Drawing Snapshot (featuring pretty spring birdhouse!) (Patreon)

Hello and happy Monday! I hope you had a nice weekend, I spent Saturday relaxing and watching TV and then did some drawing and a bit of content work on Sunday 😊✨

I finished illustrating this little spring birdhouse yesterday that I started drawing last week, and it's based on the last poll that I shared about what I should draw next - so thank you for helping me decide!

Also, I used my new brush set to draw it and I'm really excited to release that in the next week or so!

So let me take you through a simple breakdown of the illustration process and I've also attached below the basic palette that I used in case you'd like to use it for your own art 🥰

My illustration process went a little something like this:

First I drew a sketch of my composition. It's quite busy because I knew I wanted there to be lots of flowers!

Then I reduced the sketch layer to about 20-30% opacity and made it 'multiply' blend mode so that I'd easily be able to see through it to use it as a reference.

On new layers below, I started colouring in all of my elements, using the sketch layer as a guide for drawing the shapes. I actually added a few more flowers at the bottom of the birdhouse here too.

Then I added lots of line details like leaf details and a wood effect.

Using my new texture brushes I went over every element and gave it a pass of general texture and then of shading as well.

And that's about it!

I enjoyed drawing all of these colourful flowers and will be posting it to my Instagram page a bit later on 🥰