How To Draw Buildings In Procreate: Flower Shop Full Process - Episode 13
video - Episode 13
There were a multitude of things I could have drawn to capture England, but I wanted to draw what I imagined the city to look like through my filtered lens.
That is what we do as artists, is see things through our eyes.
Simply put, that is where your style comes from, from how you see the world. It starts there from your filtered vision of something.
In this episode, I am illustrating a flower shop building in Procreate, and the setting is an English storefront in London.
Watch How To Draw Buildings In Procreate: A Flower Shop Storefront Full Process Timelapse
The different techniques used in Procreate include using the canvas drawing guides and features like symmetry and copying areas of the canvas to draw the sketch for the building and add in the colored illustration layers for the flower shop building.
I have also created a Beginner's Guide To Drawing Buildings In Procreate that you can get below this video and learn some of my biggest tips for illustrating buildings digitally in Procreate.
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How To Draw Buildings In Procreate Flower Shop Transcript:
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I am Denise Palmer and I am an illustrator,
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artist and surface pattern designer working outta my studio close to the
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Gulf of Mexico where water adventures and botanical plants surround my
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everyday life.
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Welcome to these video chats where I talk about some of the techniques I've used
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to create my artwork and chat about all things illustration, art, and design.
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Hello and welcome to today's video.
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I will share about creating buildings in procreate in this video,
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and this particular illustration was for a custom illustration commission for a
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client that I completed in the past.
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So I'm excited to share about drawing buildings in procreate with you.
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But hey, before we get too far into this video chat episode,
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if you really want to get into drawing buildings,
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I want to share with you something I created to discuss, uh,
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further how to start drawing buildings in my beginner's guide to drawing
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buildings and procreate.
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You can grab a copy of the guide at the link in the description below this video
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if you want to take what we discussed today a little bit further and start
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drawing your own structures. Okay, let's get into it.
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I wanted to share the sketch process for this building with you since it is
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somewhat detailed and I used the drawing guides to get my lines straighter.
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If you are doing a building that is more whimsical,
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you don't need exactly straight lines. Still use guides for most buildings.
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It helps to get the spacing the way I want it for the different details.
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I use lots of different guides for drawing,
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but since this is a front facing building,
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I mainly used grids and symmetry for it. Plus,
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I did some copying pasting for when I forgot to turn on symmetry.
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This project was for an illustration about England. I've never been there,
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but visiting one day is on my bucket list.
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There are tons of things that I could have drawn to capture England,
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but I wanted to draw what I imagined the city to look like through my
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filtered lens. That is what we do as artists, as an artist and illustrator.
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We see things through our own eyes and we tell stories from what we see.
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Simply put that is where your style comes from, from how you see the world.
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It starts there from your filtered vision of something.
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For this project and illustration,
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I imagined walking through this city and into these storefronts,
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so of course there had to be a flower shop that provides all the flowers to
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decorate the storefronts too.
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Not to mention flowers in general to people needing to cheer someone up as they
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walk by the store and decide to go in and buy some flowers
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to give to someone that they love and care about. In my imagination,
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the city was alive with people walking around, cars driving by,
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and the flower shop owner watering the flowers next to her store.
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I will share a finished preview of this at the end of this video so you can see
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what the finished design looks like.
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So stay until the end to get a chance to see it.
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As I was creating this store,
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I'm thinking about how it comes to life during the day and what it is like to
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be here in this place at this moment in time.
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If I was the store owner,
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what would the windows look like and what would I put outside to draw customers
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in?
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I am setting the scene for this city in my illustrations for each building I
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created and there were quite a few buildings I was illustrating for this
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project.
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These flowers are very simple that I am creating here to add some color and
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texture and pull the colors from the rest of what the design will be later on.
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Adding in the colors of the flowers at this point to me made it start to really
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feel like a flower shop. It is the little details that bring things together.
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Normally, I save these little details for later,
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but I felt that I needed to get the florals in place to make my mind envision
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this floral shop even further and keep me immersed in the flow of this
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illustration. I was thinking about being the flower shop owner again,
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and these top clusters of flowers in these buckets would have some natural
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craft paper around them to make customers want to select different stems from
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these buckets.
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It also adds some variation from the other side of the storefront so that as
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you take everything in, you see the different details along the way. Plus,
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I was saving creating the front door for later because I was really looking
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forward to illustrating the door.
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I don't know what it was about the door that made me look forward to it the most
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because that doesn't really make sense,
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but it was definitely a motivator for me to keep going maybe because I had
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looked at paint colors and over a hundred different images of doors to get the
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feel of buildings,
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and I had drove around our town and other cities and taken lots of photographs
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of buildings that I loved that inspired me to love the doors
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so much.
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I also was imagining this door opening and closing with customers going in and
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out,
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and that there was probably a little dinging sound that would happen when the
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door opened and the sign would tap against the glass some as it was opened and
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closed. Another major part of the buildings were the names of the storefronts.
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I had a lot of fun naming my stores and I really thought about each shop and
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what would be in it.
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I also relied on some friends who are from England as to what stores and
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restaurants are really there.
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Some of them I never would've thought of without their real feedback and
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insights. You know who you are and thank you, my friends.
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You are amazing and I just loved
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getting to chat with you about, uh, the city.
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I actually struggled with the store's name a bit and realized that bloomers
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can be considered like underwear,
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and this was definitely not an underwear store. So in the finished illustration,
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I ended up changing the name to Bloom Florist. Every city,
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every country,
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and every home reflects something about the people who live there.
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It is a part of us and our story of navigating this life,
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and we as illustrators are here to share it with the world In the artwork we
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create,
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buildings are home to our dreams and are also places where we keep our most
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treasured possessions and they have a story within their walls that begs
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our inspiration to tell it.
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One of the most magical things I have found about being an illustrator and
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pattern designer is that I get to imagine the lives of everything I create,
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even buildings, because even though they are not living, breathing things,
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they have a voice and it is our job to give the artwork.
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We create a platform for their voices to be heard,
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to tell their stories,
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and lift the imagination of the world around us to see the story and
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every moment, every memory,
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and every part of our lives that connects us. Stories are connections,
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and we create connections with our artwork by transporting not only ourselves
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into the lives of the subjects we are drawing,
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but our clients and their customers.
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Here is the finished floral shop illustration in the final project,
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and it was so much fun to imagine this floor shop and the store
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owner watering her plants that she grows nearby in such a big
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city.
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It makes me think about how we carve out what we love and make space for it in
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our lives. As I mentioned earlier,
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I have some additional content for you in this episode in My Beginner's Guide
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to Drawing Buildings and Procreate, which you can get a copy of.
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At the link I put in the video description,
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I dive a little deeper into this subject to help you envision your own story and
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details for creating your illustrated structures.
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So don't forget to grab your copy of the guide right now at the link in the
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description below the video,
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I will be sharing more process videos just like this one.
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So be sure to subscribe. Thank you for watching.
