How I Drew This Pumpkin Pigeon 🎃 A New Digital Art Project Pack (Patreon)

Hello Bluebells 🌷

In my last poll I asked you which animal character I should dress up in a trick-or-treating costume, and the winner of the poll was a pigeon dressed as a pumpkin 😄

So this is what I drew:

You can download all of the assets for this illustration below, and either use them as a tool to see how I construct my art, or use them as a kit to recreate this artwork on your own. Just keep in mind that any recreations can be for personal use only (or just credit me if you're posting a recreation on social media).

You'll find in this post:

A timelapse video of the art process (above)

A simple breakdown of the process in images (below)

My original digital file with named layers (attached)

A colour palette as a .jpg and .swatches file (attached)

The original sketch as a .png (attached)

The logistics of how to dress a pigeon in a pumpkin costume took a minute to figure out, but once I got that sorted I kept the rest of the scene quite simple and more of a suggestion than a full scene.

I tried to keep the colour palette quite cheerful but I also wanted it to feel immediately like Halloween so I made sure to feature orange and used a very dark green for the background.

I think the finished drawing is so funny 😄

So here are the main steps of my process (roughly in the right order) broken down into images.

First, I drew a sketch:

Then I coloured in all of the main elements, using the sketch as a reference:

Then I added some details:

I gave everything some texture and shading:

And finally added some lighting:

These are the brushes I used (from my brush packs):

Soft Canvas Pencil - for colouring the base shapes and drawing the details

Textured Pencil (regular version and light version) - for adding texture to everything

And here is the colour palette (also attached below):

This was such a fun drawing!

💖 Mimi