Digital Floral Watercolor Painting on iPad Pro with Fresco

An easy to follow "how to" for beginners on digital illustration painting with adobe fresco with tips, tricks, and artist secrets. You will learn to make 4 watercolor like floral elements for a repeating pattern (Repeating pattern will be in a Follow - up Video). You can follow along in any digital drawing / painting app on your iPad / iPad Pro, or computer, such as Adobe Fresco, Procreate, Clip Studio, ArtStudio Pro, Photoshop, Affinity Photo, Corel Draw, PaintStorm, Sketchbook Pro.
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Here is an index to get to the point:
Best Things About Fresco - 20 seconds
Setting up The Art Board - 38 seconds
Artist Tips & Picking Your Brushes - 1 minute 5 seconds
Blue Rose Tutorial - 2 minutes 52 seconds
Develop Your Style Tips - 3 minutes 40 seconds
Blue Rose Line Detail - 5 minutes 45 seconds
Rose Leaf - 7 minutes 49 seconds
Digital Painting Tips - 8 minutes 32 seconds
Lasso Tool / Transform - 9 minutes 2 seconds
Mask Layer Contents - 10 minutes
Orange Flower Tutorial - 11 minutes 58 seconds
Fresco Gesture Shortcuts - 13 minutes 42 seconds
Orange Flower Line Detail - 15 minutes 36 seconds
Orange Accent Berries Tutorial - 16 minutes 54 seconds
Principles and Elements of Art - 17 minutes 28 seconds
Green Fern Floral - 18 minutes 55 seconds
What's Coming Next - 19 minutes 25 seconds

[@artgeometrix6346]

This looks great. You have done a fantastic job here.

[@SarahYoang]

Thank you very much

[@SurfaceofBeauty]

gorgeous work

[@SarahYoang]

Surface of Beauty thank you so much!

[@archiechhatbar1021]

Once I made the flower with purple color can I change the color?

[@SarahYoang]

Yes, you can change the color... it is really easy if it was made on it’s own layer. What you will do is select the layer that has the flower, and select the options icon (3 dots) and select “mask layer contents” everything will become red, then slide the layer to the right (the red square on the right)
then pick the color you want to change the flower to, and paint over it!
If it is not on its own layer you will need to open your file in photoshop and go through the replace color feature. You can also try the selective color feature as well to select the purple and then with that selected then paint over it.

[@yceleste2696]

Hi, where can I find the watercolor brushes?

[@SarahYoang]

Hey! You can get the brushes at this website: www.grutbrushes.com
Hope this helps, it definitely helped me!

[@nobodyknows3260]

I'm wondering why you're not using the live watercolor brushes instead of the pixel brushes.

[@SarahYoang]

That’s a great question!
The live watercolor brush is fun, but something has always seemed off to me when I use it. Also, I paint with pixel brushes because it allows me to work on the computer as well as the iPad with the same brushes and I won’t have two different looks. Hopefully that answers your question. I know many people love the live watercolor brush, it just isn’t for me!

[@nobodyknows3260]

@@SarahYoang Thanks so much for replying. I thought I just didn't know how to use them properly. I'm new to watercolor, but a client asked for watercolor elements in her design. So I tried the live brushes and I just couldn't get them to cooperate. It's like you never know what you're going to get. And even when you turn down the water flow, they're still acting weird. Plus, you can't get that paper texture. So I started with the live brushes, but ended up using the pixel brushes anyway.

[@soniaislamsneha5766]

Your ipad model name please?

[@SarahYoang]

It is an 11” iPad Pro (2020)