Mimi's Illustration Club May - Third Activity! (Patreon)

Hello lovelies,

I had sooo much fun finishing my final illustration for this month's illustration club prompt so I'm excited to show you! ✨👽🚀

So far in the club this month we’ve filled a sketchbook page with ideas relating to the prompt, then we explored some composition sketches from those ideas, and now we can take one of those composition ideas and create a final illustration from it.

If you skipped the first activities and came straight to drawing a final illustration that's totally fine!

You can use any medium you like to create your final illustration. The aim of this activity (and the whole club) is to just explore the creative process and enjoy practising our art skills together, so if you can achieve those two things then whatever you create is a success!

So I’ll show you what I created for this activity based on a sketch from activity 2:

This is my final illustration for the prompt 'going to space'! I don't draw a lot of space themed illustrations so this one was super fun - I love the little alien friends 😍✨

Let me show you a quick breakdown of my illustration process and the basic palette that I used (which you can download below if you'd like to use it yourself):

My process went a little something like this:

First I drew a digital sketch based on the one that I drew in the second activity, making a few adjustments to the composition so that everything fit nicely.

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

I coloured in all of the elements, using the sketch as a guide, and keeping things that were different colours on different layers.

I made the background a bit of a gradient of different colours using my crayon brushes in a large size so that they blended together nicely.

Then I added all of the little details to the cat and the aliens.

I gave everything a few layers of shading with my texture brushes.

And finally I added some lighting layers, mostly adding highlights around the characters and also some glow to the stars. I'm making a tutorial video about adding lighting effects very soon!

Now it's your turn (yay!) - take one of the composition sketches that you drew in activity 2 and create a final illustration from it (if you haven't already). Or if you feel like it you can do a completely new idea!

These activities pretty much replicate my normal art process when I'm faced with a new prompt - I brainstorm ideas, doodle down a few sketches to explore some compositions, and then illustrate my final piece.

If you do draw a final illustration with the prompt this month then feel free to share it with us over on Discord in the #final-illustrations channel or in the community chat here on Patreon. Everyone is welcome, and you can share what you've created for any of the activities at any time!

I'm really looking forward to seeing how your illustrations turn out ❤