind of bleed effects. Were changed the hues lately. Maybe here. I go to further it out. Just changing a bit. The hue? I think so. Okay. And also, I want to add some of that yellow color. Um, I'm going to add a tender neath. Actually, here on top is also good. So, what am I doing? I'm going to take the water spread brush. I'm going to add that shining effect. Too big. Like so. Okay. And then here maybe on his forehead, as we have the light here. Let's though didn't want to copy. No. I wanted to feather it. And I want to add some warmer tones because he has this light that is shining at him, so I want to add the warmer tones, more saturated, like so. Okay. And then on the body, I think we're good maybe on the textures. We don't need any more textures. Maybe here in the Band Aids, let's select a little area and also slightly varied the color. Maybe towards the greens, maybe get darker here, maybe just a bit feathering it out, maybe more towards the blues, making it more saturated, more lighter. Okay. So now I have this kind of base for my fish. What I'm going to do now is I will actually, um, duplicate. I'm going to put this in a group. I'm going to duplicate this group, and I'm going to take it into the other fish that is this one, for example. Like so. And what did I lose here? Ah. 1 second. Of course. So not there. Sorry. So we duplicate the thing and we move it. We don't move it into the area because we need the paper texture. That's why. So I'm moving it here, and I duplicate it another time. And we move it in here. Sometimes you get lost in layers. So now we have three different fish. And what I want to do now is I'm going to select only the layer with the colors that I have already, and I'm going to go into brightness hue and saturation and see if I like this fish more greenish. Maybe the green is more interesting. So maybe this one could be green. This one could be more blues and greens. I really like this kind of blues and greens. And then here, what I could do is I could change the color of those eyes and those So actually, the color of eyes I like, what I'm going to do is I'm going to change the color of the plasters. Like so, maybe. Yeah, I think I like it like this. So, for me, my favorite one already, I don't know. I'm kind of stuck between the two. So out of these three, I need to choose now one that is going to be my favorite one, the one that we will actually be rendering, okay? I will see you in the next video. 5. Part 4 Rendering: So we're going to be rendering now, and I have my fish. I decided to go with green, blue, and a bit purple fish. And now, what I'm going to do is I'm going to change the color of the line, okay? So I'm going to go in alpha lock, and I'm going to choose one of these colors, the green, for example, and I'm going to go into my brushes. You can use any brush and just cover the line work. So that it's not so contrasting. Okay? We can increase the opacity here. And what we can do, we can play with it. We can see if it's good in linear burn, for example, or maybe in color burn. This is an interesting version also because it gives us more colors that we can choose and pick from to actually add some shadows and things like that. Or we can go into the into the overlay doesn't work here. So you can either leave it on multiply, but I really like the color burn version because it gives me more different shades that I can work with because linear burn is not so colorful, but this one is, and I'm going to keep it here. Okay. So now, what we're going to do is we're going to create a new layer above our linework, okay, in normal. And here we're going to select our scribbler brush. I will add that brush in particular, but I can't add Adelson Par's brushes, okay? So I will add the scribbler brush, but the watercolor brushes, you can use any, to be honest. But those are my favorites. That's why I'm using them here. But the underpainting, to keep it, like in the watercolory, that's the brushes I would suggest. So now, let's go into our fish. And the first thing that I want to do is I want to start correcting the eye shape because the eyes are the so of any character. So what I'm doing is I'm basically picking the colors from the from the palette that I have here. And scribbling them in. And we're gonna also fix the pupil now in a sack. So this is the way I like doing it. Most importantly, is that the pupil is this is not the main character in any book. Usually, I make eyes that have more depth to them. But now what I'm doing, I'm getting rid of those colors that I don't want. Doesn't have to be perfect, but I do want his eye to look a bit ONG and kind of air. So yeah, here, I'm gonna fix the shape of the eye, like so. So we're covering the linework. And this is very meditative. This is like mega meditative, to be honest. And here I have the color that I can choose to actually create that outline of the eye and blend it into the color that I have the watercolor. Like so, and here maybe even darker here to create that kind of oppression of the ye coming out of a place where it's placed like with socket. I'm just scribbling away. So, the further I go away from the eyeball itself, the less pressure I apply. So some people prefer to do to make the eyeballs perfectly round. It's up to you, depending on your style. I prefer imperfect