Drawing Snapshot - Forest Cabin (Patreon)

Hello my lovelies! I wanted to share a simple breakdown of this illustration I drew yesterday based on the poll you voted in recently where you picked 'a cozy cottage in a whimsical forest'. I guess it turned out to be more of a cabin, but close enough 😄

I thought I'd try something fun with the leaves right up in the foreground and rather than colour them I made them completely white which kind of makes them part of the frame. I quite like the effect, but I don't think I'd use it all the time.

So here's a little breakdown of how the illustration came together and the palette I used:

As always, the process went a little something like this:

I drew a simple sketch of my composition, and then made that layer about 20% opacity and multiply blend mode so that I could use it to guide my colour layers underneath

Then I coloured in each section, mostly using a new layer for each element so I could easily edit it and apply textures later

I added little details to lots of areas, like lines on the trees trunks, leafy details in the trees, and flowers in the bushes.

Then I draw in quite a few layers of texture and shading, slowly building up the shading until I'm happy with the depth.

And that's it!

I'd be quite happy to go and spend a weekend or a summer in this little cabin, I bet there are lots of birds chirping in the trees and maybe some bunnies about!

❤