Ethically generate AI concepts and use them to inspire gorgeous, original paintings in Procreate
This is where you have the permission to paint in unexpected color palettes
We’ll develop unique color pairings you can easily color sample and apply.
Where you create touchable texture
With the included Acrylic Lovers brush set, all the texture you need is just a tap away
Where you develop pop-off-the-screen depth illusions
Following a few simple steps, you’ll be equipped to apply illusion-quality depth to any element
AI is for the birds. Err, florals?Ok, ok! It’s both.
Generate Concepts
We begin by ethically generating AI concepts using only words to guide it. This means the images aren’t based on any artist’s style – they’re made from what AI thinks looks good from the words we give it.
Curious how AI image generation works?
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Once we have a concept we like, we then mix it with additional, custom text prompts. This creates a highly unique concept, void of any specific influence and tailored to your imagination.
Custom Composition
We bring our final concept renders into Procreate, along with real reference images. Combining different elements from the different renders, we create an original composition sketch.
Paint!
We paint our composition from scratch using different brushes from the included Acrylic Lovers brush set and sample our favorite color combos from our AI renders.
Finishing Touches
We finalize our custom paintings with unique brush stroke overlays, background textures and long shadows for a fully layered, gorgeous piece!
Say hello to Fantasy Birds & Blooms
An imaginative approach to painting gorgeous digital illustrations in Procreate.
Transform your brainstorming process with ethical AI prompting and speed up your composition time with unique elements, color pairings and blending options, creating limitless possibilities.
Let's paint something magical
What makes this course different
Beginner Friendly
The why’s and how’s of every step explained, along with underlying concepts
AI Prompts
AI ethical image generation made easy, including sample prompts you can copy and paste
50+ AI Renders
Ready to use png renders, so you can create future paintings, with or without AI services
Bird Anatomy
Get familiar with bird anatomy with a draw-it-from-scratch method
Composition Skills
Learn how to create dynamic custom compositions using multiple images
Beautiful Blends
Blend colors in new, artistic ways with the included Acrylic Lovers brush set
3 In Depth Projects
Draw custom compositions, pull color samples and paint gorgeous birds + blooms artwork
Project Walk-throughs
2 bonus project walk-throughs so you can see how similar paintings are built and completed
Everything you Need
All brushes, reference images, renders and resources are included. Enrollment = lifetime access
2 Brush Sets (100+ brushes!) are Included with your Enrollment
When you enroll, you’ll receive access to the full course’s step-by-step videos, in addition to the brush sets used that make everything happen! Two full brush sets are included; The full Acrylic Lovers Brush Set (80 total brushes!), and the Bird Poses stamp set, which includes 30 bird stamps, making compositions infinitely easier!
Extended License included, so you can sell unlimited artwork created with the brushes.
Brush Set 1: Acrylic Lovers
The Acrylic Lovers Brush Set (80 total brushes!), includes 15 drawing, sketching + smudge brushes, 47 stamp brushes, 9 overlay texture stamps and 9 watercolor washes (perfect for backgrounds!)
Painting Brushes
Stamp Brushes
Brush Set 2: Bird Poses
This set of Bird Poses includes 30 different stamps of 9 different bird varieties, making it easy to preview layouts quickly with different bird poses + types!
What you’ll learn in this course
Master Midjourney
Full module dedicated to sharing the ins and outs of ethical AI image generation
Intro to DALL-E
An overview of the free and paid version of DALL-E, another AI service
Sample Prompts
Copy and paste provided text prompts to generate your own fantasy style AI images
Bird Anatomy
Full pdf cheat sheet with detailed drawings + tutorial exercises
Custom Compositions
Sketch original compositions by combining multiple renders for truly unique pieces
Beautiful Blending
Demos for blending colors uniquely using the provided brushes
Petal Folds
Paint gorgeous, pop-off-the-screen petal folds following a simple process
Leaf Painting
Paint variegated leaves with depressed and raised veining
Depth Illusions
Follow a 3 step process to create illusions of depth throughout all of your paintings
Long Shadows
Learn how to create soft long shadows as an eye catching finishing touch to your work
Fantasy Blooms
Paint petals + leaves in several multicolored styles
Fantasy Birds
Simulate different feather textures using real bird references, and paint them with fantasy color palettes
Let the magic begin ✨
Paint gorgeous compositions with stunning color palettes, all based on your imagination. Use AI to ethically enhance your paintings and skyrocket your content development.