eyeball eyeballs. So here I'm gonna make this idea of a bruise under his eye. He has a bruise. Maybe we'll add some purples into it later as well. Like so. Okay, here we have our eyebrow. And I really like this purple to kind of Our fish has an eyebrow, yes. And we're gonna blend it all in. So I'm gonna make it like a square eyebrow, rectangle. So here, it's your fantasy, how you want to go about it. But I think here, it's quite okay. And I'm gonna use different colors to kind of scribble in the shape, maybe add some shadow here. But the most important thing for me is to keep the watercolor texture, the one that is on the fish itself, okay? So here, I'm okay with my eye for now. What I want to do, though, is take my brightest color, and I want to add that highlight. Like so. And then I want to go onto the opposite side of the color circle and give a bit of the opposite side of the opposite color like here, into the bluish, purplish kind of color into that highlight. And then, go into the total white and add just a little bit and a little dot. Like so. So our fish is already becoming more alive. So now what we do is we need to fix our here, the edge. We're adding texture at the same time. I'm not removing the line, even though it's messy. I'm not removing it. Because like this, I can see where my fish actually is. So this is our fish's fish like here. And we still keep that watercolor and a bit of that line work showing through. So I'm perfectly fine with that. Makes it more interesting. Now, here, I'm going to start adding that txture of the of the how do you call them? Oh, God, the deep fish, the angler fish, dear. And I'm blending it together with the propo so it doesn't look like it's growing out of nowhere. So it's my unicorn fish. Okay, so here for now, I'm gonna leave it. I'm gonna fix for what I want to do here in the line, I'm gonna choose the same eraser that is the pencil. And here I already like the way the watercolor has created that edge. So I'm not gonna touch it. I'm just removing the line where I don't need it. Okay? So here, like so. And over here now, we're going to go back to the layer with the color. Fix the linework here. Okay. And here, what I want to do is I want to start with this color that I find here on the line and blend it into the color of each of these spikes on his forehead. And here we're going to blend it into the purple. Like so. So we're gonna make the other more colorful. We have the. We have the background. Like the underpainting already done. Like, so let's take a look. And here I want to blend in more picking the colors and blending in more, picking the colors and blending them and more. So now I'm gonna be mixing the colors together. Creating that kind of gradient. And the farther I go from the edge, the less pressure I do, so to make it the watercolor texture visible as well. And here I like this bright color also. So we can add it. And here I don't like this dark area. I can fix it. Leave some leave some of it there, but, like, to shine through, but not much. So if you take a look at the fish now, we can see that there are different colors happening, and he has textures also happening here. And I'm going in with local colors and just scribbling away so that we can have everything quite cohesive. Like so. Okay. Let's go into here. Again, I'm going through the colors from the edge. Too strong, so I'm pressing the hardest where the edges here. Okay. Here. All we can do is eliminate this by adding white. So we're cleaning up the lines. Okay. So we're cleaning up the shapes. So. As you can see slowly, little by little, it's coming along. So here, let's go on to the teeth. I'm going to create the teeth now. So there's white and yellow. So I'm keeping to the lines of the teeth, and I like this green to use as a shadow. So we need to make it slightly darker where the teeth have like, where the teeth meet the upper side of the mouth to detach it a bit. So this color works. Good. I'm adding some darker tones as well. This will make the teeth come forward. And now, what we're going to do is we're going to take a local color and blend it together with that color that we created. Like so. And here, I can actually go into a darker color because here, it's kind of coming out from the mouth, and it's going to have a bit of darkness to it as well this tooth. Okay. So this one we have done, you can see already how the fish is coming along. So here, the same, we go with one color first. Pick another color, fix the shape of the tooth. Like yellow, also. Like so. And then here we're gonna add that contrast to make the teeth come forward. I've been blending it in. But the local color. Okay. And here, the mouth. The same way we're kind of blending it in. And here, it's gonna have that lip and we can leave grain. Like so. It doesn't have to be straight. Okay. And we can make it like this green. I'm always using the same size of the brush. Not changing 25 times. Just going with the same green. There's this crassi green over here that I'm also going to add. Always going back and forth, and now I'm gonna be blending it in with the whoter color. Okay. There's some blue here. And as I am moving away from the from the lift itself, I'm kind of loosing and loosening the weight that I'm pressing with onto the onto the iPad. Okay, there we go. Now