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

Hi lovelies,

A quick break from the advent calendar to share my final illustration for this month's Illustration Club!

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!

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

This is my final illustration for 'festive activities'! I was a bit lazy with the small mouse which is why their head is just poking over the top but I think it works ok 🤭

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:

I already had a sketch drawn from the last activity and didn't want to make any changes, so I just took that sketch and made the layer about 30% opacity so that I'd be able to see through it.

On new layers below it, I coloured in the flat shapes of all the separate elements of my illustration. Most things that are different colours go on their own layers.

Then I drew in lots of smaller details on top of the base shapes, like icing on the gingerbread house and the pattern on the sweater.

I gave everything a broad pass of texture using my texture brushes (mostly my Textured Pencil Light brush).

Next, I added shading, usually with a dark layer of strong shading and then another layer with much softer, broader shading.

And that's it!

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!

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 ❤