Autumn Leaves 🍁🍂✨ (Step-by-step guide - Week 42) (Patreon)

Hi!! 🤗

In this post I will talk you through the two steps of creating an illustration with brush pens & pencils based on this week's references 🥰

You will find my tips from base layer to final illustrations below, together with the colors & materials I used!

Tips

Here are some tips for this month's references:

Use more colors dan usual: Autumn is a colorful month with lots of contrast, so keep that in mind when choosing your colors 😊

Try to simplify the references: This month I want to focus on drawing quicker by simplifying the references and our illustrations.

Enjoy imperfections: Nature is all about imperfections, you don't have to copy the references, make your own version of them 🥰

Autumn Leaves

I used the following Brush pens as a base layer:

Tombow 126 (Light olive)

Tombow 912 (Pale Cherry)

Tombow 020 (Peach)

Tombow 991 (Light Ocre)

I decided to make a page full of autumn leaves where we will use 4 colors to draw the base layer of the leaves. Try to draw the overall shape of the leaves in a simple and loose way. Use the colors to create some texture and color variations.

For the second layer, I used the following colored pencils:

Faber-Castell 157 (Dark Indigo)

Faber-Castell 283 (Burnt Siena)

Faber-Castell 278 (Chrome Oxide Green)

Faber-Castell 188 (Sanguine)

Faber-Castell 108 (Dark Cadmium Yellow)

Faber-Castell 217 (Middle Cadmium Red)

Faber-Castell 133 (Magenta)

Use Burnt Siena & Dark Indigo for the petioles and veins of the leaves. Use the rest of the colors to create more depth and contrast to the leaves.

It's always so much fun to play around with multiple illustrations on one page as well as using multiple pretty and fun colors. Hope you like to draw these leaves as much as I did, and remember that you don't have to choose the same ones, you can also choose some other leaves from the references to draw.

And as always, don't hesitate to ask me any questions or to show your illustrations in the group chat 🤗

Celyn 🍁