I'm going to. Now I'm going to select this darker color and outline bullet. Again, like so. And here, I'm going to select the same color to outline that broken too. If so, I'm gonna take these colors also to add them into the mix. The ones that I find here. They all are present in the fish. They are mixing quite harmoniously together, and they're also analogue. So this is what helps to prevent the mud and the feeling of muddiness in the drawing. And here, I'm going back in the purple and a bit of darkness here so that I can outline my tube. And now we're gonna create the shape of the tooth itself. So, there's our tooth. The broken one. Okay. So as you can see, already we're starting to push some elements of the fish forward, even though that's a simple fish. Now, we continue. We continue with our fish, and we're going to be adding the details to this tooth here. And I'm going to raise this line, and I'm going to use white colour from the paper. Kind of create that shape that I want. Hey. Okay. Here at the bottom, I'm going to use the white the white color too. I'll use the white color to erase the area that I don't need to fix the shape of our Actually, I like this shape. Now, we're gonna erase the lines. Picking the same color. Maybe some of this working into the other Here I'm gonna remove this line. Here I'm gonna go white and remove this to keep it clean. Maybe I'll add another little cut in here. Like so. Here, I really like the texture. Now it created the watercolor texture over here, and I'm going to add just a bit of a separation here and cover the linework. You can also delete the linework, but I like sometimes covering the linework because like this, I get to add more textures with the pencil, and there's more colors also that create by mixing and matching, basically. This is like a very calm meditative thing. Okay, so I'm going to take from here and I'm going to go downwards onto the flierf thingy of the fish. And I'm going to add that kind of shadow ish effect. Like so. Here, what I want to do is I want to create the blasters. So the band aids. So I'm gonna fix the shape of those band aids. Using the same colors that I have here. Like so. And here, I'm going to go onto the line layer. What I'm going to do is I'm going to erase the start. Make it pick up and erase it. Go back to the color layer. And here I have I'm going to go over these different colors that I have created to make a more interesting texture. Okay. And here with the black, I can draw those like the black that got created from the colors mixing together. So the greens and the reds. And this is going to be kind of the band aid theme. And we're going to add some highlights here. I want them to be green. I want them to be quite light, but not green. So this is our fighter fish. Okay. Here, I really like this band aid as well. And I like to add this reddish shadow to show that it's underneath here and fix the shape. Like so. And here the saying, I'm going to add that shadow part. And I'm going to actually erase this part of the linework and simply fix it already on the parts of the on the part of the color. Okay. Now, what we're missing here is that we need to create an illusion that there is like the fish's skin is right under. The band aids are kind of stuck to it, so we need to create that occlusion shadow. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to choose a darker color. We can do it on an overlay layer as well or on a multiply. But in this case, it's a very quick drawing, just like an idea sketch. We're just adding in some places that darker color. To kind of indicate that the band aids are on the skin of the fish. That's called an occlusion shadow or the contact shadow. So like so, and if you look from afar, now we can see that, um, the occlusion shadow actually sticks it to the fish. I'm thinking one thing. What if we create a new screen? Mm. Layer. What if we make this one? Kind of stripy. Maybe that screen now, we will see. So, this one is gonna be stripy, maybe in a different color. So I'm gonna select. I'm gonna select this part. I'm gonna change the color. Maybe it's gonna be more purple. Green or blue maybe. No. What if we changed the color of the upper one? The more blue one. And then on this layer of watercolor, the patch here is also going to be purple. Like, so, you know, if we go back to our render layer and fix it the way we need it. So like this, we have more interesting. It's like eaching. We have more interesting variation in color. Okay. Now, here, let's move on to the scales, okay, here, I want to raise these lines. Don't give me any inflamation anymore. I have the mold that I'm good enough. I like the watercolor texture here. And what I want to do is I want to take this darker color and create kind of a shadow feel to it. And I'm going to go into white and separate this fin from the other fin. Like so maybe make these more interesting in the shapes. Like so. Okay, let's take a look. Now, I want to greed for a shadow effect on these. White so. Okay. And here, what I want to do is the opposite. I want to separate my fish from this shadow layer that we created. Wrong color. Over here to fix the shape of my fish. So now, you can see that kind of these parts are Um they're fins, and the other part is the body of the fish. Okay, so here, what I