Drawing Snapshot (featuring bumblebee buddies!) (Patreon)

Hello my lovely flowers!

I drew these sweet bumblebee buddies the other day and it was a really simple process so I wanted to give you a breakdown of it 🌸

My drawing process for this illustration went a little something like this:

First, I drew a simple sketch of my composition (inspired by some forget-me-nots that I saw in the garden)

Then I reduced my sketch layer to about 30% opacity so that I would be able to see through it onto new layers below

I filled in a pink circle background, and used my sketch layer as a reference to start drawing my shapes in colour

I drew all of my flowers on the same layer, then each bumblee across three layers - the body, and a layer for each wing.

Then I started adding details like the yellow of the flowers and faces for the bees (these were on new layers again)

For shading and texture I took a broad texture brush (I mostly used my Texture Medium and Chunky Crayon brushes) and added texture to pretty much everything as a clipping mask layer

And that was about it! 

This was a simple illustration that was fun to draw and didn't take too long either! I've attached below the basic colour palette that I used (before I started adding shading) if you'd like to use it for your own illustrations 🐝🌸