
Explore Procreate techniques to illustrate plants and pots, from warm-up sketches to flat digital design, inking, and hybrid digital-traditional methods, exploring color harmony and decorative motifs in a pot project.
Learn to research monstera, snake plant, Chinese money plant, yucca, and rubber plant, observe leaf shapes and pot forms, and sketch ten plant studies in Procreate.
Explore sketching ten plant studies in Procreate, analyzing leaf shapes from sharp and circular to heart-shaped, then choose three techniques for future illustrations.
Master flat digital plant illustration with a Monstera, a simple palette, and minimal textures using freehand sketching and layered shapes, ideal for beginners.
Master digital inking by outlining plants with a monoline brush, refining shapes with the shape function, and building shading with hatching and cross-hatching on layered shading across separate layers.
Explore traditional texture illustration in Procreate by combining watercolor textures, layer masks, and cut-off paper style to render a snake plant with blooms and color harmony.
Discover color harmony using the color wheel and harmony tools to create complementary, split-complementary, analogous, triadic, and tetradic palettes for pots in digital illustration.
Explore designing plant pots as hats in Procreate, using simple ellipses, decorative elements, and symmetry tools. Master flat design, inking, and textures with color harmonies for a final class project.
The class project invites you to mix illustration techniques for plant and pot art in Procreate, using flat digital, inking, textures, hue shifts, and hand lettering.
Upload your plant and pot artworks to the project gallery in one collection. Follow the instructor on Skillshare, share on social media with tags, and leave a review.
Welcome to the "Digital Illustration - Illustrate Pots & Plants in Procreate" class!
In this class we are going to illustrate plants and pots, using the digital illustration app, Procreate, however, the class can be followed along by any illustration software of even traditionally.
READ WHAT A STUDENT TOLD ABOUT THE CLASS: "Had such a fun time in this class! I have been wanting to draw/illustrate something for a while now but no motivation or inspiration! This class totally helped me get over that hump. I have been trying to switch up styles and trying new techniques - adding texture and such (not my norm)… you will probably see more soon!! Thanks for another wonderful class!" Hannah Hill
We will start with a warm up practice in which we will sketch out 10 beautiful and trending potted house plants and learn their shapes.
Then I will show you 3 different ways of illustrating them:
- a very simple flat digital design,
- an inking illustration technique
- and an experimental way of combining digital with traditional.
This will allow to any skill level to follow the class with ease.
We will work on the topic of color harmony and decorative motifs to design some really cool and unique pot heads for our plants!
For the final class project, you will have an artistic freedom to express your ideas you’ve got during the class in a fun illustration of a plant in a head planter, freely combining any technique you liked with your own unique style.
The best is that these skills can be easily applied in your future illustration projects on other topics too.
The final project can be printed and gifted to your loved ones or framed as a wall art to give your living space some extra greenery. And last but not least, you can use the digital elements to decorate your online surfaces, like your website, facebook page, IG feed or even used in your future illustrations or any other design.
This class is for anyone who loves plants and art, do you? I am looking forward to create with you! See you inside the class!