want to do with these scales is I'm gonna pick the color here. The one that I find and blend it in into the scale color. So maybe some blues from here as well. Like so, and I'm gonna go into a darker color in between the scales. I'm outlining the scale like so. This is one scale, so we're gonna work scale by scale now. Okay. We're gonna outline this scale as well. I like this shape that's, like, chunky, and at the same time, it's squeerish but rounded. So this guy maybe he's tough, but he pretends to be a bully, but he maybe isn't a bully at all. And I'm gonna of bring this green color in here for now. Like, so here we have some blues. I really like this darker blue, so let's bring the darker blue colors here. Let's take a look. Okay. So we outlined this one as well. Like so. And here I want to remove a bit of that line because it's messing things up a bit here. Going back to the color of the layer, adding some shadow here. So as this pencil, it's not completely opaque, like it has a lot of holes in it and makes it, like, transparent. It creates a very beautiful hand drawn texture. And here we're going to add the separation line between the shadow and the light. Like so. And now, what I want to do is I want to take this color, and I want to bring it out all the way into the next scale. So this way, we will separate scales. And here we have another scale to separate like so. And here again, we take the dark color, and we bring it out into this scale. Like so. We will go with brighter colors and marine. The point here is to sep rates. The back ones back. The ones that are behind? Sorry. From the ones that are in front. Okay, so I'm gonna go on with some blue tones to go over it. So I'm not covering it all completely, but what I'm doing here is I am adding more texture and more colors. So this still will look dark. Now, you see, it's not as dark as in the beginning. Still looks dark. Okay. So greens also. We're going in with a hand painted texture here, hand trough texture into the shadows. Like so. Okay. And here as well, let's add some greens. Let's add some lighter greens. So blues. And some of those lighter colors. Like so. So now you can see that our scales are separate. Here, let's give them that mouth rumpiness Like so. So I'm working from one part of the fish to the other one. I'm not very worried. Okay. Like so. Here we will have another darker part on the tail. I'm going away from the shadow. I'm kind of blending it into the area here. And then I'm going back in with the colors that I pick from the tail. I'm blending them melen. Okay, if you think that at some point, I will show you a trick now. If you think that at some point, your colors look dull. So maybe take a larger brush and we take a pink brush, and we're adding the same brush, okay? And we're adding some of those areas that need a bit maybe of green, maybe of purple. So this is a trick to make your drawing, have more texture and stand out more. And use the same brush just in a giant size, okay? And here I'm going to go into the teeth. Like so and into the eye, maybe make it a bit more orange. Okay. And here, maybe a bit more like this. Okay. So now that I have all these colors, I can create a new layer in normal mode, and I can already fix up the drawing by using these colors in a smaller size. Like so. So this adds this adds the brightness and colorfulness you're drawing, but at the same time, keeps it very, very, um, what do you call it? It doesn't make it fall apart, so it's all consistent there. That's the word that I was looking for. So I'm just picking the colors and lending them and removing to go for the white here, removing the parts that I don't need for ones that are bitten here, cleaning up the shape. We can also erase it from the layer. Later, we can do that because we have the layer with the select tool. Like so. Okay? Now, what we need to do is I'm actually going to go and erase these colors here because we don't need those lines. Like so. Maybe leave it a bit here, and here as well we don't it. So let's take a look. I think our fish is starting to look quite nice. And what I'm gonna do now is I'm going to go to my watercolor layer and I'm going to erase these areas where I have them flattered a bit just to fix the shape. Like so. Also here in the line layer, I'm going to erase these lines that I don't need anymore either. So now let's go back read this one here. Let's go back into the color layer and I'm going to start adding this shape. And here, what I want to do is I want to add the yellow inside. And then I'm going to create a new layer in screen I'm going to add this light layer. Okay. Maybe nothing screen and add. So like this. And here I'm going to take this orange color. Maybe something orangi like this. Okay, so I think that our fish is done. If we take a look at it, I think it's very cool. I'm going to insert my signature my eye cloud. Let's find my signature. There we go. Let me get smaller. I'm going to place it somewhere here so that it's visible, and that's it. Basically, what we have is now we have the fish that is bully fish has already some story to it and has different interesting textures. So I hope you enjoyed this class, and I will create the overall video so that you can watch from the beginning until the end, and we will go through the main steps.