Drawing Snapshot - Flower Cart Duck (Patreon)

Hello everyone, I hope you've been having a lovely weekend!

In the latest poll I asked you what I should draw next and the most popular vote was 'a flower shop owned by a duck', so I just finished the illustration a couple of days ago and I of course wanted to share it with you!

Here's a simple breakdown of the illustration from sketch through to final art, plus I've attached the basic colour palette below that you're welcome to download and use for your own art.

My drawing process went a little something like this:

First I drew a sketch to lay out my idea. I thought that a flower cart rather than a full shop would look cuter and I wanted my duck to be interacting with the flowers in some way.

Then I made my sketch layer about 30% opacity so that I would be able to see through it onto new layers below.

I started colouring in all of the elements using the sketch layer as a guide, keeping most things separate on their own layers.

Once everything was coloured in I could start drawing in details to things like the flowers and the duck character which took a little while because there are so many elements.

Then I gave everything a few layers of texture and shading to bring it to life - this step always makes such a huge difference!

And that's about it! 

I really love how this illustration turned out, thanks so much for your help voting in the poll 💖