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

Hi everyone,

I've drawn a little beach scene for our illustration club so I wanted 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 chose the little sunbathing snail to illustrate fully, though it's not my favourite illustration - maybe the sunglasses are a bit of a distraction and I should lose them? I never seem to like my beachy illustrations very much for some reason and I'm not really sure why, maybe it's the colour palette. Regardless, I still enjoyed drawing it, and it's fine to have some illustrations that you don't like as much!

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 drawing process went something like this:

First I made a digital sketch, using my earlier pencil sketch as inspiration.

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

I coloured all of the main shapes in flat colour to begin with, using my Canvas Brush for the sand and ocean, and my Marker Pen brush for everything else.

Then I added texture to every element with broad, even texture brushes, mostly my Textured Pencil Light brush and Soft Crayon brush.

For shading, I focused darker colours with a more defined brush in the areas that should be in shadow (underneath things). I've just realised though that I forgot to add a shadow under the umbrella which is the definitely the most obvious place for shade 😅🤦‍♀️

And that's it!

I can't believe I forgot to add a shadow under the umbrella, I'll have to update it before I share it on Instagram 😄

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 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 ❤