Pumpkin Study 🎃✨ (Step-by-step guide - Week 44) (Patreon)

Hi everyone!! 🤗

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 🥰

Pumpkin Study ✨

I used the following Brush pens as a base layer:

Tombow 126 (Light olive)

Tombow 133 (Chartreuse, Light green)

Tombow 020 (Peach)

Tombow 991 (Light Ocre)

Choose your favorite pumpkins and fill a page (or a spread) with them! Always use a lighter color brush pen, so you can darken it with your colored pencils. Look through your eyelashes to not get lost in the details, try to capture the overall shape and details of each pumpkin.

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

Faber-Castell 278 (Chrome Oxide Green)

Faber-Castell 188 (Sanguine)

Faber-Castell 108 (Dark Cadmium Yellow)

I only used 3 colors for the second layer, but still it looks like each pumpkin has its own color combination.

Hope you have fun with these little pumpkins! And as always, don't hesitate to ask me any questions or to show your illustrations in the group chat! 🤗

Celyn 🍁