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- [Instructor] Hello, iPad Letterers,
and welcome back to "Show Me Your Florals."
We are on day five today. Can you believe it?
It's day five already,
and I really hope you've been able to practice
your basic watercolor techniques yesterday.
If you haven't watched any of the previous videos
in this series yet,
I very much recommend that you watch those first
to make sure everything I'm about to explain in this video
will make complete sense to you.
As we have seen yesterday,
painting realistic watercolors is not that easy on the iPad.
Creating the dried edges
and getting the beautiful water flow pattern
is actually quite challenging to emulate.
And that's why I have created a set of brushes
that I've made from Stephanie's real water color paintings,
and they make it a lot easier and also faster.
And these are the florals that we are going to paint today.
So let's start with a new layer
and then let's select that peony brush
that you can find here.
And then maybe also pink.
It doesn't really matter which color you choose.
You can always change this later, but pink is a nice color,
and I always like using it. And then here on the side,
you can see you can change the brush size
of your flower as well.
So you might need to try out to make sure
it's the right size for you.
So I'm gonna just make this ever so slightly bigger
so it's easier to see for you.
And there we have our flower just like that.
It's that easy, right?
So it almost feels like cheating,
but you can see now how this has got
the slightly dry edges,
and it's also got these slight watercolor marblings here,
which makes it so beautiful.
But of course, we can make this a lot nicer.
So I find this is not quite intense enough,
so you can duplicate this layer
to make it a little bit more intense.
But now it's got some parts here
which are not so nicely defined anymore.
So let's try some different blend modes,
and you can see now the color burn blend mode
really lend itself for this
because it keeps the lighter parts light,
and then it doesn't make the dark parts too part,
but it still preserves all the nice little marblings
we have here.
So then let's also change the color ever so slightly.
So we're going to alpha lock this layer so that we can go in
with a slightly different color,
I think orange would be quite nice.
And then select the soft airbrush,
and then just add in some orange here as well.
And of course, if you don't like the colors
that you've chosen in your palette,
feel free to change it as well,
and maybe make this a bit more bright.
I like bright colors,
so I think I slightly prefer this.
And then we can even this out,
so now we're going to select the smudge tool
and use the blossoms brush.
You can also use the airbrush if you like,
but the blossoms is a very nice smudging brush.
So now we can ever so slightly smudge this out
and create this beautiful blend for our flower.
So now this looks pretty good already,
but I would like to define the edges a little bit more.
And in order to do that,
we're going to create a new layer
and then set the blend mode to overlay.
So at the moment,
this doesn't look like anything,
but now what we need to do is select the black color,
and then we are also going to use
the soft airbrush for this.
And now ever so slightly,
we can paint in some darker edges and now this really makes
this water color pattern stand out even more.
And I think this looks quite nice already,
so now what we want to do as well
is add some yellow little seeds here at the top,
so we are going to choose yellow color.
And then for this, I recommend you use
the leaf strokes brush.
We are going to use this in a future video,
and I'm gonna show you how to use this brush,
but for now you can use this,
and then just some little seeds here at the top,
and then maybe also use black again.
And now this looks very nice,
so now let's group these layers
so that we can move the whole flower as one object.
So now we can move this around, we can rotate it.
I don't recommend that you enlarge the flower,
because you lose some of the definition.
It's fine to make it smaller, but if you make it larger,
you might find that you get a little bit of pixelation.
So now let's create another new layer,
and now let's paint some leaves as well.
So we're gonna use that five leaves here,
and we're going to make this green.
So I'm gonna paint it like this,
and this is quite light as well,
so let's duplicate this and then merge it down.
And then of course, you could duplicate this again
and then again.
Use the color burn blend mode if you would like to,
and this really brings out the texture much more
in your leaves.
So I think this looks quite nice,
and then we're going to alpha lock this layer again,
and we are going to add some slightly different colors here,
maybe some lighter green, and using that soft airbrush.
And this looks quite nice.
And now we're going to create another new layer
and change that blend mode to overlay, and again,
using black and the soft airbrush,
we can highlight those edges even more.
It's not too much for it quite for the leaves here,
but especially the stem,
I think this would look nice if it was a bit darker,
and then sort of where the stem starts with the leaves.
It's quite nice to do this as well,
and then also here where the two leaves touch.
This is kind of where the colors flow into each other,
so it's quite nice to add some shadows here as well.
And then if it's too intense,
of course, you can change to the smudge brush.
It can also smudge out your shadows, of course,
that's not a problem.
And then we add some here,
and now this is looking pretty good.
So now your homework for today
is to use all the different shape brushes
that you have received with the free download.
So go and try them out.
See how you can create some highlights and shadows
and add some different colors for your floral elements.
In case you haven't watched yesterday's video yet,
I'm going to bloop it up here as well.
So you can watch it and then you can catch up.
Thank you so much for watching,
and I'll see you in the next video.
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