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

Hi lovelies,

I've finished my final illustration for this month's prompt 'self-care time' 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 decided to draw the meditating froggy and I think they look so calm and happy!

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 digital sketch based on the pencil drawing in my sketchbook.

Then I made that sketch layer about 30% opacity so that I could easily see through it to use as a reference.

On new layers below, I coloured in all of the main elements, mostly using my 'big fuzzy' brush.

I drew some line details to separate the arms and legs from the body and to give them a face, and gave some detail to the rug.

Then I gave everything a few layers of texture and shading, focusing the shading in the areas that would be darkest like under the frog or under their arms. I like to use texture brushes for my shading so that I don't get sharp lines.

And that's about it!

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 ❤