Class projects
Let’s create something magical together
Included are 3 in-depth, comprehensive projects to master the fantasy style
Everything you need to create each project is included, along with full step-by-step HD video instruction.
Fantasy Blooms
Project 1
We dive right into the fantasy floral style with a gorgeous bouquet! Following a 3 step painting process, we sketch our composition, then paint from scratch: color blocking, adding detail and then highlights. We use several blending techniques and cover the differences between petal blending vs.leaf blending. As a beautiful finishing touch, we use a unique method for adding soft long shadows and introduce a background watercolor texture to push our final artwork forward.
Fantasy Bird
Project 2
Master the fantasy painting style applied to a bird in Project 2! While the process is similar to florals, we’ll use one of our bird pose stamps and pay extra attention to texture differences, referencing a real photo often. We’ll keep color patterns within the bird accurate to real life, but bring in a fantasy color palette. To further maintain the fantasy aesthetic, we’ll use several different wet and dry brushes to simulate touchable texture and blend as needed (hello, Feather Smudge!).
Fantasy Bird + Blooms
Project 3
Project 3 combines the skills built from Project 1 + 2 with a full bird and bloom composition! We create our custom composition by combining different elements from two different renders, along with a bird pose stamp. Beginning with the bird, we go step by step, painting each element together throughout the project videos. Every step is described in detail, so you’ll be confident painting any bird + bloom composition you can imagine after completing the course.
Bird Drawing Exercise
In this module, we sketch a bird from scratch, utilizing a reference image + bonus bird anatomy cheat sheets. Together, we follow an exercise that can be adapted for any skill level and adjusted as you improve.
Goldfinch Project Walk Through
Once our projects are complete, I walk you through some previously created projects of mine, showing all of my layers and discussing how I built my compositions. I also made the reference images available for your use if you’d like to create them.
European Robin Project Walk Through
We talk through my European Robin piece in the same way we went over the goldfinch piece, so you’ll have all the info you need, along with the same reference images if you’d like to recreate it in the future.
100% Self Paced
Enrollment includes pre-recorded videos with lifetime access to all of them
Take the course at your own pace whenever it works with your schedule. There’s no pressure to hit a deadline or to fit everything in within a set amount of time.
And with lifetime access, you can refer back to it + watch it as many times as you’d like, too.
