🎨 Exercise: Finding the colours of Scotland (Patreon)

Good afternoon everyone! ☀️

This month's references are filled with nature and big landscapes. In these landscapes, it’s sometimes hard to find the right colours and use them effectively in your illustration.

You can try out all the included references with this exercise or you can just choose one! It’s up to you 😊

Exercise 1: Create a Colour Palette

Creating a colour palette before you start drawing can help you identify and organize the many colours in the reference. You’ll gain better insight into which colour fits where.

Tips to create the right colour palette:

Sometimes everything looks green, but if you have a closer look, you’ll notice that there are almost always red, orange, brown, or yellow areas hidden in the scene.

Place your reference further away than you’re used to. This allows you to observe the reference more globally, helping you to tell apart the different colours.

Exercise 2: Make a Rough Sketch

Create a rough sketch to outline the different coloured areas and the shapes of the mountains, hills, or other features in the landscape. This step simplifies the process later on, so you can focus on filling in colours without worrying about shapes.

Exercise 3: Fill the Illustration with colours

Fill in the sketch with the brush pen colours from your palette. Focus on blending and layering colours to create subtle shifts in hue and tone in the reference.

Tips for this step:

Work from light to dark to build depth in the landscape.

Don’t worry about making it perfect. Embrace the roughness of nature!

Add small details like shadows or highlights to create even more depth!

Sharing your work ✨

If you want to, you can share your results in our group chat: Creative Practice chat 🤗

I wish you a beautiful rest of your day!

Celyn 🌸