Welcome to May! Theme of the month: How to draw Botanicals 🌵🪴🌸 (Patreon)

Hi everyone!! 😊

It's May already! My favorite month of the year. Maybe because my birthday is this 19th of may 🙈 but also because it finally gets warmer, there are so many cute baby animals around and all the trees are green again! 🌳

In this post, you can read about:

What you can expect in May here on Patreon

An overview of all the April content I shared

How am I doing?: Illustration work updates and personal updates (+ updates about my upcoming beginner course!)

Because I wanted to get to know which theme you all wanted for May, I posted a Poll. It was a close call, but we ended up with the most votes for Botanicals (Including plants & flowers) 🌸, which I think is a great fit for this month!

We will definitely do Cute Animals in June! Because I would love to do something different to grow our drawing skills even more! 🤗

So the theme for this month will be: How To Draw Botanicals 🌵🪴🌸. We are going to practice with plants & flowers and how to simplify them! Think of creating a tropical botanical garden in your sketchbook 🥰

Here you can find all the content I will post this month

✨ What you can expect in May

A little overview of the content I will share with you this month. With the content calendar, you'll have an idea when to expect which reward! All content will be based on drawing botanicals!

It depends on your tier, which reward you will get access to, so here is an overview of every tier! (With ofcourse access to polls and our community chat for all tiers!)

Theme of the month

This month, I want to keep the focus on process and learning. We’ll be diving into how I draw botanicals. Different kinds of flowers and plants, just like in a tropical botanical garden! 🌵🪴🌸

Throughout the month, I’ll show you how I approach these illustrations step by step, from the first layer with brush pens to adding details and textures with colored pencils. I’ll also share tips on how I simplify shapes, how I built up a spread with different botanicals and how I draw flowers and plants from close up & far away! We’ll be working with lots of bright colors, which I love! 🥰

My goal for this month is not only to show you my process, but also to help you feel more confident when drawing your own botanicals.

✨ April overview

Last month, we focused on drawing cute little homes. It was so nice to focus only on drawing little homes and I loved seeing all your cute illustrations as well! 🥰 I shared lots of content last month. We had 4 weeks of reference images, step-by-step illustration posts, and of course:

An exercise about practicing house details

A printable worksheet where you can learn to draw a forest home

3 video tutorials:

How to draw a cute little home (with Voice-over)

How to draw a white dreamy cottage

How to draw a yellow spring cottage

A blog post - From reference to little home illustration (My process & thoughts)

You can find all April rewards here: Complete April Collection

April Collection

✨ How am I doing?

To give you a little insight into my work as an illustrator, I will share an update each month on what I've been up to in the previous month. April was a month to adjust to my life as a full-time illustrator at home!

Illustration work updates

I finished 8 lessons of the beginner illustration course 🤗

I told you a bit about it in last month's post. I am working hard to create a course that anyone who is interested in drawing my style or drawing with brush pens & pencils in general can join!

For now I finished the first 8 lessons which are all about growing confidence in drawing. With lots of exercises to get familiar with the materials and different drawing techniques. It will be such a perfect course for anyone to learn to draw, because we will start from the basics!

More updates soon 🥰

New commission: creating a children's book 🙊

Omg how amazing!!! Someone reached out to me through Instagram and asked me if I was interested in creating children's book illustrations! We had the whole process of making all the right arrangements, which is always such a scary part for me. In the end I told her what my price was (which I made sure that it was finally the right price for me to ask) and she agreed!!!

I'm so proud of myself and I can't wait to start drawing for this project! Unfortunately I can't tell you more about it, but you will definitely see the result in the end!

Personal updates

Here are some photos from April 🤗

I enjoyed spring to the fullest! 🌸

I am so happy to be home again! Portugal was amazing, but being home in the Netherlands with all my friends & family around me, doing the things I love most, makes me actually the happiest! 🥰

I did so many fun things this month:

I saw lots of flowers, which I couldn't resist taking pictures of.

I went on many little mental health walks (It helps my brain to shut off for a while 😉).

I discovered my love for puzzles and cosy coloring books (Definitely recommended)!!

We celebrated kings day (and I treated myself on some themed nails!)

We could finally sit outside at my parents house (loved that day 🥰)

We celebrated easter and my sister made an amazing cake!

Spend a lot of time going to terraces, drinking chai lattes & eating more cake!

This was the little monthly update! Thank you so much if you've managed to read all the way through, and I wish you a wonderful new month full of creativity and inspiration! 🤗✨

Celyn 🌸