Class Curriculum
Welcome
- What You'll Learn/Course Overview9:57
- Bonuses: Location + Install Instructions6:56
- Acrylic Lovers Brush Set Overview8:58
Getting Started
- Canvas Size, Color Profile, Resolution3:00
- Gestures We'll Use2:33
Intro to AI: Midjourney
- Using AI Ethically/How AI for Image Generation Works5:20
- Getting Started with Midjourney3:23
Generating Concepts with AI
- Intro to Using Prompts7:34
- Fantasy Floral Prompts10:20
- Image Prompts: Creating Fantasy Birds & Blooms Concepts7:12
- Permutation Prompts + Exporting Your Renders14:16
Intro to DALL-E
- How to use DALL-E (Free and Paid)5:58
Project 1: Fantasy Floral Blooms
- Create the Composition Sketch: Part 19:01
- Create the Composition Sketch: Part 25:07
- Hero Bloom: Part 18:18
- Hero Bloom: Part 27:03
- Hero Bloom: Part 39:42
- Hero Side Bloom: Part 118:43
- Hero Side Bloom: Part 214:01
- Hero Top Bloom: Part 1 (with petal fold demo)11:16
- Hero Top Bloom: Part 213:03
- Hero Top Bloom: Part 35:59
- Paint Supporting Floral: Rose13:08
- Paint Supporting Floral: Thistle7:29
- Painting Foliage: Part 116:32
- Painting Foliage: Part 214:33
- Painting Foliage: Part 310:34
- Painting Foliage: Part 48:39
- Finishing Touches6:52
Bonus: Bird Drawing Basics
- Bird Anatomy/Drawing from a Reference Photo8:59
- Finalizing your Bird Drawing10:25
Project 2: Fantasy Style Chickadee
- Gathering References2:17
- Establish a Painting Plan + Create the Color Block9:22
- Blend the Color Block6:38
- Adding Detail + Texture to the Belly9:28
- Adding Detail + Texture to the Head10:28
- Wing Details8:43
- Finishing Touches14:43
Project 3: Fantasy Bird + Blooms
- Create the Composition19:07
- Add the References2:32
- Color Blocking the Belly6:44
- Color Blocking the Wing + Claw4:50
- Bluebird Details: Part 111:53
- Bluebird Details: Part 210:34
- Right Side Florals: Part 14:48
- Right Side Florals: Part 214:32
- Right Side Florals: Part 34:04
- Right Side Florals: Part 44:48
- Right Side Foliage: Leafy Branches7:58
- Right Side Leaves: Part 18:56
- Right Side Leaves: Part 29:49
- Left Side Orange Flower: Part 17:38
- Left Side Orange Flower: Part 28:14
- Left Side Pink Flower14:00
- Left Side Foliage: Flower Branch9:45
- Left Side Foliage: Leafy Branch6:46
- Left Side Foliage: Leaves7:29
- Adding the Perch Branch3:46
- Adding Final Details + Finishing Up12:16
Bonus: Project Walkthrough #1
- Goldfinch Compositions5:08
Bonus: Project Walkthrough #2
- European Robin Composition5:55
Thank You
- Thank You + Next Steps2:11
Class Bonuses
Acrylic Lovers Brush Set + Extended License
The full, 80 piece brush set, filled with sketching, painting, smudging and stamp brushes are included with your enrollment so you can follow along exactly. An extended license is included, so you can use the brushes to create artwork you plan to sell without limit.
Bird Poses Brush Set
30 bird pose stamps in 9 bird varieties is provided to make composition creation immensely easier! Simply stamp in the right pose based on your render, then build up your florals and foliage around it.
50+ AI Renders
All project AI renders are provided, in addition to over 50 more, so you can use the same skills from the course in your future pieces, whether you plan to generate your own AI reference images or not.
Midjourney Cheat Sheets
A multi-page PDF cheat sheet covering Midjourney settings, text prompts, parameters, image prompts and permutation prompts.
Bird Anatomy Cheat Sheets
A multi-page pdf with detailed drawings to aid in sketching your own birds from scratch!
Copy/Paste Sample Prompts
All of my favorite fantasy style Midjourney prompts in an easy-to-pull-from place.
Bird List
Need some extra bird types you can render images with? Take a look at this list and enjoy seeing those birds come to life!
Bonus Project Walk-throughs
In addition to the course projects, you’ll see how 2 additional birds + blooms projects are built with full narration.
Private Facebook Community
A group of Procreate creators to paint beautiful fantasy birds + blooms alongside. The perfect place to find answers to questions, get feedback on your work and a non stop source of support from the kindest Procreate makers. I’m always in there, too!
Fantasy Birds and Blooms in Procreate
Create Magical Birds & Blooms Paintings in Procreate
Enrollment includes:
14 Day Money Back Guarantee
I believe so fully in this process and the resources provided within the course, I’m proud to honor my 14 day money back guarantee.
If you go through the course and feel you haven’t learned anything new, send me an email before the 14 days is up and I’ll issue a full refund.