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

Hi lovelies,

I've finished my final illustration for this month's prompt 'favourite animals' 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 doggy in a jumper but gave them a little butterfly friend! Just adding a small amount of interaction with another character adds so much more interest to even a really simple composition like this.

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 the process went something like this:

First I drew a simple sketch of the composition. I wanted to do more of a spot illustration rather than a full scene so I just drew my main character, something for them to interact with (a butterfly) and a few ground elements.

Then I made that layer about 30% opacity so that I would easily be able to see through it.

On new layers below the sketch, I coloured in all of the main elements using my Marker Pen brush.

I added the ground using my Soft Crayon brush because I wanted it to have soft edges.

Then I drew in details like the jumper pattern, the fur details and sparkles.

I gave everything texture using my Textured Pencil Light and Medium Crayon brushes, and added shading at the same time with those brushes.

And that's about it! I tried several different background colours but I liked this really subtle green the most.

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 ❤