Mimi's Illustration Club January - Final Illustration 🖼️✨ (Patreon)

Hi lovelies,

I've finished my final illustration for this month's prompt 'A Rainbow Sky' and want to show you! 🌈

Earlier in the month I sketched out some ideas on a sketchbook page just to warm up and brainstorm some potential illustration ideas, and now I've turned that into a digital illustration.

I think it turned out really sweet, maybe I should have made the main flowers sit a little higher in the composition but that's 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).

 So my process went a little something like this:

First I drew a rough sketch with my 'Sketching Brush'. I knew that I wanted a big happy rainbow to be the feature of my composition and lots of flowers for extra colour too.

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

I used my 'Big Fuzzy Brush' to colour in all of the shapes, choosing the colours of the rainbow first. I thought it would feel nice to have the flowers the same colours as the rainbow and I'm glad I did!

Then I added some broad textures to everything using my 'Soft Crayon' and 'Textured Pencil Light' brushes.

There weren't many areas that needed shading with this one but I did add some darker areas with the same texture brushes.

I softened the opacity of the rainbow and added a few little details - and that was it!

This was a really enjoyable one to draw, especially after having a slow start to the year creatively. It's always a joy to draw a rainbow 🌈💖

If you'd like to join in and 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 ❤